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SUNDAY When Guidance Comes From a Higher Signal (S5) S18:E2 · Inspirations for Your Life

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Ladies and gentlemen, this is Inspirations for Your
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Life, in case you guys didn't know if
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When direction changes, because truth gets revealed.
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Ladies and gentlemen, this is series five, show
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18, episode number two.
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In this episode, ladies and gentlemen, of Inspirations
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for Your Life, with myself, John Seymour.
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John Seymour, formerly serial entrepreneur, engineer, marketing specialist,
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video producer, podcast host, coast, yes, keynote speaker,
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graduate student, passionate lifelong learner.
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And now ladies and gentlemen, I'm so grateful
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and proud to say that I am a
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published author.
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And I'm exploring how direction changes when truth
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is revealed through awareness, listening and higher guidance
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rather than force or constant action.
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I know a lot of people that want
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to rock the boat, they want to force
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things.
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And the reason they do this is because
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they panic.
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They think that if they push things that
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they can just do whatever they want, but
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that's not really the truth, guys.
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So we have to live intentional lives.
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I think that's a very, I think that's
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a very important point.
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And when you understand that, that's when you
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start to really embrace life.
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So ladies and gentlemen, this is about realizing
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that direction is not always created through effort.
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A lot of people think, oh, I got
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to spend hours working harder.
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No, that's actually just going to turn you
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down and basically burn you out.
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But revealed through clarity is what happens.
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So let's get right into our first point,
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all right, everyone.
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That is number one.
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Number one is direction begins with listening.
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That's what we were given by our creator,
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Two Wonderful Ears.
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Direction begins with listening.
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Awareness comes before the action settles in, okay?
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Awareness is that subtleness that we a lot
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of times miss that can keep us on
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our path or take us off our path.
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And so these are important things to realize.
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Number two, guys, silence carries clarity.
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Answers exist without noise.
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I think that's important to understand.
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Noise is basically another word for saying the
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word distraction, distraction, distractions, okay?
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That's a very, very important thing to know.
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So ladies and gentlemen, number three, guidance is
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rarely loud.
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Yeah, it's not somebody with a big bull
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or mega horn saying, you know, insight is
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subtle.
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And it actually is.
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Insight is very subtle.
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So we need to be aware of that
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and not expect it to be something like
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a grand gesture or something broadcasted like at
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Yankee Stadium.
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Number four, awareness requires a certain stillness.
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Noise blocks understanding.
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I think when we understand that, I'm going
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to have another one of these almonds.
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They're supposed to be very good for you.
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And while I'm eating these, I just was
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curious, health benefits of almonds.
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Let's see what they are.
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So almonds are highly nutritious, providing a dense
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source of vitamin E, magnesium, healthy, monosaturated fats,
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and a fiber which promotes heart health, wow,
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weight management, and improved skin.
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Pretty cool.
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A regular consumption helps lower your bad LDL,
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cholesterol, stabilizing blood sugar levels, reducing inflammation, and
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improving your gut health.
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Okay, I guess we should all eat more
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almonds.
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Number five, internal signals matter most.
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External noise distorts the truth.
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That's the truth.
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Number six, truth interrupts distraction.
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Confusion breaks under awareness.
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When we become aware of even the most
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subtle things, magic happens.
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Number seven, guys, clarity appears in reflection.
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Insight comes in pauses.
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And number eight, timing is everything.
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Understanding how it unfolds gradually, I think, is
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the real secret of life.
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We can't expect everything to just pop at
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us like overnight or in seconds.
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I think that's why a lot of people
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miss success because they're waiting for something to
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be now, when it's not about now, it's
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about a gradual knowing.
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Number nine, guys, not all answers are immediate.
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I'm sorry, guys, you don't press a button
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and get an answer like in a computer.
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Patience is required.
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These almonds are very tasty.
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I haven't had them in a while, but
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I'm definitely going to eat almonds more.
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They're really good for you.
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All right, number 10, direction requires trust.
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Certainty is not required, guys.
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Certainty is not required to move forward.
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Number 11, resistance will block your insight.
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You have resistance, you're going to miss the
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awareness.
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You're going to miss the potential that could
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help you gain success.
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Ego interferes with clarity.
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If we have an ego, it's best to
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leave that ego at the door.
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I'm just being honest.
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If we don't leave the ego at the
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door, a lot is going to happen.
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And we're going to be trying to be,
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well, who's better?
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And the two sides are going to fight
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with each other, and that's not good.
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Number 12, guys.
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Number 12 is listening changes outcomes and attention
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shifts the results.
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So these are important things to realize.
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Listening changes the outcome because we actually become
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aware and clear of what's expected and what
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somebody's saying or doing.
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Attention to that, which is an awareness, will
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shift the result.
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Not immediately, but it will change our perception
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and our position on something pretty quickly.
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Pretty quickly, all right?
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But not overnight, let me say that.
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So number 13, intuition does strengthen decisions and
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internal signals guide better than the external ones.
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It's something about our internal gut that allows
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us to be grounded, all right?
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Maybe you've taken your shoes off before.
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Maybe you've gone outside.
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And when you've gone outside, maybe you wanted
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to actually put your, let's say, feet on
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the ground, but your bare feet on the
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ground.
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And that's a pretty interesting thing when that
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actually happens, to put your feet on the
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ground, all right?
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That's a very important thing.
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It feels really good.
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Number 14, guys, patience.
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Yeah, patience reveals the truth.
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Rushing hides understanding.
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People that rush are doing it intentionally because
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they don't want you to see the truth.
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People that are trying to just like, you
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know, sly by you so quickly, they don't
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want you to know the truth.
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They don't want you to wake up to
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it.
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So they're hoping that they can basically slither
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by you and trick or connive you so
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they can get what they want out of
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you before you will realize what they're doing.
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Number 15, guys, guidance challenges logic.
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It does.
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Insight is not linear.
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As much as we think it is, it's
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not.
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Guidance can be all over the path.
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And again, I think a lot of people
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get frustrated because they're like, well, where the
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heck are we going?
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What are we doing now?
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What is the universe trying to tell me?
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I think a lot of times we have
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to embrace that quiet stillness within us.
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And then we get this knowingness that something's
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going to change.
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We get an insight.
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We get a thought.
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We get an idea.
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And then we need to respond to react
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to those thoughts.
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They're inspired thoughts.
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Number 16, guys, noise hides distraction.
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Okay.
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And what I mean by that is if
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it hides the distraction, it's causing something to
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change.
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So when I say noise hides distraction, it's
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still causing our brain to loop.
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But it's not allowing us to be aware
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of what's going on.
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So it just happens.
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So distraction reduces awareness within us.
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And that's a problem.
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Number 17, guys, stillness improves clarity.
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Every time.
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Quietness sharpens the perception.
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When we are quiet, when we are still,
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when we are in the moment, ladies and
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gentlemen, it's like we get this thought, we
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get this potential that things are possible.
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We start to realize that maybe what we're
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doing is wrong.
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Or maybe we're slightly off track or slightly
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off balance.
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But just being quiet for a few moments
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can allow us to settle the chattering monkeys
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in our head and allow us to just
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be.
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When's the last time that you were able
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to just be?
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Probably never.
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Probably a long time ago.
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But this is a key to us being
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healthy.
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Now, I don't mean healthy in the sense
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of, you know, good heart and things like
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this.
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I mean healthy in the sense of our
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whole body connecting together, right?
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Of course, it can reduce stress.
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But what I'm really talking about is that
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our body is staying grounded.
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Number 18, guys, realignment requires humility.
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Correction begins with openness.
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When you approach someone and they're doing something
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wrong and you give them feedback based on
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their behavior, not on them as a person,
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say, you know, Joe, you're doing a great
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job.
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And we just need to change some of
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the behaviors that are going on.
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I think you're great.
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And when we attract it or we position
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it like that, people become less defensive.
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Now, of course, some people may be still
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going to be defensive, but we need to
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appreciate it that way, okay?
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Appreciate it that way.
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And I know that seems hard for a
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lot of people, but it's the truth.
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Number 19, guys, awareness will always shift our
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behavior.
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If you're outside and suddenly you're focusing on
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the breeze or maybe you're focusing on the
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waterfall.
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Or maybe you're paying attention to just the
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rustling of the leaves as you're walking.
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This does something to us.
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It causes a shift in our perception and
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it changes our action that we're going to
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take next.
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Now, it might not seem like this is
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going to go anywhere.
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But when we shift one of our thoughts,
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our mindset, it's like we recalibrate the inputs
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going into our body.
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And I was talking about this before, which
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is combinational logic.
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When we give a circuit two inputs, if
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we give them the same inputs, just for
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argument's sake, let's say I give it a
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one and a zero.
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And this circuit always will output, it's an
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AND circuit that will always output a zero.
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If I give it a one to one,
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it'll always output a one.
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If we change the inputs, so it's one
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and zero.
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And now I get a zero output.
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And I think those are important things to
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understand is that one little change, just like
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a bit in the computer can change the
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entire outcome.
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So can the awareness of our mind and
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body change our trajectory towards success.
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Number 20, guys, insight arrives unexpectedly.
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Clarity is not scheduled.
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I'm sorry, it is not scheduled.
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It happens by us becoming grounded in who
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we are and what we are doing every
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single day of our life.
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That's important, guys.
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Every single day, I didn't say one day,
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I said every single day.
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If you knew right now that you could
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change an awareness and by doing that, that
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could affect the level of your success.
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I wanna ask you right now, would you
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do it?
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Now here's the kicker.
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You could do it, but it's not gonna
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be easy because you know why?
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It's gonna be uncomfortable, not painful, but it's
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going to be uncomfortable.
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And when something's uncomfortable, we pause, we hesitate.
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We pause, we hesitate.
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And we do this because we're scared.
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We don't know what's around that corner.
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We don't know if we're gonna like it.
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We don't know if we're gonna hate it.
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We don't know if we can do it.
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But one thing we know is it's gonna
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happen if we make a change.
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So that scares some people, people.
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Number 21, truth appears in patterns.
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Huh, that's an interesting predicament.
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Repetitions reveal meaning.
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Repetitions reveal meaning.
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I bet you never thought about it that
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way.
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When something keeps popping up in your life,
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whether it's 911 or 1111, these synchronicities are
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not random.
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They are connected to something going to change
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in your life.
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Number 22, guys, misalignment becomes obvious.
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Imbalance will surface when the misalignment is obvious.
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And maybe you're saying to me, John, well,
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I don't know about that.
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Maybe you're saying that, but maybe you're also
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saying, I don't know.
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And the reason I'm saying you don't know
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is you're scared about what could happen and
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what may not happen, right?
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That's a very important thing, okay?
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A very, very important thing.
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It's something that I believe a lot of
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people shy away from.
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And they shy away from it because they
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don't believe that they have the skills, the
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traits, and the attributes they need to succeed.
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The truth of the matter is everyone has
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these attributes.
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It's just, do we want to activate them
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right now?
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Again, it's not going to be comfortable.
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It's going to become uncomfortable.
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So I've said we got to get comfortable
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being uncomfortable.
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Number 23, guys, correction improves path adjustment as
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it creates progress for us.
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So the correction improves the path and the
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adjustment creates the progress.
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But sometimes that adjustment sends people into a
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world where like, oh, I can't deal with
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this.
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It's not about dealing with this.
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It's about dealing with one thing at a
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time.
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Number 24, guys, understanding builds slowly.
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Clarity compounds over time.
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Clarity compounds over time.
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But I think that's something that many people
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don't understand or appreciate, that clarity becomes better
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over time.
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Not that it's going to happen overnight.
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Not that it's going to happen in five
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minutes.
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We gain understanding about something today.
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Tomorrow, we might get more insights.
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I'll give you a perfect example.
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I was recently given a gift.
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Many of you guys know I just became
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an author.
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And one of our good family friends actually
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gave me a pen to start signing my
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books as I was thinking about that.
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And when I first got this at lunch
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the other day, I was like, how do
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I use this thing, right?
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Because I wasn't sure.
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So it came with cartridges and stuff like
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that.
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And then there was other parts.
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And then I realized there were two parts
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to the pen later on in the day.
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I'm like, oh, wait, there's a way to
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use this pen with ink.
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That's like through a well.
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And then there's a way to use this
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pen with cartridges.
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But that connection didn't become real for me
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until a few hours later, I went back.
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I'm like, oh, wait a minute.
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Now I see how this works.
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This is meant to be for this.
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And this is meant to be for that.
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It seemed weird in the beginning.
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But then I suddenly made that epiphany.
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I made that connection.
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Number 25, guys, awareness opens opportunities.
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Options will expand when we become aware.
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When we become aware, our opportunities open.
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Our mind starts to pay attention to the
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task we're doing and saying, are these tasks
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creating value in my life?
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Yes or no?
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If they're not, we stop doing them.
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Number 26, guys, direction becomes clearer.
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When that happens, guys, confusion reduces.
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So when direction becomes clear, our confusion just
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kind of minimalizes things.
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And that's good.
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But too many people expect the confusion to
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disappear overnight.
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And they don't even know.
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I'll give you a perfect example.
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First time I got my calculator.
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Okay, fancy little engineering calculator.
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And although it's a very straightforward calculator, there's
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a lot of functions in it.
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Just turning the thing off is not simple.
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You have to hit shift, and you have
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to hit the word off.
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So as I started to grow more with
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the calculator and use it, even things like
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how to use the mod feature and how
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to get into different numeric function menus, it's
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not like a typical calculator.
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And it has like, I think it has,
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if I turn it on, it has, if
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I go to menu, it has A through
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B.
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Okay, and there's even a spot on here
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called conversion.
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If I go on the conversion menu, there's
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a conversion utility located in the run menu
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through option six and one.
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So if I go back to the menu,
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so run the menu through option, basically run
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them action through F6 and one.
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So I'll go back here just to show
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you how this works.
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But this little thing like this, you wouldn't
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expect this to work like this.
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So I'm in the menu and it says,
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the conversion menu is located in the run
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menu through the option key F6, F1.
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So I remember how this works.
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I will go to the run menu.
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I will get out of your first menu.
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I'll go all the way back to the
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top, the run matrix menu.
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I will go to the F6 menu, okay?
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And then I can go to one, which
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is pretty cool because now that I know
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how that works, I can easily execute different
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functions.
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But the first time I picked up this
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calculator, I'm like, oh wow, there's so many
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options.
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There's so many ways to do things.
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But the key is to realize you don't
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need to learn everything in five minutes.
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You don't even need to learn everything in
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a day or a week or a month.
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Learn it in your time.
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And suddenly I'm like, oh, wait a minute.
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Starting these features, starting to grow on me.
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Number 27, listening changes outcome.
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The attention shapes the results.
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So listening changes the outcome and our attention
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to it shapes the results.
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Number 28, guys, guidance shapes decisions.
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Insight informs choice.
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Insight informs choice.
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Trust improves clarity.
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Resistance blocks understanding.
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Resistance blocks understanding.
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When we are resisting something, our mind is
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closed.
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We are not open to any inputs.
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Think of it like this.
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Many of you guys remember writing to either
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a floppy disk or maybe some of you
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remember writing to a cassette tape.
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I know this was many years ago.
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If the read-write tab on the floppy
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disk was, let's say, there's a little tab
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there, right?
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And if that read-write notch, okay, on
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the disk is there, okay, then it can
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not only read, but it can also erase
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the disk.
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But when you put the tab over it,
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it now sees it and it's able to
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write to it, not just read it.
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Same thing would happen with your cassette tapes.
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There would be one notch on the left,
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one notch on the right.
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The left on the left would be on
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the first side.
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Notch on the right would be for the
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other side.
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And so there'd be a little tab you
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could break off.
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When the tab is broken off, you couldn't
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write to the tape again.
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Simple fix, take a piece of tape and
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you're good to go and you're able to
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record to that tape.
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Number 30, guys, direction becomes destiny.
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Awareness will always define the outcome, but too
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many people get upset because the outcome is
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not what they expect right away.
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Okay, it's not what they expect right away.
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And there is a reason for that.
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It is because people think it's just gonna
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happen like that.
24:31
They don't appreciate that life has a gradual
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progression in it, right?
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And ladies and gentlemen, when you finally listen
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clearly, what you need to do becomes obvious.
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It's no longer difficult anymore.
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It becomes so simple, as easy as you
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breathe.
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And that, ladies and gentlemen, is where real
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direction begins.
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But my question for you, ladies and gentlemen,
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is if you are not getting to that
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point, if you're not able to start, let's
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look at a few things.
25:05
One, are you resisting?
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Do you have an open mind?
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Or is it the fact that if your
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mind is open, but yet you're not paying
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attention, not being aware of things, you can
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have an open mind, but if you don't
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choose to be aware of something, it's not
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gonna sink in.
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So these are important things to understand.
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When we connect a realization to something you
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already know, let's say you're great at playing
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basketball, and the person I'm talking to plays
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basketball really well, but they don't know anything
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about, let's say, chemistry.
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I can compare basketball to chemistry by saying,
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look, in basketball, you have something called defense,
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right?
25:53
Well, in chemistry, you have a defense as
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well.
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You have to make sure your lab is
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set up in a way that you are
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defensive so that you don't get hurt.
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You see how I compared that little analogy,
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right?
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There's also something in chemistry called focus.
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You have to focus on what chemicals and
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what order you are performing them in so
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you don't have an explosion.
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In basketball, you need to focus on who
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has the ball, who the ball is getting
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passed to, who's open, who's not.
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A little different perspective, but it's still focus.
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Yeah.
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So these are very important topics, and again,
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they're subtle, right?
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So this whole master topic for the week,
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ladies and gentlemen, in case you did not
26:42
get it, I'm gonna tell you right now.
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The topic is when direction changes because truth
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gets revealed, okay?
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But when guidance comes from a higher signal,
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that's when we tend to listen, right?
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When we believe it's coming from our creator,
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when we believe it's coming from somebody we
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trust or we know, that's when we actually
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decide to do something.
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Why is it that we don't listen before
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that?
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I think the reason we don't listen before
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that is very simple.
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I think it's because we don't have enough
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trust in ourself, and that trust in ourself
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can make a huge, huge difference.
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Ladies and gentlemen, I am John Seymour Lai
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here, proud author and many other things.
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It is so great to be with you.
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If you have not had a chance, please
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go check out my book at BelieveMeAchieved.com,
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available in the hardcover, available in the eKindle,
27:39
and available in Audible.
27:41
I hope you guys have a great rest
27:43
of your evening.
27:44
Have a great beverage, and why not enjoy
27:48
some almonds?
27:49
It has a lot of health benefits.
27:51
Have yourself a great one, everyone.
27:52
And remember, the power, the signal.
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When guidance comes from a higher signal, we
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tend to pay attention.
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Have a great one, everyone.
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Be well.