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Stepping Into Momentum (S5) S7:E7 · Inspirations for Your Life

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Well, hey guys, good evening, it's John C.
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Morley here, serial entrepreneur.
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Great to be with you on Inspirations for
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Your Life.
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It is Friday the 13th and 2026, and
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I know a lot of you are saying,
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oh my gosh, John, you're doing a show.
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Of course I am.
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So Friday the 13th is just a day,
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and it doesn't mean anything.
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I know it's meant a lot in movies,
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but you know, really what means more is
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what you put or assign to it.
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So if you say today's going to be
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a good day, it's going to be a
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great day.
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If you say today's going to be a
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bad day because it's Friday the 13th, well,
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then it's going to be a bad day.
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So we create our reality, okay?
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That's pretty much how it works.
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So let's kick this show off.
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This is Inspirations for Your Life.
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This is the series five.
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We're in our fifth year.
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We've been on the air over four years
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now.
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And yeah, a lot of great stuff happening
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here.
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And this whole week is about stepping into
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momentum, right?
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That's actually what today's show is about, stepping
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into momentum.
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And it's great to have you.
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So I'm John C.
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Morley.
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I'm a serial entrepreneur, a marketing specialist, video
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producer, podcast host and coach, keynote speaker, graduate
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student, and a passionate lifelong learner.
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And the master weekly theme that we're saying
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goodbye to after this evening is from fear
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to forward, choosing light, clarity, and momentum.
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Yes, guys.
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Yes, yes, yes.
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And today's episode is all about stepping into
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momentum, ending the week with movement, building confidence
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through action, and choosing progress over delay.
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Let's get into some amazing points.
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Number one, momentum begins when you decide to
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make that decision and commit to it.
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Decide once, then have the answer.
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Don't keep changing your mind.
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You're probably right.
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You don't want to test.
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Most people that don't do a lot of
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tests actually have had the right answer, but
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they second guessed themselves so many times, and
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they changed the answer.
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Don't change the answer.
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My teacher always would say that, John, when
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you got the answer down, 90% of
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the time, your first instinct is probably right.
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Number two, why action clarifies direction.
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Clarity shows up after you move, not before.
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And I know that can sound hard for
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some people, or it can sound scary for
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some people.
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It's not meant to, but we're about being
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intentional beings, aren't we?
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So if we're not intentional, then I think
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that can cause problems in our life and
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other people's lives, right?
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That's a very important thing to understand.
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Does that make sense?
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And I know a lot of you are
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saying, John, this is crazy, but I'll tell
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you that it's not something that you just
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change overnight or at the beat, okay?
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And this beat comes from your inner core.
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Number three, guys, ending the week with movement.
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Finish in motion so next week starts even
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stronger than this week did.
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This week was probably a great week, but
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a lot of our week comes from who
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we choose to be, who we choose to
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show up as.
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That's right, who we show up as, not
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who we are maybe at the moment, but
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who are we actually being in life?
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That's an important thing.
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Number four, how Amenta builds confidence.
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Each step completed becomes proof you can do
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it, right?
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You can do more.
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I think sometimes we psych ourselves out, but
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we're actually pretty smart.
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We're pretty intelligent.
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And so if we trust that, there's a
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lot that can go on, all right?
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A lot, a lot that can happen.
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So if we can just take the moment,
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if we can pay attention to our surroundings
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and we can step into momentum, because when
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we stop doing something, well, we can either
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basically stop, we can drift backward, or we
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can stay the same.
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Most times though we drift backward because we're
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not practicing over and over again, like with
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exercises, et cetera.
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So we want to keep momentum going.
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Number four, how Amenta builds confidence.
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Each step completed becomes proof you can do
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more in your life.
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Number five, why finishing matters.
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Completion creates power and reduces stress.
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Yes, when we complete something, it's like we
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can check that off our list.
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Yep, we got that done.
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But I know how some of you feel.
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You're like saying, oh my gosh, like how
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can I ever get this done?
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And you can get it done.
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It's just the voice of your head's like,
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you're not going to get it done.
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But trust me, you are really going to
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get it done, all right?
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That's the most important thing I want to
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tell you.
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Number six, closing loops creates energy.
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Unfinished tasks drain you.
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Closed loops fuel you.
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A closed loop is a great way to
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get the energy back into your body, all
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right?
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When we have open loops, think of it
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like interference, right?
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Think of it like TV, or even coax
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cable TV.
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Not the fiber or anything like that.
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And when the signal is leaking, then you
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don't get good picture.
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And you also can have distortion.
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And it could have interference with other types
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of technologies, as well as other people's reception.
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So these are important things to think about.
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Number seven, guys, why momentum thrives on simplicity.
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Simple plans move faster than perfect ones.
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When something's simple, we can actually move pretty
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quickly in our lives.
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But being simple doesn't mean that it's not
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powerful.
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I know a lot of people say, oh,
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John, it's too simple.
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It'll never work.
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You know, it's the simple things that actually
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do work.
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That doesn't blow you out of the water.
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I don't know what will.
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Number eight, action over analysis.
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Too much thinking slows the very progress you
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want to make.
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We call this analysis paralysis, right?
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When you keep doing the same thing over
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and over and over again, right?
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Number nine, how progress creates motivation.
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Motivation is often the reward of starting.
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And when you get going, it's like, oh
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my gosh, look what I've done.
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Look how I've changed.
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Now, it might not be something that other
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people see, but that's OK.
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It's an important thing to understand.
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And when you understand that, it can make
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you change your perception.
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And when your perception change, a lot happens.
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A lot happens.
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So why movement beats waiting?
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Number 10, waiting feeds doubt.
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Movement feeds belief.
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That's important, guys.
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Waiting has its own quality.
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You might have heard the phrase, you have
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to strike while the iron's hot.
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And timing.
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But truth is, you can strike to get
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the iron hot.
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It's our perception that's creating our ultimate reality.
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Number 11, guys, momentum, momentum, momentum.
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Momentum through follow-through, follow-through, guys, follow
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-through.
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That's an important thing that I think a
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lot of people don't realize.
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But it's important to understand it, very important
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to understand that.
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And so we know that momentum through follow
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-through, follow-through turns intention into pure reality.
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Intention turns things into reality, not the guesswork,
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not the snapping your fingers, not the wishing,
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intention.
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Number 12, why decisive action reduces stress?
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Decide, act, and the tension will just release,
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guys.
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But maybe people around you are saying, oh,
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John, that's not possible.
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I'm here to tell you it is possible.
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But many people never get there because they
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don't believe in themselves.
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They don't believe in themselves.
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Pretty important.
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Number 13, turning intention into execution.
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Execution is where goals become real, all right?
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This isn't play, it's not pretend.
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Where the goals become real, that's execution.
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Number 14, how a mentor rewires identity?
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When you move consistently, you become a mover.
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And your body doesn't like to slow down.
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Your body wants to move every day, day
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in and day out, OK?
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That's a very, very important thing to understand.
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And maybe you're saying to me, hey, this
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is something that I don't quite get, OK?
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But I'm here to tell you that momentum,
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the movement, just you being in motion, going
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towards something, is one of the greatest things
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you can do.
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If you want to do something in life,
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take consistent intentional action daily.
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You don't have to do a million things
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every day.
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You have to do a set amount of
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things.
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If it's five things or three things, do
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three more things every day.
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But always keep doing them.
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Don't ever stop.
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Don't take a break from that.
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Number 15, why done beats perfect, right?
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Done creates results.
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Perfect creates delay.
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And that's something that a lot of people
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wrestle with.
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Oh, it's got to be perfect before we
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release it.
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Well, it needs to be good, but it
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doesn't have to be perfect.
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We can always fix it.
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And then the only time that that doesn't
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apply is when we come to security.
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I was talking about this on another show
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earlier about artificial intelligence and the fact that
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a lot of companies just push out this
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AI crap in toys.
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And they have not tested it properly.
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And because they haven't, people's identity, people's safety,
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and privacy can be compromised.
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Number 16, guys, momentum from small wins.
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Small wins stack into unstoppable energy every single
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day.
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Not just today, not just tomorrow, but every
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single day of your life, this is what
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happens.
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And some people call it magic.
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I get that.
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But it's not magic.
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It's intention marrying with action.
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IA equals success, my formula.
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IA equals success.
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Another one I like to use is money
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naturally flows to me through my actions.
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See, when you put a belief in your
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mind and you have that belief and your
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subconscious has taken a hold of that belief,
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because I've learned this, you could have millions
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of affirmations.
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But the affirmations do absolutely squat because they
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don't create a feeling in you.
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They just create noise in your brain.
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That's an important one, guys, really important.
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Why?
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Number 17, consistency fuels momentum.
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Consistency keeps momentum alive when feelings change, guys.
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When feelings change.
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And our feelings can change all the time,
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OK?
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They can change all the time.
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That's an important thing that a lot of
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people, like they just don't get what that
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is.
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They don't get what it is or why
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it is.
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The why is something a lot of people
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just don't understand.
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And they don't understand it because they're getting
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tripped up.
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Because they're creating an illusion in their mind.
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An illusion that really is misleading them.
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One that's taking them from where they could
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be, right?
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Where they could be, not to where they
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are right now.
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And the only reason they're not getting forward
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or moving past is one reason.
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It's belief.
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So if we change our subconscious mind, everything
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else follows.
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But I want to tell you that that
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is not a flip of the switch.
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It is not a flip of the switch,
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guys.
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It definitely is not a flip of the
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switch.
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And I mean that because a flip of
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the switch would say that, hey, if I
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did this, something's going to change now.
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It takes a little bit of time.
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I'm not going to tell you it takes
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forever.
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But it takes a little bit of time
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for you to move from here you are
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to somewhere else, OK?
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That's an important point, knowing where you are
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and knowing where you are going, right?
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In order to get somewhere, you have to
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know where you are now.
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And you have to know where you want
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to go.
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And then you just go, right?
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You have to know two things.
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Where am I right now for directions?
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And where am I trying to go?
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Anytime you put GPS in the car, it
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knows where you are right now.
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But a lot of times, if you're trying
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to put a map in online like Google,
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you have to tell it where you're coming
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from, too, unless you've allowed it to see
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your geolocation.
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Number 18, ending the week strong.
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A strong finish becomes your next starting line,
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OK?
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Doesn't necessarily mean you've reached success.
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It's just the next point.
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Think of it like levels on a video
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board.
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Or maybe you play Pac-Man or you
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played other video games.
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We call them boards or levels.
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Once we clear a board, I remember the
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first time I learned about boards and levels,
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it was Donkey Kong.
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Many of you probably don't even know Donkey
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Kong, which is OK.
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Does anybody here know how many levels Donkey
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Kong has?
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Does anybody know how many levels?
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There are a lot.
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Donkey Kong Bonanza has a total of 21
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levels, which includes seven core sublayers and three
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major branching points and one final stage.
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Donkey Kong games like Mario versus Donkey Kong
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featured 130 levels across eight worlds.
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That's a lot.
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So when you clear a board, it's like
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you've achieved certain mastery in your life.
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And that mastery is something that I think
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a lot of people, they just miss what
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that mastery is.
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They miss what that mastery is.
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Make sense?
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Maybe you're confused.
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And maybe you're saying to me, I don't
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know why this is a certain way.
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But I'm telling you something right now.
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You can change immediately.
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You don't need to wait a million years
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for it to happen.
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A lot of people think you do.
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You don't need to do that.
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You do not need to do that.
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And if you can realize that a belief
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comes from you, comes from your inner side,
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then you can change things, if you can
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do that.
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But a lot of people get stuck in
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the past.
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They get stuck in what they should be,
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instead of where they are right now.
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Momentum builds belief, and belief grows when you
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see yourself follow through, as I said, number
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19.
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Number 20, why action creates clarity.
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Action clears the fog and reveals the next
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step, the next board.
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Just like on Donkey Kong or Pac-Man,
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when you've eaten all the dots, or you've
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gotten through all the way to the top,
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you have cleared the board.
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You've cleared the level, number 21, moving despite
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doubt.
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See, doubt doesn't stop you.
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It just delays you.
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And depending on what kind of doubt you
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have, it can really drain you.
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That doesn't mean you can't start again, but
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it takes time.
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Right?
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That's important to understand.
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Very, very important for all of you to
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understand.
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And I hope that a lot of you
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will understand that point.
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And that point is something that many people,
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they just don't get.
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All right?
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And the reason they don't get it is
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because they're stuck behind.
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They're stuck behind.
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And being stuck behind means that you just
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don't have a clear path to where you
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could go.
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So a lot of times, we see a
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roadway, right?
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And if the roadway is blocked, do you
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suddenly turn around and say, oh, I just
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I can't get there?
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No.
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Use your car to reroute.
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Or you say, wait a minute, I know
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this area.
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I know this neighborhood.
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I'm going to turn down the street and
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go this way.
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I think too many times when we see
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a roadblock, people see that as a way
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to say, all right, I'm stopping.
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It should just mean I'm regrouping and going
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a different way.
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Moving despite doubt, doubt doesn't stop you.
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As I said, it delays you.
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So let's be smart when we get down.
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Let's not let it disarm us.
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Number 22, momentum as discipline.
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Momentum is built, not wished for, guys.
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It's not wished for.
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And I think that's a very important thing
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that a lot of people here don't get
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is that it's important to understand what this
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all means.
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Momentum is built.
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It's not wished for.
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And number 23, guys, why motion quiets fear?
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You see, fear gets quieter when your feet
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keep moving.
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And fear is just false evidence appearing real.
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But it gets quieter.
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It becomes more transparent, becomes more part of
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our day when that happens.
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Fear gets quieter when your feet keep moving.
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That's important, that.
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Number 24, building forward energy.
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Every forward step creates more forward energy.
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Every step, not just the big step, even
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the half steps that you take when you
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don't fully plan.
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Every step, guys, brings you energy.
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Every step, not just the full steps.
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Of course, we want the full steps, but
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every step brings us energy.
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Number 25, guys, why momentum attracts opportunity?
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Opportunity follows movement, not hesitation.
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And that's a very important thing to think
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about, that it's about that concept.
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It's about the fact that we can make
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this change.
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We can make this bridge, okay?
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But it doesn't happen, you know, just because
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we see one thing out there.
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That doesn't mean that we can suddenly just
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go to point B.
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We don't understand something, right?
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It doesn't mean that.
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It means that people have to keep pushing
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forward, not just one day forward.
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I mean, every day forward, right?
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What was John D.
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Rockefeller's major saying?
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He said, oh, nothing, control everything.
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And I think in this world, control has
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gotten a little bit of a, let's say,
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a cross meaning.
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One meaning is that it gives you power.
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Another problem with control is, some people lack
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the accountability and the credibility to have control.
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People think just because you have control, you
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make money.
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Possible, but you also can be in control
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and you also could lose money, right?
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Number 26, guys, ending cycles, starting flow, close
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what's open so flow can begin.
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In order for flow to go through, we
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have to close one side of the valve
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so the other side can open.
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Two sides of the cock valve can't be
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open at one time.
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You've probably seen these valves where you take
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the valve, if it's in the center, they're
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both closed.
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If I can push it to the left,
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then the right side opens.
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I push it to the right, then the
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left side opens, vice versa.
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Those are interesting concepts.
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When we compare our life, our pathway to
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water, he give us a lot of interesting
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insights.
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Flow, restriction, level of flow, not just a
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high flow could be a low flow, right?
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Momentum without pressure, move gently, but keep it
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moving.
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We don't wanna put a lot of pressure
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there, 27.
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We wanna keep it going consistently, the same
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flow, same energy.
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Number 28, guys, how finishing builds confidence.
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Finishing proves you can trust yourself.
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It really does.
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And when we think about how it can
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build yourself, that's important to know.
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It's very important to know.
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When we think about that piece, we know
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that we've got a lot of ability.
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We know that our insights, although similar, change
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each day, and sometimes they change gradually, but
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after a few weeks or a few months,
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we're like, wow, where did that come from?
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What was changing all the time, it's just
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you weren't really aware of the change that
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was happening.
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I think that's probably the best way to
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say that.
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So finishing builds confidence and finishing proves you
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can trust yourself.
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So please finish, number 28.
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Number 29, momentum through focus.
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Focus turns scattered effort into fast progress.
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Momentum is a key of success.
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I'm not just saying this to you.
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How many times have I told you that
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you do not have to be great to
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start, but you have to start to be
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great.
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That's powerful stuff, guys.
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Really, really powerful stuff.
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Number 30, guys, choosing movement over delay.
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Choose movement today and momentum chooses you tomorrow.
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Movement today, momentum happens tomorrow.
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So just take movement consistently today and it
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will propel you tomorrow.
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That's a very priceless thing, guys.
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As this week comes to a close, choose
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one thing to complete.
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Choose one loop, take one action in your
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life.
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Ladies and gentlemen, that's the key.
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That's how momentum starts.
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That's how it gets its inertia.
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That's how it gets its momentum, right?
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That's how it starts, that's how it goes
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through.
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We choose one thing.
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This is how fear loses its grip on
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us and everything it holds.
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I said, when you disassociate yourself from fear,
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it goes away.
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Whatever you associate yourself to, it comes closer
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to you.
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I encourage you, ladies and gentlemen that are
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either watching or just listening, make the choice,
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choose movement, choose movement, keep moving forward, fear
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to forward.
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Choose movement, choose movement, keep moving forward, fear
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to forward.
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Choose movement, choose movement, keep moving from fear
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to forward.
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And your life will suddenly take on a
27:33
new dynamic.
27:37
You'll gain a new perspective of who you
27:39
are, of what you're doing, maybe even change
27:44
or recognize, validate, or realize a core purpose
27:49
is right or wrong for you.
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That's key, guys.
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I'm John C.
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Morley, serial entrepreneur.
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Be sure to check out BelieveMeAchieved.com for
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more, of course, of my amazing, inspiring creations.
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And guys, I'm gonna catch you real soon.
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Be well, everyone.
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