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Patience Endurance & Steady Progress (S5) S11:E3 · Inspirations for Your Life

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off.
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You tuned into Inspirations for Your Life.
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This is series five, which means we are
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past our fourth year on the air, and
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we're now in our fifth year.
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This is show 11, episode number three.
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Our master topic for the week is own
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your power.
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Intentional choices and daily momentum.
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The episode focus for today is practice, endurance,
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and steady progress.
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Who am I?
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Great question.
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I'm John C.
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Morley, serial entrepreneur, engineer, marketing specialist, video producer,
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podcast host, coach, keynote speaker, graduate student, and
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yes, a passionate lifelong learner, and pretty soon,
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a published author.
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So today, I'm diving deep into patience, endurance,
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and consistency, the foundational forces that turn deliberate
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effort into unstoppable growth and lasting personal power.
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Number one, patience lets growth unfold naturally.
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Rushing rarely yields sustainable results.
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Growth is a process, not an event.
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So that's an important thing to understand.
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It's a process.
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It's not an event.
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It's something we keep doing over and over
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again, but we get better at it each
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time.
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Number two, guys, endurance strengthens consistency.
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Momentum builds when effort persists.
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Even when progress seems slow, we have to
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remember that we are on the way to
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our chosen path.
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Sometimes that might seem a little challenging, but
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I want to be honest with you and
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tell you that's how it works.
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Number three, guys, slow progress compounds into wins.
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Small steps, repeated daily steps that we have
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and the actions we take accumulate into breakthroughs
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that look effortless in hindsight.
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Yeah, a lot of times people say, oh
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my gosh, I don't know how you did
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that, but they don't see all the work
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you did to get up to that point.
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Number four, guys, persistence builds trust in yourself.
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Showing up steadily reinforces self-belief and mental
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fortitude.
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Number five, avoid shortcuts that undermine results.
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Quick wins often come with hidden costs that
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derail long-term progress.
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Number six, guys, steady effort beats sporadic bursts.
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Focused repetition is far more powerful than occasional
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intense pushes.
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Number seven, daily progress reinforces identity.
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Now it might not be a big progress,
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but it's a little progress and a little
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bit of progress is better than no progress.
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As long as it's consistent, we can grow.
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Those consistent habits define who you are, not
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just what you do.
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So who you are is something a lot
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of people miss because they don't realize that
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they are the culmination of all their thoughts
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and all their actions put together, right?
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It's not just one thought, it's not just
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one action.
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I think sometimes people get a little bit,
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how can I say, overzealous on this.
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And you might be saying to me, John,
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it's interesting, but I don't get how that
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works that way.
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Well, I think the important thing, guys, to
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realize is that it's about how you're making
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decisions in your life, okay?
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How you're making the decisions comes down to
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something a lot of people just don't realize.
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They don't understand why something is going that
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way or why suddenly I'm doing something a
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different way.
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And it gets people to get, I don't
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know, a little bit confused.
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Shall I say that easily?
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Yeah, a little bit confused.
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And this confusion turns, guys, you know what
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it turns into?
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It turns into frustration.
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Unfortunately, guys, it turns into frustration.
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And when that frustration happens, people get a
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little bit upset with themselves and even others.
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So I think this is an important thing
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to realize is how something is going to
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work, right?
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And when we understand how it's going to
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work, that makes a huge, huge difference, okay?
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A huge difference.
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A difference that maybe you didn't think about,
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right?
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I think that's a very important thing to
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realize is how that actually works.
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And that's hard for a lot of people
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because they're going down one path, but then
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suddenly they're now at another path and they
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don't realize how their deliberate actions have caused
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them to get to that path or onto
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another one.
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Number eight, guys, patience sharpens insight.
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Waiting strategically allows you to see patterns and
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make wiser choices.
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Yeah.
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Number nine, endurance develops resilience.
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Facing challenges without quitting trains the mind to
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stay calm under pressure.
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See, the mind gets frustrated when it can't
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understand something.
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So it's better to do little bits at
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a time.
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Like you're studying for a test, don't try
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to work on 100 questions, work on just
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a few.
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And each day you get a little bit
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better at what you're doing.
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All right?
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Everybody wants to master everything overnight, but that's
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impossible.
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We need to gradually get a little bit
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better each day.
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And the key part, guys, is to stay
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calm under pressure.
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That's a very important thing.
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Number 10, guys, consistency.
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Consistency generates unstoppable momentum.
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When you take consistent steps every day, I
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don't care if you're studying, I don't care
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if you're trying to repair a relationship or
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maybe build your reputation, small, consistent steps help
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you get where you want to be.
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Let's say you want to be good in
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social media.
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Trying to pop up once sometimes can be
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a fluke.
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But when you do consistent action, people know
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you're there for the long game, not just
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for that short overnight.
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So trust is something that takes time to
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build.
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In Facebook, we have something, other platforms don't
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exactly have this, but we have something in
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Facebook that's pretty cool.
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It basically is like a barometer to your
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level.
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Now, what do I mean by that?
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So Facebook has three different levels, okay?
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And many group administrators allow these.
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Some don't, for whatever reason.
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So you start off with nothing.
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And then when you get to 700, you
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become a rising contributor.
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That's someone who's gonna be on the up
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and coming and people might be paying attention
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to that.
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And you get a little badge that's marked
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right next to your name.
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So that's pretty cool when people see that.
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Now, when you move up a little bit
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more, now double that gets to 1,400.
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But if you move up double and then
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100 more, you get 1,500.
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And that's a top contributor.
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Now, hold on your seats.
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That's not everything.
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Those that engage with meaningful quality content, that
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means you provide things, you comment on things,
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but you're not spamming, you're trying to provide
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value.
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When you get past 1,500, you get
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to 3,000.
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You don't get anything at 3,000, okay?
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All right, you don't get anything at 3
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,000.
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But when you get twice 1,500, it's
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3,000.
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So you don't get anything on Facebook after
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you're a top contributor until you reach the
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next level.
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Well, that's a great question, John.
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What is the next level?
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So the next level that a lot of
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people always wanna reach and it's not always
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an easy level to reach, that is all
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-star contributor.
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So when we look at 5,000 and
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we take away 1,500, that's 3,500
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more.
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So basically two times would get you to
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one stack, right?
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But in this case, it doesn't do anything
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for you, right?
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But if you take 1,500 times 2
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.5, you're at 3,750.
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So if you take 1,500 and you
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times it times three, you get 4,500,
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okay?
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If you do 1,500, okay, 1,500,
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and now you take 1,500 and you
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times it times 3.5, you're over your
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limit.
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You had to hit 5,000.
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So that's right in the sweet spot.
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But a lot of people don't hit that
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level and that's called all-star contributor.
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So what I wanna tell you is that
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you don't get to be top by doing
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one thing.
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You get to be top by being consistent
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and aware over time.
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You don't try to be a loud person.
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You try to be somebody that's thoughtful, that's
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someone who's providing value, someone who is engaging
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in a way that's conducive with the group
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that you're in.
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So consistency generates unstoppable momentum.
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And in Facebook, that's absolutely true.
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If you're somebody who just pops in there
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once in a while and you post something,
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you're not gonna get very far, okay?
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Because Facebook rewards based on posts and based
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on engagements.
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Number 11, guys, long-term focus avoids burnout.
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Sustainability is built by pacing yourself rather than
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sprinting aimlessly.
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Small daily actions create impact.
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Never underestimate the power of incremental improvement.
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Never, never, never.
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That small bit of improvement that you're not
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seeing, okay?
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Don't be upset with it because the incremental
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will compound.
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People say, oh my gosh, John, I only
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put, I put a dollar in the bank,
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okay?
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So this is a great question.
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If you want, let's take some a little
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more, maybe a little more meatball.
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Let's say you put, hypothetically, let's say you
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put in, let's say you put in, I
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don't know, $100.
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So compound interest, okay?
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Compound interest of $100 over two years in
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a CD.
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So what does that mean?
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Because that sounds like really complicated.
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And so if your initial investment is $100,
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okay?
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And most rate of return CDs are 2%,
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and the investment, let's just say, is two
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years, okay?
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What is that gonna give you?
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Well, not much.
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It's gonna give you $104.04. But let
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me go back and tell you where it
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actually makes, you know, it makes some sense.
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Let's say you put in $1,000, okay?
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Rate of return is 2%.
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So now you are getting $40 in two
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years.
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But here's where it gets to be kind
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of fun.
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Let's say it's $1,000.
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Let's say you put in $10,000 at
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2% for two years.
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You ready, guys?
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You just made yourself $404.
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So what I'm trying to show you is
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the compound rate of return, the fact that
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even though that little bit, you're like, oh,
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2% is nothing, but 2% is
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something when we compound it, all right?
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Number 13, controlled effort amplifies results.
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It sure does.
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Measured energy ensures each step counts more than
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raw intensity.
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That's important.
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Measuring each step, make sure it's consistent.
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That's what happens.
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Number 14, waiting strategically builds advantage patience, is
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a competitive edge few truly exploit.
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The people that don't have patience might appear
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to rise quickly, but then guess what happens?
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They fall very, very quickly.
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They fall very quickly because they don't have
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a solid foundation.
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What happens if you build a house or
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a commercial building and you don't have a
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good foundation?
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You know what's gonna happen?
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It's gonna fall down.
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A perfect example of this is down the
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shore, right?
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It is said that most people will wanna
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build on spread footings, but it's not the
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best thing to do.
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The reason is water and wind come, and
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guess what happens?
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It just knocks the house right down, right?
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Dilapidates it.
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But if you build on pilings and they
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get driven in the ground and even some
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of the pilings, even the house sit on
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and the other ones the house is built
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around, you've got a very stable foundation, very
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stable foundation.
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And to some people, when you go slower,
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slower is faster.
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Okay, so if you go slower, you don't
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have to keep going back and doing it
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again and again.
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That's an important point, guys.
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Number 15, persistence converts effort into mastery.
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Persistence converts effort into mastery.
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Mastery is earned through repetition and disciplined endurance.
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I'm not telling you that being an Olympic
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swimmer or being somebody great in your discipline
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is gonna be easy.
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I'm not telling you that at all.
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But what I am telling you is that
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if you commit and you do consistent steps
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every day, you're gonna get closer and it's
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gonna feel less uncomfortable, okay?
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Number 16, repetition reinforces skill.
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Every repeat action embeds knowledge, instinct, and competence,
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everyone.
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One.
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Number 17, endurance, guys, strengthens emotional stability.
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Consistency in action tempers emotional swings and reduces
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reactivity.
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We've said before that those that are reactive,
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those that fly off the handle, those are
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not the people you wanna be around.
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That's not good energy.
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And they don't make decisions that are gonna
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be conducive for themselves and for others.
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They just make it because they have to,
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right?
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But when you're proactive, you are more calm.
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Let's take the fire scenario, okay?
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Everybody can relate to a fire.
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Maybe they've been a fire, maybe they've known
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someone was in a fire or a situation.
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And so when you plan for a fire
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and you know what you have to do
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to prevent it and what you have to
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do if you have one and what do
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you do for emergencies and how do you
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get out and you practice those skills.
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If the fire ever happens, like, okay, this
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is a real fire.
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No problem, we practice this.
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We know that we got our fire extinguisher.
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We're gonna try to put the fire out
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quickly.
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If we can't, we're gonna evacuate the house.
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We're gonna go call 911, okay?
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Call the fire department.
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If we put the fire out, great.
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But if we don't put the fire out,
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first thing we're gonna do before we leave
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the house, make sure there's no other fires
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around.
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We're gonna feel the doors, make sure nothing
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else is on fire, right?
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And we're gonna leave.
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And we already know our escape path because
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we've practiced this a couple of times a
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year.
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We know the location we're meeting at, okay?
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And we know what we need to grab.
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And that's not grabbing your laptop.
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That's not grabbing anything else.
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You may grab your wallet, which has ID
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and things like that.
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That's important.
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But everything else, just leave, okay?
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And when you leave the environment, you have
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to understand that because you've been proactive, you're
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gonna exit a lot calmer.
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And there's a higher probability you're gonna make
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it out alive because you're not gonna do
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something stupid because you've been in this rush
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to make a decision.
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You know what a fire is.
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You know how you have to react.
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I'm like, okay, wow, this is real this
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time, right?
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I'll give an example.
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I was at school today in one of
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the common areas.
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It was actually one of the dorm common
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areas.
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And they had made an announcement just saying
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that the alarm was just about going off.
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And then right away, an ousted came over.
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We are currently working on the fire system.
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If you hear an alarm, please disregard it
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at this time.
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So they would say that every 15 minutes.
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So this happened like two or three times.
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And then about 30, 40 minutes in, the
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alarm goes off and a cop comes in.
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He goes, there's a fire alarm going off.
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Why are you people not leaving the building?
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There's a fire.
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And I'm like, oh, officer, yeah, the fire.
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Yes, the fire alarm is going off.
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But we've been told several times every 15
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minutes that they're working on the fire alarm
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and to disregard all fire alarm signals until
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further notice.
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He's like, well, it would be nice if
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they told us.
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And just after he left, they came over
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the announcement again and said, okay, we are
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done testing the fire alarm system.
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Any further fire alarm signals that you hear,
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please respond to them and evacuate the building
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immediately.
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So when we know what to expect, it
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could be a flood, it could be a
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fire or another type of disaster or even
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a relationship bubble, or let's say a high
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or low.
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We know what to expect.
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And so because of that, we can be
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proactive and not react.
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We don't have to like, oh my gosh,
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what am I gonna do now?
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So it takes some time to learn how
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to be reactive.
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But when you practice, it just becomes something
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so natural.
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Number 18, patience, guys.
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Patience cultivates clarity.
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Stepping back allows for a better perspective on
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what really matters in your life.
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And that's more of that sense of calm,
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right?
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That inner peace.
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Number 19, steady habits enhance self-discipline.
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Your daily routines are the backbone of your
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mental toughness.
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Get them down pat.
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Number 20, long-term thinking shapes your character.
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Immediate gratification rarely builds depth, guys.
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Deliberate effort does.
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So something might seem great that you're gonna
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get a payoff instantly, but that might not
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be the wisest thing to do.
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Number 21, control pacing maximizes output.
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Align energy with priority tasks for compound effectiveness.
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Align, alignment.
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Number 22, avoid distractions that waste time.
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Every interruption erodes focus and undermines progress.
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So what's a good thing to do when
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you're studying?
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Well, plan not to be interrupted.
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And an interruption does happen, make sure that
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you can deal with it and get right
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back to the business at hand so you
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don't waste time.
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Number 23, guys, patience protects mental bandwidth.
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Staying calm and deliberate preserves your capacity to
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think clearly.
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That's important.
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Number 24, endurance multiplies confidence.
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Seeing yourself persist builds trust in your abilities.
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So when we feel confidence, whether we're seeing
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it, we're hearing it, we're experiencing it, it
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builds our confidence and it makes this like
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a no effort for us.
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Number 25, daily focus strengthens identity.
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What you repeatedly invest in becomes a core
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part of who you are.
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In other words, what we think about most
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often is what we become.
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Number 26, consistency creates credibility.
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People and systems respond to those who deliver
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predictability.
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Number 27, avoid impulsive choices.
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Reactionary decisions often cost more than a moment
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of pause.
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That reaction that you took might've seemed something
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really great, right?
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But you made a decision that you really
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didn't wanna make because you were kind of
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like forced or people like to say under
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the gun.
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Now there wasn't a gun at you, but
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you felt like you had to make a
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decision.
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Happens in a lot of things.
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A lot of salespeople do that.
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It's a very bad tactic, but they do
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that so they can close sales faster.
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It's really not operating with integrity though.
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Number 28, patience compounds strategic advantage.
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Waiting wisely opens doors that hasty action closes.
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So people don't wanna wait.
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You know why?
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They're impatient.
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They think if we rush and we get
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something now, we're gonna get it quicker.
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But the truth of the matter is you're
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not gonna get it any faster.
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In fact, by you rushing, you might not
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even get what you want.
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And there might be a mistake and you
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might have to do it all over again.
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Number 29, persistence, guys, turns vision into results.
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Every effort you maintain nudges you closer to
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your goals.
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Every effort, not just one effort, but every
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effort you have.
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That is a very keen insight that I
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want you guys to all understand.
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And number 30, guys, endurance plus consistency.
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So endurance plus consistency equals unstoppable growth.
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Let me say that again.
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Your endurance plus your constant consistent action, not
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doing more, not doing less, the same amount,
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equals unstoppable growth.
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Because here's what happened.
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When people actually do too much, they burn
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out and then they don't even wanna do
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any of it.
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So having a habit where you do just
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a little bit and it seems so easy,
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like a no brainer, and you keep doing
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it, that's a system.
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When you combine steady action with patience, your
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results exceed expectations.
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Creating personal power that lasts time and time
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again.
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Now you might say to me, John, I'm
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a very patient person, but when I want
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something, I want something.
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The question I ask you is, why do
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you want it right now?
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Why is it such an emergency at this
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moment?
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Is that something you're putting on yourself or
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is it something someone else is putting on
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yourself?
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Because if it's something someone else is putting
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on you and you have to deal with
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what kind of energy you wanna deal with,
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right?
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If something you're putting on, you have to
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ask yourself, well, why am I putting this
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distress on myself?
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Why am I doing this, right?
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If we could just be kind and a
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little bit gentler to ourself, we'll find that
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we'll get that and everything else we want
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even more.
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But we've gotta be patient and loving with
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ourself.
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Ladies and gentlemen, I'm John C.
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Morley, serial entrepreneur.
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It is always such a privilege, a pleasure
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and an honor to be with you guys
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every time I'm on the show.
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Do check out BelieveMeAchieved.com and I invite
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you guys to remember patience and endurance.
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It's a real key to staying successful.
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Have a good one, everyone.
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And check out BelieveMeAchieved.com.
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