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Being Underrated Is a Strategic Advantage (S5) S6:E2 · Inspirations for Your Life

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All right.
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So let's go ahead and kick this show
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So this is Inspirations for Your Life, ladies
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and gentlemen.
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Hello everyone once again and welcome back to
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Inspirations for Your Life.
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This is the daily motivational show designed to
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help you grow with intention, okay?
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And I know that sounds like something that's
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hard to believe, but it's really the truth,
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guys, growing with intention, okay?
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That is important to understand, clarity, and of
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course, confidence.
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Who am I?
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Oh, I'm John C.
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Morley, serial entrepreneur.
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It is such a privilege and a pleasure
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to be with you here on the show.
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I am your host, serial entrepreneur, engineer, marketing
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specialist, video producer, podcast host, coach, keynote speaker,
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graduate student, and a passionate lifelong learner.
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Today's episode is all about powerful because it
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speaks to something many people misunderstand.
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We live in a world that rewards noise,
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flash, and constant self-promotion.
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But the truth is that the world doesn't
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reward the loudest voices long-term, as we
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said.
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It rewards the quiet, strong voices.
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This episode is about the strategic advantage of
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being underrated, not ignored, not invisible, out of
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fear, but intentionally underestimated while you build something
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real.
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Being underrated gives you freedom when expectations are
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low, pressures drop, you're no longer performing for
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applause.
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You're focused on progress, and I think a
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lot of people don't understand that you start
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in the beginning.
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And when you start in the very beginning,
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you start without an audience.
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You start with anybody caring about your content
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or what you're doing.
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You basically start with this.
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And that's a very, very big problem for
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a lot of people to understand how that
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actually works.
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So I want to share this with you
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because this is a really important part of
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the show here.
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Quiet builders win all the time because they
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are not distracted by the validation.
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They're protected by privacy, and they're driven, ladies
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and gentlemen, by discipline.
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Yeah, discipline.
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Discipline sounds like something that is so easy,
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and it is as long as you have
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the motivation to stick with it.
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That's a very, very important thing to understand.
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And if you understand that, then maybe you'll
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realize what's going on or why something is
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going on.
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I think that's a very important thing to
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understand what's going on.
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And so sometimes people don't quite get what
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it is.
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And the reason I'm saying that is because
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people just don't understand.
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They don't understand the value of that.
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And knowing that discipline is the power tool
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to get you to become a better version
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of yourself.
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Now, I'm not going to tell you it's
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easy because it's not.
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All right.
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It's about you making choices in your life.
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And these choices help us to become a
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better version of ourself every single day of
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our life.
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Not just today, not just tomorrow, but every
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single day of your life.
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I think that's really the key.
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Our next point, guys, is all about invisible
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work that compounds.
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When no one is watching, you sharpen skills
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without interference.
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Silence becomes a tool.
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Attention drains focus, but quiet sharpens it.
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The underrated stay hungry because nothing has been
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handed to them.
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Every win is earned.
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And I think when a win is earned,
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it means more to us than just where
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we're coming from.
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Like sometimes people say to me, oh, John,
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that was hard.
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When something's hard, you appreciate it more.
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And I think that makes a very big
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difference to what's happening or why something is
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happening.
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All right.
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That's very important to realize.
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Our next point is all about hidden effort
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that builds an edge.
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Less hype means fewer interruptions.
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Quiet growth avoids sabotage.
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When you're not in the spotlight, you're free
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to make mistakes, refine systems, and master fundamentals.
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Low spotlight accelerates mastery, anonymity, and it protects
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momentum.
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You're ignored, but improving invisible season strength and
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discipline.
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Quiet wins often surprise systems that underestimated you.
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So when you are, let's say for lack
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of a better term, somebody who's not known,
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right?
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You're in the beginning, but you're not known
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yet.
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And because you're not known, nobody really has
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their eyes on you, okay?
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Nobody has their eyes on you.
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And that's okay that they don't have their
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eyes on you.
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And actually in some ways, it allows us
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to breathe a little bit, okay?
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It allows us to breathe a little more.
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And so that's important.
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That's really important.
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That's important.
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And I think if you can understand that,
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then this will make more sense for you,
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okay?
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Underrated people build resilience.
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Hidden reps matter.
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Less validation forces internal motivation.
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Silence fuels growth.
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Quiet effort compounds over time.
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It compounds over time.
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Does that make sense?
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Does that make sense, everybody?
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I hope it makes sense.
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But when we hear something or see something
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for the first time, it doesn't always make
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direct sense.
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Low noise creates high skill.
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Hidden work lasts longer than public hype.
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Quiet execution beats talk.
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The underrated don't need permission.
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They dominate later.
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And that means something very, very interesting.
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The reason they dominate later is because now
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they understand what it's about.
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They understand the why.
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They understand the how.
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And when they understand, it's like, oh, this
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makes a lot of sense now.
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This is why I'm doing this.
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Does that make sense?
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Okay.
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When we see something the first time, it's
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like we don't necessarily get it, all right?
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So we see it again, and then we
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see it again.
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And when we see it a couple times,
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we're like, oh, wait a minute.
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Now this actually makes sense to me because
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I'm learning, right?
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I'm learning.
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And I can apply this, and then I
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can definitely become a better version of myself.
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Silence sharpens patience.
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Invisible advantage is real.
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Power.
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Quiet builders always last.
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People that are quiet oftentimes carry the big
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stick.
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And the reason I say that is that
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when somebody is quiet, you don't think they're
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going to get anywhere, but really they do
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get somewhere.
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You do get somewhere.
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I think that's a very, very important thing
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to understand.
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It's about that.
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Because when it's about that, you change.
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And that change can impact not just today,
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tomorrow, but many years from today.
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All because we now have a different perspective
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of who we are and where we're going.
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I think that's a very important one.
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If, ladies and gentlemen, you've ever felt overlooked,
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well, this is what we're talking about today.
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It's for you.
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Because being unseen doesn't mean being unimportant.
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So many times I hear, oh, John, you
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know what?
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I didn't get noticed.
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I didn't get recognized.
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I didn't get chosen.
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Just because you weren't chosen doesn't mean you're
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not important.
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It means you're building without interference.
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So when you build without interference, it means
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something.
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It means that you have the possibility to
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grow.
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You have that possibility to grow.
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And when we have that possibility to grow,
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it's like, oh, wow, wait a minute.
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Now I finally get it.
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I finally get what it's about and why
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things are happening a certain way.
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I think that's a very important thing for
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many people to understand.
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Is that we have to grow in a
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way that's going to make a difference for
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our lives and the people around us.
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Now if you're saying to me, John, like,
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I've tried growing, but whatever I do doesn't
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seem to go anywhere.
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Now that doesn't mean you've done anything wrong.
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It might be the environment that you're currently
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in.
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It might be the situation that is affecting
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you to act in a way that is
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going to deter you from your actual goal.
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From your actual goal.
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That's very important to understand.
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When we get deterred from a goal, it's
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like, oh, wait a minute.
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What am I supposed to do?
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Why am I even doing this?
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And I'm doing this because I want to
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change something.
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I want to change the way my life
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is.
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I want to change the way I'm living
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my life, what I'm doing with my life.
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If we know that one thing, then we
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can change it.
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Remember I said to you, when you can
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measure something, you can change it.
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And this might not be something that you
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understand right away.
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And I say that to you because maybe
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you're not quite understanding it.
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And what you're not understanding is that there's
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a perception difference.
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A perception difference that can change who you
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are and how you act.
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And how you react.
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Remember I said before that we can be
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passive.
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We can be basically passive in one way
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that we don't do anything.
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Or active.
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Now it's a little different when we think
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about actions.
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We think about proactive and reactive.
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Similar but not exactly the same.
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So proactive means I do what I need
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to do.
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Like we talked about the fire and protecting
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ourselves.
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And reactive means, oh wait, I didn't do
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something.
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I better do it.
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It's like, I have to do it now.
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Like maybe you had to print something.
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And maybe suddenly you had to print all
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this paper.
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And suddenly you ran out of ink.
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Because you were not proactive.
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Now you've got to be reactive.
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Run to the store before they close.
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Get the ink.
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Get it printed.
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And then finish compiling the book or whatever
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you're doing.
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That gets very complicated.
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Now what's the big deal about a piece
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of paper?
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Nothing.
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Nothing really actually.
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When we think about a piece of paper,
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we're thinking about the fact that it's something
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that we don't quite understand.
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And the reason I say we don't understand
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it is because we are just kind of,
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we're kind of like changing what we're doing.
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And when we are reactive about something, it's
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like we suddenly don't understand that this one
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change we made in our life can actually
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affect us.
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Affect us.
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And it doesn't always become obvious at day
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one.
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Nope.
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Doesn't come obvious at day one.
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When we see that we got to make
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one little change, we're like, oh gee, if
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we have to be reactive for one thing,
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it's no big deal.
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But what if you had to be reactive
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for many things in your life?
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I mean, I'm just asking you this dumb
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question.
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What if you had to be reactive for
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many, many, many things in your life?
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Depending on how many there are, that could
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really, really frustrate you.
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Okay?
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And you might have not even planned for
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that whole concept.
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But suddenly, it hits you.
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It hits you.
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Because you now know that this is something
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you have to do or something you have
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to change.
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Not because you wanted to do it, but
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suddenly because this happened in a way that
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maybe made no sense.
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Okay?
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No sense at all.
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And this sense could affect how you move
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forward in your life.
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Right?
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How you move forward in your life.
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Hmm.
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Moving forward is something that a lot of
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people think is an easy thing.
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Okay?
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But what we find out is that it's
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not an easy thing.
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Just because you know how to move forward
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doesn't mean you're moving forward in the right
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direction.
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I'm going to say something I've said before.
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Just because you can doesn't mean you should.
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Just because you can does not mean that
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you should.
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Think about that, guys.
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Just because you can does not mean you
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should.
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And maybe you're saying to me, John, this
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is a little bit crazy.
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I don't understand where something is going or
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why something is trending a certain way.
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It's not because maybe you wanted to go
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that way, but because of something that changed
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in your environment.
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Okay?
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Something that changed in your environment.
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And what changed in your environment is something
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that can make a difference.
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And that difference means it could affect your
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path.
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And the path might necessarily take you to
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where you want to be.
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Because you might need to alter the course
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in your direction.
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It could alter your direction.
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And if it alters the course in your
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direction, it might affect where you're going to
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go.
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You might say, John, what is that going
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to do?
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One little thing is going to.
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That one little thing could change the lens,
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which is your perspective, guys.
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If you see something black and white instead
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of color, that might demotivate you.
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It might.
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But if you were able to know that
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you were off a path, and that path
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instead of leading you down the yellow brick
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road was suddenly leading you to a dead
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end.
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Or a circle.
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We just keep looping.
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Is that a dead end?
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Well, it goes in a circle, so it's
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not a dead end, but it's similar to
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a dead end.
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And a dead end means it doesn't come
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back again.
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A circle would, or a loop would keep
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you coming back.
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We think about possibilities.
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And we think about things like stuff that
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might not be unimportant to us because we
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don't think there's a purpose today.
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There may be a purpose tomorrow.
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There may be a purpose tomorrow.
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If there's a purpose tomorrow, then how do
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we embrace that?
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How do we suddenly say, you know what?
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I'm in.
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But if we don't know what tomorrow is,
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we don't know what that purpose could be,
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how do we move forward?
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How do we digest?
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How do we process?
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We get frustrated.
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We get immobilized.
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And our ambition sort of wanes.
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And we have somewhere we want to go
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and something we need to do, but it
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becomes less important.
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Why is that happening?
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Because your why is not loud enough.
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Let me say that again.
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It's happening because your why is not loud
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enough.
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That's the real reason, guys.
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That's the reason it's doing that.
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Because your why is not loud enough.
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If your why was loud enough, there would
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be no issue.
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There would be no issue.
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A why is not something you just conjure
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up because, oh, gee, I think I'll just
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do this because it sounds interesting.
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No.
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A why is your core mission.
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All right?
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And if we don't realize what a why
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can do for us, then we might be
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lost.
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We might just be lost.
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And that thing that makes us lost
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can get us to slowly change our daily
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habits.
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When the daily habits change, now it's like,
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oh, my gosh, what am I supposed to
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do?
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And it doesn't happen overnight.
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Just like success doesn't happen overnight, right?
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You get into these habits, and these habits
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cause us to act differently in our life.
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Not because we have to.
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Not because we want to.
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But because of the environment.
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Because of us changing.
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And that change says, wait a minute.
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I don't know if I can do this.
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Why do we get demotivated?
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Well, maybe we don't have the knowledge to
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go further.
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So when that happens, don't get discouraged.
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Learn what you're missing.
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Learn that piece of missing knowledge.
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And then you know what happens?
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Everything else is downhill.
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Everything else is easier from there.
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But most people are like, oh, wait a
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minute.
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We got to go up a hill.
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Okay.
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It's time to turn around and go home.
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I'm in a play recently.
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And in the play, there's Lewis and Clark.
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And William is in the play with me.
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And he's saying, you know, in one part
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of the play, he says, you know, I
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said to him, you know, where do we
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want to go now?
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And he says, you know what?
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Let's go home.
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I'm like, go home?
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Yeah, my mother just texted me.
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And I'm tired.
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I want to go home.
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And I'm like, William.
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Like, go home.
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I mean, don't you know that we've been
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entrusted with a task given to us by
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the president?
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Don't you want to know what awaits us
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yonder?
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Then later on, Seca Joea comes on.
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And she mentions that there's beasts.
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And he goes, beasts?
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Oh, I think my mother just texted me
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again.
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I got to go home.
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And I'm like, William, don't lose heart.
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I know you're hungry.
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But we want to continue through the frontier
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with haste and see what we may find.
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He goes, food courts, hidden treasure.
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And lots of, as I say, scientific discoveries.
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So if our forefathers gave up, we never
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would have had the Constitution.
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They were very dedicated men that were working
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on that Constitution.
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But again, they did not give up.
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That is the key that I want to
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share with you.
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And that might not be an easy key
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to understand.
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But it's an important key to understand.
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Okay?
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It's not an easy key.
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But it is an important key to understand.
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And that key could say to us, hey,
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John, what are we trying to understand?
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What are we trying to figure out?
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And the case here with Lewis and Clark
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and Seca Joea, we're trying to find our
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way.
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And suddenly there's a fork in the road.
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And take the fork.
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And they decide to follow Seca Joea and,
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you know, let her lead the way.
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But do we always have somebody like a
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Seca Joea or somebody that's going to help
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us lead the way?
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Or is it us?
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I think it's us.
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And when it's us, we need to be
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very vigilant and resilient because life isn't easy.
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Ladies and gentlemen, this has been, if you
26:06
did not know, inspirational for your life.
26:08
And I'm very happy to say that we
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are, yes, ladies and gentlemen, we are in
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our fifth year.
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We've been on the air four years in
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a row.
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And this makes four years and basically 31
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days.
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That's, like, pretty remarkable, right?
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That we're on the air now in our
26:29
fifth year.
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And you know what that means?
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Not including today's episode, ladies and gentlemen.
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I don't know if you know this.
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But we are now over 1,605 episodes
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after today.
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That's incredible.
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Ladies and gentlemen, I am John C.
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Morley, serial entrepreneur.
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And I'm reminding you that loud always fades
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and quiet always endures.
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For more information and inspiration for your daily
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life, go visit BelieveMeAchieved.com to re-watch
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this show, catch other nuggets, and get the
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insight you've always wanted to become a better
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version of yourself.
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I'm not going to tell you that life's
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going to be easy.
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I'm not going to tell you that things
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are just going to plop into your path.
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You need to be a detective and discover.
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And when we can do these things, we
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can change the pattern of our life.
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We can change where we're going.
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We can affect not only that, guys, but
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we can affect the outcome.
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We can affect the outcome.
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That's pretty impressive, guys.
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So don't forget to stop by BelieveMeAchieved.com
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to catch more of my short and long
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-form inspirations.
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I'll catch you guys on another show real
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soon.
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Be well, everyone, and take care.