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209. What If? Encouragement For You Today · Impact Ready

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  Welcome to Impact Ready, a show dedicated to helping you elevate
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  your impact in the world. I'm Steph Safra, your host.
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  Let's explore the power of showing up with intention and
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  energy each day. This is for those who seek to
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  make life truly meaningful. Get ready for impact.
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  Hello team, welcome to the show. Thank you for being here.
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  This episode is actually going to be pretty short and sweet,
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  but it's meant to serve anybody who's going through a challenge
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  right now. I don't know what you're going
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  through. I know that I can't physically
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  see you, but I wanted to do an episode that would serve as a
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  little bit of hope to you. No matter what challenge you're
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  in, no matter what transition you're facing, no matter what
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  big dream you're trying to bring to life.
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  I recently had an experience where somebody was able to say
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  these kinds of things to me, something that felt really
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  hopeful, very helpful. It was kind of like the right
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  thing at the right moment that I needed to hear.
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  It very much helped me in a time where I was feeling a little
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  discouraged, a little overwhelmed, feeling a little
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  bit of self doubt. And it reminded me that we all
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  need to hear this stuff sometimes.
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  No matter how old you are or what walk of life you've come
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  from, we all need to hear a little bit of encouragement and
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  remember that a little bit goes a long way.
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  So this episode is for you and this is what I want to say to
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  you. I know that you've very likely
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  been on a road that has not always been smooth.
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  I know that you've gone through some periods of time where you
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  felt like you were in the darkness, where you were
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  struggling to see 2 feet in front of you and had no idea
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  which direction to go. I know that at some point in
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  your life you have doubted yourself and asked the question,
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  did I make the right decision? Should I have let that person
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  go? Should I have ended that thing
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  that I was a part of? Should I have closed that
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  chapter in my life? Did I do the right thing?
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  And I'm not going to sit here and tell you that that is an
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  easy place to be, because it's not.
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  But I will say this. You very likely did not make any
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  decision or walk away from any relationship.
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  Choose any direction on that road without thinking about it
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  for a very long time. I guarantee you are not hasty or
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  rash or unthoughtful or careless or cruel.
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  I bet you spent hours agonizing over that thing.
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  I'm sure that you have spent a lot of time deep in thought
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  about whether or not this was the right move.
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  I would guess that at some point you sacrificed your own needs,
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  your own wants, you bent on your boundaries, or you took some
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  kind of grief or extra load, or maybe you even took some abuse
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  or manipulation in the path of deciding what to do and where to
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  go. I would venture to guess that at
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  some point you got burned, that you probably got caught in the
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  fire and convinced yourself that the heat is just part of the
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  gig. It's nothing unusual, it's just
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  something you have to deal with, just the price of admission for
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  being in that situation. There's probably a chance that
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  you made yourself a little bit smaller in the process of trying
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  to work things out or leave that job or make an old idea or an
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  old identity fit. But you did the best you could
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  with the information that you had at the time.
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  You didn't have all the context and the way that you have it
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  now. So you don't have to go back in
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  your mind and beat yourself up about what was or could have
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  been. And sometimes we just grow out
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  of things. Sometimes as we grow, the
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  circumstances of our life no longer fit and we have to shed
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  that layer. Sometimes we have to break apart
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  old patterns so that something new can come in and be built
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  before our eyes. And so that begs the question,
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  what if? What if the next chapter that
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  you're so worried about turns out to be your favorite chapter?
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  What if the thing you're approaching with hesitation ends
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  up becoming part of your life that you look back on and say,
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  wow, that changed everything for the better?
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  What if all that time that you were waiting to give yourself
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  permission to make this next move is the time that allowed
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  you to grow into the person that can take this first step and now
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  you're fully equipped to be where you are now?
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  What if you are one conversation, one chance
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  meeting, one decision away from the thing that you're hoping to
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  have in your life? We rarely think this way, but we
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  should because it's happening all around us.
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  What we usually do instead is we fall back on habit.
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  The moment something is unknown, people immediately imagine what
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  could go wrong. Old stories, old patterns, old
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  programming tell us. What if it fails?
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  What if it hurts? What if it's not what I hoped it
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  could be? What if I made the wrong
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  decision and I can't go back now?
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  What if I'm not equipped for this?
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  What if I hate what's next for me?
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  I get it. I have been there so many times.
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  I have been there very recently. We all get it.
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  We've all been there. Uncertainty often feels
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  threatening. So we put up that old guard, all
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  those old defenses that we construct around ourselves like
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  a fortress. We put up that protection, but
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  that protection usually leads in the negative direction.
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  It usually takes us down the path of imagination where
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  everything falls apart and we made the mistakes and we should
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  have known better. That protection often blinds us
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  to the other side, Because what if the next part, the next
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  chapter, the next section of your life, the next part, What
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  if it's one of the most beautiful parts?
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  What if the next part teaches you something, introduces you to
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  something or someone? What if you find out that this
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  next part is what takes that smaller version of you that you
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  became in that time, and it helps you become the bigger
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  version of you that feels deserving and worthy and
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  comfortable taking up the space that you were meant to take up?
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  What if you get everything that you dreamed of because you bet
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  on yourself and who you wanted to become?
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  A lot of the chapters people end up loving in their lives did not
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  begin with certainty. They began with nerves,
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  uncertainty, apprehension. I can tell you from personal
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  experience, most of the growth that we get to benefit from is
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  the product of enduring some kind of pain or some kind of
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  nerves and apprehension and uncertainty.
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  But what if your mind is willing to open up to what lies beyond
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  that pain, where it all becomes worth it?
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  What could be possible? What if there was no wrong
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  direction on the road? What if you just made one of the
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  best decisions of your life? I know that I don't know what
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  you're going through. I don't know what you're
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  navigating, and I know that I can't see you right now, and you
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  might have people around you in your life who tell you these
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  kinds of things, but it never hurts to hear it.
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  Once again, you are seen by people.
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  You are so loved by the people around you, and you have so much
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  impact beyond what you'll ever know.
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  Even the smallest conversations that you have, that happenstance
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  meeting, those are things that will change people in ways that
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  you might never see. You have ripple effects that
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  reach to the side of the lake and then the next lake and the
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  next lake that you never even knew about.
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  And I say all of this so that you feel a little courage and a
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  little more hope and a little more gumption to keep going, to
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  trust yourself and know that even in the darkest moments,
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  there's always a little bit of light that you can find.
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  You just have to open your eyes to it and ask what if.
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  Even in the times where you doubted yourself, remember you
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  did the best you could in the situation and the information
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  that you had. There's no wrong direction on
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  the road. What is meant for you will come
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  in the right time. As long as we keep our eyes and
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  our minds open to the what if, and as long as we keep the doors
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  of possibility open instead of closing down what could be
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  coming next because we're afraid of the unknown.
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  You're doing a great job. I so appreciate you being here
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  listening to this podcast with thousands of podcasts to choose
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  from. I appreciate you listening to
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  this one. I hope it gives you some
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  encouragement today. Keep asking yourself this week,
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  what if and see what starts to open up, even if it's just in
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  your mind and your heart. I appreciate you being here.
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  Thank you for listening and thank you for being ready to
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  impact. Thanks for listening to Impact
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  Ready. I hope today's episode inspired
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  you to own your impact and recognize that you.
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  Are powerful. By elevating our energy and
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  awareness. We can.
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  Create exponential change in this life.
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