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How Environment Shapes Everything (S5) S16 E2 · Inspirations for Your Life

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  All right.
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  So guys, let's kick this off, all right.
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  This is Inspirations for Your Life.
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  It is Sunday.
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  How Environment Shapes Everything.
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  That's our granular.
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  Series five, show 16, and episode number two.
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  But the master topic of the week is
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  actually changing direction.
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  And what do I mean by actually changing
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  direction?
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  So this is a very important thing.
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  A granular is how environment shapes everything, okay?
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  And the master is this, how people actually
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  change their direction without even realizing it.
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  And I think that's a very important thing
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  that many people don't realize.
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  How people quietly change direction is not usually
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  about one dramatic decision.
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  It is about behavior, exposure, pressure, and the
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  systems around them that shape outcomes over time.
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  All right.
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  So if you didn't know who I am
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  by now, please allow me to introduce myself.
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  I am John C.
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  Morley, serial entrepreneur.
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  I'm an engineer, marketing specialist, video producer, podcast
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  host, coach, keynote speaker, graduate student, and a
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  passionate lifelong learner.
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  And soon, this Friday, I will be a
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  published author, yay.
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  So tonight, I'm talking about something interesting.
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  I'm breaking down one of the most underestimated
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  forces in our human behavior.
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  What is it?
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  Environment.
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  Most people think their results come from effort
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  alone.
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  Nope.
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  Most people think they just need to try
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  harder.
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  They want to push more and longer.
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  Nope.
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  But in reality, what surrounds you is often
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  doing more than your willpower, that you're wanting
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  to know what that is.
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  Your environment is not neutral.
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  It is training you.
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  It is shaping you.
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  It is influencing what you notice, what you
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  repeat, what you avoid, and what you become.
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  Yep.
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  A lot of people ignore it, but it's
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  still programming them.
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  That means your outcomes are not only connected
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  to what you want.
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  They are connected to what your environment keeps
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  making easy, familiar, visible, and automatic for us.
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  If you want to understand why people change
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  direction without realizing it, you have to start
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  with what surrounds them every single day.
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  What is that?
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  Their environment.
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  All right, guys, let's kick this off.
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  Number one, environment drives behavior automatically.
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  I bet you didn't know that.
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  Most people do not realize how much their
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  actions are triggered by what is around them
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  instead of what they consciously decide.
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  Number two, you adjust to what surrounds you.
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  Human beings are adaptive by nature, which means
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  your standards, pace, and habits often shift to
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  match, well, your environment.
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  Number three, guys, input shape outputs.
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  What you consume mentally, emotionally, and physically affects
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  what you produce in every area of your
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  life.
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  Number four, exposure to certain ideas, behaviors, and
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  expectations quietly changes what feels normal and possible.
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  Number five, guys, you absorb what you see
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  daily.
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  What stays in front of you consistently starts
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  shaping your beliefs, focus, and the decisions that
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  you make.
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  Number six, guys, surroundings influence decisions.
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  Your space, your people, your routines, and your
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  digital habits all affect what choices feel natural,
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  comfortable.
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  Number seven, people mirror their environment.
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  Over time, most people begin to reflect the
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  energy, standards, and patterns of what surrounds them.
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  Number eight, context defines choices.
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  The same person can act completely differently depending
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  on the environment they are placed in.
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  Number nine, guys, your space controls your actions.
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  What is visible, accessible, or distracting in your
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  environment often determines what you do next.
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  Number 10, you rarely outperform your environment.
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  If your setup keeps pulling you backward, effort
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  alone usually will not be enough to overcome
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  it for long to get you going forward.
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  Number 11, signals guide behavior.
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  The cues around you tell your brain what
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  to focus on and what to ignore and
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  what to repeat.
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  Number 12, guys, noise creates confusion.
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  Yes.
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  Cluttered environments are a big problem, guys.
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  Chaotic inputs and constant distraction reduce clarity and
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  weaken our decision-making.
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  You might say to me, John, why are
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  we doing that?
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  Well, I'll tell you why you're doing that.
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  It's because you don't know that's actually a
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  problem.
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  You're not aware of how much that noise
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  is preventing you from living a great life.
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  Number 13, clarity comes from structure, structure.
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  When your environment is organized with intention, your
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  mind can focus faster and act with more
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  precision.
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  Number 14, guys, environment reduces friction.
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  The right setup makes, well, good actions easier
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  and lowers the resistance that normally slows your
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  progress.
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  Number 15, guys, design affects discipline.
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  Yep.
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  People often think discipline is purely internal, but
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  external design strongly determines how easily discipline feels.
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  That's important.
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  Number 16, guys, systems reduce decision fatigue.
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  When your environment supports routines and systems, you
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  waste less mental energy deciding what to do.
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  And that's an important thing, guys.
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  That is definitely an important thing.
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  Number 17, better setups create better results.
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  Improvements in environment often create immediate improvements in
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  consistency, focus, and output.
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  Let's talk about one, a study environment.
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  If you have a quiet study environment and
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  maybe you have the option for headphones to
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  allow you to listen to some music, that
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  would be productivity music, or maybe you have
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  some nice chairs or beanbag or whatever you
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  have, and it gets you comfortable, well, that
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  can tell the mind and body, hey, it's
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  okay to relax.
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  And yeah, we can learn when we're more
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  relaxed.
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  Number 18, inputs matter more than the effort.
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  If the quality of your input is poor,
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  working harder often means reinforcing bad patterns faster.
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  So in the audio world, if we have
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  bad inputs, we're going to get bad outputs.
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  Now we can filter, we can change the
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  different levels, but if the output is really
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  bad, then we're going to run into a
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  problem.
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  And there's only so much of a window
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  that we can adjust.
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  Yes, we can adjust a lot, but if
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  it's really terrible, it's not too much we
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  can do because then we're going to lower
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  one thing and we're going to raise our
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  ceiling and then we're going to cause something
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  else to be a problem.
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  So that's a real issue.
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  So reinforcing bad patterns is not good.
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  Our inputs dictate our outputs.
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  What you consume, number 19, shapes, direction, media,
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  conversations, environments, and habits all put your thinking
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  toward certain outcomes.
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  That's pretty cool, isn't it?
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  Number 20, guys, digital environment matters too.
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  Your phone, your feed, your notifications, and your
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  online exposure shape your mind just as much
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  as your physical space, bet you didn't know
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  that.
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  Number 21, attention follows exposure.
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  What you keep seeing starts capturing more of
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  your focus, whether you intended it to or
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  not.
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  So we need to be mindful of that.
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  Number 22, guys, you repeat what you see.
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  Let me say that again.
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  You repeat what you see.
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  Repeated visual and emotional exposure increases the chance
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  that certain behaviors become habits.
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  So when our mind and body sees something,
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  right, it changes how we operate.
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  It changes it.
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  Whether we're aware of it or not, our
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  subconscious is like a sponge and it just
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  picks it up.
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  Almost like a pickup mic, right?
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  Whether you want it to pick you up
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  in the room or not, if it's on
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  and you're within so many feet of it,
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  it's picking you up and sending you out
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  on the air or sending you to the
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  auditorium or wherever or recording you, et cetera.
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  Number 23, habits follow structure.
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  The stronger the structure around a behavior, the
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  more likely that behavior will stick.
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  Now, sometimes structure is so strong, but the
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  structure is strong around weak behaviors.
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  But because there's a strong structure, when I
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  say weak, I mean that it's a poor
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  behavior.
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  It's not a supporting one for the greater
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  good of all concern, including ourselves.
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  So that's important to acknowledge and understand.
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  I think a lot of people today don't
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  realize that their subconscious runs their mind and
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  runs their body, okay?
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  If you're not happy with your results, well,
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  let's take a look at what your subconscious
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  has been absorbing.
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  I think that's a very important one that
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  a lot of people just don't seem to
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  get.
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  And the reason they don't get it is
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  because they're not aware of what is going
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  on.
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  They're not aware.
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  And because they're not aware, they can't stop
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  anything.
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  And our subconscious mind, guys, just operates without
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  our awareness.
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  Our subconscious has its own awareness.
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  But the beginning, when we start to understand
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  and become aware of things, now we can
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  intercept that coming into, well, our brain.
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  And our brain takes the information, sends it
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  around, including our heart, which by the way,
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  our heart runs our body.
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  Not just pumping.
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  Our heart, without getting into this tonight, it
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  has a very unique function.
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  It can hold memory of certain things.
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  It has the ability to control the energy.
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  And you might say, John, where are you
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  going on this?
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  So everything in our world is energy.
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  This microphone's energy, this water's energy, my cell
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  phone, the laptop, the lights, the studio, everything
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  here is energy.
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  And so when our heart resonates in a
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  certain energy, it goes together.
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  Interesting story today, guys.
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  There was this puppy, okay?
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  And there was this big falcon bird.
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  And this big falcon bird was outside, probably
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  saw the puppy, and all of a sudden,
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  this big falcon bird swoops in and picks
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  up the puppy.
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  I think the puppy was so scared.
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  And you might've thought that the eagle was
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  going after that puppy for his lunch or
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  dinner.
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  No.
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  He took the puppy back to his nest
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  where there were several babies of the eagle.
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  And they were all like a family.
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  It was something that the eagle picked up
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  in the puppy.
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  Maybe the eagle didn't have a father, so
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  the eagle wanted to make sure that there
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  was some way that the baby eagles could
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  be taken care of.
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  And it was a remarkable story because they
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  would go and visit the puppy every couple
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  of days, watching the puppy up there.
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  And that falcon, that big bird, was not
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  only making sure that it found something for
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  her babies, but she would go and get
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  food for the babies.
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  You know what else she would do?
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  She would get food for the puppy.
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  That's a pretty amazing relationship.
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  A puppy, a big, gigantic eagle.
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  You can't make this up, but when I
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  heard about the story, I was like, you
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  know why that happened?
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  I thought about it.
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  It happened because of energy.
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  If you've ever been around a dog before,
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  hopefully you like dogs, pets.
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  So I've learned this too.
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  If you're around the animal and you are
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  scared, the animal picks that up.
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  If you are very calm and docile and
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  has a good energy, the pet will come
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  over to you.
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  That's energy.
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  That's remarkable.
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  Number 24, guys, structure beats willpower.
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  What is built into your environment usually wins
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  over what you merely hope you will do.
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  One of the things I talk about in
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  my book is a certain type of structure
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  with some techniques.
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  And I never realized how some simple techniques
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  with a pen, a paper could help you
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  become successful, you know, very inexpensive.
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  But you see, our mind doesn't judge whether
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  we're using a $5,000 or $10,000
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  laptop to stay organized or we're using a
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  piece of paper.
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  Our mind just cares that the data is
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  organized.
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  Our subconscious is very good at following patterns.
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  The thing is, a lot of our patterns
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  that are already set up for us, we
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  don't like.
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  And they're not for our greater good, but
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  our subconscious still pays attention to it.
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  Like I said, if you have that mic
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  on or you have that speaker on, it's
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  still going to play music or elicit a
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  voice.
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  Number 25, guys, people underestimate environment.
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  Many people blame themselves for inconsistency without realizing
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  how much their setup is working against them.
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  This could be in studying.
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  I know in very beginning days when I
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  was starting to do, you know, voiceovers, I
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  never realized how important it was not just
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  to have the great lighting and stuff like
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  that, but also to have an environment that
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  I feel comfortable in having the right tools,
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  obviously, but having them accessible in a certain
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  way that feels natural makes production a lot
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  easier and fun.
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  Number 26, guys, remove friction to move faster.
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  When the right action becomes easier to start,
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  consistency rises naturally.
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  Now, you might say, John, how do I
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  know what the right action is?
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  Great question.
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  Go with your gut.
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  Go with your energy.
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  And as your energy is getting you to
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  flow towards something, that will get you to
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  make the change.
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  Number 27, guys, add friction to stop bad
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  patterns.
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  Making negative behaviors less convenient is often more
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  effective than relying on self-control alone.
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  Let's talk about something.
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  Let's say you're friends with somebody and this
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  friend is abusing you for the services that
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  you can provide.
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  Let's say professional services that you charge for.
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  But because he or she is a friend,
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  you actually don't charge that person.
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  Maybe what you have to do is limit
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  the amount of time that you're willing to
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  give that person.
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  Hey, I'm happy to help you today.
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  I can spare 20 minutes.
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  And then if they start calling every day,
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  I can spare an hour a week.
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  So now if you did 20 minutes, that
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  means you're willing to give 20 minutes for
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  five days.
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  If you said, I can only spend 30
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  minutes, you say, I can only spend 15
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  today.
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  So now you're changing that trajectory.
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  So I think when we start to learn
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  about our value and we share that with
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  others, it's not to be rude.
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  It's to let people know that I value
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  myself.
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  I value you.
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  Because I value my time, I expect you
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  to value my time as well.
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  So I'm just setting that precursor with you
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  up front.
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  Because if you don't understand it, and then
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  you go over boundaries, you know what happens?
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  Well, you can have anything from a virtual
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  fight to physical fight to loss of respect.
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  And I think these are big problems for
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  a lot of people, but they don't necessarily
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  want to say anything because they feel it
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  might ruin the friendship.
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  Ladies and gentlemen, newsflash here.
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  If somebody is abusing you or constantly trying
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  to, for lack of a better term, manipulate
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  you, okay?
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  I don't care if it's a client, I
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  don't care if it's a neighbor.
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  Oh, I'll take you to lunch.
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  Oh, I'll take you to dinner.
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  Oh, I've got candy for you.
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  Oh, who cares, right?
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  They're basically trying to get your services for
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  the cost of a lunch.
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  And you're worth much more than a lunch.
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  So when we start to become aware of
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  ourself and others and how these things are
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  playing out, we can say, hey, I appreciate
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  that you're offering me lunch.
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  And I just want you to know that
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  lunch is appreciated.
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  And it's also not something I can count
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  towards your bill.
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  They're going to become a little cold.
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  And they're either going to A, change their
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  tune, or B, they'll be like, oh, okay.
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  I had that happen to me with somebody
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  many years ago.
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  Do you know that person and I are
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  no longer friends?
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  There was never a friendship.
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  There was an abusive manipulation.
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  Because I was always taught to be respectful
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  to people, especially my elders, I let it
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  slip through my subconscious.
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  My filters never picked it up because it
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  appeared that I was being nice.
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  I was being polite.
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  But really, I was being disrespectful to myself.
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  And that's a big problem.
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  Disrespect is not just something that can happen
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  to others, it can happen to yourself.
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  And so this happened to me for a
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  long time, that if we don't know how
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  to respect somebody, we don't know how to
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  do that.
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  If we can't respect ourselves, we'll never respect
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  another person, never.
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  I mean, never, never, never, never, never, okay,
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  never.
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  So you can talk about kindness all day
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  long.
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  And kindness does not equal me being weak.
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  But the minute kindness turns into a manipulation,
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  then it's time to become firm with, I
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  understand you need my services, and I offered
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  to give you 15 minutes today.
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  Well, it's gonna take longer, I understand, I'm
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  able to give you 15 minutes, what happens
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  after that?
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  Well, then I'll start charging you in half
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  hour or hour increments, my normally rate.
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  How much is that?
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  How many hours?
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  Oh, it could be two to four hours.
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  And I do expect payment via cash, check,
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  a credit card at the end of the
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  service.
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  If we need to make a payment arrangement
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  now, let's talk about that if you need
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  to.
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  How much is the bill gonna be?
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  I don't know, between anywhere from 300 or
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  $1,000.
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  Well, that's a big range.
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  Well, it depends on how many hours I'm
• 23:45
  here.
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  Now, they get a lot more finicky about
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  what they really need you for.
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  They don't need you to hold the screw.
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  They don't need you to change the batteries
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  in the flashlight.
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  They don't need you to hook up the
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  cable box.
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  They need you to do one thing or
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  two things, because now they're paying you.
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  You already value yourself.
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  And once you value yourself, other people will
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  start valuing you or they will just leave
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  the situation.
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  Number 28, change environment to change outcomes.
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  When you alter the conditions around you, you
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  often change the direction of your results.
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  That could be furniture.
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  That could be anything from the way the
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  sound is, let's say, absorbed.
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  It could be the type of lighting you
• 24:30
  have in your home or your office.
• 24:34
  It could be the type of chair you're
• 24:36
  sitting on, right?
• 24:38
  All these things play into our sense.
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  See, hear, touch, taste, smell, feel, proprioception.
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  For those of you who forgot what proprioception
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  is, that's the ability to tell where a
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  specific joint or part of our body is
• 24:58
  at any time, whether our eyes are open
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  or our eyes are closed.
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  I can tell you my hand's up here,
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  my eyes are closed.
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  Hands down here, my hand is down there.
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  I can tell because of proprioception.
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  Number 29, guys, external shifts create internal change.
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  Changing what surrounds you can reshape how you
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  think, feel, and respond over time.
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  There is no rush to do this in
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  five minutes or even to do it overnight.
• 25:28
  But many people push because they're like, oh,
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  I got to get it done tonight.
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  When you rush to get it done, I'll
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  tell you something, you're probably going to have
• 25:36
  to redo it several times.
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  So let's get it done right the first
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  time, even if it's a little slower.
• 25:43
  Number 30, guys, control inputs, control results.
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  If you want different outcomes, one of the
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  fastest ways to get them is to become
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  more intentional about what you allow around you.
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  So I was talking to a friend of
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  mine who we do breakfast with at the
• 26:04
  church.
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  We do it once a month, a breakfast
• 26:06
  club.
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  And he had one of these kind of
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  like fancy little coffee pots you put on
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  the stove from, it was actually not the
• 26:15
  one from Italy, but it was made, it
• 26:17
  was a knockoff made from the guy that
• 26:19
  originally made the more expensive one.
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  So he puts the coffee in and puts
• 26:26
  the water in and tastes it and everything
• 26:28
  and he fills it up to the line.
• 26:30
  So how is it?
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  He says, oh, it's terrible.
• 26:31
  He said, it's too watery.
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  I said, I guess maybe it needs less
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  water.
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  And put less water in, it's only a
• 26:37
  second or third time.
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  So by changing the way, so change can
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  not only be the ingredient and ingredient is
• 26:43
  not just limited to food.
• 26:44
  It could be what we do or don't
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  do, right?
• 26:47
  The action is also an ingredient.
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  And just by altering one thing, something can
• 26:53
  shift.
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  But if we kept putting that teapot together,
• 26:56
  that coffee pot together the same way, we
• 26:58
  would just have a mess.
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  Okay.
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  That's when things are live on the air,
• 27:06
  you just sneeze.
• 27:09
  So I have to tell you that knowing
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  that you do the same thing over and
• 27:14
  over again, and if you expect different results,
• 27:17
  Einstein said, that's insanity.
• 27:19
  So don't do that.
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  That's probably the biggest thing I want to
• 27:22
  tell you.
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  And I want to say this in closing.
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  Here is the real takeaway for this evening.
• 27:29
  Most people are trying to change their lives
• 27:31
  without changing what keeps shaping their lives every
• 27:34
  day.
• 27:34
  That is why they stay frustrated.
• 27:37
  That is why they stay inconsistent.
• 27:39
  That is why they keep making promises to
• 27:42
  themselves and then falling back into the same
• 27:44
  old pattern or loop.
• 27:47
  Because effort matters, but environment often decides whether
• 27:51
  that effort lasts.
• 27:53
  If you want better results, do not just
• 27:55
  ask what you need to do differently.
• 27:58
  Ask what around you needs to change.
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  Ask what you keep seeing.
• 28:03
  Ask what keeps distracting you.
• 28:06
  Ask what keeps pulling you into the same
• 28:08
  patterns.
• 28:09
  Ask what needs to become easier.
• 28:12
  Ask what needs to become harder.
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  Because the moment you become intentional about your
• 28:15
  environment, you stop leaving your direction to chance.
• 28:20
  You stop drifting, you stop reacting, you stop
• 28:23
  depending on willpower alone.
• 28:25
  And you begin building the setup that supports
• 28:28
  the version of you actually wanted to become
• 28:31
  forever.
• 28:32
  That is how people quietly change direction without
• 28:35
  realizing it.
• 28:36
  Not through one emotional moment, not through one
• 28:39
  speech, not through one promise, but through what
• 28:43
  surrounds them, shapes them, and trains them every
• 28:46
  single day.
• 28:47
  For more insights, perspectives, and content designed to
• 28:51
  motivate and help you think more clearly and
• 28:53
  act intentionally, visit BelieveMeAchieve.com.
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  And we'll see you on the next show
• 28:57
  real soon.
• 28:58
  Remember, your next level starts with what surrounds
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  you, so change it now.