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106. G.O.A.L. · Your Enriched Self

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  I have really enjoyed how people have tuned in to their self care lives and
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  have gone on these self care journeys in public, meaning putting it on social
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  media. And I had a chance to watch a friend of mine go on
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  that journey recently and she did it on social media, and I thought it
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  was really beautiful. Here's what I'm gonna say. It was a messy journey.
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  Oftentimes when you think about self care, you think about healing and new
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  experiences, etc. But along her journey, she talked about some of the
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  ugly things that had come up, some of the things that she had repressed,
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  and towards the end she said something that was really compelling about how she
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  thought at one point that on this self care journey that she would you learn
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  something new, like I said, or lose weight, or find a new
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  care style. And in the end, it was the most simple learning lesson
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  and that was self love in all of this self care expression. On this
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  self care journey for almost sixty days, her final takeaway was I'm in love
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  with myself. I love myself, and it was so heartfelt. I could
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  see her on that screen being transparent. What I loved about the journey Oftentimes
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  the thing you thought you set out to accomplish, you come away with more
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  self awareness and a big picture of you into your life. And it's often
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  hard to do that when you're living your life. But when you spend time
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  on purpose taking a deeper look into your life, I think you'll be surprised
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  about what you learn about your life, most importantly about yourself. Hello,
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  my friends from all across the globe, and welcome to the Urinrichself Podcast.
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  I am your host, Miley Noir. I am a mindset coach and your
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  mindset advocate. All that means is I want to ensure that each and every
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  week you have a safe space, a place at the table so that you
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  can do the things you can to become more of your and enriched self.
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  So I curated this space and I invite you each week so that we can
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  walk through these mindset fusion topics on self care, soul care, and intentional
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  thinking. Because I know you if you're listening to this podcast, you want
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  to show up as the best version of yourself, and that's the work we
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  do here each and every week. So if you are new to the podcast,
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  I want to welcome you and I want to thank you for being here.
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  I know that you are brought here on purpose for a purpose, and
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  if you are a repeat listener, I am so excited that you have continued
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  on this journey. I want to thank you for your continued support, feedback,
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  and being a participant in this journey called Your in rich Self. And
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  before we get into this week's episode, I make a deposit into the bank
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  of you, and I do so by way of affirmations. Affirmations are a
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  great way to start your day and to command your morning. And this week's
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  affirmation is I am always open to new ideas. I am always open to
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  new ideas. I am always open to new ideas. Now let's get ready
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  for this week's episode of the Your Enriched Self podcast. Years ago, I
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  was an area manager, and so that meant I had approximately seven stores retail
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  stores for a fortune five hundred company, and I was responsible for all the
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  sales in that area. Prior to becoming an area manager, I was a
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  store manager and assistant manager. All that meant was I was managing goals each
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  and every day, week, month, and obviously quarterly, yearly. All
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  of the things, I was constantly managing goals, not just my own right,
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  but collectively what my team would perform and how they would perform, and
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  how we could get them to perform at the levels and the expectations that were
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  put out there in the process of goal setting. It's very messy. Yes,
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  indeed, it is a very messy process to get from what the goal
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  setting processes to the destination or the expectation for the goal. And so today
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  I want to talk about that because I'm kind of reliving that and recently had
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  a conversation with a friend and it made me think about how we set goals,
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  and I think a lot of us, I include myself, because up
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  until recently I had to challenge the popular thinking around goal setting, and I
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  want to check challenge your popular thinking about goal setting because for a long time,
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  it was smart goals. If you remember this smart it's whole acronym measurable,
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  attainable, relevant, sometimes realistic, and time bound. Do you remember
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  that those were the attributes of smart goals? And that's how I helped my
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  team, and quite frankly, I used that formula to help myself create goals
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  that I could you work towards to get to that destination expectation at the end
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  of the month. So today I want to talk about that because I think
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  that's really interesting. On top of that, I had a conversation with a
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  friend recently and what I learned and it reminded me kind of took me back
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  to this time, is that this process, yes messy, but also intimidate,
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  and most of the time people like to lay on top of the surface
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  of the goal. There's not a lot of interest to go underneath a layer
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  or two or three and doing that. There is some self work that has
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  to be done. There are self assessment pieces that were not part of this
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  smart goal process. It was really getting to those measurable results, finding like
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  the final destination, the numbers, and driving, driving, driving to it.
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  There wasn't a whole lot of understanding who are you on that journey to
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  achieve that goal because there's got to be a connection between the goal and yourself.
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  It can't be something you're running towards. It has to be something that's
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  in you that you're producing along the way, and smart goals don't really allow
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  you to do that. I'm not telling you smart goals are bad. I'm
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  just saying think about it like this, smart goals, this methodology was created
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  back in the eighties, the early eighties. It's antiquated processing, it's antiquated
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  thinking, and we need to start challenging some of these popular thinking methods that
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  have just lived on and on and on. We live in a new world,
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  a new society. What's important right now is the understanding of self because
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  we lived in a world, we were taught in a world that put us
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  in this cookie cutter environment when we are very different individuals. So what I
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  like about this method, which is a method I created, by the way,
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  is that it allows you to go a little bit deeper under the surface,
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  not just to get to the destination, but understand who is going and
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  that person will obviously be you, but understand more about you on the journey
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  to reach the destination, the expectation. So let's get into it. Let's
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  get right on into it. If I were to go back to my sales
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  teams, my sales managers, the leaders, the coaches for these agents,
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  these experts, these consultants, this is how I would do it. I
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  would go in with goal. What is the goal? And it stands for
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  grow, open minded, actionable, and learn. And let's break it down
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  and go a step underneath the surface. When we think about grow, I
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  want you to think about what do you need to improve? What do you
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  need to enhance, expand develop. That's your growth formula. But in order
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  to get there, let's go back a step to understand what are your beliefs?
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  Your belief system, wherever it is right now, has led you to
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  the place that you are today. Your belief system, yes, so did
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  mine. I'm not exempt from this. Your belief system has led you to
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  the place that you are today. Now for some of us, that might
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  be a little scary because I'm like, I don't want to be here.
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  But let's go another step deeper. What are your patterns? How do you
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  think about things? For example, you have a new month. Do you
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  feel intimidated by that month? Do you feel like you're not going to be
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  able to get things done? What type of thinking patterns do you have that
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  have allowed you to create this belief system in which you are now living out
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  loud. Now you are living in real life, in real time your belief
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  system. So you've got to identify the patterns, and in order to do
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  that, we're going another level deeper. Let's start at the beginning. Your
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  beliefs. This is Listen, we're on a mindset journey here. We talk
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  about these topics because we don't talk about thinking. We talk about doing.
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  Let's go do this, let's go do that. And although that's important,
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  you need to think through this a little bit. Your belief systems. You've
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  cultivated it and now you've developed it. You now understand that you have some
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  patterns about your thinking that have brought you to this point. So what you
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  need to do is do a little self assessment. This is where you go
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  one more step deeper. And this is where smart Goals did not go.
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  They did a lot of external questioning, but not a lot of internal.
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  So here's the internal question for growth. What am I good at? That's
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  an important question because I'm a believer that you can start where you are with
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  what you have, and in order to have that belief system and to live
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  that out, you need to understand first and tap into what you're good at,
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  because you can work with that. You can begin a thing with that
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  thing, your thing, the thing you're good at. The other great question
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  you can ask yourself here is what is the most important thing in my life?
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  What's important to me? Why are these things important to me, because
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  understanding those things will set your GPS coordinates. And all I mean by that
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  is this, if I am on my way to a new destination, what
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  I'll do is I'll put in my GPS and you know, the navigation and
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  maps on my phone. I will put in the address, just like everybody
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  else does. But then what I do is I double click in. I
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  go one layer deeper, and I look at this turn by turn directions because
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  mentally, that's going to give me an idea. Okay, this thing is
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  twenty minutes, thirty minutes, an hour away, I'm going to be on
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  this stretch of road for this long. I'm gonna make a turn when I
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  get off the highway. So now I have an idea of potentially what's ahead
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  and where I need to go and how I need to prep and prepare myself.
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  That's what I mean by going that step deeper and the importance of doing
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  that double click into the steps. So I don't know about you, but
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  that's how I do it. It's very helpful to me, and it gives
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  me a bit of a structure. And I want to encourage you to take
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  a moment and do the self assessment because I know we want to go do
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  but I got to think about what it is you've been thinking about and start
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  to challenge, start to challenge your thinking. It starts with your thinking.
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  The other piece is open minded and open minded is it's time to consider a
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  new idea. Obviously, you had your belief systems, you've developed your ways,
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  you've lived that life. But in order to get to the new destination,
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  you're gonna have to challenge how you have been thinking. You need to
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  be aware of your biases. There might be a bias or two about how
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  you've been thinking about things. So you've got to open your mind now when
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  you do the open minded part of things. On this journey to get to
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  your destination, meet your expectation, you're gonna have to ask yourself questions and
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  become a better listener. You're gonna have to ask yourself questions like who do
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  I need to get around? What rooms do I need to be at?
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  What rooms do I need to be in? What conversations do I need to
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  be a part of? Because if you're part of new conversations, you're gaining
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  new perspective. If you're part of new conversations, you're in a room with
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  new opinions, new ideas, and possibly new recommendations and suggestions. You're not
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  going to get that just being around yourself. So being open minded is going
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  to require you to step out of your comfort zone and challenge your thinking,
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  because the reason why you're thinking the way you've been thinking is because you're in
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  your own zone. You're gonna have to get out of your zone, go
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  meet some people, get into some spaces that you typically don't occupy, so
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  that you can open your mind and get to the next level. And I
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  know right now it doesn't feel like the smart goes. It doesn't feel like
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  it's measurable, but I promise you you're picking up the pieces of who you
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  are so that you can go to the next step, which is to take
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  action. Now that you have learned, Now that you have now that you
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  have obtained some new insights, and you've met some new people, you've probably
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  challenged some things or been challenged by some things, or some converse in some
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  conversation. It's time to take action, to be actionable. You're able to
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  do something, You're able to get something done. Now in this step,
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  what you want to do is ask yourself what can I do in this next
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  moment. It could be a moment you might be at a crossroads. You
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  learn something, go apply it, Go apply what you just learned, whether
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  it's a conversation piece, whether it's a technique, Go apply the thing now
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  and see try it on, see how it fits. It's just like a
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  dressing room. You try it on, you see how it fits. If
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  it doesn't fit right, you go find a right fit. And so this
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  is what happens in the actionable step. Again, people want to hear that
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  I got to the destination. I did it, I took an action step.
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  That's not quite how it works. You still have to try it on
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  to make sure it makes sense, to make sure it fits you. Again,
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  what fits you is not going to fit me, and vice versa,
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  and there's nothing wrong with that. Knowing thyself, so understanding what do I
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  need to do in this next moment? What can I go apply now?
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  What do I need to do the next day? Right? What do I
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  need to go do the next week, the next month, and so in
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  the next sixty, the next ninety days. What do I need to do?
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  What do I need to get done? What phone calls do I need
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  to make? What people do I need to reach out to. That's the
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  type of actionable steps that you're going to have to take. This step requires
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  effort. Where the other step or the step before required you to challenge,
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  and the step before that required you to think about what you're thinking about and
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  go into your belief patterns. This step requires you to take efforts. It's
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  going to be small, medium, and large effort, it doesn't matter.
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  But taking and making effort towards this is going to be critical for you to
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  get to your destination and meet your expectation. Now, the last piece of
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  all of this is to learn. Now, learning means that they were probably
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  likely mistakes made, and you are willing to learn from those mistakes. Learning
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  also means that you've gained knowledge In all of what you've just done, You've
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  gained knowledge, so you are a better person, you are more enriched as
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  a result of doing all of those things. But now saying you know what,
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  here's what I have learned. This step is the model for reflection.
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  This models the importance of reflection. Now you're doing reflection all throughout. But
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  at the end of all of this, what did I learn when while I
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  was pursuing this goal, and in some cases, before you even get started,
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  you can say what do I need to learn? What do I need
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  to learn? While pursuing this, sometimes we just stumble upon things or we
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  make a mistake and learn something. Nothing wrong with that, but it might
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  be helpful to go in with what do I need to learn? There might
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  be a knowledge gap that you have because of again the surroundings you've been or
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  the people you've been around, or the people you've not been around, or
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  the information you've learned or not learned. Whatever it is, it's an opportunity
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  to get new insight and new information by going through the process. This environment
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  puts you in a place where you have a growth mindset because now you understand
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  and you believe that you have the capacity to learn and grow your skills.
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  You also are focused on getting better and you are more likely when you're doing
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  things this way to embrace challenges because listen, no matter what type of goal
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  you have ahead of you, there will be challenges. So now you're more
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  likely to embrace those and you see your mistakes as an opportunity to learn and
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  improve. This is the methodology I want you to begin to adopt. I'm
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  going to leave those questions in the show notes because it's very important to take
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  that next level step and start to double click to see where you are on
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  this growth journey, this growth exercise, and this goal exercise to get to
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  your goal. So I want you to adopt this blueprint for goal. I
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  want you to get familiar with it again. I'm gonna leave details in the
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  show notes before I leave. I want to leave you with this quote by
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  Henry David Threw. What you get by achieving your goals is not as important
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  as what you become by achieving your goals. I hope you enjoyed this week's
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  episode of the Urine Ritzub podcast. And the only way I'm gonna know this
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  is if you leave me some feedback. Feedback is a gift, it is
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  free to give and I would love to hear from you. And here's how
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  you leave feedback In the very app that you listen to this podcast. I
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  want you to follow the stars and leave a five star rating. That's it.
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  That's as easy as it is. But on all seriousness, I really
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  want to know what resonated with you with this week's episode. I want to
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  make sure that you are also sharing this episode with your friends and family.
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  So right from the app in which you listen to this podcast, hit the
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  share button and share this to the last three to five people that you connected
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  with, the last three to five people that you shared your goals with as
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  well. Okay, you can also connect with me on the socials I am
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  in pretty much all of them. Instagram is my jam, It's where I
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  am. You can find me at mine rich self that's M Y E N
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  R I C h E D S E l F. Definitely connect with me
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  there hashtag share the podcast so that people can see what you're listening to and
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  where and how you are growing and getting at these goals because we're going to
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  make things happen before the year ends. Now, as I mentioned before,
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  you can find all the goodies in the show notes, including the quote of
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  the week. I will also leave those self assessment questions along with the goals
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  so that you can start to do some of that on your own as well,
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  because I think there's no time like the present to be present. Also,
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  don't forget that you can check out my Show Up Everyday notebook, which
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  is a great way to track and write down those goals and show Up Everyday
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  journal in which I have a lot of self assessing questions for you to capture
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  your daily thoughts, because it's important to know what you're thinking and be willing
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  to identify those patterns and challenge your own thinking. And finally, I want
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  you to take what you can from this episode and do what you must in
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  the next one one hundred and sixty eight hours to become more of your enriched
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  self until we meet again.