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152. Unleash Excellence · Your Enriched Self

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We just started the summer season, but I must remind you in this moment
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to take a moment to get outside. I know it's hot here in Georgia,
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in Atlanta, it has been piping hot most days, and we just
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started summer, but I think it's so important to get outside, to get
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outside of the space you currently occupied, a place that's familiar, and physically
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move yourself in a new environment, outside of the environment that you're in.
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And when you get to that place, when you get to the outside of
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where you currently are right now, I want you to breathe. So many
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of us, so many of you, have been in a waiting season,
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and oftentimes when we are in that waiting season, we take in a breath
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and we hold it because we're waiting for the response. We're waiting for the
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outcome, we're waiting for the shoe to drop, whatever the case might be.
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And I'm reminding you right now, don't wait until you hear about what
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it is you're waiting to hear about, or learn about, or understand more
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about. Take a moment to exhale, take a moment to move outside your
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environment, and take in a breath. When we take in that breath,
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we're holding onto fear and anxiety and worry and stress, and all of those
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things make us a bundle of mess on the inside. And then you wonder
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why you're sick, and you wonder why you can't think, and your thoughts
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are confusing, there's no clarity. It's because you've been holding your breath.
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You have to be intentional about this because we take for granted the fact that
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we have a breath of life. It's a beautiful gift to have life.
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I've been hearing so many stories over the past couple weeks of friends and neighbors
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and co workers that are experiencing loss in their families, in their neighborhoods,
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among their friends circles. It's real, it's real what you are experiencing.
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And that's why it's important to make time be intentional to breathe. And I'm
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talking about that intentional breath, not just being able to get up and take
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that breath. And by the way, that is a precious moment to be
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able to wake up in the morning and know that you have a breath of
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life inside of you. Your heart is beating, you can still feel and
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do and be, You still have the ability to do those things. Even
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though yesterday was tough and it was stressful, you still can get up today
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and make a difference in your life, in your community, and your family,
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at your job. You still have a chance, but to do that
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effectively, to do that intentionally, I'm urging you to take some time to
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breathe. Hello, my friends from all across the globe, and welcome to
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the Urine rich Self Podcast. I am your host, MII Lee Noir.
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I am an emotional wellness and empowerment coach, and on this podcast we talk
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about all the things that are necessary for you to enrich your life, and
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it all starts with your thoughts. Your thoughts are the gateway to the manifested
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life that you're living. And so each and every week I curate this space
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so that we can be intentional about our thoughts, planting the right seed of
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thoughts which would then fuel how we self talk and how we conduct our ourselves
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in this world. Because I know if you're listening to this podcast, you
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want to show up as your best self. And so that's what we talk
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about on this podcast. Mindset fusion topics, self care, soul care,
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intentional thinking, because again, it all starts with your thoughts. So if
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you are new to this podcast, I want to welcome you. I know
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that you are brought here on purpose for a purpose, and I want to
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thank you for joining us. And if you are a repeat listener, listen
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you've been rocking with me. We just celebrated our one hundred and fifty at
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episode. I am still on cloud ninety nine over that. But it is
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because of you, your continued support and participation that has kept us for almost
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three years, over one hundred and fifty episodes. So I want to thank
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you from the bottom of my heart. So before we get started with this
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week's topic, I want to make a deposit into the bank of you,
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and I do that by way of affirmations. Affirmations are a great way to
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start your day and command your morning. And this week's affirmation is I grow
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through every challenge I face. I grow through every challenge I face. I
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grow through every challenge I face. Now let's get ready for this week's episode
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of the Your Enriched Self Podcast. So I mentioned it's summer, and it's
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also a very exciting summer because it is the Summer Olympics. We are about
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thirty days away from the Summer Olympics, and it is one of my favorite
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seasons. There's so much breakthrough, there's so much magic, there's so much
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inspiration that you get from these athletes. These are the top athletes in the
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world, and it's so inspiring to me. And most recently, there was
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a post race interview with Simone Manuel So. Simone participated in the twenty twenty
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four swim trials to qualify for the Olympics, which in fact she did,
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but it was her post race interview that really struck me, and I'm going
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to share a little bit of what she said after that race. I wasn't
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feeling too confident after last night. I spent a lot of time watching races
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where I won. I really wanted to channel that, Simone, because I'm
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a winner, and that's what I did tonight. It's crazy, it's really
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special how things turned around in twenty four hours and how I continue to trust
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in God. I thought that post race interview was absolutely marvelous. It was
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so self reflective and it was so transparent for her to talk about the fact
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that she did not feel confident. But what she did, that's what really
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got me. She said, I spent a lot of time watching a version
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of me when multiple times multiple races, because she knew, despite the fact
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that she was not feeling confident, she knew that she was a winner,
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and once she calloused that thought in her mind, she was able to show
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up in fact as a winner on that stage. And that is what I'm
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talking about. That's why I love the Summer Olympics, because these top athletes
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have been training training for this moment, this stage, for these number of
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weeks, race after race individually and with their teams, etc. It is
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some of the most exciting times in sports period, hands down, and I
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can't wait for it. But the thing about it is you are in this
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race of life. You are competing in your own sport, your own Olympics
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if you will. And so today I really want to talk about what is
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needed for you to unleash your excellence, because in fact, that's what Simone
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did. She felt that she was not confident and she had to do something
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and go somewhere to get the result she got. And you have to be
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willing to do some internal work to be able to unleash that excellence. We
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all have it in us. You hear it all the time. You have
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what you need to succeed. It's all inside of you, but you have
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to be willing and you have to be able and aware on how to make
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that happen, and she did that. So I came away with three key
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points simply based on what I heard Simone talk about in that interview. For
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one, you need to explore what you need to be confident. And I
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say that because it may not look like somebody else's need. And I think
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when we look around in the culture, it's easy to try to adopt what
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somebody else deems or needs to be confident. So be careful with that.
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First of all, it's kind of a tip. But the first thing I
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want you to do is to check yourself talk. I think we can agree
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that that negative self talk will lower your confidence. I think we can agree
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on that, but that would mean the opposite be true, that positive self
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talk would help you increase and enlarge that confident sphere that you are trying to
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build and create. Because one thing I know about being confident is some days
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you need a lot of it and some days you're good. You have what
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you need. So day by day, moment by moment, situation by situation,
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your confident needs are gonna be different, and so you're gonna have to
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be able to pull from something and you're gonna have to know what that is
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for you. I want you to now begin to monitor what you say to
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yourself about yourself, because it's easy to see and hear and listen for how
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people talk to you and talk about you. But the most important and the
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loudest voice that you're gonna hear in your mind is going to be your own,
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and you want it to amplify the loudest, the biggest sound about how
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great you are. And Simone was able to do that because she found ways
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to amplify that. I'm gonna encourage you to start using more positive language.
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A lot of you out there are speaking negative language, and you wonder why
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you're living a negative lifestyle or you are attracting negative results like attracts like and
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that's the rules of manifestation. So it's time to start using not just positive
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but more empowering language that levels up how you think about yourself and where where
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you're going. It's also important for you to reflect on your accomplishments, not
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just what you did and your actual accomplishment. I won this but what did
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you do to get to that spot, that number one spot? What did
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you have to overcome to get to that number one spot? How did you
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do it? And also why did you do it? Your why can be
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a good motivator to help you explore what you need to be confident to get
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back in the game. Your game, not somebody else's, but your game.
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The other piece of being confident. I believe that it's important and I
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noticed for myself as I started my journey. And I've been talking about this
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since March when I started a boot camp and I'm now on boot camp number
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three. Boot Camps are six weeks out of the year, and I remember
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talking about it and saying to you the audience that I decided to challenge myself
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to do something I hadn't done before, which was be intentional and be serious
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and be committed to the six weeks. And I deduced it to eleven percent
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of the year. And now I have been able to multiply that. Now
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I'm on boot camp number three, adjusting and committing myself to another six weeks
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of getting to my better self. And what that has done is that it
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has helped improve my confidence because what I've done in these six weeks is I'm
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learning new skills. I'm increasing my capability. The way I started my two
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mile run, which is an assessment we take at the start of each camp
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and at the end of each camp, has vastly improved. I've been able
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to shave off almost four minutes from my run from the month of March to
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the month of June. And it started with opening myself up like I did
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back in March, to this new skill set, this new environment, new
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challenges. But I don't want you to miss the opportunity to improve existing skill
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sets. So I was already a runner, but I'm now improving that skill
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set of being a runner, along with the other things that I'm learning that
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are new to me. The second thing I would say to help you unleash
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your excellence is to be able to access your superpower. And here's how I'm
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gonna frame it. Many of us have a resume, and for some of
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you, you probably haven't seen it in months or years. I know for
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me personally, I've been with my company for twenty plus years twenty seven years
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to be exact, and so over the years I've updated my resume here and
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there, but it's recommended that we should be updating our resume every six months,
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and the reason for that is we want to keep it fresh and we
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want to be ready for the next opportunity. But what most of us tend
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to do is we wait for the opportunity and then we start running down the
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resume and we start asking people what's your resume look like? So that's what
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we typically do. But I'm here to remind you this might be something I
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don't know who this is for, but this is probably for someone who has
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an outdated resume, who hasn't looked at their resume in the last year or
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more, and it's time to look at the resume, but ultimately to access
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your superpower. The reason why I bring up the resume is because that's where
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a lot of your accomplishments, your successes, and your receipts of what you
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did, how you did it, and what the results were live. And
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the reason why you should be updating your resume every six months is because almost
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every day or week or month of your work life, you are accomplishing milestones.
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You're meeting milestones, you're exceeding milestones, and that might not look like
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a big deal to the world, but to your company, to your business,
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to the things that you're trying to influence. It is a big deal.
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And most of you aren't capturing that. And I'm encouraging you. I
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don't know who this is for, but you need to start capturing that.
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And when you capture that, it helps you take a snapshot of where you're
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super at, the things you're good at. And now you're accessing your superpower.
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And what happens is when you know what that is, you're ready to
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unleash it. You know that you're good at this, you know that you
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can sell, you know, whatever those things are. And here's the receipts.
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Here is the evidence of me being able to do this at a high
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level, at a level where I'm being recognized is by my peers, by
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my leaders, etc. It's time to access your superpower. And you all
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have a resume that's going to be unique to you and the things that you're
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good at. And that's what the superpower is. It's the thing that makes
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you shine, your differentiator. And this is why I say to celebrate your
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wins. It's important to celebrate your wins because your wins are evidence of performance,
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your wins are evidence of completion. It's evidence that you are able to
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produces, evident of you being effectively able to meet and exceed the deadline,
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the outcome, the desired result. There's a part of the interview that I
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didn't, you know, talk about, but Simone talks about her getting to
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version two point zero, and you have a version two point zho of you
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that you want to get to. You might be on version three point oh.
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I don't know what version you're on, but I know that you are
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aspiring to get to a new level. And in order to do that,
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you gotta keep track of your wins, all of them, small, medium,
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and large. They all count what you have done and what is your
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record? What does that record say about you? It's important to know that
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to know what's needed to get to version two point zero or three point zero.
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And finally, I want you to create, and this one is a
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little different. I want you to create and protect, create and protect periods
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of uninterrupted focus. Another way to think about this is to think about it
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like creating a boundary. And that's why I say create and protect, because
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some people are able to create a boundary, but they're not able to maintain
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the boundary. And it doesn't make sense to do all the work to prepare
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and create the boundary and not maintain it. And so what I'm saying to
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you is you need to create a focus point and protect periods where you're not
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interrupted so that you can stay focused. How you can do that one vision,
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create a clear vision for your destination, or otherwise said, produce a
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clear visual definition. So whichever way you go, you have to envision and
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vision and visualize where you're going, how you're going to go, the definition
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of it, and where you're going to go the destination. So just like
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a camera, right, maybe you have a camera, a digital camera and
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you're trying to get it in focus so that you can get a clear image.
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It's the same thing. This is how you want to create and protect
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your focus. You want to do it in such a way where you're not
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interrupted, you're not distracted. I remember a few years ago I learned a
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technique called mind mapping, and it was a way too as you are maybe
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thinking about how you wanted to write a paper, a term paper, or
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some project that you're working on, and there's so many different concepts around you,
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and your mind is racing in so many directions. What we were taught
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was to get a central point, a central focus, and from that central
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focus you can build the different tiers, the different branches out to the various
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things that need to be done. And so whatever you have envisioned to be
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your success measurement, that's where everything that's branching out comes right back to that
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center point. And so I want you to think about your thoughts in that
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way. When you have something you're going after a goal, maybe you have
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a vision for your life, I want you to mind map it, put
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it in the middle of the page. It's literally you putting that thing in
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the middle of the page, and then getting the branches to the various different
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activities, the people you have to meet, the phone calls you have to
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make, the things that you have to research, to make sure that the
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central point remains the central point. It's time for you to unleash your greatness.
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The greatness lives within you, and you're gonna need in this season.
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As we are marching past that six months midpoint of the year and we're going
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into July, we're going into this next season. Right it's getting hot out
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there, and your life is getting spicy too. Things are happening on a
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day to day basis, and I want you to be ready with that resume.
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I don't want you to be rushing to because the opportunity has presented itself.
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I want you to already have the resume prepared so when the opportunity presents
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for you to go bigger, do bigger, climb to the next level.
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You're ready. You're ready, You're confident. Ready. You know who you
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are, you have your superpower access and you can be focused on the destination
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of where it is you need to go. I hope you enjoyed this week's
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