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Execution under real conditions: 🔵Tuesday (S5) S21:E4 · Inspirations for Your Life

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Yes.
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I'm John C.
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Morley.
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All right, guys, let's dive in, shall we?
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So how focus shapes daily performance is what
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we're talking about.
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And that's what we're about today.
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And this is basically series five, show 20,
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episode number four.
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The episode of Inspirations for Your Life explores
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how attention directly shapes execution, clarity, energy, and
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real-world performance.
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When focus is stable, work becomes easier, decisions
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become clearer, and results become, yes, more consistent.
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When attention is scattered, even simple tasks feel
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heavier, and harder, and less controlled.
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So today, I want to break down how
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attention drives performance in real time.
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I think this is something that a lot
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of people don't pay attention to, and often
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why they're probably not happy about where they
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are in life.
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And you see, you can make changes.
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If you're not happy with where you are
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in life, you actually can make changes anytime
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you want.
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Okay?
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But you have to do it intentionally.
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That is the most important thing.
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So number one, guys, execution depends on clarity.
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Without clarity, execution becomes muddy, uncertain, and inconsistent,
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and can't go anywhere.
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So focus controls accuracy.
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The sharper your attention, the fewer mistakes you
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make.
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Number three, attention drives performance.
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Attention drives performance.
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So that's important to know.
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Where focus goes, results immediately follow.
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When I say immediately, it's not going to
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be that day, but it will be eventually.
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Okay?
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It will take you some time, but it
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will actually get you to a point where
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you're going to be like, oh, wow, this
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is kind of cool.
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This is really neat.
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And so I can tell you guys that
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it's important to understand what's going on and
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why things are going a certain way.
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I think a lot of people don't really
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get the fact of what's going on, and
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then they wonder why stuff is a mess.
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And it's because of, well, it's because of
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their own inner stuff, okay?
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And when you realize that it's your own
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stuff, you're like, well, wait a minute.
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I can change this.
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I can fix this.
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And you know, the truth of the matter,
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guys, you really can fix it, but you
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might not be able to do it today,
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okay?
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That's probably the thing I want to share
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with you.
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You might not be able to do it
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today, but you are going to be able
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to do it, and you are going to
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be able to change.
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Number four, guys, distraction reduces output.
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Every interruption breaks momentum and weakens progress.
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And a lot of people don't understand, like,
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you know, what's going on.
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But when that happens, it puts a lot
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of people in the disarray, like, oh, I
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don't know what I'm supposed to do anymore.
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And it shouldn't do that.
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It should be teaching a lesson.
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Say, wait a minute.
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I can do this.
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I can do this.
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But you have to understand, you have to
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have faith, and you have to have strong
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belief in yourself.
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That's really important.
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Number five.
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Number five is a good one.
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Ladies and gentlemen, work reflects thinking quality.
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You're not happy with your work?
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Well, it's probably the quality of your thinking.
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You're probably not, you know, doing something solely.
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You're trying to multitask.
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Clear thinking produces stronger execution outcomes.
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Clear thinking, that's more relaxed, easygoing thinking, not
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pressured thinking.
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Number six, guys, clarity improves execution.
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Better understanding leads to faster and cleaner action.
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Okay, that's an important thing, guys.
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It does.
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But again, it does not happen overnight.
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And if you're thinking it's going to happen
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overnight, well, you're going to be sadly mistaken,
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and you're going to be a little bit
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disappointed, to be quite honest with you, all
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right?
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Number seven, focus increases speed.
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Stable attention removes hesitation and delays.
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Decisions become cleaner, less mental, noise leads to
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stronger judgment.
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Output follows.
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Number nine, attention.
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So your results are a mirror of your
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focus level.
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Now, we never talked about level before, but
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level is just a way of saying quality,
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right?
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If you're not happy with what you're getting,
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there's a good shot, you're probably not in
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a good level.
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You're probably not clear enough.
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And what happens is you get distractions around,
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and those distractions prevent you from focusing on
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something clearly.
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Maybe you've worked on something, and maybe somebody
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was bothering you, and you kept getting it
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wrong, right?
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When you focus on something, not hard, just
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focus on it, and you have nothing else
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in your mind, you'll find that you can
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be more productive, and you can be more
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efficient.
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But not only that, you can get things
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correct the first time.
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Number 10, guys, stability improves reliability.
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When we're stable, we become more reliable.
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Consistent attention creates consistent performance, right?
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You don't do it once and say, oh
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my gosh, this is what I've got.
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Number 11, execution becomes more predictable.
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Structured focus leads to repeatable outcomes.
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And I think when we understand that our
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outcomes can be repeated over and over again,
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it's like, okay, now I finally get it.
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Now I know what's going on.
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Now I know why something's working or why
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something is not working, okay?
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I think that's a very important thing.
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But some people, again, they get caught in
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the weeds and are like, I can't do
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this.
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That's what they basically say, I can't do
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this.
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And as soon as you say you can't
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do this, well, as Henry Ford said, if
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you say it, you're right.
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If you say you can, you're also right.
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Number 12, guys, attention reduces errors, right?
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Just because you're doing something, you're being efficient,
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doesn't mean that you're not making mistakes.
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Fewer distractions mean fewer mistakes in execution, and
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thus more efficiency because now you don't have
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to redo everything.
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It's one thing to do things correctly.
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One thing to be efficient and do them
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wrong.
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Oh, that's a bad thing.
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Number 13, focus improves workflow.
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Tasks move more smoothly when attention is stable.
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And you'll find that that natural progression, that
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natural flow becomes something pretty easy.
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And maybe you're saying to me, John, you
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know, this happens to me once in a
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while, or it happens to me every year.
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And then you go down this pathway and
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you're like, how do I get out of
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this pathway?
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You're trying to do too many things and
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not be intentional.
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That's the real bottom line, guys.
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Number 14, clarity reduces confusion.
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So when we get clear, we actually erase
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confusion.
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Not overnight, but we make things, we make
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that window that was foggy, we slowly make
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it a little bit clearer until you can
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completely see outside.
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Clear thinking eliminates hesitation in action.
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But clear thinking is not something that just,
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you know, poofs out of the sky.
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I had a moment tonight, which I want
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to share with you guys.
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So I was preparing for one of my
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keynotes.
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And I was all ready to go, pretty
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much just doing some final polishing on the
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slides.
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And I had an epiphany moment where the
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presentation became so real when I started putting
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the elements together, it was as if I
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was actually on stage.
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And that didn't happen overnight.
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That happened by an awareness that my brain
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finally caught up with.
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Number 15, guys, performance improves with focus.
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Strong attention directly improves output quality.
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The output quality.
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Quality is another word for thinking about the
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correctness.
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How correct is something?
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I think that's important to know.
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If you spend all this time and you
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do things wrong, maybe you're working in a
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factory or you're working on a project, and
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everything you did was wrong, that's a big
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problem.
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Number 16, guys, distraction creates delays.
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Every interruption slows down progress significantly.
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Number 17, attention improves structure.
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Attention improves structure.
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When we have structure and we have consistency,
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we have success.
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We repeat a pattern over and over again,
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we're going to get the same results.
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Now, if it's not yielding us results and
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we keep doing it, well, that's insanity.
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So we don't want to do that over
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and over again.
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So organized thinking leads to organized execution.
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Pretty straightforward.
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But how do you get organized when you're
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a mess?
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Well, I think the easiest way to do
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that is to break things into micro components
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or into smaller steps.
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And when you do that, it's like you're
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able to look at just a part of
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it, right?
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Maybe you've worked on a huge, maybe 1
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,000 or 5,000, 10,000 piece jigsaw
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puzzle.
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To do all that overnight is impossible.
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But if you do a piece of it
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at a time, it becomes manageable.
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Number 18, guys, execution reflects mindset.
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The way we execute, the way we act,
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reflects our mindset.
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Your internal focus determines your external results.
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So the way you think about yourself, the
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way you believe about yourself is going to
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affect how you act in real life.
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If you're like, oh, that's not me, it
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is.
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It is you, but you have to realize
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that sometimes things don't go the way you
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want.
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So you have to analyze and say, gee,
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why did this go the way?
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How can I make that be better next
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time?
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Not to criticize, but say, gee, how can
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I become just a little bit better this
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time at?
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I mean, how can I actually do that?
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So I think that's an important thing to
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definitely realize.
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Number 19, focus improves consistency.
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When we focus, and I don't mean squinting
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really hard and putting a lot of stress
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on yourself, just focusing lightly.
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Stable attention creates repeatable performance.
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It's a formula, guys.
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And so when we learn how to do
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something right, we want to do that again
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and again.
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We know how to bake cookies a certain
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way, and we like it, or a cake.
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We save the recipe, and we can do
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it over and over and over again.
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And by us doing it over and over
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again, you know what happens?
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We can repeat the process.
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Number 20, guys, clarity improves decision making.
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So when we're clear, we're able to make
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decisions about something without getting all, let's say,
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messed up or entangled.
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Like the realization I had tonight, that happened
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in me because of the work I was
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putting in, and because of all my other
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skills, they kind of linked up and were
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like, wait a minute, this actually makes sense
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now.
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This makes sense.
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Number 21, energy follows attention.
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Where focus goes, our mental energy flows.
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It flows.
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I think that's a very important thing to
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realize.
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Number 22, guys, fragmentation reduces efficiency.
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We've learned this with hard disks and SSDs.
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Fragmented drives and files, it's inefficient.
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Scattered thinking weakens our productivity.
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So we need to stop the scattered thinking
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right now.
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Number 23, focus improves problem solving.
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So clear attention reveals better solutions.
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But I don't want you to think that
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just thinking clearly one time is going to
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get you a solution.
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It doesn't.
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It takes time for you to actually figure
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stuff out.
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That's what really happens.
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It takes time for you to figure stuff
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out.
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And when you can figure stuff out, that's
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when you can have these epiphanies.
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You can have these amazing moments.
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I think that's a very important thing to
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understand.
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Because that's key, right?
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I think that's key.
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And sometimes people get lost in where they
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are.
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And then they don't know what to do.
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And that can kind of cause people to
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go into a certain state.
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A state that makes them depressed.
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A state that says, hey, I can't do
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anything.
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But the truth of the matter is you
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can do things when you're clear.
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But so many people I know want to
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get the front porch and the back porch
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and everything all in the same breath.
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What we have to do is we have
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to just become aware of things.
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We need to become aware of things.
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And by becoming aware, life changes.
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Life changes.
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And life changes because of one reason.
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Because now you're looking at things differently.
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And when you look at things differently, your
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life changes.
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And that means your actions change.
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Your actions changed.
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And by your actions changing, you could say,
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you know what?
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Now I'm a different person.
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Your awareness alone, ladies and gentlemen, will make
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you a totally different person.
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When you're aware of what happened, you're like,
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wait a minute, this makes sense.
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I can do this, okay?
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But too many people get hung up in
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the I'm not this, I'm not that.
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I'm not enough of this.
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I'm not enough of that.
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And they really just put themselves into this
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panic.
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It's amazing, right?
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I know that a lot of people out
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there feel that they should get the answers
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immediately.
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But true, genuine answers don't come in a
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flash.
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They come in time.
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We have a slow realization of where we
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are and how that awareness is now changing
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us to where we could go.
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Where we could go.
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And when I think about where we could
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go, the biggest thing I could tell you
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is, if you're not happy where you are
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right now, there's a couple reasons for it.
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One, it's your belief.
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But it's also the energy that you're putting
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out.
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So the energy that you're putting out is
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actually affecting who you are every single day
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of your life.
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And if you don't like that, you can
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change that right now.
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But the results are not gonna change tomorrow.
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It's gonna take some time.
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Could take 30 days, could take more.
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It's gotta kind of work through a process.
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Number 24, guys, execution improves with practice.
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A lot of people don't wanna put the
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time in.
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They don't wanna execute things.
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They don't wanna do things like over and
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over again.
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They don't wanna get better.
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So practice doesn't make anything perfect.
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I wanna tell you that.
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A mentor told me this many years ago.
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John, practice does not make things perfect.
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It makes us better.
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When I played soccer for one of the
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best regional teams in Jersey when I was
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younger, he said to me, John, he says,
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we don't practice to become perfect.
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Why do we practice?
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We practice because we have to get better.
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We could always be better.
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Some people are not humble enough to understand
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that.
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Repeated focus strengthens performance habits.
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When we strengthen our performance habits, it's like
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we do it almost without thinking.
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And it becomes natural in the way that
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we are every day.
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But I know a lot of people that
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say, you know, I've done this, but this
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isn't working.
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And the reason it's not working, I'll tell
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you why.
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It's because of your belief, your belief.
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You could change your belief immediately, but that
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would not mean that you're going to go
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somewhere tomorrow, okay?
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You may not go somewhere tomorrow.
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And I can tell you that frustrates a
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lot of people that they're not going somewhere
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tomorrow, okay?
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Knowing that you're on a path to become
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better every day, I think should be a
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good thing to help you move forward, to
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become a little better than you were yesterday.
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People want to become the best tomorrow.
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And that's not realistic.
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We have to get a little bit better.
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And over time, a little better.
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Eventually, we start to say, wait a minute,
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there's huge, huge differences, right?
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Number 25, guys, attention reduces our overload.
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I'm not saying stress, anxiety, and attention.
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I'm saying attention that we have, light attention,
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reduces overload.
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And control focus, not this maniac focus that's
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going to give us a headache, all right?
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Prevents mental exhaustion, mental exhaustion.
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And when you start to realize that, you
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say, wait a minute, I have the power
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to control if I get overloaded.
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Yes, you do.
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Controlling your focus will prevent mental exhaustion, something
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people do not want to feel.
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Number 26, guys, stability improves output quality.
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Calm attention produces better results.
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I didn't say the best results.
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I said better results.
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And the more that we take something, the
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more that we refine it, the more that
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it gets better, better, better, better, better, better,
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better, and better.
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That's an important one.
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Number 27, focus strengthens control.
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You gain more command over your actions.
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But people think they can just harness the
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wheel overnight and become a marksman, a top
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skipper, right?
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A pilot overnight.
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This domain is new to people.
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You can't expect to just learn it in
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a fraction.
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You've got to be humble and you got
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to be willing to learn.
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That's something that a lot of people in
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this world are not because they have a
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very big ego up here.
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And they'd rather show that big ego and
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how they're so, well, falsely powerful, that they'll
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feed the ego before they feed their humility.
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Number 28, guys, execution becomes smoother.
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Less mental resistance improves flow.
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When we go with the flow, things are
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easier.
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Things become more creative.
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They become more relaxed.
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They become more aligned.
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With our core values.
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Number 29, guys, attention defines performance.
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Let me say that again.
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Attention defines performance.
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Attention defines performance.
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Maybe you've heard something like that before, but
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it really does.
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Your results, ladies and gentlemen, depend on your
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focus habits.
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So these are important things to understand, right?
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When we understand this, life changes.
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Life changes.
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And I say life changes because now you
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have this epiphany moment.
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You have this mental and physical awareness of
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where your body is at in proportion to
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life.
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A good way to define this to you
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is we talk about our body with proprioception,
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right?
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I close my eyes.
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Don't do this when you're driving.
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And I put my hand up here high
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in the sky.
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I close my eyes.
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I can tell my hand is up here.
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If I move my hand down to my
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waist, I can also tell my hand is
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at my waist.
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I can tell by the proprioception.
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I can tell by that.
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And so the more that we get to
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understand our environment, the more that we get
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to understand our output and how we can
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be kind to ourself to alter or change
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that output, the more that we actually do
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change the output.
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That's important to know.
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Very, very important to know.
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Very, very important to know.
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And when you know that, life changes.
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Life changes.
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Life changes.
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Number 30, guys.
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Focus is the foundation of execution.
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But I don't want you to think that
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you need to focus so hard you get
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a headache.
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Focusing that hard is just going to get
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you frustrated.
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And it's going to get you to be
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less confident.
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It's going to get you fearful, which is
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not what you want.
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You want to build your confidence.
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Build your confidence.
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Build your confidence, okay?
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Build your confidence.
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Build your confidence.
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And so everything, ladies and gentlemen, you achieve
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starts there.
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It starts from the confidence that you built.
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Now, when you do something and you have,
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let's say, a feeling that you've done it
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right, the dopamine releases in your body.
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And it's like, okay, anchors it.
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Yes, I've done it right now.
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I could do better next time.
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Right?
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I could do it better next time.
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That's important.
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So ladies and gentlemen, execution is not random.
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It is a direct reflection of the attention
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quality you put forth.
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When focus improves, performance does automatically.
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So all I'm asking you to do is
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to gently focus on what you want.
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And by you doing this over and over
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and over again, you will see that your
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performance will go up.
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But the problem is too many people are
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worrying about lunch, worrying about dinner, worrying about
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5 million things, and they're not focusing on
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one thing.
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Then they wonder why their life is just
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fading away.
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It's because they're not becoming intentional with their
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moments.
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They're not becoming intentional.
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You don't need to work harder.
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You don't need to do more.
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You need to be intentional with the moments
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that you have in your life.
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Ladies and gentlemen, I am John C.
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Morley, serial entrepreneur.
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And this has been Inspirations for Your Life.
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And I want you to understand, ladies and
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gentlemen, that you have more power than you
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think if you just realize and you just
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start believing a little bit, that mustard seed
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of belief will grow and grow and grow
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and grow.
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I hope you guys have a great rest
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of your day, a great rest of your
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evening.
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Check out BelieveMeAchieve.com for more of my
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amazing, inspiring creations.
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Take care, everyone, and be well.