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Don't Stay in Yesterday's Success: Outgrow the Good and Live Your Purpose · Revolution of Purpose Podcast

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Welcome to the Revolution of Purpose podcast.
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I'm your host, Jon Street,
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and each week we bring you conversations
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with thought leaders, entrepreneurs, and individuals
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who have aligned their life with purpose
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and created extraordinary results.
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So I'm gonna live through it and accept it radically
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with grace and hope and love.
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I mean, I would be proud to be in this house.
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It was an honor.
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I had so much fun.
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Tune in every Monday
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and every Thursday for Revolution of Purpose Conversation.
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Welcome to the Revolution of Purpose podcast.
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My name is Jon Street.
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I'm a mindset coach, a speaker.
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I'm the author of the book, Revolution of Purpose.
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And most importantly, I'm someone who spent years
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searching for purpose, fulfillment, and alignment.
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And I finally found that success
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when it wasn't just based on money
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or the things that I owned,
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but it was actually purpose-driven success.
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So if you've ever felt unsuccessful
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or you've ever felt like maybe your reality was successful,
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but deep down you didn't feel fulfilled,
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or if you've ever felt like
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there has to be more to your life,
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or maybe there are things that keep you stuck,
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maybe there are limiting beliefs
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that you just can't get past,
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if you've ever wondered what your purpose is,
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then you are in the right place.
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Today, I want to talk to you about a question
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that sounds simple,
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but has the power to change your entire life.
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Have you ever felt that you were someone
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in a situation that wasn't bad,
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but it just wasn't right anymore?
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Let's dive in.
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So have you ever felt like
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there was a tug towards something more?
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Even though what you currently had seemed to be working,
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like maybe it looked right on paper,
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but you just knew there was something deeper
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or something else you're supposed to do.
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Basically, I would say it's like outgrowing a season of life
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but you stay in that season because it felt safe.
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Most personal growth conversations
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focus on removing negative things.
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And before I can even move on
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with this purpose conversation today,
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I want to talk to you about that.
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Like before we can talk about identifying the good
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that may not serve you anymore,
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we do have to talk about the bad.
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Because if you're still in an environment
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that is really negative or that's bringing you down,
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that has to be handled first.
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That has to be handled before you can do anything else
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about identifying what things are good
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but still not serving you.
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So if you're in an environment
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and let's say you're surrounded by toxic people,
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you're surrounded by people
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who are bringing down your energy.
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Maybe you're surrounded by people
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who act like they support you,
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but behind your back, they don't.
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You've got to cut ties with those people
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or put down some really awesome boundaries
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that you can live by.
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Sorry if I just threw up,
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but I saw my dog Judah hop up on the ottoman.
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And as you know, he's the actual star
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of this entire podcast.
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If you see him walking around, don't worry.
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It's perfectly normal.
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He may even talk.
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He is a husky rescue, so I wouldn't be surprised.
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But back to what we're talking about.
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If your environment is full of toxicity,
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if your environment is full of negativity,
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then that is bringing you down
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in ways that you may not even realize.
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It's affecting your energy.
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And our energy is all that we have.
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At the end of the day,
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what we're putting out there as our energy
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is what we're giving back.
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So I want to ask you,
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I asked this in the first solo episode,
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but what things are you tolerating?
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What negative things in your life
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are affecting your energy?
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So it can be toxic people.
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And like I said, maybe you cut those people off.
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Maybe you put down some really good boundaries
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of how to deal with those people.
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It could be toxic relationships.
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That can be family.
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That can be friends.
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That can be your spouse.
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And I'm not saying that you leave those people.
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I'm not saying you cut those people off,
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but especially if it's someone
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that you have to interact with all the time,
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then I would encourage you to put down the boundaries
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that you need to protect your mental health
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and then see if you can get them to go to counseling
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with you so that you can work these things together.
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If you have narcissistic people in your life,
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people that don't have your best interests at heart,
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those are where the boundaries are most important.
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Because those people, if you're not careful,
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will form a codependent relationship with you
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and you'll form a codependent relationship with them.
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And before you know it,
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you are going to be quieting your voice,
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shrinking, staying in the corner
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because you want to withhold the image
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that they think you should have.
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And it has nothing to do with the image
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that you want to have.
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So first of all, get rid of the toxicity.
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Boundaries are cutting them off.
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Next, look at your environment
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and see what things are causing you
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to have limiting beliefs.
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These could be people
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that are actually positive in your life,
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but maybe they see you in a certain way.
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And because of that, you see yourself in a certain way.
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They may mean nothing negative about it.
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It could be things from your childhood,
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teachers or friends or pastors or clergy people.
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It could be your parents.
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It could be people who told you when you were young,
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they've instilled with you this paradigm of thinking,
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maybe about money.
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For my parents, growing up,
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my parents were just above working poor.
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I mean, we were lower middle class.
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They worked their tails off
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to try to give us everything that they could.
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And they were wonderful people.
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But I can remember as a young kid at five years old,
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seeing them getting evicted.
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I can remember seeing the house being foreclosed on.
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I can remember seeing people coming through our home
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and buying our furniture out from under us.
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Even the dining room table that our knickknacks
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were sitting on, they were selling the knickknacks
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and they sold the table too.
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And that instilled in me that you can be successful,
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but you could lose it like that.
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It instilled to me, not that wealthy people were bad,
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but just that wealthy people were other.
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So when you notice these limiting beliefs,
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you may not have chosen them yourselves,
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but they could be dictating how you're living your life.
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And I tell you, if you don't stop the limiting beliefs,
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they will just continue to grow and grow and grow.
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And how you're living your life will keep following
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that same paradigm of thinking
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that you never chose to begin with.
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So another area in your environment
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that could be holding you back is your negative thinking.
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It could be that paradigm that they instilled
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when you were younger.
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It could be the negative people that you're around.
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It could be those things that you're feeding yourself.
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I used to go to the gym and listen
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to like real crime podcasts.
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You know, I was like, oh my gosh,
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I wanna hear this real crime podcast.
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It was very interesting to me.
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Until one day I realized that every time I left the gym,
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I felt worse instead of better.
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And so then when I started going to the gym
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and I started instead listening to amazing thought leaders
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and motivational speakers, you know, like Bob Proctor
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or Jim Rohn or Les Brown or David Bayer.
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I mean, I would just listen to these amazing speakers
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and every time I would leave the gym,
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I just felt like I had not just worked out my body,
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but I worked out my mind.
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And that was one way that I got rid
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of the negative thinking.
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That was one way that I raised my energy.
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I raised my vibration.
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Another thing that could be holding you back are addictions.
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It could be addictions.
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It could be self-sabotaging habits,
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but either way, if you are dealing with something
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that is habitual that you cannot break,
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I implore you to get the help that you need.
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Sometimes that's with coaching.
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Sometimes that's with a counselor.
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Sometimes that's with a therapist,
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but whatever that looks like,
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dive in and deal with those things
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that are keeping you back.
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In my own coaching program,
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I have several clients that I really enjoy working with
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and they are either in recovery
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or they have a history of addiction,
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but they've come through recovery.
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And I enjoy working with them and it is amazing.
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One of them in particular went
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from absolutely losing everything rock bottom.
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And as we work together,
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she is building this amazing life of independence again
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with sobriety.
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But there are people who wanna work with me
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that are still in the throes of addiction and I just can't.
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I keep telling them until you get the work
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that you need for addiction recovery,
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then we can't coach together
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because that's one of these basic things
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you have to have handled.
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It doesn't mean you have to be sober for 20 years,
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but it means you do need to be working
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through whatever that addiction is.
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You need to be in active recovery
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because coaching goes on top of that.
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Coaching does not replace that.
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It's like therapy and counseling.
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A good coach will tell you,
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I'm not your therapist and I'm not your counselor,
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but I work great alongside them.
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You have therapy, you have counseling,
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those are on one level.
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And then coaching is above that,
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just trying to get you to live the best life
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in the present that you can.
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So while so many in personal growth
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talk about removing the negative things,
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and I've just talked about that because it's so important,
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what I really wanna dive in with you today
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is about something much more difficult.
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It's not about leaving behind the bad,
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leaving behind the toxicity,
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leaving behind the things that you know
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are keeping you down.
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It's actually about leaving behind the good.
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And that's why the episode today
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is called Don't Stay in Yesterday's Success.
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So yeah, before we can talk about the good things,
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we address removing the bad things.
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And many people want greatness
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while still tolerating the things
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that are actively hurting you.
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So I implore you, get rid of the toxic relationships,
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get rid of the negative influences,
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get rid of that negative victim mentality.
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Deal with those addictions,
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deal with those self-destructive habits, and you can.
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I was addicted to food for my whole life, just about.
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If I was upset, I ate.
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If I was happy, I ate.
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If I was stressed, I ate.
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If I was at peace, I ate.
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Like, that's it, food was my everything.
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And it took, to lose weight,
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it took working with a counselor and a mindset coach
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to help me realize that this did not match
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with the person that I desired to be.
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So you can overcome these self-destructive habits.
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And a lot of times, the miracle of this type of sobriety
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and overcoming addiction happens
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in a long-term transformation.
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We want things to happen just like that.
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We want them to happen to a blink of an eye.
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And sometimes they do.
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I don't doubt the power of God,
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the universe of God is our higher understanding
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to just take something away.
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But more times than not,
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we see that God will be taking it away
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as we do our part, too, and we go through the process.
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So let me tell you about purpose.
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Purpose is something that I feel like we all have within us.
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And it is something that is placed in our heart
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from the very beginning.
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And that when we flow in this purpose,
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we start to really live a peaceful, fulfilled life.
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Deepak Chopra refers to this as living your dharma.
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When you're doing the thing within you
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that shines your light the brightest,
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that's the light that people need.
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That's the light that everyone in your environment needs.
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Like when you're shining your light,
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you're changing your home, you're changing your community.
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That'll eventually change the city, the state,
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the country you live in, the world.
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When you do that, you're living your purpose.
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But purpose grows in healthy soil.
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So eventually, you do the work to change the negativity.
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Eventually, you remove the obvious obstacles
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that you know are standing in your way.
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Eventually, you become that healthier emotionally,
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spiritually, mentally, and physically person.
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And then that new question appears.
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You've grown out of the muck.
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You've improved the soil.
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And then all of a sudden, you have to ask yourself,
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what if nothing in my life is necessarily bad anymore?
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So the new question becomes not what is hurting you,
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but what is no longer helping you
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become who you're called to be?
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I remember clearly having to ask myself,
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what is hurting me?
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What is no longer helping me become who I am called to be?
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You know, there are such things as good jobs,
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good opportunities, good routines,
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good identities, good relationships,
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good business models, good seasons in life.
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Not everything that limits your growth is toxic.
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Sometimes, it's just good.
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Sometimes, the greatest barrier to greatness
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isn't something bad, it's something good.
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The first stage of growth is removing the bad.
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The next stage of growth is having the courage
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to outgrow the good.
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And this is where many people get stuck.
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Because you see, good is comfortable.
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Good pays the bills.
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Good gives you applause sometimes.
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Good gives us reasons to stay in a season we've outgrown.
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But my friends don't stay in yesterday's success.
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So for many years, I had a W-2 job.
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I worked for a flooring company.
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For a couple, in fact.
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And I had a niche.
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I sold flooring to apartment communities.
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And I enjoyed it.
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And I was darn good at it.
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I really, I enjoyed selling to people this flooring
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because it was something they needed,
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especially in apartments.
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Like every time someone moved out, someone needed flooring.
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So the part of me that was always worried
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about bugging people, you know,
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that part of me was sort of turned off
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because I knew that what I was giving them
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was something they needed.
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And I was meeting a need.
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So I'm like, this is good, this is awesome.
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And I became successful of it,
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became the director of sales of the company I was at.
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I had people working for me.
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I was getting to train.
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And I built this over many years.
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And my friends, nothing was broken.
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I wasn't running from something terrible.
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The money was good.
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The opportunity was good.
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The people I worked with were good.
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The real issue was that I knew that I had outgrown it.
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I knew that this career of almost 20 years
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was sunsetting.
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It was coming to an end.
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And I had become successful at something
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that no longer aligned with who I was becoming.
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Success, my friends, can become a trap.
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I've heard the W-2 jobs referred to as golden handcuffs.
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Ah, that is such an apt analogy.
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That thing that is keeping us from following our dreams
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because we don't want to let go of the gold.
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And it keeps us handcuffed.
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Success creates comfort, it creates familiarity.
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It earns validation.
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Success makes it harder to leave.
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The thing that got you here may not be the thing
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that's supposed to take you where you're going.
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Let me say that again.
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The thing that got you here may not be the thing
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that's supposed to take you where you're going.
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So where are you staying simply?
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Because it worked in the past.
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Think about a plant for a minute.
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You know, if you have a small plant when you first get it,
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it may just have one or two stalks or blooms on it,
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and you have it in that small little container.
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Well, the first thing you have to do
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is take it out of that container
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and put it in a little bit of a bigger pot
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so that the roots can grow.
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You add some more good dirt, some soil, some manure.
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You add the nutrients, the healthiness
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that that plant needs to grow.
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So let's say that you've got that plant in a bigger pot.
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Well, then the roots start to take off.
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And you can tell the plant's growing up top,
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but what's really happening down below
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is it is anchoring itself.
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Down below, it is getting stronger.
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Down below, those roots are starting to spread.
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That pot serves a purpose,
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but eventually, if you don't take it out of that pot
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into a bigger pot, those roots can't keep growing.
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The roots need expansion,
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and a pot is a fixed place that keeps them from expanding.
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Eventually, that pot that was helpful
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because it was keeping in the dirt,
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keeping in the nutrients,
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that same environment that once helped that plant grow
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now limits the growth.
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And you guys, that applies to careers.
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That applies to relationships.
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That can apply to your friend groups,
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to businesses, mindsets, identities.
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It can apply to the very home you live in.
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Are you willing to surrender all of that
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to find a life of peace, of meaning, of fulfillment,
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a life where you're flowing in your purpose,
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a life where you're no longer keeping your roots restricted?
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Because when you become ready to surrender that,
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that's when the universe joins you
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and starts doing for you
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the things that you cannot do for yourself.
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You know, I mentioned having clients
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who are in addiction recovery,
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and I think one of the most beautiful things
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that are taught in 12 Steps is that God does for us
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what we cannot do for ourselves.
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That is so important,
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and I have so much belief and faith in that
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because I've seen it time and time and time again.
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And sometimes that very thing that God does for us
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that we can't do ourselves
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is giving us the strength to walk away from the good
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to flow in the great.
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When the very thing that once supported you
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starts restricting you, it's time to move on.
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My mom, God bless her soul,
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she was a firecracker.
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You would have loved my mom.
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But she had this saying she used to say.
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I'm from Alabama, she was from Alabama.
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But she used to say,
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sometimes God takes the cotton off the thorns.
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And she was saying when you would go out and pick cotton,
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side note, I don't know if my mom ever picked cotton,
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but she knew about picking cotton.
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But she said when you would go out and pick cotton,
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there were times that when you got to the middle
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of the cotton bowl,
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that all that was left was the thorn.
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The cotton had all been taken off
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and it was time to move to the next bush.
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And when all that's left are thorns,
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that's the way that God's telling you
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it's time to move to another bush.
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You've taken all the cotton off that bush.
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You've outgrown that bush.
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It is time to move to your next plant.
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It is time to take that plant and put it in a bigger pot.
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Once you've truly outgrown a season,
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trying to force yourself back into it never works.
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So why do people stay then?
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Why do people stay in the good?
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Why do any of us do anything?
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It's out of fear.
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You know, we're always doing fear or faith.
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Every single decision you make is either fear or faith.
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Every one of it.
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So people stay in the good out of a fear of uncertainty.
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Maybe it's a fear of losing money or a fear of judgment.
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It could be a fear of failure
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or a fear of disappointing others.
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A fear of the unknown.
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It could be a fear of taking that step
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without seeing the second step
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or the third step or the fourth step.
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So then most people just think
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they're avoiding risk by staying.
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My friends, you're not avoiding risk.
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You're just choosing a different risk.
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The risk of staying in a season
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that no longer serves you is stagnation.
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You know, from a biblical reference,
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Jesus talks about how within us,
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out of our belly comes a river of living water.
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And I think it's important
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how he talks about living water there.
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Because when you think about water that is still,
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like in a pond, when water is still, it becomes unhealthy.
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Like when water doesn't move,
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that's when algae starts to grow in it.
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That's when mold starts to grow in it.
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That's when it can get murky and starts to smell bad.
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Stagnant water can become dangerous to our health.
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But when a water moves, when a water goes down a river,
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when a water comes off of a mountaintop
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and falls all of a sudden, every time it hits a rock,
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every time it moves, it's getting cleaner,
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it's getting purified, it's getting stronger.
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This water is getting healthier.
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The more it moves, the healthier it gets.
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Don't let yourself stay in stagnation
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because you're scared of moving.
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Another risk of staying is regret.
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You don't want to get to your deathbed
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and be 80 years old and realize
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you should have taken the chance.
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Why didn't I try to follow my dream?
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Why did I always play it so safe?
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Another risk of staying is frustration.
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When you're living a life that's not aligned
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because you know you're meant for something greater,
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it is a certain level of frustration.
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It's a level of frustration
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that comes from unfulfilled potential,
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that comes from living below your greatness
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and not flowing in your calling.
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And y'all, we all have a calling.
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You don't have to be a Christian.
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You don't have to be Jewish.
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You don't have to be religious at all to have a calling.
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I believe absolutely that the God that created the universe,
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the God that is above us and within us and all around
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made all of us with a calling.
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And when we're flowing in that purpose,
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that calling, our dharma,
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we're happier because our light is shining.
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My friends, there are people out there
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who need to see your light.
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Staying is a decision, but leaving is a decision too.
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Let me ask you this, what is the cost of staying
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in a season that no longer serves you?
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What is the cost of staying limited
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in a pot that you've outgrown?
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What is the cost of never finding out
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what is even possible for you in your life?
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You don't get to step two until you take step one.
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If fear is what keeps us stuck,
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then faith is what moves us forward.
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God rarely reveals the entire map.
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The universe rarely reveals the entire journey,
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but we are usually shown one step, one step, one step.
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Imagine yourself being in a dark room
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and you've gotta go from one side of the room to the other,
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but all you see is a light that's showing you one step
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and one step and one step.
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Can you still get to the other side of the room?
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Absolutely, as long as you trust
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that you're gonna keep seeing that one step at a time.
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You may not know how you get to the other side,
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but just know that the light is gonna guide you
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one step at a time.
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So I told you about this flooring company.
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Well, when I left, I didn't know exactly
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how things would unfold.
24:09
I'd started the coaching business,
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but it wasn't making any money.
24:13
And I'd started writing the book
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and it wasn't released yet.
24:17
I had an idea for the podcast, but it wasn't live yet.
24:20
I was paying my own mindset coach.
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I was speaking anywhere that would have me.
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I was just trying to build this new thing
24:28
and I didn't know how it would all work.
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But I gave my employer a one-year notice
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because I knew how important my contribution
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had been to them and I knew how much they had been used
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to bless me.
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So let me tell you, when you leave the good,
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don't burn the bridge.
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When you leave the good, do all you can to bless them back
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because they have blessed you.
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They have been supporting you.
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Just because that's not the pot you're in anymore
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doesn't mean that it didn't help you when you needed it.
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So I gave a one-year notice, hired my replacement,
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got them trained, finally left.
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And all I knew was, hey, I'm gonna use my voice.
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I'm gonna post positive things on social media,
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motivating things.
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I'm gonna speak for whoever will let me.
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I'm gonna coach.
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I'm gonna write.
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I'm gonna eventually podcast.
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I knew it, but none of it was guaranteed.
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I wasn't given the steps to get to where I am today,
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where I have the book published, where I have a podcast,
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where I have coaching clients, thankfully,
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all over the world, where I get to speak and tell people
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about not just success, but purpose-driven success.
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Like, I didn't see all of that.
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I saw it in my mind, but I didn't see the way I got
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to the other side of the room.
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All I was given was the next step.
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And step after step after step, I had to take in faith.
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The light shone on one step and then another
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and then another.
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You don't get to step two until you take step one.
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Certainty usually comes after obedience, not before it.
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So when you choose faith for one step,
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then you'll see what you need for the next
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and the next and the next,
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but you have to stop waiting for complete certainty.
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Ask yourself what next step you already know
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that you need to take.
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I'd like to leave you
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with a few coaching questions this week.
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Ask yourself these.
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Take some time to journal.
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Like, really dive deep and see the answers to these things.
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Don't just listen while you're in your car
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or while you're at the gym and think,
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oh, I should do this.
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Like, really come back to this and write them down.
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Question number one, what have you outgrown?
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What pot is causing you to be restricted?
26:38
The next question, what are you tolerating
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because it is comfortable?
26:42
What success from yesterday are you clinging onto
26:45
because you're so scared to flow in your purpose?
26:50
You're so scared to live an aligned life
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because you don't know what it looks like.
26:55
Where are you settling for good
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when greatness may be calling?
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And what next steps have you been avoiding?
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I'm not telling you to quit your job tomorrow,
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so please don't quit your job tomorrow.
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I didn't quit my job immediately.
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Oh my goodness, I worked my way into it.
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As I told you, I gave them a year's notice
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and I've been talking about it
27:13
and really praying about it
27:15
and making a plan months before that.
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I'm not telling you to blow up your life.
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I'm asking you to be honest
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about whether you've outgrown the pot that you're in.
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Sometimes purpose asks us to leave behind the obvious bad,
27:31
but sometimes purpose asks to leave behind
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the comfortable that is good.
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Don't stay in yesterday's success
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when your next season is waiting.
27:42
If this episode resonated with you,
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share it with someone who may be standing at a crossroads.
27:49
Follow this podcast, please like and share it.
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Help me grow this.
27:53
I really believe that we can share
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this revolution of purpose around the world.
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Check out my website, johnstreet.org.
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You'll get more information about where I'm speaking
28:03
and how to book a purpose and clarity call with me
28:06
for coaching.
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Join this revolution of purpose.
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You won't regret it.
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Until next time, keep identifying, igniting,
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and implementing your purpose.
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Your revolution starts with just one step.