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151. The Next Stratosphere · Your Enriched Self

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After completing anything new, anything major, any milestones in your life, it's
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important to have a moment of reflection. And this week or last week,
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I celebrated. We celebrated the one hundred and fifty eight episode of the podcast,
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which was very, very exciting, and I did something that was a
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milestone for the podcast. I shared it here. We were going to do
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our first live event, live episode of the podcast, which was a huge
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first for us. And we were doing our first or introducing our first guests
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of the podcast. I've not had a guest since these almost three years having
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hosted this podcast, and so that was two huge milestones for the podcast,
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and of course the major milestone of hitting one hundred and fifty episodes, and
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I think oftentimes when we are completed, right. So the weekend was amazing.
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The guest was superb, spectacular. I cannot wait for you to listen
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to this episode, which should be up by the time you are listening to
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this podcast. You should be able to click the link in the show notes
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to get access to the YouTube live that was recorded last Saturday celebrating the one
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hundred and fifty eth episode. But what I'm getting at is when you have
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completed the thing. It's important to look back on your steps. It plays
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back in my mind. Life is a journey. Enjoy the journey. It's
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all about the journey. It's not necessarily about the destination. Right. You
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hear all these quotes, You hear people say these things, And I have
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to say, as I'm thinking through everything that led up to last Saturday,
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everything that led up to this monumental milestone, major event, there are so
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many lessons on that journey, and so this moment of reflection is an opportunity
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to really pull down the lessons, pull down the learnings right, pull down
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the wisdom that it took for you to get there. Because I promise you
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when you think about your thought right, because again, as we talk about
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on this podcast, everything starts with your thought, your initial thought. The
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seed is planted based on that thought, and then there are a series of
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activities and things that happen, or that you have to make happen to get
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to the destination. And along the way on that journey to your destination,
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you're going to encounter some things, some people, some circumstances. Some things
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you can control, most things you're not going to be able to control.
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And So how are you managing through those things? What are you gleaning from
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those things? What lessons can you learn and apply immediately? And what lessons
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do you want to say for later? Right, there's so much happening on
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that journey. It's happening real time. It's happening quickly, but it's happening.
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And I just want to make sure that before you leave today and before
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you walk away from whatever it is you just did, that you make time
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to step back, reflect and understand everything that came into your life in that
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season and why it came right, Understand what you need from that to go
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do the next thing, because I promise you there are lessons there not going
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to help you to the next journey, and so on and so forth.
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So that's what I'm excited for. I'm excited for leaning into the journey,
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and I want you to do the same as well. Hello, my friends
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from all across the globe and welcome to the Your and Rich Self Podcast.
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My name is MII Lee Noir. I am an emotional wellness and empowerment coach
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and I am excited that you are here today. If you are new to
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this podcast, I want to welcome you to the Your in rid Self Podcast.
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I want to welcome you to the yourin rich Self family and the community
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because here on this podcast we talk about mindset fusion topics. I want to
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make sure that you become more of your enrich self and it starts with your
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thought. Everything that you do in life starts with your thought, and so
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we want to make sure we're watering those thoughts, we're nurturing those thoughts.
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And that's what we get to do each and every week. I help to
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walk it out with you and talk it out with you. And if you're
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a repeat listener, I'm excited that you continue this journey of one hundred and
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fifty one episodes. That's right. We just hit our milestone last week,
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major milestone of one hundred and fifty episodes, and I could not have done
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it without you. And here we are continuing this journey together. I am
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excited about that and excited about this week's time topic. Right, it's a
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very reflective topic. But before we get into this week's topic, I want
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to make sure that I make a deposit into the bank of you, and
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I do that each and every week by way of affirmations. Affirmations are a
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great way to start your day and to command your mourning. And this week's
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affirmation is I am constantly growing and evolving into a better person. I am
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constantly growing and evolving into a better person. I am constantly growing and evolving
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into a better person. Now, let's get ready for this week's episode of
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the Your Enriched Self podcast. There's a quote that reads success leaves clues and
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also that failure leaves clues, but I will say that completion leaves clues.
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This week, as I mentioned, I want to reflect back on the journey
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to the recent milestone around one hundred and fifty episodes, a live episode and
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having a guest speaker on the podcast. We have to take time to reflect.
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We have to take time to understand what we gained from the experience that
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we just went through. What would it take for you to become a better
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version of yourself? What would it take for you to live a more enriched
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life? And I'm intentionally pausing because I want you to reflect on that,
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because I think it has to start with understanding what you need to evolve to
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as you are on the journey to the destination, you want to complete a
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thing. You want to know that you put your all in into getting the
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outcome you desired, But what did you desire to come out from? Right,
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you're desiring an outcome, But what do you desire to come out from
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the version of you that's in you, the greatness that's in you, that
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lives in you. You want something to emerge. You have to want something
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to emerge because you're doing new things, you're doing challenging things, you're putting
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yourself through some pressure points. And when you do that, something great has
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to come from it. But what I don't want you to do is miss
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the lesson of that greatness, or even miss the fact that you just exerted
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some of the greatest parts of you that you have not yet started to flex.
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And unfortunately, what happens is we go from the next thing or the
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one thing, to the next thing and the next thing. And I know
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that it's ambitious, and that's what culture praises. Oh my god, you
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just did this, you're doing that, you're doing that, and what happens
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and I'm sure you've been there. Think about it. You did a bunch
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of different things, a bunch of new things. You did some impossible things,
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you did some challenging things, and then three months down the road,
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you feel inadequate, you feel like you're not enough, You're questioning yourself again.
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Your ability to trust yourself hasn't grown. And it kind of goes back
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to what would it take for you to become the best version of yourself?
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Perhaps you need to learn to trust yourself more. Maybe that is something you
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haven't flexed yet. And I want to believe that the reason why we aren't
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there yet, some of you aren't there yet, is because you haven't spent
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time reflecting. There is so much to gain from that. One of the
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things I say at the end of this podcast is that I want to hear
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from you. Feedback is a gift, But the best gift you can give
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yourself is kind of that self reflection, that feedback for yourself to understand what
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did I get out of this? What great part of me emerged from this?
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Because guess what, As I said of the onset, you are going
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to need the greatness that you allowed to emerge. Yeah, you allowed it
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because you put yourself in some new test environments. That's the thing about doing
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something new and doing something difficult, is that you're in a new test environment.
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You're in a new space, a new ecosystem. So in a new
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ecosystem, you're going to have to learn the way things are done in that
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space. You're going to have to learn how to survive and thrive in that
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new space, which is different from your day to day. And so those
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are the things that I want you to start pulling out from all of the
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different things that you are doing in this year. Listen, we are at
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a halfway point of twenty twenty four. I don't know about you, but
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there's still more I have to do. And so as I think and I
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reflect back, I want to share with you some of those reflection points that
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I gleaned from having gone through this journey of doing some new things and doing
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some things that were done for the first time in my world, right in
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this new ecosystem, which is going to be different from person to person.
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Listen, someone who has been on network television, who has started movies,
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this may not be a big deal to them, but for me it is.
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And I'm going to make it a big deal, and I'm going to
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celebrate it as I did, and I'm going to also learn from it because
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there is something in all of this that I had to learn so I can
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get to the next level. Because as you learn these things, you are
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going to be propelled into a new stratosphere. If you haven't been already,
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you're now competing at a new level, is what I'm saying. And so
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I don't want you to not go into that competitive ring without the tools,
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and those tools you learned, those are your tools. You can't use mine,
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and you can't use your neighbors. You can only use the tools that
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you learn from your journey to help you on the next level, in the
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next stratosphere of what you are going to do. So here are some of
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the things that I had to unlock, because I do believe that greatness is
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within you, but you are also the person who holds the key to unlock
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the greatness that is within you. And so one of the things that I
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had to learn on this journey is that it's you can never get comfortable,
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not because you're seeing the results. And I think, again, if we're
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talking about going back to the question, what would it take to become the
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best version of yourself? The best version of me is tell myself, don't
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get comfortable because you're seeing progress. The old version of me would be good
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with Wow, look at what you're doing. You're doing great work. I
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can lean back a little bit, I can press pause. My new version
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or the next version of me saying go more, go not necessarily go harder.
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I guess you can say go harder, but go just keep going.
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That's something that I had to learn. And the older version of me would
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have let off the gas, maybe even pulled over and parked and found a
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cool place to hang out for a little bit. But the new version says,
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keep going because you haven't arrived yet to where it is that you're supposed
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to be at. And even though I'm seeing the progress, I keep reminding
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myself you're not where you're supposed to be at. And I think that's something
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that the old version of me would not have been persistent about, if you
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will. What I realized too is that is it's a differentiator. It makes
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me different, not necessarily differentiating myself from other people. It's differentiating myself from
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the old version of myself. The other piece of this is being okay with
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separating yourself from a version of yourself that no longer aligns with where the destination
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is. Maybe it was a version of you that was satisfied with the way
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things were, Whereby this version is saying you can do more. It's not
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saying you're not enough. It's simply saying you have more in the tank.
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There is greater within you to do even greater. So it's a little bit
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different than saying you're not enough, you're not doing enough, you're not giving
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enough. It's not that type of pressure in the wrong pressure points. It's
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the kind of encouragement to say, there's still something in you you haven't activated
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yet. Go find it, keep pursuing it, and keep doing things until
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it emerges. And then you get to the next stratosphere. You see what
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I mean. So you just keep going through those next levels and you go
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do the next thing. Right now, you're doing the extra and you're doing
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a little bit more. You're taking on a more challenging obstacle. You know,
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you're doing head on without the fear and the condemnation that you would have
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normally put on yourself going towards the thing. And that's the differentiator. That's
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what your new self is willing to do. My new self, for example,
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is willing to do whereby my old self would have said, Man,
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this is challenging. I do believe that everything has a purpose in life,
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that everything comes into your life for a reason, a season or a lifetime
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to show up in your life, whether it's a person, maybe an experience,
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maybe a visit, a journey, whatever it is, I do believe
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that it has a purpose for something in your life. And it may not
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be the thing that happens tomorrow or even two months from now. It maybe
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next year, it may be two months from now, but it was brought
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to you for a purpose. A week before the live podcast. If I'm
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being totally transparent right now, I thought I wasn't gonna do it now.
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I had already advertised it, I started talking about it here on the podcast.
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So there was a level of accountability that kept playing in the back of
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my mind. But I kept looking for excuses as to what I could do
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instead. I'm like, you know what, And again this is me being
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very transparent. I thought I could just do an episode, a big shebang,
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a big you know, celebration episode when we hit three years, which
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will be in August, early August. I started looking for ways out.
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Now that's the old self, right, And I'm telling you as a coach,
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as someone who's walking through this. I want to give you practical,
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real time experiences with where I've been and what I've had to cut through,
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slice through to get to my destination. We all are challenged with this.
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You can talk to or listen to an interview of your favorite celebrity or artists,
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music or musical artists or whomever, and you will hear them say that
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the adversity came in the middle or almost towards the end of them finishing something
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right. And I found myself a week before the event in an adverse situation
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where I had decided mentally I wasn't going to do the event. That came
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for a reason. And that's what I want to say to you, is
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that when you are in a season of completion, of getting to the milestone
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of getting to the destination of taking the journey, you will find adverse situations.
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You're going to find adverse situation. Adversity is going to show up,
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and adversity is going to show up. Because life, I believe, gives
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you the those pop quizes what do you do when the adversity shows up?
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It's easy to know what to do when everything is going as good as it's
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going to get or even as it's design as you designed it in your mind
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right, but when your face with adversity, you have to get into a
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mindset. And trust me, I wasn't there at the beginning of it.
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Right at the beginning of this adverse situation, I was not in this mindset.
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But I promise you you need to get into this mindset. And the
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mindset is I know I'm doing something right because adversity has shown up, because
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You're intended to have this to happen for a reason. So what I want
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you to do when this happens, because it will. And I'm not trying
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to scare you. I'm just letting you know that you have to anticipate adversity.
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And that is the version of my old set that I didn't want to
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embrace adversity. The version of myself will say, I don't want to deal
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with this situation right now. I want this situation gone. The new version
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of myself says, okay, adversity showed up for a reason. The old
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version of myself would say, I don't want to feel this way. The
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new version of myself would say, you know what, I and I'm entitled
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to feel this way in this moment. But let me understand why this moment
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has come to me. Now, I'll repeat that I'm entitled to feel the
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way I feel in this moment. Keep in mind, I say in this
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moment, not for the long run. I'm entitled to feel how I am
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feeling in this moment. But now, let me understand why this moment has
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come to me. Now, let me understand why this moment has come to
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me now, And truth be told, you will not know why it came
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to you when you ask that question and when you start inquiring. But now
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you're open to the lesson. Most of the time, we are closed off.
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We are frustrated, we are tired, we are exhausted, we are
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agitated. So all of those things say to me. Your doors are shut,
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your windows are shut, your air gates are closed, your eyegates are
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closed. You can't see or hear or feel. All you can do is
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you can't see or hear anything. All you do is focus on your feelings.
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And again, you're entitled to those feelings in the moment, but you
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need to spend time understanding why that moment has come to you now. It
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didn't come three weeks earlier. When you were at your strong point because you
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are at the beginning of this, or it didn't come a month earlier when
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you were still excited, you know, still had some runway left. It's
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coming at a critical eleventh hour moment where you have exhausted all your resources.
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You are physically drained, and now here comes the adversity. And what I'm
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saying to you is, first of all, know that you're on the right
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track when adversity shows up, and number two, dig in, start to
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ask yourself the question, open yourself up to the question, and ultimately getting
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the answers to understand why the moment has come to you. Now, that's
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what you got to do. That is the part of persistence that's really ugly.
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That's the part of persistence that requires you to work. That's the part
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of persistence that says, you know what, it's not hard. I just
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don't have enough information yet. That's all hard is. You've not done it
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yet, so you don't have enough information. That's the version that brings impossibility,
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like this is impossible. There's no way. Well, there's no way
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because you haven't seen a way yet. You've never done it, so you
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don't know what the outcome is going to because you've never tried, and so
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this is your opportunity to go down that path and try right. And finally,
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I don't feel like doing it. That's the old version of me.
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I don't feel like this. I don't feel like doing it. Here's the
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thing, the truth is in most instances, if you really think about it,
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when people say I don't feel like working out today, did you feel
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like it yesterday? And will you feel like it tomorrow? You're not.
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So why are you waiting until you feel like something to pursue it, to
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charge after it? You're never gonna have the feeling to help you get to
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it or get through it. So be real about that. Say I don't
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feel like doing it today. Maybe one day I'm gonna feel like doing it.
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But guess what, I have to do it anyway. I have to
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go do it anyway. It's not about how I feel, because again,
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truth be told, You're never gonna feel like getting up at four thirty in
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the morning or four am in the morning so I can be on the road
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by four thirty, so I can be at the gym by five. Who
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feels like doing that every day? That's what I've been doing. So it's
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not I don't want to do it or I don't feel like doing it.
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My feelings aren't gonna get me to that next version of me. And so
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that's why I put the question in front of you. What would it take
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for you to become the best version of yourself? Yeah, it's gonna take
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understanding that feelings are real, but they're not needed for what I am trying
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to get done. Understanding that there will be adversity because you have mindset now
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that knows it's going to show up because that's what it's supposed to do,
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and finally knowing that, hey, what is this here to teach me,
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and being open to that lesson. It's all about unlocking the greatness within you,
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and you're only going to be able to do that if you're being honest
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with yourself and if you're taking the time to open your mind, open your
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heart, open your ears, and listen for what you need in the season
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that you're in. And that's going to change from season to season, circumstance
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to circumstance, from the goals this week to the ones next week and so
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on. But it's important for you to know that there is greatness within you,
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and you, in fact have the key to unlock the greatness that is
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within you. I hope you enjoyed this week's episode of the Urine Ritsub podcast.
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