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Never give up, fight until the end,

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gotta get back up. No

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time for loss, fight until the end, no

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matter what the cost. Keep

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moving, gotta get back up one. Keep

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moving, gotta get back up. Keep

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moving, gotta get back up one. Keep moving,

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gotta get back up. How are you? Happy,

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happy, happy, happy Monday, come on in. Did

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you have a good weekend? I did, had another weekend

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with my grandson, the oldest one. I've got several

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of them now, a lot of them. He's 11 and

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he's finally hit that tween stage and it's so

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awesome because he's a little sarcastic now. He kind

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of gives it to grandpa, Gpa as he calls

1:08

me. But now he's 11, I

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can give it back and we can spar all night long. It's

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so fun, I've been waiting my whole life for this. First

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10 years are okay, 11, it's awesome. So

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there's a question I've asked myself for a very

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long time. I did not create this to help

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coach, I didn't. I created it to help me

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figure me out one day. And

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a little later on, I started asking it

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some other people, people that are looking

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for their passion, their purpose, their meaning and to create a

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legacy in their life. And I stumped them. And

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a lot of people to this day still do not understand how

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to answer this very specific question. I'll give it to you today

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and I'll explain to you how you can answer it and where

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I think it comes from. Okay, hang on, it's coming up. It's

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the Daily Boost from motivationmove.com. The

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positive boost you need every single

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day since 2006 doing this

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thing, a very simple idea. The

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idea was, is there a way that

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we can be happy, motivated, upbeat, make money the whole thing,

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be a good citizen, be a good- husband, good father, all

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that kind of stuff. Can we do all that stuff? And

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can we still be good to ourselves and still think of ourselves

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and accomplish our own dreams? Can we do it all? Can we

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have the balanced life that we all seek? Well, the answer is

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no. You cannot

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have a balanced life. Balance is completely impossible. Balance

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is dynamic. It's always changing. You'll never get to a

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static status. Would that be

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the word? To get to

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the point where you have the balanced life, but we can learn

2:25

to kind of dance the balance, if you

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will. And that's what the show's all about,

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to help you figure out the moving parts of your life, to get

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what you want and just have a nice life. My name is Scott

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Smith. Good to have you. Thanks for stopping

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in today. On Mondays, I always

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ask a very simple question. We started the show every single

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Monday with this. If you

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want to do this homework, as I call

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it homework, if you want to answer this

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one simple question, you're doing yourself a big

2:48

disservice. Because if you

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won't take the time to ask yourself,

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how's my life going? And then take just a

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couple of minutes to sit back and

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think about it for a second and, and,

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and ponder the answer that you get. It

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sucks. It's awesome. It could be in

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between, but if you don't take the time to do it, how

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are you going to fix it? So when

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the show's over today, sit back, take a couple of minutes and just

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ask that one question. How's my life going? Is it good? Is it

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bad? Is it in the middle? And the

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very act of doing that, you won't have to do anything else. The very act

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of doing that will, will cause your subconscious mind to

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start to ponder it. And you'll start to look for the answers to

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make corrections that you need to make. How's

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my life going? The question I said I

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was going to ask you today is something I've asked for a very long

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time. It confuses a lot of people. I

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forgot that it confused people. I started my face your passion

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coaching program up again about three months ago. And it's better

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just a man has it been fun, but

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in the program I'm working with a whole bunch of people. And

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in the module I have them working on when they first came in the

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door, I put together a bunch of questions I thought would get

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them going. Not questions that I thought would make

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them work hard. And really what it was about is can we

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get them to open up so they can find their passion in

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life. That was something that I thought would be really helpful. And

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in life that was it. And frankly, I worked really hard at

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it and it finally came down to a very simple question. I'll

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give the question. There's the second here, but

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the reason I got to the question

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started when I was 16 years old. My

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brother took me to work one day. He was about

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four years older than I was. He worked in Washington

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DC and he took me downtown in the summertime to

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make some extra bucks as a teenager. And

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it was an office building. So

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we drove downtown. It was kind of fun. I was excited. I

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went up the elevator. I went inside and this is going to

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be an exciting day. I cannot wait to go make some money

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downtown in the office building. That's what

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I heard is so fun. That's what people do. I

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get in there and this is nobody

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saying anything. It's dead

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quiet. They're all sitting at their desk and

4:37

their cubicles. They're just kind of, I

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didn't get it. So I'm thinking

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to myself, okay, let's lighten this place up. Let's turn the radio on.

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So I turned the radio on. And

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then the mean old, floody duddy adults came out and said, you

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can't have the radio and turn the radio off. I'm like, what?

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I didn't last another day. I had to

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stay till four or five that day, but

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I had one question in my mind. This

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is all there is at

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16 years old. I was already answering, asking the question.

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I didn't know what it meant deeper than that. I

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just looked at that and I said, no, see, sometimes

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you know what you want, but more importantly, you know what you

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don't want. And I think that's the most important thing. When you

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know what you don't want, you can steer yourself to what you

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do want. Right? So that's

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got in my life, my entire life. And

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as I worked through my life, I began to work

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on my purpose and the things that

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I thought would, would work well for me. I began

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to explore the possibilities. I began to reach out and say,

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if I could explore what was possible for me, that

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I could try some things on. If it worked, that was

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fine. I would explore what was possible and go for it. And I say to

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that, I would explore things, but you

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know, it seemed like everything was possible and everything caught my interest. And

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I found myself going down all these different pathways that I didn't like.

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I wonder why. So

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one day I asked myself this question. What

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do I do when I'm doing me? I

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thought about it first. Then

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I said those words and

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it really stopped me in my tracks. And then I

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began coaching with that question. I would say, what do

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you do when you're doing you? When

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nobody tells you what to do, when you have

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no previous plan, when you're not doing what you

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think you're supposed to be doing, when you're just

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doing you, when you shut down, when your default

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mode network brain kicks in and you're just being

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who you are. Who is that? Now,

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when I presented this to my face, you're passionate people in

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the form of a module that they're sitting down to do.

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And an exercise I took them through and I asked that

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question, gave them about a minute to answer. They

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were lost. Suddenly

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was like, well, what I'm doing, me, I'm, what

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I'm at work or I'm improving myself or I'm

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a mom. All of which could be right. But

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they prefer flex by it as

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I was. And over time I used to think

6:51

of saying, well, what are you doing? You're doing you. Well, I'm doing

6:54

a podcast. That's what I do. That's Scott. There's a podcast. Scott coaches,

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Scott talks. I do like to talk by the way. Usually

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if I'm being me, I'm probably, my mouth is probably

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flapping. Lots

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of things that could be doing. I thought, okay,

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is that really it? Is that really the reason

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I'm seeking this? What do you do when you're

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doing you? Nobody tells you what to do. There's

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nobody in your ear influencing you. Like I am right now.

7:14

You didn't read a book yesterday and you're still bouncing high on

7:16

that book that you read and all that stuff you learned. When

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you've got a moment in time, no

7:24

one is telling you what to do. You're not even thinking

7:26

what to do. Your mind's just

7:28

going autopilot. What

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do you find yourself doing? I

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will tell you, I believe that to be the secret

7:35

to finding happiness on life. What

7:39

you default to is most likely what you do. Everything

7:41

else is probably something you decided to do. And that's okay

7:44

if you want to do that, but I'm just saying, who

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are you? And

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so, or a long time, I

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kind of whittled it down. I

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said, when I'm me, when I'm in my natural state, I'm

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just kind of a peaceful, content, happy guy. guy

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who likes to think about the world and stuff. I

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like to figure stuff out. I

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don't like to do things necessarily. Don't

8:08

have to follow through on everything. I just like to be peaceful

8:10

and happy. I like to think about

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how things work and try to figure it out. I like to put

8:14

thought into things. I'll watch

8:16

things. I'll pay attention to people. That's why I'm in this business

8:18

because I'll sit down and just think about stuff. And

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for the longest time, I thought, well, that's not enough, man. You

8:23

gotta be aggressive. You gotta go after,

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what's the big ass goal you're going for? That's what you do.

8:27

When you're doing you, you run after the big ass goals and

8:29

everybody says, that's what you do. When you're doing you, you run

8:31

after the big stuff you say you want in life. And I

8:33

say, well, why aren't you doing it? Why

8:37

are you looking forward to that time off? You get back to spend

8:39

some time with yourself. If

8:41

everything else around you is running so hard and so crazy and

8:43

so fancy, you think that's what it got to be. And yet

8:46

at the end of the day, when you're just being who you

8:48

are, who is that person? Some people just think some

8:51

people like to sit around, just relax and pet their dog. Some

8:55

people like to pray. I

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don't know what it is, but I will tell you this. When you

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can figure out who

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you are, when there is no expectation

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from anybody else or you on you,

9:08

when you find that place that you're just an idol and

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you're just okay with it. When

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you find that place, you

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find your place. I

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can tell you this. Anybody I've ever seen

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that dials in to who they are on

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the inside, how they operate, what they

9:26

think, their beliefs and their values, and what's really important

9:29

to them. And

9:31

they focus in on building their entire life to

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allow that space. And more importantly, their

9:35

entire life to allow that space to exist no matter

9:37

what they do. Oh, you

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got the magic now. So

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if you have the courage and you're willing to

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turn face into your courage, what

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do you do when you're doing

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you? That's

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what we do in face your passion. If you're

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interested, just go to faceyourpassion.com. and

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watch that workshop. Interested beyond that, you just shoot me

10:02

a note and tell me, we'll talk, maybe you get

10:04

the group. It's up to you. Have a good day.

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I'm gonna see you here tomorrow. I'm

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gonna go do something that I would always do when I'm

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just being me. Keep moving,

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gotta get back up, boy. Keep

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moving, gotta get back up.