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Well, Hey everybody, Jonathan
Doyle with you once again, welcome

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friends to the daily podcast.

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Hope you're doing well.

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Thanks for tuning in.

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It's such a privilege to just have
just a few moments of your time.

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It doesn't mean a great deal to me that.

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Whether you're in your car, you're
in the gym, whatever you're out

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and about doing that, you are going
to lavish this extravagant gift

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of time on me and in the hope.

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Let's hope it's not a vain hope
that I will bring you some,

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uh, some erudition, something
inspiring, educational encouraging.

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Gosh, we need it.

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Don't we?

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I said a few episodes ago that we don't,
uh, brush our teeth once and decide that

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we have, uh, we don't need to do it again.

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We don't go to the gym once and
decide we don't need to do it again.

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We, uh, we don't take a bath
or a shower once and say, well,

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I'm glad I've got that done.

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I never need to do it again.

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There are some things that we
need to do on a daily basis.

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And for me, It is this kind of thing.

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It's immersing myself on a daily basis.

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In the wisdom of amazing men and women
throughout history, trying to share that

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with you, trying to share various insights
that I pick up in my own daily life.

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Because I think we need this.

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I think we need daily encouragement.

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You know, we need this.

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There's so much in the world telling
us that things are really bad.

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And just these, uh, these
little moments of inspiration

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that we share together, I hope.

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Uh, helping you move along
in the path as always, please

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make sure you've subscribed.

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Hit that subscribe button, go
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You can book me to speak.

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You can, um, get free access
to my book, bridging the gap.

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There's links across
to the YouTube channel.

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It's all there.

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Uh, lately I've been posting some
of my daily crazy exercise routines.

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Over on the YouTube channel today.

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Um, I'm talking about, I've done two.

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I thought over 200 kilometers on
the bike in the last 48 hours.

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And I'm in the video, I'm going up another
mountain with a huge backpack as you do.

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So, um, and as I said yesterday,
listen, when you hear me

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talk about the exercise I do.

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It really is relative.

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I mean, I just do what I do.

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Um, but, uh, you know, there are people
that are more extreme than me and

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there are people who are, you know,
Just walking to the letterbox, but

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as long as we're all doing something,
I'm a big evangelist for this lately.

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I think we need to be doing stuff.

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It's our school holidays at the moment.

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I've, uh, I give my, my son he's
3.6 minutes, access to technology

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a day, and then I dragged him
up the mountain with me today.

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Uh, he's like, thanks dad.

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It was really cool just to
have that time with him.

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So.

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He's becoming my camera man, to
go down, we can do drone shots.

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We can do drone shots.

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Dad I'll bring the drone.

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I go, you know, look man, I'm 48.

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I don't know how many people are that
excited about seeing some 48 year old.

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Suburban dad going up a hill
with drone shots, but Hey,

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maybe that floats your boat.

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So keep it on the YouTube channel today.

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My friends.

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Oh, what are we going to do today?

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Well, yesterday we haven't heard it
go back to yesterday is really good.

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We did.

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It was a longer one.

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It was.

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Yeah, listen to questions.

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I went through, listen to questions.

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We did, uh, we did dealing with
toxic people in the workplace.

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We did relationship trust issues,
and we did how to deal with guilt.

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So a very human experiences.

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If you haven't heard that jump
back to yesterday, we, uh,

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There's so much good
content coming out today.

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I want to share with you a quote from
one of my favorite historical figures.

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Franklin, the little known
brother of Benjamin Franklin.

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Now let's just go to Israel.

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Let's just go to Benjamin Franklin.

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And, uh, one of the great founding fathers
of the United States and great figure

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of history, just a incredibly driven.

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You know, intelligent,
hardworking, complex, uh, figure.

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And just reading his stuff
is, can be quite inspiring.

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He sort of, I feel like I have
a bit of a kindred spirit.

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One of those people you'd love at your,
your world's greatest dinner party, right.

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Benjamin Franklin would be there.

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So friends listen to what
he has to say to us today.

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It's a great quote.

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You ready?

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It says this.

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How do you become better tomorrow?

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And by improving yourself,
the world is made better.

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Be not afraid of growing too slowly.

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Be afraid of standing still.

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Forget your mistakes, but
remember what they taught you.

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So, how do you become better tomorrow?

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By becoming better.

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Today.

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One of the reasons I love this guy
is because he just packed so much

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in there is there's an economy of
language that is just so powerful.

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Let's just pass this a little bit.

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Let's just.

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Explore this together.

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Listen to this first part
by improving yourself.

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The world is made better.

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My friends, please understand.

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There is a place.

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Someplace.

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Uh, for government programs, um, I think
we are living in an age of technocracy

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and concerning bureaucratic control.

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I'm a big believer that if you
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don't think it's at the level of.

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Massive government programs.

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I think you changed the world by exactly
how Benjamin Franklin says it here.

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He says, you, you make the world
better by improving yourself.

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So I've said this recently, like
really this obsession with, I

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stand with the latest thing.

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I stand with this, I stand with that,
the virtue signaling that's going on.

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Look, let's be honest.

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Most of us are not going to play any
part in the great events of history.

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That's the truth.

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It might be grating to hear it.

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People can think that
cynical or it's defeatist.

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It's not the fetus.

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It's re it's being a realist.

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It's that?

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Most of us.

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I mean, you really want to change history.

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Let's get to work on
changing our own history.

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First, before we go around and
changing the history of the planet,

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let's change our own history.

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Let's change the histories
that we come from.

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Let's change the histories that
we've believed about ourselves.

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Let's change the history of what we
think we can achieve in the future.

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That's a bit of a, well, that's kind of
back to the future time war argument.

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But fringe, you get my point, right?

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That.

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Really I'm a believer
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I genuinely think it's not cynicism.

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It's not that it's just.

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If, what can I control?

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I can control what I bring to the table.

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I can control.

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The quality of my closest
relationships as best I can.

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And as I improve those, it's
like a ripple in the pond.

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It's like, it just radiates out slowly.

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So I think so many things could be
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responsibility, personal development.

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Self-development looking
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And not worrying about, you know, this
is addictive kind of mentality where we

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just, you know, we're a news websites,
we're just sourcing news all the time

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in terms of, you know, fearful approach
to what's going on in the world.

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But let's.

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As Ben Franklin said he improve
ourselves and then the world

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will take care of itself.

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Next line.

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He says, be not afraid
of growing too slowly.

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Be afraid of standing
still such a great insight.

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You know, we all have dreams and plans
and those things we'd love to be, have, do

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and contribute, but let's not forget that.

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Uh, it's okay to grow slowly.

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It's okay.

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It's okay.

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Just to take the next step on your path.

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It's okay.

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Just to be fractionally better
today than you were yesterday.

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What you don't want is either
to be still or going backwards.

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You don't want to be stationary
in life in terms of your

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development and you definitely
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So it is okay.

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My friend to grow slowly.

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It is, they created be slightly
better than you were the other day.

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The next line he says, he
forget your mistakes, but

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remember what they taught you.

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This is good.

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If you go back to the.

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Uh, episode yesterday
when I talk about guilt.

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You know, we.

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We need to take the lessons
of the mistakes that we make.

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We need to look at the beliefs,
the behaviors that drive them.

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But then we don't want to
spend the rest of our time.

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You know, going through life cataloging,
every mistake we've ever made playing

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at a 2:00 AM when we can't sleep in
big Technicolor, full screen glory.

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We need to go.

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Yep.

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I did that.

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It was wrong.

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I made this decision.

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I'm going to change it.

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I'm going to get better, but
remember what you learned in the

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process, but don't beat yourself up.

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You know, I'm a believer in that.

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I'm not a believer in sort of, um,
ignoring what we've, what we do,

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because that turns us into sociopath's.

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You don't care about our effect on others.

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It's not what I'm saying.

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It's as if we hold onto our
mistakes and replay them and

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replay them and replay them.

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We end up not growing and that robs the
people that we love have the best of us.

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So finally he says here, how
do you become better tomorrow?

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By becoming better today.

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I'm a believer in this it's incremental.

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Um, I'm, I'm taking a break from
heavyweights and I'm back to doing sets

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of hundred of a hundred pushups at a time.

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So I'm pushing, you know, each
day and then it's like 105 and

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then it's 106 and it's 107.

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So it's like, you can find
any area of life, you know,

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for me, that's an obvious one.

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You.

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Just slightly increasing
my pushups each day.

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Or, you know, just trying to make
the podcast fractionally better

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each day, getting the video channel
fractionally better each day, trying

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just a tiny bit better as a husband
and father, as a friend, just

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incremental, tiny little things.

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We could call it glacial.

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But I remember when we were in Iceland,
we went to, you know, we were on this

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tour for a couple of days and you see
all these waterfalls and glaciers,

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and it's the first time I'd really got
up close to a glacier and it's like,

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The sheer scale of the thing, right.

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Basically fills a valley.

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And you see this kind of
thing moves as it moves.

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We don't really see it moving cause
it's glacial, but you get my point.

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You can see its progress.

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And the force and the power in that
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In that tiny little movement as it
just slowly moves down the valley.

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So for us.

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Our progress can be glacial, but it
can still be very, very powerful.

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So just pick an area of your life,
pick something at the moment that you

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know, could be slightly better that,
you know, you would like to change.

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Just something you can improve.

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Fractionally.

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And get to work on that.

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Do you want to be better
in a month's time?

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You want to be much
better in a year's time.

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Just focusing on getting
fractionally better.

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Today, pick something,
come on, just pick it.

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There's something in your life, you know?

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Is there a way that you speak to people
that needs to change is there is an

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addiction that you need to address.

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Is there a lack of effort or energy
in some area that you could improve?

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Fractionally?

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Just go to work on that.

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That's it for today.

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In different parts of the country.

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So I'm going to try and get
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So stay tuned, make sure
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And also to the YouTube channel,
hit that link and come across and

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check out the YouTube channel.

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It's really.

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Enjoying doing those videos each day.

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God bless everybody.

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My name's Jonathan Doyle.

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This has been the daily podcast and I'll
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