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So if you don't structure what the priorities are,

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you don't have a checklist for the priorities,

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you don't have a metric to give you incentives to keep on those priorities,

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well,

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you got nothing to look at except yourself of why it's not producing the results

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you want.

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For many years, 48 plus years actually,

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I've developed a series of habits that have helped me

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fulfill the dreams that I've had in my life.

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Some of them I'd like to share with you. I want to give you,

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I won't say that this is the only set of habits that I've had because they've

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evolved over the years,

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but they are things that you can do that can help you unquestionably.

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There are many,

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many teachers out there with a list of things that you might do as a

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daily ritual. And many of them are very useful.

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I can't say that you want to be locked into any one set,

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my set or anybody else's set, you need to find what is natural for you.

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First I want to say that some people have very different hours than other

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people.

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I know a very successful actress that goes to bed at four or five in the

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morning and gets up mid day and has a completely different ritual.

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I also know a very successful business person that's up at four o'clock.

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When they're going to bed, someone else is getting up.

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So I don't want to say that it's mandatory that you have a certain pattern.

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A very successful doctor that was a mentor of mine,

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had a late morning ritual and went to bed

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early in the morning also.

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So I just want to say that each person has their own time clock.

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There are biological rhythms.

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There is the suprachiasmatic nucleus in the hypothalamus that is

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involved in circadian rhythms that ideally

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we could benefit by.

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But if you normalize your clock consistently in a certain pattern,

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your body will adapt.

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So ideally that may be wise to get up early and go to bed early,

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but that's not always the case for each person.

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Some people are morning and some people are afternoon people.

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So I just want to say whatever the timeframe is,

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there are certain things that you could do that could start your day and I'll

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give you a variety of them that I found that helpful to me and things that I've

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seen helpful to some of the clients I have and colleagues that I've known.

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First of all I do believe that when I do arise,

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I do love going through my head on a series of internal

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dialogues.

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And I have a set of dialogues that I've had since I was 17.

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And there are some that have evolved and that have achieved and now have evolved

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further into new sets,

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but it's no harm to have a dialogue inside your head,

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some people have called them affirmations.

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Some people call them quotations to recite.

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Some people call them internal dialogues.

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The word affirmation is not just positive statements.

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I'm not a promoter of just positive fantasy statements.

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But affirmation means to make firm in one's mind.

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A condition of firmness in one's mind.

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So I do believe that having a statement that is deeply meaningful,

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that is inspiring to you,

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sort of a checkup from the neck up to start your day,

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I found it very productive. I have a series of them,

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I get up in the morning and I say to myself that I'm a master persistence,

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I do whatever it takes. And I do what I love and I love what I do.

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And I'm grateful for the opportunities that I have before me.

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I'm blessed, appreciation each day. And I have a series of things,

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you know, I've said for many years that I'm a multimillionaire money magnet.

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I have many different statements that are true today.

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All of those are realities today the ones that I've been saying.

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Now to say that that affirmation is the only thing that made it come true,

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is not true.

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But the affirmation is a statement about how I want my

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life that my life demonstrates I'm committed to taking actions on.

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So if you're going to make statements to yourself in the morning,

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make sure that they are truly aligned with what you value most and that your

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life is demonstrating a concerted effort and incremental

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momentum building actions that are leading to that outcome.

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Or otherwise you're going to internally conflict with yourself and kind of have

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a BS meter go off and say, 'ah, that's not it'. So,

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but I do say that in the morning, I do have a ritual that I do.

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And I also think about from what the night before,

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I document the things I had the opportunity to do,

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which I call my gratitude journal.

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And because I've done that towards the end of the night,

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I wake up with that on my mind and they're pretty fresh.

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So I can be thinking about the things I'm grateful for,

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the business opportunities, the people I got to meet,

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the interviews that I've gotten the opportunity to do,

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the clients I've gotten to work with,

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the income generating opportunities, business opportunities,

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celebrities I've gotten to work with, things I've gotten to do with my family.

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Last night, I got an opportunity to have a birthday dinner, which was lovely.

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But going through and documenting exactly what it is that you get to do

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each night and waking up with that and kind of going through and thinking about

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what you're grateful for and having your internal dialogue,

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I think has merit. I've been doing that all these years,

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and I think it has merit because it aligns me with what I'm committed to

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and reminds me of it, even though I don't need really a reminder.

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It's something I do every day anyway.

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I delegate pretty well everything other than what I'm focused on.

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But I do believe that that's impactful because the reality is that those

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statements are all real today, they're all what my life is demonstrating.

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So I do believe that saying statements to yourself in the morning

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could be useful.

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Paul Bragg taught me when I was 17 that what you think about,

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what you visualize, what you affirm, what you feel,

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and what you take actions on every single day, it does make a difference.

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It determines sort of your destiny. And, you know, I've said many times,

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your hierarchy of your values dictates your day.

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And so if you're stating something about how you want your life,

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that matches what you value most, and the statements are congruent with that,

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and they're not polarized and fantasized, you know, 'I'm always happy.

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I'm never sad.' Those are fantasies. But 'whether I'm happy or sad,

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whether I'm supported or challenged,

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whether I'm attract opportunities or threats,

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I know that both of them are synchronously balanced and guiding me to the

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authentic self'.

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If I say things that are reminders about how I want my life and how I can

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achieve through life. Great. You can say that,

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'I'm at the right place at the right time to make the right deals',

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that 'I stick to priority'.

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And I prioritize my daily life and delegate all things that are uninspiring'.

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'I fill my day with inspiring actions.' You might as well do it.

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I have in my book, that's right next to me, probably

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a 20, I think it's 29 page internal dialogue,

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that I run through and read periodically.

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And I just love going through it in my mind. It's how I wanted my life to be.

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If you don't fill your day with high priority actions that inspire you,

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it's going to fill up with low priority distractions that don't.

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So starting your day with a reminder of exactly how you want your life,

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how you want to live, the priorities you want to do, a checkup from the neck up.

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Or you can get up and you can actually type them all out.

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And you can go through and read that checklist, not just a general checklist,

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but the highest priority actions that you've proven that work.

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And having that as a reminder. When I was in practice many years ago,

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god 39 years ago now,

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I had a daily checklist and I would read it in the morning and I would read it

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evening, and anything I didn't get done, I would look at why.

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Is it not linked to my highest values? Am I not really committed to it?

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And if I was not committed to it, I'd link it to the values or I'd delegate it.

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If I'm not doing it, I delegate it or I'd link it.

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Either go and do what you love through delegation or go love what you do through

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linking I've found. But having a checklist is also a great thing to have.

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We wouldn't want to go fly a plane without a checklist.

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You wouldn't want to fly your life in a day without a checklist.

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Might as well start the day with a checklist.

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But I'm a firm believer of having an internal dialogue, it can be useful.

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And making sure it's clear. And of course while you're saying it,

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look and see it in your mind's eye.

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There's no harm in having a visual board as the vision board,

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as they used to talk about in The Secret.

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There's no harm in having a visual book. I don't have a vision board.

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I have a vision book and the book has pictures all through it about how I want

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my life that are come true.

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They're all real today that pretty well I've set out for

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over all these years. So I'm a firm believer that utilizing your brain,

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your thoughts, your vision, your internal dialogue, your feelings,

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they all help. Now,

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there are polarized emotional feelings and there are synthesized feelings and

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the synthesized feelings, which is gratitude, love, inspiration, enthusiasm,

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certainty, and presence,

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those feelings have a higher probability of aligning congruently with

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what you value most. So I make sure when I get up,

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I go through it and I kind of love getting my gratitude tear to make sure I'm

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grateful and that I'm inspired by what I'm focused on.

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And so seeing what you would love to do, saying what it is you'd love to do,

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thinking of what the priorities are and going into state of gratitude and

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thinking about what is the highest priority thing,

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after a while I've done it so many times,

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I know what the highest priorities are.

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And sticking to the highest priorities of the highest priorities of the highest

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priorities is going to increase your momentum, your energy levels,

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your vitality.

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And this morning I got up right out of the bed and

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I started doing pushups and I did 132 pushups.

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And then I went and jogged for about just under the four mile mark,

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and then I came back and showered and here I am now getting to do this.

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But before I got up,

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I got up about five minutes before I was to hit the pushups,

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but I did that exercise, I visualized what it is.

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I internally dialogued with myself and I thought about my day and thought about

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the priorities.

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I knew some of the things that I was going to be having on my agenda,

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I thought through them,

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what would be the highest priority thing I could do to deliver?

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And I knew that I was getting ready to do some of this,

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the presentation on the daily wake ups, and also during the day.

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But those are all very, very valuable things to do.

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And keeping a record as I said,

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at night of the things you're grateful for,

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I have the largest collection of those that anybody I've ever met in life.

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I don't know. Maybe there's somebody out there that I haven't met,

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but I have thousands and thousands and thousands of pages

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of 'I had the opportunity to...' And it's my gratitude journal

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and I keep those daily. So anyway, that's a way you can start it.

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You will definitely get more vitality If you'll do a little exercise,

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if you drink water, you don't eat unwisely.

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Those are wise things to do, you know, live, not to eat, but eat to live,

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look at what works and what doesn't work for you and stick to a routine.

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It works, to maximize your energy levels.

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If you have a rhythm and a consistency in a moderation with your physiology,

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you're probably going to get more energy out of the day.

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Then you will have more and more accomplished in a day.

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And then making sure that you delegate,

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if you're not delegating lower priority things,

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you're going be trapped doing low priority things.

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And in the process of doing that,

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you're going to be in your amygdala and your amygdala is less efficient,

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less energized than the other. Cause it keeps having futilities.

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It's searching for that which is unavailable and

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unavoidable all the time.

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Whenever you're in your amygdala you're in a judgment mode. And when you do,

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you tend to want to change others relative to you or you relative to others,

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and you've got futility there. So prioritize your day,

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get back up in your executive center, get into your visual center,

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get into where you can articulate what it is you want to do and start your day

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that way. I think that's just a wise thing to do.

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And those with a clear vision.

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If you can actually paint the picture in your mind's eye of what you want,

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you're going to increase the probability of achieving it.

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Phelps demonstrated that in his gold medals, his 28 medals he received,

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he saw it in his mind's eye and that became his reality.

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So I don't think anybody would argue with that.

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Almost anybody I know that's achieved greatness,

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they use the power of their mind, power of their vision. I mean,

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I imagine Elon Musk is seeing himself going to Mars,

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and he's then creating that reality. So use your brain,

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use your thoughts and the little affirmations in the morning,

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or little words of power I call them. They're articulating

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exactly what you want and don't write something that's BS.

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Write only what your life demonstrates you're committed to.

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Don't waste your time on anything that's not really most meaningful, priority,

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most important.

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And find a way to delegate lower priority things to go in and then go produce

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something and do something that serves people.

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So you have the remuneration and fair exchange to be able to pay for people to

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delegate it so you're not trapped doing low priority stuff.

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You'll have more energy, you'll get more done.

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You'll be more of an exemplar of possibilities for other people,

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which will open up doors of opportunity. So anyway,

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those are some things, and then make sure you eat wisely and don't live to eat,

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eat to live, eat the highest priority foods, just the right amount,

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not too much, not too little,

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to maximize your performance and have a rhythm and learn what's working

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and stick to it. If you do that, you're going to have more out of your day.

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It's that simple. And schedule your day. If you don't schedule your day,

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other people will. If you don't fill your day with your own agenda,

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other people will fill it with theirs.

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Opportunists and distractions will take over.

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Just like if you don't pay your wealth and pay your money into your investments,

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before you'll end up with unexpected bills eroding it. People always,

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if they pay themselves last,

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they always have unexpected bills that erode the potential for building wealth.

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If they pay themselves first,

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they put the money into the investments and they don't have as many unexpected

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bills. Well, the same thing in your mind, if you focus on how you want it,

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you don't get what you don't, it's that simple.

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If you don't go after challenges that inspire you,

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you get challenges that don't, that don't inspire you.

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So those are things that can start your day as a little habit. And yeah,

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that doesn't take but a few minutes a day.

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If you structure it and get a checklist made up of the statements that you want

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to do and recite them for a period of time, exactly how you want your life,

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I think you'll find it might blow your mind of what happens and structure it,

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formalize your life in some degree and develop it.

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If you can see it, have a series of pictures.

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I went over to American Express travel service one time,

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and I went in there and I said, 'I'd like every brochure you have.' And they go,

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'Are you planning a world tour or something?' I said, 'Yes, I am.

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But not all at once,

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but over time.' 'Okay.' And I came back and I got a foot and a half of

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stacked brochures in those days, and it wasn't electronic in those days.

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And I came back to the office and I got some scissors out and I cut out every

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picture of all the places in the world that I wanted to do.

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And I just kept looking at those pictures. And then amazing things happened.

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I started ended up having trips and programs there, show up there,

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people would hire me to come into those locations and I'd be real close by where

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the picture was. I was amazed at how many of those things.

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And I knocked out all those pictures. I mean the China wall, the Eiffel tower,

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all the places that I thought I'd like to see the wonders of the world.

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I even went to the, where the Colossus of Rhodes, the wonders of the world were.

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And so I cut out the pictures and by God, they showed up in my life.

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Same thing with the celebrities I wanted to meet.

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I made a list of all the celebrities I wanted to meet and then one by one,

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all 50 of the people that I wrote on that list showed up in my life.

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It didn't take that long, really. So I'm a firm believer that you know,

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you use your brain and that's all those actions can help you start the day.

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And a little exercise is really valuable,

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no harm in doing a little exercise to get a little circulation going.

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I don't think excessive amounts,

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but a moderate amount of exercise would be helpful. And drink a lot of water.

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And don't OD on sugar. And I don't know about you. I don't use stimulants.

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I don't do coffee or tea or drugs or alcohol or anything like that because of

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what they do is they create volatilities, ups and downs.

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You get up and then you go down and then you gotta do something else to get up

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again. I don't do that. I drink water.

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I believe the universal solvent a water is the wisest thing to be filling your

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brain with, it cleans out the brain. It doesn't clog it up.

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It allows the brain to function better. And that's what you got,

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is your brain is your greatest asset.

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So you might as well drink water and eat wisely and make sure

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you get a bit of rest as you know.

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And I think that's a good starting point of the day. Now during the day,

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that doesn't mean you can't do some of those same things during the day.

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When I get a little opening in my day that I didn't anticipate or

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something that I may not have had scheduled,

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or maybe I had an interview that lasted less than I thought,

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and I got an extra 10 minutes,

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I'll go to my gratitude systems and update it throughout the day,

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instead of waiting at the end of the day, and update it during the day,

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I'll also maybe go through and do some of the reciting.

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Those little internal dialogues are in my head throughout the day.

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I remember when I was 30 years old,

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I used to go through 600 internal dialogues a day on average, at least 600.

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And no harm in having that cause, what you think about you bring about,

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what you say to yourself you tend to think about. You know,

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Think and Grow Rich with Napoleon Hill,

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he talked about autosuggestion and there's some wisdom to it.

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I don't think fantasies,

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I don't think just little positive statements all the time that I'm happy and

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you know, never have the other side. I think that's delusional.

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But you want to state it that's in a way that's aligned with what's truly

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valuable to you. Don't waste your time on visualizing, affirming,

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or thinking about something that's not really truly, you're dedicated to.

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Because anytime you're going after high priority things, you grow.

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Anytime you go lower priority things,

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you slow yourself down and you self-depreciate,

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hesitate and frustrate on things that are low on your values.

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So during the day you can be doing that also. In the evening,

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it's a great time to start documenting what you

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accomplished.

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And I always say that if you find yourself with a series of agenda for the day,

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priorities for the day, and you get them all done by four o'clock,

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then add one more. And if you get that one done, then add one more.

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But don't do goal overrun, watch out for goal overrun.

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Goal overrun is when you actually stack up 50 things that you're going to do

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that's unrealistic and then at the end of the day,

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you feel like you didn't get it all done and you feel like less.

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Mary Kay from Mary Kay cosmetics. Oops.

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I can see I'm getting blurry here for some reason. Let me try it again.

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Mary Kay from Mary Kay cosmetics told me about goal overrun 35, 36 years ago,

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to not set too many in one day.

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It's better to set the highest priority actions,

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fewer in number and get them done.

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Don't set projects that take multiple days in a daily action.

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Chunk projects down into daily bites and make sure that they're

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doable and reasonable for the day. So you, at the end of the day,

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you actually can get what you set done. It's very important to do that.

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I was involved in a mastermind group many years ago, 30 something years ago,

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35 years ago with a very elite group of people.

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I was very blessed to be a part of it.

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And we had a responsibility at the end of each mastermind meeting to declare

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what we were committed to by next week. And we would have done.

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And if for some reason you didn't have it done,

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you were released from the group and you didn't want to be released from the

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group. So you would set something that was not too low,

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cause that would be kind of not inspiring for the people to be in a group with

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you is doing little trivia's, but at the same time,

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something that's too high where you can't get it done, you're out.

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So it taught you to set real goals in real times.

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So it's really wise to set small action steps that

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day, each day. And then if you get done early, add another one,

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but one you can do in that timeframe you have left.

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It's wise to prioritize those actions and to make them into small bites so you

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can do them on a daily basis and make a habit of doing what you say.

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You'll build momentum, you'll gain confidence.

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The Instantaneous Personal Magnetism,

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that book years ago talked about starting with a little goal, achieving it,

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starting with a little bit bigger goal and achieving it,

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a little bit bigger goal. And he started,

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Edmond Shaftesbury started with the idea of just draw a circle,

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and then draw a square, and then draw a triangle, and achieve it.

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Just to make your mind go, 'I set the goal and I achieve it.

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I set the goal and I achieve it.' And every time you practice setting a goal and

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achieving it,

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because it's high on your values and it's incrementally more challenging as you

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go, you develop the brain power of achievement.

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So set goals for the day that are priority,

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that are in small bites that you know you can get done,

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so at the end of the day,

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you feel you fulfilled what you set out and you did what you said.

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And you develop a walking your talk and accomplishment mentality each day,

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and then document what you did. Then at the end of the day

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document the metrics of what you actually accomplished relative to the goals

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that you have. So if you have a goal,

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I had a goal to be able to do a certain number of consults with corporations

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around the world and so every time I got to do the corporate consult,

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I logged it, documented it underneath the goal, here's the company,

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here's what I got to do. Here's the company, here's what I got to do.

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And I started metricking the goals to find out if I was really committed to the

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goals. If there was never progress being made on that goal,

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then it must not be real.

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But if I'm making progress week by week or month by month,

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I can see that there's a metric that showing it,

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that allows me to be really clear about the goals that I'm setting.

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So if it's really important to you, you'll metric it.

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And if you're metricking it,

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you'll accomplishment and you'll keep your mind focused on it. And you'll also,

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if you document what you did accomplish at the end of the day with the gratitude

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and the metrics of what you said you wanted to do that you did,

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you'll have more gratitude.

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It's just a wise reciprocal relationship between those as you do that.

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In the process of of building a momentum that way.

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So metric what you set as a goal.

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Make sure you set objectives for the day that are doable that day,

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as you accomplish them, get another one and add another one,

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but stick to the ones and make sure they're priority.

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And then put together a checklist on those things that are proven to work,

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ask yourself at the end of the day, what worked and what didn't work?

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And the things that work make a list of it, the things that didn't work,

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make a list of it. So, you know what's working.

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And then you can check that list off every day and make sure you're doing the

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things that are proven to work. And if you find yourself doing the other ones,

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either delegate it, if it's not something you're inspired to do,

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or go fill your day with something that's more inspiring to do. You know,

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I'm a firm believer that if I do the highest priority things, I get results.

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The checklist that I used to have in my practice was a gold mine.

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I still have it in my book here. I have a different one now that I use,

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but the one that I did was a gold mine, without a doubt,

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it helped me stay focused.

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It reminded me every single day of the things that are proven to work and I

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could monitor it on a daily basis. And my stats,

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if you're not keeping stats on what you're achieving on a daily basis,

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that's also great return. In other words,

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if you're in sales and you say,

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I want to make 10 sales a day or whatever the number is,

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how many did you do? Here's the goal. What did you achieve? What's working,

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what's not working? You want to make sure that you have some sort of a

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feedback to yourself so you're not lying to yourself.

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And also prioritizing it and making sure you have a checklist.

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These are basic things that really make a difference in people's lives.

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And yes if you're, in my situation,

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I've delegated so much away that I really only do the things that are highest on

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the priority. I don't have to go and do the other stuff.

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I've got people doing most of that now. So I basically,

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and I found that when I did that, it helped the business. So it makes,

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it doesn't cost to delegate, It pays.

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Because you're free to do the higher priority things that go and produce the

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more, more for you. So in the long run, it's wiser to do that.

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But having a checklist like that and a priority list,

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and a metric list and a stat sheet, you know, some people say, 'well,

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that's kind of neurotic. I don't want to do all that.' Well, okay.

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At the end of the day,

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you might beat yourself up because you can get the things done.

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I found that many times people will have fantasies about what they want to get

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done. They don't get it done. Then they beat themselves up.

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I have no interest in doing that. I'm interested in having a product today.

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And if I don't fill my day with high priority things and get focused on

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it, I'm likely to have self depreciation.

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Self-depreciating is nothing more than a healthy biological response to let you

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know you're not living by priority. That's all it is.

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So if you don't structure what the priorities are,

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you don't have a checklist for the priorities,

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you don't have a metric to give you incentives to keep on those priorities,

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well,

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you got nothing to look at except yourself of why it's not producing the results

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you want. And so I think that's a very valuable feedback to give yourself.

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At the end of the day, you want to document what you did.

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And I think that that's, again, I just say it this way;

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'I had the opportunity to...

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do this meeting, have this consult, meet these people,

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serve this client, do this consulting, do this podcast, webinar,

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write this article, send off this proposal,

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whatever it may be that I may be involved in,

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I document what I do and I keep a record of it. And then I take it from that.

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And then I put it over into my metrics on what I accomplish if it's something

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that I'd set as a goal. And I'm amazed,

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I keep records of all the podcasts I get to do and how many people roughly on it

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so I look at how many millions of people I get to reach each year.

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I look at the number of articles. I even keep records of all the books,

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I'm in 632 books now that I've been referenced in.

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Because I had a goal when I was in my twenties to be able make some sort of

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contribution in the world enough where people would write about me.

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I read Isaac Asimov, who was a science writer,

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brilliant science writer that in my, about 20, 21, 22 years old, I was reading,

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I kept seeing his name. And I go, God,

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this guy is in almost every book I pick up. And I thought, wow,

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I'd like to be able to make a contribution like that man. So I set a goal.

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I wrote it out that I wanted to make enough contribution on this planet that a

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thousand people with a thousand books would reference me.

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And now every time a book's referencing like that, and I find out about it,

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I document it. I get a picture of the book. I document the name of the book,

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who it was, and I'm, I'm 632.

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I think I'm about five to 10 years away from that goal being met.

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That's a long wait, it's almost 50 years of wait. So what.

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I'd rather have some sort of goal that I'm accomplishing.

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At least it gives me a metric that I know I'm making some sort of contribution

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out there, it's feedback. So I keep a record of the things I'm grateful for.

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And some people think, you know,

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I'm a little bit excessive about it because I do that.

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I don't think so. I think I'm just grateful.

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I think what that does is it gives me something to be grateful for every day.

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It's a document and proof that what I'm saying, that I'm doing,

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it's a document proof that what I'm intending, I'm creating,

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it's a document proof of the contribution.

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Why wouldn't you want to keep a record of that in life? You know,

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when I was in practice years ago when somebody would come up to me and say,

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'You know, I wasn't able to make love but because now,

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because of what you've done in the work I can now, my back is doing so well.

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I can actually make love again.

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And we're now going to have a baby.' Or 'I now can play sports again',

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or 'I can now go back to work again.' And when I would do,

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I would get teary-eyed and they would say those kind of comments.

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And I would say,

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would you please just either write that down or put that in a recording.

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And I would d get those things written up and put out in the front reception

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room and patients would read those testimonials and the stories,

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and they'd be brought to tears.

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And I found it that it helped me help more people.

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It helped them have more persistence.

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It helped them be more diligent in the work. It helped me help them,

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it helped the person. I'm like, why wouldn't I do that on a daily basis?

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Why wouldn't I document what I'm blessed to be able to get to participate in in

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life? So I think that's, I think the small amount of time,

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a few minutes a day,

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10 minutes in the morning and 10 minutes in the evening or something,

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that's insignificant compared to what it pays off, insignificant.

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To document what you do and to be able to look at that, I mean,

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look at the impact it has, you can read it at any time. If you're not inspired,

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you'll get inspired again. And your family will be able to read it.

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Your kids will be able to read it, my students get to read those. And yeah,

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it inspires them to go and push themselves to do more with their life.

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So I'm a firm believer that that's a wise thing to make a habit.

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I think that that's the way to end the day.

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And if you do you'll have something to go to bed with gratitude on because if

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you read that and you go, wow, I really got to do a lot. I mean,

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I've had some days where I'm just mind blown by what the opportunities that have

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come in and the connections and the leads and the opportunities and the people

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we reach.

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I sometimes get off an interview that I get to do and I get teary-eyed

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because of what we got to say and the impact it's had on people.

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And I think it's,

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on a daily basis every time you do what you intend,

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please document it. Please write down that you had the opportunity to do it.

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And if you have a goal journal where you actually have the day you set the goal

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and the day you achieve the goal, the day you expected to achieve the goal,

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if it's before you expected,

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that means you're setting too small a goal in too long a timeframe.

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If it's afterwards, you're probably setting too big in too short a timeframe.

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And both of those give you feedback to set real goals in real timeframes,

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to have real objectives, not fantasies.

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Fantasies tend to make you self-defeat and depreciate into nightmares.

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But real objectives that are goals that are really truly meaningful,

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that are really in line with your values that are chunked down into small bites

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that you can see in your mind's eye,

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one of the signs you have a real goal is that it feels impossible for you not

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to fulfill it. It feels destined. It feels done. It feels not in the future.

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It feels like it's already happening. I want to write a goal that gives me that.

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I've got thousands of those written down, thousands, and they're coming true.

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And it's amazing watching them. I mean, it's just amazing.

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I had an opportunity this last week that was mind blowing. Things are,

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just mindblowing, opportunities, economic opportunities.

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And so I'm a firm believer that, you know,

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I set out when I was in my twenties that I want to be in movies. Well,

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I've gotten to film in 50 movies now, 50 documentary movies.

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And I set that out in my twenties. I didn't know what that was.

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I just knew that I wanted to be able to be myself. I didn't want to act.

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I wanted to be myself in there.

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And wow that documentary movies allowed me to be me,

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and I get to still get to film out there.

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So I'm a firm believer that you write down exactly what you want.

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Start that day with it, focus on that, metric what you're accomplishing it,

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write your gratitudes at the end of the day. The small amount of time per day,

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of what that takes compared to the returns on the investment is unquestionable.

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If you saw my 30 volumes, 30 volumes of those,

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and these volumes aren't small volumes, I got one of the volumes here.

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You can't see it, but it's a big, it's about 900 pages here.

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That's one volume.

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That's how much information and people go 'you spent a lot hours on that.' I

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said, 'yeah.

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And it saves me a lot of hours.' So just wanted to take a few moments today to

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go over some things that I've found myself doing that spontaneously helped me

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achieve what I want in life, to help me become financially independent,

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to help me reach people around the world, to have my global business,

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to help me wake my genius ideas up, to help have social influence,

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to help be vitalized at 67 almost, be inspired,

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you know, have a global family dynamic, all the things that I set out to do,

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those little habits make big returns. You know,

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it's like piggy banks become piggy banks,

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little baby action steps make big dreams.

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And if you do little action steps consistently,

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you'll build momentum and momentum makes you unstoppable.

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So I just wanted to share those ideas. And along with that,

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Thank you for being with me today.

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I look forward to seeing you next week and have a super day and start your day

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off. Maybe you can use some of those ideas I just gave you.