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Well, hello there.

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My friends, my name is Jonathan Doyle.

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I am so pleased.

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You are here.

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Thank you for making your way in
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So good that no children or small
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Welcome a board.

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How are you doing?

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I'm so glad that you
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You, yes.

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You listening to my voice right now.

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It is good that you are here.

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You've been created for a purpose you've
been created for magnificence you've been

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created to do really, really important,
beautiful, powerful things on this planet.

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I believe that.

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And the first beautiful
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Uh, channel.

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I wasn't on Instagram for many years
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Go and check that out today.

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My friends are going to talk
about something I'm so big on.

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I'm so passionate about this.

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We're going to talk about
the power of a peer group.

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We're going to talk about the fact that,
you know, the group of people that are

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significantly in your life are going
to have such an outsize impact on you.

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It is so crucial.

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You know, the old sort of data, the
first data that really came out of

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the 1970s and 1980s was kind of around
this idea of you become the five

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people you spend the most time with.

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They sort of began to look at
people's outcomes in life, their

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health, not just financial, but
their health, their spirituality.

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Uh, how long they lived all
sorts of different things.

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And they kind of figured out
that you'd ended up being almost

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identical to the five people that
you spend the most time with.

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So another speaker sort of said recently
that, uh, that basically your life

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becomes a reflection of that, that the
standards of your peer group will be

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your standards here, that the standard of
your peer group will be your standards.

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And you can prove it, right?

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Because I say to people.

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I'll give you the two extremes.

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Go into a prison.

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And find somebody that's been
involved in the criminal justice

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system, most of their life.

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Right.

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Who from a pretty young age, and
I'm not talking about whether it's

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fair or just, or all sorts of AI.

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You know, equity issues and how unfair
different structures in society are,

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but let's just look at that person.

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And what you're going to find is
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are pretty much all going to be
in a relatively similar situation.

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They're all going to either have had some
contact with the criminal justice system

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or their standards for life, how they
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standards of the person in the prison.

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Right.

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It just becomes, I mean, it's not likely
if you go meet this prisoner and say,

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who are your five closest friends and
they go, well, we'll get the Dalai Lama.

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I've got the, yeah.

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The president of the United nations.

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Uh, you know, you're not
going to hear that right.

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Now you run to the other end of
the spectrum and you find your

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average kind of billionaire.

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And what do you find?

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And I'm not, I'm not using that example
to say that that's the most important

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thing in life, or that's the peak of life
I'm using it for illustrative purposes.

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You find your average billionaire.

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And of course, what do you find?

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Right.

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He funded their five closest
friends are probably not in prison.

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I mean, It depends if they're
financial traders who knows.

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Uh, but you get my point right there.

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Five closest friends are going
to be probably billionaires.

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So we need to start to think very
much about the five people we

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are surrounding ourselves with.

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And so I want to give
you two quick strategies.

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What have you do?

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What do you do if you go,
Jonathan, this is awkward.

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You.

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Aye.

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Aye.

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Aye.

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You know, you telling me that I
have to just abandon my friends.

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Know I'm not all I'm saying is I like to
talk about time allocation, which means.

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If you notice that your friendship
groups are not serving you, if

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you notice that your peers are not
helping you to here's the filter.

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If you are not growing,
changing, developing, doing more.

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Uh, experiencing more contributing
more to the world if they

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are not helping you to grow.

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And become a more passionate,
alive, you know, really living

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out the destiny that's within you,
then you just allocate less time.

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You just begin to allocate less
time, you know, catch up as often.

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You just slowly disengage.

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It.

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Doesn't have to be dramatic.

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You do not need to ring
anybody and say, Hey.

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I was listening to Jonathan
during the daily podcast.

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And he said, we can't
talk again ever, ever.

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Don't do that.

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Right.

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It's awkward.

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And people get upset with me.

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So that's the first strategy, time
allocation, just allocate a bit less time.

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And then you usually, at some
point, you'll get this thing going.

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You've changed.

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You know, You don't meet.

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You know, you're not
hanging out with us anymore.

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And I like to say.

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You don't own people and excuse you.

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Don't no one owns you.

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Like you don't have to go
well, yeah, you're right.

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I'm really sorry.

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I mean, I get that.

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You have to, maybe if it's a
longterm friendship, you, you can

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communicate just say, Hey look.

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I'm really trying to make
some changes in my life.

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Um, I I'll give you another example.

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Hopefully this is helpful.

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I quit drinking, right?

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I used to drink professionally.

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And when I quit completely
and made this massive change.

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I noticed that a lot of my peer
connections were drinking pretty heavily.

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And it's standard.

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Like you talked to anybody,
that's got that story.

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Then you're going to find that they
suddenly went, ah, what do I do now?

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Like all the people
I've been hanging with.

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So I've sort of navigated that, but
you suddenly begin to notice that

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you just can't spend as much time.

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Like you can't do the
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And that's the price of admission to
a life of significance and influence.

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Like, if you want a different life,
you've got to do different things and

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there's going to be some trade-offs and
some challenges and some pain in that.

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So listen to the second
thing is a, is simply.

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Just to build a different peer group
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And I've, uh, The one I've just
the second one I want to talk to

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you about in a sec is really cool.

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Um, The first one is just to begin
to ask yourself, you know, who do

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I want to spend more time with?

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Where are those people?

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And start spending more time with them.

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So,

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And I play a fair bit of golf and
I play at a, at a very, uh, very

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fancy, exclusive golf course.

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And, you know, just hanging out with a
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really interesting people in, in, in
finance, in business, in law, in politics.

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And just being around those
people is really interesting.

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You just get, you know, you
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you get a lot of connections.

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So I just begin to spend more time
with certain people now hear me, right?

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I'm not saying that I'm just, you know,
buying a polo pony and, uh, you know,

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moving to Jupiter beach in Florida.

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That's not happening.

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Not yet.

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Um, I mean, I ride reasonably
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The next thing you can do is, you know,
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Some new people is.

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Build.

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If you're going to use social media,
you can actually curate and build a

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really good peer group in that context.

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So I just want to say to you, if you're
on social media, Pay attention to who

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you're following, because I want to
say to you that who you're following

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is very much like a peer group.

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And, you know, if you just find people
that you really admire, find people

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that you want to be like, find people
that really inspire you and draw you

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to a higher level, whether that's
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relationally, whatever it is.

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You know, find people that draw you to a
higher level and curate that peer group.

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So I've got a group of
people on my Instagram.

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Who every morning, you know,
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I get up and it's not time wasting for me.

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It's like, what are these guys doing?

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What are they thinking?

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What are they saying?

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How are they doing life?

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This is, um, I really like the U S
billionaire cosmetics lady, Jamie Kern,

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Lima, and she's very real and just
amazing bootstrap the business to a

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billion dollars and sold it to L'Oreal.

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And today she's just doing a video about.

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Being up all night with,
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And it's so real, no makeup.

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She's just there going, you know what?

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It's really.

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It's really difficult and
it's really hard, but I get to

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choose my mindset and she's just
talking about me and that's good.

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And that's what I'm trying to do here.

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Right?

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For different audiences.

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Like just, just tell the truth.

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Just say interesting, important
things that help people grow.

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So curate your peer group on social media.

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All right.

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Summary, you're going to be the result of
the, your life will be the result of the

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five people you spend the most time with.

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Please don't get upset, please.

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Don't message me going.

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You're saying that we think
we're better than other people.

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I'm not saying that I'm
slow, literally saying.

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You know, you get handed this one life.

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You're not handed someone else's
life, you're handed your life and

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you have to be accountable for the
results and the outcomes in your life.

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And you're allowed to have a vote.

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You're allowed to have an opinion.

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You're allowed to go, you know what?

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This is what I want.

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I want this.

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I want to contribute here.

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I want to grow here.

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I want to be different here and the
people in my life and not helping me.

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So.

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You get to choose now, you don't
get to choose around family or

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marriage, that sort of stuff.

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You don't get that choice.

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Once that choice is made and
family, wasn't a choice you

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even got to vote in either.

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So you love your family.

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You choose your friends one more time.

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You love your family.

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You choose your friends.

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All right, go and check out the links.

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God bless you everybody i'll see you on
instagram at jd speaks and uh, have a

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fantastic day this is jonathan doyle you
and i are going to talk again tomorrow