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Well, Hey everybody,
Jonathan Doyle with you.

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Once again, welcome back
friends to the daily podcast.

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So good to have the
pleasure of your company.

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We've got a lot of great
stuff to get through today.

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I'm going to bring you some really
interesting bits and pieces that

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I hope we get to thinking about
life and where you're heading.

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After you have subscribed today, friends.

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We can do a few bits and pieces.

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We're going to keep talking
together about purpose.

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It seems to me that the podcast has
been courtesy of people like Marcus

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Aurelius, the great Roman stoic
philosopher and emperor on this

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journey of thinking deeply about life.

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I think we live in a very
surface oriented culture.

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That I'm getting the silence, the time,
the space to think deeply about where

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we are, where we're going, where we're
traveling on this journey of life is

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something that is under a lot of pressure.

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It's a very surface world.

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It's a very distracted world.

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So yesterday my daughter walked
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room and I was sitting there.

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Staring out the window at the mountains.

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She walked in.

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She looked at me, he's
like, what are you doing?

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I said, I'm thinking.

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And she's like, oh, okay.

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She was like, uh, you know, we're so used
to seeing everybody with a phone in their

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hand or headphones on or doing something.

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And the idea that somebody might
just be sitting in thinking.

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Is a, is quite a good can of cultural
revolutionary act to these days.

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You know, Aristotle famously said that
the unexamined life is not worth living.

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So, what we're trying to do here is
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living, what we're doing, what we're
thinking about, where we're traveling.

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And today we're going to start with Marcus
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a really interesting quote from somebody
whose anniversary of death that is today.

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But, um, This is a from we're in book
two of Marcus Aurelius has meditation.

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This is paragraph seven.

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He's talking about.

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He says there's people who labor all
their lives, but have no purpose.

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To direct every thought and impulse
toward are wasting their time.

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Even when hard at work.

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People who labor all their lives,
but have no purpose to direct

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every thought and impulse toward.

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Are wasting their time,
even when hard at work.

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I've got a few things on this first,
before we jump into the other stuff.

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This is interesting, right?

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Like he's I guess some of
you were thinking, hang on.

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We really supposed to be doing what
markets are really assess here we are.

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We literally supposed to be
living every moment of every day,

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every impulse, every thought.

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Directed toward one overarching purpose.

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And if we're not doing that,
we're wasting our time.

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What are we just having fun?

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What have we.

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Oh, the theme park on a roller coaster.

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I mean, and we directing every impulse
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to some overarching life purpose.

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No.

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So what, what do we make of this?

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I would say that he is directing us
towards a global operative principle, a

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global operative principle, sort of a.

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A guiding star, a sense of, do we
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of what we're trying to accomplish?

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What we're trying to do?

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In life, you know, I'll
give you some examples.

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So.

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As many of you know, for my many sins,
I've been coaching under 16 girls division

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two soccer this year, my daughter's
in the team and I've been coaching.

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And it's been a really
interesting journey.

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I've learned a great deal.

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Um, it's been a humbling
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I've had to change approaches and I
come from an education background.

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So I thought I had the chops, but it's
been really interesting to learn and grow.

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But you know, there's been times
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you know, this is difficult.

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How am I going to really bring
everybody onto the same page?

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And what I've learned is that if
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general purpose is aligned to what
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And.

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Regular listeners know that my life motto,
my purpose is liberate people's potential.

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Liberate people's potential.

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Why am I doing a podcast?

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Because I hope it helps to
liberate some people's potential.

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Why do I speak on stage?

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Because it helps to
liberate people's potential.

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Why do I invest so much in my kids
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be because I want to release that
potential that's inside them and help

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them to grow and to love and to develop
with a unique abilities and gifts.

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So, I guess for me, I can say
that as much as life has its

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challenges and difficulties.

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I get what Marcus Aurelius is saying here.

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If I got to the end of my life and I
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critique of accountants or accountancy.

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It's an incredibly important task.

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And it's definitely a, you can
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You can definitely.

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You know, the purpose of your
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The purpose of your life
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You might have a love of mathematics,
so you can definitely have a life

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purpose behind being an accountant.

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But my point is.

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That I think he's right.

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I think that if we live our lives without
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a overarching goal and direction, then.

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I think he could be right.

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We waste our time.

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We even, when we're hard at work, we're
hard, we're doing the wrong thing.

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Then time is precious and that's going
to lead us into our second thing.

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I've become really aware of this.

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Um, you know, it's, it's funny, there's
times in your life when you kind

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of feel that time is endless, that
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But many of us listening to
this know right now that it's,

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uh, it's really not the case.

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It's the one commodity
that is universal, right?

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Like it doesn't matter how
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influence or power you have.

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This thing that unites us all is time.

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Every single person, whether
you're a multi-billionaire.

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I think Elon Musk's personal fortunes.

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Yeah, 241 billion at the moment, something
like that, or whether you're living.

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In absolute poverty,
somewhere in the world.

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Then the one thing that unites
us, we're all getting exactly

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the same 24 hours in a day.

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And I can, you know, can share
this with many of you that you'll

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know what I'm talking about.

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Woke up this morning.

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Early Karen's a away she's running a, a.

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A master class in, um, near Sydney.

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And, you know, I've got three kids
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up, getting them, fed, getting the
dog, fed, getting, you know, school

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organized for the day, getting them
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and jackets and blazers and uniforms.

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Wow.

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It's like, it makes the Normandy
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looked pretty straightforward.

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I've often said that.

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But what I'm aware of when I do
those things is just the time

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pressure, the pressure of time.

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It's a, it's just this one
thing that seems to be.

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Just under so much pressure these
days with the complexity of our lives.

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So let's talk a little
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I want to give you a quote today
from, um, Randy Porsche, Randy

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Porsche, spelled P a U S C.

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Hate somebody.

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You'd be familiar with Randy pushy.

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Gave an incredibly famous lecture.

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He was an American academic university.

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Uh, Lecturer who was diagnosed
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what's known, I think it's called
the last lecture and he gives this.

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You know, phenomenal last electrical,
try and put a link in here because.

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He's a guy that realized
that he was going to die.

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There was no chance that
he was going to survive.

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So he, you know, speaks about what he's
learned and his whole, you know, very

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courageous and I hope you'll take the
time to try and find the, or put the

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links here, but try and watch this.

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Uh, quite remarkable presentation,
but he says this, the key question

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to keep asking is, are you spending
your time on the right things?

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Because time is all you have the key
question to keep asking is, are you

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spending your time on the right things?

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Because time is all you have.

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So I've been on a bit of a crusade,
as you know, in recent episodes

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talking about distractions and.

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And the social media distractions,
the news websites, all the stuff

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that keeps grabbing our attention
and time where the key question is,

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he's spending it on the right things.

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Are you spending it on the right things?

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Are you.

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Are you doing things with your time?

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Is there an overarching purpose
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Because eventually.

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The clock stops, the music
stops and the time runs out.

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And there's another quote here that
I just came across from Randy Porsche

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that I wanted to share with you.

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I really like it.

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He says this, the brick
walls are there for a reason.

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He's talking about the brick
walls that we encounter in life.

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The things we run into that are just
so difficult and challenging, he says

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the brick walls are there for a reason.

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The brick walls are not
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The brick walls are there
to give us a chance to show

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how badly we want something.

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Because the brick walls are there to stop
the people who don't want it badly enough.

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They're there to stop the other people.

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I really like it.

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Often said to my kids and
often sit on the stage that.

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You know, I, in my book bridging
the gap, I wrote about, um, the

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concept of obstacles and how for
many people in the hit obstacles.

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It just, uh, it just becomes too
much and they kind of think, well,

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if there's an obstacle, then it
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And I just need to move
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Whereas, you know, you look at
Ryan holiday's book, the obstacle

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is the way it's sometimes it's
the obstacle and the challenge.

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That is the thing that's
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So, Randy Porsche in this final lecture
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these brick walls in our life,

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It's not necessarily a no, it's just
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much we specifically want something.

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So can we tie this together?

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That.

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I think a good way to live our lives
is with a profound sense of time.

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And a respect for time and
using our time really well.

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And to do that, we need what
markets are really, this is talking

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about this overarching sense of
purpose, because if we are not.

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Attuned to a sense of purpose in our
lives, and we're going to be wasting time.

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And finally that if we put
those things together, respect

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for time, a sense of purpose.

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Then when we encounter these brick
walls that Randy Portia's talking about.

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Then we're going to have a
different attitude to them.

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We're going to have a dog determination
to keep pushing through the boundaries

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and the barriers and the difficulties
that can hold us back so easily.

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All right.

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My friends is a lot there as usual.

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I hope it's an encouragement to you
to think about how you're living,

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where you're heading, what the Victor
of aspiration is in your life, your

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interface with time, your capacity for
distraction, and what you do when you're

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faced with the brick walls of adversity.

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So let's.

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Um, keep these things in mind
as we go throughout our day.

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Karen's back later today,
which is very exciting.

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These kids will stop eating
breakfast cereal three times a day.

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And, um, but, uh, it'd
be great to have a back.

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A home is not the same without,
um, The lady of the house.

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So friends, God bless you, everybody.

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My name's Jonathan Doyle.

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This has been the daily podcast and you
and I are going to talk again tomorrow.