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Well, Hey guys, Jonathan, with you again,
welcome to the daily suffering festival.

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Uh, yesterday up pretty early and
ran a little bit less than 30 K.

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I ran a half marathon and then a bit
extra and, um, ended some beach sprints

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and, um, went hard on the pushups.

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Got 250 pushups done yesterday here.

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I woke up this morning.

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really not particularly excited
about doing anything, uh, sitting

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in the chair and I'm pretty sore.

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And I'm like, okay, what am I gonna do?

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And first step is just to get
dressed, get the, get the gear on.

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Uh, now I know not all of you
are into the crazy exercise.

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I do.

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I, I do often, uh, reference that,
but I always say that it's relative.

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So.

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The principles that I'm gonna
share in this really short

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message are gonna apply to you.

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No matter whether you walk into
the letter box or you're running

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across the at Carma desert, it
doesn't make too much difference.

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The principles are the same.

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So this morning it's really
about activation energy today.

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I've got a 15 K run I'm in this, um,
A little rainforest at the moment,

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but I'm heading into a little town
here and then if I can get the camera

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out again, I'll show you the Hills.

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I just ran it the other day.

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And I'm like, what?

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It's just like vertical.

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And, uh, look today, I'm really tired.

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I'm sore.

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But so I'm sitting in the apartment
and then, you know, It's about

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this activation energy principle.

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A lot of times there's things that we
don't want to do, but all we need is

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just that first little bit of momentum.

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And then we're underway, you know, the
stoic philosophers, uh, like you look at

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people like Epictetus Epicuren philosophy.

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They applied so many physical principles
to their understanding of philosophy.

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So, so often for these guys, it was
about how the body represented principles

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that applied to the rest of life.

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So the ability to.

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Push the body to strengthen and to tame
the body was a big part of how they saw

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the world and other aspects of life.

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So one of the reasons I'm often talking
about physical processes, physical

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training is because the metaphors inside
it really do apply to so much of life.

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I'm just looking down this logging track,
hoping I'm not gonna get run over by.

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so activation energy is the first
thing just to get yourself moving.

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So sometimes we get daunted by the
challenges we face, whether it's kind of

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work related, relationship related, but
so often all we need to do is just start.

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So for me today, yeah, really tired.

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But once I get that first 500 meters
under my belt, you kind of your foot's

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on the path and you're starting.

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And once you're started,
it's just too much hassle to

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turn around and go backwards.

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So.

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I wanna say to you that in your
life at the moment, sometimes

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all you need to do is just begin.

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You just need to get started, whether
it's fixing a relationship in a

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marriage, whether it's fixing a
relationship with one of your kids,

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whether it's changing your career,
whether it's changing your health.

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So much of the time we just sit on
the metaphorical couch of life and

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we don't actually begin the processes
that are gonna help us move forward.

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And once we get going for me,
like I am no athlete, right.

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I'm 48.

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Yeah.

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I do all this crazy stuff,
but I'm not a pure athlete.

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Like I'm definitely not a runner by.

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By genetics or viability, but I
have this principle of, you know,

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RFM, relentless forward movement
or relentless forward momentum.

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I just keep putting one foot in front of
the other one foot in front of the other.

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Just keep showing up day after
day, do the work, putting the

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work, do what you need to do.

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And you just keep that momentum going.

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And, uh, there's gonna be difficulties
on that journey like these Hills.

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I'm about to go and do, but, um, look,
today's message is pretty simple.

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I just wanna encourage everybody
wherever you are hearing this.

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I know the podcast version
is big for many of you.

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I don't have any amazing
quote for you today.

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I don't have any great cosmic
insight other than of you're

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hearing or seeing this.

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You're listening to somebody who is
just like you, who is just trying to

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improve a little bit every single day.

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Who's trying to get a little bit stronger.

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I think I mentioned a few days
ago, you know, this is not

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sustainable forever ever, right?

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Like I can't run half marathons every day.

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But there's an old guy near where I
live, who must be in his eighties.

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And I shared this recently, who just
gets up every day and he runs, I

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reckon he probably only runs a couple
of kilometers, but you see him out

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there Midwinter still going, still
pushing, still, just keeping active.

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So it is so relative whether today
for you, the biggest battle is

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walking, getting off your couch
and walking to the letter box.

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And maybe that's the biggest bit
of exercise you've done in a month

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for some of you it's, you know,
pushing yourself in some other way.

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But I just, I, I do this channel.

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I do this content because you have so
much to give the more I do this stuff,

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the more I focus on contribution, you
know, this whole journey of personal

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development of motivation of inspiration
is really so we can contribute.

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If we're healthy, if we're strong, if
we're clear in our heads about what

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matters, we tend to enjoy life more
and we can serve people more and we

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can be more of a blessing to people.

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So that's the purpose behind it all.

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Why am I running today?

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My, my kids, like, it's funny, my kids are
still young and you know, they're growing

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up with this and they're fascinated by it.

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They're just like, dad,
just sit in the chair.

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Just why do you have to run today?

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And part of me is because, so they can
see it so they can learn whether they.

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Take that into the exercise field or
whether they just get a mindset as they

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grow up, that we do hard things, right?

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We do hard things.

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So many of the people that I really
admire and respect in this space,

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campaigns, David Goggins, people
like that, they just do hard things.

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And I get inspired by it.

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Like reading campaigns as book recently
has just pushed me on a whole new path.

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I've just been like, This
dude is just unhinged.

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I thought I was bad, but his next level,
I get encouraged by it, by these men

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and women that just do hard things.

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Again, it's relative your hard
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mine, but don't do comfort.

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I mean, do little bits of comfort.

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We all need times of rest.

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And tonight, Karen and I are hopefully
gonna get out for dinner together.

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We're still in that young family phase
where we don't get to do that too often.

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So we're gonna enjoy some comfort.

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We're gonna enjoy a good glass of wine.

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Time with each other, um,
which will compensate for the

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crazy Hills I'm about to do.

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So I don't think we're built for comfort.

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I think we're built for a little bit
of it, but I think we're really made

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to stretch, to grow, to do hard things.

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So, um, God bless you, everybody.

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I hope this is just some encouragement
for you wherever you're at in life.

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Get out there, fix things,
change things, fix relationships.

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Be the bigger person grow, contribute.

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Accept people where they're at.

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You're like just grow, grow
into the amazing human that

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you were created to become.

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It's beautiful.

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Watching my kids grow.

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I think God looks at us
exactly the same way.

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I reckon God looks at me
and goes, dude, you're 48.

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You're running these crazy Hills.

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You're mad.

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I think he's laughing.

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I'm hoping he is laughing.

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I'm I'm, I'm hoping I'm putting a smile
on God's face by getting up every day.

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You know, for many years I
battled with depression, anxiety.

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It's just been amazing to see those
things disappear in my life over time

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because of a bunch of strategies,
a bunch of this sort of stuff.

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Just making sure every day that my
my is strong and my body strong.

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You know, I had a beautiful conversation
with this young lady last night,

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where we are staying and we were
talking all about the content that

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I do and stuff she's interested in.

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And I said to her at the very end of
the conversation, I said, if there's

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one thing I've learned in this 30 plus
year journey of personal development

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is I said, do I spend about 20 plus
years thinking that whatever was my

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brain was telling me was reality.

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So if my brain was telling
me thoughts of depression and

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anxiety, Fear and, and failure.

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And then I thought that was reality.

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And I would get into a low mood
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what my brain was telling me.

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And then I said to her, you know, the
real revelation has been this awareness

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that I can control what I think and
direct what I think and choose different

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meanings to the circumstances in my life.

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It's it's.

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Actually possible.

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And I think so much of the depression
and anxiety that we live under comes

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from being in low physical states, um,
being overwhelmed by complexity and

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social media and that sort of stuff.

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That's why I don't have any social media.

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Um, but learning that we can
literally direct how we think.

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So.

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Yeah, I'm gonna about to prove it now.

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My.

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There's a big part of me that as
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run is gonna be wanting to stop,
wanting to win, wanting to complain.

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I'm just gonna be going, stay
mentally strong, push through, keep

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listening to stuff on my headphones
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So be encouraged, right?

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If, if you're doing it hard at the
moment, if life seems so difficult, pay

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attention to your internal dialogue, pay
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Listen to it.

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You will hear it saying things to you
about like darkness and failure and.

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And you wanna move out of that.

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You've gotta start to focus
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I was teaching one of
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I was teaching them saying, look, we are
not victims of external circumstances.

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If reality is not the way we want
it, then we need to begin a process

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of creating a reality of building
a life that we actually want.

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It's challenging work.

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It's difficult work.

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Most people don't do it.

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Most people blame.

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They become victims, but if you're
watching this and you're on this

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kind of journey with me, we're doing
it a bit differently, you know?

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We're taking some responsibility
for the outcomes in our life.

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Alright, I'm gonna stop there.

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Give you one last look at this
beautiful little forest here, which, um,

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unfortunately this part of the run is, is
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very soon, but, um, I'll try and post a
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I'll try and splice it
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If I can do it.

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Okay guys, this is where it starts.

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Just come out the railway
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Start here gonna be brutal.

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Um, it's a real heartbreaker and
it's such a metaphor for life.

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It's like you come out, I'll come
out under this railway bridge and I

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look up and I'm like, ah, dear God.

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And when I ran it the first time,
it just keeps going up and I keep

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going, oh, we must be at the top.

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Now we're going some more.

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It's like life.

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That's why exercise is a metaphor because
these Hills are like life it's just hill.

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After the hill, we get some downhills and
we go again and we grow in the process.

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So God bless you.

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Be encouraged.

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And, uh, please make sure
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Um, check out all the show notes here,
cuz there's links to all my other stuff.

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

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You can find out, uh, how to book
me to speak and uh, God bless you.

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My name's Jonathan Doyle.

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This has been the daily podcast
video message, inspirational thing.

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And I'm gonna have another
one for you tomorrow.