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Well, Hey everybody,
Jonathan Doyle with you.

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Once again.

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Welcome aboard my friends
to the daily podcast.

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It is good to have you with me.

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There is so much going on in our world.

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We all need new skills.

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We need to be a constantly
encouraged and inspired.

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Karen and I were on a conference call
today and, uh, it was just fascinating to

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hear the number of people talking about.

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How much they have going on.

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It's just seems to be this
moment in human history.

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Doesn't it.

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So we've got to be so conscious.

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About taking care of ourselves,
using all the different skills

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and capacities that we have and
all the tools that are out there.

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Hopefully.

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This podcast is one of those tools.

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One of those things that gets you
going each day, I'm excited about

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the direction of the podcast we have.

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We're going to have a big pivot.

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We're going to be doing a
lot more guest interviews.

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In the weeks ahead, I've got a
teamwork with me at the moment.

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It's going to be, uh, bringing
some great guests on the shows.

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So it's a great chance to hear
the wisdom and insight of so many.

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Other people.

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I just finished Jenny Tufts
books solo in recent episodes.

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I've been talking about that.

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This remarkable woman that, uh,
decided to run across most of the

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world's greatest mountain ranges.

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Why not.

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I mean, if you got to do
something with your time, right.

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And then instead of sitting in
front of the TV, want to go out

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and run the world's greatest.

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Greatest mountain ranges, but
what I took out of the book.

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I talked about a few weeks ago was just.

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An interesting quote, you made
about decision-making and just

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about how sometimes you just got
to make it, you just got to take

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that choice and keep moving.

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Karen and I have so much happening
in our sort of business professional

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lives and all the different things
that we do and that she does.

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Um, we often talk about this,
that you just got to keep

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making decisions each day.

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For us.

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It's just a process of decision
after decision after decision.

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So I think in life, people tend
to fall into different categories.

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Don't they, some people
are really good at it.

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Some people go into avoidance,
they just don't make decisions.

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And always remember that not making a
decision is still making a decision.

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Right.

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So we've got to be conscious.

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We've got to be.

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Deliberately making the choice.

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To make choices.

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We've got to be as often as possible
looking at our life and constantly

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moving towards what it is that we want.

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We're never going to get
perfection in this life.

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We're never going to get things exactly
the way we want them completely, but

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there is something unique about the human
journey is that we are desiring creatures.

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We are capable of envisioning
a different future.

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I was talking to a friend on a training
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I remember quoting a Nepalian who famously
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Is to define reality.

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And the last is to say, thank you.

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I like this idea of defining
reality, that Napoleon was like able

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to kind of look into the future.

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And construct it.

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And it's interesting cause you
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that the best way to predict
your future is to create it.

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The best way to predict
your future is to create it.

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So there's this constant sense of.

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Looking ahead and going, what
do I want from this life?

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What.

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You know, you always hear me say
what I want to have be, or do.

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Because sometimes the criticism of
motivation and personal development

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is people like, well, we're
always focusing on getting stuff.

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It's having being, and
doing and contributing.

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Right?

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What do you want to
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So we want to consciously deliberately
be aware of what it is that we want.

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And then look at those steps
and choices on a daily basis.

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And I really believe that small steps
matter that just these constant daily

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small steps can make a huge difference.

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They're significant.

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They really are.

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So don't underestimate just making
little tweaks on a daily basis.

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Now today, today's quote.

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I want to focus on a great quote
from president Theodore Roosevelt.

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It resonates with something that's
been on my mind a bit lately.

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Uh, president Roosevelt
said this believe you can.

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And you're halfway there.

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Believe you can.

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And you're halfway there.

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It's a great quote, reminds us of
so many crucial principles, right?

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This, this concept of faith.

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I was listening to, uh, to ed
Merlot's new book or ed my lip,

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as he says his new book recently.

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And the concept of faith, this remarkable.

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It's a theory.

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Isn't it?

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It's hard to pin it down and
go, well, what exactly is it?

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Is it wishing his faith just to
kind of hoping, you know, of course

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in the Bible, it talks about faith
is the, uh, you know, the hope of

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things that we haven't yet seen.

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The things that we know are coming.

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We've just got a hold in there
with faith and believe in them.

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I think faith is a
deliberate choice as well.

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We're talking about choice
today and decisions.

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I think there were so many times in
life where you have to choose faith.

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It's like a muscle, you have to
exercise it, you know, it's even

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in the, in the, in the presence of
circumstances or difficulties that

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can really be quite challenging.

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Right.

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You can think, well, how do I
have fight in the midst of this?

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Well, the answer is you choose to.

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And you choose to, again, you
know, for, for people like me and

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I think many of you listening.

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You know, if you've had, uh,
challenges in life of life has really

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tested you at times, it can be.

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It can weigh you down, right.

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You can actually kind of sometimes
think what's the point and

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what do I, how do I keep going?

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Why do I keep getting up every day?

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This, this remarkable
human capacity for faith.

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To just keep going.

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One more step, one more step.

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You know, so many of the great faith
traditions in particularly in mind,

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You know, tradition, Christianity.

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In Jesus talks so
relentlessly about faith.

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You know, he sort of says, if you have
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a mountain to throw itself into the sea.

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And so many of his miracles required
faith required this decision to believe.

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That things could be different.

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You know, when he healed blind people
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believed that they could possibly see.

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You know, many times Jesus would
say, do you want to be healed?

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Do you believe you can?

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Do you want to see.

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People had to have the faith to
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So where did whatever you're
facing in life at the moment?

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Well, I guess my hope for my prayer
for you, my faith for you is.

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To start strengthening this muscle muscle.

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Almost said muscle.

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Muscle.

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The ability to step into something
that hasn't happened yet to keep going

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to get up one more day and believe
that you're going to get closer.

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Just keep going for do one thing in
this podcast is going to give you that

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daily encouragement, that constant
forward progression of hope and

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faith, that things can be different.

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If you make small,
incremental daily choices.

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All right.

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So what did president Roosevelt's?

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I believe you can you're halfway there.

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Believe that it's possible.

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And you're halfway there.

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I watched a few moments the other
day of, uh, the only one it's

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about three or four minutes of it.

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Before as usual, my tribe of
children came in, had other ideas

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about how I was using my time.

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I basically never watched TV or anything
like that, but I actually was watching

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a couple of minutes of this Netflix.

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Uh, documentary on the pro
and professional PGA golfers.

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And I think it was M J T is it Justin?

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Thomas was who's one,
one of the U S majors.

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He said, Just this line.

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He said, you know, from when I was
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be the best golfer in the world.

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You know, and look at this
quote we're talking about today.

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Believe you can, and you're halfway there.

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I mean, imagine if he's dream had been,
you know, I really believe in that

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I can be in the top 40,000 golfers
in the world, or I really believe.

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You know, but he didn't write.

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It was like, I believe I can be the best.

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Now I'm a realist.

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I know there's genetics involved and
you've got to be born in a certain place.

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There's definitely factors
that we can't control in life.

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But think about the fact that he
had that first bedrock, right.

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He had that belief.

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Had the belief that it was
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future where it was going to happen.

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And once that belief was in place.

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He was halfway there now, but the
other half was the work and the

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dismal and the travel and the fatigue
and the uncertainty and the losses.

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But without that preeminent belief.

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No one's going anywhere.

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Think about everything.

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Great that's ever
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You know, look good.

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Martin Luther king Jr's right.

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They had to believe it was possible that
something could be slightly different

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without that faith, nothing was changing.

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So, whatever your circumstance
is now you could have, it could

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be a difficult relationship.

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It could be financial problems
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You've got to take that
first single step of belief.

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Okay.

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That's my encouragement for you today.

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Just begin.

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And I really want to be practical.

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It's.

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It's a moment by moment mental practice.

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It's not just a hope or a, or a wish
that you send Skywood it's like, no.

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I'm going to choose to have faith
I'm going to choose to consciously

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deliberately mentally believe that this
is possible and i will keep moving forward

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and I will keep believing this and i'll
keep acting on it and speaking about

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it and moving towards it All right my
friends that's my message for you today

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believe you can and you're halfway there
get to work on your faith and the rest

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will follow there'll be links floating
around here You can book time with me

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for coaching there'll be other links
to book me for speaking but stay tuned

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this podcast is going to be growing even
more you're going to send great guests

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for your soon But um, for now This has
been the daily podcast god bless your

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friends my name is jonathan doyle and you
and i are going to talk again tomorrow