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Why do something that's not inspiring, weigh yourself down?

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When you can liberate yourself,

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free yourself to do what you really love to do and give opportunities to other

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people to do the same.

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This is one of the most significant topics of living a

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self-actualized and inspired life in fact that I want to address

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this. So if you have something to write with,

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write on or take notes or type somewhere to gather the information you might

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want to do that.

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First I want you to write this down,

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that each individual, you,

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everyone you meet has a set of priorities,

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a set of values that they live their life by,

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and it's fingerprint specific. Their values are unique.

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Their hierarchy of values are unique.

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Whenever they are doing something that is truly highest

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on their list of values, truly most important, truly most meaningful,

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the thing that spontaneously inspires them, that they can't wait to go and do,

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when they do those and they achieve and fulfill what it is that's most

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meaningful, their self worth goes up, their confidence goes up,

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their belief in themselves goes up in other words, their self-worth goes up,

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they automatically expand their space and time horizons,

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they automatically wake up their natural born leader and they give

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themselves permission to go and pursue something greater.

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And the brain, your brain,

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with its subcortical regions that are filtering mechanisms,

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filter the reality most effectively,

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make decisions most efficiently and take actions that are

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most effective. Whenever you are doing something that's highest.

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Now, as you go down the list of values in an individual into lower values,

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because they are less valuable in you in your mind, less fulfilling,

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less meaningful, you're less engaged, you're less enthused,

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less inspired, less present with them.

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It's like a young boy doing his video games. He loves doing his video games.

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He can do it all day and forgets time thinking about it, doing it.

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But if he happen to do his chores, he procrastinates, hesitates, and frustrates.

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So anytime you're doing lower priority actions, you tend to procrastinate,

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hesitate, and frustrated. And anytime you're doing high priority actions,

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you tend to be disciplined, reliable, and focused. Now that's significant.

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And it's so simple it's ridiculous. We

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sometimes overlook the obvious, the elusive obvious,

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how important that one statement is.

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

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your day is going to fill up with low priority distractions that don't.

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There's a principle in the universe called entropy. It's a thermodynamic law,

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if you don't bring order to things, disorder ensues and takes over.

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Just like if you don't invest your money into assets, depreciable,

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consumable liabilities will take it away.

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That's why the wealthy always pay themselves first and don't wait to see if

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there's anything left over, cause unexpected bills come in to destroy it.

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Now this principle is universal. You're not going to violate it.

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It's solid. I'm certain about it.

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I've been doing it and using it for 40 years now.

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And if you don't fill your day with high priority actions,

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it's going to fill up with low priority distractions.

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If you don't fill your day with high priority challenges,

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it's going to fill up with low priority challenges, things you don't want. Now,

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this leads us to the principle of delegation.

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If you're not filling your day with high priority actions that are meaningful

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and inspiring and productive,

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and that serve people that you become remunerated for,

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and you end up having an income for,

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that inspires you and doing what you love and getting paid for it and having

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sustainable fair exchange with people,

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you won't have the income to delegate the lower priority things.

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And your day will become consumed by low priority actions.

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And when it's consumed by low priority actions, you depreciate yourself.

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You devalue yourself, you lose confidence in yourself,

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you brain load and offload decisions to others and subordinate to the

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conforming of the outside herd, and you become a follower,

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not a leader. You want to be a leader you have to live by the highest priority.

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If you want to be a follower, you live by lower priorities.

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So if you're not delegating lower priority actions,

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you're not liberating yourself from the things that are weighing you down,

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that you aren't inspired to do, that distract and that you procrastinate,

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hesitate, and frustrate on, you become less efficient, less effective,

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less profoundly impactful.

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So delegation is an absolutely essential component in self-actualization.

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Delegation is an essential aspect of living an inspired life.

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I fill my day with research, writing, and teaching.

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Most of it's teaching. My highest priority,

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my highest value is teaching and learning is second.

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So if I'm not learning, if I'm not teaching, I'm learning.

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And I'm teaching through every possible vehicle.

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And when I fill my day with that and I learn and I do that,

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and I delegate the rest away, I'm liberated from an uninspired life.

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And I end up making more income, reaching more people,

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having more impact and living more inspired.

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Delegation is an absolutely essential component. When you delegate though,

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you're going to micromanage and get distracted,

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having to manage people if you don't get somebody that you delegate to,

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that has the delegated responsibilities high on their value.

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So when you're screening people to delegate,

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if you're not finding out what is their highest values and not finding out how

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specifically the things you want to delegate, the duties, responsibilities,

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you know, the actions that you're going to give them,

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if they can't see how it's helping them fulfill their highest values,

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they're not going to want to do it.

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And then you're going to end up having to micromanage them and oversee them and

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distract yourself from something that's producing more. And it's ineffective.

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It is essential to find somebody who would love to do more effectively

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and efficiently than you do, the actions that you want to delegate.

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And it's that simple, not easy to always find.

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It may take you a few people to find it, but the screening according to values,

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on my website is a Value Determination process. It's for everybody,

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it's complimentary dr.demartini.com,

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determine your values is on there.

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Please familiarize yourself with that tool.

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And when you hire somebody don't ever hire anybody without going through that

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tool with them,

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and finding out what they're really committed to and what they value.

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Because if you hire somebody that's not inspired to do what you want to

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delegate, you'll end up having to go oversee it all the time,

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distract yourself from what can produce more.

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And you're down depreciating yourself, micromanaging and frustrating yourself.

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But find somebody who would absolutely love to do it. When you do,

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you increase the economy, you increase job opportunities,

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you increase employment, you increase the exchange of money,

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the trading and purchasing.

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The whole overall economy goes up when you delegate properly. Now,

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if you're not delegating and you're trapped,

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you're going to lower your vitality. You're going to lower your self image.

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Our self image and self worth are proportionate to how

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priority things. It's really that simple.

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I'd like to give you an example of something that I did that liberated me,

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that helped my business and then I'd like to tell you another example,

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another story that I think will be pertinent,

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because maybe you think, 'Well, I don't even have a business.

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How am I going to delegate? I'm maybe at home.' Well,

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I'm gonna apply to both of them. When I was 27 years old,

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I had opened up my practice and I had one assistant at the time.

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It just opened up in October. And here it is around November,

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so it's six weeks or so in I guess,

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it's a couple of weeks before my birthday at 28.

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And I realized that I was doing everything in my practice. I mean,

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from picking up trash, to doing supplies, to everything,

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administrative work, everything else. And I thought, 'Wow,

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I went to 10 years of college, almost for this?.

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This is not what I'm inspired by. I want to do the clinical work.

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I want to work with patients and things.' And I was bogged down in things,

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actions. So I went to a Walden's bookstore, which is

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Dalton's and Walden's were the bookstores at the time,

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before Borders came about and before Amazon came about,

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and I was led to a book called 'The Time Trap' by Alec Mackenzie.

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It's still out there, still a great book, it's been updated.

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I like the original one more than the one that's here now,

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but still it's a great book.

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And as I read through that and circled and underlined and became familiar with

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the book and extracted from it, I realized that I was in my way,

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and I was going to limit my growth if I didn't delegate, I had to delegate.

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And I realized that the reasons why I wasn't delegating is because well I

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thought, well, by the time I could have delegated and explained it to them,

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I could have done it. Well,

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the way I do it better than they do it and they're not going to do it the way I

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want so I'm gonna be frustrated. Or, you know,

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might as well just get it done, I need to know how to do it anyway.

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And I came up with all my reasons and excuses for doing it.

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So I was trapped doing a $10 to $20 an hour job back then,

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which probably be worth around 40 or 50 now.

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But a $10 to $20 an hour job back then,

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when I was capable of earning a $1000, $2,000 an hour more,

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if I was doing what I really was skilled for. And

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I realized that I was devaluing myself and diluting my business because I was

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diluting what my was doing per hour. And so I got this book,

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I summarized it and I created a chart.

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And you might want to get a piece of paper out and draw this chart,

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it's a very significant chart.

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I put a piece of paper together and I put five lines equally dispersed on it to

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where I had six equal space columns. In the first column,

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I wrote down what I was doing in a day.

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And I wrote down every single thing that I did in a day at home and at work,

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from the time I got up to the time I went to bed over about a three month

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period,

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because certain days of the week I did certain things differently than others.

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So I wanted to include every single thing that I did and I wrote every thing

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action I did. I didn't write down sales, marketing, too broad, too general.

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I wrote down specific actions.

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Write down every single action you do in a day,

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nitpicky actions you might do in a day; answer the telephone, write an email,

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whatever it may be, every single action you do, managing things,

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checking up on things and looking on the internet, whatever you might do,

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write down what you do. In other words take a day and literally look over it,

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video it and look at it objectively. What do you do in a day?

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After you've made that list,

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you're going to be humbled because you're going to realize you're emphasizing

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and putting energy into something that's not really most important.

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You're majoring in minors and minoring in majors in all probability. In fact,

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everybody I've ever done this with, I found this.

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And the second column you write down, what does it produce per hour?

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How much income does that action generate?

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Because if you're doing something that serves people,

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you're generating an income,

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you're in fair exchange with them and if they value it and you're filling their

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needs, they're going to pay for it. And if you're not, well,

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then you're not doing any that fills anybody needs. There's no service.

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There's no fulfillment life, unless you're serving somebody. Not just yourself,

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narcissism and just self absorption, doesn't get you fulfillment.

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And altruism and sacrificing yourself doesn't do it. But having a fair,

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sustainable exchange does. So how much is it producing per hour? Well,

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I went down this list and you know,

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whatever I was doing from exams to blood work to your analysis, to you know,

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everything I was doing, I was extrapolating it based on per hour.

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So if I spent 20 minutes on it, I multiplied X 3, if I spent 10 minutes,

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I multiply it X 6, if I spent two hours on it, divided by half.

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And when I did that,

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I realized that my hour was being consumed by quite a variable

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amount of income generators.

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And then I found out that a good 20 to 30% of what I was doing was zero.

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That means I was just doing something, I wasn't producing anything,

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not serving anybody, not getting income, et cetera.

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And I noticed that when I was doing it, it was uninspiring to me.

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I felt bogged down and frustrated by it and devalued, which is understandable.

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So I made a list of what it produced per hour. And that was an eye-opener,

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a major eye-opener. Cause then I realized, okay, now from this, and by the way,

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when I did this,

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I found out that even though I went almost 10 years to college to be a

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specialist in spinal concerns at the time,

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I realized that my actual,

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most productive thing I could do was going out and speaking and sharing the

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message of what I might be able to do for people.

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So out there actually speaking to audiences produce the most

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patients, which generate the most income per hour, which was astonishing.

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And I realized that if I'm sitting there in my cubicle,

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I'm actually undermining my potential growth. And that was a shock to make,

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to find that out. In the third column,

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I wrote down how much meaning does it have on a one to 10 scale.

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And the thing at the top 10,

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meant it was very inspiring and I couldn't wait to get up and do it.

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And a 1 or 0 down there was something I did as drudgery. I didn't want to do it.

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I had to do it, got to do it. I was by duty instead of design.

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So I basically wrote it down in 1 to 10 scale.

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And then I noticed that some of the ones that were most productive and produced

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the most income and the ones that were most inspiring happened to match luckily,

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and then some of the ones didn't but most of them did,

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which that gave me encouragement,

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cause if I can do the thing that's most meaningful and I can do the thing that's

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most productive, I can't wait to get up in the morning and do it.

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And now the next column was how much would it cost me to delegate that to

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somebody and find a specialist to do it to the same quality and quantity that I

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can do it? And that meant everything, not just salaries,

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but the use of space, the training, the insurance,

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the parking, the equipment, the computer, the telephone, every single cost,

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I want to know what the cost of somebody to do that, to get the same job done,

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et cetera. And then when I put those down,

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that took me a bit of time cause I had to think it through,

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I then looked at where the biggest spreads were between what produced per hour

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versus what it costs per hour if I delegated so I

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of an individual and allow them to have a job and me to have more profit.

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And I was able to do what was most meaningful to me

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able to delegate. And then the next column I wrote down,

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how much time did I spend on each of these actions?

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The actual amount of minutes I did per day.

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And the very last column is the final prioritization,

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and on that final prioritization I put that in layers,

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I took the ones that were most productive,

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the most meaningful and productive things I put them at the top.

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And whenever where there was a big gap between production and meaning and

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something else, I separated them into layers. Because I wanted to,

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I knew that if I was out there with, I was a man on a mission with a message,

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sharing that message was the most productive thing I

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television and talking and speaking and leveraging myself.

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And the second most important thing was me actually,

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clinically being in there with clients. And then I went down that list.

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And doing paperwork and changing supplies and doing cleaning,

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that's way at the bottom.

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So what I did is I put it in layers based on productivity and meaning,

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and based on how much spread there was.

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And then I layered it into layers and I hired somebody to do the lowest

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delegated layer. And then the next layer, and the next layer,

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and the next layer. And over an 18 month period,

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I went from a single office with myself and one assistant to 5 doctors and

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12 staff members with a 5,000 square foot office instead of a less than a

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thousand square foot office. And my income tenfolded.

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Now that was significant because I realized that unless I delegated,

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I was in my way.

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So delegation is crucial.So I'm trying to make a point that if you're not

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filling your day with the highest priority, most

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the most inspiring, most impactful actions,

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you have no one but to look at it in the mirror except yourself,

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why you're not fulfilled and inspired and productive and profitable and

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prosperous. It's that simple. If you really care about people and yourself,

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you're going want to fulfill their highest values,

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you're going to fulfill yours. Fulfilling yours is the one that means meaning.

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And fulfilling theirs is the one that's productive. And if you do that,

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any time you do that,

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you're rewarded and you automatically can scale that if you delegate,

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you can't scale without delegation, you're trapped.

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That's why they call it the time trap.

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Now I was in Washington and I was teaching the Breakthrough Experience program.

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And by the way, if you don't fill day with high priority actions,

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it fills up a low priority distractions. But the same for the week, the month,

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a year, a decade, a generation and a life.

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That's one of the reasons I teach my program, Master Planning For Life.

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Master Planning For Life is about taking command of how you want your life in a

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way you can structure it,

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you can liberate yourself and increase your productivity, your profitability,

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and your fulfillment level. That's the whole reason I put that together.

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Once I realized that, I just became a relentless in the pursuit of that.

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And I did it in all areas of my life, not just my business, but in every area,

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prioritizing what I read, prioritizing who I hung out with,

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prioritizing where I went, prioritizing the places that I surround myself,

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prioritizing where I viewed, you know,

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everything got prioritized because I realized that that's a principle of life.

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If you're not living by priority, it's automatically going to be disempowering.

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So I'm in Washington, I'm doing the Breakthrough Experience,

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which is my signature program, which I've done 1,117 times coming up.

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And what's interesting is there's a lovely lady there who spoke up.

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And she said, 'Well, I am at home. I'm a stay home mom now.

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I was a doctor, but when my third child came,

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I decided to stay home.' And she says,

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'I'm frustrated because my husband's not helping around the house and

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I'm feeling trapped.' And I said to her, I said, 'Okay, you were in practice.

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When you were in practice,

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what kind of money could you generate per hour?' And she said, 'Well,

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it really wasn't too much, maybe 600 to $800 an hour.' 'Okay.

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And right now you're doing all kinds of things.

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Let's list what you're doing at home.' And she was cleaning.

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And because she'd read a bunch of what I call tofu mama

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books on how to raise children, she was cleaning natural cotton diapers,

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she's making organic purees, she was doing it all.

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And I said, she's doing what she believes is best for the child,

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but what she was doing is taking a 600 to $800 an hour person and

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putting them down into a 10 to $15 an hour job,

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maybe $20 an hour job.

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And so I made her list everything she was doing in a day.

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And I had her go through this process, how much they're producing per hour,

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which was zero. How much is it? How much meaning was it?

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And some of them were meaningful and some of them were not,

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they were meaningful to her kids, but not her. And that's a big factor.

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She thought,

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because what she was doing is she was subordinating to the outer authority of a

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lady who wrote a book,

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who never had a doctorate degree and probably couldn't make more than $25 an

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hour at the time, and they were writing the book, she thought, 'Oh,

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they're the expert.

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I got to follow their footsteps.' But if you follow the values of other people,

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you'll automatically self depreciate yourself.

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So what we did is we made a list of everything she was doing and she was

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cleaning and she was cooking and she was going to the grocery store and she's

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spending time with the kids and she was educating them and we prioritized those,

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we found out how much they actually produced - zero.

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We found out how much it would cost to get that delegated.

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And then we realized that if she worked eight hours a week,

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two hours a day, four days a week,

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eight hours to keep her life based on her education and keep her in the

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game and keep her from losing her faculties in that area, she could,

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if she made 600 even or 700, let's say 700 x 8,

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$5600 a week. If she did, that's $20 something thousand a year.

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She could pay somebody 2,500 to $3,000 a month to take care of the cleaning,

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the driving around, the grocery shopping,

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the management of food substances and everything else. And anyway,

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when she did, she was not bitching at her husband when she finally got that,

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we ended up structuring that, we got her that, she started working,

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she had somebody to do that. Instead of expecting her husband to do it.

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He didn't want to do it.

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And he had to work more because she wasn't working and he didn't want to do that

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because that's de-valuing him. And he was making 1200 to $1,500 an hour.

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So what the heck? He was now liberated. She was now liberated. You know,

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the lower the socioeconomic,

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the more you pass your lifestyle onto your kids

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and they just duplicate.

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Low socioeconomic poor people that just typically follow in the footstems as a

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trade, they're trade trained, and then become an apprentice under a trade.

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But people that go up the socioeconomics because they've delegated and because

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they've risen end up with specialties and get more advanced income from it and

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serve more vast numbers with scale. And so the question is,

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is where do you want to play in the game of life?

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Delegation liberates you from the bondage of weighing yourself down,

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doing things that are uninspiring, living by duty,

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living by what you think you should do, ought to do, everything else,

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because you haven't given yourself permission to go and do something that's

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deeply meaningful and traps you. Now, this lady made more income,

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put away college education funds, had more time for vacation with the kids,

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had higher quality tutoring for the kids,

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had more opportunity to go to museums and places and things with the kids.

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And she came home and the house was clean and the things were prepared.

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And the clothes were cleaned and the purees were done and everything else.

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And she didn't have to go stand in a grocery store line, which is ineffective.

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Even though today, you can order it online, but still,

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she changed her life because she prioritized her life and she delegated.

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I cannot tell you how important delegation is.

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You're not going to live an absolutely inspired life every minute you

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do something that isn't inspiring.

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And nobody's going to get up in the morning and dedicate to life to your

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fulfillment. Nobody's going to dedicate that delegations and structure.

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If you're not pursuing what's really most important.

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So you want to ask yourself,

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what is the highest priority action I can do today to serve the greatest number

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of people in the most efficient,

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effective way that allows me to be inspired and to help inspire

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other people? If you do that,

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you're going to move in a direction of an inspired life.

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You're going to end up delegating your way into liberty. And I mean liberty.

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Now, if you don't hire somebody that's inspired and you hire Z people,

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not A quality people,

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you're going to end up micromanaging and distracting yourself and be

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ineffective. And so delegation doesn't cost if it's done properly,

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it costs if it's not. So don't just have anybody make sure you go to the Value,

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Determination process on our website,

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make sure you go and find out who you're going to delegate to if they really

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love doing it, if

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they have no history of doing what you wanting to do and it's not their dream,

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they're probably not going to be engaged in doing it.

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You're going to have to probably, you know,

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micromanage them and push them up hill and remind them.

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Anytime you have to remind or motivate or extrinsically push somebody to do

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something, it's not intrinsically inspiring to them.

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It's not meaningful to them. It's not important to them.

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Don't waste your time hiring people that don't have that drive,

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or you're going to end up just frustrating yourself and it's going to cost you,

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not make you, cause you're not delegating,

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you're micro-managing thinking it's delegation.

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Hiring somebody micro-managing and trapping yourself is not delegation.

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Delegation is disseminating authority onto other people who are able and capable

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of doing what you want done more effective than you.

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And so you can get on with doing what you love doing, what you're effective at.

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That way you become great at what you do, they become great at what they do.

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And your specialties help. Ricardo's law of efficiency says,

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anytime you can get people to do their specialties it helps the expedite.

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My specialty is researching and teaching. If I'm able to do that,

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I do the most with my business and my life and have the most fulfillment.

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But if I sit and get micromanaged or go down and do some things that's not

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inspiring to me, down I go.

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So the key is to make sure that you identify what's really valuable to you,

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it goes back to where I started. Your hierarchy of values dictates your destiny.

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If you live by your highest values, your destiny is going to expand.

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If you live by lower values, your destiny is going to shrink.

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I think that's why they called psychologists shrinks,

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because most people are uninspired and don't know that and don't live wisely,

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they automatically end up at the shrink. And by the way,

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when you're living by your highest value,

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your blood glucose and oxygen goes into your forebrain,

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where you get creative vision, inspired vision, creative, strategic thinking,

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planning, foresight, a desire to execute, and self-governance, you're more calm,

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you're more centered, you're less impulsive, less

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less habitual, you're more creative and you're more innovative.

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And this is where you have the greatest genius.

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But if you don't live by highest value,

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your blood glucose and oxygen goes into your hind brain,

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or at least your amygdala down below, and this is where you're into avoid pain,

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seek pleasure.

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And this is people that want to avoid pain and seek pleasure only want to do

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things if it's pleasureful and if it's not, they want to give up.

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And they go and take a coffee and tea and sweets and porn

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and internet distractions and anything that distracts from their unengaged

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life, because they're not doing what they love.

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So don't surround yourself with people that are disengaged or you'll end up

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disengaged yourself. You'll have to go down and micromanage.

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Find somebody that would love to do what you want to delegate,

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liberate yourself and you'll be more efficient, they will make you money,

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you will make you money, they will make themselves money.

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The people will end up getting more advancement and you will exemplify what's

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possible for other people which draws and magnetizes opportunity and people,

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places, things, ideas,

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and events that your innermost dominant thought creates in your mind.

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How Thoughts Become Things is a new movie that you may want to go check out that

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I had the opportunity to be in,

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about how what your innermost dominant thought does become your outermost

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tangible reality.

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Your innermost dominant thought is an expression of your highest value.

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If you're not able to focus on your highest value because you're micromanaging

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and distracting and doing low priority stuff,

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your greatness and your creativity and the life that you dream about is not as

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easily manifested.

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So I just wanted to spend a few moments with you on the significance of

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delegation, because I know in my own life,

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they call me Mr. Delegator.

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I was doing a podcast a few days ago with a lovely lady

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here in Houston,

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amazing lady that has a podcast called CEO

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Blindspot and it's for CEOs and entrepreneurs.

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And we were discussing delegation.

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And I was jokingly saying that I delegate just about everything in my life.

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I've delegated everything. I don't wipe my butt with it,

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but I joke about that. And I don't really delegate lovemaking to other people,

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but I joke about it. And I was telling them on the show that, that if you,

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you know, when, when my girlfriend wants love making,

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if I tell her if I delegate it to,

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to Hugh Jackman or Brad Pitt to take care of the lovemaking,

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would you still love me? And she said,

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'Absolutely.' Because if I can give her more value, more efficiently,

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she'll appreciate that. And I'm joking, of course,

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but the point is that why do something that's not inspiring,

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weigh yourself down, when you can liberate yourself,

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free yourself to do what you really love to do and give opportunities to other

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people to do the same and help the economy, help the lives, help inspire.

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And I really believe that we are rewarded to the degree that we help ourselves

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and others live by the highest values.

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I believe our rewards in life and our fulfillment in life is going to be

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correlated with that. So anything you can do to delegate is to your advantage.

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So I want to take a moment to talk about delegation.

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I think I've shared most of it now. And so thank you

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for just contemplating the significance of what it can do for your life.

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And it may not be an easy thing. And when I first started doing it,

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I had a few pitfalls along the way, but I just kept, I read that book.

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I learned it. I followed that process. I kept doing it again.

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I did it every quarter and I looked at where I was now and I looked at what else

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I can delegate. And today I research, write and teach.

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And I don't have to do the rest of the stuff. I haven't checked on bills.

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I haven't driven a car. I haven't done administrative stuff. I haven't cooked.

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You know, I don't do anything other than what I'm most inspired to do.

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The rest of it is delegated way. And that is very liberating.

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And you're very grateful.

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You have way more to be grateful for in your life if you do that every day,

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I count my blessings and I'm grateful.

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I got the largest list of gratitude of any human being I've met.

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And I document it every day. And it's because of that process called delegation.

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Now, you're going to delegate further because the second you live by your lower

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values, you're going to shrink your vision.

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And whenever you live by your highest values, you're gonna expand your vision.

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I'd like to say something, I'd like to give you a gift.

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And this gift is something called Awakening Your Astronomical Vision.

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Now what this is, is what we're talking about.

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It's about delegating lower priority things,

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getting onto higher priority things, expanding your vision.

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Because if you don't have an astronomical vision,

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don't expect to make a global difference.

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You are not going to outgrow your vision. And if your vision is bigger,

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so is your life. And so is the cause. And so as the impact on your life.

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So take advantage of this little gift.

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It's a live presentation I did at a planetarium metaphorically.

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We did it to a group of CEOs and executives that had big businesses.

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And this is including their personal life and professional life.

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And I'm absolutely certain if you listen to this more than once,

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and most people do five or six times, it's going to give you a gift,

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it's going to give you an advantage and you're going to take notes and it's

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going to be helpful. It's practical, it's inspirational. It's mind expanding.

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It's going to give you a bigger vision and you may not have to be trapped doing

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So take advantage of this gift. I want you to have that. I want you to use it,

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Cause I know you'll say thank you by listening to it more than once.

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It will be something you can implement right away. It's useful.

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And if you feel you got something out of this little presentation

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and you know somebody in fact, probably while you're sitting here,

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I wish so and so could have listened to this.' If you know somebody that you

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get on your database, let people know what we're doing.

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Because every week we give some educational piece like this,

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and if you've got a value out of it, share it with people you do.

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If you help other people get what they want to get in life,

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it helps you get what you want to get in life.

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It helps you build your network because they spread it to the next network.

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