Stop Focusing On Where You Are Now

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Hi. This is Mike Crow, and I run home inspection business.

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In fact, I've run a couple of home inspection businesses.

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You know, true joy for me, though, has been helping literally

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thousands of home inspectors build really solid home inspection business as well.

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We can help a single man operation be able to do over $300,000 a year,

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maybe all the way up to $400,000 a year as a single inspector operation.

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Even better for me is the 80 plus companies that we have helped

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be able to build million dollar home inspection businesses.

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I would like to help you be able to do the same thing

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Too often we focus on the wrong things

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like worrying about your competition or where you are in your life right now.

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If that statement confuses you, pay attention to this episode.

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If you have

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any questions for Mike or want to know how we can help you grow your business,

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you can email us at Hello at Coach Blueprint dot com

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You have four parts of your body.

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You have four lives to live.

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You have a physical you have a mental.

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You have a social and a spiritual.

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Each side that is developed

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in turn stimulates the other three sides, all for one and one for all.

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Kind of like the Musketeers.

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A man must play work love and worship to get the most out of life.

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You have to do all four parts to get the most.

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When you understand this, you actually realize you have four lives to live.

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Then the more you pour out, the more you have to pour.

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In other words, the more you share with others, the more you have yourself.

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We say that again, the more

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you share with others, the more you have yourself.

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You know, we have a poster back here that says The more money you make,

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the more people you can help.

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But I'm going to tell you, the more people you help,

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the more you grow as a person as well.

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It's kind of a cool, cool thing.

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Okay, so do this real quick.

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Take a piece of paper and draw this graph.

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And I just want you to grade yourself, and I'm not going to ask to see anybody's.

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I'm going to show you kind of mine here in a second, but take a look on the graph.

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So if you have spiritual, you have mental, physical, social

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and all of those grades yourself on a one to ten,

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how strong are you in those different areas?

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And I'm going to tell you a very big secret here

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because people have been lying to you about this as well.

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Even this book has a little bit of

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difficulty with this.

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So physical, let's say physical is the one on the. Yep.

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All right.

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So I'm about a six I'm about a six out of ten.

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Because quite honestly, I don't exercise as much as I should.

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Robyn, Michelle, they go running every morning and I

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look at them and I go, wow, that's invigorating.

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Let me go get some breakfast.

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Okay.

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And then on the spiritual,

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I'm going to tell you that I'm probably out of ten.

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I am probably one of the most faith driven people you'll ever run into

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because I see myself as a conduit

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for our Heavenly Father to use me to reach other people.

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And it's one of my biggest,

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biggest secrets to my success.

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And then then there's social.

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And I'm going to tell you, social is one of my weak spots.

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And I'm about a four

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because I'm an introvert.

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I know you don't believe that

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in seeing me up here and watching me get around and talking with everybody.

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The honest truth is, I would love to stay up my room

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as much as I could and just come down when I have to be on stage.

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And if I didn't have to be on stage, I wouldn't be up here.

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But I have learned

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that to do what I need to do on the spiritual side,

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I have to be available to people and I have to help people succeed as well.

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So it forces me to be a better social person.

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And then on the other one is mental Now, can I tell you guys a secret?

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And Susan hates us. Susan, are you back there? Yep, she has. Good.

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I want to make sure I say it in front of her.

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Susan's the smart one in the family.

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I'm the go getter.

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I'm the doer.

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But Susan was actually valedictorian of her class, and so I call Susan.

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I joke a little bit, but I'm serious.

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I call Susan my little intellect, because if I need to know anything, I ask her.

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And we have this little church group that comes to our house,

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and there's this other guy, and he's an intellect,

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and I just love watching him and Susan talk

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about all kinds of things that I have absolutely zero interest in.

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But the bottom line is, what is your what is your mental level?

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I will also tell you that my mental level improves

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because I'm hanging around you guys and you guys are forcing me.

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And it's probably an eight for me because I am fully engaged

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mentally on preparing to try to help you guys.

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So now take a look. This is my box.

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Is not a nice square box.

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So here's the thing that everybody lies to you about.

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They tell you you need to be a balanced person.

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They tell you you need to have it all basically at ten years.

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And I'm going to tell you something and

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I'm going to tell you the real version that is completely bogus.

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Now, every time I say bogus, you guys know what I'm telling you.

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But people want to tell you, you should have it all balanced out,

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successful people never have a full square.

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You just don't.

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And you're flexing all the time.

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And if you don't flex, you don't grow.

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All right.

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I don't know what your box looks at, but here's what I will tell you.

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When I look at the box, I go, ooh, a 600 to work on that,

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and I'll get it and I'll start exercising.

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I'll do 25 30 pushups in the morning and I'll do crunches and I'll do this

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and I'll do that. And I have to £10

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barbells, whatever you call

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them, dumb waiters, whatever I don't know

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man. And I'll, and I'll sit there and do 50 crunches

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and so I work out and I do that for about a month or two and then I quit

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and I might go up to a ten and I go back down to a six

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and it depends on what I'm trying to get done.

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Now the day of defending your present possessions is gone.

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I don't care where you are right now.

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I don't care what you have right now.

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What I want is for you to start

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working on where you want to be in the future,

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not worrying about what your competition's doing.

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I want you to understand the competition is not a problem.

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Competition is something in your brain.

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My dad used to tell me all the time, son, don't worry about the competition.

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And I think he was right.

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Now I pay attention to what they do in some different things.

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But don't worry about your competition.

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You're going to wake up in the morning thinking of new ways to do things

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rather than reasons why they can't be done.

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And I'm going to tell you, this is one of my new sayings.

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Don't worry about your competition.

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Let them worry about you.

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That's their problem.

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Yeah, exactly.

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And I have competition.

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I have like six other million plus dollar companies in my area

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that every day I know they get up.

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And part of their game plan is what is Texans backed up to today.

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And their marketing people will bash us

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publicly.

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Some people will tell them that

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we're doing things wrong illegally.

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Some people will tell them that, oh, we we don't do this or whatever.

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I don't want you to know. I don't care

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it doesn't

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behoove me to focus on that.

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Let's just go kick their butt.

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And so actually, we sat down with Jonathan,

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and Kristen said, So what's the next thing in our file

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that he doesn't know about that we can put into place?

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Because I am the king of backups.

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Call it the Bismarck factor.

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I am the king of backups.

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So we went to our file

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and Jonathan and Kristen, I pulled out the internal marketing program

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that we've been developing for years and we fully implemented it

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and we crushed

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we crushed it.

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You're going to be surrounded by that 95%

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that wants you to give more attention

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to garbage than to success.

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Which do you want to focus on?

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Because, one, it's easy because it goes downhill

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and the other one is uphill okay.

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So be strong.

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You know, wealth can't really buy health, by the way.

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I'm not sure that's true, but in the book it says wealth cannot buy health.

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Health will make you wealthy if you will use your energies in the right directions.

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And I will tell you, energy is important.

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So here's a couple of questions you should ask yourself.

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Do I have a capacity for hard work?

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My dad taught me there's dad standing in the back door back there.

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My dad taught me this.

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He taught me you have to have capacity for hard work.

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You have to be able to turn it on and leave it on until you're done.

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Okay.

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Can I keep everlasting at it?

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Can I have that sustained pep and punch?

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Can I maintain a high batting average?

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And what is my ability to spurt?

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I will tell you in business, you have to have the ability to spurt.

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You have to have that ability to run as fast as you can.

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That 100 yard dash you've got to have that ability.

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So most people do things they enjoy.

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Most people do things they enjoy,

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and people will tell you one of the biggest,

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biggest lies and I love Brian yesterday because he really pointed out to you

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that you're being lied to every single day.

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The media I want you to know the media, the radio, the advertisements.

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Everything's designed

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to make you one of the 95%

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that's what they want is for you

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to be one of the 95%

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the movies I go and see make rich guys

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the evil people

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and they and it is just mind boggling me.

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But that's where they want you because they can sell more to you.

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They can put you in debt.

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They can make you do things

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you really shouldn't do that are not in the best interest for you.

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Most people do things

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they enjoy and people tell you, do what you enjoy.

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And the money will follow.

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And I want you to know that's completely bogus.

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Here's what the real secret is

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Make yourself enjoy doing the things you don't like to do.

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That's what successful people do.

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I can not tell you the number of times my dad asked me to do something

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I did not want to do.

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But it's also the reason I'm standing up here and I'm successful

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is because he taught me

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to do the things even when I didn't enjoy doing them.

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And you need to know that you've got two voices you don't really need to exercise.

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It's kind of a waste of energy. Boy, I hear that voice a lot.

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Okay, now is your opportunity to start the biggest day of the week,

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and a strong body is necessary for you to tackle that bigger job.

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Are you willing to get up and exercise a little bit?

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I will tell you when I get up, exercise my whole day is better.

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Just don't, don't don't beat me up on that next time, okay?

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But my whole day is better.

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And. Okay, so what weakness will you have to overcome this year to be stronger?