LET GO OF MR. SHOULD HAVE HES HOLDING YOU BACK

Are you dragging the heavy chains of yesterday into your tomorrow?

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Life is waiting for you each day and you have to
prepare for each challenge alongthe way towards success.
It's not simple, but it can bedone.
Welcome to my Common SenseMotivation episodes.
I'm Chris Fantastic Powell.
Let go of Mr Should have.
He's holding you back.
If you could go back in time,what would you do differently?

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Whose life do you wish you'dhad?
What opportunities do you wishyou took?
That investment, thatrelationship, that house,
whatever it may be?
Stop that line of thinkingdoesn't build your future.
It buries it.
It slows you down, it holds youin place.
It hands the microphone over toa voice that has no power but

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somehow gets the loudestapplause.
I call him Mr Should have.
He's smooth, he's convincingand in my book, going One-on-One
with Life, he shows up as ananchor tied to too many people's
lives.
Mr Should have doesn't build,he blames.
He doesn't move, he mourns.
He doesn't help you heal, hehelps you hesitate.

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He's always talking about whatcould have been, what you missed
and who you used to be.
And the worst part, he'sperfect at hindsight, because
looking back is easy, wishing iseffortless, but action,
ownership, living in now, that'swhere most people tap out.

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Let me tell you something thepast doesn't exist anymore.
You can't touch it, you can'thold it, you can't fix it.
So why are you trying to livein it?
Living in the presence is thehardest thing most people will
ever do.
They either stare in therearview mirror of regret or
they daydream into a foggyfuture, hoping it just magically

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works out.
But let's break this downsimple and real.
A brick wall is built, onebrick at a time, one single
moment.
You can't lay bricks for thepast.
You can't guess the blueprintof the future.
You only have this moment, andif you spend today dragging the

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heavy chains of yesterday,you're going to damage tomorrow
before it even shows up.
So here's a challenge Cut therope, release the anchor.
Silence, mr Should have, let himtalk all he wants, but don't
you answer, because the truth isyou're still here, you're still
standing, you still got timeand, the best part, you've got a

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choice.
So stop asking what if I had?
And start declaring what am Idoing about it now?
Today isn't just another day.
It's a fresh weapon in yourarsenal.
Use it, fight for your future,build your legacy, because the
only thing stronger than whatyou should have done is what you

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choose to do now.
No more regrets.
Let's go Make it happen.
I'm Chris Fantastic Powell.
Thank you for listening.
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