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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Hello there, this is
Living your Success 24-7, with
Michael Caine in the house.
Hey, oh, anyway, how are youdoing today?
How's this week Going by fast?
This year 2025, wow, it's justlightning speed going forward.
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That said, let's jump rightinto it.
It's gonna do a littlefreestyle here.
As far as we chat whatever's onour mind, I, I want to talk
about this year speeding by.
So the concept I want to talkabout is time.
How, how are you using yourtime?
You know, I was thinking, myGod, the older you get each year
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, each half a year, gettingolder, start thinking man,
tomorrow's not promised the time.
How much time do we have?
How much time do we use?
How much time do we waste?
And you say what does that haveto do about making money or
being successful and beingcontent?
A lot how you use your time.
You use it unwisely or wisely.
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And it's good to have fun.
Without fun, entertainment,vacations and celebrations, life
would be really dull, wouldn'tyou?
Don't you think so?
We have to have that.
Then there's the flip side ofthat coin called working.
You know what I mean?
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Working for the man I'll begender neutral working for the
person, okay.
So how do you utilize your time.
And then part B is that to moveyou to the result of being
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successful as you define it.
Keep in mind everybody'sdefinition of success is
different.
Some people can be content withworking four hours a day,
part-time, making just enough,and they're happy.
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And other people go to theother extreme workaholic, work
80, 90, 100 hours a week, getpaid a lot of money to do that,
but you may not be content, maynot be joyful inside.
Some people may.
So you have to tailor thisdiscussion about time which
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leads to purpose, to leads togoals.
You have to make it your own,and I spent confession time.
I spent many years doingsomething I probably really
didn't want to do and so, butfloating in the wind.
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I wrote a chapter in my book,slaying your Dragons Living the
Life you Always Wanted, aboutbeing a feather.
You know feathers, so light itgoes.
If it blows north, it goesnorth.
If it blows west, east, south,any direction the wind blows, is
that you Okay?
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Maybe doing something is betterthan doing nothing, and
sometimes the opposite is true.
Doing something or not doingsomething Depends on what that
something is right.
If it's detrimental to you,then you don't want to do that
at all, whatever that is, anyvices.
You know what I mean.
I don't wanna do that at all.
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Whatever that is, any vices,you know what I mean.
So what do we do after we comeout of the womb?
Too bad, we don't have a gameplan, then right, wouldn't that
be neat.
You're born, you just pop outand you got your plan ready to
go.
This is, in a way, we do havethat.
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It's called our parents Intheir mind, goodly or badly in
their mind.
I got a blueprint ready for mychild what I or we expect of he
or she.
We actually do, informal orformal.
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We got it, we got it, and so wehave to ultimately charter on
course.
Now, that may be very difficultin culturally oriented families.
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I'm being polite.
You know some ethnically.
You're expected to be thedoctor.
You're expected to do this.
Excuse me.
You're expected to do this,excuse me.
Expected to hold your T and 1in the left hand, pinky up.
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You're expected to get marriedto this type of person.
You're expected to go to thisschool.
You're expected to wear theseclothes.
Go to this place of worship.
You're on and on and on.
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Folks got their mindset,well-intended and well-meaning
folks, but it may not be you, itain't you?
Now, obviously, when you'refive, six, seven, eight, nine,
even three years old, you don'thave too much say so.
And they're not asking you youropinion, are they?
And that may be wise too, notrelying on the wisdom of a
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four-year-old.
I don't know how that will workout.
Maybe you're a genius, I don'tknow.
I don't know how that will workout.
Maybe you're a genius, I don'tknow.
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But so at some point you have tostop and say am I going in the
right direction with my time andwhat I'm emphasizing, what I'm
focused on, and that's a yes ora no.
Now, some folks don't do yes orno, they just again float in
the wind.
And this is no condemnation,but I'm just being straight up
that you just still have no idea.
And that could be a problembecause you get older, if you
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waste a lot of time.
But it's not an easy situationto break away from well-meaning
folks called your parents orguardian or coach or, you know,
mentor, to break away from allthe teachings they've taught you
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the majority of your life, fora significant amount of your
life.
So may be difficult to say Igotta go my own way.
That could hurt, yeah, it couldso, but at the same time, do
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you really want to spend 40years doing something you don't
want to do, not inclined to do?
Where's your time?
Where are you in time?
We can't go back in a spaceship, that time machine.
I tried, I tried.
I can't try to get in that timemachine, but it wouldn't work,
it wouldn't take me back thetime sheening of your mind.
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We can go and live in the pastand regret.
That's not nice either, is it?
That's another waste of time.
But it's good to reflect.
You need to reflect on thehistory and the past because you
want to be remember thatexpression doomed to repeat it.
So you got to be honest withyourself.
But a lot of people don't wantto be honest because it's
painful, painful memories thatpeople didn't get you, they
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didn't understand you, and I'mguilty on both sides of that.
I'm guilty as a victim myselfto some extent, and then also
the perpetrator imposing thewill on children.
I have children Saying youreally need to do this?
Well, no, maybe, maybe not.
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Now there's certain core thingsI believe you should do, like if
you want to be financiallyindependent, you need to make
money.
I mean legally, that's myopinion, legal money, right,
stay out of prison, right.
Right, get out and stay out ofprison Right.
And financial resources thatwill buy other resources like
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have clothes, a home and food.
How about that?
Do you need a home?
Do you need clothes?
Do you need food, water youdon't need soda, you don't need
water.
So those are necessities.
Remember that pyramid Hierarchyof needs Right, the bottom is
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shelter, clothes, food and water.
So you have to do certainthings in order to survive.
Now the big question mark iswhat are those things that will
cause that'll able me to behappy and joyful but survive
economically speaking?
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So, no more useless degrees incollege, please, you know,
please, something that isimpossible to never, ever, ever
make money from.
Don't do that.
Don't do that.
Money's gone, school's notgiving it back, you're not
getting a job in it, so it'sover.
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Regret, regret.
I have regret in certain things, a lot of things, but I want to
be the best version of michaelcain.
I can be here to express and bethe best version of yourself.
That means stop doing thestupid.
So I decide, michael, do itagain.
No, stop doing the stupid.
Cost me money.
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Cost that other one.
Cost me three3,000.
That cost me $2,000, 500.
How about $50,000?
$50,000,?
Yeah, one of those stupids anddidn't reason it out.
Maybe talk to someone that youtrust to give you advice, but
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it's still your decision, orwhatever decision that is
reflecting on how you'reallocating your time and purpose
and direction in life.
So the sooner the better inanswering basic questions of who
you are, who am I?
Because if you don't know thatfundamentally and have that
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value system tied to that, youcould be all over the place.
All over the place Wasting moretime.
Can't get time back, just can'tTime in a bottle, jim Croce,
time is in a bottle.
Once it's in a bottle, it ain'tcoming back out.
So you have to decide what's myfocus?
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What's my thing?
You ain't got a thing.
Something, what's your time?
So I'm doing my best toremember this song and I just
not going to do it.
Ok, so we could be exacerbatedand just say, oh, I give up, I
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don't know what I'm going to doevery day.
I don't know, I hate what I do.
Yes, I hate that.
Remember, if you create a voidin your life, you have to
replace it with something.
So don't make, you shouldn'tmake.
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I recommend you don't make rashdecisions, and just without
thinking it fully throughMeditating on it and having a
two columns, the.
You know the positives and theminuses.
What's the good stuff that canhappen if I make this decision?
What's the negative?
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Things can happen and be brutal, because life will be brutal to
you.
Because life will be brutal toyou.
Nothing will give you a way outto be nice.
Life can be rough, folks.
It can be rough, but it's notimpossible.
And one other thing I suggest tobe successful, this show is
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living your success, not deadyour success.
It only works if you're living.
You're not living just to givesomeone else an inheritance or
alimony or take care of themwhen you're dead.
I hope your life is more thanthat.
You don't want to just bethat's what you defined as okay
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but you want to really have adirected life, an intentional
life, tethered to the time.
You know, just like if you'reat work and your boss says okay,
I need you to do this proposal.
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I need you to sweep this floorwhatever.
I need you to do this proposal.
I need you to sweep this floorwhatever.
I need you to do it in one hour.
See, when you have a deadlineon something, it kind of has a
different dynamic.
In fact, I just had thatrecently and I thought I had.
I did have my thought.
I knew I had next week on thisproject.
I knew I had next week on thisproject and so then got a
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communication saying, well, ifyou could really get it done
this week instead of next week,well, really.
So that shifted my horizonthere and my speed, and I got it
done.
I got it done.
Sometimes you may have to tellpeople we agreed on this date
and time, this date and time,and I'll see what I can do.
Don't be taken advantage of asa fool either, because people
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will do that, take advantage ofyou, unfortunately.
Just expect it.
You just don't know who it is.
But stand up for yourself.
Be strong.
Bounce back up, you will fail,you will fall.
Be strong.
Bounce back up, you will fail,you will fall.
Be resilient.
Bounce back up.
You may hear a thousand no'sand it's that one thousand.
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One time you'll hear yes, andso a lot of times it is a
numbers game or whatever it is,but you got to go back to square
one.
Okay, if life is a game, you'reon square one.
Who am I?
You know, and how much time doI have now, in the big sense of
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time.
We don't know.
We can live to be a hundred anda years old, 110, 80 years old,
90 people live and not unlive.
Okay, I don't know if that's anexpression, Maybe you can quote
me.
Unlive I'm not predicting thezombie apocalypse when I say
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they're the.
When they say the undead,they're the unlived.
But unlived mean you didn'tlive your life according to your
rules.
Now, you won't always be ableto do that as age appropriate.
We're not asking afive-year-old oh, you want to
smoke or drink bourbon?
We're not going there with that.
So some things is just notappropriate.
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So don't get bent out of shapeNow.
Even when you're 18 years old,yeah, legally you're an adult,
but you don't have.
You know there's something stillmissing and that's experience
life, anticipating what could gowrong.
We don't have thatsophistication system built in
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for the most part, and so notthat you should hang on everyone
else's word or mindset, butgive yourself time to especially
those on the younger side timeto absorb life and don't rush it
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.
You know you got people rushingto make decisions, doing this,
getting married, doing this anddoing all kinds of stuff they
shouldn't be doing, and a lot ofthose things lead you to regret
and resentment.
This isn't a marriage or acouple relationships show, but
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in a way I do have to coverthose things because it
positively or negatively impactsyour success on many levels,
from the emotional joy to thefinancial sustainability of your
lifestyle.
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So it has everywhere in there.
It's intertwined.
So who am I?
What am I going to do with mytime today?
And let's say you have the bigpicture of what I'm going to do
with your life.
You can say you get a degree,or you get experience or skilled
in something it could beplumbing, or it could be a
doctor, in something it could beplumbing, or it could be a
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doctor, it could be a race cardriver, a musician or whoever
whatever writer, filmmaker,musician, whatever.
And you still have to say, well, how am I going to best use my
time and with whom?
You know you have friends thatmaybe you grew up with, let's
say four or five of you, andyou've got stuff to do.
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Let's say you're in arelationship, now you're married
and maybe you have children.
You can't do the same thingsyou did when you're all single.
Okay, you get together, havesome friend time you know every
so often and time with whateversignificant other you have, and
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definitely your children.
Don't be an absentee parent,long-distance parent, stuff
that's kind of bad and crappy,but I want to be successful.
That's my declaration.
I want to be successful.
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Okay, that's very generic.
So what does that mean to me?
So please write it down.
As far as I'm going to spend mytime on learning the guitar,
because I want to play theguitar as a hobby, or I'm going
to play it as a professionalmusician one day, those two
pathways may dictate theintensity and the time you use
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or take to learn how to play theguitar, or maybe the same.
Maybe you're intense in yourhobby and you have the time,
like me, I, you know I want tolearn how to play the guitar.
I really do, even if it's basic, just so I can just join in a
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jam session or someone say, hey,to get your guitar, let's play
a few songs or something.
I just want to play the guitartoo, and I want to possibly do
when I were into filmmaking orsomething like that more writing
.
So I have some goals and thosegoals can shift and change
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depending on the season of life,because when you're 10 years
old, you got five years old,you're hey, I just want some
candy.
Just give me some candy, leaveme alone, let me watch cartoons.
Then you get 15, you're ateenager, get serious, you know,
you want to go out and hang outwith your friends and get into
trouble, possibly.
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And then you're 20, 21, 22,.
You start saying, man, I wantto be successful, I need some
money, what am I going to dowith my life?
You know, go to college, go tovacation, school, whatever.
Then 25, 30, okay, you want tosettle down maybe at that point,
so you can't be at the bar andthe pub with your buddies every
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day anymore.
If you want to be alone, nothave anyone, that's the way to
do it, and that may be an optiontoo Bachelor bachelorettes, you
know and that's fine.
There's no right or wrong.
When you're the one making thedecision.
It's like just be careful whatyou ask for.
That's all I told someoneearlier.
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Be careful, you may just get it.
And if you get it, you say, oh,dang it, what the heck did I do
?
Sometimes we do that and thenwe regroup.
Just make sure it's not a majorpoor decision, because those
take longer to clean up, likewhen you have to file bankruptcy
because you spent all yourmoney up unwisely or trusted
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someone wisely, trusted them andhad reason to, and they messed
you over, stole all, took allyour money, took all the family
money and blew it up.
And so things happen to goodpeople Unintended consequences,
stuff happens.
Had it done to me.
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So I'm still striving.
No matter what level of successyou are today, you know you may
want to go up another level,meaning more joy or more money,
or both.
Say hey, okay, I'm making$100,000.
I want to make $500,000.
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So more tenacity, more grindingand building, and that's okay.
Some of you may be content withonly $50,000 a year and that's
your definition of success I'mhappy and I'm making $50,000.
I'm fine, okay.
And so some of you are sodriven you want to be
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billionaires.
A lot of people want to bemillionaires.
Not everyone wants to be abillionaire.
It's important that you knowwhat you're going to and it all
goes back to time.
What you spend your time on isthe most important thing you can
do, because that impactsaffects where you go from there
If you go left right up downbackwards as far as your level
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of success.
So repeat after me I plan to besuccessful.
I plan to be financiallysuccessful, not necessarily a
millionaire, billionaire, butcontent sufficient.
I can get on a plane and go toDisney World any moment, or Rich
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Carlton in New York.
Get on the plane today and go.
I want to have that kind ofmoney where I can be reasonably
well off, not rich per se, butjust where you can periodically
do stuff like that, which wouldbe insane and crazy if you're
like broke all the time or don'thave sufficient funds.
Insane and crazy if you're likebroke all the time or don't
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have sufficient funds.
Okay, or you're tethered to somekind of reality at this point
like a bunch of kids andsignificant other.
I'm not saying that's a badthing because I have that.
Just be planned on it.
No oops and no mistakes.
Oops, I didn't know.
Yes, you did.
What do you think was going tohappen?
You know doing something andthere's a consequence.
Consequence could be good orbad.
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So don't say you don't know.
Okay, so choose wisely, myfriends.
Choose wisely, so work on.
You should have a uh, a journalor whatever.
It is a tracking mechanism totrack every day.
What did I do to get closer tosuccess Like?
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One thing I'm going to put isto do this podcast with the goal
of uplifting someone's life, atleast one.
At least one person can benefitfrom this.
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I hope thousands can, tens ofthousands, it'd be a million.
One day I would love to get toa million people to say Michael
Caine impacted my life a millionpeople.
That's one of my goals.
Is it realistic?
Maybe not, but it's one of thegoals.
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Not to just brag Of course therewould be bragging rights, but
in my heart I said I reallytouched a lot of people in my
life and I feel some way thatcan kind of help me move beyond
some of those failures thatshouldn't have been failures or
unwise things done thatshouldn't have been done.
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But again, you move on, and soit could be called redemption,
whatever you want.
That's fair.
So it could be calledredemption whatever you want.
That's fair.
And to impact the lives of manypeople.
That's what I want to do.
That's in person as well asdigitally, you know, through
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various media, and so I want to.
Also, my definition of success,too, is to be happy, to have joy
, wake up with joy on so manylevels.
I'm not necessarily talkingabout spiritual here, but that's
fine too.
I do want to be in tune with myspirit and to be content and be
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a good heart, good spirit.
And so I want to be healthy, abig one, because without health
you could be just dead and notalive to reap the benefits of
your toils and struggles.
So I want to be healthy.
I don't want to have diabetes.
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I'm borderline that.
So I'm touching fate here.
So I got to do better.
I know I fell off the wagon ofeating some junk stuff so I said
, okay, I'm going to cut half ofthat and then 75% of that out
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Progressively, so I'm working.
So I said no today to chocolateand some candies.
I was proud of myself.
Nope, Right there in front ofme Sweating me, oh boy.
I said, okay, move on, I'mgoing to do no chocolate,
cookies and this and that,because that's not good for me.
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So, whatever you want to bepreventive, preventive, have
preventiveness.
You want to be catching up,trying to, you know, catch up
with your good health, becauseyou're doing something you know
not so smart, with your what youdrink and what you eat.
And so having good health,excellent health, where I can be
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well into the 70s, 80s and bemobile and walk around Europe in
my 50s, right.
And so you say, wow, okay, mike, I didn't know you were like
that old Really Well, comparedto being 120, maybe I'll be 120.
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Okay, if you have a quality oflife and there's people here
that you know that, live it.
That may not be a bad idea.
But anyway, people here thatyou know that, live it may not
be a bad idea.
But anyway, define and defineit like you're looking
encyclopedia of your mind whatis success to me and what am I
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going to?
These activities to help me toget to reach the success I
always wanted?
So that's your homework.
What is it?
See, a lot of people think theyknow, but then again they're
floating in the wind again,doing this on Monday, doing that
on Wednesday, doing that onFriday, saturday, something else
and no full commitment.
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Let me tell you about the wordmultitasking.
It can stop you, hinder you anddestroy your time and your
efforts to reach your primarygoals.
Focus on what matters.
See, a lot of people focus onbeing busy but not doing what
they need to do and doing theright thing.
I've been guilty of that.
Raise my hand.
So you don't want to just bebusy and just spending time,
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which is really just wastingtime.
So be intentional and pickthose things You're going to
spend your time, and remember,time waits, for no person Is
moving.
So where are you going to be byJune of this year, by September
of this year, by December ofthis year?
So it was important that youfigured all that out Again.
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The answers may not come all atonce today, but you need to be
spending time, turn the TV off,stop talking and getting to a
zone where you can think aboutall this.
So, that said, I appreciate eachand every one of you, wherever
you are located in this thingcalled planet earth.
Thank you so much.
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And until next time, my friends, until next time, good ball.