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Daily, Beloved, we'll gathered here today to get through this
thing called life. You are listening to the Reset Yourself
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What You Podcast with your host Jimmy Gunzalas.
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And Henry Can't Forget How and I know him know,
hell know, And Welcome to the Reset Yourself twenty two podcast,
Episode one hundred and seventy nine. Wow, soon to be
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two hundred huh. I still remember ten so, and I
owe that all to all of you guys for constantly sharing, like, liking,
and especially listening and listening and listening. I appreciate it.
So in this weekly podcast, I focus on sparking your
inner confidence and igniting your belief in yourself. I'm your host,
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and I'm always very thrilled to share my thoughts and research.
It's fascinating to me with you as you go along
on his journey. Together, we can nurture a mindset that
empowers us us to reach our fullest potential. I and
him write and record every episode to challenge our thinking
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and to encourage you and me and him to reflect
and inspire actionable realistics steps towards personal growth. Whether you're
facing a career transition, seeking to overcome challenges, or just
seeking to find greater fulfillment in your life. This podcast
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hopefully has been or will be, your go to resource
for motivation and practical insights. My inspiration to do this
is to teach you, to teach people to focus on
yourself and to help others focus on their lives and
what they can accomplish, what you can accomplish, so that
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you can ultimately get all the things you want when
you want them, instead of just wishing and wanting. And
today's episode is really into this. This episode, this episode,
Today's episode episode one seventy nine. Who do you think?
Who do you think?
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You know?
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I'm gonna dedicate it to you again. You were last week,
you were one seventy seven, you were one seventy five,
you were one seventy So stop stop put your hand down.
So yes, this episode today will be dedicated to you.
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I don't really mean that. Tell me what you want
and I will show you how to get it. The
question is are you willing? I've actually had people text
this to me. Am I willing to do the work. Yes,
are you willing to do the work? Today's episode is
about why you are not doing what you say you
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want to do. It's funny because these topics seem simple
and then they become involved in your mind, and as
the episode goes along, you start really breaking it down
and thinking about things, and you start questioning like, I
never really thought of that. I never really pondered that
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thought that deeply. It's an assumption that I made, or
it is what it is, or it's life. But no,
there are people out there every day that are getting up,
they are setting their minds to what they want to do,
and they're taking action and they're accomplishing it by the
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end of day. Then there are many people that wake
up complain, bitch, complain, some more go on Facebook, TikTok, Instagram, whatever,
look at other people doing what they're doing. And then
here's the worst case, actually start pointing at them and
being envious and jealous of other people because they're doing
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the things that you wish you would, but you just
choose not to. You're jealous of them. I don't understand that.
I wish I had a relationship like that. I wish
I made more money. I wish I had a better career,
a better house, a better car. I wish my pets
listen to me. But you're not willing to do exactly
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the work. This podcast was actually created simply by a
sentence that I heard, which turned into a conversation of
a group of people that were eating dinner over near us,
and I was intrigued by it because it was just
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such a little comment. But if you're good at sensing energy,
which I do, and it sucks, it's almost like the
hum the energy of the table was good. I mean,
they're sitting to have dinner. I mean, that's a wonderful thing.
And then all of a sudden, you know, you're here,
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but you're you could hear you could hear what's going
on over there, because they were really loud, and everybody
seems happy, and obviously somebody talked about traveling, and then
this young lady just blurted out that she would like
to go to Hawaii, and then she always wanted to
go to Hawaii, and that she wishes that she can
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go to Hawaii. And then another member said that they
wish that they can go to Disney, but you know,
it costs too much. The airfare, that this to that whatever.
So I'm like, so, if it's so horrible, then why
do you wish to go? Get some coupons? Figure it out, people,
you'd be surprised how many people go to Disney every year.
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There's no reason why you can't go. Oh but no,
actually there's really no reason you can't go. If you
wanted to go bad enough, the money would actually grow
on a tree in your backyard. You'd be surprised it
does happen. We do have money growing trees when we
want things to happen. We all do, and most of us,
in situations burn our own trees down or cut them down,
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or will not allow them to grow. So, yes, there
are people the whole money tree thing. You think you
have a money tree grow in my backyard? Yeah, you
make it grow. It's you. You're the money tree. You're
the one that takes the initiative. You're the one that
sets the goals. You're the one who decides what you
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want to do, how you're going to do it, and
by when, not like I want to Corvette and I
want it today. That's that's kind of stupid. But anyway,
this conversation continued and the funny thing is here they
are talking about their dreams and goals of what they
want to do. I could swear I heard somebody say Europe.
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Now the problem is, as the conversation went on, the
mood of the table just got more and more somber
and quiet. So I finally looked over and everybody's just
like copes and dreams were just destroyed until the basket
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of Nacho's came. Then all of a sudden, everybody's like, yeah,
we're partying again. But I sat there and it's almost like,
those are the moments I don't I get up, walk
over there and sit down and go all right, So
you want to go to Hawaii, why, let's be honest, like,
is this because I saw it in a movie, or
it's because there's some connection to it, or there's a
connection to Disney, or there's a connection to Europe. And
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then my next question is, Okay, what was the last
time you went online to actually see how much airfare costs,
or you know, how much a hotel would cost, how
much would a trip to let's say Universal cost. Now
here's the thing. When you want to go to these places,
you don't just like going to the store, go with
some money in your pocket and decide to go, and
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then you go, and then that's no. You do your research.
And that's the wonderful thing about today. You don't even
have to go to a travel agent like I used
to when I was younger. You just go online and go,
I want to go to Luxembourg. How long is the flight?
You have an answer? What hotels can I stay at?
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Not only can you see how much a hotel costs,
you can do virtual tours of the lobby, the elevator,
the rooms, the view from your hotel window. Obviously, do
you want one bed, two bed, three bed, four bed
your hotel? What will it be near? Will it be
near restaurants? Will it be you know, like what exactly
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do you want? So in a way, and here's the
beauty of it. If you do Google Earth, you can
travel to these places. And I know by now there's
other apps. I haven't really researched them, but you can
travel all over the world. If you just download the
Google Earth app, you can travel anywhere in the world
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and see a monument. You can see I mean and
not just like a picture. I'm talking about like the
actual three D from above, like the skyview of it,
looking down at the leaning tower of Pizza Pizza Pisa,
the Colisseum you can go walk through. You know, there's
a huge church in Spain which I'm fascinated by. I
saw it from every angle, the streets around it. Did
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you know that the Pyramids in Egypt? This was funny.
I went to Google Earth and I did the Pyramids
of Giza, and I, as you assume from seeing it
in millions of pictures, it's you think it's in the
middle of the desert, right. Wrong, there's a subway, like
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right there, not a train, subway, a sub subway. What
they don't show you is that like, so here's the
pyramid and here's the desert right Sphinx. So now the
city has grown so much, said it's like right there,
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so you can actually be in subway eating a sub
looking out the window at the pyramids, which to me
kind of ruins it a little bit because it's like
it's just become so commercial, so touristy. But I've seen it,
I've been there, I've traveled there. So but what I'm
trying to say is that your dreams, your hopes, your aspirations,
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as if you actually really do want and remember, tell
me what you want to, tell you how to get it.
You can get it by the end of this year.
By the end of this year, you can be at
any of these places. And here's the thing. I believe
in you because you've done it before. There has been
so many things in your life that you have just
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gotten up and go I'm doing this, and you've done it.
So if by the end of this year you just
don't make it happen, bottom line is I'm sorry, you
really just don't want it, and a lot of people
don't want to hear it, but it's the truth. It
begins with passion, the passion and the lust, not just
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the need or wants, which I'll get into that too,
but when you say you really want to do something,
and honestly, what's the first thing you do when you
say you want to do something where you do the research,
because realistically, to get things going, that's how things start.
It's actually that simple. You want to take a cruise.
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So instead of telling people how much you would love
to take a cruise over and over and I want
to take a cruise and I would love to take
a cruise, and then somebody else finally takes a cruise,
and you're like, fuck that bitch, why is she taking
a cruise? You know I should be taking a cruise.
How come they get to go on vacation three times
a year. I want to go on vacation through well,
I don't make the money. That's a choice, which again
that's something else I will go into choices. But so
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my question to you is, right now, how much is
a cruise? Right now? If you had to guess how
much is a cruise? I've had people commented in the
past like, oh, a couple thousand dollars. No, actually not really.
I mean, if you want to take you a fifty
day cruise, sure, but there are so many discounts and
coupons and groupons and stuff. I've seen cruises three hundred dollars,
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four hundred dollars, five hundred dollars on average. What I've
seen is about six. It's always a weird number, like
restriction ninety seven. And that's everything. That's everything's included. If
you want a win, what do you call it? A balcony?
Which is I'm not a cruise person, never had any interest,
but if I did, I'd want about I would need
a balcony because I need to be able to go
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out and I'm not super social to go hang out
with people at the pool. So I want to have
my time to go to my own balcony and just
you know, take it all in. But everybody's different. But
I those are usually little bit more expensive. But you
don't even know where you would take a cruise? Do
you again? I've you know, I love busting people's balls
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and when they're like, you know what I want to do?
I want to take a cruise. Oh really? Where to
an island? Which one? Uh, I'm not even sure exactly,
So understand this is what I'm going for. It will
it cannot it will never happen because you don't even
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know if a cruise ship goes to that island. You
don't even know what's on the island, what you can visit.
Is it safe? Is it not safe? Is it worth
going there? Is it one of those cruises that go
to one island, two islands, five islands? And understand, this
is where I'm comparing to your decisions in life. You
know I need I need to remodel my kitchen. But
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if you know, no, I don't what well I mean
it's expensive based on what what knowledge do you have? Oh,
you didn't assume, did you see? Because you when you
assume we know that. But I mean you do your research.
You go to the home depot website, you go to
the Lowe's website, you find some local contract or subcontractors.
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Even better, you just go on Facebook. People use Facebook
and social media for the dumbest shit. You can actually
join groups that are like I want to remodel my
kitchen group. It's out there. People love to share their stories,
the good, the bad, and the ugly. And this is
where you learn from the ugly who not to work with,
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what store not to go to, what type of laminate
they used, what type of sink not to use. I
mean when I remodeled our kitchen in Connecticut, I learned
a lot about what kind of sink not to buy. Here,
you just pick up on things and it goes through
experience and or what I said, research, But you may
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the time to research, you know, like going back to
this cruise thing again, I always hear that. It's like
I want to go on a cruise, Okay, winter cruise,
summer cruise, cruise to the islands, cruise, overseas to Europe
and okay, the cruise right with? Who are you going with? Family?
Are you going with? You know? Is it gonna be
a romantic cruise or a family cruiser? You're bringing the kids?
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Now understand this topic. I'm comparing it to pretty much,
like I said, everything in your life that you say
a thousand times, I would love to do this, I
would love to do that. But how serious are you?
Problem I have with this is the habits that people
create when putting distance between the things they want and
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their present moment. So by saying you want, I actually
don't like that word. It's actually a bad word because
and I'll show you it's a lot worse than the
words you think. Because when you want something, you will
always want. When you need something, you will always need.
And this is tough for a lot of people because
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people are like, wait, wait, what, Like, so, how do
I get what I want? By doing it? By just
doing it, you don't need to go on social media
tell your entire family over and over and over that
you want to go to school, you want to go
back to school, You need to go back to school.
What you do is you just go back to school.
You go online, What kind of course, what kind of class?
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How much are the courses, how much of the you know,
what credits do you need? What school are you going to?
Is it when you're going to be staying there? Is
when that you're going to be Is it a quick thing?
Is an online thing? That's what I'm talking about. It's
not just sitting there constantly saying I want, I want,
I want, because then, of course we start in between
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that want. Remember I said you push away. Now you're
putting barriers under of well money time, like you don't
have the time again live. When you want something bad enough,
you just pull the time out of your ass. It happens.
But the bottom line is there have been many times
throughout your life. You I'm talking actually I'm talking to
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all of you right there watching that you've wanted things right,
and you've put your thoughts together and you put it
out there to universe. You've prayed, You've put it out
to friends and family, this is what I want. But
you'll quickly start putting the action toward it, okay, and
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you'd be surprised when you do. The money just starts
raining down, you know, from your tree in the backyard.
It starts growing because you're going to it. You're hugging
your tree and you're just closing your eyes and going
I see this happening now, I want, I need, I could,
I should know this is happening, This is happening, This
is happening. So my question, too, is the same thing.
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What are you willing to do to get what you
want in your life? Do any of these resonate with you.
I want to start my own business. I wish I
could travel the world. I want to write a book.
I've always wanted to get in shape. Someday I'll go
back to school. I really want to learn a new language.
I want to get into a new relationship, a better relationship.
I want to end a relationship. I want a different job.
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I want to make more money. I want to go,
you know, change my life. The problem is the request
is just not serious enough. And then weeks pass, months pass,
years pass, and the words remain the same. I want
to go on a cruise. I wish to go on
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a cruise, but the actions, for some reason, never catch up.
You never decide to actually go online and type in like,
well how much is a cruise and where would I go?
And who would I go with the dreams become static
background noise in our lives, a constant hum of unrealized
until somebody else in your life is going on a cruise.
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And like I said before, all of a sudden, the
envy of the jealousy. Yes, envy and jealousy don't lie.
And now you're like, you know how come they are
doing it? Another because they just did the work. They
did a little bit of research, They contacted somebody, they
got some telephone numbers, they called the right people, they
reserved some rooms, some boats, some ships, whatever, and before
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you know it, they had a date. Or you can
do the maybe just maybe, maybe I'll do this, Maybe
I'll do that. I'll look into it, my favorite next week,
next week, next week, which basically means you don't want it.
Yes it does, No, it doesn't, because when you want something,
you put your energy towards it. Ever, think to yourself
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that maybe, just maybe you're confusing your shoulds with your wants. Yes,
your should's with your once you should leave your partner
or your job, or be just more assertive to what
you yes, you actually want, but the others say, so
what I want? You know? Mom? Dad? The two hundred
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Facebook friends that have you know, give you their opinion,
Oh my god, you know if they say so, Like
I had a friend recently who actually just thought about this.
It's a good example for some reason, and hopefully none
of you do this, but where it was having an
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issue with their personal relationship and things just for some
reason didn't go right. So immediately this person had to
go online. And as that person said, vent And I'm like,
venting is good, but who the hell are you venting?
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Two your Facebook friends? I mean they at this point
they should change the word from friends to my Facebook
acquaintances because that's all they are. And most of them,
I don't know. I have thousands of acquaintances on Facebook.
They're not my friends. Thank you for following me and
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listening and all this stuff, but you're not my friends,
like you're just your acquaintances. I choose the word friend.
I hold great acclaim to the word friend, and it's
not something I just throw around. I don't know, It's
just it's weird to me that people are always looking
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for advice for guidance, which we should to a point
from out there, what we see, what we read. Do
you remember do you remember when you were young, or
actually yesterday and you went you go to the doctor's appointment,
to the dentist. This is before the days of this, okay,
And they had these things on tables called magazines. Remember those.
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You used to do that before scrolling. So we flipped
pages while we waited for our doctor or dentist to
call us. And as a kid, my favorite was highlight magazines.
Do you remember highlights? Oh? My god. But anyway, anyway,
some of those pages may have had a story or
something that immediately, by the time you left your root
canal because there's something you read on that magazine that
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somebody said to do for the day, it has changed
your life. By the time I get home, I'm going
to buy a Cadillac, or I'm going to start a garden,
or I'm gonna make a chicken pop pie because this
magazine said do this. Guidance is good, but you need
to start like I feel that as we get older,
we start making reminds of what's best for us. And
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I really already had dinner ready for tonight. I'm not
going to veer off and go to the supermarket to
buy all of these things for a chicken pop pie
because Gwyneth Paltrow said on this page that you know
five stars. So I just feel that when you do
that too much, you veer off, and you keep veering off,
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and you become one of these people that all you
do is listen to what celebrities say and do. And
it's just like, thank God, I've never been one to
care what celebrities think or do. I enjoy their entertainment.
I enjoy their music because that's what they do. They
entertain They don't tell me who to vote for or
what to believe in. When it comes to God, that's
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their opinion, and I think it's a beautiful thing. And
it's not that I don't listen. I take into into
thought like that makes sense, okay, but it's still my mind.
I can think for myself. Just because somebody said that
they want to do the ABC's and you know, and
I'm like, oh, maybe I should do the ABCS too,
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because they did it. Keep your plan together of what
you want to do. Remember that that list you created
at home, the things that you need to do. Focus
on those things, finished those things, because the problem is
now before you know it. As Gwyneth Paltrow said, you're
either spending all this money at checkipop pie, or you're
dumping hundreds of dollars thousands of dollars into some quick,
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fly by night hobby that really isn't your hobby, It
isn't your interest. But today you're kind of bored, so
you're gonna manifest us. And as quickly as you manifest it,
as quickly as it's over. How many of you have
half hobbies done all over the place. I knew somebody.
She was a friend, She was the wife of a friend.
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If you remember the old Honeymooners and Flendstones and all
this stuff. The main character in Lucy and I love Lucy.
It's like every week there was a new thing, a
new idea, new thought, and you know, they would put
all their money and thought into this brand new idea, this,
you know, this quick money make scheme. And I just
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feel the reason it never really panned that because it
wasn't really theirs to begin with, and it wasn't if
it was, because it can be, but it just wasn't
thought through. The end result was I'm gonna do ABC
because it makes money, or it's going to fill a
void in my life because I'm having a shitty relationship.
My partner is a piece of crap. I'm miserable. So
maybe if I start learning how to trim Bonzie trees,
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it's gonna make me happy. And I'm gonna spend a
couple hundred dollars on a bond Si tree and you know,
twenty thirty bucks for those cool little snippers, and then
it's gonna sit there and it's just I'm gonna watch
it just dry up and die and just be like,
all right on to the next. This is life. Bottom
line is I believe wholeheartedly that everything has to happen
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the way it does. Yes, even though who actually more
more likely the horrible things? This is life. These are
There are storms and there are rainbows. We need them both.
It won't rain, or complaining that it's too hot is
I'm sorry, it's very close minded and selfish. You really
think that you can prevent this? My thing is, why
would you want to? It's the circle of life. We
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need everything that happens on this planet, the good, the bad,
and the ugly. Is it has been happening since the
dawn of time and will continue well after you're gone.
So even the dumb shit you do, the poor choices
you make are fine. What Yes, even the poor choices
you make are fine. Don't make such a big deal
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about these poor choices. Every day, from morning to night,
you have to make them and will continue until your
last one. So just learn from them. And the best
lesson is that if you make a stupid one, stop
doing it again and again. Pretty simple, right, well? Is it? Is? It?
Pretty simple? But I put Jimmy, I want this and
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I know it's bad and unhealthy, but I will continue
to do the same stupid thing over and over and over.
And then now I'm laying in my hospital bed and
I have a month to live, and I'm like, oh
my god, why did I you chose to do this.
It's not going to change because you did it Tuesday,
and then you're gonna try it again next week. But
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last week, but this week, but next month. It's the
same stupid choice. You make the stupid choice because you're human,
and then you stop. If the stovetop is hot and
you touch it, you will burn your hand. Do it
again next week or next year, and guess what exactly?
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So you have should to do and want to do,
But do you want to do it? Because here's the thing.
I know this is like what think about it? Shoulds
are very heavy stuff. Once our gut reactions should quickly
get contradictory and overwhelming and guilt renting, and you know,
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do I should I really do this? Should I really
do this? The once in your life is just like
I want it ice from Sunday and I want it now.
But to keep yourself from simply going on autopilot, here's
the thing, and just doing these things. Slow down and
before making any decision, any choice, ask yourself, is this
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something I want or something I think I should do?
Take your time. Usually what I tend to do is
I do a few other things in between. If it
goes away, I never wanted it. That's the whole thing
I had when I was a kid, whenever I would
go to this We had a department store in Connecticut
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called Bradley's. And I remember being a kid, and you know,
as a kid, you see a toy that you must
have now, like now, I have to have that toy now.
And as I grew up, what I learned from my mom.
She taught me without even I don't know, not thinking
that she was teaching me. She would say put it
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back and by the time we're done shopping chopping, if
you still want it, I'll get it for you. That
was always like, but of course I want it. But
what happened was we'd go shopping and I'd see an
action figure that I really really wanted, and then she'd
be like, Okay, put it back when I have a
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lot of stuff to buy. When we leave, if you
still want it, I'll buy it for you. And more
than more than half the times, I'd find myself driving
home going, oh, yeah, I forgot about that because now
I wanted ice cream Sunday. So that action figure no
longer means anything. So think about how much money I
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saved my mom by just going, yeah, I guess I
really didn't want it. It was just a spur of
the moment thought. Again, this challenge for this podcast is
why do you keep saying you want something but you're
not doing it. What's holding you back? Is it fear?
Is it self doubt? Is it comfort or worse? Is
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it a lie that you've told yourself for so long
that you've stopped questioning whether you really ever meant it?
You really do want to go back to school, You've
been wanting to go back to school. But it's now,
it's been fourteen years and you still haven't gone back
to school. And no, not everybody's like that, because there
are people in their eighties and nineties that are going
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back to school because it's something they've always wanted and
for whatever reason, life is in the way, but they're
not allowing it to destroy their dream. I'm going back
to school before I die. Then, of course you have
words all at actions, the repetition trap, the things that
you just say over and over. No, I have been
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trapped to this problem. So have you done that? Like,
just this problem that you've created, you've manifested, and it's
not really a problem. All problems can be solved except death.
But it's like a broken record. You keep dating the
bad boy or girl instead of the good boy or girl,
and you keep going through a horrible experience, but for
some reason you keep going back. Are you? Is this you?
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Am I talking to you? Like you keep dating that
piece of shit that you know, you know it's not
gonna work out, but but in the beginning you go
through the whole But I can change them. It's like,
why when I meet somebody, what fascinates me about that person?
Is is that they like different foods that I like,
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That they like different music that I like, that they
have interesting beliefs, interesting thoughts. See, I'm not closed minded.
So if i'm if I practice a type of religion
and they practice another type of religion, I don't push
them away because they're evil and they're gonna burn. That's bullshit. No,
everybody here has. There's over four thousand religions. So you
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have yours, and that's a beautiful thing, and that's how
you cope. And I think that's wonderful. God bless you.
But on this planet there are other religions, other beliefs,
other philosophies, and people are allowed to have them. You
think that they're going to burn in health, that's fine
and dandy. They don't. This. This was a great lesson
for me because I was a Catholic school kid, ultra
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boy and everything. And I remember going to Catholic school
with nuns, as I've shared in the past, and surprisingly
there was a situation of a couple that they were
parents that were Catholic and Jewish and the son was
put in my school. I remember seventh seventh grade, maybe
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seventh and eighth two years and here. I am Catholic school.
The Catholic Catholic Catholicism is the way. It is the
only way. So now I'm sitting across this kid, Mike,
and he just says and does things and I'm like, well, like,
it's you know, it's Christmas time. We're gonna celebrate Christmas.
And he's like, no, I have a thing called which
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I used to say chinooka, but it's honikah. Honikah's not
with an H. And I was like, what, what's honikkah?
And he would explain Honikah and all this stuff and
blah blah blah, and I'm like, wait a minute. You
don't believe Jesus is our Lord and Savior. And he's like, well, no,
we believe he's that our Savior is coming. And I'm
like wait, wait what? And then of course the nuns
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are like right there, so i'd be like, guy, ask question.
So we believe that if you don't believe this, you're
going to hell. But then you have him and he
believes something completely different, so is he going to hell?
And the answer I got was such a run around,
bullshit load of crap. That just was one of those
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things that really started separating me from like religion, spirituality, philosophy,
and I was like, wait a minute, Like so you
can't tell me, you have to like again, answer with riddles,
just tell me what it is. Is he going to hell?
And I said, yeah, but you know and you know,
but believe people believe, right, So what are you telling
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me here? And like this, I was like, I don't understand.
So at this point, now, at fifty five, I pretty
much have figured out what works for me, what makes
me feel good, what I believe in, and that's all
that matters to me. I don't point fingers in anybody
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of what you believe in, what you choose to do.
All I asked to say, you don't hurt animals, you
don't hurt children, you don't hurt each other, but just
don't hurt people. But I mean, you believe what you want.
I personally right now, have friends that are in many
different religions, many different faiths, that practice many different philosophies,
and I love and respect each and every one of them,
and I think it's fascinating that they do. And that's
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what life is. That's what life is. Life is love
and loving my life and loving my life with others
and their beliefs and their strengths. And I'm not going
to go through my life pointing at people saying, well,
you're wrong and you're wrong, and because it's like so
all of a sudden, I'm right. But saying something over
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and over gives us a strange psychological comfort. Repeating that
we want to do something can make us feel as
if we're actually taking action. Ever happened. So you will say, like,
you know, I plan on doing this, I plan on
doing so I'm going to continue to say I plan
on doing something soon because it's going to happen. But
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you still haven't picked up the phone. You still haven't
scrolled to find out how much those tickets are for
that cruise. So instead you say like, I'm going to
start my business soon next year, I'll move to a
new city next year, or you know, but but why
next year? Why not the year after? Why not five years?
Why not six months? I'll just I'll just say I'm
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gonna do it, I'm doing it, I'm doing it next year.
I'm planning I'm moving to another state sometime next year. Right,
but between now and then, so what are you doing
to bring that next year to today, because here's the thing.
The problem with most of us is next year comes
and you're still planning, and then the following year. Actually, no,
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you're not planning. You're just saying that you're planning. Or
like when things change in my life, I'll finally change
that project. When when more money my favor is money.
When more money comes in there, like people have to
sing that, like if I won the lottery, shit would change.
Actually you know I wouldn't. At first, Yeah, it would
seem like it does because you'd lose your shit and
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you just buy shit that you never even wanted. Do
you know how many people want X, Y and Z.
And then they win the lottery and then instead they
get a divorce, They burn their house down, they move
out of state, they change remember the things that they wanted.
All they wanted to do is go back to school
and get a degree. But now they've become a whore
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and they're traveling the world with a person half their age.
They have left their family, their children because of money
and money. Obviously it's not evil, but it's like just
like a hammer, you can build the hammer, you can
kill somebody with a hammer. It's what you do with it.
It all becomes this whole like lying to yourself about like,
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you know, having your plans, like, oh, I plan on
I plan on building a garden. All right, you said
that four summers ago, Like what are you waiting for
for winter to come? So they can be like why
can't do it this year? I'll start next year. It
becomes a form of self soothing. The repetition replaces actual action.
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It creates a false sense of progress, like I'm there,
I am almost. I got the seeds. I bought seeds. Yeah,
you know, little ones in the packets, Yeah, I got those. Yeah.
We condition ourselves to feel good about our dreams without
ever ever committing to that. Why now, why saying is
easier than actually getting off your ass and doing it.
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How many people do have in your life? Hopefully not you?
That's spend all every life sharing out loud that you
want to do everything, but you do nothing. It makes sense.
I'll tell you why. Saying is low cost, doesn't cost anything.
Just talk out of your ass. There's no risk in
telling someone your dreams over and over and over. And
trust me, you don't realize that. Every couple of months
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you see that person again and they're like so opening
up that restaurant, Like yeah, I am like, all right cool.
Three months later, so restaurant it's happening, good good, good
where I'm not sure what kind of food, don't know.
There is no vulnerability in wishing for something. It requires
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no sacrifice, no discomfort, no exposure to failure. Action, on
the other hand, demands you're ready teed, T E D. Time, energy, discipline,
and emotional resilience and most of all, well you get it.
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So it would be TEDA action A which exposes you.
It brings you out, so you know, now you're holding yourself.
You know you accountable. It makes your dreams real, which
means that now you can't fail. You have cut out pictures,
you have contacted people, You have talked to instructors, professors.
You have talked to mechanics because you want to be
a mechanic. So you've driven down to the garage that's
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right down the street from So many people have said
that to me, like I want to be a mechanic,
Like all right, so you know, oh wow, there's a
garage down the street. So have you ever pulled in
and talked to them about it? About what being a
mechanic well, I don't want to work there. That has
nothing to do with what I'm talking about. If you
want to be a vet, you go speak to a vet.
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You want to be a mechanic, you go talk to
a mechanic. The answer is not to go and enroll
in a school first. The answer is to fine people
doing what you're doing so you can hear the good,
the bad, and the ugly of what they're doing and
why they're doing because you'd be a surprised. A lot
of people will think that, you know, oh yeah, doctors,
being a doctor is good because it makes money. Actually
doesn't anymore. I know a lot of doctors that have
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pulled out. I know doctors have become nurses because of liability,
because of insurance, and it's just so much easier. So
they still get to work and help, but they don't
want to do that. I remember when I was in
animal control every summer. Every summer, hundreds of parents would
come in with their kid children and like, oh, my
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kid wants to work with animals, and I'm like, okay,
so you know they want to do what you do,
and I'm like, she wanted to arrest for animal cruelty,
do with dead dogs, watch dogs die. Be a part
of euthanizing animals, that's what you want. And then the
kid was just looking at me like, no, I want
to pet a rabbit. That's actually a real story, and
I'm like, yeah, there's a lot more to it. Here's
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the thing. Almost everything you can think of has good
and bad, and the bad part isn't bad because when
you really want to do something, you don't see the
bad as bad. It's just a part of it. You
know that you have to deal with some horrible stuff,
but you love the entire job. So if it's like
I want to be a hairstylist, but you know I
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really don't want to stand, or I want to be
a hair stylist, but you know I don't like to
talk to people, it's like that's more of the job
is talking to people and being social to be a
hair stylist. The cutting part is actually I mean, it's
not easy, but that becomes the easiest part. That's the
part that just becomes second nature and you're just doing
it while you're talking and being social. See what I mean.
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It's it's everything, But like I said, most of all,
when you put your dreams out there, finally, instead of
just saying it you. The only person you can disappoint
is you. And that's the fear that people don't want
to They don't they're afraid to make take the initiative
because I don't want to let myself down. The pain
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of failing feels scary than the pain of never trying.
And then, of course, my favorite fear. We all know
how I feel about that stupid word, because it's a
stupid word. I see, I see, I know people personally
that fear is destroying their lives. I watch it. It
makes them sick. Their sickness, their their their habits. Everything
is controlled by fear. And the problem is, if you
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talk to them, they'll say, I know it. So why
do you want to cheat your life? Why do you
want to like live not live your life to the fullest?
And it's to live by fear. Fear of failure, fear
of success, fear of change, fear of responsibility. What if
you try and fall short, if people see you struggling,
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not make it? What if the dream turns out to
be harder than you imagine, it's more work. Oh no,
it's funny. The mind. The mind invents stories to protect itself.
It says Jimmy, Now it's not the right time, or
maybe I'm gonna put it on the back burner because
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I need more information, or I'm just not realistic right now,
or if you're I just I don't know where I
get the money from. Don't know, don't know where I
get the money from, even though there's been fifty things
that are sitting around that you've found the money for,
but for this one, I don't know where I'm gonna
get the money from. But underneath all of that is fear.
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And this fear is disguises logic, fear pretending to be reason.
And until you question these fears directly, they will rule
your life, quietly doing what you say you want to.
Often it often comes out to responsibility. If you write
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to the book, you're not a writer open to judgment.
If you start to business, you're not an entrepreneur responsible
for the outcomes. If you move across country, you're the
one who made that decision to do it, to do
I want that responsibility. But what if I write a
book and it flops. What if I start a business
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and it fails. What if I move across country and
I hate it? Avoiding action can be a way of
avoiding responsibility, because responsibility makes you vulnerable. God forbid you.
You make a poor decision. You've been making shitty decisions
your whole life. It forces you to finally stand up
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and say, I did this. I screwed up. We chose
to move. It didn't work out. Okay, so what now?
What now? You move to a different stay, You move
to a different part of a different house. Is different? Okay?
Like that's it is that easy? Hey we're not that easy.
Oh great, it is that easy. You want it? I
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want this, I want to do things, but the question
always comes out to do you really Let's get honest.
Let's be honest. You're ready. This is when we become
big boys and big girls. Do you truly want what
you say you want? Or maybe you just like the
idea of it. Everybody's doing it. Many people want the
image of being fit, but don't want the discipline it requires.
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I want to lose weight, but I gotta continue eat
ice creams and potent chips. I want to lose weight,
but I you know the gem. I don't like the gym. Well,
the funny thing is most people don't. But the thing
is they want to lose weight, so they go to
the gym and before you know it, a pound comes off,
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and then three and then five, and then you start
looking a little bit toner. And you're like, you know,
now you find yourself in the gym looking at yourself
in the mirror, going wow, this is actually working. So
you're getting hungry and hungrier, and you're you're choosing to
go to the gym more and more because you're like,
this is working, so you do more work. That's how
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it works. Instead of just wanting the image of being fit,
we want the result. But God, that process, oh, that process.
You know, I walk and I and I and I. Oh,
my body hurts. Of course it hurts. You're out of shape.
You're eating you're eating shit. I mean, you have a
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poor diet, you eat shit. You find yourself napping. You're
napping because of your diet. You're napping because of your
eating habits. You're napping because your body is just like,
stop feeding me, crap, that's why you're napping. My favorite
excuse me, one of my favorite quotes, as a body
in stays in motion. If you are sore, if something happens,
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you have to do exercise. So when you get into
an accident, when you got forbid surgery anything, and you
go to the hospital, they give you a time of rest,
they all do, but then they happen to send you
to therapy. They don't say just keep resting. They don't
say just they don't even tell you to keep popping
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pills because a lot of people are like, go pharmaceutically. Yes,
that's a part of it, but that's an evil, that
is true. But the bottom line is with that also
comes you need to stretch, you need to go to therapy.
I injured my back a few months ago and the
doctor didn't say, well, here, just pop paying pills. She
was like, no, you're going to therapy. And I went
to therapy twice a week and then once a week,
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and then I still had like four three visits, three
or four visits left. And I actually went to them
and said, you know what, I do my exercises every morning,
every night. I feel great. And surprisingly she was shocked
because it's like people usually like juice to shit out
of this and they would rather live on pills and
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be numb, because that makes sense somehow. But anyway, so
like I said, we want the end results. We don't
want to do the work, We want to be lazy
and complain. Do I love the outcome more than I'm
willing to suffer through the process? Am I in love
with the dreamer? In love with the idea of the dream?
I see myself on a cruise ship. You know you
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have to pay, you have to travel, you have to
get there, you have to like you know, you got
to pack my bags. You gotta make time to be there.
Who's going to take care of my animals? The answers
can be work can be sometimes uncomfortable, depending what it is,
but truth always is the truth. What do you want?
We often believe that one day, this is my favorite,
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one day the stars will align and everything will happen
one day that one day. Make the one day today now,
like the minute this podcast is over, make it today.
You know, hopefully one day we'll have more time, I'll
have more money, I'll have less stress, I'll be ready.
But there's no such thing as the perfect time. That's
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a crack of shit. And if you don't know that
by now, For my older listeners, life will always be messy.
There will always be obstacles, there will always be opportunities
and then loss of opportunities. The people who do get
great things are really are really rarely ready. They just do.
They just begin today today, right now. You must stop waiting.
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The right time is a myth. The right time is now,
not because now it's perfect, but because later doesn't exist.
The right time is now because later doesn't exist. Now,
what about the war between the real you and the
comfortable It's easier to just sit on the couch and
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just watch something on TV and just let the world
go by and let everybody else do the work. Graduate, travel,
make money, open businesses, Chris start dreams, and I'm just
gonna sit here, watch TV and watch other people. That's
my favorite when people watch other people on TV. To me,
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TV is entertainment. TV is not a form of research
that I live my life through others people on tea.
I don't care what people do on television. I don't
care about their stories. I want to be that person.
I want to create my own movie. My own story
is happening right now. I'm doing it. I wake up
early in the morning and I do what I need
to do to make my life happen. When you keep
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saying you want to do something, but you aren't doing it.
It's because you're comfortable with just being. This part of
you doesn't want change. It wants the familiar. It wants
what happens every day. It wants predictability. It doesn't care
about your dream It really doesn't doesn't care about your dreams.
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It cares about your safety. It's easier to sit on
this couch and live life vicariously through you, or you
or somebody else, your neighbors. But safety, here's the problem.
When you're safe, you're not growing, and comfort is not fulfillment.
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And one of my favorite things is the inner impostor, yes,
that liar inside of you. We have a lot of
people have that. Sometimes we don't take action because we
don't believe we are worthy or what we say we want.
We're like frauds for dreaming so big. That inner imposture whispers,
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who do you think you are? You're not good enough,
you don't deserve that, You're meant to always be out
of shape and fat and dump being stupid, And so
we stay small, we stay quiet, we stay silent. The
whole world is living their life. Everybody's out partying and
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becoming multi millionaires. But I am just sitting here because
I'm not worthy, I'm not good enough, and I'm just stupid.
We keep repeating the dream like a broken record, but
never believe we're truly allowed to pursue it and to
start our own story. This is where self worth and
self belief must be created. Without them, even the most
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beautiful dreams will go unrealized. The only way forward is
through radical honesty. Do you actually want this or does
it just sound nice? If I said I want it,
why haven't I moved towards it? These are the questions
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you have to ask yourself in your head. I know
I want to do this. Why haven't I done it yet?
What am I afraid of? What do I gain by
staying here and not trying? What part of me benefits
from not doing anything? Today is Monday? Oh my god?
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Wait a minute, Today is already Friday and I still
haven't done anything. You need to separate yourself from your excuses. Yes,
the E word, another fucking stupid word. You are not
your excuses, You're not your fear, You're not your past.
The moment you can see your excuses for what they are,
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you gain the power to move beyond your bullshit excuses.
You take ownership finally, of your story. It's your book, okay,
that book of your life. It's your book. It's not
the book that your parents wrote for you. And no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no
no no. You've been You've been writing in that book
since before you can write. Through your mind. You've been
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putting thoughts of what you want to do, what your
dreams are, what your goals are, who you are, want
to see yourself with? What? When you want to get married?
If you want to get married. Do you want to
have a relationship, and now I want to have a relationship.
You want to join the military? Do you want to
travel the world? Do you want to be an astronaut?
Do you want to be in the medical field. Do
you want to be a tradesperson? Could you ask yourself
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I've been hiding, I've been scared, I've been avoiding. But
I'm now ready to move. I'm ready to begin my life.
The moment of truth is and this should be not
once in a while, it should be every morning. When
you get out of bed and you put your foot
down on the bed, I'm in the floor. I mean,
this is your first step of the day. What are
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you gonna do today? Don't just saying you know, I
wake up early, and it's like, okay, you wake up early,
So what did you do? Did you just wake up
early and going back and sit down and just continue
to do nothing for that? Just lay back down and
go back to bed. You wake up, you wake up,
you get up. You know. I know people are like,
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I want to write. Have you ever written? No, write
one hundred words a day instead of dreaming of a novel? Like,
trust me if you start writing but I don't know
what to write, just write, just write anything. Basically, you're
just trying to crack that shell open. You want exercise,
but I don't know if I want to join a gym.
Here's my advice. You're ready, can't believe you're gonna hear
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me and say this right, don't don't join a gym,
not yet. Instead, walk ten minutes a day instead of thinking,
and you're seeing yourself thin and no, no, no, walk ten
minutes a day. Now. Understand walking is good for you,
but just walking generally really doesn't do much. You have
to walk faster. You gotta get your heart going walking.
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You know, body motion stays in motion, but you gotta
build it up. And then the stiffer you get, the
more you have to walk, the more you know you
not run. But it's almost like you want to get
your your heart going. If your heart isn't going, if
you went for a walk and you came and you
sat down and you're like, all right, you didn't do anything.
You got to get your heart. The whole concept is
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getting your heart to going. It's like you don't get
on a treadmill at the gym and just hit you know,
level one, and just walk for fifteen minutes and then
get off and go I was here. No, you have
to make the ramp go up to like one or two.
You got to start like this is getting a little
bit difficult, exactly because life is difficult. And all of
a sudden, I'm sweating a little bit more and I'm
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saying yes. But here's the thing. Remember what I said
about dropping pounds. All of a sudden, day three, you
get on the scale like, wait a minute, did I
lose a pound? Yeah? You lost the pound because you
were actually moving on the treadmill. You're actually walking, not
just strolling. But these are the things that help you
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begin to believe in yourself and build identity and not
just habits. So instead of saying I want to write
a book, say I'm a writer and believe it. Instead
of saying I wish I could run a business, do
the research and I'm learning to become a business owner.
Not like I'm gonna make money. It's just money happens.
If you're successful, you're gonna make money usually. So you
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want to own the identity. Become the person. I want
to be a doctor. Okay, good, So research being a doctor.
I'm going to be a doctor, doctor Gonzalez on doctor Gonzalez,
Doctor Gonzalez. Own the identity and the habits will follow
because you really become that person. Your brain will reset,
your comfort level will scream. But if you act in
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alignment with the identity of the person that you embody,
your life will shift. See yourself as a writer, go
to places, go to courses, classes, meet with other writers.
Look up how much it costs to have a book
published or have a publishing company pick it up. Find
out this information you put yourself in. It's almost like
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I want to be this is crazy, but I want
to be a batman. So what I do is I
actually like buy the batmobile, and then I buy the costume,
and then I go out and before you know it,
I'm taking karate classes and judo classes and all this stuff.
I'm becoming that person. I know that's a crazy excuse
way example, but that's kind of what I'm having you believe.
If you want to do something, put yourself in it.
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Believe in it. You want to be a groomer, dog groomer. Okay,
have you gone visited a grooming facility? Have you talked
to other groomers? Have you asked them how much they make?
Have you asked them, more importantly, how much their rent is?
How much the water bill is? You know how much
it costs to hire people, fire people? Uh? Like, what's
involved in grooming? Not just like I can cut dogs hair.
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That's when people that's when to me off. All businesses
fail because they leave it at something so simple. Is that? Like,
you know, I want to I want to be a grooer.
Like this is actually a real story, Like I want
to be a groomer. I know somebody who did this
And it's like, Okay, have you visited any grooming shops? Well, no,
I don't know anybody, know anybody? You just walk into one. Hi,
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I'm interested in becoming a groomer, and they may feel
like we're not hiring. I'm not asking you for that.
I'm asking you like, do you love doing what you do?
Why do you do it? Did you go to school
for it? There are people that go to school for
there are people that don't. They just went and got
a job sweeping at one grooming facility, and five years
later they own one. You have repeated your dreams enough.
(01:00:32):
I think you have. You have said the same thing
for way too many years. This podcast should be a
mirror looking back at you. And this reflection that I'm
giving off is are you tired of talking yet? Already?
Stop talking? Please, just stop talking. You're not broken, You're
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not lazy. You may have been misaligned by a parent.
Somebody's stupid beliefs. They're limiting beliefs. I mean, if you
want to take their limiting beliefs and put them on
you and make them your limiting beliefs, that's up to you.
But usually once we become adults, we shed that shit.
It's like cracking an egg, shed the shell, get rid
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of it. You've let fear lead you for too long.
You've let comfort, cage you and control you. You've allowed
your words to keep your soul from just jumping jumping forward.
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But you can choose differently. You can begin right now.
I mean with the simplest of things. I say to
every every podcast, it's like, you know, write down five
things you said you want to do, and do them
by the end of the year. By the end of
the year, so you have still quite a few months.
Do I really want to do this? Why haven't I
done it? That's always a big thing instead of focusing
on you know, like I want to become a dentist.
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It's like, okay, but why haven't you done it? Because
those are the things. It's not that you want to.
I believe you want to. The question is why haven't you?
And those are the obstacles that you need to look into.
What's keeping you from doing it? What are you afraid of?
And then of course, you know, imagine what would happen
if you did. If you're enrolled in a school to
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become a massage therapist and it didn't work out, what's
the worst thing that could happen? Well, then I'll owe
money to the school or I paid them and it
didn't go anywhere. Okay, so maybe save up some money
on the side, so if that happens, it's not such
a big loss. But at least you try. You get
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in there, you get involved, You stop saying you want
to and start saying, I am becoming the kind of
person that's going to make this happen. And if you
have a good friend, a good friend, tell them your dream,
you tell them your hopes, your aspirations, and you have
them check with you every week. Don't go silent. When
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you go silence all of a sudden, that's when a
year from now comes on. Let's say, so, what happened
to the massage school? Yeah, it just I don't know yet.
What do you mean you don't know? Well, you know
the money or the time or the location. And at
that part, if that person's a good friend, they'll say
to you, okay, so what where's the school? Well, I
haven't looked into it yet. What helps I believe is
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to create a do something daily list, from small to huge.
Every day, do one thing, no matter how small, no
matter how big, that moves in the direction of your
repeated goal. That's something I've always believed. Every single day,
do something towards the end, the big thing, what is
it you want? Every single day? There's to be something,
even if it's a simple conversation, if it's a phone call,
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if it's an email, if it's just an hour of
research on social media. Every single day, do something towards
your goal. You don't need more motivation. Which you need
is more movement, and that begins when you stop repeating
yourself and start responding to yourself. You already know what
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you want. The question is are you finally going to
do something about it. I hope I made you think.
I hope I made you question your existence and to
appreciate every tomorrow, every today and be grateful for all
of the experiences of the past that have made you
who you are right now. Yes, you keep this in mind.
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Choose action over excuse, purpose over comfort, and the work
that matters over the destruction distractions. I just don't. My
name is Jimmy Goan Dalas and this was the Reset
Yourself twenty two podcasts. Go forward and live your life
to the fullest. Thank you so much for listening, liking,
and especially sharing with others. It does mean a lot
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to me. Blessings true, you all be well and prosper
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