November 28, 2025 • 16 mins
Ever catch yourself saying, “I’ll be happy when I hit the goal”? Let’s break that loop. We dive into gratitude as a performance tool, not a consolation prize—how to be proud of the work you’re doing now while still chasing the next level. I walk through the mindset shift from delayed happiness to daily appreciation, and why that shift keeps you grounded, motivated, and hard to burn out.
We explore the moving goalpost problem: ambition expands your targets, which is healthy, but only if your gratitude expands too. I share personal stories from opening a gym to pursuing franchises, and how respecting the struggle made the wins mean more. You’ll hear how to reframe imposter syndrome by becoming living proof for those a few steps behind, and why specific, timely thanks to your “home team” and work team creates a powerful ripple effect. We talk simple scripts for acknowledging support, recognizing invisible privileges of progress, and using feedback—good or bad—to sharpen your edge.
The fire metaphor runs through the episode: each new level has its own heat, and fewer people choose to walk through it. That’s your advantage. Learn how to read the current season with perspective, audit the actions and inactions that built your present results, and draw a clear line between wanting more and doing the work that makes more inevitable. Gratitude in the grind won’t make you complacent; it gives you the capacity to carry bigger goals without losing yourself.
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SPEAKER_01 (00:19):
What is up, guys?
Welcome back to another episodeof the Mindset Cafe Podcast.
It's your boy Devin Gonzalez.
And I just want to say, youknow, I hope all you guys had a
wonderful Thanksgivingyesterday.
Um, and that's what I kind ofwanted to talk about today is
you know, thankfulness,gratitude, right?
(00:40):
And I'll kind of jump around onthe topic a little bit, you
know, um from what gratitudereally kind of is, what most
people think it is, but thenalso sometimes how to remember
to practice gratitude, not inthe cheesy sense, right?
(01:01):
You know, where you you knowjust text a bunch of people
saying I'm grateful for you andso forth, meaning that cheesy uh
sense.
While it does play an effectiverole, you know.
Um what I want to kind of startoff with is the topic today is
you know gratitude in the grind.
And the reason for that is a lotof times, and I'm guilty of this
(01:24):
as well, and this is you knowkind of why I wanted to bring it
to light, a lot of times we sayI'll be grateful when, or I'll
be happy when, and that when isusually when you hit your goal,
when you reach success.
But I think that what mostpeople don't realize is that if
(01:48):
you're like myself, or if you'resomeone that is ambitious, you
tend to move the goalpost, andso you'll hit the goal, realize
it's not exactly what youwanted, or that you could
achieve more, and then you'llset the goal a little further,
and that's not wrong, that's notbad at all, but at the same
(02:11):
time, remember that phrase thatyou said, I will be happy when
I'll be grateful when I hitthis, and so you have to
remember that you don'tnecessarily need to be grateful
or appreciative or proud ofyourself for achieving a goal,
(02:32):
and only then you have to begrateful that you are striving
towards that goal.
You have to be grateful for thework and and show gratitude to
yourself for the work and thededication that you've been
putting in.
And often gratitude is reallyframed as a passive, um, almost
(02:52):
peaceful emotion.
You know, you you think of itlike almost like a monk, right?
You know, the every everything'sjust calm, and yes, I'm grateful
for you know the birds and thebees and the flowers and the
trees, you know, a little rhymeand rap there.
Um, but you have to you have tobe grateful for the messiness of
(03:14):
the grind, right?
A lot of people that areambitious tend to forget this
part, and this is what is reallyneeded the most.
It often grounds you, it allowsyou to live in the moment and
also tell your subconscious thatlook, you're on the right path,
look, you're doing good, keep itup, and so waiting for that
(03:40):
breakthrough, it's almost like atrap, right?
Most people are are waiting tobe thankful or appreciative or
grateful after they've made it,and you have to think that the
current struggle or the currentgrind you're in is what your
(04:01):
past, a past version of you, wasdreaming of.
There was a day you were hopingto achieve what you've achieved.
There was a day when it was justa New Year's resolution.
It was there was a day when itwas just a a you know a sentence
(04:23):
written on paper, a thought inyour head, and now you're living
it.
Now you're in it, now you'redoing it.
So you have to be grateful forthat.
Cause without that, you're goingto end up burning yourself out
because the goalpost foryourself keeps getting moved a
little bit further each timewhen you realize you have more
(04:43):
gas in the tank.
And I know I'm speaking frompersonal experience because
anytime I've you know been inthe grind, right?
And I mean kind of never out ofthe grind, but there was a day I
hoped to open a gym, and I I Iit was a dream, it was a goal to
(05:07):
open a gym, and then the gymopened, and then the goal was to
franchise it, right?
And then the goal was to get afranchisee, and then a goal was
to get a second franchise, andso like the goalposts could
always continue to move, andthat isn't a bad thing.
That's good.
That means you're realizingyou're not being complacent,
you're not settling, but at thesame time, sometimes you have to
(05:30):
take a step back and be gratefulfor what you've accomplished.
Be grateful for all the hardwork, the days, you know, no
days off, the long nights, thenot eating out with friends if
you're on a fitness journey, youknow, the you know, meal
prepping and counting yourmacros, all those kind of
things.
Be grateful that you've stuck toit this long, that you're in the
(05:51):
grind.
Not everyone gets to experiencewhat you've experienced because
not everyone is at the levelthat you're at currently.
There's other people that arestarting and hoping to get where
you are, but you have privilegesthat you may not see, they're
almost invisible because you putin the work thus far.
(06:12):
And that's where I think youknow, even I've heard some
people with their fitnesstransformations tell me that
other people look up to themnow, and there's almost this
sense of uh what's the word,imposter syndrome, or uh, you
know, they're like, why are theylooking up to me?
(06:34):
Like, I'm not at my goal yet.
It's like, yeah, but they'relooking up to you because you're
in the same or similar situationto them at you were at one
point, and now you've put in thethe hours that no one sees,
you've done the work that no onehas done yet, and so they're
looking at you because they knowit is possible, right?
(06:54):
You're their living testimony,they're you're their living
proof that they can do it too.
So you have to be grateful foryour dedication to yourself.
That's one of the biggestthings.
You have to think that you know,not everyone has the opportunity
to go through this grind, noteveryone has the opportunity to
face these problems.
(07:16):
And when you're able to shiftthat, it allows you to take a
little bit lighter light on thecurrent situation.
It doesn't take the situationaway or make it any less
stressful, but it allows you toview it from a different lens
and be appreciative in themoment because time is the one
thing we don't get back, so whynot be grateful for every minute
(07:40):
and appreciate the life that youhave?
And if you're not happy with thelife that you have, then that's
that's on you.
You get the chance to beappreciative for what you've
achieved thus far, but you don'tneed to settle there, you don't
need to be happy in the sense ofyou know, I'm happy with what I
have.
That doesn't mean I don't wantmore.
It's okay to want more.
(08:02):
This is me giving you permissionto want more.
But now wanting more anddeserving more are two different
things, right?
Like you've heard me say on theuh the last couple episodes like
you have to put in so much workthat it is undeniable that you
wouldn't achieve that goal.
It is undeniable for you not toachieve that goal, and when
(08:23):
you're able to do that, youdeserve the goals that you get
and the results that you get.
If you're unhappy with where youcurrently are, that's a result
of all the inactions or actionsthat you've done for the past
you know, three, six, twelve,you know, months plus.
So it's your time to be gratefulthat you've accepted that and
(08:44):
now you're ready to change.
And so I think that's where thebreakthrough really happens for
people is when they realize thatthe grind and the the hustle and
the motivation, the ambitiondoesn't necessarily stop.
The goals just get bigger, butthey get bigger because of the
(09:05):
level that you're at.
At the current level, let's say,you know, or the you know, a you
a year ago, your goals now wouldseem astronomical, but for you
now, it's just the next steppingstone, right?
When you let's say when you runa marathon, you're like, man, I
have to pass, you know, what isit, 26 mile markers?
(09:26):
And you're like, man, that's alot.
But then you hit mile 25 andyou're like, I just got one
more.
Right?
You hit mile 20, and you'relike, okay, well, you know,
well, I just got to hit you knowfive more.
The next one I'm gonna hit is21.
But when you're at mile one,looking at mile marker 21,
you're like, man, that's prettyfar, right?
(09:46):
So that that's the perspectiveyou have to have on the current
grind and the current goals thatyou're working on.
Is like the past version of youhoped one day to have this
problem, hoped one day to be inthis grind.
You've been forged by theprevious fires to allow you to
be where you currently are.
Be grateful for that that youcame out on the other side of
(10:07):
those fires, and that you'vebeen forged into the person that
you are today, right?
The other thing is, you know,kind of taking a uh step, you
know, a side tangent from thatis a side tangent from you know,
you can be grateful and notcomplacent, but also like be
grateful for your team.
(10:31):
And when I say team, peopleimmediately think like sports or
think business, and no, likeyour family is your team, like
my wife is is part of my team,my kids are part of my team.
That's my home team, right?
And then I have my my Strive 11,you know, Tarzana team, and then
I have the my Strive 11 Tampateam, and you know, so there's
(10:52):
different you can have differentteams, that's fine.
You know, your friends, youknow, your friends are teams as
well, and so be grateful forthem in the in the sense of the
support that they've given you,right, and the resources that
they've given you, and theencouragement that they've given
you to not only just allow youto become who you become, but
(11:14):
also to be in your corner.
Whether it's good feedback orbad feedback, it's still
feedback, right?
Whether it's a lot of support ora little support, it's still
support.
And sometimes maybe it'sgrateful that you can be
grateful that they've given youno support, and now you are able
(11:35):
to see who's part of your innercircle or not.
It's all about just changing theperspective, changing the lens
on how you're grateful, right?
And even taking that kind of auh a step further is like be
grateful for them while you can.
Like tomorrow's not promised.
So if someone is a hugemotivator in your life, a huge
(12:00):
you know, um contributor to youachieving your goals, whether
it's through you know motivatingyou, you know, being that that
person event to from work, beingwhatever, like let them know.
Let them know you appreciatethem.
You don't have to do it everysingle day, but when something
happens, be specific.
You know, hey, I was really, Iwas really appreciative of that
feedback.
(12:20):
You know, that really helped medo X, Y, and Z.
Right?
It it takes two seconds, and nowit allows them to get the
acknowledgement and it brightensup their day.
I guarantee you that they'regonna go and you know, tell
someone that does something forthem or you know, gave them
feedback, they're gonna you knowgive them that sense of
gratitude.
And it starts to spread a littleripple effect of gratitude.
unknown (12:42):
Right?
SPEAKER_01 (12:43):
So, how many times has someone sent you actually
yesterday was Thanksgiving?
If you didn't send someone atext message or give them a call
and say happy Thanksgiving,right?
Because I know I'm guilty ofthis, and someone sent it to you
first, right?
Immediately you send it back,but then what'd you do?
You probably sent it to you knowone to you know everyone else in
(13:03):
your your phone book, and thenthat person probably got it,
they sent it back, and they'relike, damn, I need to, you know,
say happy Thanksgiving to thesepeople, and then they send it.
And that's kind of the samething with gratitude, right?
It's it's that appreciation,it's that it's that act of
kindness that isn't necessarilyrequired, but it goes a lot
(13:26):
longer and a lot further thanyou would think.
So I just want you to realize itthat wherever you're at in your
journey, in whatever journeyyou're at right now, just be
grateful.
You don't have to be complacent,you don't have to settle, you
don't have to be happy withexactly where you're at, but be
grateful for the opportunitythat you've got to go through
the fires that you've gonethrough to come out on the other
(13:48):
side of where you're at.
And if you feel like you're inthe fire right now, be grateful
that you're in the fire becauseyou're gonna come out so much
stronger.
The way I heard this quote, youknow, I'll kind of end with
this.
Um, I heard this this quote.
It was when you're walkingthrough the fire and you're and
(14:08):
you're being forged by the fire,you could essentially look at it
two ways.
You could look at it as, oh man,this is so tough.
Like, you know, why is thishappening to me?
You know, I you know, and andstart looking at it like, oh,
basically, like, woe is me, oryou know, oh poor me.
Or you can look at it as like Ifeel sorry for everyone else
(14:29):
that is gonna try to get to mylevel because they have to walk
through this fire too.
Like I feel bad for them.
Like I mean that I'm gonna comeout on the other side of this.
Like I'm grateful for being herebecause this is what's gonna
separate me from the others.
Or you can look at it as like,why, you know, and poor me, and
why do I have to face this?
And you know, because that'swhat other people are gonna say,
(14:50):
right?
And that's why every level of agoal, right?
Fitness goal, business goal,entrepreneurship, you know,
whatever.
Um there's levels to it, and ateach level, there's less and
less people.
Let's say influencers, right?
You know, same thing withinfluencers.
Like there's each level, there'sless and less people that make
(15:12):
it to that next level because ofthe fires that separate
basically level one to leveltwo, then the fire from level
two to level three.
There's another another firethat separates, and some people
aren't willing to walk throughit.
So you've already walked throughyou know X amount of fires.
Be grateful then for that youcame out on the other side.
And if you're in a fire, ifyou're in the fire right now and
(15:32):
being forged by the fire, begrateful for that, you know, the
your your current competitors atthe previous level probably
aren't going to meet you on theother side.
And then be grateful that you'regonna face another fire so that
you can get to the next levelafter that.
But I hope you guys had awonderful Thanksgiving.
I just want to let you guys knowtruly, I truly am thankful for
everyone that does listen andsupport the show.
(15:54):
And I just want to let you guysknow I appreciate you guys.
Make sure you guys share thisepisode with a friend, you know,
help spread the the act ofgratitude in the grind.
Um, if you know someone elsethat's going through the grind
right now, let them know it'sokay to be grateful.
But I'll appreciate you guys.
I love y'all.
I'll see you guys next week.
What is up, guys?
Welcome back to another episodeof the Mindset Cafe Podcast.
It's your boy Devin Gonzalez.
And I just want to say, youknow, I hope all you guys had a
wonderful Thanksgivingyesterday.
Um, and that's what I kind ofwanted to talk about today is
you know, thankfulness,gratitude, right?
(00:40):
And I'll kind of jump around onthe topic a little bit, you
know, um from what gratitudereally kind of is, what most
people think it is, but thenalso sometimes how to remember
to practice gratitude, not inthe cheesy sense, right?
(01:01):
You know, where you you knowjust text a bunch of people
saying I'm grateful for you andso forth, meaning that cheesy uh
sense.
While it does play an effectiverole, you know.
Um what I want to kind of startoff with is the topic today is
you know gratitude in the grind.
And the reason for that is a lotof times, and I'm guilty of this
(01:24):
as well, and this is you knowkind of why I wanted to bring it
to light, a lot of times we sayI'll be grateful when, or I'll
be happy when, and that when isusually when you hit your goal,
when you reach success.
But I think that what mostpeople don't realize is that if
(01:48):
you're like myself, or if you'resomeone that is ambitious, you
tend to move the goalpost, andso you'll hit the goal, realize
it's not exactly what youwanted, or that you could
achieve more, and then you'llset the goal a little further,
and that's not wrong, that's notbad at all, but at the same
(02:11):
time, remember that phrase thatyou said, I will be happy when
I'll be grateful when I hitthis, and so you have to
remember that you don'tnecessarily need to be grateful
or appreciative or proud ofyourself for achieving a goal,
(02:32):
and only then you have to begrateful that you are striving
towards that goal.
You have to be grateful for thework and and show gratitude to
yourself for the work and thededication that you've been
putting in.
And often gratitude is reallyframed as a passive, um, almost
(02:52):
peaceful emotion.
You know, you you think of itlike almost like a monk, right?
You know, the every everything'sjust calm, and yes, I'm grateful
for you know the birds and thebees and the flowers and the
trees, you know, a little rhymeand rap there.
Um, but you have to you have tobe grateful for the messiness of
(03:14):
the grind, right?
A lot of people that areambitious tend to forget this
part, and this is what is reallyneeded the most.
It often grounds you, it allowsyou to live in the moment and
also tell your subconscious thatlook, you're on the right path,
look, you're doing good, keep itup, and so waiting for that
(03:40):
breakthrough, it's almost like atrap, right?
Most people are are waiting tobe thankful or appreciative or
grateful after they've made it,and you have to think that the
current struggle or the currentgrind you're in is what your
(04:01):
past, a past version of you, wasdreaming of.
There was a day you were hopingto achieve what you've achieved.
There was a day when it was justa New Year's resolution.
It was there was a day when itwas just a a you know a sentence
(04:23):
written on paper, a thought inyour head, and now you're living
it.
Now you're in it, now you'redoing it.
So you have to be grateful forthat.
Cause without that, you're goingto end up burning yourself out
because the goalpost foryourself keeps getting moved a
little bit further each timewhen you realize you have more
(04:43):
gas in the tank.
And I know I'm speaking frompersonal experience because
anytime I've you know been inthe grind, right?
And I mean kind of never out ofthe grind, but there was a day I
hoped to open a gym, and I I Iit was a dream, it was a goal to
(05:07):
open a gym, and then the gymopened, and then the goal was to
franchise it, right?
And then the goal was to get afranchisee, and then a goal was
to get a second franchise, andso like the goalposts could
always continue to move, andthat isn't a bad thing.
That's good.
That means you're realizingyou're not being complacent,
you're not settling, but at thesame time, sometimes you have to
(05:30):
take a step back and be gratefulfor what you've accomplished.
Be grateful for all the hardwork, the days, you know, no
days off, the long nights, thenot eating out with friends if
you're on a fitness journey, youknow, the you know, meal
prepping and counting yourmacros, all those kind of
things.
Be grateful that you've stuck toit this long, that you're in the
(05:51):
grind.
Not everyone gets to experiencewhat you've experienced because
not everyone is at the levelthat you're at currently.
There's other people that arestarting and hoping to get where
you are, but you have privilegesthat you may not see, they're
almost invisible because you putin the work thus far.
(06:12):
And that's where I think youknow, even I've heard some
people with their fitnesstransformations tell me that
other people look up to themnow, and there's almost this
sense of uh what's the word,imposter syndrome, or uh, you
know, they're like, why are theylooking up to me?
(06:34):
Like, I'm not at my goal yet.
It's like, yeah, but they'relooking up to you because you're
in the same or similar situationto them at you were at one
point, and now you've put in thethe hours that no one sees,
you've done the work that no onehas done yet, and so they're
looking at you because they knowit is possible, right?
(06:54):
You're their living testimony,they're you're their living
proof that they can do it too.
So you have to be grateful foryour dedication to yourself.
That's one of the biggestthings.
You have to think that you know,not everyone has the opportunity
to go through this grind, noteveryone has the opportunity to
face these problems.
(07:16):
And when you're able to shiftthat, it allows you to take a
little bit lighter light on thecurrent situation.
It doesn't take the situationaway or make it any less
stressful, but it allows you toview it from a different lens
and be appreciative in themoment because time is the one
thing we don't get back, so whynot be grateful for every minute
(07:40):
and appreciate the life that youhave?
And if you're not happy with thelife that you have, then that's
that's on you.
You get the chance to beappreciative for what you've
achieved thus far, but you don'tneed to settle there, you don't
need to be happy in the sense ofyou know, I'm happy with what I
have.
That doesn't mean I don't wantmore.
It's okay to want more.
(08:02):
This is me giving you permissionto want more.
But now wanting more anddeserving more are two different
things, right?
Like you've heard me say on theuh the last couple episodes like
you have to put in so much workthat it is undeniable that you
wouldn't achieve that goal.
It is undeniable for you not toachieve that goal, and when
(08:23):
you're able to do that, youdeserve the goals that you get
and the results that you get.
If you're unhappy with where youcurrently are, that's a result
of all the inactions or actionsthat you've done for the past
you know, three, six, twelve,you know, months plus.
So it's your time to be gratefulthat you've accepted that and
(08:44):
now you're ready to change.
And so I think that's where thebreakthrough really happens for
people is when they realize thatthe grind and the the hustle and
the motivation, the ambitiondoesn't necessarily stop.
The goals just get bigger, butthey get bigger because of the
(09:05):
level that you're at.
At the current level, let's say,you know, or the you know, a you
a year ago, your goals now wouldseem astronomical, but for you
now, it's just the next steppingstone, right?
When you let's say when you runa marathon, you're like, man, I
have to pass, you know, what isit, 26 mile markers?
(09:26):
And you're like, man, that's alot.
But then you hit mile 25 andyou're like, I just got one
more.
Right?
You hit mile 20, and you'relike, okay, well, you know,
well, I just got to hit you knowfive more.
The next one I'm gonna hit is21.
But when you're at mile one,looking at mile marker 21,
you're like, man, that's prettyfar, right?
(09:46):
So that that's the perspectiveyou have to have on the current
grind and the current goals thatyou're working on.
Is like the past version of youhoped one day to have this
problem, hoped one day to be inthis grind.
You've been forged by theprevious fires to allow you to
be where you currently are.
Be grateful for that that youcame out on the other side of
(10:07):
those fires, and that you'vebeen forged into the person that
you are today, right?
The other thing is, you know,kind of taking a uh step, you
know, a side tangent from thatis a side tangent from you know,
you can be grateful and notcomplacent, but also like be
grateful for your team.
(10:31):
And when I say team, peopleimmediately think like sports or
think business, and no, likeyour family is your team, like
my wife is is part of my team,my kids are part of my team.
That's my home team, right?
And then I have my my Strive 11,you know, Tarzana team, and then
I have the my Strive 11 Tampateam, and you know, so there's
(10:52):
different you can have differentteams, that's fine.
You know, your friends, youknow, your friends are teams as
well, and so be grateful forthem in the in the sense of the
support that they've given you,right, and the resources that
they've given you, and theencouragement that they've given
you to not only just allow youto become who you become, but
(11:14):
also to be in your corner.
Whether it's good feedback orbad feedback, it's still
feedback, right?
Whether it's a lot of support ora little support, it's still
support.
And sometimes maybe it'sgrateful that you can be
grateful that they've given youno support, and now you are able
(11:35):
to see who's part of your innercircle or not.
It's all about just changing theperspective, changing the lens
on how you're grateful, right?
And even taking that kind of auh a step further is like be
grateful for them while you can.
Like tomorrow's not promised.
So if someone is a hugemotivator in your life, a huge
(12:00):
you know, um contributor to youachieving your goals, whether
it's through you know motivatingyou, you know, being that that
person event to from work, beingwhatever, like let them know.
Let them know you appreciatethem.
You don't have to do it everysingle day, but when something
happens, be specific.
You know, hey, I was really, Iwas really appreciative of that
feedback.
(12:20):
You know, that really helped medo X, Y, and Z.
Right?
It it takes two seconds, and nowit allows them to get the
acknowledgement and it brightensup their day.
I guarantee you that they'regonna go and you know, tell
someone that does something forthem or you know, gave them
feedback, they're gonna you knowgive them that sense of
gratitude.
And it starts to spread a littleripple effect of gratitude.
unknown (12:42):
Right?
SPEAKER_01 (12:43):
So, how many times has someone sent you actually
yesterday was Thanksgiving?
If you didn't send someone atext message or give them a call
and say happy Thanksgiving,right?
Because I know I'm guilty ofthis, and someone sent it to you
first, right?
Immediately you send it back,but then what'd you do?
You probably sent it to you knowone to you know everyone else in
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your your phone book, and thenthat person probably got it,
they sent it back, and they'relike, damn, I need to, you know,
say happy Thanksgiving to thesepeople, and then they send it.
And that's kind of the samething with gratitude, right?
It's it's that appreciation,it's that it's that act of
kindness that isn't necessarilyrequired, but it goes a lot
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longer and a lot further thanyou would think.
So I just want you to realize itthat wherever you're at in your
journey, in whatever journeyyou're at right now, just be
grateful.
You don't have to be complacent,you don't have to settle, you
don't have to be happy withexactly where you're at, but be
grateful for the opportunitythat you've got to go through
the fires that you've gonethrough to come out on the other
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side of where you're at.
And if you feel like you're inthe fire right now, be grateful
that you're in the fire becauseyou're gonna come out so much
stronger.
The way I heard this quote, youknow, I'll kind of end with
this.
Um, I heard this this quote.
It was when you're walkingthrough the fire and you're and
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you're being forged by the fire,you could essentially look at it
two ways.
You could look at it as, oh man,this is so tough.
Like, you know, why is thishappening to me?
You know, I you know, and andstart looking at it like, oh,
basically, like, woe is me, oryou know, oh poor me.
Or you can look at it as like Ifeel sorry for everyone else
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that is gonna try to get to mylevel because they have to walk
through this fire too.
Like I feel bad for them.
Like I mean that I'm gonna comeout on the other side of this.
Like I'm grateful for being herebecause this is what's gonna
separate me from the others.
Or you can look at it as like,why, you know, and poor me, and
why do I have to face this?
And you know, because that'swhat other people are gonna say,
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right?
And that's why every level of agoal, right?
Fitness goal, business goal,entrepreneurship, you know,
whatever.
Um there's levels to it, and ateach level, there's less and
less people.
Let's say influencers, right?
You know, same thing withinfluencers.
Like there's each level, there'sless and less people that make
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it to that next level because ofthe fires that separate
basically level one to leveltwo, then the fire from level
two to level three.
There's another another firethat separates, and some people
aren't willing to walk throughit.
So you've already walked throughyou know X amount of fires.
Be grateful then for that youcame out on the other side.
And if you're in a fire, ifyou're in the fire right now and
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being forged by the fire, begrateful for that, you know, the
your your current competitors atthe previous level probably
aren't going to meet you on theother side.
And then be grateful that you'regonna face another fire so that
you can get to the next levelafter that.
But I hope you guys had awonderful Thanksgiving.
I just want to let you guys knowtruly, I truly am thankful for
everyone that does listen andsupport the show.
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And I just want to let you guysknow I appreciate you guys.
Make sure you guys share thisepisode with a friend, you know,
help spread the the act ofgratitude in the grind.
Um, if you know someone elsethat's going through the grind
right now, let them know it'sokay to be grateful.
But I'll appreciate you guys.
I love y'all.
I'll see you guys next week.
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