March 28, 2025 • 16 mins
There's a growing hunger for balance in our polarized world. As extremes pull us in opposing directions, how do we find our center and regain peace? Douglas Cottrell tackles this universal struggle with refreshing clarity and practical wisdom.
The journey begins with recognizing you're already halfway there—awakening to the right questions is the crucial first step. Life unfolds in stages, with each decade bringing unique soul lessons. Understanding this progression releases the pressure to have everything figured out at once.
Cottrell offers what may be initially perceived as counterintuitive insight: resistance signals you're on the right path. "The more resistance you get, the harder it is to do, the more beneficial it is to you." What comes easily often leads nowhere, while meaningful growth requires pushing through difficulty. This perspective transforms our relationship with challenges.
Finding your way requires becoming your own person rather than seeking external validation. Too many lose their path by following others' directions or trying to please everyone. True balance emerges when you trust your inner compass and commit to your unique journey.
The practical roadmap Cottrell provides is refreshingly straightforward: decide where you want to be, work backward to create actionable steps, and focus on one goal at a time. Like building a wall brick by brick, success comes through consistent effort toward a clearly defined destination. The key is avoiding the scattered attention that pulls us off balance.
Procrastination emerges as the silent saboteur of balance. When we delay action, doubt and worry expand, often causing us to abandon goals before starting. The antidote lies in decisive action, breaking larger visions into manageable achievements, and committing to finish what you start—staying on the roller coaster ride until the end.
Ready to reclaim your balance? Join us for an episode that will help you chart your course through life's extremes and discover the peace that comes from aligned purpose and action.
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Douglas James Cottrell (00:05):
Welcome to the Wake Up, the broadcast
where curiosity leads to deeperunderstanding.
I'm your host, Douglas JamesCottrell, and my good friend and
co-host, Les Hubert, is herewith me, along with editor Jack
Bialik, as we delve into thefascinating realms of life,
metaphysics, spirituality andthe pressing questions that
shape our world.
As always, everyone my goodfriend Les has intriguing
(00:56):
questions we're going to exploretoday, and so let's get right
to it.
What is the first question ortopic today, my friend?
Les Hubert (01:05):
Good morning, Doug.
Well, the first topic todayseems to be one of great
concern by a lot of the peoplethat I have contact with, and
their concern is about gettingto the middle, like getting to
where the balance is.
They're tired of thepolarization, they're tired of
the extremes, they want peace,they want harmony, and they're
trying to find out how to get toit.
Douglas James Cottrell (01:26):
Well, that's no easy chore.
The first thing iscongratulations.
You have awakened.
You're asking the rightquestions, my friends.
L ife is such a way that itleads us in many directions as
we try to find our way, fromwhen we're young people and we
go through adulthood and webecome a little wiser as we go
(01:46):
through age.
But you know, that question isalways there, Les.
It's like how to find my way?
What's going on with the world?
What's happening?
How do I find the truth?
Where is the middle of the road?
How can I sleep at night?
How can I stop grinding myteeth at night worrying about
the next day?
Well, the answer is simply toknow that you're 50% of the way.
(02:09):
You're asking the rightquestion.
Now, remember, life is likegoing to university.
These different aspects of lifethat you go through every
decade, there's a major soullesson, a major experience, from
1 to 10, from 10 to 20, 20 to30, etc.
(02:30):
S o realize this is not the end.
You don't just live once andhow well you do or how not well
you do, that's it.
That is not the case.
The understanding thateverything of value is hard.
It's hard to get, it's hard tofigure out, it's hard to do.
Arnold once said getting upout of bed is a struggle.
Learn to enjoy the struggle.
(02:51):
And when I heard him say that,I said thank you, Arnold, you
big, powerful weightlifting guy.
Must be really hard for a guythat weighs 300 pounds of muscle
to get out of bed.
Never mind me.
But anyway, the point being isyeah, it's a struggle,
everything's a struggle, andthis is a secret you should know
, my friends (03:06):
the more resistance you get, the harder
it is to do, the more beneficialit is to you, the bigger the
reward, the bigger the payoff.
So when you're feeling thatpushback, you're on the right
path.
If it was easy, it's usuallytaking you down some trail to a
dead end.
Don't listen to anyone else.
(03:28):
This is the point.
Be your own person.
Listen to yourself.
Don't allow yourself to bedissuaded.
Don't listen to somebody givingyou, "This is easy, this is
simple.
All you have to do is.
.
.
" and you take yourself awayfrom your path and you start
listening to somebody elsetelling you what to do, what the
(03:48):
right thing is, even though youknow inside it's not.
You may have mentalreservations, but you still do
it.
And what happens, bam, you fallright on your face.
Well, after a while, when youkeep getting these emotional
contusions and abrasions, youget a little bruise, don't you?
And so you become leery, afraid, scared.
(04:09):
And then what happens?
You give up being your own self, your own person, making your
own mistakes, making your owndirections and getting your own
rewards.
So here's the story.
You look at all the motivationalpeople and Les and I and Jack
we've, on our other programs, wehave interviewed many, many,
(04:30):
many top-rated motivationalpeople, and the one thing that
it comes down to is wake up, doit.
Do it, because procrastinationis well, it's the big sin, if I
can call it that.
But the longer youprocrastinate at doing it, it
gives somebody else theopportunity to jump in and steal
your idea, more exactly put itforward when you didn't get it
(04:52):
done.
When you procrastinate, youstart to doubt and you worry,
and that's like a toothache, anabscessed tooth.
The more you procrastinate, themore you worry what happens,
the more the poison gets intoyour mind and therefore you give
up before you even start.
So the motivational people areall about yeah, yeah, rah, rah,
(05:13):
get going.
We have a very famous man thattold us the difference between
affirmation and afformation.
Affirmation is over and overwords that you don't believe.
Afformation is you go and youdo it.
You form a plan and you get itdone Wisdom.
So the answer to the questionis when people are lost, get a
map out.
What do you mean?
(05:34):
Get a map?
Is there a map?
Is there a blueprint?
Well, of course there is.
What do you want to do?
What do you like to do?
What is your end plan for yourlife?
Where do you see yourself in 20years?
That starts the plan.
Now.
Understand this, my friends.
I'm not a master of the mind,but I am somewhat knowledgeable
(05:55):
from the 50 years I've looked atmetaphysics, intuition,
telepathy, the spiritual gifts,understanding brainwaves, and on
and on and on.
Dream interpretation and dreams, etc.
The one thing is to understandthat when you have your mind
working intellectually, you areworking chaotically.
The mind is supposed to work inchaos all over the place.
(06:19):
The most successful people inthe world pick one course, one
direction, and they stick to it.
They don't stop in mid-course,they don't get distracted and do
three or four things at thesame time.
They have laser focus on wherethey want to go, and that is one
of the major points in how toget out of this confusion, this
(06:41):
where you're lost.
Now, what do you want to do?
Well, you probably want to doall kinds of things, and it
takes a little while to discernwhat is it you want to do.
This is where dreams andvisions come in.
You pray for a dream, you havea dream, you see yourself in the
future and then, oh my gosh,now the map is starting to form.
I have a destination.
It's like you want to take atrip to some exotic place.
(07:04):
First you pick the place, thenyou work backwards, don't you?
What's the hotel I'm going tostay?
What's the airline I'm going totake?
How am I going to get to theairport?
What taxi do I need?
What's in my bag?
What do I put in my bag?
And then I buy my ticket tostart.
So that's how life is to getout of the situation.
You work backwards, pick whereyou want to be two years from
(07:26):
now, and then work backwards.
How are you going to get there?
And don't say I'm going to winthe lottery or somebody's going
to hand me something.
That is not going to happen.
You have two things in your liferesponsibility and duty.
Responsibilities you can handoff to people like your
accountant to do your books orsomebody to cook your meals, but
(07:46):
your duty is only for you.
Your success is only for you.
Remember power is never given,it's taken.
The same with success (07:58):
it's never given, it's taken.
When you pray, you're asking andyou have to take the prayer, w
hen it arrives.
Take advantage of it.
You can pray for all kinds ofmoney and somebody comes by and
says, well, here's $10.
No, no, no, it's okay, I don'tneed it.
Well, what have you just done?
You've shut yourself down,you've negated your prayer.
(08:21):
So, laser focus, decide whereyou're going to be two years
from now and remember thegreatest failure everybody-- I
was going to say, everybodyfails at, but okay, let's say--
the greatest failure everybodyacquires is that they don't
start off something and finishit.
They quit.
It's like a roller coaster ride.
(08:41):
Right, that's how life is.
As long as you stay on the ride, you're going to get to the end
.
Too many people jump off at thehigh or the low part.
So having faith in yourself isthe point.
If you have faith in yourselfand you have willpower and you
don't care to people- please,you don't ask people what to do
and you don't embarrass it ifthey don't appreciate or approve
(09:04):
of what you're doing.
So you don't try to pleasepeople.
You're gonna get back on thepath.
You're gonna be like, yeah, Ican do that.
Remember when you were a kid,say I wanna ride that bicycle.
People said, oh, you might gethurt.
Let me ride it, I want to gofor it.
How does it work?
Right, how do I stop it?
Yeah, let's find that out.
Being well, you're already onthe bike and you don't know how
(09:24):
to stop it.
Okay, so there's learninglessons along the way, and you
might fall down and skin yourknee, just like a kid riding the
bicycle.
But have you ever seen a kidstop?
No, they get back up and theytry it again, knees bleeding,
mommy's all in a panic and thelittle boy says it's okay.
The little girl says, hey, Ican do this, mommy, it's okay.
And so they do it.
(09:45):
So there are half a dozendifferent things to get out of
the quagmire you find yourselfin, my friends.
Wake up, you can do this.
You can do this, you're alive.
You know the old story about howmany sperm were released to and
to, uh, get into an egg andmake a person?
One, and that was you.
(10:08):
You're a winner already.
You're a winner.
So what was the thing that thatgot you from being a sperm to,
you know, fertilize an egg andbecoming a person?
Y our willpower, your desire,your nature.
And so you're already a winner.
Okay, don't pick somethingthat's too hard.
Pick something that's easy todo.
(10:28):
Les, I found in my life thatpeople want to go the hard way.
They don't want to go the easyway.
You know, let me walk up thatrickety staircase up to the
fourth floor, but there's anelevator just over here.
No, no, no.
I want to take the rickety oldstairs that I might fall off or
break my neck.
Why is that?
Why do people do that?
(10:48):
One of those mysteries of theuniverse, my friends.
So swallow your ego, get on theelevator and enjoy the ride.
It's simple as that.
Les Hubert (11:00):
It does.
Yeah, I used to be like thatwhen I was a younger man and my
friends were like why do youalways want to do things the
hard way?
I thought I don't know, butthat's how I'm wired.
But I learned through time andwisdom that was not the way to
go.
Douglas James Cottrell (11:12):
No, that's called youthful
exuberance.
And as an old man looks back andsays you know, the only thing
wasted on the young is theiryouth.
Me too, you know.
That's the thing about gettingolder, my friends.
You get wiser.
But remember, do it now, don'twait, don't put it off.
(11:32):
You know, when I get older I'lltake the trip.
Never going to happen.
You want to learn how to goskydiving?
Don't wait till you're my age.
Do it now.
When you get to my age, you'regoing to go.
No, thank you.
Jumping out of a perfectly goodairplane is not logical, let me
tell you.
S o do it now.
(11:53):
Okay, to take risks.
The younger you are, take risks.
As you get to middle age, well,you've got to reduce the risk
and you've got to be more, let'ssay, wiser.
And you contemplate what you'regoing to do.
So aim low, have small goalsthat you can acquire along the
way to get to the big goal.
(12:13):
But you have to have the biggoal and then set little goals
or steps of achievement.
And then here is the point,here's the secret: just work on
the next step, the next goal,order of events.
Don't go beyond it, becauseyou'll get .
W hen when you step to the nextgoal.
And you get it, ta-da.
(12:35):
Now you look at the next one,the, the next goal, and you
don't go beyond that, because asyou get to these next goals,
you might modify the future, butyou might know something more
when you get there than when youstarted out, and then you can
make better choices.
So that's the point.
There's five or six steps totake.
But here, start now.
Decide where you want to be.
(12:56):
Remember when you look at.
.
.
this this is something whenthis occurred to me, it was just
astoundingly .
.
.
when When you look at a houseand you see a bricklayer putting
the bricks down in the house,right, one brick at a time you
walk past the house in themorning, you walk back in the
(13:17):
afternoon and half the wall is .
One one brick at a time.
And that's how you have to takethose successes.
That's how you have to get towhere you want to be.
So what was the question?
Again, remind our audience, Les.
Les Hubert (13:29):
Well, how to basically get back to balance
and that's interesting becausenobody ever thinks of balance as
a destination and to see itthrough to get there.
But you've just given us somegreat guidelines, Doug.
Douglas James Cottrell (13:40):
Yeah, remember, you can't go in that
many directions.Five Five, I'mholding my hand up.
You can only go in onedirection and the key is go to
the end.
Go to the end.
When you go to say, go toschool, take a course in
something or other, most peoplewill quit the course before they
(14:02):
get to the end.
That's why, when you go tothose classes in the beginning
there's people standing aroundtheir room.
There's standing room only.
All the desks are filled up.
They're like holy moly, look atall the people like this place.
Well, because the peoplerunning the course, once they
get the money from everybody,they know there's only going to
be two or four people at the endof the 10-week course.
That is a fact.
(14:25):
So when I found that out, Ifound the amazing thing is that
take your time in making adecision, but when you decide to
do something, you go thedistance.
You go for the 10-week course.
You go 10 weeks, even if itgets boring, or you don't
understand it or it's not whatyou thought it was.
Never quit the roller coaster.
(14:46):
Stay to the end.
Les Hubert (14:49):
Thank
Douglas James Cottrell (14:50):
How do you get back in balance?
There are several ways, but itstarts up here, my friends, make
a choice.
Find the ultimate goal.
Step back.
Planning and then follow thosesteps without fail and believe
in yourself.
Read biographies of mostsuccessful people.
You'll find many of them failedat least well many times, and
(15:15):
they finally got it right.
But what were they learningevery time they failed?
Not to make the same mistakestwice.
So believe in yourself, loveyourself and wake up.
(15:50):
Until next time, keepquestioning, keep seeking and
stay awake.
I'm your host, Douglas Cottrell.
Until next time.
God bless you, my friends.
Welcome to the Wake Up, the broadcast
where curiosity leads to deeperunderstanding.
I'm your host, Douglas JamesCottrell, and my good friend and
co-host, Les Hubert, is herewith me, along with editor Jack
Bialik, as we delve into thefascinating realms of life,
metaphysics, spirituality andthe pressing questions that
shape our world.
As always, everyone my goodfriend Les has intriguing
(00:56):
questions we're going to exploretoday, and so let's get right
to it.
What is the first question ortopic today, my friend?
Les Hubert (01:05):
Good morning, Doug.
Well, the first topic todayseems to be one of great
concern by a lot of the peoplethat I have contact with, and
their concern is about gettingto the middle, like getting to
where the balance is.
They're tired of thepolarization, they're tired of
the extremes, they want peace,they want harmony, and they're
trying to find out how to get toit.
Douglas James Cottrell (01:26):
Well, that's no easy chore.
The first thing iscongratulations.
You have awakened.
You're asking the rightquestions, my friends.
L ife is such a way that itleads us in many directions as
we try to find our way, fromwhen we're young people and we
go through adulthood and webecome a little wiser as we go
(01:46):
through age.
But you know, that question isalways there, Les.
It's like how to find my way?
What's going on with the world?
What's happening?
How do I find the truth?
Where is the middle of the road?
How can I sleep at night?
How can I stop grinding myteeth at night worrying about
the next day?
Well, the answer is simply toknow that you're 50% of the way.
(02:09):
You're asking the rightquestion.
Now, remember, life is likegoing to university.
These different aspects of lifethat you go through every
decade, there's a major soullesson, a major experience, from
1 to 10, from 10 to 20, 20 to30, etc.
(02:30):
S o realize this is not the end.
You don't just live once andhow well you do or how not well
you do, that's it.
That is not the case.
The understanding thateverything of value is hard.
It's hard to get, it's hard tofigure out, it's hard to do.
Arnold once said getting upout of bed is a struggle.
Learn to enjoy the struggle.
(02:51):
And when I heard him say that,I said thank you, Arnold, you
big, powerful weightlifting guy.
Must be really hard for a guythat weighs 300 pounds of muscle
to get out of bed.
Never mind me.
But anyway, the point being isyeah, it's a struggle,
everything's a struggle, andthis is a secret you should know
, my friends (03:06):
the more resistance you get, the harder
it is to do, the more beneficialit is to you, the bigger the
reward, the bigger the payoff.
So when you're feeling thatpushback, you're on the right
path.
If it was easy, it's usuallytaking you down some trail to a
dead end.
Don't listen to anyone else.
(03:28):
This is the point.
Be your own person.
Listen to yourself.
Don't allow yourself to bedissuaded.
Don't listen to somebody givingyou, "This is easy, this is
simple.
All you have to do is.
.
.
" and you take yourself awayfrom your path and you start
listening to somebody elsetelling you what to do, what the
(03:48):
right thing is, even though youknow inside it's not.
You may have mentalreservations, but you still do
it.
And what happens, bam, you fallright on your face.
Well, after a while, when youkeep getting these emotional
contusions and abrasions, youget a little bruise, don't you?
And so you become leery, afraid, scared.
(04:09):
And then what happens?
You give up being your own self, your own person, making your
own mistakes, making your owndirections and getting your own
rewards.
So here's the story.
You look at all the motivationalpeople and Les and I and Jack
we've, on our other programs, wehave interviewed many, many,
(04:30):
many top-rated motivationalpeople, and the one thing that
it comes down to is wake up, doit.
Do it, because procrastinationis well, it's the big sin, if I
can call it that.
But the longer youprocrastinate at doing it, it
gives somebody else theopportunity to jump in and steal
your idea, more exactly put itforward when you didn't get it
(04:52):
done.
When you procrastinate, youstart to doubt and you worry,
and that's like a toothache, anabscessed tooth.
The more you procrastinate, themore you worry what happens,
the more the poison gets intoyour mind and therefore you give
up before you even start.
So the motivational people areall about yeah, yeah, rah, rah,
(05:13):
get going.
We have a very famous man thattold us the difference between
affirmation and afformation.
Affirmation is over and overwords that you don't believe.
Afformation is you go and youdo it.
You form a plan and you get itdone Wisdom.
So the answer to the questionis when people are lost, get a
map out.
What do you mean?
(05:34):
Get a map?
Is there a map?
Is there a blueprint?
Well, of course there is.
What do you want to do?
What do you like to do?
What is your end plan for yourlife?
Where do you see yourself in 20years?
That starts the plan.
Now.
Understand this, my friends.
I'm not a master of the mind,but I am somewhat knowledgeable
(05:55):
from the 50 years I've looked atmetaphysics, intuition,
telepathy, the spiritual gifts,understanding brainwaves, and on
and on and on.
Dream interpretation and dreams, etc.
The one thing is to understandthat when you have your mind
working intellectually, you areworking chaotically.
The mind is supposed to work inchaos all over the place.
(06:19):
The most successful people inthe world pick one course, one
direction, and they stick to it.
They don't stop in mid-course,they don't get distracted and do
three or four things at thesame time.
They have laser focus on wherethey want to go, and that is one
of the major points in how toget out of this confusion, this
(06:41):
where you're lost.
Now, what do you want to do?
Well, you probably want to doall kinds of things, and it
takes a little while to discernwhat is it you want to do.
This is where dreams andvisions come in.
You pray for a dream, you havea dream, you see yourself in the
future and then, oh my gosh,now the map is starting to form.
I have a destination.
It's like you want to take atrip to some exotic place.
(07:04):
First you pick the place, thenyou work backwards, don't you?
What's the hotel I'm going tostay?
What's the airline I'm going totake?
How am I going to get to theairport?
What taxi do I need?
What's in my bag?
What do I put in my bag?
And then I buy my ticket tostart.
So that's how life is to getout of the situation.
You work backwards, pick whereyou want to be two years from
(07:26):
now, and then work backwards.
How are you going to get there?
And don't say I'm going to winthe lottery or somebody's going
to hand me something.
That is not going to happen.
You have two things in your liferesponsibility and duty.
Responsibilities you can handoff to people like your
accountant to do your books orsomebody to cook your meals, but
(07:46):
your duty is only for you.
Your success is only for you.
Remember power is never given,it's taken.
The same with success (07:58):
it's never given, it's taken.
When you pray, you're asking andyou have to take the prayer, w
hen it arrives.
Take advantage of it.
You can pray for all kinds ofmoney and somebody comes by and
says, well, here's $10.
No, no, no, it's okay, I don'tneed it.
Well, what have you just done?
You've shut yourself down,you've negated your prayer.
(08:21):
So, laser focus, decide whereyou're going to be two years
from now and remember thegreatest failure everybody-- I
was going to say, everybodyfails at, but okay, let's say--
the greatest failure everybodyacquires is that they don't
start off something and finishit.
They quit.
It's like a roller coaster ride.
(08:41):
Right, that's how life is.
As long as you stay on the ride, you're going to get to the end
.
Too many people jump off at thehigh or the low part.
So having faith in yourself isthe point.
If you have faith in yourselfand you have willpower and you
don't care to people- please,you don't ask people what to do
and you don't embarrass it ifthey don't appreciate or approve
(09:04):
of what you're doing.
So you don't try to pleasepeople.
You're gonna get back on thepath.
You're gonna be like, yeah, Ican do that.
Remember when you were a kid,say I wanna ride that bicycle.
People said, oh, you might gethurt.
Let me ride it, I want to gofor it.
How does it work?
Right, how do I stop it?
Yeah, let's find that out.
Being well, you're already onthe bike and you don't know how
(09:24):
to stop it.
Okay, so there's learninglessons along the way, and you
might fall down and skin yourknee, just like a kid riding the
bicycle.
But have you ever seen a kidstop?
No, they get back up and theytry it again, knees bleeding,
mommy's all in a panic and thelittle boy says it's okay.
The little girl says, hey, Ican do this, mommy, it's okay.
And so they do it.
(09:45):
So there are half a dozendifferent things to get out of
the quagmire you find yourselfin, my friends.
Wake up, you can do this.
You can do this, you're alive.
You know the old story about howmany sperm were released to and
to, uh, get into an egg andmake a person?
One, and that was you.
(10:08):
You're a winner already.
You're a winner.
So what was the thing that thatgot you from being a sperm to,
you know, fertilize an egg andbecoming a person?
Y our willpower, your desire,your nature.
And so you're already a winner.
Okay, don't pick somethingthat's too hard.
Pick something that's easy todo.
(10:28):
Les, I found in my life thatpeople want to go the hard way.
They don't want to go the easyway.
You know, let me walk up thatrickety staircase up to the
fourth floor, but there's anelevator just over here.
No, no, no.
I want to take the rickety oldstairs that I might fall off or
break my neck.
Why is that?
Why do people do that?
(10:48):
One of those mysteries of theuniverse, my friends.
So swallow your ego, get on theelevator and enjoy the ride.
It's simple as that.
Les Hubert (11:00):
It does.
Yeah, I used to be like thatwhen I was a younger man and my
friends were like why do youalways want to do things the
hard way?
I thought I don't know, butthat's how I'm wired.
But I learned through time andwisdom that was not the way to
go.
Douglas James Cottrell (11:12):
No, that's called youthful
exuberance.
And as an old man looks back andsays you know, the only thing
wasted on the young is theiryouth.
Me too, you know.
That's the thing about gettingolder, my friends.
You get wiser.
But remember, do it now, don'twait, don't put it off.
(11:32):
You know, when I get older I'lltake the trip.
Never going to happen.
You want to learn how to goskydiving?
Don't wait till you're my age.
Do it now.
When you get to my age, you'regoing to go.
No, thank you.
Jumping out of a perfectly goodairplane is not logical, let me
tell you.
S o do it now.
(11:53):
Okay, to take risks.
The younger you are, take risks.
As you get to middle age, well,you've got to reduce the risk
and you've got to be more, let'ssay, wiser.
And you contemplate what you'regoing to do.
So aim low, have small goalsthat you can acquire along the
way to get to the big goal.
(12:13):
But you have to have the biggoal and then set little goals
or steps of achievement.
And then here is the point,here's the secret: just work on
the next step, the next goal,order of events.
Don't go beyond it, becauseyou'll get .
W hen when you step to the nextgoal.
And you get it, ta-da.
(12:35):
Now you look at the next one,the, the next goal, and you
don't go beyond that, because asyou get to these next goals,
you might modify the future, butyou might know something more
when you get there than when youstarted out, and then you can
make better choices.
So that's the point.
There's five or six steps totake.
But here, start now.
Decide where you want to be.
(12:56):
Remember when you look at.
.
.
this this is something whenthis occurred to me, it was just
astoundingly .
.
.
when When you look at a houseand you see a bricklayer putting
the bricks down in the house,right, one brick at a time you
walk past the house in themorning, you walk back in the
(13:17):
afternoon and half the wall is .
One one brick at a time.
And that's how you have to takethose successes.
That's how you have to get towhere you want to be.
So what was the question?
Again, remind our audience, Les.
Les Hubert (13:29):
Well, how to basically get back to balance
and that's interesting becausenobody ever thinks of balance as
a destination and to see itthrough to get there.
But you've just given us somegreat guidelines, Doug.
Douglas James Cottrell (13:40):
Yeah, remember, you can't go in that
many directions.Five Five, I'mholding my hand up.
You can only go in onedirection and the key is go to
the end.
Go to the end.
When you go to say, go toschool, take a course in
something or other, most peoplewill quit the course before they
(14:02):
get to the end.
That's why, when you go tothose classes in the beginning
there's people standing aroundtheir room.
There's standing room only.
All the desks are filled up.
They're like holy moly, look atall the people like this place.
Well, because the peoplerunning the course, once they
get the money from everybody,they know there's only going to
be two or four people at the endof the 10-week course.
That is a fact.
(14:25):
So when I found that out, Ifound the amazing thing is that
take your time in making adecision, but when you decide to
do something, you go thedistance.
You go for the 10-week course.
You go 10 weeks, even if itgets boring, or you don't
understand it or it's not whatyou thought it was.
Never quit the roller coaster.
(14:46):
Stay to the end.
Les Hubert (14:49):
Thank
Douglas James Cottrell (14:50):
How do you get back in balance?
There are several ways, but itstarts up here, my friends, make
a choice.
Find the ultimate goal.
Step back.
Planning and then follow thosesteps without fail and believe
in yourself.
Read biographies of mostsuccessful people.
You'll find many of them failedat least well many times, and
(15:15):
they finally got it right.
But what were they learningevery time they failed?
Not to make the same mistakestwice.
So believe in yourself, loveyourself and wake up.
(15:50):
Until next time, keepquestioning, keep seeking and
stay awake.
I'm your host, Douglas Cottrell.
Until next time.
God bless you, my friends.
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