May 31, 2025 • 21 mins
What if you could write your life memoir before you reach your final chapter? This revolutionary perspective shifts how we approach our personal narrative—instead of waiting until our later years to reflect on what was, we can actively shape what will be.
The traditional memoir looks backward, often with a sense of finality. But this episode challenges you to view your life story as an unfinished masterpiece, one where you still hold the pen. For Gen Z, millennials, and anyone seeking meaningful change, this mindset offers a powerful framework for transformation. The beauty lies in recognizing that acknowledging past mistakes doesn't mean accepting them as your final legacy.
We explore the four crucial steps to restarting your life story: admitting where you currently stand, gathering the necessary tools for change, mapping your path forward, and clearly envisioning your destination. Through personal stories and practical insights, Dr. Jason Wiggins demonstrates how taking full responsibility for your circumstances—regardless of your starting point—empowers you to create meaningful change. The most compelling life memoirs aren't chronicles of perfect journeys, but rather testimonies of resilience, growth, and the positive impact we've had on others along the way.
Whether you're facing relationship challenges, career setbacks, or personal regrets, this episode reminds you that it's never too late to begin a new chapter. By adopting a memoir mindset now, you can ensure that when you do reach your final pages, you'll look back without regret, knowing you lived deliberately and purposefully. Subscribe and join us as we continue exploring motivation, inspiration, and leadership for creating the life story you truly want to write.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
And welcome to your Motivational Gen Z and
Millennial Expert Podcast.
I am your host, my name is DrJason Wiggins and it is a
pleasure to be here.
I hope everybody is having awonderful time, wherever you may
be, as you listen to this.
Let's get our heads right andlet's jump into today's episode.
(00:21):
We have an exciting episodethat is based around your life
memoir, and when you think aboutyour life memoir we would think
about you're older, you're inyour later years and you're kind
of going back to thinking abouthow things went.
What kind of mistakes mighthave you made, what were some of
(00:43):
your successes, what was someof the path and collateral
damage that may have been causedgetting to the point where you
are today Mistakes, positivethings.
Well, let's look at a memoir assomething that doesn't have to
be at the end of your life, andwhen you look in retrospect,
(01:06):
let's say you still have time tomake the improvements, to take
the steps necessary to get towhere you want to be, and that's
what we're going to talk abouttoday.
So this podcast is for Gen Zs,millennials and really anyone
who has the desire to want tocontinue to improve your life
(01:29):
and you're still looking fortools and ways to bring success
for your future outcomes, andthat is why today we're going to
kind of lay the path down abouthow we can move forward when,
maybe, things have stopped.
A life memoir is about thingshave now stopped.
(01:52):
We sit here where we presentlyare and we try to decide okay,
what course of action do I takenow?
Maybe I've made a lot ofmistakes.
Maybe I was incarcerated.
Maybe I married somebody thatthat wasn't the right move.
(02:12):
Maybe I didn't treat my kidsthe way they should have.
Maybe I was a bully and Iregret it back in high school.
I mean all of these things.
Maybe you have some collateraldamage that you've caused along
the way.
But it's not time to give up.
It's time to look at what youmay have done and make that
(02:35):
decision.
What can I do better today?
And moving forward?
Yes, it might make to where youhave to make amends for some of
the actions you had.
You might have to look back atsome of the tools you don't
currently have that you need toget trained on.
(02:55):
Train yourself for success, andthat is where life begins.
Life doesn't just begin atbirth.
Life doesn't just begin atbirth.
Life begins when you make thatsudden that drastic, that
methodical change in your lifethat is going to propel you to
(03:17):
make decisions that will helpyou and maybe your family, your
friends and those importantpeople around you successful, or
they understand that you'vemade the changes for the better.
And that's why a life memoir isabout not just what you've done
(03:49):
the good and the bad but it'sabout how you're going to
portray yourself moving forwardin the future and making the
ultimate decision that you aregoing to improve your life and
those around you.
That is why, no matter whatmistakes you've made, it doesn't
matter you will have to makeamends for some of them.
It's similar to going to AA.
You have to admit you have aproblem.
Once you realize you have aproblem, that's where everything
(04:14):
starts to come in place.
But if you don't think you havea problem, you don't think that
you need to push forward andsucceed and really try to create
a path for success, then whathappens?
You just dwell in the path ofdestruction that you may have
set yourself up to fail up atthis point Now, it doesn't mean
(04:38):
you failed ultimately.
It just means maybe some of ushave taken the wrong decision,
the wrong path, and that'screated turmoil and you sit here
, maybe at this point, going I'mnot motivated, I'm in a life of
turmoil, I don't know a way out.
There is a way out.
(05:01):
There always is a way out, nomatter what.
If you look at a hero, aportrayed hero, in a movie, what
happens?
Yes, I understand it's mythical, it's a movie, it's acting, but
they always have a way out.
And that's why, as individuals,as leaders, as employees,
(05:25):
whatever it may be and howyou're impacted, we've got to
determine first, I have aproblem.
Second, what is my path to getout of this potential mess or
how can I improve my life?
Third is, what tools do I needto get out of this?
(05:49):
And then, fourth, what is theend goal?
The end goal is how youperceive yourself.
So that's why I would saynumber one is also get a journal
, start writing the things thatare getting in your way to
really, at the end of your life,have a completed life memoir
(06:14):
about the great things you'vedone in your life and for those
around you.
It does not take somebody tocreate something fantastic.
We're not all going to be ElonMusk, bill Gates, steve Jobs,
the President of the UnitedStates.
We're not going to have thatpower.
The majority of us are going tobe a normal part of
(06:38):
civilization, and that is okay.
There's nothing wrong with that, as long as we lived our life
with no regrets.
I like to share this storybecause, for me, this could have
been a life of regret for me ifI didn't make one simple
decision in my life, and thatdecision was to not quit when I
(07:04):
was going towards my PhD.
It's an uphill climb.
It's a lot of sacrifice.
It's a lot of giving up on someof the great things that you
don't get to do.
You miss out on certain thingsas you continue to plug away to
reach that end goal of obtaininga PhD and having a terminal
(07:27):
degree.
I got up to the plateau where,at that point, I wanted to quit
a thousand times, a milliontimes.
I just kept on telling myselfevery single day I wake up, I
will regret that I did notcomplete something that I put my
heart and soul and financesinto.
(07:48):
And that's when I looked, and Ilooked down that slope, down
that hill, down that plateau,and I said I am going to push
forward.
I am not going to live a day ofregret, and that's why many
will say that if you cancomplete a PhD, a terminal
(08:09):
degree, you will likely be ableto do anything you put your mind
to.
And that is what I want to talkabout as we look at a life
memoir about what we've done andmaybe what we haven't and the
path we're gonna create.
So we've talked about the whatwe haven't and the path we're
going to create.
So we've talked about the tools.
Is you know, maybe we have aproblem, and then what is our
(08:33):
tools to get there?
What is the path anddestination?
How does it look?
Let's write those things downto what we want to achieve and
move forward and create adefinitive path for success.
And as you sit here going great,maybe this works for some
(08:55):
people, but it doesn't work forme.
Great, maybe this works forsome people, but it doesn't work
for me.
My situation is different.
As you think about that andponder that, you might be right.
Actually, I know you're right.
Your situation is differentbecause every situation is
different about who we are.
What has happened to us in ourlife the negative, the positives
(09:16):
, the mentors what has happenedto us in our life the negative,
the positives, the mentors, thementees in our life that we've
experienced great joy and maybesome sorrows with.
That's okay.
We have to look together andfind a way out of this.
Maybe somebody in your familyis going through drug abuse,
alcohol abuse, going throughsuicidal thoughts, mental
(09:38):
illness, job loss, financialruins, loss of a loved one I
mean, all of these are part ofour daily lives and,
unfortunately, some things wecan't control.
So that's what a life memoir isabout.
It's about okay.
Now I'm at that time where I'mgoing to sit down and write
(10:00):
about my life and if you arestill in your 20s, 30s, 40s, 50s
and even going into your 60s,you still have time to control,
to dictate how your life isgoing to mold and move forward.
And that is why I would telleverybody on this podcast you
(10:27):
can do anything you put yourmind to.
I will never forget a schoolconference when I was younger I
think we used to call them.
We called them basically.
It would be.
Basically we'd have somebodycome, some motivational speaker,
and they would stand there andtell us no matter what happens,
(10:51):
you can always be better.
And this life you have startedout as a young child.
You're just beginning your life.
You have so much in front ofyou, but it's those decisions
that you make are going totranslate for the rest of your
life.
And as I sat there listening tothis when I was in fourth grade,
(11:14):
I pondered what can I achieve,what can I do?
And now that I'm older, I canstill ponder those same thoughts
.
Why?
Because it is not our time tocall it a life memoir.
It is our time to determine howwe can shine.
(11:37):
We can get the tools, we canlay the path, we can create a
new level of success.
Let's say you're happilymarried, you have a wonderful
child or wonderful children, andlife is going good for you.
That's okay, that's great, thatis fantastic.
(11:58):
But there's always room forimprovement.
And what is improvement?
Improvement is not money, it'snot power.
It's about how you view yourlife and you view how you feel
about yourself.
Do you feel like you've runyour life, like you're ethical,
like you're doing the rightthing with the better good in
(12:19):
mind?
Then you are truly living ablessed life.
However, if you are one of thoseindividuals where you're
envious, you don't want peopleto do great things because it's
not happening to you, well thenwe need to flip the page a
little bit.
When we flip the page, we lookat wait a minute, am I the
(12:43):
problem?
Am I holding myself back fromreally being able to push
forward and complete the goalsthat I have set for myself
Because I'm so worried aboutsomebody else and the success
that they're having and I'm madbecause I'm not having them?
Well, that's not a great way tolook at life, because we have
(13:08):
all had challenges thrown at us.
We've all had obstacles thatkeep us from doing things we
want to do, and being great Imean all the obstacles and all
of the negativity and thepositives all the way up until
this point have made us who weare.
We are who we are because weare a product of our environment
(13:34):
.
It's not the fault of othersabout where we are today.
The fault is when we look inthe mirror.
Yes, circumstances happenSometimes.
We don't all grow up in thesame type of household.
We're not all affluent.
We don't have all the moneythat's been handed to us.
(13:54):
Maybe some of us grew up in arich family and we were very
well off or political, orwhatever it may be.
We all grew up in a differentenvironment.
But the truth is are you readyfor the truth?
The truth is there is nobody,absolutely nobody, to blame for
(14:17):
any transgressions, anythingthat's happened in our life,
except when we look in themirror and we go whose fault is
it?
You're looking at that person.
That's whose fault it is.
But it's still time to change.
There's still time to amend forthe negative things that we may
(14:38):
have done to others.
To ourselves Sometimes we causethe most destructive path for
ourselves, and that means wealso have to get ourselves out
of jams, out of negativity, anda lot of that starts with our
mental well-being.
It's about not just having yourglass half full, but having
(15:02):
your glass three-fourth full.
Why?
Because you're always lookingat the brighter side.
You're going, you know what.
There may be some negativitycoming my way, but I'm going to
grab it and I'm going to throwit to the side and I'm going to
keep reaching for thatpositivity and finding something
that has the greater good ofnot only what I can accomplish,
(15:27):
but how I can help othersaccomplish those goals, because
when you put others first,everything kind of falls into
place.
Very similar to a leader If aleader sits there and worries
about how they're perceived byothers and how great people
think they are, and they sitthere trying to live up to any
(15:48):
perceived greatness, and usuallythat perceived greatness is
just by that narcissist, andthat's not a good way to lead.
A good way to lead is by takingothers and putting them first,
raising them up.
Because when you raise them up,they're going to see that they
(16:09):
don't want to just see a figurethat just thinks they're the
greatest.
They want to know that thatperson has my back.
And right there, right there iswhat a life memoir is about.
It's about raising other peopleup around you.
That's being a mentor.
(16:30):
People around you.
That's being a mentor.
That's demonstrating that youlived your life for the greater
good of others.
You found ways to promotegrowth in others.
Because when we all perish oneday, people are just going to
say that he was a good person,she was a good person, they
(16:51):
tried their best.
What they're going to saythey're going to pinpoint the
things that they did in theirlife and the things that are
most memorable is about how theyput others first.
Now, we don't all have thatability to do that.
There's a song by Carly Simon.
It's called You're so Vain,you're so vain.
(17:15):
They think the song is talkingabout you.
Well, when you look at that,and if you think that song's
talking about you, then that'swhere we have to flip the page.
So when we write our life memoir, when we see our final days
getting close and we have thechance to reflect and look at
the great accomplishments maybecareer, family, friends and you
(17:41):
lived your life the right way,your life was a success.
And now let's say, you publishthat book and maybe nobody ever
reads it.
Let's say, you publish thatbook and maybe nobody ever reads
it, but that's okay, because weput it out there, we gave it
our all and we finally do.
In this time on earth, we canlook back and go we did it.
(18:05):
We did it my way, just likefrank was.
Frank sinatra said we did it myway, just like Frank Sinatra
said, we did it my way.
So again, I implore everyone totake this opportunity to let's
restart our life.
If you're not happy with whatwe're doing today, or what
you're doing today, or what thesurrounding things around you
(18:28):
are doing, things around you aredoing, then let's restart the
life.
It is never again.
It is never too late to restartyour life and get back on the
right track, no matter whatcollateral damage that you have
had to date.
It is now time to put your keyin the ignition or push the
(18:53):
button, whatever it is, andlet's start that new engine,
let's start life.
And, as we talked about, thefirst step is admitting you're
not where you want to be.
Admitting that is the problem.
Then it's taking those toolsthat you have and starting to
guide a path for success andthen envisioning what that end
(19:19):
result looks like.
And once you have that endresult, then you start writing
down everything you have done todate keeping a journal, keeping
the significance aspects ofyour life and never giving up,
always pushing forward.
And then at the end, whenyou're writing that final life
(19:41):
memoir, you have it all laid outand guess what?
You will have no regrets.
You live life your way and youwill successfully navigate
anything in your future.
And you know that youaccomplished so much for your
friends, family and for allthose that surround you.
(20:03):
So I want to thank everyone foryour continued listenership.
I hope that this message waspowerful enough to help you
determine how to move forward.
Maybe some of the steps, ormaybe you just felt like it was
a bunch of jargon and I spoketoo much I've been known to
speak that but I hope this isreflective and helps you, and I
want to thank all my listenersout there.
(20:25):
I am truly blessed, and so thisis again a podcast for Gen Zs,
millennials and anyone thatwants to be impacted by a
positive message of motivation,inspiration and leading you to
where you want to go.
So, thank you, take care, anduntil next time, this is Dr
Jason Wiggins.
(20:45):
Bye-bye.
And welcome to your Motivational Gen Z and
Millennial Expert Podcast.
I am your host, my name is DrJason Wiggins and it is a
pleasure to be here.
I hope everybody is having awonderful time, wherever you may
be, as you listen to this.
Let's get our heads right andlet's jump into today's episode.
(00:21):
We have an exciting episodethat is based around your life
memoir, and when you think aboutyour life memoir we would think
about you're older, you're inyour later years and you're kind
of going back to thinking abouthow things went.
What kind of mistakes mighthave you made, what were some of
(00:43):
your successes, what was someof the path and collateral
damage that may have been causedgetting to the point where you
are today Mistakes, positivethings.
Well, let's look at a memoir assomething that doesn't have to
be at the end of your life, andwhen you look in retrospect,
(01:06):
let's say you still have time tomake the improvements, to take
the steps necessary to get towhere you want to be, and that's
what we're going to talk abouttoday.
So this podcast is for Gen Zs,millennials and really anyone
who has the desire to want tocontinue to improve your life
(01:29):
and you're still looking fortools and ways to bring success
for your future outcomes, andthat is why today we're going to
kind of lay the path down abouthow we can move forward when,
maybe, things have stopped.
A life memoir is about thingshave now stopped.
(01:52):
We sit here where we presentlyare and we try to decide okay,
what course of action do I takenow?
Maybe I've made a lot ofmistakes.
Maybe I was incarcerated.
Maybe I married somebody thatthat wasn't the right move.
(02:12):
Maybe I didn't treat my kidsthe way they should have.
Maybe I was a bully and Iregret it back in high school.
I mean all of these things.
Maybe you have some collateraldamage that you've caused along
the way.
But it's not time to give up.
It's time to look at what youmay have done and make that
(02:35):
decision.
What can I do better today?
And moving forward?
Yes, it might make to where youhave to make amends for some of
the actions you had.
You might have to look back atsome of the tools you don't
currently have that you need toget trained on.
(02:55):
Train yourself for success, andthat is where life begins.
Life doesn't just begin atbirth.
Life doesn't just begin atbirth.
Life begins when you make thatsudden that drastic, that
methodical change in your lifethat is going to propel you to
(03:17):
make decisions that will helpyou and maybe your family, your
friends and those importantpeople around you successful, or
they understand that you'vemade the changes for the better.
And that's why a life memoir isabout not just what you've done
(03:49):
the good and the bad but it'sabout how you're going to
portray yourself moving forwardin the future and making the
ultimate decision that you aregoing to improve your life and
those around you.
That is why, no matter whatmistakes you've made, it doesn't
matter you will have to makeamends for some of them.
It's similar to going to AA.
You have to admit you have aproblem.
Once you realize you have aproblem, that's where everything
(04:14):
starts to come in place.
But if you don't think you havea problem, you don't think that
you need to push forward andsucceed and really try to create
a path for success, then whathappens?
You just dwell in the path ofdestruction that you may have
set yourself up to fail up atthis point Now, it doesn't mean
(04:38):
you failed ultimately.
It just means maybe some of ushave taken the wrong decision,
the wrong path, and that'screated turmoil and you sit here
, maybe at this point, going I'mnot motivated, I'm in a life of
turmoil, I don't know a way out.
There is a way out.
(05:01):
There always is a way out, nomatter what.
If you look at a hero, aportrayed hero, in a movie, what
happens?
Yes, I understand it's mythical, it's a movie, it's acting, but
they always have a way out.
And that's why, as individuals,as leaders, as employees,
(05:25):
whatever it may be and howyou're impacted, we've got to
determine first, I have aproblem.
Second, what is my path to getout of this potential mess or
how can I improve my life?
Third is, what tools do I needto get out of this?
(05:49):
And then, fourth, what is theend goal?
The end goal is how youperceive yourself.
So that's why I would saynumber one is also get a journal
, start writing the things thatare getting in your way to
really, at the end of your life,have a completed life memoir
(06:14):
about the great things you'vedone in your life and for those
around you.
It does not take somebody tocreate something fantastic.
We're not all going to be ElonMusk, bill Gates, steve Jobs,
the President of the UnitedStates.
We're not going to have thatpower.
The majority of us are going tobe a normal part of
(06:38):
civilization, and that is okay.
There's nothing wrong with that, as long as we lived our life
with no regrets.
I like to share this storybecause, for me, this could have
been a life of regret for me ifI didn't make one simple
decision in my life, and thatdecision was to not quit when I
(07:04):
was going towards my PhD.
It's an uphill climb.
It's a lot of sacrifice.
It's a lot of giving up on someof the great things that you
don't get to do.
You miss out on certain thingsas you continue to plug away to
reach that end goal of obtaininga PhD and having a terminal
(07:27):
degree.
I got up to the plateau where,at that point, I wanted to quit
a thousand times, a milliontimes.
I just kept on telling myselfevery single day I wake up, I
will regret that I did notcomplete something that I put my
heart and soul and financesinto.
(07:48):
And that's when I looked, and Ilooked down that slope, down
that hill, down that plateau,and I said I am going to push
forward.
I am not going to live a day ofregret, and that's why many
will say that if you cancomplete a PhD, a terminal
(08:09):
degree, you will likely be ableto do anything you put your mind
to.
And that is what I want to talkabout as we look at a life
memoir about what we've done andmaybe what we haven't and the
path we're gonna create.
So we've talked about the whatwe haven't and the path we're
going to create.
So we've talked about the tools.
Is you know, maybe we have aproblem, and then what is our
(08:33):
tools to get there?
What is the path anddestination?
How does it look?
Let's write those things downto what we want to achieve and
move forward and create adefinitive path for success.
And as you sit here going great,maybe this works for some
(08:55):
people, but it doesn't work forme.
Great, maybe this works forsome people, but it doesn't work
for me.
My situation is different.
As you think about that andponder that, you might be right.
Actually, I know you're right.
Your situation is differentbecause every situation is
different about who we are.
What has happened to us in ourlife the negative, the positives
(09:16):
, the mentors what has happenedto us in our life the negative,
the positives, the mentors, thementees in our life that we've
experienced great joy and maybesome sorrows with.
That's okay.
We have to look together andfind a way out of this.
Maybe somebody in your familyis going through drug abuse,
alcohol abuse, going throughsuicidal thoughts, mental
(09:38):
illness, job loss, financialruins, loss of a loved one I
mean, all of these are part ofour daily lives and,
unfortunately, some things wecan't control.
So that's what a life memoir isabout.
It's about okay.
Now I'm at that time where I'mgoing to sit down and write
(10:00):
about my life and if you arestill in your 20s, 30s, 40s, 50s
and even going into your 60s,you still have time to control,
to dictate how your life isgoing to mold and move forward.
And that is why I would telleverybody on this podcast you
(10:27):
can do anything you put yourmind to.
I will never forget a schoolconference when I was younger I
think we used to call them.
We called them basically.
It would be.
Basically we'd have somebodycome, some motivational speaker,
and they would stand there andtell us no matter what happens,
(10:51):
you can always be better.
And this life you have startedout as a young child.
You're just beginning your life.
You have so much in front ofyou, but it's those decisions
that you make are going totranslate for the rest of your
life.
And as I sat there listening tothis when I was in fourth grade,
(11:14):
I pondered what can I achieve,what can I do?
And now that I'm older, I canstill ponder those same thoughts
.
Why?
Because it is not our time tocall it a life memoir.
It is our time to determine howwe can shine.
(11:37):
We can get the tools, we canlay the path, we can create a
new level of success.
Let's say you're happilymarried, you have a wonderful
child or wonderful children, andlife is going good for you.
That's okay, that's great, thatis fantastic.
(11:58):
But there's always room forimprovement.
And what is improvement?
Improvement is not money, it'snot power.
It's about how you view yourlife and you view how you feel
about yourself.
Do you feel like you've runyour life, like you're ethical,
like you're doing the rightthing with the better good in
(12:19):
mind?
Then you are truly living ablessed life.
However, if you are one of thoseindividuals where you're
envious, you don't want peopleto do great things because it's
not happening to you, well thenwe need to flip the page a
little bit.
When we flip the page, we lookat wait a minute, am I the
(12:43):
problem?
Am I holding myself back fromreally being able to push
forward and complete the goalsthat I have set for myself
Because I'm so worried aboutsomebody else and the success
that they're having and I'm madbecause I'm not having them?
Well, that's not a great way tolook at life, because we have
(13:08):
all had challenges thrown at us.
We've all had obstacles thatkeep us from doing things we
want to do, and being great Imean all the obstacles and all
of the negativity and thepositives all the way up until
this point have made us who weare.
We are who we are because weare a product of our environment
(13:34):
.
It's not the fault of othersabout where we are today.
The fault is when we look inthe mirror.
Yes, circumstances happenSometimes.
We don't all grow up in thesame type of household.
We're not all affluent.
We don't have all the moneythat's been handed to us.
(13:54):
Maybe some of us grew up in arich family and we were very
well off or political, orwhatever it may be.
We all grew up in a differentenvironment.
But the truth is are you readyfor the truth?
The truth is there is nobody,absolutely nobody, to blame for
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any transgressions, anythingthat's happened in our life,
except when we look in themirror and we go whose fault is
it?
You're looking at that person.
That's whose fault it is.
But it's still time to change.
There's still time to amend forthe negative things that we may
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have done to others.
To ourselves Sometimes we causethe most destructive path for
ourselves, and that means wealso have to get ourselves out
of jams, out of negativity, anda lot of that starts with our
mental well-being.
It's about not just having yourglass half full, but having
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your glass three-fourth full.
Why?
Because you're always lookingat the brighter side.
You're going, you know what.
There may be some negativitycoming my way, but I'm going to
grab it and I'm going to throwit to the side and I'm going to
keep reaching for thatpositivity and finding something
that has the greater good ofnot only what I can accomplish,
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but how I can help othersaccomplish those goals, because
when you put others first,everything kind of falls into
place.
Very similar to a leader If aleader sits there and worries
about how they're perceived byothers and how great people
think they are, and they sitthere trying to live up to any
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perceived greatness, and usuallythat perceived greatness is
just by that narcissist, andthat's not a good way to lead.
A good way to lead is by takingothers and putting them first,
raising them up.
Because when you raise them up,they're going to see that they
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don't want to just see a figurethat just thinks they're the
greatest.
They want to know that thatperson has my back.
And right there, right there iswhat a life memoir is about.
It's about raising other peopleup around you.
That's being a mentor.
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People around you.
That's being a mentor.
That's demonstrating that youlived your life for the greater
good of others.
You found ways to promotegrowth in others.
Because when we all perish oneday, people are just going to
say that he was a good person,she was a good person, they
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tried their best.
What they're going to saythey're going to pinpoint the
things that they did in theirlife and the things that are
most memorable is about how theyput others first.
Now, we don't all have thatability to do that.
There's a song by Carly Simon.
It's called You're so Vain,you're so vain.
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They think the song is talkingabout you.
Well, when you look at that,and if you think that song's
talking about you, then that'swhere we have to flip the page.
So when we write our life memoir, when we see our final days
getting close and we have thechance to reflect and look at
the great accomplishments maybecareer, family, friends and you
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lived your life the right way,your life was a success.
And now let's say, you publishthat book and maybe nobody ever
reads it.
Let's say, you publish thatbook and maybe nobody ever reads
it, but that's okay, because weput it out there, we gave it
our all and we finally do.
In this time on earth, we canlook back and go we did it.
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We did it my way, just likefrank was.
Frank sinatra said we did it myway, just like Frank Sinatra
said, we did it my way.
So again, I implore everyone totake this opportunity to let's
restart our life.
If you're not happy with whatwe're doing today, or what
you're doing today, or what thesurrounding things around you
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are doing, things around you aredoing, then let's restart the
life.
It is never again.
It is never too late to restartyour life and get back on the
right track, no matter whatcollateral damage that you have
had to date.
It is now time to put your keyin the ignition or push the
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button, whatever it is, andlet's start that new engine,
let's start life.
And, as we talked about, thefirst step is admitting you're
not where you want to be.
Admitting that is the problem.
Then it's taking those toolsthat you have and starting to
guide a path for success andthen envisioning what that end
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result looks like.
And once you have that endresult, then you start writing
down everything you have done todate keeping a journal, keeping
the significance aspects ofyour life and never giving up,
always pushing forward.
And then at the end, whenyou're writing that final life
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memoir, you have it all laid outand guess what?
You will have no regrets.
You live life your way and youwill successfully navigate
anything in your future.
And you know that youaccomplished so much for your
friends, family and for allthose that surround you.
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So I want to thank everyone foryour continued listenership.
I hope that this message waspowerful enough to help you
determine how to move forward.
Maybe some of the steps, ormaybe you just felt like it was
a bunch of jargon and I spoketoo much I've been known to
speak that but I hope this isreflective and helps you, and I
want to thank all my listenersout there.
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I am truly blessed, and so thisis again a podcast for Gen Zs,
millennials and anyone thatwants to be impacted by a
positive message of motivation,inspiration and leading you to
where you want to go.
So, thank you, take care, anduntil next time, this is Dr
Jason Wiggins.
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Bye-bye.
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