September 5, 2025 • 38 mins
Most people wait for a massive breakthrough. They die waiting. The truth? Success comes from small, consistent actions—the 1% game. In this episode, Kellan reveals why big leaps fail and how tiny daily shifts compound into unstoppable growth.
You’ll learn:
- Why consistency beats sudden overhaul.
- How compounding creates exponential results.
- The “Notice and Choose” game worth $1B.
- Why forgiveness clears the path to growth.
- How to apply 1% better in relationships, money, and personal mastery.
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Most people wait their wholelives for the big breakthrough.
And you know what?
They die waiting.
Welcome to the show.
Tired of the hype about livingthe dream?
It's time for truth.
This is the place for tools,power, and real talk, so you can
create the life you dream anddeserve your ultimate life.
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Subscribe, Share, create.
You have infinite power.
What if it's true that itdoesn't come in one giant leap?
What if that it's 1% shiftsthat compound into unstoppable power?
Today, I'm going to show youhow to play the 1% game, the only
game that generates growth and impact.
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But you got to start now.
I want you to think about this.
What would your life look like?
And this should be a reallyeasy question.
What would your life look likeif you were just 1% better today
than yesterday?
Like, just 1%, right?
I don't know if you're makingsales calls, one more call.
If you're, you know, writingcontent, one more paragraph or one
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more page if you're creating avideo, one more line in the script,
or one more take on the videoyou're doing.
Or if you're just working inthe yard, 1% better yard work.
Or if you're being nice toyour kids or teaching them something
or going on a date with yourspouse, 1% better, 1% more attention.
What would that look like?
And you say, well, that's nobig deal.
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That's nothing.
Nobody would even notice.
Well, maybe not, but here'swhat I can tell you.
90 days from now, the calendaris going to flip three times.
90 days are going to be gone.
I'm recording this the middleof August, and you'll see this the
middle of September.
But 90 days from the middle ofSeptember is what?
October, November, December.
Just about Christmas time.
So Christmas is coming either way.
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And if you do 1% better, 1%better a day between when you hear
this and Christmas, yourChristmas will be 100% better.
Now remember, the calendar'sticking either way.
100% better.
What's that worth to you?
Okay, Einstein is creditedwith saying that the eighth wonder
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of the world was compound interest.
And he said that because, youknow the story.
You double a penny every day,and by the end of the month, you
got 5 million bucks or something.
And that's only in a month.
Compound interest is thefeature of interest that makes it,
you know, add on to itself.
So if you have 2% interest,but it compounds, then pretty soon
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it's not 2%, it's 3, 4, 5, 8, 10.
And pretty soon things aredoubling because you get interest
on the interest.
Now this isn't the financialclass, but work and growth works
the same way.
That's the point.
Compound growth is a real thing.
It's a thing, okay?
If you be 1% better, thenyou'd be 1 and 100th percent better
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the next day.
And that starts to add upreally quickly.
So when I say 90 days givesyou a hundred percent, that's actually
not even true.
It's more like 130 or 40% improvement.
So my point is simply this 1%is a real game.
I read a story once about theEnglish cycling team that competes
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in the Tour de France.
Now, if you're not a cyclingenthusiast, and I'm only kind of
quasi, you know that for along time the English couldn't field
a team that placed anything.
Then they hired a new coachand the coach got obsessed with these
1% improvements.
1% in pedal design, 1% instrokes, 1% in this and that.
And pretty soon over time,guess what?
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It added up.
And then for several years,not recently, but just a few years
ago, when I watched kind ofregularly, they, Bradley Wiggins
and some others, they won, youknow, several years in a row, the
English cycling team won theTour de France, the most prestigious
cycling race in the world.
And it was coming from that 1% improvement.
And that's a world class example.
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So what I want you to thinkabout is this.
This is not a theory.
This is not some highfalutin gobbledygook.
This is not wishful thinking.
And this is not woo woo.
This is hardcore science,hardcore financial cash truth.
So we're all about creatingthe ultimate life purpose, prosperity
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and joy.
You know that that's whatwe're doing here week after week,
episode after episode, whetherno matter what guests they are, and
no matter what the topic is,my goal is only one thing.
300 million people this yearto help you create and live the ultimate
life purpose, prosperity and joy.
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Today I want to talk about why1% matters.
Because it matters a lot.
Like way more than you think.
Okay, now I want you to thinkabout the story, not the story.
There's a.
Let's talk about why 1% ismore important than big leaps.
Okay?
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Big leaps often fail.
They try to people you, maybeyou've done this.
You're going to overhauleverything at once.
Your diet, your exerciseregime, what time you go to bed,
you know, your sleep routine,all this stuff at once.
And what usually happens is ittakes a good bit of preparation,
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a good bit of Gumption.
I'm going to do this.
And then it doesn't work, orit's a lot harder than you thought.
And then what happens?
You know what?
You've done it.
Burnout.
Quit.
It's not right.
Some other time.
Next time.
Oh, crap.
What was I thinking?
So you've done that right, andit sucks, because then you're sitting
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there, I can't.
I can't do this.
And when you've tried that afew times, then you're in the mode
of, what's wrong with me?
How come other people can dothis and I can't?
And that lands right in giveup land, and you end up nowhere.
So compounding pennies, let'stalk about that.
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Because when you use compoundinterest now, the story is you have
a penny for one day and thendouble it each day.
That's a little more than just compounding.
But even one penny doubledevery day for 30 days in a month,
you end up with $5 million.
Right?
Now, compound interest doesn'tdouble every day.
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But you've all seen the lifeinsurance calculations, the infinite
banking things that if youjust start saving today, $100 a month,
$1,000 a month, it doesn'tmatter that, you know, it goes up
slow at first, and then outthere, there's this mysterious thing,
it takes a different shape,and pretty soon it feels like it's
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doubling every month.
And that is because of theexponential nature of compounding.
Compounding is an exponential function.
If you've done math and youknow it in money because you've seen
it in savings accounts orbanking account or other kind of
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calculations where you can seethat hockey stick of growth.
What I want to let you know isthat is true in every skill development
area.
So, for example, I taughtpiano for 40 years.
I started teaching when I was17, and I think I had my last students
when I was about 57 or 10 or12 years ago.
69 will be 70 in December.
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So for 40 years, I watchedstudents taught students of all ages,
beginners, advanced, you know,improvisation, orchestration, all
kinds of different musical things.
And here's what I noticedevery time, without exception, those
students who went home andpracticed every day for 30, 40, 50
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minutes made exponentialprogress compared to students who,
you know, said they were goingto practice three hours a week or
whatever, and they would cramit in on Saturday or Saturday and
Sunday.
That just doesn't work.
Your brain doesn't work like that.
Your fingers don't work like that.
Your skills don't work like that.
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Same thing with learning asport, okay?
I.
When I was 50, I decided, forwhatever reason, I was going to learn
a snowboard, okay?
And so I did.
And I. I couldn't go everyday, but I went every weekend, two
days for a while.
I hired an instructor and didall day lessons so I could build
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and build and build.
And it wasn't very long, noteven a season, half a season before.
I was pretty good.
And I could ski greens andblues and some blacks.
I could never do the doubleblacks on the board, but skis but
no board.
But anyway, the growth wasreally quick, even for a geezer at
50 learning to snowboard.
And the reason was because ofthis compounding effect.
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Your muscles remember, yourmind remembers, your body remembers,
your confidence remembers.
I want you to think about thatfor a minute.
It's easy to see how the bodywould remember muscle memory.
It's easy to see how the mindmight remember.
But there's a confidencememory too, and that's a neurotransmitter
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thing.
You get used to doing thingsand it creates the feeling of confidence.
Confidence doesn't come from success.
Success comes from confidence.
You create confidence bydoing, even when you fail.
So think about that.
It is super important andsuper powerful.
Okay?
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Big leaps fail.
1% is easy to do.
I want you to pick somethingright now.
If you're listening to this,what's something you could do?
1% that's important to you?
I'm not thinking pickingstupid stuff, but something that's
important to you to do 1% better.
Do you have a relationshipthat needs repair?
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A friend, a colleague, a partner?
Maybe it's your relationshipwith God.
You know, there was a time inmy life, you guys know the stories
where I had severe negativethings in my relationship with the
divine, and it was mainlybecause I was ashamed and mad at
myself and everything forthings that I'd done.
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That kind of relationship doesn't.
In no kind of relationship,but it doesn't click immediately.
It requires sustained effort.
I'll give you another example.
You want to apologize to your.
Let's say you've been in anargument with your spouse, okay?
Or your partner.
You go and apologize andthey're like, yeah, whatever.
And it doesn't land.
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And you're hoping, oh, youknow, be reconciliation, kiss and
make up.
It doesn't happen.
So what do you do?
You quit.
Well, you can, but you knowwhere quitting goes.
Instead, small gesturesrepeated consistently over time builds
trust.
You get the compoundingeffect, and pretty soon trust can
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be reestablished.
Not because we're guessing notbecause they're just taking a leap
of faith, but because there'sthis consisting, consistent, consistent
compounding.
Greatness does not come in onegiant swing in the music industry.
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There's some really goodexamples of that.
They didn't have a name for them.
They call them one hit wonders.
The music history industry,pop music is littered with those.
Some producer found somebody,some cute hook, did a thing, made
a splash, then that persondisappeared from view.
Oh, whatever happened to soand so?
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Okay, if you look at those whohave staying power over years and
some even decades, it isconsistent growth and application.
So 1% applies to all those things.
And I want you to think aboutyour own life, about where you can
make that work for you.
Now, I just said 1% over 90days is way over 100%.
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Well, 90 times one is only 90.
Okay, it is.
But there's that compoundingeffect, push ups, same thing.
I used to, I don't do that nowbecause my back situation, but I
used to be kind of obsessedwith push ups, right?
And I wanted to get so I coulddo 100 at a sitting and all that
sort of stuff.
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And that may be not very manyor a lot compared to whatever you're
used to, but that was thenumber I wanted.
I wanted to be able to hit thefloor and do a hundred anytime that
happened.
One push up, I didn't startwith one, but 20 and whatever I could
do.
Wonder if I can do one moretomorrow or every other day.
One more, one more, one more.
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And how muscles work withbreaking down that very last push
up or two to failure where thebreakdown and the rebuild takes place,
the compounding took place andthe growth became something more
than linear.
So it works in physicalthings, it works in the bank, it
works in your sales efforts,it works in your own personal development
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efforts, and it works in any.
Anything you want to put it to.
Because that is the nature of consistency.
Consistency is a.
Is almost like a magic sauce.
Now, I want you to.
We're going to have to make anemotional shift here because our
society rewards big victories, right?
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When somebody does a bigthing, donates a million dollars
to charity or wins achampionship, that was unexpected.
That's a, you know, big noise.
Whoa.
This happened.
This amazing thing happened.
And we don't pay attention tosmall improvements.
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We only celebrate the big wins.
That is a disease.
It is a disaster.
If you have accepted thatconditioning and you live sort of
in your head in the realm of,well, it won't matter until I make
my first million or my 10thmillion or whatever the number is.
That's a guarantee for failure.
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A guarantee for failure.
If you want to stay on the path.
If you want to stay on thepath to success, you have to switch
your mind and get in theemotional game of tiny wins.
One of the importantmanagement things I learned in the
years I was manager and thenexecutive in different companies
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was the power of recognition.
Just recognition.
And I used to think, likemany, that the only way you gave
acknowledgement andrecognition was maybe an award, and
that was pokey hokey, but ithad to be some cash.
You know what?
That isn't actually what meansthe most to people.
My years of doing this hasshown me in spades, without question,
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the thing that means the mostto people is sincere acknowledgement
and recognition.
You saved the day.
That was a good job.
Well done.
I use that right now all thetime with clients, with podcast guests.
My ability to get goodinterviews out of people, and it's
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regular that people will say,oh, that's best interview I ever
had.
I hear that a lot.
And you know what it comes from?
It comes from acknowledging.
I hear what they're doing andwe talk about it, and I acknowledge
the effort and the work andthe dedication and the love that.
That.
That.
That demonstrates.
I do that every time I'm onsomeone else's podcast, too.
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So here's a secret.
If you're a podcast guest andyou want to be a favorite guest,
you want to get invited back,here's something I do to make that
happen.
Every single time on therecording in the episode, I acknowledge
them and I say, I know what alabor of love a podcast is, and I
want to just thank you andacknowledge you for doing that.
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Inevitably, without fail, thehost lights up.
They get excited.
It's genuinely receivedbecause it's genuinely given.
And that makes me a favoriteguest, one that gets invited back,
and one that gets shared.
So I'm sharing this with youbecause those are tiny things.
It doesn't cost anythingexcept to get out of our own head
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and stop wondering, am I cool?
Am I impressive?
That's an area for 1% growth.
Okay, now I've moved into this.
This might be the mostpowerful piece we're going to have
today.
1% personal improvement.
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How can I be.
How can I love 1% better today?
How can I be 1% out of my own head?
1% less thinking about me?
And here's how to do that.
There's a game I teachclients, and I'm teaching you right
now, because you're myClients, and I love you to pieces.
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It's called notice and choose.
Notice and choose is worth $1billion to you if you'll use it well
and use it a lot.
Here's one way to use it.
Notice what you're thinkingabout maybe 10 or 15 times today.
Just notice if you're.
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If what you're thinking about.
When you notice what you'rethinking about is you.
How I feel, what I'm doing,what others are thinking, how I look,
are they impressed?
In other words, if yourthinking is about you, just notice
that.
And then realize two things.
Number one is you don't haveto think about you.
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You could think aboutsomething else.
That's the first thing.
The second thing is choose todo that.
Choose to switch your focus.
If you notice you're thinkingabout you, ask a different question.
What are you feeling?
How are you doing?
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How is this for you as a coach?
That is essential and perhapsone of the very most powerful things
is to regularly say, how doesthis land for you?
Or how is this affecting you?
How does this sound when yougo in your body and you just pay
attention to the feelings youhave after this brief exchange we've
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had, what's happening for you?
So I promise you, right here,right now, that will move you toward
creating purpose, prosperityand joy, your ultimate life.
So notice and choose is the game.
And that means many times aday and I'm repeating myself, just
stop.
What am I thinking about?
What is my.
Where is my focus?
Is it in or is it out?
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And if it's in, then thequestion is, what would it look like
if my focus was out on they.
On them, on that meaning how Ican grow it and love it.
That doesn't work.
If it's how I can bitch aboutit or how I can complain or why I'm
mad about it.
But it means instead ofworrying about my own comfort, safety,
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desires, yearnings, me, me,me, me, me.
It means instead saying, Iwonder what I can do for them.
I wonder if there's somethingI can do to make you feel honored,
valued, or happy today.
Now that 1% improvement.
If you did that 1% a day moreand by Christmas had 90 days or 100
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and something percentimprovement, I can make you a promise.
You'll be happier.
You, because you did 1% forthem, will be happier.
You'll smile more, you'lldance more, and you know what else?
You will probably make more money.
People want to give money tothose who make them feel good.
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If you have products orservices for sale and I'm assuming
you do.
People want to buy from youwhen you make them feel good.
And there's lots of ways to do that.
And this is not a marketingepisode, but it's about language
and it's about service andit's about the attitude we have.
So there is a 1% rubber meetsthe road hot tip that will give you
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more money by Christmas and aheck of a lot more joy.
Okay, now I want to talk aboutanother thing that's really important
in this and that is forgiveness.
What does forgiveness have todo with 1%?
A lot.
As it turns out, nearlyeveryone I talk to carries a backpack.
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And the backpack, virtualbackpack, and the backpack is full
of rocks.
Many of those rocks are guilt,shame, frustration, anger directed
toward yourself or toward others.
That frickin idiot didn't pay.
That douchebag didn't do whatthey said.
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Or I promised I would do thatand I didn't.
I failed.
I'm such a jerk.
They're never going to trustme again.
Or oh, I wish I hadn't said that.
Oh, I wish I hadn't done that.
And so, and sometimes they'relittle things like a comment or gossip
or something.
And sometimes they're bigthings like theft or betrayal or
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you know, dishonest ormisleading someone.
You know, that kind of thing.
And those things sit therelike a rock.
That feeling of rock of guiltor frustration, resentment or anger
towards someone else gets inthe way of the 1% game.
It makes 1% seem like amillion percent.
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It makes any improvement feellike quicksand.
Like, yeah, I can see that 1%.
It's not that hard to reach.
But yeah, there's this bigthing, a quicksand in the way between
me and 1% because our mindsare consumed with either guilt or
shame or with resentment oranger if it's directed towards someone
else.
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So I have a phrase, and I mayhave said it a little bit ago, but
I'm going to say it again.
Those who dare greatly failgreatly so carry a big blanket of
forgiveness.
Now, I'm talking to you withsome assumptions.
I'm assuming you want yourultimate life or you wouldn't listen
to this show.
I'm assuming you want purpose,prosperity and joy or you wouldn't
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be here.
I'm assuming also that you'vetasted some measure of that purpose,
a fire that's in your bellythat drives you every day.
Prosperity, which is not justcash, certainly includes it, but
is the wealth of joy that wehave at being alive and being human
and being able to Love andserve each other.
I love what I do.
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I love coaching.
I loved helping people writetheir books and stories and all the
rest.
So your ability to create thatdepends on getting rid of the quicksand.
Forgiveness is the key.
You have authority and youhave permission.
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I just gave it to you.
To forgive yourselfeverything, everywhere and have compassion,
grace and patience foreveryone, for everything.
You could do that.
If you don't, or if I don't.
The only reason is because wethink they don't deserve grace.
They should burn at the stake.
Or I don't deserve grace, I'munworthy, I should burn at the stake.
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You know what?
Judgment is not ours.
There's a divine course ofjudgment that's going to take place
that we're not part of.
And if we can just trust thatthat will be handled, then we can
release all that forgiveness.
I give you a definition offorgiveness that will help you with
your 1%, and that isforgiveness is simply a choice to
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no longer allow events fromthe past to have power in the present.
That includes self forgiveness.
It includes forgiving others, etc.
No longer allowing events,words, circumstances, behaviors,
even harsh ones from the pastto have power in the present.
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Now, that's easy to say anddifficult to do, but there are ways
to do it.
Maybe if it's somethingserious, you need therapy and help.
Maybe if someone ripped youoff, you know, you just need to make
peace with that because maybethey're never going to give it back
to you.
Or maybe they don't even thinkthey ripped you off.
But if you carry the grudge,you're getting poisoned.
You know, everyone's heardcarrying a grudge is like drinking
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poison and hoping the otherperson gets sick or dies.
Well, that's never going to happen.
You're the only one dyingbecause you're the only one with
the poison.
So here's an example about forgiveness.
My life was full of mistakes.
You know the stories.
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If you don't, you can readthem in the book Tightrope of Depression.
My journey from Darkness,Despair and Death to Light, Love
and Life.
This book.
You want to read the stories?
There they are.
But full of mistakes.
Full of things that I wouldnot do again if I had life to live
over again.
But I wouldn't change any ofmy life because it has given me compassion,
patience, love, and thebeautiful things that I get to do
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today.
But my life was full of those.
And I carried no forgiveness.
I hated myself and behaved accordingly.
Lots of trouble and struggle.
When I learned to forgivemyself, I was released to love and
serve.
Now, I want to make really onething really clear.
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Forgiveness doesn't meanignoring things that happened.
It doesn't mean puttingyourself in danger.
It doesn't mean pretendingstuff away or sweeping stuff under
the carpet.
Serious things require consequences.
Maybe there's legal remedies.
Maybe there's all kinds of stuff.
That's maybe part of it.
And if you've made mistakes,goodness knows I have, you gotta
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go do what you can to fix them.
But forgiveness doesn't dependon someone accepting your apology.
It doesn't depend on yourability to make something completely
right.
Because especially for seriousthings like loss of trust or friendship,
you can't fix those.
You can't make those be fixed.
So do what you can and thenchange who you are.
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Hear me, whoever you were thatmade those mistakes, fix what you
can, whether someone elseaccepts it or not.
Change who you are, meaning nolonger you would ever be that person
again.
And then go add good to the world.
Three steps.
Fix what you can.
Change who you are.
Go add good to the world.
Let it go so it doesn't get inthe way of your 1% growth.
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All right, here's another piece.
And that is the only day thatexists for all of us is today.
Right here, right now.
Okay, that's beautiful,because that makes it easy to do
1%.
I only have today.
Well, I can't fix everything today.
Good.
But I can do 1%.
1% more business activity ifI'm trying to make money.
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1%.
More personal care if I'mtrying to learn to meditate or love
myself or take care of my bodyor fix my eating or acknowledge myself
or quit talking to myself likea dirtbag.
Side note, most people talk tothemselves in terrible ways.
Like ways they wouldn't letanyone talk to a friend.
Let's end that.
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That's part of forgiveness.
It's part of 1%.
Because that internal dialogue will.
Eat your lunch if you hate yourself.
All right?
Tomorrow doesn't exist.
Yesterday doesn't exist.
The only use for yesterday isto learn a few things.
That's it.
We're done.
If you made mistakes, maybeyou got to fix a few things.
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So do that, but focus on today.
Because this moment righthere, the only thing I'm doing is
making this episode for you.
The only thing I'm doing isloving you with all my heart.
The only thing I'm doing hereis wanting the very best for you
that I can possibly imagine.
That's all I'm doing righthere, right now.
And nothing else is on my mind.
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Why?
Because I love you.
I mean that I love you and youcan't do anything about that.
Isn't that funny?
I can love you without your permission.
My goal, you know, is to reach300 million people with the message
method and mastery.
The message is whipos worth,your worth, your identity as the
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divine being, yourpossibility, your ownership of your
life and your sovereignty asthe decider, the chooser of what
you do with it.
That's the message.
The purpose is obviouslypurpose, prosperity and joy.
The method is all of thethings that I teach, my coaching,
the 20 something books I'vewritten, all of those things are
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the method to get there.
And they all.
Everything, everything I teachis battle tested.
It comes out of my own lifeand the lives of clients.
So there's no thinking,there's no woo woo.
There's no, well, researchsuggests bullshit, battle tested,
real time on the ground, stuffthat will get you what you want,
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but only if you use it.
I mean, if I get a closet fullof screwdrivers and I don't use them,
I won't be able to use, Iwon't be able to build anything.
I might have the collection ofgreatest hammers in the world and
if I don't know what they are,how to use them, so what?
All right, so that's my mission.
300 million people this year.
I got two months left becausemy year ends October 14th with a
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message method and thenmastery to keep on going for myself
and you so that we get tomastery of these things.
Why would we care about mastery?
Well, you may not.
I do.
I'm always at 1%.
2%.
Because 2% compounds even somuch faster than 1%.
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You notice I didn't say 52%,just 2%.
What would 2% look like?
What would 3% look like on areally good day?
Because that compounds so fastinto more money, more clients, more
fun, more finished products,more joy, more vacays.
All that good stuff that youwant, I promise you can have it.
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There's nothing mysteriousabout any of this.
Now there's another littlepiece to this and that is, it's a
part of Today is the only daythat exists often when I talk to
people and this happens a lot.
So you see this up here?
Dream buildwriteit.com I wantyou to go there, write it down.
Dream buildwright build writeit dot com.
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Because on the 29th ofSeptember, which is just a few days
after you hear this, I'm doinga book challenge.
And if you miss that one,there'll be one in January or February
of 26.
The same URL.
The purpose of that challengeis to help you go through the developmental
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processes of your life andfind the gold, find the nuggets,
the thing.
That's the things that turnedyou into the powerhouse and magical
person that you are.
And I know you are.
You wouldn't be here.
You.
You wouldn't be part of this audience.
So you're a magic.
You're a magician.
You can create anything you want.
And this process that we'retalking about is the key.
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And when I help people withthese books and I talk to them about
writing their story and thenusing it to serve the world, et cetera,
et cetera, you know what themost often excuse I hear is?
Stupid excuse.
It's not the right time.
It's not the right time.
Bad timing.
I'm just too busy.
You're too busy to go mine agreat gold mine in your backyard?
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You're too busy to go find thebiggest diamond in your closet?
You're too busy to find thething that will make you happier
than anything in the world.
You're too busy for that?
Oh, please.
It's not the right time for that.
When would be the right timeto find a million dollars?
Right now.
Oh, I know.
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This is your invitation.
This is the right time.
So let me invite you to go todreambuildriteit.com and just look
at it.
Because if you're here, then Iknow you're trying to add good to
the world.
And the best way for you andme to add good to the world is with
the story of our lives.
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How we grew, how we failed,how we got up and started again.
All right, so there's neverperfect timing.
The perfect timing is alwaystoday, because that's the only day
we got.
So this 1% is today's move.
Always.
The 1% growth is absolutelytoday's move.
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Now, don't beat yourself up,because there's going to be days,
no matter how hard we say I'mdoing it, that we fail.
So that's the blanket offorgiveness if you miss reset and
go after it tomorrow.
But then tomorrow will betoday, and you're still doing it.
Today.
Today, Today, Today.
Today.
That's the day to start.
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So what is your 1% today?
Write down something right now.
What is your 1% gain?
What thing will you improve?
1%.
Not 1% of 20 things.
One thing.
1%.
You know, if you did that evenfor four quarters, then in four quarters
from now, you would have fourthings 100% better.
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What would your life look likeright now in one year if you had
four of the most importantthings to you.
A hundred percent better thanthey are today?
Actually, the first thing youdid would be like 1000% better by
then because you'd keep doing it.
So here's the thing.
Start writing it down.
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Write down the thing you'regoing to do.
What's your 1% game today?
Or maybe it's going to lastfor a week or a month.
Write it down.
Lean into it, okay?
Tracking it gives it powerbecause it's there.
You can also create accountability.
I would suggest get yourselfin a coaching container.
If you want my help, get ahold of me.
But get some help.
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You're worth it.
You're amazing.
And if you're not producing ata level that makes you scream with
delight, it's on you.
I'm here to help.
That's all I do.
Tell people like you achieveawesome goals.
That ultimate life.
Forgive yourself instantlywhen you struggle or stumble and
then repeat, Repeat, repeat, repeat.
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1%.
1%.
I can promise you in less than30 days you're going to have a, a
massive success.
In 90 days your life is goingto be changed.
In a year, you're going tohave unrecognizable success.
And you're sitting therethinking, ah, not true, it's too
hard.
It's not 1%.
And if you'd like to talkabout it, go to this other URL, kellenfluecigermedia.com
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and there's a contact form.
So here's your recap.
This is your billion dollars.
Growth is not linear, it is exponential.
If you repeat it daily, if youdo 1% a day, pretty soon it starts
being way more than 1%.
Okay?
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Your life change in a year isgoing to be unrecognizable.
If you do 1% today, I want youto think about that, just 1%.
And in 90 days you can addanother thing with it.
And before you know it, likethis time next year, you will be
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wealthier, healthier, happier,and you'll be over the moon.
And this business I talkabout, about your ultimate life purpose,
prosperity and joy.
You can have it.
The last thing I'll do here isRepeat this invitation.
Dream buildwrite it.com Pleasego there and at least check it out.
Dream buildwrite it.combecause if you're listening to this,
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most of our listeners arethose that have a life story, those
that have a yearning to serve,those that are out to add good to
the world and Mike now, beendoing this for decades.
The biggest gift you got andthat I got is the story of how we
got where we are, the story ofour becoming, okay?
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The story of the choices andresilience and setbacks and stuff
you made to get where you areand with the power you have.
Okay, let's play the 1% gamestarting right now.
You don't need 100% today.
You need 1%.
Now, I make you a promise here.
I can promise that if you playthis game with me, and I'm playing
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it, I'm playing it, maybe goto dreambuildrite.com maybe, you
know, get a hold of me andkellenflueckegermedia.com and use
the contact form.
But let's get you moving onthe 1% game because you can have
what you want.
And if you make a choice tolean into that and love yourself
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enough to get good at what youdo, I promise you will be building
your ultimate life right here,right now.
Your opportunity for massivegrowth is right in front of you.
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Every episode gives youpractical tips and practices that
will change everything.
If you want to know more, goto kellenfluermedia.com if you want
more free tools, go here.
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Most people wait their wholelives for the big breakthrough.
And you know what?
They die waiting.
Welcome to the show.
Tired of the hype about livingthe dream?
It's time for truth.
This is the place for tools,power, and real talk, so you can
create the life you dream anddeserve your ultimate life.
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Subscribe, Share, create.
You have infinite power.
What if it's true that itdoesn't come in one giant leap?
What if that it's 1% shiftsthat compound into unstoppable power?
Today, I'm going to show youhow to play the 1% game, the only
game that generates growth and impact.
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But you got to start now.
I want you to think about this.
What would your life look like?
And this should be a reallyeasy question.
What would your life look likeif you were just 1% better today
than yesterday?
Like, just 1%, right?
I don't know if you're makingsales calls, one more call.
If you're, you know, writingcontent, one more paragraph or one
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more page if you're creating avideo, one more line in the script,
or one more take on the videoyou're doing.
Or if you're just working inthe yard, 1% better yard work.
Or if you're being nice toyour kids or teaching them something
or going on a date with yourspouse, 1% better, 1% more attention.
What would that look like?
And you say, well, that's nobig deal.
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That's nothing.
Nobody would even notice.
Well, maybe not, but here'swhat I can tell you.
90 days from now, the calendaris going to flip three times.
90 days are going to be gone.
I'm recording this the middleof August, and you'll see this the
middle of September.
But 90 days from the middle ofSeptember is what?
October, November, December.
Just about Christmas time.
So Christmas is coming either way.
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And if you do 1% better, 1%better a day between when you hear
this and Christmas, yourChristmas will be 100% better.
Now remember, the calendar'sticking either way.
100% better.
What's that worth to you?
Okay, Einstein is creditedwith saying that the eighth wonder
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of the world was compound interest.
And he said that because, youknow the story.
You double a penny every day,and by the end of the month, you
got 5 million bucks or something.
And that's only in a month.
Compound interest is thefeature of interest that makes it,
you know, add on to itself.
So if you have 2% interest,but it compounds, then pretty soon
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it's not 2%, it's 3, 4, 5, 8, 10.
And pretty soon things aredoubling because you get interest
on the interest.
Now this isn't the financialclass, but work and growth works
the same way.
That's the point.
Compound growth is a real thing.
It's a thing, okay?
If you be 1% better, thenyou'd be 1 and 100th percent better
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the next day.
And that starts to add upreally quickly.
So when I say 90 days givesyou a hundred percent, that's actually
not even true.
It's more like 130 or 40% improvement.
So my point is simply this 1%is a real game.
I read a story once about theEnglish cycling team that competes
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in the Tour de France.
Now, if you're not a cyclingenthusiast, and I'm only kind of
quasi, you know that for along time the English couldn't field
a team that placed anything.
Then they hired a new coachand the coach got obsessed with these
1% improvements.
1% in pedal design, 1% instrokes, 1% in this and that.
And pretty soon over time,guess what?
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It added up.
And then for several years,not recently, but just a few years
ago, when I watched kind ofregularly, they, Bradley Wiggins
and some others, they won, youknow, several years in a row, the
English cycling team won theTour de France, the most prestigious
cycling race in the world.
And it was coming from that 1% improvement.
And that's a world class example.
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So what I want you to thinkabout is this.
This is not a theory.
This is not some highfalutin gobbledygook.
This is not wishful thinking.
And this is not woo woo.
This is hardcore science,hardcore financial cash truth.
So we're all about creatingthe ultimate life purpose, prosperity
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and joy.
You know that that's whatwe're doing here week after week,
episode after episode, whetherno matter what guests they are, and
no matter what the topic is,my goal is only one thing.
300 million people this yearto help you create and live the ultimate
life purpose, prosperity and joy.
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Today I want to talk about why1% matters.
Because it matters a lot.
Like way more than you think.
Okay, now I want you to thinkabout the story, not the story.
There's a.
Let's talk about why 1% ismore important than big leaps.
Okay?
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Big leaps often fail.
They try to people you, maybeyou've done this.
You're going to overhauleverything at once.
Your diet, your exerciseregime, what time you go to bed,
you know, your sleep routine,all this stuff at once.
And what usually happens is ittakes a good bit of preparation,
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a good bit of Gumption.
I'm going to do this.
And then it doesn't work, orit's a lot harder than you thought.
And then what happens?
You know what?
You've done it.
Burnout.
Quit.
It's not right.
Some other time.
Next time.
Oh, crap.
What was I thinking?
So you've done that right, andit sucks, because then you're sitting
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there, I can't.
I can't do this.
And when you've tried that afew times, then you're in the mode
of, what's wrong with me?
How come other people can dothis and I can't?
And that lands right in giveup land, and you end up nowhere.
So compounding pennies, let'stalk about that.
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Because when you use compoundinterest now, the story is you have
a penny for one day and thendouble it each day.
That's a little more than just compounding.
But even one penny doubledevery day for 30 days in a month,
you end up with $5 million.
Right?
Now, compound interest doesn'tdouble every day.
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But you've all seen the lifeinsurance calculations, the infinite
banking things that if youjust start saving today, $100 a month,
$1,000 a month, it doesn'tmatter that, you know, it goes up
slow at first, and then outthere, there's this mysterious thing,
it takes a different shape,and pretty soon it feels like it's
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doubling every month.
And that is because of theexponential nature of compounding.
Compounding is an exponential function.
If you've done math and youknow it in money because you've seen
it in savings accounts orbanking account or other kind of
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calculations where you can seethat hockey stick of growth.
What I want to let you know isthat is true in every skill development
area.
So, for example, I taughtpiano for 40 years.
I started teaching when I was17, and I think I had my last students
when I was about 57 or 10 or12 years ago.
69 will be 70 in December.
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So for 40 years, I watchedstudents taught students of all ages,
beginners, advanced, you know,improvisation, orchestration, all
kinds of different musical things.
And here's what I noticedevery time, without exception, those
students who went home andpracticed every day for 30, 40, 50
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minutes made exponentialprogress compared to students who,
you know, said they were goingto practice three hours a week or
whatever, and they would cramit in on Saturday or Saturday and
Sunday.
That just doesn't work.
Your brain doesn't work like that.
Your fingers don't work like that.
Your skills don't work like that.
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Same thing with learning asport, okay?
I.
When I was 50, I decided, forwhatever reason, I was going to learn
a snowboard, okay?
And so I did.
And I. I couldn't go everyday, but I went every weekend, two
days for a while.
I hired an instructor and didall day lessons so I could build
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and build and build.
And it wasn't very long, noteven a season, half a season before.
I was pretty good.
And I could ski greens andblues and some blacks.
I could never do the doubleblacks on the board, but skis but
no board.
But anyway, the growth wasreally quick, even for a geezer at
50 learning to snowboard.
And the reason was because ofthis compounding effect.
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Your muscles remember, yourmind remembers, your body remembers,
your confidence remembers.
I want you to think about thatfor a minute.
It's easy to see how the bodywould remember muscle memory.
It's easy to see how the mindmight remember.
But there's a confidencememory too, and that's a neurotransmitter
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thing.
You get used to doing thingsand it creates the feeling of confidence.
Confidence doesn't come from success.
Success comes from confidence.
You create confidence bydoing, even when you fail.
So think about that.
It is super important andsuper powerful.
Okay?
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Big leaps fail.
1% is easy to do.
I want you to pick somethingright now.
If you're listening to this,what's something you could do?
1% that's important to you?
I'm not thinking pickingstupid stuff, but something that's
important to you to do 1% better.
Do you have a relationshipthat needs repair?
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A friend, a colleague, a partner?
Maybe it's your relationshipwith God.
You know, there was a time inmy life, you guys know the stories
where I had severe negativethings in my relationship with the
divine, and it was mainlybecause I was ashamed and mad at
myself and everything forthings that I'd done.
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That kind of relationship doesn't.
In no kind of relationship,but it doesn't click immediately.
It requires sustained effort.
I'll give you another example.
You want to apologize to your.
Let's say you've been in anargument with your spouse, okay?
Or your partner.
You go and apologize andthey're like, yeah, whatever.
And it doesn't land.
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And you're hoping, oh, youknow, be reconciliation, kiss and
make up.
It doesn't happen.
So what do you do?
You quit.
Well, you can, but you knowwhere quitting goes.
Instead, small gesturesrepeated consistently over time builds
trust.
You get the compoundingeffect, and pretty soon trust can
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be reestablished.
Not because we're guessing notbecause they're just taking a leap
of faith, but because there'sthis consisting, consistent, consistent
compounding.
Greatness does not come in onegiant swing in the music industry.
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There's some really goodexamples of that.
They didn't have a name for them.
They call them one hit wonders.
The music history industry,pop music is littered with those.
Some producer found somebody,some cute hook, did a thing, made
a splash, then that persondisappeared from view.
Oh, whatever happened to soand so?
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Okay, if you look at those whohave staying power over years and
some even decades, it isconsistent growth and application.
So 1% applies to all those things.
And I want you to think aboutyour own life, about where you can
make that work for you.
Now, I just said 1% over 90days is way over 100%.
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Well, 90 times one is only 90.
Okay, it is.
But there's that compoundingeffect, push ups, same thing.
I used to, I don't do that nowbecause my back situation, but I
used to be kind of obsessedwith push ups, right?
And I wanted to get so I coulddo 100 at a sitting and all that
sort of stuff.
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And that may be not very manyor a lot compared to whatever you're
used to, but that was thenumber I wanted.
I wanted to be able to hit thefloor and do a hundred anytime that
happened.
One push up, I didn't startwith one, but 20 and whatever I could
do.
Wonder if I can do one moretomorrow or every other day.
One more, one more, one more.
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And how muscles work withbreaking down that very last push
up or two to failure where thebreakdown and the rebuild takes place,
the compounding took place andthe growth became something more
than linear.
So it works in physicalthings, it works in the bank, it
works in your sales efforts,it works in your own personal development
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efforts, and it works in any.
Anything you want to put it to.
Because that is the nature of consistency.
Consistency is a.
Is almost like a magic sauce.
Now, I want you to.
We're going to have to make anemotional shift here because our
society rewards big victories, right?
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When somebody does a bigthing, donates a million dollars
to charity or wins achampionship, that was unexpected.
That's a, you know, big noise.
Whoa.
This happened.
This amazing thing happened.
And we don't pay attention tosmall improvements.
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We only celebrate the big wins.
That is a disease.
It is a disaster.
If you have accepted thatconditioning and you live sort of
in your head in the realm of,well, it won't matter until I make
my first million or my 10thmillion or whatever the number is.
That's a guarantee for failure.
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A guarantee for failure.
If you want to stay on the path.
If you want to stay on thepath to success, you have to switch
your mind and get in theemotional game of tiny wins.
One of the importantmanagement things I learned in the
years I was manager and thenexecutive in different companies
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was the power of recognition.
Just recognition.
And I used to think, likemany, that the only way you gave
acknowledgement andrecognition was maybe an award, and
that was pokey hokey, but ithad to be some cash.
You know what?
That isn't actually what meansthe most to people.
My years of doing this hasshown me in spades, without question,
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the thing that means the mostto people is sincere acknowledgement
and recognition.
You saved the day.
That was a good job.
Well done.
I use that right now all thetime with clients, with podcast guests.
My ability to get goodinterviews out of people, and it's
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regular that people will say,oh, that's best interview I ever
had.
I hear that a lot.
And you know what it comes from?
It comes from acknowledging.
I hear what they're doing andwe talk about it, and I acknowledge
the effort and the work andthe dedication and the love that.
That.
That.
That demonstrates.
I do that every time I'm onsomeone else's podcast, too.
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So here's a secret.
If you're a podcast guest andyou want to be a favorite guest,
you want to get invited back,here's something I do to make that
happen.
Every single time on therecording in the episode, I acknowledge
them and I say, I know what alabor of love a podcast is, and I
want to just thank you andacknowledge you for doing that.
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Inevitably, without fail, thehost lights up.
They get excited.
It's genuinely receivedbecause it's genuinely given.
And that makes me a favoriteguest, one that gets invited back,
and one that gets shared.
So I'm sharing this with youbecause those are tiny things.
It doesn't cost anythingexcept to get out of our own head
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and stop wondering, am I cool?
Am I impressive?
That's an area for 1% growth.
Okay, now I've moved into this.
This might be the mostpowerful piece we're going to have
today.
1% personal improvement.
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How can I be.
How can I love 1% better today?
How can I be 1% out of my own head?
1% less thinking about me?
And here's how to do that.
There's a game I teachclients, and I'm teaching you right
now, because you're myClients, and I love you to pieces.
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It's called notice and choose.
Notice and choose is worth $1billion to you if you'll use it well
and use it a lot.
Here's one way to use it.
Notice what you're thinkingabout maybe 10 or 15 times today.
Just notice if you're.
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If what you're thinking about.
When you notice what you'rethinking about is you.
How I feel, what I'm doing,what others are thinking, how I look,
are they impressed?
In other words, if yourthinking is about you, just notice
that.
And then realize two things.
Number one is you don't haveto think about you.
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You could think aboutsomething else.
That's the first thing.
The second thing is choose todo that.
Choose to switch your focus.
If you notice you're thinkingabout you, ask a different question.
What are you feeling?
How are you doing?
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How is this for you as a coach?
That is essential and perhapsone of the very most powerful things
is to regularly say, how doesthis land for you?
Or how is this affecting you?
How does this sound when yougo in your body and you just pay
attention to the feelings youhave after this brief exchange we've
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had, what's happening for you?
So I promise you, right here,right now, that will move you toward
creating purpose, prosperityand joy, your ultimate life.
So notice and choose is the game.
And that means many times aday and I'm repeating myself, just
stop.
What am I thinking about?
What is my.
Where is my focus?
Is it in or is it out?
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And if it's in, then thequestion is, what would it look like
if my focus was out on they.
On them, on that meaning how Ican grow it and love it.
That doesn't work.
If it's how I can bitch aboutit or how I can complain or why I'm
mad about it.
But it means instead ofworrying about my own comfort, safety,
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desires, yearnings, me, me,me, me, me.
It means instead saying, Iwonder what I can do for them.
I wonder if there's somethingI can do to make you feel honored,
valued, or happy today.
Now that 1% improvement.
If you did that 1% a day moreand by Christmas had 90 days or 100
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and something percentimprovement, I can make you a promise.
You'll be happier.
You, because you did 1% forthem, will be happier.
You'll smile more, you'lldance more, and you know what else?
You will probably make more money.
People want to give money tothose who make them feel good.
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If you have products orservices for sale and I'm assuming
you do.
People want to buy from youwhen you make them feel good.
And there's lots of ways to do that.
And this is not a marketingepisode, but it's about language
and it's about service andit's about the attitude we have.
So there is a 1% rubber meetsthe road hot tip that will give you
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more money by Christmas and aheck of a lot more joy.
Okay, now I want to talk aboutanother thing that's really important
in this and that is forgiveness.
What does forgiveness have todo with 1%?
A lot.
As it turns out, nearlyeveryone I talk to carries a backpack.
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And the backpack, virtualbackpack, and the backpack is full
of rocks.
Many of those rocks are guilt,shame, frustration, anger directed
toward yourself or toward others.
That frickin idiot didn't pay.
That douchebag didn't do whatthey said.
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Or I promised I would do thatand I didn't.
I failed.
I'm such a jerk.
They're never going to trustme again.
Or oh, I wish I hadn't said that.
Oh, I wish I hadn't done that.
And so, and sometimes they'relittle things like a comment or gossip
or something.
And sometimes they're bigthings like theft or betrayal or
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you know, dishonest ormisleading someone.
You know, that kind of thing.
And those things sit therelike a rock.
That feeling of rock of guiltor frustration, resentment or anger
towards someone else gets inthe way of the 1% game.
It makes 1% seem like amillion percent.
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It makes any improvement feellike quicksand.
Like, yeah, I can see that 1%.
It's not that hard to reach.
But yeah, there's this bigthing, a quicksand in the way between
me and 1% because our mindsare consumed with either guilt or
shame or with resentment oranger if it's directed towards someone
else.
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So I have a phrase, and I mayhave said it a little bit ago, but
I'm going to say it again.
Those who dare greatly failgreatly so carry a big blanket of
forgiveness.
Now, I'm talking to you withsome assumptions.
I'm assuming you want yourultimate life or you wouldn't listen
to this show.
I'm assuming you want purpose,prosperity and joy or you wouldn't
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be here.
I'm assuming also that you'vetasted some measure of that purpose,
a fire that's in your bellythat drives you every day.
Prosperity, which is not justcash, certainly includes it, but
is the wealth of joy that wehave at being alive and being human
and being able to Love andserve each other.
I love what I do.
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I love coaching.
I loved helping people writetheir books and stories and all the
rest.
So your ability to create thatdepends on getting rid of the quicksand.
Forgiveness is the key.
You have authority and youhave permission.
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I just gave it to you.
To forgive yourselfeverything, everywhere and have compassion,
grace and patience foreveryone, for everything.
You could do that.
If you don't, or if I don't.
The only reason is because wethink they don't deserve grace.
They should burn at the stake.
Or I don't deserve grace, I'munworthy, I should burn at the stake.
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You know what?
Judgment is not ours.
There's a divine course ofjudgment that's going to take place
that we're not part of.
And if we can just trust thatthat will be handled, then we can
release all that forgiveness.
I give you a definition offorgiveness that will help you with
your 1%, and that isforgiveness is simply a choice to
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no longer allow events fromthe past to have power in the present.
That includes self forgiveness.
It includes forgiving others, etc.
No longer allowing events,words, circumstances, behaviors,
even harsh ones from the pastto have power in the present.
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Now, that's easy to say anddifficult to do, but there are ways
to do it.
Maybe if it's somethingserious, you need therapy and help.
Maybe if someone ripped youoff, you know, you just need to make
peace with that because maybethey're never going to give it back
to you.
Or maybe they don't even thinkthey ripped you off.
But if you carry the grudge,you're getting poisoned.
You know, everyone's heardcarrying a grudge is like drinking
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poison and hoping the otherperson gets sick or dies.
Well, that's never going to happen.
You're the only one dyingbecause you're the only one with
the poison.
So here's an example about forgiveness.
My life was full of mistakes.
You know the stories.
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If you don't, you can readthem in the book Tightrope of Depression.
My journey from Darkness,Despair and Death to Light, Love
and Life.
This book.
You want to read the stories?
There they are.
But full of mistakes.
Full of things that I wouldnot do again if I had life to live
over again.
But I wouldn't change any ofmy life because it has given me compassion,
patience, love, and thebeautiful things that I get to do
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today.
But my life was full of those.
And I carried no forgiveness.
I hated myself and behaved accordingly.
Lots of trouble and struggle.
When I learned to forgivemyself, I was released to love and
serve.
Now, I want to make really onething really clear.
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Forgiveness doesn't meanignoring things that happened.
It doesn't mean puttingyourself in danger.
It doesn't mean pretendingstuff away or sweeping stuff under
the carpet.
Serious things require consequences.
Maybe there's legal remedies.
Maybe there's all kinds of stuff.
That's maybe part of it.
And if you've made mistakes,goodness knows I have, you gotta
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go do what you can to fix them.
But forgiveness doesn't dependon someone accepting your apology.
It doesn't depend on yourability to make something completely
right.
Because especially for seriousthings like loss of trust or friendship,
you can't fix those.
You can't make those be fixed.
So do what you can and thenchange who you are.
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Hear me, whoever you were thatmade those mistakes, fix what you
can, whether someone elseaccepts it or not.
Change who you are, meaning nolonger you would ever be that person
again.
And then go add good to the world.
Three steps.
Fix what you can.
Change who you are.
Go add good to the world.
Let it go so it doesn't get inthe way of your 1% growth.
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All right, here's another piece.
And that is the only day thatexists for all of us is today.
Right here, right now.
Okay, that's beautiful,because that makes it easy to do
1%.
I only have today.
Well, I can't fix everything today.
Good.
But I can do 1%.
1% more business activity ifI'm trying to make money.
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1%.
More personal care if I'mtrying to learn to meditate or love
myself or take care of my bodyor fix my eating or acknowledge myself
or quit talking to myself likea dirtbag.
Side note, most people talk tothemselves in terrible ways.
Like ways they wouldn't letanyone talk to a friend.
Let's end that.
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That's part of forgiveness.
It's part of 1%.
Because that internal dialogue will.
Eat your lunch if you hate yourself.
All right?
Tomorrow doesn't exist.
Yesterday doesn't exist.
The only use for yesterday isto learn a few things.
That's it.
We're done.
If you made mistakes, maybeyou got to fix a few things.
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So do that, but focus on today.
Because this moment righthere, the only thing I'm doing is
making this episode for you.
The only thing I'm doing isloving you with all my heart.
The only thing I'm doing hereis wanting the very best for you
that I can possibly imagine.
That's all I'm doing righthere, right now.
And nothing else is on my mind.
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Why?
Because I love you.
I mean that I love you and youcan't do anything about that.
Isn't that funny?
I can love you without your permission.
My goal, you know, is to reach300 million people with the message
method and mastery.
The message is whipos worth,your worth, your identity as the
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divine being, yourpossibility, your ownership of your
life and your sovereignty asthe decider, the chooser of what
you do with it.
That's the message.
The purpose is obviouslypurpose, prosperity and joy.
The method is all of thethings that I teach, my coaching,
the 20 something books I'vewritten, all of those things are
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the method to get there.
And they all.
Everything, everything I teachis battle tested.
It comes out of my own lifeand the lives of clients.
So there's no thinking,there's no woo woo.
There's no, well, researchsuggests bullshit, battle tested,
real time on the ground, stuffthat will get you what you want,
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but only if you use it.
I mean, if I get a closet fullof screwdrivers and I don't use them,
I won't be able to use, Iwon't be able to build anything.
I might have the collection ofgreatest hammers in the world and
if I don't know what they are,how to use them, so what?
All right, so that's my mission.
300 million people this year.
I got two months left becausemy year ends October 14th with a
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message method and thenmastery to keep on going for myself
and you so that we get tomastery of these things.
Why would we care about mastery?
Well, you may not.
I do.
I'm always at 1%.
2%.
Because 2% compounds even somuch faster than 1%.
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You notice I didn't say 52%,just 2%.
What would 2% look like?
What would 3% look like on areally good day?
Because that compounds so fastinto more money, more clients, more
fun, more finished products,more joy, more vacays.
All that good stuff that youwant, I promise you can have it.
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There's nothing mysteriousabout any of this.
Now there's another littlepiece to this and that is, it's a
part of Today is the only daythat exists often when I talk to
people and this happens a lot.
So you see this up here?
Dream buildwriteit.com I wantyou to go there, write it down.
Dream buildwright build writeit dot com.
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Because on the 29th ofSeptember, which is just a few days
after you hear this, I'm doinga book challenge.
And if you miss that one,there'll be one in January or February
of 26.
The same URL.
The purpose of that challengeis to help you go through the developmental
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processes of your life andfind the gold, find the nuggets,
the thing.
That's the things that turnedyou into the powerhouse and magical
person that you are.
And I know you are.
You wouldn't be here.
You.
You wouldn't be part of this audience.
So you're a magic.
You're a magician.
You can create anything you want.
And this process that we'retalking about is the key.
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And when I help people withthese books and I talk to them about
writing their story and thenusing it to serve the world, et cetera,
et cetera, you know what themost often excuse I hear is?
Stupid excuse.
It's not the right time.
It's not the right time.
Bad timing.
I'm just too busy.
You're too busy to go mine agreat gold mine in your backyard?
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You're too busy to go find thebiggest diamond in your closet?
You're too busy to find thething that will make you happier
than anything in the world.
You're too busy for that?
Oh, please.
It's not the right time for that.
When would be the right timeto find a million dollars?
Right now.
Oh, I know.
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This is your invitation.
This is the right time.
So let me invite you to go todreambuildriteit.com and just look
at it.
Because if you're here, then Iknow you're trying to add good to
the world.
And the best way for you andme to add good to the world is with
the story of our lives.
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How we grew, how we failed,how we got up and started again.
All right, so there's neverperfect timing.
The perfect timing is alwaystoday, because that's the only day
we got.
So this 1% is today's move.
Always.
The 1% growth is absolutelytoday's move.
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Now, don't beat yourself up,because there's going to be days,
no matter how hard we say I'mdoing it, that we fail.
So that's the blanket offorgiveness if you miss reset and
go after it tomorrow.
But then tomorrow will betoday, and you're still doing it.
Today.
Today, Today, Today.
Today.
That's the day to start.
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So what is your 1% today?
Write down something right now.
What is your 1% gain?
What thing will you improve?
1%.
Not 1% of 20 things.
One thing.
1%.
You know, if you did that evenfor four quarters, then in four quarters
from now, you would have fourthings 100% better.
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What would your life look likeright now in one year if you had
four of the most importantthings to you.
A hundred percent better thanthey are today?
Actually, the first thing youdid would be like 1000% better by
then because you'd keep doing it.
So here's the thing.
Start writing it down.
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Write down the thing you'regoing to do.
What's your 1% game today?
Or maybe it's going to lastfor a week or a month.
Write it down.
Lean into it, okay?
Tracking it gives it powerbecause it's there.
You can also create accountability.
I would suggest get yourselfin a coaching container.
If you want my help, get ahold of me.
But get some help.
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You're worth it.
You're amazing.
And if you're not producing ata level that makes you scream with
delight, it's on you.
I'm here to help.
That's all I do.
Tell people like you achieveawesome goals.
That ultimate life.
Forgive yourself instantlywhen you struggle or stumble and
then repeat, Repeat, repeat, repeat.
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1%.
1%.
I can promise you in less than30 days you're going to have a, a
massive success.
In 90 days your life is goingto be changed.
In a year, you're going tohave unrecognizable success.
And you're sitting therethinking, ah, not true, it's too
hard.
It's not 1%.
And if you'd like to talkabout it, go to this other URL, kellenfluecigermedia.com
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and there's a contact form.
So here's your recap.
This is your billion dollars.
Growth is not linear, it is exponential.
If you repeat it daily, if youdo 1% a day, pretty soon it starts
being way more than 1%.
Okay?
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Your life change in a year isgoing to be unrecognizable.
If you do 1% today, I want youto think about that, just 1%.
And in 90 days you can addanother thing with it.
And before you know it, likethis time next year, you will be
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wealthier, healthier, happier,and you'll be over the moon.
And this business I talkabout, about your ultimate life purpose,
prosperity and joy.
You can have it.
The last thing I'll do here isRepeat this invitation.
Dream buildwrite it.com Pleasego there and at least check it out.
Dream buildwrite it.combecause if you're listening to this,
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most of our listeners arethose that have a life story, those
that have a yearning to serve,those that are out to add good to
the world and Mike now, beendoing this for decades.
The biggest gift you got andthat I got is the story of how we
got where we are, the story ofour becoming, okay?
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The story of the choices andresilience and setbacks and stuff
you made to get where you areand with the power you have.
Okay, let's play the 1% gamestarting right now.
You don't need 100% today.
You need 1%.
Now, I make you a promise here.
I can promise that if you playthis game with me, and I'm playing
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it, I'm playing it, maybe goto dreambuildrite.com maybe, you
know, get a hold of me andkellenflueckegermedia.com and use
the contact form.
But let's get you moving onthe 1% game because you can have
what you want.
And if you make a choice tolean into that and love yourself
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enough to get good at what youdo, I promise you will be building
your ultimate life right here,right now.
Your opportunity for massivegrowth is right in front of you.
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Every episode gives youpractical tips and practices that
will change everything.
If you want to know more, goto kellenfluermedia.com if you want
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