Modern Mindset Shifts (S4) S48:E5

Welcome, everyone, to another powerful episode of “Inspirations for Your Life”—the daily motivational show where possibilities become realities, and every day brings a new chance to grow. I’m John C. Morley, your host and guide—Serial Entrepreneur, Engineer, Marketing Specialist, Video Producer, Podcast Host, Coach, Graduate Student, and, above all, a passionate lifelong learner striving to help you elevate every aspect of your journey. This isn't just another podcast—it's your blueprint for unstoppable growth and resilience in the modern age. Get ready to unlock a whole new level of potential as we dive deep into shifts that can truly transform your life and leadership.

Master Topic: Unstoppable You — The Blueprint for Modern Growth and Resilience Granular Topic: Modern Mindset Shifts (S4) S48:E5

1️⃣ Embrace “done” over “perfect.” Let’s kick off with one of the most liberating shifts you’ll ever make: choosing “done” over “perfect.” Perfectionism can stall our progress and cheat us out of wins—remember, momentum creates more success than endless revision. Start valuing action over ideal outcomes. Done is better than perfect!

2️⃣ Treat failures as data. Failure isn’t a final judgment—it’s feedback. Every misstep is a source of insight, showing you what works and what doesn’t. Approach setbacks like a scientist with data to refine and optimize your path forward.

3️⃣ Swap “I have to” for “I get to.” This simple linguistic shift turns obligation into opportunity. Recognize the privilege embedded in your daily tasks. Instead of “I have to work,” say, “I get to contribute.” Gratitude shifts your energy and expands possibility!

4️⃣ Reboot your day—any time. Don’t let a single setback ruin your entire day. Hit reset as often as you need. Whether it’s 9 AM or 9 PM, a fresh start is always available. Own your power to reclaim the day.

5️⃣ Celebrate attempts, not just successes. Give recognition to courage and effort, not just results. The act of trying is a victory in itself—reward persistence, because every attempt brings you closer to achievement.

6️⃣ Visualize your best self each morning. Take a moment at sunrise to picture your “ideal you.” This mental rehearsal primes your subconscious for the day’s opportunities and aligns your habits with your aspirations.

7️⃣ See criticism as coaching. Feedback is a tool for growth. Even the toughest critique is a chance to learn and improve. Thank those who challenge you—they’re helping sharpen your skills.

8️⃣ Surround yourself with go-getters. Community shapes destiny. Seek out ambitious, positive people—their mindset is contagious and will inspire you to stretch your limits every day.

9️⃣ Say “next time” instead of “never again.” Don’t shut the door on new experiences if they don’t go perfectly. Frame missteps as just the “first draft” of next time’s success. Growth thrives in possibility!

🔟 Write down “wins” before sleeping. End each day with a victory lap. Jot down wins—big or small—before you sleep, and train your brain to spot positivity and reinforce confidence.

1️⃣1️⃣ Practice unfollowing negativity online. Audit your social feeds. Fill your digital world with inspiration and support by unfollowing sources of criticism and pessimism. Your online environment matters!

1️⃣2️⃣ Turn “should” into “choose.” Language is powerful. Replace “I should...” with “I choose to...” and reclaim agency over your actions. Life becomes a series of deliberate actions rather than reluctant obligations.

1️⃣3️⃣ Reframe comparison—be inspired, not intimidated. Others’ successes are evidence of what’s possible—not a threat to your own journey. Celebrate peers and let their progress fuel your ambition!

1️⃣4️⃣ See detours as plot twists, not dead ends. Unexpected change can feel derailing, but every reroute is part of your unique story. Embrace detours as pivotal moments on your path—not roadblocks.

1️⃣5️⃣ Start a “lessons learned” doc. Keep a running document of lessons and insights. Review it regularly to stay grounded in growth and build wisdom from experience.

1️⃣6️⃣ Schedule time for creative brainstorming. Innovation thrives in dedicated space. Block time each week for wild ideas and unstructured thinking—your next breakthrough is waiting!

1️⃣7️⃣ Welcome routine disruption. Routines can become ruts. Allow for intentional shake-ups to spark energy and discovery—sometimes, the magic happens outside your comfort zone.

1️⃣8️⃣ Laugh at your own mistakes. Humor is healing. When you stumble, chuckle—don’t crumble. Self-compassion lets you bounce back and keep moving forward.

1️⃣9️⃣ Don’t be afraid to change directions. Pivoting isn’t quitting—it’s evolving. If your path needs adjustment, be bold. True resilience is the courage to adapt.

2️⃣0️⃣ Swap “busy” for “productive.” Measure success by results, not effort. Focus on what moves the needle ins

Episode Transcript

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All right, everyone?
So welcome, everyone, to another powerful episode of
the ever-popular Inspirations for Your Life show,

(01:45):
the daily motivational show where possibilities become realities
and every day brings a new chance to
grow just a little more.
Who am I?
I'm John C.
Morley, serial entrepreneur, and not only am I
an entrepreneur, I am also the host and,
yes, the guide here on this show.

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I'm an engineer, I'm a marketing specialist, I'm
a video producer, I'm a podcast host and
coach, I'm a graduate student, and above all,
yes, I'm a passionate lifelong learner and striving
to help you elevate every aspect of your
life and journey.
This isn't just another podcast that you're turning
into, it's your blueprint for unstoppable growth and

(02:32):
resilience in the modern age.
Get ready, everyone, to unlock a whole new
level of potential as we dive together into
the shifts that can truly transform your life
and your leadership.
Are you ready?
I know I am.
Alright, so the master topic for this week,
which is going to be coming to a
close on Friday, we start on Saturday, we

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roll all the way through the week, and
we finish up on Friday, and that is
the Unstoppable You, the Blueprint for Modern Growth
and Resilience.
The granular topic for this evening is Modern
Mindset Shifts, Series 4, Show 48, Episode 5.
Wow.

(03:12):
So our first point we're going to talk
about is embrace done over perfect.
Let's kick off with one of the most
liberating shifts you'll ever make, choosing done over
perfect.
See, perfectionism and perfection can stall our progress
and can cheat us out of our true

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wins.
Remember, momentum creates more success than endless revisions.
Start valuing action over ideal outcomes.
Done is better than perfect.
Number two, guys, treat failure as data.
Yeah.
Treat failure as data.

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When we learn how to treat failure as
data, our life really, really changes.
So I think that's an important thing to
understand.
Treat failures as data.
Failure isn't a final judgment.
It's feedback.
Every misstep is a source of insight, showing

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you what works and what doesn't.
Approach setbacks like a scientist with data to
refine and optimize your own path forward.
Number three, guys, swap I have to for
I get to.
That's an interesting perception, but it makes a
lot of sense.

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See, this simple linguistic shift turns our obligation
into an opportunity.
I don't know about you, but we much
more are drawn to wanting to do something
for an opportunity than something we have to
do.
Recognize the privilege embedded in your daily tasks
instead of I have to work.

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Say, I get to contribute my skills.
Gratitude shifts your energy and expands the realms
of possibility.
Number four, reboot your day anytime you want
to.
Don't let a single setback ruin your entire
day.
Hit reset as often as you need to.
Whether it's 9 a.m. or 9 p

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.m., a fresh start is always available.
Own your power to reclaim the day.
Number five, guys, complete attempts, not just successes.
Give recognition to courage and effort, not just
results.
The act of trying is a victory in

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itself.
Reward persistence because every attempt brings you closer
to achievement.
I think we need to be more understanding
and grateful of that.
Number six, guys, visualize your best self each
morning.
I think this is something a lot of
people don't do.
Take a moment at sunrise to picture your

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ideal you.
This mental rehearsal primes your subconscious for the
day's opportunities and aligns your habits with your
aspirations in life.
Number seven, guys, see criticism as coaching, as
constructive feedback, a tool for growth in your

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life, even the toughest critiques allow us to
have that chance to learn and to improve.
I know you may say, John, I really
don't want that kind of feedback, but the
feedback is what's going to give us the
nudge or the redirection to change.

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Thank those who challenge you daily.
They're helping sharpen your skills.
Number eight, guys, surround yourself with go-getters.
Community shapes destiny.
Seek out ambitious, positive people.
Their mindset is contagious and will inspire you
to stretch your limits every single day.

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Number nine, say next time instead of never
again.
Don't shut the door on new experiences.
If they don't go perfectly, well, frame missteps
as just the quote-unquote first draft, right,
or the rough draft version of the next
time's actual success.

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Growth thrives in possibilities.
Number ten, write down the wins before sleeping.
End each day with a victory laugh.
Jot down wins, big or small, before you
sleep and train your brain to spot positivity
and reinforce confidence.
Number eleven, guys, practice unfollowing negativity online.

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Some people say, well, you know, I can't
unfollow that person because, no, there's no reason
you have to follow somebody that's negative.
Audit your social feeds.
Yes, often.
Fill your digital world with inspiration and support
by unfollowing sources of, well, criticism and pessimism
that's not constructive.

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People that are just trying to drain your
energy.
Your online environment matters, so let's make sure
we address it properly.
Number twelve, turn the should into choose.
Language.
It's powerful.
Replace I should with I choose to and

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reclaim agency over your actions.
See, life becomes a series of deliberate actions
rather than reluctant obligations.
Number thirteen, reframe comparison and be inspired, not
intimidated.
Others are evidence of what's possible, not a

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threat to your own journey.
And I think that becomes a challenge for
a lot of people.
They don't realize that they have this extreme
potential.
Celebrate peers and let their progress fuel your
ambition daily.
That's a lot, I know, but these are
important things.

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Number fourteen, guys, see detours as plot twists,
not dead ends.
Unexpected change can feel, well, derailing, but every
reroute is part of your unique story.
Embrace the detours as pivotal moments on your
path in life, not roadblocks.

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Don't see it as the end.
See it as a redirection that will help
you attain your success.
Number fifteen, guys, start a lessons learned document.
Keep a running document of lessons and insights.
Review it regularly to stay grounded in growth

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and build wisdom from experience.
I think a lot of people don't do
this because they're afraid of the what ifs.
They're afraid of the fact that maybe they
don't know something.
But you see, what you don't know is
actually something that can help you.
Again, gain the wisdom from the experience.

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Number sixteen, schedule time for creative brainstorming.
Innovation thrives in dedicated space.
Block time every week for wild ideas and
unstructured thinking.
Your next breakthrough, well, it's waiting.
Number seventeen, welcome routine disruption.

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Routines can become ruts.
Allow for intentional shakeups to spark energy and
discovery.
Sometimes the magic happens outside your comfort zone.
Number eighteen, laugh at your own mistakes.
Humor is healing.
When you stumble, chuckle.

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Don't crumble.
Self-compassion lets you bounce back and keep
moving forward.
I think that's another thing that kind of
stifles people is they're like, well, I don't
really know what to do.
I don't really know what to say.
I don't know where I'm going to go
from here.
I'm feeling like, you know, I'm defeated.
But you're not defeated.

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You're just stuck, okay?
And that's an easy problem to fix.
Number nineteen, don't be afraid to change direction.
Pivoting isn't quitting.
Just remember that, folks.
Pivoting isn't quitting.
It's evolving.
If your path needs adjustment, be bold.
If you're in your car and the GPS

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suddenly sees you're going the wrong way, what
does it do?
It gives you courteous directions to basically make
a legal U-turn or to turn down
the next street and to redirect your current
path that you're on.
True resilience is the courage to adapt.

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One thing about adapting, I think that scares
a lot of people because they don't necessarily
know what they're going to say or how
they're going to say it.
All they know is that yesterday they did
one thing, but now they don't know what
to do anymore.
And I think that's a hard thing for
some people to realize or to fathom the
fact that, hey, I don't know what I'm
doing.
I don't know why this is going that

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way.
All I know is that I feel lost.
I feel stuck.
I know that what I'm doing isn't working,
but I don't really know how to change.
I don't know what to change.
I don't know when to change, where to
change.
Well, the when to change is now.
The what to change is something you need
to listen to your conscience on.

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Einstein said something a long time ago.
If we do the same thing over and
over again and expect different results, you know
what that is?
That's insanity.
None of us are insane, so let's not
do the same thing over and over and
over again and expect different results because that
would be insanity and none of us are
insane.
Number 20, guys.

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Swap the word busy for productive.
Measure success by results, not effort.
Too many people say, you know, I spent
18 hours on this.
I spent a week on this.
That doesn't mean success.
Again, measured on the effort, not on the
amount of time you put in.
Focus on what moves the needle instead of

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filling every minute with activity.
Number 21, find one lesson in each challenge.
Every struggle teaches.
Make it a habit to extract insight from
hardship and use it as your training ground
for future victories.
A lot of people I talk to say,
John, I don't want to talk about the

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hardship.
I don't want to talk about what didn't
work for me.
Okay, I get that it was painful.
I get that it was an emotional time
for you, but I'm here to tell you
that if you can embrace it and learn
the lesson, you can throw everything else away,
okay?
But when you do this, it's very important
to understand that because if you do that,

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you'll start to embrace what's happening in life,
alright?
Hopefully you guys understand that.
Number 22.
You ready for number 22?
Set joy goals, not just work goals.
Balance achievement with enjoyment.
Intentionally plan for joy.
Celebration and recharge.

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Your best work comes from your best life.
Sometimes people do things because they think that's
what they need to do, but really it's
not.
It's something that's actually being done because it's
busy work.
It's not the right work.
So those are important things to realize.
Are we just doing stuff because we're going

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through the motions or are we really making
positive changes in our lives?
I mean, that's only something you can answer,
right?
Are you doing the same things over and
over again?
Are you getting the same results?
Well, then you've got to change it up,
right?
Number 23.
Pause to celebrate progress.
Not just the results, guys.

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That's important.
Don't wait for milestones to toast success.
Every bit of progress deserves recognition.
You might say, well, gee, John, we're only
going to toast when we break ground.
Okay, great.
You broke ground for a new building, but
what about the successes before that?
What about the fact that now we got
our permits or maybe the success that we

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finally understand what the outside of the building
is going to look like?
These are all important pieces to the puzzle.
What about the fact that now we have
our team together?
You can celebrate that.
There's so many things you can celebrate, but
I think a lot of people are focused
on the fact that, well, what's this going
to do for me?
It might not do anything for you right
now, but when you're successful, you'll realize that

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if you have these little mini celebrations, that
success is going to feel so much more
well-earned, and you're going to feel less
drained because you've recharged your batteries by celebrating
each step along the way.
So growth is incremental.
I've said this before.
So please choose to celebrate each step.

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Again, I don't care how minor it is,
how big it is.
Celebrate, celebrate, celebrate.
Maybe you're working on some new education, and
you didn't get your degree yet, but even
with what I'm doing, I celebrate all the
milestones, any of them.
I celebrate doing well in my studies.

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I celebrate each test grade.
I celebrate each connection I make.
I celebrate any support I get from the
teacher.
I celebrate all this stuff.
I celebrate new knowledge that's coming into my
mind that I'm getting to own, because I'm
not taking this information for a test.
You know, you are doing it for that.
I'm celebrating this information so that I can

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learn what it is that's going to basically
allow me to connect with more information.
And when you connect new information with old
information, guess what happens?
It sticks.
Like crazy glue, like gorilla glue, whatever.
Too many people try to get something to

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stick, but they have nothing that's associated with
it.
I think that's a very, very big problem.
They don't necessarily know how.
They don't know how to make it stick,
and so they just keep throwing the entire
kitchen sink in, but you've got to connect
it with something you already know.

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And then once you've done that, you're like,
oh, wait a minute.
This actually makes sense.
Now I see how this works.
Now I get where this comes from.
We call this cumulative learning.
I don't care if you just went back
to school or if you've been in school
for a while.
If you're not learning something, the reason you're
not learning is probably because you are focused
on the new stuff, but you're not thinking

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about the old stuff and how that can
connect in.
Now the teacher should be doing this for
you, the professor, but if they don't, it's
your responsibility, not theirs, to make the connection.
They should do it for you, but if
they don't, they need to figure out, well,
gee, what's this like?
What's something like this I learned in the
past, and how can I bridge this information
that they're teaching me today with the information

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I already know?
And when you find how to link them
together, it's like getting the right key in
the right lock, a eureka moment, right?
That's pretty powerful, guys.
So number 24, try a no complaints challenge.
Can you do that?
Can you go just one day or even

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a week without complaining?
I know this is probably like a miracle
or like a very hard thing for most
people.
Watch your perspective shift and realize how positivity
sharpens performance and your mindset.
A lot of people, they focus on the
complaint and when they're focusing on the complaint
so much, you know what happens?

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They lose a lot of their focus because
the energy is going toward that direction and
any positivity that they had to what they're
working on just kind of gets like zapped,
and that's why most people get stuck today.
It's not because they're not smart.
It's not because they can't figure things out.
It's because they're harping on what they don't

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know or they're harping on all the things
that are wrong instead of celebrating the things
that they have that are good.
They're always looking for things to be better,
and I get that we want things better,
but we should celebrate with what we have.
Number 25, guys, use your setbacks as launch

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pads.
I've said this before.
When life pushes you down, let it propel
you upward.
When you get served lemons, well, turn them
into lemonade, right?
Setbacks are setups for comebacks.
They're the springboard for growth.
I think a lot of times people don't

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see it as growth because they're like, well,
wait a minute.
I'm not learning anything from this, and the
reason you're not learning anything from it is
because you're negatively responding to things and not
going, oh, I get this, or oh, this
is good the way they do this, or
oh, I'm so grateful that I know this,

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right?
But how many people do you know maybe
in your environment that are positive and everything?
They're like, well, you know, we could do
this, but we really can't because this won't
work.
We don't have the funding, or we don't
have the people, we don't have the resources.
Of course, the more you just knock yourself
and knock the group and knock the team
and knock the project, the more it's going
to take a tank, and the harder it's

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going to be to get that project back
on track.
I think that's a very important thing to
understand.
Number 26, catch yourself saying this, and this
is very important, can't, and try anyway.
Whenever you think, I can't challenge that thought
and replace it by experimenting instead.

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Action over assumption will always create confidence and
discovery, and you know what's going to happen?
It's going to take that point where you
are right now, and it's going to change
it.
It's going to shift your perspective.
You're like, wait a minute, this isn't that
bad, or I can actually do this.
Yeah.
When you start to think in the right
mind frame, it's amazing how when we get

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everything aligned, mind and body can believe you
can do it, and guess what?
Your belief is 90% of it, the
other 10% is doing it, and then
you've done it, and you're like, oh, wow,
and then you motivate yourself to do something
that you didn't think you could do.
Number 27, look for silver linings in real
time.

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Train your mind to spot opportunity and value,
even in the difficult situations.
A lot of people can find the silver
or the gold lining when everything's going great,
but when there's the challenges, when there are
the crisis moments, you're like, oh, this is

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impossible.
How are we ever going to get out
of this?
How are we even going to make it
out alive?
How are we ever going to get back?
How is this ever going to get profitable?
How are we going to handle this?
The more of those that you compound on,
the more weight.
Think of it like this.
Think of it like you're lifting five pounds,
and now let's say I put another five

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pounds, another five pounds.
The more I keep putting on you, the
harder, or think of it like this.
Think of it like hiking.
Your backpack has got nothing in it.
Now I put 10 pounds in it.
It's a little harder.
Then another 10, 20, then 30, then 40,
then 50, 60, 70, 80, 90, 100.
Eventually, it gets so much.
That made me 200.
This is so hard.
It's harder, but you can still do it.

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It's just going to take you a little
bit longer, and it's going to require more
energy.
Silver linings fuel optimism, and they'll drive resilience,
and they'll help you out of the situation
that you're in, and help prepare you for
other situations that you will run into in
the future.
Number 28, define success by your core values.
Let your principles guide achievement.

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When your wins align with your purpose, fulfillment
will follow.
Now, it's not going to follow in five
seconds.
It's a constant, let's say, compounding of your
energy, of your thoughts, of your belief.

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Then things sort of click, and you get
that eureka moment.
It's like, oh, wait a minute.
I get it now.
Number 29, guys, unplug weekly for a reset.
Dedicating time away from screens and tasks clears
your mental field, letting creativity and recovery take

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root in your life.
I think sometimes we feel that if we
unplug, it's like, well, we're not going to
be able to do anything.
We're going to miss something.
I got news for you.
The technology is still going to be there.
You're still going to be there in the
future.
You're still going to not miss anything, and
that little bit of recharge will be like,
wait a minute.
That was like a breath of fresh air.

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That's the thing.
I think sometimes people become so attached at
the hip with tech.
I love tech, but there's a time when
we've got to put tech away, and we've
got to realize that it needs to be
turned off, or it needs to be unpaused
while we recharge our own batteries, because let's
face it.
Tech can drain us if we let it.

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Ladies and gentlemen, I want to tell you
something else.
Let it take root, and always ask, what
can I learn from this?
Instead of, well, this is crazy, or this
is impossible.
What can I learn from this?
What can I learn from this?
What did this teach me?
You have a bad experience.
It wasn't going great.
Well, what can I learn from this, or
what did I learn from this?

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What can I learn from this?
Forget about the bad lesson, but just figure
out what you can learn.
Once you figure out what you can learn,
then you throw everything else out.
What can I learn from this?
That is so simple.
It's a simple question, and it transforms any
situation into an invitation for growth.
What can I learn from this?
It might be a terrible situation, but you

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learn something.
Take, for example, maybe somebody got a speeding
ticket.
What can I learn from this?
I can learn from this that I need
to slow down, because maybe I could have
harmed myself or someone else.
Maybe this was a wake-up call for
me, and I need to leave earlier in

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the morning or at night.
I need to make sure that I allow
extra time for travel.
Road rage isn't fun, and speeding is not
fun.
But some people, that's their way of life,
and it's really no way to live.
It's actually kind of horrible, so that's important
to understand.

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I know a lot of you are saying,
well, John, you don't understand.
I live for speed.
Well, you can do speed and other things,
but speed is not supposed to be in
the car.
That's not where speed is supposed to be.
We've got precious lives on the road, yours
and others, and because lives are priceless, you
have to realize that when the car is

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going at a high speed, the amount of
time it takes to slow it down is
that much longer.
You may not always be able to slow
it down enough in time to prevent a
crash.
That's really important.
I hope this makes sense to everybody, but
by consistently integrating these mindset shifts, you'll inspire

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acknowledgement, gratitude, and celebration in your life and
workplace.
Unlocking true satisfaction and fueling high performance.
That's the key, guys.
Oh, by the way, I'm John Seymour, a
serial entrepreneur with inspirations for your life, and
I am so glad and proud to be

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with you guys as your coach, entrepreneur, and
your lifelong learner.
So let's keep building momentum one inspired day
at a time.
Are you ready for more growth, more joy,
and impact?
Great!
Connect with me at BelieveMeAchieve.com 24 hours
a day to check out all my other
great content.
Have a great rest of your day, everyone.

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May we all be grateful for everything we
have.