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Here on Share the Struggle Podcast, you never know the who, what, when, or where when it comes to the motivation and the inspiration for this year podcast.
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And today's episode shall be no different because today we draw inspiration from WWE Hall of Famer Hot Rod Roddy Piper.
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With the help of old Hot Rod himself, we're going to reframe our mindset.
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We're going to redirect and regain control.
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And we end the show by taking the pressure off some of those mistakes we've made, the failures along the way, the missteps, the embarrassing moments, the bad decisions.
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We render them powerless with a little help from the 101010 rule.
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Let me tell you something.
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Everybody's struggled.
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The difference is some people choose to go through it and some choose to grow through it.
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The choice is completely yours.
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Which one you choose will have a very profound effect on the way you live your life.
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Almighty, am I so excited to be back with you?
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Oh, it is true.
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It is damn true.
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Why?
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Because I love you.
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That's why.
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Share the struggle.
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Because we say it week after week after week.
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Everybody struggles.
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And the truth is, boys and girls, chipmunks and squirrels, when you are bold enough, when you are courageous enough, when you are willing to be transparent and share yo shit, then everybody can learn from it.
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There is strength in your story.
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There is clues to success from me and you.
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How do you do, folks?
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Episode 290.
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That's 290 consecutive weeks of Share the Struggle Podcast.
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Find all things podcast related over to www.share the struggle podcast.com.
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Feel free to leave a review and say how do you do?
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Welcome to some new locations today.
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Let's see how many of these I can mess up.
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Joelette, Illinois, Collegeville, Pennsylvania.
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Daka Daka.
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D-H-A-K-A.
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Daka Daka?
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Is that how that's pronounced?
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And um herbal herbal.
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Is this some kind of I mean, are you guys setting me up here?
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What's going on here?
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E-R-B-I-L.
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Would it be herbal?
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Would that be how you pronounce it?
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I mean without the H and Herble.
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I don't know.
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That's just when people realize that you're a raging moron and they stop listening to your show.
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But the truth is, you can learn stuff from dumb people too.
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So take that.
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That was probably not the best way to build myself up.
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I hope y'all are safe out there.
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We have survived Snow Mageddon for those of our listeners that are here in the US of A that survived Snow Mageddon.
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I would list some geographical regions on the map, but it feels like pretty much everybody got something, right?
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It's crazy.
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I listen to a lot of Texas radio and uh they were getting ice storms and they were getting prepared for it.
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It's crazy to hear some of y'all that are down south getting prepared for things that we take for granted and uh the chaos that happens there.
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Also, for the the folks out in Tennessee, which is a place that we would really like to be, I know that uh there's a lot of folks out there still without power.
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So I hope that uh y'all, if you don't have your power back, I hope it's coming back.
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If you're listening in your car today with the heat going, then uh hopefully I can entertain you, make you smile, and drop some knowledge on you over the next 45, 50 minutes, whatever it's gonna be.
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I hope and pray all y'all made it through safely and we're getting that behind us.
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We definitely got, how shall they say, uh pounded by snow.
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That's right.
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We got a real main way of putting it is uh we got dumped on, dude.
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We got dumped on, dude.
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Tons of snow.
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I will start the show by saying thank you, thank you, thank you to Matt and Sarah Perkins from Ledgeway Farm for selling us their old plow truck, their old farm truck that has become our farm truck, which I gotta tell you, with the amount of snow and the amount of plowing that took place over the past 24, 48 hours, it was so nice to fire up a Chevy pickup and turn the heat on and drop the plow of the remote, and versus me sitting out there freezing my ass off one bucket at a time, which I will say one bucket at a time is a long ways away from me shoveling the whole place by hand, all 300 plus yards of a driveway, whatever it is.
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So uh yeah, we've graduated, and I want to say thank you, Matt and Sarah Ledgebay Farm, for that.
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That made a big major difference.
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All that aside, I just wanted to say to each and every one of you, I hope you're doing good, I hope you're feeling good, I hope you're warm, and I hope you're safe.
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With that out the way, I teased you today by saying, we are gonna take a message from the man himself, Mr.
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Hot Rod Roddy Piper.
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Now, I'm not gonna go down some dark, lonesome road of me puffing my chest about how much of a wrestling fan I am and how I grew up addicted to this stuff, but I will just say, for those of you that don't know, uh Hot Rod Roddy Piper helped bridge the gap between uh wrestling and mainstream, right?
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He uh he brought the world of acting, the world of music, he brought it all together, and he was monumental for the rise and the popularity that you actually have today from wrestling.
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So uh Roddy Piper, also known as probably one of the best trash talkers in the history of wrestling.
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All right, let's have a little fun with me.
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Let's reminisce, let's turn the clocks back to 1985, and let's have a little fun.
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Right there, folks.
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Just when they think they got the answers, I change the questions.
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Y'all are listening, y'all are yelling at me right now, saying, What in the same hell is there for me to learn from that promo right there?
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Well, that's why you come here for a little fun.
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That's why we're gonna peel the onion.
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That's right, old son.
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This is how we reframe our mind.
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This is how we change our mindset.
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Just when they think they got the answers, I change the questions.
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Let's rework, old hot rod.
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When we don't have the answers, we change the questions.
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You see what I did there, folks?
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We are going to reframe our mindset.
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Just when we do not have the answers, we change the question.
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When you don't have the answer, you change the question.
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How many days and nights do we feel lost and confused?
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How many challenges are in front of you that you just don't have an answer to?
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What is holding you back?
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What is holding you down?
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What is pushing you around?
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You just don't have the answers.
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Let's reframe our mind and let's rework the question by changing the question.
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Together we will redirect and regain control.
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You see, I know there's one thing true about you and me.
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We are all working towards something.
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We are all dreaming of something.
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The bigger the dream, the bigger the challenge.
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And with that greater challenge, the more missteps, the more mix-ups, the more failures, the more F ups that happen.
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But we we know this and we encounter this, but we often find ourselves trying to dust ourselves off when this happens.
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And we ask ourselves, why did I fail?
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Instead of pounding ourselves into submission, agonizing over failure, why did I fail?
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Let's redirect, reframe, let's change the question: what can I learn from this experience?
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What can be gained from this effort?
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If we start to take lessons from our missteps, then we're going to change our direction.
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We might prevent further missteps.
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Let's paint another picture, let's show another example about changing the question.
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Let's find the biggest example instead of me wasting a ton of time over examples.
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Let's talk about David and Goliath.
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Because if David went against Goliath and the question that he had for himself was, How can I defeat Goliath?
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He is so damn big.
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He's just too big to defeat.
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How can I defeat somebody so massive?
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How can I defeat something so big and so strong?
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When instead the question should be, he's so big, how can I miss?
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Think about that.
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He's too big to defeat, how can I defeat him?
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He's so damn big, how can I miss him?
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When we don't have the answers, we need to change the question.
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Focusing on what is broken will never set you free.
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The more that we we agonize over the failures, the more that we focus on what is broken, we begin to dwell and swell, and that will never set you free.
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If you are like me, which I think many of you are, then you have big dreams, high hopes and aspirations.
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And if you're like me and you're chasing those dreams, those hopes, those aspirations, you're constantly falling on your face, you're constantly not attaining those things that you set for yourself.
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If you're like me, you're trying to fill yourself full of motivation, you're trying to seek out inspiration.
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I'm beginning to realize if I set my sails on motivation, if the wind in my sails is motivation, I will fall short of my dreams, of my goals.
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Because you can never live that high.
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You can never stay that high.
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You can never be motivated and inspired every single day because failure comes, because hurt happens, because difficulty happens.
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It's hard to stay motivated in the face of difficulty.
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I'm beginning to realize instead of just solely focusing on filling my lungs with motivation, I need to focus on meaning.
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I should be chasing meaning over motivation.
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What does this dream mean to me?
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What does this mission mean to me?
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Why is it so damn important?
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What is the root behind the reason?
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What is the meaning for this dream, for these hopes, for these aspirations?
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When that meaning is greater than the difficulties, then you don't need to rely on motivation because here is the truth about you and I.
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We are not always motivated, we are easily derailed from motivation.
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Let's slow this down a little bit because I'm getting kind of heated.
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But I try to start my day off with something positive.
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If I'm gonna be in my Bible or if I'm gonna be in my motivation, if I'm gonna be in my inspiration, whether it's a book, it's a sermon, it's a video, it's a passage, whatever it is, I try to start motivated.
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But here's the thing, folks.
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We all have the best of intentions.
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We all start today with the best of intentions.
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You don't roll out of bed and say, I'm gonna do my best to make this suck today.
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I'm gonna do my best to get even further away from my goals today.
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No, we put our feet down on the floor saying today is the day.
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Am I right?
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That's how I feel.
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I get up and I start the day, but what happens?
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How long before your motivation begins to be chipped away?
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Even on the best of days, even on the most motivated of days, you start the day inspired and productive.
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How long before there's one email that chip aways at your emotion?
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How long before that bad email you open chips away on that positive motivation you built this morning?
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What about that phone call when the phone rings and it's that negative call and that starts to tink, tink, tink on your armor a little bit?
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What if that coworker, that companion, that boss, that colleague, what if they're in an absolute just down in the dumps type of mood?
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What if they didn't start their day on their Wheaties and inspiration?
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What if they just woke up eating assholes in frustration?
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Okay, I'm focusing on Wheaties motivation.
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This Joker over here is eating freaking assholes and frustration, and he's gonna come in and he's gonna rub that that nonsense all over me.
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These distractions, these these these just demotivating distractions, these obstacles, they're wearing away on our motivation.
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What if on the way to work today you got cut off in traffic?
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Maybe you jammed on the brakes and you spilled your coffee?
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Or if you got a coffee at Dunkin' Donuts and it just happened to taste like shit, and you always ask yourself, why do I keep going back to Dunkin' Donuts at$300 a month when they make two coffees a month that actually tastes good?
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Wow.
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Hut button for you.
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What if your kids frustrate you?
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What if you argue with your spouse?
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What if you have a disagreement with a sibling?
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How high is your motivation?
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What if you do the best you can to deflect all these distractions?
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You're doing your best.
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Bing, deflect.
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Whoo, Heisman, bing.
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See you later.
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Hmm, deflect.
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I feel like he's kind of like Mario.
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I haven't played video games since I was a kid, so.
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Is it like Mario when you have a little power level and he's running around and just keeps going down because something falls on his head, you bump into the wrong brick and you see a little power go down a little bit, you run over the wrong mushroom or some shit.
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I don't know.
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But you see his little lights go down a little bit.
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That's us.
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We wake up motivated, right?
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We're fueling up on positivity.
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We start our day and then we run into the wrong mushroom, man.
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We bounce our head off the wrong brick wall, and then boom, boom, boom.
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Our little our little light meter keeps going down and down and down.
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Now, what if your little motivation light meter is starting to fade?
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But you say to yourself, You're that little train that could.
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I'm just gonna keep on chugging, chugging, chugging, chugging, chwt, chute, I can do it.
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I can chase my dreams, watch me do it.
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You can put the caboose to it, I'm gonna do it.
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And you try something, maybe you're a little distracted, but you're putting your your your your all your intentions, your heart, your focus, everything into this project, and it doesn't work.
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What if you spend two weeks designing a logo for somebody only to put that pitch on paper and to get it denied?
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What if you build that quote that has so many line items on it that by the time they say yes, it's a third of what you plan for?
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What happens then?
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What happens when the the new thing you took on that's gonna put you closer to your dream fails?
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Are you gonna be able to get back up?
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Are you gonna sit around and keep asking yourself, why did I fail?
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Or are you gonna change the question, hot rod?
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Because you don't have the answer.
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I want to change the question.
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What can I learn?
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We're gonna redirect the situation and we're gonna regain control.
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But how hard is it to do all this when you no longer have the motivation?
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Let me tell you something, baby girl.
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This world it takes motivation.
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This world robs you of motivation.
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You turn the TV on, you scroll through social media too long, it'll rob your motivation.
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You need to find meaning.
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Meaning over motivation.
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Motivation is great.
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Positive in, positive out.
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I've been saying that since day one.
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But we can't rely only on motivation.
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We have episodes in here on the Simon Cynic Golden Circle, establishing our why, why we're doing this, find the reason, and hang on to that why.
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But I think this year we should start to really examine the meaning.
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What is it in your mind and your heart that you want so bad?
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Take out that pen and paper and start writing those things out and begin to establish the meaning.
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What does this mean to you?
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What does this mean for you?
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Why are we chasing this so hard?
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And when we find that meaning and we begin to understand the feeling that's going to come from it, then those things will strengthen our armor.
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We need to focus on giving our energy to our direction, not to doubting ourselves.
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When we are fueling up on motivation and we are getting derailed all along the way.
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We spend too much time analyzing the failures, we spend too much time self sabotaging ourselves.
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We need to give energy to direction.