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And how do leaders lean into funding their vision?

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Great question.

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Leaders lean into funding their vision by taking small steps into filling their own

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cup, by starting to do small things for themselves.

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And it can be something really, really small.

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But I think what's really important first is to make yourself happy, to do something

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that you love.

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Because when you do something that you love, you fill your heart with joy.

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And when you fill your heart with joy, what happens is that you become a magnet for opportunities,

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you become a magnet for people.

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And that's when you attract everything that you desire.

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And you also attract the path that you're supposed to actually be taking.

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And that's when you start to get clarity.

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When you are sad, when you are depressed, when you're not feeling well, when you are

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feeling rejected or criticized, when things appear to not be working in your life or business,

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that's when you are most likely to attract scammers, people to disrespect you, clients

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who reject you, clients who don't pay you.

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And when you are leaning into more happiness, more joy, doing more of what you love, you'll

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find that you're not pushing anymore.

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It's so much easier for you to attract your desired path.

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It's so much easier for you to put energy and time and money into your own vision.

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And I think being joyful is a responsibility as well, because you are impacting thousands

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of people in your neighborhood just with your personal frequency.

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How happy you are makes a massive difference to the people around you.

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It's not just your neighbors.

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It's so much bigger than that.

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And I find that quite interesting how your happiness, your joy, the love that you spread,

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the compliments that you pay, the sincere compliments that you pay to those around you

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have such a massive impact on those around you.

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You will never understand how big this impact can possibly be just because you were nice

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and friendly to your concierge or to the waiter or to the people around you that normally

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do not get noticed.

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You will see when you start to analyze how big your impact is when you are happier yourself,

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you have a responsibility to make yourself happy.

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So, Lily, what were some of the things that you did early when you were trying to figure

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out into funding your vision that gave you joy, that gave you clarity, that helped you

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in your path?

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Great question.

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One of the things that I started doing was to create a happiness calendar.

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So, many, many years ago, I was a nanny and I published my first book.

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And when I did that, I realized I wanted to have a boyfriend and I also wanted to do something,

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but I wasn't sure what.

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I wanted to do something big.

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I wanted to feel like I had succeeded in some way.

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So, I started to create this happiness calendar.

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And what I was starting to do was to include in my diary things that made me feel good,

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for example, swimming and dancing and walking and doing my nails and having fun with my

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friends and going out for a drink or, you know, all these little things.

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But because I was filling up my calendar with happy moments, I gradually became a different

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person.

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And I also learned about this from a book called How to Win Friends and Influence People.

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And what I remembered the most from this book is that if you are going to be a burger flipper,

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be the best possible burger flipper there is and enjoy the process, even if your aspiration

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is to be the director of a company, still be the most impactful, the most joyous, the

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most productive employee you can possibly be, even while you are aspiring to become

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the leader of a certain company.

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And it was that that really transformed my habits.

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And because of that, I published my book.

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And because of that, I was hired to be the director of a company that was doing property

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management and because they hired me, I managed to increase the revenues from 400K per year

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to 642K per year with the same number of properties.

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And I did that because I was with branding and with improving the image of the properties

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and also with gifting books to potential clients that I desired.

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But the key thing is that the had I not been happy, had I not created the happiness calendar,

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I truly believe I could never have gotten there because it's so important to stay positive

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while you are going through tough moments.

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I think it's important to even when you are you don't have your ideal job, that you can

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still enjoy moments of your current job so much so that you are observed in the community.

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So when there is an opportunity for you to get promoted or for you to work with a different

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company or for you to promote the services of another company, you get that opportunity

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because of how positive you are, because of how fun you are, because of how charismatic

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and confident and fun loving you are.

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And that's the thing that made the difference for me in terms of being able to put time

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and energy into my vision.

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And now I'm collaborating with influential entrepreneurs that I could never have dreamed

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to collaborate with had I not included the happiness calendar into my life.