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Tell me about your vision.

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Yeah, thanks Harry.

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Thanks for having me on the show here today.

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I guess a little bit about my vision.

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I was recently reading a really good book by Ryan Holiday

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called Right Thing Right Now.

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It's all about living a just life

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and what does that mean for each one of us?

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And it's really got me doing some searching on my own.

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And one of the things that I've been saying for years

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is part of my vision is, it's gonna sound a little cliche,

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but you know, having an impact

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and leaving the world in a better place

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than when you found it, when you came into it.

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And when I was reading Ryan's book, it came up again.

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And he talks a lot about how we need more of that.

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We need more folks that are, you know,

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climbing bigger mountains with their craft, with their work,

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but leaving the world in a good place

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through the work that they do

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and the actions that they take along the way,

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whether that's looking at social justice,

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whether that's looking at, you know, the words you write,

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whatever that might be,

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I think is really, really important.

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So it's kind of resurfaced for me in that,

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I guess at the end of the day, my vision is to do that,

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to leave an impact, whether it's with a reader,

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a client, with work,

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and to just leave the world in a better place.

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That is amazing.

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Tell me more about that when you,

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when you mean believing the world a better place,

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what exactly is it that you do?

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Yeah, so a great example,

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when I published my second book called Your Best Decade,

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really what I was trying to do was just, you know,

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there was a lot out there around life hacks

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and, you know, live your best day, live your best hour,

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but there was really nothing looking at the time horizon

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of 10 years of that decade.

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And so I kind of looked at that and zoomed in

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on that decade of time.

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And what I wanted to do with the reader there

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was just leave them feel inspired

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to either make a change in their life

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that would improve their lives,

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or just leave them maybe thinking about some of the things

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that they may need to do in the future

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to make their lives a little bit better for themselves,

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for their family, within their work and all of that.

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And so when I published that book,

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that was just really my goal.

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My goal was just to meet readers where they're at

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and to leave them in a better place.

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And if it's through my book that that happens, amazing,

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but if it's through another book, that's amazing too.

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And I really do believe in the power of books

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to do that for people.

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And I've often said that, you know,

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the best books are not always necessarily

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the ones that are just on the New York Times bestseller.

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They're the ones that meet you where,

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they're the ones that meet you where you're at

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when you need them the most.

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And that to me is, yeah,

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it's kind of why I continue to write

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and why I continue to share ideas out there

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just to make people's lives a little bit better

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and to leave a bit of an impact there.