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here today with the Vision Pros podcast.

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Today I've got Brad Smith.

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Please, Brad, tell me about your vision.

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Which level?

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My vision.

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Well, my vision.

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Oh, I have lots of rabbit holes I can take.

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For each.

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So if this is for business people, right?

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Is it?

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Yes.

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Our vision is a vision for business people.

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Every one of the people that are listening to me,

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except maybe Amazon and a couple of those big ones,

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if you add a zero, there's a lot of work involved.

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Add a zero to your revenue and add a zero to your net revenue.

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Both of those are possible.

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I've done it repeatedly.

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So challenge yourself and find out what are the limitations

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and if you're half of that.

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OK.

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So adding a zero at the end of your net revenue.

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Where did that idea come from?

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How did that start with you?

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Everybody wants to add that money.

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I did it with a client.

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It startled me and then I got done with it.

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I turned him into a millionaire.

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And by the end of that process, it took about three years.

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But at the end of that process, I stopped myself

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and I said, OK, Brad, what is it that we did?

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What is it is possible and how many more people need this?

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And I realized that almost everybody I talked to

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requires boosting their vision deep enough and broad enough

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so they can understand what all the impediments are.

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For myself, one of the things that I've discovered

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through my life journey is that I was the biggest impediment

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to everything that I wanted.

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Not the world doing it to me, but me

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using the mechanisms of the real world, not our imaginary one,

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but the real world to come back and limit me.

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And I'm still working on that.

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Yeah.

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So how did you begin this?

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You didn't always become like right out the gates.

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You weren't a coach for CEOs.

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Oh, Lord, no.

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There's a journey involved.

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So let's talk about it.

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Fall term freshman year, so I had a couple of,

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started out in, my dad was a chemical engineer

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and had a PhD, bachelor's in chemical engineering

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and a PhD in biochemistry.

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And he essentially raised me to think like a chemical engineer.

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If you've got a result, that means there is an effect.

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If there's an end result you want,

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then there is a cause for it.

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And so fall term freshman year, one of my biggest life lessons,

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I developed an ulcerated colon.

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Ulcerated colon, bleeding colon.

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Uncool.

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And I suffered with that for about two months.

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And then I finally got to the doctor

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because it took a while, five or six weeks to get in to see him.

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And within about 20 minutes, he said to me

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three sentences that changed the course of my life.

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So I had chemistry as a background.

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If there is an effect, there's a cause.

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That's the foundation.

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So he said to me, gee, Brad, if you'd

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have waited six weeks to come see me, you'd have bled to death.

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He had my attention.

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And I didn't know it was that bad, but it was that bad.

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I didn't want to bleed to death.

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Yeah, don't joke.

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This isn't going to happen.

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And then he said to me, you'll never eat strawberries, corn,

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or lettuce, all things I like.

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Well, maybe not so much lettuce, but strawberries and corn.

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You'll never eat anything with roughage ever again in your life.

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Wow.

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And my 18-year-old brain said, fat chance, buddy.

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That's not happening.

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Then he said, the killer was, you have a psychosomatic disease.

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And I knew what that meant.

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You have a psychosomatic disease.

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Your emotions affect the severity of your symptoms.

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And in that instant, I made 100% commitment

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to conquer the disease.

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If it's caused by my emotions, because that was my thought,

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if it's caused by my emotions, then I

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have to go back, find out which emotions are creating that,

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study my body, study my emotions,

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and look for the patterns that created that,

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and then reverse it.

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Because psychology is a decision process.

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And so I went back in.

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I studied Brad.

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Brad was the beaker, if you would.

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I studied my emotions.

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And over time, I learned how to track patterns.

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And eventually, oh, so within a year,

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I had the bleeding stop, right?

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Or at least intermittent.

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And then the pain, which was pretty bad and constant,

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if I was conscious I was in pain,

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took me about three years, maybe 3 and 1 half,

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to get that conquered, at least down to intermittent.

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But it was still part of my life.

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And I had to watch my diet.

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He was pretty accurate about that for a while,

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had I stayed that way.

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But as I studied the psychology of it

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and the results of that in my body,

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eventually I got to the place where

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I remembered a single event at about 11 months old.

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It was conscious, normal memory at 11 months old,

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where I went back and reworked that with hypnosis at age 47,

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18 to 47, right?

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So at 47, went back in and reworked that

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in a single hypnosis session.

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And it was essentially me at 11 months,

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had to live off the diaper pail.

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I was curious as all get up, swirling the diapers around,

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like freaked my poor mom out.

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And she grabbed me, spanked me.

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So I just assumed that I was my first spanking.

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I went back in, reworked that from an adult perspective

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instead of a toddler perspective.

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And that change permanently changed my biology

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so that I no longer had colitis.

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Wow.

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Right?

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What a story.

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What a highs and lows, just like the hero's journey

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that you've been on in that story.

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That's crazy.

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But what I learned from that is all of life,

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I'll just put this thought out for most people,

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if there is an effect in your life,

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there's a psychosomatic cause behind it.

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If you have a struggle getting a job,

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then take a look at you and who you are

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and how you relate to people.

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Right?

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What's your character?

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Do an analysis of your character.

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Write down all your values.

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Write down all the things you love about yourself,

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all the things you admire about other people.

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Those are the high ones.

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Then you go back through and do, what are all the things

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that people yell at me for, that they hate about me,

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that I don't like about me?

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About me.

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Right?

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And then also, what is it I don't like?

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The third list is, what is it I don't like about my life?

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And the purpose of blame is to shift responsibility

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off yourself.

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That's a two-year-old emotion, if you would skill.

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Right?

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So in order to reclaim responsibility,

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you have to make the decision to conquer it.

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I think there's three major decisions

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we make when we're born.

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First one is, at 20 inches long, when we're not verbal,

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I'm not capable.

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That's the primary one.

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If I'm not capable, the second one is, I can't be responsible.

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And if I'm not responsible, somewhere along the line,

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we make the decision in our first year or so,

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I'm not valuable.

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And those three decisions, I'm not capable,

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I'm not responsible, I'm not valuable,

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run our lives from our subconscious

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until we go back in and choose to be responsible.

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That's the one entry into those three.

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And then if we choose to be responsible,

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then we learn capability.

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And if we learn capability, then we learn and infer

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that we're valuable.

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Huge, isn't it?

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That right there is the core of that whole journey

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with my kaleidos and what it taught me.

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It's the building blocks to starting off.

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Right?

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So you've got to choose to be responsible.

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What's the difference between someone that's immature

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and someone that's mature?

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They take full responsibility for the things that they do.

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So I want to throw one more in here.

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My definition of integrity, which I just

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describe as the governing value, there's

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no other word like it in the English language, integrity.

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You can come close.

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But I describe integrity as what I believe.

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That's the depth of my subconscious.

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What I think, that's my momentary consciousness.

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What I say and what I do.

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That progression.

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And if they all line up, that's integrity.

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How many people can say, I went this whole last year

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and I counted the number of lies I told everyone else

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and myself, right?

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And when I realized, when I finally got that definition

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of integrity, I realized at the end of the year,

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I had been tracking the number of lies

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I had told consciously to other people.

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And I realized it was only five.

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Five.

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So I made the commitment to try and work to get lower.

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I'm down to the point where now when I talk with people,

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I either am in silent, because that's not a lie.

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I'm in silent or I tell them the truth.

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And I've got that.

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Now what I watch is my impulses to lie.

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And what that is is a screen for me

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for how secure or insecure I'm actually feeling.

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These are really freaking high standards, right?

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Yeah, absolutely they are.

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You're putting yourself to high standards, for sure.

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Hold yourself to those high standards,

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then insist the people around you do their best to match.

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And that creates a different world for you.

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Let me put it this way.

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The core of everything is my self-authority.

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Do I believe what I believe, right?

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And what I say, what I think and I do, right?

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The core of that is what I put myself into and make decisions

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about.

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That's my self-authority.

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If everybody had a really good view, an accurate view

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of their self-authority and used it consciously,

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we would have a different world.

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We wouldn't have war, because we wouldn't blame other people

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and we wouldn't think scarcity, right?

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Let me ask you this.

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Pointing at early entrepreneurs, I

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want to talk about why leaders hide from funding their vision.

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Why do you think leaders hide?

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And a part B to that that I also ask as a follow up

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is how can leaders lean into funding their vision?

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That's a tough one.

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I'm a bootstrap guy, right?

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So I agree with that.

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But I also watched my dad start 34 companies while I was growing.

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So a few, right?

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Funding, not funding, hard work, bootstrap, right?

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But the reason they hide from funding their vision is that,

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bear with me, is that they don't believe it deep enough

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and they are not committed.

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Just like my decision about my colitis,

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I made 100% commitment to it.

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I was committed.

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It wasn't if I was going to conquer that, right?

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So are you committed deep enough that you're

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willing to risk failure?

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And that's the key question.

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Because if you're willing to risk failure,

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then you're willing to be blamed, right?

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It's like, well, I did my best, right?

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Did you do everything?

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Did you look at everything?

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That's hard work, right?

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But how do we learn how to walk?

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You keep falling.

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You keep falling on your butt until you get it figured out

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and you build muscle.

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Every time you fail, whatever it is, right?

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I've been divorced twice and I'm not really good at that.

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Both of them were long term.

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19 years the first one, 20 years the second one, right?

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Wow.

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I may be headed for my third one,

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but we'll see what she says, right?

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Yeah.

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But in order to do that, I have to figure out

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how to fund that, right?

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So one of the challenges this young lady has brought

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into my life is, why aren't I a millionaire yet, right?

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So that challenge has been, get out, talk about what you do,

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own your mistakes.

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And I've had a bunch, right?

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Own your mistakes, stand up, and build

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the skill of resilience and determination.

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Thank you for being here today.

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I'm really happy that you tuned in to Vision Pros Live.

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I'm looking forward to seeing your reactions

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as these episodes continue to move forward.

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This is going to get more and more fun.

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We'll have more and more engagement as well.

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We'll invite people to participate in the show.

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And thank you for giving us your time and attention.

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Have an excellent time building out your vision

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and becoming a Vision Pro yourself.