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Mark, Mr. Productivity tell me about your vision

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well, my vision is

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relatively brand new because I

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Wasn't clear on what a vision was until I went to a boot camp with someone. So now I have it narrowed down to

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I am doing what I love to do

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When I want from where I want to be and with the people I most want to be with

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That is a lot of

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Precision tell me more about that

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Well, like I said, I have to give credit to my coach

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I went to his boot camp because we were talking about vision on the first day and I'm like

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I don't know make a lot of money

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it's no idea because no one actually explained to me what a vision was and

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So we are working in our group about what our vision was and he shared his that's with his vision

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I'm like, can I use yours? Cuz that's like I want it goes

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Yeah, you can use it if you if it aligns with what you want you can use it and I absolutely love that

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I write it my journal every day because we only get one shot at this thing called life and

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If you're not doing what you love to do if you wake up every day and you're like, oh

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I gotta go to work or I gotta you know

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Get the kids up and you're just like this mister or missus negativity person. Well

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You're not gonna be productive if you're you know, not doing what you love to do

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And then it's not just what you do. But how about the when how about the where how about the people you're doing it with?

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Because I think all four of those elements had to be tied together

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so if you're doing what you'd love to do and you're doing it when you want, but

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You're not in a place like physically like where you live that makes you happy or maybe

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You're making a lot of money, but hate your clients

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So I think all four of those have to tied through in order to make a proper vision at least that's the way I look at it

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So what is your what why then and who?

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My what is gonna sound

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Weird so I hope you give me some grace here a few years ago

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I heard Grant Cardone say that the whole point of being really rich is so you can help a lot of people

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And up until that point I was raised my parents have passed away, but I was raised that

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Rich people are bad and you don't need a lot of money

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But I find that a lot of the most generous people are people who work real work really hard and have a lot of money

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And so that's what feels me. So my what is to make a lot of money so I can help a lot of people now

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I apologize, but I forgot the other two parts of the question

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It's it's it's what your vision was doing what you want to do with who you want to do with oh, okay

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so my niche my niche is

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HR professionals more specifically people who are sherm certified sherm is

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Society of Human Resources Management certified and

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Here's the funny thing about niching. I

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Did not understand niching. I've taken countless courses read books about niching and then my current coach told me this

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The niche isn't important, but niching is important the whole point of niching and there's a lot more to this by

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This whole niching thing

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But the whole point of niching is you to be focused because a lot of people are just throwing spaghetti against the wall

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And you got to have a niche of something you're going after now. It just can't be any niche

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It's got to be nits. Obviously the people have to have a need

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They've got to be find the ball, you know

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The whole bunch of criteria for finding a niche you don't want to say my niche is like there's four people that fit my niche

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The entire world that's probably not a good niche to go after it may be but probably not so that's why I'm going after HR professionals

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Wow people don't happen to go in this field

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How did you land in that field a?

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Coach when my older coaches saw something in me because I was

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uncharacteristically

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down on this call so normally I am

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I identify as Tigger from Winnie the Pooh and I was having an Eeyore moment and

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My coach asked me what's going on?

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I'm like, well, you know, I I can't figure out what I want to do because I was

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Trying to figure out what my topic was gonna be and out of the blue. He said well, why don't you talk about productivity?

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And I said to him all like well, that's weird. Why why would you say that? I don't understand

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He goes I know a lot of people I coach a lot of people you are one of the most naturally gifted productive people

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I've ever met you need to share that gift for the world and

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It took a couple months for me to go really

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Did listen to his advice because had I not I don't know where I'd be

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That's very interesting I would love to know more about that what

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The term mr. Productivity, it's it's very unique. I love it

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How did that come to about and what's that about? I had made a post on LinkedIn

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about three or four years ago and

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Hashtag mr. Productivity at my s t er mr. Productivity and I'm like, oh

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That's kind of cool

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Can I use that because I don't know what the etiquette was like because I never I didn't know what that was

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He goes sure and so ever since then I actually registered

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First I trademarked and I registered it and then I my websites mr

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Productivity calm my podcast is mr. Productivity podcast and I just love the whole brand of mr. Productivity

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That's why I tell people if you can't figure out what you want to do

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With your life just keep living life at the right moment. You'll discover it. Yeah. Thank you for sharing that

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Mark, what would you say then is your goal for being on the show?

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My goal to be on the show is always twofold number one

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I want to make the hosts look really good because there's a fellow podcaster. I know what it's like

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The question and you probably have people in the back that you know get all the stuff zipped together

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Go off on tangents. I try not to use a lot of filler words because I want to make your job easier

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Now the third and it's a distant third if they go to my website, that's great

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But I want to serve people I want if I can help one person as a result of being on the show and I do mean

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One I believe in the power of one if I help one person by something. I said they go Wow

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I'm gonna do that to me. It's a successful time on your show

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Thank you for sharing that and what?

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Would help our audience today? I

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Want to give a shout out to my audience

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I want to give your audience my number one productivity tip right now and

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Believe it or not. It has nothing

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Journals to-do list what I want people to do

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Whenever they begin to feel

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Frustrated angry whatever negative emotion you can come up with I want them to be

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From their computer because we're spending entirely too much time behind our laptops

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I want you to walk outside. Do not get on your little screen known as your phone screen

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Put that in your pocket or better off leave it in your office and go outside. Don't talk to anyone

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Don't think about anything. Just give your body the gift of a micro break

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It's three to five minutes. So when you get up and walk outside, you're getting the blood flowing

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And then you're not going to do anything when you get outside

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Maybe take some deep breathing now if you really want to take it to the next level

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I can do this because I work from home

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Go outside take your shoes and socks off and stand barefoot on the ground and you'd be amazed how you feel the stress and the inflammation

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Be sucked out of your body

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That alone those micro breaks alone will give you so much natural energy

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Which will improve your productivity

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that people

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That people doubt me. I will get five minutes to trust me if you do it

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The only people tell me it doesn't work as if like were you on your phone?

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Oh, yeah, no, no, don't be on your phone. Don't talk to anyone go outside

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See, we're not quiet enough. That's the problem. We don't go outside. We're not quiet

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We're always going from one screen to another or talking or thinking about stuff. Give your brain

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you know, I I have a grounding mat right below my feet right now connected to my

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It's crazy that you said that it's amazing

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Now here's the thing a lot of people ask me. Well, I work spend a lot of time indoors

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What's your opinion on grounding mats? I said first of all do your homework

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Because I know people bought grounding mats on amazon and they didn't feel a difference

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And then they opened it up and find out the wires were even attached if you can

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On the earth number two, you're going to get fresh air number three at the sun's out. You're going to get the sun

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So if you can go outside it's best because you don't have to worry about is the earth working today

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The earth is always going to be working

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But I I don't have a grounding mat. I'm at my standing desk right now when i'm done here. I'll go back outside

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Actually, no, I can't go back outside because of my bedtime

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I'm not supposed to expose myself to bright sunlight if you expose yourself to bright sunlight too late in the day

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It affects your sleep. So I guess i'm going to be inside the rest of the day. So that's okay

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So mark, um

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It's hard to talk about great businesses great ideas without great leaders

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To you what defines a great leader?

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A great leader is one who

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In other words, they're not listening

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So they know when you stop talking so they can talk they're actually listening to understand

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Are very humble. They're a student of life

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And I think if you want to be a great leader, whether you have a three or four man operation or you're leading a ginormous company

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Listen to whoever you're talking to or rather who's talking to you

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With an open mind don't have your preconceived notions. Don't have your opinions. Just close your mouth

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So you listen twice as much as you speak

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About the experiences you've had with with other leaders would you like to share some of those?

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He had stolen my ideas and he stole an idea some other people I work with

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That could read every person he would know if you were someone that required a lot of attention

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Who didn't are you someone that need to be yelled at or someone he can talk civil to?

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And I remember one time. I don't remember what the situation was, but he came down from his office

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And something big happened. I don't know what it was, but I was at the bottom of the stairs getting something

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And he came up to me says I'm going to yell at the guys, but i'll talk to you about it later because he knew me

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The other guys not saying things wrong with him, but they were older gentlemen. They were diehard union workers and

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They had to be talked to differently. So the thing he was more effective about is that he knew how to

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We all need to be communicated at a different level

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I remember when I used to play little guy soccer when I was a kid if the coach yelled at me I shut down

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Explain what I did wrong. I listened and I would put into action what he told me

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So my reaction is don't yell at me because i'm going to shut down

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You have to get down and you have to actually talk to people not just about business

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You're you're a big european football fan, right? What you like the premier league? Oh, you're a man city guy, right?

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You don't have to know anything about the sport. But now

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Your workers are like, oh wow. He asked me about my team and maybe down the road

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He he's I saw the game on tv last night

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That's what you're doing. But a lot of people think they're dictators and this is not north korea

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You're not king jong-un. You know, be nice to people and see how much better they are a productive worker for you

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What?

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What changes has?

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that change

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in your life

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Well, I have my own company well

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It's not a company my wife and I have our own small business

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And what I found is whether i'm on a podcast talking to a client talking to a prospect

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I always try to put my listening ears on

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Because i've never had two exact clients. They all have different issues. They all have different personalities

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One I have to be more direct with

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John go and do this

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Well, salie I can say salie. I recommend you do something like this and she'll do it

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So I think it it's really important that we all slow down

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Close our mouths and actually listen to people because if you listen to people

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You will learn how to communicate with them and how to get your message across. 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 as these episodes continue to move forward

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This is going to get more and more fun. We'll have more and more engagement as well

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We'll invite people to participate in the show and thank you for giving us your time and attention

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Have an excellent time building out your vision and becoming a vision pro yourself. You