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Hey guys, welcome back to the Homework Assignment podcast.

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I'm your host, RJ Patino, and we're really excited for the new year coming up.

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I'm sure everybody is.

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And today, as you can guess, we're going to talk about New Year's resolutions.

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We've been asked a little bit about what is Elder doing to set goals for the New Years

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and what are they going to do to maintain it.

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And so, kind of thinking about it, I wanted to go over about three different things that

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we're doing to make sure that not only do we have goals, but that we are actually hitting

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our goals by the end of the year.

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If you guys are like me, we have had those years, plenty of them, depending on your age.

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I feel like I've had a ton where I've set New Year's resolutions, and then I don't think

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about them ever again until the following New Years.

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And then I'm like, crap, I did not do anything I set my mind to.

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I did literally nothing of the sort.

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So with that being said, number one, and the most important step to achieving your goals

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is keeping them top of mind.

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Grant Cardone has said that if you are not writing your goals down twice a day, you are

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not succeeding.

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And that is what we actually do.

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So our entire team, we write our goals down twice a day, and that is one time in the morning

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and one time at night.

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Now in doing this, a few things happen.

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Number one is that you are conscious of your goals throughout the rest of your day.

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Imagine if you had a goal to, let's say, make a million dollars.

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Throughout your day, if you remember that goal, what decisions would you make differently

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if you were consistently focused on achieving that specific goal?

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Would you go do A or would you go do B?

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Normally, you're probably going to do A, but if you have your goal on top of your mind,

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you're going to go do B. Here's an example.

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A few years back, my aunt did a remodel on her house.

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For those of you that don't know that are doing this podcast, I own a residential commercial

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remodeling company.

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We do a bunch of other stuff and we've expanded to some other areas, but that is our main

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bread and butter.

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So my aunt did a remodel and come that end of the year, again, a few years back, I went

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to her house for a party.

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I think it was Thanksgiving or Christmas.

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And at that party, I see this beautiful home.

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And the first thing that happened is she comes up to me and says, oh, Mijo, I didn't even

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think about it.

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And when she saw me, she thought about it.

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So what happened?

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Did she not want to hire me?

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Did she not want to work with family?

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Or did she not think about me?

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Did she think I was too pricey?

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A bunch of questions.

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So number one, when I first started, when I first came back from South America and I had

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started a landscaping business, she was actually my first client.

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And she's always been very supportive of me.

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So I know for a fact she would have given me the opportunity to at least come take a look

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at her project.

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And it would have worked out because she's my aunt and I'm going to take care of my aunt.

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And I would have done a way better job than what's there.

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Not that it looks bad.

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Auntie, if you're watching this actually, house looks beautiful.

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But I also know our quality and how we exceed all levels.

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But what happened was, is that she didn't think about me, until she saw me and was like,

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oh, Mijo, I didn't even think about you.

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I wish I were remembered.

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Well, whose fault is that?

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That is my fault.

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And I have to assume responsibility for not staying top of mind of her.

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And the same thing goes with all the people, all my clients, right?

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If I am not top of mind, when the service is needed, they are not going to think of me.

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It doesn't matter even if I'm family.

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This is my own aunt.

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Even if I'm family, if I do not stay top of mind, they're not going to think of you.

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So the same thing happens with your goals.

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If your goals are not on top of your mind 24 seven, how do you expect to achieve them?

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And I just talked about the decision making.

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You guys are going to make completely different decisions if you are focused 24 seven on your

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goals.

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Writing them in the morning keeps you focused all day.

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Writing them at night keeps you focused at night while you sleep and you wake up and

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you're motivated towards your goals.

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If you guys are trying to do something, remembering what you're trying to do is the only way you're

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going to get there.

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You can't do it any other way.

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So that is number one.

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Number two is being able to maintain a plan.

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Build a plan and maintain a plan for your goals.

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A lot of us say, oh, you know what?

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I want to lose 250 pounds or I want to become jacked or I want to make an extra $50,000

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this year.

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All great goals.

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All great goals for the person losing 250 pounds.

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Amazing goal.

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Absolutely amazing goal.

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But if you don't have a plan, how the heck are you going to execute it?

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You think you're just going to magically just roll into success?

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You think you're going to wake up one morning and have ripped muscles drop the weight or

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just have an extra 50K wired into your account?

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If you're me on that last one, probably, but I do a lot to do it.

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I do a lot to get there and that is because I have a plan of action.

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So number one is, or I'm sorry, number two is a plan of action.

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The second part, I guess subcategory to that is to understand that you have to adapt your

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plan.

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This is a little bit of a tangent and that is understanding that you're going to fail.

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If you guys set goals without thinking that, oh, my plan is perfect and I'm going to succeed

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instantly, you're an absolute clown.

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No offense.

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You're just a clown.

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Failure is part of success.

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If you cannot prepare yourself for failure, you are going to quit.

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This is what happens in the gym with all these people that come to the gym, they flood

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in the gym, they start working out hard.

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Some of them, you're like, oh, that guy's going to do great.

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And then all of a sudden, two, three weeks, maybe a month, maybe two months, maybe they

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did all right.

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They're done and they're gone.

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They never come back.

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That is because they quit.

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They gave up on themselves.

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And it's mostly because, in my opinion, they probably failed a long way a few times and

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they got discouraged.

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There's going to be days, and I'm going to put the gym back in perspective, there's going

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to be days you're not going to wake up to your alarm.

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Matter of fact, I actually had one of those days this morning.

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I woke up a half hour late.

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I still went to the gym, but you're going to have those days where you woke up too late,

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all of a sudden you can't go.

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You might miss a day or maybe you guys take a miss two days or maybe you just got lazy

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and you gave up for three days.

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That doesn't mean you have to give up on the goal.

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Get back up and go do it again.

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So I feel like a lot of people, they fell a couple of times and they're like, oh, oh,

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well, and then they just stop.

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For those of you guys that know what 75 Heart is, and I'm going to just put all my cards

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on the table, 75 Heart has been absolutely hard for me.

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There are multiple people in this company that have done it that I'm surrounded by and

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they've completed it.

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Matter of fact, as our COO of the company, I think he's completed it three or no.

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This January 20th, I believe, is his third time completing it in a row.

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And for me, I just keep failing at it.

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Whether it's me getting too sick and I just can't push through it because I'm mentally

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weak or whatever the case is, I mean, the whole point of the program is to become mentally

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strong.

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But for me, I just have a weakness.

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We all have our strength.

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This program is really hard for me.

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Now I have failed more than the amount of fingers I have, actually.

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I don't even know how many times right now.

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But the reason I failed that many times is because I continue to keep on retrying and

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I'm actually going back on it January 1st.

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It started the new year.

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I'm going to try again and I'm changing my method.

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Changing my method to my plan of attack.

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A hard part for me is I have...

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It's hard for me to remember stuff, like taking a picture and small things, stuff that I guess

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maybe isn't that important to me and it's really hard.

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So I tend to fail a lot of times.

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I'll do great for a couple of weeks and all of a sudden I forgot to take a picture at

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night time because I stayed up later than usual.

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I got off my routine or I went out of town and I just completely forgot.

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But I did everything else.

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You know, even read the book.

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And so for me, I have to change that plan of action.

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So I have a weakness.

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I'm not giving up on it.

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I'm going to keep going but I'm also, every time I fail, I change my plan of action.

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And this time I believe the plan of action is pretty bulletproof but we're about to find

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Okay?

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But I can tell you, if I fail that again, I'm going to keep going.

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It's 75 days.

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I one time got to, I believe it was 48 days and I got a stomach bug and I just literally

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was done and I couldn't even move and couldn't get my workouts done or even drink water for

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that matter.

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So I failed but as the scourging, as that was, the point is that you get back up.

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What is, it's actually, I love the saying, the quote, but what is a Sylvester Stallone

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say, Rocky?

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It's not about how hard you get hit.

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It's about how hard you can get.

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It's not about as hard as you get hit.

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How hard you get hit.

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It's about how hard you can get hit and get back up again.

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It's something like, something of that matter.

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Like that is the truest thing.

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The people that succeed, whether it's in business or small goals or big goals, the people that

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succeed are the ones that can get back up and it doesn't matter how far they got, how

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hard the failure was.

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They keep up and they keep on going.

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You're going to find this throughout the entire world from 2000 years ago up until now.

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Any story of 6,000 people who are here, they're going to have failure involved and the point

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was that they didn't give up.

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Let me talk about Thomas Edison.

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He was like 800 times or 8,000 times or whatever.

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It took him or he failed that many times before he actually created the light bulb.

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If he would have given up, what would have happened?

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I wouldn't have these two lights in front of my face right now lighting me up making

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me look all beautiful.

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That would really suck because I also wouldn't be recording right now.

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The definition, I believe it's a definition, but the definition of insanity, I believe,

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again, I heard this, I should probably fact check it, but is one of the definitions I've

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heard is insanity is defined by someone doing something over and over and over again and

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expecting the same outcome.

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If you guys do not adapt your plan, when you fail, if you just go back at it the same way,

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over and over and over again, you're not going to succeed.

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You're literally insane.

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Expecting to succeed by doing the same thing over and over again is absolutely ridiculous.

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You guys need to adapt your plan.

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If your goal is to get fit, you need to adapt your plan if you have a hard time waking up

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every morning.

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If your plan is to wake up in the morning, go to the gym and you just can't physically

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wake up, well then you need to adapt your plan and try again by going in the afternoon

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or at a different time or having someone hold you accountable.

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Whatever you got to do, you just need to keep changing your plan and not keep trying to attack

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it the same way over and over again because you're going to fail over and over again.

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You're not going to make any progress.

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Failure with progress is success in my opinion.

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If you fail but you made more progress that time that you did the first failure, then

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you are 100% exceeding.

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Don't let anybody else tell you otherwise.

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That is number two.

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Number three is, and I'm going to sum up that, number three is creating your goals, maintaining

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a plan and not giving up on your goals.

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And then number three is to surround yourself, had to recap there for a second, surround

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yourself with people that are on the same path as you.

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If you guys have a goal to make $100,000 a year and you are surrounding yourself by people

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that are comfortably being mediocre, doing five figure jobs and that's who you surround

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yourself by, you're never really going to reach six figures or $100,000.

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You need to surround yourself by people who are doing what you're doing or doing more

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than what you are doing because you are who you surround yourself by.

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I've mentioned this before.

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We've all heard it from our parents.

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They say, you are who you surround yourself by and that is literally true.

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If you're trying to become a millionaire, you need to surround yourself by millionaires.

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One of the biggest, I think, experiences that I've had, that I've seen prove that concept

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is when me and my wife first got married, we lived in a casita out in one of the more

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affluent neighborhoods or areas in Gilbert where our town is.

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And when I lived in there and I was starting my business, everything was great.

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And then we moved to an apartment complex just a mile down the road.

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So I was still in this area and still was building my company.

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Obviously, I was progressing all this fun stuff.

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people and this money and just a higher lifestyle.

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And I totally could tell the difference in performance, the difference in mindset, the

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difference in just my attitude on the daily by being in an area where I was surrounded

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by people that weren't aligned with my goals.

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And there's nothing wrong with these people, guys.

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They're going to be your friends.

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They're going to be your family.

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They're going to love them to death, but that doesn't mean you need to spend all your time

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with them.

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And that's what I'm talking about.

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You need to spend your time with people that are on the same page, that are trying to be

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better people and better to themselves and that have goals that they're trying to accomplish.

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You need to surround because when you surround yourself by that, all of a sudden, the way

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the universe works, the way the law of attraction works is now you're going to start seeing certain

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things transpire.

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You're going to start seeing certain decisions and opportunities that you're being presented

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with bring you closer to where you're trying to go.

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So one of the other things with that is you also got to be prepared for the haters.

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And Kyle over here, he loves the haters.

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He loves them because the haters, they spring out of the woods immediately, the minute you

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try to do something better, whether you're trying to better yourself, build the business

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or succeed in your career, whatever the case is, the minute you try to do something great

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in your life, all of a sudden the talk begins.

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And the talk comes from people you may know, may not know, but it also comes from the people

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you love.

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And if you guys can't think of an example, I'll give you one.

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It could be as simple as, hey, man, I see that you're trying to build a business.

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That's fantastic.

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But you know what?

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I don't know if now is the right time.

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I don't think you have enough experience in that area.

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You need to learn and you need to just wait.

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Now this could come from a family member and they may love you and they may care about

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you and they may truly, truly mean to be helpful.

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But in reality, what they're doing is they're actually making you doubt yourself and they're

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actually holding you back.

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And so you need to be able to identify those people that are going to be in your life when

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you set these goals and you're trying to achieve great things.

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You need to be able to identify them and be able to separate yourself from them.

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Eliminate the negativity from your life.

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If people aren't going to support you in what you're doing, then you don't need to make

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time for them.

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You can love them.

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You can support them.

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You can see them on Christmas.

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You can pick up the phone every now and then, call them, tell them that you love them, whatever

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the case is, but you do not need to spend your time with them as you go on this journey.

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And unfortunately that may, like I said, be your family.

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For me, that was both my parents and my relationship as I've grown up, gotten married.

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Not only did they have issues and were they really toxic, but they were holding me back

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100%.

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And sometimes you have to make hard decisions and make sure that you can help yourself before

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you help other people.

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So when you guys start getting that negativity and those so-called haters, you guys need

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to be able to push through that.

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You need to be able to maintain a line, your mind with your goals.

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And what's going to do that?

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Writing down your goals consistently.

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Understanding what your mission is and realizing when the things that are coming and that are

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trying to intercept or prevent you from reaching those goals, you're going to be able to better

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identify them because your goals are on top of mind.

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So I guess another example.

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I'm trying to give as many examples as possible, but if you're trying again to become a lawyer,

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well, if you're trying to become a lawyer, you probably don't want to be hanging around

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and card dealership people, right, because that's not going to put you where you want

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to be.

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Make sure you guys are surrounded by the right people.

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Make sure you're learning from the right people.

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If someone's trying to teach you about something and they're in a whole different field, do

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not listen to them.

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I actually just experienced this with some people recently were there telling me, yeah,

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so-and-so he does this and he's told me to do this, this and this.

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And I'm sitting here and I'm like, well, that makes sense for this situation over here,

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but what you're trying to do, it makes zero sense.

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But that is because this person is doing this and living this type of life and you're trying

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to live this life, but you're following what he's doing.

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Guess what's going to happen?

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You're going to end up in that life.

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It's just how it works.

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Make sure you're listening to the right people.

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Let's recap three things that older contracting that we are doing right now to reach our goals.

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Number one, we're setting goals.

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And actually, I didn't mention this, but one of the things we're doing and you may have

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heard of this term before is PPFs.

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And it's really big in our company.

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We've been taught to do it and we've been taught by a company called Cardone Ventures

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and our business coach, Jason Payne, taught us this earlier this year as well, but it's

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called PPFs and that is personal, professional, financial goals.

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There's three different categories.

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And they come into a line into one.

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So, one is purpose in life every single year or every single quarter or every single month

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and that is to try and become a better person, try to become richer financially and try to

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excel or progress your professional career, whatever it is you do.

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And that may be stay a home mom, be a better mom, or that may be building a multi-million

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dollar company, or that may be being the best chef cook that's ever existed for a restaurant.

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It doesn't matter.

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Those are the three categories.

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So, when we said those, we're able to keep them on top of mind.

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Number one, create a plan, expect failure and adapt our plan when we do fail and number

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three, surround ourselves by the people that are on the same mission as us.

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Not necessarily the same goals, but that they're focused on developing and becoming a better

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person, better human being, which we need a lot of this year with, you know, the way

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the world is and with the election coming up.

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There's going to be a lot of stuff going on and they're the only way we're going to be

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able to succeed is by staying focused and eliminate distractions, eliminate negativity.

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That is the only way.

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And just kind of a testimony for like the goal setting PPFs.

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When we started doing this, some of our team members within a month were reaching goals

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that they have had for the longest time.

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But just because they said it, they were writing them down every day and everybody around them,

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all their circle, their friends or family were aware of their goals.

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They reached them in a matter of weeks, things they've been trying to do for months and months

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and months and all of a sudden you put the right system in place and they were able to

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execute.

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We had one person that they've been trying to get a new car for a while.

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And finally it was, it was made a goal and everybody around them knew it was their goal.

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It was talked about.

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It was written down every single day.

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Plans were made and a few weeks within after doing that, he was able to purchase a new

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vehicle.

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Think about all the things that are holding you guys back and having been executed simply

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because you just haven't done anything about it.

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Like this guy in his car, he's wanted a car forever, but not once did he go to the dealership.

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Not once did he ask any questions.

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Not once did he figure out what needed to get done to be able to do it.

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And many said it a goal, made it a goal and got everybody aligned on it and he made a

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plan.

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It was executed and it was so quick.

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It probably made him feel stupid.

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Why didn't I do this sooner?

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That is what is going to happen.

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To a lot of us this year when we set these new goals is like, well, that was kind of

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easy.

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And there's also long-term goals that take a little bit of time, but failure is progress.

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If you guys are failing and you're progressing a little, every time you fail, that is called

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success because even those who have achieved success, they still fail every single day.

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Apple still fails every single day.

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I fail every single day.

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But every day I get better, therefore I am succeeding.

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So guys, really excited for 2024 New Year's.

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I know this year went by in a blink of an eye.

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Good song by Kenny Chesney, if you haven't heard it.

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Felt that song big time this year, but 2024 is going to be the same.

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It's going to fly by.

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And if you guys don't maintain focus, you're going to miss out on great success and being

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able to progress your lives and become better people and build a better life for yourself.

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So guys, we're really excited for 2024.

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Excuse me.

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This beginning of the year, we have a couple of guests coming on our podcast that we're

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really stoked about.

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Brad Levitt with the Fine Art Touch Construction, AFT.

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He's been a good mentor for us.

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He is going to be on our podcast.

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Really excited for him.

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If you guys have listened to his podcast, it's absolutely phenomenal.

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He has touched a lot of people's lives, changed a lot of people's lives.

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He owns a construction company, obviously, and he has done remarkable things.

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I would even put it as legendary things.

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He's done stuff that you just don't see happen and he's built a very big company and a very

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big reputation for himself.

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And we're really excited to have him on.

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And then we're also going to be following that up in February strategically, because we're

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going to be talking about New Year's with Blake Clark.

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You guys might remember him from one of our first few podcasts.

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Blake Clark owns a Limitless Realty and he has changed the real estate game and he is

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ahead of every single competitor in this state, if not the entire nation, on the way he's

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building his company and the way his culture is.

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And it's just been absolutely insane and he has succeeded beyond many other real estate

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agencies.

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So we're really excited to have him back on here.

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We're going to be talking about goals.

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We're doing that in February because come February, a lot of people, that's the time

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where you won't see him in the gym anymore.

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You won't, you know, people are going to be putting their goals behind them.

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They're not going to be thinking about them until New Year's 2025.

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And we're going to talk about what we're doing and what he's doing and his company's

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doing to maintain those goals and that consistency and being able to succeed.

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So guys, we really appreciate you guys listening to our podcast and supporting us.

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Please share this podcast, okay, with everybody you know that is trying to better themselves.

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We want to create a society where everybody that we're surrounding ourselves by listening

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to and interacting with is all on the same page to go forward and become better people

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and build better lifestyles for themselves.

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So please share this episode and also like comment, drop questions.

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We do our Q&A's guys.

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If you guys have a question, I don't care what it is, whether it's, Hey, how do I start

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a business or how do I better my sex life with my wife, whatever the case is?

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Okay, it doesn't matter.

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Let's talk about it.

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Okay, because I guarantee the question you have or what you're trying to do.

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There's a billion other people trying to do the same exact thing and wondering the same

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exact thing.

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Okay.

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So let's discuss it.

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Drop your comments, drop your questions.

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You'll find the link to other contracting below as well as the homework assignment podcast.

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Please follow us, follow what we're doing.

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We got big events coming up, amazing things where you guys are going to be able to come

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participate and we're actually going to be able to have a ton of fun and change and not

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just change homes, but change lives, change worlds, change businesses and really enjoy

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the life that we have here on earth.

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So again, thank you for supporting us and happy new year.