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What's up my people?

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That has to be the worst intro I've made so far but hey, it is what it is.

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I hope you guys are doing well.

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I hope God is revealing himself to you in ways that cannot be comprehended by

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other people but can only be fully understand or understood by you.

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So I managed to record my first episode yesterday and I think it went well.

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I managed to edit it yesterday.

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You know, Zongue Zongue.

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Everything is going well so far.

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I just wanted to kind of take this time to, I don't know, try my luck again.

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Not really.

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Take this time just to make the second episode and in this episode I think I'm just going

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to focus and touch on one topic.

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It's not going to be a long podcast.

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I'm aiming to have my podcast episodes at least, no, no, at most be 10 minutes.

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But if they go beyond that, please bear with me.

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So I think I was talking to, I was talking to this other young lady I think a few months

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ago.

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Well, she sent this message to me a few weeks ago actually.

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But I've been talking to her for months because she kind of approached me asking about top

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achievers, asking about my experience within the program, asking about the way I do things

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and the things that kind of worked for me.

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And this is something that I've been doing for a while but I feel like I meet different

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people and I get to advise different people at different times.

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So with regards to her, she kind of told me about a problem that she noticed.

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She would watch videos, motivational videos and would get this energy from them.

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She would get this motivation from these videos but she noticed that as she kind of worked

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through from that energy, that energy would kind of run out and she would be left in the

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same place she was in before or worse maybe tired because of the work she might have put

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in.

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And she asked me what is the main thing that causes this and how can she actually get to

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a point where she can grind on the regular.

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And I think that this is something that comes up often.

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We watch videos and we hear people talk about discipline and motivation, the difference

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between the two.

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One person, I think we've seen videos where people have been, have told us the truth that

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discipline person will always outpace a motivated person.

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But the thing is that there are various aspects that we do not take into consideration with

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regards to this issue because it is simple for us just to kind of make a difference between

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the two but I think there are more foundational differences between discipline and motivation

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that need to be addressed.

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And this is one thing that I was kind of passing on to this young lady.

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I was telling her that with regards to being motivated, hearing someone in the crowd or

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maybe watching a video of someone who has done well, there is this energy that you get,

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this thirst, this hunger and this feeling of motivation you get usually is short lived

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if your foundations and your systems do not change.

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So if you have the same why, the same system, the same outlooks, you are going to get the

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same outcome despite you borrowing energy from someone else who has a different foundation,

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a different system, a different way of doing things.

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So I kind of sat down with, well I didn't really sit down with her but like we kind

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of talked about this and I brought to light something that I noticed in my own life with

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respect to this topic.

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I noticed that for you to be able to replicate the results of very successful people in different

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fields, whether this might be in your academics, whether this might be in your career, whether

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this might be in your walk with God, one thing that you need to do is to replicate the way

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these people think, replicate the systems in order to have a similar foundation as they

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had. So instead of trying to make the same fruit that they have, we ought to instead

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try to plant the same tree that bore them fruit.

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And I think this in itself seems like a concept that we kind of know but we tend to ignore

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because it requires a lot of labour. It requires us actually looking into ourselves, debugging

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our mental software, debugging our systems and having to actually take in and learn new

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systems, learn new ways of thinking.

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And I think this in its own kind of makes some people leave the idea and rather choose

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to make a system where they would like maybe watch videos for motivation or make a system

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where they would feed off of the energy of others. And this might be good maybe in the

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short term, but in the long term it kind of comes back to bite you. I think even in the

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school setting if you have a friend who is highly disciplined or highly motivated and

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you kind of feed off of that energy, if they go to study, you go to study, if they do this,

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you do this and kind of following them works out for you. The main reason that you are

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getting the results you are getting in that moment or in that time might not be because

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of what you are doing or who you are, but it might be because you are replicating the

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mindset and the systems that this person is using. And it is sad to see sometimes that

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when such people leave our lives or maybe when such people are not there, our own systems

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now come into play if we have not fully adapted their systems and we go back to our, to bearing

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our own fruit. So I think there is an importance in us checking our foundations, checking the

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types of trees that we have within our gardens, the type of trees that bear fruit in our lives.

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Because if you have a certain vision and certain goals that you have put for yourself, these

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goals will need certain trees and these trees would need a certain amount of care, they

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would need watering and this generally represents the effort that you would need to use to actually

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take care of this tree and get to a point where it bears fruit. I think this is the same concept

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as the concept we find in John. I am so sorry, I did not look for the verse before this but

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this came to me as I was talking right now. But there is a verse where Christ says, Abide

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in me and I in you and he says, Let my word also abide in you and he talks about how he

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is the vine and we are the branches. So the thing is that with regards to life, there

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is no fruit that is going to be brought forth by a branch that normally doesn't bring forth

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that fruit. So I think as people we have to check our foundations, we have to check our

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vines with respect to different parts of our lives. If it's more on the spiritual side,

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you have to make sure that your vine and everything with respect to your life has its source and

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its foundation within Christ and His Word because from there everything you do with

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respect to meditation prayer only acts as you watering the plants that are within your

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life and would give, would make sure that you bear fruit. But with respect to different

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things I feel like maybe your finances, your academic goals and other things in your life.

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You still also need to make that intentional decision to check how things are happening

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in your life, the results you're getting or the fruit that you've been bearing and you

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need to actually check the foundations, check your beliefs, check your systems and see how

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you can change them. I think one thing that has helped me a lot with respect to this is

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being able to look for certain models, certain people who are doing well in places that you

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want to improve in, then trying to replicate their way of thought, trying to replicate

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the systems they have. So in times where maybe I meet such people or maybe I listen to such

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people, I found out that the easiest way for you to kind of replicate their thought or

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their thought processes is by listening not only to the words but also listening to the

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character of the person and how they actually do certain things, what attitudes they have,

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what daily character, what daily habits they have. And by so doing one thing about principles

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and laws is that they don't really care who is using them. So if you make sure that you

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remove the principles that you had before and follow the principles that are put for

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you with regard to Christ, those are principles within His word. It does not matter where

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you are from, who you are and what you have done but if you follow such principles, you

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will get a certain outcome because of the promises of that principle and the same within

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life and within different aspects of life. If you follow certain rules that are supposed

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to yield you certain results, they will yield you certain results. This does not mean that

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it's going to be easy, neither does it mean that your first trial would actually have you

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produce immediate results. So I think it is important to be disciplined consistently

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but disciplined making sure that your foundations are proper, they're strong and they are the

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right foundations in the different places in your life. So that's a young episode from

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my side. I think this is how I'm going to start rolling out the episodes because I've

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been trying to record myself, I'm kind of having a hard time with that. But I pray that

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God sustain you in everything that you do. May His light shine upon you in all your ways.

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This is your boy, Tapanjorn Malathedi. This is, I almost said this is Totsu Jadani. This

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is GOT, Guardians of Thought. I like, share, I'm not even sure if you can like, like, share,

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download our podcast and subscribe. I appreciate you guys and hope that you take care. Bye,

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� sweet child.