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Good morning, good afternoon, and good evening,

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everybody, and welcome to today's episode of

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the Never Peak Project Podcast. I'm your host,

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Coach Ranger, mindset coach, speaker, and the

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guy who once walked across the country to figure

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out what really matters. Now, this podcast is

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for high achievers who look successful on the

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outside, but quietly feel like they're still

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stuck halfway up the mountain. Around here, we

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talk about the messy. meaningful work of identity,

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leadership, and living a life worth remembering.

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And today, we're diving into a thought that will

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absolutely wreck your momentum if you let it.

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Well, that's easy for them. Let's get into it.

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Now, if you ever caught yourself looking at someone's

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success and thinking, well, of course they can

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do it. Look at their life. I want you to pause

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and ask, what reps am I not doing that they probably

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are? Because you don't get to be mad about someone

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else's harvest when you haven't done the planting.

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Now let me tell you a quick story. About two

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weeks into my walk across America, I hit a little

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bit of a breaking point. I was in South Carolina,

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alone, walking up these brutal rolling hills.

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Not mountains. but relentless hills. The kind

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of hills that don't look too bad until you're

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on foot with 20 pounds on your back, 100 pounds

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in front of you, and knees that are screaming

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at you. Now, cars were flying past me at 70 miles

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an hour, up hills that were taking me 15, 20,

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30, 45 minutes, and sometimes even over an hour

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to climb. And it was rough. It wasn't great for

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morale. And there was really no finish line in

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sight. I couldn't even see what was past the

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next hill. There was no big music. There was

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no cheering. It was just me, those hills, backpack,

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cart, and my own thoughts. And here's the thing.

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I didn't sit there and wish that I was someone

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else. I didn't look at the cars and say, oh,

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this is easy for them. Look how fast they're

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getting it. And somehow make myself feel worse

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about the situation by comparing it. I sat with

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the heart. Well, should I say I walked. with

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the hard and through it. But really, I just knew

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I needed to take one painful, sweaty, discouraging

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step at a time until I got to the other side.

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And you know what? That day doesn't really fit

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in the highlight reel when you first think of

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it. But it was one of the things that made my

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results so sweet. Because every single step that

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I took was a deposit into the bank of earned

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success. And when I think about those hills in

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South Carolina and how I could have easily fallen

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into the comparison game, it reminds me of when

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I actually did fall into that game of comparison.

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When I first saw that Mike Posner had walked

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across the United States, I had this instant

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reaction. My first thoughts were, how cool, how

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amazing. I wish I could do something like that.

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And then I told myself all the stories as to

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why I couldn't do it. But then that switched.

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If I had the money that he had, time wouldn't

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even be an issue. You could just do a few miles

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a day and blah, blah, blah. And I was so caught

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up in all the things that he had, I didn't even

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think of the stuff that he did. Because, yeah,

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he might have had more resources, but you know

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what else he had? Every single step behind him

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and in front of him, just like me, just like

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you. But he still had to walk the road. Even

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though he had a van, even though he had a support

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team, he still had to do the work. I sat there

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criticizing someone else's output while doing

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none of the input myself. You don't get to resent

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someone else's success when you haven't done

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the reps they have. And I see this all the time.

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So many of my clients fall into this trap and

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maybe you do too. You look at someone with the

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business you want, a body you want, a life you

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want, and you think, well, that's easy for them.

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But you don't know their story. You don't know

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if you're judging their highlight reel from the

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middle of your own journey. Now, I like to tell

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my clients, don't compare your Rocky montage

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to their final scene. You don't know the cuts,

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the sweat, the missed shots, the disappointments.

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You're only seeing the result. not the work that

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went into creating it. Now, when my clients are

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stuck in that mindset, I ask, what would you

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have to do to make success inevitable? What kind

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of reps would make the result unreasonable for

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you to not achieve? Then we talk about the difference

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between wanting the harvest and doing the planning.

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You want the summer bod, but you don't want the

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gym time. You want the dream relationship, but

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not the hard conversations. You want the business,

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but not the risk or the reach outs. Let's be

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honest. You don't want the plane ride. You want

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the vacation. If you're ready to stop comparing

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yourself to others and start building real momentum,

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here's what I'd like you to do today. Step one

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is to catch the comparison. When that voice says

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things like that's easy for them, I want you

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to pause and say, maybe. What are they doing?

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And what am I doing? And then I want you to pick

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one rep. Not a huge change, just something. One

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thing. Send the email, make the call, do the

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set, go on the date. And the third is to repeat

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it quietly. It doesn't need to be loud. It just

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needs to be consistent. And if you'd like to

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figure out what that one step is for you, feel

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free to hit the link in the description. There

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is a link there to my Calendly for a free 15

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-minute call where I can help you figure out

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where comparison is coming up in your life and

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how you can take steps to get past it. So really,

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thank you so much for being here and for doing

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the work most people won't. It really matters.

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And if today's episode hit home, share it with

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a friend or a teammate who needs to hear it.

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And until next time, remember that the best is

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yet to come as long as you are willing to make

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the decision every day to never settle, never

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quit, and never peak. I'll see you guys in the

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next one.