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you . Greetings

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, hi and hello everyone . My

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name is jason pizzi flair . I'm

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a speaker , I'm a podcaster and my life's

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work is centered around allowing the world to

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meet the true you by helping

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you think , speak and eventually live

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better than yesterday . We

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do this , first , by establishing a good

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reason why , a strong

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and powerful motivation to keep going when

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the going gets rough . Second , we

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need awareness and acknowledgement

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of what's holding us back . And

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third , we need scalable steps forward

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as a reliable bridge between who we are right

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now and who we need to be tomorrow

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and the day after that , and

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the day after that and the day after that

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. This , my friends , is how

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you go from stuck to thinking

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as , speaking as and living

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as the true

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you . People

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are often unreasonable , illogical and

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self-centered . Forgive them anyway . If

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you are kind , people may accuse

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you of selfish ulterior motives . Be

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kind anyway . If

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you are successful , you will win some false friends and some true enemies Succeed

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anyway . If you are honest and frank , people

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may cheat you . Be

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honest and frank anyway . What

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you spent years building , building , someone

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could destroy overnight Build

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anyway . If

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you find serenity and happiness

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, they may be jealous . Be

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happy anyway . The

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good you do today , people will often

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forget . Tomorrow . Do good

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anyway . Give

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the world the best you have

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, and it may never be enough . Give

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the world the best you've got anyway

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. You see , in the final

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analysis , it is between you

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and God . It was never

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between you and them anyway

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. It

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was never between you and them anyway . The

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original version of this poem called the Paradoxical Commandment

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was written by Kent M Keith in 1968

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. While

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this altered version of it is credited to Mother Teresa . They both carry the same primary

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idea . My interpretation of this idea is the notion of both knowing

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and doing good purely for

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the sake of doing it , because

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it is good to do so . Now

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, why do we even bother with emphasizing

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that it is important to do good anyway

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? My response to that

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would be a question of my own

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. Is there even

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a point to that emphasis ? If doing good

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was always easy in the first

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place , I would think

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not . So to break

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all that down and simplify these

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thoughts and concepts for easy digestion

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, today we will be talking about

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true strength and

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what that sometimes looks like when faced

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with an ungrateful world or selfish

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people . Before

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I continue , though , allow me to make this one quick

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point . This isn't about pointing

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the finger at people around us just

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for the sake of telling them they're bad

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. Maybe this doesn't apply

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to a tasteful and distinguished individual

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such as yourself , but I know for

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a fact that I've had , and occasionally

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still have , moments

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where , counter to the moral code that I

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follow , I think speak

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or act in a very selfish

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or overly self-serving manner . That's

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it . We may not be pushing

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weights in a purple gym , but I'm trying

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to keep this a judgment free

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zone , if you

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know . You know . So let's start and

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end by plugging in our personal

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growth trio . I

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mention it in every intro you need a

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strong why , a powerful motivation

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to keep going . Next , you need awareness

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of what's preventing you , or what could

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prevent you , from doing what you need

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to do or being who you need to be

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. Then we wrap it all up

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with two simple words scalable

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steps . That's

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it . So for

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your why , only you can really

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determine whether or not a particular reason

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is good enough . Does it motivate

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you ? Does failing to live

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up to it disappoint you ? What

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are the stakes ? Simple

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example someone whose diabetes

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diagnosis was a wake-up

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call will hit the gym a little

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differently than someone who's just trying

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to look good for the summer . It's

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not about one reason being good

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and the other being bad . No , it's

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about digging deep enough that , whatever

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your answer to the why question , you

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give yourself no room for

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excuses . I remind

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you of our previous , one of our past

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mantras

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, if you want to call it , that we let our

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excuses die so

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that our potential , our future , our

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true self can fly

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. Moving on to the

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second point , what's holding us back

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? Why is it that when

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someone puts us in an unfair situation

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, we find it near impossible to be

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kind to that person , to be patient

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with that person , to give grace to that

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person ? Is it just because of that

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one isolated act , or is

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this situation perhaps an unwelcome

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echo of past hurts or traumas

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that are left unaddressed and is therefore

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still an open wound

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? What is holding us back ? Do

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we have some rigid bad habits that got

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developed in a time where we needed to protect

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ourselves , but now that we are no longer

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in danger , those very same habits that

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kept us alive are now choking us

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to death , because that can

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happen . You know A simple

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example in the military

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. It's no secret that harsh language and

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charged words are often used in either

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conversation or the many

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times aggressive issuing

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of orders . During my time

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in the Navy , I didn't always have the pleasure

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of dealing with leadership that gave me the

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warm and cozy words of encouragement

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that remind me or that

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reminded me of my strengths and

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the fact that I was a name rather than just

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a number to be told what to do . Sometimes

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I got the people who couldn't care

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less what my name was , they just

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cared about getting the job done Well

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. I won't always condone going about

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it that way . I cannot deny that

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the occasional no-nonsense mentality

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is absolutely necessary in an

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organization that so often

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deals with life and death situations

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. I dare say that to claim

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otherwise likely means you've got a bit more life

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to live , a bit more world to see

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before you get it . Anyway

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, my point in bringing this up

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is not to say that I'm a military

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drone with no feelings . I

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very much do have feelings and

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sometimes I did not like how I

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was spoken to . But I

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had to develop the ability to hear unkind

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words with a stone-faced determination to

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execute , regardless of how

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those words made me feel . I'd

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built that habit then because it was needed

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in that season . Cut

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to my life now as a civilian , and

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whether it's with family or friends , I

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occasionally have to hear something Difficult

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, some difficult stuff that doesn't

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always feel great . Although

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they don't contain nearly as many expletives

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, if any , they still

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don't feel great . So I've done

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myself a major disservice many

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a time by defaulting to my old programming

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of stone-faced listening and

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cold execution . It used

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to be how I protected myself

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. Execution

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, it used to be how I protected myself , but now it's what causes the person I care

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about on the other end to feel unheard or even dismissed altogether

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, to feel that I'm unengaged

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. I've decided that that

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no longer needs to hold me back . It

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was a useful tool , so I'll keep it

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, but it needs adjusting so as

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to not send the wrong message to those I

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interact with . Does that make sense

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? Last but not

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least , scalable steps

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. Scalable steps

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, not just steps . Scalable

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steps . Since point number two is a bit

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long , I'll keep this one short and sweet . If

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you guys want a more fleshed out version

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, then be on the lookout for some bonus

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content coming out in the future . But

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here we go . This cheat

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code is also something I learned from the military

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that has served me very well . It's

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called pprs . Ppr

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stands for pre-planned responses

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. I also like to think of them as pre-practiced

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responses . Planning is good

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, but practicing those plans is even

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better . Simple example , drawing

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from point two whenever a friend or

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family member says or does certain things

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that make me feel quote unquote not

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great , I have certain PPRs

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that I've practiced , things that allow

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me to not just express my emotions

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but also to properly

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communicate them , because

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there's a difference , guys . That's important , but that's

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a whole different episode . This was important

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for me to personally create some phrases

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that I could practice any time I thought

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to because I'm naturally

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someone who is used to avoiding

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confrontation , like the plague

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Hashtag recovering

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people , pleaser . Yeah

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, that used to be me . Find

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things that you can either do every

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day or every week or every so

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often , that take you closer

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to your goal of acting like the person

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you know you can become or

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, at the very least , if you don't know you can become

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that person , dream of becoming

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that person and try to become

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that person , and don't you dare

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screw this up by holding yourself back

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with a bunch of self-deprecating talk

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of quote unquote not doing enough

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or not being disciplined enough . By

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the way , I'm talking to myself as well , because I've said

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that many times about myself . We

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aren't at the stage where doing enough

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is our goal . We will get

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there , but that's not now . Right

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now , you need to just commit

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to doing something . That

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one step already begins to

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separate the you now from who

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you used to be . And that's

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what we're after in this season Progress

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, not perfection or even optimization

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, just progress , something

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, anything more

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than yesterday . Dr

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Martin Luther King Jr said if

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you can't fly , then run

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. If you can't run , then

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walk . If you can't walk , then crawl

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. But whatever you do , you

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have to keep moving . Those

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aren't the words of someone expecting change

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overnight , and you shouldn't either

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. Those , my friends , are the passionate

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words of someone who simply wasn't

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willing to settle for the way things were

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. Are you willing

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to settle for the way things are in your life right

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now , or do

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you maybe think it's time to start thinking

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as , speaking as

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, and living as , the

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true you ? Thanks

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for listening .