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It starts collapsing time where it feels like time is getting quicker and the goal is coming to you faster and faster because you are compounding the actions and collapsing time at the same time. You're becoming a time traveler when you start doing that. Because you could do busy work every single day for a decade and still not finish a book and still not accomplish that financial goal and still not lose the weight and still not whatever fill in the blank for you. You could be doing busy work non stop and still be saying, ah, I'm still so far away from starting this project that I really want to start. I'm still so far away from launching the nonprofit for this cause I really care about. Because you're distract. You don't have a clear goal with a deadline. You need a measurable clear goal with a deadline. The second action step I want you to have is before meetings or tasks, pause and ask yourself, how do I want to show up here? How do I want to show up here again? There's a great book called the Power of Intention. We talked about intention here. We talked about clarity, the power of intention. I read that book when I was in my early 20s, and it really helped me out. And it's just a simple thing that I do almost before everything that I do, where it's just a moment where I think, what is my intention? What is my intention in this moment? And a lot of the times, my internal response to myself is, my intention is to have fun. My intention is to bring joy. My intention is to connect with whoever I'm meeting. My. My intention is to be open to possibilities. My intention is to smile. My intention is to be generous. It's not about, my intention is to make a million dollars today. It's not like that. I'm thinking, what is the energy that I can bring with my intention today? Because that energy is what's going to help me get the results that I'm looking for. So how do I want to show up here in this meeting, in this call, in this workout, in this session that I'm doing? Whatever thing you're doing for the day, what is your intention? How do I want to show up here? And the third action step for this is to write your desired intention for the day. Okay. My intention for today, first thing in the morning is to be calm, confident and joyful again. When you bring joy to an environment, when you bring a positive attitude, where you bring a confident poise, people want to be around you attitude is contagious. The more positive your attitude, the more contagious others will be positive around you. And that energy is what attracts your goals. People want to be around that energy. People want to be around people that are. Are fun, that are joyful, that are confident, not scared. Victims that are angry and aggressive all day. No one wants that energy in their life. So you need to be thinking about my desired intention for the day. Calm, confident, joyful. Giving a good listener all those things. And if you can do those three keys to get started here with this first key, which is seeking clarity first in your life. If you can apply those things, it will help you in everything else that you do and in the greatness mindset. Unlock the power of your mind and live your best life. Today. I have an entire section in here where it talks about creating your perfect day itinerary, where you schedule and map out every hour of your intention and the results you're looking to create. Where you're not creating busy productivity work, you're creating an action list that is collapsing time and getting you close, closer to your goals. So make sure to get a copy of this. It'll walk you through, step by step, how to seek clarity in your life. And then the system, the process to put in place to guide you throughout these next six and 12 months. And I use it over and over again. So that's the first key and the first framework, the second framework. And if this is resonating with you in any way, again, let me know. Just type a yes or say, yes, this is resonating with me, or share with me why this is helpful in the comments so that I can make sure to stay in touch and just learn more about what is impacting you specifically. But the second framework is to turn fear into fuel. Fear isn't the enemy of productivity. It's the sign that you're growing. And a lesson for you is that fear and doubt never go away. You know, I'm 42 years young, healthy, thriving, and fear and doubt doesn't go away. I was just in Spain last week playing with a professional handball team against some of the top professionals in the world. And listen, I've been an elite athlete most of my life. I've played in the highest levels of competition. I've played with high stakes, I played in front of big crowds, all that stuff when there's pressure on the line. And I remember last week I was in Spain playing and I was like, oh, I'm kind of nervous. It was like, kind of exciting because I actually haven't felt nervous like that in a while. But I was like, oh, I'm feeling a little intimidated. I'm feeling a little nervous. These guys are. And these guys are studs. These guys were like incredible athletes, and they were just top of their game, handball players. And I was like, man, okay, what am I going to do? Am I going to sit down and, like, be a coward? Or do I just move through it, use the techniques and strategies that I've learned and start the breathing techniques and start my visualization techniques and realize what I'm clear on. Setting my intention. It's just like, okay, my intention is to give my best. If I make a mistake, I make a mistake. But my intention is to give my best. My intention is to communicate with my teammates, get out of my head, into my heart and communicate. Because when we're living in fear and doubt, we stay stuck in our head and we don't communicate as much. That's why whenever I feel, like, insecure or nervous or like I'm doubting something, it's like I need to get out of my head as fast as possible. That fear is going to cripple me, it's going to make me shrink as opposed to expand and get into flow. So I start communicating. Hey guys, let's go. I'm high fiving people. I'm moving the energies out of my brain and my body where I might feel nervous, into connecting with teams. Great job, great play. Let's go. Hey, communicate. I got this guy. What's over here? It's the communication that allows me to get out of my head and get more into the moment being present. And that helps me a lot. So a powerful, powerful lesson is that fear and doubt never go away, but productivity masters move forward away by reframing fear. So let me say it again, fear and doubt never go away, but productivity masters move forward anyway by reframing fear. And when you can reframe fear as this is just excitement, this is just nerves and it's excitement. How can I get this excitement out of my body? How can I get out of my head where I'm analyzing the fear of failure or humiliation or whatever it might be and get it out, get it out. Start moving, start jumping, start setting my intention, reminding myself of my clear vision of what I'm looking to create and start taking action and get it out, get it out. Because the more reps you do in high stakes moments, the more comfortable you're going to be. So you just need to get in those reps as consistently as possible. And a quote for you from myself in my book is that self doubt is the killer of dreams. Self doubt will kill your goals, will kill your dreams, will keep you stuck in productivity mode where you feel busy but you don't feel like you're actually making progress. And when we doubt ourselves, it's like we're putting up wall before we even start. It's like we're caging ourself when we doubt ourself and we can't get out of the cage, it doesn't matter how much talent or potential you have, if you don't believe in yourself, you'll never take the action needed to pursue your dreams. Leave a yes below if that resonates with you. If you feel that, if you feel like you've experienced that in your life, self doubt is the killer of dreams. And the more you doubt yourself, it doesn't matter how much schooling, how much education, how many certificates you get, it doesn't matter how many reps you get, if you constantly doubt yourself, it's going to hold you back from accomplishing what you want. I'll give you a quick story around this When I was in eighth grade, I was playing with the junior varsity and the varsity players in the high school. I was in middle school, but I was 64 and I was a pretty good basketball player back then. And so they had me playing practices with the, the high school junior varsity and varsity team when I was in middle school. And I, for whatever reason, there was a player, I won't say his name, but there was a player on this team who was a senior when I was in eighth grade, who to this day is the best athlete I've ever seen. It was the freakiest thing that I'd ever seen from a human being. On how this man was able to jump and just 360 dunk with ease. He had the smoothest three point shot that it looked like he never missed. He had handles as a dribbler. He was so gifted athletically. He could do anything with the basketball at any moment and score at will. But for whatever reason, when he got into a game, he was an average player at best. He didn't lead, he didn't dominate, he didn't take charge. And for me, I was always like, God, give me an ounce of this talent, please, and I will dominate. I will be in the NBA. Just give me like a fraction of this talent. Because I, you know, I couldn't dunk at the time. I was a little slower. I didn't have the handles, but I had the fire, I had the drive. I had to like, the willingness to, to lay my body on the ground at any moment and die for the ball. I had the mindset, the attitude. I was like, I want to win and do whatever it takes. This guy was the nicest guy, the nicest guy and the most freakish athlete to this day that I've ever seen. But he was an average player when the, the game was on the line and he didn't dominate. Now, maybe he didn't have a clear vision for what he wanted. Again, I didn't know him that well. Maybe he wasn't clear. Maybe he didn't care about basketball that much. It was just more of an activity for him. But for me, it just showed me that the big thing is that he didn't, he didn't believe in himself. His teammates were like, you're a freak of nature. You can do anything. His coaches was like, you got this, you're the leader. Everyone in the stands knew that he was the most talented person on the basketball court. But it doesn't matter if everyone in the world is cheering for you and says, you can do this. If you don't actually believe you are capable of doing it, you won't be able to create what you want. And the reverse. It doesn't matter if the world and your friends and your family all doubt you. If you believe in yourself, you can overcome all the doubts of the world and accomplish incredible things. And in fact, that's what most great performers, athletes, business leaders do. So many people doubt them, but they have this unwavering belief inside of them and says, I can do this. Wherever that comes from, they hold on to that belief. And that belief is what gives them the momentum to break through all the challenging, painful moments, all the setbacks, the hurdles, the critics, the pain, the adversity. Because if you don't have belief, it is going to be nearly impossible to accomplish what you want because there are so many challenges and hurdles along the way to accomplishing your goals. And if you don't have the clarity and the belief backing the clarity, you can pretty much give up on all the goals that you want because they're probably not going to happen. It doesn't mean you can't have a good life and accomplish certain things. But the big thing in your heart, it's probably not going to happen because you don't have the clear vision, you're not setting a clear intention, and you don't have the belief backing the vision. So you can overcome the obstacles in your life. So a couple action steps for you right now is number one, to write down your top three fears this week. Then put next to each one of them the small action step you're going to take forward to help you overcome this. I actually call this in the greatness mindset. This is something that I did when I was much younger. I call it my fear list. So my. If you want to become fearless, you have to write down your fear list and go all in on your fears until your fears disappear. Because we all have fears, we all have doubts and insecurities. This is normal. We're human beings. We're going to have fears and we're going to have fears at different stages of life. It's normal. So you want to write down your fears. I call it my fear list. And then the thing that scares you the most, you want to go all in on tackling that fear until you overcome it. Once you overcome that fear, you become like, man, I can do anything. I can take on anything. You feel unstoppable because you thought I would never be able to overcome this thing. And I did it. What can I do next? I can do any. Give me whatever you want, throw anything at me, I can take it on. You feel empowered, you feel excited, you feel motivated.

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The second thing Mel Robbins talks about this a lot. She calls it the five second rule. So use the five second rule that she talks about, which is just count 5, 4, 3, 2, 1, and then take action. Put yourself into action. Whenever hesitation hits, just say, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1. I'm going to ask. You can say, 3, 2, 1. I go, whatever it might be, give yourself a tool to move you out of that insecure mind into action. Because the more action you take, the more results you will get. There's an amazing movie where there's this line in the movie called We Bought a Zoo. I don't know if you watched this movie called We Bought a Zoo by a and Matt Damon is like the main actor and in a scene in the movie, he's talking to his kids about how he met his wife. His. His wife that he later married. And it's a cool scene he's reenacting when he first met her and they're in like a little coffee shop or a diner. And he talks about how, you know, sometimes all you need is 20 seconds of insane courage. Just literally 20 seconds of embarrassing bravery. And I promise you something great will come of it. And that was his line from that. And I think a lot of us are so afraid of embarrassment that if you can literally find and muster 20 seconds of embarrassing bravery courage, you can create amazing things. And he said how he walked into this, you know, coffee shop or restaurant and he saw her and he said a line to her and then they got married and then they had kids. And if he didn't have 20 seconds of embarrassing bravery, his life would be completely different. And where do you need to have 20 seconds of embarrassing bravery? Where in your life are you lacking the courage right now to risk humiliation, to risk embarrassment, to risk failure or looking silly? Is there a girl or a guy you want to meet that you really are attracted to, that you're like, oh, we could have a beautiful relationship that you're lacking the courage because you're afraid of rejection. Is there a job or a career that you really want to go for, but you feel like it's safer to stay where you're at right now? Is there an idea that you have that you want to launch? Is there a passion project but you're lacking the courage to tell someone to get started to go for it? What is that in your heart that you're lacking the courage to go for the big thing that you want to create or the side project, whatever that might be? This is also just be like, where do I need to have an uncomfortable conversation with the people in my life, my loved ones, my friends, my family? Where do I need that embarrassing bravery courage for 20 seconds? Think about that, even comment below and share with me where you need to have that type of courage and act on it right now. After this video, how can you take action on on it? Write it down, what that is in your life in the comments because I want you to inspire other people on what they're thinking about as well. And the third thing is to reframe fear as evidence. You're stepping into growth, not danger. Because a lot of people are so afraid that they're gonna fail and it's like it'll ruin their life. But really we are looking for growth. And your heart's desire is to grow. It's not to stay stuck, it's not to stay trapped in this, you know, self loathing, self doubt prison. That's just not what you're designed to do. You're designed to overcome those fears. So turn fear into fuel. The third framework here is energy is the real productivity hack. Motivation isn't about willpower, it's about energy management. The lesson here is that without energy, nothing gets done. And if you're just doing busy work where you're trying to say, I'm productive, that's not the highest level of energy. That's just, I feel like I got to get things done to tell other people that I had a busy day. A busy day is not a productive day. Motivation is really energy management. My friend Brendan Burchard said that. Again, it's about energy management. You don't want to get burnt out and you don't want to have low energy all the time. You want to know how to manage your energy correctly. I had an amazing human being on. His name's Colin o'. Brady. We had him on the podcast and he did this whole excursion in Antarctica where I think it was like 55 or 60 days where he was trying to break the world record, which he did of the fastest trek across Antarctica solo, with no help from anyone. It was him dragging a massive sled with all of his food for a few months. Tent, gear, all this stuff, dragging a sled through Antarctica, can you imagine what that's like? Isolated for a couple of months and he couldn't afford wasting an ounce of energy because if he burned out there, he died. So he was holding on to a tent in 60 mile power mile per hour winds. It could have been life or death just holding on to this tent and trying to, to exhaust more energy. So he discovered that high performance was less about grinding harder and like just pushing to the limit and just doing whatever and let's grind it out every day. It was less about that and more about conserving energy, guiding and directing your energy and creating renewable energy. And most of us don't know how to do that. But when you learn how to create sustainable, guiding, renewable energy, then you can repeat the efforts day in and day out and not exhaust yourself. And I know you might feel a little overwhelmed or exhausted in your life right now and I don't want you to have that anymore. I want you to feel harmony with your energy, I want you to feel peaceful, I want you to feel alignment in your life. And when you're trying to just do busy grind work or just grunt it out every day and work 20 hour days, it's not sustainable, it's not renewable energy and you'll burn out very fast and you'll hate your life at one day when you wake up and say why am I doing this? Why am I working so hard to create something to please other people that I don't even care about? I'd rather have harmony in my life. So here's three action steps for you right now. Schedule your work in 60 to 90 minutes. Energy sprints with breaks. You don't have to go eight, nine, 10 hours a day, non stop. In fact, it's the times where I create more breaks in my life, where I get clearer ideas, better breakthroughs, I become more resourceful. Instead of me having to do everything, I can empower my team to support me and whatever it might be. And when you take those moments of breaks, whether it be 5, 10 minute walk or just standing outside in some sunshine, walking around barefoot in the grass, throwing a frisbee around, whatever it might be, just moving your body a little bit, it's really going to help you be even more productive in that next 60, 90 minute energy burst of the next action step. Again, if you have three action steps a day, three things that, you know, if I can get these three things complete today, it's going to move me toward my clarity of my goal that much faster. You want to have renewable energy in that process. The second thing is to upgrade your fuel. It's really important to have to hydrate, to eat healthy before big tasks, before big undertakings. Now you're talking to a guy or I'm talking to myself. You're listening to me talk to you. That I used to have so much junk food when I was a kid. I don't know if you're like me, but I had, I remember the summers in Ohio, running around, playing basketball day, running around in the backyard, whatever it might be, for whatever reason. I have this vivid memory of me drinking eight to ten Dr. Peppers almost every day in the summer when I was like 8, 9, 10 years old in Ohio. And I used to drink it like it was water to try to get hydration. Do you know the amount of sugar that was in my blood when I was younger was like drinking that much sugar is just not good. And I used to crash all the time and I used to eat a lot of bad stuff and I remember feeling tired a lot. I remember I was on high school track and I like always had a stuffy nose. Always. It wasn't always the winter, it was like spring, summer, fall. I had a stuffy nose and I was always like, just kind of like, you know, I had to like spit out like mucus and I was like, you know, getting stuff out of my nose and I was like, I'm a freaking 16, 17 year old elite athlete in high school. All stayed in track, all stayed in basketball, all stayed in, in football. I'm a, you know, I'm a stud. That's what I thought. But why do I have this stuffy nose? And I'll tell you why. I'll tell you why. Because when I was in, it was a boarding school that I went to and I used to have a 5 gallon milk dispenser in my actual room. I don't know how I convinced the house parent to put this in my room because we used to have it for the dorm. And I said, hey, can I just have this in my room? And I drink a five gallon thing every single week of milk. I was drinking milk like it was water. Dr. Pepper like it was hydration and milk like it was water. And I'm drinking glasses of milk before bed in the morning, all day long. It's like, no wonder I had a stuffy nose, you know, it's just like constantly stuffed up with milk. You know, it's got sugar in my veins, I got milk in my bones, all this different stuff, and it just wasn't the smartest thing. I'm not saying you can't have some soda, you can't have milk or whatever it might be, but I was excessive. I was eating ice cream and cakes and processed food all day long. And I always wonder if I would have had the wisdom that I have now. After doing 12 and a half years of research on this podcast, the School of Greatness, where I've interviewed some of the top nutritionists, holistic health experts, doctors in the world. Now I have a much better understanding of how to take care of my body with renewable fuel. I'm not saying you have to be perfect and you can't have fun and you can't eat sweets or desserts or whatever from time to time, but know what you're getting into. And everything you put in your body either impacts your cells and your organs, your brain and your heart functionality at a certain level, or it limits it at a certain level the more consistently you do it. So you just have to be aware and know the price you are paying by what you're consuming, if it's serving you and your health and your longevity and your goals by having the energy you need to take on the task for the day and for the year that you're going after. So that's a big thing.

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And the third thing is each day with one small recovery ritual. End the day with that ritual. Whether that's a walk, a stretch, some type of unplug, meditation, prayer, whatever it might be some type of recovery ritual that you can do every day. I like jumping in the sauna, I like relaxing, things like that. Figure out what that is for you and feel free to leave a comment below of what a great end of day recovery ritual is for you. To give ideas to myself and everyone else watching and looking in the comments of another great end of day recovery ritual. So energy is the real productivity hack. Framework number four if this is helping you in any way, leave a yes below and let me know. Because I want to be of service to you in the highest way possible. I don't want you to be stressed and overwhelmed. I want you to feel peaceful and harmonious in your life. The fourth framework is Rest is a productivity multiplier. This is extremely counterintuitive because you've probably heard that you have to maximize every minute and squeeze out everything in your day to be the most productive human being possible possible so you can become a millionaire and accomplish all your dreams and be number one in the world or whatever you're doing. Man, that's exhausting just saying that. Rest is a productivity multiplier. And when I was younger. Again, I've made every mistake in the book and still am learning today of how to be better. It's not like I'm perfect. I used to be up till 3 4am every night just saying I need to make more money, I need to work harder, I need to do these things. Then I remember I gained like 30 or 40 pounds in about nine months of doing that. I was exhausted. I was waking up at noon. I was, you know, up till 3 4am, up at 11 12. Then I just wake up and grind and start putting bad fuel in my body all day long to get energy and repeat the cycle over and over again. I know some of you know what I'm talking about. You've probably done this Before, Maybe you're doing this right now and you're nodding and saying, yeah, that's me right now. Know. But pushing non stop doesn't prove your worth. It drains your worth. And if you are burned out, you're not productive, you're simply stuck. So the lesson here is that strategic rest is how you cheat time. Strategic rest is how you cheat time. If you get tired, learn to rest, not to quit. That's a quote that I've seen online before. I'm not sure who said that, but they said, if you get tired, learn to rest, not to quit. We had Michael Todd on. If you haven't seen Michael Todd's work, he's a great, great guy. We had him on the podcast and he told me this story that he learned from his mentor early on. He said, no matter what, I take a six week sabbatical every year. Doesn't matter what's happening, I take six weeks off. And he heard this from his mentor and every year he's done this for like the last decade. And he said, you know what, I had this big book come out a couple years ago ago, and it was, I think it was, it might have been number one New York Times bestseller, or at least it was a New York Times bestseller. And he goes, it was a New York Times bestseller the first week, second week, and every week up until the ninth week. And that ninth week was the week I had scheduled for my first week of my sabbatical of the year, where I take six weeks, just family, no work, you know, and I'm resting. And he was like, man, I was in the zone every week, New York Times. I was getting pressed, I was getting opportunities, I was getting everything. And at the height and the peak, that's when the old me would have said, oh, I just gotta push this vacation off and just grind and just ride the wave. But he said, nope, I decided to stop and pause. And that was the first week my book didn't make the New York Times the seller list. And he said, I'm at peace with it. I'm at peace with it because I'm in this for the long term. I'm in this for the marathon. Not milking every ounce of every moment, no matter what he's like. When I. And this goes back to clarity, guys. When you have clarity about how you want to live your life, you create a more sustainable, renewable, harmonious life. And it doesn't mean you still can't crush it and accomplish your goals. But this is about longevity. This is about having beautiful Relationships. This is about having good family dynamics. And so he set it up and he's like, I don't regret it, I don't regret it. We still got to crush it. And the book is still doing well later and it's okay. And I have more energy where now I was able to write my next book because I took those six weeks off as opposed to being burnt out. So some action steps for you is to schedule real breaks into your calendar before burnout forces yourself to schedule them. And a lot of people get sick and unwell where their body shuts down and it forces you to take time off instead, just take strategic time off. Make sure you're finding time on the weekends, throughout your days, throughout your weeks in the year where you just, hey, I'm taking time for me. And that's a good thing. Second thing is try work free hours, right? No emails, no slack. After a certain time, maybe it's 7 o' clock at night or whatever, or maybe it's the weekends, you're going to completely disconnect from the phone and allow yourself some time to just fully shut down. The third thing is to build a mini shutdown ritual each night where you can write tomorrow's top three tasks, top three actions, then just shut it down and stop. Like, get whatever's in your mind out on paper and then shut it down. Allow yourself to rest. Allow yourself to recover. You need that renewable energy. Rest is a productivity multiplier. Remember this, my friend. Framework number five, decide with feeling, act with logic. 95% of decisions are emotional, but productivity comes from not letting your emotions control you. And a quote that I love is that we make 95% of our decisions with feelings, not logic. This is from a neuroscientist, Antonio Damasio, who said this. We make 95% of our decisions with feelings, not logic. And again, go back to my friend Brendan Burchard, how he explained how hesitation triggers the brain's spotlight effect, which then magnifies fear. When we hesitate, it triggers the brain to put focus and emphasis on something which magnifies the fear. In our life. Instead of logical reasoning decisions, emotions take over in our life. And how many of you who've made drastic decisions out of emotion because you spotlight the fear and you're like, ah, I can't do this, or I have to do this, because you're so emotional in that moment, you're not logical. But when you acknowledge the emotion and still choose deliberate action, you cheat that mental wiring. And that's an important, powerful thing that we can do. So some action steps for you. When you're feeling stuck or overwhelmed, pause and ask, what feeling is driving this hesitation? What feeling is driving this right now? Second thing is to apply that five second rule to interrupt the loop. Loop. And to take action. So if you're like, ah, I don't know what to do. 3, 2, 1, let's go, let's take action. Because you're able to take action because you're clear on the first framework we talked about, which is getting clarity of your vision, your goal, seeking clarity. First, setting the intention. When you have that intention baked into your DNA, you know fear is coming, you know confusion is coming. And you say, well, I'm clear on my goal, my vision, my intention is to show up with courage. So let's act right now. And you're building these frameworks into your life that create powerful habits for you to accomplish what you want. The third thing is to use feelings for focus. Attach a positive emotion to each key task. Attach excitement, pride, like curiosity, whatever it might be to each task. Framework number six is don't just strive, serve. The world doesn't care about your output. It cares about your impact. Oh, man. The world doesn't care about your output. It cares about your impact. And there's a lot of people who've created big results, but if it's not impactful results, then it's just kind of fleeting. It's just accomplishment and results for accomplishment's sake. But have you made a lasting impact on the people around you? Have you been of service? Have you done something truly meaningful? Or have you done something only for yourself to look good? Because productivity is amplified by service. Let me say that again to you. Productivity is amplified by service. It's a quote that I have in my book. It says greatness is about service. It's about using your gifts to make an impact on others. And when you focus on lifting others up, you create a ripple effect that not only transforms their lives, but also fulfills your own purpose. Again, that is in the book, the Greatness Mindset. This is the book that I wish I had when I was 16, 26, 36. It's everything I wish I had from all the years and experiences and lessons that I've learned and all the great researchers, neuroscientists, world class athletes of what they taught me on how to create renewable energy, a clear purpose and accomplish your goals, where you're making a lasting impact on the people around you. And that's what we all want. We don't want to Just succeed for our sake. We want to make a difference. We want to impact others. At least that's what I want. Want? Do you want to make a difference? Do you want your life to matter? Do you want to know that your friends and your family were impacted you in a more positive and empowering way? That you left the places and the people better than you found them? That you inspired them to have courage in their life? That you inspired them to go chase their dreams, to go pursue what matters to them instead of being stuck or feeling crippled by their own self doubt and limits. I know that's what I want. And I think because you're watching this right now, you want this as well. The goal is to create a powerful vision for your life, is to create a vision that inspires you, A vision that is also able to serve others, to help others, and whatever your talents and strategies you do within your life or your work or your what you're creating in your life. So a few key action steps is to start each day with asking yourself, who benefits if I show up fully today? You know, the other thing is who gets to suffer if I show up living in self doubt today? If I lack the courage today, who do I hurt? Who do I pull down? Who suffers because I lacked the courage to go after it? So ask yourself, who benefits if I show up fully today? Second thing, connect your top task to how it helps others. Whether it be clients or family or your team or friends. Connect your top task for the day with how this can help someone else. And number three, at the day's end, write down one meaningful way that you showed up in service to someone else. How did you show up? It can be as simple as, you know, when I grabbed my coffee today, I smiled and I asked a question of the person who handed me coffee and I built a meaningful moment with that person. With the people I worked with at my job or my career or my business, I was able to create joy today. I brought joy as opposed to exhaustion to the day. I brought positivity, I brought fun, I brought play, I brought insights, I brought creativity. Like, what did you bring to serve someone else today? How did you express your artistic ways with the world around you? And I think when you can think about that, then you made an impact on the people around you today. That's a beautiful thing. And that's the sixth framework is to serve. Don't just strive. Because in a world where people want to have highlight reels on their Instagram and look good and get validated and attention for how they look or what they're accomplishing. That's a striving mentality. But the goal is to create the vision for the goals you want in your life and be in service while you're pursuing that vision by impacting others around you. That is the whole concept of the greatness mindset.

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