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Scaling UP! Nation if you’ve been
following my favorite books you know
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Napoleon Hills Think and Grow Rich is
among them in this book he analyzed what
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successful people had in common and one
of these commonalities that he noted was
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successful people meet with other
successful people
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he then coined that meeting a mastermind
folks life is too hard to do it alone
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and that is exactly what most of us are
doing starting in early 2020 I will be
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launching our own mastermind called
rising tide the rising tide mastermind
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is made up of small groups of
individuals with the focus on helping
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each other succeed these groups will
include weekly video calls designed to
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solve key issues quarterly book
discussions with action plans quarterly
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one to ones with me a live event and so
much more I’ve personally been a member
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of a mastermind for years and I know how
key being in a mastermind has been for
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my own success and because of that I
know how key a group like this can be in
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your success the rising tide mastermind
is currently accepting applications we
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have very limited spots so go to
Scaling UP!
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h2o dot com forward slash mastermind to set
up a fifteen minute call with me to see
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if this is the key to your next level of
success
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welcome to Scaling UP! up the podcast for
water treatise by water treaters where
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we’re Scaling UP! on knowledge of all
kinds of business water treatment all of
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those things so you don’t Scale UP! your
systems folks my name is Trace Blackmore
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and I am the host of Scaling UP! h2o and
I am just so incredibly amazed that
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today’s date is December 27th 2019 it is
the last episode of 2019 it seems like
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just yesterday I was doing a planning
episode for 2019 and now we’re doing a
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farewell episode to 2019 folks I hope
you have had a great holiday season of
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course we’ve got New Year’s coming up
and with New Year’s many of us make
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resolutions and those resolutions are
normally broken within the first week
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well I told you a couple shows back that
I wanted you to look at all of the
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things that you have accomplished or did
not get accomplished this past year and
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we were going to look at that well folks
I decided that there were a few things I
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wanted to talk about first before we got
into goal planning so we’re actually
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going to do goal planning the very first
episode of next year so next week your
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homework is still valid you can still
work on it we’re going to take that
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information and we’re going to figure
out how we make 2020 incredibly
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productive well something that I like to
do at the end of every year is I like to
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go through an acronym and I introduced
it to you last year it’s called skull
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and skull stands for successes
challenges opportunities and lessons
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learned so we’re gonna go through some
of the things from this show
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and I would love it if you all did scull
for yourself I use coal quite a bit when
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I meet with groups for us to engage with
each other and figure out what’s going
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on between one visit from the last visit
and scull is just a great way to end up
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the year so join along with me as I do
some items I’ve learned from the podcast
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so let’s look at successes so probably
the biggest success is we have doubled
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our listener base in 2019 so we’re over
10,000 listeners now we’re in over 65
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countries again that is incredibly
amazing to me but folks I know there’s
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so many other water traders out there so
we still need to spread the message
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because I think the larger this show
gets the more relevant this show gets
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and of course the more content this show
gets so if you can help me do that I
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definitely appreciate it but I will say
that was a huge success this year was we
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doubled our listener base another huge
success is we produced 56 episodes this
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year
oh my gosh if someone were to tell me
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that we were going to do over 50
episodes in a year when I first started
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and I started this out as a monthly
podcast and I thought 12 was a daunting
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challenge I probably would have never
started but folks I love doing this
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podcast I love all the things that I
learned because of this podcast and I
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love all of the notes that I get from
listeners saying how much they enjoy the
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show that’s definitely a success as well
of course another success are the great
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guests we have they of course bring
increased knowledge and different points
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of view to the show I’ve received dozens
of emails where people said that they
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received their certified water
technologists or another similar
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designation because this show promotes
going after a designation that show
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that you are on the top of your industry
so thank you so many people that sent in
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those emails and also a huge success for
me was I think the number one topic
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spoken about during the AWT Convention
was the Scaling UP! h2o podcast and so
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many Scaling UP! Nation members came up
to me they asked me for a button to put
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on their lanyard they told me how much
they enjoyed the show and even better
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they gave me some ideas for other shows
so thank you to all those people that
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did that also other associations have
been asking me to cover their events
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we’ve been to ASHRAE we’ve been to bomo
we’ve been to IWC and I know I’m leaving
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out some more but the awesome thing is
that we touch so many water industries
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and other industries are reaching out to
us and asking us to cover what they are
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doing on the Scaling UP! h2o podcast so
those are just a few of the successes
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that I could think of I know there are
dozens more but also in Skol the C
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stands for challenges so the challenge
of this show has always been coming up
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with new topics you know what am I going
to talk about so you the listener don’t
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fall asleep at the wheel in between
customer accounts I don’t want that to
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happen
so I want to make sure I find relevant
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information and I deliver it in a way
that is entertaining so you enjoy
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listening to this podcast that’s always
been a challenge
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I hope I’m delivering on that but I will
promise you I’m always looking for ways
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to become better with that also finding
new guests finding guests that you want
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to hear from that will help expand our
knowledge that’s always a challenge and
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I’ve also upgraded some of the equipment
here in the studio so learning how to
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use some of the new equipment has been a
challenge
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I had everything dialed in with the old
equipment and we decided to upgrade so
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we can get a better sound and do a
little bit more
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with the post-production on our end
well now we’re doing that and learning
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how to use all that equipment of course
comes with some issues but we’re getting
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through those and folks it’s pretty cool
equipment so don’t feel sorry for me
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because I have to learn new stuff I’m
really enjoying the new stuff and
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another challenge was the TED talk I got
to do a TED talk this year and that of
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course came with its challenges and if
you want to hear some of those
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challenges you can listen to episode 92
well the O in scull stands for
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opportunities and the first opportunity
that I can think of is that we are
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starting a mastermind behind Scaling UP!
and what that is that is a group of
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like-minded individuals working with
each other with the sole purpose of
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making each other succeed more to higher
levels I’ve been a member of a
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mastermind for years I can tell you
firsthand what that has done for me and
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my success and I figured it was time to
share that with the water treatment
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community and other business like people
another opportunity is we are now
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working with sponsors early on when I
started this show I tested the waters
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and I did a podcast and I asked people
to call in to ride in to call me let me
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know what they thought if I were to take
sponsors and I really thought that
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everybody was going to say it would
cheapen the show but even early on
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everybody said no we understand that
their expenses to that we think you
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should do that while still years went by
I didn’t do anything with that and at
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this year’s past AWT convention I had
several vendor members come up to me and
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they really wanted to know what they
could do to help sponsor this Scaling UP!
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h2o podcast and I always thought that
they might even resent me if I asked
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them for a sponsorship and they told me
no it’s the opposite we resent you
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because you’re not giving us the
opportunity to help art participate
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in something that the water treatment
community has wholeheartedly embraced
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and it is the most talked about topic
here at the AWT convention so my team
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and I got together and we started
working with sponsors and of course the
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last couple of episodes you heard some
of those sponsors and it’s been great
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well with that we’ve been able to update
our calendar so we’re going to be doing
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a bit more than what we did last year as
far as how we cover content where we can
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cover the content so I’m really excited
to bring that to you next year and we’re
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able to do that because people are
helping sponsor the podcast you know
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another opportunity is one of our
successes and I want to recognize the
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folks out in the Scaling UP! Nation it’s
the number of listeners that we have you
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know there’s an opportunity for so many
other listeners out there so if I could
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have an ask for all of you listeners out
there the next time you meet another
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water treater let them know about the
Scaling UP! h2o podcast now some water
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treaters may not be familiar with what a
podcast is you might have to explain
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that to them I don’t only tell them it’s
like a radio show on the Internet but
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you might have to go as far as to
download a podcast player or show them
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that they do already have a podcast
player and then help them subscribe to
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Scaling UP! h2o I would love it if the
nation could help me with that
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well skull is spelled with two L’s and
the two L stands for lessons learned and
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I have a bunch of lessons to share with
you this year
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the number one thing that I could think
of is be sure to take your own advice
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and I’m talking to myself right now on
multiple episodes I have advised members
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of the Scaling UP! Nation to find
somebody that they admire because of
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what they’ve done and ask them if they
would mentor them
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several of you have told me that you
have done that and I was actually in a
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situation not terribly long ago where a
local radio stable in the Atlanta market
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his name is Scott Slade of WSB radio was
a scuba diving student of mine and for
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those of you in the nation that don’t
know I am a scuba diving instructor
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now during Scott’s certification process
we started talking about broadcasting
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and I mentioned I had a podcast well he
later went and looked up the podcast
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listened to a couple episodes and we got
back together he told me he really
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enjoyed my podcast
he then freely gave me some tips on
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speaking on writing notes on recording
and even gave me an exercise to warm my
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voice up now that led to a few more
questions which led to him giving me
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some answers which led to me asking him
if he would mentor me on this topic now
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I want to take you back to episode 115
with Jeff Henderson and he told us to
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ask big he told us don’t be worried
about what the receiver of the question
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might say many of us don’t ask because
we convinced ourselves the other person
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is gonna say no so the question never
gets asked here’s the thing I’m gonna
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tell you I had that very dialogue in my
head before I spoke with Scott I
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remember I was thinking oh I should ask
him to mentor me and then I instantly
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thought what right do I have to ask
somebody who’s been in radio for almost
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50 years to waste their time on me I
just have a podcast why would he ever
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say yes so there it is we all have stuff
like that in our heads but if we can get
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past that stuff to ask the question the
person we’re asking might actually say
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yes and that’s exactly what Scott did he
said yes it’s got actually brought me
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into his studio he showed me how he
prepared for his morning show by the way
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I had to get in at 2:30 for him to show
me all of this so Scott gets in at 2:30
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every morning for a 4:30 a.m. show I
learned a tremendous amount watching him
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do what he does and he even came back to
my studio gave me some advice and gave
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me a list of equipment that would make
what I do a lot easier and sound better
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so all of that would never have happened
if I would not have asked that question
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and Scott and I’ve had lunch a couple
times I can actually call Scott a friend
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now and we have a better friendship
because I did ask him that question so
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folks if you can learn a lesson for me
it’s take my own advice and take Jeff’s
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advice and remember to ask big because
you might get a big answer my other
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lesson was how I talk with people now
last week you heard from Kathleen
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Edelman that was episode 117 and she
taught us that our words are gifts to
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other people I have to say I never
looked at what I said that way before I
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met Kathleen I did however leave
conversations wondering why other people
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mistook the words that I used as I was
trying to say something else I guess
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that’s the reason
Kathleen named her book I said this you
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heard that last week I told you her book
was hands-down the best thing I have
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done to strengthen all of my
relationships this past year so my
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lesson learned was we don’t always
interpret words the same way now that
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really wasn’t the lesson because Stephen
Covey taught me that a long long time
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ago in the seven Habits of Highly
Effective People
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in fact he states very clearly he calls
that a parrot
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and we each internalize whatever is
happening around us whatever we hear in
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our own way or in our own paradigm we’re
conditioned in the way that we see the
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world and I taught that for years now
here’s the lesson
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Kathleen’s book in working with Kathleen
she gave me the tools to actually
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structure the right words to use with
the right people and when you start
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thinking about this is the message that
I’m trying to convey but I want to
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convey it in a way that builds up the
other person so now I need to use words
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that allow the other person to hear it
in the way that they hear that was truly
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game-changing in my arena it was one of
the best things that I did this past
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year and the other lesson that I’ve
learned and I’m gonna end with this one
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and I’m also going to change what I told
you the nation that I was going to do
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this week I told you we were going to do
some goal planning but I started
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thinking I mentioned the five minute
journal a couple of weeks ago and I
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really was thinking that the five minute
journal is a great entry point into the
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mindset that we need to get into in
order to properly achieve the goals that
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we need to achieve so Scaling UP! Nation
I’m changing up the recording calendar
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just a little bit and instead of doing a
show on the five-minute journal next
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week I’m gonna let you know some of the
lessons I learned with it this week and
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then next week we’ll get into goal
planning so here’s a funny story a
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couple weeks ago I introduced the
five-minute journal and a couple of my
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close friends immediately called me
after that episode aired and they want
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to know if I have lost my mind they said
water treaters are not journalist and I
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know you trace Blackmore I know you
you are not a journalist Oh what is
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going on here well they’re right I’m not
a person that writes in a journal in
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fact getting into the habit of using the
5-minute German was pretty hard for me
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you might be wondering how I was
introduced to the five-minute journal
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and I think I told this a couple weeks
back but I’ll go ahead and say it again
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after I spoke at Tim Fulton small
business matter conference and that was
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the TED talk that I did episode 92 he
sent me a thank-you gift and that
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thank-you gift was the five minute
journal and now I’m talking to you and
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telling you how great the five minute
journal was so you’re probably thinking
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I receive that gift from Tim I
immediately opened it and started using
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it and folks that didn’t happen I opened
it I skim through it I set it on a
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corner of my desk and it sat there for
better than four months in fact it had
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things on top of it I didn’t even know
it was there and I started listening to
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another podcast who mentioned that they
used the five-minute journal and they
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started telling me the reasons why they
use it and why they recommend others to
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use it and then I remember hey I’ve got
a copy of that I should probably open it
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up and look at it a little bit better
well I still didn’t start using it and I
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started thinking maybe a couple weeks
later why not give it a try and folks I
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am amazed at what it has done for me so
here’s what the 5-minute journal does it
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helps you acknowledge the positive that
you have in your life now I know what
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you’re thinking and I know what my
friend said that called me up and they
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were saying you know this sounds New Age
hippie dippie just weird stuff you know
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why are you doing this why I’m doing
this because I can tell you firsthand
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that it works by default if we don’t do
anything we are going to see far more
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negative than we ever will with the
positive
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our world is set up to accent the
negative I have a friend that used to
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work in a newsroom and she would tell me
that they would determine what stories
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would lead based on how violent they
were simply put the phrase they used was
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if it bleeds it leads
for some reason negative news and
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violent news is more raiding earning
than good news is well advertisers of
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course they want ratings and I guess
that’s why the news agencies lead and
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talk about so many negative items in the
news here in Atlanta we have a news
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station that promises to bring you good
news in the morning so when I watch that
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station in the morning here’s what
happens they tell you about a plane
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crash a house fire a burglary of school
made for blind children run by nuns and
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then they cut to a story that shows a
cute puppy that gets adopted to a new
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family this is the good news they
promise by the way and then immediately
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they go back to telling you about some
politician that says something bad about
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another politician and there’s probably
a murder somewhere amongst those
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headlines well folks that was less than
five minutes most of us we get out of
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bed we turn the radio or we turn the TV
on and that’s how we start the day as
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we’re getting ready and then we go out
with our day and the first things that
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we thought about are all of the negative
things that the news has primed us with
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and for the longest time I just told
myself I wasn’t going to listen to the
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news in the morning and I guess that
helped a little bit but I got to tell
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you when you start your day with
positive things and positive things that
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have actually happened to you that you
start acknowledging there’s something
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that happened
to how you process what you are looking
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at you start seeing more positive things
and the negative things you can start to
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realize how you can make those more
positive so folks I just remember I was
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focusing on negative things even after I
stopped watching the news and I know
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there’s one person out there that can
watch the news and they can focus on
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that puppy getting adopted from the
family and that’s all they took from
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those 15 stories and that was the only
good one
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well that wasn’t me I just remembered
that it was so easy for me to take the
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negative of any situation and that’s
where my mind automatically went to of
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course I was primed for that now wasn’t
depressed I think I was just primed to
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look for the wrong or the negative
things there’s a sane I don’t remember
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exactly how it goes but it’s something
like whatever you look for that’s what
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you are going to find well that’s when I
decided to start using the 5 minute
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journal that Tim Fulton gifted me and I
want to say it was less than a week I
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could tell that I was better equipped to
find more positive things I know it
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sounds weird but it really does work the
journal is very simple and here’s how I
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use it the number one tip is you have to
keep it by your bed with a pen and if
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you travel somewhere you take it with
you you put it on your nightstand in the
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hotel room but it always goes beside
your bed they have an app for it I’ve
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never been able to get the app to have
the same effect as the book does but if
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you want to use the app by all means you
are welcome to do that as well so in the
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morning what you’re going to do you’re
going to pick up the book and it’s going
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to ask you three questions question
number one is I am grateful for and
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yearn to list three things question two
is what would make today great and
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you’ll list three things
the third thing are daily affirmations
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so I am and you list
couple of things there and that’s it I
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didn’t even take you five minutes then
before you go to bed you’re going to
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answer two questions the first question
is three amazing things that happened
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are you list that and then the last
question is how could I have made today
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even better we start thinking about that
continuous improvement and now we go to
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bed and folks there’s just something
when you acknowledge your day that way
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and end your day and you go to sleep and
then you wake up and you immediately
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start thinking about today in a positive
way it will make changes so you start
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seeing more positive things and you’ll
start getting more positive things done
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as I said it took me about a week to
notice anything but I did start noticing
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more positive things now it might take
you less it might take you longer but it
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will prime you to look for the positive
things now you’ll still hear all the bad
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things on the news because I don’t think
they’re gonna stop doing that
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but the difference is that’s not how
you’re starting your day you’re starting
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your day in the journal and then even if
you do hear those other things that’s
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not the only information that you’re
getting before you walk out the door I
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was trying to think of an example I
could share with you so I remember
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talking with a prospective client we
went to a meeting it was a pretty good
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meeting but I didn’t get a yes so
driving back in the car and I know you
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all know what that’s like we don’t think
about all of the things that we did
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right we just think about all of the
things that we did wrong and because
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we’re now in that negative spiral the
next thing we do is in the negative and
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then something else spins into the
negative so now by the way we did
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finally get a yes but now when I have a
meeting that way I think of what are the
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things that I did right and
was my mindset was I truly there to help
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connect them with something that will
help them do they understand water
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treatment better now did I explain that
in a way that they understood so they
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could actually take that information and
use it or was my only goal to sell them
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so I could get a new client and if I
know that my mindset was to help them
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then that’s a pretty good day and nine
times out of ten when we present to
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clients we normally get them because
that is our mindset now does the journal
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help with that I can say it definitely
doesn’t hurt folks I’ve really enjoyed
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starting my day and ending my day with
the journal and I urge you to start
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using the five-minute journal so you can
prime your day to start seeing the
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positive as well now you can get the
five-minute journal by going to
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Scaling UP! h2o com for its last journal
and that will take you to an Amazon
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affiliate link again an affiliate link
is a link that we put together that will
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take you straight to that Amazon site it
will not cost you any extra money but
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Amazon does pay us a slight commission
since we brought you to that five minute
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journal I truly believe that if you use
the five-minute journal you’re probably
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going to get the 5-minute journal for
somebody as a gift
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the next time a birthday comes around
I’ve given several copies of the
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five-minute journal out since Tim gave
me my first copy so nation next week we
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are going to start looking at planning I
gave you some homework and your homework
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was to look at all of your
accomplishments and figure out why they
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were accomplishments what are the things
that had to happen in order for you to
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check those things off and then do the
same things for the things that you did
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not accomplish and think about what were
all the things that
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didn’t happen or things that happen that
got in your way to not allow you to
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finish those goals folks that’s actually
where the key is if you can figure out
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what is in your way of getting your
goals completed you can figure out how
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to deal with those and then you can get
those goals completed you also might
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find out you can’t deal with those goals
and because of that those are not smart
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goals because of what’s going on in your
life right now it’s just not the right
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time to do that or maybe it’s not the
right time to do it in the way you think
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it needs to be done so if we don’t
acknowledge all the things that are in
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our life when we’re trying to get things
done we’re not going to get those things
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done and that’s what we’re going to do
next week well folks I just want to say
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happy new year new years it’s just a
couple days away I can’t believe we are
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saying goodbye to 2019 but we are saying
hello to 2020 and of course everybody’s
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putting this 2020 vision up and 2020 is
gonna be great and we’re gonna have a
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good focused vision so if you’re doing
something like that next week I’m gonna
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help you get there and I look forward to
seeing you in the new year on Scaling UP!
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h2o
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