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hello everybody where's my volume
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there's my volume all right uh so we're
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going to talk about some awesome
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life-changing books
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um and life-changing is really
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perspective so we'll discuss what we
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think that means as we go uh we are
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going to have
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uh my favorite guest I call her mom you
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can call her Karen
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or something else that's up to you
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life-changing books life-changing can
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mean anything to anybody
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um it could be
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something that helps you physically
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helps you mentally helps you in the
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workforce helps you in the life force uh
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it could just be something you read that
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makes you go hmm interesting I didn't
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think about that
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um and some of these actually kind of
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blend into our Tuesday videos so we
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might talk about that for a second too
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um and let's jump in with the first one
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here uh so this actually is the one that
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goes to our show uh tomorrow on Monday
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mental health we're talking about the
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importance of being in the now in the
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present
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and this man here which I've been doing
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a little research on for the show
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Eckhart Tolle wrote The Power of Now
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um and the
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um the bio for the book on Google said
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it's a guide to self-reflection and the
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presence of the moment at hand
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um you know him well I know him well
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he's a very big uh name in books
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um this is his kind of thing right this
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is what he writes about
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um spiritualism stuff like that
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um I thought this was a great one to
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start off with because what better way
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to change your life than to
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start
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now you know right right now right now
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um so you know he talked the the you can
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see on the title guide to spiritual
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enlightenment do you think you know is
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that kind of a word they use to get your
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attention does it have to be spiritual
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or is it kind of just a word that
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describes how to better I think first of
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all when was this written do you happen
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to know when this is written this is
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back you know 20 or maybe 20 years this
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was a while back yeah you know so I
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think that you know I think each decade
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each set of years has their buzzwords
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and I think that this definitely it's
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spiritual enlightenment and it still
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means something today I guess
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um but I think back in those days this
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is we were doing a lot of this you know
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spiritual and enlight we're enlightened
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by all of this so I think it's an
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interesting choice of words and I think
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it was very much the wording that was
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used back then I don't know if we use it
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now though right and right now if you
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guys are on YouTube I believe he has his
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own channel he actually does little
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short videos basically about his books
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um so obviously and obviously for him
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it's still a big deal because he he
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wrote he wrote about it
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um but yeah I think you're right I think
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depending on when I think as we go
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through the list we'll see because some
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might be newer some might be older they
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might have change perspective as we go
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number two I actually have oh sorry no
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what I I think the I think the concept's
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great I I'm I'm actually was kind of
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pointing out the the wording of
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spiritual enlightenment rap you know I
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think the whole idea now I mean we're
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gonna do a show tomorrow about that you
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know about the importance of now I don't
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think that's gone out of out of uh of
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course no yeah definitely living in the
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present is still popular yeah but yeah I
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get what you mean um all right number
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two actually have and we've talked about
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it in our other show The Meditation
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Beyond religion by the Dalai Lama this
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is one of two books I have at home but I
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picked this one over the other one
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because really this one goes back to it
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you can see ethics for a whole world if
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you guys remember that show what I
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basically explained about this book was
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how religion shouldn't be your standing
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point to what you believe it's what you
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believe that's important so whether it
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is a religious that's cool no problem
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but if it's not of religious that's fine
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as well and one thing that the the Dalai
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Lama here the the present Dalai Lama
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because as we talked about before
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there's multiple talks about is that you
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shouldn't look for somebody else's to do
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for you to get what's done and he talks
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about it here if you in one of the
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chapters you know he's not against
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different religions he just doesn't like
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the idea that so many people put an
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Ephesus on one thing without really
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opening up to other ideas so you know
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for instance you know
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um growing up a lot of my friends did
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you know celebrate Christmas right so I
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did Hanukkah and Christmas I think one
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person I knew did Kwanzaa as well so
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it's a matter of looking past the label
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I guess and just understanding that if
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you believe in what you believe in
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truthfully and you think it's good and
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it's your pathway that's the
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life-changing moment it doesn't matter
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what religion you're in it doesn't
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matter what culture you follow if you
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don't believe in you
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then you're you're not going to further
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yourself I guess um I think I think a
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lot of people would say that religion is
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is the biggest cause of War
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so
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you know there is that
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um I find it interesting in this day and
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age where you know the whole idea in our
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in our country that you're supposed to
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separate church and state
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um on all of that kind of stuff and so I
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kind of really appreciate what the Dalai
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Lama says is that it's it's ethics uh we
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need to focus on the ethics rather than
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I believe in this and you should also
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right it's you know if as long as your
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morals are good and you're doing the
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right thing right that you're you're
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golden basically okay the next one here
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is one that I just found when I was
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doing my research today this one's
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called The Power of Habit and I love the
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uh the spinning wheel on here because it
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looks like a hamster wheel this is
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written by Charles dubank and he
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basically talks about as you can see why
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we do what we do and how science
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explains uh Habit creation and
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Reformation
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um this is definitely one that I think
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would be and it's an entitle it's a
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business book as well so I'm pretty sure
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that many places would you
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actually Rob I think you have this book
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I think it's one of the books that we
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gave to you it's a scary face standard
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um okay there's a lot of there can we
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see that there you go yeah yeah
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let me have it this is like I think he
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wrote the the whole book on him it's no
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no joke intended BJ fog and then from
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that book James Clear wrote Atomic
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habits and it's all about creating
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habits small little habits that become
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bigger habits and then one more all
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again about the habits and that's Darren
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Hardy and that is The Compound Effect
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this is the very first book I ever read
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about habits I didn't understand that
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that's what he was talking about
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um so I this is a great book this uh The
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Power of Habit yeah and and we've talked
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about you know routine and habits on
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other shows and we'll do it again I'm
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sure but yeah and it's total things and
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one of the books that we're coming up to
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which I love explains how even the
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smallest habit can actually make a big
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different so I think what you said is
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great I love that this next one is kind
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of for the both of us because he's from
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the call map and I love this guy because
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I listened to him Mr Jay Shetty I love
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him who actually was a monk for a short
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time and in one of his uh calm uh
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meditations he talks about being one so
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he wrote Think like a monk which I love
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that name it's just a clever you know
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and it says train your mind for peace
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and purpose and basically it's his
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um you know uh personal experience of
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how to get rid of the negative and focus
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on the good and the calm
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but I really put this one on here
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strictly because we talked so much about
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the apps and the meditation stuff
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you you don't expect to come across him
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or somebody like him in a book of famous
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life-changing books right because the
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rest of the authors that we're talking
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about they've been around for decades
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doing this and then you see him who does
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a lot of stuff
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um did it does it matter that he was one
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or do you think just him
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is a good reason to be an author you
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know what I mean to write about this
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I think he he has gotten very very big
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in the last several years
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um and he's and very much the internet
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is what gave him his visibility he was
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doing all these little Instagram videos
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and YouTube videos
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excuse me and
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people follow him and he's feel good he
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is such a feel-good kind of guy
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and I think the well I've uh what I
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forgot what they call but he does the
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little morning ones and it's like you
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know drive with Jay Shetty or you know
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relax and he basically just talks about
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nothing really but it's very in-depth
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nothingness it's very good you know
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quality uh story and that's what I like
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about him because he's not really he's
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not particular on what he's saying he's
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just kind of like shot for a minute he's
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a Storyteller and uh and I really love
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the fact that he was a monk for a while
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because he brings that to the mix he
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brings that to them when I think being a
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monk I think of silence and I think of
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sitting in silence right I mean I might
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be wrong but I think that's what I think
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of when I think of monks so I think it's
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amazing what he probably came up with
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during that small amount of time when he
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was a monk right
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very cool yeah so I just thought that
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was a great book all right number five
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and this is probably one that was on
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everybody's High School
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to-do list
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not everybody's favorite but even if
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it's not your favorite it's still a big
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deal so obviously we have The Alchemist
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this particular one was the 25th
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anniversary so I think this was actually
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fairly new this Edition came out I think
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a few years ago
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um and from what I read a parable that
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teaches you how to follow your dreams
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overcome obstacles and get to where you
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want to be and be who you are
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I know I've read it but for the life of
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me this is one of those books that I
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know is on my mind but I cannot tell you
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a thing about it other than the fact
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that it's very popular in the uh the um
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life-changing you know thing
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is it because of his lighting I am the
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author and the author Paolo cuello I
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mean he's very well very well known I
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can't remember this book yet either I
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think I actually have a copy and I think
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it has a blue cover
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um that was the original cover right
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it's it's one of those books that you
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know like the Art of War you should have
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a copy of it somewhere and maybe you
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never read it but you should have a copy
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and I think this is one of them I have
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no idea what this is about I don't even
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know I don't even understand what the
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word Alchemist is I think there's a
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dictionary definition I have no idea
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well when I was looking up and going
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through I think somebody made a short
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you know film out of this I think they
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compared to some other Parables from
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medieval times I think Alchemy is kind
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of the what they used to call science
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when you mixed you know the the Earth
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the fire water air so there's a lot of
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things in here that really don't make
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sense to being a life-changing book but
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the story does go it basically follows a
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character who figures out that in order
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to live his dreams he has to push
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through and what better way to explain
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you know life-changing than a story like
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that right right so number six on our
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list here this is the one I was talking
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about her so this was from an admiral
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he's from the was in the military and
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this actually came out of a graduation
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speech that I'm sure everybody has seen
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and why before and from that speech he
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actually wrote a book and he called it
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make your bed small things that can
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change your life and maybe the world now
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I remember bits and pieces of the
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graduation speech because it was all
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over YouTube for like years I think it's
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still on YouTube
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um but I love the fact that this guy
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literally talks about it we talked about
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this from the Buddhist monk perspective
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um doing the smallest tasks can make the
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biggest difference and literally the
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title is is I think one of the first
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things he says is if you can make your
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bed you've already changed your life
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for that point in time right and I love
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how simplistic it is obviously you know
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New York Times bestseller penguin random
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house a big company there but even
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besides all that the fact that a you
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know a military per and it is one thing
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I love he's from the military he
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probably has a very set of standards
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that he grew up with obviously being in
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the military but he uses it to form uh
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thought that the everyday person who's
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not so strict can understand and that's
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what I think is so great about this book
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is is that and me too and I I like the
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idea that one small thing you can do
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because a lot of people get caught up in
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the uh there's no way I'm going to be
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able to do this right I can't change my
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habits and this is the whole idea with
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make your bed if you just make your bed
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in the morning you just go in there and
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you have that could change things the
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other thing is just one more day and I'm
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not I don't know if it came from this
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book but there's there's some book out
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there that just just do it one more day
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so that if you're in the middle of doing
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something and you you
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you're trying to create the habit and
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there's you know you're saying to
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yourself that self-talk the Mind talk oh
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I can't do this can't do this just do it
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one more day and when you do it one more
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day and then the next day is just do it
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one more day and the same thing is this
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make your bed it may seem so silly but
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the next day you're gonna go and make
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your bed it becomes a habit and then you
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can add something to it right make your
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bed and
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I don't know uh take a walk you know
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pile it on I love this I love it and
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it's got like the morning routine video
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we did where we talked about literally
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you do a couple things in the morning
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and the rest of your day just just
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happens right um now this next one here
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is kind of odd it's it was kind of hard
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to understand the bio of it but
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basically this author named oh show he
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took a bunch of translated Buddha
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sayings so these are saying strictly
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from the Buddha himself
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and basically talked about what they
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meant to him and others so this is kind
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of I guess you can call it a compilation
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kind of a quote book I guess
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but I was kind of curious when it came
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up on on life changing because to me
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quotes are life-changing for sure but
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this is less of a reading book and more
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to me from what I could see because
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Google lets you kind of read a few
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Snippets more of like a you go online
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and you find a quote and you put it on
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your wall so I can understand how that
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can work and I am somebody who loves
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talking about quotes but what do you
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think I mean is is there any truth to to
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the style yeah I actually I mean I every
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day when I meditate
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um I use calm and I use Jeff Warren who
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is who's always next to Jay Shetty on
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the comment they're side by side
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um and he talks a lot about you know
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he'll do a quote he'll say something
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that he'll then Riff on that'll be what
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the meditation is and I tend to take
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that quote now it's not the Buddha
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talking but sometimes he'll quote Buddha
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and sometimes he'll cut you know quote
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Dalai Lama and whatever and I'll use
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that as my kickoff because I don't know
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about you rob sometimes I have no idea
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what I want to write about in my journal
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and so for that alone to be able to give
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that prompt it's almost like a prompt
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for me so I love this I think I'm going
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to go check this book out because it
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sounds like some really cool quotes in
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there and I agree for me you know
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sometimes you want to start the day with
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a quote and it it's kind of cool to pull
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something out and I think I told you on
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our calendar every Sunday we put a new
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quote for the week uh to uh this one is
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this week is Maya Angelou it says if you
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love you gotta love what you do how you
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do it and yourself and it's basically
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one of those you know good feeling
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quotes but I agree it's good to have
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that quote to go to and every time
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you're kind of a little lost read it and
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then you go
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there it is exactly oh put it on your
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screen put it on your screen saver oh
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there you go yeah just because
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everybody's on their computer right
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exactly all right next book up here I
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love the name stumbling on happiness
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from Daniel Gilbert this one covers how
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happiness is subjective and only you can
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figure out what works or doesn't
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um again we talk about the fact that I
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use the word more appreciation and
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gratitude but I like the fact that this
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guy actually kind of took my idea in a
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book form
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what is happy
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are you happy is this happy it's all a
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matter of questioning and when it's a
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question it becomes subjective it
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doesn't become a fact it becomes a what
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do you want it to be and how do you want
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to make your day I love the fact you
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know stumbling he dropped his Bowl of
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Cherries I I love the pictures they put
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on these books because they make no
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sense but they're just they're they're
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so clever well there's that expression
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Life's a bowl of cherries oh
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and it looks like actually
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I know you've told me about uh uh this
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absolutely fantastic book well shot your
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most deeply held convictions about how
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the mind works so this is definitely a
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life-changing book for those who don't
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want the more kind of thought process
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you want more of the business you want
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this is one that maybe is going to work
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more for a lifestyle
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um all right what do we have we have a
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couple more left to go
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um okay this one is great so this guy is
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actually a professional
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um chess player
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um and
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forgot what else he did but this guy is
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literally like he spent his life
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learning how to play chess and you think
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he's like one of the best chess players
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in the world he he wrote The Art of
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learning and from Google they wrote uh
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he discusses how process leads to
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results and how we should focus on how
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we do things not the end goal
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very important especially for someone
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like me with kind of the add brain right
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it's more important to figure out how
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you go about it than to really worry
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about what what you're going to do and I
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know we talk about it on and off screen
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you know like how do you want to do this
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yes we know what we want to get to but
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if we don't know what we're exactly we
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don't know what we're doing then what we
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want really doesn't matter because
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right but as we say the train has
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derailed off the off the tracks right
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but I love the fact that the author is a
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chess player and literally this guy he
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talks about like learning his life how
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to be the perfect chess player so if
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anybody's gonna write about this
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and I like and I like the idea of it's
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It's a journey it's how do you get from
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them from point A to point Z and and we
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talk about the you know I'm as you know
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I'm clergy right and we talk there's a
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poem called the dash and we did it all
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the time at funerals because it's not so
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much when somebody was born and when
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they died it's what did they do
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during that Journey
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and I think that's that that's so
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powerful
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um is is what is your journey all about
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and I love the fact that that's in his
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that's a tagline journey in the pursuit
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of Excellence that word journey is so
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important I say to people all the time
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thank you for joining me on my journey
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all right there you go yeah all right so
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our last one on the list and this is
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kind of more of the businessy clinical
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one
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um from a PhD named Carol s dweck it's
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called mindset the new psychology of
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success how we can learn to fulfill our
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potential it even gives you some things
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their parenting business school
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relationships but really the uh the main
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point she gets across is the difference
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between growth mindset and fixed mindset
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and how the most successful people
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actually use the growth over the fixed
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so I thought this was a good one to end
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on because it was pretty
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self-explanatory as it goes
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um I know you've you've given me books I
20:27
think I have some downstairs that are
20:28
similar kind of how to how to do what
20:32
you want to do basically
20:35
um but I think if the list showed us
20:37
anything on here it's the variety of
20:39
people and what they're talking about
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you can go spiritual with people like
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Jay Shetty or the Dalai Lama or you can
20:46
go clinical with with Carol s dweck or
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um was the guy we just had uh
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Josh White soon for the ones you have
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the Habit books that you showed as well
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so
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you know and I know the one that I
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actually meant to put on here was you're
21:01
the guy you know the miracle morning
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which actually was on my mind but
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um it actually came to me because there
21:07
was a YouTube video about a guy who
21:09
basically talks about how that book
21:10
changed his life and I and I thought
21:12
about you know so there's a lot of
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really good ones uh I found these off of
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Google Books and you can pretty much buy
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them anywhere
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um but yeah I like life-changing stuff
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it doesn't have to be fancy but it just
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has to work you know for you and like
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what I like about all of this is that it
21:33
is it is about your mind and if you put
21:36
out negative you're going to get
21:37
negativity back you put out positivity
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you're going to get positivity back just
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try it just try it for a day every time
21:45
your brain thinks about something that's
21:47
negative turn it into a positive and see
21:49
what happens at the end of the day
21:50
you're going to be more positive by the
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time you get to the end of the day it is
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all about what's in your head and um I
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like to call it the itty bitty you know
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committee that lives in my head
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there you go uh but like I said tomorrow
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we are going to talk about the
22:07
importance of now and we're probably
22:09
going to bring up eccartoll as well as
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others so that kind of is what brought
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to mind doing this one today because
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tomorrow we're going to be doing more of
22:17
this so if you guys want to check that
22:19
out we will add the link into the
22:21
description
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