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aspects of your life. This is the Game Change Your Life podcast with Dave Anderson.

Welcome to the Game Change Your Life. I'm Dave Anderson. In this episode, I want to talk about

be the boxer, not the bag. Be the boxer, not the bag.

You know, it's a visual image if you'll think about it.

The boxer, in control, delivering the punches, being proactive, setting the pace, what's

the bag?

Just getting pushed around, getting knocked around, reacting, not playing to win, just playing

not to lose.

And you know, sometimes

we're like that bag. And we need to be like the boxer, in control, dictating the pace.

And I remember when I, there's actually a lyric from a song. I was, I was at Hamilton Island in

Australia, and I had spoken for three days, and I still had two days to go, but I had an idle day

in between. And I was sitting out on the the balcony looking over the Great Barrier Reef with a notep

and I was thinking of notes just writing down notes and ideas for my 15th book idea. What I like to do

for creativity purposes is I'll get a song with like a real nice melody that just and I'll play it over over and over again. And I'll just play it in the background, and it just has this stimulating effect on my brain. And so I took this Pearl Jam song called Yellow Ledbetter, kind of an obscure title, Yellow Ledbetter. And I put it on repeat. I like this song. I never really knew what it said because I can't understand what Eddie Vedder's saying during the song. But it was going over and over and over again. And I really tried to listen to it at one point. By the way, I was coming up with great ideas, like three pages of notes as this yellow lead betters playing in the background. And so I looked up the lyrics because it's like, is Eddie really singing this in English? I really like Eddie. He has a unique voice, but I didn't know what the heck he was saying. And there was a line in there that I just really connected with. He says this. He says, I said, I don't know whether I'm the boxer or the bag. And I thought, wow, isn't that most of us at one point in our life or another? Are we the boxer or are we the bag?

Well, you know, the fact is the game changer.

It's the boxer.

The game changer in my book, Unstoppable, is the top performance mindset.

You've got undertakers, caretakers, playmakers, and game changers.

And the game changer is the one setting the pace.

They are the competition.

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