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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 the topic

despair doesn't mean defeat. Despair doesn't mean defeat. You know, at different

points in our life, we can become inspired by stories of how others traverse through adversity,

got through hard times, overcame setbacks, disappointments, defeats. And it's great to have

these stories to strengthen us or to share with others.

And there's no question that when we're going through a period of despair, that living the

game changer life can be more challenging, but it's never been more important.

Because we talk about the difference between the mindset of an

undertaker, caretaker, playmaker, and game changer, as I point out in my book Unstoppable.

And we said that one of the key differences is that the game changer more consistently

brings effort, energy, enthusiasm, excellence, passion, attitude, focus, and integrity.

But how about when things are really tough and and it's harder to bring those things?

When you don't have the energy, when it's harder to find the passion and the enthusiasm,

when your attitude is getting piled on, when the setbacks are incessant,

when hope seems lost because despair has hijacked it.

Well, I believe at that point in those situations, it's even more important to have your mindset right and to focus on bringing those eight traits.

Despair, if you look it up in the dictionary, means to be without hope. And sometimes that's

kind of how you feel when the news you get or the situation you're in seems hopeless. And so

this is going to be a little bit different episode than we've ever done, and we've done over 100.

This is going to be a true story.

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