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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. It's time for our Friday.

Two-minute warning edition, posted on Fridays to give you something to think about watch for or to do.

To finish your week strong and maximize your weekend, I will also include an occasional red zone rant, but not today.

I want to talk about the topic patterns over apologies.

Give you an example.

If you ever been in a relationship and someone continues to do the

wrong thing and they apologize and apologize, but never change anything, it gets kind of old,

doesn't it? Remember, game changers just don't say the right thing. They do the right thing.

You've got to pay more attention to patterns, to behaviors than just apologies. Now,

apologies are great. They express regret. It's nice.

It's necessary. But they don't indicate anything is going to change, at least not yet.

Now, if you start to focus on believing patterns over apologies, you'll figure out quicker

whether you can continue to stay with someone, work with someone, if they're going to move in the right

direction, or just buy time by feeding you verbal garbage until you figure out what they're really

about. Nothing makes an apology more sincere or believable than a change in behavior. Change in an

attitude, a habit, a choice, and so forth. Now, the same goes for commitment. Some people continually recommit,

recommit, recommit. Oh, I'm recommitted. I'm recommitted. But nothing changes. Spend more time

looking at patterns than listening to recommitments. And by the way, this applies to you too.

Are you one that makes apologies without changing your behavior? That's just a deceptive lure,

a stall tactic that takes some pressure off you temporarily,

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