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All right, good morning from mapleton, Utah. You get a solo episode with me today. And if it sounds like I just woke up, I did.

Neil and I came to Utah with all of our kids. And he is driving back with them while I stay for a couple of days for a retreat, a business retreat.

And I have just a few minutes to record this solo episode before I go meet with all the other

women and start just sharing things that have worked well in our business, strategizing.

And I thought about what I could talk about today.

And this really funny memory came up from last year. I actually took a note. So I have a running

list of notes in my phone. And I took a note last year about how I wanted to share this

observation that I made with strategy while I was watching the SEC championship game.

So this guy, Christian, was the winner of this Dr. Pepper Challenge. He and this girl,

which it was kind of unfair, right, like that there was a guy versus a girl, but whatever.

At the same time, I thought it was cool that she got to compete.

But they were supposed to throw footballs through, you know, like some kind of a big circle thing.

And as many, whoever threw the most footballs and got them through this ring, then they got a hundred thousand

dollar scholarship.

And Christian won by a landslide.

And the way he won was he was throwing two footballs at a time, left and right hand

through this circle while this poor girl was just throwing one at a time.

So he completely beat her out not just because of skill,

but also because, you know, the amount of tries he was throwing at this ring was so much

greater than what she was putting out or, you know, the amount of tries that she was throwing

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