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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 our Agora Hills, California studios.

And the topic I want to talk about today, the four stages of decline. You know,

decline, I think, is very misunderstood. Whether it's a decline in your health, your relationships,

your finances, your results that you're getting in your job or in your workplace,

decline begins long before it shows up, long before you

recognize that you've been on this path. And often by the time the results show up, it's been going

on a while. And so there are four stages of decline that you can use as red flags and start to look in areas, again, of finances, relationships, relationships decline, results, health, and start to get a heads up to where, you know what, it hasn't shown up here yet, but I've gotten off track.

This is going to compound. The clock's going to strike

midnight. The grace period's going to be over. And I need to reverse the course now. This is about

looking reality, dead in the eye, and acting upon it with as much speed as you possibly can,

because we all know there is power in now. So first of all, let's talk about a

definition. All right. So decline. I love the definition of decline. It means to slope downward.

Now notice it doesn't say the plunge. If it were a plunge, you'd notice it. Like if you're up on a roller coaster and you get all the way to the top and it just plunge. If it were a plunge, you'd notice it. Like if you're up on a roller coaster and you get

all the way to the top and it just plunges down, you feel it. But you see, the danger of

decline is its subtlety. It's kind of sneaky. It's slow. It's this gradual slope. It's this rolling descent.

And just as though, you know, you don't become great in one fell swoop.

It's a lot of little things that get you there. You don't hit bottom

in one fell swoop either. You might think it was, well, that last decision that did me.

And I guarantee you, there are a lot of

things leading up to that last decision that set the stage. So again, this is the danger of decline.

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