Welcome to the Game Filliard Your Life. I'm Dave Anderson. In this episode, I want to talk about the power of a pruning mindset.

Pruning. If you've ever pruned a rose bush,

pruned out in the garden, fine-tuned your landscaping, you know what I'm talking about?

If you look up the definition of prune or pruning, it talks about to remove what is undesirable

in order to make room for growth. That's really what you're doing when you're pruning that bush, right? You're removing what's undesirable in order to make room for growth. That's really what you're doing when you're

pruning that bush, right? You're removing what's undesirable. So, you know, what's, what is desirable

has room to grow and flourish and reach its potential. Well, when we start to prune our mindset,

when we start to prune our daily activities, where we spend our time and so forth,

it's not quite as cotton dry as pruning in the garden. We just don't remove stuff. That is one of the

three options. But we're going to talk in this episode about three different options. Realign,

revitalize, or remove what is less than optimal. in order to optimize it, and so we can get the

most out of it, which is what the game changer life is all about. In fact, if you think about it,

when you look at the eight key traits that we talk about in all these episodes, you know,

the traits that the game changer is more consistently bringing to whatever they do than the playmaker, the caretaker, or that undertaker

at the bottom. You're familiar with the four groups. I write about it in my book Unstoppable.

We talk about it in every one of these episodes. When you talk about those eight traits,

in order to bring more energy and things like enthusiasm to maintain the right attitude, there are undoubtedly things

you're going to have to prune that are less than optimal that are getting in the way of

your enthusiasm or the right attitude or misplaced efforts, right? Or that are draining your

passion. There's things you're going to need to realign, revitalize, or remove from your daily activities,

your daily routine, however it's set up, in order to reach maximum results. And I'll tell you,

pruning is a wonderful mindset. Pruning is about efficiency. Again, if you're taking what's

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