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Here's your success mentor Darren Hardy.

This morning I'm going to take another one of your questions and in the attempt to share something that can help us all become just a little bit better every day.

So this question comes in from Eddie who writes, how do you keep that

burning desire? How do you do revolutionary work when the immediate environment

around us is one of indifference which promotes nothing but small and

mediocre life and expects you to do the same.

Okay, Eddie, and everybody else. I'm going to start where we ended yesterday with the principle, mindset, and personal philosophy of having complete 100% self-responsibility.

No one can make you feel a certain way without your approval.

Only you decide how you feel.

Your action is your responsibility and your reaction is also your

responsibility. And if you are waiting for the world and the environment around you to fire

you up, you're in big trouble. Big time.

Likewise, their indifference or small and mediocre expectations have nothing to do with you and yours.

Zero. Once you fully grasp this understanding, you will be set free. Write this down, Eddie, and everybody else. You can be in this world, but not of this world. Have you ever fished out in the ocean and caught something and then brought it home and barbecued it up?

Now in order for it to taste good, you have to sprinkle what on it?

Yeah, salt.

What? How could something that spent its entire life in

salt water not be salty? Because even though it was in salt water

constantly and always surrounded by nothing but salt water.

It did not absorb it. It was in it but did not become of it.

You see? That is the way you want to live your life like a fish gliding through salt water using observing and enjoying the world around you but not absorbing it

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