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Hello, my level up family. I am, as always, so excited and so grateful to be with all of you today.

I, right now, I'm reading a book for a book club that I do with my team.

Now, I've read this book a few times before, and it's called Pound the Stone by Joshua Medcalf. And in this book, it talks about seven lessons

to develop grit on the pathway to mastery. So just the title alone is like really good. And I

definitely highly recommend it. Now, one of the chapters in this book is called Cut the Ropes.

And so in this chapter, it tells like a lot of stories.

And through those stories, I was able to, what I do on my book club is I read like a chapter.

Everybody reads the chapter.

And then I take that chapter.

And then it's like, how does it apply to the business that we build? And then how can they take that, you know, action steps to grow their

business? So it's not just a summary of the book. And what I love so much about the book is,

just a lot of different stories that you could connect to whatever it is that you do for a living.

So when we're looking at this chapter

called Cut the Ropes, it's all about limiting beliefs, which we've talked about many,

many times, and how we create, how limiting beliefs are created at a very young age that we

carry with us throughout our life. So we talk about belief all the time. And here's the thing

about belief. We operate at our belief level. We speak at our belief level. We ask at our belief level. We

set goals at our belief level. We take action at our belief level. And that is why belief is so

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