The I'm Ryan Nidell, host of 15 minutes to freedom, your daily action guide on how to get shit done.

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Speaking of that, today's episode is entitled,

Are you an anchor or an engine?

In today's episode, I'm going to share with you why it's so impactful to really make a determination on what you want to be in life.

Are you going to propel people forwards or are you going to hold them in their current place?

So I sit down and take real stock of my life.

It's not comfortable.

Like it, admittedly it sucks. It sucks to share with you the stories of the lying and the cheating and the infidelity

and the failed businesses and all the stuff that I've shared.

If you're a first-time listener, I've got a bunch of content out there now about all the

dumb decisions I've made. And there has been more than a hundred because I'm on episode one something and every one of them

had a dumbass thing that I did.

But what's crazy is that's not really what's so hard about looking backwards for me.

Like, those things that I did were lack of judgment, lack of character, lack of integrity.

Some of them were malicious and intent, but I could have justified a way and can now at least rationalize why I did what I did. Doesn't make it right, certainly doesn't make

it okay. By no means am I trying to explain it away, but what happened happened

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