Good morning and welcome to the Increased Reimpec Podcast. I'm Justin Sua. Episode 2200, I'm sorry,

2027. And today I want to read to you an excerpt called from Ross Ellenhorn. And he's talking about

helping yourself. A lot of times we will look for other people to save us to help us.

And don't get me wrong, there are a lot of people who can support us and who can help us,

but sometimes we don't take accountability for ourselves.

And this is what he says, quote, true self-help is just that, helping yourself.

It's an act of personal leadership and direction. It certainly

requires that you consider advice and contemplate the ideas of others. But being a sheep,

following the newest advice as if it will magically spur your change, is not engaging in

self-help. Instead, truly helping yourself requires that you

courageously grasp the shepherd's crook in your own fist on your own journey. In fact,

all of the behaviors you engage in life, changing is the one that most brings you face to face

with your sole responsibility to make your life work.

That's why change is an easier simple.

As you forge your own path, changing is often strenuous and can leave you vulnerable.

The act of even attempting change makes you repeatedly and uncomfortably aware that the success

and failure of your actions belongs to no one but yourself close quote i love that in a world where

we are constantly looking for that hack that silver, that one thing that's going to change

our lives. At the end of the day, it comes down to ourselves and executing. And many times it's

doing things that we already know we need to do. And so my invitation to you is to look into the mirror and ask yourself okay what what do you need to do

what do you need to start doing what do you need to stop doing what do you need to keep doing and

again it's going to be hard it's going to be uncomfortable but being able to look in the mirror

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