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One of the first things I want you to begin to do right now is to take a brave look at your life.

Look at your life right now where it is.

So let me ask you some questions.

As you begin to look out on the future, look out on this year, let's take personal inventory.

What has brought you here?

As you begin to look at the things that took place this past year,

did you get out of it what you wanted? Did you achieve the goals that you set out to achieve?

What part of your life or what things that you do that you don't want to be a part of your life?

Are there any people as you begin to look at your life and look at where you want to go and what

you want to do are there any people that might be some dead weight that you need to think about

unloading because what you have found through that relationship that it's more toxic than it is nourishing,

it's more debilitating than it is empowering, and so now you've got to make a decision.

See, many of us won't be able to move forward because we're not taking true inventory of our lives.

As you begin to look at your emotional, your spiritual and intellectual development,

how many books did you read, how many seminars did you attend, how many classes that you

take to begin to develop yourself professionally, to improve your craft or your skill?

How many new things that you learn? Just take some personal inventory, just thinking, just thinking,

just thinking, beginning to know yourself. What are the things about your past that has influenced you right now?

What's your philosophy of life? What are your beliefs, things that you feel very strongly about?

What are some of the things that you have picked up along the way that you've been doing them for so long you think that they're you,

that you need to begin to re-examine them and perhaps get them out of your life?

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