Hey everybody welcome back to another episode of the Dream Big

podcast with Bob Gaffin friends this is the co-host Scott Schimmel I'm here with Bob Gough.

Hey everybody I hope it's been just a terrific week it's been a kind of a crazy busy one for me

so it was so fun to find a wide spot in the road to pull aside and talk to a friend.

Well Bob we've been going through this framework of Dreaming Big, declaring your big ambition, working through the process, and last month

we were talking about expecting setbacks and it occurs to me for most people there's kind of

two options when they have setbacks. One is just give up like oh that's

not going to work or the other one is just keep going but I think there's actually a third

option and that's to actually allow those setbacks to inform why you're doing a chance to pause and reflect.

Is this the right call? Is this the right thing that I'm up to?

Yeah, you know, there's, uh, if you drive a car that's standard, not automatic, there's three pedals.

Yeah. You got the gas, the brake, and the clutch. And so sometimes it's just knowing which pedal to hit.

Sometimes we hit a setback when you like

it's skid marks to a stop.

And indeed, there are times in life

where you just ought to stop doing whatever you're doing

that's creating problems.

There's other times you just need to hit the gas and keep moving forward and all that.

You don't need to floor the gas and just burn rubber and make lots of noise and all that to deal with your

insecurities.

But a third option in this idea of a sustaining belief

is to just put the clutch in and to say,

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