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Good morning and welcome to the episode.

Today's one of those fun ones for me, where I was headed up here to do the program,

and just before, I'm sipping my coffee at home, I open up social media on my laptop, and there's

this post by a friend of mine, Steve Wolfgang. He's referencing some material by a guy who passed

away in the 20th century named AW Tozer, and it just hit me. It's seven things, a checklist of self-discovery and awareness.

You can pick one or two of these things today. You can walk through all seven. Certainly,

I'll repeat them and also put them in the show notes, but it just derailed me. I needed to think

about these things. So I went and got a great workout in with a friend today,

Randall Miles, we had some lunch, and I came up here to this quiet place in the office to set aside whatever else I was working on, you'll probably hear that next week, and just talk to you

about this. I will tell you at the outset, self-discovery is a gift, but it is a dangerous gift,

learning what you're really thinking, what you really

want, what really matters. Those things can encourage you, but they also can humble you. But the

point today, in the end, is it's okay either way because you are genuinely understanding where you

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