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What is up guys and welcome back to Working Hard. It's time for another Thursday bonus episode, and I really hope you're listening to this on the day it goes live, because today is the 7th of August, and tomorrow is the 8th of August. And no, I'm not just telling you the date. This is actually very, very relevant to today's episode. So if you subscribe to the Working Hard newsletter, you'll have heard me speak about this. But today, we are getting into the one exercise that I do every year that has truly changed my life, both how I set goals, but also how I reach goals, I would say. So let's get into it, because this is important. And you need to clear some dime in your diary to do it on August 8th. So first things first, I want to start by saying that I do not generally identify as woo-woo. And I've said this a lot on the podcast before. And I don't mean to say that in any way to discount different things that different people believe in. I think it's just important context when looking at how I approach something like this. So I'm generally not a super spiritual person. I don't know. I typically haven't responded like that well to manifesting type content in the past. I'm definitely quite a big realist. And I think that manifesting is hugely, hugely helpful, but I think the type of manifesting that is hugely helpful is manifesting that is backed by you actually taking action and putting yourself in the right headspace to be taking the right action, etc, etc. Like I do not believe in a type of manifesting that's just like wishing on a star. So all that is to say that this episode is going to mention like portals and manifesting. As I said, I'm just like not someone who's naturally believed in manifesting in

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