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🗓️ 25 February 2019
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0:00.0 | Some people just lack the patience. You know, you get involved in your |
0:03.8 | profession, you get involved in your business, you get involved in a |
0:06.2 | relationship, you you make a decision about your health and vitality, and what |
0:09.8 | does the average person do? They go for three or four days and then they quit. |
0:13.2 | Look at all the studies. |
0:14.3 | Google right now, what is the number of people in my country that set a goal |
0:19.2 | over the New Year's with this big expectation to transform their life and the average person after 30 days |
0:25.8 | is already out. Why? We lack the patience. We like the discipline just to follow |
0:31.8 | through. It's like it's the old tortoise versus the hair, right? |
0:35.2 | It's super easy to go get new running clothes and all your gear and sign up for a gym |
0:39.3 | and race off like the rabbit and be in that frantic excited turned on space but who wins the |
0:44.8 | race the tortoise who just plots along and just keeps doing the thing day in and |
0:49.8 | day out that's who wins think about it in your own life. Where have you been the hair, |
0:55.1 | the rabbit? You're just frantically racing like I gotta do it all and I gotta do it now. |
1:00.5 | And where in your life have you been more patient? |
1:03.0 | Where have you been more of a tortoise, |
1:04.4 | where you're just taking the time to do it right, |
1:07.6 | day in and day out. |
1:09.4 | We both know which one gets the better result. |
1:11.8 | My point to you is this, you got to be patient. You got to be |
1:15.4 | patient with the things that are meaningful in your life, the stuff that really matters always |
1:20.6 | takes time. My step-mom used to tell me all the time in the first decade of my business. |
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