Come on in. How's your day going? How's your week going? How's your life going?

That's a big aunt. That big question, isn't it? How's your life going? What? It's all big question isn't it how's your life going what it's

all right yeah i'm good really so victor frankl was having a pretty good life and he wrote a book called

man's search for meaning and we're going to just extract a little piece out of that and discuss

that today. Give you some perspective in life, certainly here in the past couple of weeks with

what's happening here in America and the world. A lot of people are questioning things.

So let's go back in time and find some support for that, okay? It is a daily boost from Motivation

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Every single day, get out of bed.

Stand up, take a separate feet, no matter what gets in the way. It's that simple, really, when you think about it. And then all the focus stuff and everything else comes into play. You guys are great. You're so successful. You know what you do. Sometimes it doesn't feel that way. Sometimes it doesn't. I will tell you. Can I share a story with you? I just in my brain had just a conversation come up from a listener I've had for many, many years. And he's been a member for a long time. And we've gotten together and had lunch a couple times. Every time he's in town, it's about once a year now. He stops in, hey, let's have some lunch. We stop and we do this. He may hear this today. I won't see his name, but he had cancer. And he was working through that, a very dark time. And he told me that. And I'm not thinking too much about it. I've been through the cancer thing with my wife. So I understand it. But in my job, I tend to just drive forward. But he says's got, stop a second, okay? You have no idea how dark and crazy things get sometimes for people out there. And then, and we find your podcast at 2 o'clock in the morning, and you get me through to 4 o'clock in the morning, and then I get some sleep and get up and do it again. This is amazing, really cool. So I know where you are. I know what's going on. we're all in it it so if you're in that place right now where you happen to have maybe a maybe the world's pressing on you a little bit today and it is i mean it's 50% doesn't matter i don't know what side i'm the problem with me i live right in the middle that's the problem so i'm getting hammered by everybody everything i'm just right in the middle kind of guy. It can be tough.

And say you're not, say you're just soaring and life is great and you're pushing really,

really hard to get what you want.

It's awesome, but you still can feel kind of lonely and it can be kind of weird out there.

I get it.

I get it.

So I got you back here.

Best I can.

Best I can do. Let's talk about chasing success in Victor Franco. The book was Man Search for Meaning. It's one of the books that I read it every couple of years. It's a very old book. A friend gave you to me. And amazing, the friend gave you to me that he moved away. And he got a divorce and things like that. And I never heard from him again.

We're talking 20 years now.

It's like, a really good friend.

He just disappeared.

And it disappeared from everybody. Not just me, by the way. But he came to this book. And I keep the book. It reminds me of a guy who was thinking of what I was doing at the time and gave me something that would help me. And I just, every few years I read it. Let me give a passage from this,

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