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Welcome back. I'm so glad you've joined today. I believe this next 20 minutes can set you up better for goal achievement next year than in any previous year of your life. I assure you that comment has nothing to do with me or my personal wisdom,

but I have been listening to an audiobook by a man named Lanny Bassam, an Olympic gold medalist and national champion in rifle

shooting. His book is titled With Winning in Mind. He explores this incredible internal idea

that if you get your mind right, if your mental focus and process is sound, you can achieve

incredible things. But there are just so many mistakes that we make that I have made so many

times where we are so focused on our desire for that goal that we never achieve it. If we always

have winning on our minds, we rarely will win. I am certain and can prove it in my own life

that if you and I can explore that today and understand where the focus is supposed to be instead in terms of the

process, in terms of the smaller pieces between here and where you want to be, you can get there.

I'm so convinced about this that I'm putting this episode out in early December instead of

early January. One, because the

results are already coming to pass in my life, and I want to tell you about that now. And two,

let's not start the right thing at the beginning of next year. Let's start now, and we can turn

over the calendar already in stride, already logging

mental and actual progress, and that will create a tremendous amount of optimism, knowing that you

already have a great head start towards your best year ever. So what I'm going to do today is share with you the main

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