Ep 576: Starting With Nothing With Mike Flores

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I guess if I was going to be honest and
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where we are at
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today and the opportunities and the
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technology and you know putting in some
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time this is an everyday effort you know
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if you really want to change your life
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and get that one deal that does change
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your life and it happens every day I see
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it happen every day and people get a
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deal and their life changes immediately
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they change who they are because they
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now believe that life isn't as hard as
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they thought it was but you got to put
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in the work you got to put in the time
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you got to be in there every day even if
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it's one of those busy days where you
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got to only can get in there 10 15 30
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minutes whatever but you got to be in
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there every single day how can a person
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uh like if they're not usually a normal
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schedule maker like if I if I know I
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need to invest 15 minutes a day you
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should just left it there pumping
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questions uh let's say so the person
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needs
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a a way for them to start to uh budget
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that time yeah right like I got a busy
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day I got kids I got a bunch of things
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going on
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um how do I where do I how do I get more
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time uh you sacrifice that's only thing
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I can tell you cuz I know everybody like
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with everything people I don't have time
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to work out it's like it's not that you
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don't have time you don't make time you
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got to make that time and you got to
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sacrifice whether you're watching TV or
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whatever it is you know that those extra
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15 minutes and you can squeeze they're
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always available you just got to find
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them you got to want them to you know
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but but I I work over 40 hours a week I
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got three kids you know just there's a
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lot going on I don't get the help that I
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need from my spouse um so I literally
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have no free time well uh I would
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suggest getting up 15 minutes early if
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you need to really steal those 15
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minutes get up 15 minutes early it's not
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going to kill you I guarantee you're
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actually going to like it cuz you're
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going to find that you find this quiet
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moment where nobody's bothering you and
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you have 15 minutes to do whatever the
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hell you want to do with them and that
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could be for work it could just be just
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to have silence but it goes a long way
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if you start waking up 15 minutes
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earlier you can always find 10 15
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minutes somewhere to squeeze whether you
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have kids whether you work 40 hours a
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week whether you're a full-time mom I
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understand it it's hard to find that
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time but you yourself have to sacrifice
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it make the time get a 15 minutes
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earlier try that for a week two or three
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times a week you'll see that you'll get
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so much done within just those 15
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minutes but you got to schedule it you
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got to you got to make promises to
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yourself too you know you got to make
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sure that you it's what you want to do
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nobody can make you do it and unless you
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really really want to do it you'll get
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up 15 minutes earlier and if you don't
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then you won't you know it's real simple
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nobody can make you you know Chase
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greatness it has to be a part of you I
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love those key points man like hey
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there's a way and maybe yeah if the
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madness starts at 5:30 a.m. get up at
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5:15 M right budget that time if
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somebody tells me they have absolutely
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no time in their day at all they have
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zero time no way I can make this happen
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it's just uh it's just not going to
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happen I just I have zero free time mhm
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what I want from that person is I want
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to audit your time I want you for 7 to
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14 days to write down what you do in
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15-minute blocks so from 7:45 to 8:15 I
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was driving the kids to school like I
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would like to see you document your time
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and you'd be shocked at how much time
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you people waste oh amen yeah take
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inventory of your time for sure yeah
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take inventory of your life in general
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and everything that doesn't add
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happiness
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or financial gains get rid of it cuz
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it's just it's space it's taking up
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space the people the people you talk to
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the music you listen to the things you
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watch on TV all of those things take up
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space in your mind that you really don't
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need and they don't really provide
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anything besides removing you from the
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reality of your life and I understand it
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cuz I love watching movies and I love
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you know just stopping my brain for a
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moment you know but at the same time I
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make time for what's important to me so
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if you really want to do this you really
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want to make some money you really want
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to change your life steal your time
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wherever you can get up early steal it
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from yourself from your sleep whatever
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you know why don't you talk about this
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Mike cuz I think this is something that
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people um grossly
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underestimate is the amount of volume of
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work you have to do to be
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successful um I believe in magic so I
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believe everybody has different levels
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of energy and some people are just
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really good at it and some people have
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to work really really hard to get to a
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second level
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so um
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really if I had to be honest with you I
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would say if you can give 30 minutes a
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day of actually marketing or responding
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to marketing or making phone calls 30
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minutes a day five times a week you'll
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find buyers daily but you have to at
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least 30 minutes man 30 minutes solid
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minutes a marketing a day responding to
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emails calling people code calling
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doesn't matter putting a post on
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Facebook
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5 10 15 minutes a day putting a post on
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Facebook making a real takes a couple
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minutes real simple to do putting
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something on Tik Tock creating an ad
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they all take 3 to four minutes you can
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do three or four of those a day and next
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thing you know you got 10 15 ads you
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have 40 50 messages coming in Daily and
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all you're doing is responding and
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weeding out the bad ones and finding the
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good ones and the ones who are almost
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there teaching them how to get to the
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next step but you have to be in there
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every single day you have to be it has
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to be a part of your life it has to be
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something you want to do cuz if not you
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get bored and you don't make any money
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for two or 3 weeks or 4 weeks or 6 weeks
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or two months and then you get sad and
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you quit n this doesn't work it only
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works if you work period you got to work
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why do people quit why do people quit
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because they don't believe in themselves
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they really they want to believe that
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they're great and they know that they're
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great but at some point they start
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doubting whether or not they are worthy
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of the greatness so they
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quit why how long you been doing this
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because I think a lot of people don't
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understand the time it takes to be
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successful let me tell you something
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about me I was a I was a procrastinator
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and you know I was very good at it and I
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was just kind of sliding through deal to
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next deal to the next deal to the next
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deal for the past 17 years and uh as you
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get older you realize that time is you
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know expensive more expensive every day
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so you start to value your time and
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start realizing well I ain't getting any
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younger I still don't have a million
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dollars in my bank account so I got to
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start moving my ass you know cuz that
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clock is ticking so I'm sorry what was
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the question did I go
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off oh I asked I asked how how long does
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it take to be successful cuz I think you
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have to have you have to work really
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really hard but people don't understand
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the time it takes cuz that's what I was
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thinking about like people think yeah
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I'm going to get rich in a year okay Mr
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belief system what are you doing about
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it real and now they're not
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understanding that you might have to go
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hard for the next 37 months M of getting
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very little to no deals and then all of
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a sudden you're a wiz your master for
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sure yeah I mean I would I would say
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easily two to three years of of solid
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grinding for you to get some real
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success but also at the same time
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there's people who get success in 20
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days 15 days 10 days you said it
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yourself it's 17 years before you got
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the mindset you have now yeah and now
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look at you it it took a lot of
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struggles for sure a lot of uh heartache
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a lot of Tears a lot of depression a lot
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of alcoholism you know we're being
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honest a lot of thinking that we're
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right right we think we're right in
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other people's ways are not and then
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it's just just listen and you open up
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and you're like Dam y that's actually
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great information you know happens
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you stop to think about your life and
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how to fix it and you start fixing it
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and little by little you fix one thing
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then you fix another you fix another you
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fix another and next thing you know
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you're a totally different person and
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then you start valuing your time and
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valuing who you spend your time with and
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who you listen to and who you talk to
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and who you spend time with daily and
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sometimes you're in an environment where
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you can't really control it but you can
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control what happens up here and you can
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limit your time with people if you
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really think about it so find quality
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people spend time with them and just
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freaking keep on going and next thing
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you know you'll be in a different world
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whether it be 12 months 24 months 36
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months at some point you're going to
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wake up with the smile on your face
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wondering holy what just happened
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because there's a bunch of Miracles that
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happen every day but if you don't look
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for happiness and joy you'll never find
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it if you don't look for Financial
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Freedom you'll never find it if you
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don't look for the right people to show
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you the way and give you a step bystep
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process on how to improve your life
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you'll never find it you have to search
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for it you have to look for it you have
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to think about it every single day and
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trust me those people will eventually
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show up in your life hey how about this
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in that in that uh same line of thinking
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why don't you talk about proximity
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proximity mhm like uh like being in
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contact with people that are doing deals
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that are do making the oh hell yeah dude
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100% I mean I never thought I could
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asked to borrow a million dollarss for
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somebody I like there's no no one's
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going to lend me $10 you're
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crazy like you know what I'm saying look
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at me I look like you're
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Gardener you wouldn't lend me $1,000 are
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you kidding me you know like you
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you but what are you doing here giving
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life information what's that like why
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are you doing here giving life
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information well well I mean it's easy
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man I I've I've struggled a lot dude
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I've struggled so much and it was all my
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fault no one else's not my environment
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not my parents not the people I hung
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around with it was me they were my
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choices I chose a struggle and at some
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point I realized that I deserve better
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and I deserve better of myself so I
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started doing better and that's it and
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you're still going to make mistakes
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along the way I made some new ones this
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year I wasn't very happy about but hey
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you know what you get back up and you
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keep going and don't look back either
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you've seen me fall in my face a couple
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of times what do I do he bro just
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get up and keep going that's it
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hey if you need to sit down for a little
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while sit down have a rest but get up
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and keep going it's time we get back up
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you know I tell people when things come
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apart it's not time to uh to slow down
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and think about it and get down on your
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luck cuz that's what I see people do mhm
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uh the correct way to do it is to
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immediately go back to work yeah
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immedately go back to work harder now
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you got to go faster cuz now you got to
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make up for that l so now it's not time
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to slow down like now you better work
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double what you were working MH and and
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and trust me you think oh I make a
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100,000 and I'm fine and that's all I
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ever have to do in my life no you got to
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make another 100,000 and another 100,000
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cuz you find somewhere to spend that and
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you it goes quickly too you know it's
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this isn't just oh I make a million
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dollars and I'm done this is just a game
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you're playing you know what you know
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what I do with my all my cash or what
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what I think is a a good spot for it
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seeds we just I just buy all my money in
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seeds yeah so I'm just planting seeds
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everywhere that's both like for social
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Equity helping people out doing things
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making things happen for other people
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for sure we call it making other people
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ow favors even though we would never
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call them on it sure we just want the
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whole planet to ow us one favor each hey
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you know what it's funny I can think of
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a lot of people that owe me favors cuz
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I've always given my time to people
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never never never asked anything back
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yeah you know like hey if you need help
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and you really want to let's sit down
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let's talk let's put together a plan
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good business model put together a plan
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man and you know what all you got to do
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is show up cuz I'll tell you one thing
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I've been thinking about a lot lately
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and it's one thing for somebody to say I
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love you and it's another thing for them
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to actually show you through actions and
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if you find people who show you through
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actions don't let go of them follow them
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and just keep on improving yourself and
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most importantly teach somebody else
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what they're teaching you cuz that's the
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way this works the more people you help
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the more you're going to help yourself
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the more you're going to advance your
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life so you know it's a gift you got to
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give it away damn another good way to
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put it man that's kind of like MLM
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Central right there that's like what the
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whole business model is based out of
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it's like each one teaches one right mhm
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and then from there I would say find two
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people to replace yourself and make get
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two people better than you and and once
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those two people are better than you
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then they can kind of stand in your
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shoes now and you can go do something
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else or work on a different part of your
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business or maybe strategizing whatever
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your strength is MHM so you know like
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this you and Daniel you know Finding you
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and Daniel you and Kyle Daniel and Kyle
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like I have a bunch of those now of
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little these little pockets of people
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that are going to be so so successful
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that it's going to be blinding and
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there's a lot of them now yeah so uh it
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makes me feel very happy about what
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we're doing in and it's not it's
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impossible the guru model goes hey buy
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my product and for $100,000 and I sell
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10 of them I made 10
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million okay but did anybody do deals
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right that's what I want to know first
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and foremost that do we make money doing
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deals yeah that's my first question
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that's why I don't like the guru stuff
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and the packages and the the thing we
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refunded somebody on that bought a high
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ticket recently I don't want that guy's
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money at all cuz I don't want have to
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answer that guy's phone call yeah I
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don't need your Guru money get take that
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and get out of here I'm doing deals
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right now mhm and I think that's
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something that we all don't appreciate
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is that we're fing we're doing a lot man
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we are doing the
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most I think uh a lot of people get
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caught up on self-doubt like even us too
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like we were working ours is off every
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day and I told you that day was like how
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can we increase sales and I was like
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well the only way to increase sales
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today that I can think of is to find
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somebody who's a better sales trainer
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than I am and put them in there you know
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what I'm saying
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like it's just build on that you know
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helping people take the next step I
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always wanted to make a video called why
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everybody should be a guru okay maybe
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I'm going to talk about it right
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now I want to shoot a video called uh
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why everyone should be a guru