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Jan. 16, 2024
How To Stay Locked In On Your Vision
Focus is the key to victory. Avoiding distractions is the key to your success as a leader. This episode will help you avoid the pitfalls that keep so many people from achieving. When you stay locked in great things happen and they will begin now.
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Welcome to the Next Level Leaders Podcast.
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We, Dr. Joseph Walker, this podcast is designed to offer
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strategies in moving vision to reality.
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Leaders can expect to be mentored, inspired,
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challenged to succeed at the next level.
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So prepare to be exposed, empowered, and equipped for
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excellence.
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Thank you for connecting and allowing this space to become
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an opportunity for growth and collaborative learning.
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Now, let's go on this journey together and spark the change
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we wish to see in ourselves, our team, and the world.
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Hi, I'm Dr. Joseph Walker, and thank you so much for tuning
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Today, got a great topic for you.
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How to stay locked in on your vision.
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You already know, as you begin this year, as you move forward,
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it's gonna be important.
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The vision you have comes to fruition.
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The foundation of this message today is for you not
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to forgo, to hinder, and certainly not to eradicate
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the manifestation of your vision.
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How do you stay locked in?
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How do you continue to move forward with precision
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to make certain that you are completely focused
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on your vision coming to fruition?
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I'm gonna give you a few things to consider,
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and perhaps as you consider these things,
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you'll see how significant your vision is
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and why it's important to protect it at all costs.
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The first thing I wanna tell you is how to eliminate
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distractions.
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Let's put that out there right now.
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Eliminating distractions is so important, right?
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Because there are a lot of people who don't realize
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that the reason that they cannot manifest their vision
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is because they're all over the place.
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You've gotta be mindful of time gremlins.
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You gotta be mindful of all the things that have nothing
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to do with your vision.
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You get distracted by reverie or partying.
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You get distracted by negative comments.
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You get distracted by social media.
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When you get locked in, you gotta be focused.
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I want you to hear this.
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Keep your eye on the goalpost.
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Keep your eye on where you're going.
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Don't look to the left and look to the right,
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but make certain that you surround yourself with people
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who can keep you away from distractions.
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One of the things that's important to do,
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particularly now, is to begin thinking about
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how do I release myself from things that distract me?
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How do I carve out time in my day
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where I put my phone on do not disturb?
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How do I create an opportunity where I have moments
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where I listen to social media and watch it,
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but not throughout the day?
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I block out time to do that.
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How do I carve out this time where I am locked in
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on my vision?
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When I'm locked in, everybody understands that.
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You're not creating a culture by which people don't bother me
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because they know during this time, I'm completely locked in.
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That's what matters.
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So I want you to eliminate distractions,
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get them out of your way.
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And the second thing I want you to do
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is I want you to improve and increase your devotional life.
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See, staying locked in is about a spiritual focus.
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If you begin thinking about your devotional life
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and really increasing that, you'd be amazed
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at the dividends that will pay for your life.
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One of the very practical things I do
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is I get up in the morning at about 4.45.
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I go to the gym at 5.
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And I'm at the gym and I have my devotion going.
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I turn the television on YouTube and I go right to a service
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or a word or worship.
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And I'm locked in.
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I'll put my Bible or something on my elliptical
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and I'll read text.
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I'll read my iPad and I'll read what God wants to say to me.
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I'll pray when I get off of my treadmill,
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of my elliptical, I'll sit down, I'll read,
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I'll talk to God before I start lifting.
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You see, I integrate these things together
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so that my devotional life remains consistent.
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If you allow time to get away from you,
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you'll look up and it'll be days since you prayed,
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days since you read the word.
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I just believe you got to find the space every single day
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that keeps you focused.
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When I lock in on my devotional life and increase that,
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my day is more focused.
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I feel more robust.
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I feel more energized to go and achieve what's ahead of me.
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I want you to work on improving that
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and increasing your devotional life,
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your prayer life, your time in the word.
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I've given you a lot of, I mean, a lot of content to do that.
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You can go to the Mount Zion YouTube page.
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There are deeper dive Bible studies there.
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There's Sunday morning messages there.
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I mean, you can go to our Life by Journey, our Truth
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and listen to Dr. Stephani's YouTube page,
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20 minutes while you're working out.
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I mean, it's a lot of content out there
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that we're giving you absolutely free for you to just go
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and build your devotional life
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and hear what God may be saying to you.
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The third thing I want you to remember is
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to read every single day.
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Now, one of the things that I've done,
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let me tell you, I've learned this
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and I have to give a big shout out to my friend
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and mentor Oprah for really pushing me in this area.
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You know, to try to read 50 books, 50 books a year.
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It's something that I'm really committed to
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because the more I read, my vocabulary gets better,
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my mind gets sharper and I stay more focused.
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I can read a chapter two a day,
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sometimes three or four chapters a day
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and boy, it just ignites my passion.
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It gets me focused back on the assignment.
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I want you to understand something.
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Leaders are readers.
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And when you learn how to read content,
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you learn how to read things that can keep your mind sharp,
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it can inspire you to go and lock in
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and focus on your vision.
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You'd be amazed at how that will work.
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I've always found out that when I put myself in that space,
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man, when I get myself a good cup of coffee
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and I again, give me a good book
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and I start reading something that challenges me,
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that helps me see what I didn't see,
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regarding my organization, regarding my vision.
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Man, it makes me energized.
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I can't wait to like put that book down and go get it.
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I feel like let's make it happen.
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The tools that I get, the principles I get from reading,
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I can't wait to apply those to my current situation.
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So read every single day.
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Make a list, start today.
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Say, you know, I'm gonna make a quarterly list
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of books that I want to read.
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Every quarter, I'm gonna put down the books
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that I wanna read.
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And I hope you include some of mine,
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like leadership and loneliness,
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or Restore That The Root, or No Opportunity Wasted.
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All those books are available.
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Go out there and get them at josephwalker3.org
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and we'll send them to you.
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I just want you to make certain that you are reading.
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Get them on Amazon as well.
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Get them anywhere, books or so.
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I promise you, it will be a blessing to you.
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Here's number four.
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Make it measurable and track its progress.
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When you're locked in on your vision,
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you have to make certain that every move you make
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is measurable and you have to track the progress.
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One of the things we did in our organization
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is that I began talking to my staff and my team
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about how do we measure success?
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So that's a great deal of intentionality.
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I did this on the international level
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as well as the local level.
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And I challenged leaders and sometimes it's counterintuitive.
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People don't necessarily think about this
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because they use vague terms as,
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oh, we're doing well, things are moving along.
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But when you challenge people toward metrics,
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toward really identifying measurables and tracking progress,
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it really holds them accountable.
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It allows you to stay focused in on where the deficits are.
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For example, you look at your vision and you say,
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I want to see growth in this particular area.
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You have an honest conversation about where you are.
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And if you're at level two
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and you're trying to get to level seven
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by a certain amount of time, you keep measuring that.
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Are you trending in that direction
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after three or four months or are you static?
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These are the kinds of things that help any leader,
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any organization look critically at what you're trying to do.
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And it helps you achieve it
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because you develop an accountability structure around you
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that they know that every single thing we do,
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we are using metrics to make it happen.
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This is so very, very important.
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So I want you to really think about that.
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Think about how to use measurables
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and how to track your progress.
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Numbers don't lie.
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If you keep that at the forefront,
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you're constantly watching the data.
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It helps motivate you to say,
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I can do better in this area,
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more of the same in this area.
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I see we're moving in the right direction.
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That's why great leaders focus on data
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because that's what can help you get to the next level.
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Here's the thing.
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Number five, and this is a big one.
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I've talked about it, I did a whole podcast on it,
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but I want to talk about it here, avoiding burnout.
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Now, staying locked in has a lot to do
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with you being refreshed,
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you taking care of yourself, your mind,
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your body, your spirit.
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It has a lot to do with you not allowing yourself
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to run ragged.
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Many people who get distracted,
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who become lethargic,
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sometimes they fall by the wayside
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in terms of their vision,
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it's because they're tired, they're burnout,
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they lack energy and passion.
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I have seen this so many times
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and you have to own that.
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Am I burnt out?
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Have I taken on too much?
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Have I not allowed myself to make a cessation from my work
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and I've just constantly burned the candle at both ends
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without stepping away?
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It is said that if you do not come apart,
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you will come apart.
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to begin to consider ways in which we can truly,
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truly, truly prevent burnout.
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I think it's important, one,
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to stay in your original assignment,
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to never go outside of what God called you to do.
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because they are good things to do,
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but they may not be God things.
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with the original assignment.
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you gotta admit that no is an answer.
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You can't let people run your ragged,
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pulling you in so many directions
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and you are so emotionally impacted
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by their feelings when you say no.
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You have got to learn the power of no.
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that you put boundaries around you.
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Boundaries that people do not encroach upon the time
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in which you are vacationing.
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To vacate means to vacate.
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Sometimes you're on vacation and you're still answering
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emails, you're still doing this and that.
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or you can truly be away and really get poured into.
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always make certain that you have something
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pouring into you.
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You're an empty cup and you got to be filled back up.
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You can't as a leader constantly pour out
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and nothing is pouring back into you.
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So what's important?
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Let's avoid burnout.
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Let's declare that in 2024,
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there will be no burnout in my life.
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And I am going to proceed, locked in on my vision,
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making good decisions, taking vacations,
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making certain I have good boundaries
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and learning the power to say,
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no, I'm gonna make certain I keep the original assignment
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at the forefront of everything I do
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and remain locked in on that.
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Here's the deal.
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Number six is surround yourself with innovative people.
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One of the things that helps me stay locked in
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on my vision, man, is that I've got people around me
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that are just smart, flat out smart.
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You need innovative and creative people
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that can constantly push the envelope,
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that can look at where you are, challenging you
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to take it to another level, always bringing fresh ideas.
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You don't want people constantly just keeping the system
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the way it is, just aiding and abetting complacency.
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What new ideas, what new suggestions
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are the people around you bringing to help make you better?
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Sometimes people are just facilitating what is normal.
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They're facilitating what they're comfortable doing,
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but you need people that are innovative enough
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and creative enough to say, hey, we can be doing much more.
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That's what keeps you focused on the vision.
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How can we get better here?
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Thank you for introducing me to that concept,
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that way of doing things.
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And boy, when you do that, you realize
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there's a lot of stuff out there
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that will enhance your vision, that will keep you relevant,
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that will keep you sustained to make certain
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that you are consistently moving forward
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in the manifestation of your vision.
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All right, so before we go to number seven,
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let me go back and review.
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And of course, I hope that you're locked in on this
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as we talk about being locked in on your vision.
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We talk first of all about how to eliminate these distractions.
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And we all know we have these distractions,
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these things that pull at us.
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We gotta make certain that we carve out time
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to focus on our vision, eliminating distractions,
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turning off the phone or putting it on silent mode
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or do not disturb.
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We gotta have specific time throughout the day
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in which we carve out to do those recreational things
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like social media or what have you.
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But we've got to make certain that we create a culture
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where we are absolutely locked in
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and we have eliminated these distractions.
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And then we're gonna improve
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and increase our devotional life.
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We're gonna really find scriptures
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and get us a Bible reading plan.
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We're gonna learn to power devotion,
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spending time in the presence of God,
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maybe integrating it into something you do every single day
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to make it easier for you to actually do it.
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I mentioned that I do it working out.
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It makes it so much easier
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because I'm taking care of my body while my soul
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at the same time.
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Number three is read every day.
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Leaders, let's read, man.
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There's so many great books out there
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and I encourage you to find great books.
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Try to read as many books as you can.
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This year I'm committing myself to reading 50 books.
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I know they're 52 weeks in a year,
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but boy, I'm so committed to reading 50 books this year
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because I know the more I read, the better I get.
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And then number four,
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make whatever you do measurable and track its progress.
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Make sure that whatever vision you put out there,
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whatever thing you're trying to do, teach your team,
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we are measuring this.
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Where are we?
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Where we're trying to go?
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And how are we progressing?
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These things will help you stay locked in
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because the conversations will be around,
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the facilitation and manifestation of your vision.
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Therefore, we avoid burnout,
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meaning that we don't carry all this stuff ourselves.
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We learn to step away.
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We create a powerful team that can hold things down.
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You don't micromanage, but you constantly stay locked in.
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So I want to make certain that you are taking vacations,
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taking care of yourself,
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taking your hand off of things
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so that you can get poured into.
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Two milliliters out there are burnout.
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When you burn out, you lose passion,
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you lose creativity.
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So here's the deal.
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Number six, surround yourself with innovative people.
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Don't be intimidated by this.
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Please don't.
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Don't be intimidated by all these brilliant
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and bright people around you.
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That's what I love to have around me.
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I travel with them.
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They talk to me.
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I meet in Starbucks.
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I just love being surrounded by people
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that have great ideas to do amazing things.
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And so I just want you to do that.
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And then number seven, finally,
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I want you to create a daily regimen.
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Like create a pattern.
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Create something that you do.
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Like I do this every day.
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Like I know by clockwork, I'm up at 4.45
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because I go to bed at 9.30, 10 o'clock.
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I'm up at 4.45.
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I'm in the gym at five, you know?
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By six, I'm eating breakfast,
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taking my kids to school.
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By eight o'clock, I'm in Starbucks.
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I'm locked in for two or three hours doing things,
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catching up on stuff.
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I'm doing meetings at the office.
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I'm doing these things.
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And by two o'clock, I'm done.
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It's a regimen for me.
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And when you stay locked in,
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if you don't have a regimen,
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you don't have a to-do list,
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you don't have a system.
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Again, I quote James Clear,
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a telling habits.
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If you do not rise to the level of your goals,
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you fall to the level of your systems.
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What is your system of operation?
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What is your regimen?
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You need a daily regimen.
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So I hope this has blessed you.
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I really do.
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And I really hope you stay locked in.
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We're waiting on this vision.
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You have to come to fruition.
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You gotta be focused.
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We wanna see it come to pass.
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Thank you for tuning in today
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This has been a tremendous blessing.
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And I believe there is a next Level Leader inside of you
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waiting to emerge.
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Thank you for tuning in.
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And I pray God's richest blessings be upon you,
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be upon yours until we meet again.
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Welcome to the Next Level Leaders Podcast.
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We, Dr. Joseph Walker, this podcast is designed to offer
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strategies in moving vision to reality.
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Leaders can expect to be mentored, inspired,
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So prepare to be exposed, empowered, and equipped for
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Thank you for connecting and allowing this space to become
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Now, let's go on this journey together and spark the change
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we wish to see in ourselves, our team, and the world.
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Hi, I'm Dr. Joseph Walker, and thank you so much for tuning
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This is the place we come every single week to grow,
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to receive knowledge that leaders enjoy receiving.
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Iron sharpens iron.
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We believe every single week as we come together and hear
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strategies and share ideas, this is the place where leaders
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Today, got a great topic for you.
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How to stay locked in on your vision.
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You already know, as you begin this year, as you move forward,
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it's gonna be important.
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The vision you have comes to fruition.
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The foundation of this message today is for you not
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to forgo, to hinder, and certainly not to eradicate
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the manifestation of your vision.
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How do you stay locked in?
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How do you continue to move forward with precision
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to make certain that you are completely focused
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on your vision coming to fruition?
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I'm gonna give you a few things to consider,
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and perhaps as you consider these things,
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you'll see how significant your vision is
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and why it's important to protect it at all costs.
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The first thing I wanna tell you is how to eliminate
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distractions.
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Let's put that out there right now.
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Eliminating distractions is so important, right?
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Because there are a lot of people who don't realize
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that the reason that they cannot manifest their vision
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is because they're all over the place.
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You've gotta be mindful of time gremlins.
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You gotta be mindful of all the things that have nothing
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You get distracted by reverie or partying.
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You get distracted by negative comments.
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You get distracted by social media.
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When you get locked in, you gotta be focused.
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I want you to hear this.
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Keep your eye on the goalpost.
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Keep your eye on where you're going.
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Don't look to the left and look to the right,
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but make certain that you surround yourself with people
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who can keep you away from distractions.
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One of the things that's important to do,
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particularly now, is to begin thinking about
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how do I release myself from things that distract me?
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How do I carve out time in my day
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where I put my phone on do not disturb?
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How do I create an opportunity where I have moments
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where I listen to social media and watch it,
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but not throughout the day?
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I block out time to do that.
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How do I carve out this time where I am locked in
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on my vision?
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When I'm locked in, everybody understands that.
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You're not creating a culture by which people don't bother me
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because they know during this time, I'm completely locked in.
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That's what matters.
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So I want you to eliminate distractions,
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get them out of your way.
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is I want you to improve and increase your devotional life.
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See, staying locked in is about a spiritual focus.
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If you begin thinking about your devotional life
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and really increasing that, you'd be amazed
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at the dividends that will pay for your life.
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One of the very practical things I do
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is I get up in the morning at about 4.45.
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I go to the gym at 5.
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I turn the television on YouTube and I go right to a service
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or a word or worship.
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I'll put my Bible or something on my elliptical
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and I'll read text.
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I'll read my iPad and I'll read what God wants to say to me.
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I'll pray when I get off of my treadmill,
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of my elliptical, I'll sit down, I'll read,
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I'll talk to God before I start lifting.
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so that my devotional life remains consistent.
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If you allow time to get away from you,
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you'll look up and it'll be days since you prayed,
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days since you read the word.
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I just believe you got to find the space every single day
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that keeps you focused.
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When I lock in on my devotional life and increase that,
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my day is more focused.
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I feel more robust.
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I feel more energized to go and achieve what's ahead of me.
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I want you to work on improving that
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and increasing your devotional life,
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your prayer life, your time in the word.
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I've given you a lot of, I mean, a lot of content to do that.
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You can go to the Mount Zion YouTube page.
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There are deeper dive Bible studies there.
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There's Sunday morning messages there.
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I mean, you can go to our Life by Journey, our Truth
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and listen to Dr. Stephani's YouTube page,
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20 minutes while you're working out.
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that we're giving you absolutely free for you to just go
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and build your devotional life
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and hear what God may be saying to you.
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The third thing I want you to remember is
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to read every single day.
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let me tell you, I've learned this
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and I have to give a big shout out to my friend
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and mentor Oprah for really pushing me in this area.
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You know, to try to read 50 books, 50 books a year.
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because the more I read, my vocabulary gets better,
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my mind gets sharper and I stay more focused.
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I can read a chapter two a day,
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sometimes three or four chapters a day
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and boy, it just ignites my passion.
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It gets me focused back on the assignment.
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I want you to understand something.
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Leaders are readers.
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you learn how to read things that can keep your mind sharp,
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it can inspire you to go and lock in
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and focus on your vision.
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You'd be amazed at how that will work.
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I've always found out that when I put myself in that space,
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man, when I get myself a good cup of coffee
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and I again, give me a good book
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and I start reading something that challenges me,
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that helps me see what I didn't see,
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regarding my organization, regarding my vision.
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Man, it makes me energized.
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I can't wait to like put that book down and go get it.
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I feel like let's make it happen.
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The tools that I get, the principles I get from reading,
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I can't wait to apply those to my current situation.
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So read every single day.
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Make a list, start today.
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Say, you know, I'm gonna make a quarterly list
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of books that I want to read.
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Every quarter, I'm gonna put down the books
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that I wanna read.
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And I hope you include some of mine,
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like leadership and loneliness,
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or Restore That The Root, or No Opportunity Wasted.
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All those books are available.
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Go out there and get them at josephwalker3.org
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and we'll send them to you.
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I just want you to make certain that you are reading.
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Get them on Amazon as well.
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Get them anywhere, books or so.
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I promise you, it will be a blessing to you.
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Here's number four.
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Make it measurable and track its progress.
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When you're locked in on your vision,
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you have to make certain that every move you make
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is measurable and you have to track the progress.
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is that I began talking to my staff and my team
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about how do we measure success?
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I did this on the international level
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as well as the local level.
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People don't necessarily think about this
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because they use vague terms as,
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oh, we're doing well, things are moving along.
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toward really identifying measurables and tracking progress,
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it really holds them accountable.
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It allows you to stay focused in on where the deficits are.
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For example, you look at your vision and you say,
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I want to see growth in this particular area.
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You have an honest conversation about where you are.
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and you're trying to get to level seven
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by a certain amount of time, you keep measuring that.
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Are you trending in that direction
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after three or four months or are you static?
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any organization look critically at what you're trying to do.
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because you develop an accountability structure around you
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that they know that every single thing we do,
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we are using metrics to make it happen.
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This is so very, very important.
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Think about how to use measurables
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and how to track your progress.
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Numbers don't lie.
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If you keep that at the forefront,
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you're constantly watching the data.
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It helps motivate you to say,
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I can do better in this area,
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more of the same in this area.
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I see we're moving in the right direction.
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That's why great leaders focus on data
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because that's what can help you get to the next level.
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Here's the thing.
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Number five, and this is a big one.
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I've talked about it, I did a whole podcast on it,
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but I want to talk about it here, avoiding burnout.
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Now, staying locked in has a lot to do
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with you being refreshed,
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you taking care of yourself, your mind,
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your body, your spirit.
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It has a lot to do with you not allowing yourself
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to run ragged.
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Many people who get distracted,
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who become lethargic,
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sometimes they fall by the wayside
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in terms of their vision,
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it's because they're tired, they're burnout,
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they lack energy and passion.
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I have seen this so many times
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and you have to own that.
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Am I burnt out?
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Have I taken on too much?
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Have I not allowed myself to make a cessation from my work
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and I've just constantly burned the candle at both ends
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without stepping away?
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It is said that if you do not come apart,
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you will come apart.
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to begin to consider ways in which we can truly,
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truly, truly prevent burnout.
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I think it's important, one,
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to stay in your original assignment,
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to never go outside of what God called you to do.
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because they are good things to do,
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but they may not be God things.
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with the original assignment.
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you gotta admit that no is an answer.
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You can't let people run your ragged,
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pulling you in so many directions
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and you are so emotionally impacted
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by their feelings when you say no.
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You have got to learn the power of no.
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that you put boundaries around you.
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Boundaries that people do not encroach upon the time
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in which you are vacationing.
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To vacate means to vacate.
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Sometimes you're on vacation and you're still answering
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emails, you're still doing this and that.
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You gotta learn how to create a system
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or you can truly be away and really get poured into.
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And I think number four, while you're away,
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always make certain that you have something
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pouring into you.
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You're an empty cup and you got to be filled back up.
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You can't as a leader constantly pour out
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and nothing is pouring back into you.
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So what's important?
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Let's avoid burnout.
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Let's declare that in 2024,
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there will be no burnout in my life.
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And I am going to proceed, locked in on my vision,
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making good decisions, taking vacations,
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making certain I have good boundaries
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and learning the power to say,
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no, I'm gonna make certain I keep the original assignment
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at the forefront of everything I do
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and remain locked in on that.
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Here's the deal.
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Number six is surround yourself with innovative people.
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One of the things that helps me stay locked in
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on my vision, man, is that I've got people around me
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that are just smart, flat out smart.
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You need innovative and creative people
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that can constantly push the envelope,
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that can look at where you are, challenging you
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to take it to another level, always bringing fresh ideas.
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You don't want people constantly just keeping the system
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the way it is, just aiding and abetting complacency.
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What new ideas, what new suggestions
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are the people around you bringing to help make you better?
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Sometimes people are just facilitating what is normal.
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They're facilitating what they're comfortable doing,
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but you need people that are innovative enough
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and creative enough to say, hey, we can be doing much more.
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That's what keeps you focused on the vision.
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How can we get better here?
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Thank you for introducing me to that concept,
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that way of doing things.
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And boy, when you do that, you realize
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there's a lot of stuff out there
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that will enhance your vision, that will keep you relevant,
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that will keep you sustained to make certain
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that you are consistently moving forward
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in the manifestation of your vision.
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All right, so before we go to number seven,
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let me go back and review.
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And of course, I hope that you're locked in on this
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as we talk about being locked in on your vision.
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We talk first of all about how to eliminate these distractions.
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And we all know we have these distractions,
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these things that pull at us.
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And so we gotta guard our mind, our spirits.
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We gotta make certain that we carve out time
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to focus on our vision, eliminating distractions,
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turning off the phone or putting it on silent mode
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or do not disturb.
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We gotta have specific time throughout the day
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in which we carve out to do those recreational things
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like social media or what have you.
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But we've got to make certain that we create a culture
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where we are absolutely locked in
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and we have eliminated these distractions.
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And then we're gonna improve
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and increase our devotional life.
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We're gonna really find scriptures
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and get us a Bible reading plan.
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We're gonna learn to power devotion,
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spending time in the presence of God,
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maybe integrating it into something you do every single day
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to make it easier for you to actually do it.
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I mentioned that I do it working out.
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It makes it so much easier
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because I'm taking care of my body while my soul
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at the same time.
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Number three is read every day.
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Leaders, let's read, man.
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There's so many great books out there
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and I encourage you to find great books.
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Try to read as many books as you can.
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This year I'm committing myself to reading 50 books.
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I know they're 52 weeks in a year,
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but boy, I'm so committed to reading 50 books this year
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because I know the more I read, the better I get.
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And then number four,
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make whatever you do measurable and track its progress.
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Make sure that whatever vision you put out there,
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whatever thing you're trying to do, teach your team,
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we are measuring this.
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Where are we?
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Where we're trying to go?
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And how are we progressing?
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These things will help you stay locked in
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because the conversations will be around,
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the facilitation and manifestation of your vision.
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Therefore, we avoid burnout,
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meaning that we don't carry all this stuff ourselves.
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We learn to step away.
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We create a powerful team that can hold things down.
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You don't micromanage, but you constantly stay locked in.
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So I want to make certain that you are taking vacations,
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taking care of yourself,
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taking your hand off of things
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so that you can get poured into.
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Two milliliters out there are burnout.
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When you burn out, you lose passion,
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you lose creativity.
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So here's the deal.
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Number six, surround yourself with innovative people.
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Don't be intimidated by this.
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Please don't.
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Don't be intimidated by all these brilliant
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and bright people around you.
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That's what I love to have around me.
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I travel with them.
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They talk to me.
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I meet in Starbucks.
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I just love being surrounded by people
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that have great ideas to do amazing things.
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And so I just want you to do that.
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And then number seven, finally,
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I want you to create a daily regimen.
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Like create a pattern.
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Create something that you do.
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Like I do this every day.
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Like I know by clockwork, I'm up at 4.45
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because I go to bed at 9.30, 10 o'clock.
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I'm up at 4.45.
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I'm in the gym at five, you know?
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By six, I'm eating breakfast,
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taking my kids to school.
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By eight o'clock, I'm in Starbucks.
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I'm locked in for two or three hours doing things,
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catching up on stuff.
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I'm doing meetings at the office.
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I'm doing these things.
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And by two o'clock, I'm done.
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It's a regimen for me.
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And when you stay locked in,
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if you don't have a regimen,
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you don't have a to-do list,
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you don't have a system.
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Again, I quote James Clear,
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a telling habits.
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If you do not rise to the level of your goals,
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you fall to the level of your systems.
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What is your system of operation?
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What is your regimen?
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You need a daily regimen.
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So I hope this has blessed you.
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I really do.
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And I really hope you stay locked in.
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We're waiting on this vision.
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You have to come to fruition.
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You gotta be focused.
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We wanna see it come to pass.
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