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Speaker 1: I get a team. I hope you're great. Welcome to

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Speaker 1: another installment. Hey, so the other day I did an

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Speaker 1: episode called eight Ideas that Changed My Life. And funny

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Speaker 1: thing about having a podcast, especially six years down the track,

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Speaker 1: trying to figure out what resonates, what connects, what people

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Speaker 1: want to hear, what people get value from. And honestly,

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Speaker 1: I get it wrong a lot. I don't get it

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Speaker 1: wrong all the time, but I sometimes I think, you know,

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Speaker 1: people are sick of hearing me bang on, and some

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Speaker 1: people are and I don't blame them. But the numbers

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Speaker 1: for the episode that I did the other day were

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Speaker 1: about twenty thirty percent higher than the average numbers of

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Speaker 1: late I'm like, okay, well, I did have a second

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Speaker 1: part to that, and when I get through the interviews

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Speaker 1: that I've got coming up, I'll do that. So here

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Speaker 1: we are today. So this is part two. This is

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Speaker 1: installment too. If you don't like the solo stuff, if

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Speaker 1: you don't like the workshop be me coaching you stuff,

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Speaker 1: the kind of personal development stuff, the specific kind of

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Speaker 1: that stuff, feel free to tune out and come back tomorrow.

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Speaker 1: So I will say though, that today is slightly different.

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Speaker 1: I mean, I've added a couple of things in here

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Speaker 1: that are really Craig specific, and I don't know. I'm

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Speaker 1: sure they will resonate with a percentage of you, but

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Speaker 1: I don't know that a couple of these will resonate

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Speaker 1: us a high five that stuff. Right. So, But in

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Speaker 1: the interest of being authentic and real and sharing with

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Speaker 1: you things that eight ideas that literally did change my life.

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Speaker 1: Not necessarily things that I've tried to weave into coaching

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Speaker 1: others in relation to their life goals, dreams, aspirations, transformation.

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Speaker 1: Stuff that for me proved to be really valuable. And

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Speaker 1: I'll tell you what they are. I'll point them out

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Speaker 1: all the things I'm sharing with you, they're not original.

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Speaker 1: I mean, I didn't invent this stuff. I think the

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Speaker 1: days of coming up with new ideas, maybe new versions

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Speaker 1: you think that the stoics and the philosophers and the

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Speaker 1: theologians were cranking out essentially self help, call it what

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Speaker 1: you will, but it's personal development, self help philosophy, very

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Speaker 1: very old school psychology, how to live advice, let's call

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Speaker 1: it that thousands of years ago. I think that sometimes

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Speaker 1: people in this self help in the personal growth space

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Speaker 1: let me be upfront and say that I'm just sharing

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Speaker 1: things that I believe are just insight, an age old wisdom,

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Speaker 1: for example, I can't change my genetics, So me being

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Speaker 1: I'm worried about something, so as I record this, it's

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Speaker 1: Tuesday night, by twenty one Tuesday afternoon. If I'm worried

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Speaker 1: What that means is in this moment five point twenty

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Speaker 1: My energy, my focus, my attention is not now in

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Speaker 1: the idea that, and this is a really my mum

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Speaker 1: But the idea that, depending on what it is, of course,

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Speaker 1: marriage and out of marriage. I'm I'm not a fan

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Speaker 1: of that, but I'm definitely not anti marriage. But for me,

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Speaker 1: the idea that I can, I can. I can navigate

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Speaker 1: life as a single person, and I'm not well that.

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Speaker 1: I was going to say, I'm not weird, but that's debatable,

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Speaker 1: probably a bit weird, But you know, in fact, I

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Speaker 1: can be unmarried and fulfilled and happy and creative and

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Speaker 1: have awesome relationships and friendships, and I can have my psychological, emotional,

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Speaker 1: sociological needs met without necessarily being with the same person

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Speaker 1: for twenty thirty forty fifty years. Nothing wrong with that,

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Speaker 1: but I don't have to do that, So please don't

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Speaker 1: misinterpret what I'm saying I am not saying that marriage

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Speaker 1: is bad. I'm not saying I'm against marriage at all.

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Speaker 1: I'm saying that for me, the recognition and the awareness

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Speaker 1: that I'm not married and it's okay, it's okay, albeit

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Speaker 1: somewhat frowned upon and questioned and criticized like anauseum, essentially

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Speaker 1: the question being really more than a thousand times in

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Speaker 1: my life I've had someone essentially say what's wrong with you?

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Speaker 1: And it's kind of nasty, right, But for me, the

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Speaker 1: awareness that the idea that being unmarried is not only

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Speaker 1: is it okay some people it's the right thing. Maybe

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Speaker 1: for some people it's the best thing. Right. There we go, Groovers.

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Speaker 1: Eight more ideas, do with them what you will, or

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Speaker 1: don't love your guts. Thanks for tuning in as always,