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Speaker 1: then you are the conduit to the answer. Just like well,

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Speaker 1: don't know you, but I can tell you that for me,

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Speaker 1: most of the problems. As I said earlier that I've had,

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Speaker 1: or I've had to negotiate and navigate. Most of them

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Speaker 1: at least had something to do with me. Every day

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Speaker 1: you have the opportunity to move your body differently, to

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Speaker 1: put different things in your body. What if you just

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Speaker 1: put different things in your body, be that food, drug, drugs, booze, supplements, water,

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Speaker 1: or you stop putting some things in your body. What

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Speaker 1: if you stopped. What if today you rationalized doing better

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Speaker 1: things and stopped rationalizing while you're doing those things that

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Speaker 1: are counterintuitive and counterproductive to your own fucking happiness, your

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Speaker 1: own health, your own health span, your own longevity, your

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Speaker 1: own quality of life, your own mental and emotional health.

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Speaker 1: What if you chose to be brave, not because there's

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Speaker 1: a written invitation in the mail, not because I'm going

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Speaker 1: to be there standing in the fucking corner. That'd be creepy.

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Speaker 1: I don't know why I said that, cheering you on,

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Speaker 1: but just because you know that on some level, and

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Speaker 1: this might not be all of you, but there's definitely

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Speaker 1: will be some some of you that you've been fucking

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Speaker 1: around and bullshitting others and bullshitting yourself. My friends, every

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Speaker 1: day is an opportunity because you wake up if you

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Speaker 1: wake up, if you can breathe, if you can get

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Speaker 1: out of bed, if you can think, if you can

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Speaker 1: do things, if you can make decisions, if you don't

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Speaker 1: live in third world poverty or a war zone, which

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Speaker 1: most of you don't, thankfully, and if you don't live

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Speaker 1: with a significant disability, which most of you don't, thankfully,

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Speaker 1: and even those of you who do, And I know

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Speaker 1: there's a bunch of you that listen. And I also

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Speaker 1: know that you people who really have big challenges. Quite

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Speaker 1: often you're far far in fact, not quite often. Most

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Speaker 1: of the time, you're far more inspirational than I'll ever

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Speaker 1: even dream of being. So, my friends, the day is

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Speaker 1: a day. Tomorrow is a day you've never had this day.

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Speaker 1: You've had lots of ones like it, but you've never

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Speaker 1: had this one. As I wind this up, I want

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Speaker 1: to suggest to you or if you would allow me

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Speaker 1: to coach you, if not turn off, but if you

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Speaker 1: would allow me to coach you, I would tell you this,

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Speaker 1: don't let your mind continue to get in the way

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Speaker 1: of doing the work. If you want to find another

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Speaker 1: reason to not make the decision, to not do the work,

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Speaker 1: to not be resilient, to not keep showing up to

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Speaker 1: not tap into your potential, to not optimize your talent

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Speaker 1: and your energy and your time and your resources. If

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Speaker 1: you want to keep making excuses to not do that,

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Speaker 1: you will. You will easily find an excuse that you

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Speaker 1: can convince people it's actually a reason, but it ain't

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Speaker 1: a reason, it's an excuse. Rather than that, find a reason,

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Speaker 1: find a real reason to seize every opportunity, to create

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Speaker 1: every opportunity every day. I love your guts. See yeah,