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Speaker 1: And his Daily Law from Robert Green says, if you

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Speaker 2: The number one health and wellness podcast.

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Speaker 1: Jay Sheety Jay Sheddy Sews Only Jay Shety Everyone, welcome

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Speaker 1: back to On Purpose. Thank you so much for tuning

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Speaker 1: in right now to become happier, healthier, and more healed.

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Speaker 1: I feel that this episode is going to be a

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Speaker 1: pivotal one for the rest of your twenty twenty four.

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Speaker 1: This is going to be one of those episodes that

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Speaker 1: you're going to feel the difference immediately because you checked in.

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Speaker 1: We're already ninety days in, right, we're three months in,

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Speaker 1: effectively ninety days in, and we're a quarter of the

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Speaker 1: so important that we start living our years in quarters.

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Speaker 2: Right. A lot of us wait for.

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Speaker 1: New Year's Day, new Year's resolutions to restart to reset

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Speaker 1: So many of us want that year, but we almost

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Speaker 2: What have I done? Where did things go wrong? Where

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Speaker 1: how I want you to think about this. These aren't

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Speaker 1: These are the ones that are going to feel a

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Speaker 1: what is it that is holding you back. When you

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Speaker 1: You've heard me say this quote before, but I have

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Speaker 1: to share it again. Charles Horton Cooley once wrote, the

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Speaker 1: you so much for listening to On Purpose. Make sure

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Speaker 1: doctor Daniel Ahman on how to change your life by

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Speaker 1: changing your brain. If we want a healthy mind, it

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Speaker 1: actually starts with a healthy brain.

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Speaker 2: You know, I've had the blessing or the curse to

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Speaker 2: scam over

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Speaker 1: A thousand convicted felons and over one hundred murderers, and

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Speaker 1: their brains are very damage