Want Desperately to Recreate Yourself in the New Year?

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There are some people that make their
work just another thing they have to do,

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and there are those that make their
work something that they want to do.

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Welcome to Working on Purpose with your
host Elise Cortes. In our program,

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we provide guidance and inspiration from those
people who have found deeper meaning and

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personal connection to their work life.
It's beyond nine to five. It's working

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on Purpose. Now Here is your
host, Elise Cortes. Welcome back to

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Working on Purpose show. Thanks for
tuning in again this week. I'm your

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host, Alice Cortes, joining you
from Dallas, Texas, which is home

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base for me. This program is
all about helping people more meaningfully and productively

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last fifteen years and now compliments the
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one of my favorites. I'm sorry
to actually single you out, Sean Otterson,

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but you are one of my favorites. Who is a motivational author,

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unlimited thinker, and lifetime entrepreneur with
the history of inspiring others. He is

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a six time author with the latest
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story about the pursuit of purpose and
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have to create positive change when we
go the extra mile in life. Today

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we'll be talking about how we can
create. We create ourselves in the new

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year. That new year knew me
phenomenon. We all tend to find ourselves

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in it about the same time of
the year. Sean Anderson from Sacramento Today,

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Welcome back to Working on Purpose.
It's always awesome to be with you,

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at least always. Oh it's we
have more fun than we're supposed to

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on air, So don't tell anybody, Okay, Hey, quick shout out

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thank you, Thank you well.
You and I were giggling like little

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kids before we got on the air
because we love doing this together and we

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love this whole notion of being able
to inspire people to be able to go

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after their dreams and be their best
and really dig deep. And I was

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just having lunch today with a friend
and she was saying, gosh, and

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I don't know, should I make
my move? Why would I do that?

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Am I scared or whatever? We
talked about that, and I said,

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funny, get on the air tonight. I'm gonna talk with Sean Anderson

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and he's gonna give you some insight
into how to go about these things.

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So you are the perfect guy to
be on the air today to talk about

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recreating yourself in the new year,
Sean, So welcome. Oh I'm feeling

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lots of pressure right now, and
you can do it. I know you

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got this. Come on for what
you stand for. No way, no

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way, I got this, girl. Let's go. We got it.

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It's okay, okay. Well,
first things first, and I'd be really

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curious what you have to say about
this, mister Anderson. So here we

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are in the second week of a
new year, and I know there is

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a lot of people out there listening
to this right now who have furiously written

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a whole list of resolutions they planned
to tear after this year, and I'm

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one of them. So first I
want to ask you here you are,

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You're a motivational, inspirational author and
speaker. What's your take on resolutions?

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Well, in my mind, Elise
Cortes, every day is always January first.

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You're gonna say something like this,
Go tell me, every hour,

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every minute is January first. Because
the moment that we decide that we want

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a different life, the moment that
you and I decide that we want to

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walk a different path, the moment
that we both decide that we want to

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be the best you we can be. That is always January first. We

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don't need a calendar to tell us
that we need to change our lives.

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All we need is have the right
attitude, the right vision, and the

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right action at any moment. Snap
your fingers January first. I love that

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answer, Sean. Oh my gosh, I had no idea what you were

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going to say. I figured that
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But I so love the idea of
framing every day is January first,

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because every day we can create who
we want to be. Totally with you

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on that, Yeah, every day
we can set a resolution. At least

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every day we can wake up and
we go, oh my god, today

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is Today is do overday. Today
is Mulligan day, Today is second chance

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day. Today is the day to
be my best me. Today, new

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sun, new life, new Sean
new at least knew me. M okay.

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So on this next question, I
want the listeners here to really think

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about this, and we have the
wonderful benefit Sean, you and I right

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now of having listeners hearing this literally
all over the world. I want to

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shout out to China and Japan.
They we have a lot of listenership there

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as well. Of course you're in
the United States as well, and I

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want to be able to get the
listeners to think about something, and then

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I'd love for you to respond to
the shan. So when we think about

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ourselves as as a human being who
has aspirations, we have passion, we

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have motivation, we have a spirit, we have energy, we love all

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those things. And I know that
some of us are walking around, or

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maybe a lot of us are walking
around going gosh, I'm really only living

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at twenty five percent of my capacity, maybe fifty percent. Wow, I

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know I could do more. I
know I could be more if only,

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So what is that if only,
Sean? I think there's multiple answers there.

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I think the first is if only
if I had a vision. You

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see, at least we can never
truly live the life we love unless we

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know what that life looks like.
And you know, we could go into

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an audience and I could ask one
hundred people in the audience who here wants

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to live their best life? Who
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one hundred will raise their hand.
But then if I ask specifically, what

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is it that will make you happy
far few will have that answer. So

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the number one thing that holds people
back from living the best version of themselves

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is having a vision for what that
really looks like. What does the best

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relationship in your life look like?
What does the best job in your life

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look like? What does the best
vacation, the best health, the best

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everything look like? You can't live
it unless you know it. I totally

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totally am with you on that.
Okay, So why is it so hard

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for us to get that vision?
Why do we fall short of then?

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If that's what's holding us back,
why is it so hard? Because it's

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a really hard question to answer because
it takes work to answer. It takes

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mental power, It takes being vulnerable, it takes realizing that you're not invincible.

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It takes sitting down and writing on
the top of the paper, what

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does my most awesome life look like? Who's really gonna go through those steps?

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Because it's hard and somehow, some
way, some reason why we love

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to avoid that which is hard.
But if we never walk through that which

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is hard, if we never walk
through the fire, we can never come

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out on the other side. Feeling
feeling the truth feeling is if we really

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know We've got to take the time
to go inside ourselves to really find our

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best self. H Okay, so
let me peel that back one more layer.

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How do we know when we when
when we find that when we think

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we found that best self, Sean, how do we know we've really found

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that best self? Well, how
will we recognize that that is our best

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self? Because you'll giggle because you'll
go, oh my god, that's so

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awesome, because you'll get tingles because
you go, oh my god, that

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dream is amazing. I want that. I want to go on that trip.

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Oh my god, I'd feel so
great if I look like that.

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It's when you start to get that
feeling where you give yourself shivers. That's

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when you know that you are inching
forward to finding that best self. Excite

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yourself, man, learn to give
yourself goosebumps. When you give yourself goosebumps,

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you're getting really close to knowing your
best you. Okay, so now

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we're getting really yummy, right.
You know this for me? You know

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that one of the things I love
to talk about to audiences is passion and

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purpose. And if you're not just
exuding passion, I don't know what whoever's

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not whoever's listening to this maybe is
not able to register that, but I

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can. It's amazing, Sean.
And so that whole notion of being able

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to live fully into our being and
all through our senses is that thing that

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I think about that really gives that
passion. And I love what you said.

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I never anybody actually say that before. If you're giving yourself goosebumps thinking

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about who you could become and the
life that you could have, that sounds

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pretty good to me. Yeah,
you just got to let go and be

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you sometimes, you know, we
just have all these limits that we put

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on us. We've just chained ourselves
to the wall and so many different ways

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that we never even get a chance
to truly be our best self. But

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it's when we take that magical key
and we start unlocking ourselves and letting ourselves

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go explore and live and experience.
Man, that's where goosebumps happen. But

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when you live inside the box,
when you live inside the circle, you're

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never going to feel them. Okay, So let's talk about this, Sean.

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I one of the things I love
about you, and I honestly continually

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try to keep you in my vision, in my sights because you do inspire

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and motivate being because you live a
life that I aspire for. You are

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a human being that I aspire to
be, and I so appreciate the role

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that you have in my life.
One of the things that you do better

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than pretty much any human being I've
ever personally known, is you live in

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this spirit of ongoing adventure. You
live in this place where you literally really

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do things that most human beings don't
do. And I'm just going to say

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a couple of them because I want
our listeners to really get this, and

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I know you well enough that you
won't say it. So one of the

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things that you do is, aside
from the fact that you are a number

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one best selling motivation and self help
author six times over, thank you very

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much, you have built yourself a
multimillion dollar company that I know of at

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least once. You've peddled your bike, actually twice pedaled your bike across four

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thousand miles across the United States.
You've run one hundred mile race, and

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you've created adventures in forty plus countries, including having walked across five countries.

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And I know your plan is to
walk across France in May Okay, so

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listeners, just get that right,
I mean, just think about what all

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of that actually takes to actually pull
off. So I want if you would

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help us understand your your own background, your approach to living. Where does

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all this motivation and juice come from
for you? You know, during the

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fall, we see trees fall off
the leaves, and all of a sudden

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we start to realize that there's a
life span for everything in life. Well,

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I realize that there's a lifespan for
you, and there's a lifespan for

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me. We only get so many
years. And when you have that deep

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awareness that this gift of being here
on life, this adventure, this whatever

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it is, this marvelous gift,
when it is so short, why would

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we ever waste a single day being
anything less than our best? Why would

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we ever waste a single moment doing
anything other than we want to do?

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Why won't we constantly be creating the
life that we love? Because I'll tell

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you what, at the very end
of my life, I'm aware of this

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fact that I will probably take a
final breath and I will go did you

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live the life you wanted to live? And I truly want to answer yes,

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I did, And if I don't
take action and to the vision that

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I have for what that life looks
like, now, I won't get the

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answer yes later. Okay, well
that sounds I completely get that. I

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still get that, But gosh,
there's gotta be more to you. There's

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this huge pile of a human being
that constitutes every ounce that I've ever seen

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of motivation, of purpose, of
inspiration, and it's like a well spring

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for me, sean, And how
do you sustain that? How do you

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keep yourself in that space so that
you can be this for all the rest

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of us? Because it's just a
choice. I mean, if I had

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a choice, I have two choices. I can either choose to go positive

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or I can choose to go negative. Why do I want to choose to

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go negative or wreck the rest of
my day? So I choose positive,

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I choose optimistic, I choose exciting, I choose adventures, I choose romantic,

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I choose thrilling, I choose asome, I choose I choose that.

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I choose that. I don't want
the rest in my life. I don't

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want drama, I don't want fear, I don't want negativity. I don't

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want crap. And so why do
I choose that I don't. That's so

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for people that want more, they
have to choose more, not less.

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Okay, that is so beautiful in
its simplicity, and I really get that

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at my core, Sean, I
really get that. So choosing. Here's

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what I also know, because as
you know, I've been investigating meeting and

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work for years, and I know
that people can sit in a job that

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actually sucks the life out of them
for years and the next day go into

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that job feeling like, you know
what, life is pretty darn good,

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and I'm grateful for this job and
I like what I'm doing because they changed

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the way they thought about it,
they changed how they chose to look at

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that position and their life and what
they were doing. And I say,

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there's so much power in that.
So first I want to acknowledge that.

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try to empower our listeners with whatever
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about, in this case, a
new year and a new me what kinds

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of things which can you give us
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off to a better start for our
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on track some secrets from Sean Anderson. At least, can I go back

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and just address that whole job thing
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to get stuck on that. Yes, go well, because it's not it's

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it's You're absolutely right. The jobs
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look at the job. You could
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the world, whatever you're picturing right
now, and if you go to work

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with an attitude and you change your
spin, you change your perception, you

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change how you look at that job, all the opportunities available for you in

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that job, the customer, customers, you might interact with, whatever,

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man, it just changes everything.
People jump from job to job because they

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think it's the job that makes them
unhappy. No, it's the person that

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makes the job unhappy. And if
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that I could go work at any
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it. Well, that is what
I found. I have to tell a

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really quick story since you brought that
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recent Shawn, I interviewed I remember
distinctly, I interviewed a chef and this

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man was really miserable. There and
I found by the Way fifteen modes of

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engagement. And this poor man was
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He was so miserable. He felt
like, gosh, I'm working when everybody

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else is not. I hardly ever
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boss goes against all my values.
I don't feel like I'm appreciated. I

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feel stuck in my job. I
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I have to make the money to
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I'm imprisoned. And during the course
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Sean, this man cried no less
than six times, no less. So

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what was interesting about how he took
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his transcript back and he read it, he said, you know what I

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did, he said, Alice.
I came back and I shared it with

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my wife, and I shared it
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broke down and cried how I was. They had no idea that I was

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experiencing this. And so here you
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and I am in the same job. I'm in the exact same job.

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But you know what, I'm so
much better. I'm so much happier.

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Nothing has changed. My boss is
still the same jerk. I'm still

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working the same hours, I'm making
the same money, but my kids show

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up differently to me. They appreciate
me, and my wife is so good

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to me, and life is so
much better. And nothing changed but his

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attitude and his perspective on the whole
thing. So I had to fill that

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story in for you, Sean,
because the way you said it, I've

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experienced it firsthand powerfully. The world
doesn't change unless we change first. That's

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the bottom line. I love that. And what I also love about that,

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Sean, and for the work that
both you and I do, is

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that we're both about empowering people,
right, helping people bring out their the

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best in themselves. And the thing
is they do have the power to do

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that. Nobody can do it for
them but them. You know That's right,

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I mean, that's we look to
everybody else to change your life and

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to make it better. We look
at our boyfriend, our girlfriend, our

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spouse. We look at our boss, we look at the government, we

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look at our neighbor man. Why
don't you just take a good hard look

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at the man or the woman in
the mirror, because that's where everything awesome

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can start. Right there, right
with him, right with her, That's

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where it begins. So let me
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there's one big, fat, hairy
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of that, and it's fear.
People are afraid of how great they can

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be, or afraid of how big
their dreams are. Where does that come

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from? Because I, you know, I don't want to write my next

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book just in case of these cortest
things it's terrible. That's where it comes

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from. Man, it comes from
everybody out there telling us that, you

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know, it might not be any
good, you might fail, you might

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lose, you might struggle. Who
wants to hear all that stuff? See?

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But to me, it's not about
the rejection. It's about the adventure

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and trying to achieve that. You
know, I don't care if I sell

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a million books. I'm going to
certainly do my best because it's the adventure

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that excites me. It's not the
goal that excites me. And if people

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start chasing the adventure rather than the
goal, fear slowly starts to disappear.

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That is brilliant Sean Anderson. That
is brilliant. Oh my gosh, that

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so it right. So, in
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or if I can understand, that
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actual moment. Don't think about where
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yourself be enthralled with the moment.
Just be Yeah, you know what,

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there's a there's a there's a there's
I've heard many authors speak about this notion

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of becoming the best version of yourself, which doesn't get to anything related to

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what you're actually doing. It gets
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that's right awesome. Can you believe
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and welcome back to Working on Purpose. If you're just joining us. My

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guest is motivational author, unlimited thinker, and lifetime entrepreneur Sean Anderson. He

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is a six time author, with
the latest book called Emicus one oh one,

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a story about the pursuit of purpose
and overcoming life's chaos. He's also

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the human spark plug behind the Extra
Mile day, a day recognized in the

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power we have to create positive change
when we go the extra mile. I'm

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your host to Lese Cortes, So
Sean. Before the break, we were

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talking a bit about just what it
is that we have the ability as human

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beings to be able to craft the
meaning that we experience in our lives and

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our work and everything around us.
It's really something that we have the ability

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to talk about are actually control,
I should say so. One of the

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things that I'm very committed to,
and I know you are too, is

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to help people become the best version
of themselves. And I know that one

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of the things that gets in the
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gets in the way of that is
their own limiting beliefs. And here's the

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thing is, most of the time
we that's me and included, I don't

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know about you, but me,
we don't even know we have these limiting

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beliefs, but we're not even aware
that we actually live in this very automated

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way. I mean, most of
us don't understand that we get out of

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bed the same way every day,
we shower and towel off every day,

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the same way we do things,
and like you know, like a robot

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like you ne were talking about earlier. So let's talk about this notion of

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getting present to and getting unleashed from
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it starts with just that awareness that
I'm thinking right now and I'm acting right

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now in a limited way. How
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of when I'm feeling that instinctive no, don't do that, don't go too

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scary, don't It's when you start
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that, I know that you know
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first inclination where all of a sudden, you want to start building walls because

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you want to create reasons not to
do something because you're just a little nervous

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about it. That's where limiting beliefs
begin. It's all of a sudden,

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there's this amazing cruise that you want
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but when you start looking into it, you know, of a sudden it

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becomes too expensive. All of a
sudden, you're worried about who's going to

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watch your pets. All of a
sudden, you're worried that you just read

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an article that it's not safe to
go out on the water. And the

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big cruise ships. All of a
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season out there. All of these
things start feeding the limited beliefs. So

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then our beliefs, we actually change
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much. But one thing that I
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something that I think. I think
most of us need some kind of help.

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I think most of us, while
we might be able to recognize that

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we register fear, we still need
something, some kind of impetus or catalyst,

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if you will, to gain insight
to that or get present to it.

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And I know one of the things
that has stuck with me that you've

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said over the years, Sean,
is that you said, I've learned things

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from the most amazing people. I
never meant through the books I've read.

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just that one thing, why don't people

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just ask themselves once question every day? How do I want to live today?

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How do I want to live today, take all limitations off at how

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do I want to live today?
What do I want to do? What

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can I do today that excites me? I mean, you start with those

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kind of questions and maybe you pull
off the limits as far as what you

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said. Yeah, My greatest role
models in life have not been people that

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I've met. They've been people that
I've read about. Two examples. One

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of the greatest most influential books I
ever read was Benjamin Franklin's autobiography because from

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that book I learned about accountability systems
and how important they were, and how

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accountability to the point of writing down
what you do and don't do every day

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and monitoring that how it worked.
And the second one was aug Mandino.

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Aug Mandino wrote a book that showed
me that you don't have to write self

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help and self improvement books by just
giving a list of ten things that you

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have to do, but he writes
it in form of a story. Those

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have been my two most influential people. We have this great privilege of living

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in the world that we live in
today that we can anybody that we admire

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who inspires us, we have the
opportunity to learn more from them, Google

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them, read them, read everything
about them, you read inspired, and

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hang out with those types of people. That's how we transform ourselves into our

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best person. I'm completely with you
and all of our reason. I'm a

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big, big fan of getting outside
of yourself somehow, whether it's you know,

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whether it's a coach, whether it's
somebody that you listen to. I'm

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amazed where just on Sunday, I
was listening to a podcast Sean, and

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everything in it was tough. I
already knew. It's not anything that I

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hadn't heard before, It's just that
I needed to hear it again at that

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moment. It was there was something
about that that gave me access to Yeah,

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that's what I need to do to
get myself to the next level.

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Right. And so I think this
ongoing nurturing and feeding of ourselves is so

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important to stay on track and present
for where we're trying to get to in

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life. Well, sometimes when we
hear a lesson to it just affects us

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differently than when we first heard a
lesson. I mean, I can go

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back and I can read any book, say a W. Clement Stone Success

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through a positive mental Alatitude. I
can go back and read that book,

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and because I have evolved and changed
since I first read it, I pick

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up passages that are different. Yes, so it might be the same twenty

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six letters that I'm reading, you
know, rearranged in different ways, but

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it's my brain is processing it different. But the key here is that we

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continually go back and keep reading all
those we read new stuff, because we

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can never change our thinking and we
can never change our thoughts unless we change

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what those thinkings and feelings are.
And we do that by the people that

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we hang out with and the books
that we read, and the shows that

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we watch and the music that we
listen to. Yeah, and I wanted

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to talk about association for sure.
And to that point, one of the

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things that I find so fascinating is
when people have their big AHAs right and

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something in a conversation really sparks a
brand new inside of them and they're like,

411
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oh my, got it just rocksome
right, because it had never occurred

412
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to them that they could whatever.
Like, you know, I've told the

413
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story before with you on another radio
show about how my boss when I was

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nineteen fired me. Remember that conversation, Yes, and he told me that,

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you know, you got to get
out of here, do something with

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yourself, do something with your life, go see the world, get an

417
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education. But before you go,
hire a replacement that story. Do you

418
00:28:22.359 --> 00:28:26.799
know it never occurred to me,
Sean that I could go to college.

419
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It never occurred to me that I
could go around the world because it just

420
00:28:30.119 --> 00:28:33.799
wasn't in my space. So it
took somebody else presencing that for me,

421
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and association a person or human being
that I wouldn't have otherwise been able to

422
00:28:37.880 --> 00:28:41.319
see for myself. So that association
is really important. I want to talk

423
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about just how critical that is.
Will you first chime in, and then

424
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I'll add to you, well,
I really love that whole story because you

425
00:28:49.759 --> 00:28:55.200
know, we talk about living an
empowering life, and when we get focused

426
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on living an empowering life and it
becomes all about me, me, me,

427
00:28:57.319 --> 00:29:02.279
me, See to me, that's
not empowering life. And empowering life

428
00:29:02.720 --> 00:29:06.720
is what you do with everything that
you learn and experience and how do you

429
00:29:06.759 --> 00:29:11.079
pass it forward. So how honestly, I think the deepest secret that I

430
00:29:11.160 --> 00:29:17.279
have in living my most empowered life
is that I just don't soak everything in

431
00:29:17.400 --> 00:29:21.119
like a sponge and hold it in, but then I squeeze out everything that

432
00:29:21.160 --> 00:29:23.920
I've learned back out into the world, because the more that I keep giving

433
00:29:25.039 --> 00:29:30.799
and sharing and motivating and clapping for
and cheering on, then the stronger and

434
00:29:30.839 --> 00:29:34.359
more empowered I really become. Then
that makes me want to read more,

435
00:29:34.480 --> 00:29:38.599
learn more, become better with myself, so I can keep squeezing more and

436
00:29:38.680 --> 00:29:44.079
more water out of that sponge into
the world. The most empowered lives are

437
00:29:44.119 --> 00:29:48.720
the lives that make difference for other
people. That's what I believe. I

438
00:29:49.000 --> 00:29:53.160
love your analogy about the sponge Sean, that I've never heard anything close to

439
00:29:53.200 --> 00:29:56.240
that that makes complete sense for everything
I know about you, and now I

440
00:29:56.279 --> 00:29:59.640
have a much better understanding of you. Thank you very much for that.

441
00:29:59.640 --> 00:30:03.039
That is a gem. And then
that notion of being able to really matter

442
00:30:03.119 --> 00:30:07.359
and impact other people couldn't agree more. I remember so much when I was

443
00:30:07.400 --> 00:30:11.240
doing my research and I was interviewing
a very very high level CEO and an

444
00:30:11.359 --> 00:30:14.359
organization, and he said, you
know, in the beginning of my career

445
00:30:14.400 --> 00:30:18.440
is all about climbing up and trying
to learn and grow and develop my career

446
00:30:18.480 --> 00:30:22.200
and make more money and you know, join bigger organizations, et cetera.

447
00:30:22.279 --> 00:30:26.039
He said, Now I measure my
success on the number of careers that I

448
00:30:26.079 --> 00:30:33.119
helped create. Yeah, amen to
that. That's absolutely right. Yeah.

449
00:30:33.160 --> 00:30:37.559
And so one of the things that
I when we talk about this notion of

450
00:30:37.119 --> 00:30:40.839
you know that most of us are
in this space, whether it's January first,

451
00:30:40.920 --> 00:30:42.319
or whether it's January second or somewhere
else in the year, and we're

452
00:30:42.319 --> 00:30:47.240
at that place of I want a
new life for myself. I know there

453
00:30:47.240 --> 00:30:49.480
were people listening to this episode because
that's that's what hooked them. Yeah,

454
00:30:49.519 --> 00:30:52.920
I want some for myself. If
we can really think about, well,

455
00:30:52.920 --> 00:30:56.920
what is it that we want to
do in service of others? What problem

456
00:30:57.000 --> 00:31:00.440
do we want to solve for somebody
else? How can we help ease their

457
00:31:00.480 --> 00:31:04.640
pain make their lives better. What
I've learned I'd love to hear your perspective

458
00:31:04.680 --> 00:31:08.920
on this is that when we are
when we focus on being of service to

459
00:31:10.000 --> 00:31:12.319
others, there's something about that that
gives us juice, that takes us outside

460
00:31:12.359 --> 00:31:18.640
of our own fear because it's a
gigantic purpose. I mean, that's what

461
00:31:18.680 --> 00:31:22.839
you're It's that keyword that your show
is about is about purpose. And when

462
00:31:22.880 --> 00:31:30.640
we when we when we focus on
something bigger than ourselves, man, we

463
00:31:30.680 --> 00:31:36.920
become bigger. And when we when
we become bigger, our footprints become bigger,

464
00:31:37.480 --> 00:31:42.319
the difference that we make becomes bigger. I almost think, as you

465
00:31:42.359 --> 00:31:45.000
talk about this and I hear you
say it the way that you just did

466
00:31:45.000 --> 00:31:51.200
there, I almost feel like that
whole big purpose has got like a tentacle

467
00:31:51.240 --> 00:31:53.400
to us, like a tether to
us, And as it as that big

468
00:31:53.440 --> 00:31:57.680
thing goes forward, it pulls us
along. So it's like that whole pulling

469
00:31:57.720 --> 00:32:00.799
effect that we've talked about with motive
before, you and I. Right,

470
00:32:00.880 --> 00:32:04.680
So if we're attached to a purpose
that's bigger than us, and that's I

471
00:32:04.720 --> 00:32:07.519
think part of what I would ask
our listeners to consider for themselves is,

472
00:32:07.640 --> 00:32:12.559
could you look for a purpose bigger
than yourself in order to get yourself out

473
00:32:12.599 --> 00:32:17.400
of bed moving towards your goals?
Might you then be feeling that pull from

474
00:32:17.400 --> 00:32:22.039
that bigger purpose that will help you
when you're tired, when you don't have

475
00:32:22.079 --> 00:32:24.799
the answers and you don't know which
direction to go next. Oh my goodness,

476
00:32:24.960 --> 00:32:28.640
absolutely, you know. I mean, I've shared this with you,

477
00:32:28.799 --> 00:32:32.559
I believe before. But I have
a life purpose and everything that I do

478
00:32:32.599 --> 00:32:43.039
centers around my life purpose to empower
one million people to lead a more passionate,

479
00:32:44.000 --> 00:32:51.119
positive and purposeful existence. When we
have a purpose way bigger than ourselves,

480
00:32:51.599 --> 00:32:54.960
we always have something to get connected
to when we're not feeling our best,

481
00:32:55.599 --> 00:33:00.759
and in turn, the purpose helps
us still inch forward, keep walking

482
00:33:00.960 --> 00:33:07.839
until we do feel better about ourselves
again. Oh Sean, I want you

483
00:33:07.839 --> 00:33:09.119
to talk about this. I know
you're not big and talking about yourself,

484
00:33:09.160 --> 00:33:12.920
but I'm asking you to do this
for me, so for our listeners.

485
00:33:13.119 --> 00:33:15.680
When you created that extra mile day
and now you've made an extra mile,

486
00:33:15.720 --> 00:33:19.519
I think it's world. I know
you've gone way outside the United States.

487
00:33:19.759 --> 00:33:22.400
Would you please talk with us and
help us understand why did you do that?

488
00:33:23.039 --> 00:33:25.279
I know, but I want you
to presence it for our listeners.

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00:33:25.279 --> 00:33:30.720
Why did you create this movement?
I just believe that people, you know,

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00:33:30.759 --> 00:33:36.759
they just kept looking at everybody else
in life as far as being the

491
00:33:36.759 --> 00:33:39.160
ones that create the change. They
would look at the first off, it

492
00:33:39.200 --> 00:33:45.200
happened in two thousand and two thousand
and nine, the whole country was going

493
00:33:45.279 --> 00:33:50.640
bonkers. Businesses were closing bankruptcies everywhere, People were losing their homes. I

494
00:33:50.640 --> 00:33:52.519
mean, things were really bad.
And so I decided to use my small

495
00:33:52.599 --> 00:33:55.920
voice and do something to remind people
that if you really want to create change,

496
00:33:57.039 --> 00:34:00.160
positive change, amazing difference making change, looking at the federal government to

497
00:34:00.200 --> 00:34:04.799
do something for you. You quit
looking at your spouse to make your relationship

498
00:34:04.839 --> 00:34:07.199
better. You quit looking at your
boss to be the one that's going to

499
00:34:07.239 --> 00:34:10.159
help you make more money and keep
the job. But you start looking at

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00:34:10.199 --> 00:34:14.400
yourself. But not only not only
is it you a lease, but you

501
00:34:14.440 --> 00:34:16.440
can't keep doing the same thing that
you're doing, because if you keep doing

502
00:34:16.480 --> 00:34:19.719
the same thing that you're doing,
you're going to keep going the same direction

503
00:34:19.760 --> 00:34:22.360
you're going. You've got to do
more, give more, be more.

504
00:34:22.679 --> 00:34:28.400
You've got to go the extra mile. And as a symbol of going the

505
00:34:28.440 --> 00:34:31.400
extra mile, I use my non
bicycle as body, and I pedaled you

506
00:34:31.559 --> 00:34:36.400
over four thousand miles across the country, speaking in twenty one cities, building

507
00:34:36.400 --> 00:34:39.239
this whole extra mile message, and
since then that's just become my mantra.

508
00:34:39.280 --> 00:34:43.119
If you want to create a better
life for yourself, than never stop going

509
00:34:43.119 --> 00:34:46.760
the extra mile. I love that
you so literally walk your talk and pedal

510
00:34:46.880 --> 00:34:50.280
your bike. I love that about
you, Sean. And one of the

511
00:34:50.280 --> 00:34:52.280
reasons I love having you on the
show is because I really you are a

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00:34:52.360 --> 00:34:58.199
human being that really stands for everything
that you say. You really walk your

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00:34:58.199 --> 00:35:00.960
own talk, and I wanted you
to say that for our listeners because I

514
00:35:00.000 --> 00:35:05.559
want them to really get you're such
a humble human being, and when they

515
00:35:05.599 --> 00:35:07.559
look at what you've actually done,
what you've the life that you've created,

516
00:35:07.599 --> 00:35:13.360
and that you're the impact that you
continue to look to make across the world

517
00:35:13.440 --> 00:35:16.679
in the work that you're doing,
I want them to get how inspiring and

518
00:35:17.039 --> 00:35:22.039
that is and what that could be
for themselves in their own lives. Well,

519
00:35:22.039 --> 00:35:23.800
I just think you're super kind.
I do, and I appreciate that

520
00:35:23.840 --> 00:35:27.719
you think that. I thank you. I And this is the honest to

521
00:35:27.800 --> 00:35:31.679
god truth. I just really believe
I'm an ordinary guy that just has extraordinary

522
00:35:31.760 --> 00:35:36.400
dreams just like all of us.
It doesn't matter where you came from in

523
00:35:36.440 --> 00:35:38.679
life for who you are. You
don't have to be born rich, you

524
00:35:38.719 --> 00:35:42.239
don't have to be born beautiful,
you don't have to be born anything.

525
00:35:42.519 --> 00:35:46.320
We're all ordinary in a million ways, but that doesn't mean that we can't

526
00:35:46.360 --> 00:35:51.760
believe extraordinary things and we can't hold
onto those extraordinary things to lift our lives

527
00:35:51.840 --> 00:35:54.000
up to be extraordinary. That's all. That's all I think, that's all

528
00:35:54.000 --> 00:35:59.559
I believe, that's all I walk. I know that to be true about

529
00:35:59.599 --> 00:36:02.880
you. Also know that one of
the things that makes you you, and

530
00:36:02.920 --> 00:36:06.920
also the gift that you give to
people that you work with and in your

531
00:36:06.960 --> 00:36:08.960
audience as well when you speak with
them, is your I know you talk

532
00:36:09.000 --> 00:36:13.280
through your accountability system work, and
I know you're all about you know,

533
00:36:13.440 --> 00:36:15.239
what are you going to do to
move this you've got? There's got to

534
00:36:15.239 --> 00:36:20.559
be some kind of action, some
kind of you know, energy put forth

535
00:36:20.599 --> 00:36:22.960
towards your dreams. You can't it's
not enough just to you know, hope

536
00:36:22.960 --> 00:36:25.440
for them, to pray for them, to manifest for them. You actually

537
00:36:25.440 --> 00:36:29.719
have to do something about this.
So will you share a little bit about

538
00:36:29.800 --> 00:36:32.880
kind of some of the ways that
you help people in your audiences really get

539
00:36:32.880 --> 00:36:37.039
present to what can they actually do
to affect something, affect movement, to

540
00:36:37.400 --> 00:36:43.400
realize their dreams. See, the
whole thing to me is not even rocket

541
00:36:43.440 --> 00:36:45.960
science. It's it's just it's all
based upon the fact. First off,

542
00:36:46.039 --> 00:36:50.599
let's just find out what you want
in life. I want a better relationship,

543
00:36:51.039 --> 00:36:55.199
I want I want more money,
I want better health, because we

544
00:36:55.280 --> 00:37:00.800
just start with that one general premise
and everything all the goal, the structure

545
00:37:00.840 --> 00:37:05.519
that we build leads up to achieving
that particular goal. We just work backwards

546
00:37:05.559 --> 00:37:07.480
from what you want? What do
you want in life? Let's work backwards

547
00:37:07.480 --> 00:37:14.400
and then we just create actionable,
specific, step by step plans to get

548
00:37:14.440 --> 00:37:19.679
to where you want to go.
You know, it's not rocket science.

549
00:37:19.679 --> 00:37:22.760
And so someone out there who wants
to lose weight, who wants to find

550
00:37:22.760 --> 00:37:27.039
the perfect guy, who wants to
get in this dream job, that's the

551
00:37:27.079 --> 00:37:31.159
goal. That's where we start.
That's the tabletop. Now let's put legs

552
00:37:31.199 --> 00:37:36.000
so that tabletop can be held steady. Let's create step by step plan to

553
00:37:36.039 --> 00:37:38.320
get there. You know, we
if we want to write a book,

554
00:37:38.719 --> 00:37:42.679
book, that's a great goal.
But what do we do. We start

555
00:37:42.719 --> 00:37:47.039
with the first word on the first
page, in the first chapter. That's

556
00:37:47.079 --> 00:37:52.400
what we do. We just keep
focusing on our firsts. So I have

557
00:37:52.480 --> 00:37:55.960
a suspicion that I'm one of those
people that has a hard time actually creating

558
00:37:55.960 --> 00:37:59.480
that plan. And I don't know
how many of the listeners out there are

559
00:37:59.480 --> 00:38:01.920
maybe big not on their head,
like yep, that's me too. I

560
00:38:01.960 --> 00:38:06.400
think that maybe you might be pretty
good at that. I think maybe that

561
00:38:06.480 --> 00:38:07.960
might be a strength of yours,
not to say not to discount anything you

562
00:38:08.000 --> 00:38:10.159
said, because you know that I
believe in all of it. However,

563
00:38:10.719 --> 00:38:15.039
I want to give our listeners as
much value as we can. So can

564
00:38:15.079 --> 00:38:19.039
you peel it back one more layer
for us Sean? How could they start

565
00:38:19.079 --> 00:38:22.599
to flesh out that plan? They
start from today? My book is written?

566
00:38:22.440 --> 00:38:27.199
What does it take to create that
plan? I don't like making the

567
00:38:27.239 --> 00:38:31.480
plans either, because because you know, I don't necessarily like making my life

568
00:38:31.519 --> 00:38:36.719
harder, but I do love making
my life better. And if I don't

569
00:38:36.760 --> 00:38:40.119
walk through the hard I never walk
to the amazing. And so if I

570
00:38:40.199 --> 00:38:44.639
don't just do the plan, I'm
just like a stick floating down a river,

571
00:38:44.800 --> 00:38:46.360
randomly being carried away by the currents. And I don't want to live

572
00:38:46.400 --> 00:38:50.360
my life like a stick floating down
the river. I'd rather be in a

573
00:38:50.400 --> 00:38:53.519
canoe going to which side I want
to. The plan helps me do that.

574
00:38:53.960 --> 00:38:57.480
So I don't look at the plan
as being an evil. I look

575
00:38:57.519 --> 00:39:01.320
at the plan as being a blessed
the roadmap that gets me to where I

576
00:39:01.360 --> 00:39:06.039
want to go. It's my Google
map for how to live the best life.

577
00:39:07.440 --> 00:39:10.960
I totally understand that, and it
feels like it's a hard thing for

578
00:39:12.000 --> 00:39:15.719
me to know how to do.
Sometimes it feels like it's an impossible thing.

579
00:39:15.960 --> 00:39:21.360
But you're possible. So just make
your plan. Just do it,

580
00:39:21.440 --> 00:39:22.960
you know. I mean, it's
just sitting down and doing it. That's

581
00:39:23.000 --> 00:39:25.960
the thing. Sometimes in life we
just don't want to do it. You've

582
00:39:27.079 --> 00:39:30.480
just got to have a self talk
with yourself and say a least enough is

583
00:39:30.639 --> 00:39:35.159
enough. I want to write this
book. I want to It's what I

584
00:39:35.199 --> 00:39:37.119
want. Because you either do it
or you don't do it. Just decide

585
00:39:37.159 --> 00:39:39.159
am I gonna do it or am
I not going to do it? Well,

586
00:39:39.239 --> 00:39:43.840
quit lying to yourself, quit faking
yourself out, and quit not doing

587
00:39:43.880 --> 00:39:47.679
it. Just part of the step
of doing it is you've got to create

588
00:39:47.800 --> 00:39:52.880
the plan. If you need help, find someone who can help you create

589
00:39:52.920 --> 00:39:55.360
the plan, Find someone that can
be there and just say, hey,

590
00:39:55.599 --> 00:39:59.559
help me out a little bit,
get some help, find people to get

591
00:39:59.599 --> 00:40:01.559
the mojo going for you. But
whatever you do, if the plan's necessary

592
00:40:01.559 --> 00:40:04.719
to get to where you want to
go, you got to do the plan.

593
00:40:05.639 --> 00:40:07.119
I love what you said there because
I was going to ask you what

594
00:40:07.239 --> 00:40:10.239
happens if we just don't have that
ability, we go borrow from somebody,

595
00:40:10.239 --> 00:40:14.480
we go tap somebody else's genius.
That's exactly what we do when I hit

596
00:40:14.519 --> 00:40:21.239
yourself to that ride. We listen
to Elis Cortes's radio podcast show, Oh

597
00:40:21.320 --> 00:40:23.400
Hey, how of that? We're
going on break. I'm Elise Cortez,

598
00:40:23.400 --> 00:40:27.320
your host. We've got on Viera
with Sean Anderson, who is a human

599
00:40:27.400 --> 00:40:30.880
spark plug behind the Extra Mile Day
and the author of Emicus one oh one,

600
00:40:30.960 --> 00:40:34.480
a story about the pursuit of purpose
and overcoming life's chaos. He joins

601
00:40:34.519 --> 00:40:37.719
us today from Sacramento, California.
After the break, we're going to talk

602
00:40:37.760 --> 00:40:39.519
more about how you can go after
the dreams and the person you really want

603
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se at Elisecortes dot com. Now
back to Working on Purpose. Thanks for

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staying with us, and welcome back
to Working on Purpose. If you're just

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tuning in, my guest is motivational
author, unlimited thinker, and lifetime entrepreneur

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Sean Anderson. He's a six time
author with the last latest book called Amicus

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one oh one, a story about
the pursuit of purpose and overcoming life's chaos.

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He is also the human spark plug
behind the Extra Mile day a day,

632
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recognizing the power we have to create
positive change when we go the extra

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mile. I'm your host Aalise Cortes. So Sean for this last segment.

634
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You and I were talking on the
break how we want to make sure and

635
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leave our listeners with some real solid
foundation they can used to take forward and

636
00:44:00.639 --> 00:44:07.000
really bring into reality the life in
person they want for themselves. And as

637
00:44:07.039 --> 00:44:08.320
we were talking, you and I
said, one of the most important things

638
00:44:08.320 --> 00:44:13.960
they can do is really practice what
we call self truth. We say more

639
00:44:13.960 --> 00:44:21.480
about that. Sometimes. I think
the goals that we desire and the lives

640
00:44:21.519 --> 00:44:24.760
that we start to try to build, it's because of the story books that

641
00:44:24.800 --> 00:44:29.800
we've read or what people around us
say we're supposed to have. But sometimes

642
00:44:29.800 --> 00:44:34.400
that's not really sincere living. It's
not really honoring the individual uniqueness, the

643
00:44:34.519 --> 00:44:38.239
awesomeness, the cool nerdiness that makes
up each one of us. And I

644
00:44:38.239 --> 00:44:42.480
think the more that we run away
from the uniqueness of who we really are

645
00:44:42.519 --> 00:44:45.880
as human beings and try to mold
into what the world wants for us and

646
00:44:45.920 --> 00:44:50.880
what the voices around us tell us
we should do, the less happy we

647
00:44:50.920 --> 00:44:53.400
really become. And isn't that the
ultimate goal for all of us? Isn't

648
00:44:53.440 --> 00:44:58.079
the ultimate goal that at the end
we just want to have lived a happy

649
00:44:58.559 --> 00:45:02.480
life? Yeah? And I would
add one more element to that from the

650
00:45:02.480 --> 00:45:06.480
research that I've done and the conversations
that I've had, is that and in

651
00:45:06.519 --> 00:45:09.159
addition to that, we want to
have lived a fulfilled, meaningful life.

652
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And what I've learned about that,
and I know you have too, Sean,

653
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is that to do that it really
takes something. You do have to

654
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go the extra mile to do that. It's not going to happen by rolling

655
00:45:19.599 --> 00:45:22.800
over in bed and hoping for it
and wishing for it. It's going to

656
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require some real effort. So the
last thing that I would ever want to

657
00:45:27.440 --> 00:45:29.280
do on the show is to say, well, all you got to do

658
00:45:29.400 --> 00:45:31.280
is just want it right. You
got to do something about this. So

659
00:45:31.360 --> 00:45:35.960
one of the things that you're always
telling me and our work together is well,

660
00:45:36.079 --> 00:45:38.719
you know, what can you do
today to move the needle today?

661
00:45:38.960 --> 00:45:43.239
What are you going to do today? So one of the things that I

662
00:45:43.280 --> 00:45:49.599
have appreciated about your message and the
work that we've done and your work with

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00:45:49.679 --> 00:45:52.360
your audiences is just that notion of
it's the energy. That's why I love

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that you call yourself a spark plug
or people call you a spark plug,

665
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because that's exactly what you are.
And that is the message that I think

666
00:45:59.679 --> 00:46:02.760
you can to anyone who's willing to
listen to the importance of being your own

667
00:46:02.800 --> 00:46:07.199
spark plug. Yeah, And one
of the ways that I'll share and I

668
00:46:07.239 --> 00:46:10.639
don't know if I shared this with
you before, but I've actually been journaling

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00:46:10.679 --> 00:46:15.159
my life for maybe the last fifteen
years, every single day. And the

670
00:46:15.159 --> 00:46:22.360
reason that I journal my life is
because it helps me stay focused on where

671
00:46:22.519 --> 00:46:27.079
I want to go, on what
I want to do, and who I

672
00:46:27.199 --> 00:46:30.519
want to be. And sometimes,
if you're sing, I believe this.

673
00:46:30.599 --> 00:46:35.000
I believe if your success is truly
important to you, then you have to

674
00:46:35.079 --> 00:46:37.480
make it important to yourself every single
day. And that's why I journal,

675
00:46:37.519 --> 00:46:44.519
because it helps me to stay focused
and to become this person. It helps

676
00:46:44.559 --> 00:46:47.840
me to excite myself, because if
I can't get excited about my own life,

677
00:46:47.880 --> 00:46:52.480
how can I ever excite anybody else
about their life. Well, I

678
00:46:53.360 --> 00:46:55.760
am not surprised that you journal every
day. I tend to. I don't

679
00:46:55.800 --> 00:46:59.239
journal every day, but I journal
quite a bit, and it's such an

680
00:46:59.239 --> 00:47:01.280
important mechan and to keep me present. And then the other thing I really

681
00:47:01.280 --> 00:47:04.719
try to do is in the beginning
of my day, and you and I've

682
00:47:04.760 --> 00:47:07.880
talked about this many times, really
get present and write down what are you

683
00:47:07.920 --> 00:47:10.519
know, the minimum whatever, it
is, three things that I need to

684
00:47:10.559 --> 00:47:15.280
do today that that that's going to
advance my interests. And I want to

685
00:47:15.280 --> 00:47:16.559
go back to what we were saying
before about, you know, living a

686
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happy and a fulfilled life. There
is something about the feeling that people register

687
00:47:22.599 --> 00:47:27.639
for themselves that when they know they've
left it all on the court, all

688
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on the track. They gave it
their all and they whatever one got the

689
00:47:30.920 --> 00:47:35.000
goal, got the target, got
that got the prize. That is the

690
00:47:35.039 --> 00:47:38.719
thing that really that makes life fulfilling
and meaningful. I mean, that's the

691
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thing is you put it all out
there and you really you know, you

692
00:47:42.559 --> 00:47:46.880
really lived, went the extra mile
so to that end. I I one

693
00:47:46.880 --> 00:47:51.760
of the things that are one of
our two founding partners at Insydnium always says

694
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that's that's Sheida Bina. She says
there is no way but through. What

695
00:47:55.280 --> 00:47:59.679
she means by that, there's no
way to get what we really want unless

696
00:47:59.679 --> 00:48:04.519
we go through all the effort and
of all of the difficulty, all of

697
00:48:04.559 --> 00:48:07.280
the nose and everything else that gets
in our way. There's no way to

698
00:48:07.280 --> 00:48:14.480
get there but to go through that. Right on. You know, I

699
00:48:14.920 --> 00:48:16.920
have an affirmation that I also read
to myself every day. That's something that

700
00:48:16.960 --> 00:48:22.079
continues to evolve in and that I
go with in. Two of the lines

701
00:48:22.079 --> 00:48:27.360
of that affirmation are this and I'll
just be really personal it says I say

702
00:48:27.360 --> 00:48:30.159
this. I say I give my
best, an effort and attitude to others

703
00:48:30.760 --> 00:48:35.880
and to myself and to this day, and I peacefully accept whatever results may

704
00:48:35.920 --> 00:48:42.679
come. But I keep trying no
matter what. And I think that's super

705
00:48:42.719 --> 00:48:47.800
important. As people start to think
about their goals and get they get blocked

706
00:48:47.800 --> 00:48:52.679
by their goals. Is that whatever
big goals that people have, I can

707
00:48:52.760 --> 00:48:58.159
assure you that if they're big enough, you're going to get knocked down the

708
00:48:58.199 --> 00:49:00.199
first few times and going for them. But it's that line. But I

709
00:49:00.320 --> 00:49:07.880
keep trying no matter what, no
matter how many rejections I get from people

710
00:49:07.920 --> 00:49:12.480
who read my book, no matter
how many times I get turned down for

711
00:49:12.559 --> 00:49:19.559
speaking engagements, doesn't matter. I
keep trying no matter what, because when

712
00:49:19.599 --> 00:49:24.280
your goal in life, what you
want is so grand, why would you

713
00:49:24.360 --> 00:49:31.639
ever choose to take something that's less
grand. I wasn't meant to, and

714
00:49:31.719 --> 00:49:37.800
I don't think anybody listening to the
show is meant to either. I want

715
00:49:37.840 --> 00:49:40.039
to piggyback something that you taught me, Sean, something that you've told me

716
00:49:40.079 --> 00:49:43.760
many times that I think would be
helpful to our listeners, and that is

717
00:49:43.760 --> 00:49:45.960
that when you know, we think
about what we're talking about here, it's

718
00:49:45.960 --> 00:49:47.199
going to really take something. And
some of our listeners are like, oh

719
00:49:47.199 --> 00:49:50.639
my gosh, I'm so tired today
and you want me to take on all

720
00:49:50.639 --> 00:49:52.400
this extra to be able to go
after my dreams. Yep, that's what

721
00:49:52.440 --> 00:49:55.960
we want you to do. And
in what we would also say, what

722
00:49:57.000 --> 00:50:00.400
you've taught me is that if we
know that every every single day we do

723
00:50:00.480 --> 00:50:05.079
something, and some people say have
told me that before they go to bed,

724
00:50:05.119 --> 00:50:07.760
they make sure that they've done three
things to advance their initiatives, advance

725
00:50:07.800 --> 00:50:12.480
their agenda, taking themselves closer to
their goals. If you go to bed

726
00:50:12.960 --> 00:50:16.000
before and you know you've done those
three things, there's something about that will

727
00:50:16.039 --> 00:50:19.960
lets you rest better. The next
morning, you wake up even more energized

728
00:50:20.000 --> 00:50:22.280
because you're closer to your dreams,
you're closer to your goal. And I

729
00:50:22.280 --> 00:50:27.639
think there's really something too that if
you can every single day promise yourself and

730
00:50:27.719 --> 00:50:31.639
keep that promise that you're going to
do three things on that initiative to get

731
00:50:31.679 --> 00:50:35.320
you where you need to go,
you'll have the energy that you need to

732
00:50:35.360 --> 00:50:38.960
get there. And honestly, if
three sounds overwhelming to the listeners, just

733
00:50:39.039 --> 00:50:45.840
do one thing. Yeah, If
running a mile sounds too far, than

734
00:50:45.920 --> 00:50:50.360
just run one hundred yards. Yeah, if one hundred yards sounds too far

735
00:50:50.440 --> 00:50:54.079
to move forward on your goal that
day. Just move one foot, because

736
00:50:54.119 --> 00:50:59.119
if you keep moving forward all the
time, you're going to start feeling better

737
00:50:59.119 --> 00:51:02.079
about yourself. Just gives you that
one positive every single day. You know,

738
00:51:02.320 --> 00:51:07.679
My longest hike that I've gone is
seven hundred and fifty miles around Shikoku,

739
00:51:07.760 --> 00:51:10.760
Japan. I walked around that entire
island, and it took forty eight

740
00:51:10.840 --> 00:51:15.119
days, and some days I was
super exhausted, and I did it was

741
00:51:15.239 --> 00:51:19.960
raining, and I remember one day
walking down this road and it was pouring

742
00:51:20.000 --> 00:51:22.239
so hard up in the mountains on
this one trail that actually the water was

743
00:51:22.320 --> 00:51:27.239
coming up way past my ankles and
I was drenched. There was no one

744
00:51:27.280 --> 00:51:30.320
around me, the wind was blowing. I was freezing my bones off,

745
00:51:30.679 --> 00:51:34.639
and and I just thought, you
know, just keep going. You just

746
00:51:34.679 --> 00:51:37.639
got to get to that spot.
That's all you've got to do today.

747
00:51:37.960 --> 00:51:40.159
You can rest, tomorrow will be
there. Just get that to that spot.

748
00:51:40.480 --> 00:51:43.840
You've got four more miles to go
today. You can do this.

749
00:51:43.920 --> 00:51:46.760
Come on, you got this.
You got this, because because if we

750
00:51:46.800 --> 00:51:51.360
don't get to that, if I
didn't get to that spot today, I

751
00:51:51.360 --> 00:51:55.119
could not I could not keep going
to reach the whole course and every day

752
00:51:55.159 --> 00:51:59.599
if you just pick one small spot
to get to on your goal, one

753
00:51:59.639 --> 00:52:01.920
small spot, ten push ups,
that's all we're going to do. Ten

754
00:52:01.960 --> 00:52:06.440
push ups. Two phone calls.
That's all we're going to do. Two

755
00:52:06.480 --> 00:52:09.880
phone calls. Just pick out the
spot and get to that spot. That's

756
00:52:09.880 --> 00:52:14.880
all you got to do. Oh
my gosh, that's perfect, Sean.

757
00:52:15.079 --> 00:52:16.599
And the other thing that I want
to add on to that is I want

758
00:52:16.639 --> 00:52:22.719
our listeners to never doubt the power, the sheer force of the human spirit.

759
00:52:22.360 --> 00:52:25.800
It's amazing when you think about what
kind of human being actually do.

760
00:52:27.400 --> 00:52:30.880
It's remarkable. And we all have
the power to tap into that. If

761
00:52:30.960 --> 00:52:35.960
only we'll let ourselves be present to
that beauty, absolutely, and if we

762
00:52:36.079 --> 00:52:38.239
just keep if we just keep going
a little bit at a time, great

763
00:52:38.239 --> 00:52:42.880
things can happen. You know,
some of us have been privileged to see

764
00:52:42.880 --> 00:52:50.480
Mount Rushmore, the carving of the
four faces in what is it? It's

765
00:52:50.519 --> 00:52:55.599
South Dakota And they don't know this
fact, but GUTSM. Borglum in nineteen

766
00:52:55.639 --> 00:53:00.320
twenty seven when you started carving that
baby, it was going to be fourteen

767
00:53:00.400 --> 00:53:06.880
years later, five thousand, one
hundred and ten days that it took him.

768
00:53:07.239 --> 00:53:12.320
But yet he had that vision of
just chiseling away on one nose,

769
00:53:12.840 --> 00:53:16.760
of carving out one pupil, of
cutting blowing away with dynamite, just the

770
00:53:16.800 --> 00:53:22.320
space for that one ear. But
fourteen days, fourteen years later, five

771
00:53:22.800 --> 00:53:25.880
one and ten days, we now
have a monument that we can look at

772
00:53:25.880 --> 00:53:32.880
and gaze at forever. But he
just kept working at it. There is

773
00:53:32.920 --> 00:53:37.239
no way but through thank you,
Sheida beat him. It's so true.

774
00:53:37.320 --> 00:53:39.639
It is there is. And if
he had given up, if he had

775
00:53:39.639 --> 00:53:44.000
gotten tired, if he said,
oh, I'll just maybe do more tomorrow,

776
00:53:44.039 --> 00:53:47.239
and tomorrow didn't come, we would
not have that beautiful monument. That's

777
00:53:47.280 --> 00:53:52.280
absolutely right, you know. And
there were probably people that we don't know

778
00:53:52.320 --> 00:53:54.760
about that we're encouraging him the whole
way. People around him. When he

779
00:53:54.800 --> 00:53:58.679
got tired or didn't think he could, or he made a mistake and the

780
00:53:58.800 --> 00:54:01.039
rock didn't fall the way they did, there were people around him that kept

781
00:54:01.079 --> 00:54:06.960
him going, just as there's people
in your world today and in my world

782
00:54:07.039 --> 00:54:09.800
that need us to encourage them and
to keep them go, keep them going.

783
00:54:10.679 --> 00:54:15.199
You know, oh Man, one
of the greatest authors of all time,

784
00:54:15.280 --> 00:54:23.480
Ralph Waldo Emerson, He encouraged another
very famous writer right when the writer

785
00:54:23.679 --> 00:54:27.119
was about to quit. A guy
by the name of Walt Whitman was about

786
00:54:27.119 --> 00:54:30.400
to quit writing because everyone was saying, you know, you're writing sucks,

787
00:54:30.440 --> 00:54:32.440
You're no good, it's nonsense,
it doesn't make sense. And then this

788
00:54:32.599 --> 00:54:37.360
other guy named Ralph Waldo Emerson wrote
a note to Walt Whitman, and the

789
00:54:37.400 --> 00:54:39.840
rest is history. So we have
a chance to help other people make their

790
00:54:39.880 --> 00:54:45.800
own history. Keep getting out there
and encouraging others to be awesome. What

791
00:54:45.920 --> 00:54:47.559
a great way to finish, Sean
and that that is a perfect way.

792
00:54:47.639 --> 00:54:52.440
Let's let's find people for ourselves who
we get that inspiration from, and let's,

793
00:54:52.480 --> 00:54:54.599
as you say, equally squeeze the
sponge and give it back to the

794
00:54:54.599 --> 00:54:58.960
rest of the world. I want
to thank you Sean for once again being

795
00:54:59.159 --> 00:55:01.000
being my guest. It is a
privilege to have you in my life and

796
00:55:01.039 --> 00:55:05.320
to share you with my listeners.
Thank you so much. Thank you at

797
00:55:05.360 --> 00:55:08.000
lease. If you want to learn
more about Sean Anderson and the work he

798
00:55:08.000 --> 00:55:13.159
does to inspire audiences to achieve higher
performance and realize their goals, to motivate

799
00:55:13.199 --> 00:55:16.119
themselves to live the lives that they
most want or look at his books,

800
00:55:16.280 --> 00:55:21.519
or subscribe to his weekly Thursday blog
of inspiration. Visit his website. It's

801
00:55:21.639 --> 00:55:28.679
Sean Anderson dot com. That's shaw
N A N D E R s O

802
00:55:28.880 --> 00:55:31.679
N Shan Anderson dot com. Join
us next week when we talk with Jeff

803
00:55:31.719 --> 00:55:35.800
Hayden, who is the author of
The Motivation Myth, and explore what he's

804
00:55:35.880 --> 00:55:38.199
learned about famous people and how they're
motivated to accomplish their goals, what we

805
00:55:38.280 --> 00:55:42.760
can all learn from them and their
quest among many other fascinating topics we'll be

806
00:55:42.800 --> 00:55:45.800
talking about. See you then,
Remember that work is at least one third

807
00:55:45.800 --> 00:55:53.920
of our life, so let's work
on purpose. We hope you've enjoyed this

808
00:55:53.960 --> 00:55:59.079
week's program. Be sure to tune
into Working on Purpose, featuring your host

809
00:55:59.119 --> 00:56:04.159
Alas Cortes, every Wednesday at six
pm Eastern Time three pm Pacific Time on

810
00:56:04.199 --> 00:56:08.280
the Voice America Empowerment Channel. This
week, find your life's purpose at work