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Apr 18, 2024
Gratitude Infusion Mastermind: 4/3/2024
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It just depends
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Some of us were more, some of us were less. There was the comment about utilizing tools to help improve or increase patients
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Also, the comment that personality has a lot to do with whether you're patient or you're not patient
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Also, that as we get older, that there's more awareness. And so that awareness may actually result in some extra patients
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I really appreciated the comment that Shannon made about her recognition over time, that
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without patience, her quick or rash decisions could have a negative or positive impact on people
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And so that increased her patience over time. So that was the first question. The second question
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are we the man or women in the arena? And some of us have one foot in, one foot out. We're kind of in
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there sometimes and out of there some other times. A lot of times we actually play our own critic
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And so sometimes we're both the man in the arena and the critic. So there's some pluses in
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minus is there. I also found out that many of us in our group were actually very comfortable
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that our comfort zone is actually in the arena, getting stuff done. So that was for our second
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question. Our third question is, does gratitude increase over time? And so this was interesting
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because there were four of us and our answers were all over the board. So it wavers from time
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to time. Sometimes in a world with so many downer things going on, it's very difficult to be
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grateful, but overall, I think the consensus was that it was increasing with perspective
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that when we had a chance to look back on our life, we saw that some of those things were
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happening for us rather than happening to us. And the fact that we got to choose not to be the
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victim increased our level of gratitude for whatever circumstance we went through. So those
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are our questions. That was a great conversation. Thank you. Thank you, Sherry. And it's interesting
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You said something about the people in the breakout room. I told someone, when I sent out a promo
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and I said you can meet some very cool people after having a gratitude infusion mastermind in the
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breakout rooms. And somebody wrote me back and I go, I'll be the judge whether they're cool or not
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Oh, okay. That's fine. That's fine. Maybe you shouldn't be an invited then
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You may want to rescind that invitation. I may send that one to spam
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Andy Vargo. All right. We had a great conversation. I met some cool people in my breakout session
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So that wasn't me. Not that I'm being the judge of it. but there was a consensus that our appreciation and gratitude has grown because of knowing you
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David, and the work that you're doing and awareness of it. So that was a key thing
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One of the things we've all seen growth in patience and awareness and a shift in where we apply that
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And I love the comment that Mark made about urgency and how he brought up in our group
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how it was myself, Mark and Jason, and Mark brought up how, well, he had lived in a life of being
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very urgent, which he mentioned in our first session, but when it comes to now, he doesn't have to
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live that life, but that's given him the ability to be patient and turn the urgency on when it's
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needed and be able to say, man, the pipe burst in our home. We can fix this right away
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and we're not impatient about it, but we can apply the urgency in a good way. And then also
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as far as the gratitude goes, definitely growth and pre-reactual. for gratitude. I had shared that for me, it's shifted from looking for giant big things to be
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grateful for, to just really appreciating the very smallest thing that you can in your day from the very
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beginning and finding so much from there. Well said. Very well said. Thank you, Andy. Jim Schollman
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Thank you. Yes, we had a terrific group with Debbie, Nathan, and Derek. And to summarize in general
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when there were questions of, is it like this or is it like this, our answer has been yes
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meaning that there are different situations and shades of gray and meaning
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But overall, one theme that kept coming up within the group is that it requires everyone to live
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deliberately for things to happen. And if anything, the idea of happenstand is frankly something
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that is not going to be very productive. It's almost a myth in many cases
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as opposed to what you will be able to accomplish by being very forceful and directed in your actions
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Well said. Thank you, Jim. Margaret. Hello. Hello. We had Stefan and Kristen and Bob disappeared
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so we didn't hear from Bob. A lot of similar sharings. Most of us agreed we are more patient over time
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I think learning to live and give and take and overcome obstacles
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Kristen talked about being grateful for how far we've come. not always concentrate on where we haven't gotten to yet
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And I found that a helpful comment. Stefan talked about a morning ritual from Tony Robbins
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and he can say it better than I can, 10 minutes of essentially being grateful and happy
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and he comes back to his home with a smile. and he finds that very rewarding personally
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On the arena, a couple of us talked about failures
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and learning from our failures. And we progress as people better when we try something
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And if we fail, what happened? What can we do better? next time. So I come from a place of quality and that's constantly trying to get better
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consciously trying to improve. So that was another thing that we talked about. Thank you
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So we have four left. I want to get to all four of you, Kevin, Susie, Michael, and Jeff
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but keep it to about 30 seconds to 45 seconds because I want to do one last exercise and I want to be
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responsible for time. So if you can stay longer, that's fine. But I want to make sure that we
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wrap up at one for those that can stay. And if not, that's okay. Kevin, go ahead
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Be real quick there I definitely met some cool people I won want to brag but their name Ryan Ryan and Judy Sujad Hussein And we came across with the idea that they were gratitude along Judy shared some great thoughts about the contrast and perspective
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And John believed through in the capacity, are we there able to become more grateful for what we're going
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So I'll let me speak. Very nice. Thank you, Kevin. Susie Webb. Sorry
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Yeah, so I met with Ted and Tom. We had a great conversation
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Some of the takeaways, patience is actually an emotion, and it's created by the thoughts that we think
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So if we're in patient, it's really good to take a look at what am I thinking
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about something that's creating that emotion. and then trying to get to a better thought is how we change to be more patient
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We never get to a level, I think, of patience is 100% more patient all the time
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I think life always throws us opportunities and it's a roller coaster ride
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Then Ted had mentioned I really like this. He said that patience is finding wisdom to meet our needs
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And I really like that. And then we talked a little bit about the arena
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Ted runs five homeless shelters. Tom had a near-death experience, and I lost a grandson
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And so, yes, we're in the arena. We're right in the middle of things, as we all are in life
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Life presents some challenges for us, but we can learn to have gratitude
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And gratitude is actually what has helped each of us get through those really difficult times
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Nice, nice. And then Ted shared, seeing the good of the situation provides more gratitude
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Gratitude equals great things that are all around us. And I really like to
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Excellent. Excellent. Excellent points. Thank you, Susie. Michael James. Yeah, thank you
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So I was with Mark and Julie. And we had a great conversation about patients as you get older
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And we're all at, you know, obviously different states. of our lives. We've all done various entrepreneurial activities in the past, and so it was interesting
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to hear their levels of patients and how that's kind of shifted and changed, you know, adapting
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to their circumstances. So it was very interesting. I would say all of us were the man and
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woman in the arena, respectively. And we all had a very, again, very interesting experience from
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pretty young. Mark was very, very busy and now he's gotten to slow down a little bit and
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it sounds like maybe enjoy more a life. And Julie and myself have, you know, fought many battles
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and gotten through the arenas. And, you know, it's been interesting to hear kind of those journeys
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and cycles we've all been on. And then it has our gratitude increased over time. Absolutely
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I would say all of us are very aware and conscious of that. And it seems like, you know
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we're able to kind of plug in that gratitude to more situations and share that with the people
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around us. And I think that's been, you know, very clear. So thank you so much for your work, David
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You're welcome. Thank you, Michael. Well said. Jeff. Real quick, if I can grab a screenshot of
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everybody that's left. I'll count us down. Three, two, one. And then if you want to add me on
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LinkedIn, I will tag you. If you are not a first-degree connection, I won't because it does
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weird things for my posts. Cool. Thanks, David. Thank you. All right. We're at the top of the hour, but we're going to end every
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gratitude and fusion mastermind with the same technique, the same exercise. They do every single time. Grab your smartphones
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Hopefully you have them handy. This will just take one minute. And this is called the four T's telephone text, tweet, or tell
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Most everybody texts. I'm going to give you 60 seconds. And we'll wrap up pretty close to one time to text somebody in your life to tell them how
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grateful you are for them and please use the word grateful whoever you want if you can do more than one
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that's fine but get one done and text as many as you can as 60 seconds go and make sure you use the
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word grateful in the text Thank you
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Okay, there's 60 seconds. Hopefully you got enough of them out. I always tell people that for you, those of you haven't heard me say this before
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when I'm on live and I go to my book table afterwards, after I've done this exercise
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and people bring up their phones, and they show me the text that they sent to somebody
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to tell them how grateful they are for that person. And they show me ones, and the phone says stuff like
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I'm grateful for you too. What do you want? And then there's another one that somebody says
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are you sure you sent this to the right person? Man, we're just trying to express some gratitude here
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And then how sad it was in Las Vegas a few months ago. And she showed the phone in hers and it says, is everything okay
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Is there an active shooter in the hotel? That's the world that we come to
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But still, it is telephone, text, tweet, or tell. And once I was at a programming art center and the gal over to the side, she's using the telephone
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And she says, hi, honey, I want to tell you how great flying for you. I'm assuming her husband
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I'm so grateful for you, and I just really appreciate, you know, and you're so, I don't know
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Some speaker just told me to call you and tell you. Man, what is wrong with you
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You're supposed to be expressing gratitude. Okay, 60 more seconds, and I'm going to let you go
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In July, I'm starting a gratitude infusion roundtable. It's a higher level group of people, and let me just read about it
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Please join me for a high-level group of like-minded individuals that want to take their appreciation and thankfulness to an elevated level
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and the Gratitude Infusion Roundtable. This monthly meeting will give you consistent tools
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to navigate the sometimes challenging obstacles that we all face in life. The power of the mastermind will assist
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in helping you build stronger coping mechanisms and coping skills. The agenda will include a featured member focus
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like hot seat type focus, a guest speaker a content pillar a breakout room a recommended book and numerous exercises and activities The roundtable will be limited to no more than 20 individuals So I will be telling you about that next month and talking about it more
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I'm looking to get 20 people that want to take their gratitude to an even higher level
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So I'll let you know about that. Thank you all very much. It's 103. Thank you for saying, I'll stick around, but those are you that have to go
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I always want to respect the hour starting right at 12 Pacific Daylight time and ending at one
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And so for those of you that have to leave, anybody has any questions, I'll be around for a minute
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But I want to respect that time. Right, Mr. Sejad? Tomorrow at 9.50 a.m. Central, polarizing networking, the most polarizing networking on Earth
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My partner, Jing Carpenter believes in no like trust, go given it's all about relationships
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Sam, hi, Sam. I see you in Great Britain. Hello, Matt. Fabulous. Thank you, David
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You bet. Nice to see you. It's always the power of Zoom from all about parts of the country
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You know, and Dave, how do we invite other people into this
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There was a link. There was a link. Thank you, Jason. On the email
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In the chat. But the same email that I sent you that says click here, just forward that link to them
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And they can. Oh, wonderful. And thanks for reminding me, Jason, because I wanted. I'm putting it in the chat again
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for you, Jason. Yeah. Wonderful. Mr. Dee, thank you for, with all due respect
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Mr. D, I appreciate that comment. It's very helpful. So, all right
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And we'll be in touch, Mark. Likewise. Thank you, Jason. Mark, you got to see you
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Michael James, for gosh, thanks. Glad you're doing well. Michael, great to see you
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And how about that guy that's going to be in Italy soon, Mr. Bailey, Mr. Davis
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Oh, my goodness. He looks about 28. He looks tremendous. It makes me sick
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He looks so good. Ha, He almost has as much hair as us
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I know. What are you talking about? So my wife says, she said, let your hair go long and he said, really piss off those bald guys
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Yeah. And bald women. There's a few of those out there. And Mark, my dad, I saw DB a couple years ago, and he looks as good in person as he does on Zoom
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Nothing has changed from the early 70s at Butch, Blahm, I'll tell you, I'm very jealous
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It's hard work, though. You know. Derek, Lord, how's everything? You didn't get, I didn't get a chance to hear from you, everything good with you
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It's going fine. What a wonderful job you're doing. What a great group of people
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Thank you, Derek. Focus on gratitude. You've got to love it. And more people, just more people have to know you exist, as we've talked about many times
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Oh, thank you. You're very kind. And in this group I talked to today, there was a woman in the group named Patricia Fripp, who is a very well-known speaker
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And I don't normally get too intimidated, but it was interesting seeing her face up there
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And she was laughing and clapping her hands and everything. So I thought it was good. But to me, she's kind of like a Tony Robbins
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So there's always people we want to aspire to. But thank you for that
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Somebody said to be one day about how did you pick gratitude? And it's just interesting because for me, gratitude applies to everything
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everybody young, old, male, female, black, white. It doesn't matter because it's how you, it's just, it's a mindset of how you run your life. And that's why some of the questions and comments were really good that were, that people made today about how we look at people and how we look at situations. And I've had a couple of times, had more than a couple of times that people have gotten a hold of me and said, somebody just died. What do I have to be grateful for? And, you know, I step back and just say, it's like anything else. You just, you've got, I
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I think I've mentioned a few people that had a flood in the condo here. And I'm living in like two or three rooms, but it could have been so much worse
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It could have been in my office. This would have been horrendous. I couldn't have run this business from a hotel room or a motel room or something
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So it just depends how you look at something. Yeah, if I can comment, you know, when I share your story, I say, all the people that I've
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known that have every reason not to have gratitude is David Brooke
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I mean, you know, I share obviously, I hope it's okay, but, you know, some of the challenges you've had in your past with, you know, your father and your mom and your wife
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And I said, here's the one guy who should be able to say, screw you, you know, I've gotten a short end of the stick and blah, blah, blah
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And yet he comes out as that gratitude guy. So that's particularly poignant to me
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Thank you, D.B. And on a completely different note, my son Connor was extremely impressed with you
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Just so you know, as we drive away in our RV, says, how did you meet that guy
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When did you know him? I said, Connor, I met Doug way before you ever came around
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We go back to the 70s. But no, but thank you. And it's just, to me, we all have our battles and our journeys and all that kind of thing
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And you just try so hard to, you know, I try not to get too religious
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I've had a lot of companies say to me now, and you're not going to bring up God, are you when you're talking and the thing that I always tell them I says well if you don't want me to
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that's fine but I believe that you're given what you can handle and I think that for me and for
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others in this very room we're given what we can handle and you know there's other people that
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get a hang nail and have to go to a psychiatrist you know so it's just they're just you're kind
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of given what you can handle so I have a comment and a question David yes sir so for people that
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say somebody died you can say well did you owe them any money
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That's pretty good. That is a good thing that they're dead. And then my question is, the reason I came is because I'm afraid to be myself because people might not like me
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Any advice on that? So, Jad, you are such a classic example of they broke the mold
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Get that mold over here for this Sajad guy. Where's the hammer? Just break it up
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We're never making another one of these guys. No, you're, see, what I like about you is that you have a very distinctive personality, very, very edgy, whatever you want to call it
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But the most important thing is you're who you are. And I'm not going to say who this, I'm relating this to, but I have an older brother
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I don't want to say, it's, I shouldn't say who it is, but it's my older brother who agrees with everybody in the room
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It doesn't matter. I love Sajad, I love Sajad. I can't stand Sajad. I can't stand them either
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And I go, take a freaking stand. says don't just can you be somebody so be yourself everybody else has taken they always say
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and just be proud of who you are you know and it's just it makes you're very memorable and I think
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people I think it cool to be memorable I think there nothing sadder than people do you remember meeting my friend so No Mm Mm And even impression So be fair only 96 of people hate me but
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they're poor and stupid. Rich, smart people like me. The pretty girls like me. I always
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I always love where you get the stats. Do you have the data for that? I just made it up right now
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Of course you just made it. And you call Bruce Kaufman and get that on a spreadsheet. I want to see it
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I can do that. He's one of my clients. I can't have a hundred dollars
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Seventy-five percent of facts are made up. Yes. Bill Burr has a joke about that
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I went to 1-800 support myclaim.com and found the data to support what I went to say
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That's funny. Mr. D, anything interesting? Everything's still good in Portland? Yeah
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Yeah, everything's great. I'm glad I got to see Mark again. And what a great group of people you have
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Very impressed. Thank you. Very glad I came. I mean, for me, gratitude is in my DNA
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Yeah. And as you know me, I also play the long game
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So patience is also a virtue. Yeah. Oh, for sure, for sure
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Nathan, any comments from you? helps if I unmute myself. No, just happy to be here
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I'm happy you're here. Yeah. I mean, you invited me and I thought, ooh, this sounds really interesting
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I want to check it out. I mean, I know a lot of the people here, so it's very helpful
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In the breakout room I was in with Jim and Derek, and I'm sorry, I forgot the name of the other woman, but it was very helpful
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And your questions were good. Thank you. a good reminder to me because I haven't been as grateful as I could be about certain things
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because a lot of hardship as a plate. And I need to remind myself of that. One thing I did was
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right after you started talking about it, I made a little note to myself on my phone
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which is cultivate patience. That's one of my worst flaws. I'm not a patient person. And it was
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another reminder of that. So what do you do anything that helps with that
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Remind myself about it more than anything. Yeah. I mean, I mean, when I was an art school
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it was the same problem. My biggest problem was being impatient, which would cause me to screw up
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But if I force myself to slow down, then everything worked. Well, and it's so important, too
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I push, push, push the gratitude journal. And one of the things on the gratitude journal at the
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bottom of the left page, it says the highlight of your day. So one of the highlights in my day
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yesterday was talking to my good friend Sam Rehan and Great Britain that had a chance that I haven't
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talked to her in a while. And we had a Zoom call for, I think it was a pretty brief half hour or so
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And so I'm now, but it just reminds you when you think, what was the highlight of your day
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And you think about that. And then I talked to my younger son and that's always a highlight
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And just anything else that comes up there, it can really blunt the effects of, of
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of the impatience and different things they can come up to in the negativity by overwhelming
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it with positives. And in fact, actually, when I think about the highlight of the day, sometimes I have to stop
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and think about it. And oh, that's right. I did this or had this talk this morning
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And like today, the highlight of my day for tomorrow, for yesterday, for tomorrow
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for tomorrow for today will be the Golden Gate Breakfast Club talk and then the gratitude
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infusion mastermind. And then I have another talk here in 15 minutes, which is just in so
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saying I was telling STK, I have no idea what I plan today, which is ridiculous, because it's
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just like, you know, being on stage and you're kind of drained afterwards, but it's all good
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But I just think, and this was a theme that came up a little bit about having the good overwhelm the negative
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And just there's so much you can't really think about that. So hopefully something like that will help Nathan because you're constantly focusing on the blessings and
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abundance and that can make a difference. David, may I say something positive to help them out
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Sure. Nathan, if you ever feel sad, just think you're almost as smart and good looking as me
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and then you feel better about yourself. So, John, just to know, just so you know
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So, John, your humor is only surpassed by your good looks and extreme intelligence
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You should see the way that you feel better, not that you need to feel better
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but as this group has grown from 10 or 15 people to, you know, 20, 25, 30, whatever it might be
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I can always tell, hey, I love to talk to the day. So how you meant? Good
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Good. Say, what's the story with the, what's this? And I always know what's coming
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What's the story with that one guy says is black Jesus Christ or something
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I was and it's all. Oh, yeah, that's the John. Yeah, well, he was in my group and he was a trip
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And it's always the same person. So you've made an name for yourself, as you know
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Well, I heard, I used to go by Jesus was black as my screen name
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but I found out that offended with stupid white people. So I changed my name to your mom's side piece
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So that I don't upset. That was an improvement. Thank you. Thank you
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I hope white people like me better now. Have a good day, guys. Hey, David, can I share one thing
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And I know you've got to go. But on this patience thing, I'm working with a coach
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And what she's having me do is the patient's thing is mostly in your head, right
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You know, the mind is going. is to take the physical and like a somatic response
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So like feel your feet on the ground, feel your butt in the seat
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and it just causes you to slow down for a second. And obviously that's a short-term reaction to patient versus, you know, long-term goals
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But this idea of just sort of physically tying the physical and, you know, kind of feeling
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where is that in patience, where you feel? feeling that in your body. So that's been helpful to me. That's neat. That's neat. I've got to get
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going, but I got it ready to talk in 12 minutes. But Rob, I wanted to mention to you, I'd love to
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meet offline to help you fill your group because you were mentioning, and I don't know what happened
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to your speaker or whatever, but that's something that STK and I've talked about a lot. And it's just
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it's amazing, the efforts that you have to make to get people, and especially when I'm proud
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of what we've developed here, but to be, oh, I didn't know was going to be this good. Well, I tried to
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tell you this is whatever. And so let me know. And let me know and let's do a Zoom call or something
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I'll do what I can to help you. Sure. All right. Perfect. Appreciate it. All right. Thanks
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everybody. We'll see you next month. Take care. Bye. Good, love to me. Bye. Bye-bye
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