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If I just get this promotion, I'll be okay.
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If he or she goes out with me, I'll be happy.
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If God blesses this area of my life,
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then I'll be able to do more.
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Do these things sound familiar?
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Have you ever found yourself waiting on something to happen
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before you decide to take action?
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And if you have, how often has that worked out for you?
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Yeah, I thought so.
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Well, don't fret, because on today's episode,
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we're going over a character who doesn't waste time
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and is all about action.
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And of course, talking about the future warrior Trunks.
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Hey, what's going on, guys?
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My name is Nate, and you're listening to the Otaku Liberation,
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a show where we help you break free from the chains
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that are holding you back in your life
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by connecting biblical principles with themes
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from your favorite anime.
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And the show is called Otaku Liberation.
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And it's a show where we help you break free from the chains
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that are holding you back in your life
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by connecting biblical principles with themes
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from your favorite anime.
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And the show is called Otaku Liberation.
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And it's a show where we help you break free from the chains
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that are holding you back in your life
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by connecting biblical principles with themes
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from your favorite anime.
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And the verse I'm going over today is Joshua chapter 1,
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verse 9.
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And it says, haven't I commanded you?
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Be strong and courageous.
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Do not be afraid or discouraged, for the Lord your God
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is with you wherever you go.
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All right, let's get into it.
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So that verse I just read, it pretty much kind of
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says, do what you need to do, right?
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You've already been called, you've already been commanded.
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You know what it is that you need to do,
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because it's been placed on your spirit, on your heart.
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And now you just got to execute.
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I mean, that's all you have to do.
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And when I was thinking about that,
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Trunks is the best example I can ever think of
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in Dragon Ball, right?
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And any of you guys who know the story of Dragon Ball,
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Dragon Ball Z, things like that,
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you know, the typical Saiyan mindset is to,
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you know, one, always push yourself and always, you know,
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try to be at your best.
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You want your best to beat your opponent's best.
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And in a one-on-one setting, that makes a lot of sense.
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Like if you're, if only your life is at stake
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or if it's only your own pride or whatever you want to call
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it, if it's just affecting you, then yeah, by all means,
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you know, let your opponent, you know, show their final form
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or you get to the pinnacle of their power so you can test
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yourself, by all means.
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But nine times out of 10 in the series of Dragon Ball,
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it's not just you, it's the lives of pretty much everyone
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in the entire world, sometimes the universe that's at stake.
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And those types of selfish tendencies can't be had.
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And Goku, Vegeta, and sometimes Gohan have all fallen victim
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to this mindset where I want my opponent to be at their best
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so I can beat them, regardless of what is at stake
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if I lose.
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And that, for me growing up as a fan of the show,
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that was always a vexing mindset to me because again,
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like I said, if it's just you, you're the only one of all,
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okay, sure.
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But when there's other people involved in that,
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there's no need for that type of, not even hesitation,
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but type of waiting, right?
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And that's where Trunks, specifically the future Trunks,
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comes into play where his mindset is the exact opposite
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of that.
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He shows up, he knows what he needs to get done,
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and he's going to do it.
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There's no waiting around for them to get stronger.
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There's none of that.
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He's literally all about that action.
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And honestly, that's why he's my favorite character
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in the entire series, is because he shows up,
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he knows what he needs to do when he's going to do it,
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regardless of what everybody else says.
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Even if he fails at it, he's still going to keep on going
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until he succeeds.
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And to kind of give a little backstory on that mindset
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and how that shaped who he is right now,
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is kind of go back to the beginning,
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which is in the future,
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even though we're talking about the present, right?
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I know it's confusing, but you know, time travel.
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So Trunks, for those who don't know,
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Trunks is the son of Vegeta,
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who I've already done the episode on,
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and Bulma, who's Vegeta's wife at the time.
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And this Trunks was born into a future
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where they had these killer androids.
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They were created by this organization
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called the Red Ribbon Army, a terrorist group, more or less.
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anybody who was able to fight them,
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essentially because they're robots.
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So they don't get tired.
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They have limitless energy.
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So the fighters who they were fighting were mortal,
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and basically just beat him out in a battle of attrition.
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And when it came down to it,
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Trunks was the only one left
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who was even close enough to fight Trunks and Gohan.
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Because in this future,
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Gohan trained Trunks on how to fight,
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how to become a Super Saiyan, things like that.
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And he was his mentor, his mentor figure,
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because Goku was dead, Vegeta was dead,
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Piccolo, Krillin, all the characters who,
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we've come to know at this point
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where I haven't all been killed off.
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And it was just Gohan and Trunks.
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And so that type of dystopian era that Trunks lived in,
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it forced him to mature quickly.
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He had to grow up at a pace quicker
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than his present counterpart has.
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He didn't have, the only family he had was Bulma and Gohan.
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And everyone else was dead and killed off.
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And that, being growing up in that type of scenario,
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it really helped Trunks decide,
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okay, this is do or die time, right?
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There's no time for hesitation.
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There's no time for, you know,
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essentially freezing up in your process.
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Like you need to make a decision
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about how you want to live your life
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and what you need to do to accomplish that, right?
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In this case, it was taking on the androids.
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So when Trunks decided he wanted to fight,
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he's like, how am I going to get there?
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So Gohan trained him.
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he was willing and he was definitely willing
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to go out and at least attempt.
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And, but unfortunately, Gohan ends up dying to the androids,
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which, you know, inadvertently caused Trunks
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to turn to a Super Santa, which, you know,
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their powerful form or things like that,
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for those who don't know.
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And that, and then that moment is when it really
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kind of hit him home.
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So, okay, these things need to go, you know,
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they've taken literally everything from me
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and there's no, I can't sit back and keep letting this happen.
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So, I mean, it helps to shape his decision-making
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and he started planning, okay, what am I going to do?
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So how am I going to do this?
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And, you know, him and his mom came up with the idea
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to go back in the past to, you know,
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help Goku and Vegeta in the past.
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So this future doesn't come to pass.
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And, because the main part I want to get across
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is that he planned, right?
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Because when we were talking about taking action
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and doing what it takes, that doesn't mean, you know,
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you just go, you know, boss of the wall, full tilt,
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you know, just flying by the seat of your pants, right?
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No, that's not what we're saying.
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I'm saying to take the time to think and plan out,
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plan some milestones.
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Now, you don't have to take each and every step
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you're going to take or each and every moment of the day,
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things like that, because then you'll never,
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you're never going to get started
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because you're too busy planning all the time.
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But what I'm saying is maybe draw like an outline,
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couple bullet points, a couple, you know, goal markers,
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you know, for something that's a month away,
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two months, six months a year, things like that,
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and then work backwards from there.
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That way you can take the action,
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but you're not just going in blind either.
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If that, you know, hopefully that makes sense
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for you guys.
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And again, in the approach that Trunks took,
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he knew he was like, okay,
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I can't beat these guys by myself.
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So let me at least, let me figure out a way
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to prevent this from happening in the first place, right?
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That's the problem solving.
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That's figuring out, that's figuring out
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what the end goal is.
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And then he immediately went to work.
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They built the time machine.
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He went back to the past and he started helping them out.
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And again, so that's really, he had no hesitation.
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He wasn't waiting to take the action that he needed.
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You know, he didn't, and again,
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back to the whole sand mindset where they normally wait
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for people to power up and things like that, you know,
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Trunks has never waited for a photo to power up.
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He doesn't sit there, you know,
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just embasking in his own glory.
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He's like, he's very realistic.
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He's like, no, this needs to stop.
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It needs to happen now.
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And I feel like we can learn a lot from that, right?
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Cause how many of us have had, you know,
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goals or dreams or visions, whatever you want to call them,
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that, you know, like a future or a life
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that you envisioned that like, yep, I want to do that.
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I can do that.
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I know I can, but you never pull the trigger.
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You never go forward with it.
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You never decide to execute on just the first step,
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not even a whole plan.
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Like you don't have to have the whole thing planned out,
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but you are too afraid to take the first step.
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And so now the dream is always going to be a dream
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and you're going to wake up one day and realize
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that you've wasted all this time
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because you're waiting for the perfect moment
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that's never going to come.
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I mean, that's the reality of it, right?
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You wait for a perfect moment.
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You say when the stars align, when I get this bonus,
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when I get this promotion,
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when I get in that relationship, you know,
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all these, you know, when, when, when I, when I, when I,
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instead of just like, I am, I'm going to do this now.
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I'm going to do this, you know, do these three things now,
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do this one thing now, whatever it is, right?
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We all have our own goals.
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We all have our own lives
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and things we're trying to strive for.
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But I know for me, I'm honestly, case of point,
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this podcast was one thing that I felt like
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God put a vision on my heart for it to, to start it,
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to share honestly something I've been doing now,
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thinking about my entire life,
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whereas looking at anime and the characters in them
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and really dissecting them and how they think and the,
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and their, you know, morality, their personalities,
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things like that, and what motivates them
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and find pieces that I can relate to.
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And then things I can apply to my own life, right?
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Cause I know a lot of people specifically, you know,
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like fitness people, you know,
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they can say Dragon Ball in general,
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but specifically Goku and Vegeta have encouraged them to,
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you know, train hard in the gym
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and may work more in their martial arts, you know,
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just that mind, that grind, that grind mindset.
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And what I wanted to do is making a broader thing
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from just, you know, those specific characters
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or this specific anime and just,
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and turn it into something that people can,
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can readily relate to.
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Not everyone can see those types of things, right?
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When you, when you're watching the show,
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so you just want to watch, just to watch it, right?
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And you don't want to dissect and do all those things.
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And so, and I get it, trust me, I do.
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So that's why I figured, hey,
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why not do it for the people out there, right?
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And I just, all, all that I could do is just pray
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that you guys learn something from it
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and that it motivates you in some form or fashion.
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But if I was, if I would,
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you got caught up in all the details, like, okay,
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how am I going to sound on the mic?
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You know, are people going to like the way,
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like the way my voice is?
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Are they going to relate to the message?
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Which anime should I do?
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You know, should I do this character
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or maybe I should do this?
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You know, all the what ifs and the questions
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and all the, the mind fog that comes with it.
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And I caught myself before I went down that rabbit hole
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and it was like, okay, nope.
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All I'm going to do is, you know,
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just get the equipment and start recording and here we go.
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Right. And, but again, granted,
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I didn't just do it by the seat of my pants.
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I wasn't just randomly doing it.
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I have outlined for each of these episodes that I do
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when I choose the anime and I choose the characters,
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I go in and I find, A, what's the theme I want to do?
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Which character best fits that theme within,
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within the anime?
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And then I look at their personalities, different things
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from the episodes.
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Sometimes I rewatch, rewatching the anime
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so I can get a better feel for the characters.
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And then I find some, some verses in the Bible
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that talks about these things and trying to all
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put it together in a nice, you know,
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wrap it up in a nice bow as best as I can. Right.
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And whether it hits or misses, I don't know.
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All I know is it's my job to hit record
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and start, start talking.
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And that's just, that's been my experience, you know,
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just that's been close to my heart and here recently
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is just, again, just don't be afraid to start. Right.
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Any of you start off wrong, at least you'll know
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so you can start over and do it the right way.
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But if you never start, then you'll never know.
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And honestly, that's where our biggest regrets come from
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is not doing something and being wrong
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is the regret of not doing it in the first place.
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And let you guys sit with that for a minute
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because I'm sure you think about so many times in your past
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you know, the what it could have, should have, right.
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Very, I mean, I wish I would have done this, man.
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I could have done that, but I didn't.
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I should have done this, but you know, this got in the way.
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You know, whatever the excuse was at the time
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it sounded good to us in the moment.
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But now we're looking back on it, you know,
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two years, 10 years, 15, 20 years later.
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And now you, now you're stuck in the
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what it could have, should have phase, you know,
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trying to beat yourself down and, you know,
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and I don't want you to go there and to stay there,
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but it's good to go back and to really understand the past
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so you can have some insight,
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but not let it hold you captive there, right.
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Cause we need to learn from our mistakes.
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We need to learn from our past.
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That's one of the ways we get better, right.
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That's not the only way we get better in all honesty
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is to learn from the mistakes and to be willing to make them
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and not be afraid to make them either.
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I know it's easier said than done.
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Trust me, I'm still working on it,
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but don't let your past hold you back.
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Don't let it hold you in that, you know, in that regret.
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Because, you know, we're all striving to get better
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at least 1% each and every day.
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And if we dwell too much on the past
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and we're going to end up living there
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and we end up going backwards.
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And I don't want that for you guys, I really don't.
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So what I really want you guys to understand is to,
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you know, be adaptable, be adaptable,
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respond to the current situation
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and then change accordingly.
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And one of the ways that Trunks did this
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is that when he went back into the past
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and he, you know, he made sure Goku survived
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the heart disease that would have killed him
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and he started finding the androids,
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but things were different than what Trunks grew up
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and what he remembered, right.
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Cause when he initially came back to the past,
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he thought, honestly, he thought he knew
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what was going to happen because, you know,
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again, he's from the future.
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And I would say about 95% of the time he was right,
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but there were certain things that were different
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that he didn't account for.
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Like for instance, there were, I think I told you,
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like three other androids that he didn't know existed
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when he went back to the past.
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And as well as, you know, with Cell,
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who's the main villain of that saga and his existence
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and his transformations that came after us, right.
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So there were things, there were bumps in the road
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that Trunks didn't account for, but he didn't dwell on it.
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He didn't let that, you know, break his stride.
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He took into account, he said, okay,
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so this isn't exactly what I expected it to be,
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but let me take in the zoom information,
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go back to the drawing board and see how much of my plan
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do I need to change, if anything at all.
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And I mean, Ozzy, the game plan really didn't change.
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He went back to help Goku and them, you know,
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they trained and then they overcame these new obstacles,
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right, I mean, because at the end of the day,
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they all, they won.
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And that's something that I really think we should all
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really focus on is just being adaptable
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because we can't see the future, or at least I can,
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maybe you can, you know, if you can, you know,
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write in the comments and tell my fortune, please.
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But I know for the vast majority of us,
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we can't see the future, right?
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We can make educated guesses as best as we can,
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but at the end of the day, you know,
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life is gonna do what life is gonna do, right?
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We can't make something up, we can make our own,
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we can make our own future by focusing on the present, right?
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And that future is one, what we think in our heads,
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you know, both the future and the past, honestly,
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they're both glorified in some form or fashion,
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and the future is always better than what we think
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it's gonna be, and the past typically is,
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oh, sorry, let me backtrack.
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The future in our minds is better than
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what it's actually gonna be, and then the past
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in our minds is worse than what it actually was, right?
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Because we don't remember everything with 100% accuracy.
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And so life throws us those curve balls
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and that layoff happens, the breakup happens,
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and say the divorce happens,
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when things like that we don't foresee.
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That's when the test happens, that's when we realize,
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okay, are we going to just retreat into our minds
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and just be by ourselves and just be stuck in this place?
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Because I don't know about you,
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I don't wanna be stuck in a place of pain.
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That doesn't feel good to me.
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I don't want to be there, but so many of us,
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so many times when we do get hurt,
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when we do, whether it's our own fault,
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somebody else inflicted that pain upon us,
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we choose to stay there.
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Now I'm not saying to not grieve
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and to not take that time, by all means do it,
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because we have to process those things.
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But if we stay in it, then all we're doing
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is just making it worse and hurting ourselves.
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And some things are easier to move forward from than others,
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and some things are gonna take more time than others,
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but you still have to, you still gotta move forward,
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because life's gonna go on.
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The earth's still gonna spin,
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the sun's still gonna rise and fall,
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and we just can't, we can't dwell on it.
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Because in the end of the day, it's not productive,
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it's not gonna do anything,
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it's not gonna change what happened,
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and it's not gonna change you going forward.
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So I really, really, really encourage you guys
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to just really take in the aspect of being adaptable.
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Rolling with the punches, taking everything in stride
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the best as you can.
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And if you can't do it by yourself,
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find someone who can do it with you, right?
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Find some good friends or family,
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whoever it is that you trust more than anything else
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to just be there with you,
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to help you get through that difficult time,
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get through whatever it is that life threw at you.
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And don't hesitate, right?
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Once you take the time, once you reflect,
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once you decide that you're gonna get back out there,
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that you're gonna move forward, go.
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Just go, move.
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Don't sit there, don't try to wait
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for the perfect opportunity that's never gonna come.
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Get up, move your feet, and go forward, right?
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And then you wanna plan it out, have a rough draft,
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and then make revisions as you need going forward.
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You know, again, nothing's perfect,
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you're not perfect, and I'm not perfect.
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None of us are perfect.
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And honestly, that's the beauty of it all, man.
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I mean, it's exciting when you think about it
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in a new light, it's like, hey,
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I'm not sure what the day's gonna bring,
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but I'm gonna take everything in stride,
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and hey, I might learn something new,
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whether about myself or about the world.
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And I can use that going forward, right?
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And that knowledge may come up later on
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and help you out.
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You just never know, right?
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So again, the summary and the moral of this story is that,
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you guys, don't hesitate, don't be afraid.
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Take your challenges head on and really just move forward.
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Just move forward, don't be afraid, just keep it going.
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All right, so thank you guys for tuning in
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to today's episode.
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I pray that you got what you needed out of it,
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and hopefully that you learned something new about yourself
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and what you can do going forward.
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I hope you guys subscribe to the podcast and leave a review.
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I love reading you guys' comments,
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and it helps me improve each and every episode.
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And always remember, you are the main character
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of your story, and that story doesn't end until he says so.
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All right, a few less.
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And I'll see you guys next time.
