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You know, it's not about how you start, but how you finish.
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You know, you're not responsible for your current circumstances,
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but you are responsible for staying there.
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And today we're going to look at a character who is the, you know, the perfect icon for this,
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where they didn't let their circumstances keep them where they were.
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They actually crawled up from the very bottom to get to the point where they're actually
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one of the strongest characters to ever exist.
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And of course, I'm talking about no one else but Son Goku.
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Hey, what's going on guys? 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 that are holding you back in your life
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by connecting some biblical principles with themes from your favorite anime.
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But without further ado, let's get right on into it.
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Son Goku, Goku, Goku, Goku.
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And if you've never heard of this character before, then I don't know where you've been the last,
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what, 30 something years.
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Because Goku is the main character of the Dragon Ball franchise.
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You may have seen Dragon Ball Z, Dragon Ball Super, GT,
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the OG Dragon Ball.
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You know, any of that Goku is the main character and the main protagonist.
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And like I said earlier, he is the definition of, started from the bottom, now he's here, right?
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And looking at Goku's journey is really interesting because over just, again,
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the last 30 some odd years or so, even more than that,
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we've actually gotten to see his progression from being this quote unquote low class Saiyan
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to being literally one of the strongest beings in the entire verse.
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And it was not an easy role by any means for him.
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I mean, he made it look easy because he's kind of a genius when it comes to this stuff, but
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even with his natural talent with fighting and being able to get stronger, things like that,
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he still had to work for it. He still had to work towards the goal of
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just being stronger than what he already was.
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And that's an homage to his incredible, incredible work ethic.
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Because Goku has never been shy about working hard ever in his life.
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Even when he was a kid, he first started training under Master Roshi, his first master.
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And despite all the crazy training Roshi had him and Goku, his Goku's best friend Krillin doing,
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Goku never complained. He did everything in stride, he did everything with a smile.
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And he actually looked forward to the challenge, right?
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Which I know for me, I'm still working on that aspect of looking forward to the challenge.
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I know most of my life I've been pretty good about just stepping up to the challenge,
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doing whatever it is I need to do to get stuff done.
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But to be able to look forward to it, to the next thing, that's...
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Yeah, I know Goku may be a little crazy about that. I'm not too sure.
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But it's just really awe-inspiring, at least for me it is, right?
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No matter what is happening, no matter how many setbacks he's had or he has to go through,
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or he's gone through, I should say, Goku always keeps coming back for more.
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Ready and willing for more at that. He's never shied away from any battle, any type of training,
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any enemy. He's always ready. He's ready at all times.
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And that is a superpower that I honestly wish I had, is just to be, you know, all right.
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Oh, so I guess this bad thing's happening to me today? Okay.
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I guess I'm stuck in traffic today. All right, whatever.
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It's on to the next one. Let's keep going.
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And just have that mindset about it.
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No matter what's happening to you, you know you're going to accomplish your goal at the end of the
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day. And it just... Oh, man. I'm maybe gushing a little bit because Dragon Ball is one of the
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first animes I've ever watched. And I'm sure the same thing can be said for a lot of people out
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there who watch anime. I'm sure Dragon Ball or maybe Sailor Moon, Inuyasha, you know,
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Yu Yu Hakusho, some of those are probably the first ones that you've watched. And they kind of set
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the tone and pace for everything that came after. And I mean, that's why Dragon Ball is kind of
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considered the granddaddy of modern anime because it was really one of the first ones that made it
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popular over here in the West. And honestly, I like the attribute to the fact that of characters
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like Goku, right? Because I don't know how many Jim Montagos, you know, have watched anime.
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But I think the gym montages I've seen where, you know, people have, you know, like some sand gear,
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whether it's Goku or Vegeta, and just the whole never quit mentality. Because this mentality isn't
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unique to Goku. It's in the entire race. But we see it more from him because he was born a low class
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warrior, but he still had that tenacity to succeed. He... Not to the point where he'll win at all costs,
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but he's going to push himself to the very limit in order to get to that next level. And that's
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something that I wish more of us had, or at least more of us had access to, to get to that point,
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right? And some of us may get there later on in our lives, but the earlier you start, the easier
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it's going to be. And it doesn't mean it's going to be easy. It's just going to be a little easier.
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And it really is all... It's just this mindset. Because again, we are our biggest enemies. We are
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our biggest naysayers, our biggest obstacles. Are we... The only person I get in the way of your own
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success is you. That's it. No one else can take it from you. No one else can really hinder you.
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And if they are hindering you, it's because you're letting them in some form or fashion.
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And really just getting that mindset, the mindset shifts to and say, okay, forget the excuses.
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I'm going to tackle these obstacles head on and figure out a way to get past them.
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At the end of the day, that's pretty much it, right? It's just figuring out how to get past
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whatever object, whatever thing is holding you back, whatever thing is getting in your way.
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You may not be getting held back. It just may be a bump in the road because life happens,
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life throws us curve balls all the time. Nothing's ever a smooth road. But it's all in how you deal
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with it. You can sit there, you can cry and complain about it. But at the end of the day,
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complaining does nothing. Nothing's going to happen if you just complain about it.
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It's probably not going to go away. You're not going to get any closer to your goal. You're just
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sitting there wasting time and energy in all honesty. And so at least that's how I view it.
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At least that's how I view it. That's just my own personal vision and how I view complaining
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in general. I'd much rather spend that time and energy trying to come up with a plan to
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move forward or you might have to pivot. Maybe you can't get past this obstacle right now.
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Maybe it's something that just right now isn't the time for you to take that on. To me, you need to
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pivot and have a shift a little. Not saying you have to go all the way back to the beginning,
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but maybe you need to try a different way. You try something else. Just play around with it.
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Just use some critical thinking and problem-solving skills. Because again,
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that's a better use of our time than just complaining about it.
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And for me, one of the company things I've always felt, one of the verses I always keep going back
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to, and this one actually just speaks directly to Goku's whole work ethic thing is Philippians
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chapter 4 verse 13. It says, I am able to do all things through him who strengthens me.
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Short, sweet, to the point. Basically, we're able to do everything because we're connected to God,
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we're connected to our purpose, we're connected to our source. And he can do everything. It says
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we're connecting to him. That means we can do everything. Now, it may not look the same.
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Actually, it's not going to look the same because we're not him, right? We can't just
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snap our fingers and have stuff done. But that's where the faith comes in, right? The faith comes
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into where even though I don't see, I can't see how I'm going to get past this, I don't know how
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I'm going to get past it, I trust that I will get past it because it's already been written.
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Like, literally just read it to you. We can do all things through him who strengthens us, right?
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And our job, our role in that is to basically just take the steps, keep going forward,
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just keep going forward and not be afraid to suffer a little bit, to have a little bit of pain
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because to get better at anything, to go forward, to level up at whatever saying you want to use,
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it always comes with some setbacks and then it comes with a little bit of pain.
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That's just how life is, right? It's all in how you respond to the pain, you know? And yeah,
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that's what it means. Pretty much, yeah, we all got to go through it and it's best to go through
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it with an attitude and say, okay, well, no matter what happens to me, I know I'm going to
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get through this. I mean, it'll just change your perspective on a lot of things. And it can also
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lead you to really be the change that you want to see because it's easy to expect other people to do
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things, but it's hard for you to do it, for you to be the one to start it off. And what I mean by
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that is, you know, if you want to see kindness in other people, then be kind, right? You want to see
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generosity in other people, then be generous. Like it all starts with us. It starts with movement,
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you know, nothing's going to happen if there's no trigger, right? And the trigger is you doing
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something. And in regards to Goku, and Goku was always, he's a man of his word. And you can say
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that's due to his naivety over the world, because of how he was raised. Because for those who don't
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know, Goku was raised on earth by an old man named Gohan. And Gohan lived in like a mountain hut,
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like away from civilization. So for the longest time, it was just them two. And, you know, Gohan
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taught Goku basically, you know, like how to communicate and speak and things like that. But
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Goku set up on his adventure, he was still super young, he had no experience with any other person
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outside of Gohan. So a lot of these things he had to learn and, you know, come and be acclimated to
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as he was growing up, even to this point. I mean, Goku's like in his 40s now, and he's still,
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there's still some things that he's not quick on uptake about. And for better or for worse, that
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leaves him, he's just a very, he's a straight shooter. He's very honest. And he's never going
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to really deceive you by any means, because he doesn't seem to need to, doesn't see the need to.
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And, and that's a quality I wish more of us had, honestly, just being a straight shooter, being
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impeccable with our own words and just saying, hey, you know, this, this is what it is like,
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whether you like it or not, this is me, this is what, this is what I believe in, this is what I,
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I'm going to do, you know, this is what I'm not going to do and just leave it at that. There's
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no need to be kind of, you know, just wishy washy and things like that. And I understand that takes
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time to get there. Most people don't get there until, you know, they're well into adulthood.
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And after they've experienced life and they've, you know, experience what life has to offer and
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what it doesn't have to offer, right. They've just lived more, you know, some people who are
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my age and younger, we don't really get that right. Or at least we, we think we do, but we really
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don't. And it's going to take time. And all that just comes with experience, right? Cause these,
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these types of changes, these changes that you want to see, the changes that you want to be,
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they all take time, right? It can take a little bit of time. It can take a lot of time, but no
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matter what, it's still going to take time to get there. And once we understand that, once we become
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okay with it, become okay with the process. And that's why you hear a lot of the motivational
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gurus and guys and girls like that say, you know, we've got to fall in love with the process because
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also that's going to take up more of your time than getting to the end goal is. So once you get
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to the goal, that's it. That's just a brief, a fleeting moment in, in time and in history
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where you say, I finally got this goal. Cool. I feel good. I did it. Now what? Right. Whereas
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the journey to get there, it's going to take significantly more. It's going to be more than
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just a fleeting moment in time. It's actually going to take hours, days, months, years,
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however long it's going to take. And during that time, if you, if you hate the process and you're
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not, you're not going to do it. You're just not, it's not going to pan out the way that you think
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it is because you have to find something that you love within the process in order to get to the
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goal. And you know, that's just, that's something I am still learning. It's a fine, fine tune,
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my process and whatever it is I'm doing, whether it's this podcast, whether there's something for
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work or any other business ventures I'm doing, it's finding something within the process that I,
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that I love. I just love to, whether it's something I love to do or to think about or write or just
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some aspect of it that I love, because that's what's really going to push me to, to keep going,
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to keep going and to keep being the change, you know, and it's all starts back to movement.
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You got to move or you want something to happen. You know, another kind of aspect that I think we
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all can learn from Goku is, you know, repaying your debts and repaying your debts and being
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compassionate to others. Cause Goku doesn't, he doesn't like having to owe people for whatever
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the case may be. If someone has saved him once before, he's going to make sure to pay it back,
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to pay it forward, honestly, and always, just to always be there for somebody. And then again,
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his compassion, it kind of goes back to him being just a straight, the straight shooting fellow that
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he is. Goku just loves people. I mean, he really does. He may not understand them all the time,
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but he loves them. He loves them to say he loves even former enemies like Piccolo and Vegeta,
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and even Yamcha at one point, Goku has grown to love them as they're his friends, right? Some of
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the closest friends he's, he's ever had. And even when they were enemies, Goku still chose to spare
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them, which, you know, inadvertently made them allies later on down the road. Now he didn't spare
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them because he, he thought that, you know, okay, maybe there'll be a good help to us one day. He
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just spared them because Goku doesn't like needless bloodshed. Now granted, in the case of Piccolo
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and Vegeta, he could have easily justified killing them because they were literally there to kill
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everybody, but that's neither here nor there. But you know, Goku's heart is just a pure one. He never
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has any mal intentions or anything like that. And he's just, again, what you see is what you get.
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That's pretty much it. What you see is what you get. And in today's day and age, that's so rare.
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That's so rare to find. It really, really is to really meet somebody and just be that, what you
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see is what you get with them. There's no ulterior motive. There's no, you know, underlining scheme
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or something like that. And keep in mind, these things don't have to be bad per se. They may have
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a different intention, but it's not to harm you or to harm anybody else. They just have a different
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goal in mind, right? That's just kind of, you know, that's how like negotiations and things like that
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happen on a business front or something, political people are talking, things like that. There's
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always something else going on and it's not necessarily a bad thing, but it's not an honest
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thing either. And I just think it's just refreshing to be able to have a conversation with somebody
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or to even be that person who's just, you know, this is the, I'm not hiding anything, you know,
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I'm not holding anything back. I'm not wearing a mask. This is just, this is who I am. This is how
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I live my life. If you like it, sweet. If we don't, sweet. Either way, we're good. I'm going to move
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on with what I'm doing and you can tag along if you want or not. Like I don't, I don't really care.
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We're going to, this is what I'm going to do and this is how I'm going to go do it. And if more
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people were like that, oh man, I think we would all get along so much better instead of being as
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divided as we can be. And I just think the world would run a little bit smoother. Hey, maybe you
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can make your own Z fighter team, right? To have a bunch of people who just, you know, just some die
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hearts, right? You know, ride or die is for you and you, for them, everyone who has each other's back
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because they know what you're getting out of them and they know what they're getting out of you.
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And that breeds a foundation of trust and honestly companionship on a whole different level.
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So I encourage you guys to strive to be that person, you know, be the first one, right?
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Let's not be followers anymore. Let's be trendsetters, be the first, some of the first
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people out there to really show that compassion and to be the change that you want to see, be,
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be, you know, the kind, caring and honest and just straightforward, blunt even, maybe the,
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maybe just the blunt person that you want to see that you want to be around because
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whether people like it or not, even they may be upset and complain about it.
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At the end of the day, they're still going to respect it. They're going to respect the honesty
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and the, just the care enough for you to just be honest with them straightforward. You know,
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if it's going to hurt the feelings or hurt their ego, whatever the case may be, they may be mad
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now, but I guarantee you afterwards, they're going to be like, you know what? Thank you. Thank you
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for being that type of person who I can rely on no matter what's happening. And in that, honestly,
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to get there, that's going to take constant improvement, constant self work on, on, on you.
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Because again, all of these things, these, all of this thing, just getting better to being the
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type of person that can be relied on, the type of person that you want to see, all of this is a,
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is a journey, which is the theme for the Dragon Ball, the Dragon Ball series is, is just a journey.
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And that journey takes constant work, constant improvement. And that's where the, again, the
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process comes in because life, life is, life is a journey that we're all going through and to get
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better, to be better than what we were yesterday. It takes constant improvement. When I say constant,
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I mean 24 seven almost like, yeah, okay, maybe not 24 seven, whenever you go to sleep, but every
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waking moment is a constant effort, you know, a conscious choice to try to improve in something.
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That has to be everything at once, but improve in something. And, you know, part of that is
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part of that is combining your natural gifts with some practical knowledge. You know, what is it
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that you're good at? What is it that comes naturally to you? And then once you figure that out,
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how can you apply it to the real world? How can you, you know, make it, you know, better for people,
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you know, outside of yourself? The first figure, maybe figure out how to make it better for you
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and how you can use it. And also, okay, how can I expand this now? How can I reach out to more and
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more people? How can I make it better? Because, I mean, Goku's was a little unique. His was
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different because his natural gift is, you know, fighting, which all the Sans are, but he's
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unnaturally good at it for him. And the practical knowledge is really, okay, using his strength to
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defend his family and then the world that he lives in and eventually the universe and
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all this stuff to do right now. But at the base level of it, his natural gift is he's a
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genius when it comes to fighting and coming up with different, you know, strategies and ways to
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get stronger and overcome his opponents. And then the practical knowledge is just that, okay,
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using that as a force for good and being the quote unquote, like superhero of the verse, right?
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Because, you know, they're not really heroes, but you get what I'm saying.
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And, and of course, throughout all of this, always work hard, but remember what's truly important,
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right? Remember the reasoning, the reason why you're working so hard in the first place.
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I mean, I encourage all of you to whatever your goal is, whatever that you're striving for,
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is to write down two or three things that, that's going to be your motivation, your,
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your push on the days that you don't feel like doing it on the days that you don't feel like
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getting up and getting after it, that you can pull out that list and remind yourself, okay,
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I'm doing this for my grandma. I'm doing it for my son, my daughter, my husband, my wife,
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my dog, even my car. I mean, whatever it is to you, whatever it is that, you know,
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gets that fire going for you that if you don't succeed, if you don't succeed in this, that you,
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you know, you feel like that you'll let them down, whatever it is that it's going to push you
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past yourself, past the, because again, we're our own worst enemies and it's easy for us to
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talk ourselves out of something, right? But if we have something on the other,
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on the other side of that, something that means more to us than our own satisfaction,
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our own being comfortable, then we're more willing to push beyond that limit,
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push, push past what, what we think is our limit, what we think is we can't give any more.
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And then on the other side of that, it's just a well of, you know, really just, just power,
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I was just in, in, in keeping it in tandem with Dragon Ball, right? Because Goku's done this
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a couple of times. I think most of the characters have done it at least once or twice in there.
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It's case of point with Goku, he's signed as one enemy and the enemy was just beating Goku down.
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Like Goku can really do anything with this dude, but the enemy told him that he killed Goku's wife
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and child, you know, why he told him this, I don't know, but just, just to make him suffer more.
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But in that moment, Goku, again, remembered why he was fighting in the first place while he was
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even fighting his adversary. And then the rage that he felt from that pushed him to a new level
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that he hadn't tapped into previously. And he was able to fight evenly again. And again,
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there's just plenty of different moments like that throughout the entirety of the Dragon Ball
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series. And, but it's a, it's a reoccurring thing that, you know, once you remember why you're
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doing something, you know, what's truly important to you, what makes the, again, again, what lights
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the fire onto you, then that use that as your source, use that as something to push you forward.
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And I know for me, a lot of people out there listening, it is, I mean, it is Christ and God
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and it's the love that he shared for us and what he, what he sacrificed for us, you know, he sent
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his only son to die for all of us, even when we don't deserve it. Right. So just keeping that in
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the back of my mind is like, okay, I've been called to reach out to as many people as, as I possibly
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can. Right. For a long time, I didn't know what that meant. Still kind of don't know what that means.
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I'm just trying to figure it out, right. Seeing what works and what sticks and if something doesn't,
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okay, what can I take from it? And then go on to the next venture and see, and just really pushing
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myself to get outside of my comfort zone of being a natural introvert, you know, not really want to
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deal with people and not really wanting to communicate with people, but remembering what's
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important is that no matter how I feel, someone, there's someone out there who feels worse than me,
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there's someone out there who, who is just in a worse off spot than I am, who needs to hear my voice
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and the message that I'm sharing. And that might, that might help them get, just get through the day,
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you know, we never know. And that's the same for all of us. If we're too afraid to put ourselves
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out there, then, then we're too afraid to change. We're too afraid to be a change. And again,
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just be the change that you want to see. At the end of the day, just be the change that you want to
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see. If you want the world to be a better place, then start by being a better person,
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a little bit at a time, you know, day by day, breath by breath, it's not going to happen overnight.
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And it may not take as long as you think it will, but then at the end of the day,
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it's going to be worth it. It's going to be worth it. So again, just want to thank you guys for
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tuning into today's episode. I pray that you got what you needed out of it and that you learn
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something new about yourself and find out what it is that motivates you, what's going to get you
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pumped into the reach to the next level. Feel free to subscribe to the podcast and leave a review.
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I would love reading you guys' comments and it honestly does help me improve each and every
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episode. And again, always remember, you are the main character of your story and that story doesn't
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end until he says so. All right, be blessed.
