119 - Unstoppable! How Perseverance Leads to Success

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And we're talking about the power of perseverance. It's ironic. This is actually the last episode since I taken the break. Now. It actually is a tie.        

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A little bit of a time of perseverance for me right now, but anyway, I digress. Today we'll be talking about perseverance and endurance. Guys, why it's important, how it's exemplified in the Bible, and of course, fluff free guarantee practical ways to cultivate this endurance in the face of challenges and setbacks. So let's dive right into this week's episode. Why is perseverance so important in achieving success?        

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Well, perseverance is the key that unlocks the door to success. It allows us to push through obstacles, overcome failures, and continue moving forward despite setbacks. As the famous inventor Thomas Edison once said, and I will read it verbatim, many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up. In other words, most people give up too soon. Case in point, perseverance.        

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Perseverance, guys, it helps us to stay committed to our goals, committed to our dreams, even when the going gets tough. And I've got two examples of people who persevered in the Bible, because the Bible does provide numerous examples of perseverance. However, I'm going to only give you two examples just for sake of time. One such example is the story of Joseph. Now, Joseph, he was the beloved son of Jacob.        

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He was known for his colorful coat. Maybe you all have heard the story about it, but if not, real quick 30,000 foot summary. He had a colorful coat. However, he had some other brothers. They were jealous of him and they sold him into slavery out of envy.        

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Joseph was then taken to Egypt, where he then served as a slave in Potiphar's House. And so what happened was he went through a whole bunch of challenges and tribulations, including false rape, accusations and imprisonment. However, through all of that, joseph remained steadfast in his faith and remained devoted to God man throughout all of that. Shout out to our man Joseph out here. Now, Joseph had a gift as well.        

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He had an ability to interpret dreams. And that actually caught the attention of Pharaoh, who was the ruler of Egypt at that time. Now, Pharaoh was having some dreams and then people got wind that Joseph could interpret dreams. So Pharaoh said, a yo, bring Joseph here, bro. We bring Joseph.        

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Bring Joseph out here, bro. I need to know what these dreams are about. And so Joseph accurately interpreted Pharaoh's dream that he had, which was going to be foretelling of seven years of famine that was going to follow after they had seven years of plenty, which means they're going to have plenty of food, tons of harvest, and then after they're going to have seven years where they have nothing. So because of that, Pharaoh was so impressed by his wisdom, he said, you know what, Joseph? You a cool guy.        

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You're going to be second in command. Boom. He made him second in command. And guess what he allowed him to do? You allow him to oversee all of Egypt's grain storage.        

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And it was done so well, right? He's able to man that so well. They were actually able to not only have enough grain and food that they saved without those seven years of plenty, but when the seven years of famine came, they not only had enough for themselves, but they had enough to disperse. They had enough to be able to give to other people throughout those seven years, all the neighboring lands, they came to Egypt to buy grain because there was just that much. You know what's ironic also?        

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Who was going through that famine? Joseph's family. The same ones who were envious of him. They actually came to go buy grain as well. Fun fact, the brothers didn't recognize Joseph, but Joseph recognized the brothers.        

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Whoa. So then what happened was they actually had a fantastic reunion after Joseph finally came out and said who he was. Yeah. So after all that happened, again, joseph brothers became to Egypt because they needed some food. They didn't know who Joseph was.        

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Joseph knew who they were. And so he said, you know what? What I'm gonna do is I'm gonna reveal my true identity. He revealed his true identity. He forgave his brothers.        

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Big point there. Forgiveness. We have an episode talking about that too. Go check that out. But again, back to the story.        

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He revealed his true identity. He forgave his brothers, and then he had a huge reunion. Everybody lived happily ever after. The end. Very high level.        

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But that's what happened, right? So where does the perseverance come in? Mainly at the beginning of the story, right? Where? I mean, think about it.        

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How many of us, number one, sold into slavery? We ain't going to take that sitting down. And not only that, but they sold us into slavery not because of something we did, because of their jealousy. They sold us into slavery because of their jealousy. That ain't right.        

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Okay, number one. Number two, false accusations, imprisonment, time. What is going on here? But yet he stayed steadfast. He persevered through all the tough times.        

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And then look, he became second in command. How about another example if you think that one was bad, right? Let's look at another example. Job. Not as many people know about the story of Job.        

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However, Job, here's the story again. 30,000 of you, he was a pretty righteous man. He was blessed with wealth, loving family, prosperous life. However comma. Satan came and he said, hey God, guess what?        

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I bet you Job doesn't even trust in you like that. And if I take away his stuff, he's going to not believe in you anymore. And so God said, okay, Bet, test them. Try him. And so he did.        

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Job lost everything. He lost his wealth, he lost his children, he lost his health. He lost literally everything. He went from literally the top of the top to the bottom of the bottom. And yet he still persevered throughout everything and said God will bring him through.        

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His friends even thought that, Job, you must have done something crazy, bro. You must have done something horribly sinful. You must have done something. We don't know what you did, bro, but you had to repent for something. But Job said, I did nothing.        

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This is just what God has given to me, and I will continue to pray to Him, and I will continue to thank Him for existing. Basically. Now, this doesn't mean Job just took it sitting down, right? Job obviously questioned. He was like, you say, God, I was faithful to you.        

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I was worshipping you. I was living right by you. Why is this the case? And then Job eventually got his answer from God, right? God answered his prayer by saying, Trust me.        

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He answered him by saying, Trust me. That's hilarious. We were expecting him to actually just say, like, why this was all happening and basically saying, I made a bet with Satan. No, that's not what happened. God just said, Trust me, bro.        

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And so guess what? Job said, okay. Goose is funny just thinking about nowadays. That would not slide. That wouldn't slide at all.        

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But God challenged Job and said, Trust me, bro, because he reminded him of his unrivaled power and his authority and everything that he created, right? And so what happened, right? Long story short, this has to have a good ending, right? It does. In the very end, after Satan did everything possible that he could think of to Job, and Job still stayed faithful, what happened?        

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Job had his fortunes restored, but not just restored, it was restored twofold. So if this man, let's say he had let's say he was his net worth like $20 million, and then he went down to being a bum on the street after all that stuff went down and God said, you know what, Job? You were faithful. I'll give you your stuff back. You went from he later went from making 20 million to now 40 million.        

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He had more children. He had more wealth. His faith and his endurance were rewarded because he persevered. It got tough. Now, what was that quote that we said about the top by Thomas Edison?        

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Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up. Imagine had Job given up sometime in there, he would not have received the blessing that God gave him of his twofold blessing. Now, I'm not saying that every single blessing we have nowaday, we don't get twofold if we just keep going. But what I am saying is that we can't just say going gets tough. So I'm a stop.        

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Now, when the going gets tough, the tough get going. That's the important thing. When the going gets tough, the tough people get going. They move, they do something. They persevere.        

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They know they're going to come out on the other end alive. It's amazing when you think about it's. Amazing what you can do when your back is against the corner. You have nowhere else to turn. You got no more excuses.        

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You just got to buckle down and get to work. It's amazing what the human body can do. You will unlock a whole new level of capability and mental prowess you never knew you had. I'm telling you. I'm telling you.        

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That's why, personally, it's my goal that I'm starting to seek out uncomfortable circumstances that sound a little bit psychopathic, probably, but I know that within reason, seeking out those uncomfortable circumstances will actually allow me to grow mentally and actually be able to push the boundaries of what I know I can do what I know is possible. If you just keep doing one thing a day that makes you uncomfortable and you do that for a year, you just got slightly better at 365 things. Now. Faith is even better. If you pick one thing to continue getting better at over a course of a year, imagine how good you would be in a year.        

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If you're scared of talking to people, right? You're scared of talking to people. New people talk to one new person every day. And it doesn't have to be no long conversation. You just be in the store.        

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You're picking up some meat or you're picking up some eggs or some bag of chips or whatever you got. It doesn't really matter. You're picking up something, someone comes up next to you, say a quick sentence. It could be as simple as a compliment. Hey.        

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Hey, bro, I like your shoes. Hey, man, I like your jacket. Hey, what? Hey, have you had these chips before? I've never had them.        

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Have you had them? What do you think? That's it. And if they say something, great. If it leads to a conversation, fantastic.        

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If it doesn't, at least you talked to somebody new. It doesn't have to be a great conversation. Doesn't have to be a long conversation. It could have been you said something, they said something, you said, thank you, have a nice day, walked away. That's it.        

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You do that every single day. I guarantee you, you're going to be able to talk to anybody you want. Guaranteed. 100% guaranteed. It's funny, I already gave you one.        

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That's actually not even one of the practical steps that I wrote down, but there you go. There's a bonus one for you. So actually, speaking of the practical steps, why don't we just go ahead and hop right into these ones, right? So how can we cultivate endurance in the face of challenges and setbacks two ways? Number one, maintain a positive mindset.        

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We talked about last week, transforming those negative thoughts into more positive affirmations. I hope if you are one of the people who said, I'm going to do that this week, I'm going to do that, and you didn't, here's your second chance. Try it again. Get those negative thoughts out your head. Positive mindset.        

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Romans five, three and four. Paul wrote, we also glory in our sufferings. Oh, boy. Oh, boy. Yes, it says that.        

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Read it. We also glory in our sufferings because here's why didn't just leave it at that? Because people are going to be asking, why do we do that? Because we know that suffering produces perseverance. Perseverance character and character hope.        

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What I say a few minutes ago? I said a lot of things a few minutes ago. I know. What was the one thing, that one important thing that I said a few minutes ago that made me sound a little bit psychopathic? I seek out discomfort.        

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Why? Because I'm seeking out stress. Now, stress has a pretty bad connotation to it. However, there's a couple different kinds of stress. You stress, distress.        

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Right. I'm seeking out the distresses. The things that make me uncomfortable, you. Stress are things that make you feel good. Right.        

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But distress, that's the stuff that makes you not feel good. That's something that starts to make the cortisol in the blood pressure rise. That's something that makes you really concerned and make you just like, oh, my gosh, I have to do this too and just may make you want to go take a nap. Those things, they're not fun. I don't enjoy seeking out those things.        

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But what does the verse say? Suffering produces perseverance. If your life is roses in peaches and cream, you're not going to persevere through anything because there's no need to. If you're suffering, that teaches you every single day you got to keep dealing with whatever problem is in front of you. You can't get away from it.        

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It is what he needs, right? Embracing challenges is an opportunity for us to grow. It's an opportunity for us to develop endurance and an opportunity for us to solidify a solid character. Second way to help us cultivate some endurance is to surround ourselves with a supportive community. What does that mean?        

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Let me read the verse first in Ecclesiastes because you already know where I'm going. If you guys have been around the block a few times with me, you already know where I'm going with this. My favorite a word. Okay. We're going to say it after we say the verse.        

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In Ecclesiastes. Four, nine and ten. It says two are better than one because they have a good return for their labor. If either of them falls down, one can help the other up. What does that kind of sound like to you?        

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Yes. Encouragement. But that's not the A word. If you guys know the A word, say with me on the count of 3123. Accountability.        

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Oh, man. Having people who encourage and uplift us in life is not only a great accountability partner, but a great encourager. And that person makes a significant difference in our ability to endure whatever it is we're going through in our lives. Okay, so finally ending off this episode. Guys, let's discuss some practical ways to start cultivating a more persevering and enduring mindset.        

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Guys, we have three ways that we're going to do this. I need you all to again, like last week, pick one and work on it, please. Firstly, number one, need you to set some clear goals and establish a plan to achieve it. I don't want you just to set a goal that makes you sound like a wantrepreneur. You're an entrepreneur wannabe, okay?        

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We ain't here to do that, okay? We're here to actually get some steps in place. We're here to actually make some progress here, okay? Because you can talk a big game. That's just a dream, all right?        

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If you ever go on the website, the motorway Grind Succeed website, you'll see a quote at the bottom of the Motivate Grind Succeed Succeed website episode pages, and it says that a goal without the necessary steps taken is just what dream? Because you can go to sleep and have a dream about whatever you want, but if you don't take any steps to do whatever it is that you dreamt about, you're not going to get there. Let's say you dreamt of being a millionaire. If you take no steps, you're not going to get there. You it is what it is, guys.        

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If you take no steps in trying to become a millionaire, you won't become a millionaire. You're not just going to wake up one day and you're going to see a suitcase next to you and it's going to have a million dollars in it. It's not going to happen. You actually got to do work, okay? You need to have some kind of roadmap.        

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It gives you direction that helps you to stay focused so that way you're able to calculate, okay, I'm doing this. Is this thing getting me closer to my goal? Yes. That I need to keep doing it? No.        

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Do I need to delegate to something? Do I need to most likely just drop it off and eliminate it? This can be with tasks, this can be yes. With individuals. If the individual is not bettering, me, if they're not helping me and what I need in my life right now and they're just being more of a crab in my life and trying to pull me down.        

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Drop them. That's it. Drop them. You have my permission. Drop them.        

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Secondly, second practical step, practice some self discipline. Hebrews 1211 tells us that no discipline seems pleasant at the time, but rather painful. Why do you think kids hate it? And not even kids? Why do you think grown kids hate it?        

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Aka adults? No one likes discipline. It's not fun. No one likes to be told they're wrong. No one wants to be told what to do.        

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No, we don't. Okay, keep it a buck, keep it a bill. Nobody wants discipline. It's not fun. It's painful.        

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However comma. That should also be on a T shirt. However comma, however comma, when we have that proper discipline, it helps us to produce a harvest of righteousness. Yes, I know I use some biblical terms on you. Okay, well, okay, let's use some more practical terms.        

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If you get the discipline now, you will be disciplined later. Okay. For example, disciplined in waking up at five in the morning because you told yourself, this is from between five and seven is the only time I have free in the day. You keep doing the discipline of waking up at five in the morning. It ain't easy.        

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That alarm clock goes off. It's not easy to wake up. I know, because my alarm clock set for five in the morning every single day, sunday through Sunday. Yes, Sunday through Sunday, Sunday through Saturday, all the way back to next week's, sunday, every single day. I don't take off.        

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I don't take off. I used to, but now I don't take off. I decided, let me just get in the habit of doing even if I don't have anything to do, which is hardly ever, but even if I have nothing to do that morning or nothing major is going to take me two or 3 hours, I'm still waking up at five. Let's say I don't have as much work to do that day because I'm way caught up or way ahead. Now I'm just like, okay, let me read, let me catch up on this, let me catch up on that.        

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Because always something to do. But that's the discipline. That's the discipline. Right now, recording, we're recording late at night right now. That's the discipline.        

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Do I want to record right now? No, I could record tomorrow. I could even record the day after. But I'm doing it now because when my phone told me and yes, I have a in, I have a calendar event in my phone that says work on podcast slash workonbusiness. I have a calendar event in my phone that goes off every single day at specified times that I said throughout the day that I need to work on these things.        

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That is the discipline. Instead of just dismissing the notification and saying I'll get to it later, that is seeing it pop up. And I set them all with notification to say ten minutes prior to this time, let's say example time, ten minutes before 7650, I'm getting a notification saying work on business. And it is my job to say, okay, whatever I'm doing, I need to stop. I need to go and work on this business for the next two to 3 hours because that is what I put on my calendar to do.        

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That is what I told myself I will do. And I am a what person of my word. Therefore I will stick to what I said that I needed to do. That is self discipline. Remember, it is also self.        

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Does it help with an accountability partner? Absolutely. But it needs to be internal, you need to be able to tell yourself, I need to do this and why. Simon Sinek Book start with why you need to have a strong enough why. I tell you if you have a strong enough why of why you're doing what you're doing, the discipline becomes that much easier.        

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It's not going to be the easiest thing in the world, but some days you just remember, here's why I'm doing this. I'm doing this because of XYZ reason, okay, let's just do what we got to do. Some days I don't feel like going to the gym, but I still buckle down and I go, I don't want to spend an hour or 2 hours in the gym lifting weights doing this. I don't want to. But what do you got to do?        

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Drag your feet on in, pick up the dumbbell and start lifting stuff. And what's ironic is less than five minutes after all that's done, you're going to feel like, okay, I started, I might as well finish. And by the time you finish, you feel great. Self discipline, guys. Self discipline.        

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Lastly, take care of yourselves physically, mentally, spiritually, and emotionally too. We talked about it in last week's episode, so I'm not going to harp on this one too much because I kind of gave you a whole ear full for the past few minutes about practicing self discipline. So overall, again, just like from last week's episode, engage in activities that's going to help promote your well being, whether it be meditation, prayer, journaling, exercise, whatever, whatever it is that helps you to build up that resilience, that endurance, and keeps yourself kind of happy every now and again. Life could be stressful, life could be kind of dull. So you got to take care of yourselves physically, mentally, and spiritually and emotionally.        

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So just some closing thoughts here, guys, as we conclude this episode here. Remember, perseverance and endurance, they're not just nice, desirable traits. Oh, that person perseveres so well. Oh, that person can endure so much. They're essential for success.        

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Anybody who got to any level of success, oh, man, they have so many stories of perseverance and endurance. I have so many stories of perseverance and endurance. I'm still persevering and enduring. It doesn't stop. It's not a nice to have.        

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It's an essential, it's a must have. You must have some level of perseverance and endurance if you want to see some sort of success in this life. It's a non negotiable. Again, if you need more examples of some true perseverance, some true endurance, go back to the Bible, look at Joseph, look at Job. We find them having some tough lives and they could be some inspiration to help you to press on even when the ODS seem stacked against you.        

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So what I want you to do, embrace some challenges. Cultivate some endurance and persevere guys with unwavering faith. Guys, that is it for this week's episode. Thank you guys so much for tuning in to yet another episode of Motivate Grind Succeed succeed the podcast and I hope you got something valuable from this episode, guys. If you enjoyed the show, leave us a rating and a review as it really does mean the world to us.        

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Don't forget, I'm taking a two week hiatus so there'll be no new episodes for two weeks. Use that time. Follow up on some episodes you may have missed. Number one. Number two, take some actionable steps.        

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In two weeks, guys. I'll give you all two weeks. Two weeks. So go ahead, take some actionable steps, go back, listen to some episodes, think about these things. This is basically free coaching for you guys.        

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Tell you this is basically free coaching. Take this advice and actually implemented in these two weeks, guys, guarantee you you're going to start to see some change. All right, take care of yourselves. See you all next time.