Unlocking Success: Why Hustling Your Face Off Might Be the Worst Advice with Jason Tharp

Join Jason Tharp, the Champion of Hope, on a candid exploration of why the popular advice to "hustle your face off" could be doing more harm than good. In this insightful solo episode of the Beyond Hope Project podcast, Jason challenges the notion that relentless hustle is the key to success, shedding light on the pitfalls of multitasking, burnout, and losing sight of one's true path. Through personal anecdotes and deep introspection, Jason encourages listeners to focus on clarity, authenticity, and saying no to distractions. Discover the transformative power of embracing your journey, trusting your instincts, and prioritizing what truly matters.

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Transcript

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hey guys welcome back to the Beyond hope

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project podcast my name is Jason Tharp

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the champion of Hope and I am going to

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talk to you today about the worst piece

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of advice that is out there on the

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internet um and it's everywhere and this

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might be unpopular and it may be getting

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some comments from other people that

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think that I'm full of but I am

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going to tell you that I'm not I'm just

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going to I'm going to stand on that soap

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box for a second and say I'm not and

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it's this idea that you gotta hustle

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your face off I think hustle your face

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off has to be the most horrible stupid

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advice that I have heard um from a

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bazillion online gurus and first off the

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caveat is this do you have to work hard

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absolutely but the thing is is that what

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we aren't seeing from these people that

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are hustling their face off is that also

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have a team of people that are out there

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helping them hustle their face off um I

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know this because I've been around these

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people and they have assistant after

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assistant and a team of people cutting

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their videos and a team of people

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posting their videos and all those

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things like that and while this advice

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worked well for them it doesn't work

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well for everybody and I think there's a

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little bit of a a problem that happens

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when we are telling everybody else out

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there that what you got to do is you got

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to post a 100 times a day and you got to

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do this you gotta be building your brand

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you gotta be

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doing all this stuff like that um I just

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don't I don't think it's realistic and I

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think what it does lead to though is

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this this plague of multitasking where

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what you end up doing is you end up

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throwing so much stuff against the wall

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that you're trying to see what sticks

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and when you're doing that it's like

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trying to spin plates and every time

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we're spinning plates we're getting one

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thing kind of there but then we have to

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stop that and jump over to this one and

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what ends up happening is all along the

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way is you end up losing while you're

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doing it the first place you learn end

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up losing your path and this is where I

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feel like a lot of people feel like

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failures it's because you're feeling

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burnout and then what's odd is a lot of

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those people that are also saying how

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your face off then are kind of swooping

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by and telling you like oh well you got

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to give yourself patience you gotta give

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yourself time this mixed message is just

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causes tons of confusion because the

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truth is is that what you need to do is

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you just need to pick your lane and

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focus on that thing now why do I bring

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this up I bring this up because this is

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something I've come to realize about

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myself lately is that thought that the

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key was to keep seeking stuff out to

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keep going out there and looking for all

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the answers because somewhere along the

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line somebody's going to magically tell

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me this is what I needed to do to

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connect the dots and where that comes

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from I'm positive is just a low

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self-esteem low self-worth in myself

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thinking that somehow I can't figure out

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my own stuff and I need to somehow look

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to somebody else for the answers and

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then what that actually takes from us is

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the one thing that we need more than

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anything is the resources to invest in

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the thing that we actually want to go

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and try to achieve and so we have to

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stop that spinning because what we're

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doing is we're causing so much confusion

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in ourselves because we can't see what

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direction we're going because we're

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trying to go 50 directions and when

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you're going 50 different directions

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because you got to make sure that you

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post here you got to post that and you

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got to do this and you got to do that

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and you got to write this and you got to

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create this art and all this stuff

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everybody just ends up creating the same

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stuff which is why everybody's an online

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coach now why everybody's going all

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these different ways why you see

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everybody selling a Scrub Daddy stuff on

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Tik Tok because once one person sees it

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they go oh I must do that and they shift

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over here versus just stick in your lane

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and figure out what it is you're trying

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to do stick to your message and the

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people will find you I think that what

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happens is when we start to chase these

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mystical things um we're seeking what

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they're looking for us we're looking

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outside of us and we allow those things

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to influence what we actually want to

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try to achieve

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instead of like realizing that if I

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focus mostly on what it is I want to do

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and I get really good at doing what it

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is that I do that the why will start

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flowing naturally and you have that

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ability to start seeing things for what

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they are to see that it's okay to say no

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to stuff you know if you need that

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permission let me tell you right now it

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is okay to say no to stuff I have

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written this in my journal a million

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times lately to myself that it's okay to

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say no um and it's been a huge struggle

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like a huge struggle because I think a

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little bit for me if I'm being honest is

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like it's it's being hyper aware of time

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of my life being different now when

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you're going through uh like the cancer

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diagnosis and all that stuff like that

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and you have an idea of your mortality

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you change your perspective of time and

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in a weird sort of way I kind of even

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put more pressure on myself because I

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felt like I had to get it all done right

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now and and what I if I could go back

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and undo and and fix that part of me I

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would tell myself that like stop looking

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outside here uh because the answers are

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already right here in front of you but

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you're looking for validation from other

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people um you don't have to seek that

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validation and this multitasking is just

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going to lead to burnout and it's going

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to lead to you resenting the thing that

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you're actually trying to do and then

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not only that you're going to end up

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being confused and you're going to have

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so many this is this is is where I think

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for somebody that writes a lot of stuff

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uh comes from writer's block it's like

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you're just confused like you just have

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so much crap going on in your head it's

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like a tornado you're trying to figure

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out like what it is that you need to do

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to get to that Clarity and back to your

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path what I would suggest for you is

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that you need to start asking yourself

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better questions like ask yourself what

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it is exactly you're trying to get out

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of this stuff and then simply you just

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be brave enough to like walk away to say

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no to some stuff you know exactly what

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I'm talking about because I'm positive

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that you have the same struggles I do

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when you comes to this stuff like that

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where you think that you know this

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person's magically going to give you the

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answers that you already know but you're

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too afraid to trust and that is the Crux

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of so many of us out there that are

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wanting to have an impact is that we

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think that the impact we want to have

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surely can't be this easy it can't be

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and us doing exactly what it is that we

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want to do because it seems like it

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comes so easy to us because it just

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feels so right and then if you are

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anybody like myself that struggled with

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this idea of worth you talk yourself out

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of those things because you go like it

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shouldn't be that easy and I'm going to

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be blunt with you and tell you that

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you're lying to yourself the same as I

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was lying to myself thinking that

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somehow this answer would magically show

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up um and doesn't best piece of advice I

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got from somebody was just this week

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they told me to um pick one thing focus

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on that one thing is it the first time

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I've heard that no but maybe it was the

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first time I listened to it and maybe

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that you hear that message in this

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podcast today and I want that to be the

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thing that you land on instead of trying

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to do a 100 things focus on that one if

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you want to write that book focus on

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writing that that book yes you might

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have a job but you have free time in

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that free time stop picking up your

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phone and seeing what's the latest

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update on Tik Tok or who's posting what

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or what hashtags are trending because

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you got to do your post and you got to

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hustle your face off because if I'm not

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hustling my face off I'm doing it all

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wrong this is all lies you're being fed

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to into a system that somebody wants to

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just get you to see their point of view

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that can feed you back and sell you

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something else that's going to take away

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your time energy effort and resources to

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go after that thing that you want to do

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I am positive once you clear that stuff

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off your road what you're going to find

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is that this lesson that you're learning

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right now while it might be tough and

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you feel like you're getting nowhere is

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one of the biggest ones you're going to

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be able to do is to pull back and

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realize that you have the power to open

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up your path to the gates that you're

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wanting to flow through just by learning

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how to say no seeing what it is you want

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to do embracing what it is and just

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trusting your why and keep relying on on

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your why and if something is out of

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alignment with that be brave enough to

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say no to it so guys that that's that's

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all I got for this one it is really

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about you in this sort of situation stop

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turning externally to find the answers

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for what you already know internally

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everything that you're wanting to do is

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behind everything that you're afraid to

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face and that includes ourselves so what

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we got to do is get real with us realize

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that if you are not where you want to be

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it's not about hustling your face off

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that's going to get you there it's going

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to lead you to burnout it's going to

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lead you to resenting things and

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ultimately not liking the thing that

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you're doing the beauty of what you're

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doing right now is in the Journey of

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getting there those are the stories

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you're going to tell when you get there

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not when you're at the Mountaintop and

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you're telling everybody look how great

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it is here they're going to talk about

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all those times you overcame those

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things and this is will lead to the

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magic that is you so as we leave up here

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guys uh you're doing a great job I mean

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this this this life thing is freaking

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hard there's all kinds of that

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happens all the times it throws us off

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of rails but you're doing a great job

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being human and I just want you to see

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if you haven't heard it yet today you're

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awesome just keep being awesome keep

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trying and failing but stop hustling

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your face off it's not helping um get

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focused and uh I can't wait to see what

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you do hope the subs all right

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