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"The Foundations of Success: Unveiling the Two Pillars for Lasting Achievement"
Episode 472nd June 2023 • The Daily Podcast with Jonathan Doyle • Jonathan Doyle
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Welcome to an extraordinary episode with global motivational speaker, Jonathan Doyle, as he unveils the life-changing concepts of the two pillars of success: clarity and taking action. In this captivating video, Jonathan empowers you to unlock your full potential and achieve lasting success.

Clarity is the first pillar that sets the foundation for success. Jonathan dives deep into the power of gaining crystal-clear clarity about your goals, dreams, and aspirations. By harnessing the power of clarity, you gain a profound understanding of what you truly want in life, enabling you to set a clear direction and focus your energy on what matters most.


But clarity alone is not enough. The second pillar, taking action, is what propels you forward towards your dreams. Jonathan emphasizes the importance of stepping out of your comfort zone, overcoming fear, and embracing the courage to take decisive action. He shares practical strategies to overcome procrastination and self-doubt, inspiring you to embrace the mindset of a doer and seize every opportunity that comes your way.


Throughout this motivational episode, Jonathan draws upon real-life examples and relatable stories to illustrate the transformative power of clarity and action. He provides actionable tips and insights to help you cultivate unwavering focus, resilience, and determination on your journey to success.


Join Jonathan Doyle in this empowering video that will ignite your motivation and propel you towards achieving your dreams. Subscribe to the channel, hit the notification bell, and get ready to unleash the power of clarity and action in your life.


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Well, hello there, my friend welcome aboard to the daily podcast.

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I'm pleased you're here.

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I'm so grateful that you're listening.

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I genuinely am.

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It is a huge privilege that it has taken me quite a few years

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to figure out exactly what I'm supposed to be doing on the planet.

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And it's, and this is part of it.

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This is the thing that gets me up in the morning that I am dedicated

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to three words, liberating.

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People's potential.

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And guess what?

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You're a people, you are a people, you're a person.

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And I'm glad that you're listening and I want to do something today

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to help liberate that incredible potential that's inside you.

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There are so many things.

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From, you know, from the youngest ages that can really crush us, that

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can really flatten our spirits and, uh, and, and hurt us and wound us.

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And I genuinely see the world in terms of light and dark, good and evil.

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And, uh, I believe that there is a force that is trying to advance us.

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And I believe that force is God.

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And I believe that for sponsors to grow and contribute and bless.

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And, and find joy and meaning and purpose.

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And I believe there's another force that really wants us to stay

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in fear, lack scarcity, doubt.

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Self-criticism self-judgment.

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It wants us to go backwards and that is not what we are going to do.

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We're going to go forward.

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We're going to find that potential it's within you.

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And we're going to unleash it a little bit day by day and today.

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What I want to give you is a kind of, I don't know, a map.

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Is it a map?

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Is it a schematic?

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I want to give you a sort of foundation.

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Of what success really requires in life.

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And then success will be different for every single one of us.

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How you define success?

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What's meaningful to you will be different.

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That's one of the beauties about being human.

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We all have different focus, points and desires and things that light our fires.

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But I want to talk about an essential kind of, I guess, schematic.

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Uh, map for success that you can file away and think about and

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may help you to move forward.

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So there's really two parts to this.

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If you want to increase the amount of success in your life,

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whatever that is as a parent.

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As a, as a business owner.

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As an athlete, it doesn't really matter what you're doing in life.

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These two steps are going to be helpful.

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So, let me give you the first one.

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The first thing we want to find in life is an obsessive.

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Focus.

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You see for something to change in your life for something to

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improve, you obviously have to be paying attention to it.

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And it has to be meaningful to you.

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You know, I'm a, a.

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I'm a huge rugby fan.

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It's a game I grew up with.

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I love that game.

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And, uh, I may or may not watch quite a few games over the weekend in

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between doing thousand other things.

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But I think about these guys, we're coming up to a world cup this year and, uh,

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they, it amazes me just the athleticism and the skill of these different players.

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And how do they get that level of success will obviously there's

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a genetic component, right.

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They sort of have won some kind of genetic lottery.

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But there's obviously an obsessive focus, right?

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Step one.

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They have an obsessive focus.

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They want to.

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Their time, their thinking, their energy, their resources, their money,

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what they spend on is focused upon.

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This one particular thing, which in this season of their

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life is being an elite athlete.

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Now you could take it to something else.

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You could take it to a.

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I took him on one of my kids to see a specialist the other day.

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Uh, and Ian ENT specialist, ear, nose, and throat.

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And this guy was great.

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You know, he was really, really great guy and I liked him a lot.

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And there's about a bazillion.

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You know, plaques on his wall and degrees and you know, how

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does he get to be somebody?

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I mean, look, I'll be honest with you.

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He wasn't cheap.

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It was like, Ridiculously expensive.

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Uh, but we had to do it and.

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And I think how does, how does he get to that point where he's able

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to generate so much revenue and he's able to make a meaningful difference

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in people's lives in this area?

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Well, there's obviously been a season of his life and probably an ongoing

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season of what obsessive focus.

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There was any number of things that he could have focused on in his life.

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He could've focused on being a mechanic or an artist or a baker.

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But his obsessive focus was obviously from a pretty young age.

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Um, becoming a doctor and then making some choices about where to specialize.

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And, you know, do you see what I mean?

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That anybody that achieves.

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You know, success in a particular area, doesn't do it by accident.

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You know, DaVinci.

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Didn't become DaVinci.

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By accident, right?

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Or mother Teresa didn't become other trees by accident.

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There was at some point a decision to focus, energy and

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attention in a particular place.

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Look at somebody like Tom Brady, the American football player.

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Who I think now.

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I don't know how old he is now.

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Maybe he's 106.

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Some people will laugh at that.

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Like if you don't know, Tom Brady's like being played

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forever and still playing well.

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And, you know, he's probably seen as the greatest quarterback in American

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football history, American listeners, please in the comments, tell me I'm wrong.

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But again, how do you explain it?

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Well, there's a genetic lottery component, but there's also this obsessive focus.

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Let's talk about you.

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We could pick any examples and we have, we picked a few there already,

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but if you want something to really shift and change in your life,

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then the first big step is to get.

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An obsessive focus about it.

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And that obsessive focus has two important parts to it as well,

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which are clarity and commitment.

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You know what obsessive focus is means that you get clear on what it is.

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So when I'm teaching this live at conferences or events or seminars,

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I really help people to get big on this clarity part, because you've

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got to know what it looks like.

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Sounds like, feels like smells like how it impacts you.

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You know, it's not like, well, I I'd like, I'd like to earn more.

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It's not like, well, I'd like to, I'd like to have some more clients.

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That would be nice word.

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I'd like, I'd like to, I'd like to lose some weight.

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How much.

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Uh, some what some, you see what I mean?

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That this clarity piece really matters that people who.

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You know, who want to become astronauts or wind Superbowls or sail oceans

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or, you know, climb Mount Everest.

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There's a clarity per point, right?

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There's a moment of clarity.

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This is the thing.

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This is the thing that matters to me.

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And then once they have that clarity, it moves them to the

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next stage, which is commitment.

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Right.

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It moves from being a wish to being something that requires their specific

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energy and depth and purpose and focus and the deployment of resources and time.

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So we get the focus.

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And that focus is linked to clarity.

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And then we moved to the commitment of energy and time.

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So again, let's keep coming back to you.

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What.

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Area in your life.

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Do you want more success in.

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And people can often say, oh, you know, it's fitness or it's health or it's money.

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Well, sure.

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But specifically what area look, let me share with you.

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Right?

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So for me,

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Uh, somebody who speaks what.

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You know, what is my focus?

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It's three words, liberate people's potential.

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I've got this relentless focus.

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I was talking to a priest about it the other day.

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I catch up with once a once, every couple of weeks.

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I was just sort of scientists.

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That's what drives me, you know, on stage in these podcasts is there's

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the thing in me that I want to reach through the microphone and convince you.

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That there is this potential dormant in you, and it's just,

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I want to see it in the world.

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I want to see it come out and, and make a difference and make your life better

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or make other people's life better.

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Have this obsessive focus about it.

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And if you meet me somewhere in an airport, I live in

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late lounge or at an event.

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I'm going to be really interested in that part of you.

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Like if we start talking, you know, we'll talk a little bit about the

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weather maybe, but then it's going to be, Hey, so what are you doing?

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What brings you here?

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What are you into?

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What, uh, how's that going for you?

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So I've got this obsessive focus and I've got clarity around it, and

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then I commit energy and time to it.

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And so my focus is to get better and better at this reach, more and more people

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and to keep doing it every single day.

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All right.

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So that's the first part.

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Okay.

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So obsessive focus.

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I want you to think about clarity and I want you to think about commitment.

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It's not enough to have a wish.

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You see, you can have a focus and it's, it's a wish it's like you can say, yeah,

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I really want to get fit and healthy.

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I really want to get.

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I'll be able to run a half marathon or a 10 K or lose.

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10 kilos or 20 pounds, whatever it is.

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But if you don't eventually have commitment, Have you done

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eventually deploy resources, time, energy, and learning.

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You have a wish.

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And we should, as a nice, when we make them at birthdays all the time, right?

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Every.

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But every year, but wishes are not going to change your life.

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Clarity and commitment will change your life.

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Specifically.

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The commitment part, you know, for me, the number of times.

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You know, the amount of exercise and training I do.

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Which I love, right.

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It's a real joy for me, but where I live, it's winter at the moment.

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And it's, you know, this week it's kinda minus six to minus eight, some mornings.

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And there are times when I genuinely stand in my garage.

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Trying to get dressed, to go cycling at 5:00 AM and it's minus six.

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And I'm like, There is a number of things I'd rather be doing right now.

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Right.

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And all of them involve some kind of heating device.

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But I'm have the commitment to it because I'm clear on what matters

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and what is significant for me.

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All right.

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It's enough on that.

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So the first part's obsessive focus, the second part is simply massive action.

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Which links to the commitment part.

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Right?

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So what commitment is like a movement of the heart and the

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spirit I'm going to commit to this.

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But then we must take action to break beyond, you know,

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it's like a rocket taking off, pushing it into the atmosphere.

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That what's required.

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The fuel of success is action.

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That we have to take action in the world.

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So that means doing things, doing stuff, trying stuff.

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And we want to get a link to that is what we call effective execution.

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So.

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Effective execution means that we want to start taking action.

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And then we get feedback from our action, which leads to the action being effective.

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So look, let's take a stupid example.

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Let's say you want to lose 10 kilos, 20 pounds and you

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decide to take massive action.

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And your massive action is to eat.

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Three pizzas a day.

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That would not be what we call effective execution.

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You've definitely taken action, but you've taken action in

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exactly the wrong direction.

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So, if you wanted to lose weight, then you might get a coach.

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I mean, one of the biggest things that helped me was getting a.

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I was doing a lot of, I was running an ultra marathon,

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so I got an endurance coach.

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A specialist in color, long distance training.

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And, you know, that was a, that was action, right?

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That was what was the action?

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Well, the action was.

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Well, let me, let me step you back.

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Let me take you through the actual process.

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The first thing was focused.

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I was like, you know, This was years ago, I was sitting on the couch and

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I was like, I was carrying too much white and I'd always been like fit

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and active and an earth and into, you know, serious training, but I

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wanted more, I want a better results.

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Some of first step was the focus I got focused on it.

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I got clarity around kind of what I wanted to, where I wanted to get to.

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And then I took action, which was step one, internet research, step two.

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I found a coach that I liked to look off.

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Step three.

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I reached out and contacted them.

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Step four.

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I committed the money and time and resources to paying them, to

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getting, understanding the program.

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And then doing the program and I got crazy results.

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Like I would like in, in the end I lost too much weight.

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'cause and I started getting cold all the time.

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I couldn't regulate my body temperature.

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I'm not telling you to do that.

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I'm just saying that, you know, I probably went too far.

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But.

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You see the, the, the, the key points here was clarity and then massive action.

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And the action.

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It was what we call effective execution was I looked at the results.

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How do you know if you've got effective execution while you get results?

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So if your goal is to lose weight and you're putting weight on, then

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even if you're taking massive action.

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Then you don't have effective execution because you're not

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moving in the direction you want.

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So that's the feedback loop for effective execution?

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Am I moving forward?

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Am I advancing towards this clarity, this purpose that I had delineated previously.

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Okay, so let's wrap this up.

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If you want.

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Some real success in your life.

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Then you just need to focus clearly on what it is.

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And this is why I journal a lot.

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Sometimes journaling just helps you to map it out.

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You get clarity, then you commit to it.

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Then you take action actions where the real magic is.

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It's funny.

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The number of times in life where I've just gone, right.

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Pull the trigger, get it done.

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Do this, do that, do that.

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And with action, you often won't know at the time often we get, you know,

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we think we should know exactly what we're supposed to do at all times.

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And we don't.

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We just don't.

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But we have to take the steps.

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All right.

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So that's my encouragement for you today.

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I want more success for you.

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I want your life to improve.

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I want it to be better.

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And you can apply this formula to anything.

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If you've got a difficult relationship in your family.

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So you haven't troubled one of your kids or in your marriage or

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something you want to fix a marriage.

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What do you do?

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Well,

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You know, I'm not offering marriage therapy, but I'm just saying.

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Unless it's something absolutely massive like betrayal or

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some crazy stuff like that.

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What do you do?

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If you want to prove a marriage?

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Well, you get focused, right?

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You get obsessive focus.

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You wake up one day and you go, this is ridiculous.

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This is not who we want it to be.

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This is not what we wanted for our relationship.

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You get focused on it.

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You get clarity say right, what kind of relationship do we want?

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What should it look like?

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I know it's not there right now, but what do we want for this relationship?

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Then you go right.

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This is what I want.

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It's going to heart be hard.

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It's going to be challenging and I'm going to commit to it.

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And then you take massive action.

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What sort of action, where you could read books, you could do online webinars.

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You could listen to podcasts.

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You could, you know, start seeing a counselor.

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You could do any number of things, but nothing happens until you

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focused, clear and committed.

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Okay.

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Apply that lens to just about everything.

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And you're going to be just fine.

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Whew.

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That was cool.

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I enjoyed that and I hope it's helpful.

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Please make sure you've subscribed.

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Hit that subscribe button.

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Let me know what you think.

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And, um, there's other links there.

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You can book me live to come and speak at your conference or event.

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But that's it for today, my friend, God, bless you.

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Go and get that potential.

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Moving my name's Jonathan Doyle.

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This has been the daily podcast and you and I are going to talk again tomorrow.

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