Do It Now!

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Hey, what's going on everybody.

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Welcome back to the elemental Evan show.

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Thank you very much for tuning in on this mini Monday episode.

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As you all already know on Mondays, I produce these mini episodes to

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kind of just give you some quick advice on health and wellness.

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A lot of them are on mindset as well.

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I really enjoy sharing my little mindset, tips and tricks or ideas.

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Uh, it's just a good, good opportunity for me to kind of vent and share

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a little thing here or there.

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So anyways, today is going to be on the topic of it's never too late to start.

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I think this is an awesome topic because we really create so many excuses for

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ourselves that we kind of ended up talking ourselves out of doing certain things and,

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Especially when it comes to starting something that we feel that we

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are maybe, you know, too old for or something along those lines.

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So I really want to dive in on this topic and to start off, I wanted to start

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off with why this topic is important.

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So as I just said, we really have this bad habit of.

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Setting these limitations around ourselves based on typically

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what society looks like.

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Right.

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So, you know, we'll create all these limitations from I'm too old, too

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young, too fat, too skinny, too dumb, ugly, tall, short, you know, et cetera.

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Just fill in the blank to do X, Y, or Z.

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When in reality.

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You can do anything you've ever wanted to do regardless of the

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limitations that you accept.

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Okay.

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It's not just that you're creating these limitations for yourself, but

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you're also accepting these limitations.

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Right.

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But let me tell you this.

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Where there is a will.

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There is a way.

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Now, please don't misunderstand that in terms of being a 76 year old,

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who is having trouble walking and wants to be a professional soccer

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player, obviously there are certain limitations that we cannot break.

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However, that doesn't mean that the 76 year old, who always wanted to

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play soccer and never really was able to couldn't get out there and start

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kicking a ball and enjoying just the simple practice of playing soccer

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and enjoying the sport for what it is and who knows maybe even becoming

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the best 76 year old soccer player.

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Right.

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So obviously there are kind of ways we can weave around However, what I am

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really trying to say is that many times we create excuses around chasing the

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things that we want in life, because it's easier to create those excuses than it

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is to actually go out and get it right.

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That's why people say things like, oh, I would have loved to travel more when

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I was young or hike up a 20,000 foot mountain or 6,000 meter mountain, uh, or

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play more sports or play an instrument or write a book and on and on and on.

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The question is then what is it?

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That's holding you back from doing it now.

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And obviously people will create a ton of excuses.

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Some of them could be extremely valid, but around this question, Such as

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I don't have enough money, I can't take off enough time from work, or I

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don't even know where to get started.

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Right.

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A lot of times these goals might be so big.

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They kind of scare us and we don't even know where to start.

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But this still brings me back to the original point of where there's a will.

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There If you truly want to start doing something.

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That you've always wanted to do.

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But it just seems impossible . Just start small.

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That would be my best.

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First piece of advice, at least.

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So for example, If you want to travel more.

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Maybe do a couple short little weekend trips that don't require

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you to travel super, super far.

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Maybe it's even just drivable, right.

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Or maybe it is on a plane, but it's only an hour away or something like

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Start out small, do these little trips, right.

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And maybe you will start to find, you know, a good website for

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purchasing tickets for airplanes.

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And, you know, they're very cost-effective and maybe you're able

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to find a hotel line or a hostel line I don't know, couch surfing.

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A website that allows you to also stay wherever you're going for quite cheap.

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Right?

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So now you're starting to learn all these little tips and tricks that you can build

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upon and you don't have to get too, too far out of your comfort zone right away.

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You don't have to obviously jump on a plane to a completely opposite side

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of the world country where you don't speak the language and yada, yada,

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maybe that is your goal to get to, but you don't have to start there.

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Right.

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Uh, it's even in terms of, you know, running a marathon, maybe

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that's your goal and you've never even ran more than a couple miles.

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How about you just start with walking some miles, right?

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Start start getting that down and start walking one or two or three miles, then

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maybe start running those miles, you know, and then maybe get into a half

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marathon, give that a try, see how that goes, you know, and just keep building up.

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You can always take steps to get to where you want to go.

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You don't have to jump in to the deep end, which is also something you can

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do, but it is not a hundred percent necessary obviously to do that.

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Now, why am I even talking about this concept?

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What does it really matter if people have these goals that, you know, if they

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accomplish them, means nothing to me.

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Well, let me just tell you the truth in all of this that is

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even though life can seem long.

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There will come a day when we are older in our years, and we're going

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to look back on life and think, man, Where did all of that time go.

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Because I already find myself right now, looking back on the years

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in awe of how fast they flew by.

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However on that day when I'm older and you know, our, all

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of us are older and our years.

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We're going to want to look back on our life and think, wow.

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I really did some amazing things in my life, push myself to limits that

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I never even thought were possible.

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I was, you know, kind to those who didn't even deserve my kindness.

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I made the world, or even just my community, a better

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place than when I found it.

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I was honest.

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I was brave.

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I did everything to the best of my ability, you know, put in my

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hundred percent, every single time.

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It's for this reason that most mornings I actually reflect on the thought.

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That any day specifically that, you know, today, Could be my last

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and if indeed today is my last day.

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How do I want people to remember me?

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How would, I want my last interactions with people to be, how would I want

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to show up for myself so that if I looked back on this day, like a recap,

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I'd feel happy about the way I ended things with everyone and everything.

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Right.

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So I urge you to ask yourself the same.

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Question each morning and see how you start showing up in life.

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If you want to hear more on this topic, I do have a episode that I

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filmed specifically on why you should start your morning with death in mind.

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But truthfully, it is such a good question to ask and can really help you to just

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appreciate each day a lot, lot more.

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Now, before I end the show, I really wanted to leave all of you with a few

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examples of people who chase their dreams.

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And, you know, even if they felt they were too weak or old or.

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Had any of the limitations that I mentioned in the beginning, they still

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went after them fought for those dreams.

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And they achieved them regardless of these limitations.

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So, first one we're going to start off with is Julia child.

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Okay.

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For many of you, you probably know who that is.

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Julia child published her first cookbook at the age of 50 years old.

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Okay.

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Then she turned into a celebrity chef with her own TV show.

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She also became the first woman to be introduced into the culinary

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Institute of Americas hall of fame.

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Starting at 50.

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Okay.

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So already right there.

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You are never too old, right?

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Stan Lee, Stan Lee didn't catch his brake until he was nearly 40 years old.

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When he published the fantastic four from there, the rest of the

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heroes were obviously history and continuing on, as we see.

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Toni Morrison.

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Toni Morrison did not explode and explode in the public eye until 1993.

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When she became the first African-American woman to win

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the Nobel prize for literature.

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Guess how old?

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62 years old.

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Um, sorry, this name I'm going to totally butcher, but Fauzia seeing, I want to

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say S I N G H was born with a disorder that left him unable to take his first

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steps until he was five years old.

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When his wife and two children died, he looked for a way to fill the empty spot

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in his life and started running again.

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He was in his late eighties at this time.

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And he ran his first marathon at the age of 89 and became the first 100

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year old to run a marathon in 2011.

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He's been, uh, in Olympic torch bearer on two occasions once at the

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age of 101, and has broken several running records in his age category.

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Okay.

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I got a few more for you.

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Um, Nelson Mandela, I mean, You probably already know so much history on him,

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but just to give you an idea, he spent 27 years in prison and went on to be

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the president of South Africa being inaugurated on May 10th, 1994 at age 77.

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Obviously, there are so many more accomplishments there, but we're

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just going to leave it there.

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Uh, Harry Bernstein found success as a writer later in his life, working on his

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memoir at age 96 and publishing books at age ages, 80, sorry, 98, 99 and 100.

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Finally, I'm going to finish this off with someone who is

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just an incredible human being.

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And that is calling old Brady.

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He suffered injuries to 25% of his body, primarily his legs with doctors

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telling him that he may never walk again.

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Normally.

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He then went on to set world records.

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With one of them being trekking across Antarctica with a sled that weighs over

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300 pounds in a little over 50 days.

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Right.

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All these limitations were given to him.

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Might not walk normally again.

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You know, just a random person.

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I believe he's from Oregon, right?

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Like nothing special.

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But yeah, he went out, stopped giving himself excuses and chased those dreams.

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Okay.

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And that is what I am hoping for all of you to do as well.

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If you have a dream, doesn't have to be as crazy as these ones here, but nonetheless,

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don't feel limited by where you are in life, because I truly believe that you

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are where you're meant to be right now.

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Okay.

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So.

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How the events have occurred to bring you here?

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I don't know.

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But nonetheless you're here and yeah, it would have been great if you had 10

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years ago, or when you were in better shape or looking better or whatever

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it may be, but you didn't, you're here right now and you can make the most of

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this moment and you can still start.

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It's never too late.

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RD all.

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I hope you guys really enjoyed this episode and I hope this fired you up a

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little bit, motivated you to go out and chase those dreams of yours, or even

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just the hobbies that you want to start, whatever it may be, whatever scares you

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a little bit, go out there and chase that because that is where growth is found.

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That's going to do it for today's episode.

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Thank you all so much for tuning into this mini Monday episode.

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Uh, I will go ahead and see you all on Wednesday.

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I have some really, really good stuff coming In the,

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actually the next few episodes.

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So I mean this week, next week, and on trying to just constantly bring you,

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uh, good stuff and also trying to give you, you know, actionable steps to take,

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to implement into your life and improve your health, wellness, and mindset.

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Uh, and, and everything about you.

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Uh, so hopefully I'm doing that.

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I appreciate you so, so much for tuning in and you know,

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the model of the show already.

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It is do everything with good intentions and connect to your elements already.

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All.

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Have a great one, much love to everybody and peace.