Laurie Sudbrink Recap: Leading with GRIT

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What's your truth around the actions you take, the way you show up, the dreams that you're after? We've all got different truths, but what's yours, that's most important and integrity? Are you actually aligning yourself to what you say you're going to do? You're going to do this thing, do you do it? It could be as small as cleaning your car. It could be as small as making your bed. It could be as big as I'm going to pay that contractor, I'm going to follow through and give that person the bonus that I promised them for the last three years. Where does your integrity show up in life and work? Where does it not respect? How much self respect do you have for yourself? Do you feed your body beautiful nutritious foods or do you eat junk? Do you take the time to go for that medical checkup, that dentist appointment, the mole check in case you've got a melanoma? How much self respect do you have for yourself? Where do you set boundaries? Do you have that disease to please? Where you always say yes to everything and you're a busy idiot? Well, that's a lack of self respect. I want you to look at where you can increase your self respect and in turn, you're going to have others respect you even more. And generosity, it's about that abundance, knowing that there's enough room for everyone. So how can you be more generous? You know, whether that's with your time, whether that's with your words of affirmation towards others, whether that's financially, generosity means different things to different people. But that's the great model. It was such an incredible conversation with Laurie. I urge you to go check it out. And just before we wrap up, if you get a moment to share the show with a friend, we've been in the last few months been so fortunate that we've been in the top right from first position in Armenia with the podcast and the Apple podcast charts, we're in the top 50 in Canada, we're consistently in the top five in New Zealand. In Australia, we're ranking very frequently as well in the uk, Ireland. So I want to thank you all for listening and for sharing the podcast with people that you love. That's what it's all about. And even though you might think that person you're sharing it with has it all together, they might not. And something on the show with one of my guests might just really inspire them and help them. So again, just to remind you all, hpl, it's coming up at the end of October. You can go and check it out. And a massive, massive thank you to our platinum partners, Brannigan's and the VVV Real Estate group. So for now, before our next episode comes out, we're getting close to episode 100, but for now, get out there and lead your life on purp.

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