Your identity isn't fixed. The person you become depends on what you do today. The speaker left a successful music career for something unexpected, and argues that intentional action, discipline, and gratitude reshape your future, while inaction keeps you exactly where you are.
You are not the same person you were when you were 14. You are not the same person you were last year, last month, last week, or yesterday. And the person that you're becoming is going to be informed and inspired by the action that you take today. And if you take that action with greater intention and greater integrity and If you employ the things in the book around being disciplined and deliberate about maintaining intention and integrity through your choices, through your aspirations, through your systems and your planning and your strategy, progress is more or less guaranteed. It may not be towards exactly what you imagine right now. Like I've found in my own life and with the lives of many of my clients, like, they don't end up exactly where they imagined when they began. I certainly have not ended up where I imagined when I became a musician 30 years ago. Um, I had a great career as a musician. I had a great career and made a huge impact as a guitar studio owner. Now I'm doing something completely different that was never on my radar. Um, But it's great. Like, I've ended up somewhere really great. I'm incredibly grateful for where I am. And if you have that attitude of gratitude, if you are paying attention and keeping in mind what matters, and you are framing yourself in your situation thoughtfully, uh, with, in a way that allows you to let go of your fear stories and step into your possibility stories. And you do that with and for the right people, you'll end up somewhere great. And, but you will, if you don't begin, you will just be where you are tomorrow, exactly where you are today. And if you're comfortable with that, if you can tolerate that, that's great. No judgment, but for people like you and I, and I'm guessing, you know, a lot of the folks that are here,
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