553: You Are Perfect Exactly As You Are

[INTRODUCTION]

 

Hal Elrod: Hello, friends. Welcome to the Achieve Your Goals podcast. Today, I am going to tell you why you are perfect exactly as you are and that might land for you or you might go, “Ugh, no I’m not.” You might resist that. “There’s no such thing as perfection, Hal.” We’re going to unpack that today. In fact, I call this the paradox of perfection, and that is that you, me, all of us, right, we are simultaneously perfect exactly as we are, and we have a limitless potential to grow and improve. But when I say you’re perfect exactly as you are, I mean you’re worthy of love exactly as you are. I mean that you don’t need to change anything or improve anything or achieve anything to be worthy of feeling good about yourself and who you are.

 

I don’t mean perfection in terms of flawlessness. We all have, you know, human beings are flawed. But again, even a flaw is a perspective, right? What one person sees as a flaw in themselves, someone else might think is adorable, right? If you’re in a relationship, especially a new one, all of your partner’s flaws are adorable. They’re perfect, right? So, anyway, just having fun with that. But you get the idea of where we are going today. I really want you to embrace this inherent perfection. And from that place of worth and self-love and capability, you can create anything you want in your life. You can change anything you want in your life. You can improve anything you want in your life. But you’ve got to start with realizing that there’s nothing wrong with you, right? Wrong is a perspective, so is perfection. So, let’s start there.

 

All right. Before we dive into the episode today, and by the way, listen to the end because most of these episodes, there’s just different points where I get these insights that come through me at maybe the 7-minute mark and the 12-minute mark and the 26-minute mark. And then usually the last five minutes is like it all comes together if you will. So, I hope you listen to the whole episode. All right. Before we dive into the podcast, I want to take a couple of minutes to thank our sponsors. This episode is brought to you first and foremost by the Miracle Morning App. Yes, you might have it. You might love it. I think there are now over 5,000 reviews for the app across the App Store and the Google Play store.

 

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All right. Without further ado, let’s talk about why you are perfect exactly as you are.

 

[EPISODE]

 

Hal Elrod: Let’s talk about perfection. That’s what I want to dive into today. And this is really just an exploration. I’ve got a few notes jotted down but I really want to just see where we go with this topic of perfection. And that word it’s interesting because there’s a lot of different contexts that you can apply it to. For example, many of us probably relate to being a perfectionist, which is different from being a high achiever. A high achiever is someone that works to create success and achievement in various areas of life, whereas a perfectionist is someone who’s always feeling like they’re never doing enough because it’s never perfect. It’s kind of like a glass is half full versus a glass is half empty mentality.

 

But that’s not the context, although we may end up exploring that. That’s not where I really want to start today in terms of perfection. So, I have a quote that I wrote to myself. It’s like an affirmation, I guess you’d say. I’m looking at it right now. It is framed and it’s on my desk and it just kind of came through me one day. That’s actually one thing that I want to talk about and share today and something I don’t talk about very much probably out of a fear of people will judge me or think I’m crazy but I talk to God a lot. And I’m sure many of you are like, “Yeah, me too,” and some of you are like, “What? You can’t talk to God.” But what I mean by ‘talk to’ like I express desires, intentions, ask for wisdom, and I feel like I get the answers, right? I receive the answers.

 

And I want you to think about that. Like, when an idea comes through you, let’s say you have an idea that you’ve never had before or you can look at ideas throughout history that have resulted in creations that have never been created before. Like, where did that idea come from? And I know there are different theories on that. It could be while it wasn’t an assemblance of every idea and piece of knowledge and experience that the brain just kind of mushed together and then, boom, out popped this idea. Maybe that might be it or if you’re Napoleon Hill in the book, Think and Grow Rich, he talked about the collective universal consciousness that there is a field of energy that is, and this might get a little woo-woo, stick with me, but there’s a field of energy. Some called that field of energy, God.

 

But Napoleon Hill, and I’m not quoting, I haven’t read his book in many, many years, Think and Grow Rich, but he talked about this field of collective consciousness that we can all tap into. And it’s that ideas are essentially floating in the ether. I’ve had that experience where I have an idea and I go, “Oh, my gosh, this is brilliant. I’ve got to share this with the world.” And then I start writing a book or a blog post or formulating a podcast, something, and then I go, “Wait a minute, let me google this real quick just to make sure that this is in fact an original idea.” And sure enough, the exact same idea was had by many, many people throughout history. And it was already documented. It was already turned into a book or some sort of piece of thought, knowledge.

 

And that would lend toward Napoleon Hill’s theory that, no, that universal consciousness that this collective consciousness that all of these ideas are in the ether and that we can receive them if you will. Now, again, I don’t know. Some of us, some of you, some of our listeners are very fact and evidence-based, meaning if you can’t see it, it’s not real. I totally get that, right? But I would invite all of us to consider that there are probably aspects of life and consciousness and God and thoughts and ideas. There probably is more than we can see, right? I mean, think about how much that we can’t see or that we’re continuously discovering.

 

So, anyway, I don’t want to get too far off track. Here’s the point. When I talk to God through prayer, through meditation, really both, right? The first S in SAVERS is silence. And in my periods of peaceful, purposeful silence is where I typically get what I would call downloads, right? Like, they’ll just come if I really get quiet and I really become like an antenna to receive, I’m like, “Oh, my gosh,” and I’ll just start writing faster than I can keep up with. And I’m going to read one of those downloads to you today. In fact, I think I’m going to start reading those to you. And I haven’t because, as I mentioned, fear of being judged or thought, “Hal’s crazy. He thinks he’s getting downloads from spiritual, from higher consciousness, from God, whatever.” Whatever. This is my truth. Here you go.

 

And here’s the thing, is I always say what matters is, is it useful? Is a belief useful? Is something helpful to you, to me? And if it is, then awesome. I read a book, by the way, Conversations with God by Neale Donald Walsch. I read that when I was probably 21 years old, so I’m 45 now, so 20-plus years ago, 25-plus years ago-ish. Maybe you’ve read that book. It’s been read by well over 10 million people. And I had Neale on the show a while back, but really an eye-opening paradigm-shifting book. And when I read it, I was like, “Yeah, maybe the people that, you know, the prophets and the saints that have supposedly talked to God and documented what he said, like if God does talk to us, then why would that stop? Why would it be just for certain people? And then it just ended 2,000 years ago or whatever?”

 

So, with all of that, and again, I know it sounds a little woo-woo but stick with me because I feel like it’s important to not just be linear, right? I think that we need to approach life through different lenses and different paradigms and different perspectives. And if you think your way of seeing the world is the right and the true way, that like you have it all figured out and this is when I say you, I’m saying all of us. If we think that the way that we see the world is the right way and that everyone else that doesn’t see things exactly the way that we see them, “Poor souls, they don’t know what we know. Maybe one day they’ll figure it out, right?” Now, that’s such, pardon, but it’s just an arrogant way to approach life versus one of openness and curiosity and always trying to learn something from everything, learn something from everyone.

 

One of my mentors when I was really young, well, not really young, but I was 19, and when I started in sales with Cutco, he taught me that every person, every human being is your superior in some way because they have different life experiences. And in those experiences, you can learn from them. They have wisdom that you don’t have. So, it was a very humble approach to interactions with other people, never thinking that I’m smarter than you, I’m better than you, thinking that, wow, every human being on the planet including the homeless person that so many might dismiss walking by, every human/spiritual being on the planet is our superior in some way because there is something that we can learn from everyone, even if it’s what not to do, right? Sometimes it’s what not to do.

 

So, I’m going to read a download, something that came through me a while back. In fact, I wrote the date down. On July 24th, 2024, so this is pretty new. This is just a couple of months old. I received the following message during my silence, and I wrote it down word for word without knowing what I was going to write. See, this is where when I call it a download, it’s where I don’t think about what I’m going to write. I just start writing and my pen is moving faster than my… Like, it’s as fast as I can possibly write and I don’t know what’s coming next. And that’s why for me, I’m like, “This isn’t my own thing.” I don’t know where this is coming from. It’s just coming through me so fast that I’m just taking dictation as fast as I possibly can.

 

And so, this is what I wrote. In fact, I remember I was in a hotel room, I think it was, I don’t know if it was during my Miracle Morning or it was during my Miracle Evening right before bed because either one can be the time that I feel like I receive these messages. Here’s what I wrote down again faster than I, you know, I didn’t think this. I just wrote it. And it’s written to me. It says, and by the way, I want you to be open to receiving this as a universal truth. That’s what I believe when I receive messages. Like the Miracle Morning, like these are messages that I received and I’m like, “Okay. It’s my responsibility to share this with other people through my books, through my podcast, in any way that I possibly can.”

 

And so, as I share this, I believe this is a universal truth for all of us, even though it is written to me like, in the third person, I guess, right? It’s written to me. I encourage you to be open to receiving this as a universal truth for all of us. All right. Here’s what I wrote down on July 24th, 2024:

 

“Hal, I love you. You are perfect exactly as you are. You don’t need to change anything or improve anything or achieve anything to be worthy of love. You are perfect exactly as you are. Now, go spread that message of inherent divinity to as many people as you can and use your unique gifts and abilities to make sure they really understand it and can embody it fully so that they and you can live completely at peace and love themselves the way that God loves them. This is the miracle of life. It is your birthright as it is everyone else’s. You are all my children and like every parent, I want you to be happy and healthy and holy.”

 

And I googled the definition of holy because I wasn’t sure what it was. It says, “Belonging to or derived from or associated with a divine power.” So, that was the message. It was a short download. But for me, what it was a reminder of is that you are inherently perfect. And this is where this word ‘perfect’ can be misinterpreted or triggering for some people. So, I started to tell you that I’ve got this document on the side of my desk. It’s in a big frame. It says, “My life is always perfect. I am grateful for every moment and enjoy the journey because I am exactly where I am supposed to be, doing exactly what I am supposed to be doing right now.”

 

And so, this idea of perfection, what do I mean when I say my life is always perfect? I understand if you resist or dismiss that notion, that paradigm, because you have some ideas about perfection, and life maybe doesn’t fit with your ideas, hence you call it imperfect, right? Does that make sense? Now, when I call life perfect, I don’t mean that it’s flawless or that it fits within my idea of perfection. When I received that message I wrote down, what does it say? “Hal, I love you. You are perfect exactly as you are.” I don’t interpret that I don’t have room to learn and grow and improve. In this context, perfection is a perspective. So, it’s not that life’s flawless or that it fits our idea of perfection.

 

When I call life perfect, I simply mean that there is nothing else to compare it with. It’s that I have removed any ideal that I might have made up in my own mind. So, reality is as it is. This is all there is. This is reality. And thus, it has to be perfect. Again, imperfect is only when we create an ideal. I’m going to hammer this point home or not. I don’t want to hammer it. I want to gently invite you to consider this point that perfection is a self-created ideal. Now, I’m not talking about geometry, right? Like, you can go, “No, no, Hal, you can have a perfect circle.” Yeah, I get it. I’m talking about life and I’m talking about you as a human being. When I tell my wife, I often tell her that she is perfect. “Sweet baby, you’re perfect.” I tell her that.

 

And she doesn’t like that for the same reason that many people listening to this are like, “Yeah, no, I don’t like it. Life’s not perfect. I’m going through a really difficult time.” When I was going through my car accident and I was hit by a drunk driver, found dead at the scene, came out of a coma, told I would never walk again, I decided to experience that in a state of perfection, that this is exactly where I’m supposed to be right now. This is exactly what I’m supposed to be going through right now to learn what I need to learn, to create the life that I want, and make the impact that I want in the world. And in that way, it was perfect. My wife, when I tell her she’s perfect, I don’t mean that, now, if she’s listening, she’d say…

 

Anyway, I don’t mean that she’s flawless, right? I don’t mean that she couldn’t improve or get better at something, but who’s to say that she needs to improve or get better at something? What I got from that message that I wrote down, “Hal, I love you. You are perfect exactly as you are. You don’t need to change anything or improve anything or achieve anything.” That’s what I want to invite you to consider for yourself. See, this is the paradox of perfection. It’s that you are simultaneously perfect exactly as you are, and you have limitless potential, right? Simultaneously, as you’re perfect exactly as you are, you also have a limitless potential to grow and improve and evolve and become an even more perfect version of yourself, if you will.

I’m going to invite you right now to really receive this. I’m going to invite you to close your eyes, unless you’re driving, don’t close your eyes if you’re driving, I think that goes out saying. And put your hand on your heart. If you’re not driving, put both hands on your heart. If you are driving, put one hand on your heart, keep the other hand on the wheel, right? Unless you’re driving a Tesla and you just double click and you can self-drive. But anyway, I invite you to take a deep breath. Actually, take, just start deepening your breathing. Hand on your heart. And take some deep calming breaths. One of the fastest, most effective ways to reset your nervous system, to calm your nervous system when you’re feeling stressed or you’re feeling overwhelmed is to deepen your breath and to slow your breath.

 

For me, it’s to put my hand on my heart because I’ve done that so many times during prayer and meditation and affirmations. I’ve done these with my hand on my heart. It’s an anchor that when my hand hits my heart, it instantaneously transports my level of consciousness, my inner world to one of peace and serenity and bliss, if you will. It centers me and enables me, through my breath and that hand on my heart, to refocus on what it is that matters. So, right now, I’ve got my hand on my heart. I’m inviting you to do the same, to breathe slowly and calmly. And now, receive embrace and embody that divine, unconditional love.

 

And I know for some, this is going to be challenging because you might be going through a very difficult time in your life. Whether your difficult time in your outer world where circumstances are challenging right now, finances or relationships, or you’ve just got so much on your plate, that’s what I’m going through right now. So much on my plate that like, I just came off, I took a break for the summer to spend time with my family. I minimized my work schedule, minimized my communications. I was blessed to be able to do that. But then as soon as I came back to work on September 9th, it’s been out of control. Like, I feel so overwhelmed. And so, for me, hand on the heart, I need that. I need to slow my breathing because I’ve been feeling stressed and overwhelmed.

 

So, if that’s you, if you’re feeling stressed and overwhelmed, if you’re not feeling loved, I’m inviting you to regain control. We talked about this. I think, was it a week before last? Regaining control of your life by regaining control of your mental and emotional state. So, inviting you to receive unconditional love to realize that you are just as worthy, deserving, and capable of experiencing what it is that you want in your life, but it begins with seeing the life you have as perfect. That is my invitation. To see your challenges as perfect because they are leading, they are your opportunity to learn, grow and evolve, and become better than you’ve been before.

 

I was talking to a friend of mine, his son yesterday, his son is 15, and he was telling me how difficult school is, that he’s never had so much homework in his life. He’s a freshman. He’s at a new high school, never had so much homework in his life. And he’s like, “It sucks. I want to spend time with my family in the evenings, but I’m in my room doing homework on the weekends. I want to help my friends, but I’m doing homework.” And I could tell, he’s really overwhelmed.

 

And so, whatever’s causing you overwhelm in your life, you fill in the gap. It may not be homework, right? It might be finances or just more on your plate than you can handle, and life’s throwing things at you from every direction. And you feel like you just can’t handle it all, whatever it is for you. But I told him, I said, “I would invite you. I would encourage you to consider this opportunity. This time. It won’t be forever. I know they’re throwing a lot at you.” I said, “But this is an opportunity for you to learn, grow, and become better than you’ve ever been before.” I said, “I would encourage you to go for straight A’s. I would encourage you to– and you don’t need straight A’s. The grade is not what’s important,” I said, “But I would encourage you, rather than allowing yourself to feel discouraged and defeated and overwhelmed,” and again, I’m speaking to you right now, not just my friend’s 15-year-old son, “but rather than allowing yourself to feel defeated and discouraged and overwhelmed, I would invite you to see your current circumstances as an opportunity to learn, grow, and evolve. I would encourage you to love yourself, your perfectly imperfect self,” or imperfectly perfect might be a better way of saying that. You’re perfect exactly as you are.

 

Does that mean you’re flawless? No. Does that mean that you don’t have any room to grow or there’s not areas of your life that you need to be better at or that you don’t sometimes treat people in a way that isn’t ideal and maybe it hurts them? No, that’s not what I mean. I mean that you are exactly who you are in this moment, and there is inherent perfection in that, in who you are. Reality is as it is. Occasionally, I reference Byron Katie’s book, Loving What Is. She says, “I’m a lover of reality.” For her, reality is always perfect, even when it’s painful, even when it’s difficult, even when it’s challenging, even when it’s overwhelming.

 

And the power in that perspective, again, perfection is a perspective. It is a chosen perspective, a chosen paradigm. But the power in that is all of a sudden, you stop resisting reality and wishing it were different, which if you followed my work for any number of anything given amount of time, any number of years, you’ve probably heard me say that resistance is the source of our emotional pain. And by the way, I believe I learned that when I was in my mid-20s from Eckhart Tolle, his book, The Power of Now. And I didn’t know that’s where I learned it until I was rereading that book a few weeks ago. And I was like, oh, this is the lesson that I teach all the time. Should I go to give Eckhart some credit? I didn’t realize that’s where I learned it, right? You learn something, and if time goes by, you might forget where you learned it.

 

But I forgot that from Eckhart Tolle, I learned that resistance is the source of emotional pain. Every painful emotion that you’ve ever experienced in your life has been self-created by your resistance to reality. It’s these ideals of, no, the reality I’m currently living isn’t the way I want it to be. I want it to be blank. I want to have more money. I want a boss who doesn’t treat me this way. I want a spouse who does the things I want them to do. I want kids who respect me, right? We create these ideals. We resist our current reality.

 

Those are kind of two sides of the same coin, by the way. Think about that. One side of the coin is we’re resisting our current reality because on the other side of the coin, we have these ideals of how we think reality should be. And in there are resistance of our current reality and our comparison of our reality to our ideal, how we wish, want, and believe reality should be, right? Right in the middle of that, that coin, if you will, that’s our coin of pain. That’s where we create emotional pain.

 

And we think it’s because of the thing, because of the circumstance, because of our current reality, because of this person and the way they treat me, we mistakenly think that the way we feel is because of other people. And that goes with feeling good, too. You think you feel good because that person did the thing. No, it’s just that that person did the thing which met your ideal. If the thing the person did was counter to what you wanted or thought they should do, then it wouldn’t have felt good. You would have been upset, as we often are, when people don’t respond or behave the way that we want them to, or life doesn’t respond or behave or show up the way that we want it to, it’s imperfect. It should be different.

 

So, everything that I’m sharing with you today, this idea of perfection, and it’s your inherent perfection, and I’m using that worthiness of love just because that is what came through me, right? What did it say, Hal? I love you. You are perfect exactly as you are. You don’t need to change anything or improve anything or achieve anything. You are perfect exactly as you are. And again, take my name out and put your name in, Sarah, John, Bethany, Samantha, Tyler, whatever your name is. And your name is just words and sounds that your parents gave to you. You’re more than your name, but that’s another topic, right? But I’m talking to you. I love you. You are perfect exactly as you are. You don’t need to change anything or improve anything or achieve anything to be worthy of love. That’s something you give to yourself or something that you receive from God. You are perfect exactly as you are.

 

And from that place of inherent perfection where you don’t feel like you’re lacking, you don’t feel like you’re not enough, you don’t feel like you’re worthless, you’ve made so many mistakes and you beat yourself up, no, the latter, all of those, right? Beating yourself up and thinking you’re not worthy and that you’re not good enough and you’ve made mistakes and you’re not talented enough and you’re not smart enough, that’s where too many of us live. That’s too many of us, our consciousness resides in this lack and this fear and this inadequacy. A lot of that fear comes from the insecurities, the inadequacies. We’re afraid that we’re not enough, that we aren’t capable enough to be loved or to create success in our lives, to achieve the things that we want. We’re not good enough. We’re not capable enough.

 

And you may remember, one of my favorite affirmations is I am just as worthy, deserving, and capable of everything I want in my life as any other person on earth. And I will prove that today with my actions. This inherent perfection and deservingness and worth, I call that in the Miracle Equation book that I wrote, I call it enlightened entitlement. Entitlement is the idea that you’re deserving of something, but it often has a negative connotation, right? Like, some entitled brat, you think you deserve something just because, for no reason. Enlightened entitlement, it’s a deserving, it’s an inherent deservingness, inherent self-love, an inherent self-worth that you are just as worthy, deserving, and capable of anything that you want in your life, that you’re willing to pursue, to receive, to commit to.

 

I’m not more worthy than you. That he or she, the people on the pedestal, people on TV, the people that you look up to, that you admire, that you think, wow, they’re so successful, I wish I had their life, they’re not more worthy than you. Now, they might have believed they were more worthy, and thus, they acted in alignment with that belief. And that’s what I’m inviting you to do. To realize that your inherent perfection, your inherent worth, your inherent self-love, that you’re just blocking, right? We just block ourselves. We don’t allow ourselves to see who we truly are, this limitless being that we truly are. See it. See yourself. Whether you look in the mirror and you tell yourself, look in the mirror, I love you.

 

If you ever read the book, Love Yourself Like Your Life Depends on It by Kamal Ravikant, he says, “Look in the mirror and say I love you, Kamal. I love you. I love you.” Just tell yourself you love yourself until it doesn’t feel weird anymore because it definitely feels weird at first. I haven’t done that in a while in that way, but when I read his book, I did look in the mirror and I was like, “I love you, Hal.” It feels weird. “I love you, Hal.” I just kept saying it until after a few days, it just got normal and didn’t feel weird, and I started to receive it.

 

So, again, today’s episode, I mentioned that perfection is, it can be interpreted in a lot of ways, and perfectionism, that’s not what we’re talking about today, right? That’s something that we may cover in another episode. Like, those suffering from perfectionism tend to be, and this is I relate to suffering from perfectionism to this day, but we tend to be wonderful at contributing and we’re effective people, but we may feel that no matter what we do, it is never enough, right? We suffer from exaggerating our minor mistakes and weaknesses or shortcomings to the point that they may become or we may become dysfunctional.

 

And so, I’m not talking about that perfection today. I’m talking about your inherent perfection and the perfection of your current reality, of your life circumstances. And I know some of you were like, you might be mad at me for saying that because you’re saying, “My life is not perfect, Hal.” Sorry, pardon my French. “It’s a frickin’ mess. It’s a mess right now.” And I don’t want to dismiss that pain. But again, I’m talking about finding the perfection in the pain.

 

I don’t know about you, but, well, I do, I think I can pretty well assume this, that you can look back at your life. And there were times in your life where you endured difficult situations and circumstances, painful situations and circumstances. But, or maybe and, you were better off in the long run because you overcame that and maybe you learned how to not be because of how someone else wronged you and I’m never going to be like that. And although, while you were being wronged, it was painful and difficult. And if someone had told you, “Hey, this is perfect,” you would have slapped him across the face. Like, you might want to slap me across the face. I don’t know.

 

But in hindsight, you go, oh, yeah, because of that, because I was abused, because of that trauma that I endured, because I suffered, I become a better person. I became a better parent because of some of the ways that I might have been wronged as a child. By overcoming that difficult, seemingly impossible circumstance in my life, I was then able to help other people.

 

And so, whatever you’re going through right now, whatever your life is like right now, I want to wrap up today’s episode, today’s conversation, today’s dialog by inviting you to see yourself as perfect, not flawless, but as perfect exactly as you are in this moment. And in being perfect, you are worthy of love, but don’t go looking for it from someone else. Give it to yourself. And if it helps you to receive it from God, one of my favorite philosophies that I learned when I was young is that sometimes you have to believe in the belief that someone else has in you until your belief catches up.

 

When I started in sales, I didn’t believe in myself, but I trusted my mentor, Jesse. And thanks to Jesse and me believing in his belief in me and doing what he thought I could do, not what I thought I could do, what he thought I could do. In that, I achieved success beyond what I ever thought or believed possible for me. And so, in that same light, I believe in you. I love you. And again, if you need to get that love, like I said, if you can’t give it to yourself, then get it from God, right? Borrow it from somebody else until your love, your self-love catches up.

 

And then in terms of your outer world and your circumstances, embrace that they are perfect, that you are exactly where you’re supposed to be, even if it’s difficult, even if it’s painful. Again, this is a perspective. This isn’t right or wrong. This is what’s useful. If you look at your current circumstances and you are miserable because you hate them and you want nothing more than for them to be different and you have an idea in your mind of how they should be, I’m not saying don’t go create those circumstances or pursue those circumstances or get out of a bad situation. Absolutely. Do all of those things.

 

But see the perfection in even that decision that you have that choice to make, to do better, to be better, to move beyond your current circumstances. It’s all perfect. It’s all part of your evolution. You are exactly where you are supposed to be, to learn what you must learn, to become the person that you need to be, to create and experience the life that you are destined to live. That’s what I mean when I say my life is perfect, even when it’s painful. And that’s what I mean when I say you and your life are perfect, even when they’re difficult.

 

So, I love you. I hope this has been valuable for you. And I’ve got something exciting next week on the podcast that I am planning on talking about. I’ll keep it a surprise. All right, goal achievers, members of the Miracle Morning Community, friends, family, brothers, and sisters, by the way, just so you know, that’s how I refer to you when I write notes to myself. It’s like these are my brothers and sisters. I believe that we are all brothers and sisters in the human race. All right, I love you. I will talk to you next week.

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