You Can’t Demand Excellence from Life If You Offer It Mediocrity

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Radical excellence. We hear radical about this that and the other what about radical excellence?

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Hello welcome Ultimate Life. This episode continues the journey from the swamp to the meadow.

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Remember, we were talking about the swamp and that's the default thing. That's the place where we learn to live by default, where we don't take real responsibility for what is happening. Now, there's a funny example. So if you go on a vacation, right, you might just go, I'm going to just go do whatever shows up because you're tired of structure or you're tired of trying to optimize yourself into.

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perfection or money or best practices or whatever. And so it might be just like whatever shows up. Or you might take a vacation where you're going to a city or a country or a place you've never been going to go to a beautiful park or Rome or someplace. And you're like, I got to see the Coliseum and I got to see this and I got to see that. And so there's a list of things that you want to do that maybe they're on your bucket list or maybe not.

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But there's stuff that you don't want to leave and then, oh, man, I didn't get to see the pantheon, you know, that, you know, the dome and whatever. Life can be like that. And sometimes, you know, you might go on a vacation and do both. You might say, all right, I'm going to this place. There's some beaches there and I want to have plenty of hang out and do nothing time. But I sure want to see this or that museum or, you know, and so you have a combination of both.

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Most of the time, life, your life and my life, we only plan vaguely. So when we're kids, we think, well, you know, man, I'm to be an astronaut or astrophysicist or a tornado chaser. saw that movie Twisters the other day. And ah one of the characters, I can't remember which one talked about, you know, long standing desire to understand the storms. Some people have that yearning really young and some don't. But when you have it,

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whenever it is, it kind of takes over. It becomes an obsession. I want to have that thing and I'm going to figure out what it is. I'm going to study whatever I got to study. I'm going to talk to whoever I got to talk to and I'm going there no matter what. That's an obsession. Well, that's what radical excellence means. Okay. Now I love radical excellence because it allows both of the approaches I just described.

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It allows me to take a vacation and I'm going to have it radically excellent because I'm going to go to every single one of those tourist spots I saw. The London Bridge and the Tower of London and I can't even remember the rest of them. Westminster Abbey and whatever it was, right? Because I'm thinking of London because Joy and I went there twice this last year and we had a list of things and we didn't do all of them. But we planned some days and then we had planned days that were nothing. We're just going to go jump on the tube.

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And go here. One of the places we went was, you know, the Sherlock Holmes Museum. What is the Sherlock Holmes Museum? Well, 221B Baker Street, right? And there it is, the Sherlock Holmes Museum. Now we know, or least we think we do, Sherlock Holmes is a fake dude, right? I mean, there is no real Sherlock Holmes. He was a figment of the imagination of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. But that museum.

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You set up all the sitting room and the smoking jacket and the bullet holes in the wall where Sherlock shot this and his lab. Although the one set up there is, I'm sure, way tinier than the lab that's shown in the different things. And Watson's bedroom and the bedchamber, you know, all the things right that you know about Sherlock Holmes. And that was entirely, entirely fake. You know what I found out?

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There was a big poster on the wall that talked about all the things that had been done in honor of this invented character. Books and movies and plays and just all kinds of stuff. In fact, I think that that character holds the by far the world record of the most things written, done, talked about or created about him, honored by the I mean, emphasized by the fact that, of course, there's the museum.

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for, uh you know, in honor of him and many of the things were in miniature. Of course, I bought one of the deer stalker hats, you know, with the two brims and all that, because I was fascinated by Sherlock Holmes as a kid, as I'm sure many are, which is why it has such a long history and is so powerful.

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Sherlock Holmes had an obsession besides cocaine and besides whatever else there was with finding out things, with knowing, with discovering, with understanding, solving the mysteries. Radical excellence is an obsession and it's OK. It is the obsession and I have it. I have an obsession and my obsession is to make everything I can out of every day.

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It is to make everything I can out of every opportunity. And that doesn't mean frantic business, busyness, I'm sorry, business, frantic busyness, because I said radical obsession or radical excellence allows both ends of the spectrum. So it allows radical commitment to get something accomplished that you've committed to. And it also allows radical commitment to relaxation and joy and relationship.

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So there are times when I say I have radical excellence on my mind and the radical excellence is how much can I show my partner, my angel, Joy, how much can I show her that I love her? How can I be radically excellent at that? How can I be radically excellent at the music that I create in the studio, which is over there. I'm pointing over there because the recording studio is over there.

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How can I be radically excellent at serving my clients? How can I be radically excellent at giving you love and kindness and encouraging your divine gifts and talents? How can I be radically excellent at that? Well, you don't have to be passionate about the same things that I am. don't have to be. You can be passionate about binge watching Netflix and become the very best Netflix binger in the world. You can do that.

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And there's a satisfaction that comes that's like no other when you give your all to something, when you go all in. Now, sometimes we're afraid, especially when it's in front of others or, you know, when we're submitting something, you know, you create a painting and you're going to show it off and you did the best you could do. And, you know, the first thing that happens is a bunch of people will pan it and dismiss it, whether it's music or art or words or a book or your

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your work, your products, your services, your performance at your company. We deeply fear judgment and rejection. You know, that's a powerful thing. We want to avoid that. Oh, dear, because that cuts right into the very core of our being. You know what? You can become radically excellent at just living your life, your sovereign life. You have sovereignty. You have the right.

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the obligation, the opportunity to create your life just like you want it. Now, we've been on this conversation about moving from the swamp, which has learned helplessness, addiction to mediocrity and victim mindset. You know, you're a swamp up to your knees, your waist or up to your nose, and you feel stuck and frustrated. Last time we just we talked about fierce life ownership, which is the knowledge, the truth, the eternal fact.

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that you own your life, nobody else owns it. And taking fierce control of your emotions, your thinking, your choices, the way you talk to yourself and others, that's so critical. Now the next piece that comes, and this is the last one, I told you I was gonna do six, and this is the sixth in that arc. And if you haven't heard the others, you need to back up and find them. And it starts with swamp, talking about the swamp and the meadow, a few episodes ago. So,

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This one combines two names. I talked about the swamp and then there's this place that's the meadow and I use this beautiful picture behind me on purpose with the sun and people raising their hands in joy because this is what it's like living in the meadow. And the names on the meadow, engraving on the trees or written in the skies or on the rocks or whatever, are that fierce life ownership.

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radical excellence, which is what we're talking about right now, and a passion to serve. A passion to serve. So I got a cat down here making noise. I don't know why. I don't care. I'll take care of her in a minute. So fierce life ownership we talked about in the last one. And this today is about radical excellence and a passion to serve. These are the last two labels.

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in the meadow. The meadow is a beautiful place. It feels like that even when it's raining, even when it's snowing, even when things go bad, even when projects you're doing break down. It feels like sunshine all the time. Why? Because there's always constant opportunity. Living in the swamp means you've given your life to the belief that you're helpless, learned helplessness, victim mindset, right? An addiction to mediocrity. Now that's what we're taught.

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That's what's drummed into us by the system, this monstrous system that's greed and profit driven at any cost. Well, there's another way to live and it's the mountain meadow. It's the beautiful meadow. It's fierce life, ownership, radical excellence and a passion to serve. And I want to invite you there. And if you don't know how to get there, talk to me. I've got three invitations right now and I'm going to issue them again at the end. And the first one is this. If you're living the ultimate life right now,

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a life of purpose, prosperity and joy. I invite you to get a hold of me. The best way to do that is there's a website I'll give you. Sometimes I have it on the screen up here, but I don't today. is kellenflukegermedia.com. Just my name, kellenflukegermedia.com. And there's a contact form there. And reach out to me. And here's why I want you to do that. If you're living your ultimate life, I invite you to reach out because I love featuring.

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or interviewing or having conversations with on my Tuesday episodes, usually about with people that have done that. And the reason I do is because the more people I can share your message, your journey, your tools, your thoughts, how you got to a place where you're happy all the time and you're living with this radical excellence and fierce life ownership. That is it's a joy to my heart.

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And it's a blessing to all those in the audience. So if you have if you live there, I'd love to talk with you. The second invitation is similar. And that's this if you don't live there and you're not living with joy all the time with fierce life ownership, radical excellence and a passion to serve. Let's talk because I can help you go there. Why would you live in the swamp when you can live in the meadow? Why would you live in a place of sadness and struggle and addiction to mediocrity?

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when you can live in a place of radical joy, happiness and love. You wouldn't. So let me help you get a hold of me. Same thing. KellenFlukigerMedia.com, contact form. And the last invitation is if you know someone who is either living in the swamp and needs help or in the meadow and should share their story, connect me, would you? I'd love to feature their story. And there's lots of ways to do that. Not only being on the shows, but I'm going to ask them, have you written the story of your becoming?

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Have you written the things that you learn? Have you written the book of your journey, which is the best gift that we have? All right. So let's let's start here. em Today. Excellence means something different than it used to. We used to use the word excellence. When we were talking about performance or skill or craftsmanship, you know, someone performed excellently, they were great.

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at their craft or their skill, painting or building houses or architecture or whatever. That was what excellence means. And it still kind of does. But it's morphed today into stuff like followers, applause, appearances, speed, scale, external markers of yay. Now, there's nothing wrong with applause or speed or scale, but we have replaced

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true excellence in living and in craftsmanship with the appearance of excellence because I look like I have some kind of success cash or whatever and yet at the same time it's legend about how many people rent the cars and rent the houses just so they can give the appearance of success and coolness. Can we all vomit together? Now this let's get really clear this is not about perfection.

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Nobody's talking about having arrived. Living in the meadow, fierce life ownership, radical excellence, and a passion to serve is a process. It's an evolution. It's something we work on all the time. And it's joyful moment by moment. OK. So today, I want to define what it really means to have radical excellence. Number one, it means you finish what you start. You don't make promises to yourself, especially, or to others that you don't do.

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Another thing is that you keep all your promises, especially the ones to yourself. I talked to so many people that say, well, when I tell other people I'll do stuff, I really do. I'm really good at that. I keep my word. And then I say, do you do that with yourself? And you get the hollow eyes that tell you that's not really important to them. And then it's dismissive. Well, as long as I keep my word to others, that's not true. You're hollowing your soul. You're eating your heart out.

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You're destroying your life. The most important promises to keep are the ones to you. The most important word person to love is yourself. You can't love anybody else more than you love yourself, no matter what motions you go through. OK, another thing that is. Not excellence is cutting corners. That hollow you out, you don't quite do what you say you're going to do.

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You don't quite deliver. You know, I just saw a movie the other day. I was an episode actually on a detective series, but it was about someone that built another apartment building and you know, they cut some corners and this, that, and the other. And guess what? You know, of course in their cracks and the foundation and something fell down and all these people got hurt. And the whole episode was about who cheated, who lied and all the rest. That's true all over the place. Ponzi schemes and people that

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How much money do we spend on safety and security every other minute? I'm getting an ad from Norton, anti virus or Bitdefender or PCmatic or Yo Mama production about protecting my assets. Because why? somebody's cutting corners, somebody's trying to steal everything. That's the opposite of radical excellence. Radical excellence is in line with integrity.

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I am who I say I do what it seems like I'm going to do. You can depend on my word. OK. Here's another thing to think about when we say or do things, what we're building. I'm building a university, Ultimate Life University, and there's four schools, School of Transformational Authorship and the School of Transformational Coaching and the School of Transformational Leadership and Business. And I use that word transformation in front of it. Every one of them.

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Because what passes for leadership today is mostly garbage. What passes for coaching today is mostly hollow. What passes for authorship today is mostly fake. And that's not everybody. But excellence means it. I build substance before spectacle. Substance in my relationship with myself, with my God and with my wife. Substance. There's something real there. If you

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Dig into it. It is what it seems. There's truth. There's reality there. There's fierce foundation and power. That's substance over spectacle. Spectacle, as you would know, is just looking good. It's the rented car and house and putting up appearances when the truth is underneath it's rotten and hollow. You're not satisfied with that.

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All right, so let's go on. Excellence is not performance. It's not just what it looks like. It is coherence. Now, coherence is a funny word. It means that things are lined up. Ideas hang together. That philosophy is coherent. What that means is all the pieces hook together and line up. The mathematics are coherent.

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The explanation is coherent. My life, your life, are we coherent? That's radical excellence. When it can withstand our word, our life, our being, our production, our relationship can stand scrutiny because it's connected, coherent. There is a coherence between what I say and what I do between

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what I value and what I pretend to value. Okay, how I show up in every situation. I was talking to somebody and I always say somebody because I don't want to use names, but I was talking to somebody deeply about one of their clients and they were talking about that client a bit and how that client, so I have me talking to a friend, that client over there, that client teaches.

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about coherence and excellence and getting out of your way and all the stuff that coaches teach. Yet that client was taking advantage shamefully of my friend, demanding extra services and trying to intimidate and calling him names. There is no coherence there, right?

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Now, I don't know, but I would be willing to bet that the clients of that person, that third person, my friend, but my friend's clients, clients, there's not going to be a lot of growth there because the the the leader, the coach is not in coherence, is not lined up. There's no radical excellence in that delivery. I don't know. I'm not judging. But if I look at that progression,

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That's sure what it looks like. That building's gonna fall down.

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Okay, so why do people resist excellence? Why do people resist going all in? Most people, want to dabble, stick your toe in and see. Well, mostly it's being afraid. I'm afraid if I go in, I'll suck. Something will bomb, it will crash. And let's pretend that it does. Somehow that says I'm bad. So I can't go all in and be...

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radically excellent because I'm afraid it won't work and then people will think badly of me. I can't even follow that so many maybes. What if it does suck? What if I do fail? So what? I have a t-shirt. I don't have the t-shirt anymore, but I bought it. I used to go to Baja, California a lot and a couple of timeshares in Cabo San Lucas. And in Cabo, they have lots of excursions. So they have four-wheeler excursions in the desert and

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You know, deep sea fishing expeditions and whale watching expeditions on the other side of Baja. All kinds of those things, right? And there was a company that ran some of these uh dune buggy excursions in the desert. And they had a T-shirt. And the T-shirt I love, the brand was called Die Trying. The T-shirt said die trying, not watching.

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You know, that's it. I only have one life. So do you. I'm going to die trying, not watching. Radical excellence is the satisfying and deep way to live. Now you don't need to be noisy. I'm noisy. I make noise. I, you know, sort of expansive. I take up a lot of energetic space, but you can take up a small space and be radically excellent. So that everything we do, you or I, everything you do, even in a small space,

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It withstands all the scrutiny. People can look at it and examine it, trust it, take it for what it's worth. It means what it seems to mean. That's radical excellence. Okay, but here's why people are afraid of it. Excellence is expensive. It's expensive. And I don't mean in cash. Excellence demands discipline. Oh, man, we hate discipline.

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Go to the gym a few times. Ah, this hard. Forget it. You know, I want to do a morning routine. Get up a few times. Ah, this is hard. I'm tired. Forget it. I'm going to keep my word. I'm going to say the truth, do that a few times. Doesn't work out right. Yeah, maybe I'll just quit that. Radical excellence takes discipline. The rewards are infinite. You know, I can tell you what one of them is. And this is really important to me because I used to live exactly the opposite.

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I used to live so that nearly everything I did and said was shady or a lie. Think about it. I was a $3,000 a week cocaine addict. So there's lies all over the place and you, you, you tell people you're certain things, certain places and you're not, and you lie about this and what you're doing and what you're not doing and on and on and on. And that destroyed relationships. Duh. But I was always constantly 24 seven afraid.

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Somebody would find out, my lies would unravel, my situations would explode, and on and on and on, right? Terrified, terrified, terrified, terrified. Always terrified.

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Talk about skeletons in the flippin' closet, right? When you don't live like that and there's transparency, you don't have to remember anything. Truth is truth. think Mark Twain is credited, at least, with saying, tell the truth. There's less to remember.

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I love that. For me, that was so true and I live that way now. Tell the truth. I don't have to remember anything. The truth is the truth and I don't have to remember. I used to spend so much effort and energy trying to keep track of the webs of lies and stories that I'd spun and pretenses so I wouldn't get caught. I don't have to do that anymore at all. And you know what that does? Talk about liberation. I don't have to think about anything. I just get to be who I am.

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and love you and love everybody and work on lifting and blessing you and me and us. Why? Because can you imagine a world where you, me and all of us lived to our full potential? We loved and lifted with our gifts and talents. We did everything with radical excellence and looked like that people, those people, the man, woman behind me. Can you imagine what that would be like? It's the meadow.

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And so you and me, can't make anybody else go live or behave like they live in the meadow, but you and me, we can. We can do it right now. What a cool thing. Live in radical excellence with my word, with my actions, with my speaking in front of your face, behind your back and in my heart. Radical excellence. It is so liberating. It is so joyful. It is so free.

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Okay, so it takes discipline, takes repetition, takes delayed gratification, it takes private work that's deep in our heart, it takes quiet reflection and quiet correction, it takes admitting being wrong, it takes being coached. You know what? You're doing this, you're talking like that. No, no, no, wait a minute, am I? Tell me more. That's not who I want to be.

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I had to learn to do that. My initial reaction was always, I'm not. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no,

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And then there's peace. It brings such peace. I can promise you that. It also demands emotional regulation.

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Right? I can't, I can't just let my emotions take control. I can feel them. I can acknowledge them, but I can't let them ruin things. You know how fast emotion giving way to just expressing everything can ruin things? Well, you know that maybe it's happened to you. Right? It takes follow through. It takes self honesty. It takes not tolerating.

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The old stuff, addiction to mediocrity, learned helplessness, victim mindset. It takes standards, minimum performance standards. Those are confronting. It's easier just to say, ah, good enough.

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Once you raise your standards, when you're going for radical excellence, yeah, then excuses, they don't cut it anymore. Right? Now here's the thing to think about. You and me, we want life to be excellent. Bill and Ted's excellent adventure. We want everything to work out for us. The stars to line up, the lights to be green, the lottery to come in our favor. You know, of course we want that.

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Well, you can't demand excellence from life if you or me, offer life mediocrity.

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if I offer half-ass effort.

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mediocre mediocre commitment lukewarm attention if that's what i offer i cannot demand excellence from life karma doesn't work that way energy doesn't work that way so let's talk about now a passion for service we've talked about radical excellence and what that is and i want now to talk about a passion for service because they go hand in hand what i know about every single person that i talk with

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is when they've gone through difficulties in their life, and I know you have, because we all have, and then you've overcome them. Maybe they've ruined you for a day or a week or a decade, but then you allow them to refine you. What's the gift here? What can I learn here? How can I be better? How can I go live in the meadow? What can I learn from this drug joy? And I were just talking today, this morning, about something that happened in the last few days was not what we expected or wanted. So.

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My throat's dry. Sorry. So I said to her, what's the gift here? What is the gift here? And I brought us on purpose to talk about this unexpected and undesired situation in that frame. What is the gift here? And then we were able to talk about it and find some gifts. So that's all attitude and mindset. Now, when we go through difficulties and we come out the other side, there's something that

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always happens. One, we're happier, yay. But two, we develop the rise, we don't even do anything that rises up in us a yearning to serve.

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I was going to say, I don't know why I do know why you're in your divine being. We both are. We're created by the universe. Right. God, the creative intelligence and power breathe into us life and holds us and sustains us from moment to moment and orders the laws of physics to keep us running. That gift is part of our nature. So when we overcome something,

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We have a yearning to pass on that gift. That is so cool.

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We really are built to love and serve each other. So why don't we say yes? Something I know about you is if you've been through some struggle, you have a passion to serve. I was just talking to somebody else this morning and I say that a lot. was just talking to somebody. That's because I talk to a lot of somebodies, a lot of people every day. Like on purpose, I structure my life and time to do that. But I was talking to someone about this.

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passion for service and exploring what theirs is and where they had struggles and what the struggles Taught them and how they want to serve people and the story that unfolded was interesting and amazing and I thought oh Such an opportunity here Can you imagine what it would be like if we all said yes? To those opportunities to love and serve All right. So let's talk about what service actually does we are

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We are wired, we are put together for contribution, for lifting, for blessing, and for helping. Okay? Here's what happens when we help people. Life's meaning sharpens. We stop worrying about us and start worrying about them and the them expands. Your energy increases. People can be tired.

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and then go work in a soup kitchen and their energy just goes up and they get excited. I've done that. I'm sure you have too. Or something equivalent, food drives, soup kitchen, clothing drives, volunteering at one of the Goodwill centers or Salvation Army or whatever. I know you've done that in your church and community one way or another, and maybe you do it all the time. Women's shelters and kids schools and stuff.

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Learned to do that. I went in third grade. My kid was in third grade, went to school and helped teach music and kids to sing and stuff. it's energizing. It's fun. It's infectious. And the reason is because that's what we're built to do. Depression, frustration, feeling negative about life and opportunities and oh no, that all loosens up. You can't be in service to someone else.

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and feel depressed, not in genuine service. Because when I'm looking at and loving you, I can't be depressed. I can't be feeling woe is me. I don't have any energy to do anything. It's just like one of these episodes or when I talk to somebody either as a prospect or not even a prospect, just to get acquainted. When I'm talking to them, I don't care how I physically felt before the call.

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I love you right now. And I was going to say I love them because I was speaking about somebody else, but you and when I'm feeling that I can't feel sad or depressed. I'm feeling love for you. I'm feeling a uh yearning for you to have the joy. That's why joy feeling a joy, the yearning for you to have the joy of fierce life ownership, a passion for service and radical excellence.

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That is a joyful way to live and it's a choice all the time. Another thing that's true is service enlarges the soul. You know, one of my favorite stories of all time is A Christmas Carol, Charles Dickens, Scrooge. And that's been made into 15 different movies from Bill Murray Scrooge to Donald Duck, Mr. Scrooge to the serious ones with the musical with Albert Finney and the one that George C. Scott and

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And the guy that played Star Trek, Captain Picard, Patrick Stewart, he played Scrooge. And then there was the old one a long time ago, the one that was in black and white. I don't like that one as much. My favorite is George C. Scott. But anyway, what you see in that story is an enlargement of the soul. So when he was being self-absorbed, had boatloads of cash and the one guy at the stock exchange, he didn't even make himself Barry. What good does it do him?

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And his, his soul had shriveled up like an old prune. And yet when he just had those visitations and his vision was opened again, he was happy. He was joyful. He didn't get any richer, but he gained love and friendship. And in fact, he met those dudes from the market again and he said, I'm going to give you my pledge for, he whispered some number in his ear and it was obviously a uh gigantic number. Cause the guy said,

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Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh,

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by comparison, right? Sadness goes away. We are connected in our common humanity. This whole podcast series is about living the ultimate life. Purpose, prosperity and joy. Do you want that? Well, fierce life ownership, radical excellence and a passion for service. You know what? You can do that today. That doesn't depend on the weather, the economy.

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who's prime minister or president or king, it just depends on me and you deciding. I'm gonna lift and love today. Why? Because I can. Because it feels good. Because I love you. Wow. What a cool thing. All right. So let's talk about one other aspect of this. Besides enlarging the soul.

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There's another piece, and this goes to leadership. If there's anything that we need in the world today with all of its divisiveness and wars and anger and everything else, I just saw on the news this morning. Afghanistan and Pakistan declaring war. More death. And they've been doing cross-border attacks for, you know, some number of months or years already.

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Today, it got bad enough that one of them, can't remember which declared war on the other. And my heartache, I thought, how many more dead people does it take? And there's war in Ukraine and there's the barely fragile peace in Gaza that's not really there and just more and more and more. Right. And so what do we need today? Well, we need leaders. And if you sit there or I sit here and say, can't do anything because I'm only one person.

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What we're doing is we're creating excuses. We're abdicating both our responsibility and our opportunity to lead. So what do we lead? Well, first we lead ourselves. We create purpose, prosperity and joy everywhere we go every day of our lives just because we can. We choose to love and we choose to serve even small things around us. Be nice to your animals. Be nice to the people in your life. Be loving and helpful to the clerks in the store. Don't even get mad at the IRS or whoever, you know,

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you have to deal with and long lines at grocery stores or long waits on hold. You can choose to live in a place of love, and those are tiny things you can do right now. You can write to your representative if you want to. Here in Canada, the representative in our district just switched parties, and Joy was pretty upset because she voted for him as a conservative, and now he crossed the aisle to the Liberal Party, and neither one of us like that very much, so she's going to

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Sit around and complain, no, she's going to write a letter and tell them, well, I'm not going to do any good. How do you know? Besides that, it is the motion and the movement that we can make. So passion for service is serve your community. Love yourself. Serve those people around you. Small things. You don't need to wait for permission. And how this has to do with leadership is this. If you're a leader in your company, if you're a supervisor or a manager or an executive or a CEO, uh

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Your leadership sets the tone for yourself, for your family, for your department, for your division, for your company, for your community. Because the whole world is just made up of you and me and a whole bunch of yous and mes all over the place. And I can't control anyone else, but I can me. And my commitment to you is to love, to create everything I can, books and podcasts and music, to love you and lift you.

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And to help my group is 300 million people I'm reaching to get. To make you aware of your divinity, your capability, your possibility to invite you to live in the meadow, fierce life ownership, radical excellence, and a passion to serve. To help you create your ultimate life. My final invitation again is like it was in the beginning. If you're living the ultimate life and you'd like me to share your story, get a hold of me. If you are struggling and you'd like help getting to the purpose,

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Prosperity, which includes making money, adding good to the world. Purpose, prosperity, enjoy, get a hold of me because that's my whole business. I can do it and I'm the best there is. And if you know somebody that's either struggling or that has a story to share, get a hold of me. I'd love to meet you. I'd love to visit with you. There's nothing you can't have. And it starts with leading ourselves. It starts with taking responsibility for ourselves.

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It starts with leading as an example those around us that we can influence and love. We do not need consensus. We do not need permission. You do not need to wait for applause.

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You don't need those things. You can decide. We all, me and you together, we can decide who we are and then lift and bless. We can be stable amid chaos. We can be strong and courageous amid other divisiveness. We can love in the middle of hate. We can be clear. We don't have to perform or pretend strength. We embody it.

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Hum it. And we are that thing. We become the standard. The meadow is not soft. It is not soggy. It is not squishy. It is not la la la la la. It is powerful. It is energetic. It is creative. It is strength. And it beckons to you. It is inviting you today. So here are my invitations.

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Receive love that I have for you. And if there's something I can do to help you create your own purpose, prosperity and joy, I will.

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That's who I am. And my commitment is to do what I can to help you build and live your ultimate life. Never hold back and you'll never ask why Open your heart and this time write

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Right here, right now. Your opportunity for massive growth is right in front of you. Every episode gives you practical tips and practices that will change everything. If you want to know more, go to kellenflukegermedia.com. If you want more free tools, go here, yourultimatelife.ca. Subscribe, share. oh

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