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everybody how enthusiastic are we today
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yeah no indifference in this crowd
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that's for sure that's what I like to
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see today I want to tell you about an
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amazing word and it's that word right
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there that word first thing you have to
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learn is how to pronounce it it's
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pronounced iki guy you lift your cheeks
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like you're smiling it's iki guys say it
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with me
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iki guy you got it that's right it's not
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pronounced iki guy if I was wearing a
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lime green four-speed oh that would be
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an achy guy
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this is iki guy and the most wonderful
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thing about this word is that first off
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it's a good-looking word but secondly
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this word is really like a treasure map
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and this treasure map can help you find
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your way to finding wonderful things
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about yourself that you can share with
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the world and the world will say thank
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you for it
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so let me tell you all about it but
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first they have to warn you it takes
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work
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now I had a job once upon a time about
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this time last year had a radio host job
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at CBC Radio 2 was wonderful I enjoyed
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it thoroughly it was so good however I
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quit my job I quit my job so I could
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focus on my work instead so let's just
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clarify that a job in this context is
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something that you do as a regular form
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of employment it's what you get you know
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money to do so you can pay for your
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house and for your food and things like
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that work on the other hand work is
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something that you do in order to
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achieve a result something like a
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product or maybe even something like a
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purpose like maybe like a more
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meaningful you sounds good doesn't that
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so this last year my work focused on
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anything that I could do
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that was exciting that was interesting
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to me I went on a trip to Oregon and I
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saw the full Eclipse with my full eyes I
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also went on a icebreaker and I traveled
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across the Northwest Passage I went to
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Canada's north coast I also traveled
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with my family and some dear friends we
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went to Dominican Republic we helped
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build houses for people and I filmed a
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documentary and I also did all sorts of
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little projects as well and I had a
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podcast for a while I did I wrote a play
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that was a musical I also did a Facebook
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live talk but probably more precious
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than anything is that I finally got to
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go on a family trip to Okinawa Japan now
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Okinawa is very precious to me because
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it's a place where my grandparents were
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born it's also the place where a key guy
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comes from I've always felt something
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urging me to get out and to do special
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things in my life and I think it was a
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key guy that did it
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Okinawa by the way is a place that the
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most 100 year olds in the world live per
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capita 100 year olds are revered and
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respected but Okinawa was very very
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special to me because of the connections
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to my family and a key guy and I was
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thinking boy why couldn't this whole
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Ikki guy thing spread around the world
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well it is possible and there is another
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idea that came from Okinawa that you've
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heard of its karate karate kid'
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Danielsson
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karate is actually two words in Japanese
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Cara which means empty and Tay which
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means hand so it literally translates to
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empty hand now in 1609 the Japanese
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forces invaded Okinawa it was called
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real cool islands back then Oh
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basically they won the battle and they
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said to the Okinawan okay you can't have
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weapons anymore
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give us your weapons and the Okinawan
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said okay here you go
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our hands will be our weapons they had
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already invented karate they didn't call
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it karate yet but they knew that they
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had a special form of self-defense then
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in the Second World War there was
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another terrible battle that happened in
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Okinawa and it was the American forces
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this time fighting the Japanese forces
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history shows that the American forces
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won the Battle of Okinawa and they have
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been stationed there ever since and
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since then the American soldiers have
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witnessed karate for the first time and
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they said hey this is pretty cool I want
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to learn karate too so they learned it
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and eventually they will take it back to
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the United States and it started to
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spread and spread and spread now
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everybody knows about karate right
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daniel-san that other concept becomes
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from Okinawa is iki guy iki guy is two
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words as well iki means life guy purpose
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iki guy is life's purpose isn't that a
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beautiful word it's a lovely word thank
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you for your indifference
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this is what it means this is the
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treasure map a key guy has four
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directions do what you love do what
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you're good at
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do what the world needs and do what you
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can be rewarded for it seems simple but
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it's difficult now I would estimate that
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a key guy similar to karate in that you
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can earn degrees or belts in it as well
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you have to start someplace and I think
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that I got my yellow belt when I was 20
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years old sexy time
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I was 20 years old and I was living at
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my parents house and I remember laying
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in bed one day thinking to myself what
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am I gonna do for the rest of my life
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that would be interesting and fun I
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didn't want to just go get a job I
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wanted to focus on my work and like a
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bolt of lightning it hit me and I sat up
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in bed and I said I am going to go to
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music school so that's what I did I went
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to music school for two years and then
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from that moment on I focused on nothing
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but music aspects in my life
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I've done all sorts of amazing things in
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my life I work for a record company
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called MCA records I also made six jazz
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albums I've performed all over the
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country I had that 10 year career at CBC
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Radio - six nights a week writing 70
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stories every week it was such an
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amazing career but then they came to
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realize something that I enjoyed myself
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but I didn't really know why I was doing
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it I didn't I knew what I wanted to do
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or what I love to do and what I was good
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at but they didn't understand why I was
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doing it and why the world needed that
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so I spent this last year figuring out
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what my ikki guy is and I boil it down
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into a two-word phrase my ikki guy is to
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delight to delight that's what I go out
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for every day
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the world where that I'm talking with a
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clerk at the grocery store or if I'm
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singing a song on stage or if I'm on the
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radio or if I'm giving a TED talk to you
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wildly attractive people right now my
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iki guy is two delight I throw it out
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into the world and I get it back in
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return it's the full cycle now you're
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probably wondering to yourself well
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that's great Tim well now we know what
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Eureka guy is what is my iki guy let me
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give you some directions on how you
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might be able to start figuring that out
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I suggest the start part-time part-time
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icky guy is within reach right it is
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very within reach and I'll tell you
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something when you look at there and you
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see on the screen that there are two
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sections of the day where you don't
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really do anything that adds up to eight
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hours you can focus your work on the
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five to nine hours of the day okay start
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part time figure out what you love to do
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and what you're good at
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spend time on that for as long as you
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like and there's a couple of ways you
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can do that you can start a side hustle
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or you can do a side helpful a side
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hustle by the way there's a lot of
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Millennials that have side hustles up to
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fifty percent of Millennials have side
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hustles according to studies 50 percent
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and why do they have those side hustles
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it's because it gives them the
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opportunity to be able to do what
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they're good at and do what they love
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and it opens up the opportunity to be
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able to transfer that part-time Niki guy
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into maybe full-time a key guy down the
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road and it doesn't hurt that you can
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make a little bit of money off it either
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right
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but what if money isn't necessarily
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behind you're a key guy maybe you want
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to just broaden your heart well you can
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do a side helpful instead at Yale
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University professor Laurie Santos
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teaches a course that is called the
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science of well-being and this course
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she takes time to be able to explain
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that we are really really bad at
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figuring out what it is that we are
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going to make us happy so things like
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and job and your good looks and your big
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house they really have no impact on your
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base level of happiness
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what does have an impact are things like
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kindness and meditation time affluence
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in other words doing with your time what
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you want to do with your time and
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spending time with friends and family a
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key guy is an action it's a verb to
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serve to create to delight to nourish to
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provide to teach to heal to connect to
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build is there any verb on that list
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that resonates with somebody in the
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crowd nod your head if there is yes yeah
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there's some nodding happening down here
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yes so we put up your hand if you see
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something up there that's accept I have
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some yellow belt this is good go over
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your words your hand there we go here's
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a yellow belt for you we've got a yellow
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belt in the front row over there and
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there's got to be somebody over there
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there's a yellow belt right there you
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have earned your yellow belt and a key
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guy you know what you're good at you
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know what you love to do looks good on
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you a key guy is as reliable as a
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mathematical equation a key guy equals
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time affluence plus your gifts plus
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rewards in return and you can do it over
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and over and over again and you're going
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to be so much richer because of it your
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meaningful life is not a destination you
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have to get to your meaningful life is
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something you can enjoy right now and
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anytime you want to okay a little bit of
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joy every day is going to add up to a
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lifetime of joy isn't it
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and when you finally get the chance to
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spend time getting to know what you do
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or what you love and what you're good at
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you're a key guy will start to come into
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light and eventually over time you will
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earn your black belt your meaningful
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life is going to be a lot of work
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but I think you really already know this
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that you are worth the work
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and now you have the guy map to show you
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how so I invite you to try iki guy thank
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you
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