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I was talking to a friend of mine and I
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was really
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frustrated I told my friend even if your
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goal was to be president of the United
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States your plan for that goal would
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still just need to be a single page
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I'm not a political scientist and I was
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not trying to convince my friend to run
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for president but I was arguing to my
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friend that more people would be able to
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achieve their really big goals if they
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knew how to design a plan for that goal
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that was just a single page even if
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their goals were really big like write a
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book or climb a mountain or start a
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YouTube channel be president of the
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United States even if their goals were
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really big they would still just need to
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be a single page
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and my friend looked at me kind of like
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you're looking at me now like what do
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you mean just a single page so let me
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explain my name is Dr Sarah globa and
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for years I was a business reporter and
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podcast host meaning I spent my days
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interviewing people about how they
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achieved their really big
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goals I interviewed people who started
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companies started movements invented new
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technology I interviewed a lot of firsts
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so like the first woman or the first
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person of color to break a record or hit
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a certain level of leadership in their
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in their industry and in all these
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interviews even though all the people
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were really different I started to
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notice a
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pattern even though all the people were
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really different there were certain
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things that everybody seemed to be doing
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as they worked on their goal there was a
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pattern to how they set worked on and
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achieved their really big goal I nerded
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out on this for a couple years I looked
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to see if the research could verify what
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I was seeing in this pattern and then I
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tested it with a number of folks and I
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found that there was a way to execute
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this pattern for any goal and it worked
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best if you kept it to just a single
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page now what I would really like to do
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at this point is go back in time and
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give this to Young Sarah because young
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Sarah really could have used help
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getting clear on her goals figuring out
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how to work on those goals but I don't
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have a time machine so instead of going
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back and sharing it with young Sarah I
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would love if you want to check it out
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to share with you sound good all right
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so let's look at this plan for for a
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goal I mentioned it has to be a single
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page and normally I would say go grab a
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sheet of paper but if you're listening
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to this and you can't go grab a sheet of
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paper that's fine the plan is actually
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so simple you can even just imagine a
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sheet of paper so imagine a space about
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the size of a single sheet sheet of
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paper now the first thing we're going to
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do since we're working on our goal is on
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our single sheet of paper we're going to
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write down our specific
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goal did y'all hear me say that word
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specific it's going to get so specific
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that you couldn't trade paper with
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anybody else this is your
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page so if your goal is to write a book
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guess what there's a lot of other people
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out there who want to write a book but
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how can you get so specific as you
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describe this goal so that it's just
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yours
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nobody else could take your sheet of
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paper some of the things when I
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interview folks about big goals that
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they've achieved some of the things that
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they get clear about really early on are
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things like what is my goal and why do I
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want to achieve it what does this goal
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mean to
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me what are the strengths that I have
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that I can put into play for this goal
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the unique strengths that are unique to
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me that'll work for this goal when do I
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want to do this thing by and what does
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working on it look like is like a nights
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and weekends thing or we doing it every
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day so you want to get really specific
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until this goal is just yours and it
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doesn't take up much space just the
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first like third of your single sheet of
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paper you're going to interview yourself
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around this
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goal after this we're going to work on
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our goal that's the easy part
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right I noticed a lot of people getting
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stuck in the phas as I tested out this
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plan and so something we do together is
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we talk about how to work on our goal
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and not around our goal I have a story
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for this one that I think many of you
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are going to recognize I want you to
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think about that friend of yours that
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person you know who hates their job and
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they swear they're going to get a new
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one right but every time you talk to
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them you're like hey how's the job hunt
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going they're like oh I'm tweaking my
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resume right now got to get that resume
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right and then you see them a couple
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weeks later and you're like hey did you
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apply anywhere and they're like actually
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uh I'm getting new head shots this week
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so I'm going to be updating that
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LinkedIn profile this weekend and every
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time you talk to them it's like they're
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spending their time setting those
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dominoes up just right they're in that
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planning phase because that planning
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phase is is safe we're getting things
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done we're being productive but are we
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putting ourselves out there for those
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really big actions so in the middle of
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your page something you can do is write
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down a couple dates a couple deadlines
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and then underneath those dates and
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deadlines you're going to put a couple
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Milestones a couple key tasks that
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you're going to work on and these are
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going to be big things things that move
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the needle cuz let me tell yall those
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people that I interviewed who
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accomplished really big things they
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actually had just as many things on
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their to-do lists as we do but they were
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really good at identifying the priority
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actions so with all the noise all the
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things that they could do in front of
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them they were able to pick out the most
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important things and to move those
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things forward so in the middle of your
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paper you're just going to have date a
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couple Milestones date a couple
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Milestones like three or four times down
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on your sheet of paper and what you're
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going to focus on when you're writing
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those things are those key priority
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actions the stuff that even feels a
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little
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risky putting yourself out there doing
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those job applications writing that book
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draft focusing on those key things
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that'll move the needle forward and I
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know it's
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scary I wish I could tell you that you
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won't fall down but I got to tell you
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based on the interviews I did a lot of
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us fall down but you know what's so
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great is if you do that key priority
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action and you do fall down you're going
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to learn from it and when you learn from
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it and pick yourself up and keep moving
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you're going to get further ahead than
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if you had just been in that Domino
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space so the people that I interviewed
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were really good at this figuring out
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how to take those priority actions and
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keep moving now we've done two sections
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of our single page and we only have one
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left
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but I have to ask you a question at this
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point I want you to imagine that you're
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working on this big goal and you get
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stuck so you get to a place where you
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have a question or you need to to get
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some inspiration from somebody to keep
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moving I want to ask you who you would
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call so do you have somebody in your
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life like a parent or a colleague or a
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family friend or somebody you used to go
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to school with or that guy who lives
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down the street who has worked on a
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similar thing to what you're working on
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do you have somebody you could call I
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want you to think for a second about
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what we've written so far on your page
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your specific goal the priorities you're
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setting if you had a question about
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something that was there do you have
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somebody who would who would pick up the
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phone so quick show of hands how many of
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you thought of
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somebody okay that right there that we
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just saw that's the third piece of our
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single page plan it's community
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it's the people who you would call if
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you got stuck and based on the
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interviews that I've done it's not if
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you get stuck it's when you get stuck
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because when you're working on something
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really big when you're here and you're
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trying to get there when you want
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something that you haven't had before
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you're going to get stuck and so it's
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really important for us to think about
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the people who can help and support us
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honestly it's my favorite part of every
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interview that I do it's when the people
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that I interview talk to me about the
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coaching or mentors who were there for
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them when they stumbled when they had a
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question it comes up in every interview
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even if I don't ask about it that's how
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crucial the community piece
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is so I want you to think about who you
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would call when you pick up oh I did the
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Elder Millennial phone didn't I I want
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you to think about who you would call
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when you pick up the phone there we
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go and what you're going to do on your
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single page is you're going to start
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writing down some names that come to
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mind so that you can bring your
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community to the Forefront for for
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yourself you can remember who's who's
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supporting you but there's something
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else crucial we want to do here because
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I want to remind you when you're working
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on something that you haven't done
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before you're going to get to a point
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where you have to cross a gap that's new
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territory for you I guarantee you
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there's somebody out there who's been
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through that kind of territory before
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but they might not be in your network
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yet and that's what's really key here in
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this part of the plan we want to think
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about the kind of challenges we might
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encounter or the challenges we have in
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front of us now we want to think about
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this place that we're trying to go and
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we want to ask ourselves who's been
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there before do we have people in our
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Network who know what those rooms look
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like the rooms that we don't have access
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to yet and if not we want to identify
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this on this part of our page we want to
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outline and name the kind of community
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the kind of support the kind of
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expertise that we need that we're
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missing because the time to need your
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network is not the time to build your
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network and if you're going to be
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getting across these gaps you need to
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have those community members that you
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can call so you're going to use this
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part of your page to name not just the
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people who can support you now but also
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to outline the kinds of folks the kinds
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of expertise that you need to add to
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this network so that you can get
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building I have to tell y'all this is my
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favorite part of the single page plan if
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I had to just pick one section for you
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to work on it would be this one but it
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doesn't matter you can have all three so
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it's fine all right I told my friend
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that if he wanted to be president all he
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needed was a single page and I've told
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you a little bit about the content the
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research that I did the pattern that I
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found that makes that really important
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and there were three crucial things
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there getting specific setting those
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priorities and then thinking about
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Community but it's not just those three
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things that I heard in the
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interview again and again as I would
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interview folks we would reflect on how
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just insanely busy the world is today
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how fast we're all moving at 100,000
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miles an hour trying to keep up with it
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and how when you're working on a goal it
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is so helpful to have something in front
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of you that reminds you despite all that
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noise of what you're working on that's
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part of the magic here it's not just the
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content of the single page but it's also
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the single page itself in this really
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busy world it is so important for you to
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be able to have something that's small
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enough to keep in front of you to keep
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in your dorm room or in your office or
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in your back pocket that reminds you
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what you're working on that keeps you
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focused on this really important goal
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it's also a very accessible tool at any
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point you can have a new idea for
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something and all you need to do is just
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go grab a single page to get started to
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have that bias toward action I don't
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know if we ever needed more than a
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single page to plan our goals but we
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definitely don't these
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days it's also
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urgent I really need y'all to try this
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because selfishly I want to live in a
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world where your goals
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exist if you think about that thing that
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you want whether it's your art your
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science your leadership your voice
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whatever it is that you want I think the
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world
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will be a better place when you make
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that happen I genuinely believe that our
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world will be a better place to live in
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if more people are able to reach their
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goals are able to do those big things
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that I know that you have the potential
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to do and so I like to imagine that if
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you have a single page in front of you
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reminding you of what those priorities
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are for your crucial actions the people
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who can help support you that you're
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going to be more likely to make it
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happen and so I hope as you walk away
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from this that you know that I believe
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in you and I believe in your potential I
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hope you try this
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out because honestly at this point my
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goal is that someday there's going to be
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some writer like me who's writing about
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you thanks
