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Have you ever wondered whether you are doing what you're supposed to be doing in your life?
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Wondering whether you are investing your time, your energy, your resources, your talents, your gifts, your skills in the right place.
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the last thing that you want to do is pour yourself into a bucket.
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That's has holes in it or the wrong bucket entirely or climb the ladder just to realize that you placed it on the wrong wall That's something that none of us really want to experience So, how do you get clarity about how to position yourself properly so that you can Optimally serve people please God and find fulfillment for yourself three words that I said earlier Main character energy.
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Here's why now, of course, like I said the church boy in me when I say that shudders How could I dare say such a thing?
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Am I just another one of these neo prosperity?
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speakers who Makes the whole world revolve around us and our problems when it really should revolve around the God who created us No if you give me a second, I'm going to explain why I'm saying what I'm saying through an analogy that could change the way that you see yourself, see God, and see others for probably the rest of your life, quite honestly, because that's what it did for me.
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So, on October 10th, 2017 a book was published.
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I know Jayla and I love to read books.
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I still need to get that other, I still need to find that other thing on Amazon desktop.
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I still haven't found it yet.
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I haven't had time.
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But I'm gonna find it.
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And if you haven't checked out the resource library in Vision for Newer School, you can find different books that I recommend in there as well.
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But, a bestseller was published, the Wall Street Journal bestseller, and it was called, Building A.
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Story Brand by Donald Miller.
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Hey, Danielle.
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And within these pages, this is a great book.
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I love it.
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Donald Miller, probably Donald Miller, Seth Godin, and Simon Sinek are like, kinda like my top three authors.
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And I kinda judge that by how many books do I read of the same person.
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And I read a lot of their books.
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I think they're really good.
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And have been pretty transformational for me, but within these pages of this book in particular, Miller explained a paradigm shift that changed how people do marketing forever, the premise of the book, just in plain, simple, short, you are not the hero.
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That's pretty much the whole point of the book.
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You are not the hero.
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And he goes into how stories are made.
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He's a big movie guy and he explains how, there's a character and the character has a problem and they had this psychological problem and this emotional problem in this overall problem philosophical problem that good versus bad and evil versus just, and all these different things and how this goes into a rising action, of course.
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And no, each story has a beginning, middle.
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And then he explains this whole process of how literally every Hollywood blockbuster movie is made.
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And the whole point of it is that you are not the hero, most businesses, most brands, yes, even most people position themselves as the hero of the story.
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They are telling, but Miller explains that this is a grave mistake.
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No, you are not the hero of the story.
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In fact, the person that you serve is the hero of the story.
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The person, the business serves is the hero.
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The business has a different title called the guide.
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And I don't know if anyone's read this book, but you see where I'm going with this really shortly.
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When a business.
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Clearly positions their customers or clients as the heroes and themselves as a guide in their marketing sales, pretty much always skyrocket sales go up.
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When you position the customer as the hero and yourself as the guide.
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What's my point here?
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Life as we know it, and here's the paradigm shift I want us to experience.
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Life as we know it is a story.
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It has a beginning, it has a middle, it has an end.
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We were born, we live, we die.
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But there's a catch.
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To our lives, as human beings, you never truly know where you are in the story.
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You were born, you know, you're alive.
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You don't know when you're going to die.
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All these different things.
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And if we understand that history, what was, what is, and what is to come is a story.
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We approach and appreciate life differently.
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Hang on guys.
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I'm going somewhere with this.
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Now, does that sound familiar?
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What was, what is, and what is to come.
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And what is to come.
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Anybody know where that's from?
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The Bible.
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The Bible! It's from the Bible.
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Revelation, it was actually in multiple places, but I'll cite Revelation 1 8.
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I believe it's in Revelation 4 as well.
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Glory.
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Or holy, the Lord God Almighty, who was, I think that's in Revelation 4.
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In Revelation 1 God says this about himself.
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I am the Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end, says the Lord, who is, who was, and who is to come, the Almighty.
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So God says this about himself.
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So remember that word history.
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I define that word, me, Kalita Visionary, I define that word very literally.
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History is his vision.
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Yahweh, God, is the sovereign author of his story, and we are the characters.
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Who are we to tell the author, the sovereign author, and the creator, and the maker of this story what to do?
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We cannot tell him what to do, but what we can do is play our role So, one of my favorite comedies, I'm gonna kinda tie this in here so you can understand this picture I'm painting, and I will literally show you a physical picture on the screen soon.
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One of my favorite comedies is Home Alone.
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Anybody here like the movie Home Alone?
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We're getting into the holidays.
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It, I watch it every year, all three of the ones that were good.
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The other ones, we're gonna pray for those.
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But I love Home Alone, and I love the first one, actually, the first and the second one are a tie for me, but I really love the first Home Alone, and while this story is of a mischievous eight year old boy named Kevin McAllister, who mistakenly gets left home alone by his eccentric family when they go on Christmas vacation, that steals the show, right?
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That's the character we love, that's the story we enjoy, That's the story.
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There are also other ongoing stories in the movie that help tie our hearts together that really make us enjoy the film.
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Story of Kate McAllister.
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Kevin's mom, the tenacious mother who has to overcome the heartache of forgetting her youngest child and has to make her way back to Chicago.
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That's another story that's going on or the story of the scary old, but misunderstood man old man, Marley, whose granddaughter is singing in the church choir.
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That's another ongoing story that's happening.
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You have the story of Harry and Marv, the criminal, but lovable, Wet Bandits, that's another story that's going on.
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And all these stories converge into one heartwarmingly hilarious.
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Each story is simultaneously independent and interdependent.
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If you remember the scene in the movie where Kevin is this close to getting caught.
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By the bandits and they finally outsmart him and the only person that comes to save him is the man who Kevin was once afraid of Old Man Marley, who knocks him out with a shovel.
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Now, Old Man Marley really had nothing to do with the story that we were paying attention to.
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But his story intertwined with Kevin's at the right time.
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So if you've ever studied anything like in storytelling or filmmaking, these are called having A stories, B stories, C stories.
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and it keeps going on.
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So that you are constantly keeping the viewer engaged and it's this like kind of great feeling when all the stories come together.
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It feels like it's a happy or at least harmonious ending.
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It's just one of the principles or aspects of great storytelling.
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So multiple stories within one main story make up a story.
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We are all living A stories, B stories, C stories, D stories, all throughout the epi And then times three times, four times 7 billion.
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We are all living these ongoing stories within his story.
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So you are the main character of your story.
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God is the author of his story history.
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And each story we live is independent and interdependent of other stories happening in the world.
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Simultaneously.
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Now, what does this have to do with you knowing where to put your time, energy, and resources, knowing where to focus yourself.
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I'm going to show you something on the screen that brought this all together for me when it comes to this story framework and understanding how life works.
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Here, here we have something I like to call the main character cycle.
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The main character cycle.
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And I wrote this on a board like years ago, but we had this ongoing cycle here of the guide and the hero.
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So you see the definitions on the bottom here.
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the hero is the principal character of a story who solves the.
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Problem.
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Not a problem, the problem.
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And a guide is a person who helps the principal character become a hero who can solve the problem.
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Here's the thing about heroes, and here's why I think people misunderstand main character energy.
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Say, oh, life's not all about you.
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Stop trying to make the Bible all about you.
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Stop trying to make life all about you.
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Stop trying to make everybody else's concern all about you.
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Here's the thing about being the main character and being the hero of a story.
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The hero of the story is always the weakest character.
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Think of any movie.
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Kung Fu Panda, Poe.
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He wants to be a Kung Fu master, but he's terrible until he comes into a guide in Master Shifu.
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Or Luke Skywalker.
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Cannot do what he needs to do until he gets taught by Obi Wan Kenobi.
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Karate Kid.
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Wax on, wax off.
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He cannot win the fight until, who's the person that taught Karate Kid?
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What was his name?
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Mr.
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Miyagi.
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Mr.
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Miyagi.
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You won't be able to watch movies ever again after this.
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Because they all do the exact same process.
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The main character is a person who has an obstacle that they need to overcome, but they can't.
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They're weak.
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They're inexperienced.
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They don't have what it takes until they find a guide.
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So when I say main character energy, you're really admitting that you're Blessed are the poor in spirit.
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Those who know that they need, they know how poor they are.
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Blessed are those who hunger and thirst after righteousness because they know they're messed up.
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I need a guide.
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I need a guide.
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This is a main character energy.
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So when we have this process we have a guide that is teaching us and you see the B.
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So I also have a be, do, have cycle going on here.
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You are the hero, and you are becoming the person who can do the thing.
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Now, we have this in our Christian walk as well, right?
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We can rejoice too, and when we run into our problems and trials, for we know that they help us develop endurance, and endurance helps develop strength, and strength develops character, and character strengthens our confident hope and salvation.
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Romans 5, verses 3 and 4.
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We are constantly being developed.
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The church word for this is sanctification.
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Then Jesus replied, You must love the Lord your God with all your heart, all your soul, all your mind.
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This is the first and greatest commandment.
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Secondly, equally important, Love your neighbor as yourself.
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This is what I am enabling you to do through the power of the Holy Spirit.
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Now it's tough.
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You're going to have trials.
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You're going to have tribulations.
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You're going to have hardships, but they are making you stronger.
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Therefore, go make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit.
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Teach these new disciples to obey all the commands I have given you, and be sure of this.
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I am with you always, even to the end of the age.
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Matthew 28, verses 19 and 20.
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This is the Christian cycle.
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You have to go through something to become the Christian that you want to be.
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To be, to develop into a sanctified individual, becoming more and more like Christ.
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And when you do that, you can do the thing of loving your neighbor as yourself and loving your God with all your heart, mind, and soul.
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And then after that's not enough.
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You need to go become a guide yourself.
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So we go through this process of conditioning, doing the thing, being the hero and becoming a guide.
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And this happens in every sector of your life, in your job.
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You learn a skill, you acquire some type of proficiency.
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Next thing you usually do, you go train somebody else.
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And then you have a new obstacle.
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There's a new line of code.
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There's a new form or code language that you have to learn.
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And eventually you're going to become the hero that could do the thing.
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And you will become a guide to lead someone else.
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And then we have this ongoing main goal.
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Character cycle, but I actually want to identify the thing that is actually the most important in this main character cycle.
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Can anybody guess what that is?
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It's a word.
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I'll say it's two words.
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It's on the image.
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Can anyone guess what it is?
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You can put it in the chat or you could, you come off mute.
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Can you say the question again?
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I'm sorry.
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It's the most important aspect of the main character cycle.
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The most important element.
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Can anyone guess?
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The training?
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Training?
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Okay.
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That's not a bad guess, actually.
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That's not a bad guess.
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That's not it though.
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It's not it.
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Anybody else?
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Becoming?
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Becoming.
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That's also on track, but it's not quite it.
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It involves those things.
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The answer is the problem.
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The hero.
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I was just here to say that You're here to say it?
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I was, I just, I put it in the chat.
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Oh, you said it in the chat?
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Say the awareness.
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Like the deficiency that the person has.
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I feel like that's if you don't know you have a problem, then that's the problem.
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Yes.
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Yes.
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The key element is the problem.
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A hero.
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Hey Barbara.
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The hero is the principal character of a story who solves the problem.
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A guide is a person who helps the principal character become a hero who can solve the problem.
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Let's bring this back full circle.
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The secret is main character energy.
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How do I know where to focus my time?
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How do I know where to put my resources?
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How do I not put my ladder on the wall, wrong wall?
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How do I not pour myself into the wrong bucket?
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Life is a story.
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You are the main character of your story.
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And God is the author of his story.
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But each story is only a story when you identify the problem.
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This is what makes a story interesting.
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There's an obstacle that the main character is trying to achieve and has to work to get.
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If there's no obstacle, it's not a story.
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It's an anecdotal sharing of events.
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I wanted bread.
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I went to the store.
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I got bread.
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I went home.
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That's not a story.
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I went to, I wanted bread.
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I went to the store.
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The store caught on fire.
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I did not get bread.
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I went home.
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Now that's a story.
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Wait, what?
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What?
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The store caught on fire?
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That's a problem.
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That's a obstacle.
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I just heard somewhere, I can't remember exactly what it was.
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I don't want to mess it up.
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But it was like oh, I think it was like the cat went to sleep on the bed.
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It's not a story.
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The cat went to sleep on the dog's bed is a story.
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Stories always have a problem.
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That's what makes them stories.
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So if life is a story and God is the author of his story, we must identify the problem that we are trying to solve.
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Now, what is a problem?
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Simply defined, a problem is an obstacle.
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A problem is an obstacle.
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Now here's a delineation that I want to make clear because I see this over and over again when working with visionaries.
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The difference between a problem and the condition.
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So this is part three of our story that we're talking about here.
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First, main character energy, then understanding the main character cycle, now identify your problem that you're solving.
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The one of the biggest problems I see with visionaries identifying the problem that they solve is not knowing the difference between a problem and a condition.
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A problem is an obstacle.
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A condition is a state of being.
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So here's what I hear often, okay?
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Well, what's the problem, as a visionary, you see it, that you're looking to solve?
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And they'll say, I just, people they say they want to lose weight, but they don't do the things that they need to lose weight and I want to make sure that people actually do what they need to do to need to lose weight because they're not doing the right things.
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And I'm like, okay that's not a problem.
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You never told me what the problem was.
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You told me about a condition that you see in the world.
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A state of being, someone being overweight is not their problem.
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It's their condition.
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What's the problem that you're solving?
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I say, well, what's the problem that you're solving?
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These kids don't have any respect anymore.
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They don't know how to behave.
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They don't know how blah, blah, blah.
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They need to learn how to be disciplined.
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That's a problem solving.
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Well, that's not a, that's not a problem.
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That's a condition.
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That's a state of being that you're recognizing.
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But what's the problem that you're solving?
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This comes to making offers as well.
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As a visionpreneur you're doing, you're building three systems.
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A clarity system, a people system, and an offer system.
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This helps you with that.
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What's the actual problem?
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Oh, these young people these days, they're just lost.
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They don't know what to do.
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They're just sitting at home with their parents, blah, blah, blah.
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It's a lost generation.
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That's a condition.
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You're not stating a problem.
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Now, what could be a problem here?
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People do not know how to eat well while traveling.
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That's a problem.
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Not that they're overweight.
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That's a problem that can actually have a solution.
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Or, bad kids.
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Teachers are not equipped with the right skills to have classroom dynamics.
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Positive classroom dynamics.
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That is a problem that can garner a real solution.
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Not that kids are bad.
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Or, A lost generation of people, maybe the problem is they don't know where to apply the skills they have because technology is changing faster than the education system.
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That's a problem that can be solved with the actual solution.
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It's not a condition.
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So I want, when I say identify the problem you're solving, identify something specific that can be solved, not something that aggravates you because it's a condition of society.
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So here's the question.
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Here's the prompt.
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This is the tactical aspect of this talk.
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If you knew you could not fail and all your necessities were met, you have a roof over your head, you have clothes on your back, you have food on your food in your stomach.
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If you knew you could not fail and all your necessities were met, what problem would you love to solve every day of your life, even if you never got paid for it?
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Think about that for yourself.
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What problem do you see as a visionary that needs to be solved?
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And you would solve it every day of your life.
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If you could, even if you never got paid for it.
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Now that not might not be the answer, but I'm sure we're batting.
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We're batting good at this point.
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We're pretty close.
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In fact, we might be right on point.
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If we're being authentic with ourselves, what would that be for you?
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And my admonition is to solve it.
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Where should I be focusing my energy, my time, my resources, all that, I don't want to put my thing up on the wrong ladder, I don't want to put my ladder up on the wrong wall, I don't want to pour myself into the wrong bucket.
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Identify the problem that you have been called to solve, and solve it.
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I guarantee you, it won't be easy, but that's what makes a story good.
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The adversity that the main character experiences, It's what makes a story worth listening to, worth living, worth experiencing, worth having a emotional connection to.
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The best time to start was yesterday.
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The next best time to start is today.
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This is the plot of your story.
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I always say life is like a TV show.
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It has a stern beginning.
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It has characters that come to and fro.
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Characters developed.
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Characters change, but the plot and the problem and the obstacle always stay the same.
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What does the main character want and how are they going to get it?
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And it happens over a different season.
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Each season has a different vibe.
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Each season has different characters.
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Life is a lot like a TV show.
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If you want to have a life of clarity that serves people, pleases God, and fulfills you, you must adopt main character energy.
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It is the secret most people aren't talking about.
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That's what I have for you guys today.
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Hopefully that makes sense.
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Let's get into some talk.
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Any comments, any questions?
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So for the whole main character energy, does this relate to being
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Have you ever wondered whether you are doing what you're supposed to be doing in your life?
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Wondering whether you are investing your time, your energy, your resources, your talents, your gifts, your skills in the right place.
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the last thing that you want to do is pour yourself into a bucket.
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That's has holes in it or the wrong bucket entirely or climb the ladder just to realize that you placed it on the wrong wall That's something that none of us really want to experience So, how do you get clarity about how to position yourself properly so that you can Optimally serve people please God and find fulfillment for yourself three words that I said earlier Main character energy.
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Here's why now, of course, like I said the church boy in me when I say that shudders How could I dare say such a thing?
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Am I just another one of these neo prosperity?
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speakers who Makes the whole world revolve around us and our problems when it really should revolve around the God who created us No if you give me a second, I'm going to explain why I'm saying what I'm saying through an analogy that could change the way that you see yourself, see God, and see others for probably the rest of your life, quite honestly, because that's what it did for me.
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So, on October 10th, 2017 a book was published.
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I know Jayla and I love to read books.
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I still need to get that other, I still need to find that other thing on Amazon desktop.
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I still haven't found it yet.
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I haven't had time.
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But I'm gonna find it.
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And if you haven't checked out the resource library in Vision for Newer School, you can find different books that I recommend in there as well.
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But, a bestseller was published, the Wall Street Journal bestseller, and it was called, Building A.
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Story Brand by Donald Miller.
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Hey, Danielle.
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And within these pages, this is a great book.
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I love it.
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Donald Miller, probably Donald Miller, Seth Godin, and Simon Sinek are like, kinda like my top three authors.
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And I kinda judge that by how many books do I read of the same person.
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And I read a lot of their books.
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I think they're really good.
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And have been pretty transformational for me, but within these pages of this book in particular, Miller explained a paradigm shift that changed how people do marketing forever, the premise of the book, just in plain, simple, short, you are not the hero.
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That's pretty much the whole point of the book.
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You are not the hero.
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And he goes into how stories are made.
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He's a big movie guy and he explains how, there's a character and the character has a problem and they had this psychological problem and this emotional problem in this overall problem philosophical problem that good versus bad and evil versus just, and all these different things and how this goes into a rising action, of course.
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And no, each story has a beginning, middle.
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And then he explains this whole process of how literally every Hollywood blockbuster movie is made.
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And the whole point of it is that you are not the hero, most businesses, most brands, yes, even most people position themselves as the hero of the story.
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They are telling, but Miller explains that this is a grave mistake.
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No, you are not the hero of the story.
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In fact, the person that you serve is the hero of the story.
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The person, the business serves is the hero.
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The business has a different title called the guide.
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And I don't know if anyone's read this book, but you see where I'm going with this really shortly.
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When a business.
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Clearly positions their customers or clients as the heroes and themselves as a guide in their marketing sales, pretty much always skyrocket sales go up.
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When you position the customer as the hero and yourself as the guide.
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What's my point here?
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Life as we know it, and here's the paradigm shift I want us to experience.
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Life as we know it is a story.
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It has a beginning, it has a middle, it has an end.
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We were born, we live, we die.
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But there's a catch.
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To our lives, as human beings, you never truly know where you are in the story.
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You were born, you know, you're alive.
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You don't know when you're going to die.
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All these different things.
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And if we understand that history, what was, what is, and what is to come is a story.
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We approach and appreciate life differently.
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Hang on guys.
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I'm going somewhere with this.
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Now, does that sound familiar?
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What was, what is, and what is to come.
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And what is to come.
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Anybody know where that's from?
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The Bible.
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The Bible! It's from the Bible.
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Revelation, it was actually in multiple places, but I'll cite Revelation 1 8.
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I believe it's in Revelation 4 as well.
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Glory.
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Or holy, the Lord God Almighty, who was, I think that's in Revelation 4.
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In Revelation 1 God says this about himself.
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I am the Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end, says the Lord, who is, who was, and who is to come, the Almighty.
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So God says this about himself.
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So remember that word history.
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I define that word, me, Kalita Visionary, I define that word very literally.
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History is his vision.
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Yahweh, God, is the sovereign author of his story, and we are the characters.
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Who are we to tell the author, the sovereign author, and the creator, and the maker of this story what to do?
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We cannot tell him what to do, but what we can do is play our role So, one of my favorite comedies, I'm gonna kinda tie this in here so you can understand this picture I'm painting, and I will literally show you a physical picture on the screen soon.
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One of my favorite comedies is Home Alone.
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Anybody here like the movie Home Alone?
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We're getting into the holidays.
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It, I watch it every year, all three of the ones that were good.
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The other ones, we're gonna pray for those.
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But I love Home Alone, and I love the first one, actually, the first and the second one are a tie for me, but I really love the first Home Alone, and while this story is of a mischievous eight year old boy named Kevin McAllister, who mistakenly gets left home alone by his eccentric family when they go on Christmas vacation, that steals the show, right?
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That's the character we love, that's the story we enjoy, That's the story.
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There are also other ongoing stories in the movie that help tie our hearts together that really make us enjoy the film.
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Story of Kate McAllister.
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Kevin's mom, the tenacious mother who has to overcome the heartache of forgetting her youngest child and has to make her way back to Chicago.
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That's another story that's going on or the story of the scary old, but misunderstood man old man, Marley, whose granddaughter is singing in the church choir.
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That's another ongoing story that's happening.
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You have the story of Harry and Marv, the criminal, but lovable, Wet Bandits, that's another story that's going on.
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And all these stories converge into one heartwarmingly hilarious.
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Each story is simultaneously independent and interdependent.
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If you remember the scene in the movie where Kevin is this close to getting caught.
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By the bandits and they finally outsmart him and the only person that comes to save him is the man who Kevin was once afraid of Old Man Marley, who knocks him out with a shovel.
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Now, Old Man Marley really had nothing to do with the story that we were paying attention to.
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But his story intertwined with Kevin's at the right time.
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So if you've ever studied anything like in storytelling or filmmaking, these are called having A stories, B stories, C stories.
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and it keeps going on.
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So that you are constantly keeping the viewer engaged and it's this like kind of great feeling when all the stories come together.
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It feels like it's a happy or at least harmonious ending.
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It's just one of the principles or aspects of great storytelling.
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So multiple stories within one main story make up a story.
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We are all living A stories, B stories, C stories, D stories, all throughout the epi And then times three times, four times 7 billion.
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We are all living these ongoing stories within his story.
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So you are the main character of your story.
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God is the author of his story history.
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And each story we live is independent and interdependent of other stories happening in the world.
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Simultaneously.
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Now, what does this have to do with you knowing where to put your time, energy, and resources, knowing where to focus yourself.
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I'm going to show you something on the screen that brought this all together for me when it comes to this story framework and understanding how life works.
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Here, here we have something I like to call the main character cycle.
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The main character cycle.
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And I wrote this on a board like years ago, but we had this ongoing cycle here of the guide and the hero.
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So you see the definitions on the bottom here.
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the hero is the principal character of a story who solves the.
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Problem.
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Not a problem, the problem.
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And a guide is a person who helps the principal character become a hero who can solve the problem.
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Here's the thing about heroes, and here's why I think people misunderstand main character energy.
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Say, oh, life's not all about you.
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Stop trying to make the Bible all about you.
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Stop trying to make life all about you.
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Stop trying to make everybody else's concern all about you.
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Here's the thing about being the main character and being the hero of a story.
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The hero of the story is always the weakest character.
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Think of any movie.
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Kung Fu Panda, Poe.
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He wants to be a Kung Fu master, but he's terrible until he comes into a guide in Master Shifu.
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Or Luke Skywalker.
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Cannot do what he needs to do until he gets taught by Obi Wan Kenobi.
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Karate Kid.
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Wax on, wax off.
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He cannot win the fight until, who's the person that taught Karate Kid?
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What was his name?
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Mr.
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Miyagi.
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Mr.
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Miyagi.
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You won't be able to watch movies ever again after this.
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Because they all do the exact same process.
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The main character is a person who has an obstacle that they need to overcome, but they can't.
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They're weak.
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They're inexperienced.
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They don't have what it takes until they find a guide.
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So when I say main character energy, you're really admitting that you're Blessed are the poor in spirit.
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Those who know that they need, they know how poor they are.
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Blessed are those who hunger and thirst after righteousness because they know they're messed up.
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I need a guide.
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I need a guide.
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This is a main character energy.
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So when we have this process we have a guide that is teaching us and you see the B.
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So I also have a be, do, have cycle going on here.
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You are the hero, and you are becoming the person who can do the thing.
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Now, we have this in our Christian walk as well, right?
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We can rejoice too, and when we run into our problems and trials, for we know that they help us develop endurance, and endurance helps develop strength, and strength develops character, and character strengthens our confident hope and salvation.
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Romans 5, verses 3 and 4.
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We are constantly being developed.
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The church word for this is sanctification.
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Then Jesus replied, You must love the Lord your God with all your heart, all your soul, all your mind.
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This is the first and greatest commandment.
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Secondly, equally important, Love your neighbor as yourself.
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This is what I am enabling you to do through the power of the Holy Spirit.
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Now it's tough.
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You're going to have trials.
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You're going to have tribulations.
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You're going to have hardships, but they are making you stronger.
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Therefore, go make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit.
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Teach these new disciples to obey all the commands I have given you, and be sure of this.
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I am with you always, even to the end of the age.
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Matthew 28, verses 19 and 20.
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This is the Christian cycle.
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You have to go through something to become the Christian that you want to be.
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To be, to develop into a sanctified individual, becoming more and more like Christ.
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And when you do that, you can do the thing of loving your neighbor as yourself and loving your God with all your heart, mind, and soul.
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And then after that's not enough.
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You need to go become a guide yourself.
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So we go through this process of conditioning, doing the thing, being the hero and becoming a guide.
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And this happens in every sector of your life, in your job.
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You learn a skill, you acquire some type of proficiency.
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Next thing you usually do, you go train somebody else.
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And then you have a new obstacle.
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There's a new line of code.
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There's a new form or code language that you have to learn.
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And eventually you're going to become the hero that could do the thing.
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And you will become a guide to lead someone else.
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And then we have this ongoing main goal.
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Character cycle, but I actually want to identify the thing that is actually the most important in this main character cycle.
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Can anybody guess what that is?
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It's a word.
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I'll say it's two words.
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It's on the image.
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Can anyone guess what it is?
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You can put it in the chat or you could, you come off mute.
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Can you say the question again?
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I'm sorry.
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It's the most important aspect of the main character cycle.
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The most important element.
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Can anyone guess?
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The training?
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Training?
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Okay.
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That's not a bad guess, actually.
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That's not a bad guess.
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That's not it though.
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It's not it.
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Anybody else?
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Becoming?
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Becoming.
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That's also on track, but it's not quite it.
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It involves those things.
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The answer is the problem.
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The hero.
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I was just here to say that You're here to say it?
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I was, I just, I put it in the chat.
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Oh, you said it in the chat?
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Say the awareness.
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Like the deficiency that the person has.
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I feel like that's if you don't know you have a problem, then that's the problem.
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Yes.
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Yes.
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The key element is the problem.
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A hero.
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Hey Barbara.
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The hero is the principal character of a story who solves the problem.
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A guide is a person who helps the principal character become a hero who can solve the problem.
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Let's bring this back full circle.
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The secret is main character energy.
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How do I know where to focus my time?
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How do I know where to put my resources?
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How do I not put my ladder on the wall, wrong wall?
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How do I not pour myself into the wrong bucket?
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Life is a story.
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You are the main character of your story.
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And God is the author of his story.
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But each story is only a story when you identify the problem.
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This is what makes a story interesting.
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There's an obstacle that the main character is trying to achieve and has to work to get.
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If there's no obstacle, it's not a story.
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It's an anecdotal sharing of events.
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I wanted bread.
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I went to the store.
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I got bread.
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I went home.
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That's not a story.
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I went to, I wanted bread.
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I went to the store.
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The store caught on fire.
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I did not get bread.
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I went home.
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Now that's a story.
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Wait, what?
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What?
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The store caught on fire?
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That's a problem.
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That's a obstacle.
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I just heard somewhere, I can't remember exactly what it was.
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I don't want to mess it up.
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But it was like oh, I think it was like the cat went to sleep on the bed.
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It's not a story.
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The cat went to sleep on the dog's bed is a story.
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Stories always have a problem.
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That's what makes them stories.
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So if life is a story and God is the author of his story, we must identify the problem that we are trying to solve.
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Now, what is a problem?
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Simply defined, a problem is an obstacle.
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A problem is an obstacle.
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Now here's a delineation that I want to make clear because I see this over and over again when working with visionaries.
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The difference between a problem and the condition.
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So this is part three of our story that we're talking about here.
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First, main character energy, then understanding the main character cycle, now identify your problem that you're solving.
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The one of the biggest problems I see with visionaries identifying the problem that they solve is not knowing the difference between a problem and a condition.
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A problem is an obstacle.
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A condition is a state of being.
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So here's what I hear often, okay?
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Well, what's the problem, as a visionary, you see it, that you're looking to solve?
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And they'll say, I just, people they say they want to lose weight, but they don't do the things that they need to lose weight and I want to make sure that people actually do what they need to do to need to lose weight because they're not doing the right things.
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And I'm like, okay that's not a problem.
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You never told me what the problem was.
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You told me about a condition that you see in the world.
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A state of being, someone being overweight is not their problem.
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It's their condition.
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What's the problem that you're solving?
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I say, well, what's the problem that you're solving?
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These kids don't have any respect anymore.
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They don't know how to behave.
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They don't know how blah, blah, blah.
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They need to learn how to be disciplined.
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That's a problem solving.
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Well, that's not a, that's not a problem.
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That's a condition.
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That's a state of being that you're recognizing.
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But what's the problem that you're solving?
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This comes to making offers as well.
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As a visionpreneur you're doing, you're building three systems.
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A clarity system, a people system, and an offer system.
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This helps you with that.
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What's the actual problem?
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Oh, these young people these days, they're just lost.
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They don't know what to do.
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They're just sitting at home with their parents, blah, blah, blah.
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It's a lost generation.
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That's a condition.
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You're not stating a problem.
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Now, what could be a problem here?
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People do not know how to eat well while traveling.
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That's a problem.
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Not that they're overweight.
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That's a problem that can actually have a solution.
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Or, bad kids.
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Teachers are not equipped with the right skills to have classroom dynamics.
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Positive classroom dynamics.
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That is a problem that can garner a real solution.
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Not that kids are bad.
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Or, A lost generation of people, maybe the problem is they don't know where to apply the skills they have because technology is changing faster than the education system.
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That's a problem that can be solved with the actual solution.
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It's not a condition.
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So I want, when I say identify the problem you're solving, identify something specific that can be solved, not something that aggravates you because it's a condition of society.
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So here's the question.
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Here's the prompt.
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This is the tactical aspect of this talk.
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If you knew you could not fail and all your necessities were met, you have a roof over your head, you have clothes on your back, you have food on your food in your stomach.
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If you knew you could not fail and all your necessities were met, what problem would you love to solve every day of your life, even if you never got paid for it?
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Think about that for yourself.
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What problem do you see as a visionary that needs to be solved?
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And you would solve it every day of your life.
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If you could, even if you never got paid for it.
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Now that not might not be the answer, but I'm sure we're batting.
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We're batting good at this point.
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We're pretty close.
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In fact, we might be right on point.
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If we're being authentic with ourselves, what would that be for you?
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And my admonition is to solve it.
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Where should I be focusing my energy, my time, my resources, all that, I don't want to put my thing up on the wrong ladder, I don't want to put my ladder up on the wrong wall, I don't want to pour myself into the wrong bucket.
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Identify the problem that you have been called to solve, and solve it.
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I guarantee you, it won't be easy, but that's what makes a story good.
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The adversity that the main character experiences, It's what makes a story worth listening to, worth living, worth experiencing, worth having a emotional connection to.
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The best time to start was yesterday.
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The next best time to start is today.
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This is the plot of your story.
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I always say life is like a TV show.
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It has a stern beginning.
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It has characters that come to and fro.
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Characters developed.
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Characters change, but the plot and the problem and the obstacle always stay the same.
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What does the main character want and how are they going to get it?
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And it happens over a different season.
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Each season has a different vibe.
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Each season has different characters.
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Life is a lot like a TV show.
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If you want to have a life of clarity that serves people, pleases God, and fulfills you, you must adopt main character energy.
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It is the secret most people aren't talking about.
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That's what I have for you guys today.
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Hopefully that makes sense.
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Let's get into some talk.
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Any comments, any questions?
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So for the whole main character energy, does this relate to being
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