Dr. Jeff Spencer
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333 appearances
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first heard Dec 2024
last heard Jun 2025
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Yeah, well, I think you said it right. They go with their gut. They let their emotions take over. So they go back and they do what didn't work the previous 10 times. you know, because they get afraid about executing what has to go right. You know, I see this all the time. As a matter of fact, I have a white paper that I did when people go to my website to opt in.
It's called How Not to Blow It Just Before You Win. It's a 27-page document that I put together because it's that important to me. they start to change everything before they execute what has to go right.
So again, I feel like this can be pruned back to the simplicity of, do you know exactly the one or two things that have to go right, like right now, for everything else to be able to move forward? And if you can name those two things and you know what those things are, then as you execute those, then the next things that need to be addressed will then reveal themselves. So it's really
much simpler than we make it to be. But when the fear takes over, we start to believe in what didn't work in the past, and it's certainly not going to work now. But we have to actually prepare ourself by preparing through simulation The readiness to be able to execute correctly when you have to go crack. It would be the same thing like on a podcast.
I mean, you just don't show up and turn the microphone on. I mean, there's a very deliberate readiness process that you go through that allows you to control the pacing and the outcome. You're not leaving this blindly up to circumstances to deliver on the highest promise possible. I just really feel like your confidence is demonstrating to yourself that you can do it. because you rehearsed it.
And then you realize when I have to execute this in real time, I'm not going to deviate from what I know needs to go right.
Whether we like it or not, every one of us is going to leave a legacy that will be available to everybody on this planet to look at and study for all of eternity. what we do with our time and what we do with our talents. And there are no redos on that. Once it's over, it's over. And I feel like we really need to think about this idea of immortality.
I know that that doesn't occur to people, but once you get into your late 40s, you start thinking about stuff like this. But there's something that transcends us that lives on. And it will impact people. And that is what we did. Because what we did, you can't go back and erase that. You can't modify it at a certain point.
And I really feel like at the end of the day, we should walk off the field for the final time saying, there's nothing more that I could have possibly done in this creation to make any further contribution because I had the courage to show up and do what I was called to do faithfully. And wherever that goes, I'm okay with that. But I certainly didn't leave anything on the field.
I gave it everything that I had. And I feel that that's a really important statement that we all have to reconcile it. At some point in our life, generally, in the second or the end of the second half here, And here's what I would say also is that my greatest achievement is the adoption of our daughter at the age of 10 from Columbia. We adopted a 10-year-old from Columbia at the age of 10.
I was 58. I was at the height of my career at that time. And I was called to make the decision that I was going to raise our daughter. And our daughter, number one, she didn't speak English. We didn't speak Spanish. We had no language. She had no school. She had PTSD and ADHD from getting beaten up and worse for the first 10 years of her life. It's your freaking nightmare.
Every second of her life was your worst nightmare. And I chose to raise my daughter at the height of my career. And it's like, I don't feel like I gave anything up. People say, well, look what you gave up. No, I didn't give up anything. Our job was to manifest our human potential, not just to save a life. And what I did...
And what I learned from this was more worth anything that I've ever previously done at all, because I learned that you can love anybody. You don't need a special reason. You just show up and you do it. It isn't a two-way street. Make it a one-way street. You give without any reciprocation or reciprocal expectation whatsoever. I also learned to trust the process.
I'm basically fearless because when we adopted her, it took everything that we had to be able to provide for the extraordinary needs that she had to give her a chance to get herself back into the game of life. And I didn't save anything for my retirement for 10 years between 58 and 68 because my commitment was to raising our daughter and do whatever was necessary.
And I also realize that you always have enough energy to do anything on behalf of others, or if you're called into service, there's always gonna be enough energy. Where the energy gets sparse is where we're doing everything in our own self-interest, or we're in such fear of loss that we kind of worry our life and our energy away. And the other thing that I will say is that if you think
Anything you say and do as relates to this topic of legacy, when we adopted our daughter, man, she'd never been hugged, never been loved. She used to wrap her legs around me and bury her head into my chest and I'd just hold her, you know? And it's like she hung on my every word.
So what I want to say to everybody is that if you think what you do and what you say and how you show up doesn't matter, adopt a kid. because everything that you do in life does have some level of impact that calls people to something.
And when you take the high road and you're manifestly committed to that, where there is no negotiation on that, your life takes on an entirely different level of purpose and meaning. And the last thing I'll say about this is that you never withhold the possibility of a miracle because that's what it took us to be able to help our daughter get to a point
to get beyond what she did not ask for in life that was imposed upon her by other people. And so that's why legacy is important to me, because at the end of the day, we do have an immortality that will be there, that will say something of tremendous value to people. But please don't make it like my dad. My dad was the genius that could have, but didn't. And he can't go back and redeem himself.
His moniker, his tagline is, don't be like me. And it's tragic for me to have to say that, but we do make our own choices.
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