Dr. Jeff Spencer
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first heard Dec 2024
last heard Jun 2025
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And if we can't do it for ourselves, let's just make sure we do it for other people so other people at least have a template they can look at that's inspirational to them to be able to step into the unknown with confidence and certainty, with a certain amount of reckless abandon
to what we think that we probably need, which you probably need to get rid of if you're going to live the greatest life possible. So that's kind of what I would have to answer the legacy question with.
Ken, K-I-N.
She'll be 24 in October.
Well, again, she's... She's a miracle because, you know, I knew that when she graduated from college, she didn't speak any English. We didn't speak Spanish. There was no language. I mean, think about that. Come to America at 10 and you don't have any language and you don't have any school. What are you going to do with that?
And so because she has a beautiful brain, you know, God put a beautiful brain inside of her. And we saw that and we knew that our job was, again, to manifest the potential, not to save a life that we did. you know, what we had to do so that she could live her life with the normal crap that all of us have to deal with day in and day out, but find your way beyond the stuff that you didn't ask for.
And so we couldn't be more, you know, proud of her for what she has done, but have been gifted with the opportunity to play that role in her life.
Well, resources are extraordinarily important. And an inventory should be taken of the resources before you actively start pursuing your goal because resources, An adequate resource inventory is directly tied to your level of confidence. And as you're confident and you trust in your preparation, then your anxiety drops. And as your anxiety drops, you're gonna be a much better performer.
Your timing is gonna be superior, which is what we need to be able to get our goal aspiration launched correctly to gain initial momentum, to gradually pick up the steam where we get into belief that we can actually do it, that transforms to knowing that we can do it, to being able to complete the goal itself.
When I look at the resources that we need, and it doesn't need to be enough for the entire project, it needs to be enough to get started with responsibly. So we need, what do we need? Well, we need time and energy, for sure. We need... And what we need materials and supplies. Absolutely. We need skills and knowledge. Yep. We also need a team. We got the right team. Yep. Do we have a plan? Yep.
I mean, do we have the financial resources to at least initially get this started? Yeah. All of those have to be answered in the affirmative to, again, be in trust. And when we're in trust, again, anxiety drops, confidence is up. And that's the way that you want to always actively start pursuing your goal.
I have observed, though, that many people are extraordinarily deficient and lax in their attention to resources. They feel like, well, if I don't get going now as quickly as possible, then it means I don't trust the universe to provide when it should. Therefore, the universe is going to take away from me that privilege. It's not going to support me because I don't have enough faith in it.
Or somebody's going to jump in line, so I got to get going now because I'm afraid that I'll get pushed to the back of the line. I mean, none of that is true. That's all mythology. But yet, that's the way the human mindset thinks about this type of stuff because it's basically a catastrophizer.
And that's why when we do our homework, again, do the homework first, then the test is easy, why we always wanna do that so that we can check off and trust that we have adequate resources to get started, something most people don't do.
I do, I do. It's like, I've always said that you can never have enough skills And you also need a lot of space to be able to create in. And kind of my suggestion to people is that you're only as strong as your toolkit is of skills to be able to be applied. And you must have a minimum amount of skills that should be vetted accurately before you start pursuing your goal. You must also have
adequate space and flexibility to be able to absorb some of the unanticipated consequences that always shows up. Like it always takes us twice as long and maybe cost twice as much as you think that it's going to. And I'm just going to suggest that you don't try to have a budget where everything has to go perfectly for things to go right. I don't like that.
I like the idea of some elbow room for the unanticipated things that may be arising. And as long as we kind of hold that sacred, and I will also say that there are points in our life where things are moving right along that don't require us. I mean, I guess there's always the opportunity to jump in and screw it up. You know, there's no shortage of that. But when things are going too good,
Sometimes I feel that's where you want to ride the wave and don't try to tinker with things or push things too fast. But when you're in that situation, kind of clean things up as much as possible. Clean out your garage, throw away stuff, create space for better stuff to land because it certainly will.
And if you have opportunities that want to find their way into your life, but there's no place to land because your life is too cluttered with junk, then it's going to move on. And so I'm just suggesting that you continually kind of weed the garden.
You prune all the stuff that's extraneous to your life that you don't need so that there's space to land and that you always be thinking about what is the skill that I need next and for this forever changing world that will be capitalized on by those that have the readiness that the others don't.
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