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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Once you know you can do it, I can only say that there's always time to screw it up. And this is how people screw it up. Until you get to the winner's circle, you're not there yet. And if you trip before you get there, don't cross the line, then you don't win. So when you see that it's possible and probable that you're gonna be able to achieve your goal,
Don't try to speed up to try to get to the finish line faster to enjoy the chocolate cake and the champagne waiting at the finish line because it's never over until it's over. And I've seen people trip at the last second and screw things up, never to eventually get past the finish line. Please do not do that.
Or don't try to control things so much thinking that you're being safe because sometimes when you slow things down way too much, you start to daydream. You think the safety is in the speed, it's not. If you're going too slow and you start to daydream, then you're at equal hazard as if you're going way too fast. So don't change your pace.
Keep your pace, be vigilant, keep your eye on the ball, keep executing what has to go right until you're way beyond the finish line. Once you're beyond the finish line, then you can celebrate in victory circle. So as long as we're aware that there are these five different steps and stages that we go through,
from active pursuit of goal to arrival in the winner's circle, and we can name where we are and we know what that means, then that's our safety net for sticking together and working together as a well-organized, coherent team that can get things done most efficiently and get us into the winner's circle with least time and effort and expense.
Well, I think, again, if we look at plans of preparation, that's not really reality. What it is, it's our best estimate about what we presume reality to be and what we presume the path to get from where we are to where we want to get to is. It's not reality. Reality is when our plan meets real time And at that point, then we can make the adjustments necessary to carry momentum forward.
So I think we have to be really mindful about that, that plans by their inherent nature are designed to change. And goals that we have are meant to be modified. Mm-hmm. based upon the reality of the opportunities that present themselves in process.
But the human mindset that I said, that human way of thinking that doesn't serve us well, it will make us think, well, if you've declared a goal, you have to keep your word by maintaining the original goal as stated, otherwise you're going back on your word. And that's not true at all, never. Because all the greatest goals always happen like by accident,
Or there are a bit of a deviation that comes off something that we presume to be true, but now we found out that it was slightly different. But we had the courage to recognize that we were being gifted with a different direction that could take us to a bigger, better, faster that we could not have conceived of in advance. So that's how I would answer that question.
And I do feel that if you find yourself being in blind faith, doing something with the hope that it will take you to the finish line, don't do it. Because unless there's a body of evidence that confirms to you the probability of moving forward will manifest the completion of the next step, then I would suggest that you don't do it.
Because I feel far too often people believe that I'm a person of my word, therefore I have to stick rigidly to something that I declared. And if I don't do that, then my word can't be trusted. That is absolutely not true because the plan and what you proposed to be true was an estimate. based on a presumed reality.
And if the presumed reality is like, don't do this now, then I would suggest that you heed that. And I do feel that in our lifespan development, there is a natural period of our life where we are big dreamers. But my hope is that we don't
invest too much in a dream that has too many reasons that are informing us to see they're not the right time to pursue it, or we're not properly prepared, or maybe there's not the right fit because we don't have the assets actually to do this. So I'm a little bit kind of cautious on all of these absolutes.
I feel that they need to be tempered with an interpretation of the reality as it currently exists at the moment in time while you're making decisions.
Yeah, and I have something to say to that, if I may. My definition of a champion is a manifester of gifts. If you're manifesting your gifts, then you're a freaking champion, in my opinion, because here's what I do know is that there's only one of us in all of creation. There's never going to be another you. I mean, think about that.
There's seven and a half billion people on this planet right now, and there's only one of you. And what that means is that each and every one of us has a unique capacity to influence humanity in a way that nobody else can do it. The question is that can we live within that and can be okay with that? Because here's the reality.
Some people are meant to have the aspiration of influencing a billion people. Yeah, there are some people that are not meant to do that. They can't even think about that. They want to look through a microscope, an electron microscope, and they want to influence a nano. They can't think in terms of billions. Does that make it any less significant?
No, it does not, because everything that happens is the product of every other thing that's happening in the world simultaneously. So I think we're the problem here. because we assign the value to what we believe to be true that I don't think represents what it really is. Like, for example, a teammate may enable the team star to get the MVP, but was the MVP
more valuable than the person that gave the MVP what they needed to do their job correctly. You can't say that that's true. It's not. Every one of us, I think that we should look at team as like a linkage rather than a hub with spokes. It's a linkage where each of the links in the chain
someone that possesses that spot and their unique contribution contributes to the integrity of the whole, therefore the output capacity of the team is the sum total of all the parts, which you can't really separate one being more important than the other, because in a certain sense, it's really not.
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