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hey hey family how are you doing hope you are charging doing great I'm just

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gonna plug one little fella in here gonna plug a little microphone in should

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make us sound just a little bit better but we are about to chat through

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something exciting I'm live you're live thought I'd bring you out outside today

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lovely day out here today and I am out at just on the shore of the lake here

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beautiful spot very very beautiful spot what do you what have you guys been

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doing for your Saturday I've been I've been busy today I've been working on our

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air B&B house we put all the kitchen down you might have see or put all the

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carpet and lino down this week you might have seen that so that's kind of

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exciting and that meant we had to reassemble the whole house and get it

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all spick-and-span in time for our guests at two o'clock which it did sweet

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and now I'm off to the dump with a load of junk I've been getting rid of all

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sorts of stuff from the house that is no longer needed which is cool so I hope

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you guys are doing awesome let me know what's been happening I

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hey I have just been loving this week seeing all your disciplines seeing all

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the disciplines that you guys are engaged in absolutely fantastic we are

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going to launch in for a quick live today and you guys did a vote on three

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options did you want to hear about an epic historic adventure or did you want

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to hear about a significant military mishap or did you want to hear about

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some political insanity the topic that we're looking on is strategy we have the

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strategic planner up at the moment and so I'm sure that you are enjoying the

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strategic planner you might even have other ideas or you might even have other

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systems of how you do your strategic planning and I'm excited to be in the

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stage now where we're actually pulling out your dreams and starting to pull out

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things that are really really significant to you and just about to

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it's just about to lose my lose my little setup here there we go I've got a

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little that should do the trick so I'm watching something and it looks like

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possible that my phone might pop off the tripod if it does that hang on I've got

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I've got a little system here let me let me take a moment here to spin this

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around and I know that this will work for sure

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all right okay that's gonna that's gonna do the trick okay sweet so we're talking

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about strategy you guys voted for for option B which is a military mishap on

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a massive scale so we're gonna talk about that in a moment but this theme of

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strategy is so exciting I love doing strategic planning and I guess I'm

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really passionate about seeing people succeed and I've got announcements coming up as

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well this week I'm gonna put an announcement out that I think is gonna

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add huge value got a really really exciting bonus for you guys so keep your

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eyes and ears open this week I'm gonna put out a really significant notice but

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I do want to say I have been loving watching everyone's disciplines you guys

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are crushing it just amazing to see that amazing you'll see how you're all really

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going after your dreams love it okay strategy is so important and let's see

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let's just see that right now war is an amazing context isn't it well it's just

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such a phenomenal context to watch strategy at play man there's not many

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contexts where strategy puts there's so much on the line with getting your

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strategy just right or if you get your strategy just wrong and also one of the

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things that war highlights with strategy is that your strategy better be flexible

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because there's a good chance that your strategy could fail you know at any

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moment your strategy it could fail and what are you gonna do if it does fail

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and also one of the things that war highlights is that you can have a

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strategy that might fail for a battle and the battle might be lost but

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The war is still ongoing and so you might lose a battle but you haven't lost the war

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which is really great you know especially after our our focus on failure that failure you know

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it can be a massive moment but really at the end of the day failure is just feedback and giving us

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the opportunity to start again even more intelligently. Right we are going to go

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go back in time we're going back all the way back to world war one and we're going to go to

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a battle called the battle of the dun okay this was a battle between the allied forces and the

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germans on the french border and here in the battle of the dun which raged for so long during world

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war one four it's estimated that around 425 000 lives were lost in the battle of the dun that is

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a lot of dudes to die and half a nearly half a million people died in the battle of the dun so

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you can imagine that that was a really really sore spot i mean what an absolute massacre and of that

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it was the french that lost the greatest number so the french got absolutely

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pommeled on that battle in the french of the battle of the dun in the sense of the number

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of casualties that they took ultimately uh you know france came on top and germany was defeated

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but the casualty rate was just enormous so nearly half a million people lost the french take you

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know wearing the brunt of that uh of the casualties on that right on their own border and so as they

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came out of world war one they decided man this cannot happen again and so they started to develop

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a strategy as a counter you know as a okay if this ever happens with the germans again we're

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going to have a strategy in place that's going to stop this um we're not going to we're not going

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to suffer a battle like we lost like we did in in the dun and so they came up with this concept

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called the maginot line um and with the maginot line it was huge it went from the alps out all

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the way to the channel so it's like nine over 900 miles like 925 miles was the i'm sorry it's

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actually it's exactly it was 943 miles the maginot line it wasn't specifically a wall

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but it was a line of fortresses heavily fortified fortresses it took them from 1929 to 1936 to build

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it they spent seven billion francs so that if you just calculate in in our modern terms the the

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amount that they spent was just insane so one of the places that it ended it ended near the

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uh the ardun forest right so there's this was really you know forested area the ardun forest

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awareness kind of came to an end near the ardun forest the reason it came to an end near the ardun

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forest is that no one thought that it would be possible to get any type of troops through such

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such hard terrain it was really difficult terrain to move an army through move troops through

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fast forward now we are in may 1940 and just before just before may uh just a little bit

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earlier before may the germans moved into the rhineland now the rhineland was out of bounds

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for any military activity for the germans as uh based on the treaty of versailles which was signed

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at the end of world war one now the rhineland is right on the border of belgium belgium and france

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had been allies for a long time but when belgium saw that germany was breaking the treaty of

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versailles and france wasn't willing to do anything about it at that point and britain wasn't willing

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to do anything about it at that point uh king leopold iii who was the king of belgium at that

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time he's like oh my gosh like where are my allies the allies they're not backing me up and so this

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long-standing historic allegiance and alliance between belgium and france king leopold iii said

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well you guys aren't backing me up right now i've got germany right on my doorstep so that he broke

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the alliance with france and went to a place of neutrality uh so now boom we're into may 1940

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and then in may germany starts their massive uh they just unleash invasions all over the place

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they just start going right we're gonna take the world and the germans just unleashed blitzkrieg

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their epic strategy uh so they attacked uh they attacked belgium they took belgium in no time

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shortly after they took belgium france rushed into belgium to you know to help cover the lines

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the idea of the maginot line is that it would stop the germans attacking directly on the french

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border it would funnel them up force them to attack into the belgium area and that worked okay

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force the germans

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not to really take that a couple of attacks on on the

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along the imaginary line, but in general the the bulk of the the German army was funneled up towards

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the issue was that

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here's where strategy has to be really flexible because a long-standing treaty alliance that

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Belgium and France had had was broken and they were supposed to be fighting together and up until months before

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then then just months before the massive invasion Belgium King Leopold III broke the

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Alliance which left France's strategy

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really really vulnerable

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Belgium a sitting duck for the Germans so that was a massive win for Germany because boom they just crushed Belgium in no time

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At all the French rushed in but they didn't have time to get set up. So

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The Germans ended up just crushing the French. So effectively what happened is

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This Maginot line, which was 943 miles in one way

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It kind of worked in funneling the Germans up there

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But there was this weakness to the Maginot line

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Which is the Ardennes forest and the French just assumed actually they'd been warned earlier by Winston Churchill

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Who said look the Ardennes forest is vulnerable. You don't have anything there

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You need to protect the Ardennes forest. Look at that

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the Germans could come through there and

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To be honest, there was a bit of arrogance there with the French guys

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And this is really really important for us is don't let's be really careful that we're not arrogant that our strategy is gonna work

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Cuz there's a good chance that your strategy

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Could fail and man have I I've seen strategies fail lots of times

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And so we've just got to be quick on our feet to go. Okay that failed

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That's not working and I see in my own life as well areas

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Where God's really moving and it seems like he's breathing on that and other areas where all of a sudden it seems like oh that's

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Kind of like really dying off what's happening?

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so you've got to be quick on your feet to adjust your strategy as you go, especially in

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War and anyway, what happened is the Germans they were like, oh my gosh the Ardennes forest. This is our moment. So they they had

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Another dynamic to their strategy, which France wasn't thinking about is that the Germans had developed some new technology

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Now that could be a game changer for you

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What if you had new technology? What if you had a new skill? What if you had a new resource?

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What if you had some new information?

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What if you had some new technique or strategy that you could incorporate and into your strategy just to spice it up?

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You know that enable you to do things a little bit differently a little bit smarter, you know work smarter rather than harder

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What is there for you that's available for your strategy?

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So anyway, what happened is the Germans developed these panzer tanks, which were probably the best tanks ever used in in World War two

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They were amazing. You know, they sent three panzer divisions and they went through the Ardennes forest

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Which basically like here's the here's the area where it's a bit of a fail for France in one ways. They built the Maginot line

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7 billion francs six years of hard work in

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Unfortunately, the Germans what they did is they just drove around it. Oh

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My gosh, oh my gosh, they didn't think about that. They just drove around it

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They went straight through the Ardennes forest and as a result boom, they crushed they crushed France

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They went straight through French the Germans had some crazy epic

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Strategies and tactics going on as well just to confuse France and they airdropped

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Because they had paratroopers dropping all over the place. They had paratroopers dropping everywhere and there's like, oh my gosh

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They're dropping thousands and thousands and thousands of paratroopers all over the place as well

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Just to add to the blitzkrieg and add to the chaos

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But one of the things that they did as well as they dropped thousands and thousands and thousands of dummies

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They weren't even real people. They were just dropping dummies in a lot of places these dummy paratroopers

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They're just throwing them out of the plains by the thousands to think to just to trick the French and to trick the Allies

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They're thinking. Oh my gosh

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They're attacking over here when really they just chucked a whole lot of cotton and stuff

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You know stuff cotton balls out

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Out the window and so it really confused the Allies and end up dividing forces and ultimately it only took six weeks for the Germans

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to conquer Belgium

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France the Netherlands and

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Somewhere else as well and they also here's another thing that the Germans did

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The Germans had an ally the Germans had an ally in the Italians now

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Here's that this is a possible option for you and your strategies. What help can you get? What alliances can you get?

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What opportunities are there for you to partner with someone to help you?

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Could you get someone to act as a consultant?

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Could you get someone to help provide a skill that you didn't have a resource that you don't have?

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What could you beg borrow or acquire or hire? What could you be doing? That could be a real game-changer

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Today, I just I just got my firewood dropped off. I used to spend like

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Weeks working on my firewood like actually sometimes I used to some I've spent in the past months

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working on firewood not having

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days off not having

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Evenings off just working like a slave on my firewood and you know it actually cost me quite a bit too

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So I got a higher a log splitter. I've got a buy fuel. I've got to borrow a truck or hire a truck

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I've got to get a trailer

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I've got to get

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You know fuel and oil for my chainsaw which goes through a lot and fuel and oil for a log splitter which goes through a

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Lot and fuel for a truck and it goes through a lot so you end up spending hundreds of dollars on that anyway

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I just got someone to drop my firewood off today. It cost me 750 bucks, and it didn't like oh my gosh

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There was zero pain in it and actually

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Saved me weeks and weeks and in that time I instead of taking time off to go and cut firewood

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I was able to go and make money and so as a result boom

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I got someone else to do my firewood, and I was able to make more money

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Where are the opportunities for you and your will to get some extra assistance get some extra help bring some more bang to your strategy?

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Massive love to you guys

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I can't wait to really just really see you succeed

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And I'm looking forward this week as well to giving you an announcement on some other

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On a real awesome bonus for you

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I think it's going to add huge value to all of your lives loving the journey. We'll see you soon

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Have a great Saturday evening. See ya