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I want to talk to you briefly 
about your inner voice, that 

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inner monologue that's formed 
around the age of two or three, 

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or in conjunction with the 
development of expressive 

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language, that ability to 
communicate thoughts. 

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We all have a inner voice 
somewhere, and some say that 

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inner voice is critical. 
Some say that inner voice is 

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encouraging. 
I would like to speak to you 

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today about what is your inner 
voice saying to you? 

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Is it supporting you? 
Is it not? 

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Is it trying to condemn you? 
There's three dimensions to 

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inner speech that I want to 
briefly talk to you about today.

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And the reason why I'm sharing 
this is it's coming up a lot in 

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the coaching sessions that I'm 
having. 

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And if you don't know, I am a 
leadership coach just for social

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workers. 
After 12 years of practice in 

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child protection, I decided to 
step back and set up the Social 

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Work Coaching hub.com, which 
offers one to one coaching, 

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which is similar to mentoring 
publications and events just for

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social workers. 
And of course this podcast, 

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because this is your safe space 
to think about. 

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Reflect on your personal 
development, because I believe 

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that pouring into your own cup 
is going to help you show up at 

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work and in practice the way 
that you want to. 

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So today I want to talk more 
about the inner voice, that 

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inner dialogue, and I'm going to
talk about some research that's 

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taken from very well mind that 
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inner speech. 
So let's talk Now, if you're 

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listening to this thinking, I 
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monologue. 
There's research that suggests 

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not everyone has one, and there 
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people think. 
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but for someone who hasn't inner
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For someone that doesn't have 
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to think of. 
Well, how do other people think 

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about their thoughts or observe 
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So one thing that people can 
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seeing. 
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our minds that doesn't match 
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So you might see yourself on a 
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right? 
Another one is unsymbolized 

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thinking. 
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employing words. 
Feeling consciously thinking 

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about your feelings, your true 
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what they call sensory 
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So thinking about the sensory 
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not thinking about others. 
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you may feel the wind and the 
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around. 
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those things, you may focus your
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fields on your hands. 
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think in all five ways, 
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it will be remiss of me, not to 
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people think so. 
Coming back to those 3 

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dimensions of inner speech, 
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Essentially, how concise is the 
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monologue? 
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Talkative, loud, whole 
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Short words? 
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the way in which you experience 
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This is often a subject that no 
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You either talk about it when 
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counselling, but just general 
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Who sits down and talks about 
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I often think the reason why the
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sometimes or talks quickly 
sometimes is there's a sign that

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there isn't an outlet. 
Most importantly, there isn't a 

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safe outlet. 
A place where you feel 

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psychologically safe and at home
to truly express what's on your 

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mind. 
I think that's quite a dangerous

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place to be. 
When your thoughts have no 

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outlet, when that inner voice 
has no outlet, where does it go?

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Where does it sit and what's 
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What's the impact of that? 
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in coaching sessions and 
respectfully, there's moments in

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time where I cannot get a word 
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don't want to interrupt. 2. 
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immersed in a space where they 
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feel safe to speak, and three, 
sometimes you just need to allow

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the room for someone to say 
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Now, after you've expressed 
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for trusting me with that. 
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anyone, but they chose to speak 
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feeling. 
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one of those topics that you've 
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important to you to discuss in 
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what is the beginning of 
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It's also the beginning of being
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reflecting and all that. 
You've shared all that inner 

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voice wanted to share. 
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workers have a certain level of 
self-awareness anyway because of

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the training around self 
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So often you get parallel what 
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where someone may be speaking 
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what's going on. 
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say, I know I'm talking a lot, 
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this out right. 
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nothing wrong with that. 
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you right now to just be the one
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observing the inner voice, 
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speaks to you, it's pace, it's 
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feeling #2, whether you're 
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voices. 
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parallel processing, but some 
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can hear more than one voice. 
So again, let's think about what

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is that inner voice saying? 
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How do they make you feel? 
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future conversations by 
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saying. 
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debate and you can think of 
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time. 
There's many people who think 

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like that. 
I've not long had a coaching 

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session with a new social worker
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very similar from home life to 
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All of that was playing a part 
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coaching session. 
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that was the inner voice wasn't 
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be. 
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another possibility here, using 
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even see it like that. 
Now there's a couple of ways of 

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interpreting that. 
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you that our subconscious brain 
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actions and behaviours. 
So when you're saying to 

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yourself or you're saying out 
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didn't even see it like that. 
Which brain are we referring to?

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Which thoughts are we referring 
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Is that an inner thought? 
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Where's that coming from? 
Which part of you didn't see 

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that? 
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entirely and think about what 
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to one of your parents. 
Is there a duality? 

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Is there parallel processing 
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What's the condensation, The 
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Single words? 
Paragraphs. 

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How does that impact the way 
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With their children, With 
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We all know this, and sometimes 
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When you have deadlines and 
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complete, everybody thinks 
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So as a result of that thinking 
about what we talked about 

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earlier, inner seeing and 
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sensory awareness, that inner 
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experience all five of those, 
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Sometimes when you're listening 
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families, it's also about 
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Now on Saturday the 13th of 
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When we're thinking about the 
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to consider the intentionality 
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What is the aim? 
What does it want to achieve? 

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What is it telling you? 
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deliberately using your inner 
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it somewhere. 
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wanders. 
Is the inner monologue active, 

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even though we didn't make a 
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What's happening? 
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really think about that 
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What is happening now? 
There may be moments for some of

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you where you think I just want 
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Excuse my French Lord, but it is
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This inner talk is just sending 
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And that can happen equally. 
If it is encouraging or inviting

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you to think in a different way,
in a more expansive way, in a 

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way that serves you, what is the
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Now we know that the inner voice
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complex interplay of factors 
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influences, personal experiences
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attachment which we've talked 
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And as you navigate the various 
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the inner voice develops and 
evolves, and it shapes your 

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beliefs, your attitudes and your
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situations. 
It can be such a powerful force 

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that can influence your 
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and overall your mental health. 
Identifying the inner voice is 

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crucial for yourself, awareness 
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Crucial. 
I'm underlining the word 

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crucial. 
Crucial. 

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Think about what it's saying to 
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Now there's three ways in which 
you can recognise and understand

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the inner voice, and I'm going 
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The link is in the bio. 

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If you want to join us over 
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you're able to identify what's 
happening for you and how, how 

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exactly are you going to 
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I've been Lisa Ram, it's been a 
pleasure as always speaking to 

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you today and I trust you are 
having a blessed new year so 

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far. 
We're almost at the end already.

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I can't believe it now all the 
shops are going to be focused on

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Valentine's Day, aren't they? 
Then it will be Mother's Day and

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we have Easter early this year 
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So the year's going to start to 
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And I want to encourage you. 
Whatever it is you've written 

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for your Vision 2024, whatever 
it is, you have not started. 

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Come on. 
Whatever it is, you have not 

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started. 
Whatever it is you have not 

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followed through on just yet, 
make sure you do it before this 

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month is over. 
Declutter that draw. 

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Make that call. 
Start that course. 

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It's so easy to let the year and
the months just roll on by and 

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get straight back into the same 
routine as soon as you get busy 

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again. 
It's so easy to do and even 

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today I had to have a talk with 
myself and I looked at my vision

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sheet and I said I said I was 
going to do X by the end of the 

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month. 
It is now the 20 of January. 

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I need to make sure I'm on point
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is going to be completed. 
So I'm just extending that 

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empowerment over to you guys 
that whatever it is that you've 

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planned to do, that you have not
yet put your finger on to get 

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started. 
Keep the promise to yourself, 

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get it done in the midst of you 
getting it done. 

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It's worth you considering 
coming back to the topic. 

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What is the inner voice that's 
happening for you for? 

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Not have started it yet. 
My inner voice was this is going

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to take too long. 
This is going to take too long. 

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I often get that if I have to 
make a call, you know, to these 

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companies, energy companies 
think, oh, going to be on hold 

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for an hour, 2 hours. 
I'm going to need a good chunk 

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of time to deal with this and 
that stops me from making the 

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call. 
I know someone that I need to 

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call right now and I haven't 
made the call. 

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When I had a chat with myself 
this morning, I was thinking, 

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why? 
Why haven't I? 

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It's like I need a big chunk of 
time to do it because I know 

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once you get on the phone to 
these companies, they put you on

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hold and then you might get 
passed to several departments 

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before you get to the right 
person and I have to gear myself

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up for that. 
I don't know about you, I don't 

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know about you, but I'd rather 
not spend 3 hours trying to get 

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through to an energy company to 
not get it resolved potentially.

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So we have to think about what's
that inner voice telling us, 

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what's the impact and what's it 
going to achieve. 

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In this case, and in my case, 
it's achieved nothing. 

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It's still on the list, still 
needs to be done. 

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So in this case it's been 
completely unhelpful. 

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I guess I have to just block out
the time knowing that it might 

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take that time and you never 
know, I might be surprised. 

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It might take me 10 minutes. 
On that note, I'm going to leave

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it there. 
I said that 5 minutes ago, 

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didn't I? 
But I will see you next week 

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with another episode and join me
over on Podcast Premium. 

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The link is in the show Notes to
this podcast. 

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Have a blessed week. 
Remember, you're not alone.