Have you heard of that famous quote from Spiderman, "With great power comes great responsibility"? But I feel that it's the other way round. You will only be given power when you are responsible enough to handle it.
I drive deep into this concept in this podcast and will open your mind to a new perspective.
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Speaker 1: We've all heard this famous quote from Spiderman that says
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Speaker 1: with great power comes great responsibility. But my take on
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Speaker 1: this is with great responsibility comes great power to have
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Speaker 1: great power. You gotta be responsible. First. Let's get in.
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Speaker 1: I'm sure the first time you heard this quote was
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Speaker 1: in a spider-man movie or even quoting it back to
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Speaker 1: Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, Mahatma Gandhi who speaks about this concept
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Speaker 1: that with great power comes great responsibility.
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Speaker 1: Now my take on this is that it's actually the
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Speaker 1: opposite
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Speaker 1: because when you are responsible, that's when you'll be given
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Speaker 1: more power to do things. Like uh if you remember
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Speaker 1: in school days, those of you who have been in
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Speaker 1: the good books of the teachers, you've been good prefects
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Speaker 1: in your school or you have really, you know, showed
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Speaker 1: your commitment towards your academics, then you are given the
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Speaker 1: powers to do different things. If you remember the school
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Speaker 1: in your school, he was not just randomly chosen like that.
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Speaker 1: It is because he or she, whoever was a school
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Speaker 1: captain during your school days, demonstrated responsibility in their younger
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Speaker 1: days or in their academics or in their extra curricular
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Speaker 1: or everything else only then they were given the power.
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Speaker 1: So school captains
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Speaker 1: cricket team, if you look at MS do, he was
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Speaker 1: not given the power of captaincy just randomly because he
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Speaker 1: demonstrated responsibility in his own career in his own performance.
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Speaker 1: For many, many many years, he was given the power
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Speaker 1: to then lead the team. So this is the same
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Speaker 1: concept even in life, a lot of us think that
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Speaker 1: in order to have a lot of power, we need
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Speaker 1: to do a lot of things. But it all starts
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Speaker 1: with the basics of being responsible.
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Speaker 1: And I want to just break it down into what
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Speaker 1: are the areas of responsibility that we need to be
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Speaker 1: aware of and work on. If you have to really
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Speaker 1: attract that lifestyle of power and power here is not
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Speaker 1: the negative power which you're gonna be misusing. But it
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Speaker 1: is more about a sense of control and abundance in
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Speaker 1: your life that you would never even thought would be possible.
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Speaker 1: So let's get in and let's break down the different
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Speaker 1: areas of responsibility.
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Speaker 1: It all starts by making your own bed. If you
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Speaker 1: remember in your school days, your parents might have told
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Speaker 1: you make the bed, make your bed, you know, put
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Speaker 1: your things in its place, keep your room clean. All
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Speaker 1: of this stuff is uh something that we've been growing
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Speaker 1: up with. And there have been moments where some of
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Speaker 1: us used to keep our rooms like a junkyard. And
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Speaker 1: I remember my room, my room used to get a
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Speaker 1: junkyard from time to time. And then, of course, I
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Speaker 1: used to clean it myself. But I think the first
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Speaker 1: step to response ability, if you break the wood
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Speaker 1: is your ability to respond to a situation.
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Speaker 1: So it starts by how can you do the most
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Speaker 1: basic things in your own life without you having to
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Speaker 1: depend on others where you, your ability to respond is, uh,
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Speaker 1: is at the highest level,
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Speaker 1: making your bed cleaning your own stuff. Uh Making sure
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Speaker 1: that what are your basic needs are met and you
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Speaker 1: don't have to depend on others for too many things.
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Speaker 1: So this is an aspect of responsibility in your personal
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Speaker 1: life and personal things that are around you.
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Speaker 1: Now, let's look at personal decisions. This is like one
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Speaker 1: level above. Are you responsible for your decisions or are
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Speaker 1: you somebody who feels that ok? Whatever happens is happens,
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Speaker 1: it's ok and you don't take responsibility of your decisions
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Speaker 1: or responsibility of your actions. These have a direct implication
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Speaker 1: in your life in your personal life, in your career,
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Speaker 1: in your business. Some of the most successful people in
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Speaker 1: the world are the ones who take full responsibility of
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Speaker 1: their actions and decisions without blaming others or complaining others
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Speaker 1: or just,
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Speaker 1: you know, passing the buck on to others. So let's
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Speaker 1: look at which areas you need to take responsibility when
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Speaker 1: it comes to your actions. And connecting it to a
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Speaker 1: digital business. Number one is I heard this uh you know,
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Speaker 1: beautiful quote that you can have many, many coaches, trainers, mentors.
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Speaker 1: You can go through many courses, videos, youtube, videos, podcasts
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Speaker 1: like this,
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Speaker 1: you can learn as much as you want. But ultimately,
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Speaker 1: you have to take action and take responsibility of the
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Speaker 1: knowledge that you have with you. So the first thing
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Speaker 1: is taking responsibility of the knowledge that you receive,
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Speaker 1: the ability to respond to the knowledge that you receive.
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Speaker 1: That's what is responsibility of your knowledge. That's the first aspect. Now,
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Speaker 1: the second aspect is the responsibility of your actions.
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Speaker 1: How are you going to act based on the knowledge
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Speaker 1: that you've just received?
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Speaker 1: There's going to be one category of a person who
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Speaker 1: listen to this, listen to this podcast. They'd be like, OK, whatever.
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Speaker 1: Uh and I'll get back to life and they have
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Speaker 1: another category of person who listens to this podcast and
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Speaker 1: is like, yes, I need to do a mental audit
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Speaker 1: and I need to really be the person who I
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Speaker 1: need to be in order for me to attract the
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Speaker 1: lifestyle that I want.
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Speaker 1: See, that was a long time during my initial days
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Speaker 1: in the career where I was depending on others. I
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Speaker 1: did not take personal responsibility of my life and my
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Speaker 1: financial situation and my financial situation was not very good
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Speaker 1: and I was blaming others complaining others and you know,
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Speaker 1: pointing fingers at other things where the actual reason why
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Speaker 1: I was not growing in my life. And my business
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Speaker 1: was because of my own uh actions and my own
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Speaker 1: thoughts and my own beliefs.
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Speaker 1: And the day that I took personal responsibility where I
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Speaker 1: healed the past and I healed all those people who
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Speaker 1: I felt were enemies in my life. They were actually
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Speaker 1: disguised angels who are helping me on my journey and
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Speaker 1: helping me progress towards my goals. So when I blessed
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Speaker 1: them and when I took responsibility and put the hat
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Speaker 1: back on myself and took charge, that's when things started
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Speaker 1: to change.
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Speaker 1: So the first level is responsibility in terms of the knowledge,
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Speaker 1: ability to respond to knowledge. The second is responsibility in
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Speaker 1: terms of actions, what are, what actions are gonna be
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Speaker 1: taking
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Speaker 1: and these actions are more to do with your own
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Speaker 1: personal actions and for your personal life. Now, we have
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Speaker 1: the next level of responsibility, responsibility to our family.
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Speaker 1: Now, many of us, we may be so busy with
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Speaker 1: what we are doing in our business in our life
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Speaker 1: and sometimes we neglect our family. We neglect the quality
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Speaker 1: time that we need to give our kids, especially when
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Speaker 1: they are growing up. Now, that is also a responsibility,
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Speaker 1: having Children, you know, intimately connecting with your spouse and
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Speaker 1: having a deep and intimate relationship or on a deep
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Speaker 1: level of friendship with your spouse or your partner.
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Speaker 1: This is also an ability to respond. It's a responsibility
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Speaker 1: in not your own actions but responsibility in your family
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Speaker 1: and relationships. A lot of people who struggle in business,
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Speaker 1: they don't realize that it is not a business problem.
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Speaker 1: It is a personal problem that's showing up in their business.
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Speaker 1: We normally don't have business problems. We have personal problems
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Speaker 1: that show up in business. So please understand that responsibility
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Speaker 1: in relationships, relationship with yourself, starting with that relationship with
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Speaker 1: your family members and your and dear ones
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Speaker 1: and relationship with your friends circle. How are you keeping
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Speaker 1: that relationship? All of these factors also determine how high
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Speaker 1: you're gonna be growing. Now, there could be some people
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Speaker 1: in your life who are not aligned with your goals
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Speaker 1: and visions and it's not that you have to be
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Speaker 1: a people pleaser and say yes to whatever they say.
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Speaker 1: But if you feel that there are some people who
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Speaker 1: are not aligned with your visions and goals, you don't
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Speaker 1: have to be in their uh purview. They don't need
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Speaker 1: to be in your aura, in your energy. They can
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Speaker 1: be wherever they are. You just bless them and let
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Speaker 1: them be where they are. You don't have to
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Speaker 1: really mix uh two chemicals to create a reaction. OK?
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Speaker 1: You can keep them far away, you know what I'm
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Speaker 1: talking about. So, responsibility in relationships is also awareness in
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Speaker 1: terms of where you know, your relationships are with yourself
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Speaker 1: and others around you and how far or near to
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Speaker 1: keep people based on your goals and visions.
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Speaker 1: And then we have another level of responsibility, responsibility towards society,
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Speaker 1: responsibility towards our community.
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Speaker 1: If you see a piece of paper in the airport
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Speaker 1: falling on the ground, are you gonna take it, pick
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Speaker 1: it up and put it in the bin or are
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Speaker 1: you just gonna walk past it?
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Speaker 1: You may be thinking, oh, it is just after all, another,
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Speaker 1: just a small piece of paper. So what somebody will
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Speaker 1: come and clean it. Now, that is also your ability
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Speaker 1: to respond to a small thing. Let's say it's 11
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Speaker 1: 30 pm in the night. You're driving in your car
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Speaker 1: and you come to a signal light where the signal
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Speaker 1: light says stop and it is in red. Now, what
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Speaker 1: are you going to do? There's nobody on the road,
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Speaker 1: there's nobody watching. Are you gonna just cut that signal
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Speaker 1: and go or are you just gonna stay there and
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Speaker 1: follow the rules and respond
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Speaker 1: to the laws irrespective of whether it is late in
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Speaker 1: the night or early in the morning? Now, that is
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Speaker 1: a question that everyone needs to ask themselves. That's the
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Speaker 1: question that you got to ask yourself is, are you
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Speaker 1: being responsible when nobody's watching?
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Speaker 1: That is a true test of responsibility. So responsibility to
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Speaker 1: society is this part is where you can uphold the
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Speaker 1: values
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Speaker 1: on which you're living your life, whether somebody is watching
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Speaker 1: you or not. Because if all of us do this,
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Speaker 1: follow the rules and regulations of the land. We also follow,
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Speaker 1: pay our taxes on time. We are living our life
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Speaker 1: uh with the highest values and ethics and morals that
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Speaker 1: is going to be contributing to the greater good of society.
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Speaker 1: If we are aligned in that way,
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Speaker 1: that is your direct response and contribution to the growth
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Speaker 1: of society by large.
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Speaker 1: You know,
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Speaker 1: Gandhi says, right, be the change you want to see
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Speaker 1: in the world, you cannot change others, but you can
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Speaker 1: change yourself.
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Speaker 1: And the best way to change yourself is to be
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Speaker 1: in an environment that
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Speaker 1: uh propagates this change to be in an environment that
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Speaker 1: supports this change. In fact, my mentor Blessinger, he also
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Speaker 1: says that you can't change people, but if you change
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Speaker 1: their environment, they will change.
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Speaker 1: So by helping people create their own code of honors.
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Speaker 1: So let's say you're building a community of your own
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Speaker 1: and you're gonna be helping people craft their own value
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Speaker 1: system
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Speaker 1: and their records of honor. And when a situation arises
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Speaker 1: in their life, they will go back to identifying what
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Speaker 1: their values are and that will help them respond in
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Speaker 1: the best possible way.
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Speaker 1: So we have responsibility in terms of knowledge, responsibility, in
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Speaker 1: terms of personal actions, responsibility, in terms of personal relationships
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Speaker 1: around us
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Speaker 1: are near and dear ones and our responsibility towards society.
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Speaker 1: And of course, at a universal level, a responsibility towards
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Speaker 1: mankind as a whole and towards a creator
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Speaker 1: which were path or religion or process that you follow.
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Speaker 1: We have the supreme being the supreme creator who controls
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Speaker 1: multi universes.
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Speaker 1: And how are we being responsible to our creator? How
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Speaker 1: are we responding to our creator?
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Speaker 1: Do we have the ability to respond to our creators signals?
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Speaker 1: Now, that is a question you gotta ask yourself. Do
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Speaker 1: you have any kind of spiritual grounding inclination? Because only
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Speaker 1: when you have
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Speaker 1: responsibility in all these different areas, you will be given
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Speaker 1: the power to do great things.
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Speaker 1: You want to build large communities, you want to impact
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Speaker 1: a million lives. You want to inspire 100 people achieve
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Speaker 1: their goals. You have created your own mission and vision statements.
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Speaker 1: You want those to come true. It all goes back
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Speaker 1: to
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Speaker 1: you making your bed every morning.
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Speaker 1: You're eating on time, you're eating healthy, you're taking care
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Speaker 1: of your body, you're taking care of your relationships,
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Speaker 1: you're taking care of the soul that is inside you.
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Speaker 1: You're taking care of every single thing
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Speaker 1: that is gonna help you move towards your goals.
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Speaker 1: I hope you found this podcast useful. If you're not
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Speaker 1: in a diamond member, in my community, upgrade yourself because
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Speaker 1: that's where
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Speaker 1: you'll be living. What I'm actually talking about. Catch you
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Speaker 1: in the next episode.