Episode 350

Evolving as a Person and Your Business | DFS 350

Get all the inside secrets and tools you need to help you develop your intuitive and leadership skills so you are on the path to the highest level of success with ease.  I’ve been evolving as a person and my business has been evolving along with me!

In this episode you will learn:


  • It’s about you - Thriving not just surviving
  • You can learn to trust yourself again
  • Small shifts create big results


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Are you ready to tiptoe into your intuition and tap into your soul’s message? Let’s talk 


Listen in as Jennifer Takagi, founder of Takagi Consulting, 5X time Amazon.Com Best Selling-Author, Certified Soul Care Coach, Certified Jack Canfield Success Principle Trainer, Certified Professional Behavioral Analyst and Facilitator of the DISC Behavioral Profiles, Certified Change Style Indicator Facilitator, Law of Attraction Practitioner, and Certified Coaching Specialist - leadership entrepreneur, speaker and trainer, shares the lessons she’s learned along the way.  Each episode is designed to give you the tools, ideas, and inspiration to lead with integrity. Humor is a big part of Jennifer’s life, so expect a few puns and possibly some sarcasm.  Tune in for a motivational guest, a story or tips to take you even closer to that success you’ve been coveting.  Please share the episodes that inspired you the most and be sure to leave a comment.  


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I look forward to connecting with you soon,  Jennifer


Jennifer Takagi

Speaker, Trainer, Author, Catalyst for Healing


PS: We would love to hear from you! For questions, coaching, or to book interviews, please email my team at Jennifer@takagiconsulting.com

Transcript
Jennifer Takagi:

Welcome to Destin for success. I'm your

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host, Jennifer Takagi, and this is episode 350 I absolutely

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cannot believe i not i i can't even talk. I'm so excitable

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about it. Yeah, I know that's not the right word, but I like

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to use it all the time. Have you been around for much of my life.

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I started this podcast. The first one dropped in September

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of 2018 I met an amazing woman, Michelle Abraham, at an event. I

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had hired multiple coaches. I had done everything to the best

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of my ability. Let's like put some caveats out there, to the

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best of my ability, to implement what they were teaching me to

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build a business, and things weren't working, and nobody was

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showing up. I, like, I had some success, but it wasn't

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consistent. It was just kind of, you know, a bit of a mess. So I

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meet Michelle, and I was like, Oh, my last coach told me to do

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this, and I did it, and I did all the things. And what should

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have taken two weeks took, like, three months, because I didn't

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have all the tech, I didn't have the things. Does that sound like

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you? You don't have all the things that you need. So it just

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became disappointing, if not devastating, at that point. And

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Michelle is the sweetest, kindest person ever. And she

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looked at me, she is, you don't have an audience. Now, when I

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tell this story, I make it much more dramatic. And Michelle's

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like, No, it's not quite how it went. And I was like, Yeah,

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Michelle goes, well, you don't have an audience. Nobody's going

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to show you have an audience. Nothing will sell. But I like my

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version better than the reality. The reality was very kind, very

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gentle. And I said, Well, how do I get an audience? And she said,

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a podcast. And I was like, I don't know how to do that. I

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don't know what to do. She goes, Oh, great. I have a company that

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does that for you. So this was the end of July. We were an

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event in Los Angeles. Uh, no, we weren't. We're in Las Vegas. Met

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at this event towards the end of the the event. Mind you, she

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lived in on the west coast of Canada, still does. I'm in

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Oklahoma, still am. Everything's done online, right? This is like

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pre World shutdown. You have to learn to work online. We already

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were there. Michelle was already there. I was getting there. So

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we start, we start this podcast. I say we because it was a joint

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venture. Michelle Abraham and I. Her company is amplify you. They

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produce my podcast. I record the sessions, I upload them, and

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they take it from there and publish it on all the podcasting

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platforms. So we start this podcast. Michelle is very

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intuitive. She's very business savvy. I would call her really

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an intuitive business strategist. She's never been

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called that, and I've never told her that, but that's what I'm

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going to say. And she said, Well, who's your target market?

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Who do you like to work with? And I said, new managers,

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because as a new manager, I really did not have the skills I

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needed to lead a team, and I didn't. And throughout my career

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in the federal government, before the federal government,

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in corporate they would send you to training federal government

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at not so much, not so much. So I literally would pay for my own

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training. I would go to my boss, I would say there was a

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training. I would pay for it myself. Sometimes, if it were

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during the day, like late in the day, they would let me just come

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in early and give me a little bit of administrative leave for

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30 minutes so I could get to the class. I did that for computer

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training for weeks because we didn't have computer training. I

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went out of town to Tulsa and stayed with my aunt and uncle

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for three days of training. I like, I did a lot, and I paid

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for it myself, and they say you need to coach or help the people

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that are just like you. So I'm like, Yeah, new managers want

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this. Guess what? Not so much they want their company to pay

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for it. Will the company pay for it? No, they have HR

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departments. They do some, if you get in the right doors, they

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do some people are very successful of it at it,

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obviously it was not my lane, because I was not abundantly

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successful. I did have some successes. I really greatly help

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people with their leadership journey, but it like wasn't

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landing consistently. You hear people like, oh, I have a whole

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business with this. Mine. It was a little hit and miss. Some of

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that was me, like I was a little hit and miss too, but it just

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didn't land. It just wasn't there. So then, when I had

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nothing to do because I had nothing on my calendar. I

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attended a summit. If you are on my email list, you might have

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seen invitations to summits. I've spoken on a lot of summits.

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Actually, it's super awesome. And I get to share my message,

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and when I share my message, then I give my free gift. If you

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don't have it yet, it's 12 minute gift.com. And I share my

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free gift, and people have the opportunity to talk to me one on

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one. And so I'm I'm doing all these things trying to, like,

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make life happen, business happen. And I stumble across a

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woman who says I read Akashic records, and I all read free for

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10 people. And I was like, Oh my gosh, I've heard of that. I

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don't know what it is, but I've heard of that. I'm signing up.

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So I got a free reading. At the end of the reading, she says,

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Hey, I'm offering a class in the spring. Do you want to come?

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Yes, yes, I want to come. So I did what I didn't know is I was

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going to learn how to read Akashic records. And Akashic

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records are the messages of your soul. It is not anything tawdry

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or dark side. It is all inspired by God. I'm a Christian, born on

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a Monday, first time in church the next Sunday, and all it does

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is allow me to be given messages from your soul that you're not

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hearing. And every session I've ever had, the person has ended

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up saying, wow, how did you know that? I didn't tell anybody,

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like, how did you do that? I know that because your guide

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shared it with me. Your Spirit team shared it with me. For some

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people, they're going to go, oh yeah, Jennifer, I'm out. That's

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airy fairy. I don't want anything to do with that. Okay,

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you're not my people. I love you. Enjoy your journey. We all

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have our own journey. But I learned to read Akashic records.

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I do several readings for people, and I didn't know these

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ladies at all. We were in a group together, and I was like,

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hey, I'll do five readings for free. All five of them. Ended

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the session with May I give you a testimonial? If you are an

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entrepreneur, if you are a small business, testimonials are make

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or break, like your testimonials mean the world. I probably

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haven't put mine out there sufficiently enough for

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everybody to get to them and see them. But testimonials are it.

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It's like manna from heaven, manna from heaven. So I thought,

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I'm going to make a shift in my business. I want to read Akashic

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records, and I want to help people get better and move

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forward in their lives, like through another a little less

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boxed in strategic way. I was all excited about it. Then

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somebody in the same group said, Hey, I'm teaching holy fire

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Reiki level one and two. Do you want to join? Yes. I didn't know

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what holy fire Reiki was. I didn't know what Reiki was, but

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I heard of it. Yes. I had decided when I left the federal

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government I was going to say yes to everything I possibly

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could. I said, Yes, spent two whole days with an amazing woman

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who taught us. There were just two of us in the class, so we

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got really hands on instruction on Holy Fire Reiki. And that's

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just where you notice where the energy is, and you focus on it a

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while and help it dissipate. It's super cool. It's very easy.

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It's not anything. Again, weird. But so I was like, Man, this is

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cool. Then I started reading the book the Emotion Code, by Doctor

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Bradley Nelson, and he goes into his story about as a

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chiropractor, identifying that people had trapped emotions,

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physically trapped in their body that were impacting the flow of

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energy, of oxygen, of healing, and if you can identify and

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clear those trapped emotions, then your body can begin to heal

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itself, because that's what it was meant to do. Awesome. I

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start doing that. I meet a woman, and she goes, I said, Oh,

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you know, you're at an event. What's your name? Where are you

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from? What do you do? You do? Jennifer Takagi, Oklahoma City

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leadership development. But I've kind of gotten into this other

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stuff too. What do you do? She goes, Oh, my name is Jen. Short

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for Jennifer, my name is Jen. I live in Minnesota. I think it is

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and I clear heart walls. And I went, Oh my gosh, is that that

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guy's work? Yeah, Doctor Bradley Nelson's work. So I had three

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sessions with her, paid sessions, because I wanted to

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see how it worked. I wanted to see how she handled a session

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with a client. So I did three sessions with her, and I was

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like, Oh my gosh, this is it. This is it. This is amazing. I

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will open someone's Akashic records. We will identify the

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trapped emotions keeping them from reaching their highest

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level of success, and then we'll clear that. We'll have a little

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Chitty chat, chat with their guides, and then I can do a

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little meditation, and we'll just calm all that energy with a

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little Reiki, like, just settle it all down. We've just, like,

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stirred up a lot of stuff. Let's just settle all down. I was

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like, Okay, great. This is awesome,

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but it didn't really fit new manager media managed right from

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the start my podcast, and it took me a while to put on my.

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Girl panties, and say, Yes, I'm going to share this with her.

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I'm going to tell people what I'm doing. So I call Michelle,

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and I was like, new manager Media, I'm going to cut it like

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i I'm doing more than that. I am helping leaders. I am using all

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my other skills, disc, behavioral profiles, change,

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style management train. The trainer, Jack Canfield, success

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principles training that I wrote a book based on one of the

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principles, reach your goals in 12 minute increments. It's been

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retitled 12 minutes to success. Reach Your Goals in 12 minute

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increments. I'm bringing everything together. I'm

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bringing it all together. And she said, in her very intuitive

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way, destined for success. And I was like, Oh my gosh, we are all

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destined for more success than we ever dreamed. So now I work

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with people in in all these mediums, and some people are

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like, don't open my Akashic records. I don't want to go

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there. And my response is, okay, let's not, let's not do that. I

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only want you to do Emotion Code. Great. Let's only do that.

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I have since as Dr Bradley has expanded his training base, I do

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Body Code and belief code shifting also, and with Body

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Code, it is finding misalignment in your physical, emotional and

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spiritual body, again, you create that balance, and your

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body begins to heal itself. Belief code is identifying those

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beliefs that were set, typically from when we were young

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children, and we're operating by that. So one example I'll give

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of my own that I learned through a Bible study, which took

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months, versus in belief code, it would have been very quickly.

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The question was, how did your family handle grief? And so my

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little story was, my cat had gotten hit by a car while I was

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asleep at night, he had gotten out and my little kitten and I

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was so sad that my little kitten had been hit by a car, and I ran

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up to my bedroom, threw myself on the bed, and I'm crying

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because I I still have cats. I adore cats, and I was just

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heartbroken that my cat died. And my dad came upstairs, and he

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had my softball mitt in one hand and a ball in the other, and he

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said, Jennifer, you can't lay on this bed and cry all day. It's a

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beautiful day, let's go outside and play catch. So in my seven,

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eight year old brain, it was you're only allowed to grieve

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for eight to 10 minutes, and then you have to move on with

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life. That that was what we did that served me well, like I've

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never fortunately gotten caught up in long term, debilitating

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grief and depression. And let me tell you, I've had a lot of

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grief. If you followed me for a while, you probably know that

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and some of my stories, but I don't stay there. It comes back,

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because grief doesn't ever go away. It's like a roller

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coaster, and you're going along on that long, flat one, and then

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all of a sudden you get a loop de loop, and it hits all over

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again. All over again. It stays with you, but you learn to

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manage it. So like on one hand, that lesson was really good. On

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the other hand, there have been times in my life where I did not

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give the event the proper due to grieve it and let it go. And in

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this Bible study, it was never about bashing your parents. It

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was, What lesson did you learn? Is it still serving you? Now, if

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it's not, let's pick a different lesson. Let's find another way.

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And I love that. Yeah, let's do that. So as I'm putting all my

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different modalities together and identifying belief systems

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and helping hundreds of people at this point. And I love it. I

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love this work. I felt like I didn't have enough structure,

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and I felt like it was kind of hard to share with people that

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like without just doing a training for them like it was

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kind of hard to piece it all together. And I'm in Brendon

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Burchard Ultra mastermind group. And Brenda Burchard is the

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founder of growth day. There is a growth day app. I need to put

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the link if you want to get the growth day app. Every single

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day, he shares a unique message on our our path, our personal

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path to greatness and to growth. And I'm in that. I'm in his

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Ultra mastermind, and that has been an amazing experience. I've

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been in for two years. I'm one of the founding members, and

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it's been, I've met amazing people. It's been a great path.

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And in the spring of 2024 he offered his high performance

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coaching package, and as soon as the QR code went up there, I

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grabbed the QR code and was trying to put my credit card in,

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and it was in a dark theater. My friend goes, What? What are you

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doing? Jennifer, your number of certifications are so long like

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I quit listing them all, because people. Are like, that's a lot.

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It is a lot, because I love to learn. I love to learn. So at

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the break, I ran outside, where I was in the sunlight, and I

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could actually see my credit card number to put it in. And

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she goes, Why are you doing that? And I said, I love, love,

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love. That Brendan has created a structure, a formula he doesn't

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get on stage and share about anything with having a structure

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and a formula around it. And I'm into that. I like that

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structure. I like, I like, I like the box. I worked for in

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housing and for the federal government for years. Obviously,

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I'm into structure. Yeah, I travel and yeah, I'm kind of

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flighty, whatever, but I like to do it within a framework. I like

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the frameworks, so I signed up for it. I am certified as a high

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performance coach through his company growth, and I've now

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completed round two every year you can't. You have to, every

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couple of years, recertify, and when I you recertify, you get

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more trainings. So I just redid it, and it was like, Yeah, I

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need to go all in. He has 20 plus years of research behind

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putting this structure together. And I loved it, and I kind of

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bulked from it a little bit because of high performance

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coaching. Am I a high performer? No, probably not. Like, I like

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to watch Netflix. I like to, like, record my podcast and then

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go play because I, like, did some work. But at the same time,

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when you look at the definition and what a high performer is,

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and does high performers want to do it better. They want to do

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everything to the best of their ability. I hate it when an email

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goes out with an error. I'm very disappointed when something is

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late. Winners are on time, losers are late. My mom hammered

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that into my head when I was a teenager, these things matter to

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me. And it was like, okay, like, how can I put this in language I

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really like? And there is a book called younger next year. It's

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an awesome book, if you get the audio book version, one chapter

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is read by the gentleman who wrote the book, and the next

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chapter is by his doctor, who helped write the book, but gives

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the scientific basis for things awesome book and in younger next

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year. It's the premise is, if you up your exercise and your

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fitness and you up healthy eating choices, you literally

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can change the physical makeup in your body in a year, and it

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will actually be chronologically a year younger than your

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chronological age. It's amazing. Personal Development, personal

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growth works along those same premises, and it's not that

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you're better than somebody else, it's not that you have

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fewer challenges than somebody else, it's that you have more

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tools to handle the challenges. You have more tools. So I came

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up with this, putting this podcast together, personal

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growth coaching helps you master your focus, energy and

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influence, so you can kiss, I can talk. I'm a professional, so

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you can consistently show up as your most powerful and authentic

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self no matter what life throws your way. I want to read that

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again. Personal Growth coaching helps you master your focus,

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energy and influence so you can consistently show up as your

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most powerful and authentic self no matter what life throws your

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way, it's the no matter what life throws your way that

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matters. I love hearing inspirational speakers talk

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about how I didn't get that promotion and I was wronged and

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nobody noticed me. Blah, blah, blah, but then you find out

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they're consistently late to work. They consistently aren't

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prepared for the meetings. They didn't go back and get that

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training. They needed to be able to do the thing, and they're

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sitting there going, lamp, lamp, lamp. I always hated that, and I

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don't like to be the wham person I am sure I have been in the

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past, I just want to pretend that I wasn't.

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But what are you going to do to live better and be better and

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leave the world around you, the people in your life, better off?

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When are you going to step up and act and react with

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integrity? So personal growth coaching, it's about you, and

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it's about you thriving, not just surviving. You can get up

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every morning and just trudge away and go to work, or you can

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go to work with purpose. I used to make a list of reasons I

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stayed in my job, if you. Been following me a while. You've

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probably heard I have this super evil boss, and she is evil, and

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she was evil and evil to me, I did not have the tools I needed

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to thrive in that environment. I just barely survived, and I had

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no support. I had minimal support from friends and

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colleagues because they thought that it couldn't be that bad.

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Spoiler alert, it was I had no support from management system

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because they had to support their managers. So I was out on

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a limb by myself, and it was terrible, and I'm very

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confident. Had I had better skills, I could have handled it

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better, better. I shouldn't have had to, let's be clear, but I

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could have handled it better. I did seek counseling. You've got

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to get professional help when you need to. And she said, The

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problem is you're treating her like a normal person, and her

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behavior is not normal. So let's give you some skills so you can

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survive this. And I did. It was super helpful. I made it three

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more years until I was able to retire early, like super early,

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like really young, early. So it's about finding a way to

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thrive. I could have done things differently sooner. I just

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didn't know how, and I didn't seek the help soon enough,

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that's all on me. That's totally all on me. I just kept hoping it

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would get better. Guess what, folks, doesn't get better. You

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can learn to trust yourself again. I love teaching about

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intuition. I love teaching about listening to your intuition. I

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listen to my intuition very clearly. On April 19, 1995 the

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day that's become known as the Oklahoma City bombing. I was

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sick, and I literally had a message from above, stay home,

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take care of yourself. And I did, and because I did, I'm here

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talking to you today. I like to teach people that. I like to

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help people listen to their own messages, because you have the

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answer inside of you. You know what the next best step is for

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you. And the last thing I want to leave you with on this

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exciting podcast about evolving as a person and evolving your

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business is small shifts create big results. Small shifts create

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big results. When I wrote the book 12 minutes success reach

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your goals in 12 minute increments, that came because I

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was speaking in an association meeting on the very first

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principle in the book by Jack Canfield, the success

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principles, and number one is, take 100% responsibility for

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every aspect of your life. If 100% is too much, take 5% more.

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I became obsessed on what is 5% more? 5% of what? I graduated

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college with honors without a math class, because I hated

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math. I went all the way through trig algebra three in high

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school, and I decided that was more than enough, if you weren't

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going into a scientific slash medical field. And it was. And I

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can use a calculator in Excel so I can get done what needs to be

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done, but what's 5% what is 5% so it boiled down to my day was

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in three, four hour increments, eight to 12 in the morning, one

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to five in the afternoon, six to 10 in the evening, and then go

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to bed, right? And you've got your little breaks in there. But

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I had like a four hour increment, four, 5% of a four

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hour increment is 12 minutes. It's 12 minutes. What can I do

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in 12 minutes so that I don't give up? What's the next step?

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What can I do in 12 minutes? You can do a lot in 12 minutes, if

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it's focused, if you have the energy and you've got the power

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and influence over yourself to do what needs to be done 12

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minutes to success. Start breaking it down. I've had

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multiple people hear me speak on various summits about my 12

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minute increments, and then I hear back later, oh my gosh. I

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hated reading, but I knew there were some business books I

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needed to read, and I set my timer for 12 minutes. Made a

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promise to myself, and I was going to keep it, that I was

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going to read 12 minutes a day. 12 minutes a day, every day, for

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one year, is 73 hours. Do the math. I think 73 is correct.

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What have you done that you've spent 73 hours on ever like

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consistently. Break it down into 12 minute increments and stick

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with it. If you have a little more after the 12 minutes, get

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started. Just go longer. I had a friend FaceTime me, and she was

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at the gym on the Stairmaster, I think it was, and she was like.

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I didn't want to come to the gym, but you told me, the first

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step in the 12 minutes is get all your clothes together so

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that when you decide, when you have that divine inspiration,

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you're not looking for your favorite pair of tennis shoes

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like you can just get dressed and go. Getting dressed and

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driving are not counted in the 12 minutes you get there, you

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get on the machine. And she was like, I sat in the parking lot

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going, I don't want to go in. I don't want to do this. Finally,

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I made myself walk in the door. I got on the machine. I just

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looked down and I was already at 17 minutes. I'm in my next round

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of 12 minutes already. As it turns out, we had a lot to chat

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about. She made it a whole hour. Sometimes it's just getting

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started. Sometimes it's just getting started. You can evolve

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as a person. You can be better. You can do better. I can do

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better. Let's do better together. I'm Jennifer Takagi

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with destin for success, and I know you are destined for way

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more success than you ever thought possible. If you have

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been thinking about coaching, have you been considering having

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someone hold your hand and help you move up and step up? I want

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to be there for you. You can book a call with me at your my

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camera froze. Part of this is on video. Part of this not you can

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book your call at your success. Call.com, your success.

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Call.com, have a discovery call with me, and let's see if we can

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work together. Let's see if what I have in my arsenal, my bag of

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tricks, can help you evolve into the person and evolve the

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business and the business of getting on with your life even

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better. I'm Jennifer Takagi, and I look forward to connecting

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with you soon. You.

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I am Jennifer Takagi, an Executive Leadership + Communication Coach who teaches leaders how to play well at work so they can drive better performance from people they lead, increase profitability and create a purposeful workplace where people want to come and play—productively.