So, it's really important to remember to revisit what's working for you. Now, what I'm talking about is revisiting thoughts, or courses, or ideas, or books, or things that really strike you as relevant, and things that you've found have worked for you in the past.

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Today I'm going to talk about rapport, and rapport really falls under two of the five to thrive. That's your relationships and your business. Now, it actually will sprinkle all over the place, but let's talk about why rapport is important. First of all, rapport is really the ability to establish a connection with somebody else, the ability to establish that connection where they feel like you actually get them, you understand them, and you are like that person.

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We were talking this morning about a family member, a family member going through an extremely hard time. Where the conversation went up was like, "You know what? She's only meaner, she's only gotten meaner over time. And even though she's going through this hardship, instead of seeing the light at the end of the tunnel and actually being nice to other people, she's actually meaner." So the conversation went into, and my wife eloquently said, "Hey, you know what happens when bad times come around, is mean people get meaner, happy people get happier, joyful people get more joyful, sad people get sadder. You really go back to that set point that you have, and it just amplifies it."

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Now, when I talk about running your life like a project, what I'm really talking about is a conversation I had with a friend of mine. Now, he's a business owner, and he manages several projects on the given day. He's really efficient at it, but when it comes to his life when he leaves work, his life seems to fall apart. He looked at me and said, "Doug, what do I do? Like, you know, I go home, my relationships are in shambles. I can't seem to get fit, my health, my energy is just down. I just can't manage all of this." And as soon as he said, "I can't manage all of this," a light bulb picked off in my head. He's a project manager, so why isn't he managing his life like another project?

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Now, I'm still traveling and experiencing the Author of My Own Story lifestyle. Now, while traveling, I'm still able to coach my clients. These are high-level people. These are people that have been extremely successful on all areas of their life at one time or another, and typically have most of their stuff together. Now I share this with you, only to emphasize the fact that having this conversation I had with somebody, this person was an extremely successful business person, as well as family man. What he was finding he was doing was he was getting tired.

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Self-appreciation is also called self-love. Often times, when working with a client, this is something that I see missing. We all think “I love myself, I like myself, that’s all good, Doug.” But I can tell you right now, I have a lot of clients that pay me a lot of money to help them break through barriers to up-level their lives. The reason this works is that I am able to look past them and see the love or missing elements within themselves. Often times, the first things I have them do, is really assess their level of self-appreciation. Often times if you're listening to this, you’re someone like me, someone that really likes personal development. Developing one’s self, and that’s great, but your personal development project needs to be smaller than your self-appreciation project.

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I was at the gym this morning working out and there were two guys talking. One guy turned to his friend and started correcting his form. Now, I had just met these guys a few days earlier and the instinct to jump in and tell him that his advice was wrong, was really high in me. I mean, I really had to fight it.

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I'm in New Hampshire visiting family, and when I'm in New Hampshire, I really need a place to work. A place where I can do my Facebook Lives, my coaching sessions, and just really catch up and unwind. I found this really cool little coffee shop. Now it's in the middle of a downtown depressed town, and I'm filming this daily growth hack right there from my car because it's so loud outside with all the trucks outside. But this little place is a gem.

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Now, this is a reader's question or a listener's question that was sent to me just the other day. Now, here I'm still in Vermont in this beautiful forest if you're watching this, and if you're listening to this, just imagine an idyllic kind of country farm with hundreds of acres. It just amazing. When I got this email, it actually shocked me because it was such a contrast to the experience I was having. Now, what the listener said, they said, "Doug, I'm in my 30s, and I've been putting in my time, and I'm wondering because I have a great idea, how you actually get financing to get a business off the ground?"

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We've just got done walking in the woods, and this is absolutely breathtaking. An amazing experience here, especially in the fall when it should be snowing and here we are in a sunny day. And one of the things it reminded me of because I got an email this morning, and the email said to me what my purpose was. Why was I here?

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