THE ED MYLETT SHOW - Change What You See, Change What You Get
Episode Date: April 17, 2025What if you started living like life was rigged in your favor? That’s the question I want you to wrestle with today. Because the lens you look through is shaping everything — your decisions, your ...joy, your results. In this Solo episode, I’m walking you through the truth that most people miss: Your life isn't defined by what happens to you — it's defined by how you see it. Your filter, your expectations, and your energy are creating your reality, whether you know it or not. We talk a lot about faith, hustle, and discipline — but today, I want you to start scanning your life for favor, not fear. I share the four life lenses that are quietly running your perspective — from living through history and memory to seeing life through dreams and imagination. I’ve lived on both sides of this. I’ve filtered for pain, for setbacks, for loneliness. But when I changed the lens — when I started walking through life expecting good things to happen — things began to shift. You’ll hear me share some of the most personal insights I’ve ever dropped on this show, from how confidence bends reality, to the way your energy becomes a magnet for the people and opportunities in your life. This isn’t just about mindset. It’s about becoming the person who runs toward pressure, who trains like an underdog, and lives with the heart of a champion. You’ve already come farther than you give yourself credit for. Now it’s time to move like someone who’s meant to win. And here’s the truth — you don’t need to fit in. You’re not one of the crowd. You were made to be different. You were born to stand out. So stop waiting to be seen. See yourself. Don’t underestimate your own power another day. This episode is a reminder of who you really are and what you’re really capable of. Key Takeaways: Your expectations shape your reality more than your circumstances. There are four lenses that shape how you experience life — most of us operate unconsciously. Confidence can actually bend reality — but so can self-doubt. Energy is magnetic — you draw in what you put out. The life you want begins when you stop underestimating yourself and start believing that great things are meant for you. Focus equals expansion: what you’re looking for is what you’ll find. Train like an underdog, but think like you’re world class. You don’t need to be understood — you need to be relentless about your purpose. Max out your lens. Max out your life. 👉 SUBSCRIBE TO ED'S YOUTUBE CHANNEL NOW 👈 → → → CONNECT WITH ED MYLETT ON SOCIAL MEDIA: ← ← ← ➡️ INSTAGRAM ➡️FACEBOOK ➡️ LINKEDIN ➡️ X ➡️ WEBSITE Get my exclusive Monday Motivation training in GrowthDay, the world’s #1 app for advanced mindset and personal development. Visit https://growthday.com/ed. This show is sponsored by GrowthDay. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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This is The Admired Show.
All right, welcome back to the show, everybody.
So excited to get a chance to spend some time
with you again this week.
And just to start, I just want to thank so many of you that are sharing the episodes
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Today's gonna be a really important one.
I want to talk to you about perspective today and I think one of the most critical components in life
to bring you more fulfillment and more success, more bliss, more happiness, more of the things
you want. And that is to start to become aware of the lens through which you see the world,
through how you experience your life. Most of us do this unconsciously and because we do it unconsciously oftentimes we default to a mode that we
really don't want. One of the critical things in life is to be able to see the
world through the lens, through the filter, through the prism that serves us
the most, serves our bliss, serves our success, serves our productivity, our joy,
our peace and in the power of one more in my book, I write about two lenses.
I'm gonna give you two more today.
But the two lenses I write about in the books,
I say there's two types of people.
One type of person views the world
through history and memory.
And they basically walk through life
kind of living in the past.
When they reference something new,
it's usually connected to something of the old.
And by the way, people do this on positive and negative.
Some people live through past successes,
some continue to live through history and memory
and the past of failures, setbacks,
things that have gone wrong, traumas.
But the bottom line is, most of their filter
is the rear view mirror of their life.
The second type of person, which is more rare,
they see things through dreams and imagination.
They're in the present, but they're looking forward. They've got, they use their imagination.
They use their dreams.
They don't spend a lot of time in the rear view mirror.
They're looking more through the windshield of life
and looking forward.
And I find those to be the people that create,
that innovate, that are more happy, that grow, that expand.
But there are a couple other filters
that I wanna talk to you about this week.
And there's really two lenses
that I wanna go talk to you about this week and there's really two lenses that I want to go through with you and
one type of person scans for God and favor protection
Safety increase light love they see all these things when they scan the world when they experience the world
They see more God they see more favor. They see more protection. They feel more safety
They feel more increase and light and love. The other types of people scan for things they're afraid of.
They see the negative, they filter into their lens, evil, loneliness, darkness, despair.
And these two people are in the exact same world, yet they experience two totally different lives.
And really the life you experience is seen through the lens that you feed yourself. And so which of those lenses are you history and memory or are you imagination in dreams? Are you
someone who sees light, love, favor, protection, increase, growth, beauty, or do you scan and see
a lot of things you're afraid of? The negative, the people taking advantage of the evil, the
loneliness in your life. These two lenses will feed you the life that you see. And it's really
important because if you're not aware you're doing it,
you can begin to think your reality is the only truth.
When in fact the same people going through the same type of life are having a totally
different life experience than you simply because of the lens.
And most of us do it unconsciously, but we can become conscious of this lens and
start to scan for the things we want. Listen to me.
It's a mental act of ignorance to scan for the things you're afraid of,
for the negative, for evil, for loneliness, for darkness, for despair,
for lack, for what you don't have.
That's a mental act of ignorance.
And after today, you will be doing it
consciously because I've pointed it out to you.
And the reason that I pointed out to you
is because I've done both.
And I do both.
But I probably lived at least half my life
as somebody who scanned for, you know, how lonely I was
or how I was being taken advantage of or the past
or trauma or darkness.
I'd see the, I'd be on an airplane
and I'd scan for the loudest, most obnoxious person
rather than the kindest and most gentle.
And the person who's helping everybody put their bags away, you know,
and the most polite person, you know what I'm saying?
Those are same exact flight, two totally different experiences.
So what if you became somebody,
what if you were one of those people who began to believe that good things are
going to happen to them?
Because the people who believe that good things are going to happen to them, they're usually right. And the people who believe that average
and ordinary or negative things, or maybe just the same things are going to happen for
them, they are also usually right. The world reveals to us that which we're most certain
of. And if we're not cognizant of our lens because you do have one and maybe it changes from time to time maybe a certain trigger triggers
a different lens for you when you're slighted by somebody in your personal
life your spouse or a boyfriend or girlfriend or they're passive aggressive
with you or whatever it might be or maybe you miss a sale it switches the
lens and now you're scanning for all the other negative things but I'm telling
you this lens is your life
And I think when you get to the end of your life
It's going to be revealed to you through a different lens
And I think at the end we want it to be revealed through the ones that we most hopefully want to see through
So remember this people who believe that good things are gonna happen to them. They are usually right not every time
But far more of the time than if they believe things aren't
going to work out for them.
What if you started to move through your life like you think it's rigged in your favor?
You always say, hey, the system is rigged.
Okay, well, it's rigged for somebody and that somebody doesn't necessarily have to be different
than you.
And I'm not suggesting that there aren't lots of people in life where they didn't start
on third base.
Heck, they didn't even start at home plate.
They weren't even in the stadium.
They were born on the wrong side of the tracks, or maybe they had the wrong skin color, or
their parents weren't even married, or they grew up incredibly poor, and that there are
disadvantages to that life, because there are.
But if you're scanning for proof of that all of your life, you'll prove it
to be true. But if you begin to scan like, well, however, there are certain things that
are scanned in my favor and I'm favored because God's going to give you the life that he most
wants to give you, but your lens is going to process it. A lot of times in life, your
expectations are the most important thing.
If you expect things to go well, if you have an expectation that you're going to get a
hit when you're up to the plate or make the putt when you're putting or close the sale
or get the date or have a good time or that people are going to think you're interesting
and funny, most of the time your expectations are accurate in life more times than not.
Remember this confidence bends reality.
It does when you walk into a room confident that something's
going to work out in your favor.
Or you walk into your day.
It begins to bend reality.
And the truth of the matter is reality is reality, but what it does is it
begins to change your filter and that filter is your life experience.
What if you started to walk?
Like you just got the best news of your life. What if you talk like, man, the universe is listening to me. In my case,
God is listening to me. He's hearing my prayers. You have to remember that this is important stuff.
And if we don't start to be conscious of it, we're going to continue to produce the same life
because we're seeing life through the same lens and the same filter.
And so you can have 10 people treat you great, but if you believe you're a victim to something,
that 11th person is all you're going to see and experience and feel.
If you believe you're not going to close sales, you're not going to close the majority of
the sales.
So what if he started to walk through your life like it was rigged in your favor and
you go, well, it isn't though.
But what if you worked so hard that you made it so people just like you with the same disadvantages,
the same hardships, the same setbacks. Look, I grew up on welfare. I had a drug addict and
alcoholic father. I could easily see the world through, man, I didn't even get a good hand when
I was born. We didn't have any damn money. Nobody in my family was ever financially successful.
So I'm not going to be, or I can go, I'm going to be first.
I'm going to change this family curse of this addiction stuff.
And so that confidence began to bend reality.
So the same people would have entered my life probably either way, but I filtered
for the ones who could support what I was seeing as opposed to filtering for the
ones that would support the negative things I was saying, there's going to be enough people, enough circumstances, enough situations in your life
to deliver either reality to you, but your reticular activating system is going to scan
to prove you right.
And so starting to wrestle this, I'm going to be someone who operates out of imagination
and dreams.
I'm going to operate as somebody who walks through life like it's rigged in my favor.
My confidence will bend reality. I'm going to get the world to conspire to my dreams. I'm going to operate as somebody who walks through life like it's rigged in my favor. My confidence will bend reality. I'm going to get the world to conspire to my dreams. God made me in
his image and likeness. He holds me in the palm of his hand and he will never leave me nor forsake
me. I'm not alone even when I filter through life and feel alone. I think when we get to the end of
your life, all those moments you felt lonely, all those moments you felt alone, I think God's going
to whisper to you and go, I was with you the whole time.
You were never alone.
You were never alone.
What if you never felt that way again?
What if you gave yourself the gift of saying, there's a loving God who's got my back, who
made me in his image and likeness, whose DNA runs through me?
Man, this is rigged in my favor.
I woke up today with another breath.
Maybe you woke up today and you don't have a disease that millions of other people have.
Maybe today no one that you love passed away.
And so many other people woke up today and lost a loved one.
Maybe you woke up today with food in your refrigerator and water and two-thirds of the
world doesn't have it.
So what if you started to walk like you just got the best news of your life? Talk like
the world is listening. Remember this, energy is magnetic. The energy you put out is like
a magnet. It draws to you that which you're putting out. That's what you see. You know,
here's the truth about you. You've come a whole lot further than you realize, and you've
overcome a lot more than you give yourself credit for, haven't
you?
Just for a second, right as you sit there today, think about how
far you've come.
Now I know some of you are listening to this or watching this
today, and it's not an uptime in your life.
It's a downtime.
But just stay with me for a second. Look how
far you've come even to have this downtime. The way you grew up, the
situations you've had, the people who have hurt you, taken advantage of you,
abandoned you, lied to you, talked bad about you, the opportunities you should
have been given, but you weren't. maybe because you weren't born on third base,
maybe because you weren't even born in the stadium, maybe people have always overlooked you,
always underestimated you. Man, you've come pretty darn far, haven't you?
And you've overcome a lot more than you give yourself credit for.
In fact, those of you that had the most disadvantages,
the most negative things happen, you overcome a lot more. If you could overcome all that,
this next 10 yards isn't such a big deal. Oftentimes, people ask me, what's it like
to have been so blessed and have had, you know, a measure of success, hundreds of millions of
dollars, beautiful homes, influence, great friends, beautiful family.
Overall, until the last year or two, good health.
I'm very grateful for all of that.
But every once in a while, I go, man, I've overcome a lot.
I've overcome a lot.
Thank God I had this filter and scan for the world most
of the time that found the light,
that found the person who could help me, not hurt me.
If you keep drawing people into your life that are hurting you, that's a you issue.
You're filtering for them.
You are finding them and you are bringing them into your life.
If most of the people in your life are just kind of a neutral charge, they're not so great,
they don't lift me up, and they're not so bad.
That's what you're scanning for.
That's your lens.
But when you have a lot of people around you who love you, who believe in you, who support
you, who do even more than support you, they go to work on helping you make your dreams
come true.
They go to work on trying to help you be happier and more at peace and more faithful. You're scanning for that.
If you look at the current conditions of your life, it's what you've been filtering in.
It's a hard thing to accept.
I just started to accept that in my late twenties, that I'm responsible for my life.
In some way, I've actually created this because I filtered through my lens, these
people into my world, these circumstances into my world.
And if I don't change this lens, they're gonna show up in a different body with a different name, but it'll be the same person. They'll show up in a different
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You are so much more than you think you are. My precious friend, you've done so
much more than you realize. You've helped so many more
people that you don't even know about. What a thing that is,
huh? You know, you've helped more people than you realize.
You're not not mean I've not really accomplished anything.
You'd be surprised how someone's quietly watched you and your
kindness has been an example
to them to be more kind.
Or they've watched how you treat your spouse or your significant other and just for that
day they went home and were a little bit more gentle and generous and kind with theirs.
Simple things like manners and holding a door open and saying thank you for somebody.
Helps humanity.
Never mind the big
things you've done, things people will never know about, things you probably don't even realize
you've done because you filter them out. You take it for granted because it's just everybody's
as kind as you, everybody's as giving as you. No, they're not. Everybody has beautiful intentions
like you do. Everybody's rooting for their friends to succeed like you do.
You know, just your rooting and supporting and believing in your friends makes you very rare.
But you don't have this filter that believes that if they win, you're losing.
You'd be surprised how many people quietly root against one another,
pretending to support one another. So you're so much more than you think you are. You've done so much more than you realize. You've come so much further and helped more people
than you realize. What a beautiful thing. What a good life. Now I know as I say that,
some of you, but you don't know about this mistake. You don't know about this thing I'm
ashamed of. God does. He knew it before you were going to do it. You're human. You've made some mistakes. Okay, made some bad
decisions. So have I joined the club. Join the club. Now, does
that mean what you're going to do is filter for that the rest
of your life and repeat it over and over again and live those
same emotions? Or can you believe you can grow and expand?
Can you believe you can move from here to the next place, just
like you have in the past? You've already proven you can move
from certain circumstances to other ones. You've already proven
you can grow and change. Maybe you've changed in a way you're
not proud of. What that does prove is you can change. You can
change again. What you focus on and if you
can somehow begin to look at light and gratitude, you can
begin to look at that. What you focus on expands. You're going
to get more of it. I'm serious. If you can begin to find
things that you're grateful for in your life, okay, it will
expand. It begins to expand that lens starts to look for it.
Focus equals expansion. What you focus on
will be expanding. Let me ask you a powerful question. Just stay with me.
Like I don't know what to be grateful for right now.
Who or what do you take for granted? Let's do the who.
Is there anybody in your life that you take a little bit for granted? Maybe you
take for granted that
I don't know, I'm making this up, that your's still alive and you can talk to her anytime you want, if she is. Maybe
you take for granted how much the little things your significant other does for you. Maybe
you take for granted that your girlfriends or boyfriends, your friends that love and
support you in their quiet way. Maybe you take for granted the fact that there are people
around you fighting battles you know nothing about, and they're doing it with grace. They're doing it with strength. Maybe you take
for granted that there's someone that you love and care about that's hanging on
by a thread right now, but they're hanging on and that's admirable. What do
you take for granted? That was the who. Now what do you take for granted? You
know I've had real big health issues the last couple years. Well for about 50 of my life, I took my health really for granted. I woke up every day,
my chest didn't have any pains. I woke up every day, there was no cancer in my body.
I woke up every day and my back wasn't hurting me or my jaw. I had high energy. I just took that
for granted. I've had a beautiful family, but they were there
every day. I have some really good friends. I've had some good financial success. I make
an impact in my life. I do work that I enjoy. I took a lot of that for granted. So when
you begin to go, I don't know what to be grateful for. Flip it. What am I taking for granted?
What am I taking for granted? You know that right now you could probably walk to your refrigerator and there's some food in it. The more you
begin to ask yourself who or what am I taking for granted, your mind flips into the antithesis
of that and it changes the lens and you begin to be grateful. Maybe today if you're married
and you just walk in a room, just before you say anything, just take a look at your spouse, or your girlfriend or your boyfriend, or your children, or your parents, or your siblings,
or a friend. Just take them in for a second. Just see their soul. Don't see all the bad things you
know about them, all the things they've done that you don't like. Just see their soul for a second.
Just see their soul, how second. Just see their soul.
How precious they are.
Thank God they're still here, right?
Thank God.
They've also come a long way.
They're also overcoming things.
They also may not be aware of their filter or their lens, which causes them to behave
in a way that doesn't serve them.
So focus equals expansion.
Who are you taking for granted? What are you
taking for granted? And when you begin to understand that the little things
become the big things and that focus equals expansion and now you're starting
to change your lens. You know the thing about you, you're probably being
underestimated right now. In fact you've probably always been underestimated. But
here's the hook and I have too. No one would have picked me in high school to
become successful or anybody anyone would listen to.
There was nothing exceptional about anything about me.
My grades, my abilities, my personality,
my background, my track record.
So I've always been underestimated
and probably you have too.
Maybe you are right now, but here's the hook.
You can't underestimate yourself.
That's a killer.
And too many of you have walked through
your whole life underestimating you because you're waiting for someone else
to see you a particular way. And if they see you, then you'll believe in you.
Well, you'll be waiting a long time because that lens rarely comes back. You
got to see you. You got to not underestimate yourself. You got to
believe that confidence bends reality
But the lack of confidence bends it in an equivalent way the other direction
You got to start to walk through your damn life
Like something great's about to happen like you expect it by and large we get what we expect in our lives
Ask yourself stop listening. I know you're going. Whoa, this is okay. I got it. Okay. This is great stuff. Now stop. What have
you really expected the last year of your life? What have your expectations
been expectations financially expectations in your emotions, in your
faith, in your relationships, in the way other people respond to you
because you're getting what you expect. And when you begin to shift those
expectations, reality begins to bend over time to some extent. You know how we know that? You're already proving
it. It may take a while, but your life will eventually come back to the filter and the
lens that you see it through. Be the one they never saw coming. Train in your life like you're a big
underdog, but start to think like you're world-class. All my life I've
known I was supposed to be somebody and all my life I knew I didn't have the
talent, I didn't have the size, I didn't have the strength, I didn't have the
intellect, I didn't have any of those things that people might think you need to have.
But I know this, there's never been a test design nor will there ever will be
that can measure the heart of a champion. You cut open anybody who's done
anything great in their life, one might be six foot four,
one might be five foot four,
one might be one part of the world,
one might be another, one might be black,
one might be white, one might be straight,
one might be gay, one might be a Christian,
one might be a Muslim.
But when you cut them open, they're identical
and they train like an underdog,
but they got the heart of a champion.
Be patient in your life, but never wait.
You have to have patience, but you gotta be in a hurry.
Be intense in your work, but calm in your mind.
Be disciplined and be structured,
but be willing to innovate.
You got all this stuff.
You can be the one they never saw coming.
You can train like an underdog.
You got the heart of a champion.
Remember this, focus on your energy.
Energy is influence.
Vibrational frequency is real.
When you're vibrating at the highest possible frequency, you begin to draw things into your
life, circumstances, places, things, people, emotions that were always there, but they
are outside your energy's influence.
They are outside your lens.
You weren't seeing them, hearing them or feeling them.
By the way, the highest level of vibration is truth and so when you actually begin to see
your truth as opposed to this lie that everything stacked against you that
you're average and ordinary that people don't like you much that there's
nothing to be grateful for that nothing ever goes your way that's a lie and so
what happens is it reduces your vibrational frequency.
You believe it because it's in your lens.
But when you slits the lens to truth,
which is that you are favored,
you were born to do something awesome with your life.
The world is gonna conspire
to make your dreams come true over time.
God did make you in his image and likeness.
He did die for your sins.
You are saved if you accept that and live forever. That vibrational
frequency is real. The higher the frequency, the more you draw things into
your life. Highest possible frequency, truth. So you have to ask yourself, is my
lens, is my filter giving me truth or sort of a lie and a bias that I've been
carrying for a long time? That lens is essentially your life bias, your mind virus,
and it's gonna keep giving to you that which you filter for.
You gotta become the type of person
who runs towards the fire.
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our soldiers. These are the moms when they've got an injured child
on a playground. These are the moms and dads who run into the
fire of hard work every single day to win for their family.
They're the people on 911 who ran into the building. You got
to be that type of person in your life. Metaphorically, you
run towards the pressure. You don't hide from it. You run
towards the difficult things. You don't cower from it. There
are only two types of people. Which one are you? You run towards the stuff or you hide from it. You run towards the difficult things. You don't cower from it. There are only two types of people.
Which one are you? You run towards the stuff or you hide from it.
You're someone who's favored, who's in the light, who's protected,
who's safe, who's strong, who can tap into supernatural power from God
anytime you need to, or you hide and you cower and you shrink and you limit
and you stop expanding. In shrink and you limit and you stop expanding in fact you
stop you start shrinking pressure is a privilege pressure means this
something's gonna break either you or the obstacle being a dad there's some
pressure being a mom there's some pressure building the business there's
some pressure hitting that putt to win a tournament there's some pressure giving
that speech there's some pressure doing something new there's some pressure
walking into a thing that you're uncomfortable
doing with that's public speaking or something socially or heights
or whatever it is something's going to break either the obstacle
or you and you're the person who doesn't break you start walking
like that.
It may take me a little bit longer, but I'm in a hurry.
I got patience, but I'm a little bit faster than I used to be you
live for this stuff.
Most people fear the grind.
You crave it.
Most people wait for the right moment.
You create it.
You ain't waiting around for the right time.
You ain't waiting around for someone to give you permission.
You're not waiting around to make opportunity.
You're going to get your own seat at the table.
There's no seat there.
You're picking one up.
I just move my chair over.
You crave this stuff.
You wanna live a great life.
All your life you've known you're supposed to.
You don't fit in.
You're special.
I gotta tell you something about,
I've never been one of the boys.
I mean, I don't like having a cigar with the guys
or playing golf, but I've never fit in.
I don't wanna fit in.
I don't wanna, fact in college, my teammates called me
not Eddie Mylett, Eddie myself,
because I was alone so often.
I'm not one of the guys.
I don't want to be in group think.
I don't want to think like everybody else.
I want to think like me.
I want my filter, my lens.
Back in the days, most of those guys probably thought I was pretty crazy.
Well, they don't think I'm crazy anymore.
And I love all those guys, but most of their lives are almost all identical because they
were one of the guys or one of the girls. Most of their lives are almost all identical because they were one of the guys or one of the girls most of their lives are all the same I was born
to have my life you were born to have your life not theirs you don't need to
fit in you're special you're different you don't need to be accepted you don't
need to be understood you already know this you're gonna do anything great in
your life most people aren't gonna understand you you gotta become
comfortable being misunderstood being a little controversial little criticism
all right whatever that just means I'm making other people comfortable pardon my
progress sorry my progress my expansion makes you uncomfortable sorry the light
I'm living in is shining a light on your small life and I know that makes you
uncomfortable but I'm not one of the guys and I don't need your approval. And you're not one of the girls and you don't need theirs
either. You're a competitor. You're constantly increasing your purpose. You're a grower.
You're in a bigger hurry than most. You are, but you have the discipline to wait for what
you want. C.S. Lewis once said this, so good good life with God is not immunity from difficulties,
but peace within difficulties. I'm not telling you once you change this problems are going
to come your way. What I'm telling you is your perspective about what it means will
change and meaning drives reality in life. Let me ask you a question about meaning. And
this good today, by the way, that's the Holy Spirit. Thank you, God. If you came up to me in three years and you said to me, hey, Ed,
I just had the best three years of my life.
What would you be telling me three years from now?
You're going to arrive somewhere three years from now.
The only question is where? Do you even have a plan to get there? Do you know where you're going? Have you enrolled your
partner, which I hope is God in your life, to help you get there?
What would you tell me? The last three years, you're not going to
believe it. Here's what happened in my life. I did this. I started
that. We helped these. What is it? What would you be telling me?
And by the way, what if you begin to move as if you expected it to happen?
Huh? I know that's not easy, but what if you actually moved as if you expected
those things over the next three years to happen? And I could tell you this, I
don't know what it is that that thing is, but I know it will be connected to
something that has meaning to you, that has a purpose, that makes you feel like
you're making a difference, that's almost like a mission or a crusade
or a cause in your life.
I guarantee you, one of the things on that list
will not just be money or a car or a house or an island,
although it will be some of those things for many of you.
Somewhere on that list, the one that will stand out
almost more than any will be some difference
you made in life, some purpose, some
crusade, some mission you're on that became accomplished.
That's what it'll be.
I'll tell you this last.
There's a great quote by D.L.
Moody about purpose.
Our greatest fear should not be a failure, but of succeeding at something.
It doesn't really matter.
I know your life life supposed to matter.
You got to get clear on what that looks like and you need to
begin to change that filter and lens to deliver to you the
people places and things that make it true because it is.
I'm fired up this week.
I hope you are as well.
I have a feeling.
I don't have to ask you to share this anyone you love anyone
you care about.
I think should hear today's show.
I feel strongly about that.
Alright guys, I'm honored that you listen.
I really am.
I can't believe you do, but I'm grateful that you do.
God bless you.