In the previous episode, Rob & Shannon talked about the upcoming “mic check” as they approached the convention where she was speaking.

Here, they look back and reflect on this 10X experience.

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How do you prep for GOING BIGGER?

Part of it includes—

📣 Building on past preparation

📣 Talking yourself into it

📣 Looking at even BIGGER things in the future, and using this as a bridge…

Shannon loves long car rides— by herself.

Rob can’t stand still— even when he’s in places AND supposed to be sitting idle.

They decided to knock a few podcast episodes AND a course while in the car…

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Here, they talk about bouncing ideas off each other, leveraging the car ride from a convention back to home, and empowering others…

… and discuss other ways to leverage some of your down time.

Society talks a LOT about—

WHAT we do

WHY we do it

WHERE we want to go

— but, we don’t talk a lot about the greatest factor…

WHO.

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If we don’t connect with healthy people in helpful ways, we’ll connect with unhealthy people in harmful ways…

… because we’re designed for relationship.

That is, we were NOT created to walk through life alone.

And we won’t.

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Pay attention to the people around you. And surround yourself with people who push you to be who you’re designed to be (you do the same for them).

Some coaching tells you to change the places and the people you frequent in order to adjust.

There’s some great wisdom in that.

At the same time, you’ve got take an honest assessment of yourself and realize that in order to “change things” then YOU must change.

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Remember— wherever you go, there you are.

Whereas we want to blame circumstances or others for many of our shortcomings, without denying that outside factors do affect us, we must remember that we are the common denominator in all of our past, present, and future experiences.

Rather than focusing on what we can’t control, we must look at what we can— ourselves.

Rob talks about getting tempted to celebrate Christmas his first year in the Marine Corps.

It was a strange experience, but it stuck in his mind.

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Now, the lead-in to all of that was trying to escape a “rascal” type of life. But, as they say, wherever you go, there you are.

Or, to say it another way, you can’t out-run your problems (especially when YOU are the problem).

Sooner or later, you’ve gotta deal with you.

Shannon talks about a 3 year run at clean time…

… and then losing it fast.

Rob concurs. He did something similar, losing a car and a home in a single day.

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The point?

Don’t worry about losing it all, AND ALSO don’t get complacent in your progress.

It was YEARS ago, but it’s worth taking a look at.

In this episode, Shannon rolls back to chapter 16 of The Long Way Still Gets You There, and reminisces about the time they got arrested— and released…

… and then crashed out.

… and then she got stuck in jail.

Oh…

Rob tried to game the system, too.

To access the book or audiobook, go to www.RiseUpOnline.info/TLW

Shannon had a strange habit…

… built, in large part, from desperation.

In this episode, we go to chapter 10 of the audiobook— The Long Way— and listen to Shannon recount part of her story.

(Note, for other episodes about overcoming abuse, see 4, 7, 14, & 16)

To access the book, go to www.RiseUpOnline.info/TLW