Take Action Anyway

We break down why taking action isn’t the scary part and why the real fear is losing the old identity that keeps you comfortable. We share how commitment means moving before you feel ready and how raising your standards starts with giving yourself permission to belong. 
• fear as a signal of unfamiliarity, not real danger 
• the “death” of an old identity as the cost of growth 
• current identity as the comfort zone that resists change 
• growth feeling like loss before it feels like gain 
• commitment defined as taking action before readiness 
• procrastination as identity misalignment and imposter syndrome 
• failure and rejection as necessary catalysts for expansion 
• beliefs vs self and the discomfort of changing your mind 
• a Delta One upgrade story as a lesson in standards and permission 
In 2026, I challenge you to do it even when you feel like you’re not ready. Do it while you’re afraid. 

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Transcript

Welcome And The Action Problem

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Once you see what you actually are, that you're an infinite, limitless being, you'll see that nothing exists outside of you. I'm your host, Derek Grant, and this is the Pathway to Your Results Podcast.

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Bro, ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the Pathway to Results Podcast. It is your boy DG. We are here. We might as well go ahead and get to it like we do it when we do it, like we're doing it for TV. Okay, so this episode, this is about taking action. Okay. I'm just studying my life, other people's lives, my children's lives, my wife's life. And I started to realize I was raised, I was raised by two two parents who they didn't really do like lip service. They didn't care. My parents are old school. I'm grateful. Because I now I mean the generation now that kids are growing up now, it isn't about what it what you've done. It's more about what it looks like. Right? What do they call it? Clout? Is that what they call it? Clout? Is that I don't even know how I'm saying it right. I don't know. But I'm realizing a lot of us struggle. A lot of us struggle with taking action. A lot of us uh uh we'll be afraid to take action. We got the plans, we got it all drawn up, we got everything looking good, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. But then we don't take action. I'm like, and and and for me, I'm the complete opposite. We ain't drawing up nothing. We just gonna take action. And let me tell you who I am, all right? I'm gonna tell y'all. I'm the type to sell a retreat before there's actually a retreat. Hmm. I know I'm no, I'm I'm that I'm dead serious. One of my first retreats I ever had, I made it public. People were signing up, bam, bam, bam. Had five people sign up in the first day. I hadn't even, I didn't even have a place to have the retreat. I hadn't reached out to the place where I said we were having it. We take action and we'll fill in the rest. It was a wonderful retreat. People loved it. But here's my point. I know that sounds crazy, but I've never had a fear of taking

Fear Is An Identity Death

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action. But I I sat down and I assessed why. What is it? Why is it people are afraid to take action? You ain't afraid to take action. And I'm talking to you right now. You ain't afraid. You ain't afraid. You know what you're afraid of? You afraid of this new identity that you have to become in order to do the thing that you need to do. That's what you're afraid of. Ugh. Why is he doing it? Why are you calling me like that? Stop it. You see what? Here's what ends up happening. We live by the saying, in order to do something we have never done, we must become somebody that we have never been. But you are afraid to become someone you have never been, because to do that, that involves a quote unquote death. And that death is the complete antithesis of survival. And survival is the foundational meaning of the ego, it can only be rooted in survival. So that is why we are afraid to take action. It's because becoming someone I had never been is scary. You're afraid of being seen. Because you have an identity that you have been so comfortable in with being okay with not being seen. Goodness gracious. You ain't afraid to start. You ain't afraid to start that business. You got all the plans, you got everything laid out. You afraid to change. But I'm here to tell you, as long as you do that, you ain't gonna be able to change anything. So the reason why I'm telling you this is because you taking action, that's not what's dangerous. It's the identity uh uh reconstruction that's needed. That's what's what's scary. So when we realize this, I want you to look at your life like this. Your current identity right now is your comfort zone. Okay, your current identity is your comfort zone, and every time that you take action, it threatens that. It threatens the old identity. So now here's what ends up happening. We perceive this as danger. It's not danger. At one point in life, at one point, walking was difficult. It was challenging. You didn't want to walk, you wanted to be carried around everywhere, and then you had to take the next step of standing up on those two little nubs and seeing if you could balance yourself. And then you did it. And it still wasn't easy. There was an acclamation period, there's a period when you had to learn how to balance. This is the same microcosm that happens with us in life. So when you start to realize that you're really just afraid of the death of who it is that you think you are. But here's the beauty of it: you have infinite versions of you that you could become as long as you can realize that this current identity was finite. It was finite. It was just a role I was playing, right? Eventually, the the movie's got to come to the end. This character must die. And if I'm okay with that character, character, man, am I from Memphis? If I'm okay with that character being dissolved, now I'm not afraid of taking action. So I looked at my own life and you know, I have fears and things that come up, but I also know, too, in that moment of fear, what this really is. And I have to, I talk crazy to him. I talk crazy to the version of me who's afraid to take action. I said, we're gonna do this. We're gonna do this. It becomes a like a fight, literally a fight with myself. And then here's what I'll do I will then go get on a treadmill or go for a run or do a really hard workout to make it difficult on purpose, because I know the only reason why it's difficult is because I've never done this before, because I've never been this version of me. And that's the same energy as why I'm afraid to maybe take these next steps, whether it's business or as a parent or as a husband. It's the same exact energy. So when people say, Oh, I feel stuck, I feel like I'm stuck, I feel yeah, you ain't stuck, you just comfortable in this old version of you, and you won't let go of it. And here's the here's the reality of it. You ready? Growth will always feel like a loss before it ever feels like a gain. I don't think y'all are trying to hear nothing I'm saying right now. Matter of fact, I'm about to get off. I will see you all next week. Growth is always gonna feel like a loss before it's a gain. Why? Because you are losing something, you losing the version of you who didn't have the capability and capacity of this new life that you want to live. That's all it is. So I gotta lose him. She gotta go. She can't come with me. She's done a wonderful job up until this point, but you gotta go. So what's really important for us to grasp is all the only reason why you're afraid to take action is because the thing that you want to take action to do is unfamiliar. That's it. But if I can stick with it, meaning I can be consistent, more importantly, I can be committed. That thing that was once unfamiliar will become familiar, just like you walking. And here's the reason why I say committed. We always talk about commitment, but very, very rarely do we really talk about what commitment is. You know what commitment is? It's me taking action before I'm quote unquote ready. Stop waiting until you're ready. You ain't never gonna be ready. You know what ready is? Here's what ready is ready is my nervous system feels comfortable. It feels safe now. Now I can take this step. You're never gonna do it. Because if it feels comfortable and it feels safe, guess what? You're gonna stay right where you are. And if you stay right where you are, you won't grow. So, do you understand the mechanism of growth? I'm trying to give you game, I'm trying to give you gems right now, but I don't think you're hearing what I'm saying. It is built into

Commitment Means Acting Unready

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the fabric of this reality that we call life, that I'm going to actually have to take action that's scary, that's hard, but it's not actually scary and it's not actually hard. It's just unfamiliar. That's all it is. That's it. That's it. That's it. Raise your hand if you ever met a stranger. Raise your hand if you have any friends.

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Okay.

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You do realize that those friends were strangers at one point in life. See, I people don't realize, like, uh, I just I don't know. I just don't like to uh I don't like meeting new people. I just I don't know. I don't like to be around like like people I don't know. Well, at one point, everybody in your life you didn't know them. At one point you didn't know who anybody was. But see, what ended up happening was you spent a little bit more time, you got acclimated to him, and now you call him a friend. Now you got friends. See? But you don't realize that this is the same microcosm that happens in life. At one point, this thing that was so quote unquote hard that seemed like it was trying to crush you, that thing was actually trying to catapult you. But you had to step into the version of you that could be flung, that could fly. You still rolling with that rock hard version that was heavy as 20 bags at the airport, and it wasn't capable of flying yet. But the universe is like, yo, we're gonna have to let go of some of this baggage. Here's what I've noticed. Here's what I've noticed, and I saw this in my own life, and then I got sick and tired of being sick and tired. We will stay stuck and we will stay in the comfort zone of what's familiar, even if that stunts us. Even if that stunts us, that's the part that sometimes we don't understand and we can't rap our how in the world we still complain about the same thing three years later. You still blaming the same person for what happened in your life eight years ago, and you still walking around the victim. You know what that tells me? You built a prison and you like it, and it's familiar to you, and you ain't going nowhere until it becomes more uncomfortable to stay who you are. You see, ain't nobody gonna change until they become uncomfortable being who they are. See? That's the one thing about a human being. That's why we actually need failure. Do we not realize that failure is what uh uh uh is the catalyst for growth? That's why you need the shortcomings. You need people to tell you no when you put yourself out there. You need people to not like your stuff, you need people to not share or view your stuff, you need that business to flop in order for you to change so you can get to the next level. Do you see how this works? Y'all ain't trying to hear nothing I'm saying. I swear for low, I'm about to get off this thing. Comfort is not success. Comfort is actually a form of survival. See, when you put yourself out there conscious, consciously, I'm stepping into this uncomfortable season right now because I want to see who I gotta become. I'm gonna put myself on the front line. I'm not sitting in the back anymore. I'm going to the front. I wish I knew what I knew now back when I was in school. You know what I used to do in school? I'm the one who's sitting in the back of the classroom because it was uncomfortable for me to go to the front. But here's what I realized: if I sat in the front, I was gonna have to be on my P's and Q's. I was gonna have to make sure I knew the material. I was gonna, because I know that teacher was gonna call on me. I was the one who sit on the back of the classroom, and the teacher would start looking around. Uh, what's 45 divided by 455? Um I'm the type to look down on my put on my paper and act like I'm figuring. Oh, let me see. Um, okay. You know what I'm talking about for people, teachers, or maybe people like me. I would put my head down, act like I was really thinking about it. Why? Because I wasn't really prepared. The reason why I wasn't prepared, because I wouldn't, I didn't want to do what was uncomfortable. My mom used to always tell me, if you don't do it right the first time, I'm gonna make you do it again. You're gonna do it again. And I realized what she was doing. She was saying, if you don't do it right the first time, if you don't do it from the capability of you pushing yourself, meaning you're stepping into your greatness, you're gonna have to try it again. You're gonna have to do it again. This is what life is doing. If you don't stretch beyond the identity that you assume right now, life's gonna be like, yo, we gotta do this again. We're doing it again. You came here to change the world. You came here to change the world. But how are you gonna change the world if you ain't willing to change? How are you gonna change the world if you can't adopt a new identity? That's what we're seeing in our world right now, huh? This is what we're seeing in our world right now. I'm look, I've been saying I wasn't gonna do what? F it. I'ma do it. This is what we're seeing in our country. I can hand speed for another country, but I'm watching in our country right now. We got some people in our country right now that haven't evolved. They haven't evolved.

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They haven't.

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We're not evolving, we're not uh increasing our self-awareness. And I realize not every soul is going to learn and expand at the same level as others. But here's the reality of it. Why don't you do what's uncomfortable? Why don't you go sit down and have a conversation with the people who you uh uh you you you have prejudiced against? Why don't you get to go know them and see how they how they really are? Why don't you go and ask? So, why do you view things that way? See, that's uncomfortable. That's uncomfortable. And see, in order to do that, you'd have to adopt a new identity. That means you can't hold on to the same beliefs that you had. I know for a lot of us, sometimes we think that our beliefs is who we are. They ain't who you are, those are just beliefs. So the reason why I'm saying this is to get you to realize all this stuff of oh, I'm scared, or what if it doesn't work? Who cares? What if it does work? Huh? Why don't y'all ask that question? You know what I mean? Like if I won't take action because I'm afraid, that's just one end of it. That's just fear. Faith exists on the other end. And I know if I have big fear, that means I have the capability of having big faith. Y'all ain't trying to hear nothing I'm saying. If you have one end, however far you are at the other end, that pendulum has the ability to swing just as far to the other end. So if you're scared to take action, good. If you can adopt a new identity, a new mindset, a new perspective, you will have, you will be, oh my goodness, you will be a savage in this game of life. I used to tell Carly all the time with Hudson and Ruby

Comfort Zone, Failure, And Growth

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too. They were so like competitive and they would like when they would lose or they get down. Ruby, you she losing Uno, she ain't talking to you for the rest of the night. She ain't and she's been doing this since she was like three or four. She ain't talking to nobody. Hudson, if he has a bad game, he's like, man, I don't want to talk to nobody. And I and then they get in her way and then they self-sabotage. And I told Carly, I said, you know, we look at this as a negative, but really this is a positive. They're just skewed in the wrong direction. However powerful your mind is in the negative, it has equally as opportunity uh powerful in the in the other in the other direction. You just need the tools. You just need to be shown how to do this. So so so what I see and what I found, and I don't, I don't, I'm the complete opposite of procrastination. I go to the I'll I'll take steps before I really even probably should. But I start to see that a lot of people procrastinate and they put it off and they put it off and they put it off and they put it off. You know what procrastination really is? You got identity misalignment. That's all. Procrastination is identity misalignment. You have an identity that doesn't have the capacity to step into the action, and the action requires a new identity. So we're gonna just keep putting it off and keep putting it off and keep putting it off and keep how many times we see this with uh uh uh I was talking to somebody, and they're in their mid-20s, and they've been in a relationship for a while, and you know, she she wondering when he's gonna pop the question. All the friends start getting married, they start getting engaged and start, right? And she you don't have what are you gonna add me? I don't know why he ain't asking me. And I said, you have to realize what's gonna happen. For you to get married, you gotta have to step into a new identity.

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And we'll keep putting it off and putting it off and putting it off and putting it off. But here's the deal, you ready? Please realize that every identity has a shelf life.

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It has a shelf life. It has an expiration date. You have an expiration date in your big life. At some point, you're gonna have to leave. Just in case we didn't know. So ain't no point being afraid of that either, because you're gonna have to leave at some point. You might as well live it to the fullest. But identity-wise, we have versions of us that gotta leave at some point. They can't go with you your whole life. So when you realize the reason why we delay is because it doesn't match who we believe that we are. That's why. I can't I can't consistently act like somebody that I haven't become. That's what we call the imposter. We got imposter syndrome because I'm trying to accomplish something, but I have an identity that hadn't been upgraded yet. So we we uh uh let me tell you a story, right? So um I wrote on I wrote on my vision board here. I'm not calling vision boards, I don't even know what you call it. I need a vision board. I'm very, very, I draw it. So I guess you can call it a vision board. It ain't very visual because I'm not the best artist, but I like to think I'm pretty good. Anyway, uh, you know, my goal this year was like, I want to see the world a little bit more. I used to travel all the time. I did it for work, but I used to travel all the time. I'm talking about like different city every night. And I'm like, you know what? I'm gonna start, I'm gonna get across the pond. So anyway. And I said I want to take my family on a vacation across some water. So went ahead and uh booked a vacation and took them, we're gonna go to Hawaii, and I gotta go see a client who lives in Italy. So the box is checked, right? Or doing that, right? Maybe we'll get a, I don't know. Somebody said I need to throw a retreat in England. I don't know, maybe we'll throw a retreat in England at some point in 2026. But I told myself, I want to fly on a plane, because you know, I've flown, I can't tell you how many. I've flown one year I flew 25,000 miles in a year. That just lets you know how much I've flown around the earth one time in a year. I've flown so much. And you know how when you get on a plane and you walk into the back of the plane and you got a long flight, like them nine, 10-hour flights, and you see people laying down on flights, they got seats that you can lay back. I'm talking about not not lean back, I'm talking about layback. I'm talking about you are you flat as the ground. I said, man, I want to do that one time. And you walking back and you just looking at him, you're like, man, you got this three-year-old laying on this big old bed. And no, that three-year-old, that three-year-old don't even need a seat. I don't even know how much that seat was. But why that three-year, that three-year-old should be me. That should be a 43-year-old in that seat. Anyway, I told myself I want to do this. I'm gonna do this. I want to, that is this is this is my goal, but I know in order to do that, I have to, I have to, I have to transform my identity because the identity of who I am today ain't gonna get me there, right? So told you about the retreat. We had the quantum leap retreat. I made a quantum leap, quantum leap in my own life. I didn't even realize it. Man, it was just crazy, right? So here's the reason why I'm telling you this. So it's time for me to go back, right? It's me, um, a videographer, his wife. We're on the same uh shuttle to the airport and we're leaving. And I get on the shuttle last, and I get on, and I hear him say, Yeah, yeah, Derek's right here. And I'm like, who's he talking to? You talk, you first of all, who are you talking to about me? Why you putting my business? This is the first thing I said. No, but anyway, I was like, who's he talking to? So he's like, his wife's like, hey, did you hear what happened? Our flight from Tucson, Arizona to Atlanta, our flight to Atlanta to Indianapolis got canceled. I'm like, okay. So she's like, We're gonna, they're gonna have us fly from Tucson to Atlanta and then spend the night in Atlanta and then get on a 7:30, 7 o'clock flight the next morning and fly home to India. We'll get home at like 8:30 in India. I'm like, all right, fine, that's whatever. So I go on my app, I go on my Delta app to go look. So as I look at it and I open it, now I've flown enough. I know, you know, when they have like uh um anybody who uses Delta or America, anything, you get your ticket on your phone and you can see the color of the ticket to know what section you're in, right? Delta's got like blue, red, uh, purple, right? Blue is uh like economy, comfort plus, red is uh first class, purple is Delta

Beliefs, Fear, And Big Faith

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One. Now, purple is when you lay down. So I open up my phone, I look at my phone, and my phone says you've been rerouted. But you have to go to LA. Yes, you got to go to LA. I have to go further away from where it is that I want to go and then go to Atlanta. Take the red eye from LA to Atlanta. And then when I get to Atlanta at five in the morning, you're going to get on a flight at seven and be home at 8:30. I said, Well, that's the same flight. But then I look at it and say, You've been complimentary upgraded. Complimentary. I can't even say the word, but you know what I'm trying to say. You've been upgraded to Delta One. I said, hot diggity dog. You mean I'm going to get to lay down? You mean I'm going to get to lay down? What the f you got to be. Oh, we, oh, I'm going. I'm going. So here's the deal. I'm now faced with this conflict in real time because we were all traveling together. And they're going to Atlanta. They're not going to LA. And I could feel myself, good God almighty, y'all stay with me because I promise I'm going to bring the parallel to you and your life. Here I am. I had my own dreams. I have my own goals that they don't even know about. And I'm like, life is taking me this way to the left. But that yet I'm supposed to be with them. And I told myself, I said, I got to do it. So I hit accept. And I told them, said, Hey, look, y'all, I'm going to LA. And here's why. Y'all can go to Atlanta if you want, but I got to go to Atlanta because I got to fulfill my destiny. I wrote this down and I got to go do this. This is between me, myself, and Irene. I gotta go do this. So anyway, they're like, and you know, my videographer's wife didn't know anything about it. She's like, Delta What? What is it? I'm like, girl, you don't know what it is? Look, they got this, this, you get, there's a lounge, you go into, they're gonna feed you all this. They even got showers. When I said that, they were okay, cool, we're going then too. So here's the deal. Here's why I'm saying this. They had originally had flights that weren't first class. But because they were part of the retreat and had been around all the talks that we were having, they too started to make a quantum leap. And my videographer came to me the day before and said, Hey, you know, you were talking about everything. You know, I went ahead and upgraded our seats and moved up to first class. I said, Oh, that's cool, man. Yeah, you're making a quantum leap. I see you out here. I see you. But then the next day we get complimentary upgrades to Delta One. He wouldn't have gotten the upgrade to Delta One if the day before he hadn't upgraded himself. You feel what I'm saying? Do you see how this works? So now I'm starting to see, like, good God almighty, is this the way life works? When you start to step into who you are and be who you are and follow your dreams, you inspire other people around you. And then the universe is like, here, blessing for everybody. You get some, you get some. It's like Oprah back in 1994 when she was giving out cars. You know what I'm talking about. So now, here we are. I'm over here licking my chops. I'm saying, look, we got to go to two from Tucson to LA, but here's the deal we got a four-hour layover, and I ain't mad about the four hours because you know why? We go into the Delta One Lounge. So we go into Delta One Lounge and we walk in. Let me tell you something. It was obulence at its finest. I thought I was on uh what's that show? Uh what's his name? The lifestyles of the rich and famous with Robin. Uh, remember that show used to come on back? I was like, where is the caviar?

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Where are they at?

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I'm over here looking for uh a cup of tea so I can drink it with my pinky up. I'm over here. Listen, we walk in and I'm like, okay, you ain't never been here before, but this is where you know you're supposed to be. So let's go ahead and get comfortable. It just so happened. There was a big old TV, it was the championship game of the uh final four. I said, This is perfect. We sat at this long table. It was a table for about eight, but we only need three of us. It was almost like the table was set for us. Good God almighty. You see how life works? The table is already going to be set for you, and we're sitting here in the middle of this Delta Lounge as if this whole thing was reserved for us. At least that was the story I was telling myself. So we sit down, and these waiters and waitresses come up to us, and they like, what would you like to eat? And my videographer, Betty,'s like, like, all of this is free. I said, Boy, look at the menu. You don't see that? All of this is whatever you want. So he was like, Well, I get this and I get this and I get this. So anyway, his wife walked off to go do something, and he looks at me, he goes, Man, he's like, Man, I feel like kind of uncomfortable here right now. I said, Why do you feel uncomfortable? So I don't know. It feels like like I don't belong here. I looked at him, I took a sip. I said, Oh, you belong. You just ain't giving yourself permission to belong. And I highly suggest that you acclimate and upgrade your nervous system to this upgrade that you got right now. And I told him, I said, it isn't that you do belong or don't belong, you just ain't giving yourself permission to step into this new identity. It's okay. It's okay. Man, by the end of that night, that man was ordering a sushi. He was asking, I want, I want this for dessert. And I he said, I think I'm gonna go get a massage. I said, Go ahead and get you a massage

Delta One And Permission To Belong

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player. Go ahead and do what you need to do. And then it was like, at the end of the night, we we it was time to get on the plane here in a minute. And I was like, you know what? I think I need to go take a shower because I had a red eye right now. So I go and they take you, walk down this long hallway, take a shower. I go take a shower, and I'm taking a shower in there. I said, I ain't never taking no shower, no airport. Now, this is a couple things that I would just I'm I'm very like, very leery where I take a shower, where I sleep at. You know, this is like I'm like, you know what? Go ahead and scrub your body like you ain't never scrubbed it before. See, that's one thing you don't realize about a shower. A shower will rinse away the dirt, a shower will rinse away the grime. You make sure you clean off all these old identities that make you think that this is a big deal. You hear what I'm saying? Sometimes when you reach your goals, you gotta admire them and be grateful for them, but you also need to act like it's normal and act like you've been here before. Because then the universe will always honor whatever's normal to you. I come back from the shower and videographer and his wife are there, and it's like, yo, we just saw Don Cheetle. I said, Don Cheetle from Space Jam too? She said, Yeah. I said, Oh yeah, Don probably come in here. Ain't no big deal. Ain't no big deal. Shoot, next time you see him, tell him, come over, you can sit down with us. You know what I mean? You see what I'm doing here? Do you see? I'm not gonna sit here and allow my nervous system to miss out on this opportunity as a permission slip. So the reason why I'm telling you this right now, this story, because I still ain't gotten on that plane yet. I still haven't fulfilled what the goal was. I told you I wouldn't be on a plane, I could lay down. Now I'm tired. I just had a retreat for four days. I did a lot of talking. More than I'm doing right now. And now here I am. Tired. And I'll be honest with you. I ate good that night in that lounge. I got on that plane and they came around with a menu. I looked at that uh flight attendant. I said, I ain't got nothing left. I ain't got no place to put none of this food. I'm sorry. I didn't know y'all was gonna feed me on here too. I already ate. Can I get a blanket, please, so I can go to sleep? She's like, Yes, it's right here. Oh, look, they got a comforter, a pillow, they got slippers, they got I said, I don't need all that. I don't need I used to sleep on the floor of a bus. I don't need all that. I just need to know that where's the button to make this thing lay down so I can fulfill this dream, this wish, this goal of mine. She's like, here it is, right here. I hit this button. I'm telling you, look, if it should have been a commercial, it should have been a Delta commercial. I would have been a perfect representative of spokes. This thing, it felt like it took two years for this seat to recline, and I soaked up every minute of it. I just kept leaning and leaning and leaning, and I started to go back and I laid down, I pulled a blanket over my head. I said, Man, we're going to sleep. I was asleep. I didn't even know if you could do it. I was waiting for the flight tenant. I was in sleep before. I was laid back before the plane took off. Before it took off. And I'm like, damn, we only got three hours and 44 minutes on this flight. Man, I was hoping I was gonna get at least six hours because I know when I get home in the morning, them kids are gonna be like, Dad, let's go outside and play. I just need a little bit of sleep. Anyway, I'm sleeping, and then something comes over me. True story. I woke up in the middle of sleeping because something you call the higher self, the Holy Spirit, whatever you want for, something said, lean back just a little bit more. And I woke up out of my sleep and pressed the button. Y'all, I wasn't even really laid back yet. I wasn't laid back. I pressed the button and it went all the way, all the way down. The reason why I'm saying this, and this is this is this is not by coincidence at all. I realized I really hadn't fully yet fulfilled and got acclimated into it. We think that we're there. We think that we're there. But see, you'll know when you're there, when you fully relaxed, when you're fully comfortable, and something something woke me up and said, Go and lean back just a little bit more. I hit oh my goodness, I didn't even know I could. I was out for the rest of the flight. I'm I'm out. So, why am I telling you this story? What does this have anything to do with to do with you and your life? The box was checked, the permission slip was signed, the identity was upgraded. So now this is the new standard. You see, this is the new standard. Please remember this. Your standards will always match your identity. Your standards will always match your identity. When your identity upgrades, them standards are gonna upgrade. If the standards upgrade, the identity is already upgraded. And see, the universe gave me a gift. It gave me a gift and said, since you did your work in the quantum leap, we're gonna show you what a quantum leap really looks like. Boom, bam, thank you, ma'am. I got off that flight in Atlanta, I was tired, but you couldn't tell me nothing. I got off that flight, I walked through, man, I was walking through the airport, you couldn't tell me nothing. And it wasn't about flying Delta One, you know what it was about? It was about this new life that I was in. It was about this new identity that I had adopted. It was about the quantum leap that had been made. You see how this works. So for you in your life, when you make the commitment that you say, I'm ready to shed whatever identity I need to shed, because I'm ready to take this next step into this new life. Matter of fact, not this next step, this new leap. I'm ready to jump. And you fully commit to it, meaning you do it before you even ready. You start that business before you even have an LLC. You you you build that landing page before you even got one client. You do all of these things. I'm telling you, life is gonna say, here, throw her a bone. But here's the deal. I'm warning you right now. You better be on the lookout. You better be on the lookout because if you ain't paying attention, you ain't gonna see it. If I wasn't paying attention when the universe threw me the bone, I would have took my little raggedy butt on that first flight from Tucson to Atlanta and slept in a little uh uh hotel that night. But I realized, I realized what this actually was. It was the universe saying, here, we're gonna give you the actual permission slip right now in real time for you to upgrade because otherwise you may not be able to see it. It has always been here, but bam, boom. And then we had a conversation, me and my me and my videographer and his wife, and he, they were like, wow, that was that was amazing. I said, now you got a new permission slip now. You got a new standard. Now, I'm not saying you're gonna fly Delta One every time, but you now at least know that you're at least worth it. And that's really what it came down to. So why am I saying this? You don't need signs on the outside for you to take action. Just do it. Just do it. I'm I look, I'm afraid just like everybody else. I got fears. I worry about what people think. I ain't I ain't different from anybody else. But here's what I do have. I also know that I can have courage and fear at the same time. I can have both of them, and I can take action, even though I may be afraid. So you thought just because you were afraid, you didn't have to take action. You

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can do both. You can do I can be scared as get out and still go ahead and take action. I can do both of them. And then here's what ends up happening the more reps that you have doing this, your body's gonna be like, yo, we're gonna be good.

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We just gotta push through this right here.

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So do it while you're afraid. Do it scared, and then let your system catch up. Let that nervous system catch up. Do it while you're afraid. Do it, do it because it's hard. The nervous system will catch up. So for everybody here. Eventually, that thing that you were doing that was so scary, that was seemed so far off.

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Eventually that's going to feel normal to you.

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And there will be an acclamation period, you'll enjoy it.

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But then soon after that, guess what? You're gonna have to upgrade and do something hard again.

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So remember your next level is on the other side of what you've been avoiding to take action in. That's right on the other side of it. Let's push through it. Push through it. So now, nah, now I know. I know. I know. I know. I'm I'm up until this level of awareness, I know how we do this now. I know how we do it. We're just gonna do things that are hard. That's it. I can if I can trade in identities, I can do anything. I'm telling you, I can do anything. I'm about to really when I tell you I'm about to turn up, and I hope you turn up, we about to turn up. All we gotta do is just be ready to shed them identities. I'm trading them motherfuckers, I'm trading them like we had to uh like we going overseas and we got uh we gotta trade it, change euros for a USD. I'm over here. Can I can I exchange you, please? Can I can I please have this identity for okay then? Thank you. I'm telling you, fear was not meant to stop you. It wasn't. It would never was. It was actually in your favor. Fear was in your favor, was trying to say, like, yo, you got an identity that you have that ain't gonna work.

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But we can kill it if we just take that next step. Take the next step.

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Because if you're not acting, you're not taking action, you're just choosing to stay the same. And notice what I said it's a choice, it's a choice, it's a choice. And then sometimes you the universe will force you to make the choice. Right? You see life crumbling all around you, like, what the why is it? Because you haven't you've been ignoring it, you haven't been doing it on your own, so now we gotta make you, we gotta make you make the choice. But please know that uh you will never be quote unquote ready. That's why we had to be committed. You gotta be committed. You gotta have clarity on where it is that you want to go. So in 2026, I challenge you. I challenge you to do it even when you feel like you're not ready. I challenge you to step forward and then let yourself catch up to who you are. Please know that you don't necessarily have to be ready. You just have to be willing. That's really it. I'm willing. I'm willing. What do they say? Willing and able? Willing and able. Will. Will. Willpower. Willpower is the ability to steer your mind where you need, I'm willing. I'm gonna put my mind there. We're gonna shoot, we're gonna have to make life catch up. So if you feel the fear, that means you're right there. It's time to take the action. Let's go ahead and do it. Do it while you're afraid. Sprinkle that energy of courage. And you know, as always, I'm gonna see you at the top. We'll we'll see you there and shoot. I might even see you. I might see you. We might be laying down. You might be on the road cross or we'll be laying down, right? Go go ahead and bring your drink your mimosa and champagne. Okay. I'll see you at the top. And as always, you know I wish you nothing but the best on the pathway. Teach results.