How To Make Next Year Your Best Year | LAYC58

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Hello and happy holidays.

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I say that because as I'm recording this episode today, we are right

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in the midst of Hanukkah, and also the Christmas season, and we are

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rapidly approaching New Years, and that end of the calendar year...

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The opportunity to really be present in gratitude and reflecting on the future.

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As a baby boomer, I hope that you're joining me thinking...

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Wow...

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How amazing that we have in front of us, another year, a

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new year, and the opportunity to live the best year of our lives.

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You know, today with technology and increased quality of healthcare and

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longevity projections, continuing to move.

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We have time.

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We have lots of time to think about what are we going to do next?

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Who are we now?

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Who do we want to become next, and how are we going to live our legacies?

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The time of year where of course there's lots of traditions and

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opportunities to celebrate.

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It's also a time of year that I take advantage of watching and

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rewatching some Christmas movies.

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And although not a Christmas story, the movie that was released

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December 25th, 2008, starring Brad Pitt that garnered a lot of

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nominations and accreditations is...

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The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and it's kind of a romantic sci-fi movie

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talking about an infant born as an old man and reverse aging through his life from

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being an old man to becoming an infant.

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I thought wow...

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I'm kind of doing the opposite thing!

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But yet at the same time I felt some synergy around the

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story because I thought...

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You know what?...

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I think I'm getting younger in terms of my experience and the opportunities

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to continually reinvent and come up with more ways to really clarify my identity.

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To decide on how I want to have influence in the coming decades

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of my life and thought process...

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My beliefs, my expectations.

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As I think about how much more opportunity there is for me, to become the best person

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that I can be, the best version of me...

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In what way I leave lasting impact.

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How do I lift others, as I continue to climb through this sort of

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self-scripted movie of my life?

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Over the past decade, I've been going through a lot of what others like

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you, as baby boomers have been doing, and that's really figuring out...

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Who am I now?, Who am I today?, Who do I wanna become?

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and How do I get there?

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I invested a lot of time.

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I did a lot of research.

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I did a lot of reading.

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I paid for self-development and self-improvement courses,

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and I kept searching for...

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Where is that beautiful retirement model that I expected to get to...

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And why don't I really enjoy it?

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Why am I not feeling like this is it?

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Why am I feeling like...

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Isn't there more to me and my life?...

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And the purpose of everything that I have done up to this point...

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Everything that I have learned.

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And I couldn't find quite the right answers for how to shift that model

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that I had, that paradigm that I had about what life was going to be

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like after I worked really hard and played by all the rules and did all

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of the prescribed and directed stuff that my generation was supposed to do.

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How was I going to shift that into.

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That was just the beginning and how would I create that Encore model for myself?

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So I did what any good baby boomer would do.

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I invented it.

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I created the Encore methodology.

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because I needed a process, a system to be able to say yes to my own life,

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to a future that I hadn't expected, and I certainly didn't have a plan or

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a strategy forward, so I created the Encore methodology, so I could gather

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up and take stock of all that I already have, and who I was, and what was great.

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You know, reminding myself that I wasn't starting this new Encore role in my life

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from scratch, that I already had a lot to build on, and then to go forward

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and be able to write a new script.

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The dreams that I hadn't yet had, to be able to leverage all of the best of me,

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but yet to also figure out how to bring to me the people, the resources, the

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training, to do what I wanted to do next.

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I put that all together in the Encore methodology, and I even wrote a

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book for my 65th birthday called...

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Who Am I Now?

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I'll put the link in the show notes for you.

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Over time, what I learned in talking to many of you, and to my peers, my

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friends and family and my clients...

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That others were searching for those answers also...

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The process, the tools, the resources to figure out what they wanted to do.

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How to make that a joyful, positive experience...

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Instead of the scary, intimidating one that it can be when you're

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feeling in that place of...

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I don't know who I am, and I don't like it here...

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But I don't really know how to get out of it, and move forward.

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Being the collaborative, positive person that I am, I want to share

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that with as many people as possible.

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I've figured out how to do it.

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I use it over and over again...

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Because I continue to reinvent.

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I'm not static, I'm not finished.

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I'm evolving and I love it, and I'd love to share those processes with you.

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Now there are three different ways that I'm working with people and helping

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people that I'd like to offer to you.

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One of those is to be part of the Encore Masterclass...

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That's a online self-guided at your own pace...

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Walk-through with me, as your coach and cheerleader...

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Guided process to figure out how to write the script.

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How to gather the resources and the cast and crew...

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And how to produce your next Encore role.

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Another way, if you want a more hands-on, more involved experience...

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Then you can apply to become a cohort in one of my Encore Masterminds.

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That's a very carefully created and curated group of people like yourself

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who are looking to really move forward to accelerate the enjoyment and

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create the next and best roles of their lives and get out there with

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their identity, their influence, and their impact plan clearly in place.

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Finally, I offer a personalized coaching service on a boutique basis.

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If you're interested in any of those being part of your future, and your

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Encores, so that you can create and really experience and live the

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next and best part of your life...

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Please, you'll find more information at: TheEncoreCatalyst.com where

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you can reach out to me and get a free Encore evaluation, or sign

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up for the next Encore Masterclass program beginning in the new year.

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I'd just like to leave you with this final word from the movie The

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Curious Case of Benjamin Button.

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I think it sums up so beautifully what I'm feeling...

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For what it's worth, it's never too late, or in my case, too

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early to be whoever you want to be.

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There's no time limit.

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Stop whenever you want.

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You can change or stay the same.

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There are no rules to this thing.

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We can make the best or the worst of it.

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I hope you make the best of it, and I hope you see things that startle you.

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I hope you feel things you've never felt before.

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I hope you meet people with a different point of view.

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I hope you live a life you're proud of.

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If you find that you are not, I hope you have the courage to start all over again.

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Live your legacy, and Lift As You Climb!