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How to Get A Lot of Positivity in Life

March 31, 2021 By Sean Leave a Comment

The pandemic crisis has tipped our lives off the balance. I realize there are two kinds of lives right now that’s prevalent – positive and negative.

The positive life seems like the pandemic’s effects on work-from-home is one of the best things that has happened to them because they are productive, successful and fulfilled everyday.

The negative life seems like the pandemic’s effects on work-from-home is one of the worst things because they are oh-so-distracted at home.

If you are one of the people who are living a so-so- or a negative life right now, here is how to turn it around:

Realize the difference between TRACTION and DISTRACTION

Both of them has the word ‘ACTION’ tucked inside – because TRACTION and DISTRACTION are two kinds of ACTIONS. One is positive and one is negative.

TRACTION – Positive action
DISTRACTION – Negative action

Traction is when you are building up positive actions and you’re well on your way to the road of your goals, and ultimately, success. Distraction is when you allow things in life to take you OFF THAT ROAD and get sidetracked to a different direction altogether.

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“You cannot change your destination overnight, but you can change your direction overnight.” – Jim Rohn

Your DESTINATION is wherever you set your DIRECTION to be RIGHT NOW.

How does your direction look like?

Does your direction look like an unrecognizable zig-zag because of littered distractions that you allow yourself to take part of everyday?

Or does it look like a straight line to the future you truly desire?

TRACTION and DISTRACTION cannot co-exist. Either you are on the road of one or the other.

If you want a positive life, choose to have traction and take positive action so you can get to the future you desire.

How to Become a Legend at Work

March 30, 2021 By Sean Leave a Comment

Statistics say that a lot of people leave their jobs because of lack of opportunities to grow and advance. They don’t get encouraged to become better, they have no one in the team that genuinely cares about them or no one in the leadership talks with them about their progress.

The result?

We live in a world where average is tolerated. The problem is, what you tolerate becomes your life and environment.

If you tolerate a lot of average players in your team, you will get a lot of average players coming in your team and playing for you.

A lot of people think this way: Average already gets me in the game. So why do I have to be more? Why do I have to sacrifice more? Why do I have to work harder than everyone else?

Some people want to grow only to that level so they get to play.

Almost no one puts in the work to really grow. People only want to ‘get there to the top‘ instead of ‘grow myself to the top‘. When you grow yourself, you learn a lot along the way, you grow as a person and you become honorably worthy of the position you desire in your organization.

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The key is to desire to grow and to have the discipline to actually do it.

Because those who put in the hard work today and grow themselves become the LEGENDS of tomorrow.

Remember: Tomorrow is made up of what you do today.

Work and grow yourself to become a legend.

Live life with no regrets.

Because if you keep yourself at average, someday the world will find out the truth – and in the end, you will get an average life.

How to Make Life Matter

March 29, 2021 By Sean Leave a Comment

At the end of it all, everyone wants to be able to say that they lived their life, they loved their life and that their life mattered.

This is called success and significance.

Thing is, no one wants to pay the price.

This thing called sacrifice.

We are faced with the challenge each day of making decisions. We want a better future, but we don’t understand that the future is made up of today.

What choices are we making? What habits are we forming? Are we aware about the discipline our desired future requires of us?

Why are we not making those choices?

This is the time given to us by God to grow and balance our lives as we are mostly at home with family. And yet we are distracted, tilted off and ultimately – tired. Thanks to technology and and endless slew of entertainment.

I have learned recently that having 1 major goal a year for growth is something we should all have. Mine has always been to sleep and wake up early. I haven’t had a lot of success in this goal but I am making progress with the little decisions I’m making and changing in my schedule.

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You see, change MUST happen before growth can occur. If you are not willing to change anything in your schedule and daily choices, it is impossible for growth to take place.

For me, that meant cutting short my entertainment time, delegating more work that I love doing to others and deciding to be in bed by 10pm so I can be asleep by 11pm.

I’ll try to push it back further to be in bed by 9pm but for now this works swimmingly for me.

I also want to get back into the habit of writing here at least once a week to benefit you – my readers (and the rest of the world who can read this). That can only happen if I choose to jog my mind in the morning with a 30 minute walk and sit down on my computer opening nothing but my blog.

One big thing that is fueling my desire to grow and change this year is reading books for personal growth. I’m starting with John Maxwell’s The 15 Invaluable Laws of Growth. This has helped me get up everyday with renewed purpose and desire to grow and improve.

“You will be the same person in five years as you are today except for the people you meet and the books you read.” – Charlie Jones

Read books instead of spending time on entertainment.

It is a discipline that requires sacrifice sure – but it’s a worthy one.

Before you reach success and significance, you have to first get into the habit of sacrificing quick hits of dopamine – doing the easy and fun for the hard and fulfilling.

Building a life that will matter looks a lot like this:

Sacrifice -> Success -> Significance

I hope this entry has added value to you today.

How To Improve Your Sleep With Entrepreneur Lee Chambers

March 26, 2021 By Sean Leave a Comment

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Sean:

I’m wondering since this podcast, our main listeners are entrepreneurs, leaders, and managers. How often do you get asked as a coach about sleep? How to optimize sleep by these kinds of people — entrepreneurs, leaders, managers?

Lee:

The truth is sleep can be optimized, but it’s such a young science. The science is starting to actually show that sleep massively impacts performance. It impacts interaction. It impacts your hormonal and emotional regulation and actually the massive and most important thing it does is it affects your attention, your concentration, and your focus.

When you’re in a position where you lead people, you lead organizations, you lead businesses, you need to be able to control attention and focus because you are guiding. You are effectively driving the train and you don’t want to be falling asleep when you’re driving a train, riding at 300 miles an hour.

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So it’s that kind of understanding, actually, people starting to ask, “how can I optimize my sleep? How much do I need? How can I make it better? How can I start to really look and understand my sleep a bit more?” And it’s becoming more and more of a question that’s being asked. And really, I try and keep it simple because everyone has their own circadian rhythm. So, you can’t just say you get eight hours, you go to bed at 10 o’clock because it’s not the same for everyone.

People need to try and sink in. Again, some people can perform just as well on seven. There’s a rare genetic mutation out there. That means that not 0.2% of people can act and perform a really, really high level on five hours of sleep. There’s not many of them about, and it’s unlikely to be you or me and quite often the people who do they’re almost of this opinion that, “yeah, that’s me that’s me.”

What they don’t realize is you’ve got so used to performing on five hours of sleep that actually they think they’re performing at an optimal level. But what they’re actually doing is they’re tired every day. And if they actually slept properly, they’d unlock a whole other area of, you know, potential productivity performance that they’re not accessing.

We are still that human being. Psychologically, physiologically, that we were all those years ago when we were sleeping 10 hours, we haven’t changed. We’re not evolved. All of a sudden we’ve chopped off a third of our sleep and wonder why some of the issues around that emotional regulation because it causes conflict.

It causes people to swing wildly. Hormonal regulation causes people to eat poorly. It causes people to be less empathetic and compassionate about others. You gotta think about the leaders of tomorrow. They’ve got to be more focused. They got to have more empathy for other human beings. You’ve got to be more creative, more innovative. The less you sleep, you start to lose that, you start to lose that cognitive ability to do these things.

And really sleep is so important. In fact, I actually tell people it’s the cornerstone of health and performance. It’s the fundamental, it’s the first thing you should really look up because if you’re not sleeping well, if you’re struggling to sleep, you’re going to struggle to eat well. You’re going to struggle to move enough. You’re going to struggle to concentrate and have that attention where you want it, and your hormones are going to be against you. Because sleeping affects every single biological process in your body. And truth be told it’s where you grow both mentally, physically, emotionally, and spiritually. Because like anything it’s the rest and recovery that are absolutely vital.

You go to the gym, you stretch your muscles out. You rest, you grow. It’s exactly the same with sleep. And without adequate sleep, you’re never going to be able to perform that level you want to.

How This Man Ran a Company From a Hospital Bed

March 24, 2021 By Sean Leave a Comment

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Sean:

You chose the exit path. The question is, why exit instead of scale? And when in that 12-year timeline did you realize, “I have to get off the next stop? I have to build another train?”

Lee:

It was actually fueled from the fact that I played video games a lot during my childhood. And I was highly competitive. Playing at a very high level. Why don’t I transfer this energy, this passion to get better into a business? That’s going to be leveling up in life rather than leveling up in a game.

I mean, that business pivoted a number of times over those years. But I suppose the point I realized is when I started to get more of understanding that because that business had been fueled by frustration, I was building automations to ensure I could continue to run it, but it wasn’t leveraging other people’s value enough.

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I was still very closed because, It had come from a place of, you know, a place of despair. Really. I was in a very tunnel vision, so I wasn’t willing to delegate much at all. I’m still micromanaging. I was working too much in the business, not enough on the business. And when I became unwell, that was like a lesson. It was like it had to happen to me to knock me out at that pattern of comfort.

And it’s a challenging industry because I know and I’ve experienced the bigger your get, the more ferocious it gets. It’s very, very competitive. And for years, I’ve managed to build to a level where I was not seen as a threat, and that was really integral because they left you alone. And by being left alone allowed me to actually flow in this little channel of my own really well.

And looking back, I could have done it differently. I was seeing competition as a threat rather than a challenge to actually step up into and, you know, tackle. And that again is a mindset shift that I’ve gone through all these years. But when I went into hospital and was still running this company from a hospital bed with one hand, like I couldn’t feed myself properly. I couldn’t go to the toilet. I couldn’t move. But I could still run a company with that one hand that I had working.

Looking back, it was hilarious to even think about that. But I think it was at that point that I realized that, this has all been fueled by a lot of negativity unfortunately. And while it’s given me an amazing chance to recover, while it’s given me this time with my children before they start school, this isn’t my bigger picture.

It’s not going to fulfill me. Doesn’t feel fulfilling. I’m actually starting to not enjoy elements of it. And that fuel, that desire, entrepreneurialism is not easy. It’s actually much easier to go and sit in a job and you have to kind of have that passion. And it became a point where I stopped and was forced to reflect because I was stuck in a hospital bed – can’t move.

Have an awful lot of time to think when you can’t move around, and you can’t just be busy and doing stuff. And I think that everyone should take a bit of time away from the business, even though at first I understand you’re building that momentum. So, you’re working really hard. You have to do that at the start unless you’ve got a big investment. You’re going to be wearing quite a lot of hats. Well, actually use that to think, “these things I don’t enjoy doing, will it have enough passion to keep doing these at some point in the future?” Because that’s a really good test as to wherever this is what you actually truly want to do.

But it could be like it was for me. All of a sudden, a tool and experience because the things I’ve learned from that business that help me in the one that I’m running, that really does resonate with me. It’s not been a journey for nothing. It’s been a journey where I’ve actually discovered myself through doing a business that after 10 years I didn’t enjoy anymore, but you have to find out what you don’t enjoy, because that will guide you to what you do enjoy.

When Do You Make Money Doing Public Speaking?

March 19, 2021 By Sean Leave a Comment

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Sean:

What did they struggle then when, after you’ve given this advice and they’ve done that and now they’re like addicted to it and they’re saying, “okay, but now how do I get paid? How do I turn it into a profession? What do I charge?” What do they struggle with? What are some of the most common questions they ask you?

Brenden:

I would say the biggest thing that they struggle with from going from free to paid is niching down. So most people. So let’s say a good quote. I like to say, “if you want to speak for free, speak on anything. If you want to speak for a fee, speak on one thing”. They get paid to speak because the fee outweighs the problem they’re solving. If you think about me as a communication speaker, you can imagine that people, companies, clients, organizations want to pay me for my time, because the value I deliver is higher than the money, whether it’s a thousand, five thousand doesn’t matter, right. It outweighs the topic that I’m presenting on. And because I’m a subject matter expert from Master Talk and all that stuff, I have the credibility to charge high fees.

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Figure out something that someone is willing to pay for. And the best way to do that, honestly, is to go on like speaking websites, people get paid $10,000, 15,000+ see what topics they present on and pick one of those topics and charge much less for it.

The key to speaking that most people don’t get is it takes a while to get paid for actually speaking. Because you need to have some sort of bread, whether it’s your business, some sort of credibility. That’s why I recommend building your long term brand early.

The key is the second part is to understand that getting paid to speak is not the best way to get paid to speak. Really pay attention to what I just said. Let me repeat that again, knowing that you’re going to get a fee is not the best way to make money speaking. The best way to make money speaking is the secondary way, which is to build a revenue stream of other services.

So when you think about me, a lot of my speeches these days are still free, right? Some I get paid for, for sure. But a lot of them, I don’t, but I still make a lot of money from those speeches. Why? because some of the people want me as their coach. They go, “this guy’s the founder of Mastertalk. I’m the CEO of this company. If I pay him X number of dollars, I’m going to make a killing off my speech. How much do you charge?” And then I just charge whatever I want. Because it just works. I have the authority and the best way to build authority is through speaking.

Because you’re right there or you’re there virtually. You come up as an expert, the person who’s hosting the events puts you there as an expert. The people go to the event, trust the organizers, which means they’ll trust you. The only other way to build trust that fast is referrals or podcasts.

The third thing is speaking. What you want to do, whether it’s through a book that you want to sell, it’s a product you want to offer, or a service that you have. You want to package your expertise in a way that helps people. If you’re passionate about career advice and make sure it’s something people want to pay for also, you’re passionate about career advice, have a career coaching program at the end of your workshop.

If you want to see more of this, do you want to get one of my one on one coaching programs? Here are some of the people that I’ve helped and what they’ve been able to generate and achieve. Work with me. 1% of people will say yes. And once you get those five, 10 clients worldwide, then the rest is history. Then you have too many clients. Cause then it gets annoying. Honestly. Because then they start referring you to everyone else and then you have an overload, then your price skyrockets, and then it gets challenging.

This Simple Exercise Makes You a Better Public Speaker

March 17, 2021 By Sean Leave a Comment

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Sean:

You have done over 900 talks; presentations. And you need to keep on improving daily, right? So 10 hours of podcasts a week, aside from that, what are things that you do daily that affects your improvement in how you deliver talks and in how you craft them? Do you do something every day that just hones you as an individual, as a public speaker? What is it?

Brenden:

Yeah, of course. There’s a lot of daily stuff that we can talk about. Here’s an easy one that people can implement right after this call. It’s called the random word exercise. For the audience’s sake, Sean, why don’t you just give me a random word?

Sean:

Augmented.

Brenden:

Augmented. Is that what you said? Okay. You like giving me a complex word.

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So what I have to do with this word is I have to create a presentation out of thin air. So here I go.

We always think about getting to the next level, whether it’s our business, our lives, our health, our relationships, and the best way to think about that next level is not just about the status quo because the status quo gets us nowhere. But rather how do we augment our lives to a new reality, to a reality that is not like any other. And by augmenting that experience, we’ll be able to create the lives that we want, whether it’s our public speaking skills, our income and our businesses. Or to the relationships that we care about. And that’s exactly why in this week’s presentation, I’m going to be showing you some of the ways that I’ve augmented my life so that you can augment yours.

So notice how I just made that up out of thin air. First thing I want to point out for people right before Sean starts clapping and saying I’m a great speaker is I’ve done this a thousand times. I literally do this on every podcast I guest in. So I’m forced to practice. So the advice for you is all I’m asking for is five minutes every day, five words, one minute each. Go to your house, wherever you already live and just go “lamp, wife that doesn’t like me, laundry, teapot, door – do one minute each”.

And if you’re in a public setting, you don’t need to do the exercise, but at least think about it mentally. If I’m walking and I see a building, obviously I’m not going to present it, but if I was doing the exercise, what would I say for 60 seconds? And over time, if you do this five times a day, five minutes, a one minute each you do this for the year. That’s over 1,800 times that you’re doing the exercise. And if you can present something that you have no idea, like I’ve done this with hippo, like, how am I supposed to do that? I don’t know anything about hippos. If I can do that. If you can do that with subjects you have no clue, no understanding, no expertise in, imagine what you can do with something you actually know something in.

Sean:

Wow. That’s the first time I’ve ever heard about that exercise. I’m going to be trying it out. So that is something that you do daily. Definitely looks like it has helped you tons. And you could do it with the word. By the way, that’s just top of mind. I don’t know why I said that word, but that’s top of mind right now. So, that daily routine helps Brenden to improve his daily craft.

Maybe you want to start with one word. Maybe you want to start with two. That’s fine. But if you can go to five words, definitely would fast forward and would help you to catalyze your growth as a public speaker

What Is More Important: Emotion or Actionable Lesson?

March 12, 2021 By Sean Leave a Comment

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Sean:

I’m cheating a little bit when I ask you this question because this is a hypothetical one. I want to ask you what is more important, leaving a lasting emotion to your audience or a lasting actionable lesson? Now, I know both are important, but if you were to choose one of them, lasting emotion or lasting actionable lesson, what would it be?

Brenden:

My thinking is definitely the emotion. Let me explain why. At the end of the day, as a speaker, whether you’re speaking for a day, like in a workshop, whether you’re speaking for an hour, 30 minutes, two hours, whatever the length is, you cannot teach them everything. That’s just the reality of the situation. Not because you don’t add value, not because you stink, but because you don’t have enough time.

So how do you get them to do the work? The only way to get them to do the work is to make sure that they felt something from listening to you. It goes back to the whole content versus delivery. A lot of people ask me that and the answers for sure delivery, but it’s not even close. And I’ll explain why, think about all of your high school teachers, think of all of your college teachers. They’re all really smart people. How much do we actually remember from their presentations?

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At the end of the day. Best case scenario. If you’re the best speaker in the world, best speakers like the top 1%, people are going to remember one, maybe two things. So if they remember the emotion – how you made them feel in that presentation. They will follow up with you. They’ll buy your programs, they’ll buy your services. They’ll watch your consulting, they’ll watch your free YouTube videos. They will follow up. And if you suck, they won’t. So I would focus a lot more on the emotion than the action because if they feel the emotion, they’ll ask you what the action is. They’ll go, Sean. You’re awesome. What’s the action? And the same way with me.

A lot of my competitors are really dry with communication. They go, “Oh, focus on silence”. As I’m saying, I’m like, I know. That’s not what’s going to get people to take action. What gets people to take action is by bringing that emotion, that drive, that passion, what we do, explaining why we do it, how we do it, and more importantly, giving them that small, quick win that convinces them how to speak and why they should speak.

Let me add a bit more layer there – never focus on the emotion at the beginning. If you’re a beginner speaker, why am I saying that? Because if you’ve only practiced your talk two or three times, the emotion will never come out. Let me explain why. The reason is because you still haven’t mastered your content. Let’s say you have a teacher presenting a subject. They’re not really thinking about how to make this better for their audience. It just stalemates. You can’t like put a joke in there and expect it’s going to change.

What happens is you transition from logic to emotion. I realized that it wasn’t about accomplishments. It was about selling the emotion . And then I transferred, but you need to present the same presentation to transfer from logic to emotion, or you’ll never get there.

When Is the Time to Do Your Passion Full Time?

March 10, 2021 By Sean Leave a Comment

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Sean:

A lot of people ask me this question, actually. Sean, when’s the time to jump ship? Sean, when’s the time for me to quit my day job and just do my passion full time? So I want to know the story behind it for you.

Brenden:

For sure. The short answer to that is if you’re asking the question, don’t jump ship. That’s easy. If you’re wondering whether I should jump ship, should I, should I not? The answer is always no. You’ll know when it’s time to jump ship. So there’s two parts, then, and I’ll explain my own story. Some people say burn all the bridges. Some people say do it on the side. My advice is simple, people who are already burning bridges and going all in don’t need this conversation and don’t need my advice. Let’s focus on the people who are too scared to take action. I’m a huge believer in side hustles because the difference between entrepreneurship and having a job is, a job brings you security. A job gives you a set number of hours. A job gives you a set income stream, but entrepreneurs there’s no set income stream, but in the same caveat, there’s a lot more upside than being an employee.

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My advice is always simple. Work your side hustle until it becomes a full-time hustle. I always say it like this. If you can’t work on your business part time, you can’t work on it full time, unless you’re a burned the ships kind of person, which is not a very huge percentage of the population I would say. For me, it was very simple. I wanted to be an employee my whole life. I had no intention of being an entrepreneur. I wasn’t one of those kids who started in a lemonade stands that wasn’t me. I was 12.

I wanted to be a corporate accountant, got an internship at Price Waterhouse Coopers. I worked really hard, even if I thought it was a water bottling company. For those who don’t know, it’s a big accounting firm in the world. Then after I went on to be a technology consultant, so I got a great job at IBM and all I wanted to do was be a senior level executive. Those executives in Canada, in the U S make $500,000 a year. That’s more than most entrepreneurs in the world cause most entrepreneurs aren’t really successful and I didn’t want to do any of this master talk stuff. But the difference was after I graduated.

After I got the job, I started working. I just asked myself the simple question, Sean, that many of us will ask ourselves when we start to make money for our families, which is, “is this all I’m going to do with my life?” And for me, the answer was no. Was I just going to work as a partner and then die? Yeah, I’ll make a lot of money, but not too much else.

That’s when the idea for the YouTube channel came to be, because I realized a lot of the communication information was pretty bad on YouTube. No one was sharing free videos with people to learn and grow with their communication skills.

I started making videos in my basement. No intention of quitting my job. But then it started picking up. People started watching the videos and here we are today.

Where to Find the Best Business Opportunities

March 5, 2021 By Sean Leave a Comment

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Sean:

The last question I have for you is that the target market of this podcast, The Leadership Stack, we’re looking at leaders and managers and entrepreneurs who are struggling out there more so now because of the pandemic again, 45% unemployment rate is not going to happen if businesses did not shut down. There are a lot of businesses that have died during this time. Given there are some that are thriving, but still, 45% from 7% started this year. At least here in the Philippines.

That is the all-time low. Now in a couple of months, it’s 45%. I am wondering, Jared, what would be your one big advice? If there is one big advice you could tell to these people, what would it be?

Jaryd:

Problems are just opportunities in disguise. What the world needs is help. People want help. If you can find out a way to help people, the money will come. You can get as creative as you like with it. But I feel like at the moment it may be really hard in your niche or what you’re doing. Maybe it’s a luxury item that you’re selling, or it’s a luxury service that you’re selling or it’s something that people aren’t spending money on right now.

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Can you blame them? I haven’t been very impacted because a lot of people were turning to the internet to make money online, but there are still people that have left and can I blame them? No, they’ve stopped working with me. I can’t blame them at all. I’m all like, “Hey, you do what you need to do. If you need to go and look after your family, please do it. That’s the most important thing for you at this time. And if and/or when you’re ready, come back and I can help you.”

I think if we just put ourselves in the position where we’re always putting ourselves in one another’s shoes– our client’s shoes, our audience’s shoes and thinking “all right, cool. Where are they at the moment and how can I help them best? Now how can I serve them the best?”

When you can do that, people will appreciate it and you’ll get paid for that. Sometimes it may not be monetary. Sometimes it’s love. Sometimes it’s an introduction to somebody or a referral. It may not come in the form of cash.

I think probably if there’s one big thing I would say to entrepreneurs that are struggling right now is that if you’re to think about how can you help people right now and serve people with what’s really important to them, what they’re really struggling with, then everything else can just wrap around that.

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