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April 18, 2014 By Richard

How To Prove To Yourself You Are Not Average

Closet time, sorry, quietest place in the house right now. I just woke up but I thought it was important, this idea, that I’ll flush out later. But I wanted to capture it in video and share it with you all first because it just seems to make a point and have some of your lessons involved in it at the same time. And that’s….

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Take your temperature. I know that sounds stupid but take your temperature three times a day for a week. Right when you first wake up, somewhere in the middle of the day, preferably right after lunch, and right before you go to bed or at 10:00 o’clock p.m. everyday.

Have it at the exact same time everyday. So 7:00 a.m., 12 noon, 10:00 p.m, have a little sheet of paper, have a column for each time and seven rows for the days of the week. Or it’s better if you do it for three weeks but one week will be probably annoying enough.

I think this is a great exercise and I hate explaining it because there’s so much that people will realize along the way just doing it themselves. But one you learn, first and foremost, that you’re not average. 98.6 °F doesn’t apply to you. It is really just an average of a whole bunch of numbers from a whole bunch of different people put together. And you’ll see swing from anything from, I’ve seen 96 all the way up to about 100.

That’s just a normal day, nothing wrong, nothing going on. Just refining the point that until you do your own testing and you’re all observing and realize that whatever you actually look into begins to become more important and you see more truth in it that is appropriate for you.

You just want to know whether or not you’re the average you’ve been told you are all your life or you’re not. This is specially important for your business or anything that’s your personal growth orientated. Try it out. Let me know what you think in the comments below. I think it would be a neat little exercise. Thanks for watching. Goodbye.

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