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The people closest to you are quietly writing the next ten years of your life.

When the water got shut off in my apartment, I did not just take inventory of myself. I took inventory of who was around me. What I found there redirected everything that came after it, and it is still the part of my story I talk about least.

So this weekend I pulled together the conversations that hit this from every angle, and I put my own version of it up front.Jeff Foxworthy, Master P, Jamie Kern Lima, Trent Shelton, Fallon Taylor, and Tom McCarthy each arrive at this from a completely different life: comedy, hip hop, beauty, the NFL, rodeo, and peak performance. Not one of them got where they are alone, and not one of them got there by accident.

 Here is a piece of what we get into:

• The question I ask about every person in my life, and why "they love me" is not the answer I am looking for

• Why Jeff Foxworthy says the mistakes that blow up a life never begin as big mistakes

• What Master P told his grandmother at seven years old, and the ten thousand dollars that showed up years later

• The story about my first grade teacher that Jamie Kern Lima pulled out of me, and why it still gets me

• Trent Shelton's soil test for your entire environment, and the palm tree that makes it impossible to unsee

• What Fallon Taylor says the turning point in a life actually looks like when it happens

• Tom McCarthy's poker table experiment in carrying an identity he had not earned yet

• The three words I use with people I love who are not good for where I am going

Here is a piece of what we get into:I am not asking you to go clear people out of your life today. I am asking you to look around. Look at who you text when something good happens.

Look at who gets the last hour of your night. Then be honest about what that is producing in you, because you will get your standards and not your goals, and those people are the ones setting them.

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