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Closing the 18-Inch Gap Podcast-EP056: How To CRUISE To Success Starting Today!

Closing The 18 Inch Gap Podcast

Release Date: 03/11/2025

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This is the question that echoes in the quiet moments when your heart aches for something more.... How?   It’s the whisper that asks why your dreams have stayed locked away, waiting, while life moved on. How did you get here—staring at the gap between who you are and who you know you could be? How wide is that gap? 18-inches wide. It’s those 18 inches that you need to travel to break free from the lies, the fears, and the beliefs that have kept your dreams buried. How do you take what feels impossible... and make it real? I’m Edwin Soler, your Dream Realization Partner....

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Let me ask you something, are you steering your ship or just riding the waves? This is going to make more sense as I introduced today’s current podcast episode.

 

Everybody wants to be successful. But how are you getting there? Too many people take the easy way out. They don’t want to do the work. They don't want to make the effort. They seek what’s called the overnight success. Or what seems to look like an overnight success. But the reality is that there is no overnight success.

 

Success comes after hard work coming to fruition. Seth Godin a very well-known and popular author was considered an overnight success by many. But he clearly states it took him 15 years of nonstop work of putting information in the form of a blog, writing books, speaking, doing many things over many years to suddenly become successful.

 

The only place where success comes before work is in a dictionary. That’s it. But what if you had a way that you could cruise to success? When I say cruise, I’m not saying it is good to be easy, far from it.

 

Instead, it’s a method, if you will, that I came across from another fellow coach named Dr. Chitra Sankaran and you can find Dr. Chitra Sankaran at www.drchitrasankaran.com.

 

So, what Dr. Chitra has provided for us is a framework of how to map this out and it spells out cruise. I will be going through each one but I’ll be adding my point of view of what you can do at each step. The total of six of them.

 

Quote of the week: “The ladder of success is never crowded at the top.” Napoleon Hill

 

Points covered:

C- Create, a clear vision for the future

R- Review, one’s current circumstances

U- Uncover internal resources/renewed energy

I-Identify, anchors and stabilizing factors

S- Set sail, launch and go

E- Enjoy, and brace the journey and rewards

and that my friend is a CRUISE framework. It can be easily applied to any situation would be in.

 

Did anything resonate with you? 

Do you need help to cruise to your success?

 If so, reach out to me and let me know. Simply send me an email to [email protected] and let me know what your question is and how we can connect.

I always offer a free coaching session where we can explore how I can help you and you can see coaching action for yourself. 

If this was your first time, I’m glad you’re listening, and I hope you can come back for more podcast episodes.  In the meantime, feel free to listen to all the previous ones I have.  You can find them in your favorite podcast directory.   I can’t wait to be here with you next week but until then keep closing that 18- inch gap!

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