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96. Mind Elixir · Your Enriched Self

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  I am no stranger to natural remedies to cure ailments. As a Caribbean girl
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  growing up in the Caribbean with my Caribbean parents, that was business as usual.
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  Whether it was some type of a bush tea or some herb, there
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  was something out there that would take care of or in some cases set us
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  in a detox mode. This is before I even knew what detoxing was.
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  My mother was one of those people who made sure that her kids stayed out
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  of the doctor's office, and we did so just by naturally cleansing our bodies
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  wouldn't help. But wonder as I look around into social spaces that there's been
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  a birth of elixirs, a birth of ways to detox naturally through master cleanses
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  and gut cleanses and gut health switches and changes and drinks and all the various
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  things that people are now taken to start their day and their day in the
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  middle of the day. And so there's been a lot of focus on cleansing
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  the body from the inside out. On top of the fact that there are
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  so many videos and so much content out there about exercising and the importance of
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  it and different types of exercising to target key areas of the body where we
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  have some of those stubborn fat areas or areas we want to improve on our
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  bodies for our individual health journey. And then I started thinking, what about
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  the mental journey that you are on right now? Have you taken a moment
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  to think of what you need to detox your mind to get a better handle
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  on your emotional on your mental health. And so my question to you is
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  May was mental health month. What did you do in the month of May
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  on purpose with intention to manage your mental health to get the detops you need
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  to improve your mental capacity and how you show up in the world. Oh,
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  my friends from all across the globe and welcome to the Urine Risell Podcast.
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  I am your host, Miley Noir. I am a mindset coach and
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  your mindset advocate, And all that means is listen. We just got through
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  the month of May. We are stepping into a new month, and I
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  know if you are listening to this podcast, you have goals, you have
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  things that you still want to accomplish in this year. We are right smack
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  in the middle of twenty twenty three, and so I'm here each and every
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  week to bring forth the topics that you need to talk about, that you
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  need to think about, that you need to include in your intentional and daily
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  activity so that you can become more of your enriched self. So what we
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  do each week is we talk through the mindset fusion topics that tackle your self
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  care, your soul care, your mind care, and all the things and
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  all the things that help you show up as the best version of yourself in
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  this world. If you are new to the podcast, I want to welcome
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  you. We are on episode ninety six. We have been doing this for
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  ninety six weeks, and I want to thank you for showing up for episode
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  ninety six, and you can always go back to all the previous episodes.
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  We got you. And if you are a Ride or Die a repeat listener,
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  I am so grateful for you. It is because of you we are
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  creating a legacy of your enriched self and we have been doing it. You
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  have been here and I thank you continue to share this podcast with your friends
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  and family, and we will continue to deliver these very impactful topics each and
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  every week. So I'm here to facilitate the conversation and walk it out with
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  you and talk it out with you, because I know that you want to
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  become more of your in rid self, and you know how we do it
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  here on the podcasts. Each and every week, I make a deposit in
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  the bank of you, and I do so by way of affirmations. Affirmations
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  are a great way to start your day and to command your morning. And
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  this week's affirmation is when I'm feeling overwhelmed, I allow myself space to pause
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  and breathe. When I'm feeling overwhelmed, I allow myself space to pause and
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  breathe. When I'm feeling overwhelmed, I allow myself space to pause and breathe.
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  Now, let's get ready for this week's episode of the Your in rich
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  Self podcast. First, one to admit that I've been taking and popping those
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  apple cider, vinegar lemon shots, doing my part to detox the body,
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  drinking the green tea, and doing all of the things because I understand the
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  value of the detox. But again, this week, I want to talk
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  about detoxing the mind. And I know there's so many remedies you can literally
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  pull up wherever you are on social and you will find a topic that resonates
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  with this whole detox culture that we are now in, and I've seen people
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  detox themselves from you know, social media, going on a social media fast.
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  But I think we need to do a little bit more work when it
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  comes to our mental health. As I mentioned previously, May was Mental Health
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  Awareness Month, and I'm curious to know what you did on purpose with intention
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  to manage your mental health. And there are some things that you are dealing
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  with right now, and you've probably been dealing with them for a while.
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  I'm going to encourage you, as I have before, to seek counsel,
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  seek therapy, get with a therapist, a licensed therapist if you need to,
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  because mental health is critical. It's critical to how you live, how
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  you work, how you play, and everything in between. So again I
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  asked, what have you done lately to manage your mental health? What have
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  you done lately to detox and give yourself that space to pause and breathe.
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  And so today I want to talk to you about some things you can do
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  now. You don't have to wait for that morning elixir. You can do
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  it right now. These things to help you and give your room to pause
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  and breathe, to give you the cleansing that you need to get yourself back
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  on track, because if I know you and you are here, you are
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  here on purpose for a purpose, not just a purpose for your life,
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  but you want to serve. And the only way you can serve, whether
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  it's in your home, where you work, or outside of that, if
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  you are here, I know that you want to serve at the highest capacity,
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  and the only way you can do that starting with serving you first,
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  you are mentally equipped and mentally available for all the things that are going to
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  require your time, your talent, and your treasure. And so I'm going
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  to give you five things that I think are important on this quest to detox
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  and get yourself back into a space where you have done some mental cleansing,
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  because that's something you need to do if you haven't done it, We're going
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  to be intentional on this episode to make sure it happens. The first thing
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  I'm going to say to you is to connect with God. Now, one
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  of the things when we talk about detox in your mind is I want to
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  make sure not only are you cleansing things out, but you are bringing things
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  in. And that's why when I talk to God, it allows me to
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  let things go, It allows me to get the thoughts that are swimming around
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  in my head. Give them a place to land, because I don't need
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  all of that sitting there. I need to take it somewhere to a greater
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  source that can handle, that has the playbook for my life already set,
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  and take it out of my hands. Because a lot of times we're trying
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  to control things that are way outside of our span of control. And so
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  for me, once I allow those things out, it's important for me to
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  deposit more in. And I talk about affirmations, but a word of God
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  has declarations. These are things that are true about you that your creator says
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  about you. Now, the world is going to tell you things about you
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  that you're not ready. You're not the right size, fit weight, you
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  don't have the right credentials. But the way you are created to be created
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  by a creator tells me that you are already equipped to do so many of
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  the things that you have paused and have told yourself you cannot do. This
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  is why the connection is so important. This is why that prayer time,
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  that talking time is so important, because if you don't do that, in
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  that space where you can pause and breathe, the world is going to suffocate
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  you. With ideas and principles and rules that don't align with the greater version
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  of yourself. It's time to set yourself free, starting with your mind and
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  not only letting go of the things that no longer serve you or the things
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  that are swimming around in your mind, but bringing in the word. And
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  that's why the Word of God is a declaration. Find those declarations that service
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  your mindset and give you a greater spand of who you are, not what
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  the world says, but who your creator created you to be. The second
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  thing that I'm going to recommend you do in this base of detoxing the mind
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  is to prioritize your feed. Now, everything I'm telling you is not just
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  to let things go into detox, but it's also to deposit. So we're
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  doing a detox and a deposit. So prioritize your feed. Everybody's on social
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  some kind of social media. I don't care if it's Pinterest, I don't
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  care if it's TikTok, I don't care what it is, whatever it is.
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  When you get on those social feeds, you have the span of control
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  to manage what you allow yourself to eat. That's why they call it a
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  feed. People because you are eating whatever is being prepared for you. And
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  so that's why it's so important for you not to simply be a consumer,
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  but to be a producer, because I want to feed this world great content,
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  important topics to help them and challenge them and get them to a space
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  of change. Some of the things you are allowing in your feed because guess
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  what you're allowing it. You have the opportunity, the authorization to say yay
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  or nay to the things that are being fed to you. So I'm going
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  to challenge you to go back to your social and find the creators out there,
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  the people that are making and creating content. And if those content pieces
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  don't align with what you need where you're going, it's time to get rid
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  of it. Prioritize your feed. Make sure the things that are being fed
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  to you are feeding your soul, they're feeding your mind. I would say
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  go ahead, and if you have not subscribe to this podcast, go ahead
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  and do that, because that's what I do. I'm here to feed.
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  I talk about self care and soul care, and that's what this is all
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  about. I want to make sure you're getting what you need so you can
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  be the best version of yourself in this world. So prioritize your feed,
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  podcasts, all of the things that you are listening to, that you are
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  watching, that you are reading. Make sure that it aligns with where you're
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  going. The third thing I will say is to write it out, write
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  it out. Journaling has been a great way for me to express what I'm
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  feeling if I'm not talking about it. It has also been a great way
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  for me to write out my goals, what do I want to accomplish in
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  this year? And I'm going to tell you the years that I have been
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  more intentional about writing out my thoughts and prescribing the goals or writing the goals
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  that I want for my life, those have been the years that I've seen
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  the most progress. Because when you write a goal, you're planning, and
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  a plan set you in a path of success. If you have no plan
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  to succeed, you're not going to succeed. So it's best to have a
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  plan. Now, keep in mind, there are going to be times where
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  you're gonna write some things out and it's not going to always align with the
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  dates and the times that you want, but you're more likely to succeed at
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  that goal when you write it down than if you don't. So it's a
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  great opportunity for you to do that for yourself. Listen, all of this
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  is for you. This isn't me, this is you. I'm just sharing
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  with you the things that have worked for me, the things that I've seen
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  make positive changes in my life. Because now I'm going back to those goals.
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  I'm going back to what I wrote down, and I'm seeing Am I
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  on track? Am I getting the milestones done? That I do the two
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  three four things that I needed to get done? Okay, I didn't get
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  them done yesterday. I'm gonna go ahead and get those done tomorrow. It
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  keeps you in a place of momentum, keeps you in motion, and that's
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  what you need to go forward. That one baby step is a step in
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  the direction of your future. The fourth one is I'm going to encourage you
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  to do more of what you like, do more of what you enjoy.
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  It may sound like a beaten path or off the beaten path to your friends
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  and family, but if it's the thing that fills you up, the thing
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  that fulfills you, the thing that brings you joy, gives you peace,
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  go ahead and do it. I remember years ago when I started my running
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  journey. Ironically enough, I started my running journey in June, and it
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  was one of the hottest Junes at the time. I lived in Indianapolis,
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  and it was so hot the grass was brown. Literally everywhere everywhere you went,
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  everyone's lawn was brown. At the time, it seemed ludicrous to people
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  around me, my neighbors, my family, and friends that I would go
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  out, not only go out running, but I would take my girls and
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  they would get on their bike their scooters and we would ride for a mile
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  or two miles or whatever. However it led, and I was so committed
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  to this challenge. It was like a thirty day challenge, and I was
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  so committed to doing it. And like I said, it was in the
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  heart of the month of June, and it looked crazy to the outside world,
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  but it was the thing that gave me that space to pause and breathe.
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  This was something that challenged me. This was something that I liked to
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  do, and I did not want the weather or whatever, those external things
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  that I can't control, right, I can't control, not in my span
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  of control. I couldn't and wouldn't allow those things to prevent me from achieving
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  this goal from doing what I liked. The thing about doing what you like
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  it is in your span of control. Go do the things you like,
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  because when you do things you like and that you enjoy, it fills you
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  up. It gives you purpose, meaning, it makes you feel valuable in
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  your own life. And the thing about it is when you do those things,
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  you begin to inspire other people to not necessarily do what you're doing,
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  but do their thing, find their lane, live in their space, want
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  their path because they're watching you do it, and they're watching you do it
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  with joy in your heart. And that gives me peace. That gives me
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  space to pause and breathe. And the final thing I'm gonna say is keep
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  this phrase in mind. Acceptance is peace. I'm going to repeat it.
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  Acceptance is peace. I know we always hear people say let go. What
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  are we letting go of? You want to let go? Like I said,
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  those are going to be the things outside the span of your control.
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  Some of the things a lot of you like to hold onto is your past.
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  Why are you still talking about that? Why are you still focused on
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  a specific date, time, person, place, and thing? Why are
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  you doing this and torturing yourself in such a way that experience that timeline,
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  that person, that situation is not something you can control. It's in the
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  past. But so much of you focus on all the things outside your span
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  of control, and therefore you're not feeling and experiencing that piece. That's why
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  I say acceptance is peace, because if you can accept the past for what
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  it was, not what it is, but what it was. I'm not
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  taking light that the past does impact sometimes occurrent in the future. But what
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  I won't allow you to do is focused so much on the past that you
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  can't live now. You cannot be present now because you're so far up the
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  past you can't see your path forward. It's time to let it go.
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  Yes, those things that are outside the span of your control, such as
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  what people think about you. Why are you concerned about what people think of
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  you? I've said this before and I'll say it again. Everyone out there,
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  including you, are the main character in this story called your life.
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  If that person is in the man character in the story called your life,
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  why would you be concerned about what lines they're going to read in that story.
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  They're not in your story, they're not in your chapter, they're not
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  in your paragraph. For some of them, they're not even in the sentence
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  why are you bothered? You see how much time, how much energy,
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  that you are using to think about their thoughts about you. Oh worst off
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  is when you worry about or think about what people say or do. Why
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  do you need to care about what people say or do? These, again,
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  are things outside the span of your control. The things that you need
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  to care about is what am I saying about myself? It goes back to
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  the declaration of the word and what the word says about you? Fearfully and
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  wonderfully made. What does the word say about you? Who are you?
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  And that is some of the best understanding about oneself because guess what, when
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  I define myself, I do define who I am and who the Word says
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  I am, and who God says. But I also understand that there are
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  things I don't like to do that I'm not great at, and that's okay.
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  I can accept that, and that is peace. Acceptance is peace.
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  Keep that in your back pocket. You are going to need that statement.
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  You're going to need to live that out loud. And I'm not talking about
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  next week or next month. I'm talking about in the next maybe five ten
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  minutes. You're gonna have to accept whatever is coming or whatever is here and
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  know that it will be okay. On the other side, there's a lot
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  of noise in corporate right now, there's a lot of changes in the business.
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  I'm watching it play itself out even where I work, and I have
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  to understand that acceptance is peace. Me riling up myself and getting myself worked
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  up about something that's happening at a level that is again outside the span of
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  my control, will never get me to a space of pause and place for
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  me to breathe. And so I'm going to challenge you to be intentional.
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  I know it's not Mental Health Month, but mental health and the awareness of
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  it should be every day because the world is changing at a rapid pace and
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  in order to keep up, you need to make changes in your life.
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  And sometimes that can be overwhelming. Sometimes that can go away from us and
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  we're trying. We feel like we're catching up, or you may feel like
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  you're trying to catch up with all the things that are happening. I want
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  you to not go into a space of overwhelm, but allow yourself the space
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  you need to pause and breathe. I hope you enjoyed this week's episode of
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  the Your and rich Self podcast, And the only way I'm gonna know this
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  someone out there that needs a mind elixir and you got the right mix for
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  that elixir. And finally, check out all the details in the show notes.
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  I leave the affirmation of the week ways for you to connect with me.
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  And this week I have a surprise for you. We talked about journaling
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  and writing it down. I have a special journal for you available on Amazon.
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  Click the link in the bio so that you can order your copy of
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  the show up now. Journal. I also have a notebook. I'll include
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  those links in the show notes. I'm excited to share that with you.
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  I believe those are all the announcements for this week. What I would like
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  for you to do is take what you can from this episode and do your
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  part in these next one hundred and sixty eight hours to become more of your
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  image until we meet again.