Latest / From My Planit to Yours... / Episode 21: It's All in the Playful Delivery
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- 0:00SPEAKER_00: Hello, I'm Blizzard Planet.
- 0:02SPEAKER_00: This is the self-friendship podcast where playfulness meets self-reflection.
- 0:06SPEAKER_00: Picture this, you hopped on the band rocket and now you're on Planet Butter.
- 0:11SPEAKER_00: A world made of delicious,
- 0:13SPEAKER_00: sparkly,
- 0:13SPEAKER_00: nut butter volcanoes and an adorable disco ball of self-reflection is whirling
- 0:18SPEAKER_00: around in her transforming convertible.
- 0:20SPEAKER_00: Today,
- 0:21SPEAKER_00: I'll be sharing my answer to last week's question,
- 0:23SPEAKER_00: why we can't justify someone else's actions with their life experiences,
- 0:28SPEAKER_00: even if it's true.
- 0:29SPEAKER_00: A word replacement, the art of saying dumb shit, a note on accepting compliments, a party of one.
- 0:36SPEAKER_00: a note on vocabulary expansion in relation to Planet Butter's coffee table book
- 0:41SPEAKER_00: with a lesson,
- 0:42SPEAKER_00: how to win in a power dynamic,
- 0:44SPEAKER_00: perspective dance with the sky,
- 0:46SPEAKER_00: another party of one,
- 0:47SPEAKER_00: and a brand new question for all of us to self-reflect,
- 0:51SPEAKER_00: self-connect.
- 0:51SPEAKER_00: And email me, if you desire, selffriendshippodcast at gmail.com.
- 0:56SPEAKER_00: Last week's question of the week was...
- 0:58SPEAKER_00: Have you ever been offended by someone else's curiosity?
- 1:02SPEAKER_00: Or have you offended anyone with your curiosity?
- 1:06SPEAKER_00: And what did you do when that happened?
- 1:08SPEAKER_00: So I'm going to follow up with the inspiration to this question for this question.
- 1:13SPEAKER_00: Last week,
- 1:14SPEAKER_00: I shared the little snippet about the owner of a restaurant thinking I had attitude
- 1:18SPEAKER_00: for asking the difference between normal Fridays versus their party Fridays,
- 1:23SPEAKER_00: being that
- 1:24SPEAKER_00: both they're always super busy on Fridays and they have DJs.
- 1:27SPEAKER_00: So I just didn't genuinely understand the difference.
- 1:30SPEAKER_00: Anyway, so I didn't tell you how I handled this.
- 1:33SPEAKER_00: So to answer this question,
- 1:34SPEAKER_00: I will now tell you that I made it as playful as possible as we do on Planet Butter.
- 1:40SPEAKER_00: So I literally just laughed at slash mostly with, of course, mostly with him when he said I had attitude.
- 1:49SPEAKER_00: And then I told him exactly what I told you guys last week.
- 1:52SPEAKER_00: Curiosity is not confrontation slash attitude.
- 1:56SPEAKER_00: And it's all in the playful delivery of it.
- 1:59SPEAKER_00: All right,
- 2:00SPEAKER_00: now,
- 2:01SPEAKER_00: why we can't justify someone else's actions with their life experiences even if
- 2:07SPEAKER_00: it's true.
- 2:09SPEAKER_00: Okay,
- 2:10SPEAKER_00: twice this week,
- 2:11SPEAKER_00: I had friends come to me for advice about their dating life and they both shared
- 2:14SPEAKER_00: with me that the person that they're dating has been through something very intense
- 2:18SPEAKER_00: and so that's why they do X or they don't do X.
- 2:21SPEAKER_00: But here's the thing,
- 2:23SPEAKER_00: we can't justify someone else's actions with their experiences even if it's true.
- 2:29SPEAKER_00: Just because we know something to be true does not justify somebody else's behavior.
- 2:35SPEAKER_00: It allows us to understand and have compassion for the person, but it does not excuse it.
- 2:41SPEAKER_00: Especially when we are the ones identifying why someone else's
- 2:45SPEAKER_00: else is doing what they are doing.
- 2:48SPEAKER_00: When we do that,
- 2:49SPEAKER_00: we are unintentionally minimizing our own feelings and defending the other person
- 2:54SPEAKER_00: to ourselves.
- 2:56SPEAKER_00: Defending them is also a form of protecting ourselves because we don't want them to
- 3:00SPEAKER_00: show up any less than how we see them.
- 3:03SPEAKER_00: We're also creating a narrative that does not precisely exist.
- 3:07SPEAKER_00: We're also, lots of things, creating distance between ourselves and the other person.
- 3:14SPEAKER_00: If we do not have a conversation with them about our experience,
- 3:17SPEAKER_00: that is,
- 3:18SPEAKER_00: our knowledge of their life experience might be accurate,
- 3:21SPEAKER_00: it might be true.
- 3:22SPEAKER_00: But to know,
- 3:23SPEAKER_00: recognize,
- 3:24SPEAKER_00: understand,
- 3:25SPEAKER_00: and have compassion for someone else's behavior is simply being a conscious and
- 3:30SPEAKER_00: considerate human being.
- 3:31SPEAKER_00: which is beautiful.
- 3:32SPEAKER_00: However,
- 3:33SPEAKER_00: it's not forming a relationship,
- 3:35SPEAKER_00: which is what we're trying to do in the context of dating,
- 3:38SPEAKER_00: which is why I will resurface the key part of this,
- 3:41SPEAKER_00: which is to have a conversation,
- 3:44SPEAKER_00: an open,
- 3:45SPEAKER_00: honest,
- 3:45SPEAKER_00: nonjudgmental conversation about our feelings so they can share their why and
- 3:51SPEAKER_00: together we can come up with the what to do to move forward.
- 3:56SPEAKER_00: Please let me know if you have any questions on that.
- 3:58SPEAKER_00: I know it's pretty heavy.
- 4:00SPEAKER_00: All right, a word replacement.
- 4:03SPEAKER_00: The phrase in disbelief is used a lot in a lot of different contexts.
- 4:07SPEAKER_00: And as I've said before, I don't believe in disbelief or saying unbelievable.
- 4:13SPEAKER_00: If something happened, it's believable.
- 4:15SPEAKER_00: The magic or the tragic, it's all believable.
- 4:18SPEAKER_00: And...
- 4:19SPEAKER_00: I wrote to a friend,
- 4:21SPEAKER_00: I can't wait to laugh in belief with you about some magic that happened for me this week.
- 4:26SPEAKER_00: I can't tell you what it is, but it's really magical and hilarious.
- 4:29SPEAKER_00: So let's just continue to laugh in belief and cry in belief because it's believable.
- 4:35SPEAKER_00: Moving on.
- 4:37SPEAKER_00: The art of saying dumb shit.
- 4:41SPEAKER_00: For the sake of communicating this effectively,
- 4:44SPEAKER_00: I will be saying quote-unquote dumb and quote-unquote smart for lack of better phrases.
- 4:50SPEAKER_00: Saying dumb shit is like failure.
- 4:53SPEAKER_00: It's essential.
- 4:54SPEAKER_00: I refer to failure quote-unquote
- 4:56SPEAKER_00: as a way to hopefully create an understanding of the way in which saying dumb shit can be applied.
- 5:03SPEAKER_00: If we view saying dumb shit as failure of language choices,
- 5:08SPEAKER_00: as our path towards saying the things that we do want to say,
- 5:12SPEAKER_00: it might free us from our own judgment and invite us to arrive at the things we do
- 5:19SPEAKER_00: want to say faster and with greater confidence.
- 5:22SPEAKER_00: Whether it's for an idea to communicate something to yourself or someone else,
- 5:26SPEAKER_00: saying a quote unquote bad idea or something quote unquote dumb is typically
- 5:31SPEAKER_00: necessary to get there.
- 5:32SPEAKER_00: We simply need to normalize it and practice not judging ourselves or each other, of course, for it.
- 5:38SPEAKER_00: Sometimes it is literally the dumb idea or statement that inspires us with the
- 5:43SPEAKER_00: eventual great idea or statement.
- 5:46SPEAKER_00: Think about it like this.
- 5:47SPEAKER_00: The universe is always balanced,
- 5:49SPEAKER_00: so the mere existence of the dumb thing creates opportunity to balance it with a
- 5:56SPEAKER_00: smart thing.
- 5:58SPEAKER_00: Without something dumb, we can't have something quote-unquote smart.
- 6:03SPEAKER_00: Now, a note on accepting compliments.
- 6:06SPEAKER_00: I'm very passionate about this.
- 6:08SPEAKER_00: I mean, I'm passionate about everything as you can probably tell.
- 6:10SPEAKER_00: Okay, accept a compliment, don't internalize it.
- 6:16SPEAKER_00: I've noticed society emphasizes the importance of not internalizing negative feedback.
- 6:21SPEAKER_00: What we don't talk about enough is that it's equally valuable to not internalize positive feedback.
- 6:26SPEAKER_00: There's nothing we are or have that exists because of someone else's observations.
- 6:32SPEAKER_00: We can say thank you to a compliment,
- 6:35SPEAKER_00: appreciating it,
- 6:36SPEAKER_00: receiving it,
- 6:37SPEAKER_00: but not internalizing it,
- 6:39SPEAKER_00: not taking it on,
- 6:41SPEAKER_00: not believing it because someone else says so,
- 6:44SPEAKER_00: not believing it because of an external factor.
- 6:47SPEAKER_00: Sometimes, I think it's funny when people compliment my name.
- 6:50SPEAKER_00: I say, thanks.
- 6:51SPEAKER_00: I'll let my parents know.
- 6:52SPEAKER_00: Like, yeah, I answer to this name.
- 6:54SPEAKER_00: And in a way, I choose it because I haven't exactly changed it.
- 6:58SPEAKER_00: But my parents came up with it.
- 7:00SPEAKER_00: If anything, it's their compliment to say thanks to.
- 7:03SPEAKER_00: And even with that, they didn't make up the name Jordan or Blizzard either.
- 7:07SPEAKER_00: It's not theirs.
- 7:08SPEAKER_00: So, who knows?
- 7:10SPEAKER_00: Not me.
- 7:10SPEAKER_00: And what I do know is that it doesn't matter.
- 7:12SPEAKER_00: Okay.
- 7:14SPEAKER_00: Compliments or insults.
- 7:16SPEAKER_00: Indifference is the key here.
- 7:19SPEAKER_00: Now, my party of one story for this week.
- 7:22SPEAKER_00: As a reminder, party of one means having fun with oneself, for oneself, as oneself.
- 7:28SPEAKER_00: Anywhere, everywhere, no matter who's there.
- 7:31SPEAKER_00: We become our party of one by consistently practicing self-friendship.
- 7:35SPEAKER_00: Each episode,
- 7:36SPEAKER_00: I share little stories from my life that happened thanks to me showing up in the
- 7:40SPEAKER_00: world as my party of one.
- 7:42SPEAKER_00: So I was enjoying sunset as I do and a woman approached me asking if I was traveling alone too.
- 7:49SPEAKER_00: I shared that I am and I'm living here in Uluwatu for now.
- 7:52SPEAKER_00: She carried on to share it's her first time ever traveling alone and her husband
- 7:57SPEAKER_00: and kids were home in Europe and she has been practicing setting boundaries with
- 8:00SPEAKER_00: her daughter.
- 8:02SPEAKER_00: Seriously,
- 8:02SPEAKER_00: in two minutes,
- 8:04SPEAKER_00: probably less,
- 8:05SPEAKER_00: of conversation,
- 8:06SPEAKER_00: this is all that was said as I kindly enjoyed and listened.
- 8:10SPEAKER_00: Naturally, I became so excited because obviously I attracted this into my life.
- 8:15SPEAKER_00: A random woman unknowingly sharing with me that she is practicing self-friendship.
- 8:20SPEAKER_00: She was practicing the first core methods of boundaries with her daughter and then
- 8:25SPEAKER_00: the second being her confidence in her decision to travel on her own and the third
- 8:29SPEAKER_00: core method being alignment.
- 8:31SPEAKER_00: She was enjoying sunset and stumbled upon me for a joyful chat.
- 8:35SPEAKER_00: Beautiful.
- 8:37SPEAKER_00: Go her.
- 8:38SPEAKER_00: Now a note on vocabulary expansion in relation to Planet Butter's coffee table book
- 8:44SPEAKER_00: with a lesson,
- 8:46SPEAKER_00: which is called Party of One,
- 8:47SPEAKER_00: Self-Friendship in Action.
- 8:49SPEAKER_00: Make sure you guys check it out.
- 8:50SPEAKER_00: I'll tell you where it is at the end of the episode.
- 8:52SPEAKER_00: So some commentary that I've received on my book is that there are a couple of
- 8:56SPEAKER_00: words I use that might be above the level of vocabulary than what a lot of kids know.
- 9:02SPEAKER_00: My question is,
- 9:03SPEAKER_00: why would we want to meet someone exactly where they're at when we can challenge
- 9:10SPEAKER_00: them a bit,
- 9:11SPEAKER_00: fuel their growth?
- 9:12SPEAKER_00: My attitude is that it's an opportunity for kids to ask questions and learn.
- 9:18SPEAKER_00: If a child is being read to, they can ask the person reading, what does that mean?
- 9:23SPEAKER_00: Or if a kid is old enough to read themselves,
- 9:25SPEAKER_00: then they're probably old enough to use the internet,
- 9:27SPEAKER_00: which means they can ask Siri or Google or the dictionary what the word means.
- 9:31SPEAKER_00: Then they'll learn about self-friendship while expanding their vocabulary.
- 9:37SPEAKER_00: And I definitely want to encourage that.
- 9:39SPEAKER_00: It was a very,
- 9:40SPEAKER_00: very,
- 9:40SPEAKER_00: very conscious decision to use some words above the expected vocabulary for children.
- 9:46SPEAKER_00: It's also not a kid's book.
- 9:48SPEAKER_00: It's a coffee table book with a lesson.
- 9:50SPEAKER_00: It's for everyone.
- 9:51SPEAKER_00: And that's that.
- 9:52SPEAKER_00: Now, how to win in a power dynamic.
- 9:56SPEAKER_00: I also am really excited about this one.
- 9:58SPEAKER_00: Okay,
- 9:59SPEAKER_00: this is actually from the Planet Butter Substack Weekly Self-Friendship article
- 10:03SPEAKER_00: from April 24th,
- 10:042024.
- 10:06SPEAKER_00: I was so proud of this one, so I decided to share some of it in this week's episode.
- 10:10SPEAKER_00: Actually, I'll just read all of it because you deserve it.
- 10:13SPEAKER_00: So here we go.
- 10:15SPEAKER_00: Dun, dun, dun.
- 10:17SPEAKER_00: I always show up as a team player,
- 10:19SPEAKER_00: regardless if it's a casual passing conversation or a business negotiation.
- 10:24SPEAKER_00: In the moment, we're aligned in that we are both part of the same moment.
- 10:28SPEAKER_00: The millisecond I notice the other person, person, the other person,
- 10:35SPEAKER_00: The millisecond I notice the other person shows me they're not collaborative,
- 10:39SPEAKER_00: whether it's through their language choices or their more obvious actions,
- 10:44SPEAKER_00: I take note and recognize this means that we are not ultimately going to sustain
- 10:48SPEAKER_00: this initial alignment.
- 10:51SPEAKER_00: In staying true to my self-friendship practice and my three core methods of boundaries,
- 10:56SPEAKER_00: confidence,
- 10:56SPEAKER_00: and alignment,
- 10:57SPEAKER_00: there is no power dynamic.
- 11:00SPEAKER_00: There is no competition.
- 11:01SPEAKER_00: There is no longer a conversation.
- 11:04SPEAKER_00: The best and most powerful part of this is that peace is sustained in the dynamic.
- 11:09SPEAKER_00: Staying true to my initial boundaries means that when we part ways,
- 11:13SPEAKER_00: so long as I communicate kindly and transparently,
- 11:17SPEAKER_00: the dynamic can remain a peaceful one."
- 11:20SPEAKER_00: When the reason is purely for my own mental,
- 11:23SPEAKER_00: physical,
- 11:23SPEAKER_00: emotional,
- 11:24SPEAKER_00: and spiritual best interest,
- 11:26SPEAKER_00: there's no harm,
- 11:27SPEAKER_00: there's no fight,
- 11:28SPEAKER_00: there's just misalignment.
- 11:31SPEAKER_00: Sure, from the other person's perspective, it might piss off or disappoint them.
- 11:35SPEAKER_00: However,
- 11:35SPEAKER_00: given the context that the individual does not have an interest in collaborating anyway,
- 11:40SPEAKER_00: they will likely just move on quickly to someone who doesn't practice self-friendship.
- 11:44SPEAKER_00: To this power-playing person, it's about having it their way.
- 11:49SPEAKER_00: It's power that they want, remember?
- 11:51SPEAKER_00: They'll flip the story to suit their unhealthy ego in whatever way they need to
- 11:55SPEAKER_00: feel better about not getting what they want.
- 11:58SPEAKER_00: And then they'll carry on.
- 12:00SPEAKER_00: Comically, this also fuels the piece.
- 12:02SPEAKER_00: The person who is fueled with power will not like the feeling of rejection by
- 12:08SPEAKER_00: someone they thought they had power over.
- 12:11SPEAKER_00: So when someone like myself who practices self-friendship,
- 12:15SPEAKER_00: hopefully all of you,
- 12:17SPEAKER_00: does communicate kindly and transparently in honoring my boundaries,
- 12:21SPEAKER_00: the person who wants the power will quietly accept it,
- 12:24SPEAKER_00: agree to it,
- 12:25SPEAKER_00: and then make it their idea.
- 12:28SPEAKER_00: Everyone's happy.
- 12:29SPEAKER_00: Sometimes when one person in a dynamic begins to play power games,
- 12:34SPEAKER_00: the other person will often either play the game slash compete for power or think
- 12:39SPEAKER_00: that they're not playing the game by being submissive.
- 12:42SPEAKER_00: When someone decides to play for power,
- 12:45SPEAKER_00: it's usually an attempt to prove to themselves or to the other person that they
- 12:50SPEAKER_00: have power too.
- 12:51SPEAKER_00: which really just means that they're stuck in their unhealthy ego,
- 12:55SPEAKER_00: and by responding to someone else's attempt at a power dynamic,
- 12:58SPEAKER_00: they automatically lose,
- 13:00SPEAKER_00: because tension is automatically created now that both people have decided to
- 13:04SPEAKER_00: compete for power rather than collaborate.
- 13:07SPEAKER_00: When someone thinks they're not playing by, quote-unquote, just going with it, they're unfortunately...
- 13:14SPEAKER_00: and usually unknowingly,
- 13:16SPEAKER_00: leaning into a recipe of sacrificing their boundaries,
- 13:20SPEAKER_00: the first core method of self-friendship,
- 13:21SPEAKER_00: and therefore sacrificing their confidence,
- 13:24SPEAKER_00: the second core method,
- 13:25SPEAKER_00: and then by default,
- 13:27SPEAKER_00: interfering with their own alignment,
- 13:29SPEAKER_00: the third core method of self-friendship.
- 13:32SPEAKER_00: This means they are not practicing self-friendship and will not be able to have fun
- 13:37SPEAKER_00: with themselves,
- 13:37SPEAKER_00: for themselves,
- 13:38SPEAKER_00: as themselves.
- 13:39SPEAKER_00: AKA, they won't be able to show up as their party of one.
- 13:42SPEAKER_00: And we don't want that because that also means that they are not able to contribute
- 13:49SPEAKER_00: to their best selves or to society slash Planet Butter's mission of united individualism.
- 13:55SPEAKER_00: Play your game.
- 13:56SPEAKER_00: It's your world and you're living in it.
- 13:58SPEAKER_00: Ta-da!
- 14:00SPEAKER_00: Yay!
- 14:01SPEAKER_00: Such a good article.
- 14:02SPEAKER_00: I know.
- 14:02SPEAKER_00: I know.
- 14:02SPEAKER_00: All right.
- 14:05SPEAKER_00: Now, a perspective dance with the sky.
- 14:08SPEAKER_00: When it's cloudy at night and you can't see the stars to stargaze, I call it cloud gazing.
- 14:13SPEAKER_00: I was at a gorgeous spa on a cliff post sunset and I was laying on the grass and
- 14:17SPEAKER_00: when the sky is clear in Bali,
- 14:18SPEAKER_00: the stargazing is phenomenal.
- 14:20SPEAKER_00: But it was super cloudy and in a situation where most people would be disappointed
- 14:25SPEAKER_00: or complain,
- 14:26SPEAKER_00: on Planet Butter...
- 14:28SPEAKER_00: We flip it and ta-da, we are cloud gazing.
- 14:32SPEAKER_00: Now, another party of one this week.
- 14:35SPEAKER_00: Another party of one this week.
- 14:37SPEAKER_00: I said hi to a bunch of local construction workers as my Go-Jek driver and I passed them.
- 14:41SPEAKER_00: And then my driver said, it makes the locals really happy when foreigners say hi to them.
- 14:46SPEAKER_00: And I said, I'm so glad.
- 14:47SPEAKER_00: I love to make people happy.
- 14:48SPEAKER_00: He said, yeah, of course.
- 14:51SPEAKER_00: Because, of course, to the Balinese, it's like, yeah, duh, you like to make people happy.
- 14:55SPEAKER_00: Ha!
- 14:56SPEAKER_00: And then we just had a giggle fest for the next two minutes about it.
- 14:59SPEAKER_00: It was just pure and joyous.
- 15:02SPEAKER_00: A simple must share.
- 15:04SPEAKER_00: Now, the question for the week.
- 15:07SPEAKER_00: If we view intention as motivation, how will that influence our actions?
- 15:14SPEAKER_00: Let me know.
- 15:16SPEAKER_00: And email me if you want to let me know.
- 15:18SPEAKER_00: That is selffriendshippodcast at gmail.com.
- 15:21SPEAKER_00: And as a loving reminder...
- 15:24SPEAKER_00: My Instagram handle is planetbutter, P-L-A-N-I-T-B-I is for individualism.
- 15:30SPEAKER_00: Self-Friendship Podcast, as you know, is every Thursday.
- 15:32SPEAKER_00: And my coffee table book for the lesson,
- 15:35SPEAKER_00: Planet Butter,
- 15:36SPEAKER_00: Hardy of One,
- 15:37SPEAKER_00: Self-Friendship in Action is available as an ebook on Amazon KDP.
- 15:41SPEAKER_00: And the hard copies will be available for order so soon on planetbutter.com and in
- 15:46SPEAKER_00: select stores internationally.
- 15:49SPEAKER_00: I'm super excited.
- 15:50SPEAKER_00: If you guys have any inquiries about the book or whatever with me, please reach out.
- 15:55SPEAKER_00: selffriendshippodcast.gmail.com is just fine or DM me or however you feel like
- 15:59SPEAKER_00: hunting me down these days.
- 16:01SPEAKER_00: But don't come to my house.
- 16:02SPEAKER_00: That's creepy.
- 16:03SPEAKER_00: Okay.
- 16:03SPEAKER_00: Anyway, have a beautiful week.
- 16:07SPEAKER_00: I'll see you next time.
- 16:09SPEAKER_00: And...
- 16:11SPEAKER_00: oh shit my sub stack guys planet butter sub stack weekly self friendship articles
- 16:17SPEAKER_00: much like the one I read to you helpful playful loving and bi-weekly blizzards
- 16:23SPEAKER_00: booktionary words I make up that you can use if you would like they're super cool
- 16:27SPEAKER_00: and fun and intelligent and other surprise stuff I'm thinking about putting my
- 16:33SPEAKER_00: mantras that I've made up over the course of making this podcast as another section
- 16:37SPEAKER_00: on
- 16:38SPEAKER_00: my sub stack as well for people to download and access at their leisure so they
- 16:42SPEAKER_00: don't have to go back and try to find it or write it down or whatever.
- 16:45SPEAKER_00: All right.
- 16:46SPEAKER_00: That's all we've got.
- 16:47SPEAKER_00: I'll see you next time.