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YOUR INNER GPS · The Karen Kenney Show

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  Hey you guys, welcome to the Karen Kenney show. I'm wicked
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  happy to be here with you, because look, if you can hear
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  the sound of my voice, it means we survived 2025 we did it. We
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  did it. I got my new Goonie shirt on the Goonies, we never
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  say die, right? Goonies never say die. We made it into 2026
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  here we are. Congratulations. I'm so happy to be here with
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  you. And here's one of the things that always happens, at
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  least for me, maybe you can relate. So at the start of a new
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  year, we start to ask ourselves, right? All these questions you
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  might be asking yourself. First of all, you might be asking
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  like, what the just happened? You're not watching this. I'm
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  like, grabbing my face. Okay, No, but seriously, start of a
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  new year, you might be asking yourself some questions like,
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  Where am I even going? Right? Like, where am I going? What's
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  my destination? What do I want to do this year? What do I want
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  to create? What do I want to accomplish? Right? Where am I
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  going? What am I doing? Who am I doing it with, right? All of
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  these are really normal questions to be asking. And for
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  me, it's kind of like having a treasure map, right? It's kind
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  of like, like asking myself, like, Okay, what treasures do I
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  want to, kind of, you know, try to find this year or experience
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  or create or whatever. And as we know with, you know, if you
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  watch the Goonies movies, you know, if you didn't, oh my god,
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  please go watch it. It's one of my favorite movies of all time.
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  Hey, you guys, right? You always hear me saying that the start of
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  my emails and stuff. But you know, the Goonies, they needed
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  to save their home, they needed to save their little town, and
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  they ended up finding, like this treasure map, and it takes them
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  on this adventure, right? And even as adults like we need,
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  sometimes a Map to navigate to get us where we want to go. And
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  the premise of today's whole show is, I believe that we each
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  have an internal GPS. We have an inner GPS and an internal
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  compass, and that's what we're going to kind of dive into
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  today, which I think is like, Thank you Jesus. Thank you baby
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  Jesus, in a walnut shell, right? Like that that is actually
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  available to us. Now, some of us might call it by different
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  names, but we're going to get to that. So let's just break down
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  what a GPS actually is. What is your inner GPS? We're going to
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  get to that. But the actual external GPS as defined, right?
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  I looked it up. So the GPS stands for a global positioning
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  system, or a global position system, and this is what it
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  does. It guides us by providing precise location, navigation and
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  timing information through signals that are sent from a
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  network of satellites, and it helps everything from our
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  smartphones navigate roads to critical infrastructure like
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  banking and emergency services. So it's essential, obviously,
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  for daily life and countless industries. It works by
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  receivers on the earth, calculating the distance from
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  multiple satellites to pinpoint location, speed and directions,
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  and it guides uses from point A to point B. And I got to tell
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  you, when I saw that, I just started cracking up laughing,
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  because I don't know about you, but there have definitely, I
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  mean, I would say pretty much, like every second of every day,
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  but there certainly have been some times in my life where I
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  needed some help getting my ass from point A to point B. I don't
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  know about you, and I don't just mean like in the car, I
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  literally mean like, oh my god, I have there were a series of my
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  own choices, thinking I knew best or better, like I had a
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  plan. You know what A Course in Miracles always says is, like a
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  healed mind does not plan. Doesn't mean you don't have a
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  plan, or you don't make a plan. You just don't make that sucker
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  by yourself, which, for me, just points back to this whole inner
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  GPS. But let me just tell you a little story, a couple of
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  stories, to put this into context, right? So I do not
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  always have a great sense of outer direction. I mean
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  literally, like when we're driving or whatever, but I sure
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  as shit know that I have an inner GPS, but this has come
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  through, like learned experiences. It's not like I was
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  born, just kind of automatically knowing this, or maybe we did
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  know it, but we were taught by the world and our environments
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  and experiences not to trust ourselves or trust the inner
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  knowing that we have. But here's a couple of stories. So when I
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  was a little kid, there are two, two times specifically, that
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  really stand out for me, because I was scared out of my mind,
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  like scared shitless, as we say, where I'm from, right, where I
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  got lost as a kid. The first time was at the tops field fair.
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  If you've never been. Into the top shield fair around here,
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  right? Massachusetts, New Hampshire kids, right? It's this
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  massive fair, and it's everything. It's like sights and
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  sounds and smells, and it's just like an overwhelming olfactory
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  kind of experience, right? There's so many noises, and
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  there's like every kind of, like, greasy, you know what?
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  Candy Apples, popcorn, fried dough, dead animals on a stick,
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  like everything you could think of, right? Everybody's Hawking
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  their wares, and there's like, 4h things over there, and
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  animals over there, and rides and games and noises, and it's
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  just a lot, right? So imagine being a tiny person, like three
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  years old, or whatever it is, and your parents somehow lose
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  you in this massive crowd, right? So nobody's paying
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  attention. It's like probably 1971 7273 I don't know. I'm
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  tiny, right? I'm a little kid four. I don't know, maybe I'm
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  four years old. I don't remember exactly, but I was little, and I
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  just remember, all of a sudden, I can viscerally, you guys, I
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  can literally, I have the memory of, like, you know, when you're
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  a little, you know, everything is either, like, you're looking
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  at people's thighs or knees or crotches or whatever, like,
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  everything is big to you. So remember, imagine being like,
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  close to the ground, because you're a little person, and
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  you're just looking up, and all you see are these bodies moving
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  past you. And I was, I was a kid that was wicked attached to my
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  mother. You know? I was a kid who would always be like,
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  grabbing the pant leg so to be lost in a crowd like that. I
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  just remember being so scared and crying my little eyes out,
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  and I was like, Oh no. And somebody came and helped me, and
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  they walked me over to like the lost and found and thank you
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  Jesus. Then like over the speaker system, or however they
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  communicated, my parents finally found me, but I remember like,
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  just not knowing where to go or what to do. And of course,
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  because I was a little kid, right, the second time I got
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  lost, we were at a babysitter's house in Andover. I don't know,
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  I was like, had we been there before? I don't know, but the
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  whole day, there's a series of events about like getting stung
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  by a bee, and my sister trying to get the bee away from us,
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  like shooting me in the face with the hose, probably longer
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  than necessary, because she was just being mean to me.
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  But at some point we were left unsupervised. We walked to the
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  park, you know, back then they would just be like, beat it.
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  Like, go away. Like, even though we had a babysitter, they were
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  like, yeah, go to the park down the street. And my sister and I
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  were coming back from the park, and again, I'm a little kid,
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  right? And we're coming back from the park, and it's like,
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  let's do a race and see who can get home fastest, right? But of
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  course, my sister's like, I'm going to take the streets. And
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  I'm like, I'm going to cut through the woods. I don't know
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  why I thought this was a good idea, but I start to go through
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  the woods, and instead of staying really close to, like
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  the tree line, the outline, I must have wandered into a little
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  bit further right into the woods, and all I remember is
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  just again, looking up at the trees, and it was a sunny day
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  out, at least, and I could hear like, all the critters, like in
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  the leaves and in the woods and the birds and the things, and I
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  was just like lost, like I didn't know what direction to go
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  in. You know, when you're little, like, you can't see over
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  bushes and trees and stuff like that. And I just remember
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  standing in the woods crying, calling for my mother. I was so
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  scared and so sad, and then all of a sudden, divine
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  intervention. I You guys, I swear to God, I was like, I
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  don't know how it happened, but I somehow wandered back towards
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  the tree line where I could start to see houses. And I was
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  like, please. Like I was, you know, I was like, little
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  Catholic kid, so I'm sure I was praying, asking God to help me.
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  And I wandered out of the woods into somebody's backyard. My
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  sister, I was like, had been crying, of course. My sister
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  thought it was wicked, funny that I was lost. She probably
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  preferred that I wasn't found. But my ass got out of the woods.
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  But I just remember like this, I this sense of like, not having
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  any idea of where I was in space, not having a good sense
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  of direction. And even to this day, now, again, I don't know
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  about you, but me, like, I prefer landmarks, like I do not
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  when people are like, Oh, go to the go to the second stop sign
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  and head west. I'm like, What are you talking about? Or
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  they're like, go north. I'm like, you go north. I don't know
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  what that is. Tell me there's a big white house on the corner
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  with red shutters. You're gonna see the fence. Go left there.
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  Banger right here. Like I need landmarks. I need locations. I
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  need things that are grounded in space and really, like obvious
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  right when I'm navigating the outer world. But my inner world
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  is something that I really trust, like, where I'm a little
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  more hesitant about getting lost, quote, unquote out there,
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  like in here, and I'm touching my heart in here. I'm touching.
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  Watching my like my head, you know, like I have a I have a
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  good sense of my inner GPS. And I think we all have an inner
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  GPS. I think we all have an inner compass. Now, again, we
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  might call it by different names, like I call it sometimes
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  the inner teacher, right? Of course, in miracles says we all
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  have an inner teacher, an internal teacher. Call it your
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  inner voice. Call it Holy Spirit. Call it your intuition.
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  Call it your gut instinct. I don't care what we call it right
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  in this episode, I'm just calling it your inner GPS. But I
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  remember the first time I was thinking about so I've been
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  teaching yoga since like 1999 but I hadn't become officially
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  certified or anything yet. So I got certified in 2001 at the
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  Kripalu. If you guys know what Kripalu is, out in the
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  Berkshires in Massachusetts, I became a, you know, certified
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  Kripalu Yoga teacher. And at that time, I was, like, driving
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  around, like, teaching at 1000 different places, alright,
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  that's an exaggeration, but a bunch of different places. And
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  so like every day, I'd be driving somewhere else to some
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  gym or some studio or some church where I rented space or
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  whatever. And I finally decided that it would be nice to, like,
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  have my own place. I didn't know where I was going to open one. I
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  didn't know what I was going to do. At this point, I was living
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  in Northwood, right? So off of Route four. So I was driving
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  from Concord, from one of the places I had been teaching,
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  right? And I've been driving through, driving from Concord
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  towards back to Northwood. And all of a sudden, as I hit the
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  the Epsom traffic circle, now I hear, I literally hear a voice,
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  right? And I say it's not. There are times when I say like I
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  heard a voice inside of me. And what I mean by that sometimes is
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  it's more like a word impression, like the words are
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  just there. I have the words. I know what to say. I know what to
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  do. This happens to me a lot when I'm when I'm on stage or
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  speaking or telling a story, or whatever, the words like, are
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  there. I have access to them, but sometimes it's like I
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  literally hear a voice in my head. And all I can tell you is,
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  as I was driving down, normally, I would go around the traffic
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  circle, take what is called, like the second exit, meaning
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  just I would continue straight on on Route four. But when I'm
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  pulling up to this, this thing. Now, you gotta remember, it's
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  like 830 at night, right? It's like 839 o'clock at night. It's
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  like late. And all of a sudden, as I'm getting up to the traffic
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  circle, I hear go right, like, turn right. And I was like,
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  wait, what? Like? But I know I'm old enough now at this point to,
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  like, trust that something smarter than me, something more
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  divinely intelligent is at work. So I just bang a right, and I
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  start to drive down Route 28 now, I had driven down Route 28
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  like going towards hooks, it and stuff 1000 times, because I also
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  was teaching at that time at Express fitness, which was like
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  a little sister club to the executive in Manchester. And as
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  I drive down, you know, there was always this little plaza on
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  there on the right hand side, if I was going right, and it used
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  to have like the post office in it, and there was a hair salon.
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  They were like different things. So I pull in, and as I pull in,
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  I can see on the left side of the building, it's dark, but on
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  the right side of the building in the front, all the lights are
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  on. And I'm like, Okay. And so, like, I'm like, Okay. I'm it's
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  like, it just again, it's like, pull in. So I pull in and I see
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  a little sign. Well, I saw the sign from the road. It said for
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  rent up on the on the larger sign. So like, I pull in, like,
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  space for rent, and I see the lights on in the lawyer's
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  office, so I knock on the door, and the lawyer who owns the
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  building, it's not like it could have been any random business,
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  but now it's the guy that owns the building who, like, answers
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  the door. I'm like, Okay, first of all, he's he's all the things
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  that had to line up for this to happen. He's working late. His
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  lights are on, not just his office light the lights in the
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  front office, like where his assistant would or associate
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  would sit. I see the light. I see the sign. I go in. He
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  answers the door. We end up talking. Now at this point, I
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  have, like, no money. I have, like no money, money to start a
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  business. What I have is a dream and a prayer and a hard work
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  ethic, you know what I mean. And so he and I end up talking, and
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  he makes a deal with me, because he says to me, I like you. Kid,
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  that's what he said to me, I like you, kid, I'm going to give
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  you a shot. He's like, he is the deal. So he's like, I'm going to
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  give you a shot. We're going to start your rent at this we're
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  going to do it for this many months until you get some
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  traction, and still you're until your business starts to grow,
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  right? And then once you do, you'll pay me X, Y and Z. It was
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  like a miracle, you guys. It was like having my prayer answered
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  that somebody, first of all, all the events that led up to this,
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  that he was there, that it was only, like 15 minutes or
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  whatever, from my house, that it. Like right off a route four,
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  but not so busy that people couldn't pull in and out of
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  that, the whole thing. And I was in that space for many years,
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  and it was the beginning of quest yoga studio. And I loved
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  it, loved it, loved it. And the thing is, this our inner GPS.
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  There really is, I believe, something smarter than us that
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  knows exactly where we are, knows where we want to go, where
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  we need to go, and it knows how to help us get there. And it
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  made me something, made me think about something that A Course in
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  Miracles, and Marion Williamson always says, and I wrote it
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  down. So I wrote down the quote so I didn't screw it up, because
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  I don't like to misquote other people. So Marianne always says,
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  and this is based on, obviously, a principle in the Course of
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  Miracles. She says, the universe is self organizing and self
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  correcting. It is always moving in the direction of good.
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  How much do I love that? I'm going to say it again. The
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  universe is self organizing and it's self correcting. And we're
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  going to get to the self correcting in the second part of
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  this. It's always moving in the direction of good. She goes on
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  to say, we live in a self organizing and self correcting
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  universe. For every problem, there is a potentially
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  miraculous solution. A closed hat deflects the miracle, while
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  an open hat brings it forth. This is so important, this part,
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  she says, in every moment, we make a choice between the
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  heavenly awareness of our connection to all living things
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  or the hell of the delusion that we are separate and alone. And
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  she says, the mind will manufacture according to our
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  choice, and whichever we choose, we will seem to experience this.
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  And I was like, Oh, my God, this line about the mind is going to
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  manufacture according to our choice. So just like when you
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  get in your car, let's say you're driving some place and
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  you've never been there before. Okay, she's talking about how
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  the universe is self correcting. And I want to give you an
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  example about GPS, like when you get in your car, and like how
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  this applies, because sometimes I need to hear a little story to
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  make sense of what of something I always say, like, the whole,
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  this whole podcast is about storytelling, telling and
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  spiritual principles and spirituality, right? And so I
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  always use stories to kind of teach, like the dip the deeper
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  thing, or to share the deeper thing. And remember, as I always
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  say, everything I'm sharing is for my ears first. It's to
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  remind myself the miracles and the love and what's available to
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  me, right? Okay, so here's the thing, whether you use Waze or
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  whether you use MapQuest, I remember when we used to use
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  MapQuest, back in the day, we would literally print out paper
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  maps. It was so great. We would print out our paper directions,
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  and once in a while, I'll still do it just, just for old time
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  sake. But so whether you're putting into your phone, you're
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  using Waze or Google, Google Maps or Mapquest or whatever,
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  when you type in that address of like, where you're trying to get
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  to that program, that little GPS system is going to lay out a
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  path right, and it's going to tell us exactly whatever voice
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  it's saying, like, at the end of this road, make a left or
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  whatever right. Now, sometimes the map can seem a little kooky,
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  right? If you ever done it and it's telling you, make a U turn,
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  make a U turn. Make a U turn. Like, there's a glitch. I'll
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  sometimes just go out of the app and, like, reset my destination.
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  That can be really helpful, right? There are going to be
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  times when the system that we're working within isn't working, so
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  we have to make a change, right to help ourselves. But there are
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  times when we have been given very clear instructions by our
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  inner GPS, by our inner teacher, by the divine intelligence, by
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  your intuition or your gut instinct or Holy Spirit or
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  whatever, we have gotten clear directions. It knows where we're
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  trying to go. It knows where we need to go. It's going to help
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  us get there. But then sometimes we get in our own way, and we
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  make a wrong turn. And the thing is, is that we're going to screw
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  up because we're human. We're going to make mistakes human,
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  and we're going to make wrong turns. But this is what's so
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  interesting about the inner GPS and the external GPS. Your ways
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  doesn't start talking to you like an asshole, like, the ways
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  doesn't start being mean to you or telling you that you're
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  stupid or start calling you names or judging you, and it
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  doesn't yell at you, and it doesn't tell you, like, doesn't
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  say things to you. Like, why can't you just, like, follow
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  directions? Why are you making this habit on yourself? Why are
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  you making the trip last longer? Right? It doesn't do any of that
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  stuff. We might do that stuff to us, but the thing that is
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  consistent and knows where we're trying to go and is trying to
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  help. Us get there. And whether you call that spiritual team,
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  your divine helpers, Holy Spirit, God source, the
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  universe, the divine I don't care what you call it. I do
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  think that there is something benevolent that is trying to
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  help us if we can just get out of our own ways. And when we
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  make mistakes, when we screw up, it's not more helpful to stop
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  beating ourselves up. And this is where self compassion, self
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  forgiveness, kindness, mercy, grace, tenderness, right? All
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  these things come into play when we get lost and screw up with
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  the ways or the Map Quest or whatever. Again, it doesn't
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  become verbally abusive to us. It doesn't say, oh, yeah, of
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  course, you screwed it up. Here we go again, right? It's not
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  doing that. All it does is it simply reroutes us right. If you
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  go left and you meant to go right, it will tell you take a U
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  turn. It's always going to support us so on the path that
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  we think we're on, there are going to be times when we When
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  we bang a UE, when we shouldn't, we're going to screw up. We're
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  going to go to the wrong place, but the route will just the map
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  will just re route us. So even though we might make mistakes,
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  even though the route may change, the path might switch
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  up, we might think, Oh yeah, I'm going to be married to this
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  person my whole life, and then you end up getting divorced, you
• 21:23
  might think, Oh, I'm going to have this career, this job for a
• 21:26
  really long time, or I'm going to be a dancer or a singer, I'm
• 21:29
  going to be a machinist, or I'm going to work at whatever you
• 21:31
  think, and then all of a sudden, it's like plot twist, right? So
• 21:36
  sometimes the root might change. But here's the thing about the
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  GPS, it doesn't matter how many mistakes you make. It doesn't
• 21:45
  matter how many times you screw up or how many wrong turns you
• 21:47
  take. The thing is, is when you start to realize, like, Oh, I've
• 21:53
  gone in the wrong direction. Don't keep driving in the wrong
• 21:55
  direction. Sometimes you just gotta pack it. You gotta hit
• 21:59
  pause. You got to forgive yourself. Take a breather,
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  right? Accept like, oh, I made a mistake. I got to forgive myself
• 22:05
  for this, right? And then, and then, and this is the important
• 22:09
  part. We got to listen for those directions. Man, whether it's
• 22:12
  turning up the volume on your phone so you can actually hear
• 22:15
  that little voice telling you where to go, or you got to
• 22:18
  listen deeply to the inner voice. And whether you through
• 22:22
  that, do that through having a daily spiritual practice, a DSP,
• 22:26
  you take time for mindfulness or contemplation, but you slow down
• 22:32
  the chatter, you turn down the external volume, right? Maybe
• 22:36
  you get off your phone, or you get off the social media apps
• 22:38
  for an hour a day, or a couple of hours, or whatever, take a
• 22:42
  little break from all the noise so that you can hear the true
• 22:45
  voice that is trying to direct you where you're trying to go.
• 22:48
  You know what I'm saying? So we got to listen for directions,
• 22:51
  and then we have to, like, take action. You got to stop moving
• 22:55
  again in the right direction. You got to trust and you got to
• 22:58
  take action. And all of this helps, right? If, first off,
• 23:04
  you're spending some time with yourself, figuring out where it
• 23:07
  is, exactly where you want to go. And here we are with a new
• 23:09
  year. We have a whole clean slate to start to create the
• 23:13
  life, the experiences, the relationships, right, the
• 23:18
  business, whatever it is, the book you want to write, the
• 23:20
  things you want to do, the places you want to go, the
• 23:22
  people you want to do it with, right? This is the beginning of
• 23:25
  a fresh new year. We might be thinking about these things, but
• 23:28
  you got to know where you want to go, and then you got to pay
• 23:32
  attention while you're getting there, while you're going there,
• 23:35
  you got to know where you're going. You're going to know what
• 23:37
  you're doing, because if you're not careful, you could hurt
• 23:39
  yourself or others if you're moving too fast, you're going to
• 23:43
  miss the exits, and if you're not paying attention, if you're
• 23:47
  trying to multitask, right? I did a whole podcast on this such
• 23:51
  a long time ago called single tasking. We got to be single
• 23:54
  tasking when you're in the car, drive, pay attention, and then
• 23:58
  we got to learn to listen. We got to learn to listen for that
• 24:01
  inner voice, for that deep, that deep trust that can build over
• 24:05
  time. Right? And you start small, start asking right for
• 24:10
  support in the morning. I always say, like, start your day. Start
• 24:15
  your day, whether you use the word God or source or universe
• 24:18
  or higher self or higher power, or whatever it is, spend a
• 24:22
  little time getting quiet. Right. Start with five minutes.
• 24:26
  Just take five minutes and just breathe and get quiet and try to
• 24:31
  drop in and if at first you can't do it sitting. Some people
• 24:34
  say, I can't sit. A lot of times, people will say to me,
• 24:41
  Oh, I can't sit and meditate. I can't be still. You know what I
• 24:46
  often jokingly say back to them, that must be really hard, then
• 24:49
  when you got to go to the bathroom, here's reality. We can
• 24:56
  all sit still for at least a couple of minutes because you do
• 24:59
  it every day. When you go to the bathroom.
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  But here's the thing, I'm not kidding, even if that's the time
• 25:04
  when you can sit still and take a few deep breaths and like,
• 25:06
  become more aware, that's really great, right? Because we want to
• 25:09
  deepen our connection to our inner GPS, that inner compass,
• 25:13
  that inner voice, that inner teacher. And I've always said
• 25:16
  for years and years and years to me, what GPS stands for is God's
• 25:20
  pretty smart. God's pretty smart. And the divine and the
• 25:27
  higher beings in the universe, there's a sense of our purpose.
• 25:30
  It knows where we're trying to go. What we're trying to where
• 25:33
  we're trying to go is we're trying to come home to
• 25:35
  ourselves. We're trying to come home, return to love, come back
• 25:39
  to the truth of ourselves, that we are loved, that we are good,
• 25:42
  that we are beautiful, that we are holy, that we are worthy,
• 25:45
  that we matter, that we are seen right, that we make a difference
• 25:49
  just by being here, all of these things, these truths. So if you
• 25:53
  find yourself here, here's a daily prayer. I've mentioned
• 25:56
  this before. Anybody who knows me has heard me say this prayer
• 25:59
  like a gazillion times. It comes from A Course in Miracles,
• 26:03
  right? And, of course, in miracles, it's in a slightly
• 26:06
  tiny bit different order, but this is the one that's kind of
• 26:08
  like sunk into the culture these days or forever, and it's this.
• 26:13
  So each day, this is what I say. I say this at the end of all my
• 26:16
  yoga classes, etc. So whatever the God of your own
• 26:19
  understanding is, whatever it is that you ask for insight or
• 26:22
  guidance from. I always say, I don't care what you call it. I
• 26:24
  don't care about the name, but know what it is for you, right?
• 26:28
  Well, try, you know, if you're building that relationship with
• 26:31
  God, source, the divine, the universe, again, love whatever
• 26:34
  you call it, and this is what we ask, please have me go where you
• 26:37
  would have me go. Have me do what you would have me do, have
• 26:43
  me say what you would have me say, and to whom. Please, use
• 26:48
  me. Please use me. Please use me. And then I always say and so
• 26:53
  it is Amen. So this is when we are making ourselves open for
• 26:59
  business. We are making ourselves open and receptive to
• 27:02
  guidance, to our own inner GPS. To align the assignment is
• 27:07
  alignment. I always say, so we have to align ourselves with
• 27:09
  those signals right the intersection between the heavens
• 27:12
  and the earth. Where are we going? What's our longitude and
• 27:16
  latitude? Man for 2026 I'm lining my things up. I got some
• 27:20
  things going on that I'm excited about, and I hope you do too. I
• 27:24
  hope you have some things that you're leaning into and moving
• 27:27
  towards and creating. And I'm so excited to be able to kind of be
• 27:32
  walking this path and on this journey, like with you, at least
• 27:35
  auditorily right, at least like we're like, we're sharing a
• 27:37
  little time together here on this podcast. So thank you so
• 27:40
  much. If it's 2026, and you're still here, I appreciate you
• 27:44
  loyal listeners. If you're new, welcome to the Karen Kenney
• 27:47
  show, family. I'm so happy to have you as part of a community.
• 27:51
  And here's the thing you guys, if you want to know where I'm
• 27:53
  going, what I'm up to, what kind of shenanigans I'm going to be
• 27:56
  or a foot, then just go to my website, right and join my list.
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• 28:19
  kenney.com just spell my last name right, and it's easy. And
• 28:22
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• 28:24
  things that I'm up to there. But if you want to get on the
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• 28:35
  you for being a pat. You know, one of the things, one of the
• 28:38
  reasons why I do this show, is to spread more love in the
• 28:41
  world. And I have always, like ended, I shouldn't say always, I
• 28:45
  think for a wicked long time, I've ended my show with saying,
• 28:48
  you know, wherever you go, may you leave the animals and
• 28:51
  yourself and the other people and the planet, the living
• 28:55
  planet, you know better than how you found it. And that's that's
• 28:59
  the gist of this. Is that we want to move into this new year,
• 29:02
  leaving the people and the places and the animals and the
• 29:05
  things that we create and do and whatever we discover, we want to
• 29:08
  leave it better than how we first found it. Wherever we go,
• 29:12
  may we and our presence and our love and our energy be a
• 29:17
  blessing. Bye, you.