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mid-year metamorphosis 🦋 · Lately with Lexi

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  SPEAKER_00: I don't know about you,
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  SPEAKER_00: but I'm not gonna wait until 2027 to start taking action towards my goals.
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  SPEAKER_00: So if you're anything like me,
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  SPEAKER_00: if you have big dreams and goals and a vision for your life,
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  SPEAKER_00: now is the perfect time to lock in.
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  SPEAKER_00: I'm gonna share everything I'm committing to So the first is all about self-care maxing.
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  SPEAKER_00: Think
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  SPEAKER_00: All things health, wellness, and beauty.
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  SPEAKER_00: The second is prioritizing creative expression.
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  SPEAKER_00: So think any way you like to express yourself,
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  SPEAKER_00: any passions or hobbies that you have that maybe you've put off.
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  SPEAKER_00: And the third area is daily sadhana,
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  SPEAKER_00: So think all things mindset that's really going to help sharpen your mental acts.
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  SPEAKER_00: So starting with self-care,
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  SPEAKER_00: this is something I could talk about all day long and never get bored.
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  SPEAKER_00: So think movement, hydration, supplementation, nutrition, skincare, you get the point.
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  SPEAKER_00: So I'm just going to riff a little bit on some of my favorite wellness practices
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  SPEAKER_00: that have made a huge difference in my mood,
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  SPEAKER_00: my energy, and just generally about how I feel day to day.
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  SPEAKER_00: Some of these are things that you might not notice the impact it's making.
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  SPEAKER_00: So the first is my vibration plate, which you cannot see, but it's to the right of me.
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  SPEAKER_00: And it's a great way just to wake up the lymph in the morning.
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  SPEAKER_00: So if you are like me, I'm not a morning person.
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  SPEAKER_00: I know I want to be so bad.
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  SPEAKER_00: I do try to get up early because that's honestly the only time I have to myself.
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  SPEAKER_00: But that morning is when I can just start to slowly wake
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  SPEAKER_00: I feel
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  SPEAKER_00: like you see a lot of health and wellness experts talking about how important
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  SPEAKER_00: the lymph is and just getting it moving.
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  SPEAKER_00: So number one thing,
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  SPEAKER_00: especially if you don't get your daily steps in,
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  SPEAKER_00: vibration plate can help to just wake that up.
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  SPEAKER_00: Then there's the rebounder, which you can see behind me.
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  SPEAKER_00: Now, this I think is even better than the vibration plate.
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  SPEAKER_00: It requires a little bit more work, if you will.
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  SPEAKER_00: Not that it's that difficult by any means,
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  SPEAKER_00: but rebounding, I feel like it's your heart involved a little bit more.
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  SPEAKER_00: And I just put on my favorite song.
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  SPEAKER_00: A little bit of Kanye.
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  SPEAKER_00: You don't even have to jump.
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  SPEAKER_00: Your feet can stay on the rebounder the whole time,
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  SPEAKER_00: but three to five minutes and you are going to wake up after that.
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  SPEAKER_00: Trust me.
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  SPEAKER_00: There's also been research by NASA about the equivalent.
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  SPEAKER_00: I want to say it's 10 minutes of rebounding is the equivalent to a 30 minute jog.
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  SPEAKER_00: Also, if you have any Or if you struggle with balance,
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  SPEAKER_00: I think that the rebounder is a great tool to help improve your overall health
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  SPEAKER_00: and vitality.
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  SPEAKER_00: And with that, another practice I love is going to be low impact workouts.
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  SPEAKER_00: So think Pilates, yoga, anything low impact that's just gentle on the joints.
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  SPEAKER_00: I think the most important thing when it comes to working out is just trying a lot
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  SPEAKER_00: of different things and seeing what you genuinely enjoy the most.
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  SPEAKER_00: Also, I think that the best measure of your progress is your endurance, your strength.
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  SPEAKER_00: So for example,
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  SPEAKER_00: even if you are doing low impact,
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  SPEAKER_00: lifting light weights,
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  SPEAKER_00: or if you are incorporating heavier weights,
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  SPEAKER_00: I think that you can tell when you're getting stronger
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  SPEAKER_00: when you are revisiting similar exercises or the same exercises.
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  SPEAKER_00: And week after week,
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  SPEAKER_00: you're noticing that, hey,
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  SPEAKER_00: I can do this low impact Pilates exercise longer than I could in the past,
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  SPEAKER_00: or I'm not shaking as much.
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  SPEAKER_00: And then same thing with higher weights.
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  SPEAKER_00: If you're able to go up in weight, that's another sign.
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  SPEAKER_00: Hey, you are in fact getting strong.
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  SPEAKER_00: So I think that those are the two things you want to look
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  SPEAKER_00: at is am I getting stronger with this workout?
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  SPEAKER_00: And then do I genuinely enjoy it?
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  SPEAKER_00: And personally, I think genuinely enjoying the workout is way more important.
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  SPEAKER_00: I'm also someone who has dealt with autoimmune issues and I am a yoga teacher
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  SPEAKER_00: through and through.
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  SPEAKER_00: I've been teaching since, gosh, 2018.
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  SPEAKER_00: And I was surprised how much I love Pilates.
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  SPEAKER_00: I felt like for a while I didn't try it because I was just all in on yoga.
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  SPEAKER_00: But I think there's a really great combination when you incorporate the two.
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  SPEAKER_00: Another thing, especially as a woman, cycle cycle.
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  SPEAKER_00: I would try to stick to the same workout schedule every week and I would fail.
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  SPEAKER_00: Every single month I would fail and I felt like I was always starting and stopping
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  SPEAKER_00: and starting over and I would kind of get into the shame cycle.
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  SPEAKER_00: So just give yourself permission to break that.
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  SPEAKER_00: It is so important just to really fall in love with the way you are moving your body
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  SPEAKER_00: and treating.
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  SPEAKER_00: That is so undervalued, but I think it's just so key.
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  SPEAKER_00: Another thing that is very popular on TikTok right now that I have been doing
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  SPEAKER_00: and also really enjoying is walking with a weighted vest, 10 pounds.
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  SPEAKER_00: I've had a 20-pound vest.
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  SPEAKER_00: Personally, I think that's a little too heavy.
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  SPEAKER_00: But 10 pounds, I can easily walk 30, 45 minutes.
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  SPEAKER_00: And it's just a great way to give yourself a little bit more of that strength
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  SPEAKER_00: while doing a low impact exercise like walking.
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  SPEAKER_00: Another self-care practice
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  SPEAKER_00: that I've incorporated every single day I am
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  SPEAKER_00: using French flower essences right now,
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  SPEAKER_00: which side note,
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  SPEAKER_00: if you know anything about flower essences,
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  SPEAKER_00: please teach me because I feel like I don't know what I'm doing.
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  SPEAKER_00: But whenever I am using flower essences, I have the craziest dreams.
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  SPEAKER_00: So I feel like they're working.
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  SPEAKER_00: They tend to make me very emotional.
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  SPEAKER_00: I find myself crying a lot more,
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  SPEAKER_00: but I always think crying is such a good, healthy, cathartic release.
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  SPEAKER_00: So yeah, check out flower essences.
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  SPEAKER_00: What else do I put in my loaded water?
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  SPEAKER_00: I think that's, oh, selenium.
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  SPEAKER_00: Selenium is another thing that I put in my loaded water and that's great for thyroid health.
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  SPEAKER_00: So I think that any supplements, workouts, things that you do, don't do what I'm doing.
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  SPEAKER_00: The things that I'm doing when it comes to self-care, What are my current needs?
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  SPEAKER_00: What am I excited about?
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  SPEAKER_00: What do I enjoy?
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  SPEAKER_00: And that should really be the gauge,
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  SPEAKER_00: I think, for all of us when we're looking at cultivating new habits.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's really important to just lock in on what is going to I think with any
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  SPEAKER_00: of these recommendations I'm sharing, this is everything I'm doing.
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  SPEAKER_00: A lot of these I've been doing for the last six months or so,
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  SPEAKER_00: and I'm just sharing them so that you can maybe become aware of anything I list off
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  SPEAKER_00: that piques your interest.
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  SPEAKER_00: Maybe try So again, use your discernment and just make your own routine.
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  SPEAKER_00: That's gonna be the thing that you'll be able to sustain.
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  SPEAKER_00: Another self-care practice when it comes to your morning
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  SPEAKER_00: and evening skincare routine,
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  SPEAKER_00: make it a ritual, whether it is lighting a candle, We all want more whimsy.
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  SPEAKER_00: We all want more romanticism in our lives.
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  SPEAKER_00: The last thing I'll share in this section on self-care is a concept that I learned
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  SPEAKER_00: from the Institute for Integrative Nutrition.
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  SPEAKER_00: So if you didn't know, I am a certified holistic health coach.
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  SPEAKER_00: I went to that school back in 2015.
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  SPEAKER_00: And there's this practice called crowding out.
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  SPEAKER_00: And I love this concept so much.
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  SPEAKER_00: Essentially,
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  SPEAKER_00: if you are wanting to get rid of bad habits,
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  SPEAKER_00: and I'm saying bad in air quotes because I think bad We don't want
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  SPEAKER_00: to judge negative lower vibrational habits.
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  SPEAKER_00: That being said,
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  SPEAKER_00: based on whatever those habits are that you want to shift,
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  SPEAKER_00: instead of restricting and putting these strict,
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  SPEAKER_00: rigid boundaries on yourself,
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  SPEAKER_00: you want to think through this concept If the goal is to stop eating takeout
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  SPEAKER_00: or eating out all the time,
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  SPEAKER_00: we want to crowd out that habit, meaning we want to put in place new and
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  SPEAKER_00: So this is really a way we can let go of restriction.
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  SPEAKER_00: This is my favorite concept that I learned at IIN.
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  SPEAKER_00: So as that example, again, if you want to eat out less, I wouldn't have that be the goal.
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  SPEAKER_00: I would have the goal and the habit be cooking at home more.
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  SPEAKER_00: Find fun, yummy recipes.
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  SPEAKER_00: That's something that I love to do.
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  SPEAKER_00: I love French food and French culture,
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  SPEAKER_00: so I will look up maybe one new recipe a week that I'm going to do,
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  SPEAKER_00: or maybe I decide that I am going to meal prep once a week or twice a week.
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  SPEAKER_00: And that is a way that you'll start to crowd out because if you have a fridge full
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  SPEAKER_00: of food that is fully prepared, you're not going to go spend money ordering takeout.
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  SPEAKER_00: At least you won't do it nearly as much.
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  SPEAKER_00: So keep that concept in mind.
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  SPEAKER_00: Anything.
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  SPEAKER_00: Another thing I haven't mentioned yet is I would really recommend
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  SPEAKER_00: before you just create a list of new habits.
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  SPEAKER_00: That can give you insight into, alright, this is my baseline.
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  SPEAKER_00: If I just want
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  SPEAKER_00: All right, that's enough of the self-care section.
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  SPEAKER_00: Next, let's talk about creative experience.
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  SPEAKER_00: So this could be so many different things.
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  SPEAKER_00: For me personally,
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  SPEAKER_00: my creative expression right now is all about writing and creating more podcasts
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  SPEAKER_00: and more videos.
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  SPEAKER_00: For you,
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  SPEAKER_00: your creative expression could be tied to maybe cooking or painting or Or dancing,
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  SPEAKER_00: there's really no limits to what you decide your creative focus is for this quarter.
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  SPEAKER_00: But I do think prioritizing creativity is so magnetic because
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  SPEAKER_00: the more we are living out our passions and our hobbies,
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  SPEAKER_00: we are going to have this glow from the inside out.
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  SPEAKER_00: And other people pick up on that and they like to be around it.
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  SPEAKER_00: And it's very magnetic.
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  SPEAKER_00: It creates new fun conversation.
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  SPEAKER_00: It also gets us out of our routine.
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  SPEAKER_00: And I think breaking out of our routine is a really important thing to do
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  SPEAKER_00: if we're wanting to change our life.
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  SPEAKER_00: My mentor once told me, show me your calendar and I'll show you your values.
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  SPEAKER_00: And I remember feeling a little bit intimidated by that statement and I don't want
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  SPEAKER_00: to show you my calendar and what time I wake up and how whatever long of
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  SPEAKER_00: a lunch break I take or how long I'm scrolling on So
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  SPEAKER_00: if we tell ourselves there's not enough time in the day to commit to things outside
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  SPEAKER_00: of my work or family or all of life's obligations, that will be true for us.
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  SPEAKER_00: But if we can take a step back and analyze,
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  SPEAKER_00: And again, this goes back to that concept of let's figure out our baseline.
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  SPEAKER_00: Where are we actually spending time?
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  SPEAKER_00: What are
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  SPEAKER_00: The first step is always cultivating awareness.
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  SPEAKER_00: So understanding where you're spending your time and your energy,
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  SPEAKER_00: that's going to show you what your priorities are.
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  SPEAKER_00: Then from that state of awareness, we can start to change them.
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  SPEAKER_00: So we used to work for a marketing and business consulting firm.
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  SPEAKER_00: This was quite a few years ago now.
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  SPEAKER_00: But one of the things we would have our clients do was map out their calendar for sales.
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  SPEAKER_00: Every day for two weeks we would have our clients have an alarm in their phone.
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  SPEAKER_00: This is going to sound crazy but if you do it all the way it is going to give you
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  SPEAKER_00: so much awareness over your time.
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  SPEAKER_00: Every day for two weeks we would have them log
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  SPEAKER_00: in 30 minute time blocks what they were just working on the previous 30 minutes.
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  SPEAKER_00: So I'm probably not explaining this the best way I could but hang in there with me.
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  SPEAKER_00: Every time that alarm goes off you just Jot down in your journal,
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  SPEAKER_00: like what were you just working on for that last half hour or the last hour?
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  SPEAKER_00: Once you have that awareness for two full weeks,
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  SPEAKER_00: you'll start to easily see where your time and your energy and your focus is going.
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  SPEAKER_00: And then again, it's going to give you that awareness.
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  SPEAKER_00: So that you can fix it.
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  SPEAKER_00: You can change it.
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  SPEAKER_00: You can take those little baby steps of improvement so
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  SPEAKER_00: that you can reclaim your time and your energy.
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  SPEAKER_00: Once you do that,
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  SPEAKER_00: you're going to finally have the time you didn't think you had
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  SPEAKER_00: to prioritize your creativity.
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  SPEAKER_00: And I'll also throw it out there.
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  SPEAKER_00: Maybe for you in these last three months of the year, you're like, I'm good.
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  SPEAKER_00: I don't really want to prioritize creative expression.
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  SPEAKER_00: But for me, this is a big one.
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  SPEAKER_00: And the more I tap into this, the more I personally feel that I am more playful.
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  SPEAKER_00: I am more relaxed.
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  SPEAKER_00: I am really living into that energy of those deeper desires that I have.
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  SPEAKER_00: We all know the thing we truly desire is
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  SPEAKER_00: the feeling we believe those external things will give us.
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  SPEAKER_00: I love doing this.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's a fun outlet for me outside of my day-to-day life.
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  SPEAKER_00: I'm going to prioritize it.
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  SPEAKER_00: Trust me, I have so many other things going on in my life.
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  SPEAKER_00: I feel like I don't have time,
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  SPEAKER_00: but you can easily make the time the more aware you become over your calendar.
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  SPEAKER_00: Another thing I love doing is time blocking,
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  SPEAKER_00: whether you use the Pomodoro technique or you can even look at creating a theme
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  SPEAKER_00: for your day or finding a pocket of time on the weekend when you Have
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  SPEAKER_00: a non-negotiable for yourself.
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  SPEAKER_00: So for example,
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  SPEAKER_00: every week on Sundays I have,
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  SPEAKER_00: I call it my money date,
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  SPEAKER_00: and this is where every Sunday I'm reviewing my finances from the previous week.
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  SPEAKER_00: Because if I just do it once a month,
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  SPEAKER_00: it feels daunting and it's like this big Same thing when it comes
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  SPEAKER_00: to your creativity, especially if you have kids or you have a full-time job.
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  SPEAKER_00: That's why I'm sharing a lot of ideas and hopes that
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  SPEAKER_00: Something I say maybe sparks an interest for you,
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  SPEAKER_00: but I'm not going to break down the exact way that you have to time block
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  SPEAKER_00: if you want to be successful because I've consumed a lot of those videos
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  SPEAKER_00: and podcasts personally, and it never works.
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  SPEAKER_00: It may work for that person who's sharing something.
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  SPEAKER_00: What I've come to understand,
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  SPEAKER_00: and this transfers into so many areas of my life,
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  SPEAKER_00: the thing that you are actually going to be consistent with and you stick
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  SPEAKER_00: to is creating a time blocking ritual or practice for yourself that you design
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  SPEAKER_00: and nobody else.
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  SPEAKER_00: A couple other things when it comes to creative expression.
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  SPEAKER_00: Understanding what are the inputs required for the external output.
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  SPEAKER_00: This is more of a business concept that I've learned and I think it's really important.
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  SPEAKER_00: So for example, let's say the outcome that you want to create.
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  SPEAKER_00: That is also another really important exercise.
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  SPEAKER_00: I think this is more relevant on the entrepreneurial side of things,
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  SPEAKER_00: but if you can say, okay, if I want 10 new clients, I need 10.
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  SPEAKER_00: I need to put out this many pieces of content or reach out to X number of prospects,
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  SPEAKER_00: whatever it is.
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  SPEAKER_00: Again,
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  SPEAKER_00: I'm not going to tell you the best way to do it because I think this is so unique
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  SPEAKER_00: and personalized to ourselves.
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  SPEAKER_00: So with any of these practices,
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  SPEAKER_00: the opportunity that you have is to really step into being your own best friend.
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  SPEAKER_00: Healer, teacher, guru, coach, consultant, and guide.
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  SPEAKER_00: And once you do that,
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  SPEAKER_00: you step into so much more confidence and you'll no longer be looking outside
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  SPEAKER_00: of yourself for the answers because you'll start to develop this trust muscle.
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  SPEAKER_00: Okay, two more things personally that I'm working on before the end of the year is
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  SPEAKER_00: a daily writing habit.
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  SPEAKER_00: One page.
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  SPEAKER_00: This could be 20 minutes.
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  SPEAKER_00: Setting a timer.
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  SPEAKER_00: There's a lot of different ways that you can structure creating a daily writing habit.
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  SPEAKER_00: So explore a couple and then decide for yourself exactly what that looks like
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  SPEAKER_00: if writing is something that's important to you.
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  SPEAKER_00: For me, my daily writing habit is Now that is like my ideal,
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  SPEAKER_00: but I learned this concept from a consultant,
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  SPEAKER_00: George Bryant, where he recommends setting a floor and a ceiling for your habits.
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  SPEAKER_00: So for example, my ceiling right now, because I feel like I don't have a lot of capacity.
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  SPEAKER_00: I'm not prioritizing it more than 20 minutes.
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  SPEAKER_00: On a perfect day, I'm writing every day for 20 minutes, okay?
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  SPEAKER_00: So that is like what I'm aiming for.
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  SPEAKER_00: That's gonna be my ceiling.
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  SPEAKER_00: My floor, the goal that is like on my worst day, I can do at least that, is writing one page.
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  SPEAKER_00: So this is another great way to set your goals when it comes
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  SPEAKER_00: to your habits is looking at on my best day, what am I aiming to do and accomplish?
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  SPEAKER_00: And then on my worst day, what is the bare minimum?
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  SPEAKER_00: This is going to help you improve what's known as your bounce back rate
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  SPEAKER_00: because what we don't want to have happen is you set these big goals and new habits
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  SPEAKER_00: that you want to start for yourself.
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  SPEAKER_00: You do them for three, four, five days or a couple weeks.
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  SPEAKER_00: You miss one day and then you totally lose the habit altogether.
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  SPEAKER_00: This was totally me when it came to my goal around learning French.
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  SPEAKER_00: I had a hundred day streak.
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  SPEAKER_00: And I'm not kidding you.
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  SPEAKER_00: I think I went six months without practicing my French.
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  SPEAKER_00: So yeah, not good.
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  SPEAKER_00: I did not have a floor habit at all.
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  SPEAKER_00: We want to reduce the amount of time it takes you to get back into a habit when you fall off.
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  SPEAKER_00: So again,
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  SPEAKER_00: think about these ceiling and floor habits for yourself so you can reduce
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  SPEAKER_00: and minimize that time it takes you to get back into the habit.
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  SPEAKER_00: Because I know how much dopamine we can get when it's a new Monday or it's the first
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  SPEAKER_00: of a new month.
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  SPEAKER_00: But we really want to get out of that habit of starting over.
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  SPEAKER_00: Because the more we start over, the more we're starting to lose trust with ourselves.
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  SPEAKER_00: And we don't want these habits to be something like,
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  SPEAKER_00: And so again, think about your bounce back rate.
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  SPEAKER_00: We want to reduce it.
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  SPEAKER_00: Last thing for me when it comes to creativity is having a weekly schedule around recording
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  SPEAKER_00: I have really struggled with this one,
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  SPEAKER_00: so this is going to be a big one for me in the next three months
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  SPEAKER_00: because my schedule's changed a lot.
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  SPEAKER_00: I've had a lot of family things come up.
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  SPEAKER_00: I've moved and just, yeah, not in a regular routine.
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  SPEAKER_00: So yeah, let's see.
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  SPEAKER_00: Okay.
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  SPEAKER_00: The last area of my life that I'm focusing on
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  SPEAKER_00: over these next three months is my sadhana or daily spiritual practice.
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  SPEAKER_00: If you are a healer,
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  SPEAKER_00: a coach,
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  SPEAKER_00: a space holder,
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  SPEAKER_00: if you are a highly sensitive person,
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  SPEAKER_00: if you want to deepen your connection to God,
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  SPEAKER_00: to universal consciousness,
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  SPEAKER_00: to divine downloads, to I do chanting and breath work and meditation.
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  SPEAKER_00: This really helps me step out of being in a reactive state in my life and
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  SPEAKER_00: in this deeper sense of surrender.
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  SPEAKER_00: And once I do that,
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  SPEAKER_00: I find that I can tap into the synchronicities and all of the blessings
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  SPEAKER_00: and abundance in my life.
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  SPEAKER_00: Because I think a lot of times we don't realize how much of our life is driven.
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  SPEAKER_00: So sadhana is one way that we can start to reclaim our personal power
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  SPEAKER_00: and our sovereignty and decide what perspective are we choosing to hold on to
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  SPEAKER_00: or are we choosing to live into.
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  SPEAKER_00: One of my teachers,
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  SPEAKER_00: Julie Pyatt,
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  SPEAKER_00: talks a lot about how all events are neutral until perspective is applied.
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  SPEAKER_00: And I know that can be very triggering for some.
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  SPEAKER_00: Personally, I absolutely love this concept and it's something I like to remind.
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  SPEAKER_00: It really takes away our ego and our identity.
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  SPEAKER_00: Also, labels and identity is something that I could care less about.
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  SPEAKER_00: And it's interesting today when you think about the political landscape and religion
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  SPEAKER_00: and, oh gosh, even all the dogma around food.
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  SPEAKER_00: Food and lifestyle.
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  SPEAKER_00: I am just not into labels.
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  SPEAKER_00: Sports teams, and I have been like this since I was a little kid.
• 22:40
  SPEAKER_00: I think I was eight years old when my middle school was doing a mock election.
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  SPEAKER_00: This was for Al Gore.
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  SPEAKER_00: I was one of the few kids who opted out and did not want to vote.
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  SPEAKER_00: And I got in trouble and I was sent to the principal's office.
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  SPEAKER_00: And I just, that is such a memory that is etched in my brain.
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  SPEAKER_00: I think bringing it back to sadhana.
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  SPEAKER_00: Ram Dass said it great.
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  SPEAKER_00: View other people as trees.
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  SPEAKER_00: View other people as if they're God.
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  SPEAKER_00: Because when you do that, you don't judge a tree, no matter what it looks like, right?
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  SPEAKER_00: No matter what the person says,
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  SPEAKER_00: if you view them as God, there's lessons and there's mirrors in our life.
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  SPEAKER_00: And so thinking about this concept,
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  SPEAKER_00: if all events are neutral until perspective is applied,
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  SPEAKER_00: And if you are unsure,
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  SPEAKER_00: if you find yourself getting triggered and emotionally reacting
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  SPEAKER_00: to things externally happening around you,
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  SPEAKER_00: the best way to start to reclaim your power,
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  SPEAKER_00: your own sense of devotion,
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  SPEAKER_00: And love and interconnectedness between not just yourself and your heart
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  SPEAKER_00: and your mind,
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  SPEAKER_00: but those around you in your community or strangers or people on the internet is
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  SPEAKER_00: by choosing to create this healthy separation
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  SPEAKER_00: where you're no longer identifying people.
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  SPEAKER_00: So that
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  SPEAKER_00: was a little bit of a tangent there on some of my personal beliefs.
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  SPEAKER_00: But again,
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  SPEAKER_00: there's just so much benefit of sadhana and it doesn't All of these things are going
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  SPEAKER_00: to serve you.
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  SPEAKER_00: You feel better the less judgmental you are, the less fearful you are.
• 24:43
  SPEAKER_00: And if we think about the technology age that we live in and consumerism
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  SPEAKER_00: and how fast-paced the world is, we need a break.
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  SPEAKER_00: We need a dopamine detox.
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  SPEAKER_00: We all know that.
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  SPEAKER_00: We all feel that.
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  SPEAKER_00: And sadhana, to me,
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  SPEAKER_00: is the number one way to really step into that,
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  SPEAKER_00: to give yourself that break,
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  SPEAKER_00: to create this healthy boundary and separation from all
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  SPEAKER_00: the external stimuli that's coming at you 24-7.
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  SPEAKER_00: Another thing that I personally incorporate
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  SPEAKER_00: in my morning sadhana is I review what I call my morning magnetism.
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  SPEAKER_00: This is essentially a one-page document that I have printed with affirmations
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  SPEAKER_00: of my higher self identity.
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  SPEAKER_00: So it's not just the external things that I want to manifest or experience,
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  SPEAKER_00: but it's again tapping into the feeling and then the behavior and identity
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  SPEAKER_00: and beliefs require People call this a maliciousness.
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  SPEAKER_00: I have 13 statements that I read and 13 is like a number of completion,
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  SPEAKER_00: which I could do a whole video just on that.
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  SPEAKER_00: But 13 is a very
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  SPEAKER_00: I have 13 truths that I recite and I recite them out loud
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  SPEAKER_00: because there's something powerful about using our voice.
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  SPEAKER_00: How often do we truly voice our soul's deepest desires?
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  SPEAKER_00: So you can do this eye gazing into your own eyes in the mirror.
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  SPEAKER_00: You can just verbalize it out loud and you may find that you want to be quiet.
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  SPEAKER_00: I know I first started doing this and I would hear my partner in the other room
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  SPEAKER_00: And I would quiet my voice when he was walking by.
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  SPEAKER_00: And then I'm like, how interesting is that?
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  SPEAKER_00: He knows all of these dreams and desires and goals that I have.
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  SPEAKER_00: And yet I'm like quieting myself because it feels uncomfortable and vulnerable
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  SPEAKER_00: to really share the bigness and fullness of the life So the more that I've done this
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  SPEAKER_00: and I do this on a consistent basis,
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  SPEAKER_00: the more confidence I have, the greater my belief becomes.
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  SPEAKER_00: And then naturally my behaviors is starting to shift and then the identity becomes easier.
• 27:23
  SPEAKER_00: And then again, And what does that do?
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  SPEAKER_00: It just becomes a perfect match for the external to line up with the internal.
• 27:29
  SPEAKER_00: So the way that I think about manifestation, I don't even like that term.
• 27:33
  SPEAKER_00: I much prefer thinking about manifestation in terms of alignment,
• 27:37
  SPEAKER_00: coming into alignment and coherence with And I think there's such a gift in that.
• 27:40
  SPEAKER_00: So try it out.
• 27:54
  SPEAKER_00: If that resonates with you,
• 27:55
  SPEAKER_00: whether it is scripting out your dream life,
• 27:58
  SPEAKER_00: it can also be, I love the book, Psycho-Cybernetics.
• 28:01
  SPEAKER_00: This was like one of the OG books on self-identity work,
• 28:05
  SPEAKER_00: but they talk about this concept of,
• 28:07
  SPEAKER_00: gosh, I forget what it's called, but it's essentially Journaling into the future.
• 28:11
  SPEAKER_00: So you're writing a page in your journal as if you're waking up a year from now,
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  SPEAKER_00: 10 years from now,
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  SPEAKER_00: and really painting a picture,
• 28:18
  SPEAKER_00: a vivid image of what that day looks like, what your morning looks like.
• 28:23
  SPEAKER_00: And I love to do this in Three-month cycles and then to be able to look back on them.
• 28:28
  SPEAKER_00: So you can try that scripting approach if that resonates with you,
• 28:31
  SPEAKER_00: or you can do what I have,
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  SPEAKER_00: which is this list of 13 truths and just having those 13 statements
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  SPEAKER_00: that you're repeating out loud every single day.
• 28:40
  SPEAKER_00: I know people who are doing this three times a day,
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  SPEAKER_00: in the morning, in the afternoon, and at night.
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  SPEAKER_00: So try it out.
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  SPEAKER_00: Three months to lock in, give it all you've got.
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  SPEAKER_00: All right,
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  SPEAKER_00: now if you are anything like me and you're into spirituality,
• 28:51
  SPEAKER_00: make sure you check out my video and podcast,
• 28:54
  SPEAKER_00: The Five Woo Things That Are 100% Worth It.
• 28:57
  SPEAKER_00: I will link it in the show notes below.
• 28:59
  SPEAKER_00: I go into a little bit more detail when it comes to sadhana,
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  SPEAKER_00: different specific spiritual practices that I do on a daily basis.
• 29:06
  SPEAKER_00: I think you'd love it.
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  SPEAKER_00: And last thing,
• 29:08
  SPEAKER_00: you can subscribe on Substack if you want to stay connected,
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  SPEAKER_00: but let me know in the comments, what are you committing to these next three months?
• 29:15
  SPEAKER_00: Is there anything that I shared that you're curious about,
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  SPEAKER_00: you want me to go into a little bit deeper,
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  SPEAKER_00: or that you're going to incorporate into your own life?
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  SPEAKER_00: I would love to hear from you.