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165. Mind over Matter · Your Enriched Self

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  Speaker 1: I think I'm reflecting on gratitude right now because I
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  Speaker 1: am getting ready to hit a milestone birthday and I
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  Speaker 1: am filled with emotion right now. Whoever is listening to
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  Speaker 1: this episode, you may look at your life where it
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  Speaker 1: is right now, where it's been, and even a thought
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  Speaker 1: of where it may be headed, and you may think, man,
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  Speaker 1: I still got a waste to go. Man, I haven't accomplished,
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  Speaker 1: I haven't done. And I'm just going to offer you this.
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  Speaker 1: Spend time in this moment. This is the moment where
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  Speaker 1: you need to find the gratitude. And we don't realize
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  Speaker 1: how much the moment you are in right now. It's
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  Speaker 1: a beautiful thing to have, this moment that we are here.
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  Speaker 1: When I started to turn the page in my life
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  Speaker 1: and look for moments of gratitude, whole life changed. And
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  Speaker 1: I'm not being dramatic, I'm being real, I'm being honest.
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  Speaker 1: But my life changed because I started finding reasons to
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  Speaker 1: be grateful. In today's world, there's so much reason for
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  Speaker 1: offense and reason for upset and reason for all types
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  Speaker 1: of negativity. But if you pause your moments, this moment
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  Speaker 1: right now, the next moment, and you look for something
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  Speaker 1: to be grateful for I don't care what it is.
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  Speaker 1: It might be a who, it might be a what.
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  Speaker 1: It might be where you are in your life. It
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  Speaker 1: might be the thing that you could do today that
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  Speaker 1: you couldn't do yesterday. There are hundreds of moments of
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  Speaker 1: gratitude that if you don't take a look at it,
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  Speaker 1: if you don't grab a hold of it, you're gonna
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  Speaker 1: lose your way. If you need a makeover in your life,
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  Speaker 1: if you want to change in your life, if you
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  Speaker 1: want to see life differently, I challenge you to try
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  Speaker 1: on gratitude. It is the most effective life hack that
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  Speaker 1: you will ever have to try, because once you try
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  Speaker 1: on gratitude, you are forever changed. Helloe, my friends from
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  Speaker 1: all across the globe, and welcome to the yonon Ritzel Podcast.
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  Speaker 1: I am your host, MII Lee Noir. I am an
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  Speaker 1: emotional wellness and empowerment coach, and all that means is
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  Speaker 1: I am here to help you on this journey of life.
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  Speaker 1: We all have a journey, and that journey's going to
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  Speaker 1: lead us to a destination. And once you get to
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  Speaker 1: that destination, if you're like me, you're going to be
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  Speaker 1: looking for the next thing that you want to do
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  Speaker 1: when pursue because we live a life of purpose, and
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  Speaker 1: that's what this podcast is all about. It's about doing
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  Speaker 1: the things each and every day to become more of
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  Speaker 1: your en rich self. And it starts from within. Everything
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  Speaker 1: that you do starts with a thought, and those thoughts
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  Speaker 1: they will impact the words that you speak over your
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  Speaker 1: life and in your life and throughout your life, and
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  Speaker 1: those words then translate to the action and the activity
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  Speaker 1: that you take each and every day. So I know
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  Speaker 1: if you're listening to this podcast, you are here because
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  Speaker 1: you want to be more enriched. You want to live
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  Speaker 1: a life where you can show up as the best
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  Speaker 1: version of yourself. And again, it starts with you, and
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  Speaker 1: it starts with the very thing that inspires you, and
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  Speaker 1: that is your thoughts. And so that's what we talk
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  Speaker 1: about here on this podcast. We talk about mindset fusion topics.
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  Speaker 1: We talk about self care, not just the external self care,
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  Speaker 1: but the internal. We talk about soul care, we talk
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  Speaker 1: about all types of mindset fusion topics because the goal
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  Speaker 1: is to be more enriched. So that's what this podcast
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  Speaker 1: is all about. But I'm grateful that you showed up
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  Speaker 1: if you are new to this podcast, and this is
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  Speaker 1: your first time being here, I want to welcome you.
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  Speaker 1: I want to thank you. I know that you were
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  Speaker 1: brought here on purpose, for a purpose. If you are
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  Speaker 1: a repeat listener, we have been doing this for one
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  Speaker 1: hundred and sixty five weeks. However, you've joined this journey
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  Speaker 1: with me, whether it's been last week, last month, the
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  Speaker 1: last couple of years, I just want to thank you
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  Speaker 1: for being here and I could not do this without you. Now,
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  Speaker 1: before we get started with this week's episode, if you
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  Speaker 1: know you know, one of the things that I do
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  Speaker 1: to start my day and start this podcast is to
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  Speaker 1: bring forward affirmations. Affirmations are a great way to start
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  Speaker 1: your day and to command your morning. And this week's
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  Speaker 1: affirmation is I embrace the journey, not just a destination.
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  Speaker 1: I embrace the journey, not just the destination. I embrace
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  Speaker 1: the journey, not just a destination. Now, let's get ready
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  Speaker 1: for this week's episode of the Your Enriched Self podcast.
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  Speaker 1: What's on your mind? What has been keeping you up
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  Speaker 1: at night? What have you been thinking about throughout the day.
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  Speaker 1: What are you thinking about as you're driving home or
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  Speaker 1: driving to work. What is on your mind? Because whatever
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  Speaker 1: is on your mind, it's gonna matter. It's gonna matter
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  Speaker 1: in this moment or the next, this year or the next.
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  Speaker 1: Your thoughts are such an important part of your journey
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  Speaker 1: to become more enriched. You got to enrich the soil
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  Speaker 1: of your mind, and doing so requires you to be
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  Speaker 1: very intentional about your thoughts. Your thoughts have the most
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  Speaker 1: influence in your life. I know we think about influencers
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  Speaker 1: and social media and stars and celebrities and how much
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  Speaker 1: they can influence. But I want you to spend time within.
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  Speaker 1: This is an exercise. This is an episode of being
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  Speaker 1: with yourself. And with so much distractions and social media,
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  Speaker 1: so much distractions in the world and media, all the
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  Speaker 1: different forms of media, whether you choose television or radio
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  Speaker 1: or even in print, there are distractions. And I promise
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  Speaker 1: you a lot of these distractions are placed there on
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  Speaker 1: purpose so you don't get to your purpose. I know
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  Speaker 1: that because I've been challenged with distractions and that's real,
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  Speaker 1: and so I really want you to spend time with
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  Speaker 1: yourself in this episode. But even beyond, when's the last
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  Speaker 1: time you spend time just thinking about what you're thinking about?
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  Speaker 1: We often go from thought to action, We go from
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  Speaker 1: thought to doing, We go from thought to wanting, But
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  Speaker 1: there is a process of staying with that thought that
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  Speaker 1: we haven't been taught. Think about, you know, going back
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  Speaker 1: to your school days, when a lot of times you're
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  Speaker 1: given an assignment and you have to write a paper
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  Speaker 1: while you're in class. Your teacher assigns the work, she
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  Speaker 1: gives the topic or the subject, and she says, you
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  Speaker 1: have to write a ten page paper or you know,
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  Speaker 1: whatever the assignment calls for, and you write it in
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  Speaker 1: your boo book or you keep it in your mind
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  Speaker 1: or wherever you capture that information, and you go on
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  Speaker 1: to the next thing. What would it have looked like
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  Speaker 1: for the teacher to say, I want you to spend
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  Speaker 1: the next ten minutes, the next five minutes thinking about
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  Speaker 1: what it is you're going to write about. So this
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  Speaker 1: is what typically would happen. You get the assignment, you
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  Speaker 1: write it down, you go throughout your day, you go
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  Speaker 1: through your next classes, and then you matriculate throughout the day.
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  Speaker 1: You get to the end of the day and you
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  Speaker 1: probably have already forgotten about this assignment. Right you get home,
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  Speaker 1: you start working on your homework. There's not a lot
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  Speaker 1: going on with this, meaning there's not anything written, there's
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  Speaker 1: nothing you need to turn in tomorrow. So you probably
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  Speaker 1: go through the day and the week, and then you
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  Speaker 1: get closer and closer to the deadline for that paper,
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  Speaker 1: and then you realize, WHOA, you haven't spent any time
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  Speaker 1: thinking about what you're going to write about. That's typically
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  Speaker 1: how it went for me. I don't know for you,
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  Speaker 1: but that's what it looked like for me. I know
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  Speaker 1: some will call it procrastination, but I will say I
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  Speaker 1: will challenge to say I've never spent the time thinking
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  Speaker 1: about what I should be writing about. I wasn't awarded
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  Speaker 1: that time. And I think if we spend time thinking
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  Speaker 1: about what it is that we want to accomplish instead
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  Speaker 1: of just running out and doing it, which is what
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  Speaker 1: a lot of people do, A lot of you do it,
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  Speaker 1: we would see ourselves in a different place. We would
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  Speaker 1: avoid the procrastination and think about it like this. If
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  Speaker 1: you are given out assignment and you started ideating, thinking
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  Speaker 1: about what it is you can write about, and then
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  Speaker 1: you started jotting down some ideas right when you were
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  Speaker 1: in that moment, you would kick procrastination in the butt.
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  Speaker 1: I know I would have. But what happens is you
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  Speaker 1: put it off because it seems like it's such a
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  Speaker 1: far distance away, and then you put it off because
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  Speaker 1: it doesn't have an immediate response to it. The response
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  Speaker 1: is two weeks out or a month out, or at
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  Speaker 1: the end of the term or whatever. And that's how
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  Speaker 1: we go on with our lives. And so today's challenge
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  Speaker 1: is really to spend time in the thought. If you're
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  Speaker 1: given an assignment, if you're given a work, I challenge
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  Speaker 1: you to take five minutes while you were given that assignment,
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  Speaker 1: while you are fresh in thinking about it and talking
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  Speaker 1: about it, and jump down some thoughts. They might not
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  Speaker 1: be the final thoughts, it might not be where you
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  Speaker 1: finally land, but what's in your mind matters. The issue
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  Speaker 1: is you're not spending enough time in that space to
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  Speaker 1: know what matters. Again, your thoughts have the most powerful
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  Speaker 1: influence on your life. Think about this. Your thoughts have
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  Speaker 1: built your life. Your thoughts have either put a lid
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  Speaker 1: on things. Your thoughts have probably set some limits for you,
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  Speaker 1: or your thoughts have allowed you to go beyond your limits.
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  Speaker 1: Your thoughts have probably helped you get grounded. Your thoughts
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  Speaker 1: have probably told you to step away, or sometimes your
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  Speaker 1: thoughts might have led you astray. Your thoughts are the
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  Speaker 1: key component to the life you're living. Now, what's great
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  Speaker 1: about spending time in your thoughts? And I know this
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  Speaker 1: concept may sound wild and different because we are in
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  Speaker 1: a get up and go go do it now, finish now.
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  Speaker 1: But we don't think about what it is that we started.
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  Speaker 1: We don't have an idea of how we want to finish.
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  Speaker 1: We just know we want to finish, meaning we haven't
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  Speaker 1: set any goals. We don't know what it's going to
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  Speaker 1: take us to get from eight point B. We want
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  Speaker 1: to go from A to Z. And so when I
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  Speaker 1: say spend time in your thoughts, I mean go from
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  Speaker 1: A to B. Know what it takes to do that.
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  Speaker 1: What happens when I go into that thought space is
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  Speaker 1: I start to make some corrections because if I had
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  Speaker 1: just done it and went out and did it, I
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  Speaker 1: would not have allowed myself to correct some of my activity,
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  Speaker 1: some of the things that I would execute upon. When
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  Speaker 1: you sit in your thoughts, it helps to edit what
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  Speaker 1: you're allowing in. I challenge you to sit in your
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  Speaker 1: thoughts because when you sit in your thoughts, think about
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  Speaker 1: it like this. You can sit with a legacy system
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  Speaker 1: with all the old programs that came in, everything that
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  Speaker 1: came in with your mama and your dad. You just
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  Speaker 1: bring it into your life and you just keep recycling it.
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  Speaker 1: What I'm challenging you to do is edit. When you
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  Speaker 1: see it in your thoughts. You can start pulling out
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  Speaker 1: the things that no longer serve you, the things that
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  Speaker 1: no longer work for your destination, the things that you
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  Speaker 1: are now willing to say that doesn't represent me, and
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  Speaker 1: those are not my thoughts. Have you ever said that,
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  Speaker 1: I've said that those are not my thoughts. I remember
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  Speaker 1: a quote growing up that said seeing is believing. That
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  Speaker 1: sort of shaped how I started thinking about what believing
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  Speaker 1: needed to be. I started to believe that in order
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  Speaker 1: for me to have a faith system, because that's what
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  Speaker 1: beliefs are going to build your faith, I had to
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  Speaker 1: see it first. But that is literally the contrary to
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  Speaker 1: what faith is. Faith is knowing that what I see
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  Speaker 1: does not limit as far as I can go. Faith
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  Speaker 1: is saying that what I see is a portion and
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  Speaker 1: I can go beyond that to get to my destination.
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  Speaker 1: But when you grow up hearing this, and this wasn't
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  Speaker 1: anything my parents said to me. It was just things
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  Speaker 1: in culture. Like I said, distractions have been placed in
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  Speaker 1: print in ads, in media, and it's more rampant now
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  Speaker 1: because we have all kinds of media, social media, different
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  Speaker 1: ways to get information, different ways for downloads to come in.
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  Speaker 1: You can get your social media at any time of
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  Speaker 1: the day or night, refreshed, updated. There's so many things
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  Speaker 1: stimulating your mind. I don't know if you know this,
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  Speaker 1: but your mind is a very important resource for advertisers,
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  Speaker 1: for marketers, for big business, for pharma, for everyone. Because
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  Speaker 1: whatever you see, whatever they put in the systems, whatever
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  Speaker 1: they put in your vision television creates a vision for you.
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  Speaker 1: Then you put that in your mind and that's how
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  Speaker 1: you start to get programmed. And that's what this conversation
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  Speaker 1: is about. It's about spending time in your thoughts so
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  Speaker 1: you can start to edit out. You can start to
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  Speaker 1: address do I really believe what I just saw? Can
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  Speaker 1: I do some research? Can I go read for myself?
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  Speaker 1: What can I do to make sure that what I'm
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  Speaker 1: seeing makes sense for where I'm going? What is on
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  Speaker 1: your mind will matter. This also makes me think about
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  Speaker 1: the self talk that you have, because that self talk
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  Speaker 1: is a language. What language are you speaking to yourself?
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  Speaker 1: Because whatever that language is, it will feed your thoughts.
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  Speaker 1: Think about your thoughts like a garden and what do
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  Speaker 1: you do with a garden? I mentioned this many many
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  Speaker 1: times on this podcast. My mother is a gardener. I
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  Speaker 1: grew up watching her manage a large garden with fruits
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  Speaker 1: and vegetables and herbs and spices and anything you can
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  Speaker 1: think of. And I watched her meticulously manage not just
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  Speaker 1: how things would grow or where things would grow, because
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  Speaker 1: there's a certain space for certain plants. Some need more sun,
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  Speaker 1: some need less sun. There's a way to water right.
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  Speaker 1: Some need water at the roots, some need water from
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  Speaker 1: the top. There is a process, like I said, a
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  Speaker 1: science to all of this, the ecosystem of your life.
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  Speaker 1: And then I would watch my mother pull out the
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  Speaker 1: weeds because those weeds did not serve the plant thriving
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  Speaker 1: and growing and becoming the best version of itself. But
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  Speaker 1: you have spend time doing that. That wasn't something she
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  Speaker 1: could do in five minutes. It took time. And this process.
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  Speaker 1: I know, we want to go fast because we live
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  Speaker 1: in fast and go society, but you will go slower
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  Speaker 1: and you will grow slower with more weeds in your
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  Speaker 1: garden than without. So that's gonna mean spending time editing, weeding,
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  Speaker 1: correcting and addressing the things that are coming up in
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  Speaker 1: your thoughts that don't work for you. Because I know
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  Speaker 1: you now understand that what's on your mind matters. I
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  Speaker 1: know you've heard its mind over matter. It absolutely is,
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  Speaker 1: because the matters are going to be what they're gonna be. Life,
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  Speaker 1: as people say, is going to life. But what's on
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  Speaker 1: your mind, that's what's going to matter. Go spend time
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  Speaker 1: with your thoughts today. Create a beginning of the day
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  Speaker 1: or end of the day or both activity where you
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  Speaker 1: just spend five minutes literally, set your alarm, set your clock,
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  Speaker 1: set a reminder, just in your thoughts, especially if you
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  Speaker 1: have a goal, what do I need to do today
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  Speaker 1: that will help me towards achieving that goal? Or at
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  Speaker 1: the end of the day, what did I do today
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  Speaker 1: and what can I look forward to tomorrow. There's many
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  Speaker 1: ways to do this. I'm sure you've done a version
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  Speaker 1: of this. I encourage you if you haven't started to start,
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  Speaker 1: I encourage you that if you've started to continue, and
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  Speaker 1: if you're somewhere in between, it's never too late to
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  Speaker 1: get started. It's never too late to do what matters,
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  Speaker 1: and it starts with your mind. I hope you enjoyed
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