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Episode 252 - Embrace Change · Positively 365: Inspire, Motivate, Support

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  Welcome to Positively three hundred and sixty five, a podcast by Joe Wattis we
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  wish to entertain, instruct, and motivate. If nothing else, hopefully we
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  can entertain and inspire you to live a more positive life three hundred and sixty
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  five days a year. We hope you enjoy this message. A teenager brings
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  her new boyfriend home to meet her parents. They are appalled by his haircut,
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  his tattoos, and his body piercings. Later, the girl's mom says,
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  dear, he doesn't seem to be a very nice boy, and he's
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  not right for you. Oh please, mom, says the daughter. If
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  he wasn't nice, would he be doing five hundred hours of community service?
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  Change is an inevitable part of life. In fact, the only thing in
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  life that doesn't change is the fact that everything changes. And because everything changes,
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  we should savor things and people that we have in our life right here
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  and right now. Tomorrow is not promised to anyone, and the things or
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  people that we have today are not promised to us for tomorrow. We will
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  talk about this in this week's episode of Positively three sixty five, but first
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  we have our trivia question of the day. Are you ready for it?
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  Here it is who was the first televised you as president? We will have
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  the answer when we come back here. Do you enjoy listening to this podcast?
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  Simply go to www. Dot anchor dot FM, forward slash positively three sixty
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  five. From there, you can access every episode of the podcast. You
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  affection and have the satisfaction of knowing that you are doing something to spread more
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  positive in today's negative world. Thank you for listening, and thank you for
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  your support financially and otherwise. Do you know the answer to this week's trivia
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  question? The question was who was the first televised US President? The answer
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  Franklin Delano Roosevelt. The first president on TV, Franklin Delano Roosevelt likely had
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  no idea how powerful and important a role the medium would play in politics in
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  the decades to come. When a television camera broadcast him to the world's Fair
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  in New York in nineteen thirty nine. Television eventually became the most effective medium
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  for presidents to communicate directly to the American people. Yes, in nineteen thirty
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  nine, it was FTR. Now you know, Embracing change is like opening
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  a new chapter in the book of life. Change can be scary, but
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  it is also a chance for exciting adventures and discoveries. Just as seasons transform,
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  we too grow through changes. It's about being flexible, like a tree
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  bending in the wind and not breaking. Change brings fresh opportunities, helping us
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  to learn and to become better versions of ourselves. Instead of fearing the unknown,
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  we can see it as a path to something new and awesome. So
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  let us welcome change with curiosity and an open heart, ready to see where
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  the journey of life can take us. At forty, Franz Kafka eighteen eighty
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  three to nineteen twenty four, who never married and had no children, was
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  walking through a park one day in Berlin when he met a girl who was
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  crying because she had lost her favorite doll. She and Kafka searched for the
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  doll, unsuccessfully. Kafka told her to meet him there the next day.
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  And they would come back to look for her. The next day, when
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  they had not yet found the doll, Kafka gave the girl a letter written
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  by the doll, saying, please don't cry. I took a trip to
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  see the world. I will write to you about my adventures. Thus began
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  a story which continued until the end of Kafka's life. During their meetings,
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  Kafka read the letters of the doll, carefully written with adventures and conversations that
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  the girl found adorable. Finally, Kafka brought back the doll he had bought
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  one that had returned to Berlin. It doesn't look like my doll at all,
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  said the girl. Kafka handed her another letter, in which the doll
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  wrote, my travels have changed me. The little girl hugged the new doll
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  and brought the doll with her to her happy home. A year later,
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  Kafka died. Many years after that, the now adult girl found a letter
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  inside the doll. In the tiny letter, signed by Kafka, what was
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  written Everything you love will probably be lost, but in the end love will
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  return in another way. Embrace change, it's inevitable for growth. Together we
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  can shift pain into wonder and love, but it's up to us to consciously
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  and intentionally create that connection. Thank you for joining us today. Please consider
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  taking a moment to like, grate, subscribe, and share this podcast.
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  for Positively three sixty five. We would love to hear from you, Zil
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  until next time, Stay positive today and every day, three hundred and sixty
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