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Episode 43 - Thursday with a Positive Message! · RealTalkwithMikeD

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  Speaker 1: Welcome to Real Talk with Mike D. Welcome to Real
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  Talk with Mike D. How are you? Are you there?
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  Can you hear me? Is anybody listening? School's in session.
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  Pay attention. Because today, and today, we got a good
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  one for you. Because today is not Friday. Today is Thursday.
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  And you know what that means? That means it's almost Friday.
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  Thursday is a strange day. You might be asking yourself,
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  why is Thursday a strange day? Because it's not Monday.
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  Thank God. It's not Tuesday, which is basically Monday's ugly cousin.
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  And it's not Wednesday because Wednesday is that awkward day
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  in the middle where you're just trying to convince yourself
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  That the week is moving. And it's definitely not Friday.
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  But it's close. So damn close. Thursday is basically Friday
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  standing at the end of the hallway saying, Hey, I'm
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  almost here. Just hang on a little bit longer. And
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  you're standing there thinking, I'm trying. I'm freaking trying. I'm trying.
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  Thursday is the day where you start mentally checking out
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  of work, even though you still have things to do.
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  You're sitting at your desk looking at the clock. 9.17 a.m.,
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  you think. Okay. Only about seven more hours. Then you
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  look again. 9.19. What the hell? Who put the clock
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  in slow motion? But there's something about Thursday. Thursday gives
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  you hope. Because once Thursday arrives, you can finally see
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  the finish line. You made it through Monday. You survived Tuesday.
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  You crawled through Wednesday. And now Thursday is saying, come on, Mike,
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  one more. One more day after me. And honestly, sometimes
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  that one day feels like the longest day of the
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  entire week.
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  Speaker 2: Because Friday is sitting there in the distance. You can
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  practically taste it. But you still have to get through Thursday.
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  Speaker 1: And Thursday can be exhausting. Because Thursday you're tired. You're
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  not just physically tired, you're mentally tired. You've been dealing
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  with work. And sometimes you just wake up Thursday morning
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  and think, can I just skip today? Wouldn't it be
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  nice if we all had a skip button? You wake
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  up Thursday morning, hit a button, and suddenly, boom! It's
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  Friday afternoon. No work. Just peace. Unfortunately, we don't have
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  a skip button. Thursday reminds me that sometimes you don't
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  have to have everything figured out. Sometimes all we need
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  to do is just make it through that day. That's it.
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  You don't need to worry about tomorrow. We don't need
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  to worry about next month. And we don't have to
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  worry about if everything's going right or wrong. Sometimes our
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  goal is simply get through Thursday and that's enough and
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  maybe you're listening to this right now and you're having
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  one of those days maybe you're tired maybe you're stressed
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  maybe you're like Mike shut the hell up we don't
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  always see the battle happening inside of each other you
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  could be standing next to somebody at work today who
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  looks perfectly fine but inside they're struggling we all struggle
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  We all struggle at certain times of the day, certain
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  times of the month, certain times of the year, sometimes
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  every day. And that's life. But you know what? You
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  wake up the next day and you try again. And
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  that's what Thursday represents to me. Keep going. You know,
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  we haven't reached Friday yet, but we're getting close. And
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  maybe that's exactly where we are in life. Maybe you're
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  not where you want to be. Maybe things haven't worked
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  out the way you imagined. Maybe you're still trying to
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  figure things out. But that doesn't mean the story is over.
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  It means you're still in the middle of it. You know,
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  in today's world, in today's economy, a lot of people
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  are struggling mentally, physically, financially. They may be feeling loneliness, depression, anxiety,
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  or all of the above. But I want you to know,
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  tomorrow will be better. Maybe next week will be better.
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  Maybe next month changes everything. You just don't know. All
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  we can do is keep moving forward. Trying to live
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  a better tomorrow than we do today. Work hard and
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  do the best we can. It doesn't matter if you
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  live in the north, the south, the east, or the west,
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  or the center of America. We all struggle. We all
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  struggle with different things. We are all going through this together.
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  And I want you to know that you're not alone. Today,
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  I really want to talk about positivity. Trying to stay
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  positive in a world where there's so much negativity. This
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  is not a political statement in the least. This is
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  just not being negative and trying to think of the
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  positive in the world. You know, you turn on the news,
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  most of it's negative. You look at the world, most
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  of it's negative. Financially, mentally, physically. We're all going through it.
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  Sometimes we just need to go out. We need to
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  go out and party and have a good time and
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  let loose and forget about all of our problems. Or
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  maybe you prefer to stay home. Maybe you're ordering pizza.
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  Maybe you're just sitting on the couch watching TV. Or
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  maybe you're doing absolutely nothing and there's nothing wrong with that. Honestly,
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  I like doing that. I like sitting at home and
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  doing absolutely nothing. Because going out is expensive and who
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  can afford that right now? I know I can't. Sometimes
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  doing nothing is exactly what you need. But Thursday? Thursday
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  is the setup. Thursday is the appetizer before the main course.
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  Thursday is the trailer before the movie. And Thursday is
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  the almost there. And sometimes almost there is enough to
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  keep you going. So if you're listening to this on
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  a Thursday morning, maybe a Thursday afternoon, Or maybe a
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  Thursday evening. Here's what I want you to remember. Ladies
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  and gentlemen, you made it this far. Whatever happened earlier
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  in the week, it's behind you. Whatever went wrong, it's
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  behind you. Whatever somebody said, it's behind you. You can't
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  change yesterday, but you can decide what you do today.
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  Today's Thursday, so take a breath. Drink your coffee. Put
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  your head up. Handle whatever you've got to handle. And
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  then go home knowing you made it through another day.
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  And you did the best you could. Because sometimes we
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  don't give ourselves enough credit. We celebrate the big victories.
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  We forget about the little ones. You know, it could
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  be as simple as getting out of bed. That could
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  be a victory. Going to work can be a victory.
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  Taking care of your family is a victory. Maybe making
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  it through a difficult day is a victory. Getting through
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  something that nobody else knows you're dealing with, that's a
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  victory too. So don't underestimate yourself. You all are stronger
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  than you think. You all survived every bad day you've
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  had so far. And that's a pretty damn good record.
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  So I want you to remember something. When you're sitting
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  in your house, your apartment, wherever you live, and you're
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  thinking to yourself, I'm going through this alone. Nobody understands
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  what I'm going through. Nobody will ever relate to me.
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  That is not true. Everybody has struggles. Everybody has troubles.
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  Everybody has something that they're going through. Some people hide it.
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  Some people are vocal about it. But we all have
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  something that we're going through. Nobody's life is perfect. Nobody.
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  So if you look at social media and you think, wow,
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  this person has everything going on. They're married. They're happy.
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  They have this, that, and the other. But you never
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  know what that person might be going through. They just
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  put on a good front. And a lot of people
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  do that because they're afraid to show their feelings. They're
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  afraid to open up to people. They're afraid of what
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  people might think. And you should never, ever. worry about
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  what people think about you. Life is too short. Life
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  is too short to be unhappy. So on this Thursday,
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  I want you all to remember that you're not alone.
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  Somebody out there is going through the same exact thing
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  you are They just might not be talking about it
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  or they may not be vocal about it. But everybody
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  has troubles and everybody is going through things that nobody
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  knows about. But as always, that is going to do
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  it for today. I hope you all have a wonderful Thursday.
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  As always, please be the reason someone smiles. Make someone happy.
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  And for God's sake, Be kind to each other. Until
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  the next one, hope you all have a great day. Peace!