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How Future Casting Can Transform Your Life · Candid Coach Conversations

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  Hello there and welcome to Candid Coach Conversations.
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  I'm Kimberly, founder of Live Life Fully,
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  and today I have with me Teresa Anderson,
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  a certified Live Life Fully coach and published author of The Table.
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  Welcome Teresa.
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  Thank you for having me.
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  So glad you're here. We've been doing a lot of talking lately about
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  our present self, our past self,
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  our present self, and our future self.
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  And so today I was hoping you would share with us when you think about meeting your
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  future self. If you'll share with us,
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  like what would that mean or what would that look like?
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  What does that mean to you when you hear the words meeting your future self?
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  I immediately hear the word future.
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  Like it kind of stands out. It's more broadcasted.
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  And so when I think about the future,
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  it it's not waiting for you. It's being built by you,
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  essentially. So it's
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  I love that.
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  Yes.
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  So it's
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  about like the choices, you know,
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  when no one applauds or the self that is moving and activating.
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  with every decision that you make today,
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  essentially. So the distance between your present and your purpose
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  is measured in daily choices. It's measured in intention,
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  right? And so here recently I was trying to cultivate a lead magnet
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  and because of the table, I I'm I'm just t I'm very table focused right now.
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  And so I come up I came up with the i the idea of like your future self sitting
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  across from you at the table. And what
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  would they say to
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  You? You know,
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  Mm.
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  how would you feel? What would you want them to look like?
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  Would they be proud of you? Would they be proud of who you are in this moment today?
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  Would they have advice or what would their advice be?
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  And what does that level of legacy even mean to you?
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  my gosh, I love the word legacy.
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  And I love that you said the future is actually what you're building each day.
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  So true. And I think that's something that a lot of people often forget
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  is that the future it is up to us every single day.
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  It's not about it's not just something hanging out there waiting.
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  okay,
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  Exactly.
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  so as a coach, as a live life fully coach,
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  Teresa,
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  And I know you work with people a lot on like what is it that they're going after,
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  what is that future that they're wanting and the life that they're wanting to live.
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  So as a coach, how important is it for people to think about their future self,
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  do you think?
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  I think it's super important. That's where you're headed.
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  It's probably the most important experience of future casting is to actually
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  be able to see and meet yourself in the future.
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  I think, my my husband is a respiratory therapist and one thing that he says
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  at the hospital is when people are on their deathbeds that it's not like
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  I could have done this more, I could have gone to work more,
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  I I should have done this or should have that,
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  and I know that you love the word should,
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  right?
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  And they say this all the time.
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  and the one thing that they always say or they come back to is the things that meant
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  the most to them. So spending more time with their loved ones,
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  spending more time with their family members,
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  and also like the dream that they didn't accomplish that they felt that
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  was soul purposed. And those are the things that often come up.
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  And so when you think about this future self-experience,
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  I always think like if I was sitting across the table from my future self.
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  What does that version of me look like?
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  One that's not shaped by fantasy,
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  that but one that is shaped by courage,
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  right? What I would I know that I would need them to ask me,
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  like, I would need actually I would need to ask them,
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  what do you need from me today so that you can exist?
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  my god, it's so beautiful. So you would ask the future self you,
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  what do you need for me today so that you can exist?
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  Exactly.
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  So good. Now, if you're just starting with somebody who's never considered future
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  self,
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  never even
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  Mm-hmm.
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  thought about that, and has never heard or considered the word future casting,
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  how far in the future would you say for a person?
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  I think if I was just starting with someone,
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  I probably would go fairly soon into the future.
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  And then as that experience of future casting builds in them,
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  they build that muscle almost like going to the gym and getting more practice,
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  getting more exercise, seeing further and further away.
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  But I think I would start closer.
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  So I would probably start somewhere in like next year,
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  six months to a year, and then move out from there.
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  Yeah, and I love that. And I love the whole idea of timelines.
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  And I s I often get pushback from clients that I work with,
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  but they're like, I don't want a timeline.
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  I don't want to set a deadline.
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  And I'm like,
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  Yeah.
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  Okay. And I'm paid to push as a coach.
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  So we're gonna come up with that.
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  But I agree. I would start also and then
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  When people start talking about the importance of their family or their children
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  or their spouse, I'm like, okay,
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  so you're talking about your child who's 15 today.
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  And one day they're gonna get married,
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  maybe. or one day this big event is gonna happen.
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  And do you want to be there? And what do you want that to look like?
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  And to kind of help them with that future version of themselves.
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  Absolutely.
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  Yeah.
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  I think it's deeply tied to the people that we love and the experiences that
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  are tied to our traditions, our beliefs,
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  our values. And so if you can angle in there,
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  then it'll open up that entire experience for them of why I want to be
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  the kind of grandma that can pick them up on the weekends and take them
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  on trips or I want to do this and I want to do that.
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  And
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  Yes.
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  I think that really does once you get that casted,
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  then it can be like, okay, so what do we need to do in order to get us there
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  in the in the now, right?
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  Right. And I think that's the beauty of coaching.
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  Yeah.
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  I love that you brought that
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  up about the grandparent wanting to pick up the grandkids on the weekends.
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  I literally have a client I'm working with.
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  Her she has two children. They're both under the age of twelve.
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  And she is talking about health and wellness.
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  And she's like, I want to stay my healthiest because one day I think
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  my children wanna have children.
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  They'll want to also have children.
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  And I want to
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  Yeah.
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  be able to get up and down off the floor.
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  easily to be able to play with them and I'm like my gosh her kids are twelve
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  and or less than under years old
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  Yeah.
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  and she's thinking that way like that's amazing yeah I know
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  That is amazing. That's gonna be one healthy grandmama.
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  Get it girl!
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  When I'm working with clients,
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  and I know this has happened to you too.
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  I've I don't know, but I'm pretty certain as their clients are starting
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  to say something like that lady,
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  I'm like, gosh, my children are adults and one day they're gonna have kids
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  and I better I wanna start thinking about getting up and down off the floor easily.
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  But I had never thought about it like that.
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  Absolutely. Yeah.
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  ~
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  so the same thing happens, I guess,
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  while we're coaching is things that pop up for us.
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  Ha ha ha.
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  I love that. Yes. I want to be able to bend down and pick up the Legos
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  or or whatever. But I
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  Yeah.
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  think that that also brings up like what are we postponing,
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  right? Because in that particular scenario we might be postponing like exercise or ~
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  Okay.
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  whatever that looks like for you.
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  I'm not one to suggest you have to go to a gym.
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  Maybe it's walking, maybe it's running,
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  maybe it's biking, maybe it's swimming,
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  maybe it's dancing in your kitchen to your favorite jams,
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  right? Like it could look like just about anything.
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  So
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  the thing when I think about even that situation,
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  I'm immediately asking myself,
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  what are we postponing in the now in order to have that vision?
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  Right.
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  Yeah. Okay, so future self and getting to meet that person.
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  So you mentioned earlier that you would ask your future self at the table,
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  okay, future self, what do you need from me today
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  so that
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  Mm-hmm.
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  you can exist in the future? Are there other very specific questions that
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  you would ask your future self?
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  I think I would probably say I would ask what do I need to let go of?
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  I think I would ask
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  What fear do I hold that's not worth carrying?
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  I think I would ask
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  Mm.
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  What do I need to become? Not to achieve success,
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  but to sustain it.
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  Okay, beautiful. So really it's getting in touch with that inner knowing that
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  we really have.
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  Absolutely.
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  That we don't always let out.
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  Yeah. What am I missing? Like what am I not paying attention to is even probably
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  a bigger part of that, right? I think when we have fears,
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  when we have worries, when we have these concerns or
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  beliefs about ourselves that may be limiting,
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  we tend to kind of suppress those things and just live in the happy places
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  of our lives.
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  Sure.
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  And that feels better. And the reality of like future casting has to
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  be getting real with what is the thing that you really do want to change,
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  but you're just choosing not to because you haven't developed a system
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  or program in order to make that happen where it feels more realistic and
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  not so far away.
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  So something that I've been doing lately,
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  I'd love to share, is but lately,
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  no no no, no it's not true. It's been for a couple of years several years now.
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  is when there is something that seems bigger than possible or a fill in the blank,
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  whatever, hard, challenging,
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  Mm-hmm.
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  although I don't like those words.
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  But anyway, but like Kier Burley,
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  come back down to earth.
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  Those kind of ideas.
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  I've been doing is whatever I'm like,
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  yeah, yeah, yeah, that's probably impossible or I don't know if I have enough time
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  or if I have enough energy or if I have enough smarts or whatever.
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  Fill in the blank.
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  A thing that I've really I have truly been working on going back to is okay,
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  Kenner Kimberly, identify all the places in your life where you have been
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  ex successful or all the places in your life that you have achieved something.
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  Starting with I learned to walk.
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  Like I wasn't even
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  Yeah.
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  a year old and I learned to walk.
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  Yo, that was hard stuff.
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  I love it. That's so great. Yeah.
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  ~
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  And so with the
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  park stuff and I did it anyway,
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  I can do stuff. And so
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  You can do stuff.
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  and I've not always had that way of thinking.
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  especially I'd say it started especially after 2018.
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  And so now any time I'm like, Yeah,
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  I don't know, or I don't know if I'm blank enough,
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  I'm like, no, no, no, no way.
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  I learned to walk. I also learned to ride a bike,
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  to tie my shoes, to speak. Like what?
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  That is hard. And then I made it through kindergarten,
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  all the way up through
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  Mm.
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  12th grade. I did. And then went to college.
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  You did it.
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  And then went to more college.
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  Like what? Y'all, we don't give ourselves enough credit.
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  And so whenever truly, I mean it sounds silly like I learned to walk,
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  but
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  For real, that is hard to know how many times I don't know if you know
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  how many times you fell down. I don't know the exact
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  yeah.
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  number, but it was probably a bazillion jillion whatever number that
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  is times infinity that I fell down
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  Right.
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  and yet today I can walk. It's a big damn deal.
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  Absolutely.
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  If you can strut today, in fact.
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  You can dance.
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  That's right. That's right. Yes.
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  Like what? And so even though it sounds silly,
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  it is it it actually does fuel me.
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  ~ because then I'm like, yeah,
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  like that was harder than whatever the idea is that I've come up with for the week.
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  Absolutely.
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  so it's like we do have proof.
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  We do.
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  So when we're asking our future self,
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  like what is it? Like Teresa, what you said,
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  like what is something I need to let go of?
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  Where is their fear that I am really choosing and allowing to block
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  my progress or to block my next step forward?
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  And then to be able to sit back with your current self and remind yourself,
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  self, you learn to walk.
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  You did.
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  Dang it.
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  You know what I love about this?
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  This also brings up labels, right?
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  Because you
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  Yes.
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  have you and I have had a conversation about labels before,
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  where like at some point this younger version of self was so courageous that
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  it said, I'm gonna walk, I'm gonna put things in my mouth,
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  I'm gonna touch the hot stove,
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  I'm gonna do all this ridiculous stuff just because I'm so curious and
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  I'm and I don't e I may not even know what courage is yet,
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  but I'm literally fulfilling courage on a daily basis.
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  Yeah.
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  And yet then here
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  comes these labels, right? And we let people label us throughout our lives.
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  And then before you know it, we wake up one day and we're believing
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  the labels instead of the fact that we were born into a position of courage.
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  Right.
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  Yes. Yes. Yes. I have
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  a note that I keep here in front of me.
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  I don't know if you can see it,
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  but it says curiosity. And so I keep that.
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  And anytime I flip my this is my Kimberly idea pops in the brain page.
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  Yeah.
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  pages. And so when I flip the page on the next
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  I will write curiosity again. And that
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  Yeah.
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  is my reminder, I do want to stay curious every day.
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  Curious about others.
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  Mm-hmm.
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  Yes, and I want to remain curious about myself.
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  I literally learn things about myself every single day through every conversation
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  that I have,
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  Mm.
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  which makes my future self talk so intense.
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  Yeah,
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  that's amazing. It's one courageous decision can introduce you
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  to a completely different tomorrow.
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  Yes.
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  Yeah. Right to say that again.
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  One perfect decision.
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  When we were walking and dancing
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  in the rain sometimes.
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  Yes, yes. So good.
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  my gosh. I love it. And I love this conversation about future self conversations.
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  Yeah. So okay, Teresa, tell us.
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  What is something that you want everyone listening to ask themselves today?
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  Or what can they start their conversation with their future self?
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  How can they start it?
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  I would say to remember that every day you're either rehearsing your past
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  or preparing for your future.
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  So ask yourself
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  When these thoughts come up, when these worries,
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  fears, concerns, when you're in a space of curiosity,
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  because that's likely when it's gonna show up.
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  When you're being curious and you want to step out and you want
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  to do something different, something great.
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  It could be anything, guys. You don't have to write a book.
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  You might want to bake. You might want to paint you whatever your heart
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  desires, and a fear or a thought,
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  a worry, a way where you're breaking down and pushing your curiosity.
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  down about this possibility of things.
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  I want you to ask yourself, am I rehearsing the past or am I looking into my future?
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  Yeah.
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  Beautiful. I'm so glad you joined us today,
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  Teresa. Thank you so much. And for everyone listening,
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  remember to live life fully and enjoy every moment.
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  Teresa, we'll see you again soon.
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  Absolutely. Thank you, Kimberly.