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The Why Not Today? Podcast - Season 2 - Episode 25 with Andrea Plunkett, Sing-a-Gram and Visioneer Coach Andrea · Why Not Today? with Leslie Kane

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Hello, my name is Leslie Cain.
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I am the host of the Why Not Today podcast.
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This is a podcast to celebrate people who have been
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courageous and said, why not today?
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I started this podcast in honor of my father, Patrick Cain,
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who often did say, why not today?
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I am based in Reston, Virginia,
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playing community right outside of Washington,
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DC, and thanks for joining us.
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So my guest today is,
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and I love that you have seen a Gram as your name,
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but Andrea Plunkett.
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Is that right? Did I pronounce that right?
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Yes.
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And I always love to say where we met.
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And Andrea and I met at a networking luncheon.
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And it was in Lynchburg and it was very inconvenient for me
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to go, but I went.
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And it was one of those things,
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I don't know about you and your life is those things
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that just aren't easy,
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have the best biggest blessings in it sometime.
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And so I met her, we had a long conversation
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when I was driving one day,
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just fell in love with all of everything you do
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and following you on Facebook.
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And we met for lunch one day in between.
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And I wish we lived closer,
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because we actually would probably be dangerous
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if we live closer.
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Because we'd be in lots of trouble together.
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So, but Andrea is here as our guest
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and she's got lots of good courage stories.
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But one of the things that attracted,
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or wanted you to talk about today,
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and we're gonna bring up,
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is this month of,
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or why not today month is,
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why not today be intentional?
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And we've been talking about the one word and bucket list.
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And I know you are big into vision boards
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and doing some vision board trainings,
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which again, I wish I was closer,
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because I would have come.
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But we're gonna talk about courage
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and then talk about that.
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So why don't you introduce yourself,
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quick facts, just who you be,
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and then a fun fact about you.
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And then we will talk about courage.
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Okay, I am a mother of three.
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So I have a 23 year old, 19 and 12 year old.
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And that is chaos in itself.
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Yeah.
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When you've got adults, adult children.
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So that's a whole new world.
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I am a wife.
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This is my second time around in marriage.
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And it is beautiful and amazing and grateful.
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And I just stepped out,
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right before the first of the year,
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in a new position as a visioneer coach.
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So I'm helping people, thank you.
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I'm helping people find their vision,
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helping them to dream again, helping them,
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and then what that looks like
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and how I can help them to be seen and heard
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in a very noisy, busy world.
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You know, it's interesting.
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God just the people He puts in my path and the connections.
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And somebody interviewed yesterday
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that's gonna be on the podcast in February,
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she just wrote a book, says, I see you.
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Oh, that's awesome.
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And just that I am seen,
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it keeps coming up over and over and over again.
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So yeah, I love that.
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So we're gonna have to talk a little bit more about
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offline about what you're doing with the coaching.
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Because I love to do that.
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Yes, yes.
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And you do a million other things, including sing and...
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Yes, yes.
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Kind of like being a million hats.
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Yeah.
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And you're very sparkly.
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I do singing telegrams and yeah,
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singing telegrams love to perform and sing.
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And yeah, that's definitely my heart passion.
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Yeah, if you're not watching on YouTube,
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but just listening,
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she's got fun sparkly glasses
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and you're always sparking something going on.
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Yes, bling is fun.
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Yes.
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So I met somebody yesterday,
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her, she introduced herself.
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She works for a financial company.
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And in HR department,
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but she introduced herself as she's the magic
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and sparkle girl in the company.
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Wow.
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I love that job.
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Yes.
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I can't wait to connect.
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Yes, yes.
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So what does courage mean to you?
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Courage means to me, dreaming.
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Dreaming again, like stepping out
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and really being intentional about your dreams
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and things that you want to do.
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I believe that's courageous.
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Love that.
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Yes, we definitely need to dream.
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Yes.
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All right.
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So you've got a lot of courage in your life
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and a lot of change.
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And we want to tie that into a vision board.
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So kind of give us a little bit of your courage journey
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and how that tied into vision boards.
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And then let's talk about how we can encourage
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other people to do a vision board.
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Yes.
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So I missed my fun fact, which has to do with courage.
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Oh, I'm sorry.
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Yeah, I'm sorry.
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It's all right.
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And I just, I was like, I can tie this in.
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So I was 26 before I got my driver's license.
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Oh, wow.
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Yeah, I was terrified of driving.
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I was, had just no desire at all to do driving
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when all the teenagers were.
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And so my daughter was six months old.
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My oldest was six months old before I actually got
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behind a wheel and got my driver's license.
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And it was fear.
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I was so afraid.
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And all the things that I thought could happen
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or might happen if I didn't pass the test,
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what would that look like?
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And just all these things.
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And so that was a really big step for me was to be courageous
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and to do it.
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And if I didn't pass, I'd go take it again.
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I could do that.
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So that was really exciting.
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And it gave me courage.
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It gave me the first step out of a very abusive marriage
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and a place that I was in for 20 years.
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And getting that freedom to be able to drive
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and have my own vehicle changed my life.
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And it started that journey of just being able to realize
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I can do things on my own and what that looked like.
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So, yes.
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Wow.
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I couldn't imagine.
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The minute I turned 16, my mother took me
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to get my driver's license because I was the oldest
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of at that point, four and a half kids.
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The fifth was on the way.
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Wow.
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Go.
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But yeah, the freedom it gives you to be able to drive
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and do those things.
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Yeah, it did.
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It gave me, it made me realize I can do these hard things.
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And so as I went on and started to really just find
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that courage and I was 20 years in a domestic abusive
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marriage and I wasn't dreaming.
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I wasn't, I had really given up on just really thinking
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about myself anymore and three kids and decided,
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finally decided that I had to figure out who I was
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and find my value and my worth.
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And that I was worth dreaming for.
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I was worth fighting for.
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And so that began my step out
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and I actually started a vision board.
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That was one of the first things I did when I left
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and moved started on my new life.
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I got a vision board and I started putting things on there
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that I wanted to dream about.
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And there's a verse in Proverbs and it says,
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hope deferred makes the heart sick.
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But a dream, I can't remember the rest of it,
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but it says, how being a dream fulfilled is,
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beyond measure or something like that.
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But the hope deferred was where I was.
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I was, my heart was sick.
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I was really struggling with that.
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And so to find hope again
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and to be able to look forward
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and to be able to dream about things.
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And so one of my dreams, which hasn't come true yet,
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one of my things on my vision board is going to Australia.
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Oh wow.
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Yes, and that's a big one.
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But I wanted to take steps every year towards that.
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And so here I am starting over.
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I don't even have towels to my name anymore,
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sheets, anything, I'm starting completely over.
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And I had to do something.
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So I went to the post office
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and got a passport application.
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It was free, I could do that.
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That didn't cost me any money,
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but it gave me another step towards that,
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dream of doing Australia.
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And so since then I've gotten travel books
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and I even put a map of Australia on my wall for a while.
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So just these different things,
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I've tried different Australian foods,
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ordered them off of Amazon,
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you can get anything off Amazon.
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Things like that that just give me,
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again, just keeping that direction towards it.
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So that's what I love about vision boards
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and about teaching these workshops is that
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you're really able to help people to think way outside
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of their comfort zone.
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Things that they may have forgotten about,
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dreams that they had forgotten about,
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and just having those things to be able to put them
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on a board and look at them when things are hard,
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when you've had really bad days
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and you're able to just look at that board and say,
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okay, that's where I'm going,
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this is gonna be okay, that's what I wanna do.
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That's where, and what that looks like
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and helping people walk that out is really important.
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Well, I wanna talk about the steps to that,
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but a couple of things that you mentioned that,
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writing it down, whether, and if you're visual,
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being able to see it, but I had somebody on the podcast
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a couple of weeks ago that she did her dad's bucket list.
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Wow.
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It was fun, and I have a journal as a bucket list,
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which I need to pull out
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because I haven't looked at it in a while,
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but I know years ago, my biggest wanted to do was go to Hawaii.
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Wow.
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I put, and I wrote it down one year.
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I'm like, I'm gonna do this.
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Well, my job I had, I got to go to Alaska and Hawaii
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the same summer.
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Wow.
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And actually, I can,
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and I was talking to a friend the other day
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about intentions and manifesting
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and not just what you want, that you wanna go,
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but you wanna go like all out,
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or I've been able to go to Hawaii three times basically.
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Oh my goodness.
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Like, I had to get there and spending money,
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but everything else was covered.
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And so that manifestation of it.
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And I think where we are right now in 2024,
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I think the last few years,
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and I know for me, we've been in survival mode.
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Yes.
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Just get me through the day, get me through the week.
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I was with somebody yesterday,
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and she was reliving that she ran events.
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And every Monday, she was on listening to the governor here,
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what the restrictions were, what you couldn't do.
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And so we've been on survival mode and we stopped dreaming.
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And to be able to dream again.
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And I know I've done vision boards and I have one,
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but it's just, I'm a words girl,
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what it's meant to me.
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So it's just really words, but it's not specific.
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So I just made a note that I need to get serious
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about a vision board and put the things I really want
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because they do manifest when you do it.
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Yes, yes.
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And words are important.
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They are so important.
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My whole house is full of words,
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because words were so detrimental to me for 20 years
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that I was determined to make sure words were positive
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and that they were things that I could look forward to
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and be able to hold on to.
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So we definitely put words on our vision boards,
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but sometimes it's good to get specific.
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It's good to be able to look at your personal,
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your finance, your work, your family,
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your health and wellness and be able to put those things.
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Some of our people, we just did a workshop
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and some of them actually split their boards up.
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So they had each different category.
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And then others, you know, yeah, and others did a collage,
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and sometimes you may look at someone's board
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and it may not make sense to you
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because it's one of the ladies isn't married
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and she wants, she's put on her vision board
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that she wants a husband, but instead of putting,
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I want a husband, she put a picture of a couple
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looking at a sunset.
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And that to her was, you know, what she wants her,
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you know, her future to look like.
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And so sometimes it can be very specific for yourself,
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but not necessarily everybody has to know, you know,
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the intimate details of exactly, you know,
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what you're wanting.
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And it's definitely for us.
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And I always caution people, be careful what you put.
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I had somebody one time, she put, she wanted a husband.
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So she put a picture of, then, I mean, this was years ago,
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the marble man.
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Yes.
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Well, she didn't want a man that smoked,
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but that's what she got.
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Right?
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So be careful.
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Right, be careful what you wish for.
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So you are doing workshops in Lynchburg, Virginia.
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So if anybody's still not too late,
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I think you have a couple next week.
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Yes.
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People can attend.
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I think you should do a virtual one too.
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Yes, yes.
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So if I want to do one at home,
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what do I need to get together?
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What are the steps I need to do?
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How do I start dreaming?
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Or how do I start creating my vision board?
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So if you wanted, I definitely want to do one virtually.
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I think that's exciting, would be great to do.
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I think if you want to start one, it's just getting,
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I suggest foam board instead of cardboard,
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because cardboard's flimsy.
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Sometimes it can, you know, won't hold up
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to what you're putting on it.
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So get a piece of foam board.
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It doesn't have to be the gigantic 16 by 20s that we use.
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I even had people in the class cut theirs in half
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or cut theirs into a space that worked.
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But I wanted to give everybody enough space
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if they wanted to fill it.
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So but get a piece of foam board.
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You can get that at the Dollar Tree.
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It's super easy.
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Most of the stuff you could get, you know, super cheap,
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scissors, some glue.
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I like the glue that's purple that then goes to clear,
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because that way I know where I put my glue.
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And some magazines.
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Get some magazines, some books, some things
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that I'm really interested in.
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And start cutting them out and start putting them on that board.
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I know it sounds like, oh, we're doing elementary school,
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you know, projects, but we all need some creativity.
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Oh, absolutely.
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Yeah.
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And we all loved art class.
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We have to say we all loved art class.
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And so it's fun to get into that and to be able to do it.
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Rip it out of a page, out of a book if you want to.
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If you see something online that you like, a quote or a picture,
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print that out on your printer.
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And go ahead and put that on there as well.
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And it doesn't have to be something
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that has to be completed in one day.
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It can be something you work on even throughout the year,
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you know, as you go on and realize, this is what I want.
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But what it does is it starts this intention of dreaming.
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It starts this intention of looking forward and thinking,
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what do I want to do?
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And it's not selfish.
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I mean, I think sometimes we get to that place where we think,
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oh, this is selfish to think about myself and what I want.
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And especially people who are people-pleasers,
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we want to make everybody else happy.
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But sometimes we have to stop and go, wait, do I like chocolate brownies
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because I like them or because everybody in my family does,
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so that's what I make.
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Well, isn't it?
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What is that movie with Julia Roberts that, oh,
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she was engaged so many times?
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Oh, yes, the marriage, weddings, I think, or marriage.
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What's it called?
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Yeah.
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But finally, Richard Grass, like, how do you like your eggs?
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Right.
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Every man she was with, she liked the eggs that they liked,
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because she wasn't her own person.
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Yes, yes.
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Yeah, it's crazy how we can lose ourselves in life.
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And like you said, because since COVID, we've all been surviving
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and we've all been trying to figure how to just keep our head above water
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and how to keep our jobs or how to make it every time we go to the grocery
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store and things are three times as much as they were.
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And so to stop and say, even if it's something as simple as,
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I've never had caviar, and I want to try caviar,
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to stop and put that on your vision board to others,
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and maybe that's kind of crazy.
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But to you, that matters.
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That's important.
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And those kind of things are life changing because they say, OK,
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I matter, and I can do this.
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And because I can do this, I can do something else.
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It's just a step to the next step.
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And I love your Australia example and the steps.
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Like it's the little steps.
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And sometimes we just you can't do all of it.
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But what can you do to love on you?
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And maybe it's drinking out of, we have those fancy things in our house
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that we don't use only for guests.
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And I had some glasses that I won from Mary Kay.
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They were etched really pretty in there, way up high.
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And I just kept them away for somebody came out.
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I'm finally like, well, that's silly.
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Like, yes.
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And I had a collection of crappy plastic, messy, dirty, cracked.
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And I'm like, get rid of those and put the good ones out.
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Because we deserve those things.
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Yes.
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Yes.
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Yeah, there's a song that I sing and it's talking about how you live.
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And it says, wear the red dress.
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Use the good dishes.
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Make a big mess and make lots of wishes.
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And, you know, yes.
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And that's that's part of we want to live because, you know, when you get to the
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end of your life, people, the thing that people say the most is, I wish I had done this.
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I held back too long.
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I should have gone and done that.
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I should have done this.
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We're not saying, oh, we should have spent more time, you know, in front of the
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computer and making money or working.
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It's mostly, you know, those things that we wanted to do.
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I know as a mom and with with kids sometimes trying to get that family photo is
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chaotic, you know, and you think I want this perfect family photo.
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Just take the photo, you know, just take the photo.
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Just enjoy the time.
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Your kids need that.
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And they need to see that you dream to, I think sometimes as a parent, I think
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sometimes even my parents, you know, they some I want them to dream.
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I want them to have goals because for me, that inspires me to say, even in my 60s,
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I can still, you know, dream I can still do and to see them do to do that makes
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inspires me to keep going on.
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Absolutely.
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And, you know, one of the things you talked about regrets, which I often quote
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Daniel Pink, who's written several books and is one day he will be on this podcast.
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He lives local to me, but I haven't, I haven't connected with him.
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But one day I'm going to keep saying I need to put a picture of him on my vision.
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That's right.
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That's right.
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There you go.
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But in his book, it talks about regrets.
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And I read the book like right when I started this podcast.
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So I quote it often, but he talks about people rarely regret the things that they
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did.
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We were getting the things we didn't do.
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Yeah.
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And one of the biggest regrets of people in the United States is not
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traveling abroad in school, but, you know, living our life.
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And that's a whole theme of this podcast.
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Why not today just do the things that it doesn't have to be big.
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And sometimes it's just, you know, dreaming again, taking the time to drink
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out of that fancy glass.
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Yes.
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Joy and be present with the people and talking about pictures and not the
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perfect pictures.
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You know, I'm so grateful for pictures I have of people that have not in my life
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anymore that have passed away.
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And we have a picture with my dad before he passed away.
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And my nieces and nephews, this was after Christmas before he passed away.
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My nieces and nephews were in town and we live in DC area and big Redskins fans
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and Redskins were in a game or something, playoffs, which surprise,
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surprise, that was a while ago.
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That's a whole other topic.
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But I remember trying to get everybody together and I was like, OK, after the
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game's over, we'll go over to mom and dad's, we'll get a picture, let's get a group
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picture.
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And it was not pretty and nobody was dressed fancy.
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We had great gear on.
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And but we have that picture.
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And that was the last time my nieces and nephews saw him in the last time we were
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together.
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And I look at that often like, OK, it's not perfect.
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And that's kind of the premise of this podcast.
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As I said when we started, I don't edit them because it's not perfect.
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And it's like, why not today?
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You just got to do the things and not expect everything to be exactly right.
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And you don't need to know all the steps, you know, but put that dream and that
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vision in front of you.
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And, you know, you just never know where it's going to.
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You have have it one way and it may manifest another way.
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A friend of mine last year, I actually, she talked about vision boards and was
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going through a rough time in her life.
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Her husband, who unfortunately did pass away, was fighting cancer.
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And she decided that she had to start living her life again.
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She couldn't be crying with him.
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And so she started running and she put a vision board together.
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And one of the things was like a picture of a beautiful patio.
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Well, it wasn't.
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It was just something she liked.
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Well, lo and behold, she ended up getting that exact furniture, like online,
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somewhere or one of those free places.
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Like it acts the whole thing manifests the way that she had it.
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Well, it was on that vision board.
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Wow.
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Wow.
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That's incredible.
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It is funny to be able to look back at those things or lists, like you're
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saying, like your bucket list and things like that and be able to look back at
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those vision boards and bucket lists and and look and say, wow, I did that.
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I can't believe that happened or that that worked out.
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You know, it, it shows us how important it is to put it out there and be able
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to be able to to really see it and and and to believe it.
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Because, you know, that is that is what faith is.
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It is seeing without, you know, believing without seeing.
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Yeah, believing without seeing.
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And so, you know, that is it's it's it's some faith and and but it's good.
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And it's good for you.
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Yes.
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And it's good for others.
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Yeah.
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And just for them to see it and they feel our energy.
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Yes.
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That was what I'm going to say about that.
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Now, I totally lost that thought.
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Well, I was going to say, you know, having two adult children, you know,
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23 and 19, it's a different world than it was when I was, you know, in my 20s.
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And watching them, you know, because of COVID and everything else, you know,
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go through all these different kind of struggles, but helping them to just
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dream and say, you know, if you could do anything, what would you do, you know,
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or, you know, going, well, I haven't done this or, you know, my other friends
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have done this and it's like, that's okay.
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This is your 20s.
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It's fun.
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You know, let's what would you like to do?
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This is the time where you can do anything.
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You know, you have, you don't have any strings attached to you.
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So I think sometimes we forget that when we get in our 40s and 50s and start
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to look at things and go, oh, we can't, we were limiting ourselves.
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And there's really no limits.
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Like you said, those dishes, you know, let's pull them out.
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Let's use them.
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You know, let's, let's, let's just enjoy things.
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What, let's stop holding back and realize that we don't, we do not
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promise tomorrow or, or even next year.
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So let's live that and, and start walking that out and vision boards are
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a way to really get that connection and that direction, something to focus on.
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Yeah.
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I love that. And so I thought, I remember the thing I was going to
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mention, reticular activating system.
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Have you ever heard of that?
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No.
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Yes.
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So that's kind of like your bodyguard in your brain.
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We're looking for things.
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So you want to buy a new car, you want to buy a red Chevy, all of a sudden,
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everywhere you see a red Chevy.
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Yes.
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It totally happened to me before.
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Yeah.
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And so now a lot, you say things and it shows up in your phone and they tell
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you you want it, but.
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You know, I take attention to your word and one word, you see it
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everywhere, just like when we mentioned being seen.
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Yes.
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That I saw that phrase everywhere.
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I am seeing, I see you.
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And so once you kind of put them out there and you have that visual and you
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see it, even if you walk past a vision board and you don't really
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pay attention to it, it's there and your, your RAS is looking for those
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things and looking for ways to get it.
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And I can tell you many instances in my life that like, like the Hawaii
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trip, like no way.
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You're right.
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It happened, you know, and many times those things have happened.
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So just, um, yeah, dream.
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You got me motivated to want to dream again and to, I want to make my vision
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board and actually have a Bolton board I got one year that says dream on it.
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So I put everything.
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Oh, sweet.
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So I'm going to go to the next one.
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Oh, sweet.
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And then I also have taken and done a virtual version, a small one, and I do it
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on, um, do it, create it in Canva and print it out and have it in the front of
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notebooks and around my house.
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So I see it in front of me.
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Yes.
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You can do it in Canva.
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Pinterest is another great place to do something where you've kind of got a
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board.
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Um, uh, we were talking about that the other night at our workshop.
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Those are all great.
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Absolutely.
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And then you print them out so that you can see them in front of you or a friend
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of mine said, you know, she put hers as her screen for her, um, phone.
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And so it was there every time she looked at her phone and opened up her phone.
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So I, I said, that's smart too.
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Things like that, that just put it on your refrigerator.
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I actually went from my team.
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I wrote affirmations for them and print just with markers or crayons and put on
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piece of paper and mailed them to them and they put them inside their medicine cabinet.
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Oh, please.
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Pantry, you know, the places you're in front of.
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Yes.
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I had somebody I was talking to about doing this.
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She's like, I'm not going to trash my house.
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I'm like, okay, you don't have to, you know, and I've got some of my things like
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what's behind me.
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It's a nice board.
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Um, you can frame it.
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You, but then you can also hide it in places.
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So you see it.
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Yes.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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There's all kinds of places.
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Um, my first year when I was, you know, stepping out in a new and whole new direction,
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I even put words and things on my, in my car because I was in my car for so long.
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Um, I would put those things there.
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I had one little quote on my rear view mirror and it said, you know, don't look back, you
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know, or, you know, when it's don't look backwards, look forward.
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And you just little reminders like that every day, uh, just changing my focus and, and remembering,
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you know, what my goals are and what I want.
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Um, yeah, it's important.
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Uh, so many good nuggets.
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Inspiration.
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It inspires others for sure.
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So yes.
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So I always ask, you know, how would you encourage somebody else?
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I know we've talked a lot about this subject in general, but anything specific as a parting
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like, okay, this is how I'd encourage somebody.
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Um, I would encourage someone to just go back and think about when they were a kid, you
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know, what did you want to do?
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What did you see?
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What did you remember that you think, oh, I want, want that or, oh, I always wanted to
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do this and, and write that down, you know, put it on your vision board.
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Dream, dream again.
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It's, it's important.
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You're important.
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You matter and you are worth the time to sit down and dream again.
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Absolutely.
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I would encourage someone like that.
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So, so true.
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Well, this has been fun and I've been trying to get you on the podcast forever and I'm
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glad I'm on a subject that works.
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It was perfect with the intention.
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So I'm going to share all your contact information with people.
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What's the best way for somebody to find you?
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I would say Facebook's the best way to find me.
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Um, okay.
28:56
Andrea CK Plunkett.
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I'm on there and, um, I love conversation.
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Anyway, anybody wants to reach out.
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I've, I'm all for it.
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Okay.
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And she's, you're tons of fun and I'm grateful that you're in my life and I've got to figure
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out a way to connect.
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So not only are you far away, but then we figured out, but we did make it work last time because
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when I did, now I have a dog and so we went to a cafe, except dogs, which I am going that
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way in February.
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So, so it's time to get together or, you know what, you're three hours away.
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I just could get in the car or we can meet.
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Yes.
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Yes.
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Yes.
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Or I can make a trip too.
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That's not a problem.
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So trips are always fun.
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That's right.
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Well, thank you for being a guest.
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So thank you, Ms. Andrea.
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And thanks for taking time out of your busy schedule.
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Thank you.
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Loved having you as a guest.
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Bye.
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Bye.