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What I Needed to Hear — and Maybe You Do Too · STOPTIME: Live in the Moment.

• 0:23
  Lisa Hopkins: Hey there.
• 0:25
  Lisa Hopkins: What's something that you need to hear right now that you wish somebody might say to you?
• 0:33
  Lisa Hopkins: Just think about it for a moment.
• 0:36
  Lisa Hopkins: It's it's not that you are lacking something, but more like an awareness, a feeling that something is missing, that there's potential for more.
• 0:52
  Lisa Hopkins: You know, we hold such high expectations for ourselves to just stay calm and carry on, to keep our head up even when we are weary, nose to the grindstone valuing grit and grind over grace and gratitude.
• 1:08
  Lisa Hopkins: And while we as humans are built to be extremely resilient, I'm gonna ask you that question again.
• 1:19
  Lisa Hopkins: Even though you're doing okay without it, if there was something, just anything, that somebody could say to you that landed in a way that well, that maybe you didn't even realize you needed or wanted to hear.
• 1:45
  Lisa Hopkins: What would be of great value for you to hear, even though it's not important in terms of your output or productivity or functionality in the world?
• 1:59
  Lisa Hopkins: Take a moment to explore this question with kind curiosity.
• 2:07
  Lisa Hopkins: I know if it were me, and actually full disclosure, I am speaking to myself today as I'm speaking with you.
• 2:17
  Lisa Hopkins: I'm gonna go out on a limb and say that we are not so different, you and I, and that as humans, we share this innate sense that is often untapped.
• 2:32
  Lisa Hopkins: Sometimes it's because we've lost access to it, and sometimes it's because maybe we didn't stop long enough to realize there's something valuable there for us.
• 2:46
  Lisa Hopkins: You know, the sense of knowing what we need, and I use the word need lightly because we can absolutely survive without it.
• 2:54
  Lisa Hopkins: And quite honestly, most of us do.
• 3:00
  Lisa Hopkins: So instead of the word need, let's use the word invite.
• 3:06
  Lisa Hopkins: If you were to invite something into your life, some kind of a message, either from somebody else or from the universe, or, well, from yourself, from ourselves, from myself, what would that message be?
• 3:28
  Lisa Hopkins: I sat at my desk for a while looking at a blank page today, which is uncomfortable for me.
• 3:36
  Lisa Hopkins: So as I'm talking to you right now, I'm lying on my back in my office with my feet up in the air instead.
• 3:46
  Lisa Hopkins: There's a sconce on my ceiling.
• 3:48
  Lisa Hopkins: I'm looking at it now.
• 3:51
  Lisa Hopkins: It resembles a spider web or a flower.
• 3:55
  Lisa Hopkins: It's beautiful.
• 3:57
  Lisa Hopkins: Not a scary spider web.
• 4:00
  Lisa Hopkins: Its surface has a an opaque pearl luster, and there are nine charcoal colored lines reaching from the same center point to the scalloped edges of the sconce, each arriving at ruby colored points that look like jeweled sunrises.
• 4:24
  Lisa Hopkins: One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, there are nine of them.
• 4:31
  Lisa Hopkins: And they're perfectly symmetrical, emanating from the same center, but balanced.
• 4:43
  Lisa Hopkins: You know, in this moment it occurs to me that I have been ensconced, and yes, pun intended, ensconced in my own uncertainty, which is very uncomfortable for me, without realizing that there is something constant, always constant, watching over me.
• 5:09
  Lisa Hopkins: It is quite literally watched over me silently, my sconce, never lit, because I don't like the light that it gives.
• 5:17
  Lisa Hopkins: And yet, even though I never turn it on, it remains there.
• 5:25
  Lisa Hopkins: It's been in every session with me and my clients, in every podcast with my wonderful guests.
• 5:32
  Lisa Hopkins: It's witnessed my inspired moments and my writer's block always there, not judging me.
• 5:41
  Lisa Hopkins: Solid, consistent, centered, beautiful.
• 5:47
  Lisa Hopkins: Right in the middle of my ceiling, in the room where I do all my most inspired and passionate work.
• 5:56
  Lisa Hopkins: If I wanted more light in my room, I could turn the sconce on, and it would give me more light.
• 6:07
  Lisa Hopkins: Maybe my sconce has just offered me what I needed to hear today, but only because I looked at it differently and invited the question.
• 6:20
  Lisa Hopkins: I'm feeling more grounded now, and and I hope that my little brainstorm made you feel a little bit more centered.
• 6:33
  Lisa Hopkins: And maybe you can take this and and make it your own.
• 6:38
  Lisa Hopkins: This could be your God, the universe, your inner compass, but whatever it is, the metaphor is strong.
• 6:48
  Lisa Hopkins: Even though sometimes we don't see it or pay attention to it, or really use it at all.
• 6:56
  Lisa Hopkins: It is always there.
• 7:02
  Lisa Hopkins: I'm Lisa Hopkins.
• 7:04
  Lisa Hopkins: Thanks so much for listening.
• 7:06
  Lisa Hopkins: Stay safe and healthy, everyone.
• 7:08
  Lisa Hopkins: And remember to live in the moment.