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Perspective shifts to Peace · Lavender Mind

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  Hey. Welcome to Lavender Mine podcast,
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  a podcast to help anyone remember
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  how to live only in this moment because,
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  you know what? It's the only 1 we
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  have.
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  Hey. Welcome to lavender mind. If This is
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  the first time you're here, welcome to the
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  Today's show is all about prospective shifts and
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  how they can offer peace and enjoy.
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  I years ago had read the book, the
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  notice
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  by Andy Andrews. If you've never read this
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  book, it's a short read, especially
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  In the summer, it's a just such a
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  beautiful book. He has so many great books.
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  And, in the book, he
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  has this character Jones,
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  who is a homeless man,
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  and he lives on the beach, and
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  he and this
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  character Andy
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  after sharing a care of Diana sausage
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  and a can of sardines that they eat
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  together on a pier.
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  Jones, the homeless man asks Andy, what he
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  ate for lunch and Jones is like,
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  what are you talking about? Like, I had
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  Sardines and Vienna sausage, and he's, you know,
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  kinda down on his life and the homeless
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  man Jones
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  says, well,
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  for me, I dine on surf turf with
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  a view by the ocean,
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  and he explains to
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  Andy that it's all about perspective.
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  And the whole book is just... It's such
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  an amazing book. I don't wanna give it
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  away. No no more spoilers, that is such
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  a
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  huge takeaway for me from that book, and
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  it's always just really sat with me. I
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  read it. Gosh so long ago.
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  The whole book has so many lessons in
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  it, but the 1 that I'd like to
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  pick part today is all about perspective.
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  Perspective can go 2 ways really, just to
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  keep it simple, we can choose love or
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  fear.
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  And when our intentions and actions are aligned
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  with love, we feel grounded and flowing and
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  abundant
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  and connected to something bigger than ourselves,
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  our spirit and God,
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  And when we act from fear, we feel
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  anxious, condemning, competitive, scares, guilty,
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  disconnected from ourselves and god.
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  Perspective is really...
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  It's it's an attitude toward the way we
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  look at our life,
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  and it can change everything.
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  Our attitude toward what has thrown our way
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  really shifts how we show up, and it
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  affects everybody around us, just like a butterfly,
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  wings
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  are felt across the world. It really matters
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  the way that we perceive our life because
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  it affects all the people around us, and
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  it affects us.
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  If you dislike something in your life,
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  you can make some shifts today to alter
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  your life, you have control over many aspects
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  in your The biggest thing that we all
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  have control over is
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  our perspective.
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  There's a quote by Dennis
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  Did rot,
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  and he says there are many things I
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  can't force.
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  I must adjust
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  there are times when the greatest change needed
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  is the change of my viewpoint. If the
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  steps in your life seemed too hard to
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  shift,
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  the way that you see things is always
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  shift.
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  Years ago,
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  I guess my oldest was probably about 9
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  or 10, and we took a long trip
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  to visit my father law, and we took
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  boats and planes and fairies, and we met
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  such cool people along the way,
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  I'll never forget We met this family that
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  was hiking
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  the gold mine, and they had a bunch
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  of kids, and I, was just amazed that
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  they were gonna be off the grid with
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  their kids with just their backpacks. I mean,
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  I had such
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  admiration for this family.
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  And
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  we play cards and we
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  saw whales
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  and on the fairies, we had beautiful views
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  of
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  lighthouse, and I had so much fun traveling
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  there. I wasn't sad when we finally got
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  to the destination because of course, we wanted
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  to see my husband's dad, but I remember
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  just
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  it was the first time in my life
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  that I really... I enjoyed the journey just
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  as much as the destination, and
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  This is the goal on life right to
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  really
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  enjoy the ride, like, truly enjoy the ride,
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  and not always there's not always the lighthouse
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  is out there. Sometimes there is the bumps,
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  and the
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  the rain
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  when you're on the boat, you know,
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  life is not always perfect.
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  But our life has the trials and the
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  amazing events, the big birthdays, by the way,
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  my parents just
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  We had a big celebration here, their 8,
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  birthday and 6
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  anniversary. Woo hoo, so amazing.
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  It's the babies
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  along the way. It's the sad days. All
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  this stuff makes up our journey,
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  and
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  life is just a combo of all these
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  things,
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  and it is possible to enjoy
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  all the things
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  along the way, not that the sad times
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  don't take a little bit to lick our
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  wounds, and we need a little minute to
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  get back on track. But
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  we are in control of the way that
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  we show up. If you want to make
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  changes, it it is in your control to
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  make changes,
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  The biggest thing that we can always have
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  control over and make changes with is our
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  perspective and the way that we look at
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  our life.
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  And life is too precious to waste. Your
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  life was meant to be used as an
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  instrument to do something special. That doesn't mean
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  that
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  You have to be recognized by a thousand
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  or, I guess, to be a million people.
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  You don't have to have a job that
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  in society stands nerds is amazing. Right now,
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  whatever you do, maybe you're taking care of
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  someone or you're working at Walmart, maybe baked
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  cakes.
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  Your makeup artists, whatever you do,
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  whatever you wake up and do, you have
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  control over your perspective
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  and the way that you do what you
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  do. And our perspective,
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  alt,
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  not only our lives, but all the people
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  that we touch.
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  Dale Carnegie wrote, The fool if he finds
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  that life has handed him a lemon, he
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  gives up and says, I am beaten. It
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  is fate.
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  I haven't a chance.
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  Then he proceeds
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  to rail against the world and indulge in
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  self pity.
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  But when the wise man is handed a
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  lemon? He says,
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  what lesson can I learn from this mis
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  fortune?
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  How can I improve my situation? How can
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  I turn this lemon into lemonade?
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  The answer is always the same.
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  It's our perspective.
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  I hope this helps. I hope together we
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  can plant some seeds of resilience and joy.
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  Have an amazing day.