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Ten Ways to Fall in Love With Your Life Again · Do You F*cking Mind?

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Speaker 1: Hello, beautiful beans, and welcome to the podcast episode of Today.
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Speaker 1: So this is the podcast where I'm helping you change
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Speaker 1: your relationship with yourself and your brain. And in this episode,
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Speaker 1: we're talking about ten ways to fall in love with
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Speaker 1: your life again. You can use all ten ideally, or
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Speaker 1: you can use just one, whichever resonates with you. I've
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Speaker 1: got things that I would say for ninety nine percent
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Speaker 1: of the population, this is stuff that you can do
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Speaker 1: pretty much with the resources that you already have. I
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Speaker 1: would say for most people. Okay, I'm not trying to
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Speaker 1: make it something. Now, keep in mind there's going to
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Speaker 1: be people that have very different lifestyle situations. But what
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Speaker 1: I mean by the resources you already have is I'm
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Speaker 1: trying not to make it things that you have to
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Speaker 1: spend money on and things like that. But keep in
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Speaker 1: mind that there's going to be certain things that some
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Speaker 1: of you won't be able to do if you don't
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Speaker 1: live near your friends or if you don't you know,
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Speaker 1: there's certain things here that won't be applicable to absolutely everyone.
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Speaker 1: I'm sure that goes without saying cool. And for those
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Speaker 1: of you that haven't already, definitely go check out my
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Speaker 1: so go and subscribe. There's free and paid options available,
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Speaker 1: and yeah, it's just a good time. Little life updates.
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Speaker 1: My cousin just had a baby. I literally was at
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Speaker 1: the hospital this morning before recording this, visiting my cousin's baby,
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Speaker 1: and I walked in and I just like immediately burst
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Speaker 1: into tears. I actually saw the photo of him on
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Speaker 1: the family group chat this morning, so I wake up
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Speaker 1: and I knew that she was already at the hospital yesterday,
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Speaker 1: so I wake up straight away. I'm jumping on the
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Speaker 1: family chat at like five point thirty this morning, and
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Speaker 1: then straight away I see the photo of him, and
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Speaker 1: I was like, oh my god, I'm sobbing in bed.
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Speaker 1: And then I get to the hospital and I'm sobbing,
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Speaker 1: and then I'm seeing my cousin and I'm sobbing again.
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Speaker 1: So I'm just a ball of happy emotions. I'm feeling
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Speaker 1: very happy, grateful, blessed to blessed, to be stressed, just
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Speaker 1: all the love. So it's a great day. It's a
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Speaker 1: fucking great day. Anyway, let's get into the ten ways
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Speaker 1: to fall in love with your life again. And I
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Speaker 1: say again, but some of you may have never loved
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Speaker 1: your life, and if that's the case, Ten ways to
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Speaker 1: fall in your love in love, oh, ten ways to
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Speaker 1: fall in love with your life full stop.
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Speaker 2: Okay, Number one, we're going to rethink the first three
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Speaker 2: minutes of the day. I don't care who you are,
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Speaker 2: I don't care what time you wake up, I don't
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Speaker 2: care where it is that you're waking up, where you're
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Speaker 2: waking up.
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Speaker 1: But the first three minutes of the day is something
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Speaker 1: that any of us and all of us can really
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Speaker 1: take control over. And I'm a huge believer that the
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Speaker 1: way you start your day has a massive impact psychologically
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Speaker 1: on how you will steer your day, not just with me,
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Speaker 1: but so many of you guys who have written in saying,
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Speaker 1: oh my god, the moment I changed how I start
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Speaker 1: my day or my morning, or if I had a
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Speaker 1: morning routine, or the moment I started doing this in
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Speaker 1: the morning instead of the evening, everything changed for me personally.
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Speaker 1: If I get straight out of bed, wash my face,
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Speaker 1: and get dressed out of my pajamas, my whole morning
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Speaker 1: is very different. So if I kind of stumble out
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Speaker 1: of bed, don't even splash water on my face, still
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Speaker 1: in my pajamas and I'm like creeping along to make
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Speaker 1: myself a coffee. Very different energy, very different vibes. So
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Speaker 1: let's rethink the first three minutes of the day, and
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Speaker 1: I'm going to make it a little bit more exciting
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Speaker 1: because what I want you to do is I want
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Speaker 1: you to create a mantra for yourself, a statement, a catchphrase,
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Speaker 1: a mantra. It could be something that's just you for
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Speaker 1: the rest of your life. It could be something you
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Speaker 1: change every week or every month. It could be dependent
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Speaker 1: on what you have going on in your life. So,
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Speaker 1: say you're someone that's going through a breakup, your mantra
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Speaker 1: might be something that feels empowering while you're going through
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Speaker 1: a breakup. Maybe you're It doesn't matter what it is.
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Speaker 1: But Live and I have this mantra thing that we
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Speaker 1: say to each other and it's half joking, half serious,
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Speaker 1: but we repeated it again and again. We're like, today
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Speaker 1: is a great day. Today's going to be a great day.
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Speaker 1: Today is going to be an amazing day. It's a
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Speaker 1: great day. And we say it half jokingly, but just
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Speaker 1: gee each other up. So Lives my best friend. For
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Speaker 1: those of you that don't know, we start just geeing
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Speaker 1: each other up, and then it ends up being a
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Speaker 1: fucking great day because we're just you know, bouncing off
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Speaker 1: each other saying that. We'll even text it to each
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Speaker 1: other out of the blue every couple of weeks. So
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Speaker 1: have a sentence, a statement, something, something that gets you
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Speaker 1: in that headspace of like, oh no, no, no, I'm
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Speaker 1: not gonna scroll in bed. I'm not going to be
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Speaker 1: you know, already brain rotting first thing in the morning.
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Speaker 1: At the very least, I'm going to maximize the first
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Speaker 1: three minutes of the day. Notice how I'm not saying
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Speaker 1: you got to get up at five am. I'm saying
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Speaker 1: the first three minutes of your waking day. I want
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Speaker 1: you to have a mantra that you say the first
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Speaker 1: the moment you get up and you're getting out of bed,
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Speaker 1: I want you out of bed before you look at
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Speaker 1: any device, anything, your what, your phone, anything. I want
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Speaker 1: you physically out of the bed so that way you're
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Speaker 1: more you've got something to actually get up and out
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Speaker 1: of bed fall right, So you remove your body out
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Speaker 1: of the bed, you stretch your arms up, you say
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Speaker 1: this man minimum once, ideally a couple of times as
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Speaker 1: you make your way to the bathroom and you splash
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Speaker 1: water on your face, and then I want you to
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Speaker 1: have a big glass of water. This is all done
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Speaker 1: within the first three minutes, if not less, and if
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Speaker 1: you can, let's have some electrolytes in that water. If not,
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Speaker 1: a glass of water is fine. We want to hydrate
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Speaker 1: the brain that already is going to set the tone
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Speaker 1: for your morning. So before we get into the other nine,
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Speaker 1: I really need you to do this. Whether you do
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Speaker 1: one of the ten or not, this is the one. Okay,
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Speaker 1: the first three minutes of the day, we're having a mantrap.
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Speaker 1: We're getting out of bed. We're not looking at anything
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Speaker 1: until we're physically out of the bed. I don't want
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Speaker 1: you being on social media at all for the first
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Speaker 1: hour of the day. But that's not one of these
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Speaker 1: ten points. And we are looking like feeling fresh with
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Speaker 1: that water and a fast and a hydrated brain. Number one,
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Speaker 1: that is going to change your morning's permanently for the
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Speaker 1: rest of your life. Number two, I want you to
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Speaker 1: imagine that you are in a rom com or a sitcom,
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Speaker 1: and I want you to think what these characters do
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Speaker 1: in these shows that really enrich who they are as
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Speaker 1: a character on the show what's something that these people do. So,
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Speaker 1: for example, think of your favorite sitcom or rom com.
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Speaker 1: There's habits that these people do, There's routines that they
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Speaker 1: get into that makes the show comfortable for the audience
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Speaker 1: to watch. It makes us feel cozy and comfortable because
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Speaker 1: there's a there's a layer of kind of we predictability,
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Speaker 1: and then the comedy comes from like on top of
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Speaker 1: that predictability, like friends always meeting up at central perk
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Speaker 1: or things like that. So maybe the characters always meet
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Speaker 1: their best friend for a coffee on their way to work. Okay.
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Speaker 1: Maybe you know, you decide to do your walk in
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Speaker 1: the morning with a particular friend or a neighbor, or
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Speaker 1: your sister or your partner. Okay. Maybe every commute on
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Speaker 1: the way to work or on the way back, you
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Speaker 1: are on the phone to your cousin talking about certain things.
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Speaker 1: Maybe you debrief on a particular thing. Okay. Maybe every
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Speaker 1: single lunch break you meet your girlfriends in the city
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Speaker 1: and you do an inner city yoga class maybe or
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Speaker 1: have a wine at l who knows what it is.
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Speaker 1: You know, what I Am going to say is, notice
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Speaker 1: that every single thing I've mentioned is social. So I
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Speaker 1: want this to be a social thing for you, And
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Speaker 1: I did give you an opportunity to do one where
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Speaker 1: it's not physically you know, where you can actually call
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Speaker 1: someone on a commute. You just obviously need someone that
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Speaker 1: wants to do the same thing and agrees with you.
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Speaker 1: But what is a habitual thing that a character in
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Speaker 1: a rom com does? So here's another example. So when
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Speaker 1: I used to teach pilates, I used to do there
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Speaker 1: was two mornings a week where I have a super
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Speaker 1: early class and then after that I would be back
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Speaker 1: in time to have a coffee with live and then
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Speaker 1: like as if I was her mother, I would walk
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Speaker 1: her into the city and like quote unquote drop her
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Speaker 1: off at work. So we would do the city walk
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Speaker 1: together from we both lived in Surrey Hills, and we
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Speaker 1: walked into the city and I would walk her right
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Speaker 1: to the door. We'd get a coffee on the way,
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Speaker 1: walk her right to the door, and then I'd have
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Speaker 1: my walk back. And we did that twice a week,
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Speaker 1: every single week. Sometimes it was more than twice a week,
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Speaker 1: depending on when I was teaching them when I wasn't,
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Speaker 1: And that was such, and we would always do stories.
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Speaker 1: I'd record stories doing this and I would have listeners.
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Speaker 1: Wasn't even doing the podcast then, but it was people
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Speaker 1: on my Instagram that were like, oh my god, I
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Speaker 1: love these walks. I love the band that you get into,
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Speaker 1: I love the random questions that you asked me. Were
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Speaker 1: saying what would you do with this? And live just
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Speaker 1: and we were kind of just documenting our life as
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Speaker 1: we would do these walks, and it was awesome. So
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Speaker 1: I want you to think, what is something that if
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Speaker 1: my life was a rom com, what would be the staple, trademark,
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Speaker 1: random thing that I would do every single day or
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Speaker 1: at least a couple of times a week that would
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Speaker 1: flesh out my character in a rom com or a sitcom. Okay,
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Speaker 1: make it social, Make it some that you really look
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Speaker 1: forward to that really enriches your day. It's this tiny
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Speaker 1: little piece of the puzzle that makes your day so
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Speaker 1: much better. Okay, So that is number two. Keep it
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Speaker 1: social and you know, work with what you've got. If
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Speaker 1: you are living that inner city life and your friends
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Speaker 1: live nearby, then obviously your options are relatively endless. If
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Speaker 1: you don't live close to anyone that's your friend, then
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Speaker 1: you can do more sort of like a phone call
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Speaker 1: debrief at the end of the day, or maybe when
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Speaker 1: you're making your breakfast. It's like a ten minute call
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Speaker 1: that you schedule with your best friend when you're both
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Speaker 1: making breakfast at the same time, talking about like a
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Speaker 1: rundown of whatever. It doesn't matter what it is, okay,
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Speaker 1: but something that makes your life a bit more sitcom wrongcom.
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Speaker 1: In main character vibes number three, I want you to
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Speaker 1: do something sweet for someone, something kind and sweet for someone,
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Speaker 1: every single day. It's something that I want you to
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Speaker 1: tick off on your to do list every day. So
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Speaker 1: this could be sending someone a nice memory. You message
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Speaker 1: your friend being like, babe, babe, remember that time that
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Speaker 1: you know, Like, I could message Lucy right now and say,
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Speaker 1: remember that time that we got so ripped off by
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Speaker 1: that taxi driver because we missed the bus when we
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Speaker 1: were in Panama. But if we didn't make this blah
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Speaker 1: blah blah, and then we were arguing and I was
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Speaker 1: trying to argue in Spanish, but you were yelling over
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Speaker 1: me in English and he didn't understand anyway. Hilarious. I
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Speaker 1: could just do that and then me read telling the
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Speaker 1: story would make my day because I'd be laughing about
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Speaker 1: that memory. And then I know for a fact that
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Speaker 1: she'd be remembering that memory and she'd laugh ahead off
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Speaker 1: as well. So that's something you could do. Send someone
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Speaker 1: a memory. You could send someone a really good recommendation.
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Speaker 1: So message your auntie and say I thought of you
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Speaker 1: because I was watching the show and I know you
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Speaker 1: love this actor and if you haven't seen this you
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Speaker 1: should check. You should watch. It's really really good. So
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Speaker 1: it could be a recommendation. It could be giving someone
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Speaker 1: a small gift. Maybe you buy your partner a flower,
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Speaker 1: or maybe you buy them a chocolate or their favorite lolly,
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Speaker 1: or maybe you think I'm walking into the office and
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Speaker 1: there's the receptionist is always such a legend. I'm just
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Speaker 1: gonna buy her a coffee without even asking, And I
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Speaker 1: just give her a coffee when I'm walking do something sweet.
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Speaker 1: It could be something that's for free, like I said,
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Speaker 1: a text message, or a recommendation, or just a message
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Speaker 1: saying thinking if you love you so much, whatever, or
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Speaker 1: it could be an actual little gift. You can change
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Speaker 1: it up day by day. But it's this little aspect
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Speaker 1: of you being a sweet, kind, lovely person, just doing
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Speaker 1: a nice gesture for someone in your life, someone's super close,
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Speaker 1: or maybe even an acquaintance. Okay, number four, do something
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Speaker 1: with your appearance that really speaks to your personality. You
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Speaker 1: want to imagine it as you wearing your personality on
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Speaker 1: the outside. So if you haven't already, go listen to
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Speaker 1: my episode on enclothed Cognition, which came out one or
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Speaker 1: two weeks ago, for more insight into the importance that
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Speaker 1: clothing can have on us. But this is a little
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Speaker 1: bit different to that. It's kind of aligned to it,
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Speaker 1: not as deep as this enclothed cognition one. But for example,
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Speaker 1: if I was walking down the street and I saw
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Speaker 1: an older lady wearing purple glasses and a rainbow scarf
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Speaker 1: and you know, like some flower earrings, I instantly would
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Speaker 1: imagine that this person is bubbly, probably very fun, loves
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Speaker 1: to have a laugh, and probably artistic. I would just
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Speaker 1: imagine that that might not be the case, but I
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Speaker 1: would imagine based on her outlook and this colorful, bubbly outfit.
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Speaker 1: I'm putting two and two together. I'm thinking, Yeah, this
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Speaker 1: person's obviously like a really fun, loving, happy person, right,
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Speaker 1: They're probably not going to be grumpy, miserable, hating the world.
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Speaker 1: If you've listened to my episode of Miserable People. She's
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Speaker 1: probably not one of those, okay, But that's just like
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Speaker 1: an example of what could I do that where I
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Speaker 1: can wear my personality on the outside and it doesn't
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Speaker 1: have to be this bubbly fun thing. What's something that
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Speaker 1: someone looks and says, Wow, that person's bold, or that
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Speaker 1: person's outgoing, or that person maybe it's it could be
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Speaker 1: just a little detail. There could be something in your hair,
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Speaker 1: it could be whatever, but it's something that makes you
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Speaker 1: think a little bit extra about when you put your
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Speaker 1: outfit together for the day, that you think, what really
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Speaker 1: is me? What really screams alexis you know when I
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Speaker 1: go out, what's something that I could do? For example,
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Speaker 1: I might go out and just decide I'm gonna wear
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Speaker 1: something that screams I love Formula one. So I wear
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Speaker 1: like my Red Bull Formula one hat and my Red
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Speaker 1: Bull Formula one jacket, and then I'm fucking vibing when
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Speaker 1: I go out. I'm gonna do a little side note
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Speaker 1: to this, I've realized that when I do wear Red
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Speaker 1: Bull or any Formula one kind of merch, it's always
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Speaker 1: men that approached me and kind of grill me on
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Speaker 1: questions to see if I'm just wearing F one like
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Speaker 1: Red Bull team Formula one merch or if I actually
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Speaker 1: am a Formula one fan. No females ever do this,
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Speaker 1: And I beat you that these men don't look at
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Speaker 1: another man who's wearing Formula one merchandise and grilling them,
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Speaker 1: being like, oh so, like I was wearing a Cadillac
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Speaker 1: hat and someone's like, so Cadillac, and I'm like, yeah, Cadillac,
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Speaker 1: and that's not even my team. I just had a
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Speaker 1: Cadillac hat and it was really cool and they were like, yeah,
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Speaker 1: so is that your team? And I'm like, well, I
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Speaker 1: love and I was speaking. I'm like, I love Choco
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Speaker 1: and I love Valtrui, but that it's not my TA,
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Speaker 1: my TAM's Red Bull, I love the Start. And they're like, oh,
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Speaker 1: so you know Formula one, And I'm like, cunt. Even
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Speaker 1: if I didn't fuck off this flexing of trying to
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Speaker 1: it's always the men. Sorry, but it's always the fucking again,
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Speaker 1: miserable men. Anyway, Just sad to say that, and I
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Speaker 1: will I will always I fucking love Formula one, So
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Speaker 1: eat your worth count anyway. Number five sense, grab a notebook,
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Speaker 1: start a brand new notebook. I want a fresh notebook
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Speaker 1: and it has to be physical. I don't want you
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Speaker 1: typing this out. I don't want this in your notes.
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Speaker 1: I want a fresh, physical notebook and a pen that
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Speaker 1: you like. And I want you to write one sentence
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Speaker 1: a day in this book, one sentence a day, and
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Speaker 1: it has to be on the most the most, like
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Speaker 1: the biggest mark on the day that happened. Whether it
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Speaker 1: be something beautiful, something super embarrassing that you're so mortified
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Speaker 1: that you've kept revisiting it so many times throughout the day.
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Speaker 1: It could be something sad that happened. It could be
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Speaker 1: something that you overcame. It could be a crazy frustration
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Speaker 1: that you absolutely cannot get over. It could be an
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Speaker 1: insane thing that you learned. It doesn't matter, but something
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Speaker 1: that's like, if I was to summarize, if I was
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Speaker 1: to look at the day, what's the thing that was like, WHOA,
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Speaker 1: that was probably the biggest part good, bad, confusing. It
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Speaker 1: doesn't matter what, but one sentence about it. So obviously
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Speaker 1: my sentence today would definitely be about meeting my cousin's baby.
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Speaker 1: Oh my god, no no, no, make it semi descriptive, but
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Speaker 1: one sentence doesn't have to be longer than a sentence, okay,
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Speaker 1: and that's what it makes you more and more creative.
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Speaker 1: But imagine if something mortifying happened. Like imagine if you
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Speaker 1: were like stalking your ex on Instagram and you accidentally
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Speaker 1: reshared one of their photos. You know how there's that
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Speaker 1: reshare button, which is diabolical. Can I just say, because
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Speaker 1: it's so easy, press that your reshare button. I've looked
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Speaker 1: on my page and I've read shared stuff that's so
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Speaker 1: beyond irrelevant on people that I don't even follow. Don't
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Speaker 1: know how that's happened, So please don't even look at
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Speaker 1: my reshare. I'm like prompting people to go and look
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Speaker 1: at my ratiary thing, but please don't because I don't
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Speaker 1: know what I'm resharing. But imagine if you did that
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Speaker 1: with one of your exes and your friend told you, like,
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Speaker 1: can't you've just reshared your exes like engagement announcement or
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Speaker 1: some shit. You'd be mortified, and then you would write
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Speaker 1: that down at the end of the year, You've just
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Speaker 1: written a very entertaining book for you to read back.
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Speaker 1: And imagine if you had that for a decade. Imagine
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Speaker 1: giving that to your kids, or imagine just one day
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Speaker 1: being like I'm going to grab that one from a
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Speaker 1: year ago and flick through it. Bang, and you read
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Speaker 1: that sentence and you're like, oh my god, I remember
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Speaker 1: that time. It is so entertaining. It makes you even
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Speaker 1: as you go through your day, you're thinking what's going
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Speaker 1: to be my sentence of the day as you're living
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Speaker 1: the day, and then it almost gives you opportunities. If
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Speaker 1: there's an opportunity for you to be a bit bolder,
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Speaker 1: or a bit more spontaneous, or a bit more daring,
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Speaker 1: you think that could be my sentence of the day.
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Speaker 1: If I just put myself out there and do this
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Speaker 1: little daring thing, I can write that as my sentence
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Speaker 1: of the day. So it can actually go both ways.
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Speaker 1: It's nice to reflect back on, but then you predict
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Speaker 1: what will all these sentences of my day look like
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Speaker 1: in the future. I want to fill this book up
17:04
Speaker 1: with things that where I can look at my life
17:07
Speaker 1: day by day, just in a sentence and really feel like, Wow,
17:10
Speaker 1: I lived. I lived this year, the good, the bad,
17:13
Speaker 1: the intense, the embarrassing. Like I feel like I lived
17:16
Speaker 1: this year and it's quite fulfilling. It's quite nice and
17:19
Speaker 1: then you realize that not every day has to be
17:21
Speaker 1: beautiful and pretty and whatever. But what I do want
17:23
Speaker 1: is I want to live. I want to feel like
17:24
Speaker 1: I've lived. And that's a life that you can love.
17:27
Speaker 1: It doesn't always have to be peachy and perfect with
17:30
Speaker 1: no mistakes or no embarrassments or no pain or no discomfort.
17:33
Speaker 1: It's one where you feel you've lived it. Okay, that's
17:37
Speaker 1: how you love your life. So that one, that's a
17:40
Speaker 1: big one. Number six. Really focus on falling in love
17:44
Speaker 1: with the process of doing so stop living from the
17:49
Speaker 1: end for everything. Milestones are great, getting that degree, being
17:54
Speaker 1: able to run that marathon. These are really good things,
17:57
Speaker 1: and I'm very encouraging of people setting meals and working
18:00
Speaker 1: towards them. It's a huge pillar of you know, what
18:03
Speaker 1: helps us grow, what helps us, you know, with our
18:06
Speaker 1: mental health. When we've got a goal, that's super important.
18:09
Speaker 1: But that alone does not equal happiness. It contributes to
18:14
Speaker 1: your happiness. But if your whole life is all on milestone, milestones, milestones,
18:18
Speaker 1: and you never look at what's happening in the today
18:21
Speaker 1: in the doing of that thing, you're going to feel
18:23
Speaker 1: like happiness is always on the other side of something else.
18:26
Speaker 1: So I think these things have to happen in combination.
18:29
Speaker 1: It's important to have these goals. Growth is what helps
18:32
Speaker 1: us feel a level of satisfaction within our lives where
18:35
Speaker 1: we see this growth and we see ourselves getting better.
18:37
Speaker 1: But we need to have we need to be enjoying
18:40
Speaker 1: the process when it's happening as well. If any of
18:43
Speaker 1: you guys have watched the Rafao and Adule documentary, love
18:45
Speaker 1: him so much. I love Rafao and Adult so much
18:49
Speaker 1: for so many reasons, and I quote him all the
18:50
Speaker 1: time in all these different ways. But one thing that
18:53
Speaker 1: he did say in this documentary is he spoke about
18:57
Speaker 1: learning to enjoy suffering extreme. But obviously the suffering that
19:02
Speaker 1: he's referring to is these really hard training sessions, these
19:04
Speaker 1: grueling training sessions which taught him that if he could
19:08
Speaker 1: get to a point where he could put up with
19:11
Speaker 1: that suffering more than his competitors, he already had the edge. Yes,
19:15
Speaker 1: you need, of course, the crazy skill that he had,
19:17
Speaker 1: but if he can endure something for longer and not
19:20
Speaker 1: feel like it's absolute torture, then he has that edge.
19:25
Speaker 1: So and then he started actually liking it. So I'm
19:27
Speaker 1: not saying you've got to like all the horrible things
19:29
Speaker 1: in your life, You've got to like the things that uncomfortable.
19:31
Speaker 1: But it's saying, how can I look at something that
19:33
Speaker 1: I normally label as, Oh, that's something I don't like
19:35
Speaker 1: doing or that I avoid doing, like, oh, this is
19:38
Speaker 1: just slog I've got to do it. How would you
19:39
Speaker 1: turn it around to be like what aspect of this
19:44
Speaker 1: can I like? Or what about it? Does it give
19:48
Speaker 1: me that there is a sense of fulfillment while I'm
19:50
Speaker 1: doing it, Like whether it's when you're exercising, or whether
19:53
Speaker 1: it's you really enjoy the fact that you have that
19:56
Speaker 1: mental fortitude to have that one hour of high focus
19:59
Speaker 1: or whatever wherever it is. But it's like, how can
20:02
Speaker 1: I fall in love with the process of doing? I'm
20:05
Speaker 1: going to be more present in the doing. I'm going
20:07
Speaker 1: to really enjoy. And an example of this is like,
20:11
Speaker 1: let's say you're going for a run and it's just
20:14
Speaker 1: not a good run that day, Like you don't feel
20:16
Speaker 1: your legs feel like they're made of lead, you do
20:19
Speaker 1: not have a spring in your step, You are dragging
20:22
Speaker 1: yourself for that run. You could finish that run earlier
20:26
Speaker 1: than usual, being like I'm not feeling it. I feel
20:28
Speaker 1: like shit and then go home being like, heck, that
20:29
Speaker 1: was a shit run. Well, next time, I'm not going
20:30
Speaker 1: to go for a run unless I'm in the mood
20:32
Speaker 1: to go for a run, because look at that. That
20:33
Speaker 1: was a shitty, fucking trash run and I'm not gonna run.
20:37
Speaker 1: And then then you put off running when you're not
20:39
Speaker 1: in the mood, and then you're only going to run
20:40
Speaker 1: with in. You could turn that around and do I
20:44
Speaker 1: did this happen to me recently? I had like it
20:46
Speaker 1: was just a shit run, and I was like, oh,
20:48
Speaker 1: I have also hadn't recovered from a cold, and I
20:50
Speaker 1: had an asthma my lungs and shit. Anyway, but I
20:53
Speaker 1: did the run, and then I remember when I was
20:55
Speaker 1: finishing the feeling of when I finally stopped. And I always
20:59
Speaker 1: stop at the stations so I can get to power rad.
21:01
Speaker 1: So I stopped. Finally I got to the fucking pedrol
21:03
Speaker 1: station and I stopped to walk in to get my
21:05
Speaker 1: power red, and I was just I had a moment
21:07
Speaker 1: where I paused, and that feeling where you are your
21:12
Speaker 1: heart is pumping, you are feeling your lungs in and out,
21:15
Speaker 1: in and out, you're panting. You've just finished. I lived
21:18
Speaker 1: for that feeling. It's like, I'm gonna be one hundred
21:21
Speaker 1: years old hopefully, or nineteen whenever, whenever I'm fucking old
21:23
Speaker 1: and I can't be going for runs anymore, and I'm
21:26
Speaker 1: gonna be like, remember those times where I was able
21:28
Speaker 1: to go for runs and have my lungs full, like
21:31
Speaker 1: pumping air in and out and being puffed out. That
21:34
Speaker 1: feeling like you never feel more alive than when you're
21:37
Speaker 1: fully puffed out, when you've exerted yourself. That physical feeling
21:40
Speaker 1: of like oh, gasping for air. It's awesome, right, And
21:45
Speaker 1: especially at the end of a run when I'm like that,
21:47
Speaker 1: I just I love that feeling. I love that feeling.
21:50
Speaker 1: So yeah, okay, it was a pretty shit run, but
21:52
Speaker 1: still got this great feeling. I still got this awesome
21:54
Speaker 1: feeling where I get, you know, and now I've got
21:56
Speaker 1: my gat so like, I'm really enjoying that process. Have
21:58
Speaker 1: I gotten anywhere close to running a marathon? Probably not?
22:02
Speaker 1: Maybe yet tinedy bit, I've chipped away at it, but whatever,
22:04
Speaker 1: Like that, that was awesome and I feel really good.
22:07
Speaker 1: And now because I've focused on the feeling and I've
22:09
Speaker 1: focused on how good it feels to take those breaths affair,
22:11
Speaker 1: and now I get to have my gad and now
22:12
Speaker 1: I'm walking the final block home. I'm feeling you for it,
22:15
Speaker 1: and it's made my day so much better. Okay, so
22:18
Speaker 1: this is an example of falling in love with the process.
22:20
Speaker 1: I now love cleaning the kitchen in the morning after
22:23
Speaker 1: I've fed the kids because I'm like, there's no better
22:26
Speaker 1: feeling than having a nice, clean kitchen for the rest
22:28
Speaker 1: of the day instead of fucking dishes everywhere. So, yes,
22:31
Speaker 1: it takes a bit longer. Yes it might be annoying
22:33
Speaker 1: at the time, but now I'm enjoying the process of
22:35
Speaker 1: it because I look at it as like a giant
22:37
Speaker 1: puzzle and I'm putting all the pieces back together. My
22:39
Speaker 1: Mum used to say when we had to clean the
22:40
Speaker 1: whole house, She's like, look like I said, if it's
22:42
Speaker 1: a puzzle, And I hated it at the time, but
22:44
Speaker 1: now I use that analogy all the time. Number seven gratitude. Gratitude. Gratitude, gratitude, gratitude.
22:52
Speaker 1: I want you to remember for a time in your
22:54
Speaker 1: life where you wished for what you have right now,
22:59
Speaker 1: and you might be taking it for granted now and
23:02
Speaker 1: I'm not saying you have to love everything about your
23:05
Speaker 1: life because you once wished for I'm not saying you're
23:06
Speaker 1: not allowed to complain or you're not allowed to highlight
23:08
Speaker 1: things that aren't working for you. But for example, sometimes
23:11
Speaker 1: I feel really overwhelmed with work. I'm a little bit
23:14
Speaker 1: behind with certain things. I've got some deadlines that i'm
23:16
Speaker 1: absolutely not even close to meeting, and I'm feeling But
23:19
Speaker 1: then and it's easy to be like, I'm pissed off,
23:21
Speaker 1: I'm overwhelmed, i haven't done what I have done. But
23:24
Speaker 1: then I could think, remember the time where I used
23:26
Speaker 1: to literally vision board being able to work for myself
23:31
Speaker 1: and vision board, you know, things working where I could
23:36
Speaker 1: be creative. I was working for myself, to be fair,
23:38
Speaker 1: I never visioned board the podcast because that kind of
23:40
Speaker 1: evolved naturally as it did. But this idea of you know,
23:46
Speaker 1: doing this for myself and now I'm doing it, I
23:48
Speaker 1: was like, that's really cool. So it's nice to pause
23:51
Speaker 1: and think, Yes, I'm overwhelmed and I need to do something,
23:54
Speaker 1: so I'm not so overwhelmed because I've got a lot
23:55
Speaker 1: on my plate, But it's pretty fucking cool that I'm
23:58
Speaker 1: at a point in my life where I'm you know,
24:01
Speaker 1: we're somewhere just a couple of years ago I've like
24:03
Speaker 1: dreamed of. Or if you're someone that's like, well, no,
24:07
Speaker 1: that's not me. I don't work for myself and I
24:09
Speaker 1: fucking hate my job. What if you're driving somewhere, remember
24:11
Speaker 1: when you're desperate to have your license, You're like, when
24:13
Speaker 1: I have that freedom to have my license, it's going
24:15
Speaker 1: to be the best thing in the word. And now
24:16
Speaker 1: we just had to take it for granted. We just
24:17
Speaker 1: drive around. Remember how cool it was when you got
24:20
Speaker 1: your license. It was the coolest thing in the world.
24:21
Speaker 1: Same as when you move out it was the coolest thing,
24:24
Speaker 1: so exciting, and then you just take it for granted.
24:26
Speaker 1: So sometimes it's nice to remind you if you are
24:28
Speaker 1: right now sitting here being like, no, there's nothing I
24:30
Speaker 1: can be grateful for them. So there's always something we
24:33
Speaker 1: can find where there was a time that we wished
24:36
Speaker 1: for that thing that we have now. And then it
24:38
Speaker 1: gets you in that giddy youngest version of yourself being like, wow,
24:41
Speaker 1: that is pretty cool. If the younger version of me
24:44
Speaker 1: saw me right now, they would hope that I'm super
24:46
Speaker 1: happy doing what I'm doing, and that I'm grateful that
24:48
Speaker 1: I've got this thing because I wanted it so badly
24:51
Speaker 1: at one point in my life. Okay, it could be
24:54
Speaker 1: having children or a partner, or a particular job, or
24:56
Speaker 1: your license, or the fact that you were able to
24:58
Speaker 1: go on a trip, whatever it is. It's nice to
25:00
Speaker 1: remind yourself of these things and feel that gratitude. Another
25:06
Speaker 1: example of that is if you're someone that let's say you,
25:11
Speaker 1: And I use this as an example because I did
25:12
Speaker 1: this on myself and it really really helped me. So
25:15
Speaker 1: when I came out of a really unhealthy relationship, I
25:18
Speaker 1: acknowledged that it was an unhealthy relationship, but I was
25:20
Speaker 1: extremely heartbroken and devastated, and I was, you know, super
25:24
Speaker 1: manipulated and whatever, and I just wanted to be back
25:26
Speaker 1: with my ex at the time. But I remember even
25:29
Speaker 1: then thinking, what's something that I can take from this?
25:32
Speaker 1: And I remember when I was with my ex how
25:36
Speaker 1: I used to never have peace of mind. I never
25:40
Speaker 1: had peace of mind. There was no trust, he never
25:43
Speaker 1: trusted me. I always felt like I was walking on eggshells.
25:46
Speaker 1: So I remember, even in my heartbreak, thinking, at least
25:50
Speaker 1: I've got no one telling me what to do or
25:53
Speaker 1: that they don't trust me, and that I feel like
25:54
Speaker 1: I've got to Like I'm like I'm fucking sleeping at peace,
25:58
Speaker 1: Like I can put my head down on my pillow
26:01
Speaker 1: and at least I've got that mental peace. I'm heartbroken,
26:04
Speaker 1: but there's none of this like kind of back and forth,
26:09
Speaker 1: you know, trying to get someone to trust me or
26:11
Speaker 1: this or that or like well, I don't know, it's
26:12
Speaker 1: the word that I'm trying to escaping me right now.
26:15
Speaker 1: But there was that peace, and I was like, I
26:18
Speaker 1: remember when I was in that relationship, begging for like
26:22
Speaker 1: one day. I just want to have this peace of mind.
26:24
Speaker 1: I just don't want to feel like this constant emotional turmoil.
26:29
Speaker 1: Now I haven't, like I might be harbreaken, but I
26:31
Speaker 1: can be grateful that I no longer have that emotional turmoil.
26:34
Speaker 1: So even in a really hard time, there are things
26:37
Speaker 1: that you can find that you can be really really
26:38
Speaker 1: grateful for. Okay, number eight And this is something that
26:44
Speaker 1: I do all the time, and I do this with
26:46
Speaker 1: Live all the time as well. Tell yourself, these are
26:51
Speaker 1: the days, you know when people say, oh those were
26:53
Speaker 1: the days, Those were the days. Live and I always
26:55
Speaker 1: say to each other, we're like this is our time,
26:58
Speaker 1: like these are the days, and I reckon, we'll be
27:01
Speaker 1: saying this in every deck out of our life. I
27:03
Speaker 1: think if you look at the time that you're living now,
27:06
Speaker 1: being like this is the time, instead of thinking, oh no, no,
27:10
Speaker 1: my twenties were the days, or high school were the days,
27:12
Speaker 1: or you know, like the people always acting like their
27:15
Speaker 1: best days are behind them is crazy. And another thing
27:19
Speaker 1: is often you could be living what later on in
27:22
Speaker 1: life will be one of the best eras of your life,
27:24
Speaker 1: but you don't realize it until you're out of that era.
27:27
Speaker 1: And that happens to a lot of people. It's only
27:29
Speaker 1: when you look back that you think, oh, wow, no,
27:31
Speaker 1: that actually was a really good era, and I wasn't
27:33
Speaker 1: really present or grateful at the time of that era.
27:36
Speaker 1: So I want you to tell yourself often these are
27:40
Speaker 1: the days, and then you can say it. You can
27:41
Speaker 1: say these are the days until you know you're in
27:44
Speaker 1: your nineties. But yeah, it's just a way to look
27:51
Speaker 1: at a season of your life and feel that you're
27:53
Speaker 1: really living in that season. I've become so much more
27:56
Speaker 1: present with since having my babies because I heard a
28:02
Speaker 1: few and I've said this before on the podcast. But
28:04
Speaker 1: I heard someone say a speech at a wedding. It
28:06
Speaker 1: was the dad, and it was a father of the bride,
28:08
Speaker 1: and he said like, I can't believe, like I'm looking
28:10
Speaker 1: at you now, you're a grown woman, and you know
28:13
Speaker 1: we were taking you home from the hospital not that
28:15
Speaker 1: long ago. It felt like, you know, it's crazy, he says,
28:17
Speaker 1: because you know the nights, you know, when you bring
28:21
Speaker 1: a baby home and they're crying at night and you've
28:22
Speaker 1: got all this sleepless nights. He goes, the nights are long,
28:25
Speaker 1: but the years are short. And I was like, oh
28:27
Speaker 1: my god that And I was pregnant at the time
28:30
Speaker 1: when I was at this wedding and he said that,
28:32
Speaker 1: and I was like, I will never forget that line,
28:34
Speaker 1: because it's going to make me so present even now,
28:37
Speaker 1: Like the boys are really good sleepers, but even now,
28:39
Speaker 1: when they do wake up at night and I'm giving
28:40
Speaker 1: them a bottle, I have a moment of like, oh,
28:42
Speaker 1: I can't wait to go back to bed. But then
28:44
Speaker 1: I remind myself of that sentence, and then it makes
28:47
Speaker 1: me like, Okay, I'm tired. But then I look at
28:49
Speaker 1: him and I'm like, wow, imagine when he's an adult
28:51
Speaker 1: and I'm going to be like, oh my god, I
28:53
Speaker 1: missed giving them a bottle in the middle of the night.
28:55
Speaker 1: I miss when they were babies and I was able
28:57
Speaker 1: to just hold them in my arms or whatever. Really,
29:00
Speaker 1: a statement like that has stuck with me for so long,
29:04
Speaker 1: and I think it'll stick with me forever, which is
29:06
Speaker 1: really nice. And that's kind of the essence of reminding
29:10
Speaker 1: yourself these other days. I'm living in the days that
29:13
Speaker 1: I'm going to be looking back on being like, Wow,
29:16
Speaker 1: if only I could revisit that time in my life.
29:19
Speaker 1: And I think that's going to happen in many, many
29:21
Speaker 1: seasons of my life to come, where I'll further down
29:23
Speaker 1: the line want to revisit that season and you know,
29:27
Speaker 1: and be there. So another thing that Live and I
29:30
Speaker 1: say to each other is when something's really really great,
29:33
Speaker 1: we always say to each other, this is the spray.
29:35
Speaker 1: So there's this one time that Live and I had
29:38
Speaker 1: where she was paranoid that she was going to start
29:42
Speaker 1: sweating because it was a really hot day and we're
29:43
Speaker 1: going to go out to some bar and BONDI and
29:45
Speaker 1: she was like, I need to get deodor and otherwisen't
29:47
Speaker 1: going to be spreading, and so I found this massive
29:50
Speaker 1: jumbo deodoran and I'm like, this is the spray and
29:51
Speaker 1: she was like, no, I need a middle mini one
29:53
Speaker 1: and I'm like anyway, For whatever reason that one time
29:57
Speaker 1: that I said, this is the spray, we now say
29:58
Speaker 1: it to each other all the time and when we
30:00
Speaker 1: are so when we arrived in Sri Lanka, or when
30:02
Speaker 1: we got on the flight together to go to Sri
30:04
Speaker 1: Lanka as our first ever trip away just the two
30:06
Speaker 1: of us, plus we didn't have our kids and it
30:08
Speaker 1: was just us to we literally get on the front
30:10
Speaker 1: and we look at each other and I'm like, this
30:11
Speaker 1: is the spray. So that's our line to each other
30:14
Speaker 1: that we say when we're like this moment is it?
30:17
Speaker 1: Like this is amazing, we are living in the moment.
30:19
Speaker 1: We are living in this like this is it? So
30:22
Speaker 1: find a way to have your this is the spray moment,
30:27
Speaker 1: or we are like these are the days kind of
30:29
Speaker 1: moment with yourself or with your friends or with your partner,
30:32
Speaker 1: with whoever, and vocalize it, talk about it, share it,
30:35
Speaker 1: share your passion for what's actually happening now in the now,
30:39
Speaker 1: while it's happening, and just that gentle pivot or like
30:44
Speaker 1: you know where you're turning your awareness back to the
30:46
Speaker 1: moment of like this is actually really cool, helps you
30:49
Speaker 1: enjoy it so much more, so much more. We're so
30:53
Speaker 1: used to living in the future, what's gonna happen what
30:55
Speaker 1: we're doing, or rehashing the past that we do all
30:59
Speaker 1: of these live in the future, rehashing the past that
31:01
Speaker 1: we glide over the present, and then then we look
31:04
Speaker 1: back at that present and being like, wow, that actually
31:06
Speaker 1: was a really good time, but we weren't in it
31:08
Speaker 1: in the moment. We weren't really living it or like
31:11
Speaker 1: in it, so be in it more. And then number nine,
31:16
Speaker 1: I want you to get real clarity with a vision board, right,
31:20
Speaker 1: But how much of that vision board can you bring
31:23
Speaker 1: into today? So the mistake that we often make when
31:26
Speaker 1: we're doing a vision board is we'll create this perfect
31:28
Speaker 1: vision board, right, but everything we want in there. We've
31:31
Speaker 1: got our personal style, We've got the things that we
31:32
Speaker 1: want to tick off that year. We got the experiences
31:34
Speaker 1: we want to have and the people we want in
31:36
Speaker 1: our lives and the money we want to make. And
31:37
Speaker 1: lah lah lah, we got this vision board. Great, love it.
31:40
Speaker 1: But then it's always in the future. It's always this
31:43
Speaker 1: board is in the future. So one thing that I
31:45
Speaker 1: always encourage people to do with their vision board is
31:49
Speaker 1: have things that symbolize and experience that the future you
31:54
Speaker 1: would have regularly. So what I mean by that, it's
31:57
Speaker 1: all well and good on your vision board to just
31:59
Speaker 1: have the major things you want in your life, but
32:02
Speaker 1: what does the future you do on a daily basis
32:04
Speaker 1: or on a weekly basis, How would the future you?
32:07
Speaker 1: How you romanticizing your life as the future you. So,
32:12
Speaker 1: for example, one of my things that I have on
32:14
Speaker 1: my Pinterest vision board is like a beautiful big kitchen
32:18
Speaker 1: and a glass of wine and a rom com on
32:20
Speaker 1: in the background. So I then started bringing that into
32:23
Speaker 1: my life. Sometimes I'll have like I'll wrap up my
32:26
Speaker 1: work early, and I'll make sure I've got my groceries done,
32:29
Speaker 1: and I'll pick something that i want to cook that
32:31
Speaker 1: might take a little bit longer, and I'll put my
32:32
Speaker 1: favorite rom com on or one of my ten top
32:35
Speaker 1: ten favorite rom coms I have, Like You've got mail
32:37
Speaker 1: on and I've got a glass of wine, and I'll
32:39
Speaker 1: start cooking a beautiful meal. The kids are napping or
32:42
Speaker 1: Tyrann's taking them out for a walk, and I've got
32:44
Speaker 1: my rom Com wine cooking a meal? Do you think
32:47
Speaker 1: I want to be scrolling that. I'm like, I'm fucking
32:50
Speaker 1: living my life. It's like, this is the fucking spray
32:54
Speaker 1: And I had that experience in my vision board. It's
32:56
Speaker 1: not a major thing that I need to tick off,
32:58
Speaker 1: but it's a regular experience at the future me would
33:00
Speaker 1: have because that's just the life they live. It's that
33:03
Speaker 1: rom Com, beautiful beautiful music, wine cooking, whatever, And you
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Speaker 1: do whatever you want. Maybe your thing is the future
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Speaker 1: me would go for outdoor swims more often, or would
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Speaker 1: just go for whatever the fuck it is. You pick
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Speaker 1: an experience that's a daily kind of thing or a
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Speaker 1: weekly kind of thing that you just the future you
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Speaker 1: just would do and it would be normal for the
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Speaker 1: future you to do it and put it in the
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Speaker 1: vision board and then bring that experience to life. Now,
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Speaker 1: So stop making the vision board or the future goals
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Speaker 1: that you have for yourself all about these big I've
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Speaker 1: got to tick off these milestones. Make it about what
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Speaker 1: lifestyle would the future me genuinely have. Is it these
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Speaker 1: softer afternoons where maybe it's a wrong common or maybe
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Speaker 1: it's just some nice music, And I have like I
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Speaker 1: read half an hour outside. Is it where I do
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Speaker 1: this walk with some girlfriends and whatever, like? Whatever it is,
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Speaker 1: what experiences do you think, Oh my god, that would
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Speaker 1: be a really nice regular thing to do. It's not
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Speaker 1: I have to graduate from this, I have to make
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Speaker 1: this much money, I have to have this car and
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Speaker 1: live in this home. That will come later, and that's great,
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Speaker 1: But it's the little experiences that help you get from
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Speaker 1: who I am right now to the future you. In
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Speaker 1: the moment, there's already so many things that you romanticize
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Speaker 1: the future version of you, but there's many things of
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Speaker 1: that future you that you could be doing now, and
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Speaker 1: then you start feeling more and more like that person
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Speaker 1: that you want to become, but you're feeling that person now,
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Speaker 1: and then you bridge that gap way way quicker. So
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Speaker 1: just since the other day when I was talking on
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Speaker 1: my podcast about you know, positive self talk and all
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Speaker 1: of that and the neuroscience offered I'm not joking, in
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Speaker 1: the last week since that episode came out, or the
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Speaker 1: last two weeks, I am becoming more and more and
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Speaker 1: more organized, and I've stuck to it and it's actually
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Speaker 1: coming into fruition. I am creating the organized Alexis that
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Speaker 1: I never have been, and I was banging on about
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Speaker 1: it until a couple of weeks ago. I'm so fucking organ.
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Speaker 1: You should see the state of my bedroom and en
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Speaker 1: suite when I get up in the morning after it
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Speaker 1: like it is immaculate, and that was not often the case,
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Speaker 1: like you had make the bed but it was still
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Speaker 1: shit of it. No, no, no, no, I am organized. I'm
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Speaker 1: that person. It's crazy. So God, listen to that episode
35:14
Speaker 1: if you want to become, if you want to be
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Speaker 1: a person of your word, basically. So lastly, and this
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Speaker 1: one is probably my favorite one. I mean, I know
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Speaker 1: I said that the first one is one that you
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Speaker 1: should all do if you're going to do one of
35:27
Speaker 1: the but this is where we were really going to
35:29
Speaker 1: have fun. And I could write an entire substock on
35:32
Speaker 1: just this one thing is you're going to pick a
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Speaker 1: theme each month to become an expert in. And to
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Speaker 1: make it even better, I want you to make this
35:43
Speaker 1: a game with your friends or your family or both whatever.
35:47
Speaker 1: But it's imagine if and I'm going to pitch this
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Speaker 1: to my family, I'm sure they cannot wait. But imagine
35:54
Speaker 1: if you said, once a month, we're going to get
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Speaker 1: together and you have to put together a PowerPoint present
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Speaker 1: that can only go for five minutes, depending on how
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Speaker 1: big the group is, five minutes if it's a big group,
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Speaker 1: ten minutes if it's just a couple of people in
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Speaker 1: the group. And we have to put together a PowerPoint
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Speaker 1: presentation on this topic that we've decided to become an
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Speaker 1: expert in one month. And it could be so rogue
36:15
Speaker 1: the topics. It could be I want to be an
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Speaker 1: expert in ancient Rome, the history of aviation. It could
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Speaker 1: be astrology charts, it could be the early days of
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Speaker 1: formula one, how the opera house was built. It could
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Speaker 1: be as niche or as broad as you want. It
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Speaker 1: doesn't matter. It could be on a particular serial killer.
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Speaker 1: If that's your vibe, it doesn't matter. It's like, for
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Speaker 1: one month, I'm going to pick a topic. I'm going
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Speaker 1: to find every podcast episode on that topic or that
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Speaker 1: celebrity or that event in history. I'm going to find
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Speaker 1: a book. I'm going to go to the bookstore. It
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Speaker 1: makes you reach out more in life and you know,
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Speaker 1: source bits of information. It makes you curious, it makes
36:53
Speaker 1: you hungry. It's fun. It is something that and then
36:57
Speaker 1: of course when you get together, then your friends are
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Speaker 1: sharing these topics, and then you become hungry for knowledge.
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Speaker 1: You start being like, that is such a fucking random
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Speaker 1: topic that you chose to your friend, But I'm interested,
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Speaker 1: and now I actually want to know more about that topic.
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Speaker 1: Now I'm actually going to listen to the podcasts that
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Speaker 1: you listen to on that. And then it starts to broaden,
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Speaker 1: broad and broad and broaden, and then instead of doom
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Speaker 1: scrolling at night, you're like, I've got all these like
37:18
Speaker 1: crazy interesting topics, and I've got to now plan what
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Speaker 1: my next topic for next month is going to be,
37:23
Speaker 1: and I've got to get into that. And you will
37:25
Speaker 1: be amazed at what a hobby can do for your
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Speaker 1: mental health and for your overall life satisfaction. Every single month,
37:32
Speaker 1: you're picking something to become an expert in, and some
37:34
Speaker 1: months you're gonna be like, no, I'm a die hard
37:36
Speaker 1: fan of that thing for now, and I'm going to
37:37
Speaker 1: carry it with me forever, like formula one obviously, But
37:40
Speaker 1: you could also be like, Okay, we've close that chapter up,
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Speaker 1: glad I've melted that next topic. What's it going to be?
37:45
Speaker 1: But you're always bringing in something you every single month.
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Speaker 1: So I'm doing that. I'm pitching it to my family.
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Speaker 1: I'm very excited, and yeah, it's just a really really
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Speaker 1: great way to just spark joy in your life and
37:58
Speaker 1: for your friends to spark joy and life and family,
38:01
Speaker 1: et cetera. And then you have that once a month
38:03
Speaker 1: get together. You can even do it over zoom. It
38:05
Speaker 1: doesn't matter, but it's that get together where you just
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Speaker 1: have a fucking good time and share on these you know.
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Speaker 1: I've seen it on Instagram where people would be like,
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Speaker 1: I'm having a friend night where we just have a
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Speaker 1: slide show presentation of conspiracy theories and everyone's got their
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Speaker 1: own conspiracy theory where they do a presentation and I'm like,
38:22
Speaker 1: that's iconic. Another thing you could do with your friendship
38:24
Speaker 1: group is you pick an overarching theme. So this month
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Speaker 1: it has to be sports, and it could be on
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Speaker 1: a sports person, a sporting event, a sports catastrophe, it
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Speaker 1: doesn't matter. But sports is a theme. One could be
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Speaker 1: conspiracy theories, one could be serial killers, it doesn't matter.
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Speaker 1: You can do it anyway you like. But that is
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Speaker 1: a really really fun one. And I can guarantee you
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Speaker 1: something so seemingly so like unimportant can weigh so heavily
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Speaker 1: in your overall happiness, and sparking joy and curiosity in
38:50
Speaker 1: life and hunger for knowledge and the flow on effects
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Speaker 1: of that is going to really be one of those
38:56
Speaker 1: tools that really help you fall in love with your
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Speaker 1: life again and have more fun in your life again.
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Speaker 1: So that is the episode of today. I really hope
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Speaker 1: you enjoyed that, and I hope that you were able
39:06
Speaker 1: to do all ten if you can. If you listen
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Speaker 1: to this on Spotify, then write in the comments which
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Speaker 1: ones you're planning on doing, and if you're doing the
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Speaker 1: become an expert for the month. What is going to
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Speaker 1: be your theme for July? Okay, I need to know themes.
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Speaker 1: I want ideas basically for what mine could be. And
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Speaker 1: I think it'd be good for everyone else to have ideas.
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Speaker 1: And I'm going to resurrect so on my Instagram, my
39:31
Speaker 1: broadcast channel little thingy where people you know, self Love Club.
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Speaker 1: I haven't written in there forever, so I'm going to
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Speaker 1: resurrect that. So if you follow me on Instagram, we
39:40
Speaker 1: should also do one on Shanai. We should do one
39:42
Speaker 1: on do you Fucking Mind? Page? Can yeah? So then
39:44
Speaker 1: we can get people doing questions and stuff. Yeah, so
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Speaker 1: that would be a good one. We'll start one up
39:48
Speaker 1: on the do Fucking Mind page as well for people
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Speaker 1: to give us their ideas for what their theme of
39:55
Speaker 1: becoming an expert in whatever will be. Anyway, love that
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Speaker 1: so much. That is all for the episode of today.
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Speaker 1: I really hope you enjoyed it. I hope it's sparked joy.
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Speaker 1: I hope it's given you so much food for thought
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Speaker 1: and you're hopefully coming up with all these ideas like
40:10
Speaker 1: I'm gonna go to Dimicks right now and get a
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Speaker 1: book on this thing and then get a really nice
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Speaker 1: notebook and a beautiful pen, and I'm starting my sentences
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Speaker 1: every day. We'll a little and we're doing it all
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Speaker 1: all right. Anyway, guys, that is all for today's episode.
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Speaker 1: I love you so much. Also shout out to my
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Speaker 1: German beans for helping me with the pronunciation of shou
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Speaker 1: sure shardon freud. I butchered it again, but anyway, I
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Speaker 1: appreciate it. I appreciate the help. That is all. Love
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Speaker 1: you guys so much. As always, remember bekind to yourself
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Speaker 1: you can't your brain. Don't take shit from anyone, and
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Speaker 1: especially don't take shit from yourself, don't e