Have you ever felt that the activities you used to do, the books that you used to read, and even the people that you once hung out with have all shifted? Is it because of those areas of life changing…or was it you that was doing the changing? This episode explores the age-old questions about changing attitudes and perceptions as we get older, and how evolving tastes are not purely due to environmental, social, or personal/professional changes occurring. Whether intentional or not, the cycle of life can shift these aspects of life, and it is OK to accept those changes for what they are, even if they are within your control.
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Intro/Outro By: Michael Dugan, Podcast Host: Voice4Chefs
Welcome to the podcast where relationships, confidence, and
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determination all converge into
an amazing, heartfelt experience.
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This is Speaking From The Heart.
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Joshua: Welcome back to episode
number 81 of Speaking from the Heart.
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Have you been shifting your friendships,
maybe even your attitudes, in a
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positive or negative direction?
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Have you been dealing with the
things that you used to enjoy as
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something that is no longer something
that you really enjoy doing?
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Do you feel that your tastes, let
alone the aspirations that you once
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had, have been shifting in a bad way,
and you need to get refocused again?
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Well, this episode might be for you,
because today, we're going to talk about
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some of the things that you have been
through, whether they are negative,
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whether they are positive, regardless
of what it is, maybe some of the things
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that you used to enjoy are no longer the
things that you want to deal with, and
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maybe the things that you used to enjoy
from a cultural standpoint, no longer are
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interesting in your cultural aptitude.
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Maybe some of the things that you
used to enjoy involved some sort of
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environmental, social, personal, or
professional change, but regardless of
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what you've been through, I know that
it can be disheartening at times to go
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through these changes and not quite sure
why those attitudes have been happening
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in the first place, maybe you were
shifting and you didn't even realize it.
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You might be going through something
that is tumultuous in nature, and maybe
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that's why the temporary changes that are
happening might be occurring in the first
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place, and you'll be right back to where
you were, that you will really enjoy all
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the things that you used to do once you
get through that hard period of your life,
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but I know that you might not be the only
person that might be feeling the way that
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I feel sometimes when it comes to some of
the types of things that I used to enjoy.
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Lately, I've been noticing a lot more
about my ability of being able to focus,
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whether it's been focusing on the reading
that I'm doing for work, or even reading
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for pleasure, let alone the different
types of interests that I have with
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television that I watch, the people that
I interact with, maybe even the time
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span, or the time management, to be able
to accomplish some of the things that I
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need to accomplish, and I think that it's
all part of the way in which we evolve.
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Whether we are evolving for a good
reason or not, this is always a natural
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progression of the things that happen
to us as we get older, and no, I'm not
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saying that you're an old fart at this
point, let alone saying to you that you
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need to retire and stop thinking about
it that way and just slap yourself back
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into shape, because all those things,
not only are rude and cruel, but they're
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not really addressing the heart of what's
really happening in the first place.
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I think that we often have
these relationships with people,
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places, and things that we used
to enjoy because they always bring
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back some sort of good memory.
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For example, I know that growing up,
I always enjoyed going to the library.
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The library that was
in my school, that is.
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It always seemed to be quiet.
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It was always a natural feeling
of euphoria, being able to walk in
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and see all the variety different
types of books that were available.
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Of course, during the times I went
to school, the personal computer,
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let alone computers in general, were
really starting to become more trendy.
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Instead of looking through a card
catalog, which I used to do back in the
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90s, I was able to, in the early 2000s,
be able to use a personal computer
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to research and find a book that was
on the bookshelf, but I know that for
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many people, libraries are not usually
the best places to find fond memories.
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Regardless of what it is, or the place
that you enjoy the most, we always have
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to have a shift in our lives that allow
us to not only create those best versions
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of ourselves in order to reach that next
level, because, usually, age requires us
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to, but we also have to figure out why
that shift happened in the first place.
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The same people that we used to hang
out with are no longer the people that
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we want to be associated with, and
I've had plenty of friends, whether
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from high school, college, or even
contemporary times, just ghost me.
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They no longer talk to me.
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They have kids now, or they just
grew tired of hearing about Speaking
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from the Heart, Your Speaking Voice
LLC, or some other sort of thing
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or project that I'm working on,
whether it's Toastmasters or not.
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I think that it isn't just about
ignoring what someone's going through
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and it isn't just about ignoring what
you might have on your social media,
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let alone what you even talk about.
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People tend to evolve into different types
of other relationships just because of the
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interests, perceptions, and other types of
factors that might go into a relationship
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with someone, whether it's a romantic
relationship, Friendship, or other type
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of professional courtesy that's extended.
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It doesn't mean that you're a bad
person, and I know that for myself,
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I struggled with that so much,
being even neurodivergent for that
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matter, because I took it personally.
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What did I do wrong that allowed
this person to walk away from me?
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What did I do wrong that allowed that
person to also walk away from me?
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Why does this keep happening to me?
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That question would always play in
my mind, time and time again, and
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I know that it probably wasn't me,
but maybe it was the attitude that
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I had, so I changed my attitude.
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No, that didn't work either.
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It always seemed that I was always
addressing or dealing with all
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kinds of different types of people,
different types of relationships,
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and even different factors.
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To be intentional about a relationship
with someone, whether it's a friendship
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or not, and to change your attitude,
whether it's a good thing or a bad
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thing, means that you actually gotta
put some effort into it, but is that
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really representing who you really are?
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The very essence of becoming
the best version of yourself?
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I know that we've often asked that
question about the best version, and
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what we are able to do to create that,
but we also have to understand that
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the people that we associate with, the
activities that we engage in, let alone
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the different types of life events
that happened to us growing up, all
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create a positive or negative influence
on our whole entire lives, and it
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doesn't mean that you're a bad person.
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It doesn't mean that as you get older,
that you have these evolving tastes, that
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maybe they're not aligning with the same
people that you used to associate with.
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It doesn't mean that you are a person
that doesn't want to be hung out with.
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It doesn't mean that you're
a bad person as a whole.
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Whether it's intentional or not, you
have to start accepting that maybe
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it's okay for that change to happen.
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Many years ago, I had a friend that
I used to know in high school that
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sometimes I would have conversations
with him, sometimes I would not.
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It was because he had different
interests than what I had, and after
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high school, I sometimes had kept in
touch with him, sometimes not, but then
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something happened to him that really
shocked me and fellow classmates that
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knew him very well from high school.
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You see, he went on to school, and
he met somebody, and murdered them.
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That person that he was with was obviously
a romantic relationship in which he killed
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that person for motives that I still
don't understand to this day, and even as
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I reflect on it, I often think, "What is
that person thinking, because they were
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not that type of person in the past."
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Obviously, there's a lot of things
that I didn't know about him that
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motivated him to do that action, one
of the heinous crimes of human society.
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Now, he's been in prison for all these
years paying his debt for his crime,
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and I often think to myself, "What
could I have done differently to be able
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to interact with him, and maybe even
appreciate the type of person that he is?"
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As much as I can speculate about what
some of the things he could have done
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differently, I still don't have all
the information, even from a coaching
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perspective, to be able to assist him,
and it's funny because, for some people,
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going through some of these situations,
especially of a traumatic loss, which
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is not funny at all, it still creates
some of those conversations within
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ourselves that ask the question: "Why
did that attitude in that person change?
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What can we do within our control
to really help that person, or even
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ourselves for that matter, to create
that opportunity for ourselves to
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be listened to, cared about, and
maybe, just maybe, be able to be
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influenced in a more positive way?"
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Now, I know that for many of us, we have
a lot of different things that we need
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to be able to work on that create not
just those attitudes so that we don't
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go down that nasty path, not only that
nasty situation that might cause us to
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rethink and really hurt other people's
feelings, emotions, let alone maybe
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even the things that they're struggling
with, but if you really think about the
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bigger scheme of things, especially with
somebody like my classmate that murdered
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somebody else, obviously there was a
lot of hurt, pain, suffering, and other
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sort of emotions and attitudes going
through that particular type of person.
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I know that for many of us, we really
are compassionate listeners, and we're
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going to talk about that in a future
episode, and I know that we've even
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talked about it in some context on past
episodes, but to be intentional about
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listening to somebody else is really an
art form in its own, with not just the
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things that we are dealing with, but also
the things that are changing around us.
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Oh yes, the environmental
aspect as a whole.
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The things that we read, the
people that we hang out with, and
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even the activities, they will
all evolve in one way or another.
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What we used to enjoy doing at one
time may no longer be applicable
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to our future selves, so we have to
fill the void with those different
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types of things that do give us that
enrichment, but the real question
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becomes: Have you been intentional
about spending time to do just that?
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Have you been able to work on new
activities that allow you to feel
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like you're living and breathing?
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Have you read books that are helping
you to enrich, empower, and inspire?
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Are you listening, or even hanging
out, or associating with, people
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that allow you to create not just
those relationships, but also those
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abilities that maybe you would have not
been able to unlock all by yourself?
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I think this is a very tough question
and a very tough proposition in this
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episode to really start exploring all
of those different types of concepts,
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and I would definitely need a lot more
time to explore those different avenues,
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but I want to answer this in a way in
which might be universal in application,
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let alone help you, especially if you
feel that you're not living that life
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that you wanted to live for so long.
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Maybe you are struggling with some of
the things that you used to do, and
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maybe you need to get back on track.
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I think that for many of us, it's just
about being able to take that time,
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reflect on it, journal about it, ask
the appropriate questions so that we
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can be able to get back on track on the
things that we really want to do, but
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it's not just about what we need to do.
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It's about, really, understanding why
we deviated from that path in the first
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place and getting back on track when
it counts the most, and I know that for
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many of us, we can work with a coach.
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We can figure out what's going on.
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We can address those sort of problems,
but it's a lot more to be able to say
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to yourself, and reflect intentionally,
about what you need to do to create
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those best opportunities for yourself.
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Start asking those questions today, and
maybe you can start to figure out how to
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get back on track, but on the other side
of this, you need to also think about
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the fact that maybe, just maybe, those
interests are no longer serving you.
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For many years of my life,
I had been moving away from
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a lot of different things.
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Toastmasters, doing Rotary might have been
something in the cards, but not so much.
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I also have been thinking about how I
can use my talents to now volunteer in
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a new organization in which I had left
the Shalom House late last year, and
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now have to figure out a new volunteer
opportunity that I really want to give
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back with my talents and my gifts, but
I know that I have to keep asking those
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questions and keep reflecting on what's in
my heart to be able to share with others,
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to be able to increase my visibility,
to be able to advocate and reaffirm the
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fact that I have been trying so hard to
work on myself because my new identity,
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the things that I've been working on
myself, even after I started my business
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earlier last year, have been an important
aspect in my overall development of
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myself, let alone others for that matter.
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I know that it can be very easy for us
to forget about what has happened in
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the past and just shuffle it under the
rug, but for some of us, we really do
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value those relationships with people,
and we really want to have them back.
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Now, I'm not saying today that maybe you
need to call that old friend, or that old
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chum of yours, to be able to say, "Hey.
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When do you have time available
to you so that we can hang out?"
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Everybody grows in a lot of different
ways, and as an old best friend
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that I recently connected with
said, things happen for a reason.
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It's okay to not be able to talk
to me all the time, as I can't
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talk to you all the time because
of my differing responsibilities
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and priorities now in my life.
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I think that if we just have that
understanding, that appreciation, that
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we do go through those different types
of life events, not only are we able
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to get to the other side, but we might
be able to even rekindle some of those
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past feelings, emotions, relationships
that we have with others, and it doesn't
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make you a bad person if you're not able
to form those relationships ever again.
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I have always believed that it's
really important to understand
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that things happen for a reason.
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They all have their divine time and
their intervention in our lives, so even
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if you're feeling that maybe you should
have connected to that person, maybe you
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should have been able to work on that
relationship a little bit better, or maybe
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you even have a different attitude towards
that type of person or that experience
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that you're going through, just know
that not everything happens for a reason.
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Maybe you were dodging a bullet,
and maybe you would have been one
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of my friends that was in jail.
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Maybe you were dealing with that.
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I think that you have a lot of different
things going on in your life that
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might have caused you to deviate from
a different path, and as much as I
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want to speculate about my friend who's
still sitting in prison, I want them to
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know that maybe if they're listening to
this, that I give them some inspiration
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today that might be related to you.
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No matter what kind of mistake you've
made, even if it's the heinous crime
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of murder, we can all be forgiven if
we're willing to repent, recuse, and
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move on, and know that even with people
that we have hurt, we can still make
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big differences in trying to make a
big difference in other people's lives,
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knowing that we have those mistakes
that we have made behind us, and even if
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it's intentional or not that we forget
about those different types of people,
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know that we can accept change for what
it is, and that even if it's not in our
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control, or if it's in our control, we
can have evolving tastes in not only
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the environmental, cultural, social,
personal, or professional aspects of our
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lives, but that we can always have that
age old question of why is this change
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happening be resolved by just knowing that
we are authentic, evolving human beings.
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And hey, it's okay to have a
new hobby, and maybe even have
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a new adventure for that matter.
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I know that I'm looking forward
to having new relationships, new
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attitudes, and new ways in which I can
create my best version of myself and
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the values that I provide to others,
because the world is our own tapestry.
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If we're able to keep on working on that
tapestry to help each other, whether
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we are able to connect or not, I think
that's what's making progress, progress.
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Progress in itself can create so many
different types of opportunities,
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aspirations, and attitudes in ourselves
to help us not only grow, but foster a
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whole new generation of other people to
do just the same, so keep on working on
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yourself, and don't worry about what's
happening in the past, because it's
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always about what's happening in the
present, and what is happening in the
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future, that allows you to become not
just that awesome person that you are,
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but maybe even helping other people along
the way, even if you think that they are
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forgotten, because they are looking at
you, one way or another, and don't worry,
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even if they are taking notes, just pay
attention to who you are, and maybe I'll
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see you on the other side of not only
improving yourself, but improving others.
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Thanks for listening to episode
number 81 of Speaking from the
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Heart, and I look forward to
hearing from your heart very soon.
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