168. The Art of Embracing Obstacles

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No one is immune to difficult

times at one point in time or, or

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likely multiple points in time.

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Life will give us hardships and we're

going to go through hard times and

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the not so funny thing is that these

things typically never get easier.

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But the silver lining is that we do

get better at doing those things.

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And in today's episode, I'm actually going

to share some of my favorite shifts in

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perspective, quotes, philosophies, and

practices that I've used during difficult

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times to maintain a healthy mental state.

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So all of that and more is going

to be covered in today's episode.

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This is the elemental I've been podcast.

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I'm your host, Evan Roberts, but more

importantly, I'm someone who truly deeply

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cares about both your health and mine.

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And as someone who dealt with a lot of

gastrointestinal issues as a kid, This

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is kind of my way of paying my respects

to my younger self, because I really

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do wish I had some kind of a podcast

or a form of information like this that

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I could have used to help heal myself.

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But nonetheless, I have one

now and I'm providing it for as

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many people as I possibly can.

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So that's the goal with this podcast

is simply to break down health topics

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from a holistic and a simplified

perspective so that you can walk away

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from these episodes with some digestible

knowledge, as well as the tools that

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you can apply to your life to actually.

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Improve your health and

take control of your health.

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And, uh, yeah.

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So hopefully you walk away from

these episodes feeling empowered

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and feeling like you have some

actionable steps that you can take

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after listening to these episodes.

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Now today's episode is going to be

a little bit different than most

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episodes I used to actually do.

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Mentality Mondays, uh, back in the day.

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And I really enjoy doing the episodes.

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Actually.

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They're like some of my favorite

episodes mentality and kind

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of the stoic philosophy.

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All of that stuff is

super intriguing to me.

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So I do really love talking

about these and nonetheless.

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Our mentality, the way we view

things, our perspective on things

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is super important to our mental

health and our overall wellbeing.

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Um, truly you can.

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Completely change your day and

the way you see things, just with

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a simple, a perspective shift.

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So really they're super powerful.

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And I found a ton of benefit in really,

you know, reading a lot of these,

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um, stoic philosophies and quotes.

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A lot of it coming from Ryan holiday.

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As well as doing a lot of meditation.

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And, uh, yeah, I've just found

a lot of benefit in these.

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And so today I'm going to share some

of these tips and tricks that I've

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used in the past personally, to really

improve my mental health or rather

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just maintain a good mental health.

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So first off, I want to start off with

saying that, you know, regardless of

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what it is that you're going through,

no matter how trivial it might

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sound, um, it's all in, you know,

It's from your perspective, right.

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And what may be difficult to one person

may not be super difficult to another.

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Um, but it's not for us to compare if

you're going through something and it

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feels difficult to you, then that's okay.

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That's difficult to you.

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And it's something that needs to

be addressed by you, um, so that

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you can improve yourself and, you

know, be in a good mental state.

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So, um, I just bring that up

because there's obviously people.

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In this world who are going through super

difficult times, whether it's with war.

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You know, not literally having no food on

the table, like starvation, there's some

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really super terrible things going on.

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And so, um, that really does kind of lead

me to the first point, which is gratitude.

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But before I even jump into that, just

wanted to give a quick little backstory.

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Uh, on myself in terms of why

I kind of started using some of

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these, you know, mentality shifts

and different things like this.

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Uh, so about a year ago, there was a time

of about a year to a year and a half where

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I was mainly just really going through a

financial, a financially difficult time.

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And.

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It was just one of the times in my life

where I really started dealing with, uh,

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a little bit of anxiety and I'm typically

a very upbeat, like happy go lucky person.

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Um, so for me, when I get into

that state, um, yeah, it's,

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it's definitely not enjoyable.

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It's not the norm for me.

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Um, and so, you know, I, I wouldn't

say it got the best of me, but it was

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something that I could definitely see

if I did not bring attention to it

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and awareness to it and work on it.

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It could have led to.

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Really bad downward spiral spiral.

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Um, so I'm happy that I did work

on this and find some tools that

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I could apply to my life to, uh,

really get me out of that situation.

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And so one of the very first

ones was indeed gratitude.

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Um, I was, for those of you who don't

know, I did a 30 day straight met of

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sorry, 30 days straight of meditation.

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It was a Joe Dispenza

meditation, and it truly was.

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Like absolutely.

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Life-changing, um, doing it 30 days in a

row, but one of the really big things that

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Joe Dispenza talks about is gratitude.

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And I really, I mean, it's

such a great practice.

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I, I I've actually fallen

off of it a bit here.

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Um, in the last, um, I don't know,

so many months, I would say honestly,

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Uh, but every now and again, I do

still try to bring, uh, this awareness

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to some gratitude, whether it's

before a meal or even just waking

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up first thing in the morning.

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But nonetheless gratitude

is super, super beneficial.

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Um, if you feel like you don't have

something to be grateful for, trust me,

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there are like so many things in the world

that go right for you every single day.

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And then it's just those few

things that aren't going, right.

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That we really pay the most attention to.

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Right.

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Like you can wake up in the

morning, which first off is the

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biggest thing to be grateful for.

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Right?

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Like your eyes literally

opened this morning.

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Um, that is a miracle in of itself.

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So that's huge right there and

definitely something to be grateful for.

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But nonetheless, You know, if you

were able to wake up this morning,

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have a, a warm meal and, uh, you know,

get ready, have clothes to put on.

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Like, these are all

things to be grateful for.

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Obviously, even though they might sound

very basic, they're definitely something

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to be grateful for, but you know, it's

always like, The flat tire on the freeway.

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And it's just like, man, of

course has had to happen to me.

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Right.

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And then it totally ruined your day.

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And it's that one thing that went wrong,

even though everything else went right.

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That totally ruined your day.

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And so we really are.

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We allow these.

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You know, one simple, negative thing

to really dictate the rest of our day,

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even though everything else is going.

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Right.

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So it's super important for us to

remember that there's a lot of stuff

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that we should be grateful for.

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Right.

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And on that note, when you're grateful,

you can't experience two opposing,

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uh, emotions at the same time.

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So.

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If you're grateful.

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You can't be angry and mad at life.

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And, you know, focusing on the bad

in life, you're actually can only

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be focusing on the good things.

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And when you're truly in a state

of gratitude, it's super blissful,

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you feel great, you feel optimistic

and, um, you know, just grateful.

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I'm grateful for all that

you have in your life.

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Um, so gratitude was definitely

one of the biggest practices that

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I would do every single morning.

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And I could definitely feel a huge

shift when I would do a gratitude

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practice and with gratitude practice.

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It's also very important to

note you can't just list off

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things that you're grateful for.

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Like I'm grateful for my house.

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I'm grateful for food.

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I am grateful for, you know,

can't just list them off.

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You actually have to feel.

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Gratitude.

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You have to feel thankful

in your heart, in your body.

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You got to feel grateful for

the things that you have.

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And that is what's really going to put

you in a street, a state of gratitude.

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So really, you know, bringing

awareness to understanding that

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you truly are grateful to have the

things that you have in your life.

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So ratitude was one of the first

things that I definitely would

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implement every single morning when

I was going through hard times.

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And then the second thing, and

this is a really just the mentality

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shift, but it's a quote from,

I believe it's Marcus Aurelius.

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And, and Ryan holiday wrote

a great book on this as well.

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The obstacle is the way, um, and

that's pretty much the quote as well.

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The obstacle is the way or that, which

stands in the way becomes the way.

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And there's been many mornings that I

have just literally sat and meditated

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on this specific quote and topic.

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Um, Yeah, because there's so

much to be gained from it.

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So another way to kind of phrase

this or that I've heard it

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phrased is I don't have problems.

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I have puzzles, which, you know,

pretty much just means the same thing,

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but a different way of reframing it.

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And it really is the truth, right.

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That which is giving us the

most difficulty in life.

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The thing that we're probably

avoiding the most as well, or we

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have the most resistance towards.

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Is the thing that's actually

probably the most beneficial for us.

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It's probably the thing that's

going to catapult us forward and,

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uh, really, you know, give us the

tools that we need to be better, a

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better version of ourselves in life.

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And when I was able to finally.

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Figure out this mindset shift

of recognizing that, you know,

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all the things that I was having

resistance towards in my life.

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Were the things that I

actually needed to work on.

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Right.

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And those are the things that

are typically the most scary.

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They're the things that we don't want to

do, and that we try to avoid at all costs.

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But at the end of the day,

they're actually the things that

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are the most beneficial for us.

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And it's funny cause it's, you

know, we have the most resistance we

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fight against it, but it's like a.

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Uh, Aero being pulled

back in a bow, right?

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You're being pulled back.

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You're being pulled back all this

resistance, but then once you finally

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give in and put in the work and become

better at that point in your life or that

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area of your life, that you're lacking,

that's typically when the arrow is

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released and it just launches us forward.

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So instead of fighting.

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The difficulties in our life, the things

that are giving us the most uncomfortable.

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Uh, feelings, right?

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The most uncomfortable

things in our lives.

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Those are probably the things that

we actually need to be leaning into.

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So for me, it was finances and

it was difficult because, you

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know, you have to also look at.

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You know, you have to take a very.

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You have to take a very sober look at

the situation of life that you're in.

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Now, of course, there are circumstances

outside of our control that.

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Can put us in a really tough and not

fun situation, but a lot of the times we

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actually have done things in our past that

have led us to where we're at currently.

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So it is very important for us to

actually take, uh, you know, a wide

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view of, of our lives and kind of

how we've gotten to where we're at.

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And really analyze the steps that we've

taken that have brought us where we're at.

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And so for me, since it was

finances, I had to evaluate what

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have I done financially that

had gotten me to where I'm at.

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And so really understanding those

things and understanding that.

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Those were the areas, uh,

that I needed to work on.

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Right.

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So that I wouldn't repeat those things

in the future because I had to learn from

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this uncomfortable, this pain, right?

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Like these, these situations where

I was just so tired of it, like, why

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is this happening to me kind of deal.

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But understanding that no,

this is not happening to you.

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It's happening for you.

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And this is something that you can

learn from, and you can truly take

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things from this situation is.

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It is everything in life

can be a lesson, right?

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It's a test.

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And so, um, if we can lean into

these uncomfortable things, We're

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going to just ultimately equip our

tool belt at the end of the day.

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So instead of.

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You know, recognizing these areas.

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Uncomfortability in our lives and

trying to avoid them or resist

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them or all these different things.

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We really should be leaning into those

because once we lean into them and

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fully surrender and just be the best

that we possibly can in those areas of

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our life, that we're really lacking.

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That's where we're going to

make ourselves the best version

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of ourselves possible because.

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Once again, things in life

don't really get easier.

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We just get better at doing them.

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It's pretty much true with everything.

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If you think about literally learning

to walk and talk and, um, you know,

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ride a bike, like it's not necessarily

that those things got easier.

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You just got a lot better at doing them.

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You develop the muscles and, you

know, built up the muscles, you have

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the correct, you know, development

and the ligaments and the tendons

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and bone structures and all this.

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And, you know, it was because you were

walking and constantly practicing it that

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you finally got good at doing that thing.

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And so it's literally with everything in

life, the areas that were not very good

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in life, the areas that are giving us.

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Trouble difficulty.

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They're uncomfortable.

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Those are the areas that we

just need more practicing.

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We need to go and we

need to be relentless.

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We need to work hard in those areas.

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And ultimately we're going to

come out the other side better.

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So really my goal for you with this

podcast episode is if you're going through

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a difficult time or you're dealing with.

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Um, some anxiety and all

these different things.

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It's very important for you to

first off, you need to identify

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the areas of your life that are

making you uncomfortable, right?

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Because that is something that, uh,

can be difficult to do at first.

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You might be experiencing, um,

you know, depression or whatever

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it might be, but it's very hard

to actually identify what it is.

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That's kind of the root or the cause of.

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This uncomfortability in your life.

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So we first have to really identify that.

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And once we're able to identify it.

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Then we really have to be.

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Upfront with ourselves.

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We have to, you know, look at

ourselves and see, okay, what

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is it that I'm doing wrong?

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Why are we in this situation?

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You know, what are the things that I

could've done better and really just

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take that sober, look and understand

that whatever the difficulty is

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that you're facing in life today.

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Is just an opportunity for you to

learn and to get better at that thing.

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And I know it's easier said than done,

but truly just that mindset shift.

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If you can actually tap into that and feel

that mindset shift of this isn't happening

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to me, but it's happening for me.

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What is this moment in my

life meant to teach me?

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What does it meant to teach me?

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And if you can look at your obstacles in

that light, if you can look at it as a

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teacher, as a lesson, And an opportunity

for you to get better and to grow.

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It's going to change

everything completely.

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Right?

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You're now taking the

power into your hands.

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You're taking responsibility for

your life and for your situation.

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And now you're also taking responsibility

for the steps moving forward.

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So.

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If you can really grasp that, which,

like I said, it took me awhile.

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I truthfully spent a lot of time just

thinking about this and, and trying to

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apply it to my life and see how I can.

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You know, make it work for me.

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And, , when I finally did, when I was

finally able to just understand that look.

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Areas that you're like avoiding and

you know, like annoyed about, and

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you're so mad and you're just like,

oh, like, why does this happen to me?

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Uh, once I was finally able to identify

those and just take a sober, look at

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it and to look at it as something that.

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Is some, it's something that's

trying to teach me a lesson.

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Um, man, that was the biggest

mindset shift for me possible.

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And it's truthfully actually

really helped me with, , all of my.

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Yeah, kind of my mental health.

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It really helped me to just have this

positive outlook on life and to not feel

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like, you know, life was attacking me, but

rather it was trying to teach me something

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and help me to be better in life.

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So.

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Um, Yeah, I don't know.

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I found a ton of benefit

in that and my mind.

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, just felt more at ease.

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Whenever I did start to get that

feeling of like, oh man, like, you know,

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starting to get just super worried.

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All the time and just feeling bad in

my body and in my mind constantly.

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Then I would come back to that and

really just ask myself, Evan, hold on.

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This is a moment in

time that you can learn.

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And you can really grow from this.

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So what is it that this

moment is trying to teach me?

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And then I would just go from

there and, uh, you know, we

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have to take the steps as well.

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We have to do the things in

life that are going to get us

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better at whatever that is.

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So for me, for example, with finances,

it was, you know, really taking a

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look at what my finances looked like,

getting a financial, , planning,

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journal, you know, writing things

down, , reading books on finances,

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all of these different things, right.

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We have to take the steps as well, uh, to.

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Get better at those things.

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But, uh, also another thing that's very

important to remember is if you are

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going through a difficult time, just also

understand that it's temporary, right?

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Like everything in life is temporary.

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We have ups and we have downs

and you know, they come and go.

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And so we have to.

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You know, remain humble when we're

doing well, but we also have to

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remember when we're not doing

so well that it's not forever.

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So if you are going through a

difficult time, that's also something

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that's so beneficial to remember.

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Um, and I definitely would refer to

that as well, myself, where it was

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just like, if you're going through

a difficult time, Just remember that

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it's not forever, things will change.

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And then in those uncomfortable times

they can be some of our greatest

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teachers and we can have literally

some of the biggest growth in our lives

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possible during those difficult times.

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So anyways, that is going to

do it for today's episode.

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I hope you enjoyed this.

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Well, it's not really a mentality

Monday episode, but nonetheless.

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Um, I'll just call it a mentality episode.

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Um, and hopefully.

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You are able to walk away with some

of these tools, which just as a quick

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recap, number one, definitely try

to find gratitude every single day.

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Uh, it doesn't take long, but remember

you do have to feel the gratitude.

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You can't just list things off.

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You actually have to feel gratitude.

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Um, and then number two is just

going to be the mindset shift of.

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Looking at things not as obstacles, right.

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Or difficulties or challenges, but

looking at them as a puzzle or an

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opportunity to grow or to get better.

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Right.

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It's a lesson.

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We can look at things in life.

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Like what is this moment in my life

trying to teach me, what can I take

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away from this so that I can get

better in life because remember.

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Things don't get easier.

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We just get better at doing those things.

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And then last but not least

number three is just going to

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be not everything is forever.

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So if you're in.

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A time that is difficult in your life.

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Just remember.

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It's not forever.

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It's going to pass.

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And eventually things are

going to get much better.

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And when things are really good,

remember to stay humble and to

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remember that life is cyclical.

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You know, there are ups and downs

and, um, yeah, just, uh, just

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stay humble in the good times and

remember that if it's a bad time.

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Things will get better.

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So hopefully this brought

you some peace of mind.

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Hopefully there is some tools that

you can apply to your life as well.

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Um, even if you're not going through

a difficult time in your life, still

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keep these in your back pocket.

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Because it can really come in handy.

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Uh, when you need them.

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They've definitely helped

me out so, so much.

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Uh, last year in, yeah.

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In so many ways that I, yeah, I

can't even can't even mention them.

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Um, or I guess I'm not ready to

mention them yet, but nonetheless, they

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were super beneficial and, uh, yeah.

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So anyways, I hope you guys

really enjoy today's episode.

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Um, and I will see you on next Wednesday.

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Till then I hope you.

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Yeah.

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Use these tools and find

some benefit from them.

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Um, find some clarity and

lean into the discomfort.

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And of course, as always do

everything with good intentions

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and connect to your elements.

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RDL much love, have a beautiful one.

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Peace.

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