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Hey everyone, what's up?

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It's Chelsea VanBuskirk
with the Heart AF podcast.

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Hope you guys are all doing well today.

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I wanted to follow up
from last week's episode.

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You know, I talked about being more
you instead of being a new you, right?

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Like instead of trying to morph
ourselves and trying to be something

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that we're not like, let's try to be
more of who we really are and really,

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um, showing up as our authentic selves
and, getting away from trying to,

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um, constantly achieve things in order
to feel worthy or to prove ourselves.

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And, um, I wanted to elaborate
and follow up with that, with,

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um, you know, this hustle culture
that we're immersed in, right?

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Like everybody's just sharing like,
all these things they're doing right.

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Like, and it's like we're always
like showing off, so to speak,

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we're applauding people for
running themselves into the ground

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and it's, it's not right, right?

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I mean, that's really
not how life should be.

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Like, yes, we should be, you know,
growing and expanding, you know,

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in our lives and creating abundance
in our lives and you know bringing

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ourselves joy and things like that.

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But we're not meant to be running
ourselves, ragged, running ourselves

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into the ground and not spending
any time with our families or not

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taking time off to really enjoy,
um, moments and being present.

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Right?

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Like a hustle culture, I feel
like to me is like, you're always

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focused on like, what's next?

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What's more, what can I add?

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Um, you're focused on
like that future, right?

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Instead of focusing on the present
and really focusing on, um, enjoying,

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what you're actually creating, right?

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Like it's like, it's
just too, it's too much.

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It's too, um, fast.

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It's too, um, strenuous.

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And I think that's where we really
get burned out, especially, you know,

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thinking about the, this time of
resolutions and, and goal setting.

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And that's what I was really wanting to,
you know, surround the month of January.

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Um, for content wise , like, talking
about this like, you know, we kind

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of start the month off where we
have you know, a ton of goals and

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resolutions we wanna try to achieve.

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But like I spoke of before, like
we try to go about it too fast too

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soon, or take on too much, or try to
make too many changes all at once.

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Like it never works out, right?

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Like, you always end up burning
out because it's too much, right?

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It's too much.

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And the thing is, is we're like applauding
people who are doing too much, right?

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Like we think that's like the,
the cool thing or the "in"

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thing to do is to do too much.

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But really, The cool thing is to actually
sit back and actually enjoy and to still

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have goals and still, you know, work hard
and be consistent, but doing it so we're

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still staying present and that we're not
taking time away from, ourselves and the

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people that we love and doing the things
that we love and bringing ourselves joy.

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Because you know, if you just work all the
time and you're striving all the time, and

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yeah, you might have successes, um, but
you'll probably feel unfulfilled, you're

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not gonna have time to actually enjoy what
you're, you know, creating or receiving.

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You know, let's say if you're very
successful and, and getting, getting

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lots of money, but if you're always
having to work and high stress and not

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sleeping and not treating your body right,
like you're gonna be feeling like crap.

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Like, and that's not a way to live, right?

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Like you see so many people.

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. Um, I think that was one of
the things on the, uh, top five

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regrets of the dying, right?

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There was this nurse who was working
in hospice care and she wrote a book,

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um, that's the name of her book.

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I can't remember her name.

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I'll, I'll link it, um, in the
description once I look it up.

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But she worked as a hospice nurse, so
working with people who were, are dying

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and, um, did a lot of conversations with
them and, and compiled this list of.

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Um, you know, regrets
of those who are dying.

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And one of the number one things
was, you know, that they're always

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striving, and trying to be somebody
they're not, or not really enjoying

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time with their loved ones, right?

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Because that's what really matters is
having these relationships and human

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experiences with other people in our lives
and, um, and really getting to enjoy that.

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And, and so I think that's a good
thing to just remember is, it's not

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always about being the best at the top.

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Like, you really have to figure
out what is in true alignment

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with your whole happiness, right?

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Like, what's gonna bring you
happiness in all areas of your life?

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There's a lot of, um, you know,
workshops and things like this in the

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business world and the self-development
world where you are taking a look at

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all the aspects of your life, right?

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Like, yes, your career is one, your
goals , health though is part of it.

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Your spirituality, your relationships.

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Your family, right?

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If you have a spouse, like a marriage,
like those relationships are important

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relationships in your life, right?

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Like those, those are
big pieces of your life.

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And if, if things are out of
alignment, um, I think what's,

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it's at some kind of wheel.

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I forget what wheel they call it.

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And I'll put that in
the description as well.

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But there's a wheel that you can
actually do that has all these

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aspects and you kind of, you know,
You know, like zero to 10, like 10

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is the very outer part of the circle,
and zero would be the inner circle.

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And so you can kind of put dots on
where you're at as far as like your

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like, level of, of how well you
think you're doing in each category.

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So if the categories are spirituality,
relationships, career, like spouse, like,

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you know, maybe, uh, finances, and
you start putting these little pins

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in, and if you see how imbalanced it
is, then you know, if you think of it

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like a wheel, like a wheel continually
motions when it's, when it's round and

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when you have all these little points
that make it uneven and you have this

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rugged, um, it's not a wheel, right?

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It's got like little lines and
points and dips and it's not

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gonna be a smooth, balanced life.

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And it's a really good way to look kind
of at your life and see where you might

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be having imbalances in certain areas.

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What I'm getting at is the need to, to
really self-reflect and start coming

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into, what's really important to you
and what, you know, what really brings

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you joy and happiness in your life.

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And, um, really taking that
into account when you are,

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you know, having these goals.

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And that's why I stress so hard is
like, you don't wanna make these big

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changes, like be you and do things that
are, are things that you like to do,

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like think about what brings you joy.

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What are things that
you're good at, right?

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Like, you don't wanna work
against yourself, right?

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Like, it's better to be like in
flow, with your life and, and

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with what you're doing, right?

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Um, and thinking of ways to still make
progress and still get success and

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where you wanna go, but, Finding ways
that are in alignment with who you

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are, with things that you like to do.

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So, , for example, like the
health and wellness part, right?

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Like if you're trying to improve um, your
health and, you know, get more fit, maybe,

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like I said before, like you gotta think
of things that you're actually gonna be

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able to do and think more sustainability.

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Sustainability like finding ways
that you can actually be consistent

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with something, because again,
it's those consistent movements

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over time that yield big results.

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Let's say you do have
a good kind of vision.

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You have these new habits that
are easily integrable with,

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um, your current lifestyle.

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So you're making these little
shifts, right, that you wanna

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get big results with, but you're
doing these little things.

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And again, we talked about how the
discipline and having the consistency

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is what really is gonna get you to that
success, but, If you're in this routine,

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you're in this flow and something
comes up unexpected or somebody says

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something, there's something that
comes up that throws you off your

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game, it throws you out of flow, right?

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I thought I would talk about what happens
when we might get discouraged or we

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get kind of out of our routine or our
flow, um, especially around this time

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it could be a comment like somebody
maybe makes a, a discouraging comment

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about the way you're doing things cause
they don't think you're doing 'em right.

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Or, um, you know, there's something
that triggers you into feeling that,

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like discouragement or that you're doing
something wrong or it's not working.

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um, or you have a slip up, maybe you're,
you know, trying to do a dry January and

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you had a drink, or maybe you're trying
to, you know, work out three times a week

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and this week you only worked out two or
something like that, where you messed up.

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And so a lot of times when we get
these little moments of like, we,

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I feel like discouragement is the
big word, but like you're feeling.

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Like you lose your confidence,
you lose your flow, you lose that

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traction, that, that motivation, right?

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And so, Almost our first instinct
is to just give up because we're

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like, oh, we're doing it wrong.

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This isn't right.

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I gotta start over.

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I gotta start over because I did it wrong.

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Or uh, I, somebody made a comment
and now I'm not so sure I was

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going about this the right way.

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So then this self-doubt creeps in
and you know, we tend to think that

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we have to be perfect, or we have
to do things in such a specific way.

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And if it doesn't go that way, then
it's wrong and like we can't do it.

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Um, one of my, uh, mentors, her
name's Keri um, inspired Living

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TV, is her handle on Instagram.

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Um, but anyway, she talks about how the
p and perfection stands for poison,

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because if you're striving for perfection,
, it's like it's poison, right?

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Like you're just gonna stop.

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You're never gonna make any progress
because you can't be perfect.

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No one's perfect and you can't be
perfect a hundred percent of the time.

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That's not life.

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That's not realistic.

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Right.

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Um, for me, I think, you know, perfection
is literally just being whoever

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you are, it's imperfectly perfect.

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Right?

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That to me is what perfection is because
I think we're all, you know, so unique.

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There's beauty in everything.

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Like I think about flowers,
like no flower is perfect, but

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they're all beautiful, right?

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Like, you know what I'm saying?

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Like, they're perfect to me.

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Like doesn't really exist in
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we try to make it sound, but.

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So knowing that, like, knowing
that, that it's poison, right?

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Like that it will stop you.

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Like you don't have to let these
little hiccups, these little, um,

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setbacks make you give up, right?

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Like you can't, you don't have to quit
just because something didn't go the

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way you thought it was supposed to
go, or somebody made a discouraging

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comment like, the trick here is to
get back up and keep going, right?

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Like I said, it's that consistency piece.

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That's the real discipline you need
to have is the consistency that's

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a discipline you need to have.

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To get back up, to keep going, right?

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And if you have a setback,
if you have, you get sick.

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And so now you gotta take time off
of your routine because now you gotta

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like, make sure you're well enough
to be able to, you know, get out

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and go to the gym or whatever it is.

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Like that doesn't mean you give up,
it means you take time off, rest and

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then get right back to it, right?

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It's all about.

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. That moment where you're feeling
like discouragement or you're

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feeling like stopping, it's taking
a moment and pivoting, right?

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You wanna pivot, but still go
towards your trajectory of what

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you were aiming to do, right?

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It doesn't mean you were doing it
wrong, or you have to give up, or you

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have to just start all over again.

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You don't have to restart.

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. All right.

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You just gotta keep going.

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You don't have to start over.

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You don't have to keep changing,
you know, your direction.

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Like you can still stay doing
what you're doing and just get

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back up on the horse, right?

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If you fall, you get back up.

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Um, and I know that can be hard,
especially if you're an all

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or nothing person, like I am.

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Like, it can be very discouraging
if I'm not doing it X, Y, Z.

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Like I think it has to be X,
Y, Z, but sometimes it's okay.

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It could be X, Y, a, B, C, you
know, like maybe it just, I don't

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even know if I said that right.

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What the fuck?

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Whatever.

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I feel like you get what
I'm trying to say, right?

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Like, it's not, it doesn't have to
go how you think it's supposed to go.

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You know, like it's okay to have moments
of pivot and redirection as long as

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you're staying in that trajectory
of achieving what you wanna achieve

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and getting to where you wanna go.

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So, to give you an example, this week
or actually a couple weeks ago, um,

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the first podcast I was trying to
launch for the first week of January.

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I filmed it four times before I
actually got it because the first

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four recordings of it, I had an error
on the recording and it, the screen

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popped up and was like, I'm sorry,
there was an error during recording.

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You may wanna rerecord and everything
I recorded, 25 minutes, gone.

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It happened four times where it
would show that it was recording.

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And then when I would hit end.

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Disappeared.

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It would just be gone.

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I was so fucking frustrated like that.

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That sucked, right?

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Because I put all that time and effort and
I thought that was like a great message.

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I had it all recorded and
then it just disappeared.

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It wasn't in the cloud anywhere.

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Couldn't find it.

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Um, so I had to pivot, right?

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I had to think of another solution.

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And, um, so.

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. What I actually did in that situation
is I figured out what the issue was, why

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my program kept, um, defaulting, and I
did a whole bunch of troubleshooting and

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finally figured it out and got it to work.

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Um, but like another thing that
happened is, um, I, I think I

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mentioned I'm, I'm doing a new, um,
workout program with a new coach and

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so I just had got my new programming
and I went to the, um, rec center.

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I've been going to, to work out.

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, the, the equipment they have, they
don't really have a lot of equipment.

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Okay?

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So I go in and there's only one piece of
equipment that I need to use, and it's

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like the first three things on my five.

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Sets of workouts, right?

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And there's somebody on it and
I'm waiting for 15 minutes.

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I'm like, maybe I'll just warm up on
the treadmill for a little bit while

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they're using that equipment that I need.

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And they were still using
it after 15 minutes.

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And it's like, I'm looking at the time
and it's early morning and I have a set

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window where I can get my workout done
if I'm gonna do it early morning so

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I can get back home in time to get my
kids ready for school and, and all that.

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So you know what?

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I was like, crap, I'm not gonna
be able to do this workout.

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And so, I started thinking about it
and I'm like, oh, there's another,

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there's this gym that I used to work
out at five years ago down the street.

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Let me go look at them.

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And so I got home and I looked and
I just ended up like signing up.

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Um, so I'm like, you know what?

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I know that they have all the equipment
I need and I can't run into this problem.

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They're open 24 hours a day.

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Um, it's close by my house.

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Like let's just get like a real gym
with the all the equipment I need and

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they're gonna have a ton of equipment.

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So it doesn't matter what time
I go, if there's a lot of people

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I should be able to get in the
workout, I need to get in, right?

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So I pivoted, right?

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Like, . So instead that day I still,
I, I came home signed, got that new

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membership, but I had to get my kids
ready for school, took 'em for to

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school, and then went to the new gym
that I just signed up for, um, went in.

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I was a little nervous because I
hadn't been there in over five years.

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I know it had changed a lot.

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So I'd asked somebody at the
front, I said, Hey, hadn't been

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here in five years or more.

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Um, I just signed up online.

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Can you like show me around the weight
room or whatever because I wanna know

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where all the equipment's at, you
know, in case there's been changes.

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Because I like to be efficient.

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I need to know where to go in and
where, what section of the floor I

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need to be on to get my workout in.

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Right.

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So really nice young kid was
like, yeah, let me show you.

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So that was super helpful.

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And then I got in and it got my
workout done and it was great.

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So, you know, I started the morning,
it did not go how I had planned it.

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Right?

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Um, but I pivoted, right?

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And I feel like, you know, something
I may, may have done at an earlier

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time in my life is I probably
would've been like, ugh, you know,

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so upset, so mad and just been like,
fuck it, I'll try again tomorrow.

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And I would've pushed the
workout day to the next day.

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But then it would like, it just
would've been a domino effect of all

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these things that would just snowball
into all these things that wouldn't be

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working out in my normal, like kind of
schedule of how I wanted things to go.

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You know, it's like it, all it takes
is one little thing to go wrong and

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if you let it, you know, kind of
take you down, it can snowball until

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a lot of other things going wrong.

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Right.

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But I was able to pivot and I knew I had
time to get it done, you know, later.

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So I got it and now I
have this membership.

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Right now I have a solution.

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Now I have this other place to
go so I can go and do my early

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morning workout and, and still.

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Get it in cause there's gonna be
enough equipment at this other place

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to cut in and get things done around
if there is a crowd of people, and

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I think, you know, obviously that's
typical for this time of year at gyms

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anyway, is that they are typically more
crowded, um, because everybody's kind

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of coming back trying to get back into
a good, um, healthy fitness routine.

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So, oh, um, you know, kids being
sick, I talked about us getting sick,

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but if you're a parent and your kid
gets sick, that ruins everything.

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You had a whole plan, now you gotta,
you know, take care of your kid.

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Or now they're not going to school,
so you gotta, you know, figure out.

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So you gotta just pivot
and rearrange things.

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It's about kind of working with what
comes up, because, you know, life

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isn't always predictable, but you
have to again, focus on what you

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can control, what's in your control,
and then control that and do that.

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And again, figuring out what's in
alignment with, with your goals and what

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you're trying to do and, um, not letting
these little bumps in the road, like let

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you, you know, crash your car or whatever.

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I don't, that's not a good analogy.

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Like the one they talk about, you
know, like if one of your tires goes

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flat, you don't go around and slash
all the other three tires, right?

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You just fix the one flat
tire and you keep going.

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That's, that's pretty much
what we're getting at here.

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Simple as that, is you
just keep going, right?

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You just keep going.

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You pivot, you figure it
out, and you keep going.

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You don't let it derail you.

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Um, and especially if it's negative
comments from other people that

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are like, cause that self-doubt.

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Mm, no.

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You gotta shield yourself, right?

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You really have to work hard at
shielding yourself from those comments,

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especially if you're someone who has
a delicate, you know, self worth or

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you're easily doubt yourself, like me.

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Like you have to really work hard
at kind of staying true to that core

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vision you have for yourself or what
you know to be true to your heart and

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really standing in that power you have.

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Remember tapping into that,
that badass bitch within.

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And like using that as like a
shield to like shield your energy.

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Like we talked about that too.

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I have the YouTube video about how to,
you know, cleanse or protect your energy.

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I'll link that in the description.

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But knowing and staying like,
confidently, in like that self-worth.

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And in that, mantra in your head, you
know, like that you are a badass bitch

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and no one can tell you anything, right?

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Like it's having that confidence
and shielding yourself.

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So when people make those comments,
you can kind of let 'em brush off.

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You like right?, you're dodging them.

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You're not letting 'em penetrate you and
getting into you and poisoning your mind.

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Right?

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Um, you know, I talked about Vecna right?

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Like if you're a stranger Things fan, um,
I think it's episode three on the podcast

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I talk about, , the character from the
fourth season of Stranger Things, how

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that Vecna voice in our mind that that
poison, right, that negative self-talk.

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Like if you let those comments or
things like pop in and penetrate

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that part of your head, like
it'll totally, it can bring you

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down and you don't wanna do that.

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You don't wanna be down.

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No, there's no place for that.

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We wanna be up, you know, car, Cardi..

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B?

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Up, up, up.

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Yeah.

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That Cardi B.

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Yeah.

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Mm-hmm.

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. You know what I mean?

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Sayin we wanna be up, so you know,
if you get knocked down, if things

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don't go your way, you know, brush it
off, brush your shoulders, thinking,

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all kinds of music references.

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Brush your shoulders off and stand
back up, get back up on the horse.

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Pivot, figure it out, get your shit done.

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You'll feel so good.

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And the thing is, is once you
get into the habit of picking

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yourself up, it gets easier.

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And not only that, you start building
your confidence because you're like,

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well, shit, I am a badass bitch.

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Because look, I was about to like give up.

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, this happened and look, I got
back up and I still got it done.

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Right?

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You start to feel real good about
yourself when you start doing that.

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And, um, so.

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So that's, that's kind of the, the
end of it that I got for you today.

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I just want you to get
back up on that horse.

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Keep going, keep riding.

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I know we're like in that mid month,
so it's okay if, if you're hitting

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a slump, you know, keep going.

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You got this.

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I promise you, you got this.

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And again, remember, if you
bit off more than you can chew.

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, like, check in with yourself if you're
trying to change too much too soon,

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all at once, let's take a step back
and reflect and try to make little.

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Little shifts, right?

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Little shifts.

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You don't need to change it all at once.

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Like it's gotta be progressively
little shifts and then something

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that you can stick with that's
sustainable, that you can do over time.

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And, you know, it's so important to
reflect, like, I just had a meeting today

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where I took a step back and redid my
schedule to make sure like I, you know,

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I'm holding myself accountable, but
I'm doing it in alignment with what

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I wanna do and what's important to me.

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Right?

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So I have blocked off like every,
every little point in my day.

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But there's flexibility there
too because again, life happens.

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So there's sometimes things are gonna
have to get rearranged, but I have my

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key things in there, you know, plugged in
that I can do regardless, and how I can

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shift things like I'm, I'm gonna be able
to, to flow and shift and at least I have

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it planned out, mapped out so I know what
my task is and what I need to be doing.

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So if I have to rearrange something
because a kid gets sick, I have to go

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pick somebody up early or, you know,
something gets canceled, whatever,

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I have something to fill it in.

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Um, so yeah, so that's, that's
my biggest thing for you guys

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is keep going, keep moving.

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you know?

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All right, so get back up.

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Shield yourself.

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Tap into that badass bitch within you.

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Protect yourself from any
of those negative comments.

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Rise up.

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Keep going.

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You got this.

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I will see you guys next week.

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Please find me on social media, on
Facebook or Instagram @chelsea.vanbuskirk

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let me know how you doing,
how you doing with January?

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Um, send me a DM and let me know,
like if, if you're still going strong,

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if you've hit a slump but you picked
yourself back up, like, I wanna know,

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are you struggling with anything?

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Let me know and see how I can help you.

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Um, you can also find me at my
website at chelseavanbuskirk.com

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and I will see you guys next week.

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Peace.