24. ForGIVE You- How to Move on, up, and forward from your mistakes.

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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.

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So I had a situation that prompted an
idea for a podcast episode, so here we go.

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Um, I went off on somebody in the heat
of the moment while I was angry and

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um, I sent an email and I'm notorious
to sending emails because I tend to

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get my thoughts out better in writing
versus speaking because when I speak in

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the moment, it's probably a lot worse.

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Um, actually, you know what, honestly,
the email that I wrote was speech

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to text, so it was speaking, which
is probably why it was so bad.

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And the thing of it is I was in
the heat of the moment, right?

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Emotions were at that high level you
know, logical reasoning was not a

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part of any of what I was saying.

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I was fueled by emotional
anger and hit the send button.

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Why?

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I don't know.

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I'm still mad at myself for hitting
send because I shouldn't have, I, it

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was, it was not my best moment, right?

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But, um, it happens.

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I'm human, right?

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We all have moments that we do things
in the heat of the moment, right?

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When our emotions are high, we
might make mistakes or we might say

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things that we don't really mean.

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Um, we might hurt feelings.

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Anyway, what I did, I
immediately regretted it.

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Like, and especially as
I started cooling down.

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That, you know, logical reasoning.

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Part of my brain started, you
know, being activated and I'm

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like, wow, I really should not
have said all the things I said.

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Like I needed to be more logical
about how I was responding.

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Um, instead of responding
straight in that emotional.

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High point where I wasn't really
thinking so clearly, right?

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So I went back and read what I wrote and
I'm like, oh, is there a way to unsend it?

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And there is a way to unsend
your shit, by the way.

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Um, but you have to do it very quickly.

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Um, you have five seconds on a mobile
device, and I think you have, um,

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up to 30 seconds on your computer.

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So, uh, just a little tidbit with Gmail.

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There is, um, a settings feature in
your Gmail or your Google settings

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where you can delay that, um, to
give yourself a little bit more time.

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I think, I think that, I can't remember,
but definitely on your cell phone you

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only have five seconds, so you better
like know what you're gonna say and

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then make sure you really wanna send it
when you hit send on your mobile device.

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But on the computer
you have a little time.

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You know, most of the time if you do
use Gmail, it'll pop up and say, You

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know, message to, and there's like a
little button where you can hit undo.

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So I guess the time frame you can, um,
set that to be a little bit longer.

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I don't know what the maximum amount
of time, it's not a lot, but you

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can maximize it in your settings.

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So new, new information in case you
didn't know that fact might wanna give

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yourself as much time as possible just
in case you run into a situation like me.

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But for me, I didn't really get
to the logical part of, maybe I

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shouldn't have sent that till it
was at least 15 minutes past and

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then there was nothing I could do.

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It was out there, it was sent.

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It had been done, the deed had
been done, it had been carried out.

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So after I realized I couldn't
really undo it, I was like, shoot.

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So actually I didn't say Shoot.

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I don't say shoot.

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I say shit.

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So I said, shit, well, what am I gonna do?

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So I apologized.

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I reached out to the person, I sent
the email and I said, look, I wrote

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that email in the heat of the moment.

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I really shouldn't have sent it.

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It was something that I was just
getting everything out that I

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was a feeling in that moment
and I should not have sent that.

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That was not, um, you know,
professional or respectful, whatever.

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I don't remember what I
said, but I apologized.

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I owned up to it.

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Said sorry.

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Shouldn't have handled things that way.

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Um, and here's the thing.

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We're all human.

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We all make mistakes.

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It's part of life.

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But we can sometimes get so
hard on ourselves and be really

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angry at ourselves, and let that
bring us down and start dragging

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us into this downward spiral.

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Spiral of, you know, Self-pity.

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Uh, I'm a failure.

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Why do I do things this way?

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I'm always messing up.

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I never get it right.

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Like, you know, I'm, I'm
always such an angry person.

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I'm never gonna change.

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Like, we can get in this like, mind
fuck of just really berating ourselves.

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We really are our own
worst critics, right?

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Like, our self-talk is our worst.

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, we are our own worst enemy, right?

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It's those thoughts in our head and
what we tell ourselves and, and so,

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it's a slippery slope where we just
kind of lay into ourselves, right?

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The hardest person to
forgive is ourselves.

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You know, I did that episode, no
apologies, uh, a few weeks back, which

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was more about, you know, when somebody's
wrong to you and you don't get the

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apology, apology you deserve, right?

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Um, and how you can kind of get
closure and move on from that.

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You gotta do the same thing with yourself,
but you gotta forgive yourself, right?

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Like you, you do have the
power to forgive yourself.

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So that's what this episode is about.

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It's about learning to forgive yourself.

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So if you mess up, if you cause
somebody pain, you're in the wrong,

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you act, you know irrationally
in the heat of the moment, right?

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It's okay.

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You're human.

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It's normal.

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Everybody does it.

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Nobody's perfect, right?

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We all have our flaws.

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We all make mistakes.

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Apologize if you need to apologize.

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. Own up.

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Own it.

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Own what you did, and know that doesn't
make you a horrible person just because

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you make a mistake or you did one thing.

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Maybe you did multiple
things where you messed up.

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It doesn't mean you're
a horrible person, okay?

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You own up to it and you move on, right?

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That's the trick is moving on, letting go.

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Don't let whatever you do or did drag you
down or keep you stuck and immobilized

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and just suck you into that downward
spiral where you're you know, falling

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into that negative self-talk and falling
into those l lower vibrational feelings.

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And when you're in that lower
vibrational state, guess what?

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You're attracting lower vibrational
opportunities to come towards you.

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Right?

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Like it's, it's just,
it's a suction, right?

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Like it's a, it's energy
attraction, right?

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Like when you get sucked into that low
vibrational state, like that's what you're

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gonna be attracting back into your life.

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You need to stop it right there
and start circling back up.

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Right?

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I have this really great image.

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I'm gonna, I'll share it with you guys.

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I, I made it for my book.

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Essentially, you have this, the,
the highest rungs, these, these

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wide highest rungs right here.

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The higher vibrational thoughts and
feelings and experiences, right?

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And at that high vibe level,
that's what you're gonna attract.

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But you start going down these lower
rungs and you start having, Lower

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vibrational feelings and thoughts, and
then you kind of get it, get spirals

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down into this middle, and then it starts
getting bigger and bigger to where you're

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having like anger, jealousy, right?

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Like low self-worth.

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That's all here, but, but you can't see
vibrating at these lower energies down

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here and you wanna keep rising back up.

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You wanna keep, rise yourself back
up and go up that, that spiral to

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where you can start vibrating up here.

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. Um, and so it really, it really
becomes where you have to, you have

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to forgive yourself and move on.

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You cannot be stuck.

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You cannot stay stuck.

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Um, and the thing is, is like
you don't grow without mistakes.

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You can't reach success.

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You can't get any better than where you're
at right now unless you make mistakes.

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Sometimes we're so afraid of failure
that we just stop and we stop trying.

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We, we just stay stuck in wherever
we're at and we don't grow and thrive

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and experience success in the things
we wanna do because we keep ourselves

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stuck and, and sometimes I really have,
I think it has to do with like guilt

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or not feeling like we're good enough
because we've made mistakes or whatever.

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And it's bull shit.

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It's bullshit.

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Everybody makes mistakes.

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No one's perfect.

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It's about learning where you
made that mistake and how you can

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improve and how you can do better.

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And you're not gonna know how to
do better until you mess up, right?

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Like every experience we go through is an
opportunity to learn and grow from, right.

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Each time that we fail,
we learn something.

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We either learn what not to do, right,
or we learn how to try something

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different , we learn how maybe
that's not the person we wanna be.

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Right?

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Each day is a new opportunity.

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You don't need to wait for a new Monday,
you don't need to wait for a new year.

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You don't need to wait for a new month.

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Right?

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I've, I've, I've talked about
that in a recent post too.

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Alls you need is a one new moment.

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One new moment to change your
mind, like you can change your mind

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and change your thought patterns
in any instant, you choose.

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You get to decide when it's like
enough is enough and you're ready

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to grow and ready to move on.

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Because once you start learning,
and once you, when you know better,

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you get to do better, right?

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So like, honestly, like whether it's you
know, business, whether it's your health,

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whether it's just your self-development,
your self-growth, like it's okay to fail.

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It's okay to mess up because
that's how you learn.

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And, and like I talked about last
week, you only fail when you give up.

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Right?

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When you stop altogether, when
you keep yourself stuck, when you

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decide to give up, like keep going.

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Own it.

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Own it and let it go.

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Right?

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Apologize.

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Do whatever you need to
do, like own the situation.

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Don't, don't try to run away from
the mistakes you've made, right?

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Like, it's okay.

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It's okay.

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, own up to what you did.

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Own up to whatever it is, and
then move on from it, right?

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It's in the past.

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You don't have to look in the, don't look
in the rear of your mirror, like, right?

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You don't need to keep
looking towards your past.

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You need to look forward.

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If you're, if you're focused on the
past, you're never gonna move forward.

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It's gonna keep you back, right?

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It's gonna keep you stuck in these
moments, like always worried about

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what happened, what I could have
done, what I should have done.

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All right?

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And you really have to work hard
to to, to get your mind focused

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on what's coming forward, right?

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What's in the present moment?

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What can I do now?

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You can't change the past.

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It's happened.

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It's done.

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Move on.

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You can change the future, right?

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You can change the future by what
you decide to do in this moment.

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And so I really, I'm asking
you guys to forgive yourself.

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Allow yourself grace, allow yourself
the opportunity to grow and

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learn from each new experience.

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Like go for it.

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Okay?

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Like it's scary to, to change and
to go after your dreams, right?

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And we can be so afraid of failing
or feeling like we don't deserve

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success or feeling like whatever.

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But like I've said before, any desire
you have in your heart was placed

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in your heart for a reason, right?

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Like the desires, the dreams
you have, that's not a mistake.

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It's meant for you.

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It's already here.

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And you really have to believe
that, and you have to keep that

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forward focus and know it's okay
that if you fall down, right, but

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you get back up and you keep going.

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We just celebrated Martin
Luther King Day recently.

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One of his, uh, famous quotes is, um,
you know, and I'm gonna paraphrase

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it, but you know, if you, if you can't
run walk, and if you can't walk,

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crawl right, but you just keep moving.

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Right?

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And I don't care if you're barely
scooting along, like you don't

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have the energy because you've
been knocked down so many times.

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I don't care if you're army crawling
and barely slithering on the ground.

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Like, keep moving.

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You don't stop.

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Right?

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And you just do just enough.

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Like just until you can keep going,
until you get stronger and get better.

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Pick yourself up to start crawling,
and then you're crawling, and then

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you know you're gonna get stronger.

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And then finally be able to
feel like you're good enough

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to stand up and start walking.

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And then you're slowly
walking until soon enough

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you'll be running.

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Right?

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Like it takes time.

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We gotta have patience.

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That's the other thing
is we're always, so.

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Wanting things right now, and I
can give you a great example of my

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health and fitness journey, right?

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I've been sharing that
with you guys, right?

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Um, that's something I'm
very vulnerable about, is this

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weight loss I'm going on, right?

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Like, I have 20 pounds
I'm trying to lose, right?

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Like, that number sounds
really big and scary to me.

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Now, that might not sound big and scary
to some people, but for me it is okay.

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It's challenging because I wanna see
that scale move and it's not moving very.

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You know, and that's frustrating.

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And, um, you know, I'm doing my best
to stay within like, my goals of,

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you know, what I'm trying to aim for
nutritionally, like, um, staying within

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the nutritional parameters I have for
myself that I'm working on with my coach.

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Like, you know, I'm not eliminating
anything in my diet, but I'm

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shooting to reach, you know, certain,
um, grams of protein each day.

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Um, and that's kind of my main
focus right now is just staying

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in kind of a calorie range and
hitting those protein goals, right?

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Because I'm trying to build
back up my lean muscle mass.

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And, um, and it's hard, right?

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I gotta, I gotta show up every
day to myself and it's hard.

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And, um, there was a day, maybe two
where I went over, like my weakness

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is I have a sweet tooth and I might
have eaten a half a pan of brownies.

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I did.

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I mean, I just, I had a weak moment and I
couldn't stop and I just, , I overate and,

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and I felt like shit afterwards, right?

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Like my stomach hurt afterwards.

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I was like, why did I do that?

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But they tasted so good
and like, blah, blah, blah.

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But then of course, you know,
then the guilt sets in, right?

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Because, oh, I just messed up.

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I went over, uh, I was over
my calorie goal for that day

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because of the brownie incident.

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, but I knew logically, like it didn't
matter in the scheme of things

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as long as I kept going, right?

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I show up the next day and I keep,
you know, doing as best I can to stay

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within , my allotted, um, you know,
bank of, uh, calories for the day

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and still working at trying to get
the nutrients my body needs, right?

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To fuel my body correctly so that
I can lift the weights I wanna lift

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and make sure I'm like growing the
muscle that I wanna grow, right?

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To get my body shape to change and.

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. I didn't give up, but it was
still frustrating, right?

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I still was mad at myself.

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I still curse myself.

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And, you know, um, part of the program
I'm on is I am weighing myself every

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day, but there's intention with that.

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It's not to, to be obsessed with
the scale, it's just data tracking.

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Right?

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And the thing is, it's desensitizing
me to the scale because it changes

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and it's gonna go up and down.

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Um, and every good, um, you
know, nutrition or fitness

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coach should tell you this, that
weight loss is not linear, right?

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It's not a straight line that
just shows you going down.

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It goes like this.

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It looks like a heart rate
monitor, it's gonna spike up and

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it's gonna wiggle up and down.

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But the thing is, you'll start to see a
gradual trend downward if your body's

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responding, you'll see a gradual.

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Um, slope, you know, downwards
of, um, you know, weight loss

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if that's the goal, right?

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Um, but it's not gonna be linear, right?

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Like, you're not gonna have
points that make a perfect line.

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It's gonna be like this.

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And so my weight is like that.

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And you know what, it is kind of
disheartening a little bit when you,

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I've been on track a hundred percent
and I get up and the scale goes up.

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That sucks, right?

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Like that's a mind fuck.

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And you're like, well,
shit, it's not working.

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But I'm like working so hard,
like why isn't it not showing?

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But I know, and you know, that's the
purpose of having that coach to kind

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of be that motivator and help you
stay accountable and letting you know

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to keep going and trust the process.

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Right?

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Because it is gonna fluctuate and
it is gonna, you know, it will be

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disheartening to see the scale go
up, but I have that faith with my

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coach and with myself just with the
experience cuz I know it, it is logical.

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Like I know what to do, right?

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Like I've done body building, I've won
first place in body building shows.

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I know what to do to change my
physique, but it's just doing it in a

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sustainable way, one which is different.

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Um, and also just having that
accountability and encouragement to keep

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going and to like keep me, accountable and
in line with what is really important to

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me, which is, you know, to feel good in
my clothes and to be fueling my body with

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nutrients that it can use and like help
it, you know, grow in the ways it needs

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to grow, you know, and just being healthy.

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Um, anyway, so it's, it's really
helpful to have that coach.

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But yeah, it's disheartening
when you see the scale go up.

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But again, it's.

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. Just staying the course, right?

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And just staying day after day,
showing up, staying consistent.

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every day is not gonna be
a hundred percent perfect.

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It's not, I just told you I ate like
half a pan of brownies, right?

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Like that's not staying a
hundred percent on track, right?

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But it's mostly on track, right?

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And it's staying consistent.

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And it's when I have the bad days
with the, where I ate that, that I got

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back up the next day and still kept
going and working towards my goals.

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I didn't give up, I didn't go and
slash all three of my tires, right?

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Because the one was got the flat, like,
like that analogy I used before, right?

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Like.

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You get a flat tire, you don't go
puncture holes and get flat tires in

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all three of your other tires, right?

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You just fix the one
flat and you keep going.

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So it's the same thing.

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You just, you keep going,
you pick yourself back up.

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I owned it.

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I, I owned it.

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I ate a bunch of brownies, right?

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I own that and now I'm gonna move on.

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So it's the same concept, you know,
whether, again, it's like in in

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the business world or your goals
that way, like, you know, like if

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you miss, something, okay, great.

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You missed it.

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You said something messed up.

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Right?

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Okay.

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I'm sorry.

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I said that out of, you
know, I was too emotional.

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I shouldn't have said that that was wrong.

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I'm sorry.

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And you move on, right?

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You know, in your relationships, right?

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Conflict happens all the
time in relationships.

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Do you, do people, I mean, maybe
some people, as I'll say, do people

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just get divorced over one fight?

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I mean, maybe some people do,
but, but no, theoretically, no.

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That doesn't usually happen.

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, like they're little conflicts
that might happen over time that

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kill the relationship, right?

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But it's, you keep trying, right?

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You don't let one little thing mess
up something really great, right?

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You find a way to own up to whatever you
did to communicate and move on, right?

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So that's what I really wanted to
get at, was giving yourself grace,

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making sure you apologize, and
then forgive yourself, right?

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It's forgiveness, right?

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Forgiveness is really hard, whether
you're forgiving somebody that

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wronged you who didn't even give you
an apology, but I think it's even

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harder sometimes to forgive ourselves.

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So I really am asking you if there's
anything that you're holding onto

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about yourself, that you're beating
yourself up about something that maybe

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happened in your past, or it happened
last week, or it happened this morning.

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Move on.

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Forgive.

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And move on.

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How can you move forward from this?

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Right?

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That's what it's all about.

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It's about learning what you need
to learn and moving on and growing.

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And once you grow, once you
learn better, you do better.

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And it's a way for you to pick
yourself back up and keep climbing

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those rungs of energy, right?

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Like to just vibe high and attract higher
vibrational opportunities back to you.

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Right?

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You don't need to sulk and you don't
need to go to that downward spiral.

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That helps no one.

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Okay.

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another thing I guess I really
wanna say is that you know,

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you guys are never alone.

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Okay?

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You're never alone.

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You're not, like there is a whole
other plane of existence of people

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waiting for you to call on them.

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You've got angels and
guides like they're there.

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You just have to ask.

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You just have to ask for that help.

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Um, and they're waiting.

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They're there for you to help guide
you and help you feel supported,

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like in your moments of weakness.

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If you're feeling weak and you need
some, like, just help, like ask

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for it and then don't be surprised
when a miracle shows up for you.

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Um, actually on that point, I
actually do have a little miracle

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story that I can share with you.

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um, before I went to bed, uh,
one of the nights earlier this

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week, I asked my dad to visit me.

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And I went to bed and.

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, you know, it was one of the dreams
right before I woke up and he was there.

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He was there and he was walking and
he danced and, um, he was wearing his,

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uh, Letterman jacket, which is what
he actually asked to be buried in.

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So, um, it was wonderful and
it was just so amazing to see

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him show up for me like that.

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And, um, it was one of those things
where I think he knew that I was

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ready and okay to have him show up.

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and visit me in that context.

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Right.

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And it just, it was really magical
and it was really good to see him.

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And I think it was also awesome that
he showed me himself walking, right?

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Like he was walking and he was dancing,
and, um, so that was really cool.

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That was really amazing to see.

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So, um, I mean, I share that
because that was, and to me it was.

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Somewhat of a miracle, right?

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And, and it just goes to show you,
like, you just have to ask and

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then be open to receiving and just
don't be surprised when stuff shows

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00:20:05,845 --> 00:20:08,035
up like that for you, you know?

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00:20:08,335 --> 00:20:12,565
Um, in whatever context it
is, you know, it happens.

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I mean, it would happen in
my real estate career too.

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Like, you know, I would, I mean,
things happen, miracles happen, and

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you just really again, have to ask
for it, and be open to receiving it.

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I mean, same thing like manifesting all
that stuff that I've talked about before.

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Like it's real, it's here.

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You just have to believe it.

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When you believe it, you'll see it
and you know, when you welcome it,

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it'll, it'll come to you, it'll arrive.

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So, um, so yeah.

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So that's a lot.

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I feel like I'm gonna, I'll keep going,
so I should probably just wrap it up.

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Um, but I hope you guys
are doing well, right?

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Um, You know, life is hard, right?

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And, um, it's all about just moving
forward and what you can do, what you can

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learn, and what you can, um, grow from
each experience that you have, you know?

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So, please let me know.

469
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I would love to hear from you.

470
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I love so much when I get,
messages back from people

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who've listened to the podcast.

472
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It means the world to me, so
please never hesitate, send me

473
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a DM on Facebook or Instagram.

474
00:21:10,170 --> 00:21:15,360
My handle is @chelsea.vanbuskirk let
me know if there's something that you

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needed to let go or forgive yourself for.

476
00:21:17,490 --> 00:21:17,730
Right.

477
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Let me know.

478
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You don't have to tell me what it is if
you don't want to, but just I wanna know

479
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if that was something that was helpful
for you to know, to realize that you

480
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needed to let go and forgive yourself or
something so that you can move on and move

481
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forward and start raising yourself back up

482
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right.

483
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Right?

484
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You don't have to run, just crawl for now.

485
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It's fine.

486
00:21:34,785 --> 00:21:37,965
Just keep moving forward,
learn something, right, grow.

487
00:21:37,965 --> 00:21:38,745
It's okay.

488
00:21:39,435 --> 00:21:40,425
So let me know.

489
00:21:40,425 --> 00:21:41,505
I hope all is well.

490
00:21:41,635 --> 00:21:45,055
You can find me on the website,
chelseavanbuskirk.com and yeah,

491
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I'll see you guys next week.

492
00:21:46,675 --> 00:21:47,155
Peace.