Nov. 4, 2024

Produce on Purpose

Produce on Purpose

My guest today is Randy Adkins. Randy has written a book called “Produce on Purpose”.
He talks about how important it is to understand the three parts of our being, Spirit, Soul and Body. And how important it is to be able to connect with each of...

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My guest today is Randy Adkins. Randy has written a book called “Produce on Purpose”.
He talks about how important it is to understand the three parts of our being, Spirit, Soul and Body. And how important it is to be able to connect with each of those parts in a way that rather then flowing from the outside-in with our emotions, thoughts and actions, we need to learn to flow from the inside-out to achieve that peace and happiness that we all deserve to experience.
www.RandyAdkinsJr.com

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you've done with those accomplishments. It's about who you've lifted up,

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who you've made better. It's about what you've given back.

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Denzel Washington, welcome to Inspire Vision. Our sole purpose is

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to elevate the lives of others and to inspire you

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to do the same.

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Randy, You're welcome to the show.

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Hey, it is fantastic to be on show. I am

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excited to be able to have a conversation today.

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So yeah, I think I think it's going to be

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really interesting. What I'd love for you to do is

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share here's what I find as I interview different people,

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I find the most interesting thing that can come up

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is the journey is what is the background, what brought

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you to the point that you are, what brought you

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to write the book that you did, And then we'll

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get into all of the other aspects of the book

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and what we're going to talk about.

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Yeah, my journey begins when I was younger. I had

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a interesting, really inquisitive mind. And so I go back

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to time when it was just me and one of

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my best friends, and I'm reminded of a time when

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we would just go in his backyard and we would

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just create. And I loved to create all kinds of contraptions.

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So I'd say, hey, do you have the do you

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have the tarp, do you have the tape? We all

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are we're gathering all of that stuff together. And sometimes

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I would come up with great ideas and I would say, hey,

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can you help me put this together? And he would

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be like yeah, and I or we both would get

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together and come up with these great ideas and say, yeah,

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we're gonna put this together.

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We're gonna make this. And whether it was the.

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World of Star Trek, star Wars, whatever it was, we

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were creating that in his backyard.

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We would do this day in and day out.

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His mom would always have us put it all back

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before night, just so she would have a backyard. But

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I did find during that time that I really enjoyed

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coming up with these great ideas and actually having somebody else,

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if they could do the work, I would love for

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them to do that. And so that brought me down

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a path of saying, you know, in this life, you

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know what is up here in this imagination in our mind,

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how can that sometimes become reality and what we do?

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And so throughout my journey of going to s and

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wanted to be able to live life in a great way,

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enjoyable way, and so, you know, go through school, learn

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as much as you can, figure out ways to be

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able to say, hey, how can these creative things become

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real in this world? And so that brought me to

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you know, going through college and figuring things out. And

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I ended up doing computers and programming and creating on

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that side of creating enterprise systems and working that out.

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But I was still curious about life.

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So I definitely ended up with a place where I said,

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you know, I'm a minister.

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I want to be.

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I want to learn how what the Word of God

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and some of these other things that are in my life.

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What do they say for to be able to say,

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why am I here? What is the reason I'm here?

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How can I be meaningful and impactful on what I do?

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So I've done a lot on that side as well,

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and so I sometimes I said, well, how can I

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combine all of the great stuff to say I have

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people coming to me as an ordained minister saying I

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don't like waking up in the morning. It's not something

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I'm excited about. And then I said, but that's not

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how it's supposed to be. We should be able to

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be joyful every day. We should have some peace in

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our lives. How can we wake up and give a

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path for that? And so that put me down a

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journey to say, you know what, let's write a book

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that is based on some principles that we can work with,

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that we can produce in this life, and we can

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produce on the purpose that we were innately born for.

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And so combining all of the different things that I do,

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from a father to a minister, to being a author,

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being one that is doing computers, I bring all of

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that together to share how you can produce on purpose

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and experience life being really who you are and who

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you were born to be and how can we discover

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that and then produce a more joyful, fulfilling life.

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That's I wonder if I and so as a minister,

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are you actively doing that or is work your main thing?

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Or do you do both or how does that work?

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I do both, and it's really fulfilling for me because

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I believe I like being able to be in multiple spaces,

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and so it's not just a one vocation, but I

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do take and share that with others through preaching, teaching

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and sharing a good word.

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So let me ask you a question, why are we here?

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Based on your belief in your view, from your point

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of view, why are we here? Because I think so

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many people don't even get a sense of why they're

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really here.

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So I'm going to give a very simple answer first,

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and then I will go into personally some other pieces

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I think we can all discover while we here. I

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believe we're here to enjoy everything that is here and

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being provided to us, no matter what it is. So

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this experience that we call the human experience, that we

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are enjoying every moment of it, and that we can

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be present in the moment of what this is is

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I think the most difficult part that we have to

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deal with because sometimes what I've found in my life,

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and I've heard from others as well, is that sometimes

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we end up living and we're here right now, but

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we're not really here. I'm either in the past or

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I'm living in the future, and both of those aren't real.

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But what's real is what's happening right now in this moment,

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and how can I make sure that I'm here at

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this moment in doing what I need to do? And

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so the why becomes how can we impact this world

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in the relationships that we're talking about, in the moments

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that we're having. How can I make the most of

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these moments and be ex cited about being the best

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version of myself to impact anything that I'm relating to

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in this world at all, whether it's people, whether it's

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items or trees or nature or anything. How can I

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relate to those in the best way that I can

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without pulling in stuff that maybe I have from the

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past or even looking to having more anxiety about something

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in the future. So I talk about this in the book.

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I give two clues to it. Is. One is that

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we all have a general purpose, and we all have

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a specific purpose.

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General purpose is that you please your creator. If you

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please your creator, whoever your creator is, whoever you call them.

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I call my creator God, and so then if I

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call him God, then God is love in the Bible.

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So then my expressions of whatever I do my relationships,

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I should be expressing love in most.

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Of what I do from a general purpose. But then

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there's a specific purpose which is unique to every single

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one of us. Each of us has gifting. We have

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something that you can do that no one else does

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very easily, and many times it's people around us that

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tell us you are doing this, and you do it

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so easily, that's probably your gifting. Sometimes we can't see

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it ourselves, and sometimes people tell us about it. And

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so by putting those two together, a lot of times

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we can discover why we're here and how we're supposed

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to impact all of these relationships that we have as

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well well.

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And what comes to my mind is that quote I

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think it's in the New Testament, man is that he

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might have joy? And you know, and I think about

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that and think it isn't that he's saying you're automatically

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going to have joy? I think. And the other thing

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where he says be therefore, and in the Bible says perfect.

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But when you get to the original meaning of that

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is to be complete. And so as you talk talk about,

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in my mind at least, why we're here is, as

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you say, to be able to be complete, to experience

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joy in our lives. And that's not an easy thing

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because we're born into this human body that has all

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sorts of things going on, not only from once we're

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born into our childhood, but also the DNA memory that

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we experience from our ancestors that can literally affect our

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emotions and how we respond to things and how we live.

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And so for me, I find that's so interesting that

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we sometimes get stopped from doing that because, as you say,

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of those subconscious belief systems, those imprints that get into

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us that create I think to a large degree. And

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here's where I kind of go against some of the

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stuff that's being taught, even out of the Bible. The shame,

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the blame that is literally coming as a result of

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some of that, and I'm not sure that that's what

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was ever meant, but at the same time, it has

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been created. So how do you work with people as

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you're as I said, as a minister. You're really becoming

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a not a therapist, but someone who really is there

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to listen, to consult to guide. Is that a fair assessment.

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Yes, that's a part of what you have to do

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and be able to listen, to be able to share,

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and to be able to understand that there are these

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patterns that many times are there. And I like to

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talk about that balance because sometimes there's a balance between

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something that may be spiritual, something that may be actually

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in our soul or mental, and then there are sometimes

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things that are really in our body that are affecting

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us as well. And I try to share and listen

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to what is it that you really need, because if

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there's something going on in my body, I know exactly

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who to go to and quickly get help with. When

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it starts to become things that are actually maybe truly mental,

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then I may have more difficulty figuring out who do

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I need to go to and talk to you about this,

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because you know we have professionals to do.

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That as well, and there should be.

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Really it should be a relationship and a connection there

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to be able to help out and a lot of

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what I begin to share and be able to really

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understand when I listen to people, is that really they

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are being locked up by a lot of traumas what

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you talk about with the guilt and shame that may

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be coming up, things that may be triggering them, whether

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it's a place, a position, or person they may go into,

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and they don't understand why the behaviors are coming up

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in them. And many times it's just what's been going

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on and they're playing that same program or whatever they've

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been doing every single time that comes up. And the

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thing that I end up talking to most people about

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is forgiveness or letting go. So I talk about that

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because when we can begin to think about some of

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the attachments that we have, some of the issues that

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we begin to have in our lives, it all starts

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to spawn back to something that we have started to

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really connect with or have attached to. And it's just

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as easy as learning how the process is to begin

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letting go forgiving, whether it's yourself, for giving others, or

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just letting go of some of those past things that

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often really get in our way and cause us to

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have a lot of the guilt, the shame, the anger

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that come up. And you know anger is that that

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second wheel of the emotion that we sometimes don't understand

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why it's popping up in our lives.

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RDINGE minister, and obviously you know, we have this whole

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concept that has come down from wherever that we were

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born into original sin and I'm sorry, but I don't

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think that's biblical. But somehow it got into the religious

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aspect of Christianity. How do you take that, because I'm

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sure you come across that if you don't even also

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believe it yourself and help people to understand that they

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are that amazing spiritual child of God and to eliminate

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that other stuff that does cause the shame and the

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blame and all of that. How do you help people

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to do that? Because I imagine you come across that

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Would say, and I begin to talk about this in

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the book A lot is the idea of that we

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were all create and uniquely designed, and that the design

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is coming from your creator or the source that who

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has kind of put you here, and that a lot

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of the things and I'll go into really a portion

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of the book that I talk about we put on

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these masks so the masks that we end up wearing.

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at the beginning of the book of Like Acting that

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we all sometimes show up in different spaces as actors

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and actresses. And I love actors and actresses. And they're

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usually ones on the big billboards and they're pleasing somebody.

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They're pleasing typically maybe the person who's watching. But I

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also found that they are also pleasing the person who

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wrote the script. And they're right, they're actually acting on

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somebody else's script. And the mask that I get from

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is coming from the Greeks. The Greeks would put on

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masks to be able to act in a particular way

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based on their acting, and that what they do. And then

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I talk about also that you know, we talk about producing.

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Maybe you're producing a movie called your life. And if

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you're producing this movie that is called your life, then

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maybe you say, well, I'll be the director. Well the

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director also, you know, they have more freedom. They can

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say what shots to do and how to do it.

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They tell actors and actresses what you do. But then

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I really am pushing everyone to be producers. And here's

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why the producer is the one that actually brings everything

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together brings the resources together, and if you become a

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producer of your life, then you can start to move

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away from some of these social norms, some of the

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things that many people have told you of why you

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shouldn't be as creative as you really are and as

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you were innately born to be. We were all born

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to be creators. We're all when just like God had done,

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when God said, let there be like, we can also

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do very similar things in our lives. And what happens

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is we have just been in a world, whether it's

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our environment, whether it's been things that have been around

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us that we have taken in, and we have started

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to use as if they were masks in our lives,

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and we're showing up as these different people. And what

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happened in my life is I got tired of juggling

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all of these masks. Why can't I just be authentically

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the real person that I was born to be? And

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what I found is that the easiest way to start

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to get there is to begin to strip away some

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of these social norms, some of these things that are

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unspoken rules, the things that people tell us and that

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sometimes they project on us. And it's projections that we receive,

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and if we receive them, then that's when they affect

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us and affect our lives. And so when I end

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up talking to people, whether it's in a biblical way

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or in a religious institution or someone that's out there

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that's happen issues like that, it becomes that they are

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believing in something that says that you are less than

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what you were born to be, and you were born

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to be more than we all probably even thought we

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were born to be. And it was just because it

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was what you were hearing on the news, maybe you

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were hearing it from school, you know, even our school systems.

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And I talk about that in the book as my

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first time saying I had to conform or I would

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be punished is one of the things that I remember.

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And we are really, we really need everyone to be

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these creators because if everyone would be a producer in

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their life, we would get so much out of them,

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out of the impacts that they have for this world.

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And guess what, we would all be better off if

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everybody was that better version, not to conform to what

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everybody else is doing, because when we're conforming, we're not

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the happiest versions of ourselves.

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Well, and that's right. And I love I love the

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analogy producer of our Lives in the film, and I've

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heard the movie before, but what comes to my mind

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is the producer is you literally have the ability to

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remove some of the scenes that you don't want in

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that movie. And of course that takes time. You know,

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you talk about purpose, and you talk about the fact

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that we have that innate purpose which is generalized loving

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and so forth, and then we find, based on our gifts,

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we have other purposes. And what I've found is those

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purposes can change over time. We can move forward and

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spend years and years and years doing something and then

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all of a sudden, whether it's that we have no

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choice or whether it's that we do choose, that we

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can move forward into something entirely different and discover that

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that's our purpose. Also what I find interesting, though, is

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is people think about what am I here for? What

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am I here to accomplish? So so many people that say,

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all right, I want to affect the world. I want

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to you know, I just want to do all of that.

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And I think to myself, that can become very frustrating

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unless you're a remarkable individual and get into a remarkable position.

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Somehow that's not real easy, But how important is that

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if you can just affect one.

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When being focused on just affecting the one with who

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you really are on a consistent basis and stepping through.

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You mentioned the seasons of life that we have. It's

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interesting because we're learning this in our lives now, that

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there are different seasons of our lives and there are

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different things that we are there. You still have the

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great gifting that you have, but it may be expressed

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differently in different seasons of your life. And what's interesting is,

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you know, we had little children at one point, so

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we had to do different things while we had them,

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and it was a lot of time put in into that.

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ourselves bird launchers now because we have only one left

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in the house and she's a senior, so we're close.

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But we've seen a progression of change that has happened

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and occurred with us as well, that we are able

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to express our gifts differently as we go through those seasons.

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there are different seasons that we're going to do different things,

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and sometimes in our vocation it's going to be different.

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seasons change, and that's really awesome to know that that

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can happen in our lives and our focus of only

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doing one.

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I always say, if you do one little thing, and

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you do a good and so if I can affect

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just one person, that one person may affect others, it

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doesn't matter. I did what I was supposed to do

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with the one. And if we keep doing the one

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and can keep doing it consistently, guess what you will

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actually impact many more. And whether it's people, whether it's

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just the environments that you end up in, you will

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end up affecting every single one of them in your

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own unique way.

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we're doing that because sometimes you never know. I mean,

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you know, I used to teach a class for quite

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a while in a particular situation, and it was strange

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that I teach the class and then I say, I

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wonder if this affected anyone. I wonder if anybody really

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got this, And just occasionally, rarely but occasionally, someone would

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come and say, Wow, that really made a difference in

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my life. And it's like Okay, it's worth it. But

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the reality is we don't hear that much, and yet

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it doesn't change the fact that we are really here

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to make that difference. You know. One of the things

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that comes to my mind is, as you were talking,

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and usually I don't get too much into the scriptures

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and so forth, but because you're an ordainy minister, we're

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going to have that discussion. One of the things that

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comes to my mind is, except your you know, be

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born again, and I think everybody interprets that in so

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many different ways. But what I have found is, as

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you were talking about what you're talking about in your

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book and what we're chatting about here, literally people can

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be born again in this life by removing all of

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that junk that is sitting subconsciously there and creating a

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different movie for them. We can create an entirely different movie.

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We can create a movie of joy, of happiness, of laughter,

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whatever that happens to be, and that'll really be born

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again in this life. Yeah.

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And it's interesting because we always I think I was

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told and maybe it was something in when I was

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in school. I always thought you had to do something

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new in order to become new. But the more I've

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learned is that if I let go of some of

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the things that in the way that I've been thinking

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about things or how I've approached different things in my life,

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I begin to become a new person. And what's interesting,

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regardless of whether we are intentional about how we change

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our lives or create in our lives or not, life

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changes anyways. Otherwise I wouldn't have gray in my beard,

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and I would probably still have hair on my head, right, So.

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I wish I had that type of gray in my hair.

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So it's interesting to see it and to understand that

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when we are going through life and we have these

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changes that are occurring, that we can create by letting

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go and allowing that to really be a place of start,

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a starting place, a seed for us to say, you

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know what, I am going to create that new movie

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called my life, and I'm going to I can't create

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it by myself. So that's why, you know, producers don't

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work by themselves. You don't see the producer being the

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actor the director and putting out all the money. You know,

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the producer has to bring all the right people together

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to see that life come in the place. And so

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we have people that we're going to need to support

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us in our life in what we're doing, and as

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we're doing that, you are able to renew and change.

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And I say, you know, now, I watch Netflix and

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all of these different things. Everything has a series. So

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maybe you're own series one. I don't know series two,

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but you can have different series and those different series

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is of your movie. They can be different, and you

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can continue to be that born again person that is

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is now being more intentional about your purpose, about your impact,

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how you are sharing with others, in the relationships that

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you're putting in front, and the priorities that you might

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have in your life.

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Well, and let's talk about the one thing you talked

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about is the now, because what I have found is

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I've looked at various religions is that there is particularly

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when we get into the Eastern side of things, that

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there is that sense of quit worrying about the past

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and as you said, don't have the anxiety about the future.

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Live in the now. How do you help people to

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do that?

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So there are specific techniques to living in the now

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that I share in the book and also I practice

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on a daily basis. Number one is prayer. I will

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say prayer is the communication within my spirit, within to

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my source, to my creator. And what I'm also going

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to do is I separate prayer and meditation. So prayer

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is initially me both voicing, hey, this is where I

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am at this moment and being authentic about that and

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listening to the Then the next part is listening. Meditation

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to me is that listening, and that listening becomes a

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place where I'm going to be in a space where

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I don't need a whole lot of distractions. I don't

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need a whole lot going on around me, but I'm

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going to listen and I'm going to set aside time

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to listen. And this has saved me a lot of

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heartache and a lot of pain in my life because

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I'll be like, aha, or I'll understand better that you know,

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maybe there is something that I'm supposed to be connected

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with that I didn't know or do. And so through prayer, meditation,

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and then another piece that I also share with others

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is journaling. Journaling has been magnificent for me because what

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it has helped me with is it has allowed me

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to write down number one, sometimes some of the intentions

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00:27:16.079 --> 00:27:18.160
that may be going on in my life. Maybe some

469
00:27:18.200 --> 00:27:21.559
of the things that I'm grateful for. I make sure

470
00:27:21.559 --> 00:27:24.599
that I do that on a daily basis, and then

471
00:27:24.759 --> 00:27:28.680
I can also write down when I've seen synchronicities, I've

472
00:27:28.720 --> 00:27:32.279
seen things that have happened in this world that I'm like, oh,

473
00:27:32.680 --> 00:27:35.799
wait a minute, and put those aha moments down.

474
00:27:35.960 --> 00:27:38.839
And when I go back and I review these.

475
00:27:38.839 --> 00:27:43.200
On a consistent basis, I learned so much more about

476
00:27:43.279 --> 00:27:46.359
who I am, what I'm supposed to do, how I'm

477
00:27:46.400 --> 00:27:49.720
supposed to be here. And then being put back into

478
00:27:49.799 --> 00:27:53.960
this moment is a space where now I don't have

479
00:27:54.079 --> 00:27:56.720
to think about the things that are external to me,

480
00:27:56.920 --> 00:27:59.680
that are happening, that are going on. But now I've

481
00:27:59.720 --> 00:28:03.839
reached inside and I begin to understand that most of

482
00:28:03.920 --> 00:28:07.279
what I've been needing for my entire life doesn't come

483
00:28:07.279 --> 00:28:09.599
from the outside. Anything I see on the outside is

484
00:28:09.640 --> 00:28:13.960
actually the past anyways. And when I begin to understand

485
00:28:14.000 --> 00:28:16.799
that and understand that what's coming from the inside, and

486
00:28:16.880 --> 00:28:19.799
if it comes from the inside and then it comes out,

487
00:28:20.200 --> 00:28:25.000
that means that even when I'm in any situation, that

488
00:28:25.200 --> 00:28:28.079
if I've got joy on the inside, I still have

489
00:28:28.240 --> 00:28:32.240
joy regardless of everything around me could be falling down.

490
00:28:32.319 --> 00:28:34.359
I could have a fire around me. But if I

491
00:28:34.400 --> 00:28:37.039
got joy on the inside, guess what, I still have joy.

492
00:28:37.559 --> 00:28:42.640
And the other way around. Most of my life was

493
00:28:42.799 --> 00:28:45.640
looking at the outside in and when you look at

494
00:28:45.640 --> 00:28:49.000
the outside and you're looking at those things, it was

495
00:28:49.039 --> 00:28:53.440
affecting and changing how I was showing up and I

496
00:28:53.480 --> 00:28:55.880
could not show up fully in the now if I

497
00:28:55.960 --> 00:28:57.839
didn't let go of the past.

498
00:28:58.119 --> 00:29:01.240
And also some of those anxieties in the future.

499
00:29:01.279 --> 00:29:03.920
The past would always pretty much put me in sometimes

500
00:29:03.920 --> 00:29:06.160
on the depression. Be like either I was saying, man,

501
00:29:06.200 --> 00:29:07.640
I want to go back to the good old days,

502
00:29:07.720 --> 00:29:10.720
or man, why you know this happened last time and

503
00:29:10.759 --> 00:29:15.359
it's happening again. I'm like, well, that's not true. And

504
00:29:15.519 --> 00:29:20.279
when you start to find the truth, it changes everything. Well,

505
00:29:20.359 --> 00:29:22.400
and that's Those are a couple of items that I've

506
00:29:22.519 --> 00:29:23.359
used in my life.

507
00:29:23.720 --> 00:29:26.079
Good and you know, one thing that comes to my mind,

508
00:29:26.400 --> 00:29:28.559
you know, and I do all of that, by the way,

509
00:29:29.119 --> 00:29:31.240
except for the journal. And I've never been able to

510
00:29:31.319 --> 00:29:37.000
journal because I just have such bad handwriting. But but

511
00:29:37.000 --> 00:29:39.720
but what I find interesting is you talk about and

512
00:29:39.720 --> 00:29:42.960
we talk about the anxiety of the future and allowing

513
00:29:43.000 --> 00:29:47.279
that to create such anxiety, and yet as you're talking

514
00:29:47.319 --> 00:29:50.559
about being the producer of the movie, we are literally

515
00:29:50.920 --> 00:29:54.720
looking into the future to create a different life. So

516
00:29:55.319 --> 00:29:58.240
how do you help people to balance that out to

517
00:29:58.279 --> 00:30:01.039
where you know the future is there to create and

518
00:30:01.079 --> 00:30:05.880
you can create that future beautiful life. At the same time,

519
00:30:06.640 --> 00:30:09.559
don't allow yourselves to get anxious about what's going to happen.

520
00:30:09.880 --> 00:30:12.000
How do you help people to balance those two?

521
00:30:13.279 --> 00:30:16.039
You know, it's interesting because we are in this three

522
00:30:16.119 --> 00:30:19.480
D world and we are bound by this thing called time,

523
00:30:20.119 --> 00:30:23.680
which we call it time, but is there really time?

524
00:30:23.960 --> 00:30:26.920
And you know, there's a lot that we can talk

525
00:30:26.960 --> 00:30:30.119
about there. But the biggest thing I will tell anyone

526
00:30:30.720 --> 00:30:35.559
and any of these situations is that you already know

527
00:30:35.680 --> 00:30:39.039
that you have it if you are connected to your source.

528
00:30:39.160 --> 00:30:43.359
Your source is already provided whatever your outcome is. And

529
00:30:43.400 --> 00:30:47.000
the idea is is that if you understand that that's

530
00:30:47.039 --> 00:30:50.440
already the truth, it just hasn't manifested in this three

531
00:30:50.559 --> 00:30:55.599
D world yet, then you can then begin to understand

532
00:30:55.640 --> 00:30:59.599
that I don't have to have anxiety about when is

533
00:30:59.640 --> 00:31:02.720
something going to show up or how it's going to

534
00:31:02.759 --> 00:31:06.359
show up. I just know it will show up. And

535
00:31:06.559 --> 00:31:09.119
when you get to that space, and so you know

536
00:31:09.200 --> 00:31:12.200
some techniques people use, like affirmations. You don't have to

537
00:31:12.279 --> 00:31:14.119
use that for the rest of your life, but at

538
00:31:14.119 --> 00:31:16.359
some point maybe you have to use that to help

539
00:31:16.519 --> 00:31:18.920
feed yourself to be able to get to a space

540
00:31:18.920 --> 00:31:22.720
where you understand that the things that you are looking

541
00:31:22.759 --> 00:31:25.519
to be and make sure that you are you.

542
00:31:25.519 --> 00:31:25.960
You shouldn't.

543
00:31:25.960 --> 00:31:26.839
It shouldn't be hard.

544
00:31:26.680 --> 00:31:27.720
For you to be you.

545
00:31:27.720 --> 00:31:28.440
You should be you.

546
00:31:28.920 --> 00:31:31.000
But if it's difficult, more than likely you still have

547
00:31:31.039 --> 00:31:34.079
something to let go. You got something to release in

548
00:31:34.119 --> 00:31:37.440
your life. And when you are you, then you can

549
00:31:37.599 --> 00:31:41.680
just show up and you are going to produce the

550
00:31:41.720 --> 00:31:44.200
greatest creative things to help.

551
00:31:44.400 --> 00:31:46.680
You're going to help others. You're going to serve others.

552
00:31:46.920 --> 00:31:49.519
You're going to do things that will just help.

553
00:31:50.000 --> 00:31:54.359
And it's amazing because I know no one owes me anything.

554
00:31:54.720 --> 00:31:57.240
I just get to show up in this world every

555
00:31:57.279 --> 00:32:01.599
single day and make an impact. And and so I

556
00:32:01.759 --> 00:32:06.920
would really really impress upon anyone that's thinking about, you know,

557
00:32:07.519 --> 00:32:10.880
trying to think of the future in time, to try

558
00:32:10.920 --> 00:32:13.480
to not think of your future in time, to think

559
00:32:13.519 --> 00:32:16.920
of you know what I already am in those spaces.

560
00:32:16.960 --> 00:32:20.519
I can show up now as whatever you're thinking about,

561
00:32:20.519 --> 00:32:23.759
whatever you're supposed to be. If it's joyful, you can

562
00:32:23.799 --> 00:32:25.599
show up now as that you don't have to wait

563
00:32:26.200 --> 00:32:29.839
for anything to happen to have that. And I believe

564
00:32:29.880 --> 00:32:33.160
that most anxiety in anything that we have is you

565
00:32:33.359 --> 00:32:36.640
have some type of doubt that it may not occur.

566
00:32:37.000 --> 00:32:38.720
Or something will not happen.

567
00:32:39.079 --> 00:32:42.920
And that is what's causing more anxiety about the future

568
00:32:42.960 --> 00:32:46.319
than you need. And if you can believe that it's there,

569
00:32:46.480 --> 00:32:50.359
it's already there, it's already being provided through your source

570
00:32:51.039 --> 00:32:54.200
in your life that you will see it manifested at

571
00:32:54.200 --> 00:32:59.079
some point that it will be there, anxiety goes away.

572
00:32:59.160 --> 00:32:59.920
And you know this.

573
00:33:00.000 --> 00:33:02.799
This is you know I talk about.

574
00:33:02.519 --> 00:33:04.839
The Bible because of course some more day, minister, there's

575
00:33:04.920 --> 00:33:07.680
the there's a scripture in the Bible that tells us

576
00:33:07.680 --> 00:33:10.920
that you can have peace that's beyond understanding, and it's

577
00:33:10.960 --> 00:33:14.920
because you're thinking on specific things, and when you are

578
00:33:14.920 --> 00:33:19.079
thinking on those things consistently, you will have peace beyond understanding.

579
00:33:19.119 --> 00:33:22.799
In this peace is something that we all can have,

580
00:33:23.319 --> 00:33:28.119
that we can all enjoy and experience every single day

581
00:33:28.200 --> 00:33:31.839
if we continue to think on those particular things.

582
00:33:32.240 --> 00:33:35.440
Okay, so here's a question you brought. You said something

583
00:33:35.440 --> 00:33:39.279
that again struck something in my mind. So, you know,

584
00:33:39.319 --> 00:33:43.200
we talk about being a victim to our environment, and literally,

585
00:33:43.200 --> 00:33:45.599
if we allow the environment to control us, we're not

586
00:33:45.720 --> 00:33:48.880
really creating our own movie. But then you talk about

587
00:33:48.960 --> 00:33:51.680
God's purpose for our lives and what's going to happen.

588
00:33:52.200 --> 00:33:56.039
How many times do you find that people rely on

589
00:33:56.880 --> 00:34:00.039
God and when something happens in their life, well, that

590
00:34:00.160 --> 00:34:03.920
what God meant it to be, rather than accepting responsibility

591
00:34:03.960 --> 00:34:09.760
and realizing that every action and decision we make has consequences.

592
00:34:10.000 --> 00:34:13.719
And how do you equate the two so people understand that, yes,

593
00:34:14.239 --> 00:34:16.760
He loves us and he wants the best for us,

594
00:34:16.760 --> 00:34:19.000
and as we look at the synchronicities that happen in

595
00:34:19.039 --> 00:34:22.239
our lives, yes, that that is a tremendous blessing. But

596
00:34:22.320 --> 00:34:25.480
at the same time, don't get caught into that situation

597
00:34:25.760 --> 00:34:28.760
of well, this is this is what God meant to be,

598
00:34:28.800 --> 00:34:30.360
and this is well, this is what happened, and this

599
00:34:30.400 --> 00:34:32.920
is what happened, and it's all about God. How do

600
00:34:33.000 --> 00:34:33.639
you equate that?

601
00:34:35.199 --> 00:34:37.960
That's that's a really good question, because you know that

602
00:34:37.960 --> 00:34:41.239
that reminds me of the blame. And in fact, on

603
00:34:41.239 --> 00:34:43.519
one of my podcast episodes, I said we all have

604
00:34:43.559 --> 00:34:46.199
to fire our ego at some point, right And one

605
00:34:46.199 --> 00:34:48.599
of the things that ego loves to do is he

606
00:34:48.639 --> 00:34:51.039
wants to blame somebody, whether it's going to be God

607
00:34:51.199 --> 00:34:55.519
or somebody else in any of our situations. And it's

608
00:34:55.559 --> 00:34:57.960
it's it's one of those patterns that we we will

609
00:34:58.000 --> 00:35:01.719
get into, is that when some thing goes wrong, I

610
00:35:01.760 --> 00:35:04.679
got to find somebody outside of myself to blame. What

611
00:35:04.760 --> 00:35:08.400
if you take responsibility for everything in your life, in

612
00:35:08.440 --> 00:35:11.320
why you are where you are at this moment, And

613
00:35:11.440 --> 00:35:15.039
I really encourage everyone to begin to think of that

614
00:35:15.360 --> 00:35:18.760
and begin to understand that you always had a choice.

615
00:35:19.280 --> 00:35:22.440
You had a choice to do different things at different

616
00:35:22.480 --> 00:35:25.559
times in your life, and whether or not you were

617
00:35:25.559 --> 00:35:29.559
influenced by something or not, whether it's an environment or

618
00:35:29.599 --> 00:35:33.719
a person or whatever it was, you still in the

619
00:35:33.840 --> 00:35:37.639
end made the choice. And when you make these choices,

620
00:35:38.119 --> 00:35:41.159
we are the creators of where we end up and

621
00:35:41.199 --> 00:35:44.960
where we are in life. And I try to have

622
00:35:45.000 --> 00:35:48.840
a conversation of just saying, if we can accept the

623
00:35:48.880 --> 00:35:52.000
responsibility that I am a creator, that I can do

624
00:35:52.719 --> 00:35:55.039
many of the things that have already been put and

625
00:35:55.119 --> 00:35:59.119
laid out for me to do. Do I need to

626
00:36:00.039 --> 00:36:03.320
blame anything or anyone else for where I am at

627
00:36:03.320 --> 00:36:07.239
this moment, And the answer becomes no, when you really

628
00:36:07.280 --> 00:36:10.239
do accept that, Hey, where I'm at right now, I

629
00:36:10.320 --> 00:36:11.039
make mistakes.

630
00:36:11.079 --> 00:36:13.559
We all make mistakes. There are things that happen, there

631
00:36:13.559 --> 00:36:17.159
are people we hurt. Can you come to grips and

632
00:36:17.239 --> 00:36:19.199
confront that in your life?

633
00:36:19.239 --> 00:36:22.239
And when you do that, I believe that you can

634
00:36:22.280 --> 00:36:26.320
then really enjoy the great things of this world and

635
00:36:26.880 --> 00:36:31.679
in this life and understand that I can't blame anything

636
00:36:31.679 --> 00:36:34.960
else other than myself. And when I take that responsibility on,

637
00:36:36.159 --> 00:36:38.440
I can then begin to make a change in my life.

638
00:36:38.480 --> 00:36:40.960
I can begin to create in a different way. I

639
00:36:41.000 --> 00:36:43.280
can then begin to serve in a different way than

640
00:36:43.599 --> 00:36:44.800
I've ever done before.

641
00:36:45.559 --> 00:36:48.679
So when we talk about the integration of that spiritual

642
00:36:48.719 --> 00:36:51.639
growth into our everyday life, is it really what you

643
00:36:51.679 --> 00:36:55.519
were just talking about the prayer, the meditation, the decisions

644
00:36:55.599 --> 00:36:57.599
we make, or there's some other aspects that you talked

645
00:36:57.599 --> 00:37:00.599
about in your book that how do we really integrate

646
00:37:01.079 --> 00:37:03.960
what we call that spiritual life, which is really the

647
00:37:04.000 --> 00:37:07.599
goodness that really exists in us and the godliness that

648
00:37:07.719 --> 00:37:11.079
really exists within each of us if we allow it.

649
00:37:12.039 --> 00:37:13.079
Yeah, if we allow it.

650
00:37:13.119 --> 00:37:16.159
I would say that I'll go back to when I

651
00:37:16.320 --> 00:37:21.480
was a young boy. I played many sports, and I

652
00:37:21.599 --> 00:37:25.800
played baseball. I was pretty really good at baseball. I

653
00:37:25.840 --> 00:37:29.800
really liked baseball, and I played basketball, and basketball ended

654
00:37:29.840 --> 00:37:32.280
up being the heart of things. But then I ended

655
00:37:32.360 --> 00:37:34.960
up being height challenged. So by the time I got

656
00:37:35.000 --> 00:37:38.519
to high school, by tenth grade, everybody passed me. But

657
00:37:38.559 --> 00:37:41.119
one of the things I learned when I played sports

658
00:37:41.480 --> 00:37:45.920
was that I had to practice. And this is something

659
00:37:46.239 --> 00:37:50.440
that I learned that the more I practiced, the better

660
00:37:50.519 --> 00:37:55.000
I got at dribbling, shooting, if it was hitting the baseball.

661
00:37:55.079 --> 00:37:58.360
The more I practiced, the easier it became. The more

662
00:37:58.400 --> 00:38:03.320
I practice, the moreenual something became. And it's interesting that

663
00:38:03.880 --> 00:38:07.039
in a if we want to be good or great

664
00:38:07.119 --> 00:38:10.119
at anything in our lives, we really need to have

665
00:38:10.320 --> 00:38:12.679
the number one, the discipline to show up. Number two

666
00:38:12.800 --> 00:38:17.960
the ability to practice on a consistent basis. And I

667
00:38:18.119 --> 00:38:22.719
will put this in there because in order to integrate

668
00:38:22.760 --> 00:38:25.559
your spiritual growth into your life, you have to be

669
00:38:25.639 --> 00:38:29.119
intentional about it. You have to be willing to have

670
00:38:29.239 --> 00:38:31.639
discipline with it, and you have to be willing to

671
00:38:31.800 --> 00:38:36.559
practice on a consistent basis. It and what I find

672
00:38:36.599 --> 00:38:40.119
that many people see it as a maybe, as an afterthought,

673
00:38:40.199 --> 00:38:42.280
But if you put it as in the forefront of

674
00:38:42.320 --> 00:38:45.760
what you do, then you can integrate it into your

675
00:38:45.840 --> 00:38:48.960
daily life. Using some of the tools and techniques we

676
00:38:49.000 --> 00:38:53.440
talked about earlier, you will practice and you will have

677
00:38:53.519 --> 00:38:56.159
discipline to do it on a consistent basis.

678
00:38:56.280 --> 00:38:58.159
And it's the same thing with our bodies.

679
00:38:58.320 --> 00:39:02.280
Right if we want to I have a better healthier body,

680
00:39:02.639 --> 00:39:06.920
then we need to be doing practices and disciplines that

681
00:39:07.119 --> 00:39:10.840
will consistently give us what we are looking to do.

682
00:39:11.280 --> 00:39:16.880
And so my encouragement is Priority one is put your spiritual,

683
00:39:17.920 --> 00:39:21.800
your joy and your peace and your love is one

684
00:39:21.800 --> 00:39:25.119
of the forefronts of your life, and intentionally say I'm

685
00:39:25.159 --> 00:39:28.719
going to practice, whether it's going to be prayer, meditation,

686
00:39:29.480 --> 00:39:33.760
if you can add journaling, I encourage it to consistently

687
00:39:34.440 --> 00:39:38.440
become and touch that part of you that's inside of you.

688
00:39:39.159 --> 00:39:43.119
I reference the tripard being. Some reference it as we

689
00:39:43.199 --> 00:39:46.079
can be four part beings, but I'll say three and

690
00:39:46.119 --> 00:39:50.440
the three would be spirit, soul, embody. The body has

691
00:39:50.480 --> 00:39:53.039
our five senses. The soul is where our mind, will

692
00:39:53.079 --> 00:39:56.880
and emotions reside. In the spirit is what you were

693
00:39:57.199 --> 00:40:01.280
innately born with from your creator. And if you focus

694
00:40:01.400 --> 00:40:04.119
on saying, I'm going to connect with that spirit, I'm

695
00:40:04.159 --> 00:40:06.840
going to connect with that on a consistent basis through prayer,

696
00:40:06.880 --> 00:40:09.920
through meditation and journaling, and you're going to practice that

697
00:40:10.039 --> 00:40:13.440
every day. And I don't encourage you to say I'm

698
00:40:13.440 --> 00:40:17.199
just going to do three hours. No, start off with

699
00:40:17.400 --> 00:40:20.840
a minute, start off with five minutes, and you'll go

700
00:40:21.079 --> 00:40:24.400
up a little bit at a time until you get

701
00:40:24.440 --> 00:40:27.320
to a space you're comfortable with and that you're practicing it.

702
00:40:27.519 --> 00:40:30.599
But I will say you will have a greater experience

703
00:40:30.599 --> 00:40:34.800
of integrating that into everything that you have. And the

704
00:40:34.880 --> 00:40:37.760
goal is is that we are no longer flowing from

705
00:40:37.760 --> 00:40:41.719
the outside end and where everything outside of us begins

706
00:40:41.760 --> 00:40:44.360
to affect our actions, our behaviors and what we do,

707
00:40:44.599 --> 00:40:47.840
but we begin to flow from the inside out where

708
00:40:48.159 --> 00:40:51.880
then we are having that joy, that peace, that love

709
00:40:52.159 --> 00:40:54.920
that continues to show up and everything we do. You

710
00:40:55.000 --> 00:40:57.400
just show up in the room and everyone is like, Wow,

711
00:40:57.440 --> 00:40:58.239
something's different.

712
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So so here's the question. As we as we get

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a little bit closer to the end. One of the

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things that you talked about is the ego. Okay, and

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oftentimes all of our decisions are caused by our ego,

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which is not a healthy thing to do. Then you

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talk about making decisions from the heart, how do you

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and very quickly on this one, how do you help

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people to go from ego to heart in their decision making?

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I tell the story. I love telling stories.

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When I was younger, I love to tune into a

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radio station. It was probably about one hundred miles away,

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and we had the tuners with the knobs like today.

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We didn't we have all the digital stuff today, but

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it was a tuner with the nob and if I

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would tune it just right, I could get that station

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and I would dance my heart away. And it's the

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same thing with our heart or heart. We have the

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ability to tune in to our heart and listen to

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our heart on a consistent basis, and some of it

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comes through us practicing to listen to that heart. And

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the reason I talk about it is that we all

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have this gut, brain or intuition. Science has already told

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us that that it's already there. And an example of

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that that happens in my life is I'm driving down

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the road and I know I'm going fast, and I

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see blue lights come up before I can ever think

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about what's actually happening. I have a reaction on my

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body that goes and I don't know if the blue

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lights are for me or not. But that's happening throughout

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your life in all situations. You already have some innate

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something that's already alerting you. If you connect to that,

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and that's your heart and that's what's actually who you

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are speaking to you. We want to then start to

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be listening to our heart instead of our heads. So

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I instead of the ego, I would say our head

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and our heart can then inform our head what we

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want to do, because we have to have some type

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of thinking that provides us action and behaviors into this world.

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So my goal would say, tune in to that innate,

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gut brain intuition that we've already said, science has already said.

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You have let that start to be your guide, and

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you have to be able to connect with that on

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a daily basis through your practices and do your disciplines.

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I love it. Well, we're coming to a close. How

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do people find your book and how do they find you?

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You can find me at Randyakins junior dot com and

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you also find my book Produce on Purpose Experience Life

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Being the Real You. There you will also find information

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about my podcast. You will find information about sermons, videos,

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other interviews and really about living this life in a

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great joyful way. So Randyakins junior dot com. There you

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will find it. And for this podcast, I will take

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twenty five percent off of anyone that wants a sign

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Hell love it. Randy, thanks so much. I really appreciate

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you being on the show, and I really appreciate your insights.

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I think that so often people don't just sit and

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think about some of the things that you've talked about.

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Well, thank you, thank you for having me on and

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I really love sharing this information for anyone to be

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able to really digest and be able to live a

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greater life.

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Well it's great and folks, thanks for listening. Hope you

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really enjoyed it. We'll look forward to having you join

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us again soon. And there is a doctor Dug saying

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no Mista