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At the end of the day, it's not about what
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you have or even what you've accomplished. It's about what
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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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Aurora, welcome to the show.
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That's great to be on the show with you, and
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I look forward to helping the audience turn their words
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into wealth.
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Well, and I'm looking for and you know, as we
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talk about wealth, I think you know so much. So
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much of the time we talk about success, wealth and
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so forth, and we're always thinking monetarily when we don't.
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That's a mistake.
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Yeah, when we don't realize.
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That, you know what, it's life, and yeah, monetary can
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be a part of it. But you know, here in Thailand,
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I see people who are what we would consider in
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the US so totally poor and homeless that they're not homeless,
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but you know they're on the streets and yet they're happy.
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They have that sense of enjoying their lives. So anyway,
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we'll get into that. But you know, you have a
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fascinating background, So I'd love for you to just take
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a short while and kind of share with the audience
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who you are. I talk a little bit about the
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books that you've written, and it will get into it
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a little bit more.
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But I agree with you both the wealth. To me,
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wealth is freedom of richness, of relationships. It's health, it's
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making a difference, it's all kinds of things. Live in
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Indonesia for a year and I had this similar experience
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to what you're just recounting.
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There.
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The people hadn't got two nickels to rup together, but
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they were joyful and you know, they had good connections,
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and that is a kind of a wealth. So my
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background is as a film and television executive producer and
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award writing screenwriter, and I am a serial entrepreneur. I've
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launched a bunch of different businesses and I've written ten books,
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including my most recent nonfiction book, Turn Wort into Wealth.
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I like to write books that make a difference, that
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can help people solve problems. But I also write books
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that will entertain people. So I've written three so far
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fantasy books for young adults, so they're kind of fun,
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The Magic Mystery and the Multiverse series of books, which
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I got on the pile. Here here's one of them.
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Oh great.
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And I just love helping people communicate more clearly and effectively,
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and that includes how you talk to yourself, how you
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talk to the people in your life, how you talk
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to your team, and how you communicate what you're up
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to so that you can enroll other people in your vision.
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Well, and I love that.
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And you know, you talk about words, and I think
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that that is so important. Why do the words that
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we use not only in communicating with others but with
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ourselves matter so much.
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I'm glad that you asked that. Most people don't start
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with that question, but I think it's so important because
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most people, most people imagine that words don't really matter,
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but actually words turn into matter, and your brain cannot
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really tell the difference between something that you believe and
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repeat to yourself multiple times and something that actually is true.
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And so we create, we become what we think we are.
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You know, thoughts are just habits of ways of thinking.
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So many people, you know, have a habit of thinking
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I'm not good enough, or I'm too old, or I'm
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too young, or I'm too female, or I'm too short
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or I'm too tall, whatever the case may be. And
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it's it's really important to choose, in my view, to
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choose to overwrite that negative programming with gratitude. Gratitude is
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the simplest thing that we can all access and honestly,
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every day above ground is a day to be grateful for. Yes,
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there are challenges, Yes there are things that you might
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want to improve about your life or your business or
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your relationships, and yet your life you're breathing. So I
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think I start every day with gratitude and every day
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with gratitude, and that really helps me stay centered well.
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And you know, as we talk about words, what comes
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to my mind immediately is we're talking, so we're talking
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about words.
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Do I talk to myself much out loud, not a lot.
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Maybe when I'm meditating, doing my walking meditation, I may
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have a few mantras I say, but out.
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Loud, but I don't do that.
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And yet, as we talk about words, and you talk
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about people talking to themselves, what are you really saying here?
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And how do they do that?
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Well? I think a lot of people use the word
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thinking quite loosely and indiscriminately. So I would like to
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draw the distinction between ruminating or automatic negative thoughts and
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actually being on the cusp of making a decision. When
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you're actually analyzing the pros and cons and you're on
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the cusp or on the verge of making a choice,
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that is thinking. But most people are not doing that
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most of the time. Most of the time they're rehashing
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yesterday with regret or they're looking forward to tomorrow with anxiety.
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And the only point of power is the present moment.
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But many times we scatter our energy. We have forty
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percent of our energy ruminating about the past, all the
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shuta kutawudas, all the people who wronged us, all the
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mistakes that we made, and another forty percent of our
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energy anxious about the future. When are we going to die.
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Do we have enough in our retirement savings account? Maybe
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we should move to Thailand? And that only leaves like
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a sliver of us twenty percent of us in the
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right here right now. Of course I'm not the only
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person to say that, but it is something that I
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do my best to pay attention to, to be present,
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the present moment is our only point of power. And
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also just to catch myself, like when I think it's
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too late, or I'm too old, or I need a
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bigger team, or any kind of negative thought, I just
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catch myself and I ask, is that true? So you know,
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this is something very helpful to do, like catch and dispute,
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argue with those negative thoughts and instead shift if you can,
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to gratitude and to the truth.
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Well, and two questions they're going to have. Number one,
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what's happening when people underestimate the power of words?
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Number one? And I'm doing this so I don't forget here.
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But number two. I used to do this in.
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My dental practice and just drive my assistance crazy because
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I'd asked two, three or four questions.
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At the same time.
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But the other thing is, you know we talk about
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that self talk. How often do we discover that the
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self talk isn't even conscious, and that it's really the
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only way that we recognize maybe that there's even self
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talk is something happens and all of a sudden, these
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emotions rise that we had no idea even existed within us.
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So let's talk about both.
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But first of all, what happens when people underestimate the
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importance of their words? And then let's talk about that
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self talk that they're not even consciously aware of.
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Well, I want to give a shout out to Louise
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Hay because she changed my life with her book, You
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Can Heal Your Life. And until I read the book
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You Can Heal Your Life, I had zero understanding that
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thoughts are things, that thoughts become reality. And I read
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that book just after my husband died suddenly. I was
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thirty one years old, we had a four year old son,
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and my thirty three year old husband dropped dead completely unexpected. So,
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as you might imagine, I was having a lot of
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negative thoughts like I can't do this, this is wrong.
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God hates me, I can't be a single mom, like
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I hate the word widow. Going to manage? I won't
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be able to, you know, take care of my son,
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I won't be able to take care of myself. Why
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did this happen? And reading that book by Louise Hay,
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which is still I think very helpful even today. She's
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passed on now, but her book is great, and she's
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got recordings on YouTube which are great, which shows the
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power of words, because after somebody's passed on. She pointed
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out that in her experience thoughts or things, and that
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we attract and create what we habitually think. And that
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was a real wake up call for me. That was
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like a bucket of ice water, because I'm like, whoa,
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If my thoughts are like horses, they are totally out
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of control and they're definitely going the wrong way. And
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so I began, many years ago. I began to interrupt
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those negative thoughts and to choose more empowering thoughts. At first,
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I did it for my son, not because I didn't
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really care if I was alive or dead, but I
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certainly was the only existing alive I hearn from my son,
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so I had to take care of him. So first
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I did it for him, and that's okay, here's whatever
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you can. And now I've developed that into just a
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daily habit of gratitude in the morning, gratitude in the evening.
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I'm not saying my thoughts are perfect, but I do.
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I do appreciate myself at the end of the day.
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I'm like, you did a good job there. You did
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something difficult and you communicated fearlessly, or you've communicated as
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best you coulde So good for you. And I think
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if we don't understand that thoughts are things, then we
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are tragically sabotaging our health, potentially calling forth disasters. I
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like a course of Miracles. Perhaps you've read it, so
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there's a fundamental choice. You can either choose grievances or miracles.
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And I'm like, I think I'll go for the miracles.
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Yeah. Well, and you know it's interesting here.
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You are a film producer, okay, And I remember I
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wrote a blog once and I came up with this
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because someone else had mentioned it to me.
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It was not original, but I was.
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Talking about the movies of our life and how often
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we are the author and the writer of our movie,
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and we are the ones that have created that story
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within our lives. How does that happen and how early
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does that begin? And how real is that? And what
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is causing those stories that may not necessarily be truly
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who we are.
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Well, I love that you've put it forth in the
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movie context, because it is very easy to cast yourself
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in the role of victim. But on the other hand,
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a hero's story has the same plot points. It's just
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the hero doesn't give up, so you know, a hero
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needs challenges and obstacles. There would be no you know,
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triumphant story of Saint George and the Dragon without the dragon.
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I mean, if Saint George went out, he walked in
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with a sunny day, there was no problems and many
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kissed the princess like that's a very boring story, but
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no confronting the dragon. So I invite people who may
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be having some difficult times, think of yourself as a hero.
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What would a hero do? A hero's life is not
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absent of challenges, it's just you don't give up.
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Well, and you know, you talked about victimization, and I
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think so many people, without even realizing it, are living
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as a victim. And again, I want to go back
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to the original aspect of how do these stories get created?
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And I think that you know, for a lot of
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people this subconscious stories that have been created and as
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you say, and I appreciate the fact that you said,
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we literally attract from that subconscious story our life and
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our life experiences and our perception of our life. How
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do those things get created? Because I think it's important
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for people to understand that they can start to express gratitude,
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as you say, if they understand that that story that
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they have written was not really written by them. To
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some degree, it was because of their perception and so
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forth as a child.
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But more importantly, it was written externally by your religion,
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by your school, by your teachers, by your family, whatever
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that happens to be, by society. How do people recognize
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what that is and begin to understand that that's not
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a true story.
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Well, it's very interesting that you bring that up, because
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I think that one of the fun things about helping
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people with their books is many times that get to
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go through their life and look for the gold in
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various different experiences and go that was a muddy experience
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that to wash off the mud, Oh there was a