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Empowering Personal Growth: Unleashing Your Full Potential Through Vision, Affirmation, And Responsibility With Lou Anne Hunt · Mindful You

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Alan Carroll: Welcome back, everybody, to another episode of
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the mindful U podcast. Our guest today, I met several months ago
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at a seminar called embracing the Woo, focusing in on
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spirituality, focused on healing and focused on mindfulness. And
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when I was talking to our guest, she mentioned that she was a
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certified trainer for Jack Canfield. Jack Canfield is one
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of the most popular Buddhist instructors, teachers, author of
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books, seminars in the world. And I said, Wow, let's invite
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you on to the mindful you podcast to share about what you
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are discovering, working with Jack, and other things that
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you've done to become more present, and more mindful. Our
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guests name is Luanne hunt. And I am excited because she has so
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much knowledge. She has knowledge of the mindfulness,
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she has knowledge of the meditation, she has knowledge of
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vision boards, she has knowledge of books, she's written in
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books, she's written chapters. And so she's a wealth of
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information. And I enjoyed interviewing her on the podcast,
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and it is with a great joy to welcome the WAN hunt, to the
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mindful you podcast. Luann Welcome to the mindful you
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podcast. I'm excited to be here. I'm excited to be able to talk
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to you today. And well, I'm
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Unknown: excited to be here.
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Alan Carroll: First two people that are excited, I like that, I
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like that. And what excites me Luann is the fact that you have
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traveled a path. And I will call that path, mindfulness
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meditation. And one of the key people that you have connected
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to on the path, which I've heard, all my life is Jack
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Canfield. And to have someone who has been certified by that
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organization, dealing with mindfulness, meditation,
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forgiveness, gratitude, all those, all those terms. And that
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conversation is very exciting to be able to have you share with
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us some of the learnings and some of the teachings that Jack
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has given to us and given to the world. Um, so that is just, you
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know, wonderful opportunity that I couldn't miss having you be on
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the podcast to share with us a little bit about Jax, Jax magic.
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Lou Anne Hunt: Yes, magic it is. He's pretty amazing. He's
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written several books, and they become number one bestsellers on
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the New York best selling Times list. So that's exciting, too.
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Alan Carroll: And my understanding is that some of
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those best selling books has a chapter that was written by you.
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Unknown: Well, actually, yes, I have written chapters in two
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books that are inspired
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Alan Carroll: to talk about the chapters. Okay.
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Unknown: The first book was actually released last June. The
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forward is by Jack Canfield, and it was called the book on
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transformation. So how I basically transformed my life.
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In one chapter, I went from a reading a high reading for my a
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one C, which is the diabetes reading, I went from a pretty
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high level of type two diabetes, to actually lowering it to just
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below the minimum amount that should be or the maximum amount
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I should say, and I have actually reversed my type two
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diabetes without the use of drugs. And I did that wonder
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within three months, yes. And are you I wrote about it in the
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book.
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Alan Carroll: Yeah. I was wondering, are you making a
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connection between what Jack teaches and what you have
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implemented? Is there a connection between the two?
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Unknown: Oh, for sure. Jack teaches us all about
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transformation and how important It is in our lives and how we
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will always be going through some sort of transformation in
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our lives, no matter what happens. So it just goes from
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one level to another. And at that point in the book, when I
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talk about reversing my type two diabetes, it's one of the
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highest pandemics, believe it or not, in the United States and in
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Canada. And after the pandemic, which was COVID, it actually was
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even higher, because of all the sedentary and everybody getting
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locked down and getting locked in and Jack chat taught us to
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never give up. And I was studying under Jack when this
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came about. And one of the things that I studied under Jack
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was actually vision boards. And I put right in the center of my
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vision board, which is right over my head that I look at
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every day that I wanted to beat type two diabetes within three
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months. And that is right in the center of my vision board. And
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what's interesting is, I actually accomplished that when
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I went in to get my A when C tested again, I told the nurse
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when she was taking my blood work, that I was going to lower
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my a one C two below the normal amount. And she started
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laughing. She said, Well, don't be disappointed if that doesn't
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happen. She said, because that's a kind of a rare thing. And I
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said, Well, it's going to happen because I put it in the middle
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of my vision board. And she started laughing. And she was
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telling everybody in the office, she's like, Oh, get a load of
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this one, she's gonna lower a one see, because she put it on
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her vision board. Well, I kind of had the last laugh, because I
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did lower it. So and I lowered it lower than what I had
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actually targeted for. So it was pretty funny at the time.
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Alan Carroll: And so there's a power that is available, if you
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can utilize various resources, and one of the resources you're
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talking about is a vision board. So for audiences may not be
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fully aware of what a vision board is, why don't you sort of
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take us on a little tour of what a vision board is, and how to
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create a vision board?
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Unknown: Sure. Actually, I'm doing a talk next week, on
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Wednesday, through Kimberly Crowe, and I am doing my
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presentation on vision boards, how to create a magical vision
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board. So isn't this great timing? And wasn't that what I
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talked about during the session when I met you? When we did
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embrace the Whoo?
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Alan Carroll: Absolutely. Yes, I'm very familiar with embrace
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the Whoo. And also I want to delve into what are some of the
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key if I wanted to create a vision board? What absolutely, I
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What would I do?
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Unknown: Well, the first thing that you should do is if you
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already have a vision board, there's ways that you can make
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it more powerful, which I'll talk about in a second. But if
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you're just kind of getting ready to start a vision board,
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the very first thing that you should do is you should sit down
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and write out I would say 20 to 25 things that you have
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accomplished goals that you have accomplished in the last six
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months to a year. And the reason why you want to do that is
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because you want to get those juices flowing. And you want to
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know that it's possible. You want to make your mind the
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mindset, you want to set your mind up so that it knows that
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things that you think about are possible. And then from there,
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what you want to do is you want to write down, you want to write
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out your goals that you would like to actually work on or the
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goals for maybe your business, or in the six areas such as your
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health community, maybe your love goals, your employment
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goals, your or your retirement goals, your fitness goals. You
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want to write those down, even if you just keep them short and
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sweet. That's okay. But you want to make a list so that you can
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know exactly where you're going. Because you don't want to go to
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the ocean with a teaspoon Correct.
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Alan Carroll: That's cute. No, you want to
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Unknown: and you definitely don't want to go to a casino
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without any money. So when you write down your accomplishments
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before you even write down your goals, you're setting yourself
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up to know that it's fun Basketball, and that you can do
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it. So that's the first thing that you want to do, you want to
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sit down and you want to write out those goals. And then from
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there, what you want to do is you want to make it kind of
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visual, and you want to make it so that you feel those goals.
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And the best way to do that is to maybe flip through some old
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magazines, or believe it or not some travel magazines, that's
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exciting. You want to flip through magazines, because
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you're actually using both sides of your brain. When you do that,
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you're working both sides of the brain. And you're the one who
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kind of taught me a little bit about that. So you're engaging
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both sides of the brain. And that's a good thing. Because
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that will definitely bring into place, you want to wrap your
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head around that whole site. Since hearing, touching. And you
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want to pick out some pictures. Now I'm not saying that if you
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want to create a vision board on Canva, or on the computer on,
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I've done many on PowerPoint or anything to that effect, that it
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doesn't work, it's just a lot better. Like I said, it engages
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both sides of the brain. And it really is effective if you can
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cut pictures out. And not just pictures, but little things that
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that you'd like to hear that just they bring you a motion.
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And like they make you feel good. And this is where you're
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going to say, Yes, that sounds like me, that sounds like a
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goal. One of the one of the vision boards, and I just want
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to say this too, if I could back up a little bit, you don't have
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to have, you don't have to have a vision board with, say, the
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next year's goals. So you can have a vision board for
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something that's coming up that you want to achieve. So if I can
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give you an example, I had surgery last November, and I was
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very concerned about the surgery. So I sat down. And I
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actually put a vision board together to represent how I'm
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going to feel after that surgery. So all of the pictures
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that I cut out were pictures that were representing, you
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know, things that were healthy, I cut out some pictures on, you
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know, like me hiking or that type of thing. And words that I
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knew were going to empower me to feel better to really make it
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work so that the mindset would set in. And I would have these
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words. So if I can give you some examples I have I have living
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well that I cut out healthy choices with a heart. Feeling
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good starts inside. Give peace of mind this holiday because it
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was in November. So celebrate the moment I put down things
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like plumb Perfect. Keep on track, never give up. Take care
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of your health, naturally, I make a difference in the world.
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And right in the center is a huge picture of me with the
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mindset playground because that's my true love. And then
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down in the other corner is a picture of a bowl of fruit. And
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just things that are healthy. And keep going. Never let them
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dull, your sparkle. All things are possible, manifest. Feeling
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peachy, like all these things that I put on this vision board.
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So these are just words that I cut out. There's a little
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bathtub picture and it says take care of you. Just little things
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like that. That made me smile as I was flipping through the
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magazines. And I just cut them all out and arrange them on
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cardboard, just a piece of Bristol board. And I actually
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brought that with me to the hospital. And I had it posted
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right across from my hospital bed. And everybody came in the
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room. All of the nurses all of the visitors because I had a
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roommate, even my roommate, they all commented on the board. And
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they said, You know what is this and I said this is my vision
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board for getting healthy. And because I was really determined
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that I was going to do that I was really going to use that
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vision board to help me feel better to put me in a better
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mindset so that I found that I wasn't in pain, like I thought
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it would be and And I just found that I was up walking around the
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next morning, I just felt very invigorated and actually
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liberated, you know, that I had made it through. So I'm just
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saying that you don't have to have a year long vision board,
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if you're getting married, or if you if you're doing something
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that you want, you know, you're you're hoping to maybe win an
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award, maybe, maybe you're going to write in a book, anything,
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you can do a small vision board, focusing on just that, it
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doesn't have to be something that you want, you know, a year
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from now. So that's important. So then you just arrange them on
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the board any way that you want to, there's really no wrong or
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right way to do it. But here's a couple of hints. Number one,
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make sure that you include a picture of yourself, when you're
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happy when you're smiling. So make sure somewhere on the
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vision board, your picture is there. And you're smiling.
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Whether you're you know, if you want to lose some weight,
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whether you're heavier, or you're thinner, whatever the
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case is, it doesn't matter. As long as you have that smile. And
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you know, that that's what you're going for. And I would
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have to say the other thing is make sure that you put it
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somewhere where you're going to see it all the time, all the
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time, even if it's not completed. And if you come
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across a picture, or a saying, You have no idea why you're
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cutting out that picture, you just like it, right? To yet,
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like to give you an example, I have the cutest little picture
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of these two dogs and two cats that I found in a magazine, and
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I just loved this picture. I'm allergic to cats. I have two
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dogs, I had no idea why I wanted to cut this out and put it on my
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vision board. And it turned out that as soon as I did that, and
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I put it on my one vision board for the year and annual vision
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board. It turned out that Betty White had passed away. And that
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week, they were celebrating Betty White and she was very
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much into shelters. So it came to me that I wanted to donate to
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a shelter. Because of the Betty White. They had something on
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Facebook a challenge or something. And so I said, Well,
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that's the reason why I picked out that picture. I had no idea
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at the time. And the next day was really interesting, because
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this is how powerful vision boards are. The next day, when I
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walked into the pet store to buy my two dogs, some pet food,
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there was actually a lady there from the shelter, the pet
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shelter the local pet shelter. And they have, they were talking
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about their program that they have at this pet shelter. It's
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called the Blue leash program. And what it is, is it's a
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program where they will take animals who come from violent
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homes like domestic violence, and they will take the dog in so
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that the spouse or the person who is the victim can get away
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from the home. Because it's a proven fact that a lot of people
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will not leave a violent situation, because they're
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afraid of what will happen with their pet.
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And a lot of them can't take their pets with them. But this
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pro or this project, what they'll do is they will take in
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the pet, and they will feed it and take care of it. And they
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will, you know, make sure that it's safe so that when you are
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out of the home, if you can come back and pick up your dog
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because you're in a place that safe and will accept the dog or
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the cat, then they can come and retrieve their animal. And I
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just thought that was just amazing that they have a program
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like that. And although I can't adopt a pet because I have two
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dogs already, I said I definitely want to support that
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program because it's such a great program. So that's just an
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example of when you see a picture and you have no idea.
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You have no idea why you're cutting it out. Or why you love
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it. What's drawn you to that picture. Just put it on your
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vision board. Sure. Number one, it's going to make you have the
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every time you see it. And it's not going to hurt anything,
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that's for sure. And so these are some of the tips, and then
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you arrange everything on your vision Word and along with some
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great messages that you pick out, such as you know, feeling
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good, loving, well manifesting, I am enough, these things will
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happen, anything is possible, just words like that, that will
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just make it that much more powerful. Put them on that
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vision board. And don't be afraid to share it, show it to
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people. So that's what I have to say about vision boards.
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Alan Carroll: Well, that's wonderful. I get the idea that
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there's a there's another part of ourselves, we'll call it
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unconscious, that is below the surface, that's the seat that
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seems to know everything that's connected to mindfulness, it's
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connected to the space. And if you can sort of get out of your
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head and get it in and get in touch with through the vision
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board, for example. It allows you to access a dimension of
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consciousness that actually can transform your your experience,
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and it's a little hard to explain, because it's, it's, it
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is beyond consciousness is something that's underneath,
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under underneath the surface. All right, well, thank you,
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thank you for sharing about the about the vision about the
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vision boards, because I believe that that is that is a valuable,
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valuable tool that gives you some alignment of your rather
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than your thoughts being like a shotgun going all over the place
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like scattering, you focus your attention, your power on on a
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particular target, and then you create the collage around that
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target. And so you get power or energy from from the from the
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vision board. Wonderful. Well, thank you for sharing that. I
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noticed also Luann in the back you have a Jax, Jax Canfield a
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book, it looks like the success principles. And yes, I wanted
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you to share with our audience a little bit about about who Jack
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Canfield is, what your training was that you went through. And
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some of the mindfulness experiences that you have,
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muscles that you've developed or techniques or practices that you
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have learned from Jack are in your own journey with our
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audience so that we can build our mindfulness muscles also. So
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please share with us a little bit about Jax, Jax wisdom and
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the things that you've gleaned from being a certified trainer
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for him.
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Unknown: I first met Jack in June 2019. And what happened
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was, it was my birthday month. And so as a birthday gift, I
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asked my husband if he would drive to Chicago, because it's
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about six hours from where I live. Because I heard that Jack
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Canfield was going to be speaking in Chicago. And the
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name of his seminar was one day to greatness. So we signed up
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for it. And then we had an opportunity to upgrade to VIP
23:26
seats and we would actually get to meet Jack. So I was all for
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that. So we we made the trek down to Chicago, and we spent a
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couple of days in Chicago. And when I went into Jack's seminar,
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I honestly didn't know what to expect. I heard of Jack Canfield
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he was in the movie, The Secret and I knew that he was the
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author of Chicken Soup for the Soul books, but I didn't really
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know a lot about the success principles. So we sat down and
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we were in our VIP seats. And Jack started his training
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through the book. And I honestly with every little lesson that
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Jack gave us, I was honestly blown away. I really was I was
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blown away. And I said to my husband, I said everybody should
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know what Jack has to say everybody should know this. It
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just gives you a different way to to face the world to look at
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yourself. And the first lesson that he gave us was take 100%
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responsibility for yourself. And that right there blew me away
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and how much your life can change just by taking 100%
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responsibility for yourself. And at the time and still to this
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day. I was teaching business courses I am teaching business
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courses at to the local college. And I said, this should be in
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the curriculum, this should be, of course, everybody should know
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this, especially if you have a business. You can't go without
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this, the mindset, it's an unbelievable, it seriously blew
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me away. And that's the reason why I decided at that moment to
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get certified because Jack said, you know, will certify you in
25:29
the success principles, you'll learn all of the success
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principles, you'll have access to everything I'm training you
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with today. And you'll have access to basically everything.
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And I said, I need this, I need this for college, I need it.
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Plain and simple. So I signed up for it. And it's just amazing
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how my life has completely changed. Because it was sat on a
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shelf. And for you know, a few months, because life happens
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when you're making plans, and I called it my jack in the box on
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the shelf. And, and then out of the blue, you know, the pandemic
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struck, and I had foot surgery. So here I am, I got my foot and
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cast, and it's up. And then the pandemic struck, so I couldn't
26:24
go anywhere anyway. And I thought about that Jack in the
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Box, sitting on my shelf. And it's funny because I thought
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about it. And then I got an email from Jack. It's almost
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like Jack read my mind. And Jack said, you know that in this
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email that he was doing online stuff now and that he was doing
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reignite your life. And I was like, wow, I, I need that right
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now. I just need it. And I think so many people needed it after
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being shut down for so long. And so I started taking that course.
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And that led to another course. And that led to another course,
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this is all jacked. And then I ended up writing my
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certification exams. And I became certified. So it's just
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amazing how all of that work. So it was perfect timing, because
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it was during the pandemic. And I was actually, I was teaching
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classes online, believe it or not. And so what I did was I
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took the lessons that we learned from Jack, some of the lessons
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and I actually taught them online, just to kind of figure
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them out to see how they would go over to see if everybody felt
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the same way I did that type of thing. So the first lesson for
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sure was take 100% responsibility for yourself. And
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then I did another lesson with them on unleash the the power of
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goal setting, which is really important. And it during that
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goal setting, that's when I came across the vision board. The
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vision board exercises, what you see is what you get. That's the
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name of that chapter. And I also did one with them. And I still
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do it with them called Face your fears and do it anyway. So that
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one is a perfect chapter to talk about. And because fear, and I'm
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sure you know this, but fear really stands for false evidence
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appearing real. There's no such thing as fear. And fear is a
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lie. So it's interesting. So when I explain it to my
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students, how they can get past that fear. And do it anyway,
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because it's holding you back from whatever it might be.
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Everything just seemed to just start happening once I got
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certified and started doing those lessons and bringing them
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into effect. And when we weren't locked down anymore. I went back
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to the college, and I started doing all of these lessons. And
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these exercises, right in the classroom. And the students were
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interacting with each other and they just they loved it. They
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loved it. So I knew it was the right thing to do. And I myself
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have learned so much and so much has happened such as writing in
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these these chapters writing in these two books that I wrote in
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and setting up the mindset playground. I got an email from
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bold, brave TV asking me if I would be interested in hosting,
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you know, and I certainly never in a million years thought that
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I would be hosting my own podcasts and TV show. And now
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it's gone even beyond that. And now I actually have the mindset
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playground channel that's coming out on a TV station, transform
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your life network TV, that's going to be all over, you know,
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the internet. So I'm really excited about that, too.
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Alan Carroll: Oh, boy, a lot of a lot of energy, a lot of
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wonderful things that are happening. I like the idea of
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take responsibility. Because the opposite to that is, well, I'll
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take responsibility for this. But I'm not going to take
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responsibility for that. No, no, that was done to me. I, I'm not
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responsible for that. So what's the benefit of, of telling
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yourself that even though it doesn't appear that I'm
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responsible, if I come from that I'm responsible, somehow it will
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allow me to sail through that storm in a more in a, in a
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stronger in a stronger position. With with if I if I assume
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responsibility? So take a take us on a little journey on that
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responsibility piece.
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Unknown: Well, there is a formula that helps you
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understand taking 100% responsibility for yourself. And
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that formula is E plus r equals O,
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Alan Carroll: I'm gonna go slow. There's your E as an echo.
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Unknown: Yes, plus plus r,
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Alan Carroll: r as an RA r
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Unknown: equals O. Okay, and what that stands for, yeah, what
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that stands for is events.
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Plus, response equals outcome. So you can't change the event.
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The event happens, and life doesn't happen to us. It happens
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for us.
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Plus, your response equals your outcome. And let me give you a
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great example. So if you don't do well, on a test, that's the
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event, the test, your response to that equals your outcome. So
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if you walk into your test, and I tell all my students this
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knowing or saying, Oh,
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I hate this subject, oh, there's no way I'm gonna pass this test.
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There's no way I'm gonna pass it. Oh, I just, this is just
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terrible. I suck at this. I just know, it's, it's, it's going to
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be terrible. I'm going to forget everything I study, what's your
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outcome? Your outcome is you will probably know, I'm not
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saying in all cases, but you will probably receive the work
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that you were looking for. Right? So now if you change that
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response, if you change your response, and tell you yourself
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something positive, like, Okay, I've done the best I can, I've
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studied the best I can, this is going to be okay. It's going to
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be a test I'm prepared. I know I'm prepared. I might not get
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the a plus I'm looking for, but I'm going to shoot for it. And
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even if I get a B, that is great. Start doing it that way.
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And then walk into that test, feeling confident and feeling
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good. You will probably change your outcome. So that's the best
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way to say it. Because Oh,
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Alan Carroll: what, what I see or hear from what you're saying
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with with the formula, the the events is in the mindfulness
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terms, the event is what is it that's the way it is. It has no
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meaning. It's just that's the way the event is. Then the next
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thing is I look at how I am going to respond to to that
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event. And the way that I look at it Luann is that I can choose
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to respond to the events or I react to the events and when you
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react to the event you Take a choice out, you no longer have a
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choice. It's like an automatic automatic reaction based in my
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understanding, based on your conditioning, based on how you
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are programmed from your past, for example, GE, you're wearing
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a blue shirt. And when I was five years old, my father was
35:26
wearing a blue shirt. And he yelled at me or something. So
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I'm associating blue shirts with yelling, and father and upset.
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So here we are 50 years later, blue shirt, and I and I react to
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it. And so being able to respond means that you have created an
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empty space between the events and your reaction to the event.
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That's like a buffer zone. Is that in my in the ballpark with
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what you're talking about?
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Unknown: Absolutely. You see a baby, if you take a baby, for
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example, and baby doesn't know. I can't. So everybody is born
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with an I Can bucket. That's what I like to call it the I can
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Alan Carroll: like it. I can see a n ca n i can bucket. Okay, I
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cannot bucket it's I can bucket. Okay?
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Unknown: I can block it. That's what I call it, the I Can
36:29
bucket. And the thing is, is that as we grow up all of these
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I can't. I can't, I can't they end up going into that bucket.
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So your I can bucket turns into an I can't bucket. And it's
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really hard to get out of that. But if you think about a child,
36:53
for example, who gets up on a chair? Think about that. I don't
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know if you have children or if anybody in the audience does.
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But if you have children, I'm sure or nieces or nephews, I'm
37:05
sure you can relate to a child getting up on a chair. And you
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know, they're there and they're having fun. And they're dancing.
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And what's the first thing we say? Get down? Get down? You're
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gonna fall you're gonna get hurt. The child doesn't know
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that. Get down. One to write. That's what we do. Yeah, we're
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putting more messages into that I can't bucket. Now. Yes, if
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they fall and they hurt themselves, then yes, you were
37:39
probably right. But the child has to learn that because they
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don't know. They don't know. So basically, it's the same thing
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when they're sitting in the classroom, or they're sitting
37:50
wherever and they're off looking off at the stars. And they're,
37:54
you know, they're thinking about, they're going to be an
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astronaut, or they're going to be a teacher or whatever. And
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the teacher right away said, pay attention. They take them away
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from that dreaming. That whole dreaming state, pay attention.
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You can't be doing that you can't be looking off into the
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distance. So believe it or not, it's a learned thing. And we
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learned that through our entire life. You can't do that. So as
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soon as you say, you know if I say, Well, I want to be an
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astronaut. You can't do that. You can
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Alan Carroll: never be an astronaut. Come on. You got to
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know physics got to know math guy you forget to piano Yeah.
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Unknown: You gotta you gotta be on a special diet. your butt's
38:43
too big, whatever. Right. And so this is what we grew up with.
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These are the tapes that are in our head, that are constantly
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playing, you know, you can't do that. Who do you think you are?
38:56
No. And so that's what I'm saying by the I can't bucket it
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becomes an I can't bucket because everything you think of
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they take that one I can either that bucket that everybody is
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born with, and they replace it with a cat. And did you know
39:14
that children hear the word no 5000 times in their first three
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years 5000 times. So by the time they go to school isn't that
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interesting?
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Alan Carroll: I'm writing it down. So I have it in 5000
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times. That's like the programming you pretty soon you
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you live in a psychological prison and you don't know you're
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in a psychological prison created by your own mind about I
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can't go beyond that because I can't go beyond that. Even
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though you could go beyond that your your your voice inside your
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head says no, I can't do Go beyond that, and guess what's
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the outcome? The outcome is? Yeah, don't go beyond that. By
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by your own force inside your head. Absolutely, absolutely. So
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Unknown: if you want to change the Oh, which is your outcome,
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you need to change your response, you bet.
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Alan Carroll: And in order to change your response, you have
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to be awake enough to know that you are not going to
40:26
automatically react, you're going to be able to stop going
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to be able to become mindful. Or that Gee, my button just got
40:37
pressed, there's motions going on inside myself, attack
40:41
thoughts, I'm thinking about I gotta get back I gotta get best
40:43
person is doing and be able to calm that energy down. Take a
40:48
breath, get your body relaxed, regroup, regroup, you just
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capsized, you got to right size the boat up again. Take that
40:59
breath and take a look at what's what what the event is again,
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and and see what's what would be the healthy choice. The physical
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healthy choice, the mentally healthy choice, the emotional
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healthy choice. And usually, and my reality is you got to you got
41:19
to figure out a way to shift the the negative. And to what you
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talked about earlier. Gratitude. Yes, I like to complete our
41:35
podcast, because I know gratitude is something that is
41:39
an important ingredient in that Springboarding yourself from
41:43
that I can't and not responsible and world's doing it to me, I'll
41:48
never be able to be able to blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
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Most people are I find stingy with gratitude. And but I also
41:59
find that gratitude is the one of the fastest ways that in
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forgiveness, forgiveness and gratitude to me, you're dealing
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with two things, forgiving that person that offended you,
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gratitude and appreciation of all the things that you have
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sort of pops you out of that, that negative space and put you
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into a more positive mental attitude. And you celebrate,
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Unknown: prove that, oh, yes, the reason for that is because
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it is medical, it is a medically known fact that you cannot think
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of two things at the same time. That's not how the brain is
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wired. And women think it's just men, but it's us as well. So
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what I mean by that is when you're in a bad mood, or you're
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going to react in a negative way, or you're going to do
42:57
something that might not be the way that you should do it. You
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need to like you said, either go into forgiveness or go into
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gratitude. Because your brain cannot focus on those two, the
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negativity and the gratitude, the negativity and the
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forgiveness, it can I focus on both at the same time. That is
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the quickest and the easiest way to rewire your brain. And that's
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why one of the things I talked about is creating a joy list.
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Write down the things that really bring you joy, and carry
43:41
that list with you. And the next time you're having any negative
43:47
thoughts whatsoever, or before you go into a job interview, or
43:51
before you do anything. Maybe go on your first date, I don't
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know, whatever it may be be. Read your joy list. And you will
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have a mind shift automatically, without even trying.
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Alan Carroll: What a fountain of knowledge put in a fountain of
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information, wisdom Luann that you've given us today.
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Everything from the the E plus r equals O the gratitude, the
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forgiveness, the vision board, all these are wonderful tools
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that allows us to become more present, less of a victim of our
44:38
conditioning, more of a mindful presence, relaxed, still not
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agitated. Take that breath. Very, very present very, very
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mindful. So I want to thank you for all the wisdom that you have
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been pardoned today. And also if people wanted to connect with
45:05
you, they wanted to find out more about you and the mindset
45:09
playground, what would be the best way to connect with you in
45:14
addition to the show notes that are accompanied the podcast
45:20
Unknown: everything is on my website, which is super simple.
45:24
It's Luanne hunt, just like it shows in the window there. LEWIN
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hunt.ca Everything is on my website. So how to connect with
45:35
me what I talk about the books that I've written in, and of
45:41
course, the mindset playground.
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Alan Carroll: Wonderful. Well, thank you Luann been a wonderful
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guest. I appreciate you sharing your wisdom with the audience.
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And just have a wonderful mindful stillness, joyful day.
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Thank you very much.
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Unknown: Namaste
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Alan Carroll: Namaste.