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Welcome. You're listening
to Kuan wood, sugar,

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the podcast that pulls back
the curtains in your mind.

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We like to shed a little light on why
you're thinking, what you're thinking.

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Everyone has a choice in life, in
what and how they think together.

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We are going to focus on
high functioning habits.

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There is no more time to live with
any sort of regret coulda Wooda sugar,

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the inspirational podcast for the
inspired let's get into today's show

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with your host, Shelly R Shera.

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Hello world, Shelley sheer
here, and welcome to the show.

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It has been a minute I've
taken most of the summer off.

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We were in our vacation,
home in beautiful Penticton,

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British Columbia for the
better part of of a month.

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And that is my happy place. And
luckily just before we came home,

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we have been house hunting
up there because, uh,

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it is time for a move we're about to
enter into that next phase of our lives,

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where we leave the busy, lower
mainland of, uh, near Vancouver,

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British Columbia and all it's crazy
<laugh> and move to a smaller town with

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sunshine and a lake and
a whole lot less rain.

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So today I wanna talk about trust because
let me tell you when you are going

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through huge changes in your life,

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or when there are things
that you want to change,

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trust is a large component
of that process. Why?

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Because you need to be
aware and to trust the

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process that what is meant
for you will come for you.

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And that is a really tough thing
is a lot of people like, oh,

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that sounds very woo. Woo. I mean, I just
pray to God and I ask for what I want,

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um, or, or I use law of
attraction and I get what I want,

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or I doesn't matter what I
do. I never get what I want.

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All of those things can
be true because truth

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is only real to you.
So what is your truth?

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Now? I struggle there.

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I have an extraordinary large
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I have disc realized in my life,

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looked back on the years
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until I got sick and couldn't work.

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Like I used to that really
did change everything.

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I have always distrusted
that things would work out.

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I was raised very strongly in a religious
household. Um, I still have that,

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that level of faith.
And I do believe in God,

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but I don't think it's the
God that I thought it was.

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I believe that is just
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spiritual power that exists
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the world is made up of energy, not
matter. Um, energy creates matter.

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And then we in turn use matter.

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Our being is energetic and spiritual.

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Our body is energy, um,
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when we accept those things
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we didn't know all what we thought
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I've said this before another podcast,
religion is a great place to start.

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It's a little like kindergarten.

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So I have nothing against organized
religion because I believe those truths

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for, you know, do not lie. You
know, don't cheat, don't steal,

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don't sleep with your
neighbor's wife or husband.

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<laugh> I believe in the
good of the 10 commandments.

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And I believe that that basis

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is a strong basis for any person
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What I don't agree with. And even
my mother who is, you know, such a,

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a hard part of my growing up now
with her dimension I've and I,

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I know, I realize I've mentioned this
as well, has a very different attitude.

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And now that my father has passed,
she feels free to voice some of that,

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cuz she, you know, she's a
1960 housewife and you know,

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it was daddy's way or the highway.
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really is dancing really a sin. Are
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Um, you know, in her day
and age, if you wore,

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if you wore a lipstick and taught
Sunday school, you were going to hell.

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So we have all these manmade
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and that's just control. Religion is just,

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can be just another form of control.

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So if you do not feel
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belief structure, then I encourage you
to take a really hard long look at it.

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Uh, I live in a democratic
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that's pretty much going the way
the Dodo bird right now in Canada,

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but it won't, I, I pray without
a war. It will not last.

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We just happen to have very evil. Uh, and
I do U I do not use that word lightly.

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People are not awake in my country.
They're not paying attention.

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A large amount are alar, a large amount
aren't but we actually have some,

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some true evil manifesting in our
government, our prime minister.

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He does not work for the
benefit of mankind or Canadians.

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He has an ulterior agenda.

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And his whole way of being is
like gaslighting, everybody.

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He preaches, uh,

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division and hatred and segregation
and, and then turns around and,

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and says, we don't want those things
in our country. So like I say, he is a,

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just a brilliant example. And I think
I'm using that term. Right. Right.

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That's what gas lighting is,

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where someone tells you something
and that's wrong and tries to make

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you believe that it's right. And
that it's your fault. Yep. I did a,

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I stopped the podcast and did a quick
check to make sure I had that accurate,

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but yes, it's where over a period
of time, your psychologically, uh,

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condition to be convinced that what you
think is right is wrong and vice versa.

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depending on the situation
and it is psychologically, um,

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evil, it's, it's a form of torture
and it's, it's just wrong. It's,

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it's no different than, uh, you know,
having a narcissist in your family that,

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uh, is, is damaging to the
whole household where, you know,

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you can be a narcissist and not
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pain and destruction all around
you and all your relationships. Uh,

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just if someone hasn't dealt with their
own trauma than being a narcissist tends

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to, to really be damaging
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but to every single person around them,
because I hate to break this to you,

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but it isn't all about you.
<laugh>, it's not all about me.

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So it is very hard sometimes
to trust when you see so much,

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uh, just unfairness and,

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and evil in the world and
abuse and you know, mankind,

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I believe in the whole concept anymore
of being born into original sin.

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It's a baby. What, you
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but I think sometimes we need
to look back and say 2000

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years ago when Christ lived and had
his message and the dead sea scrolls

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were discovered and, you know, dictated.

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And I truly believe they are from
God. You know, they're from a higher,

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a higher sense of, of being,

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but they were also written for a
certain time in history. You know,

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not the way we think of things now.

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So perhaps laying out
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like that was very important
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because now we do understand when we talk
about the sins of the fathers will be,

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um, visited upon the sons and
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That isn't the fault of the child. I
do not believe. I just believe that,

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that we are just being warned,
that that evil exists out there.

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This is an innocent life that's being
born into this world and they can be so

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easily swayed by the evil around
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we have seen now energetically that
stuff comes down through our DNA

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and that is as well. I,

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I did a podcast on this is how I
believe that scripture comes from

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where the sins of the father. I think
it's where we need to do clearing work,

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where we need to deal with our trauma.

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That is what we need to be dealing
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kind of blaming some child that
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a murderer and that this child
is gonna be the same way. No,

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I just believe that there is
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um, pain that does get passed down.

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I could be wrong on that, but for where
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Now, these are the things
I'm questioning. Okay.

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So trust can be very, very hard
when there's a lot of change,

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a lot of unknown.

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And when you are questioning
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and I encourage you to please
question your belief structures,

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don't think for a second,

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that you weren't raised by people that
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Okay. Nine times outta 10.
It's, it's just how it is.

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I love teal Swan and her explanation
when interviewed of why she does not

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coach, uh, children. And she's
a therapist why she doesn't,

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uh, take on, uh, children. She says,

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because they're usually
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And I realize as the parents that
need to be in the chair, opposite B,

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it is so true. And if you are a
parent, please be aware of this.

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If you are a child, but an adult
and have a parent like I have,

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and a parent again,

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realize it's your job to do the work
because there's no point hanging

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onto all that pain and, and trauma
and trauma from your childhood.

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Um, the Indian, uh,

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with the big white beard and the
turbine that does all the, uh, bag draw.

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I, I, sorry, his name just left my brain,
but I was watching, I follow him on,

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um, on Instagram. And he's
just so wise. He is so wise.

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And he says, you know, when
you were hurt as a child,

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you are supposed to learn the
lesson and move on. He said,

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instead mankind as a whole,

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we tend to hang onto it and develop

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trauma and hurt. And we
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how he says it is when you are hurt
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you're supposed to gain wisdom. He
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and hold onto trauma. Oh,

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if we could teach our children
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go open up conversation,

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have these discussions as their,

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as their awareness is raised
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teach them that. It's just a lesson.

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I talk about this with my
granddaughter and I have for years,

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cuz she's a little bit socially awkward.

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And she really struggled with a couple
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of in grade three, four and
five. And I witnessed it I've,

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I've looked after them or I've taken
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some of them are just they're
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And they're just mean I watched the
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hard to watch that. And so when she
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understand that how your friend
treats you is her pain, not yours.

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And you don't need to take that.

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You need to have boundaries and
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You don't need a friend bad enough to
be abused. You just don't. And luckily,

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eventually yes, this, the,
the friendship went the, the,

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by the wayside and she has made
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Now that she's going into grade,
uh, seven, I guess. Yes. Oh,

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isn't it funny with our kids?
We just, in our mind's eye,

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there's still little kids. I
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I will always look at her, but I will
see the little girl that she was.

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And you know, that helped me
cook and dance with grandpa,

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even though she is a tweenie now
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And in the blink of an eye will
be an, an adult. It really is. Uh,

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life is interesting.

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So we are looking to make
this change in our life,

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but interest rates just tripled, um,

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you know, almost in the last year.

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So Canada's bank of Canada has raised
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down.

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And really all they've done is put young
people outta their homes and made it

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impossible to buy a home. Uh, yes,
our interest rates are too low. I,

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I don't believe in this zero interest
rate, money needs to make money,

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but we have allowed a
system to control us all for

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so long that we're not really aware of
what drives it anymore and where we sit

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with all of it. So I had a $900
interest only payment in February,

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and I have a $2,000 interest only payment
now, you know, seven months later.

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Um, last time I checked my income, didn't
go up by a thousand dollars a month.

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So there are ways to
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That's not what this
podcast is about, where,

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where I'm taking you
here is the trust factor.

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So I panicked for a little bit
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what are we going to
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I've inherited a piece of property,
but cash flow is different.

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So we have students that live in
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We have a beautiful large home on two
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Like we are so blessed. Uh, but
the house was renovated many,

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many years ago to include all these
bedrooms and, and such downstairs.

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Cause I think the owners have their grown
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know, late teenagers. So everyone just
kind of wanted a little space. Well,

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I've turned that into a revenue,
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So I'm so grateful that my
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but I'm also done with the big
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and a dozen trees that, you know, have
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or it needs someone with a bit more money
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a company comes in once a month
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So Keith and I are in a very
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Now we're looking to downsize,

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upgrade our live in home portion.

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Like I want my beautiful kitchen
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I did 15 years ago. You know,

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I've lived in sort of this nine years
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house of, of it's not
my love or joy. It just,

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we were just grateful that
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but it's not what I love. Uh,

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I enjoyed the first two years here,
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large parties for the families and I
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but I am degenerating still. So now
if I've got a little bit of energy,

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I do not wanna be doing yard
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I wanna go camping with my husband and
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lake. I have very
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but I do want inside. I want a beautiful
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a nice big open floor plan. I'd
like my nice designer kitchen back.

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I don't need large. I just
need comfortable my home.

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I'm one of those nesting people. I
have a lot of security in my home.

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That's where I feel safe. And uh,

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and it's kind of scary when
your government puts all
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they have a very different
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you'll own nothing and you'll
be happy. Well, you know what?

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I like owning my house.
Thank you very much.

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And that all sounds great
from a socialistic communist
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even, and, but it never
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Cuz mankind is basically just
greedy and unaware of their own bad

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behavior.

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So all that really happens in situations
like this is the few that are wanting

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to control,

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gain wealth on everyone else's backs
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in history. If you watch history,

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when they downtrodden fight
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they become the oppressors,
it happens 90% of the time.

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As soon as those that feel that they
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marginalized, once they're in control,

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they don't better mankind or the universe,

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they just act like the tyrants that came
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So can you see how we just aren't we're
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I just call it just basic stupidity, uh,

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but it really can make it very hard
to trust that there's things working

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out in your favor or for
the best now something else,

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just as a little segue
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because I literally just had to delete
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because I went off on a tangent.

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I get preachy <laugh> it is in my
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Uh, there's a right way and a wrong
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I was listening to coop Blackstone the
other day and I just love how he phrases

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things. He approaches it
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don't do that or this is
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His attitude is what I strive to be.

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Ask the question.

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What if you looked at
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what if it might work out better this way?

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What if you let go of that
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I just love that language. What if,

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because it is a heck of a lot
easier to trust. Excuse me,

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sorry that there is more for
you. And when I say more in a,

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you immediately went to money,
you got some work to do, sorry.

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There's no point being beat
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you probably have some work to
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isn't always about the material.

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I definitely want what I want,
but I've worked hard for it.

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So I'm going to transfer
money is how life is

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rewarded on this planet right now
that may change in the future.

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But right now it doesn't. So I
earn money or have earned money.

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I buy investments. Those
investments do well.

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Or I buy a home that home does well.
I have assets, I have cash flow.

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And then I have choices and
options. Those things flow together,

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but doesn't mean getting on
a Juba wheel of, you know,

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get an expensive education that
you're never going to use and,

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and go work for four weeks or two
weeks vacation a year and, and,

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and keep up with the Joneses to be in
the better neighborhood and to have your

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kids in the right schools.
What did I watch? The other,

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I watched a movie the other day and it
was, it was literally insane. It was, oh,

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the nanny <laugh>, it was a
comedy, but they did this.

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It was very satirical on the, you know,
the whole upper west side, I guess,

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of New York and the attitudes of, you
know, the money makers and, and how they,

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you know, they just, it was all material,
what school you're getting into.

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I mean, right down to
kindergarten, there was,

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there was this couple that literally
divorced in the movie because he lost his

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mind cuz his son didn't get into
whatever preschool she was supposed to be

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prepping this child for. And
it was embarrassing at work.

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I'm sorry, can we just have a, are you
freaking kidding me moment? <laugh>

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what if we encourage
children to be children,

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encourage them to think for themselves,

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taught them consequences of actions,

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taught them to have faith, how to attract,

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how to treat others as they
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Z this sounding a bit familiar.

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So it definitely is easier to
trust when you've got a good basis.

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So if you're raising children right now,

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your job is to garner wisdom for them.

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And that does not mean
protecting them from everything,

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doing everything for them and
paying for everything in their life,

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because then the lessons
aren't getting learned.

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And without the lessons
we don't grow as people.

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How do you get wisdom by
living in a bubble? Now I'm,

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you're gonna laugh a little bit
probably, but uh, my sister,

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I'm gonna talk about my
sister for a second. And um,

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so if she ever listens to
this, she can smack me later.

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Most of my regular listeners know we
lost my brother-in-law this past year and

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it was devastating to the family,

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but it is set my sister on a new
path of learning things that she

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has never learned because she lived
in a bubble. So she's met her,

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her husband when she was 16.
Um, I was always the rebel.

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I am 20 I'm already outta the
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Cause I didn't wanna tow the line. Like
my parents wanted me to tow the line.

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So Angela towed that line. So she
had a lot of financial, um, uh,

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benefits. She did not have massive dating,

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broken heart trauma.

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She had the benefits of a
secure relationship right
out of a young age and has

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lived quite a charmed life.

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But charmed and wisdom are not
always on the same page they can be,

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but often they're not because my
life has prepared me now to be her

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big sister, cuz she is
literally in her early fifties,

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stepping into my life that I had
when I was 20 of the unknown and

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single do I want a relationship?
You know, what are people thinking?

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What am I gonna do about, you know,
money? What am I gonna do about my life?

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What the, what the, what ifs, what am I?

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The questions are all there for her now.

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And I feel very honored and I use,

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I say that very validly.

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I feel very honored that our
relationship has been meed this past two

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years and that I'm able to be there
for her through these quote, unquote,

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some of them are tough times because
she's never had to go through it before.

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So there's no point me
sitting back and going, haha,

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karma told you so bow time you got yours.

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Oh God know people that is that
right up with the greed and all

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that jazz. That is a human
nature feeling that is so low

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vibrational and is so three-dimensional
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So no, the goal is to forgive
and forget and let go.

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And then it's to be there to better.

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The next person that's coming up behind
you or the person that's beside you to

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help with their life.

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Why do you think I podcast so that we
can have these discussions and I can help

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people think, think for yourself,
think for the situation you're in.

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Think about the future.
Think about the past,

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do not live in anything but the
present, but have goals and ambitions.

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And don't forget while you make
plans. God laughs you know,

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you gotta have a little humor in
all of this. I love making plans.

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I'm a control freak. It just
comes with the territory.

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What I've had to learn is to let
go of my plans because that's

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just the deal.

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I did not plan to get sick and lose
my beautiful custom built home.

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I loved my home. I did just,

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it was everything I had
dreamed for years to building.

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And just in case you're imagining
some mansion on no, no, no,

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just little upper middle class.

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It was custom designed for my
wants and tastes and entertaining.

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It was very specific to a segment
of lifestyle that in our life

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is much downsize. And when I say
downs, I mean the entertaining,

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I still love having people in my
life and having them visit, uh,

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and having a house in Penticton
must have guest rooms,

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but I do not need to entertain a hundred
people at a time anymore. And I won't.

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And I, I have no desire to whatsoever.

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That was a fantastic phase in my life.

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I enjoyed it to its
fullest, but it's over now.

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And I don't sit around living and
regret that that phase is over anymore

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because I have new loves now and I
have new things I wanna be doing.

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Stay open. If you're going to trust,

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you have to stay open and let's go back
to the seven pillows of high functioning

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habits choice.

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It starts with choice and
everything comes after.

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You wanna get educated about something,
learn about something, let something go,

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let go of trauma, learn to trust,
meditate more, get in better shape,

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lose some weight. Look after this
temple that your spirit lives in.

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You have to choose.

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Then you can go find what you
need to find to make it happen,

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but you gotta choose.

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And so often we run around
subconsciously existing in this life.

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So how about we lay a little trust
out on onto the ground right now,

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knowing that evil exists.

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But I truly believe for the most part,
when you watch history, we always,

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what do we celebrate the
defeat of evil, the win.

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So this two shall pass. And that's
a good thing to think about.

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Even in minor things in your life,
right up to having a corrupt government,

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this too shall pass, have
a great day everyone.

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And I'll catch you on the flip side.

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We really hope you enjoyed this
episode of could wood should stay

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please send us an email through
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and as always thank you for pushing
your mindset towards a better reality.

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This concludes the most thought
provoking portion of your day. Thank you.

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And remember willpower
will only get you so far.

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If you don't have a plan.