May 26, 2022

Ep.19- How to Make Every Day The Best Day Of Your Life

Ep.19- How to Make Every Day The Best Day Of Your Life

In this episode, I am joined by Chris Dorris as he shares his words of wisdom for making every day the best day of your life. Why not make every day the best day of your life? You can make that decision, and declare it for yourself. Chris shares with us his path through his own trauma and through radical acceptance turned that problem in his life into a gift. You are the creator of your life. It is not always easy and you are so powerful when you are deeply committed to your life. Join us for this wonderful conversation, and Chris offers my listeners the gift of a free download of his “All In” audio file.

Links:

ALL IN!: (59-minute audio file)

http://bit.ly/all-in-audio-gift 

TBOLITNFL Lecture: 

https://vimeo.com/18371436/0e9a592407 

The Odds of YOU Happening!

https://visual.ly/community/Infographics/science/what-are-odds

 

About our guest:

Chris Dorris

As a Mental Toughness Coach, I’m ultimately in the business of Success Coaching. I help people close the gap between how their lives are and how they want them to be.

I started my career as a social worker working on the streets of Atlantic City, helping the mentally ill, drug-addicted and homeless populations upgrade their lives.

I then created an internship with the Men’s Golf Team which evolved into a paid position as the formal Mental Toughness Coach.

Since then, I coached several of the top-performing sales teams and leaders from multiple Fortune 500 companies, world famous actors, NFL and NHL Coaches, business executives, Super Bowl Champions, and billionaires. 

I am the author of two books: The Daily Dose: Start All 365 Days of Your Year With a Dose of Mental Toughness in 30 Seconds or Less, and Creating Your Dream: Confidently Stepping into Your Own Brilliance, and several audio programs including the Creating Your Dream Audio Course, The Edge: Mental Toughness for Miraculous Golf, and ALL IN! as well as the online course, ALL IN! 2.0.

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Transcript
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I know you, you're afraid to speak up.

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You're scared of what other people think of you. And you

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blame yourself for what happened to you. I know how it feels.

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Because I've been there. If you found me, I'm so grateful you

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are here. This podcast will give you hope. And I'm your host in a

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made ANOVA. And I'm going to hold your hand and provide the

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guidance. It's time for you to find your why. And turn your

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experience into your biggest power. This is your time now. So

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lock your door, put your headphones in, and enjoy. Chris

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Doris, welcome to the world's best Trauma Recovery podcast.

Chris Dorris:

Thank you. Thank you for the invitation. Nice to

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see you.

Anna Maydonova:

Nice to see you too, sir. Hey, do you know

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what's the day to day? No, today is my life. Oh, my listen. Oh,

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I left on that one. I was trying. That's so that's so

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great. I were I were this one for you.

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The problem is the gift. This is perfect. Did

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you see my post? Yes, I did. It is crazy. Tell me where this

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best then they of my life came from?

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That's a good question. Actually. I don't I'm not sure

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the origination I think I just said it. One day, when someone

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asked me it's about two years ago, someone said, How are you

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doing? And I said, you know, what is the best damn day in my

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life? And they said why? And I said, why not? And ever since

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then, I have been practicing this ritual. Every single I

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haven't missed. I've missed zero days. In two years now, where

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every day I wake up, and oh, my bathroom mirror in dry erase

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marker is is that what's on your shirt. It's hashtag BDD LML. So

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it is my reminder to actually make a decision. So this is a

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real ritual. So it doesn't take long. Some days, it takes a

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little longer than others. But what I do is I actually make a

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decision that as of this moment, it's the best damn day in my

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life. And I mean it. Like it's not Kumbaya, fluffy, bullshit,

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affirmation, foof. It's like work I'm doing. I'm saying, You

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know what I am, declaring. This is the best day of my life. I'm

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not waiting to see how things go. In order for that to be

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true, there's another mantra create the state don't wait. So

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what I'm doing is not waiting for anything great to happen in

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order for me to create the state that accompanies the belief that

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this wow, this this is it. Oh my God today. Holy crap. This is

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the button I can't good am I feel right now just even acting

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this out for you. I'm having it be true. You know, and then my

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whole, my whole vibe has just elevated tremendously, and then

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I affect the world in a profoundly different way. And

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that's when the most likely, like the greatest likelihood of

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great things happening. You know what?

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Yeah, you inspired me. I started to call

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every single day, my best my best day in my life. And it's

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like a manifesting, you are creating your own day, you are

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creating your own life. And then you know, what happened to

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everything just started to confirm that today's the best

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day of my life. The best the best day ever.

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You know, I'll admit, I'll take complete ownership

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that some days that's not very simple. It's not easy. Yep. You

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know, like, especially if something like huge happens now.

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My mother passed away about 18 months ago, but and like, yeah,

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maybe I did miss a day. Maybe I didn't make the declaration.

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Because I got a notification in the middle of the night. Maybe I

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didn't get up that morning and say this is the best maybe I

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missed a day you know? But I'll tell you what. Yeah, there are

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days where it takes some work even if you just wake up and I

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had like really weird, shitty dreams or something. I'm in a

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funk. You know, it takes a little bit more work for me to

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clear my head. Flush that and go Alright, no, let's let's create

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enthusiasm. Let's have today be the best day and then let go

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into this this day with that state. Love it. Other days. It's

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very easy. Love it. But part of the work is part of the work

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exactly. Right. The work that we get to do to govern our states

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to govern our minds, which then influences how we show up in

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life and what goes on for us.

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Love it. I mean, brother, trees. First time I've

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heard about you. When I was watching a video with Steve

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Hardison on YouTube, which is the only video exists existed a

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DOS point with Steve Hardison with our Enigma where he was

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showing how he was coaching, those litoria and video is the

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best offensive lineman in the N. NFL, which is bol at

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TBO. The Almighty TBO

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said that. But I didn't get it. And you, you will

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on the stage pretending that you are just a toy. How does it feel

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to be this guy on the stage with Chris or with Steve Hardison?

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Steve, Steve's intense dude.

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Oh, yeah.

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He really got into character there. He kicked my ass. Do you

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feel this? Now? Okay, so there's a lot of things going on. But

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first of all was a privilege. It really was, you know, I was

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working Coach Steve was my coach at that time. Okay. And it was

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really I mean, the whole story is such a huge lesson. It's a

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huge lesson. It's it completely changed my life. You know,

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talking about creative state, don't wait. It's another state

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state of infinite commitment. Now, that's what that whole

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event was about the best being the best, best, whatever you can

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feel the best like you. This is the world's best trauma

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recovery. The world's best life optimization coaches, you know,

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about choosing to be the best not waiting for acknowledgement.

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And that's what that whole event was about. So it was a total

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honor, first of all, for me to be there to be included in some

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of the organization of that event, and then to be invited up

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on stage to do the reenactment of a really profound scene where

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Steve had asked at one point during a coaching so maybe the

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very first coaching session that he ever had with Dussel tui, who

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for those of you who don't know, time, duessel, tui was an

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offensive lineman for the Arizona Cardinals football team.

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Big, big dude. And he's

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basically and actually, in general.

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Yeah. Yeah, like 653 50 or something like that. Just

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huge, right? The linemen from National Football League. So

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anyway, that you know, the deal was it. Steven asked him during

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a coaching session deuce, who do you think is the best lineman in

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the entire leak and just reflected on it? And while like,

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after maybe two seconds of reflection, Steve said, Okay,

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thanks. Got it. And do so. I didn't I didn't answer yet.

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Because Oh, yeah. Yeah, you did. So, Ben, Steve, they do a role

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reversal. And Steve as to say, you'd be me, you'd be me and

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asked me what I just asked you. So you'd be Steve, the coach.

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And Deuce I'll be you the football player now, so good and

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asked me that. So it just says to Steve, he says, Hey, Deus has

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a role reversed. Says who do you think's the best offensive

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lineman in the entire offense? That's as far as he got. And

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Steve grabs him by a shirt and starts to save shaken from the

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best in the league. Walk around is doing this. You know, I

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already danced something like this is like So Steve, Steve did

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that. And we did that reenactment. And I didn't know

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he almost threw me off the stage. My child shaylen back.

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You know what's really funny? I don't know if you know this. I

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was wearing to do so chewy jersey. overtop overtop of a

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button down shirt. which happened to be my favorite shirt

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at the time. It was a Greg Norman buttoned down. So anyway,

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Steve when he grabbed me to shake me all the best. He had

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ripped my shirt. Oh, no, I had Yeah, but this is so funny. It

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was Literally a double Janet Jackson wardrobe malfunction.

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I'm not kidding. I after this shit Adelina, after the skits

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over, I go back in the audience and I take the jersey off to

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give it back to his son or his daughter, whoever loaned it to

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me. And they're like, put that back on, put that back on. So I

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had to wear the damn jersey for the day.

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That wasn't dance, that was actually a DNA

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altering video, I will put the link to this video in the chat

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in below the podcast. So,

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you know, I'll send you the all in since that event,

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it's neat that you brought that up, inspired me to create the

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second best thing I've ever created. As far as content goes,

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in my life to this date, that was about two years ago. It's my

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all in audio program. After I came back from that event, I was

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so inspired, that I decided to create it, like, I was so

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captivated with how powerful we are, when we are absolutely all

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in or infinitely committed to something. Because when we are

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that committed, the possibility of failure actually doesn't

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exist in our field of consciousness, like, like

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failures, not on the radar. That's amazing. It's a state.

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Right. And I realized that that state is an option, like we

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actually have it available to us at all times. And the action

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that we take who we be when we're infinitely committed is

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just like, exponentially more powerful than when we're trying.

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We're shooting for a goal. You know, so so I'll send you I

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created this audio program, surely kind of wild, about a

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month after that event, because I've been thinking about it,

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thinking about it, thinking about it, I woke up Christmas

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Eve morning. So it's exactly like two months after the event.

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And I woke up and I just got my recording, we just got a

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microphone or something, you know, and, and just made some

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notes and then crushed it just one take. It's like 10 different

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clips about 50. It's fit exactly 59 minutes long, total. And

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there was no editing other than like the beginnings and the

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ends, there was no editing in the middle, there's no message I

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was in the zones. And I was all in, I was all in on creating the

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all in audio. So I will send you the link. So we can include that

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here. For the audience, get a free download perfect.

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And for my audience, I really highly

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recommend to jump in and listen to this recording, because

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that's where Chris is sharing his secrets of success, Secrets

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of mental toughness, and how he came to this point where he is

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now. Thanks, Chris, thanks so much for sharing, hey, mental

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toughness coach. And I know it's been a long way for you. But

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what are some of the challenges you had to overcome? To be in

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this position today, Chris,

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and we can pick whatever you want. You know, I

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have learned grew up I grew up in a family where you know, my

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dad had passed away at a very early age, he was only in his

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early 40s. And I was nine. And we became very poor. After he

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passed away. We had really no virtually no income, my mom had

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to work RAS off and just do like no small jobs or jobs. And she

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really did work her butt off. But we were we were pretty poor.

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And there was a lot of scarcity thinking like a lot of fear. A

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lot of we can't afford that. We can't afford that. A lot of

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that. Can't afford it, like just scarcity and anxiety. So I

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learned a lot of limiting beliefs about money in

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particular. And I'm still I'm still fixing myself on that. I'm

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doing good. But I'll tell you what, it took a lot. It took a

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very, very long time for me to really start making money in my

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career because I have weird beliefs. Now that money just

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were limiting beliefs about money and how hard it is to get

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what was your most strongest one. Believe that

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money? Yeah,

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that there's that it's it's really hard to get. Yeah,

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that's I think that's really hard to get. It's, it's really

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hard to get. Yeah, yeah, it was. Yeah, it's funny because these

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lessons come from all different sources. I mean, I went to

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graduate school psychology, right for to a counseling school

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and embedded within the conversations that went on is,

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you know, you're going to do really nice, you're going to be

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very meaningful work, very meaningful work, but you're not

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going to get rich by you No. So so that's a big one. But you

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know, I would say, Well, another one is, is abuse. You know,

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after my father died, I was I had a sort of a father figure,

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who was as soon as I say this, you're gonna know exactly

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everyone's gonna know exactly where I'm going with this. He

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was a Catholic priest. Yes. So what you're guessing. And he

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was, he was just a really great role model. This is gonna, it's

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just confusing for a lot of people. So if we want to unpack

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this, we totally count. He was a really powerful role model for

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many years. He became like a second father. And, but then

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years later, after, I don't remember the exact ages, but

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when I was like, in my teens, like, early teens is when sexual

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abuse started occurring. was very confusing, because this is

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a human being that was so safe with I loved tremendous

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autonomy, spirituality, I mean, my life now here's the part that

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a lot of people can't hear. My life is in large part as great

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as it is because of many lessons that I learned from that man,

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which I've kept. Right, you know. But wow, that that became

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so cool. So I find out when I'm 10 that I'm adopted. I didn't I

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didn't know until I was 10, after my dad had died, so that

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was, that was not a good, that was stupid of them. My parents,

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my parents messed that up. So I have a bit of an identity

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crisis, because I'm like, at 10 years old, I'm gonna wait a

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minute. You're okay, he wasn't my dad, and you're not my mom.

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So who the fuck am I? So that was a big deal. Interestingly,

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but the priest, he, he helps me through that. He really coached

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me up you know, he spent a lot of time with me, you know,

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feeding my soul, right having me choose confidence and self love.

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He turned me on to consciousness and spirituality. I have a book

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sitting right over there. Called the mustard seed, which was a

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book that was written by a guy who goes by the name Osho now

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Oh, sh Oh, shell. But but but his that's that wasn't his name.

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Back then. His name was bag one Shree Rajneesh heavy book. Like,

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it's heavy stuff. And he gave it to me when I was 13. You're

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gonna see, you know, he told me meditation to he would take me

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to the boardwalk down the Jersey Shore and told me to sit there

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lies close for an hour. And clear my mind. He taught me

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Transcendental Meditation taught me a lot of good stuff taught me

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to be my own boss. But then then the bad shit started. Then the

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abuse started was very, very confusing. Because I because I'm

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like, this is unpleasant. It's very, very helpful. I hate it.

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But maybe I'm missing something. Because maybe I'm just like,

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getting the the, the master disciple relationship. That's

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how fucked up it was. So So you know, that was that was a tough

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house. It's a tough road. That was a that was a quite a long

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road of healing after that, because so he got busted. I

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parent, I was not the only one. I was not the only victim.

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Right? And you know, so weird because he was a very popular,

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he was a super popular guy. He was, um, he was a he was a

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theology teacher at my high school, and he's very popular.

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Teacher, everyone loved them. You know, and he was like, he

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was the priests that everybody would pick to, you know, to do

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their marriage ceremonies because he was cool. Or so

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everyone thought, you know, they didn't know that about the dark

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side, but somebody he abused one kid, and I don't even know who

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it is, but that that that kid outed him. And so this is like

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1985 ish. So this is like, way before all the Catholic priests,

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you know, altar boy abuse ship got

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exposed. So he was like an early one. And what happened was they

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just the church just sent him away. And he never charged with

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anything. He was just sent to some counter to go to some

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retreat centers. You know, and he only he ended up coming back,

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which was really weird and come back to the same parish. He came

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back to the same area come back to the same state. You know, I

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have no idea what kind of accountability Have you ever

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had, but But anyway, it was weird for me because so I was

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just so confused. I was actually angry at the kid who I didn't

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know who was for getting them in trouble. That's how screwed

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up I was because we conditioned. Yeah,

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so that was a long road of severe confusion, identity

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crisis, humiliation, you know, Emery and recovery, healing. A

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lot of I've worked with a lot of healers. And I was able to

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forgive him to his face, which was, which was great for me. I

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don't think he could really hear it. I think he just was in a

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funk. You know, I don't care. I forgave him for me. So thanks

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for all the good lessons. I'll take it from here.

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Chris, thank you so much for being so open and

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honest.

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You have I'm very uncomfortable discussing this

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now. Because I've done, there's nothing I've worked on in my

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life harder than that. So I can talk about it. Now. You know,

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it, it's again, you know, the problem, this needs an asterisk,

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the problem is the gift asterisk, if you'll have it be a

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gift. Right. So if you do the work to have a big gift to work,

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to be able to create from so there's another mantra, which

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is, every set of circumstances can be created from if viewed

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masterfully. I couldn't view this experience to happen. It

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went over years, it was for years, it wasn't like an event.

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It was years of sexual abuse. So so the I was not looking at

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this, this was not a gift, but it is now. It is now 54 I would

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say the real healing occurred in my 30s With the help of an

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amazing master, who's a dear friend of mine colleague and

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bestie. Dr. Allison Arnold, is not the only one. I mean, I've

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worked with therapists in college, I worked with a

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healers, different healers, you know, some funky ones. Some ones

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that, you know, taught me really wild things like like this

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beautiful lesson called radical acceptance, radical acceptance,

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which is spectacular. It's like radically accepting yourself, as

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you are radically accepting all of the darkness that, you know,

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comes with being victimized. Not just being cool that radically

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accepting everything that's going on in your past, and then

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doing the work in order to be able to create from it. So

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that's really the big thing, right? The problem is the gift

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if you'll do the work to find a way to create something.

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Excellent. And here we are, here we are, right now, you and I,

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you have created a platform through which I am able to serve

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now I get to utilize I'm utilizing the truth. Right my

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truth in order to serve. So now it's a gift. My problem is now a

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gift that I get to

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show you understand people because you

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know what they've gone through, because you you know how painful

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it is. You've been there. And you've gone through this.

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Yeah, it's dark

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trees. What are some benefits of healing? That

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you felt that you found? Yeah. From sexual abuse.

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You know, I watch these shows. It's, it gets so

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heartbroken by why there's a lot of shows now, you know, on the

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whole Catholic priests thing. All can be huge, a huge problem.

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And there's people that are my age, that haven't done the

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healing work that are that are just in misery. Misery, can't

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handle relationships, you know, they're just addicted to

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everything. You know, for medication, medicating the pain

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because they haven't done the work. They don't know how to do

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the work. They might not know that there's work to be done. So

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yeah, that breaks my heart. I'm sorry, what was the I forget the

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question. Oh,

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right. Oh, some of the benefits from being able

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to experience

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life, the beauty of life again, right. The ability

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to experience reality as it is my belief is that reality is

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perfect. What then so that's not a variable that doesn't that

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doesn't change that doesn't modify that doesn't fly shoe

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Wait, that's a lock. It's a constant. I studied astrophysics

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for a while, and came to the discovery through that

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experience phenomenal studies, that we exist in a universe that

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is flawless, like genuinely flawless, flawless, but

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unfolding for 15 billion years with flawless choreography. So

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that's pretty damn cool. The odds of any of us happening,

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like as close to zero without it being zero. Right? There's a guy

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did the math on us a guy from Harvard alley, Ben Nazer. You if

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anybody wants to Google that it's really cool. Just Google

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Ali Al is his first name, last name bi N A CIR? Just put le

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blazer? What are the odds? And you'll get a PDF? It's cool. He

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he did the math on the odds of us. It's really fun to look at.

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And but the bottom line, Anna, is that like the the number of

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particles in the cosmos is estimated to be one or 10?

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Sorry, 10 to the ADF power 10 With 80 zeros after? That's a

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big ask no. But it's actually a very tiny number. Compared to

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the odds of you, the odds of you occurring any one of us

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occurring precisely as we are, is actually we are a one in 10

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to the 2.7 Millions power that's 10 with 2.7 million zeros after

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it. It says race like close, basically impossible, right? So

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we got into the impossible party winning. Without the healing, I

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couldn't appreciate that. You know, without having done the

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work, I would just be a victim. So I was victimized. I am not a

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victim. I was until I did the work. So now, now that I learned

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that it's possible to be victimized and not be a victim.

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I am free. I am free from some of that conditioning of my past

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I would have me be poor me can't believe this should happen to

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me. Why is this going to happen? To me? This is unfair first. I

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mean, I don't even I get abandoned by my bio family, then

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my adoptive dad dies when I'm nine. And then this pre starts

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molest me. What the fuck? That's an easy road to go down.

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It's easy to stuck in this in this mindset,

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exactly. To be

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right. And when I'm in that mentality, I am not free to

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experience and CO create with the magic that the universe is.

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So freeing ourselves from the conditioning of our past so I

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can experience reality as it is, which is spectacular. And you

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know, we are mathematically speaking like I just said where

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miracles. So we're designed to create miracles. When I'm in

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victim thinking, or in that experience, I can't create just

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survive. I can't thrive, survive. So the good news is

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that that's possibility, right is that we can do the work to

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heal. It's painful,

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I can resonate. I can resonate with you, Chris,

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so much. I've also I've been stuck in victim mentality for

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many years for nearly 20 years. Until one day I just opened up

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because I just couldn't, I couldn't do this anymore. I've

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been sexually abused. I've been also abandoned my biological

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father. He didn't didn't want to do anything with me. I saw him

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maybe like three times or four times in my life for five

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minutes. And then being sexually abused from 15 to 21 years old.

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Two pregnancies to force illegal abortions. And then when I was

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trying to become a mom, I had now already 16 consecutive

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miscarriages including two o'clock pregnancies. And one

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ectopic pregnancy. It's where the the embryo stuck in your

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fallopian tube. My tube burst and I was bleeding for seven

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days. And It nearly killed me. And I was like, you know, but

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now I don't feel like these. Past experience is holding me

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back. I literally turn it into my superpower. I don't allow my

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trauma to define me anymore. And it's it's a power you getting

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your power back. You need to understand that you are

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responsible for your own life. No one is coming to save your

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life. And what is soon why I'm telling you this. As soon as my

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mind shifted, so the world became much brighter. The life

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became much more fulfilled. I've got my feelings back. I was able

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to tell my mom, what's happened to me. She was the scariest

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person tell to the scariest?

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Huh? You know, I through Facebook. I reconnected

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years ago with the principal of the grade school that I went to.

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And that's, that's, she's a Catholic nun. And she lived in

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the convent, which is right next to the rectory where the priests

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split. So she knew the priest whose name I'm not saying very,

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very, very well. So so she and I stayed in touch. She's so

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awesome. She's super great. She was close with my mom. You know?

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So I got into a conversation with her recently this past year

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about it. She had no idea. She had no idea. She was like,

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shocked. She was heartbroken. I said, Sister, it's okay. I'm

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good. Now. I did the work. And I want to reiterate that, because

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I want to be very sensitive to people that are listening to

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this. The work is hard. The healing work is hard. And scary.

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And worth every single bit. Why are you saying

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it's hard? Was it what was the hardest part?

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Pain? emotional pain, deception, confusion for me?

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Yeah, it's like, how could this happen? How could this happen to

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me? Getting out of that, so So? So? It's a good question. You're

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asking me really, because heart is really just a judgment. So

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maybe heart isn't the right word. And maybe it's just, it's

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painful? Until it isn't. That's what that's a really good

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distinction. And a good for you. Thanks for asking that. Because

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I disagree with my interpretation of that now. So I

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won't. So way to go. Yeah, it's not hard. It's painful. Pain is

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inevitable. Suffering is optional. Right? It's an

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experience is simply an experience. It's painful. But

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that doesn't mean it's not suffering. It's pain. And you

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know, one of the coolest things I've ever learned was, I learned

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from my studies, I went to India, and studied at a place

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called the Oneness University. And one of the nuggets that I

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walked away with not experience is this. This is so great.

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Everything when experienced fully becomes joy. How sweet is

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that?

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Yeah, tell it again,

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everything, when experienced fully becomes joy.

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So there's this exercise they would have us do, and they call

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it locking yourself in the room with a tiger. Because they

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actually have Tiger. Tiger, of course, is the metaphor for the

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pain. So you lock yourself in the room with a tiger and you

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jump in its mouth, and it eats and it's gonna do it. And that

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sucks. So what we do though, as humans is we go we go to all the

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work of avoiding the pain, avoiding the pain, avoiding the

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pain, all kinds of ego games to avoid pain, addictions, you

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know, humor, the production, rationalization, all kinds of

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ego games to avoid the pain, which is unnecessary, our

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culture teaches us to run away from the pain, avoid the pain,

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as opposed to no drowned in it. Run into it, lock yourself, the

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tiger is the source of the pain, jump into the mouth. And the

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paradox is that once you experienced that pain fully, for

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as long as it needs to occur, which I'm sure varies

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tremendously for different people. The pain goes away the

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pain solves the pain evolves, which is fascinating. It's an

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emotion.

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And when we the more we try to avoid to feel

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this emotion, the bigger it becomes the the stronger it

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starts in our body. And the bigger it grows inside us. And

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then it becomes harder, harder to go through this pain. And I

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love this analogy. You need to lock yourself in the room with a

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tiger because after this that's where the magic happens. I

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recommend doing that though. If you are really

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traumatized. I would recommend doing that with a trained

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professional. Because it can be tiring, okay. It can be really,

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really traumatizing if you don't have support are, you know, you

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might be taking yourself down a wormhole there, right that you

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may not be equipped to deal masterfully with. So when we

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were in India, we would stick there these people were very

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trained these teachers are very, very nice. That's all they've

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ever done their whole lives. So they're there with you know, and

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you're laying on the ground and you're think you use your

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thoughts to think your way into the painful emotions. Right?

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That mean that's where it all comes from right we always think

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our way into emotion. So we think we use our thinking to get

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into the emotion. And then they say, hold that charge, stop

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thinking hold the charge the pain, which again isn't bad.

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It's simply an experience. Yep. Until we judge it and go, Oh,

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sucks. I wish this was over. Now it's suffering. Right. So, which

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is a huge distinction right there, which is don't touch your

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pain, just experience it. Like when I go to the dentist, and

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they're doing a deep cleaning out, oh, and my hands are

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starting to grab on to you know, I'm a tense, I'm getting all

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tense. It's a great practice, right? Just relax, breathe. Stop

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judging that sensation of physical pain, stop judging,

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just experience it as it is, which is like totally free. It's

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an unbelievable shift away from sucks and sucks This sucks to

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experience. But it was very guided there in India. So we

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would take hours, you know, so they would have us think our way

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activate the emotional charge, the pain and then just hold the

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charge. Notice as you go to the effort of trying to think your

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way out of it. You know, the ego games and just get back in like

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kind of drowning yourself in the pool of pain, and then realizing

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that the pain doesn't govern it. If you like what you said, What

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you resist persists. When you join it. The paradox is it

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alleviates now this is a super simplification. Okay, so I want

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again, I want to acknowledge, I'm sure that there are people

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in your tribe, your audience here that have experienced

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severe trauma, a million times worse than my story. You know,

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if they haven't gotten a don't just hear that exercise and

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think, oh, I'll just go heal myself by locking myself in the

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room with a tiger get find find. There's so many amazing

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professionals are trained in the healing arts. Yeah, and find

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them

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and do the work. It's much easier when you have

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someone in your corner who understands you know, no

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judgement.

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There's zero chance that I would be as peaceful,

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happy, full of gratitude and enthusiasm and successful as I

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am. I define success as having your life on your terms. If I if

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it weren't for all the healers that I had in my life that I

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sought. I sought

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out interesting knowing what do you know now?

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What would you say to your 20 years old self?

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Huh? That's fun. Yeah, I've thought about this before,

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I would, I would tell him that your success is guaranteed.

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Don't ruin any time with fear. Just stay the path. Stay with

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your passion, sharpen your saw, do the work. And enjoy all of

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the getting there. Don't ruin it with wishing everything was

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different wishing it was different. Enjoy the ambiguity.

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Enjoy the not knowing how it's gonna work and choose all in

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this choose to know that you're going to create that you are in

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the process of creating your life as you want it to be. And

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don't ruin it with so

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much fun. Love it. Love it. And Chris Doris,

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one of the world's best mental toughness coaches

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I'm sorry

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No, no, I mean, one of us won one of the world's

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best the tribe world's best mental toughness coach last year

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one of one of the chapters

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you know that's that's a big thing. Like, that's

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beautiful. It's like being able to you know the the subtitle of

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my first book is I think I love it. The time I feel like manta

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ray, but the subtitle is badass confidently

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stepping into your own brilliance. Right? Yes.

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Being comfortable being the best in the world at your

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craft and then we're not comparing ourselves to others.

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I'm just being the best. Exactly.

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It is. It's like with me, it's my commitment. And

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by the way, world best started it with you from you, you know

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this. So another hashtag being a tough this coach, my my question

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is, what challenges do you still have

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being human? You know, Byron Katie is one of my

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favorite teachers. I've never met her, but I feel like I have

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because I know people who know her so well, like Steve

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Hardison, and Steve Chandler, this is her. And one of my she's

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got so many amazing, she's got so many amazing quotes, but my

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favorite one of hers is this until you are able to respond to

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all of life with enthusiasm. Your work isn't done. Because

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that. So I am I am actively reducing the amount of time that

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passes between an event occurring in my life that is

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something I wasn't asking for. And getting to enthusiasm and

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creation, I'm shrinking the amount of time. So I still have

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a problem with what is a lot. Because I scratched my, my eye

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brow earlier. And I was looking at I'm like, Dude, are you

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bleeding? Like on this call? So I'm like, that sucks. That's me,

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hey, internal conflict. Happens all day. Right? I mean, just

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think about seriously, this is a cool thing. Because they think

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about how much of your life you spend in the state of wishing

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shit was different. And it's like a lot. If you're, like,

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honest. So I'm spending less time and wishing stuff was

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different. The I and my first client. I'm a mental coach,

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because I was a whack job. I was a train wreck. So I have all the

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same. I still, I still resist reality, I still struggle

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against reality. I just do it a lot less. I do it less today

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than I did yesterday. I'll do less tomorrow than I do today.

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Because you use your own daily dose. Yes, I

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give I sign up for it. I get it every morning. And I so

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it's nice because I get to read it. I forgot that I wrote that

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one. I'm like, Oh, that's pretty good. Some days I read it. I'm

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like, that one's lazy. But other times I read it like there's

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there's a spelling error. I don't get to go fix it.

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This is a good one. Yeah. So the book we're

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talking about the crease brought the Bailey doors start all 365

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days of your year, with a dose of mental toughness in 30

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seconds or less.

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Yep, you can get on that list, you can have that

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emailed to you the book was created from the email. So it's

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an action email that goes out every morning at 6am, wherever

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around six 7am Wherever you are in the world. And people can

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sign up for that if they go to my website.

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This is bloody powerful. If you're having a not

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a good day.

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It's great. Because it's like, you know, it's like,

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here's my copyright. And it's just like, it's a little you

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know, this one might take longer than 30 days.

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Is his book. Yeah. Yeah. I'll send the link

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to this book as well. All right, yeah, link

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for it. Or they could just sign up the book is fun.

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But I mean, getting it in your mailbox every day is really very

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useful.

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Where people can find you. Yeah,

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Christopher door. Thank you for asking that. And it's my

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website is awesome. I love my website, very proud of it's

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cool. Yeah, it's fun. And everything's there. So it's

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Christopher doris.com. So my last name is D O R R I S. So

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Christopher doors.com. And right on the homepage, you can sign up

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for the Daily Dose. And that if anybody wants to reach out to

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me, you can email me through that websites contact.

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Chris, before we go, do you have any concluding

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thoughts?

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Yeah, it's, it's something we talked about

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earlier. Okay. We are well, not in this language. Each of us is

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an excuse my language, each of us is an expression of divine

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grace in human form. We are designed we are part of a

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perfectly flawless operating system, a peaceful Cosmos, where

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even the most cataclysmic event that occurs within it, which is

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star going kaboom. That's where the building blocks of life

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heavy elements of carbon and oxygen are formulated. So

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everything's purposeful and Right. Right, so magic is all

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there is. That's the constant in this equation that we call life.

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The variable is my ability to slow down enough and vibe high

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enough so that I can co create

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without Oh, thanks, Chris. Ladies and

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gentleman, Mr. Chris, Doris. Thank you for being here. I know

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it's not easy. But there is a part of you who is ready to take

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this journey all the way. And I can help. Reach out to me

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directly at Elena at nma the nova.com to get work. You can

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