March 11, 2025 • 41 mins
In this episode, I’m revisiting a talk I gave at the Just Be Social Club mastermind, breaking down one of the biggest roadblocks we all face—bringing our ideas to life. Too often, we wait for the perfect moment, the right connections, or a clear path forward. But the truth is, the key to success is to be in constant creation. When you keep moving, keep building, and put your ideas out into the world, the right opportunities, people, and bridges will find you.
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Speaker 1 (00:06):
Let me talk about talk.
Speaker 2 (00:08):
There we go. He said, you live in life as
a ringo, where you questioned when you fit in. Every
time you mingle, they say you do this with not
that my rapin is really man this life as a ringo. Yeah, hello,
and welcome to anotherpisode of life as a gringo. I
am dramas, of course, and today I want to share something.
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I want to share some some wisdom from past dramas,
if you will. And I know it's kind of douchey
to talk about myself in the third person, but bear
with me here. I was just going through some old stuff.
I think sometimes when I get stuck, frustrated at a
bit of a loss, or I feel like I'm losing
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a little bit of my motivation to keep pushing forward
on certain things, or or just as a creative in general,
I kind of find that by revisiting old projects, I
sort of reinspire myself, you know.
Speaker 1 (01:12):
I feel like there's some some.
Speaker 2 (01:14):
Wisdom there, particularly when you know, I'm able to revisit
points in time where maybe I was feeling incredibly inspired and.
Speaker 1 (01:26):
Was sort of like living with this.
Speaker 2 (01:28):
Fire, you know, burning in inside of me, you know,
And I amongst that, I should say, amongst sort of
that reminiscing, I came across an old talk that I
did as a part of the Just Be Social Club, which,
for anybody who's new here, there was a couple of
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Mastermind groups that I hosted for the better part of
a year. We did two groups, and we would meet
weekly and just sort of like have conversations about my
philosophy on life and alongside my partner Brenda in that
project and you know, just sort of giving people space
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and also trying to just consistently motivate one another each
and every week, you know, and pick each other up
as best we can. And one of the conversations I
sort of stumbled upon it was I think during the
writer's strike which plagued the TV in film industry, and
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at the time I had a project that was like
we were hoping to get across the finish line, and
the writer strike kind of fucked everything over and was
to nail the coffin for it. But I sort of
was like impressed by my own reaction to it at
the time and sort of how I was mentally in
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a place where I was just sort of accepting that
for whatever reason, now wasn't the time for that particular project,
and it was beyond my control, and I was in
a good place where I could accept it, you know.
And I was sort of impressed by that, inspired by that,
and I thought, as a whole, the conversation was really
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good and relevant to a lot of things, relevant to
a lot of things that are going in my life,
and I think a great refresher for so many of us.
I think, you know, something I've been I don't want
to say struggling with, but something I've been dealing with is,
you know, I have two things that I'm very excited about,
two things that are potentially, you know, great sort of
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steps in the next direction that would sort of, you know,
at least for the better part of the next year,
sort of give me direction as to what my life
would look like career wise, you know. And ironically, with
these two things, the parties involved have sort of been
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a little bit touch and go or a little I
don't want to say sketching, I think that's the right word.
But like the like I'll will be great, will be
like doing emails back and forth and then all of
a sudden they will fall off the face of the
earth for like, you know, over a week and then
re emerge, and it's like incredibly frustrating because like, dude,
I just want to fucking wrap this up and sort
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of like you know, get into a place mentally where
I'm like, all right, this will you know, my the
better part of my next year is going to look like,
Especially as a creative, you know, it's not like we
are at least in my sort of area or how
my things.
Speaker 1 (04:34):
Are set up.
Speaker 2 (04:35):
A lot of the projects are sort of you know,
it's project oriented, you know, so I don't have a
salary that I'm counting on or things like that. It's
kind of like, all right, you you sort of are
creating new opportunities and then like each year you're kind
of reevaluating and you know, sort of potentially restarting or
whatever it might be. So for me, it's like the
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idea of being able to have a sense of direction
is sort of no, like, okay, you can maybe putting
your attention now in this one thing and allow yourself
to have that sigh of relief as far as you
know what the next year looks like. You know, not
having that is incredibly frustrating, especially when it's like we're
so close, and there's just like a slow person on
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the other side of that email chain, essentially not you know,
responding as quickly as you'd like, right, And I've been
you know, I'll get down about it, I'll get frustrated,
I'll get annoyed, whatever it might be, you know, And
I keep trying to remind myself like God's got you,
the universe has got you, always has.
Speaker 1 (05:42):
And well, I don't want to like ruin what I
talk about in this talk that we're I'm about to
share with you.
Speaker 2 (05:49):
But I do mention in this talk the idea of
like the bridge, right, And I was really actually impressed
by my mindset during that time period where I sort
of was like checking myself of like, stop trying to
think so far ahead, stop trying to have it all
figured out. Just accept and appreciate the like sort of
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bridges that come along the way that keep you moving right,
the little winds along the way. And I've had a
few of those, you know, in the moments where I'm
kind of like I don't really know what the next
month looks like, boom, an opportunity comes up and like, oh, okay,
now I know what the rest of my next month
looks like and it's not, you know, the year laid
out that I would love ideally, but it is sort
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of the in the present moment, giving me what I
need to sort of keep pushing forward. And yeah, I
guess I'm not appreciating the bridges or not understanding the
value of the bridges as which I should. And I guess,
as typically what happens, you know, you sort of find
these conversations when you need them the most. And old
me was spreading some wisdom which I thought was really
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profound and also just just I'll touch on this as
we kind of close out, But I think the idea
is also to constantly be in a mode of creation, right,
I truly do believe, And it's been my experience that
as long as I've stayed in a mode of creation,
even if I didn't know where that creation was going
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to go, even if that particular creation didn't have some
sort of guaranteed paycheck or.
Speaker 1 (07:24):
Whatever, it might be.
Speaker 2 (07:26):
The fact that every day I showed up and was
always looking for new opportunities to create. Eventually I kept
stumbling and stepping in things. Right, I look at my career,
and that's the story of my career is I just
kept looking for the next opportunity. I kept being in
a mode of creation and never sort of sat still.
And that's why, you know, I consistently every time would
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find new opportunities, or when I would have a setback,
I bounce back rather quickly, or a setback would never
truly derail me because I always stayed in the mode
of constant creation, which eventually yields some sort of results.
Maybe not always the you know, sort of big like
in my example one year all out result that you're
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looking for right now, but it always provides you with
the bridge that you need to keep on pushing, to
keep on fighting. And I think there's value in that,
and I think oftentimes we lack gratitude for that and
sort of make ourselves feel like we're in a worse situation.
Speaker 1 (08:26):
Than we actually are, if that makes sense.
Speaker 2 (08:29):
But yeah, just wanted to I guess preface the conversation
with that without further ado, though we'll share it as
like a long hint the segment taking this wisdom from
past dramas a talk I gave for the just Be
Social Club Mastermind group. I'll probably just kind of start
(08:57):
getting into some of the things that I wanted to
talk about today. I'm I'm excited because I'm gonna be
sharing something that's been really effective for me in terms
of goal setting and staying consistent on getting the shit
that I need to get done. And Brenda's seen this firsthand,
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like how this has just been like a game changer,
and we've just been tearing through goals that I've had for,
you know, for the year and things like that. So
I'll share that with y'all today, and obviously are our
last meeting. The homework was kind of talking about just
diving into something that you are passionate about. Don't think about,
(09:40):
you know, long term vision, money, what does this mean,
whatever it is, just just have fun with it for
the month.
Speaker 1 (09:46):
So I want to check in with y'all on that.
Speaker 2 (09:49):
And before we do that, I want to kind of
start by talking about perfectionism, because I know it's something
that is such a hindrance to so many of us,
you know, when it comes to starting new things or
to take an idea from like our mind to actually
you know, bring it into the real world and making
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it something that we.
Speaker 1 (10:10):
Share with others. And I struggle with that as well.
Speaker 2 (10:14):
I mean, I still do, you know, even with all
the work that I try and do on myself and
pushing against this type of stuff, you know, even recently,
like I was, you know, really like, oh, I got
to kind of you know, start making more of a
TikTok presence. You know, it's just a necessary evil. And
I was kind of overthinking the content, like, oh, what
am I going to make? Though? How am I going
(10:36):
to present this? You know, I can't you know, outside
of just reposting clips from the podcast? How am I
going to make original content? And that perfectionism like stopped
me for doing it for a few weeks at a time.
And then once I did it, I did it and
it wasn't a big deal and I was able to consistently,
you know, dive into into that content and put it out.
But again, it was that perfectionism, you know, kind of
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holding me back from getting to this task that I
knew that I had to get into.
Speaker 1 (11:02):
What's Upjade.
Speaker 2 (11:04):
So we're I'm just kind of catching people up on on.
Speaker 1 (11:09):
What I've been thinking as far as perfectionism.
Speaker 2 (11:12):
And I know that's something you and I have talked
about before, but you know, I think it's it's ultimately
like the biggest roadblock we often have to get past
is the idea of perfect and the idea of something
not being ready or not being enough, not being good enough,
you know, Like I had, I had just done a
podcast episode just talking about like the the idea of
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like embracing the things that you're good at just as
much as the things that are like your limitations. And
when you're able to get the two of them to
like work together in unison and on the same team,
that's when you have like your unique stamp on whatever
it is that you're doing right. So like I am,
you know, like I beget a lot into like designing
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stuff like clothing and graphic design and stuff.
Speaker 1 (11:59):
I'm not nottally a gifted artist who can draw you
a picture.
Speaker 2 (12:02):
I'm not like a photoshop whiz who can you know,
make any idea come to life. But I know what
I like, and I know how to make what I
like right. And maybe for a while I might be
like frustrated with myself because I can't be as good
as somebody else. And this definitely happened in music, where
I wanted to produce music that sounded like my favorite
producers and I couldn't do it. I couldn't write melodies
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like them, I couldn't do this like them, and that
would frustrate me. That would stop me from actually honing
my craft and you know, really working on something because
I just felt like I wasn't good enough because I
couldn't do what they did. And once I began to
realize that, you know, in working within my limitations is
how I actually create something unique that like blew my
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mind for everything that I do right, and now I
embrace the imperfection because I know that it's like my
unique stamp on whatever it is that I'm doing, that
is something only I could create, right, and that's what.
Speaker 1 (12:54):
Changes the world.
Speaker 2 (12:55):
That is what moves the needle is the originality, right,
But the originality comes from embracing the imperfections just as
much as the things that are like outwith me facing
amazing about it, right.
Speaker 1 (13:07):
And you know, I think it's it's.
Speaker 2 (13:10):
Easy, I think for a lot of us to fall
into this trap, depending on especially how you were brought up.
Speaker 1 (13:14):
Like my father is OCD.
Speaker 2 (13:16):
My father is the ultimate perfectionist, like to a fault,
to just like the point he drives himself crazy, you know,
trying to get everything perfect. And you know, as as
a kid growing up, my father never was like the
guy using power tools. He was never assembling stuff, building shit.
It was always like, oh, we have to get somebody
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else to help us with that, right, And then that
raised me as an adult as somebody who didn't know
how to do anything around the house. I didn't know
how to use a power tool, I didn't know how
to use anything, and that was, you know, his perfectionism
always made me think that I needed somebody else in
order to do something right, in order to do it
well or to do it properly. And I began to
kind of push back against that. And obviously this is
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just like a stilly example, but it's also something that
is like something I've added to my tool kit of
things that I can do now. But like I used
to love watching like DIY videos on YouTube, or watching
people build their studios or build out their storefronts, and
like see the way that they were like repurposing wood.
Speaker 1 (14:15):
And doing all these different things.
Speaker 2 (14:16):
And I was jealous, like I always wanted to be
able to do that, and I always kind of made
the excuse like, well, I'm just not handy I'm not
naturally handy, and then I just had to kind of
push myself one day. And it started with making a
very simple bar cart that literally, like I used a handsaw.
Speaker 1 (14:32):
That was as crazy as I got with it, you know.
Speaker 2 (14:34):
And then you fast forward two years later, and I
built out an entire studio, you know what I mean,
like by myself, you know, without the help of any
contractors or anything like that.
Speaker 1 (14:43):
I built this wall behind you.
Speaker 2 (14:44):
I built another one that is literally just like this,
but it's on wheels and it moves around because a
TV screen attached to it and lights attached to it
and things like that. Like, you know, I was using
power tools for the first time. And it's not perfect.
If you were to like really study this wall or
study any of the things in the studio, they're not perfect.
But I still made it happen. I brought my idea
to life regardless, right, And I think that's that's what
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I'm want to really instilling people as as we begin
to think about our passions and wanting to figure out
how to become more invested and more involved in them,
it's also getting out of our own way to a degree, right,
and understanding that the mistakes and you know, having to
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redo something over and over again at times, like that's
all a part of the process, and that process makes
you better inevitably, right, Like me starting with the bar
car and having a bunch of like, you know, fucked
up looking things that I built along the way led
me to now actually having the skill set where I
can bring an idea to life. I can dream up
a studio and build it, and now I have it
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and I love it, and I can fix the things around,
you know, the building and not have to sit here
relying on somebody else for everything that I do. Right,
It's like cutting out the middle man. But it took
the process of sucking. It took the process of you know,
getting better, you know, little by little, and it's like
the concept of you know, the idea of like ten
thousand hours, right, That's when you actually master for something,
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is when you have ten thousand hours put into it.
And I just want to like drill this into your
head again, to just get out of your own fucking
way when it comes to like really diving into this
stuff and really challenging yourself to bring these ideas into
the real world, right, because it's great to have an idea.
Speaker 1 (16:30):
It's great to be energized by.
Speaker 2 (16:31):
It's great to tell your spouse or your significant other
or your friends about this great idea that you have.
But what is it really worth if it never leaves
your mind, if it never becomes something more than it's
just spoken about. Right, So it's something I want to
really kind of instill in you guys as we begin
to talk about the homework and our passions and all
these different things, and as my dog is walking.
Speaker 1 (16:53):
Through my step.
Speaker 2 (16:54):
But you know, it's I think it's just an incredibly
necessary thing to learn and something to to always keep
in mind. And then Jade I was mentioning, also, I'm
gonna break down for everybody how I set my goals
and how that's just been like a game changer for
me and making sure that I'm getting shit done and
holding myself accountable.
Speaker 1 (17:14):
So with that said, I just want to check in
with everybody.
Speaker 2 (17:17):
It's nice to kind of like a little smaller group
today so we can maybe get a little bit kind
of deeper. But I want to just check in and
first and Allem, we'll see how you're genuinely feeling beyond
just like I'm good, Everything's good. Just busy, you know,
with work, like genuinely actually, you know, really let us
know how you're feeling. Could be at you had a
shitty day, you had a long day, it's in a
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rough week, whatever it is. And then I want to
check in about kind of your your homework, I mean,
and and for me to start, you know, I'm pretty
burnt out right now.
Speaker 1 (17:46):
I'm not gonna lie to y'all. I am. I am
pushing it right now.
Speaker 2 (17:50):
I have a lot of shit that I'm I've probably
you know, a bit off more than I can chew.
But I but I also am listening to my body
and I'm having I'm going away next week, so I'm
trusting myself and that's something that's a very big difference
for me.
Speaker 1 (18:03):
So I'm feeling good about that.
Speaker 2 (18:05):
As much as I feel like maybe I need to
chill a little bit, I'm feeling great and proud of
myself in this moment that I am listening to myself,
taking care of my body, taking care of my mind,
and knowing when it's time for me to kind of
hit pause for a second and not be nervous that
life is gonna crumble if I take a week off.
Speaker 1 (18:21):
You know. So that's where I'm at.
Speaker 2 (18:24):
And you know, I didn't participate necessarily in this homework,
But for me, my homework has been this entire year.
Keep following your creative intuition and just see where it
takes you get don't worry about you know how you're
going to market it, where it fits into everything that
you're doing. Just like if you have a whim, go
for it and just see what happens. So I've been
kind of on that path myself. All right, I'm hopping
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here real quick. We'll take a break and then we'll
be right back. All right, we are back, and now
more of this conversation from the just Be Social club
even first and foremost, how I would see what you
said with your boss, like it was the opportunity you
were hoping for, but you got something that is gonna
still be a positive force free at least financially, right
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Like to me, I always see that. It's just like
that's like the bridge that you needed to keep going
on your path, you know what I mean. It was
like you kind of hit this like creek or river whatever,
and like you don't know how you're gonna get across.
And now, like life gifted you that to remind you
to keep ongoing, you know, to keep on the path
that you know somewhere down the line you're gonna get
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to where you need to be, and it's gonna just
keep giving you the opportunities that you need to keep
you on your path. Right, Like I think to myself,
I have a lot of like money trauma, right, And.
Speaker 1 (19:40):
In what I do a lot.
Speaker 2 (19:43):
Of times financially, I get lump sums of money at
one time, right, and then I have to figure out
how to make it last the entire year. And even
if I'm doing okay with budgeting, I still have the
mentality in my mind if I'm not getting a check
on a consistent basis, then I need to start freaking out,
like you know that the sky is falling essentially right,
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And you know, so I even was running into that
recently where I was just kind of like, man, like,
I don't feel like i've't cast a check in a
long time. I'm just seeing as little by little I'm
spending and you know, with my expenses and things are
going away. And then that bridge happened, like to give
me that peace of mind of like, oh, all summer long,
I have like a bunch of checks I'm able to
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count on, you know what, I mean, to just give
me that peace of mind that I no longer have
to think about it, you know, even though I was
gonna be okay. At least I can like cure that
part of my brain that still is like in that cycle.
And again, it's like a bridge, it's a band aid.
I still have to work through those feelings and like
get over that, but life is rewarding me with something
to keep on going. It's like a reminder, just that
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little nudge I needed to get out of my own
head and get back to work kind of thing, you know.
Speaker 1 (20:50):
And I think you.
Speaker 2 (20:51):
Know, I love what you said about making sure your
actions also follow like the call for manifest right, and yes,
whatever is is yours will always be yours. But you
also have to be doing the work. And it's something
I talk to myself about a lot, and recently as
I've been having ups and downs, right, I don't know
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if you guys have been following, like the writers strike
we're having here in the in the States with like
all the television movie writers, and like I have a
project that I've been working on for fuck almost two
years at this point, and like so close to like
signing contracts, and literallys been months and people have been
dragging their feet. Now it's going picking up speed, and
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the writer's strike happens, and it's fucking everything up right now.
Speaker 1 (21:37):
Right, and it's disappointing. It's like heartbreaking.
Speaker 2 (21:44):
I feel for some of the other people on the
project who were really counting on this as like their
big breakthrough thing, both financially and career wise, and I'm
thinking about them, and I just have to like remind
myself that, for whatever reason, now not the time for
this to happen. For whatever reason, it's beyond my control.
I've put in the work, I've shown up disciplined, I've
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done everything I had to do, and I took it
this far. Now it's time for me to just put
it on the shelf for now, until like life opens
back up and gives me the opportunity to work on
it again. And what I've been reminding myself of in
these moments right now, because I think I have a
lot of little things like that that are.
Speaker 1 (22:20):
In these phases where they're about to hit that tipping.
Speaker 2 (22:22):
Point, but there's just something holding it back for right now,
I just keep reminding myself each night like an affirmation,
like you're doing the work. You're showing up every single
day and you're doing the work, and that's all you
can do. That you're manifesting it. But then on top
of that, you're following up by all the little actions
that you're in control of that it's bound to tip
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in your favor at some point.
Speaker 1 (22:44):
You just have to keep showing up.
Speaker 2 (22:46):
Right, And I think that's what I pair with, Like
my idea of just always being able to manifest things
is that I know that I'm showing up to do
the work on a discipline basis, right, And you're not
going to be.
Speaker 1 (22:58):
In control of all the work that you do.
Speaker 2 (23:00):
You're not gonna be able to do every single thing
that is needed to drag it across the finish line.
Speaker 1 (23:04):
There are always other moving parts.
Speaker 2 (23:06):
But as long as you know you're showing up every
single day ready to get down to business and take
care of what you have to, that's all that you
can really do.
Speaker 1 (23:13):
Right.
Speaker 2 (23:13):
You can't ask for anything else of yourself or or
of the universe. And again, you just have to keep
that faith, you know, I think, and I keep reminding
myself something else side mind myself is that like the
only way I'm going to fail is if I stop trying.
So just don't stop trying, and you're neverly gonna step
in shit at some point, you know what I mean?
Like that, I just always keep that in the back
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of my mind when the moments when like I get
a disappointing email or something beyond my control happens, you know,
and and just keep reminding myself to keep going. You know,
like even something you said today about getting an email,
it wasn't the response you were hoping for, right, Like
I relate to that so much, and maybe something isn't
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uh fucking with the astrology and all these different things, right,
But like I know, last week I was just like
dragging ass, like stumbling hard just to get to Friday.
And then like you know, then we just made time
on the weekend and like made up for it, and
I was proud of myself, but like I know, that
was a rough fucking week to get through, just to
do the bare minimum. And then even this week, like
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I had been pumping myself up about like this opportunity
of working with it like a big time manager, and
like we had been having good conversations and blah blah blah.
And I got an email that she just couldn't take
on any more clients, and it was incredibly disappointing. And
I remember I had like, man, I had done all
the manifesting shit you're supposed to.
Speaker 1 (24:34):
I felt it.
Speaker 2 (24:35):
I felt what it's going to be like signing with
that person and the door they're gonna be able to open.
And I couldn't sleep the night before, you know, when
I was supposed to have an email back from them,
Like I was like, Man, this is it. We're on
our track, like start, you know, dusting off those notebooks
that you have with all your ideas written down, because
this is the person you were looking for to connect
certain dots. And I got that disappointing email, and like,
of course, I'm like, fuck, this manifestation shit doesn't work.
Speaker 1 (24:58):
This sucks blah blah blah. Right, But to your point,
was I really doing the work?
Speaker 2 (25:03):
She was the only manager that in that class that
I was pursuing. I had been doing research on anybody else,
and she fell into my lap because of my lawyer.
So I'm sitting here saying, this is the team member
that I'm missing. Is like a solid manager day to day,
and I haven't been doing shit to really attract that
person or to put myself in their vision aside from
my normal day to day thing. Right, So it's then
looking back and saying, Okay, well this was disappointing, but
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now I'm realizing where I was coming up short. And
now I'm also excited because I came up short, not
because I wasn't good at it or that you know.
Speaker 1 (25:37):
That I'm not supposed to be doing these things.
Speaker 2 (25:39):
It's like the timing was off, and at the same time,
I wasn't also putting in the amount of work that
I should have been putting into it to even expect
those results. Right, It's like having those honest conversations with
yourself and you know, and again I think I love
how you kind of phrase that and the idea of
like it's not just manifestation alone, it's also showing the
fuck up every day, like with your discipline.
Speaker 1 (26:02):
And last thing I'll say is I love how you talked.
Speaker 2 (26:05):
About like almost not hopping on this meeting because you know,
if you had like the uh sort of like if
you were drained socially, if you had that anything left
in your tank, right, And I go through that sometimes too,
and then I remind myself, like, yeah, but this is
something you love doing. You always get energized by it,
and I and I push myself to log on and
do it, and I feel great about it after the fact, right.
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And I think that it's like, sometimes even though we
know what's best for us, that fucking negative mind gets
in the way and it pushes us to do things
that are not in our best interest, right, like, oh,
I know I shouldn't eat this, or I know I
should go to the gym, or I know I should
like do this thing, and but like that other voice
is like, you know what, now, you can do it tomorrow,
put it off, right, And and oftentimes it's very easy
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to listen to that mind. I think that's what probably
has set people apart who find success and who are
able to make things happen, is they're able to fight
back against that voice, right, They're able to find the
discipline needed to say, even if I'm not up to
it right now, I know this is necessary for the
greater vision. You know, this is what my future self
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is going to be proud of that I showed up
in this moment and that's what they allow to kind
of control them. They don't let that other voice win.
And I just think that that's like an incredibly important
thing to keep in mind, but also that you should
be patting yourself on the back of the fact that
you push through that right, Like you're you're fighting through
some really tough shit, as far as like the voices
in our mind that try to tell us these different things,
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and like any battle that you win with that is
is something to be celebrated, you know. So I think
you gotta look at it that way. But I think
you're you're onto I think a great sort of mindset
with everything. And you know, sometimes you fall off your meditation,
sometimes you fall off of this, you fall off of that.
It's okay, you know what I'm saying, Like you're as
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long as you're aware and you're holding yourself accountable. As
far as like recognizing like okay, I got to do
a little bit better here, a little bit better there.
That's all that you can ask for. We're all human,
you know what I mean. Like, it's just not always
go go go, no matter how discipline you are or anything.
It doesn't mean you're lazy, doesn't mean any of the above.
It just means you're human having a human moment. It's
gonna happen. I have those moments where I go into
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a cave and I don't do anything that I should
be doing for a while, you know. So it's just
easy to not I'm sorry. It's important to not beat
yourself up, even though it's not easy. Man. I hope
you guys enjoyed that conversation from a past meeting of
the Just Be Social Club.
Speaker 1 (28:29):
Yeah again, I don't know.
Speaker 2 (28:30):
I think it's important even if you were part of
that club. It's important to revisit those conversations. I think
sometimes more than anything, we just need a reminder, Like
we know the information, sometimes we just need somebody to
sort of nudge just back on track, if you will.
And that's why I like revisiting these old conversations at
old topics that maybe we've covered before, but sometimes we need,
you know, a little reminder on And I'll kind of
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put a pin everything and expand upon some of the
ideas as we tie everything in a neat little boat
in a segment we call conclusion stew time.
Speaker 1 (29:07):
All right, So I think.
Speaker 2 (29:10):
The general takeaways as I revisited that conversation what stood
out for me, And I'd love to hear kind of
what shout out for you if I'm missing something that
was particularly profound for you. But I love how I
kind of started with the idea of like one of
the biggest roadblocks we all face, and the idea that
we are our own biggest roadblock, and it's oftentimes our
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idea of perfectionism. And I've talked about this a ton, obviously,
but I think in the context of always being in
a mode of constant creation, nothing will kill that creation
more than perfectionism. And I think that is what makes
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so many people sort of stall out or not even try,
is the idea of perfectionism the right moment, the right opportunity,
quote unquote, and I'm doing air quotes here, you know,
like getting caught up in this idea of how things
are supposed to be before you can move forward will
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inevitably make you shoot yourself in the foot before you
even start the race. And I think, you know, I
think I was using the example and there of like
I built my studio, and I built a fucking deck,
and you know, all, like the deck in my backyard
is by no means perfect but I learned so much
along the process, and I still have a fucking deck,
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Like I utilize this deck every summer. I'm thinking about
that's on my mind because we're having like a seventy
degree weather, thank god, finally over here, and it's about
to be deck season and I'm putting on that that
grill apron real soon. And yeah, are there things I
notice every time I step foot on the fucking deck. Absolutely,
But like it's provided a you know, progress for my backyard.
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My backyard is like now far more enjoyed place for
me as a result, you know, And I think that
is sort of the thing we always have to keep
in mind. It's like it's not about getting it right,
you know all the time. It's not about it looking
exactly as it did in your head. It's just about
actually fucking doing something. It's actually thinking about an idea,
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you know, conceptualizing it and then actually taking action. Like
that's that's the most important part, is the action. Like
there's no value in ideas that live in your head.
And I've talked about that a bunch of times as well.
But I think, you know, we're all sort of frustrated
at times because we're not where we want to be.
Things aren't panning out as we would have hoped. This
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isn't right, you know, this is bothering us, This person
let us down, whatever it might be. And those are
real emotions, real feelings. And I'm not, you know, taking
anything away from those very real emotions that come up
when we are disappointed by life or people in our life.
But the only answer, the only solution, is to create
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another opportunity, right, create a new opportunity to find further happiness.
Speaker 1 (32:08):
That's all you can do for yourself. Literally, that's the
only thing that we are able to do.
Speaker 2 (32:13):
Right. There are so many things I can't I can't
help if these people from these different projects are taking forever.
Speaker 1 (32:21):
To email me back, right, I can't help that.
Speaker 2 (32:25):
The action I can take is I can sort of
follow up politely to hopefully nudge them into responding. If
that doesn't work, I then have to sort of be
okay with letting go of the opportunity and moving on
to something else and seeing what are the other options.
Who else do I know that I can work with
in the same capacity, right, But it's detrimental to sort
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of just sit there and get frustrated it's like, oh,
it would have worked out perfectly with this person or
this idea, and blah blah blah, and life sucks and
all these different things, and it's like, dude, it's always going.
Speaker 1 (32:58):
To be what you make it, right.
Speaker 2 (33:00):
It's easy for us for me to say that, you know,
when talking to somebody else. It's harder to you know,
swallow that pill when you're talking about a situation for yourself.
And quite frankly, I'm talking to myself right now, and
I'm calming myself down. I'm talking myself off the ledge
if you will right now of just kind of like,
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what the fuck are you gonna do? I can send
the polite nudge. If that doesn't work, I have to
keep on moving out with my life. I got to
figure out the next thing. I got to create the
next opportunity. I have to open my mind up and
you know, get down on my laptop and fucking open
up chat GBT and have a back and forth, you know,
brainstorming session with it. Throw on some documentaries that I'm
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inspired by, I talk to some friends, you know, whatever.
Speaker 1 (33:45):
It might be.
Speaker 2 (33:45):
Like, I have to just keep putting myself in positions
for opportunity and the only way to do that is
to stay in a mode of constant creation, you know.
And it's you know, and it's all like, this is
all information that you know, it's information that I know.
I'm literally telling myself same shit, like I had these
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conversations every fucking month when I have to tell myself
after a frustrating situation, you know. But it's literally showing
up every morning with my to do list, attacking it
as best I can that day, and you know, try
not to get caught up in the results of it all, right,
which is again another difficult thing. But like the things
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that make us frustrated, that piste us off, that make
us depressed, are the fact that we're getting so you know,
so obsessed with the results of it all, how we
want things to be, how we want things to look,
how we want them to appear, how we want others
to act. Like that's really the at the end of
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the day, that is the cause of our feelings of
anger and frustration is our projections on sort of trying
to make life exist the way that it in our head.
And that's just not feasible, you know, and at times
yet it will you know, what we might get lucky
and have opportunities where it does work out as planned
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or as we had hoped, or better than we hoped,
but oftentimes more than not, it's it's going to throw
you curveballs.
Speaker 1 (35:15):
It's going to look different. It's you know, unexpected opportunities.
Speaker 2 (35:19):
And unexpected failures will will show up at your doorstep,
you know, and you just keep staying in this mode
of constant creation.
Speaker 1 (35:27):
That's the only answer to all of our problems, is
a mode of constant creation.
Speaker 2 (35:32):
Right.
Speaker 1 (35:32):
It's like when you get terrible, terrible news, or like say,
all of a sudden, you know.
Speaker 2 (35:40):
You've got, you know, a fucking expense that given beyond
that God forbid. Unexpectedly your company goes under and everybody
loses their job. Unfortunately, we live in a world that
does not have empathy for that. Your bills are still
going to be due, right, Your your mortgage company still
(36:02):
wants to get paid. Your your car company still wants
their their their monthly payment. So you just sort of
stopping and being pissed off at the world, and you know,
sleeping all day is not going to be the thing
that fixes the the situation. You have to get into
a mode of creating opportunity. That means sending out your resume.
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That means hitting up friends in your industry asking around,
are there any job opportunities? You know, there's no shame,
and you have to go drive Uber Eats or whatever
you know in the meantime to keep the lights on.
But that's what I mean by constant, being in a
constant mode of creation. It's you just have to keep moving,
right that The only way you truly fails when you
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stop moving, when you you know, stop trying to find
a solution, and they take away your house and your
livelihood and you end up on the street or whatever,
right like, God forbid.
Speaker 1 (36:53):
That's the only time that.
Speaker 2 (36:55):
You know, you you sort of end up failing is
when you just give up and accept all the bullshit
that life will throw to you if you don't, you know,
take control, Like, if you relinquish control just to life,
it will throw a whole bunch of shit at you
that you don't want, and it will be, you know,
the worst case scenario. And I'm just ram I'm literally
(37:15):
talking to myself right now, like because I guess the
last thing I'll did done is like I guess the
press epist for this was like, I woke up today,
you know, did some some of the things I had
set out, and it's like, you know, yesterday, I'm like,
all right, maybe email me back. Nope, I'm like, you
know what, it's Monday, right, It's Monday. People are fucking
(37:36):
catching up on emails and blah blah blah blah blah. Right,
and one of them is like overseas, I think like
eight hours ahead. So I'm like, all right, I woke
up and I was like, you know, usually I'll get
an email at like four am, you know, So I
do my morning routine, I open my email and I look,
no fucking email from that person. So immediately then after
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I started the day with, you know, peacefully, I'm fucking
annoyed now and cause it's Tuesday now, which means if
I didn't get it by now, I'm not gonna fucking
get an email probably told tomorrow at the earliest. If
I get it now, we're middle of the week, right,
and potentially now it's like, okay, we're gonna fucking go
through a whole other situation of it's not just one email.
I need they have to respond to something I need
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to responding to send something like it. So now we're
back into next week. So now we're fucking three weeks
out of what we originally were supposed to be doing,
and I got so frustrated, so annoyed. On top of that,
Daylight Savings is just kicking my fucking ass right now,
where I'm exhausted for no reason, and I like lost
the motivation to do anything today. And like I took
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care of the bare minimum that I had to do.
I also had to go to the dentist and she
kind of fucked me up today too, So I just
like lost that that motivation, right because and from from
that standpoint, I sort of just stopped sort of taking
advantage of the day and creating opportunity. So I'm just
sitting here, I'm on my phone, I'm doing scrolling. I'm
(39:03):
just fucking annoyed at life. I'm refreshing my email app,
and I'm getting more and more pissed off by the
fact that, like we're literally two emails away from closing
out this deal, and for no reason whatsoever, this person's
just like dragging their fucking feet, you know, And that
is like the worst thing you could do to yourself,
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because again, I'm just sitting here fucking basking in the
misery of this moment, if you will, when the healthy,
better thing to do would be all right, it sucks,
take a moment to fucking take it in. All right, now,
what's the next thing I could be doing, because there's
a ton of other shit that I have going on
that I could be doing right now, to progress forward
and win this day still, right, rather than just sulk
(39:50):
in it and allow a perfectly good day to go
to waste, and perfectly with seventy degree day in the
New York area to just go to waste. I'm just
rotting away in my living room with the fucking shades drawn,
you know.
Speaker 1 (40:04):
And that's so much.
Speaker 2 (40:05):
I think of what people like end up doing in life,
and it just takes them continuously further and further down
a dark path, until you know, they really have this
cynical outlook on the world and are frustrated by what
they see.
Speaker 1 (40:23):
When they look in the mirror.
Speaker 2 (40:25):
But all of that is avoidable by just accepting the
situation and always looking for an opportunity to create, just
staying in that mode of creation day after day, trying
not to worry too much about what it all means
in the grand scheme of it all, but just knowing
that the little grunt work, the little you know creation
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every day, the creative outlook on life of what could
I be doing? What should I be doing, will eventually
yield some sort of results. That'll that'll you know, keep
kicking the ball down the road if you will, and
give you that bridge to the next thing.
Speaker 1 (41:02):
I'm literally talking to myself.
Speaker 2 (41:03):
I hope this's connected, but I needed to hear this today.
With that said, thank y'all so much for tuning in.
Hope this was helpful. I'll catch you on on Thursday
with a brand new episode for our Thursday Trends. So
then stay safe and we shall talk soon. Burse Life
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Let me talk about talk.
Speaker 2 (00:08):
There we go. He said, you live in life as
a ringo, where you questioned when you fit in. Every
time you mingle, they say you do this with not
that my rapin is really man this life as a ringo. Yeah, hello,
and welcome to anotherpisode of life as a gringo. I
am dramas, of course, and today I want to share something.
(00:33):
I want to share some some wisdom from past dramas,
if you will. And I know it's kind of douchey
to talk about myself in the third person, but bear
with me here. I was just going through some old stuff.
I think sometimes when I get stuck, frustrated at a
bit of a loss, or I feel like I'm losing
(00:55):
a little bit of my motivation to keep pushing forward
on certain things, or or just as a creative in general,
I kind of find that by revisiting old projects, I
sort of reinspire myself, you know.
Speaker 1 (01:12):
I feel like there's some some.
Speaker 2 (01:14):
Wisdom there, particularly when you know, I'm able to revisit
points in time where maybe I was feeling incredibly inspired and.
Speaker 1 (01:26):
Was sort of like living with this.
Speaker 2 (01:28):
Fire, you know, burning in inside of me, you know,
And I amongst that, I should say, amongst sort of
that reminiscing, I came across an old talk that I
did as a part of the Just Be Social Club, which,
for anybody who's new here, there was a couple of
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Mastermind groups that I hosted for the better part of
a year. We did two groups, and we would meet
weekly and just sort of like have conversations about my
philosophy on life and alongside my partner Brenda in that
project and you know, just sort of giving people space
(02:10):
and also trying to just consistently motivate one another each
and every week, you know, and pick each other up
as best we can. And one of the conversations I
sort of stumbled upon it was I think during the
writer's strike which plagued the TV in film industry, and
(02:32):
at the time I had a project that was like
we were hoping to get across the finish line, and
the writer strike kind of fucked everything over and was
to nail the coffin for it. But I sort of
was like impressed by my own reaction to it at
the time and sort of how I was mentally in
(02:53):
a place where I was just sort of accepting that
for whatever reason, now wasn't the time for that particular project,
and it was beyond my control, and I was in
a good place where I could accept it, you know.
And I was sort of impressed by that, inspired by that,
and I thought, as a whole, the conversation was really
(03:15):
good and relevant to a lot of things, relevant to
a lot of things that are going in my life,
and I think a great refresher for so many of us.
I think, you know, something I've been I don't want
to say struggling with, but something I've been dealing with is,
you know, I have two things that I'm very excited about,
two things that are potentially, you know, great sort of
(03:37):
steps in the next direction that would sort of, you know,
at least for the better part of the next year,
sort of give me direction as to what my life
would look like career wise, you know. And ironically, with
these two things, the parties involved have sort of been
(03:58):
a little bit touch and go or a little I
don't want to say sketching, I think that's the right word.
But like the like I'll will be great, will be
like doing emails back and forth and then all of
a sudden they will fall off the face of the
earth for like, you know, over a week and then
re emerge, and it's like incredibly frustrating because like, dude,
I just want to fucking wrap this up and sort
(04:19):
of like you know, get into a place mentally where
I'm like, all right, this will you know, my the
better part of my next year is going to look like,
Especially as a creative, you know, it's not like we
are at least in my sort of area or how
my things.
Speaker 1 (04:34):
Are set up.
Speaker 2 (04:35):
A lot of the projects are sort of you know,
it's project oriented, you know, so I don't have a
salary that I'm counting on or things like that. It's
kind of like, all right, you you sort of are
creating new opportunities and then like each year you're kind
of reevaluating and you know, sort of potentially restarting or
whatever it might be. So for me, it's like the
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idea of being able to have a sense of direction
is sort of no, like, okay, you can maybe putting
your attention now in this one thing and allow yourself
to have that sigh of relief as far as you
know what the next year looks like. You know, not
having that is incredibly frustrating, especially when it's like we're
so close, and there's just like a slow person on
(05:19):
the other side of that email chain, essentially not you know,
responding as quickly as you'd like, right, And I've been
you know, I'll get down about it, I'll get frustrated,
I'll get annoyed, whatever it might be, you know, And
I keep trying to remind myself like God's got you,
the universe has got you, always has.
Speaker 1 (05:42):
And well, I don't want to like ruin what I
talk about in this talk that we're I'm about to
share with you.
Speaker 2 (05:49):
But I do mention in this talk the idea of
like the bridge, right, And I was really actually impressed
by my mindset during that time period where I sort
of was like checking myself of like, stop trying to
think so far ahead, stop trying to have it all
figured out. Just accept and appreciate the like sort of
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bridges that come along the way that keep you moving right,
the little winds along the way. And I've had a
few of those, you know, in the moments where I'm
kind of like I don't really know what the next
month looks like, boom, an opportunity comes up and like, oh, okay,
now I know what the rest of my next month
looks like and it's not, you know, the year laid
out that I would love ideally, but it is sort
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of the in the present moment, giving me what I
need to sort of keep pushing forward. And yeah, I
guess I'm not appreciating the bridges or not understanding the
value of the bridges as which I should. And I guess,
as typically what happens, you know, you sort of find
these conversations when you need them the most. And old
me was spreading some wisdom which I thought was really
(06:57):
profound and also just just I'll touch on this as
we kind of close out, But I think the idea
is also to constantly be in a mode of creation, right,
I truly do believe, And it's been my experience that
as long as I've stayed in a mode of creation,
even if I didn't know where that creation was going
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to go, even if that particular creation didn't have some
sort of guaranteed paycheck or.
Speaker 1 (07:24):
Whatever, it might be.
Speaker 2 (07:26):
The fact that every day I showed up and was
always looking for new opportunities to create. Eventually I kept
stumbling and stepping in things. Right, I look at my career,
and that's the story of my career is I just
kept looking for the next opportunity. I kept being in
a mode of creation and never sort of sat still.
And that's why, you know, I consistently every time would
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find new opportunities, or when I would have a setback,
I bounce back rather quickly, or a setback would never
truly derail me because I always stayed in the mode
of constant creation, which eventually yields some sort of results.
Maybe not always the you know, sort of big like
in my example one year all out result that you're
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looking for right now, but it always provides you with
the bridge that you need to keep on pushing, to
keep on fighting. And I think there's value in that,
and I think oftentimes we lack gratitude for that and
sort of make ourselves feel like we're in a worse situation.
Speaker 1 (08:26):
Than we actually are, if that makes sense.
Speaker 2 (08:29):
But yeah, just wanted to I guess preface the conversation
with that without further ado, though we'll share it as
like a long hint the segment taking this wisdom from
past dramas a talk I gave for the just Be
Social Club Mastermind group. I'll probably just kind of start
(08:57):
getting into some of the things that I wanted to
talk about today. I'm I'm excited because I'm gonna be
sharing something that's been really effective for me in terms
of goal setting and staying consistent on getting the shit
that I need to get done. And Brenda's seen this firsthand,
(09:19):
like how this has just been like a game changer,
and we've just been tearing through goals that I've had for,
you know, for the year and things like that. So
I'll share that with y'all today, and obviously are our
last meeting. The homework was kind of talking about just
diving into something that you are passionate about. Don't think about,
(09:40):
you know, long term vision, money, what does this mean,
whatever it is, just just have fun with it for
the month.
Speaker 1 (09:46):
So I want to check in with y'all on that.
Speaker 2 (09:49):
And before we do that, I want to kind of
start by talking about perfectionism, because I know it's something
that is such a hindrance to so many of us,
you know, when it comes to starting new things or
to take an idea from like our mind to actually
you know, bring it into the real world and making
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it something that we.
Speaker 1 (10:10):
Share with others. And I struggle with that as well.
Speaker 2 (10:14):
I mean, I still do, you know, even with all
the work that I try and do on myself and
pushing against this type of stuff, you know, even recently,
like I was, you know, really like, oh, I got
to kind of you know, start making more of a
TikTok presence. You know, it's just a necessary evil. And
I was kind of overthinking the content, like, oh, what
am I going to make? Though? How am I going
(10:36):
to present this? You know, I can't you know, outside
of just reposting clips from the podcast? How am I
going to make original content? And that perfectionism like stopped
me for doing it for a few weeks at a time.
And then once I did it, I did it and
it wasn't a big deal and I was able to consistently,
you know, dive into into that content and put it out.
But again, it was that perfectionism, you know, kind of
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holding me back from getting to this task that I
knew that I had to get into.
Speaker 1 (11:02):
What's Upjade.
Speaker 2 (11:04):
So we're I'm just kind of catching people up on on.
Speaker 1 (11:09):
What I've been thinking as far as perfectionism.
Speaker 2 (11:12):
And I know that's something you and I have talked
about before, but you know, I think it's it's ultimately
like the biggest roadblock we often have to get past
is the idea of perfect and the idea of something
not being ready or not being enough, not being good enough,
you know, Like I had, I had just done a
podcast episode just talking about like the the idea of
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like embracing the things that you're good at just as
much as the things that are like your limitations. And
when you're able to get the two of them to
like work together in unison and on the same team,
that's when you have like your unique stamp on whatever
it is that you're doing right. So like I am,
you know, like I beget a lot into like designing
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stuff like clothing and graphic design and stuff.
Speaker 1 (11:59):
I'm not nottally a gifted artist who can draw you
a picture.
Speaker 2 (12:02):
I'm not like a photoshop whiz who can you know,
make any idea come to life. But I know what
I like, and I know how to make what I
like right. And maybe for a while I might be
like frustrated with myself because I can't be as good
as somebody else. And this definitely happened in music, where
I wanted to produce music that sounded like my favorite
producers and I couldn't do it. I couldn't write melodies
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like them, I couldn't do this like them, and that
would frustrate me. That would stop me from actually honing
my craft and you know, really working on something because
I just felt like I wasn't good enough because I
couldn't do what they did. And once I began to
realize that, you know, in working within my limitations is
how I actually create something unique that like blew my
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mind for everything that I do right, and now I
embrace the imperfection because I know that it's like my
unique stamp on whatever it is that I'm doing, that
is something only I could create, right, and that's what.
Speaker 1 (12:54):
Changes the world.
Speaker 2 (12:55):
That is what moves the needle is the originality, right,
But the originality comes from embracing the imperfections just as
much as the things that are like outwith me facing
amazing about it, right.
Speaker 1 (13:07):
And you know, I think it's it's.
Speaker 2 (13:10):
Easy, I think for a lot of us to fall
into this trap, depending on especially how you were brought up.
Speaker 1 (13:14):
Like my father is OCD.
Speaker 2 (13:16):
My father is the ultimate perfectionist, like to a fault,
to just like the point he drives himself crazy, you know,
trying to get everything perfect. And you know, as as
a kid growing up, my father never was like the
guy using power tools. He was never assembling stuff, building shit.
It was always like, oh, we have to get somebody
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else to help us with that, right, And then that
raised me as an adult as somebody who didn't know
how to do anything around the house. I didn't know
how to use a power tool, I didn't know how
to use anything, and that was, you know, his perfectionism
always made me think that I needed somebody else in
order to do something right, in order to do it
well or to do it properly. And I began to
kind of push back against that. And obviously this is
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just like a stilly example, but it's also something that
is like something I've added to my tool kit of
things that I can do now. But like I used
to love watching like DIY videos on YouTube, or watching
people build their studios or build out their storefronts, and
like see the way that they were like repurposing wood.
Speaker 1 (14:15):
And doing all these different things.
Speaker 2 (14:16):
And I was jealous, like I always wanted to be
able to do that, and I always kind of made
the excuse like, well, I'm just not handy I'm not
naturally handy, and then I just had to kind of
push myself one day. And it started with making a
very simple bar cart that literally, like I used a handsaw.
Speaker 1 (14:32):
That was as crazy as I got with it, you know.
Speaker 2 (14:34):
And then you fast forward two years later, and I
built out an entire studio, you know what I mean,
like by myself, you know, without the help of any
contractors or anything like that.
Speaker 1 (14:43):
I built this wall behind you.
Speaker 2 (14:44):
I built another one that is literally just like this,
but it's on wheels and it moves around because a
TV screen attached to it and lights attached to it
and things like that. Like, you know, I was using
power tools for the first time. And it's not perfect.
If you were to like really study this wall or
study any of the things in the studio, they're not perfect.
But I still made it happen. I brought my idea
to life regardless, right, And I think that's that's what
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I'm want to really instilling people as as we begin
to think about our passions and wanting to figure out
how to become more invested and more involved in them,
it's also getting out of our own way to a degree, right,
and understanding that the mistakes and you know, having to
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redo something over and over again at times, like that's
all a part of the process, and that process makes
you better inevitably, right, Like me starting with the bar
car and having a bunch of like, you know, fucked
up looking things that I built along the way led
me to now actually having the skill set where I
can bring an idea to life. I can dream up
a studio and build it, and now I have it
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and I love it, and I can fix the things around,
you know, the building and not have to sit here
relying on somebody else for everything that I do. Right,
It's like cutting out the middle man. But it took
the process of sucking. It took the process of you know,
getting better, you know, little by little, and it's like
the concept of you know, the idea of like ten
thousand hours, right, That's when you actually master for something,
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is when you have ten thousand hours put into it.
And I just want to like drill this into your
head again, to just get out of your own fucking
way when it comes to like really diving into this
stuff and really challenging yourself to bring these ideas into
the real world, right, because it's great to have an idea.
Speaker 1 (16:30):
It's great to be energized by.
Speaker 2 (16:31):
It's great to tell your spouse or your significant other
or your friends about this great idea that you have.
But what is it really worth if it never leaves
your mind, if it never becomes something more than it's
just spoken about. Right, So it's something I want to
really kind of instill in you guys as we begin
to talk about the homework and our passions and all
these different things, and as my dog is walking.
Speaker 1 (16:53):
Through my step.
Speaker 2 (16:54):
But you know, it's I think it's just an incredibly
necessary thing to learn and something to to always keep
in mind. And then Jade I was mentioning, also, I'm
gonna break down for everybody how I set my goals
and how that's just been like a game changer for
me and making sure that I'm getting shit done and
holding myself accountable.
Speaker 1 (17:14):
So with that said, I just want to check in
with everybody.
Speaker 2 (17:17):
It's nice to kind of like a little smaller group
today so we can maybe get a little bit kind
of deeper. But I want to just check in and
first and Allem, we'll see how you're genuinely feeling beyond
just like I'm good, Everything's good. Just busy, you know,
with work, like genuinely actually, you know, really let us
know how you're feeling. Could be at you had a
shitty day, you had a long day, it's in a
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rough week, whatever it is. And then I want to
check in about kind of your your homework, I mean,
and and for me to start, you know, I'm pretty
burnt out right now.
Speaker 1 (17:46):
I'm not gonna lie to y'all. I am. I am
pushing it right now.
Speaker 2 (17:50):
I have a lot of shit that I'm I've probably
you know, a bit off more than I can chew.
But I but I also am listening to my body
and I'm having I'm going away next week, so I'm
trusting myself and that's something that's a very big difference
for me.
Speaker 1 (18:03):
So I'm feeling good about that.
Speaker 2 (18:05):
As much as I feel like maybe I need to
chill a little bit, I'm feeling great and proud of
myself in this moment that I am listening to myself,
taking care of my body, taking care of my mind,
and knowing when it's time for me to kind of
hit pause for a second and not be nervous that
life is gonna crumble if I take a week off.
Speaker 1 (18:21):
You know. So that's where I'm at.
Speaker 2 (18:24):
And you know, I didn't participate necessarily in this homework,
But for me, my homework has been this entire year.
Keep following your creative intuition and just see where it
takes you get don't worry about you know how you're
going to market it, where it fits into everything that
you're doing. Just like if you have a whim, go
for it and just see what happens. So I've been
kind of on that path myself. All right, I'm hopping
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here real quick. We'll take a break and then we'll
be right back. All right, we are back, and now
more of this conversation from the just Be Social club
even first and foremost, how I would see what you
said with your boss, like it was the opportunity you
were hoping for, but you got something that is gonna
still be a positive force free at least financially, right
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Like to me, I always see that. It's just like
that's like the bridge that you needed to keep going
on your path, you know what I mean. It was
like you kind of hit this like creek or river whatever,
and like you don't know how you're gonna get across.
And now, like life gifted you that to remind you
to keep ongoing, you know, to keep on the path
that you know somewhere down the line you're gonna get
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to where you need to be, and it's gonna just
keep giving you the opportunities that you need to keep
you on your path. Right, Like I think to myself,
I have a lot of like money trauma, right, And.
Speaker 1 (19:40):
In what I do a lot.
Speaker 2 (19:43):
Of times financially, I get lump sums of money at
one time, right, and then I have to figure out
how to make it last the entire year. And even
if I'm doing okay with budgeting, I still have the
mentality in my mind if I'm not getting a check
on a consistent basis, then I need to start freaking out,
like you know that the sky is falling essentially right,
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And you know, so I even was running into that
recently where I was just kind of like, man, like,
I don't feel like i've't cast a check in a
long time. I'm just seeing as little by little I'm
spending and you know, with my expenses and things are
going away. And then that bridge happened, like to give
me that peace of mind of like, oh, all summer long,
I have like a bunch of checks I'm able to
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count on, you know what, I mean, to just give
me that peace of mind that I no longer have
to think about it, you know, even though I was
gonna be okay. At least I can like cure that
part of my brain that still is like in that cycle.
And again, it's like a bridge, it's a band aid.
I still have to work through those feelings and like
get over that, but life is rewarding me with something
to keep on going. It's like a reminder, just that
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little nudge I needed to get out of my own
head and get back to work kind of thing, you know.
Speaker 1 (20:50):
And I think you.
Speaker 2 (20:51):
Know, I love what you said about making sure your
actions also follow like the call for manifest right, and yes,
whatever is is yours will always be yours. But you
also have to be doing the work. And it's something
I talk to myself about a lot, and recently as
I've been having ups and downs, right, I don't know
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if you guys have been following, like the writers strike
we're having here in the in the States with like
all the television movie writers, and like I have a
project that I've been working on for fuck almost two
years at this point, and like so close to like
signing contracts, and literallys been months and people have been
dragging their feet. Now it's going picking up speed, and
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the writer's strike happens, and it's fucking everything up right now.
Speaker 1 (21:37):
Right, and it's disappointing. It's like heartbreaking.
Speaker 2 (21:44):
I feel for some of the other people on the
project who were really counting on this as like their
big breakthrough thing, both financially and career wise, and I'm
thinking about them, and I just have to like remind
myself that, for whatever reason, now not the time for
this to happen. For whatever reason, it's beyond my control.
I've put in the work, I've shown up disciplined, I've
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done everything I had to do, and I took it
this far. Now it's time for me to just put
it on the shelf for now, until like life opens
back up and gives me the opportunity to work on
it again. And what I've been reminding myself of in
these moments right now, because I think I have a
lot of little things like that that are.
Speaker 1 (22:20):
In these phases where they're about to hit that tipping.
Speaker 2 (22:22):
Point, but there's just something holding it back for right now,
I just keep reminding myself each night like an affirmation,
like you're doing the work. You're showing up every single
day and you're doing the work, and that's all you
can do. That you're manifesting it. But then on top
of that, you're following up by all the little actions
that you're in control of that it's bound to tip
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in your favor at some point.
Speaker 1 (22:44):
You just have to keep showing up.
Speaker 2 (22:46):
Right, And I think that's what I pair with, Like
my idea of just always being able to manifest things
is that I know that I'm showing up to do
the work on a discipline basis, right, And you're not
going to be.
Speaker 1 (22:58):
In control of all the work that you do.
Speaker 2 (23:00):
You're not gonna be able to do every single thing
that is needed to drag it across the finish line.
Speaker 1 (23:04):
There are always other moving parts.
Speaker 2 (23:06):
But as long as you know you're showing up every
single day ready to get down to business and take
care of what you have to, that's all that you
can really do.
Speaker 1 (23:13):
Right.
Speaker 2 (23:13):
You can't ask for anything else of yourself or or
of the universe. And again, you just have to keep
that faith, you know, I think, and I keep reminding
myself something else side mind myself is that like the
only way I'm going to fail is if I stop trying.
So just don't stop trying, and you're neverly gonna step
in shit at some point, you know what I mean?
Like that, I just always keep that in the back
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of my mind when the moments when like I get
a disappointing email or something beyond my control happens, you know,
and and just keep reminding myself to keep going. You know,
like even something you said today about getting an email,
it wasn't the response you were hoping for, right, Like
I relate to that so much, and maybe something isn't
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uh fucking with the astrology and all these different things, right,
But like I know, last week I was just like
dragging ass, like stumbling hard just to get to Friday.
And then like you know, then we just made time
on the weekend and like made up for it, and
I was proud of myself, but like I know, that
was a rough fucking week to get through, just to
do the bare minimum. And then even this week, like
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I had been pumping myself up about like this opportunity
of working with it like a big time manager, and
like we had been having good conversations and blah blah blah.
And I got an email that she just couldn't take
on any more clients, and it was incredibly disappointing. And
I remember I had like, man, I had done all
the manifesting shit you're supposed to.
Speaker 1 (24:34):
I felt it.
Speaker 2 (24:35):
I felt what it's going to be like signing with
that person and the door they're gonna be able to open.
And I couldn't sleep the night before, you know, when
I was supposed to have an email back from them,
Like I was like, Man, this is it. We're on
our track, like start, you know, dusting off those notebooks
that you have with all your ideas written down, because
this is the person you were looking for to connect
certain dots. And I got that disappointing email, and like,
of course, I'm like, fuck, this manifestation shit doesn't work.
Speaker 1 (24:58):
This sucks blah blah blah. Right, But to your point,
was I really doing the work?
Speaker 2 (25:03):
She was the only manager that in that class that
I was pursuing. I had been doing research on anybody else,
and she fell into my lap because of my lawyer.
So I'm sitting here saying, this is the team member
that I'm missing. Is like a solid manager day to day,
and I haven't been doing shit to really attract that
person or to put myself in their vision aside from
my normal day to day thing. Right, So it's then
looking back and saying, Okay, well this was disappointing, but
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now I'm realizing where I was coming up short. And
now I'm also excited because I came up short, not
because I wasn't good at it or that you know.
Speaker 1 (25:37):
That I'm not supposed to be doing these things.
Speaker 2 (25:39):
It's like the timing was off, and at the same time,
I wasn't also putting in the amount of work that
I should have been putting into it to even expect
those results. Right, It's like having those honest conversations with
yourself and you know, and again I think I love
how you kind of phrase that and the idea of
like it's not just manifestation alone, it's also showing the
fuck up every day, like with your discipline.
Speaker 1 (26:02):
And last thing I'll say is I love how you talked.
Speaker 2 (26:05):
About like almost not hopping on this meeting because you know,
if you had like the uh sort of like if
you were drained socially, if you had that anything left
in your tank, right, And I go through that sometimes too,
and then I remind myself, like, yeah, but this is
something you love doing. You always get energized by it,
and I and I push myself to log on and
do it, and I feel great about it after the fact, right.
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And I think that it's like, sometimes even though we
know what's best for us, that fucking negative mind gets
in the way and it pushes us to do things
that are not in our best interest, right, like, oh,
I know I shouldn't eat this, or I know I
should go to the gym, or I know I should
like do this thing, and but like that other voice
is like, you know what, now, you can do it tomorrow,
put it off, right, And and oftentimes it's very easy
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to listen to that mind. I think that's what probably
has set people apart who find success and who are
able to make things happen, is they're able to fight
back against that voice, right, They're able to find the
discipline needed to say, even if I'm not up to
it right now, I know this is necessary for the
greater vision. You know, this is what my future self
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is going to be proud of that I showed up
in this moment and that's what they allow to kind
of control them. They don't let that other voice win.
And I just think that that's like an incredibly important
thing to keep in mind, but also that you should
be patting yourself on the back of the fact that
you push through that right, Like you're you're fighting through
some really tough shit, as far as like the voices
in our mind that try to tell us these different things,
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and like any battle that you win with that is
is something to be celebrated, you know. So I think
you gotta look at it that way. But I think
you're you're onto I think a great sort of mindset
with everything. And you know, sometimes you fall off your meditation,
sometimes you fall off of this, you fall off of that.
It's okay, you know what I'm saying, Like you're as
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long as you're aware and you're holding yourself accountable. As
far as like recognizing like okay, I got to do
a little bit better here, a little bit better there.
That's all that you can ask for. We're all human,
you know what I mean. Like, it's just not always
go go go, no matter how discipline you are or anything.
It doesn't mean you're lazy, doesn't mean any of the above.
It just means you're human having a human moment. It's
gonna happen. I have those moments where I go into
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a cave and I don't do anything that I should
be doing for a while, you know. So it's just
easy to not I'm sorry. It's important to not beat
yourself up, even though it's not easy. Man. I hope
you guys enjoyed that conversation from a past meeting of
the Just Be Social Club.
Speaker 1 (28:29):
Yeah again, I don't know.
Speaker 2 (28:30):
I think it's important even if you were part of
that club. It's important to revisit those conversations. I think
sometimes more than anything, we just need a reminder, Like
we know the information, sometimes we just need somebody to
sort of nudge just back on track, if you will.
And that's why I like revisiting these old conversations at
old topics that maybe we've covered before, but sometimes we need,
you know, a little reminder on And I'll kind of
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put a pin everything and expand upon some of the
ideas as we tie everything in a neat little boat
in a segment we call conclusion stew time.
Speaker 1 (29:07):
All right, So I think.
Speaker 2 (29:10):
The general takeaways as I revisited that conversation what stood
out for me, And I'd love to hear kind of
what shout out for you if I'm missing something that
was particularly profound for you. But I love how I
kind of started with the idea of like one of
the biggest roadblocks we all face, and the idea that
we are our own biggest roadblock, and it's oftentimes our
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idea of perfectionism. And I've talked about this a ton, obviously,
but I think in the context of always being in
a mode of constant creation, nothing will kill that creation
more than perfectionism. And I think that is what makes
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so many people sort of stall out or not even try,
is the idea of perfectionism the right moment, the right opportunity,
quote unquote, and I'm doing air quotes here, you know,
like getting caught up in this idea of how things
are supposed to be before you can move forward will
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inevitably make you shoot yourself in the foot before you
even start the race. And I think, you know, I
think I was using the example and there of like
I built my studio, and I built a fucking deck,
and you know, all, like the deck in my backyard
is by no means perfect but I learned so much
along the process, and I still have a fucking deck,
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Like I utilize this deck every summer. I'm thinking about
that's on my mind because we're having like a seventy
degree weather, thank god, finally over here, and it's about
to be deck season and I'm putting on that that
grill apron real soon. And yeah, are there things I
notice every time I step foot on the fucking deck. Absolutely,
But like it's provided a you know, progress for my backyard.
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My backyard is like now far more enjoyed place for
me as a result, you know, And I think that
is sort of the thing we always have to keep
in mind. It's like it's not about getting it right,
you know all the time. It's not about it looking
exactly as it did in your head. It's just about
actually fucking doing something. It's actually thinking about an idea,
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you know, conceptualizing it and then actually taking action. Like
that's that's the most important part, is the action. Like
there's no value in ideas that live in your head.
And I've talked about that a bunch of times as well.
But I think, you know, we're all sort of frustrated
at times because we're not where we want to be.
Things aren't panning out as we would have hoped. This
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isn't right, you know, this is bothering us, This person
let us down, whatever it might be. And those are
real emotions, real feelings. And I'm not, you know, taking
anything away from those very real emotions that come up
when we are disappointed by life or people in our life.
But the only answer, the only solution, is to create
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another opportunity, right, create a new opportunity to find further happiness.
Speaker 1 (32:08):
That's all you can do for yourself. Literally, that's the
only thing that we are able to do.
Speaker 2 (32:13):
Right. There are so many things I can't I can't
help if these people from these different projects are taking forever.
Speaker 1 (32:21):
To email me back, right, I can't help that.
Speaker 2 (32:25):
The action I can take is I can sort of
follow up politely to hopefully nudge them into responding. If
that doesn't work, I then have to sort of be
okay with letting go of the opportunity and moving on
to something else and seeing what are the other options.
Who else do I know that I can work with
in the same capacity, right, But it's detrimental to sort
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of just sit there and get frustrated it's like, oh,
it would have worked out perfectly with this person or
this idea, and blah blah blah, and life sucks and
all these different things, and it's like, dude, it's always going.
Speaker 1 (32:58):
To be what you make it, right.
Speaker 2 (33:00):
It's easy for us for me to say that, you know,
when talking to somebody else. It's harder to you know,
swallow that pill when you're talking about a situation for yourself.
And quite frankly, I'm talking to myself right now, and
I'm calming myself down. I'm talking myself off the ledge
if you will right now of just kind of like,
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what the fuck are you gonna do? I can send
the polite nudge. If that doesn't work, I have to
keep on moving out with my life. I got to
figure out the next thing. I got to create the
next opportunity. I have to open my mind up and
you know, get down on my laptop and fucking open
up chat GBT and have a back and forth, you know,
brainstorming session with it. Throw on some documentaries that I'm
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inspired by, I talk to some friends, you know, whatever.
Speaker 1 (33:45):
It might be.
Speaker 2 (33:45):
Like, I have to just keep putting myself in positions
for opportunity and the only way to do that is
to stay in a mode of constant creation, you know.
And it's you know, and it's all like, this is
all information that you know, it's information that I know.
I'm literally telling myself same shit, like I had these
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conversations every fucking month when I have to tell myself
after a frustrating situation, you know. But it's literally showing
up every morning with my to do list, attacking it
as best I can that day, and you know, try
not to get caught up in the results of it all, right,
which is again another difficult thing. But like the things
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that make us frustrated, that piste us off, that make
us depressed, are the fact that we're getting so you know,
so obsessed with the results of it all, how we
want things to be, how we want things to look,
how we want them to appear, how we want others
to act. Like that's really the at the end of
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the day, that is the cause of our feelings of
anger and frustration is our projections on sort of trying
to make life exist the way that it in our head.
And that's just not feasible, you know, and at times
yet it will you know, what we might get lucky
and have opportunities where it does work out as planned
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or as we had hoped, or better than we hoped,
but oftentimes more than not, it's it's going to throw
you curveballs.
Speaker 1 (35:15):
It's going to look different. It's you know, unexpected opportunities.
Speaker 2 (35:19):
And unexpected failures will will show up at your doorstep,
you know, and you just keep staying in this mode
of constant creation.
Speaker 1 (35:27):
That's the only answer to all of our problems, is
a mode of constant creation.
Speaker 2 (35:32):
Right.
Speaker 1 (35:32):
It's like when you get terrible, terrible news, or like say,
all of a sudden, you know.
Speaker 2 (35:40):
You've got, you know, a fucking expense that given beyond
that God forbid. Unexpectedly your company goes under and everybody
loses their job. Unfortunately, we live in a world that
does not have empathy for that. Your bills are still
going to be due, right, Your your mortgage company still
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wants to get paid. Your your car company still wants
their their their monthly payment. So you just sort of
stopping and being pissed off at the world, and you know,
sleeping all day is not going to be the thing
that fixes the the situation. You have to get into
a mode of creating opportunity. That means sending out your resume.
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That means hitting up friends in your industry asking around,
are there any job opportunities? You know, there's no shame,
and you have to go drive Uber Eats or whatever
you know in the meantime to keep the lights on.
But that's what I mean by constant, being in a
constant mode of creation. It's you just have to keep moving,
right that The only way you truly fails when you
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stop moving, when you you know, stop trying to find
a solution, and they take away your house and your
livelihood and you end up on the street or whatever,
right like, God forbid.
Speaker 1 (36:53):
That's the only time that.
Speaker 2 (36:55):
You know, you you sort of end up failing is
when you just give up and accept all the bullshit
that life will throw to you if you don't, you know,
take control, Like, if you relinquish control just to life,
it will throw a whole bunch of shit at you
that you don't want, and it will be, you know,
the worst case scenario. And I'm just ram I'm literally
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talking to myself right now, like because I guess the
last thing I'll did done is like I guess the
press epist for this was like, I woke up today,
you know, did some some of the things I had
set out, and it's like, you know, yesterday, I'm like,
all right, maybe email me back. Nope, I'm like, you
know what, it's Monday, right, It's Monday. People are fucking
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catching up on emails and blah blah blah blah blah. Right,
and one of them is like overseas, I think like
eight hours ahead. So I'm like, all right, I woke
up and I was like, you know, usually I'll get
an email at like four am, you know, So I
do my morning routine, I open my email and I look,
no fucking email from that person. So immediately then after
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I started the day with, you know, peacefully, I'm fucking
annoyed now and cause it's Tuesday now, which means if
I didn't get it by now, I'm not gonna fucking
get an email probably told tomorrow at the earliest. If
I get it now, we're middle of the week, right,
and potentially now it's like, okay, we're gonna fucking go
through a whole other situation of it's not just one email.
I need they have to respond to something I need
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to responding to send something like it. So now we're
back into next week. So now we're fucking three weeks
out of what we originally were supposed to be doing,
and I got so frustrated, so annoyed. On top of that,
Daylight Savings is just kicking my fucking ass right now,
where I'm exhausted for no reason, and I like lost
the motivation to do anything today. And like I took
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care of the bare minimum that I had to do.
I also had to go to the dentist and she
kind of fucked me up today too, So I just
like lost that that motivation, right because and from from
that standpoint, I sort of just stopped sort of taking
advantage of the day and creating opportunity. So I'm just
sitting here, I'm on my phone, I'm doing scrolling. I'm
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just fucking annoyed at life. I'm refreshing my email app,
and I'm getting more and more pissed off by the
fact that, like we're literally two emails away from closing
out this deal, and for no reason whatsoever, this person's
just like dragging their fucking feet, you know, And that
is like the worst thing you could do to yourself,
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because again, I'm just sitting here fucking basking in the
misery of this moment, if you will, when the healthy,
better thing to do would be all right, it sucks,
take a moment to fucking take it in. All right, now,
what's the next thing I could be doing, because there's
a ton of other shit that I have going on
that I could be doing right now, to progress forward
and win this day still, right, rather than just sulk
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in it and allow a perfectly good day to go
to waste, and perfectly with seventy degree day in the
New York area to just go to waste. I'm just
rotting away in my living room with the fucking shades drawn,
you know.
Speaker 1 (40:04):
And that's so much.
Speaker 2 (40:05):
I think of what people like end up doing in life,
and it just takes them continuously further and further down
a dark path, until you know, they really have this
cynical outlook on the world and are frustrated by what
they see.
Speaker 1 (40:23):
When they look in the mirror.
Speaker 2 (40:25):
But all of that is avoidable by just accepting the
situation and always looking for an opportunity to create, just
staying in that mode of creation day after day, trying
not to worry too much about what it all means
in the grand scheme of it all, but just knowing
that the little grunt work, the little you know creation
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every day, the creative outlook on life of what could
I be doing? What should I be doing, will eventually
yield some sort of results. That'll that'll you know, keep
kicking the ball down the road if you will, and
give you that bridge to the next thing.
Speaker 1 (41:02):
I'm literally talking to myself.
Speaker 2 (41:03):
I hope this's connected, but I needed to hear this today.
With that said, thank y'all so much for tuning in.
Hope this was helpful. I'll catch you on on Thursday
with a brand new episode for our Thursday Trends. So
then stay safe and we shall talk soon. Burse Life
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