Bonus Track #3: Buckets of Gold or Manure: It's Your Lift

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Have you ever wondered about the incredible strength you unknowingly possess? The strength that allows you to carry heavy worries day after day without collapsing under their weight?

Life presents itself as messy and unnerving—not the neat, nicely packaged experience we might wish for. As we navigate this muddy terrain, we often feel a sense of helplessness and paralysis when facing harsh realities. But this bonus track challenges that very notion. What if the paralysis is false? What if we're already demonstrating superhuman strength by hoisting up our anxieties and carrying them with us—sometimes for hours, sometimes for days, sometimes making them a permanent part of our identity?

The profound insight offered here is deceptively simple yet revolutionary: it takes exactly the same amount of power to lift a bucket of manure as it does to lift a bucket of gold. Both weigh the same. The question becomes not whether you have the strength—you clearly do—but what you choose to carry with that strength. Some people use their money because they suffer poverty of soul. Others use their brains because they suffer from who they are. But what if we redirected the immense energy we expend on worry toward something precious and valuable instead? This perspective flips our understanding of personal power on its head, revealing that we're not helpless at all—we're actually demonstrating remarkable strength, just in service of carrying burdens rather than treasures. Listen now and discover how to transform what you carry in life's journey. What will you choose to lift today?

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:10):
Welcome to the place where you love me.
Come on in when you longed,come out.
Welcome to yet another bonustrack.

(00:43):
The truth, life, existence isunnerving.

(01:10):
It's not neat, nicely packaged,easy to open.
It's not garn emotions.

(01:31):
Our heart, it's the fingernailsand we the chalkboard.
The truth is mud and we spinour wheels in it.

(01:59):
To do so, however, is fruitless.
It is an immoral squandering ofthe resources of our spirit,
leading us into chronicexistential angst, fear and,

(02:25):
most of all, frustration.
We anguish, wrongly so, inhelplessness.
Helplessness of worries,agitation, anxiety of seeming

(02:48):
paralysis in the face of harshrealities.
False, helpless paralysis.
But what are we to do?
But what are we to do?
What do you define as doing?

(03:13):
We do what we can.
Some poor people use their moneybecause they suffer poverty of
spirit.
Some poor people use theirbrains because they suffer who

(03:34):
they are.
We are falsely sufferingparalysis of worries, the deeper

(04:13):
self, if you will, the powerfulself.
Consider that it takes the sameamount of power muscular power

(04:44):
in this case to lift afive-pound bucket of manure.
Same amount of power to liftone or the other.

(05:17):
Consider then, if you will, thepowerful way in which we hold
and hoist up our worries, ouranxieties, our stresses, our

(05:52):
stresses with superhumanstrength.
We hoist them up, these heavyburdens, and we carry them with
us, no fatigue.
We carry them with us,sometimes for hours, sometimes

(06:16):
for days, weeks, sometimes wemake it a habit, a part of me,
we carry this great heavy mass,this great heavy burden.

(06:38):
Consider the strength needed todo so, and then consider the
possibility that the same can bedone with a bucket of gold.
Some people use their soul forthey know who they are.

(07:11):
Some people use their brainsbecause they suffer poverty of
soul.
Some people use their moneybecause they suffer poverty of
soul.