Supermarket Showdown: Where Attention Goes, Energy Flows.

In this riveting episode of our podcast, "Supermarket Showdown: Where Attention Goes, Energy Flows", we delve into a real-life confrontation I observed in a supermarket car park. This episode explores the dynamics of the altercation and asks a crucial question: were their energies misplaced? Join me as I analyze the incident and discuss how redirecting our focus can lead to more productive outcomes in our daily lives. 

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Episode Transcript

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Come in live from a car parknear you. Probably not, but hey,
it's all kicking off quite literally whereI am Saturday morning. I don't
know, I didn't see the wholething, but I've just put the car
through the car wash and as Icame out the other end, I could
hear loads of shouting. I don'tknow what it was. And then I

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noticed these sort of sort of crowd, bit of commotion in the supermarket car
park, and then all of asudden, it all kicks off. Punches
start being thrown, and it's afamily of Asian people, probably five of
them, most of them in thesort of fifties sixties, and they start

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hitting this guy and he's far biggerthan all of them and very quickly starts
throwing punches back and making some somegood contact. He's he's quite a he's
a big guy, in fact thathe's probably six foot three, six foot
four, and look quite fit.Looked like he could handle himself, I

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think, And I'm like, wow, okay, so I'm about to go
and sort of get out my carand run over, and then loads of
other people do that, and theysort of pull them apart and they end
up shouting at each other for whathave you? And as I sort of
went to drive past to leave thecar park, the big guy said,

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look, you scratched my car door. He had a Tesla. You scratched
my car door and then you hitme was the phrase he sort of used.
Hey, the Confidence and Self Esteempodcast. And it was a load

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of commotion for Saturday morning. Andthen it's unmarked police car and up about
a minute later and the police arenow canned everything down, moved them away
from each other and having chatting tothem, both getting out their notepads,
making notes, all that type ofthing. And this is the deal.

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This is my thoughts on the wholething. This is a Saturday morning,
mid morning. It must be abouthalf ten, eleven o'clock. Is it
worth it? Where the what wasit? Where the energy flows, where

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the thought goes? The energy flowsor something this. These are middle aged
people, I mean you know theseThe guy who the big guy was probably
in his forties as well. Somiddle aged people are vieing over what I
think is a scratch on a carat ten o'clock on a Saturday morning.

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Now, far from me over simplifyingthis whole thing. Maybe there was more
to it. Than that. I'dlike to hope so, because to get
stressed over a scratch on something,Let's face it, that can be unscratched,

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it can be repaired. There's somuch more important things in this world
to be focusing on, to beallocating your time, to be allocating your
energy and resources too. Was thatreally worth it? Was that really worth

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the risk, the stress, thenervous energy, the fact that these two
families are now going to be talkingabout it for the rest of the afternoon
and you know, might have togo to the police station Monday morning and
you know, make a statement orsomething. Was all that worth it?

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Or could that energy be used helpingsomebody less fortunate, or focusing on your
own health, or improving your lifeby one percent? Watching an educational video

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washing your car, calling up somebodyyou haven't spoken to you for six months,
And I get that in the heatof the moment. You know,
we've all been there. We dothings, We make decisions that we don't

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normally make, and you can lookback in hindsight and just say, how
did I end up in this situation? I get it, We've all been
there. One thing leads to anotherand it gradually escalates and before you know
it, you're get an angry andupset with something that you wouldn't normally give
two hoots about. But if you'refinding yourself in the position where you're like

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these guys are today, you know, maybe there's other stressors going on in
their life and they've just that wasthe straw that broke the camel's back.
But but I mean the saying is, what's the same. You can't influence

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what goes on around you, oryou can do is focus on your thoughts
towards it. It's probably a goodway to end there. Things are going
to happen, bad luck's going tohappen. Cars are going to get scratched
from time to time. You can'thelp these things. What you can do

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is focus on your attitude towards it, your thought patterns towards it, how
you process that information, and howyou keep your positivity and your motivation high.
Food to thought, Have a fantasticday in the sun. If it's
sunny where you are, it certainlyis where I am. Goodbye,