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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Episode seven, welcome
Speaker 2 (00:03):
To the podcast.
Life of awesome.
My name is Saul blink off.
I'm a husband, father of fourand director producer who works
for some of the top studios inHollywood, including Disney,
Dreamworks, and Netflix, mygoal, simple.
I want to live the best life Ipossibly can.
And I want the same for you.
(00:24):
I traveled the world talkingabout life and if there's one
thing I've learned every singleperson on the planet, once the
exact same thing, we don't wanta life of good.
We don't want a life of great.
We want a life of awesome.
(00:46):
I really want to thank you forbeing here today.
Listening.
I realized there are so manypodcasts out there, and I really
appreciate you giving me themost valuable thing that you
have your time.
If you liked the podcast, pleasehit the subscribe button, give
us a rating or review.
And of course share it with yourfamily and friends that said,
let's get into it.
(01:10):
I'm really excited.
This is our seventh episode, andI've been getting a lot of great
feedback from a lot of listenersin the reviews, texts,
Instagram, DMS, people areletting me know that the podcast
is appreciated and that it'smaking an impact.
And that means so much to me.
So all of you who've beenlistening.
(01:30):
Thank you so much.
And if it's your first time, Iwant to welcome you to the
podcast.
And for right now, I want you tojust take a moment.
And I want you to think aboutone of the most carefree times
of your life childhood.
Now, look, we've all haddifferent childhoods.
Not everybody lives like theBrady bunch in this perfect
little idyllic suburban townwhere the siblings get along.
(01:52):
Most of the time and the parentsare encouraging and nurturing.
But for the most part, I'd liketo think that most people have a
nostalgia for their childhood.
When we reflect on ourchildhood.
Do you remember those momentswhen you would be playing in the
sprinkler or drinking out of ahose like I did back in the day,
don't don't try that at home.
Kids were those summer nights,catching fireflies, playing hide
(02:15):
and seek for hours, holding anice cream cone, as it drips down
your hand in your arm.
And you didn't even care as muchas I love my family.
Some of my favorite moments werewhen I was alone climbing trees.
I didn't think about schoolwork.
I didn't think about howdifficult it was to have friends
and maintain friendships.
I often felt that when I wasclimbing trees, that was my safe
(02:36):
spot.
That was my place where therewas no struggle, no hardship, no
pain.
I can really remember the touchof the tree.
The feel of it is smells of theair.
The sounds of the birds.
I would climb this one tree andI would stay up there for hours.
It was so high.
It must've been like 50 feettall.
It was an evergreen tree.
And I grew up in New York andlong Island.
(02:58):
And I remember those trees.
I could see Manhattan and itlooked beautiful because I think
when we're children, we have anappreciation of the moments
we're in more than we do.
Now.
You see now as adults, most ofour days are filled with the
thoughts of everything we haveto get done.
We're so busy, whether it's mycareer and if you have a career,
there's always something that wecould be doing to further our
(03:21):
career.
It's never ending or it's theresponsibilities we have to our
spouse or to our kids orcommunities.
There's always someone thatneeds our attention.
I was telling my single friends,you know what you can do.
You want a Sunday.
They look at me like what?
I go, anything you want.
Cause when you're a parent, yourSundays, they're not yours
anymore.
Okay?
They're partly yours, but theybelong to your kids.
(03:42):
But the basic idea about beingan adult is that we are
constantly bombarded with allthe things we have to do.
Sometimes we sit and we havethat agita.
The anxiety of I'm missing outon something I'm supposed to be
doing.
How many of us can actually sitdown at the dinner table with
our spouses and our kids, notthinking about anything else.
Can you imagine, not evenbringing your iPhone to the
(04:03):
table?
I remember when my oldestdaughter, my era who was 16 was
a year and a half old.
And we used to take walks up anddown the block together, her
little hand in mine.
And do you know how long it tookme to walk her down?
One block, a block that wouldtake you and me 30 seconds to
walk down.
It took us like 20 minutesbecause when you hold a
toddler's hand and you walk downa street, they notice
(04:26):
everything.
She noticed every crack in thesidewalk, every rock she would
talk to flowers.
It reminds me of that song fromPocahontas number and the colors
of the wind.
But I know every rock and treeand creature has a life, has a
spirit, has a name.
That's my daughter walking downthe street.
Cause she would give names toevery flower.
She would talk to them.
You see kids, don't walk downthe street to get anywhere.
(04:49):
They walked down the street toenjoy the walk.
The way a toddler approacheseverything in life is not things
short of Wunderman.
Everything is new, everything isexciting.
And while they can't articulatefor you, what they're feeling,
they're feeling the thrill ofbeing alive.
And it's our job as parents tonurture that in our children,
(05:11):
it's our job to nurture that inourselves, there used to be a
store in LA where they wouldsell bathmats and bath soaps and
things.
It was like a bed bath andbeyond.
I remember this one store had abeautiful white marble floor.
And when I would walk in thestore with my daughter, I would
tell her, let's take off ourshoes.
We wear flip flops.
Cause I live in LA.
We take our flip flops off andwe would walk around the store
(05:32):
barefoot.
Now, most people are hearingthat and they're going, okay,
crazy guy.
What are you doing?
Having your kid take their shoesoff before they walk around a
store because you know theexcitement that we both felt
feeling the cold stone of marbleon our feet.
You know what that feeling is?
It's the feeling of being aliveor those big thick shag
bathmats.
We used to walk on all thedifferent bathmats and talk
(05:55):
about what they felt like.
It was fun.
Scrunching our toes.
It's like that scene from diehard fists with your toes.
You remember that scene.
Now I could have been the kindof parent that walked into that
store and like, Oh, I got to gocheck out a bathmat.
Let me just go check.
Or they don't have what I need.
Whoa.
You're with your kid, slow downand nurture your kid to enjoy
this experience.
This experience, sharing it withyou, teaching them about the
(06:16):
world.
But even if you don't have akid, you're walking into a store
like this, you know what you do,you take off your shoes.
You feel the shag between yourtoes because the truth is every
moment of our lives.
We have an opportunity to make aconscious decision to live in a
wonderment.
I remember the first time I wasgoing to take my son Asher to
(06:38):
home Depot.
And if he wasn't with me, Iwould've walked into home.
Depot, found the guy or girl andsaid, Hey, I need to know where
this pipe is or whatever thisthing is.
I need, they told me I'll five.
I go get it.
I try to get out of there asquick as I can, but I was in the
car and I was thinking about it.
And I'm like, you know what?
Home Depot could literally beDisneyland for my son.
And I told him this in the car.
I said, you know what?
Give her notice how you put yournose up to like certain wood.
(07:00):
And it has a smell.
And I explained to him thedifferent woods have different
looks and different smells.
Maple has a smell.
Cedar has a smell.
Oak has a smell, differenttexture, a different color.
And I said to him, we're goingto a store that sells so many
different kinds of woods and youcan see them touch them and
smell them.
Oh my gosh.
Was he excited?
You know, home Depot has thatpart of the store where there's
(07:22):
all the greenery, thegreenhouse, the flowers that in
itself is Disneyland.
It's incredible.
I walked him through there for ahalf hour.
Every time I go to home Depotwith my kids, we walk in there
and we smell the Bazell and thetime and all the fresh herbs,
the flower it's amazing.
But adults don't do that.
You don't.
One of the greatest thrills ofbeing a parent is that our
(07:43):
children are there to remind usof how to walk in wonderment.
Next time you go to home Depot,go to the herbs and just smell
them.
Not because you have to buy any,but just because it'll remind us
how glorious it is to be alive.
Speaker 3 (07:59):
Life was pretty fast.
If you don't stop and lookaround once in a while, you
could miss it.
You know, when we appreciate it
Speaker 2 (08:08):
Being alive, as soon as we hear someone died, that's
when we appreciate it.
Oh my gosh.
I'm alive.
You know, when we appreciatebeing able to see when we see
someone who's blind, weappreciate being able to walk.
When we see someone who can'tand I promise you, there are
people out there who can't walk,who appreciate being alive more
(08:28):
than many people who can walkbecause the wonderment is never
dependent on our situation inlife.
If we're alive, it's a giftperiod.
There's a fantastic movie calledawakenings.
I think it was the first moviethat penny Marshall directed.
She directed big with Tom Hankslater on league of their own
(08:49):
great movie.
This movie takes place in thesixties.
And it's a story of a, anintrovert played by Robin
Williams who basically workswith catatonic patients.
They're alive, but they're not.
And he thinks their condition isan extreme form of Parkinsonism.
And he's experimenting withdifferent drugs.
(09:10):
L-DOPA dopamine.
And there's one patient.
His name is Leonard played byRobert DeNiro.
And I know we all know him fromraging bull and Goodfellas
casino, but boy does he play anendearing character in this
movie?
He needs to see it.
And his character Leonard he'splaying baseball one day.
It must be about 10 years old.
And his hand started gettingnumb and he's sitting in class
(09:32):
and he can't write.
And a couple months later, he'scatatonic in a hospital, 30
years go by and it's thesixties.
And then this doctor, RobinWilliams' character experiments
with this drug and Robert deNiro's character.
Leonard is awakened after a 30year coma.
He's 40 something years old.
All he wants to do is take awalk.
(09:55):
And there's an incredible scenewhere he goes in front of the
board of doctors and has toconvince them to let him take a
walk.
Speaker 4 (10:03):
What is it that you want now, Mr.
Lowe the simplest thing.
And it is to have the choice togo for a walk.
If I want to like any normalperson, look, I'm not a
criminal.
I've committed no crime.
I'm not a danger to myself or toothers.
And yet I'm still not allowed togo for a walk on my own by
myself.
He didn't wake a thing.
(10:23):
You woke a person.
I'm curious.
Um, what would you do if youwent out, I'd look at things.
I'd talk to people.
I would decide if I want to goin this direction or that
direction or straight ahead, Iwould do all the things that you
people take for granted.
Speaker 2 (10:39):
But the board meets and they think it's too
dangerous for him.
And they say no.
And later there's a scene wherehe calls Robin Williams'
character in the middle of thenight says, come over here.
I have to tell you something.
It's urgent.
Speaker 4 (10:51):
We've got to tell everybody we've got to remind
them.
We've got to remind them howgood it is.
How good, what is Leonard?
It's all bad.
It's all bad people forgottenwhat life is all about.
They've forgotten what it is tobe alive.
They need to be reminded.
They need to be reminded aboutwhat they have and what they can
(11:12):
lose.
And what I feel is the joy oflife, the gift of life, the
freedom of life, the wondermentof life.
Speaker 2 (11:20):
And finally, I'm not going to spoil the movie.
You got to go see it yourself.
But the doctor, Robin Williamslearns a great lesson himself
Speaker 4 (11:29):
That the human spirit is more powerful than any drug.
And that is what needs to benourished, work, play
friendship, family, things thatmatter.
(11:58):
[inaudible]
Speaker 2 (12:04):
You know who he's talking to to us.
It's the simplest things that wecould take for granted.
Did you ever noticed that mostpeople in the world loved the
ocean?
Okay.
Some people out there don't likethe sand, but there's not many
people that I've met, who don'tlove the ocean.
That feeling, you know what itis.
It's not just beautiful.
It's all, it's comprehending thevastness of what the ocean is,
(12:31):
how deep it is, how far it goes.
Number the first time, if you'reover the age of 30, remember the
first time you saw an iPhone andsomeone showed you how you could
swipe with your finger.
And you were like, wow, Holycow, first time you were in a
car and you saw a navigator thatcould tell you which way to go,
but didn't blow your mind.
But then five years later, youtake your iPhone.
(12:52):
You swipe, you don't even thinkabout it.
You type in your place, yournavigator, you don't even think
about it.
There's no more or no matter howmany times we go to the ocean,
all of us should take a moment.
Look at the beauty of the color.
Is there any better smell thanthe ocean?
Beautiful.
When we stand in awe, it's thisfeeling of being alive.
You don't need to be near theocean to feel the thrill of
(13:14):
being alive.
You can be driving to the mall.
You got to go return some shoes,you park in the underground
structure.
And you walk from that parkinggarage and you're outside for
that eight seconds.
Stop walking, put your face upto the sun and take a breath.
Inspirational quote of the day.
This quote comes from Macyerroneous quote, appreciate
(13:39):
every day that you're alivebecause being alive is a luxury
that many don't get toexperience for long, appreciate
every day that you're alive.
Not just the good days, not justthe days you're at Disneyland
every single day.
We need to appreciate the factthat we're alive.
(13:59):
And even if you see someonewho's 80 years old, 90 years
old, and you think, Oh, they'veexperienced life for a long
time.
You know what?
They'll tell you.
It went by in a blink of an eye,the snap of a finger.
We only have one life.
What are we waiting for?
We don't get to choose how longwe live, but we do get to choose
(14:20):
the perspective that we willwalk around life with.
And if we make a consciouseffort to really enjoy the
simple things in life, then wecan bring the awe back into.
Awesome.
Thank you so much for being heretoday, listening.
I really appreciate you spendingyour time with me, please.
(14:41):
Again, subscribe like us.
Rate us, review us, share uswith your family and friends.
And I truly hope that each andevery one of you has an
incredible life and not just thelife.
That's good and not just thelife.
That's great, but that each andevery one of you has a life of
awesome.
Speaker 1 (15:16):
[inaudible]
Speaker 2 (15:17):
Yep.
I said it before, and I'll sayit again.
Life moves pretty fast.
You don't stop and look aroundonce in a while.
You could miss it.
Episode seven, welcome
Speaker 2 (00:03):
To the podcast.
Life of awesome.
My name is Saul blink off.
I'm a husband, father of fourand director producer who works
for some of the top studios inHollywood, including Disney,
Dreamworks, and Netflix, mygoal, simple.
I want to live the best life Ipossibly can.
And I want the same for you.
(00:24):
I traveled the world talkingabout life and if there's one
thing I've learned every singleperson on the planet, once the
exact same thing, we don't wanta life of good.
We don't want a life of great.
We want a life of awesome.
(00:46):
I really want to thank you forbeing here today.
Listening.
I realized there are so manypodcasts out there, and I really
appreciate you giving me themost valuable thing that you
have your time.
If you liked the podcast, pleasehit the subscribe button, give
us a rating or review.
And of course share it with yourfamily and friends that said,
let's get into it.
(01:10):
I'm really excited.
This is our seventh episode, andI've been getting a lot of great
feedback from a lot of listenersin the reviews, texts,
Instagram, DMS, people areletting me know that the podcast
is appreciated and that it'smaking an impact.
And that means so much to me.
So all of you who've beenlistening.
(01:30):
Thank you so much.
And if it's your first time, Iwant to welcome you to the
podcast.
And for right now, I want you tojust take a moment.
And I want you to think aboutone of the most carefree times
of your life childhood.
Now, look, we've all haddifferent childhoods.
Not everybody lives like theBrady bunch in this perfect
little idyllic suburban townwhere the siblings get along.
(01:52):
Most of the time and the parentsare encouraging and nurturing.
But for the most part, I'd liketo think that most people have a
nostalgia for their childhood.
When we reflect on ourchildhood.
Do you remember those momentswhen you would be playing in the
sprinkler or drinking out of ahose like I did back in the day,
don't don't try that at home.
Kids were those summer nights,catching fireflies, playing hide
(02:15):
and seek for hours, holding anice cream cone, as it drips down
your hand in your arm.
And you didn't even care as muchas I love my family.
Some of my favorite moments werewhen I was alone climbing trees.
I didn't think about schoolwork.
I didn't think about howdifficult it was to have friends
and maintain friendships.
I often felt that when I wasclimbing trees, that was my safe
(02:36):
spot.
That was my place where therewas no struggle, no hardship, no
pain.
I can really remember the touchof the tree.
The feel of it is smells of theair.
The sounds of the birds.
I would climb this one tree andI would stay up there for hours.
It was so high.
It must've been like 50 feettall.
It was an evergreen tree.
And I grew up in New York andlong Island.
(02:58):
And I remember those trees.
I could see Manhattan and itlooked beautiful because I think
when we're children, we have anappreciation of the moments
we're in more than we do.
Now.
You see now as adults, most ofour days are filled with the
thoughts of everything we haveto get done.
We're so busy, whether it's mycareer and if you have a career,
there's always something that wecould be doing to further our
(03:21):
career.
It's never ending or it's theresponsibilities we have to our
spouse or to our kids orcommunities.
There's always someone thatneeds our attention.
I was telling my single friends,you know what you can do.
You want a Sunday.
They look at me like what?
I go, anything you want.
Cause when you're a parent, yourSundays, they're not yours
anymore.
Okay?
They're partly yours, but theybelong to your kids.
(03:42):
But the basic idea about beingan adult is that we are
constantly bombarded with allthe things we have to do.
Sometimes we sit and we havethat agita.
The anxiety of I'm missing outon something I'm supposed to be
doing.
How many of us can actually sitdown at the dinner table with
our spouses and our kids, notthinking about anything else.
Can you imagine, not evenbringing your iPhone to the
(04:03):
table?
I remember when my oldestdaughter, my era who was 16 was
a year and a half old.
And we used to take walks up anddown the block together, her
little hand in mine.
And do you know how long it tookme to walk her down?
One block, a block that wouldtake you and me 30 seconds to
walk down.
It took us like 20 minutesbecause when you hold a
toddler's hand and you walk downa street, they notice
(04:26):
everything.
She noticed every crack in thesidewalk, every rock she would
talk to flowers.
It reminds me of that song fromPocahontas number and the colors
of the wind.
But I know every rock and treeand creature has a life, has a
spirit, has a name.
That's my daughter walking downthe street.
Cause she would give names toevery flower.
She would talk to them.
You see kids, don't walk downthe street to get anywhere.
(04:49):
They walked down the street toenjoy the walk.
The way a toddler approacheseverything in life is not things
short of Wunderman.
Everything is new, everything isexciting.
And while they can't articulatefor you, what they're feeling,
they're feeling the thrill ofbeing alive.
And it's our job as parents tonurture that in our children,
(05:11):
it's our job to nurture that inourselves, there used to be a
store in LA where they wouldsell bathmats and bath soaps and
things.
It was like a bed bath andbeyond.
I remember this one store had abeautiful white marble floor.
And when I would walk in thestore with my daughter, I would
tell her, let's take off ourshoes.
We wear flip flops.
Cause I live in LA.
We take our flip flops off andwe would walk around the store
(05:32):
barefoot.
Now, most people are hearingthat and they're going, okay,
crazy guy.
What are you doing?
Having your kid take their shoesoff before they walk around a
store because you know theexcitement that we both felt
feeling the cold stone of marbleon our feet.
You know what that feeling is?
It's the feeling of being aliveor those big thick shag
bathmats.
We used to walk on all thedifferent bathmats and talk
(05:55):
about what they felt like.
It was fun.
Scrunching our toes.
It's like that scene from diehard fists with your toes.
You remember that scene.
Now I could have been the kindof parent that walked into that
store and like, Oh, I got to gocheck out a bathmat.
Let me just go check.
Or they don't have what I need.
Whoa.
You're with your kid, slow downand nurture your kid to enjoy
this experience.
This experience, sharing it withyou, teaching them about the
(06:16):
world.
But even if you don't have akid, you're walking into a store
like this, you know what you do,you take off your shoes.
You feel the shag between yourtoes because the truth is every
moment of our lives.
We have an opportunity to make aconscious decision to live in a
wonderment.
I remember the first time I wasgoing to take my son Asher to
(06:38):
home Depot.
And if he wasn't with me, Iwould've walked into home.
Depot, found the guy or girl andsaid, Hey, I need to know where
this pipe is or whatever thisthing is.
I need, they told me I'll five.
I go get it.
I try to get out of there asquick as I can, but I was in the
car and I was thinking about it.
And I'm like, you know what?
Home Depot could literally beDisneyland for my son.
And I told him this in the car.
I said, you know what?
Give her notice how you put yournose up to like certain wood.
(07:00):
And it has a smell.
And I explained to him thedifferent woods have different
looks and different smells.
Maple has a smell.
Cedar has a smell.
Oak has a smell, differenttexture, a different color.
And I said to him, we're goingto a store that sells so many
different kinds of woods and youcan see them touch them and
smell them.
Oh my gosh.
Was he excited?
You know, home Depot has thatpart of the store where there's
(07:22):
all the greenery, thegreenhouse, the flowers that in
itself is Disneyland.
It's incredible.
I walked him through there for ahalf hour.
Every time I go to home Depotwith my kids, we walk in there
and we smell the Bazell and thetime and all the fresh herbs,
the flower it's amazing.
But adults don't do that.
You don't.
One of the greatest thrills ofbeing a parent is that our
(07:43):
children are there to remind usof how to walk in wonderment.
Next time you go to home Depot,go to the herbs and just smell
them.
Not because you have to buy any,but just because it'll remind us
how glorious it is to be alive.
Speaker 3 (07:59):
Life was pretty fast.
If you don't stop and lookaround once in a while, you
could miss it.
You know, when we appreciate it
Speaker 2 (08:08):
Being alive, as soon as we hear someone died, that's
when we appreciate it.
Oh my gosh.
I'm alive.
You know, when we appreciatebeing able to see when we see
someone who's blind, weappreciate being able to walk.
When we see someone who can'tand I promise you, there are
people out there who can't walk,who appreciate being alive more
(08:28):
than many people who can walkbecause the wonderment is never
dependent on our situation inlife.
If we're alive, it's a giftperiod.
There's a fantastic movie calledawakenings.
I think it was the first moviethat penny Marshall directed.
She directed big with Tom Hankslater on league of their own
(08:49):
great movie.
This movie takes place in thesixties.
And it's a story of a, anintrovert played by Robin
Williams who basically workswith catatonic patients.
They're alive, but they're not.
And he thinks their condition isan extreme form of Parkinsonism.
And he's experimenting withdifferent drugs.
(09:10):
L-DOPA dopamine.
And there's one patient.
His name is Leonard played byRobert DeNiro.
And I know we all know him fromraging bull and Goodfellas
casino, but boy does he play anendearing character in this
movie?
He needs to see it.
And his character Leonard he'splaying baseball one day.
It must be about 10 years old.
And his hand started gettingnumb and he's sitting in class
(09:32):
and he can't write.
And a couple months later, he'scatatonic in a hospital, 30
years go by and it's thesixties.
And then this doctor, RobinWilliams' character experiments
with this drug and Robert deNiro's character.
Leonard is awakened after a 30year coma.
He's 40 something years old.
All he wants to do is take awalk.
(09:55):
And there's an incredible scenewhere he goes in front of the
board of doctors and has toconvince them to let him take a
walk.
Speaker 4 (10:03):
What is it that you want now, Mr.
Lowe the simplest thing.
And it is to have the choice togo for a walk.
If I want to like any normalperson, look, I'm not a
criminal.
I've committed no crime.
I'm not a danger to myself or toothers.
And yet I'm still not allowed togo for a walk on my own by
myself.
He didn't wake a thing.
(10:23):
You woke a person.
I'm curious.
Um, what would you do if youwent out, I'd look at things.
I'd talk to people.
I would decide if I want to goin this direction or that
direction or straight ahead, Iwould do all the things that you
people take for granted.
Speaker 2 (10:39):
But the board meets and they think it's too
dangerous for him.
And they say no.
And later there's a scene wherehe calls Robin Williams'
character in the middle of thenight says, come over here.
I have to tell you something.
It's urgent.
Speaker 4 (10:51):
We've got to tell everybody we've got to remind
them.
We've got to remind them howgood it is.
How good, what is Leonard?
It's all bad.
It's all bad people forgottenwhat life is all about.
They've forgotten what it is tobe alive.
They need to be reminded.
They need to be reminded aboutwhat they have and what they can
(11:12):
lose.
And what I feel is the joy oflife, the gift of life, the
freedom of life, the wondermentof life.
Speaker 2 (11:20):
And finally, I'm not going to spoil the movie.
You got to go see it yourself.
But the doctor, Robin Williamslearns a great lesson himself
Speaker 4 (11:29):
That the human spirit is more powerful than any drug.
And that is what needs to benourished, work, play
friendship, family, things thatmatter.
(11:58):
[inaudible]
Speaker 2 (12:04):
You know who he's talking to to us.
It's the simplest things that wecould take for granted.
Did you ever noticed that mostpeople in the world loved the
ocean?
Okay.
Some people out there don't likethe sand, but there's not many
people that I've met, who don'tlove the ocean.
That feeling, you know what itis.
It's not just beautiful.
It's all, it's comprehending thevastness of what the ocean is,
(12:31):
how deep it is, how far it goes.
Number the first time, if you'reover the age of 30, remember the
first time you saw an iPhone andsomeone showed you how you could
swipe with your finger.
And you were like, wow, Holycow, first time you were in a
car and you saw a navigator thatcould tell you which way to go,
but didn't blow your mind.
But then five years later, youtake your iPhone.
(12:52):
You swipe, you don't even thinkabout it.
You type in your place, yournavigator, you don't even think
about it.
There's no more or no matter howmany times we go to the ocean,
all of us should take a moment.
Look at the beauty of the color.
Is there any better smell thanthe ocean?
Beautiful.
When we stand in awe, it's thisfeeling of being alive.
You don't need to be near theocean to feel the thrill of
(13:14):
being alive.
You can be driving to the mall.
You got to go return some shoes,you park in the underground
structure.
And you walk from that parkinggarage and you're outside for
that eight seconds.
Stop walking, put your face upto the sun and take a breath.
Inspirational quote of the day.
This quote comes from Macyerroneous quote, appreciate
(13:39):
every day that you're alivebecause being alive is a luxury
that many don't get toexperience for long, appreciate
every day that you're alive.
Not just the good days, not justthe days you're at Disneyland
every single day.
We need to appreciate the factthat we're alive.
(13:59):
And even if you see someonewho's 80 years old, 90 years
old, and you think, Oh, they'veexperienced life for a long
time.
You know what?
They'll tell you.
It went by in a blink of an eye,the snap of a finger.
We only have one life.
What are we waiting for?
We don't get to choose how longwe live, but we do get to choose
(14:20):
the perspective that we willwalk around life with.
And if we make a consciouseffort to really enjoy the
simple things in life, then wecan bring the awe back into.
Awesome.
Thank you so much for being heretoday, listening.
I really appreciate you spendingyour time with me, please.
(14:41):
Again, subscribe like us.
Rate us, review us, share uswith your family and friends.
And I truly hope that each andevery one of you has an
incredible life and not just thelife.
That's good and not just thelife.
That's great, but that each andevery one of you has a life of
awesome.
Speaker 1 (15:16):
[inaudible]
Speaker 2 (15:17):
Yep.
I said it before, and I'll sayit again.
Life moves pretty fast.
You don't stop and look aroundonce in a while.
You could miss it.
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