March 10, 2025 • 28 mins
Our minds & actions serve as vessels to the world. We possess the power to purify OR pollute the environment.
Let this serve as a call to action to 'purify' the world with positivity & gratitude, and you can learn how to do it here!
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Speaker 1 (00:03):
Welcome to the Wednesday podcast, a weekly
resource thoughtfully crafted tohelp people build and refine
discipline, accomplish theirgoals, fortify their mindsets
and be of service to somebody inthis world.
My name is Ryan Cass and I amyour host, and it is my mission
and commitment to deliveramazing episodes to you every
week where you'll learn frommyself or renowned expert in
(00:26):
their field.
We love helping people win inevery aspect of their lives, and
you can help us win by sharingthe show with somebody that you
believe will benefit from it,subscribing and leaving a rating
and review.
We believe that everybody inthis world is meant to do
something great with their livesand we're here to help play a
(00:47):
role in that.
Thank you for tuning in andlet's win today.
Do you ever think that we havethe power to purify and pollute
the world?
And I'm not talking from anenvironmental perspective,
because we absolutely do havethe ability to purify and
(01:07):
pollute the world environmentthat we live in and walk in and
(01:33):
spend time in every day?
It's a powerful thought thatI've been ruminating on lately
after a conversation with ChrisDoris and his podcast just
released last week.
He is phenomenal.
One thing that really stood outto me in the conversation is
this concept that he droppedabout purifying and polluting
(01:55):
the world simply based off ofour thoughts and actions, and
it's something that I've beenspending time with myself on and
even shared with my teams lastweek my leadership team that
everything that we do can eitherpurify the environment for our
(02:18):
team and make us better and keepus moving forward, or we can
unconsciously pollute theenvironment for our team and
make it negative or make themact in manners that don't align
(02:38):
with the very principles that wepreach and expect day in and
day out.
You see, it's interesting thatwhen we think about polluting
the world, people would probablyfirst say no, I don't pollute
the world.
I throw my stuff away and I'm agood person, I look after my
(03:00):
things, I don't leave trash onthe roadside after my things, I
don't leave trash on theroadside.
But a lot of people wouldprobably not think that they're
unconsciously polluting theworld and their mind just based
off of how they show up and howthey act.
This complements something thatI heard from Ed Milet in one of
(03:23):
his speeches that feelings andbehaviors are caught, not taught
, meaning that the very thingsthat we do, many of the things
that we say, are ofteninfluenced by people in our
environment, so how we show upor how we behave in a certain
(03:43):
situation is likely symbolic ofsomething or someone that you
saw in that same environment.
I think about that at times,with behaviors are caught, not
taught, and, reflecting back ona recent conversation with Matt
O'Neill on his podcast Good MoodRevolution, he and I both
(04:09):
believed that we were wired tobe destructive and angry when we
were growing up.
Both of our fathers in that mydad, didn't teach me to go and
break things, meaning all right,ryan, if you're upset, you just
punch through this wall andthen you won't be upset anymore,
(04:32):
and that's how you cure youranger.
But seeing that type ofbehavior, time in and time out,
allowed me to catch that samething for myself and same thing
for Matt.
And then we went through lifeinto our teenage years believing
oh, we must have the angry gene.
It must have just been part of,must just be part of who we are
(04:56):
, because that's what we saw andit's probably existed for
generations before that.
So think about that for aminute.
Existed for generations beforethat.
So think about that for aminute.
The things that we do can oftenbe the justification for the
things that other people do andsay.
So what we're going to talkabout is how you can purify your
(05:20):
environment for the people thatyou serve and the people that
you spend time with, and alsohow you can purify your mind.
I don't believe that pollutionwill have to go into too much
explanation, because you cantake the opposite of the
purification method and that isyour pollution method, but we
(05:43):
may dig into it just a bit.
So, when we think aboutpurifying the environment and
I'm going to first focus onbeing around others and why it's
so important this concept sohere are a few things you can do
.
One thing that I adopted earlyon in my business career and
(06:06):
this also exists for personalrelationships as well is you
know what a normal conversationlooks like.
Typically, in the morning yousay hey to somebody and then you
ask them how they're doing, and95% of the time they say good,
and you feel good about yourselfbecause you were courteous
(06:30):
enough to say hi and ask someonehow they're doing, and you've
now mentally checked off thatbox that all right, susie said
she's good, so I did my part.
Susie, meanwhile, may befeeling absolutely broken, or
(06:50):
maybe she just she also hadsomething really cool going on,
but we're typically not invitedto go any deeper than all.
Right, yep, I'm good, check thebox.
Yep, I'm good, check the box.
So one thing that I've done inthe business world and personal
(07:11):
life is my number one rule ispeople first, business second.
So how we can purify the worldis first lead with a positive.
I always will ask someone on myteam just hey, what's something
cool in your normal lifeoutside of here, behind the
badge because we all wear badgesat work what's something cool
or something interesting in yournormal life right now?
And it invites them to sharewhat they've got going on.
(07:36):
And people love that.
People love to talk aboutthemselves, but people also love
to feel safe and open to sharethings.
And by creating that invitation, you're purifying the
environment that, hey, it's agood thing to talk about our
lives and some of the coolthings that we've got going on.
(07:59):
And by extending thatinvitation and leading with a
positive, finding something cool, then what is that likely going
to do?
At the very least, it's goingto make that person feel good
about being in this environmentand maybe they go off and ask
someone else that same thing.
(08:20):
When people ask me or when I getthe typical good response and
I've shared this on otherpodcasts.
When I get the typical hey,how's it going?
People say good, I ask whatmakes good, tell me, I want to
know, and sometimes they'llshare what makes good and other
times they'll share they're notso good, and it turns into a
(08:42):
little one-on-one session or, atthe very least, allowing them
to clear some weight off theirshoulders and I'm there and
aware of what's going on and Ican follow up, I can say a
prayer for them, I can offerthem a resource and again, but
we're purifying the environment.
We're taking it one stepfurther with the people that we
(09:05):
interact with.
So lead with a positive.
What's something cool going onin your life?
What's a highlight, what's arecent win?
That's how we can purify ourenvironment with the people that
we serve every day.
The next one and this seemssimple, by the way, nothing here
, just about the same thing withany podcast that I share.
(09:26):
There's no rocket science, man.
A lot of this stuff is simple,down to the core, very easy, and
a lot of the research that weread about how to live a great
life.
There's nothing supercomplicated in theory.
It could be complicated inexecution.
So the next one is to smile andexpress gratitude.
(09:50):
So think about this.
So remember, pollution isopposite of purification.
So if I walk into your place ofwork or your house and I'm
smiling hey, man, how's it going?
What's up?
It's going to contribute to amore positive environment.
(10:12):
And well, if I walk in, man,what's up, how's it going?
Yeah, it's Monday.
Feelings and behaviors arecaught, not taught.
Now I could potentially becomethe catalyst for now that person
to oh yeah, well, ryan's down,so I'm going to be down too.
(10:33):
Don't misconstrue what I'msaying, for it's never okay to
be sad or down, because that'snot what I'm suggesting here.
But generally speaking, it'spretty easy to find things to be
happy about and smile about Ifyou're listening to this podcast
(10:54):
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Let's go Smile and expressgratitude.
I've become quite fascinatedwith the science behind
gratitude.
There's so much science thatsupports the positive benefits
(14:14):
of gratitude to include.
I've been digging through a lotof information at the
Mindfulness Awareness ResearchCenter at UCLA and it says that
gratitude can change neuralstructures in your brain.
So basically what that means isour brains are extremely
(14:39):
malleable, which basically meansthat it's like a computer we
have upstairs that we can writeprograms that automatically
trigger a certain response.
We can remove programs thathave been triggering responses
that we don't like.
We can work on programs andmake them better, make them
(15:01):
create our intended or idealresponses faster.
There's so many things, butwhen we go to expressing
gratitude, we can literallyalter our minds to where we
reduce our stress levels, weimprove the environment around
(15:23):
us.
Gratitude journal.
In one study of, I believe, 100, maybe even less than that
folks that maintain a gratitudejournal 16% improvement in
(15:46):
happiness.
It's amazing, one of the mostsimple things.
So another thing that I do whenmaybe I'm walking by people,
people hey, how's it going?
I'm grateful, man.
I'm grateful for a new day.
I'm so grateful, grateful, tobe here and truly mean it, not
just say it.
I'm truly grateful to berecording this podcast right now
(16:06):
.
I'm truly grateful to know thatat least one person will listen
to this and benefit from it.
I've been spending a lot moretime in gratitude and really
looking for the smallest things,like not just hey, I'm grateful
for you know to be staringright into this Sony camera, but
(16:27):
when I go outside, I'm gratefulthat I get to hear the birds
chirping in the mornings now.
I'm grateful that I get to hearthe birds chirping in the
mornings now.
I'm grateful for the wind thattouches my skin, cools me down.
I'm grateful for the treebranches that are swaying.
I'm grateful for all of thegreat times.
(16:50):
I'm grateful for thenot-so-great times because they
deliver growth.
Therefore, I don't reallybelieve there are bad times,
because with bad comes good.
I'm truly, truly grateful forthese things, and these are
things that I tell people oftenand things that I'm telling
myself.
So I'm purifying theenvironment, but also purifying
(17:10):
my own mind.
The environment, but alsopurifying my own mind and I will
say I've been going through acouple mental struggles lately
and this is exactly what I'musing to get out of.
That is gratitude and purifyingmy mind with it and really
doubling down on it so we canpurify an environment by
(17:34):
expressing gratitude.
The next thing is reframeothers' thoughts.
So today is Monday.
This episode releases everyMonday.
This podcast releases everyMonday.
What's something you typicallyhear from people on Monday?
Hey, how's it going?
Oh, it's Monday.
Ready for Friday?
Okay, what's a reframe?
(17:56):
Hey, yeah, you're damn right,it's Monday, it's a new day,
it's a new week, it's a newopportunity.
I'm so glad I get to see youand some people when I do that,
you know they'll.
They'll roll their eyes, but I,I trust and believe in the back
of their mind they're probablythinking you know what?
It is a new day and I'm hereand I get an opportunity to move
(18:21):
forward.
Another thing, another reframethat I like to offer to people I
got to wake up early tomorrow.
It's typically what you hear atthe end of the day from
somebody hey, what anopportunity you have.
You get to wake up earlytomorrow.
(18:41):
How cool is that?
You get to wake up on your ownterms.
No one's chasing you with aknife to come in here, but you
still find your way in here, tothis office or to this workplace
, to this gym, whatever the casemay be.
So when we think about how wecan purify our environment, I
like to lead with a positive ourenvironment.
I like to lead with a positive,invite people to share what
(19:05):
they've got going on, smile,express gratitude and reframe,
help reframe people's thinking,because I do find it's too
common now in our world and oursociety to.
It's almost like people bondover this shit, like, oh, it's
Monday, yeahay, yeah.
Like I don't want to beanywhere near the group of
(19:30):
people where that's the norm.
I want to influence them andshift that.
But people that live with thatmindset day in, day out oh it's
monday, I gotta wake up early.
This that man.
Golly, guys, there's so muchbetter.
(19:54):
There's so much great thingsgoing on and so many great
things we can find in our life.
Man, that's how we can purifyour world.
Lead with positive, be positive.
Lead with positive, be positive, smile gratitude.
Now, if you take everything Isaid and flip it completely,
then you understand whatpolluting the world means and
(20:14):
you don't want to do that.
And it's easy to be unconsciousof that again, because it's
normal to say, oh, it's Monday.
It's normal quote, normal forsome populations of people to
say, oh, I have to do this, haveto do that.
This sucks, that sucks.
Let's flip that on its freakingface, man.
(20:37):
And it starts with you, itstarts with me, it starts with
everybody listening.
Think about how you're going topurify your environment this
week, make it better, and thenit's going to help others purify
the environment.
And then, next thing, you knowsome people, at the very least
(21:01):
some people will know when theyspeak to you that they're not
gonna get away with just saying,oh, it's good.
They're gonna have to share alittle bit more or be open or
know that negativity won't betolerated here, not today, not
today, satan, when we thinkabout purifying our mind, a lot
(21:26):
of what I shared there appliesto yourself as well.
So when we look at leading withpositive we have, we can have
conversations with ourselves,and some of the most important
conversations that we will havein this life are the
conversations that we have withourself.
So when we look at leading withpositive, even if there's no
(21:46):
one around and it's just, it'sjust you, you know what's
something we can do to impactlives today.
What's one thing we can do torack up a win or a point on the
scoreboard.
How can we manufacture progressinto our day?
Maybe it's making the bed,maybe it's working out, maybe
(22:09):
it's tidying some things.
I often bring reference to aHarvard Business Review study
about progress being the numberone motivator in the world.
What motivates people?
What keeps people movingforward, making progress?
How can you make progress?
Write down something that youwant to do tomorrow and go and
do that thing.
Write something down thataligns to your goals and go and
(22:32):
do that thing, even if it's thesmallest freaking thing, even if
it's just a little quick winlike literally making the bed.
That's how you can build thisprogress making the bed.
That's how you can build thisprogress.
That's how you can createprogress, which is then going to
grow your confidence.
Because you took action,confidence follows action.
(22:54):
And because you took action,motivation also follows action,
which means that then you'regoing to be more prompted to
then go dig into the things thatyou really want to do.
It's this whole chain reactionthat comes back to action.
Action when we think aboutpurifying our thoughts, though,
(23:18):
I often remind people andreminding myself to look at the
evidence.
It's easy.
Our minds are always going tothrow some sort of thought in
our system, some sort of badprogram that we're not capable
or we're not worthy, or we'renot good at X, y, z, we're not
(23:40):
doing well in the relationshipanything.
At XYZ, we're not doing well inthe relationship anything.
We often can hold thosethoughts true and completely
disregard all of the evidenceand progress that we've made.
So here's a reminder and a callto action.
When you're conflicted with athought that you're not good at
(24:03):
something, or maybe this isn'tfor you or you're not doing well
, what evidence do you have thatcounters that?
What journey have you been onrecently?
What journey are you on rightnow?
Are you on right now?
(24:30):
Last week I ran the Myrtle BeachMarathon and fortunately
qualified for Boston 2026.
Not after didn't come withoutits fair share of struggles,
including puking at mile three,which is a first in the marathon
for me, hopefully the last, butwho knows?
I've puked after but not during, so that was a fun one.
But anyway had a really greattraining block for the most part
(24:53):
leading up into this and pernormal yeah, per normal having
thoughts in my mind that maybeyou're not going to be able to
do it, maybe you didn't trainhard enough, maybe this just
isn't going to be your day.
And at mile three I wascertainly battling with those
(25:15):
demons very early on and I wentand looked back at the evidence
Like no, you have plenty ofevidence in this training block
alone that you've gone thedistance, you've hit your paces,
you've been out in the toughstuff, you've been out here when
you don't want to, so just keepgoing, keep going, you know,
(25:38):
because the thought that youhave in your mind right now that
you can't do this or that maybethis isn't the day, there's no
evidence that supports thatbeing true, but there's a whole
lot of evidence that supportsthat you can make it and push
through, because here's all thework you've done that nobody can
take away from you.
So look back at the evidencethat you have, because that's
(26:02):
what you can use to purify yourmind.
The next thing and it goesalong, back to the marathon, but
get active.
Get active.
One of the easiest ways topurify a polluted mind is go and
move your body.
Do something for 20, 30 minutes.
(26:22):
I got out the house a littlelate the past couple days to go
and run and right afterwards Iwas kind of kicking myself for a
minute like dude, why the hellwere you sitting around sulking
in your thoughts?
One reason why I love doingthis podcast episode, these
podcast episodes, especiallythese sol, is because this is
(26:45):
just as much live practice foryou as it is for me, and live
coaching and therapy, as it maybe for you as it is for me.
I love that we can be our ownscience experiments, and this is
something that I'm going tocontinue focusing on is this
purifying versus polluting, andit's my wish that you're very
(27:09):
cognizant this week and movingforward about how you're either
purifying or polluting yourenvironment and your mind and be
brutally honest with yourselfand seek out and identify where
you have opportunities toimprove.
Let's purify this week, thismonth, this year, and let's win
(27:35):
today.
Thank you so much.
Outro Music.
Welcome to the Wednesday podcast, a weekly
resource thoughtfully crafted tohelp people build and refine
discipline, accomplish theirgoals, fortify their mindsets
and be of service to somebody inthis world.
My name is Ryan Cass and I amyour host, and it is my mission
and commitment to deliveramazing episodes to you every
week where you'll learn frommyself or renowned expert in
(00:26):
their field.
We love helping people win inevery aspect of their lives, and
you can help us win by sharingthe show with somebody that you
believe will benefit from it,subscribing and leaving a rating
and review.
We believe that everybody inthis world is meant to do
something great with their livesand we're here to help play a
(00:47):
role in that.
Thank you for tuning in andlet's win today.
Do you ever think that we havethe power to purify and pollute
the world?
And I'm not talking from anenvironmental perspective,
because we absolutely do havethe ability to purify and
(01:07):
pollute the world environmentthat we live in and walk in and
(01:33):
spend time in every day?
It's a powerful thought thatI've been ruminating on lately
after a conversation with ChrisDoris and his podcast just
released last week.
He is phenomenal.
One thing that really stood outto me in the conversation is
this concept that he droppedabout purifying and polluting
(01:55):
the world simply based off ofour thoughts and actions, and
it's something that I've beenspending time with myself on and
even shared with my teams lastweek my leadership team that
everything that we do can eitherpurify the environment for our
(02:18):
team and make us better and keepus moving forward, or we can
unconsciously pollute theenvironment for our team and
make it negative or make themact in manners that don't align
(02:38):
with the very principles that wepreach and expect day in and
day out.
You see, it's interesting thatwhen we think about polluting
the world, people would probablyfirst say no, I don't pollute
the world.
I throw my stuff away and I'm agood person, I look after my
(03:00):
things, I don't leave trash onthe roadside after my things, I
don't leave trash on theroadside.
But a lot of people wouldprobably not think that they're
unconsciously polluting theworld and their mind just based
off of how they show up and howthey act.
This complements something thatI heard from Ed Milet in one of
(03:23):
his speeches that feelings andbehaviors are caught, not taught
, meaning that the very thingsthat we do, many of the things
that we say, are ofteninfluenced by people in our
environment, so how we show upor how we behave in a certain
(03:43):
situation is likely symbolic ofsomething or someone that you
saw in that same environment.
I think about that at times,with behaviors are caught, not
taught, and, reflecting back ona recent conversation with Matt
O'Neill on his podcast Good MoodRevolution, he and I both
(04:09):
believed that we were wired tobe destructive and angry when we
were growing up.
Both of our fathers in that mydad, didn't teach me to go and
break things, meaning all right,ryan, if you're upset, you just
punch through this wall andthen you won't be upset anymore,
(04:32):
and that's how you cure youranger.
But seeing that type ofbehavior, time in and time out,
allowed me to catch that samething for myself and same thing
for Matt.
And then we went through lifeinto our teenage years believing
oh, we must have the angry gene.
It must have just been part of,must just be part of who we are
(04:56):
, because that's what we saw andit's probably existed for
generations before that.
So think about that for aminute.
Existed for generations beforethat.
So think about that for aminute.
The things that we do can oftenbe the justification for the
things that other people do andsay.
So what we're going to talkabout is how you can purify your
(05:20):
environment for the people thatyou serve and the people that
you spend time with, and alsohow you can purify your mind.
I don't believe that pollutionwill have to go into too much
explanation, because you cantake the opposite of the
purification method and that isyour pollution method, but we
(05:43):
may dig into it just a bit.
So, when we think aboutpurifying the environment and
I'm going to first focus onbeing around others and why it's
so important this concept sohere are a few things you can do
.
One thing that I adopted earlyon in my business career and
(06:06):
this also exists for personalrelationships as well is you
know what a normal conversationlooks like.
Typically, in the morning yousay hey to somebody and then you
ask them how they're doing, and95% of the time they say good,
and you feel good about yourselfbecause you were courteous
(06:30):
enough to say hi and ask someonehow they're doing, and you've
now mentally checked off thatbox that all right, susie said
she's good, so I did my part.
Susie, meanwhile, may befeeling absolutely broken, or
(06:50):
maybe she just she also hadsomething really cool going on,
but we're typically not invitedto go any deeper than all.
Right, yep, I'm good, check thebox.
Yep, I'm good, check the box.
So one thing that I've done inthe business world and personal
(07:11):
life is my number one rule ispeople first, business second.
So how we can purify the worldis first lead with a positive.
I always will ask someone on myteam just hey, what's something
cool in your normal lifeoutside of here, behind the
badge because we all wear badgesat work what's something cool
or something interesting in yournormal life right now?
And it invites them to sharewhat they've got going on.
(07:36):
And people love that.
People love to talk aboutthemselves, but people also love
to feel safe and open to sharethings.
And by creating that invitation, you're purifying the
environment that, hey, it's agood thing to talk about our
lives and some of the coolthings that we've got going on.
(07:59):
And by extending thatinvitation and leading with a
positive, finding something cool, then what is that likely going
to do?
At the very least, it's goingto make that person feel good
about being in this environmentand maybe they go off and ask
someone else that same thing.
(08:20):
When people ask me or when I getthe typical good response and
I've shared this on otherpodcasts.
When I get the typical hey,how's it going?
People say good, I ask whatmakes good, tell me, I want to
know, and sometimes they'llshare what makes good and other
times they'll share they're notso good, and it turns into a
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little one-on-one session or, atthe very least, allowing them
to clear some weight off theirshoulders and I'm there and
aware of what's going on and Ican follow up, I can say a
prayer for them, I can offerthem a resource and again, but
we're purifying the environment.
We're taking it one stepfurther with the people that we
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interact with.
So lead with a positive.
What's something cool going onin your life?
What's a highlight, what's arecent win?
That's how we can purify ourenvironment with the people that
we serve every day.
The next one and this seemssimple, by the way, nothing here
, just about the same thing withany podcast that I share.
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There's no rocket science, man.
A lot of this stuff is simple,down to the core, very easy, and
a lot of the research that weread about how to live a great
life.
There's nothing supercomplicated in theory.
It could be complicated inexecution.
So the next one is to smile andexpress gratitude.
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So think about this.
So remember, pollution isopposite of purification.
So if I walk into your place ofwork or your house and I'm
smiling hey, man, how's it going?
What's up?
It's going to contribute to amore positive environment.
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And well, if I walk in, man,what's up, how's it going?
Yeah, it's Monday.
Feelings and behaviors arecaught, not taught.
Now I could potentially becomethe catalyst for now that person
to oh yeah, well, ryan's down,so I'm going to be down too.
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Don't misconstrue what I'msaying, for it's never okay to
be sad or down, because that'snot what I'm suggesting here.
But generally speaking, it'spretty easy to find things to be
happy about and smile about Ifyou're listening to this podcast
(10:54):
.
It means that you have access totechnology.
It means that you're alive andawake another day, that you're
likely living in a free world.
That allows you to choose thispodcast.
There's so many things.
I can give you three.
Right there.
You're probably up and movinglistening to this, or you're
driving somewhere.
You've got a car, awesome.
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Discipline is a key component ofthis podcast and a key thing
that we preach.
We view discipline as the fuelto help you create the life that
you ultimately desire, anddiscipline being the fuel that
gets your habits and systems incheck so that you can actually
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accomplish your goals.
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And weekly mastermind sessionswhere you're going to learn from
either myself or a suite ofrenowned guests many who have
been on the podcast that aregoing to share pieces of their
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winning playbooks directly withyou.
I've learned that being a partof groups over the years has
helped propel me to so many newlevels in life.
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Go to unshakabledisciplinecomand you can sign up.
It is also in the show notesUnshakeable shake, as in
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we're excited to have you in2025.
Let's go Smile and expressgratitude.
I've become quite fascinatedwith the science behind
gratitude.
There's so much science thatsupports the positive benefits
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of gratitude to include.
I've been digging through a lotof information at the
Mindfulness Awareness ResearchCenter at UCLA and it says that
gratitude can change neuralstructures in your brain.
So basically what that means isour brains are extremely
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malleable, which basically meansthat it's like a computer we
have upstairs that we can writeprograms that automatically
trigger a certain response.
We can remove programs thathave been triggering responses
that we don't like.
We can work on programs andmake them better, make them
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create our intended or idealresponses faster.
There's so many things, butwhen we go to expressing
gratitude, we can literallyalter our minds to where we
reduce our stress levels, weimprove the environment around
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us.
Gratitude journal.
In one study of, I believe, 100, maybe even less than that
folks that maintain a gratitudejournal 16% improvement in
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happiness.
It's amazing, one of the mostsimple things.
So another thing that I do whenmaybe I'm walking by people,
people hey, how's it going?
I'm grateful, man.
I'm grateful for a new day.
I'm so grateful, grateful, tobe here and truly mean it, not
just say it.
I'm truly grateful to berecording this podcast right now
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.
I'm truly grateful to know thatat least one person will listen
to this and benefit from it.
I've been spending a lot moretime in gratitude and really
looking for the smallest things,like not just hey, I'm grateful
for you know to be staringright into this Sony camera, but
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when I go outside, I'm gratefulthat I get to hear the birds
chirping in the mornings now.
I'm grateful that I get to hearthe birds chirping in the
mornings now.
I'm grateful for the wind thattouches my skin, cools me down.
I'm grateful for the treebranches that are swaying.
I'm grateful for all of thegreat times.
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I'm grateful for thenot-so-great times because they
deliver growth.
Therefore, I don't reallybelieve there are bad times,
because with bad comes good.
I'm truly, truly grateful forthese things, and these are
things that I tell people oftenand things that I'm telling
myself.
So I'm purifying theenvironment, but also purifying
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my own mind.
The environment, but alsopurifying my own mind and I will
say I've been going through acouple mental struggles lately
and this is exactly what I'musing to get out of.
That is gratitude and purifyingmy mind with it and really
doubling down on it so we canpurify an environment by
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expressing gratitude.
The next thing is reframeothers' thoughts.
So today is Monday.
This episode releases everyMonday.
This podcast releases everyMonday.
What's something you typicallyhear from people on Monday?
Hey, how's it going?
Oh, it's Monday.
Ready for Friday?
Okay, what's a reframe?
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Hey, yeah, you're damn right,it's Monday, it's a new day,
it's a new week, it's a newopportunity.
I'm so glad I get to see youand some people when I do that,
you know they'll.
They'll roll their eyes, but I,I trust and believe in the back
of their mind they're probablythinking you know what?
It is a new day and I'm hereand I get an opportunity to move
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forward.
Another thing, another reframethat I like to offer to people I
got to wake up early tomorrow.
It's typically what you hear atthe end of the day from
somebody hey, what anopportunity you have.
You get to wake up earlytomorrow.
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How cool is that?
You get to wake up on your ownterms.
No one's chasing you with aknife to come in here, but you
still find your way in here, tothis office or to this workplace
, to this gym, whatever the casemay be.
So when we think about how wecan purify our environment, I
like to lead with a positive ourenvironment.
I like to lead with a positive,invite people to share what
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they've got going on, smile,express gratitude and reframe,
help reframe people's thinking,because I do find it's too
common now in our world and oursociety to.
It's almost like people bondover this shit, like, oh, it's
Monday, yeahay, yeah.
Like I don't want to beanywhere near the group of
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people where that's the norm.
I want to influence them andshift that.
But people that live with thatmindset day in, day out oh it's
monday, I gotta wake up early.
This that man.
Golly, guys, there's so muchbetter.
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There's so much great thingsgoing on and so many great
things we can find in our life.
Man, that's how we can purifyour world.
Lead with positive, be positive.
Lead with positive, be positive, smile gratitude.
Now, if you take everything Isaid and flip it completely,
then you understand whatpolluting the world means and
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you don't want to do that.
And it's easy to be unconsciousof that again, because it's
normal to say, oh, it's Monday.
It's normal quote, normal forsome populations of people to
say, oh, I have to do this, haveto do that.
This sucks, that sucks.
Let's flip that on its freakingface, man.
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And it starts with you, itstarts with me, it starts with
everybody listening.
Think about how you're going topurify your environment this
week, make it better, and thenit's going to help others purify
the environment.
And then, next thing, you knowsome people, at the very least
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some people will know when theyspeak to you that they're not
gonna get away with just saying,oh, it's good.
They're gonna have to share alittle bit more or be open or
know that negativity won't betolerated here, not today, not
today, satan, when we thinkabout purifying our mind, a lot
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of what I shared there appliesto yourself as well.
So when we look at leading withpositive we have, we can have
conversations with ourselves,and some of the most important
conversations that we will havein this life are the
conversations that we have withourself.
So when we look at leading withpositive, even if there's no
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one around and it's just, it'sjust you, you know what's
something we can do to impactlives today.
What's one thing we can do torack up a win or a point on the
scoreboard.
How can we manufacture progressinto our day?
Maybe it's making the bed,maybe it's working out, maybe
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it's tidying some things.
I often bring reference to aHarvard Business Review study
about progress being the numberone motivator in the world.
What motivates people?
What keeps people movingforward, making progress?
How can you make progress?
Write down something that youwant to do tomorrow and go and
do that thing.
Write something down thataligns to your goals and go and
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do that thing, even if it's thesmallest freaking thing, even if
it's just a little quick winlike literally making the bed.
That's how you can build thisprogress making the bed.
That's how you can build thisprogress.
That's how you can createprogress, which is then going to
grow your confidence.
Because you took action,confidence follows action.
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And because you took action,motivation also follows action,
which means that then you'regoing to be more prompted to
then go dig into the things thatyou really want to do.
It's this whole chain reactionthat comes back to action.
Action when we think aboutpurifying our thoughts, though,
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I often remind people andreminding myself to look at the
evidence.
It's easy.
Our minds are always going tothrow some sort of thought in
our system, some sort of badprogram that we're not capable
or we're not worthy, or we'renot good at X, y, z, we're not
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doing well in the relationshipanything.
At XYZ, we're not doing well inthe relationship anything.
We often can hold thosethoughts true and completely
disregard all of the evidenceand progress that we've made.
So here's a reminder and a callto action.
When you're conflicted with athought that you're not good at
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something, or maybe this isn'tfor you or you're not doing well
, what evidence do you have thatcounters that?
What journey have you been onrecently?
What journey are you on rightnow?
Are you on right now?
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Last week I ran the Myrtle BeachMarathon and fortunately
qualified for Boston 2026.
Not after didn't come withoutits fair share of struggles,
including puking at mile three,which is a first in the marathon
for me, hopefully the last, butwho knows?
I've puked after but not during, so that was a fun one.
But anyway had a really greattraining block for the most part
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leading up into this and pernormal yeah, per normal having
thoughts in my mind that maybeyou're not going to be able to
do it, maybe you didn't trainhard enough, maybe this just
isn't going to be your day.
And at mile three I wascertainly battling with those
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demons very early on and I wentand looked back at the evidence
Like no, you have plenty ofevidence in this training block
alone that you've gone thedistance, you've hit your paces,
you've been out in the toughstuff, you've been out here when
you don't want to, so just keepgoing, keep going, you know,
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because the thought that youhave in your mind right now that
you can't do this or that maybethis isn't the day, there's no
evidence that supports thatbeing true, but there's a whole
lot of evidence that supportsthat you can make it and push
through, because here's all thework you've done that nobody can
take away from you.
So look back at the evidencethat you have, because that's
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what you can use to purify yourmind.
The next thing and it goesalong, back to the marathon, but
get active.
Get active.
One of the easiest ways topurify a polluted mind is go and
move your body.
Do something for 20, 30 minutes.
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I got out the house a littlelate the past couple days to go
and run and right afterwards Iwas kind of kicking myself for a
minute like dude, why the hellwere you sitting around sulking
in your thoughts?
One reason why I love doingthis podcast episode, these
podcast episodes, especiallythese sol, is because this is
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just as much live practice foryou as it is for me, and live
coaching and therapy, as it maybe for you as it is for me.
I love that we can be our ownscience experiments, and this is
something that I'm going tocontinue focusing on is this
purifying versus polluting, andit's my wish that you're very
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cognizant this week and movingforward about how you're either
purifying or polluting yourenvironment and your mind and be
brutally honest with yourselfand seek out and identify where
you have opportunities toimprove.
Let's purify this week, thismonth, this year, and let's win
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today.
Thank you so much.
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