Making Progress, One Awkward Coffee Date at a Time

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🧠 Dutch and determined: bumbling through verbs with caffeine and courage
💪 Gym grumbles and gains: when muscles moan but you show up anyway
📉 Sluggish steps and spirals: how slow growth can still sting
🐴 Sage advice from a runaway horse brain: hold those reins, honey
🌊 Wave-riding wisdom: from chaos to calm (and back again)
💡 Meaning in the meaningless? A paradox we proudly ponder
🍷 Chardonnay and small changes: she’s late, but she always shows up  

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (01:07):
Hello, friends, So happy to have you here with me
today at Radical Joy. If you've been here before, hey,
welcome back. If this is your first time with me,
well I'm glad you're here. Each week, i'm here with
you talking to myself about things that weigh on my
mind and heart, hoping if you're dealing with something similar,
we can adjust our perspectives as you listen. Hey, if
you're struggling with something that needs immediate attention, please know

(01:30):
the help is available. Just a nine eight eight nationwide
in the US to reach the Mental Health and Suicide
Crisis Hotline. All of us here at COLW Studios believe
that mental health is a vital part of our wellb
The more people I meet and the more places I go,
the more I realize how important it is to make
people aware of the fact that there is no shame

(01:53):
in enjoying the parts of our lives that are incredible.
It's time for some radical Joy, and this week the
three fingers pointed back at me are for patients and
how to practice it when it is literally the last
thing on your priority list. Patience is a virtue. We've
heard it a bajillion times. Right, of course, we have

(02:15):
It's one of those things that continues to harp on
us because we know that with just a little bit
of patience, many things that we've been working on consistently
small steps, large steps, ten step programs, we continue to
take it off our list in our daily checks, eventually
more than likely will come to fruition. The problem with

(02:38):
such a thing is that often we have a timeline
in mind of when we would like to complete said
thing versus how long it actually takes to reach a
point of proficiency or completion that satisfies. Example, I am
working so hard on doing better with my Dutch learning okay,

(03:00):
And I do my Duolingo, and I work on my
flash cards, and I go to the language cafes that
they have all over the community. I even make coffee
dates with native Dutch speakers, you know, people that were
born here that know how to teach, and we share
a sweet treat and a caffeinated beverage, and we chitty

(03:20):
chat in simple phrases and sentences, structure, grammar, etc. And
still I have issues. Whenever it comes time to just
doing basic life skills in this foreign language, I get impatient,
I get frustrated, and whenever those kinds of feelings sort
of like rush into me. Because they rush. They don't

(03:42):
just lolligag, they don't meander. They come at me like
they're going for my throat with a knife in hand,
ready to slit me and give me a second smile. Okay, graphic,
I know, it's just that I don't do anything half
and that's just the way it feels. It feels difficult.
It feels as though, while I am trying to improve

(04:06):
these things about myself, that there are many elements in
my life that continue to work against it, and that
can be frustrating, right, and instead of giving myself the
grace or the patience in order to grow into it.
And these are all things that I know, like the
slower it takes you to get something done, the chances
are more likely that you can maintain once you arrive.

(04:28):
It goes for things. Whenever I was a really overweight child,
I lost the weight slowly over the course of about
a year and it's stayed gone. You know. I fluctuate
a little bit. All of us have our Oprah moments.
But it's also one of those things where it was
frustrating at the time because I wanted to be leaner overnight,
and that's not how this works. I want to be

(04:51):
fluent overnight, and that's not how this works. Again, we'll
give another example. I go to the gym and I
want to be like Instagram model ready in a week.
Whenever I've been eating like an idiot and perhaps drinking
more calories than is appropriate and or helpful for the
goals that I've set for myself, and for whatever reason,

(05:12):
whenever I look at myself in the mirror, I get
irritated that you can't wash your clothes on my belly. Well, okay, frustrated, angry,
impatient whenever I know that if I take the consistent steps,
whenever I stick to the plan, whenever I reach for
something to put into my gaping hole in my face,

(05:36):
if I make smarter decisions, decisions that are more based
on accomplishing my goals than doing a short term satisfaction,
super healing myself and this cranky mood that I'm in, well,
chances are good I'm going to get the outcomes that
I want. That's what I want to talk about today.
Impatience is a killer. It gets me every time I

(05:59):
can say that, working in social media or dealing with
social media at all, ever, is helping any of us
to increase our patients or to make it stronger, better, deeper.
In any case, everything it feels like in our lives
continues to be harder, faster, funnier. It feels as though

(06:23):
what we're trying to accomplish continues to get a shorter
and shorter timeline. The deadline keeps getting moved up, and
that causes undue stress because many of these things that
we have on our plates, many of these things we
have on our dream boards or vision boards or whatever,
are not things that can happen overnight. If it could
happen overnight, chances are you wouldn't need the dream board.

(06:44):
You just need to do whatever needed doing the day
before and you'd wake up with the thing you wanted
and life would be fine. That's not how this works.
And if that's one of those things that it does
happen overnight, may have not judging suggesting you should probably
aim higher. We should probably come up with bigger dreams now.

(07:05):
I don't want to be a dream shamer. You know,
if it's one of those things where it can be
accomplished overnight, great kudos to you, because how delicious is that?
And if you can accomplish a dream overnight, how many
more dreams could you do if you were willing to
give it a week of nights, a month of nights,

(07:26):
or be still, my beating heart, a year of overnights
with small, consistent steps, so that when we wake a
year later, after performing those consistent steps every day, that
that dream hasn't just been accomplished, it has been exceeded.
How wonderful would that be? And in my evolved frontal lobe,

(07:49):
I know these things to be true, not just kind
of sort of, but one hundred percent gospel take it
as it comes, because this is from on high situation.
And so how do we quiet the lizard and continue

(08:09):
to focus, assess and listen to the still small surety
of the frontal Now, if you know, hey, don't gate
keep that stuff. Let us all know it. It is amazing.
It's fascinating to me to watch these kinds of things happen,

(08:31):
to watch them unfold, because that's what they do. Like
a beautiful flower, I think, for whatever reason, the paeony
comes to mind immediately because there are so many petals
on a peony, and that's part of the reason. They
are so gloriously beautiful when they open. Not only are
there just hundreds of petals, each one individual and beautiful

(08:51):
and unique, they have those ruffled edges that make this
thing look full and lush and delightful. Right, And so
now I've made that beautiful picture and I've described it,
and I forgot where I was going with it, Dad Gummant.
What I want to say is we have to make

(09:11):
those small, consistent steps in order to continue to move
forward in these things. The longer we give that consistent process,
the bigger the dream we can accomplish. And I want
to continue to harp on that. You hear me talk
about this frequently. I'll be honest, sometimes I worry because
we keep talking about the same sorts of things here,
because these are the things I know to be the

(09:34):
processes I use in order to maintain the joy in
my life. Whenever I feel as though the world is
kind of burning a little bit, can you smell that, right?
It's a bonfire and it smells like somebody just threw
a tire on top of it. That's the black smoke,
and that's the smell you're getting because for a lot
of folks it feels as though the way the world

(09:54):
is going right now, that's how it feels. How do
we avoid that? That there is something deep and instinctual
inside us that I can't help thinking that there are
alarm bells and red flags that are going off and
waving all around us to say this is not okay,
this is not normal, this is dangerous. Something is coming.
I'm not sure what. I've got a very good idea,

(10:15):
and I would like to either avoid it or perhaps,
if it's your calling, help stop it. What is my
role in this? How do I play a part in it?
And how do I maintain my patience? Whenever it looks
as though these things are burreling down on us, I
get nervous. There's a part of me that has been
here for thousands of years and instinct buried in my

(10:39):
DNA that says I should be doing something much faster
than I am, perhaps doing it great. I acknowledge that
I give that the honor and the space it deserves
because it does that's just human nature and psychology. Yeah, yeah, yeah, correct.
Part of me thinks that it is being handled in
such a way so that you do you feel that

(11:01):
emotion and instead of keeping our head, in our cool
and making a plan with small, consistent steps in order
to overcome these kinds of anxious, frenetic emotions and feelings.
We respond in kind with impatience, with a frenetic energy,
with something erratic and perhaps unreasonable. Okay, how do we

(11:27):
avoid that? Well, the first step in solving a problem
is acknowledging there is one. The problem is not the
thing that's barreling down on us. The problem is that
I am being reactionary instead of strategic in the way
that I want to approach it, and often that includes

(11:47):
something that is a knee jerk quick fix instead of
a Okay, I can handle this. This is my part
in this system, and I'm going to play it to
the best of my ability. I can't fix all of it.
I can take responsibility for this part of it, and
this is how I can approach it and make it better.

(12:08):
How I can make this easier for many people in
my life who are affected by it more adversely than
perhaps I am. Great. And then we start doing it,
and we have to have a certain level of blind
faith in it until our eyes are opened that those
steps that we're taking in a consistent manner and having

(12:31):
the patience and the trust that it's actually happening, that
it's really working. Eventually the progress will begin to show.
It will and I love this. It takes a lot.
It takes a lot to really look at that and
know that it's happening, okay, And I want to make

(12:51):
sure that I prepare us for that by saying it
very clearly and perhaps repeating it a few times, which
is why we have several episodes in this wonderful platform
saying something very similar. I have to believe that what
it is that I'm doing is building on a foundation
of what I want to put into the world. It's

(13:11):
my legacy. This is what I want to be remembered for.
This is the kind of thing that people will look
at me, both present and in the future as a
memory or as where we were today when this happened,
and say, I remember when this happened, and that helped
me to do better by the person that I wanted

(13:31):
to be here the life that I wanted to live great.
And I'm not talking about just for me though that
is my mission. My mission belongs to me, and I
keep trying to do these kinds of things in this
manner and when I forget and start creeping into that

(13:51):
impatient and frustrated and da da da da da. I
have to remember the things that I'm talking about now,
right about recall it, try to breathe deeply through it.
It's like going through a really rough wkout and you're
just you're gasping for breath and you are absolutely at
your wits end. You start to have like that animal instincts.

(14:14):
I can't get my breath. I'm starting to kind of
spin out a little bit because I can't get my
breath under me. Again, you have to fight against every
instinct and slow it down. You've literally got to take
the reins from that lizard brain that's trying to work
on all of the things and just hammer you and

(14:36):
think that you know, for whatever reason, the predator is
at the door of the cave. No, No, there is
no predator. You are the predator, and your self improvement
is what is coming for your throat. Okay, which is me.
So I just need to breathe, get it all back
under control, and resume the pace that I had before
when I knew that I was making progress and I

(14:57):
didn't let the nerves or the anxiety get at me.
It's not a fear thing, though it feels remarkably similar
whenever we let it kind of run away. Patience is
a practice, Okay, at least it is in my experience.
Whenever I think of something like that. It is not
something that I am naturally good at. Patience is not

(15:20):
my bag of tricks. That is not on my special
skills list on my resume. That is something that I
literally have to think about and manually slow my pace.
I literally have to take the reins and I have
to pull back to to slow this entire system. It's

(15:41):
like a sage coach, and God knows, occasionally she just
gets away from you. If you drop the reins on
something like that, she will one hundred percent run away.
Sometimes we have to maintain that, and sometimes it feels
a little harsh. I remember growing up we had horses,
and it always felt so harsh to me whenever there
was you know, a bit in their mouths, and that
of course was connected to the reins and you had

(16:02):
to use those to control the animal if you were
riding her, you know, make sure that she goes the
right way, she doesn't get too fast, that she doesn't
start to you know, in some cases buck to throw
you or run towards something that maybe she can't see
and hurt herself, or meet the writer, and you have
to maintain control. You want to give it as much

(16:23):
freedom as possible. So in that way you can continue
on the back of this glorious, magnificent beast. Feel the freedom,
feel the power, live in that elation of exceeding your
own limitations because you are utilizing a force that is
greater than yourself to move faster and stronger through the world.

(16:49):
It requires control. It requires a close eye and knowledge
of of the program in order for it not to
get away from you, and in many cases that takes patience.
It will continue to improve the more often you do it.

(17:11):
And that's the thing. Like I e ooh not to
too to horn. I excelled in school. It was one
of those things where I enjoyed it a lot, so
it felt like it came easy to me, and so
I continue to do better and better and better because
I continued to do more of it because I liked it.

(17:31):
I didn't see it as something that I did on
a repetitive basis. I saw it as something that I
loved doing, so I kept doing it. And I kept
getting better, and part of me sort of didn't realize
that there was a process involved underneath it to continue improving.
I just thought I was naturally good at because I

(17:51):
loved it, and then I did it, and then I
just kept getting better because I continued to do it.
I had great instruction, I had very strict and and
creative guidelines for completion, and I would continue to excel
now that I am someone who is a little bit
more cognizant of exactly how all this thing happens. Instead

(18:13):
of loving being good at something or noticing the progress,
what I instead notice is the effort, and that can
be a bit of a slog right trying to learn
something new, especially now that my brain is not as
plastic and as willing or as quick to learn something
as perhaps it was back in the day. That is frustrating. Also,

(18:38):
I would like to point out that this is probably
not going to improve in all likelihood, just from the
way biology and chronology work. The chances are very good
that it will continue to decline in the coming years.
And though I do not like to think of it,
reality of the situation is develop good have now for patient,

(19:01):
consistent steps forward. So that I can continue to implement
these in new things that I want to learn in
the future, so that hopefully I can side step as
much of this frustration as possible. It's awful. I hate it.
I don't like it at all. And it's not just frustration.

(19:26):
I get wildly unhappy in my current state trying to
get better at something and that often doesn't just sit
with the subject. It often splashes back onto me because
I'm the one trying to learn it. And instead of
giving myself grace and praise for the work that I'm
putting in and for the effort and the consistent steps

(19:48):
that I continue to make to get closer to the goal,
or recognizing the progress that continues to happen, I get
frustrated that I'm not perfect at it on day six.
That hurts me. It puts me in a place that
makes me feel down on myself when I don't deserve it.
Instead of feeling better that I continue to show up

(20:10):
for the work, it makes me feel sad that I
haven't already completed whatever benchmark I may or may not
have set for myself. That is more like more than
likely wildly unrealistic for my place in this situation, right exactly.

(20:30):
So patience is something I have to practice, not only
for the thing that I want to do, also for myself.
Not being lenient. Leaning is not the same thing. I
think it's a very different situation, and I wanted to
make sure that I said that out loud. Lenian implies
like well, no, no, no, you'll get them tomorrow and I

(20:52):
will get them tomorrow. What needs to be said is
you did great today and you'll come back tomorrow. Oh
and if you're not happy with your progress today, maybe
you can add something else tomorrow that is working toward
the goal but feels different, so it provides a variety
in what you're doing, so that maybe it feels different

(21:15):
enough so it doesn't feel like a slog. Right. Sometimes
I think it's just the repetition, the routine that can
be a killer. And though I know that that's the
way to get better at something, sometimes that is the killer. Okay, Again,
all these examples that I give, they're almost always the same,
like little back of tricks. It's like language or a

(21:37):
gym or something like that, because those are the things
that I prioritize my life that I want to continue
to see improve. Okay, handstand push ups are one of
those things that we do at the gym that just
absolutely kill me every time. I've had some injuries in
my shoulder in the past, and I continue to baby
eat my shoulders instead of working them and rehabbing them

(21:59):
in a way so that they will continue to strengthen.
I cradle them and I coddle them, and I don't
work hard at building the small structures and tissues and
ligaments and blah blah blah around it to provide safer
strength building things. And I think that example can be
applied to a lot of other things in my life.

(22:21):
I hurt this now, it hurts so now in to
avoid future injury, I'm going to baby it. That is
one way of approaching it, for sure. There's also listening
to people who have gone through something like that, rehabilitating
it so that it can continue to serve you in

(22:44):
the years to come, and you can continue to do
the things you love, look the way you want to look,
be strong and capable and helpful. By continuing to build
this strength, then you can accomplish these things like is
a handstand push up really that crucial? Probably not to

(23:06):
be fair, like the only time I'm going to use
a handstand push up is very specifically in a case
of fitness where there's like forty of them in a
workout and they need to get them done in a
certain amount of time. Okay, great real life, real world application.
I can help someone push something overhead whenever it starts
to fall from a high shelf, or if something is

(23:28):
falling from a height, I can either grab it before
it clocks somebody in the head or at least deflect
it without hurting myself and having enough strength behind it
and control that it doesn't damage something else in the room,
fall on another person, etc. It's one of those things
where sometimes I have to do just a tiny bit
of problem solving and sort of creative scenario creation. I

(23:54):
suppose creative scenario management. That's the word I want to say,
so that I can and justify doing these kind of things,
because yeah, if you just look at it as what
it is, it seems the silliest thing in the world.
Like Jane, it really doesn't matter if you can or
can't do a handstand push up correct. It really doesn't
matter whether or not I can speak Dutch well enough

(24:14):
whatever that's supposed to me. It really doesn't matter whether
or not I can do fifty push ups in a
single set. Correct so many of these things, if you
want to look at it that way, Yes, correct a
lot of these things. If you want to just go
wildly hyperbolic with it, does any of it matter? Does

(24:36):
all of it matter? I'm always stuck on one of
these things. Like it's such a beautiful dichotomy. It's such
an interesting conflict of reasoning in my own little little brain.
Whenever I think of these things, everything in life is
so wildly important, the teeny tiny things like the ladybug

(24:57):
on your shoulder, congratulations, that's gonna be a great day,
or or the job, how that entire dynamic is working
for or against you, in your favor or perhaps making
you insane. All of these things are so wildly important
in just acknowledging, noticing, and just finding a way to

(25:20):
integrate those ideas into a life. And if they're one
of those things that drive you to madness, it doesn't matter.
And it's not a nihilistic thing. What it is is
you look at the things that are trifles and you
make those a moment of focus and specificity that can

(25:42):
enrich your life. It doesn't matter if you stop to
smell the roses. It doesn't matter whether or not that
butterfly lands on your shoelaces, and it does. It matters
if you hate your job, if every day it is
a chore and a task, it matters. If your partner
isn't fulfilling your needs in a very specific way that

(26:05):
you need them to fulfill, it matters. It is crucial,
it is wildly important, and in another flip of the universe,
it doesn't because if your partner is not meaning this
one specific need, it's your not responsibility, but almost responsibility
to find someone else in your tribe who can, because

(26:26):
perhaps that just isn't their fort Maybe that just isn't
their way of showing their love, care or concern for
your well being. Great, so we find something else. If
this job is a task and a hate and a loath,
then it literally just drags your soul through the pits
of hell. Screw it. Find a way to change it,

(26:46):
whether that's another job, And I realize that's a big
ask in so many parts of the world. There's another
way of approaching that, so that you don't have to suffer.
Life was not made for suffering. We were not made
for suffering. We were for joy and for strength and
creativity and soul and passion and connection. And if something

(27:10):
in your life as important as your profession or your
job or your career is crushing every element of why
we were literally made to be here among the other
beautiful souls in the world, it's time to think about
that really seriously and exercise our patients in what we

(27:37):
see as a mind numbing, ugly awful that continues to
bury us deeper in melancholy the longer we stay and
we figure out a way to change it, and we
take small, consistent steps to move into a new era,
whether that's a new mindset, a new career, a lateral move,

(27:59):
a move up. However it is to change the program
so we don't have to live like that woo woo moment.
A buddy of mine is going through a divorce and
it is not enjoyable as one might expect. However, he
is also growing exponentially in the other relationships in his life.

(28:23):
He's on the dating apps. He is meeting these people
who are very attentive to many of his needs, and
it is putting him on a new high. That is
a wonderful thing to watch. When he reaches that high.
There is something in his soul that is telling the
rest of the universe that he is ready for more

(28:45):
good and high and lovely and wonderful, and he continues
to come to him. How do I know this because
he tells me. Now, you can choose to believe that
that's just coincidence, that the bad times are going to
come right back around to slap you upside the head.
And I will not argue it's all a wave. Some

(29:05):
days you're on the crest, others you're on the trough.
And I get it. Nobody gets to live on the
mountaintop always. And when you are vibing at the top
of your game and feeling like a boss, it is
infinitely more likely that more things in your life are
going to start to do that. Now, whether that is

(29:28):
causation or correlation, I really don't give a hoot. Just
so we're so unbelievably clear. However, whenever things start to
go really well in my life, I know that I'm
looking for other things to pair with it, because if
nothing else, that's a habit. I cluster them. This happened today.
What else is there? These happen in threes. Super what

(29:50):
else is coming that's going to put me on a
high like this? Great expectation leads to fruition might as well.
And it's one of those things where if you are
carrying the hammer, it's easy to find a nail. If
my expectation is good and right and true and awesome,
chances are real good. I'm gonna flip a rock and

(30:12):
lo and behold, there she is. And I love it
and I do. And to be fair, whenever I hit
a dark spot, I usually tend to sort of wallow
in that for a bit, and eventually something really good
comes out of it, and it makes me feel strong
and I start to climb out. I start to swim

(30:34):
from the bottom of that barrel to the top again,
where I can bust through and get a big gulping
gasp of air and get right back to Swimmen, it
just takes a little patience, something I'm not good at,
but something I can talk about with you this week

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for however long we get to hang out, and then
hopefully I'll remember this whenever it comes back around to
get me. Because she's coming back, because she's coming round
a mountain when she comes, She'll be riding six white
horses when she comes. But God knows, I'm gonna be
sitting there patiently with oats and hey and probably a
glass of Chardonnaye for her. And it's gonna be fine,

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because I'm gonna be able to do this as long
as I'm working consistently and give myself the grace and
patience I need to realize that the progress is getting made.
I love the time we get to spend together. Thank
you so much for being with us here in Radical
Joy with CLW Studios today. If this is your first episode, welcome,

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I'm so happy that you're here. Thank you for tuning in.
Hopefully something we've talked about today has moved you, has
given you a reason to integrate maybe some of these
processes into your own life so that whatever it is
you're working toward, you can be just a little gentler
with yourself and maybe put just four percent more effort
into whatever it is that you're doing so that those
steps get accomplished even a little more quickly. If this

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we continue to love y'all. Thank you for taking time
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Have a great one and we will see you next
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