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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 2 (00:07):
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(01:48):
Doctor Tiffany Tay Welcome back to the show. I got
trigger happy there.

Speaker 4 (02:01):
She's a US Navy veteran, certified same No, certified obgy
and as well as poet, playwright.

Speaker 3 (02:17):
Children's author and really good peach cobbler maker. And now
she's even running for Congress. So I was supposed to
welcome to the show now, but I did it early.
I was to trigger happy with my applause. But welcome back,
doctor Tiffy.

Speaker 5 (02:35):
Always always, always a pleasure to be here. And Happy Wednesday, everyone.

Speaker 3 (02:42):
Happy Happy. Let's start with breakfast, take a bite of
my gratitude sandwich with doctor Tiffany and I. Top of
the bunch, Thanks were grateful for outside of ourselves. Bottom
of the bunch, Thanks, we're grateful for inside of ourselves.
So what are you grateful for?

Speaker 5 (02:58):
I know, right now things seem to be scary, and
actually they kind of are, but I am still very
happy that I am here, breathing, walking, talking, and I
get to see another day.

Speaker 3 (03:17):
I'm grateful that the planets did not crash into each
other last night, so I do have the opportunity to live, love, lafe,
learned and create, innovate, be delighted, be surprised, and enjoy
the deliciousness of life. How's that for positivity?

Speaker 5 (03:38):
Yes?

Speaker 3 (03:39):
What else? Are you grateful for? Doctor tivity?

Speaker 5 (03:41):
Yes? And I'm grateful that I hosted my conversation that
was sponsored by the National Organization for Women of Riverside
and Women with Black Women and it went very well.
And if you didn't have a chance to come on,
I'm sorry you missed it.

Speaker 3 (04:01):
I know.

Speaker 5 (04:02):
Yeah. I will be hosting a zoom next month in October,
so hopefully when I post the details on my social media,
you can get on that and have a second conversation
with me, and that will be for men and women
are welcome. And that was very informative because people had

(04:24):
a chance to ask their questions of me.

Speaker 3 (04:27):
Beautiful as longs as not. Between October sixteenth and twenty third,
which is Newborn Beach Film Festival, I'm doing another year
of sponsorship for the Chinese Spotlight Film so keep that
in mind. But I am grateful that even though I

(04:49):
can't fly, I can still drive. I've got a gig
in Las Vegas. I've got a gig to cover in
Cavalina Island. So we're almost overpouting the loss of the
world to not being able to fly for a year.
So there you go, that's what I'm grateful for. Let's

(05:13):
go to the bottom of the bun, which is what
do you like about yourself? So gratitude turned inwards? And
still have that squeaky squirrel? Do you hear a squeaky
squirrel with me?

Speaker 5 (05:28):
I think it's the truck. Is there a truck?

Speaker 3 (05:32):
But that's not what I'm talking about, Okay, hearing the Okay,
I like the bottom of the bun is what we
are grateful for to do muscle building too, you know,

(05:54):
to turn that gratitude inwards so that when we go
to back tonight. This is what we want you to do,
is instead of being your own worst enemy, your own
worst critic, is to be your biggest thing. So what
do you like about yourself? Doctor Tony?

Speaker 5 (06:11):
I like the fact that I am willing to go
the extra mile and sacrifice my time for the greater good.
And I say that because I have already started volunteering
this past weekend to phone bake on behalf of Prop fifty,

(06:33):
and I've had some people say yes that they are
going to vote and support Prop fifty. And I like
the fact that I'm having an impact and to help
change the way that things are going, because a lot
of times people just complain, and I don't want to
just complain. I want to be an avenue of change

(06:58):
and don't just say something.

Speaker 3 (06:59):
Doing yeah you your actions are speaking so loud that
I can't hear a word you're saying is one of
my favorites. What do I like about myself? I like
that in moments of panic, I can monitor my panic

(07:21):
and still breathe and note that everything works out for
my divine investment. So my freakout factor is largely diminished
these days. So even three minutes before a live show,
I was able to chill and everything turned out great

(07:43):
with none of the guests that I had had land.
So that doesn't happen very often, but I am grateful
that when it does happen, I do not lose it.
What else do you like about yourself? One more?

Speaker 5 (07:57):
And I like the fact that I am still able
to parent with love and kindness because I have young adults,
and when they're small, it's easy to just say do this,
do that, amnideds. But since they are now young adults,

(08:21):
at the age that they are, you want to give
them space to be themselves and to let their brains develop.
But you also want to give them guidance so that
they can grow into the adults that you want them
to be and to make their own decisions. So you
want to walk that fine line because you want them

(08:44):
to be able to stand on their own. And I
believe that I can do that in a good way
to give them that space, and I like the fact
that I believe that they are growing into their own.

Speaker 3 (09:01):
I believe they can plaw right. Yeah, my older daughter
is turning twenty eight this week. Talk about that theme
of watching them grow knowing that, you know, I did

(09:22):
the best that I could at the time that I
had the resources I had as a mom. I wasn't perfect,
but I was met eighty percent a great mom, and
certainly I did a little better than my parents did.
That's our only job, and so it's really good that
I give myself those props and that I'm not always

(09:45):
focused on what I didn't too well, but I will
focus on what I do too well, which is you
know something I'm grateful for. I appreciate that about myself.

Speaker 5 (09:56):
Beautiful nice.

Speaker 3 (09:58):
All right, that's it for breakfast with myself.

Speaker 5 (10:03):
And doctor Tiffany Tate for that.

Speaker 3 (10:07):
Is in the house. Thanks for joining us for breakfast
every weekday morning. I did this on the show, so
twenty eight days to create a good habit, or twenty
one or thirty whatever you believe. Please join me every
weekday morning for breakfast. That way you will sandwich your
day in the most positive morning. Thanks for joining us

(10:28):
for breakfast. And now for the topic of the day
by Don Tiffany.

Speaker 5 (10:50):
What is it today? We are talking about focus?

Speaker 3 (10:59):
Focuss.

Speaker 5 (11:00):
Yes, absolutely, because last week we talked about distractions. Now
we are talking about focus, and I think it's important,
don't you talk abslutely?

Speaker 3 (11:18):
Focus is I call it the most powerful tool we
have as human beings, and we take it for granted
and or give it away. We think there's a gun
to our heads when we are doing this a mass
activity meaningless scrolling, we think someone put a gun to

(11:38):
our heads. But we choose what we are focusing on.

Speaker 5 (11:42):
What we're doing absolutely, and then I did my evaluation.
But I think it's important a lot of times to say, okay, well,
what is focus? It is a point of concentration and

(12:07):
that is the emphasis of it. And a lot of
times do we really concentrate hmmm? And how often do
we concentrate hmmm? And I think it's important for us

(12:27):
to really look at this because in our daily lives,
we come and interact and we do a lot of things.
And that's the point. We do a lot of things.
I know I do. I have a lot with my plate.

(12:48):
I know the doctor resid does.

Speaker 3 (12:51):
Really wait wait wait wait, where's that real? That was
a perfect time for this particular really read.

Speaker 5 (13:03):
Right? And so not that it we get distracted, but
we have a lot of goals that we're striving for
and there's nothing wrong with that, and I figured this
was a good time to focus. And even when you
watch TV or if you're doing that meaningless scrolling, there's

(13:25):
so much information coming at you. Seriously, it's like opening
your mouth and it's just flying at your face. You
can only gather it in so many increments. And whether
you're watching the news, there's so many headlines there are

(13:45):
so many distractions and can you focus? So I figured
this was a topic to really address because the way
life is coming at us so fast, what do you
want to focus on, whether it is interpersonal, whether it
is professional. I figured this was a subject that we

(14:10):
needed to address.

Speaker 3 (14:12):
Yeah, definitely, especially in falling on the heels of last
week's topic, as you said, which was squirrel, so distraction.
So here's the balance to distraction called focus. So tell
me what your research says about focus, doctor Tiffany.

Speaker 5 (14:33):
Absolutely, absolutely, And so I thought it was interesting because
when it comes to focusing a lot of people have
issues with focusing and concentration and whether you're talking about
people who have ADHD or not, So we're going to

(14:57):
talk about people have ADHD. So we're going to take
those people and take that out of this pool. Okay,
So that's number one. Because there was a study performed
in about August of twenty twenty two and they just
pulled people and this was about one thy six hundred
people and this was a crucial learning study and they

(15:22):
found that two out of three responded struggle to focus
on a single task one single task. About sixty eight
percent said that they had trouble focusing at work sixty
eight percent. Sixty two percent said that they had trouble

(15:42):
focusing at home. So you know how you said, oh
I'm going to do the laundry, or oh I'm going
to clean the kitchen, or oh I'm going to fold
the laundry, or like you said, oh I'm going to
open that pile of mail, we get distracted or oh
I'm going to wash the dishes, or oh I'm going

(16:03):
to vacuum, or you're going to do whatever, And so
what are the causes? Sometimes it's stress and anxiety. Those
were the frequently cited causes, just distracting them from paying attention.
Other factors include it just poor sleep, sometimes depression, or

(16:24):
just constantly being exposed to the digital distractions. And that's
not necessarily the phone. Anything can be a digital distraction.
It could be the computer, you know, email, it could
be your phone, so anything. It could be a video game,

(16:45):
so anything can be anything digital could be a distraction.
So when it came to work, research show that workers
are only able to focus on a task and average
of twelve minutes before being distracted.

Speaker 3 (17:03):
Has this changed since technology?

Speaker 5 (17:10):
Well, this is because of technology.

Speaker 3 (17:13):
All way okay, because I'd be curious if they did
the numbers before cell phones, smartphones, dumb phones. You know,
I'm guessing that it went quite high or like you said,
the computer games. I'd be curious to see it before
and after.

Speaker 5 (17:32):
Yeah and so, And they say it can take up
to twenty five minutes to regain focus afterward. And I
will say that I am probably guilty of being a
distractor to mom team because she was like, oh, I
was about to do this and then you called me,
and I'm not, You're retired, take the time off, take

(17:54):
a break. You have all day talked to me. So
I will say, is that I am a time stealer. Oh,
I'm like reclaiming my time. So I am guilty of
being a distractor. I will own up to that, especially.

Speaker 6 (18:11):
With my mom.

Speaker 5 (18:12):
I'm like reclaiming my time, reclaiming my time. So and
this is what they found younger versus older generations. Some
surveys indicate that younger people are significantly more affected by
focusing problems than older generations.

Speaker 3 (18:34):
There's that time factor or that I was just talking about,
for sure, don't I don't think it's because are young people.
There's something wrong with them. I think that there just are,
by an exponent of eight more things to attend to

(18:59):
that the older generation, which I'm not a part of,
but the older generation certainly has had less to be
had less distractions to derail their focus. Let me just
put it that way.

Speaker 5 (19:17):
Right, Yes, No, while they didn't delve into that, and
they talked about digital distractions, my guess and again they
didn't delve into it, but my guess is that younger
generations are more apt to being digitally inclined, and so
since they are more familiar with more digital platforms, they're

(19:41):
able to serve more digital platforms than some of the
seasoned people.

Speaker 3 (19:48):
I would agree with that, you know, just trying to
teach someone who's a nanogenerian or even an octagenarian how
to use First it was the remote right that was difficult,
and then lord knows a smartphone, Lord knows a tablet,

(20:08):
Lord knows you know, a computer to sign on and
do all those things. I feel bad for them actually,
because they don't have that the mental synapse, you know,
the more you repeat something when you're young, you create
that neural pathway. Well, if you've never had to think

(20:32):
digitally or remotely you know, using the remote, you don't
develop those connections, so it is harder. And I don't
know how many times I get asked the same question.
My bonus mom was eighty or sortady ninety two, and
you can that's my bonus dad is ninety five. My

(20:55):
mom that just passed was ninety ninety. And if I
found in how many times they asked me the same question,
I'd be a millionaire.

Speaker 5 (21:04):
Mm hmm, yes. And it's it's not like they they're
into it. They just have an aversion for and it's like,
I don't really have time for that. I don't want
to be bothered with that, and they don't want to
necessarily do it, and.

Speaker 3 (21:23):
Well mine wanted to be bothered with it, but they
just couldn't grasp it and or retain it, which is
a little different than you know, scre y'all. I mean,
there are those the grumpy the grumpy people you're talking.

Speaker 5 (21:42):
Yea, And so I think it's it's a different a
different generation kind of issue there. But what they what
I did find was that when you are trying to focus,
there's the focus as the verb, and then there's the
focus as the noun, and so the focus as the

(22:03):
verb is the intense mental action where you tend to
concentrate really hard and you absorb and you become engrossed
and you kind of immerse yourself into something and you
were directing your attention and you are just pinpointed into

(22:24):
something and you zero in and you're targeted. Whereas there's
the noun version, and there's the state of being focused,
which I thought was very interesting, where this is still
of focus, but it's a different type of focusing where

(22:46):
you kind of like meditating and it's a focal point
and it's more of an airy light, kind of less
stressful thing. And I was like, oh, there is the
adjective type of focus. And I was like, oh, okay,

(23:11):
so where you are deeply engaged and you are alert
and attentive, but you're watchful. And I was like, I
never looked at it that way. What about you?

Speaker 3 (23:25):
Yeah, I I was told because I used to be
called like the number one multirotaster in the world because
I could, you know, do eighteen things at the same
time that actually I wasn't that there's no such thing
as what did I just call it? Multi right? Juggling

(23:54):
all the balls in the air at the same time
that it's cereal, like I can only pay attention to
one thing at a time and I just switch real fast,
which I still thought was a good thing until they
told me that it takes you twenty seconds to get
back where you were at that level of focus before

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you changed your focus with something else.

Speaker 5 (24:18):
But that's still pretty good because even if you look
at a juggler when they have all those balls in
the air, they grab one at a time and then
they toss it over up and they grab another at
a time, then they toss it and they're still tossing.
They still have all those balls in the air. And
like I mentioned the last time, when it comes to
you know, a woman's brain is kind of like a

(24:38):
computer with all these files open, but she's addressing one
file at a time. Then she'll close one file, open another,
close another file, open another. And what I thought it
was interesting when they said why is it important to focus?
You know, we used to say who, what, when, where,
why and how? And you want to look at all

(25:01):
of those reasons, and they say the importance of focusing
lives and its power to drive success, enhance our productivity,
and improve our well being by enabling our goal achievement
because it helps better time management, higher quality of work.

(25:23):
And there are some key benefits to focusing like I mentioned,
because it helps our learning and mastery, and it also
will help reduce our stress and anxiety, which in turn
will help us live longer, productive lives. I think that's
important because no one wants to die young and beautiful.

(25:44):
We want to live long and beautiful.

Speaker 3 (25:49):
Yeah, we notice you're not putting the other possibility in there, old,
ugly and dump. Yeah, so interesting. My only caveat though,
is focus is good as long as you're focused on
something that is helpful. If you're focused on something that

(26:13):
you cannot control and you don't like it and you
keep focusing on it, it will grow bigger. That whole
negative plant will literally loom larger when you are focused
on something that is not feel good. So that would

(26:35):
be so it's not Focus isn't always positive. Focus isn't
always successful, as you just said, it depends. It's assuming
that you're focused on something that will bring more success. Right,
So ruminating is like or ruinating on something that you
don't like or hasn't gone well or dropped through the cracks,

(26:57):
or isn't under your control. Like many things right now
are that's not successful. Your ability to focus on that
is going to hurt you.

Speaker 5 (27:09):
Absolutely and right now, try to live for better tomorrow,
not focusing on the chaos of today, but trying to
live an impactful life. And how I started saying, I

(27:33):
am focused on having an impact because it's one thing
to complain about what's happening, but it's another thing to
do something about what's happening. And I think it's important
to find your voice. So focus on what you can
do to make a happier youth.

Speaker 3 (27:57):
No one to hold and no one to full I
live by that one. That and is this the hill
you want to die on? Mm hmm, So again balancing out, Yes,
do action, do something, don't just talk about it. But
are you really doing something that is going to equate

(28:18):
your intent and your impact? Your intent is to be helpful.
Is your impact really helpful?

Speaker 5 (28:25):
Right?

Speaker 3 (28:25):
You think it's helpful. But the person you're doing it too,
do they think it's helpful?

Speaker 5 (28:32):
Hmm? Think you go.

Speaker 3 (28:37):
Little moose drop on that one. I'll take that la
my Canadian version of talking about the elephant of the room. Yeah. Yeah,
And this is a good time to focus on a break.
We're in that place where we have to take a

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Wednesday as you can see, because it's time for doctors
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You.

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Happy birthday beautiful.

Speaker 3 (32:58):
Yeah, all right, back to focus. Focus on focus. Tell
me more about focused, doctor Tify.

Speaker 5 (33:12):
Yes, when we focus in life, it is an intentional
direct ability for our energy and actions towards a clear
goal and values, and it helps allow us to achieve.
So it helps us to filter out distractions like we

(33:34):
talked about last week and engage meaningful work that's right,
and so it helps our brains to develop a vision
for our lives. And so it is in addition direct
setting our specific goals for our lives, we can help
come up with a specific plan to achieve those goals,

(33:56):
whether you create a mental board or a specific visual board,
whether you write it out, you can come up with
consistent efforts to achieve it. And so some key components
the why when we're talking about the who what when,
we're why how? The why is our clear vision. It'll

(34:17):
help you understand like your core values and your purpose.
So it helps provide the foundation. I know when I
was planning out what I wanted to do in life
to become a physician and doctor. Marissa to get her PhD.
We had to know what we wanted to do school,

(34:37):
we had to get our education. The what are specific goals?
Defining our clear achievable objectives. That was what we wanted
to do. She wanted to be an educator. I wanted
to practice medicine. That was our achievable goal, our action plan,
this was our how. So devising a strategy and the

(35:01):
steps to take to achieve our goals, and this is
crucial in making progress toward those things. Now, I don't
know what that is for you. You know what that
is for you, But those are some of the things
that will help it. And then you can come up
with a daily schedule or routine and that's the when
how you're going to assess it and put it into action.

Speaker 3 (35:24):
Yeah, yep, good advice. I know for me, it's easy
for me to focus on things that I really like doing.
It's not so easy to focus on things that I'm
not crazy about, and I love probably eighty percent of
everything I get to do twenty percent of it. I
need to reinforce my ability to focus by I bribe

(35:49):
myself or reward myself, as a nicer way of saying it.
So I say, I if I do fifteen minutes of
this that I really don't want to know, and I
will reward myself with blank and so the things like
candy crush, I will play with the lives that I

(36:12):
have and then I'll go back. That's my reward for
getting through a portion of something that I need to do,
or go in the and try not to do it
around food, because that's like a not a not a
helpful way definitely of rewarding myself. But certainly, you know

(36:34):
a trip to the thrift store. I love finding beautiful
clothes that are in a thrift store that you know
I can do something with and look like a million
bucks without spending a million bucks. That's one of my
life models. So I, you know, I reward myself and
that's a way to help me focus.

Speaker 5 (36:56):
I think that's absolutely fabulous because when when you focus,
you definitely end up with a better quality of life
when you focus on something positive. Now, don't focus on
trying to hurt people, because that's just not good. Negativity
only breeds more negativity, and that's just real people. I

(37:18):
don't care who you are. The cycle is not good,
and karma eventually comes back to you, and we've seen
that historically. So I don't care what's going on, but
I digress. So productivity and efficiency by eliminating the distractions
and dedicating your full attention to something positive. I will

(37:40):
say the gym. The bed is so good and so
warm in the mornings, I literally have to talk myself
out of getting out of my heated blanket. And I
don't care how warm it is it is outside. Yes,

(38:02):
I still sleep with a heat of blanket because I
don't like cold sheets and I love my warm blanket.
And I have a warm heat of blanket and a
weighted blanket on me because that way I could snuggle
with it, and a little squishy pillow that way I
can hug up with it and snuggle with it. So
that's my snuggle bear. And so I am just like
snuggled with my heat and blanket and my weight of blanket,

(38:25):
and I am just like oh and I really have
to pray to Your Lord give me the strength to
get out of it and go to the gym. And
I have to focus to get my buns and my
dairy hair out of the bed and take my lazy
bones to the gym. But it requires focus and personal growth.

(38:51):
But I do it. I do it, and you have
to do it too. Sometimes whatever your gym is, your
gym may not be the gym, it may be something else,
but mine is literally the gym.

Speaker 3 (39:02):
And have a cartoon that says, my bathing suit said
doctor Tiffany, get out of bed and go and work
out and get in the pool. And doctor Tiffany sweatpants
and waited and blanket said, nah, you're all good. Go
see it. Basically, I just personalized the cartoon just for you.

Speaker 5 (39:29):
Absolutely absolutely.

Speaker 3 (39:32):
Ah. So I actually will when I do like this morning,
it's it's my gym day. I do it every other
day and it is easier. And I'm grateful that I
have a gym downstairs so I don't have to get

(39:52):
in the car to go to the gym. But that
doesn't mean it's easy. But when I do that and
then I finished my lap swimming, I literally will say
good job Mama, like I will give myself the props
that also helps keep me focused.

Speaker 5 (40:13):
Mm hmm. You literally have to give yourself positive affirmations
because if you don't praise yourself, why should you expect
other people to praise you. You have to positively affirm yourself,
and you have to have intentional living instead of being
swept along by circumstances, focus on what allows you to

(40:37):
be you in content with your life and what is
going to reduce your stress. You have to live for
yourself and not live for others. It's good to help
other people. I'm not saying don't help other people goodness gracious,

(40:58):
not at all. I help other people all the time.
Sometimes I have in the past help other people to
my detriment. I have read the book Boundaries a couple
of times because it took a couple of times read
to sink in because I was raised by a bleeding

(41:19):
heart SAP and I am a bleeding heart SAP. But
I now flex my boundary muscle and I know when
to say when. And I think you have to learn
to create your own reality.

Speaker 3 (41:37):
Absolutely. I say. The short form of that is, how
the four do you expect anybody to applaud or agree
or support or think well of you if you don't
do it. If you can't approve of yourself, how the

(41:57):
four do you expect anyone else to prove? So certainly
that is one of my core Happy eighty eight foundation
tools is you got to bake your own cake. Eay.
If you can't bake your own cake, you're going to
fall apart if you don't get the icing. Icing is
criticism and compliments. But you are the boss of baking your.

Speaker 5 (42:21):
Own absolutely, absolutely, And you can improve your focus. And
you can improve your focus by prioritizing sleep. Everyone has
different sleep hygiene habits, and I know that I have

(42:42):
been guilty of not prioritizing my sleep. I still as
a board s ert. If I don't beat you, I
n my body sometimes goes back to those sleeping habits,
even though I am retired. It's like my body cannot
shake that sometimes. But you should try to aim for
seven to nine hours of sleep. Some people are used

(43:03):
to getting four to five hours of sleep, and I
can function on that oddly enough.

Speaker 3 (43:08):
I can.

Speaker 5 (43:09):
So if that's you, I think that's fine. But you
should try to get seven and nine hours of quality
sleep per night, and if you can get in a
nap in the afternoon because you don't work and you're retired. Hey,
I think that's good. But lack of sleep has been
proven to show that it affects your cognition and your

(43:31):
cognitive function. And you want to improve your diet, A healthy,
well balanced diet that's rich in whole foods, fruits, vegetable,
lean protein, not that fast food, fatty stuff. You want
healthy fats, which can improve your cognitive function, is good

(43:55):
for you. You want to stay hydrated. I was talking
to someone at church who shall remain nameless. I was like, oh,
I barely drink a half a bottle of water a day.
I was like, and so he was like, here, drink
some of my water. I said, I don't sip water.
I gope it. And I can gope a whole bottle
of water next maybe next show, I'll show you. Because
bottle of water like that, I mean literally in like

(44:18):
thirty seconds to a minute. That's I said, if you
give me your water, you won't get it back. Because
I was in church and I was thirsty, and it's like, here,
take a sip, but you don't want to drink after me.
I was like, number one, I need a whole bottle
of water. Don't tease me. I need a whole bottle
of water. I don't sip it, I gope it.

Speaker 3 (44:36):
And so.

Speaker 5 (44:38):
That's that's how you should. You should avoid hydration. What
about you, dog, How do you drink water?

Speaker 3 (44:45):
I drink it very carefully and I love the flavor.
And I do sparkling water that has zero calories. And
I know that doesn't count. That have to be filter
blah blah blah water. And I have it from a
nutritionist that that's not true, that even that qualifies as

(45:06):
drinking water.

Speaker 2 (45:08):
And it is.

Speaker 3 (45:12):
You know, we do the best that we can. Right,
if you get one hundred, do eighty percent. Don't should yourself.
But it is focus. It is your choice. That's the
thing that I think people have this BS belief system

(45:33):
that they're being forced to do bad things. Like anytime
I hear parents say well, those commercials shouldn't do that, right,
it's like, no, you don't have to watch it, right,
you don't have to talk about it, you don't have
to look at it. That's called power. You have the

(45:57):
power to not buy it. You have the power to
not talk about.

Speaker 5 (46:02):
It, not read it. You don't have demand books, don't
read it.

Speaker 3 (46:07):
For God's sake. It is just you can tell. This
is one of my goats that I leave out sometimes
that people get is when I hear the excluses of
you know, blaming McDonald's for the kind of food lacking

(46:29):
nutrition or whatever it is. I shouldn't focus on McDonald's
but anywhere, Well, they shouldn't sell such and such joy,
they should make better blah blah blah. And it's like, well,
you keep buying it and so, or like news, news
shouldn't be so you know, if it believes, it leaves

(46:50):
while you keep watching it. So it's not their fault.
It's powerful. We drive what trends through our focus. And
if you complain about something, you're focused on it and
you're giving it energy that it loves. That's why when

(47:12):
people do bad things, I don't want to talk about
it because I'm giving them fuel, right, I'm giving them
attention to highlight what it is they're doing. That's why
we don't have kywords or twords or anything on the sholf.

Speaker 5 (47:32):
Absolutely. Now, you want to make sure you stay hydrated
because if you're dehydrated, that can lead to brain fog,
so that's important. And exercise at least thirty minutes of
moderate to intense exercise most days of the week, not
even every day, just most days of the week because
it improves blood flow and cognitive function. So you want

(47:55):
to make sure you get that done because you want
to get it in and it helps to reduce stress.
And you want to limit alcohol, avoid tobacco if you
can because it helps, and try to quit smoking because
that can also affect you. I think it's important that
we always stay focused, and you want to focus on

(48:18):
the quality of your relationships and who you're giving your
attention to because focus is important.

Speaker 3 (48:29):
What do you say, Yep, it's your choice. Focus is
the most powerful tool you have as a human being.
Animals have less focus because they have, you know, normal
instincts that they are operating on salmon swimming up stream

(48:53):
to mate. They don't have a choice. They don't they
can't focus it go. I don't think I want to
do that today. I want to do that like tomorrow.

Speaker 5 (49:02):
No, they do that.

Speaker 3 (49:04):
We as human beings have a gift called focus, and
that is I think one of the biggest diseases that
is affecting us these days. Which is why I'm on
this thing around personal mastery. We have advocated our focus
to whoever has the loudest voice, to whoever has the

(49:26):
most shocking story, to whoever has the meanest thing to say.
Nobody would know about that if you didn't talk about it.
When people message me and say I now say I'm sorry.
I do not pass on anything that is preying on

(49:48):
people's anxiety, fear, worst case scenario not going to do it.
I'm not going to be part of that.

Speaker 5 (49:56):
So that's my true absolutely. Now, one thing I did
I find that I thought was interesting is said, ultimately,
you may want to shift important facts from your short
term memory to your long term memory. And science says
that this process takes eight seconds. I was like eight seconds,
and it says to shift information from your short term

(50:19):
memory to your long term memory. If you want to
encode that, just count it by eight alligator seconds, So
one alligator, two, alligator, three, alligator, four, alligator, five, alligator, six,
alligator seven, alligator eight alligator and it'll help lock it

(50:41):
in from your short term memory to your long term memory.
For example, so say, for instance, if there was someone
who I just met and I wanted to remember their name.
So say I met Sally Sue, and in your bad names,
and you wanted to lock it in to your long

(51:04):
term memory instead of your short term memory. And so
you're gonna say Sally Sue, Sally Sue, Sally Sue, Sally Sue,
Sally Sue, Sally Sue, Sally Sue, Sally Sue. You're gonna
lock that in from your short term memory into your
long term memory, and you've got to do it, and
you're gonna count it out for eight alligator eight alligator seconds.

Speaker 3 (51:29):
Well that's cool because eight. You know, I love eight
number in Chinese, it's a homophone for good fortune. I
will try that because I am notorious for saying I'll
let you to introduce yourselves, because I.

Speaker 5 (51:46):
Have no clue.

Speaker 3 (51:50):
What their name is was, and I just learned it
like literally five minutes ago. So I'll try eight alligators.
Like you're going to look like an idiot though you.

Speaker 5 (52:01):
Just use your fingers and not out loud m hm.

Speaker 3 (52:07):
Okay, but still like you're going to be focused out
somewhere for eight seconds. I guess I'm going to the bathroom.

Speaker 5 (52:14):
You can go to the bathroom, or you can use
you find your bed.

Speaker 3 (52:18):
Okay, all right, ancle try to give that a try.

Speaker 5 (52:24):
I thought that was pretty neat. I was like, oh, yeah, so.

Speaker 3 (52:27):
Locking short term memory into long term uh, extending your focus, yes,
uh is the name of that game? Cool? Anything else?

Speaker 5 (52:40):
Nope, I think that that That That about wraps it up.
That was pretty cool.

Speaker 3 (52:44):
That is a great conversation about focus. I hope that
you are focused on the things that you want. Oh,
I'm so glad I get to say this. This is
one of the most powerful tools that I learned from
Abraham Hicks. When you don't like something, so someone says

(53:07):
something to you that was me, let's just go with it,
and your tendency is to say that jerk, or for me,
I would say if I look like you, I'd be
miserable too. Under my breath, not nice. But I'm not
happy with that person, right, So my focus is on

(53:31):
how good they say that, how good they do that.
I didn't do anything that, And I'm focused on negative
behavior from other people, and we talk about it, and
I rant about it and go to people and write
about it or I post about it. And my focus
is on what I do not like, what I do

(53:53):
not want, and that is shooting myself in the foot,
because the more I focus on what I don't want,
the more I'm going to get what I don't want.
M Have you ever noticed, Oh, that person just spit
and then I think about it and guess what that
person just spit too. So if I focus on what

(54:15):
I don't want, I'm going to get more of what
I don't want. The trick is to focus, to turn
your focus.

Speaker 6 (54:23):
On what I do want.

Speaker 3 (54:25):
So a mean person, I know what I don't like.
Now I focus and turn my focus to what I
do like. Who is nice in my life? My younger
daughter Sarah, my friend a Marie, my co host, doctor Tiffany.

(54:45):
So I am purposefully using focus in the best possible
way for me. Isn't that interesting? I'm glad you raised that,
because all of a sudden, I remember saying I got
to talk about that. I almost forgot. So I am
one alligator to allegations, a concept from my short term

(55:11):
to my long term.

Speaker 5 (55:14):
Okay, final word. My final word is a quote, actually
maybe two quotes. One quote is by Tony Robbins, and
it says your life is controlled by what you focus on.
And I thought that that was pretty significant because if

(55:34):
you are focused on negativity, your life is going to
be controlled by negative things. So try to focus on
something positive in your life, something achievable in your life,
and that's what you want to focus on. And always
remember your focus determines your reality. And that was by

(55:57):
George Lucas, and I think that that when you do that,
you will get more out of your life. Both of
these are positive ideas. Now this one is an anonymous quote.
I said two, I can't count. This is three. You
get what you focus on, So focus on what you want.

(56:20):
And I believe yeah. Basically, I'm an eternal optimist. And
so when you look at your life and you strive
for things, look at doctor Marissa and I. We are
renaissance women and we are constantly reinventing ourselves, trying to

(56:43):
invigorate this world and make it a better place. You
can do the same thing too. We are no better
than you. And that, my friends, is my final word. Awesome.

Speaker 3 (56:56):
My final word is what do you do on this Saturday?
Come have free champagne and twenty five percent off all jewelry.
I am doing a book signing at J and L Jewelry,
my first time at a jewelry store. So it's in
the traffic circle Long Beach. Hey, you may keep me

(57:16):
from flying, you little bugger like blots, but you cannot
keep me from my happy eighty eight mission eighty eight
million more happy people in the next eight years. We
in ol Jewelry. You can find them online for directions,
but those of you all local, you better be there,
all right. That's it for me. It's all about balance.

(57:39):
Piece in, piece out, world, piece through inner piece, Take
us out, doctor Tiffany.

Speaker 7 (57:47):
Now go and have the best day evers Hey you yeah,
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