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Hi, thanks for listening to the Tony Robbins podcast.
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This is just a quick note about this episode in case you d rather watch and see the video of this conversation, which includes behind the scenes footage with Tony, Sage and me, Mary B. And that s found at youtube.com backslash Tony Robbins live.
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Hello there, everyone, and welcome to the Tony Robbins podcast.
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Welcome, Tony Robbins.
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Welcome.
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Welcome, Mary.
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Thank you, Sage.
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I always like to attend my own podcast.
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We always enjoy having you.
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It s such a funny.
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You ladies do such a beautiful job.
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I don t have to even show up.
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It s great to be with you.
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It s great to be with you.
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And with all of you listening in or viewing in, thank you for taking the time to visit with us.
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We hope that today will touch your heart and provide you with some beautiful tools to enhance the quality of your life.
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Yes, and we wanted to touch upon the power of the spoken word and that our words, whether verbally or in the written word, they carry an energy, they carry a currency, they carry words create.
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And words destroy.
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They do indeed.
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They do indeed, or they can bless or they can be harmful.
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And it s, it s something that innocently we as human beings, um,
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don t always put enough attention to, possibly.
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And so we re just inviting you, as we invite ourselves, into the awareness of the words that we choose, because it is a choice.
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It s a choice, the words we speak.
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It s a choice, you know, to choose words that are kind, compassionate, loving, considerate.
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And sometimes we can fall asleep.
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And we don t realize that words emit and that they land somewhere.
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And how are they landing?
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What is the effect of that?
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Therefore, here we are.
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I know you do.
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You know, we have very different approaches and I love how we all come together.
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It s complimentary and it s different and I m sure that you can find that in your own families for those of you who are listening in.
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Mary, thank you for being here.
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Of course.
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Put your thoughts on words and then I ll kind of give my view of it.
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Sure.
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Well, as you guys were both talking, I was just thinking about if anyone is listening and they re like, Oh, the power of spoken word.
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Like I, I know this, I got this, this old chestnut.
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Um, I think that it s all, when I think about it now in terms of where the world is right now, in many, in many ways, I think this is one of the central issues of, of our time.
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Like that s what
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a lot of ways what the arguments are about out there.
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It s like, what can you say?
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What can t you say?
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The fact that we re even having the free speech discussions in 2021, it s like that all gives credence to the idea that words are so powerful that there are sides of people think that
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maybe there should be censorship, should there be intervention, whether it s big tech or big media or independent media, and all these fractions that are happening right now, I really think the root of it has a lot to do with the power of our spoken word and what we re trying to convey and the frequency, like you said, that that all carries.
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So I think that it s more relevant than ever, and it starts with our own utterances around a dinner table, at a coffee shop, in a classroom, and then of course it goes broader
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at scale and with deeper intensity, but what comes out of our mouth is very important and we should wake up to it.
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I agree.
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I think it s not just the spoken word or the written word.
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I think it s the words you use within yourself as well.
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So let me give a context of how I look at it.
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I look at it as the quality of your life is the quality of your emotions.
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It doesn t matter how many people love you, respect you.
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It doesn t matter how many great children or family members you have.
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You re not going to have a very fulfilled life unless you re feeling emotions each day that enhance your experience of life, whether it s love or gratitude or grace or whatever excitement, passion.
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But emotions are created by meanings.
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And all of our meanings are shaped through words primarily.
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Yes, we can have images and thoughts, but the thoughts tend to get into words very quickly.
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And the words we select, and many times we don t select them consciously, develop habits.
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Most of the research shows that almost 58% of what we do in a day is habitual.
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In fact, somewhere I read, I don t know.
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come up with these statistics like I mentioned it once before, but there s like 165,000 individual thoughts a person has in a day.
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The only problem is 95% of the ones you have today were the same ones you had yesterday, so your life doesn t change.
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But think about it in words.
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Words create meaning.
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Our experience of life is not life.
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We only experience the part of life we focus on and that we label.
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And when we label, when we bring words to an experience, it changes our biochemistry.
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So think of it this way, I call it transformational vocabulary.
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If you want to know what will transform your emotion, transform your life, a different set of words will.
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I know that sounds overly simplistic, because what makes meaning happen is what s happening in your body physically, but it s also what you focus on and it s the label you give it.
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And so imagine like we all have the same experience, like a funnel.
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We all have the same visual, auditory, kinesthetic, all these triggers come in.
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But my habit was to have a cookie cutter of pissed off and frustrated, angry.
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So that generates the emotion.
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Like some people, no matter what happens, they re angry.
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Some people, no matter what happens, they re fearful, they re worried, they re overwhelmed.
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And the words we use, literally, the words you attach to your experience become your experience biochemically.
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So you really want to be conscious of those words.
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And I can tell, like, for example, if I m really run down physically, I m exhausted, I got to push through it, my language becomes more colorful, quite frankly.
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Colorful.
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Even that s a nice reframe.
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That s right.
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Colorful.
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I m sure my grandmother would call it colorful.
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But honey, you re a real master of softeners.
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You know, like when it s a real negative experience, you use softeners and it softens it.
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I remember my mom, God rest her soul, I wouldn t be who I was without her, so I totally honor her.
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But she always was humiliated.
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If someone didn t answer the phone, she was humiliated.
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Because anything uncomfortable, that s the cookie cutter word she used over and over again.
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And so she really was humiliated.
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She d say it.
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She d feel it.
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She d experience it.
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And so you have to become aware of that.
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Simple ones.
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I always tell people, you know, I m doing a financial book.
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I m going to leave in a few minutes because I have to go do the audio recording, but I wanted to join you for this because it s such an important topic.
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But I m doing this new book on the holy grail of investing.
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And one of the things I ve noticed is the difference between have to and get to, you know?
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That s a good one.
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It s like, you know, I have to do this, but I get to do this.
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I mean,
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You know, most people can have a lot of money and they re still not free because they still have to do this, right?
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No, we get to do this.
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And so just a little, it sounds so simplistic and stupid and positive thinking, but it s not, it s biochemical and it s real.
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I ll give you one more quick example and then I ll shut the heck up.
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Um,
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You know, we all have good friends of John and Julie Gottman.
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They re some of the most amazing relationship experts in the world.
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They can watch anybody have a conversation, a couple, and in 15 minutes conversation, they have a 94% accuracy of predicting whether they ll be divorced or not.
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94% in 15 minutes.
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How the hell do they do that?
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Well,
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they notice the pattern of language.
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And one of the things they ve learned is not only there are certain words that push people over the edge, as well as certain things, rolling your eyes, things of that nature as well that add to it, but they also discovered that if you have in your words, with your vocabulary, with your communication, your partner, if you don t at least have a five to one ratio of positive and negative words, emotions, experiences, you will not be able to sustain the relationship.
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Now, when you think about us,
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you know, as a family, how often in a day do I say, I love you, or I m so lucky to have you.
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We all do it with each other constantly.
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We have like a 20 to one, five to one is just to maintain a relationship, but words have power.
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They change your biochemistry.
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They change your relationships.
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They change the meaning of anything.
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So my hope is that as you spend time with my dear loving family here, that they share with you their perspective, but I want to plant the seed with you that this is not a minor subject.
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Are you a terrorist or a freedom fighter?
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Right, we re right now there s
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There s tremendous conflicts in the world that s happening in the Middle East, and a lot of that is, which one are you?
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And which one are you can literally make the difference between hate, rage, love, support.
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And so it s not a minor question, but most of our words are unconscious.
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They just are habitual.
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And if you have habitual words, you re going to have the same experience.
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If you want to upgrade your experience of life, if you want a greater quality of life, then maybe it s time to look at your TV, your transformational vocabulary, the words that shape you and become aware of the ones that put you in a great state versus the ones that are negative.
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And some words are like playful.
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They re not even words.
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We have little funny words sometimes we use to kind of make ourselves laugh.
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I just think it s worth doing an inventory.
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And if you do it,
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I think you ve got tremendous power.
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Tone, there s a great list.
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In the last episode, the last episode of the Tony Robbins podcast was on mental health.
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Oh yeah, that s right.
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And we talked about Unlimited Power, Tone s first book, Tony s first book.
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And today, while I got you, I wanted to talk to you or at least tell our listening audience, if you haven t read Awaken the Giant Within in a while,
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There is its own chapter on the, on the vocabulary of ultimate success is the title of the chapter, but there s this really great list, exactly what Tony s talking about here today.
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And it gives you words and then it gives you like the, the alternate, like rather than saying I m anxious, you could say, I m a little concerned or I m expectant.
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You know, um, there s, there s tons of examples.
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Okay, great.
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Rather than saying I m disappointed, I m a little underwhelmed.
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So there s a huge list.
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And even like you said, Tone, I think there s an exercise in here where you re saying we use, we oftentimes we do, we go to those same words all the time.
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And if you don t know what they are about your family or your friends could tell you, you could ask them.
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What do I say all the time?
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And you might not even know that s what you re saying all the time.
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And the people you surround yourself well.
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So if you re open to feedback, open it up and ask folks that you re surrounded by.
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Kids often know what we re saying more than we do.
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They ll tell us, what do you think?
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It s so true.
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And, you know, we re speaking about the external written word.
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And Tony, you mentioned this at the beginning or external verbal word words, but it s also what we say internally, as you mentioned earlier.
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And if you miss something, it s like, oh, I m such an idiot.
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Like, why did I do this wrong?
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Why am I so stupid?
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It s like, I hate it when I do that.
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Rather than another consideration is, all right, well, that was less helpful.
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Let s choose again.
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Because life is always giving us an opportunity to begin again.
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And there s power from that perspective.
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Because we re all human.
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We all miss.
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We can all fall asleep in a moment.
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the internal um language of it represents sometimes that internal war represent can represent the external war and it happens with our words or words about ourselves and so you know uh be mindful of that internal narrative and if you do something that you feel is is maybe you ve missed rather than it s like oh i m so stupid it s like okay
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You know, let s let s begin again here.
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There s an opportunity when you actually connect from that creative space that we learn.
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We re meant to miss.
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We re meant to miss the mark.
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That s how we tune.
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That s how we evolve.
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That s how we grow.
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And from my own experience, if I m beating myself up or having harsh words about myself, I get arrested.
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I get stuck in a state because mind is believing those thoughts and we re attaching to that identity for ourself.
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And so, you know, having our daughter and watching love live through her, watching love flow through as our nature animating her, I recognize that one of the greatest, most powerful gifts I really believe that we can give ourselves, never mind our children, is the example.
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A lot of people speak about self-love.
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Where does that begin?
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It begins actually with our own internal word choices.
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And by the way, this doesn t happen, it s not like you re going to listen to this and say, okay, I m going to speak perfectly.
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There s no such thing.
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It s about catching ourselves.
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Be aware.
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We re so aware of what s happening externally in the world.
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It s my experience as we start to become aware
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What am I even believing or what are the words or the thoughts that are coming through that I m actually believing in this moment?
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That s such a powerful perspective because we can change that.
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We can t always change the external, but as we change the internal, those narratives that we have about ourselves, when we feel more
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at ease or supporting ourself.
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I know this sounds so simplistic, but therefore we affect the external because there s more to offer.
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You know, I watched the innocence of watching our daughter.
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She s two and a half now.
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And, you know, you, you watch the innocence of no stories, you know, no overlays to an experience.
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It s just the experience.
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When I got it, when I just walked into the kitchen, when you were in there with our daughter just a little while ago,
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I said, Hey, what are you up to?
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And she said, I m enjoying some blueberries.
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And that I have to like, as soon as she said it, I m like, she got that from you.
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You, you, that s part of your self-talk, but you do like our self-talk sometimes bleeds out into the ethers and you use that word enjoying.
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And I was so delighted to hear this little two and a half year old go,
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I m just enjoying some blueberries. 
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And in that moment, I was so grateful to you that you use the words that you do and that that s what our child will absorb.
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And that s often what happens and it s time maybe you take a look at what you ve absorbed and where you d want to go now.
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Your vocabulary, your consistent vocabulary is producing your consistent emotions and your emotions are creating the quality of your life or lack thereof.
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And it s when you beat yourself up, which I used to do a lot of myself, when you re beating yourself up, as you beat yourself up more and more and more, there s a point in which you can t beat yourself up anymore.
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You can t handle it.
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And so then people externalize it.
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And they often externalize it by being irritated by something outside themselves.
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And they usually pick somebody that s safe to do that with, i.e.
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somebody who they actually love and is loved by, which you see people sometimes say things to their love of their life or their partner that they wouldn t say to a stranger.
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And it s just because they think unconsciously it s safe, but it s not safe for your partner.
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It s not safe for you because those things stack.
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That s why the Gottman thing is so important.
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I think,
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starting with your own internal world.
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It s like, there s two worlds you got to master.
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There s the internal world and the external world.
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You can master the external world all you want, but if you don t master the internal world, you re going to have a terrible life.
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It wouldn t matter how much success or business or economics or whatever else the heck it is that you do.
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But you know, you think about it, think of words as the original thoughts and that thoughts create.
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That s really what we re talking about.
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Bible, the beginning of the Bible, in Genesis it says, you know, in the beginning was the Word, and the Word was God.
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You know, there was nothing but darkness, and God said, let there be light, and there was light.
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Those are metaphors for what God has given us, I believe, what our Creator, whatever your idea of our Creator is, has given us the ability to create our life, and we create it with words.
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Your relationship is the culmination of
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the volume and the words that you use, if the words you re using over and over in your relationship are not supportive, not inspiring, not loving, not passionate, not caring, not compassionate, we can predict what your relationship s gonna be like.
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Any relationship is the sum total of the communication that s happened.
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So you gotta think of communication.
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It isn t just words, obviously, because you re non-verbals, you re rolling your eyes or your true smile or whatever you re expressing is a huge part of communication.
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It s bigger than words.
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But the words are the origin of the organization of your thoughts, which then produce the emotions, which out of emotion comes your actions.
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Your actions change if you re pissed off than if you re feeling curious, or if you re feeling delighted, or if you re feeling excited about something.
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And so I think taking it inventory
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of the consistent words you use, the emotional words you use, not every word.
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And this isn t like, you know, Saturday Night Live, Stuart Smalley, if you re old enough to remember that, going to the mirror and going, I m good enough, I m strong enough, I m by golly, people really like me.
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But there is power in incantations.
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I transform my life through incantations.
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When I was a kid and there was nowhere to go and I was on my own and my mom kicked my dad out and she chased me out as well.
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And I m walking through the streets in the rain trying to figure out what to do.
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The gift in my life is I had read some books.
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And I remember again, I ve recommended this before, the first book I really read was The Magic of Believing by Claude M. Bristol.
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And he kept talking about programming your mind with words or incantations.
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And incantations are not affirmations.
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You can affirm things like, I m happy, I m happy, I m happy, I m happy, and your brain goes, BS, you re not happy.
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But if you speak something with total congruency, consistency, intensity, you model what you re speaking.
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And we are creators.
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We forget we re creators.
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Most of us think we re the manager of our circumstances, but we are the creators of our lives.
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But if we re unconscious,
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then we will just be managed by the environment.
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It s like a spell over and over again.
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It s a form of hypnosis, but you can hypnotize yourself into your better self, or you can hypnotize yourself into your lower or weaker self.
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We all have weaknesses and strengths.
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The question is who s in charge?
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And incantations to me are still invaluable.
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And another example of where words have such power is oftentimes just in a different context.
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And while I have you both, I didn t tell you guys I was going to do this, but vows.
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And I wonder, there s a lot of emphasis placed on, for example, wedding vows.
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You guys have been married over 20 years.
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Do you remember, do you recall your vows?
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Is there things that come up to the surface in your marriage at this point in your life that you re like, this is what we got into this for?
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What s the secret?
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Well, I think the problem with a vow is if you speak it once, it s a promise.
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But I think a vow has to be reaffirmed on a regular basis.
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And we ve done that for 24 years now at this stage, which has been the most magnificent gift of my life, honey.
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Thank you, Tony.
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And it evolves.
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Yeah, without a doubt.
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It evolves.
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Like if I think of, gosh, I think of maybe 26, 27 when I got married, I don t recall, but I was a baby.
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And what a vow meant to me, and what it means to me today, it s different.
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And I look at it as ever evolving, really.
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If I think of, you know, answering that question from the perspective of where I am here today and what love means to me, it s more about I vow to claim responsibility for my experience of life.
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I vow to accept.
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I vow to allow, uh, I vow to embrace all the parts of you and all the parts of anybody I love for that matter.
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Cause I, I feel like that can be such a disconnect.
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Um, we have these strange expectations of our beloveds, of our partners, of our
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parents of our children.
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And yet we so innocently are doing the same thing, maybe in a different form, but what we want the other to do.
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So I really believe that the vows are really more of a way of life.
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They re a practice.
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I see you guys use that now.
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And just, I mean, just in your kitchen conversation, but I wonder, you know, it s very trendy now for people to write their own vows at their wedding.
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I m wondering if you guys have any recollection, I m actually asking because I ve never seen your, do you remember?
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When people do their vows for a wedding, very often they re trying to make it sound so beautiful and everything else for the setting and so forth.
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But some of the simplest vows, I vow to love you no matter what, no matter what happens to the end of this earth and beyond, those things in your soul are the ones that really matter, as opposed to what sounded beautiful at the time.
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We had, Ephesians was part of ours.
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It was a beautiful experience.
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So yes, remember them.
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on a day-to-day basis, it comes down to what s most important.
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I think the way to bring vows into it is, I think there s ceremonial vows, and then there s a core.
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It s like life s purpose.
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People write life purpose statements, and they re like four paragraphs, and it looks beautiful.
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They put on their wall and never read it again, right?
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It s better to have something that s at your core, that s so simple, that
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it shows up in real life in a pragmatic practical way as opposed to this beautiful thing that you never read again and I think so I don t think people should change their vows and weddings I think it s a beautiful tradition and I love ours as well but I think it s more important is how are you going to be
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My vows are to be loving, to be passionate, to be curious, to be there for you through thick and thin.
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Like, what are the ways you re going to be?
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That matters to me more.
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And that s something you can measure on a daily basis, as opposed to something that sounds beautiful.
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So both have their points.
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It goes hand in hand.
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I think it s Emerson that said, what you do, speak so loudly I can t hear what you say.
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Exactly right.
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What were you going to say?
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Well, I, I, yes, I, I look at vows from the perspective of more of a way to, to live and to be as exactly what Tony said.
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And it s more internal of what I can affect.
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So I vow to forgive, uh, myself, uh, and others, you know, I vow to understand it s, it s really, as, as I m, as I m speaking, it s like the St.
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Francis prayer of Lord, make me an instrument of peace where there s hatred.
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I feel like there s such.
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wisdom and such profound, I suppose, wisdom and understanding through that particular prayer.
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And it s really, it s the turnaround of what I want to get to who I am, I claim to be, to console rather than to be consoled, to understand rather than to be understood.
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And I feel like when you have that position, that willingness, it s a humble position, because you recognize that you re here to give, you re here to embody and to express that love.
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And when you commit to that, it s a vow not only to your beloved, it s a vow to yourself of how you commit to your own life.
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Because then loving is a given.
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Loving is a given because it s our nature.
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And if you vow to tidy it up, you vow to uproot what s false.
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You vow to
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you know to have an inner reflection and and and uh take responsibility for anything that gets uh in the way of of loving your beloved because mind is doing what mind does and as we believe on true thoughts it gets muddled it gets clunky
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It s painful.
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And so that I really feel is such a powerful position.
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And sometimes in romantic love, it gets lost in, hey, I m, you know, in romantic love, it s like, we and it feels good.
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And it s like, you know, I want this rather than I m committed to being this and simply offering that no matter what.
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I think it s, we ve talked about this before, relationships is a place you go to give, not a place to go to get.
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If it s a place you go to get, it s there.
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And I think vows are beautiful, but what really matters is what s consistent, right?
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What you habitually speak, what you habitually think, what you habitually communicate, that s what matters.
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And the value of incantations is like a vow.
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You re doing it over and over again.
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I would say to people, it s not enough to understand these things.
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Like right now, if you re listening, you go, okay, this makes sense.
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You know, there s some words that piss me off, make me more intense, and some words that probably soften, some words that would probably break my pattern when I m upset, make me laugh.
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Maybe I should discover those words that will move me emotionally when I m doing my RPM, when I m doing my planning.
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The reason I don t just write down what the result is, I don t write down a to-do list.
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It s like, what am I after?
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What s the result?
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And why do I want it?
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But the why is the power and the different words.
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I can put a couple of words there and it totally changed my state.
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Again, have to versus get to if it s impact, if it s making a difference, if it s based on love, it s if it s contribution, there s certain words.
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Everybody has different words.
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Those words for me move me.
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They now I want to go make this thing happen as opposed to it s a to do list that I got to go after.
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So I think it s the most important thing for you to do is do the inventory and to get serious about the power these words have in your relationship, in your own self.
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I mean, our daughter, as you described, she doesn t have those internal dialogues of, I m so terrible, I m so screwed up, I m so anything like that.
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So she s able, yeah.
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No problem.
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She s got our vocabulary in those areas and a lot of your vocabulary in those areas.
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Halo has our own vocabulary.
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So those habits are the most important habits of all.
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because they re the ones that shape how you think, how you feel, and how you interact.
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That s your whole life.
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So think about how you create what, if you wanted to create a new life, what new words would you use to describe things when you re really upset or frustrated, overwhelmed, that would change you?
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Instead of overwhelmed, I m in demand.
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That s how you make myself laugh.
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Like, oh, this is so overwhelming.
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Why is it, there s a million calls.
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No, you know, I m in demand.
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I m in high demand.
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That s a damn good thing.
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You know, it sounds silly and it s designed to be a little silly because it breaks my pattern.
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versus listen to people who are angry or sad or depressed, overwhelmed, and they have a very specific vocabulary that they use over and over again to put themselves in a trance.
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Cause listen, every emotion s a trance.
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you re angry it s a trance it isn t who you are it s a certain state that you re going into and some people have done it over and over again for some people it s feeling sad over again or depressed or worried or feeling injustice i mean like today you know people offended people offended by everything i m offended you know it s not my preference you know i mean i m offended by what they do i prefer they use different words but i can t control them so let me focus on what i can do
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You know, different words create a different life.
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And if there s anything you re going to take from this conversation, I hope that s valuable for you would be to really get clear on the words that make you feel strong, good, empowered, moving forward.
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And notice the words that make you disempowered, angry, frustrated, overwhelmed, and then notice the words you re using that starts with you.
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Then what about the people closest to you?
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and what are some substitute words?
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And you can make it fun.
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It s like create a little menu for yourself and playful things that you can do.
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I think that s one of the simplest gifts you can give you.
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Sometimes, you know, years ago,
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You know, when I, people started to know who I was, I developed a certain level of fame, you know, I started getting stopped and it went through different stages, but people didn t stop me.
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Like, you know, my movie friends in those days who wanted an autograph for these days, everybody wants a picture.
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Um, they stopped me and they wanted me to like, to help change their life right now.
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And I learned, I like, I want to be able to help somebody in a few seconds.
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And so I started focusing what I call profound knowledge.
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Profound knowledge is anything that s so simple that once you understand it, you can immediately change your life or someone else.
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And transformation vocabulary, the words you use, the words you speak, the words you create with, is one of the simplest tools in the world to change it.
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But it still requires a habit.
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And that s why I recommend incantations.
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Coming up with certain things, you re going to...
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which is how I built me.
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I created this Tony Robbins guy.
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He s me obviously, but the part that dominates who that shapes who I am, I created by certain words over and over and over again.
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That isn t the only thing I did, but it was a huge part of what I did because it s laid the foundation for the different kinds of thinking.
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Different thinking creates different emotions, different emotions, create different actions, different actions, create a different result.
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Well, that s incredible.
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Nice word choice off the menu.
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Thank you for coming to the table today, Tom.
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My pleasure.
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You guys will hopefully be seeing soon this new book I m doing, the final third in the trilogy of my financial books.
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It s called The Holy Grail of Investing.
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So watch for it.
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Actually, I think you can get it online now, but I m going to go to the audio of it.
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But it s, of the three books I ve done, they re all, I m thrilled with all three of them, but there are some breakthroughs that are so amazing here in a world where people have such uncertainty right now about where the world s going, what to do financially.
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I decided to do a little bit of what I did in the beginning on a different level.
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I decided to go for interviewing 13 masters of the universe.
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I did, you know, 50 for Money Master of the Game.
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But most of those people were different types of investors.
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Most people don t know that if you re trying to build your financial future, it s all about compounding.
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And if you look at the S&P 500, the basic stocks, and you see that s done about over the last 20 years, a little over 9%.
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Private equity, private credit, and private real estate has a very different response.
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It s averaged 14% plus.
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So it s 50% better per year compounded.
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So I interviewed all these people that make
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20% and more north of 20% compounded for 20, 25, 30 years.
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And I pulled out the principles and the tools of what they re doing.
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I ve, so I m so excited about it.
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So it s a little commercial.
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I m donating all the money.
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I m not looking for anything from it again, defeating America, but I hope you ll get this book.
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It ll blow your mind.
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It ll take you beyond the words.
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It will take you to the pathway to creating true financial freedom and knowing things that most people have no clue about.
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So I m going to go up and do that.
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I m going to leave the balance to you guys.
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Love to everyone listening.
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I hope you,
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Find some words that make your life more magnificent, more beautiful, more compassionate, more alive, just more fulfilling than you ve ever been before.
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That s my heartfelt prayer and wish for you.
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Thanks, Lise, for letting me join you.
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Thank you, Tony.
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Alrighty.
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Hi, Sage Robbins.
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Hi, Mary.
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Nice to be back with you.
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Nice to be back.
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We re here on the B-side, so to speak, of the Power of the Spoken Word episode of the Tony Robbins Podcast.
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And Tony had to run, but we ve got a few more thoughts on this subject.
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You know, Sage, I m excited to have this conversation with you.
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not for flattery, but people truly respond.
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I feel so lucky to witness the way folks respond to your ability to offer words of comfort, to offer words of healing.
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When someone is grieving, it makes me emotional.
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When someone has just received a diagnosis or after a death, oftentimes people call you.
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and you re able to be not just a shoulder for them.
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And I m wondering if you could, are you aware that that s something that is a real gift of yours?
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The language of love is an art.
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And it s an art that is, at times, I can t say lost, but maybe there s less focus on it.
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And in a different day, say in the 50s, there was so much.
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By the way, that might not be historically correct whether it was the 50s, but that s where my mind took me.
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There was such a focus on etiquette or politeness.
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Yes, manners.
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That can be a part of it.
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But if it s paired with dogma, or if it s paired with right and wrong, and then you do it to be nice, and it does feel nice, but it s beyond good and bad, or right versus wrong, or it s beyond civility or political correctness.
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It s really about love.
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the language of love.
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It has a tonality to it.
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It has a, uh, a sense to it.
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It s, it s, uh, courteous.
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It s steeped in gratitude.
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No, it is.
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I m speaking right now.
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I don t think I answered your question.
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I actually, you did and you did right off the bat.
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It s, it s, we ve been calling it spoken word and we ve been sticking with word, but right away you said it s the art of the language of love.
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And when I was thinking about even just, I didn t even know how to go about asking you that question, but I ve heard you do it.
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I ve heard you take people s hands when they seem inconsolable.
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And oftentimes I find myself naturally thinking like, I would not know what to say in this situation.
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And you,
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I don t know, you just, you have a way of disarming people, comforting people, grieving alongside of people, but not, it s not, somehow it still has like a buoyancy to what you re able to do with your word.
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And I realized that s why, because it has that frequency of the language of love.
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It s not some word you re using, it s not some technique, it s not some script.
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My preference.
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It s love.
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That s interesting, Mary.
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You also manage a lot of folks.
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You manage everyone in this home that most people say functions more like a hotel than a private home.
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You, over the course of a day, will manage many folks back at the company.
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Um, and you re always, you re really holding people accountable to their word.
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And so we can talk about the power of the spoken word and you bring that to life and what that really means.
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And you ll often, you know, some of your
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What I even overhear as I pass through a room of you having conversations with people is you ll call out any kind of trouble talk and maybe out in the world they might call it gossip, you might call it something like trouble talking or if there is a schism, you ll often say the phrase, are you adding to the schism or are you working towards a solution?
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little hacks, I would almost call it like that, that you offer people and it feels generous because there s no blame to it, but you use these words that I think call people so you don t get ensnared by truth and lie and words that have real charge and black and white and right and wrong kind of vibes.
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Do you open it up to people and say things like, you know, are you untying a knot?
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Or can you speak to that power of the words that you offer folks a little bit?
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Sure.
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Well, I really believe rather adding to the harmony of a circumstance.
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or adding to the schism as I, you know, and how do we do that?
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Well, the schism is a disconnect of, you know, he should do this.
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She should do that.
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You know, he s whatever judgment or opinion we have.
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Harmony is, is, you know, we meet in this space of understanding of understanding of willingness to
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to hear and to perceive, and also what you commit to not being a part of anymore, gossip or trouble talking.
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It s talking about other people.
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That s lousy.
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Have you ever experienced that?
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It s really like the beginning of bullying, of what one would call to be quote unquote bullying.
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What is it?
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It s just human beings unconscious sharing trash talk, garbage, or whatever you want to call it, or trouble talking about another human being or a group of human beings.
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How is that even helpful?
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Maybe it strokes your ego.
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Maybe it makes other people laugh.
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But is it the fullest truth?
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I don t know.
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It feels lousy to have it done, and we all have.
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It s what s happening right now on social media.
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You post something, and everybody in this world doesn t need any more opinions.
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It doesn t need any more judgment.
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It s love that really transforms our life and our reality.
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And so harmony is our nature.
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It s our nature to when we are in right mind and we re in our heart, it s it s natural to be harmonious.
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And when there is a confusion, how can I bring clarity to that?
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Well, it isn t it isn t about
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talking about what s wrong.
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It s really just noticing, it s like, okay, you know, I sent out an audio the other day to our team at the company, and the notion was as a leader, and by the way, we are all leaders, this isn t a hierarchical leader, is to lead, to notice that it s like, hey, I can focus on the problem, or I can focus that this is an opportunity.
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This is an opportunity for us to come together, to create, to understand, to appreciate, to possibly it s the people are calling it a challenge or a problem because there s a confusion.
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It s like, OK, let s come together.
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Let s come together as such a powerful position because we re better together.
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It s my experience.
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And I love that about you.
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You really will never stand for any kind of behind.
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I was laughing earlier because I ve never heard you say trash talking.
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You always call it trouble talking.
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I don t know why that made me laugh because it s almost like you going into the realm of sports, which made me almost uncomfortable.
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But you really, this is not just you talking, this is who you are.
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Even if as a team we re sitting in the workroom and having a cup of coffee and something comes up that someone on the team or something, you won t stand for it.
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And usually the first thing you ll say is like, bring them here.
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And did you ask them, were you clear about your request?
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Or you ll look to bring that person in.
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There s no behind the back talking, there s no gossip, there s none of that.
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And I just think that,
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I ve learned that from being around you, that the stories just stop and it s like, okay, then that is what contributing to the schism looks like.
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And so unless you are going to try to harmonize and bring that person close and work out whatever caused the disturbance in the first place, it s not helpful.
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Any other way you do it is not going to be a balm, as you would call it.
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Oh, sorry.
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Sorry, Mary.
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No, go ahead.
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No, please.
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This reminds me of before I came to work with you folks.
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Previously, I spent time in journalism.
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And there s a term in journalism, which is used all over in pop culture now too, it s just like, are we on the record?
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Is this on the record?
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Which is like, if you re sitting down with a journalist and you have a story, sometimes you might wanna share something off the record, which kind of means like, if I share this, it s in a vacuum and it doesn t go anywhere.
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And my time as a journalist,
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I was aware of that and I realized that really does happen.
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If you watch TV shows or something and people are speaking on the record or off the record, that really is how things can work.
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But for me personally, one little reminder I have is your life is on the record.
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Our whole lives are on the record.
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So if you re gonna talk in one room when someone s not there and then say something else in the room where they are, I gotta believe that s recorded somewhere.
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And I don t want to do that.
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And you have really...
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I don t know, you ve brought that to me and you ve put that in ways that I m like, yeah, you can t do that.
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We can t do that.
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Well, that s a beautiful notion on the record, that life is on the record.
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And if you think about it, say if you re out with people from work and there s a new individual that s possibly a part of your company, and they re speaking about how this person did this or said this.
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And it s just one more thing to consider.
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I love the notion of fullest truth.
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Because it s a piece.
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If it s a fraction, it s this person s possibly experience.
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But is it their experience, or is it their opinion of the individual?
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And I feel like that gets lost.
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And so thinking can be a lost art.
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Actually discerning for ourselves and reflecting, people, when we so innocently believe that the truth is coming externally, it s like somebody says something about somebody, and that s their opinion.
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You know, that might be their experience in the moment.
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But it s like, what s more important, your own experience of the individual?
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Don t miss that.
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We give our power away to others and believe their thoughts about places, people, religions, or groups of people.
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And it s like, have we actually even experienced it?
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It s secondhand information.
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We re disconnected from reality.
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And the reality is our own experience.
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and reflecting and tuning rather than presupposing that what an individual or what the news or what social media is saying about an individual or a group of people, that s on us.
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It s on us to connect, to tap into a deeper truth.
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And I feel like that is such a powerful perspective because that connects us then.
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We ve all been misjudged.
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If you re human, we ve all judged and misjudged both of others.
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And have you ever had somebody that you thought that was the most horrible human being, and then life offered a circumstance for you to experience them differently?
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I think that s love.
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To be given, choose again, another opportunity.
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A fuller truth.
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A fuller truth.
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To receive somebody, to experience them, for them to experience you.
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And in that exchange, that s just soul meeting soul, human meeting human.
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And sometimes as we point the finger outward or we jump too quickly to a conclusion, rather than having our own experience, our own tuning in, our own thinking and reflection, not judging,
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But pondering, I feel like that s a position where it includes, where we look to notice and appreciate rather than demonize.
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And sometimes the words that folks use when they re telling this juicy story can be very seductive.
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And even if we don t come into a conversation believing any of that about, say, the person that s being talked about, it s like, you know, someone can get going and it s, it s like this little like carrot dangling, like, this is pretty juicy.
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I watched, this is just coming to me right now, I watched one time we were at a party at your family s house in Canada, a big, a lot of people over.
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And I watched someone, you know, your dad, I often talk about your dad, he s a strong, silent type, man of few words, and someone approached your dad.
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and had this, I didn t even know who they were talking about.
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Right.
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But, but I watched like the energy, you could just watch from afar and see the body language and the energy of this person going to your dad and just unloading on your dad, like blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah about someone else.
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And your dad was just
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it s like, is that right?
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He said, is that right about like, you know, and so, so sometimes like for me,
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when someone s really giving it to me, I have a hard time, even if I m not, if I don t agree or if in fact, if I disagree with what they re saying, sometimes I m like, well, what am I supposed to say?
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Like, clearly this person really believes it.
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And I chuckled and I really learned from your dad.
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And there s like, not a day goes by where I don t think of that moment.
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I ve never told you this, but your dad just going, hmm, is that right?
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Like, what does it look like to not give something any energy?
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What does it look like to not feed into a story, buy into a story, throw a log on the fire?
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It was just like,
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Is that right?
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That was like, this is classic dad.
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Just like, that s how you just kind of let it roll off your back.
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Doesn t give any, okay, that, but you ve, you ve done your job for that person.
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You ve been on, you ve been an ear, but you re not adding to the schism.
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You re not adding more knots.
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And what an extraordinary, powerful question.
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Is that right?
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It s actually really accurate.
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The word of it.
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Is that right?
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Is that so?
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Is that true?
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Is that true?
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It allows us to ponder and to reflect.
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So I feel like that is a very powerful practice because that s really what that is.
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So if you re at a dinner and maybe having a few drinks and people are chatting or this person is talking about their husband or their wife or their neighbors or so-and-so at work, you know, catch yourself.
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Catch yourself not to contribute.
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That s one way.
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Another way is offering something that you ve noticed that is maybe a fuller truth, something kind and beautiful about this human.
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Or, you know, as our parents are a different generation, we have nothing nice to say, don t say nothing at all.
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I love that.
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My mom used to always say that, but you know, that s truth.
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That s truth.
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And so there s enough, same goes on social media.
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If somebody posts something, and even if mine judges and it s like, oh yeah, and you know, we can get so quote unquote righteous about what our opinion or what s this or what s that.
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You know, once again, I don t know that our opinion is really even relevant.
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But, you know, where there is darkness, let there what is it where there is darkness, let there be light.
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When you re wondering what we can do in the world where there are many wars happening, where there are people in such turmoil or are terrified, let there be light through our words.
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If you don t know what to do, rather than offering an opinion, be a gift.
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Be a blessing.
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Offer kind, or considerate, or thoughtful.
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We love you.
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We re praying.
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Whatever is true.
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I don t know.
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I can t speak for you.
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But whatever your heart offers, that is the language of love.
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And let there be light.
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That s how there s light.
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This divine orchestration needs a vehicle.
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That happens to be you, and it happens to be me.
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And so as we choose wisely our words, our actions, that allows us not perfection, but that allows us to be a vehicle for that illumination, that love, that kindness.
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That s what light is.
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It s like we all know somebody when you walk by and it was just a kind smile.
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That s light.
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You re feeling a light of their smile, of the beauty of their own beingness.
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There s no words to that, but there is.
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It s a language.
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And so I just feel social media is a platform, and it can spew hatred or confusion more accurately, or it can cultivate light, can cultivate love.
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It can be a currency of love.
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That s more profound than we recognize.
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And when you say on the record, I think that s a stunning thought to put love on the record of life for all of us.
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That s gorgeous.
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social media has also made people a little cavalier with what they re willing to say because of the veil of it and because it s not looking someone in the eye.
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And like, why is it difficult to look someone in the eye and say simple things sometimes?
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I love you.
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Thank you.
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Please forgive me.
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I m sorry that exercise that we do.
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Those simple words are so powerful, yet it s so easy for folks to say what they hate, like you said, offer another opinion.
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And you know, this isn t meant to be preachy, but just keep an eye on any word that you put out there because there is an energy to it.
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You ve got to believe that if this whole life is energy,
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which you can scientifically pretty much prove that it is, don t argue with me on that one, then so are our words.
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So we gotta pay a little attention to it.
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One thing that I can mention is that if somebody comes to me and they have, say, a diagnosis of some form, that is not at the forefront of my mind.
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We all meet right here in this human experience, in this moment.
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And that s where I experience a greater truth.
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That s where I experience a greater beauty beyond the story, beyond the narrative, because we all have that.
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And if you ve lived long enough, hey, you ve had a diagnosis at a times, you ve lost your health, you ve gained your house, you ve lost a beloved.
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And so we, you know, if we re, if you re alive, if you re listening to this, we ve all known loss or pain or grief or whatever label we want to put on that.
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And that relates back to, and I hope you heard this in the first segment, for me, what really sticks, the phrase that he uses is the words we attach to an experience become the experience.
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So, when you say you miss the experience, it s like, right, because what story or what other narrative are you overlaying on the experience it s giving you?
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the experience that you re feeling.
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It s like the old adage of like, there s the flat tire and there s the story about the flat tire.
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It s like, it s just a flat tire.
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But all of these words and emotions that we put on it.
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Great.
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Now it s, now it s built into this.
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Now it has this greater energy and this greater frequency.
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And we do that with everything.
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It s like, it s, it s, if we really look and we get honest, we do that with everything.
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I think that s the real life is just showing us ourself.
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It s, it s a reflection.
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And when there s a willingness to see yourself rather than the external demonization or the external blame, that s where word be words become so charged.
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They become so fixed with these identities, you know, this group of people, they re horrendous.
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They re this.
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Is it true?
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All of them.
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Can not all of us, every single religion, race, culture, whatever, haven t we all done horrendous things at times?
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So is it human?
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I heard the other day, it was like,
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They hate in America.
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They hate in this country.
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They hate in this country.
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The hate is within us.
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It s not a collective.
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It s a collective of the world.
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It s a collective of our sleepiness.
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It s a collective of our own disconnect from this divine reality.
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And so we re demonizing life.
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We re demonizing God.
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We demonize others.
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And we miss.
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We miss the beauty of life.
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I remember when Tony, this is probably about maybe four or five years ago, and he had an internal bleed.
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He had an esophageal ulcer and he lost four pints, if you can remember at that time, four pints of blood.
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And so he was here at the house and he had went unconscious.
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Uh, he was white as a ghost.
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And, um, this one particular doctor, uh, he, you know, I explained what happened.
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He was on the phone and he said, you know, Tony needs to get the hospital immediately.
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It s dangerous.
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And I said, what do you mean it s dangerous?
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If he doesn t go there, he could die.
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And Tony s in bed.
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I was thinking of logistics, calling.
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And Tony wasn t certain if he wanted to call an ambulance yet.
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And my heart was pounding.
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I remember everything all of a sudden got really, really, really quiet.
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And yet I could hear my own heart, and it was pounding.
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And I was feeling so terrified.
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And I came in this room here, and I said a prayer.
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And the thought came, because a lot of times we say a prayer and we don t realize that we co-create.
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I saw this or I heard this man s name, Dr. Yadagir.
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He wasn t our doctor at the time.
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I thought, gosh, I need to get his number.
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He s coming to my mind.
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That s a prayer answered.
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It s an impulse, an instinct.
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Where does that come from?
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It s divine.
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All of it is information when we tune in.
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So I called him.
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And I said, doctor, I said, I m just terrified.
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I m here.
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And they re saying to take Tony to this hospital.
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And the doctor said, it s incredibly dangerous.
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And he said, hold on.
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He s like, OK, tell me exactly what happened.
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And I told him.
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And he s like, listen, everything s going to be OK.
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Everything s going to be OK.
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Yes, I recommend you take him to the hospital.
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And everything s going to be OK.
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And that reassurance, he s become a dear friend.
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And that reassurance in that moment when I was so terrified and when I had forgotten, I d forgotten that everything was going to be OK.
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I was focused on the, gosh, I might lose Tony.
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And the words that someone else offered you, that it s dangerous, and it s implying it s not going to be OK.
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Yes.
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And so the notion that it s all is OK, all is well, if I think about when you were mentioning those individuals who reach out at times, I think that s the most powerful gift that we can offer is just the reminder.
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It s not telling somebody.
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It was his state.
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It was his tone of voice.
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It wasn t just he was like, well, Sage, all is well.
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You just go to the hospital.
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Don t listen to it.
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He wasn t telling me.
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He really offered his heart and his voice.
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It s the tonality and the cadence and the warmth and the presence in that moment that was like,
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I will never forget it.
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And it was just, and then it just became functional.
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You know, we packed some clothes and took Tone to the hospital.
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And by the way, all was well.
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That s right.
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The delivery of his words to you and the words that he chose.
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And I know it sounds almost hokey, some of the catchphrases like, your word is your wand or be impeccable with your word or.
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tell the truth or at least don t lie.
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All these folks say it differently.
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But and if and if you just grab onto that, then it sounds simplistic and it sounds but but it s like what is a living breathing example of what that looks like?
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It s what that doctor offered you in just the kindness, the words of comfort in that moment when someone s reaching out and saying, What do I do?
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Offering that.
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Offering that.
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And Mary, you said interesting about the notion of lie.
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And the truth is, is we can all lie at times.
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Of course.
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We can all go to sleep at times.
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You know, we all meet in that human experience.
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And yet, once again, if life is about we have the opportunity in this moment here to begin again,
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or to choose again, it s like, OK, you know what, hon?
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That wasn t the fullest truth.
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And that wasn t the fullest truth.
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And I just recognized as I was reflecting, I want to share this with you because I want you to understand my heart.
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I want you to understand.
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And I m sorry I didn t share this then.
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I don t know why it didn t feel true.
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But it feels true now.
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Sometimes as well, if it s like, oh, my gosh, I lied or he lied.
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It s like, OK, maybe in that moment.
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But what can we offer and touch this moment?
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Because that s where life reconfigures.
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That s where life reconfigures.
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And it s like, oh, my goodness, he lied to me.
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She lied to me.
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How dare they?
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It s like, OK, where have I lied?
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Because that s what we have the power to change or we have the power to affect.
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That s right.
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In the first segment of this episode, Tony offered the biblical verse from Genesis.
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Let there be light.
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This one s from Isaiah chapter 55, verse 11.
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And it says, so shall my word be that go forth out of my mouth.
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It shall not return unto me void, but it shall accomplish that which I please.
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That sounds like positive thinking to me.
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I see a boomerang.
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I saw, from the image I saw in my mind s eyes, I saw like a boomerang that went out and it returned and it had like all these lights and illumination on it.
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That s what I saw.
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That s beautiful.
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That s a beautiful metaphor, I think, for our words.
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It is.
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And how they, it s like, maybe that s what karma is.
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There is some sort of like, it doesn t go out into a void.
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There is something that comes out and comes back.
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Thank you for joining and tuning in to the words that we re here to share, which conveys our hearts and our love of you for raising your hand and wanting to find a kinder, truer way.
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I do.
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I meet you in that.
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I join you in that.
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And so for those of you who are listening and tuning in once again, please join us.
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Let s love this world.
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Let s offer our words, our actions, our gestures, and let s spread the power and the gift of love.
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I trust if you re joining in, that is your deepest heart.
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So thank you.
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God bless, and look forward to connecting soon.
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The Tony Robbins Podcast is inspired and directed by Tony Robbins and his teachings.
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It s produced by us, Team Tony.
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