Greetings and welcome. My name is Annette Vegas. This session will show examples of mitral valve pathology using 3DTE. I have no conflict of interest. Mild mitral regurgitation is a normal finding in 40% of patients. There are many causes of mitral regurgitation, which in part reflects the complexity of the mitral valve apparatus. Common pathologies involving the mitral leaflets include prolapse, flail, myxomatous, perforation, cleft, endocriditis, calcific, and rheumatic. The annulus may be dilated or calcified and the cordae may rupture or become restricted, resulting in mitral regurgitation. The muscular portion of the apparatus, the poplary muscle, or underlying myocardium, may become ischemic, leading to mitral regurgitation. Patients with abnormal left ventricular outflow tract anatomy may experience SAM and mitral regurgitation, which may require additional surgical or medical management. When examining the mitral valve using 3D, the most common display is the on-fast view. But how do you approach analyzing what you see? First, I typically will ensure the valve is orientated correctly with the aortic valve at 12 o'clock and the left atrial appendage at 10 o'clock. The other easy way is to make sure the valve smiles at you. Then identify the posterior leaflets' scallops and corresponding anterior leaflet segments and commissures. Look at leaflet morphology. Is it rough or smooth? Is there excessive tissue or masses? Do the leaflets co-apt or are there gaps? Is there excessive motion? Are there torn cordae? And finally for the annulus, is there mitral annular calcification? Can we just use 3D imaging to assess the mitral valve? Typically, 2D and 3D are complementary techniques and both should be used to interrogate the mitral valve. Let's challenge ourselves, however, and see if we can make a diagnosis using different options to manipulate the 3D data sets. Have a look at this on-fast view. What do you think the diagnosis is? Is it A, A2, P2, B, A1, P1, C, A1, A2, P1, P2, D, A2, A3, P1, P2, P3, or E? All of the segments. Let's do something simple and apply the angle view. Shown here are clips from rotation of the mitral valve around 360 degrees. The multiple choice options remain the same. Another option is to use multi-planar reconstruction, in this case using specialized software. Cuts taken through the on-fast view are shown. Again, the multiple choices are the same. Any thoughts? So what did the surgeon find? The surgeon found a Barlow's valve with a prolapse of all segments except for A1. This was best shown using NPR, which did not show prolapse of A1. This is worn out by the literature. In a 3D TEE study that looked at leaflet pathology prior to mitral valve repair, the majority of disease involved monoleaflet monosegment for P2. The least affected region was the A1 segment. This patient presents with an obvious mitral valve pathology. See if you can figure it out, which segments are pathological. Look at the 3D on-fast view. Can you see a smooth looking valve with severe prolapse and a flail segment with torn cordae? This is confirmed by the 2D color compare at 0 degrees with an eccentric anterior directed jet of mitral regurgitation. And the 3D live cut through A2 P2. This static 3D paramedic model also confirms the showing the prolapse in red. This is an example of fibroelastic P2 flail that required resection of P2 and a band. This patient is a 59 year old female with mitral regurgitation. Examine the on-fast view and try to identify the pathology. Look at the leaflets, leaflet mobility, and annulus. Here are some 2D color compare views. Why does the mitral valve leak? There is a P3 prolapse seen in the circle in the 3D on-fast view, and the lower color compare view showing an anterior directed mitral regurgitation jet. There is also restriction of the posterior leaflet from significant mitral annular calcification. The extent is nicely seen by the arrow in the 3D on-fast view. This patient underwent a successful but challenging tissue mitral valve replacement. A larger skeleton around the mitral valve can become calcified, a common condition called mitral annular calcification. MAC has a prevalence of 10% and affects the posterior more than the anterior mitral valve annulus. In most cases, leaflet mobility is unaffected, and mitral valve function is preserved with little hemodynamic consequences. MAC can be seen easily with 2D imaging as an echogenic region on the annulus with shadowing beneath, and the extent can be defined using 3D imaging. The presence of significant MAC presents a management conundrum as it can complicate mitral valve repair and replacement. This is a 74 year old male with mitral regurgitation and coronary artery disease. Based on the on-fast view, what is the mechanism of mitral regurgitation? Does a 3D color help at all? What about this 2D mitosophageal mitral valve view of the mitral valve with color? The diagnosis is fibroelastic disease with an A3P3 prolapse. The patient underwent a mitral valve replacement in ACB with a 90 minute bypass time. This is a 63 year old male with mitral regurgitation. Here is the on-fast view. Comment on the leaflets, leaflet mobility, and annulus. Now look at the 2D mitosophageal mitral valve view with color. And finally, the sagittal cup through the mitral valve. So what do you think the diagnosis is? This is an isolated A1 prolapse, as confirmed by the parametric model. The patient underwent a successful complex mitral valve repair. This is a 67 year old female intubated with congestive heart failure, presenting for urgent cardiac surgery. Here is the on-fast view of the mitral valve. Take a moment to examine leaflet morphology, leaflet mobility, and the annulus. What looks abnormal? Here are the mitosophageal 4-chamber view with color. And finally, a 3D view with color of the left ventricular outflow tract. Did you spot all the pathologies associated with this mitral valve? There is calcification of the posterior annulus, flail P3, and turbulence in the left ventricular outflow tract, likely from SAM. This is a 62 year old female with mitral regurgitation. Look at the on-fast view. What abnormality is present? Does it involve leaflet morphology, leaflet mobility, or the annulus? Here are some 2D color compare images from the mitosophageal and transgastric levels. What is the diagnosis? There is a localized thickening of the posterior annulus in the PT region. This patient had a granuloma. The valve could not be spared, and the patient underwent mitral valve replacement. This is a 74 year old female with mitral regurgitation. What is the pathology based on the 2D on-fast view? Again, think about leaflet morphology, leaflet mobility, and the annulus. Here are some additional 3D views from the left atrium and the left ventricular sides. And finally, a 3D mitosophageal 4-chamber view which confirms the diagnosis. Which is rheumatic stenosis. Note on the 3D on-fast view the fusion of both commissures, which is pathodemonic or rheumatic mitral stenosis. This is a 59 year old female with mitral regurgitation and coronary disease. Look at the on-fast view and comment on the leaflet morphology, leaflet mobility, and annulus. Not surprisingly, when looking at the 2D and 3D live images, it makes it clear what the diagnosis might be. Here both leaflets of the mitral valve are restricted in mobility, and there is central male co-optation suggesting ischemic mitral regurgitation. The 3D mitral model shows the funnel shape of the valve and can help quantify the tending height and volume. In this example of a 59 year old female with mitral regurgitation, the patient presents with a significant amount of mitral regurgitation. The 2D color compare imaging, there appears to be at least two origins for the mitral regurgitation jet. The 3D on-fast view confirms the perforation of the anterior mitral valve leaflet. The patient underwent a tissue mitral valve replacement. So this is a 40 year old female with shortness of breath. Look at the 3D view taken at zero degrees. What do you think the diagnosis is? Here is the 2D view also at zero degrees and a zoom of the prosthetic valve. What is the diagnosis? How many think the mitral valve is normal? Well, that would be the correct diagnosis. As this patient had LTGA as shown in the apical displacement of the atrophentricular valve on the right side of the display and co-planar aortic and pulmonic valves. This patient in fact had a thrombose tissue, tricuspid valve. We are going to close by looking at clefts in the mitral valve. Clefts are notoriously difficult to diagnose with 2D TEE and one might think are easier to diagnose with 3D. We commonly think of clefts associated with congenital heart disease, specifically AVSDs, shown in this example. It's an AVSD with a cleft of the anteromunchal valve leaflet, which should be called a co-optation with bridging leaflets. Isolated clefts can also appear independent of congenital heart disease and by definition involve greater than 50% indentation of the leaflet to about the annulus. Confusingly, these are sometimes referred to as profound indentation rather than clefts. Isolated clefts rarely involve the anterior leaflet and even more rarely affect the posterior leaflet. What about this 3D on fast view? Cleft or no cleft? With this amount of mitral regurgitation, how should the surgeon deal with mitral regurgitation? Repair or replace? Just when you think you are starting to understand something, someone comes along and says, well there are a third entity called the trile leaflet mitral valve. Characteristics of this pathology include the presence of three commissures and zones of co-optation. This contrasts with an isolated cleft which has a single cleft with two zones of co-optation. All of these are different from the trifolate valve. On that note, we will end. Thank you very much.


All right, everybody next up in our handstand prep progression now We're gonna start doing stuff that looks a lot more like handstands. So we've done Pikes and pike holds before we we did them with our feet elevated on a really high block or stool in my case Now we're just gonna start on the ground and we're gonna scissor kick So we bring bring one leg up to try to start learning the balance portion of this Okay, so I would do this after my wrists are pretty comfortable with taking on some of the load of my body weight And now I can I can start to use That ability To train the balance part right because I'm gonna need a little bit of time there to kind of feel things out so that I can Learn what it's like to control my body weight on my hands It's not like doing it on your feet Okay, so let's start hands down. I like to start on my knees make sure my Hands get really flat and my fingers get really wide. I always take my glasses off because they fall and Then from here, we're gonna just pike up Pull the belly button in and back Keep the neck along and I'm gonna look between my hands right here Walk my feet up this So now I'm trying to get my butt as vertical as I can then I take this and I Reach and hop Just like that so I try to get more and more Towards the balance point so the goal here Isn't necessarily To do a handstand right it is to start getting more and more comfortable Inverting your body and balancing yourself So let's I'm gonna take this and we're gonna do another variation right now. So you take your Block that you used before And you're gonna start with your feet on that block now and this way now that's nice and tired This way You're kind of ready Pull my belly button back. You're kind of ready to just lean right into That balance so from here. I just go until My foot comes off the block and I'm tired So if I keep going I'm not gonna get very good working It's just like that it's very slow very gradual try to be it's hard when you're flipped upside down You got all this weight on your arms It's hard to really think about it But I would challenge you to try to think through it right we're going slowly I want you to feel it out I want you to feel what it's like to put more weight on your hands to kind of shift Your weight around and balance yourself That is the pike hold scissor float


Welcome to the session in which we will discuss pension plan financial statement specifically for the CPA exam. So the first thing we need to understand is what is a pension plan in order to understand the pension plan financial statement? Well, a pension plan is a separate legal entity from the sponsoring employer, from the sponsoring organization. So what is a sponsoring organization? Well, think about any company. And for that matter, I will use Google or Alphabet as an example. This is the company, the sponsoring organization. The sponsoring organization or the sponsoring employer makes contribution to a pension plan. Simply put, Google will write a check or they will submit money to a pension plan. And for this pension plan, we're using IM national pension fund. Why would they do that? Well, they want to put money away for their employees when they retire. That's fine. So notice the company, Google, the pension plan, IM national pension fund, separate legal entity. Then the pension plan, this pension plan, once they have the money, they're going to invest the money in stocks and bonds, real estate, I don't know, maybe cryptocurrency, I'm not really sure what they what can they or cannot invest in. Then once the employee retired, they will pay their they will pay Google employees and notice Google employees are retiring very early because they make a lot of money. You guys get the point. So this is the this is the pension plan. So we have to understand we're dealing with the pension plan. Specifically, the pension plan financial statement, we are looking at this pension plan financial statement for IM a national pension fund. And the reason is, when you are a CPA, you are most likely to audit those pension fund companies. There are many pension funds out there. And your job as a as an auditor, you'll have to pension those you have to audit those pension fund. Therefore, you have to learn what goes on those financial statements. So that's why this topic is covered on the CPA exam. Now, we have to understand we have two basic types of pension plans. The reason is you have to know it because it's going to make your life easier when you're looking at your financial statements. We have what's called the fine contribution plan or simply put known as 401k plan sometime for teachers, it's called 403b. It doesn't matter. And we have a defined benefit plan, which is a traditional pension. So when someone says a pension plan, what they really mean is the fine pension plan. And when they say 401k, what they really mean is the fine contribution plan. I would have to explain the difference between the two. For the 401k, each individual will have their own separate account. So individual account exists for each participant employee. So you'll have a 401k account with Schwab, with Vanguard, with some company. The risk of the plan is transferred to employee. What does that mean? It means all what the company do all what Google do, they will send a check on your behalf to, I don't know, Schwab. Okay. And they would say this is what we contributed to Farhat. We contributed $1,000 and we're done. Now, what would Farhat do with that $1,000? It's up to them. Okay. I can take this $1,000 invested in Amazon, Google, Apple, keep it in cash, invest it in bonds. I bear the risk. So the benefit, what I'm going to get paid at the end of the day when I retire is the amount contributed by me, because I also contributed that plan by the employer and how well my investment did in return on my investment. So I could have, if I made the wrong investments, I may not have enough money for retirement, or if I made the correct investment, I may have millions and millions of dollars. So the risk is borne by me. How much I get paid, it's unknown because I select my investments. This is 401k. The traditional pension plan, the employer is responsible for providing the agreed benefit. What does that mean? It means I have, there's a formula and you will know exactly how much you will get once you retire per month. For example, I don't know, $4,500. Okay. That's it. It's based on a formula. The employer is taking the risk. The employer will have to guarantee you will have that money. So they're going to have to work with the pension plan fund. They'll have to work with the actuarial to make sure they contribute enough money so they will have money to pay you once you are retired. So the benefits paid are estimated by using actuarial assumption. And those actuarial assumption involve how long the employee is going to live or their survivors. If you have to pay their survivors, how long did they work for us for the company? How much money they were getting? So it's a formula to determine this $4,500 or whatever that number is, $6,000 or $3,000 per month you're going to be getting. But you will be getting that amount guaranteed. This plan, you could become super ultra rich if you invested in certain companies. So those are the two plans. What we care about as far as the CPA exam is the pension plan financial statements, those companies that have those assets that are invested for their people, for the pensioners. What does their financial statement look like, their pension plan financial statement? First, what is the objective of the pension plan financial statement? Well, we have to provide information that is useful to help assess the plan present and future ability to pay the benefit when they are due. So the goal of studying those pension plan as auditors is to do what? Is to make sure the company put enough money or everything is reported properly that they can pay whatever that's due down the road once the employee retired. They're present as well as future employees. We no longer have to compute pension expense and record the PBO, which is the projected pension obligation, benefit obligation. We used to have to do that under the old CPA rules. Under the old CPA rules, the exam was about the pension expense and projected benefit obligation. We did not really have to have to worry about the pension plan financial statement. I still have those lessons if you're interested on farhatlectures.com under my intermediate accounting because we still teach them under intermediate accounting. But the CPA exam decided that that's not really what accountant do in a sense they don't have to determine the projected benefit obligation. They have to audit the financial statements of those pension companies. So therefore you have to be familiar with those financial statements. There are two main financial statements that apply to both pension plans, whether it's a 401k or it's a defined benefit plan. Those are statement of net asset available for benefits and statement of changes of net asset available for benefits. So both plan will have those statements. In addition, traditional pension plan, which is not the 401k plan and you will see why they will have a statement called statement of accumulated plan benefit and statement of changes and accumulated plan benefit. So notice the naming are very similar to each other. So you have to be careful when it's not changes and when it's changes. And the reason is this, when they test you on the exam, they want you to know if you know where this item goes. Does it go on the statement of net asset available for benefit or does it go on the statement of changes of net asset? And what does each statement tells us? And this is what we have to learn about for the CPA exam, how to read those pension plan financial statement, what goes on those pension plan financial statements.  Great, you are looking for some help and you are and you found it. If that's the case, please go to farhatlectures.com and subscribe. I have additional resources, lectures, multiple choice, true, false, that's going to supplement. I don't replace your CPA review course. I'm going to supplement. I'm going to help you do better. If you have not connected with me on LinkedIn, please do so. Take a look at my LinkedIn recommendation like this recording. It doesn't cost you anything. Just click on the like. Connect with me on Instagram, Facebook, Twitter and Reddit. Give me a chance. Try my subscription for one month. If you find it's helping you, keep it. If not, that's fine. Cancel. So let's take a look at the first statement, which is statement of net asset available for benefit. And this is for a pension, traditional pension plan. Now I'm going to go over the component of this statement, section by section, bear in mind everything that I do for this pension plan, it applies to the 401k plan, which I will show you the statement about 401k as well. I just want to let you know it's the same concept. So this is a two year. Let's start with this. It's called the statement of net asset. What do we mean by net asset? Well, we have, we are deducting something from asset to get the net asset. Well, obviously we're going to have assets and we're going to have minus something. Well, it's assets minus liabilities. So the statement of net asset should present total assets, total liabilities, of course, and the difference between them assets minus liabilities will give us the net benefits available. We don't have equity in the traditional balance sheet assets minus liabilities equal to equity. We're not looking at equity here. We're looking at the net benefit. So think of a balance sheet when you think of statement of net asset. Now, what would we see on this? Let's take a look at a balance sheet. We're going to see the investments. We're going to first see the assets. And under the assets, we're going to have all sorts of investment stocks, bonds, corporate bonds, US government bond, mortgages, real estate, gold, we could have anything cryptocurrency, any investments. What do you need to know about these investments? Well, that's unique to know this. Those investments are reported at fair value. What does that mean? What does that mean? It means if they went up in value, you'll write them up. If they went down in value, you write them down. Now, obviously, if you write them up or down, you're going to have gains and losses. Where do you put those gain and losses? Don't worry. Those gain and losses will be reported in the statement of changes of net asset available for benefit. So those are assets. The losses, unrealized losses and gains will be reported in another statement. So that's usually, that's usually a big section. That's usually the, that's usually a big section of the asset. Then the pension plan financial statement might show you some receivables. What could be some receivables? Assets receivables. Well, employer contribution. We're waiting for the, the employer are responsible. The company is responsible for making a payment at the pension plan. And they have not made it yet. So it's 80,000 security sold. They sold some securities and they're waiting for the money. They did not receive the money yet. It's a receivable. Any accrued interest or dividend on the stocks and the bonds. Those are receivables. And notice we have 590,000 of receivables. It could be a little bit. It should not be a large component. And we have cash of 200,000. Now, usually traditionally in a traditional financial statement we'll start with cash first because cash is the most important. For a pension plan, usually their investments are the most important. And that's why we'll start with the investment. Then they might have some liabilities. They should not be a lot. Okay. Why? Because the purpose of the pension plan is to have the assets, is to have the assets to pay, to be able to pay off. Due to broker, we have some dues to broker. We have to pay some broker to have some accounts payable. Some bills we have to pay and some accrued expenses, 278,000. Not a lot. It doesn't matter whether the number is large or enough. The reason I'm telling you not a lot to emphasize the point that the purpose of the pension plan is to hold assets, not liabilities. You're gonna have some liabilities, but it's gonna be mostly assets. So assets minus liabilities will give you net asset available for benefit, which is 6,902,000. So this is basically what we are saying here. So now let's take a look at statement of changes in net asset available for benefit. So it's the same thing except the word changes. So changes means what? Changes that's gonna explain to us what happened from this number. It was last year. Year one was 6,391,000. Now it's 6,902,000. So what was the change? Why did the net asset benefit change? So basically the equity. Why did the equity change? And think about it. How would equity change on a traditional balance sheet? Net income. If we make more income or if we contributed more to the company, but there's no stocks here, if we make more profit, more net income, our equity will change. So let's take a look at what led to that change in equity. So think of the changes, statement of changes as the income statement. Show the changes. Think of an income statement. Well, first it's gonna show the investment income, net appreciation and fair value of the investment. So our investment went up in value. Remember I told you we have investments and they go up in value. We report the change here. We receive, we earn interest. We earn dividend. That's in total 585. Now we had some investment expenses we have to deduct them. The employer contribution. This is the employer contribution as addition. We are contributing to the plan plus 748 total addition, 1,281,000. Then we paid out to the participant 650 and we have some administrative expenses 120. This is the total deduction. The net increase 511,000. If we take what we started the prior year, 6,391,000 plus the net increase, it's gonna give us 6,902,000. So the 511, now the difference between those two is 511,000 explained on the statement of changes because it's how, why did we have the change in net asset? So you have to understand what goes on the statement of changes, which is income accounts and expense accounts. They're not really income and expenses. They're additions and deductions, but think of them as income and expenses. Think of it as an income statement. So any changes in the fair value of the investments, any unrealized appreciation or depreciation, which is increase or decrease and the value of the investments, interest and dividend income, any contribution made by the employer or any contribution made by the employee, some pension plan, even the employee contribute. For example, I have a pension plan and I also contribute, my employer contribute and I also contribute and the contribution will have to be divided between cash and non-cash. Usually it's cash. That's what they contribute and contribution from participant like myself when that's applicable, when the employee also have to pay. Also payment to insurance entities to any, to contract that are excluded from the pension plan are also included here. So if you have, if you're guaranteeing some sort of an investment, you have to show it. Also, you have to know that there are no cash flow statement for the pension plan funds. So make sure you know this. It could be just a multiple choice question, no cash flow statement. Also, in addition to those two financial statements, when it comes to traditional pension, we have to have statement of accumulated plan benefit. So this statement of accumulated plan benefit is specific to pension plan, to traditional pension plan, not 401k. So this statement shows you what is the obligation, the liability for the company. For example, year one, let me show you, their obligation was 11,900,000. It's a broken down as follow. Participating currently receiving benefit 3.1 million, other participants 6.8 million and they have no non vested benefit benefit that hasn't been vested 2 million. Well, you have, your liability would include vested and non vested because this is the vested benefit and this is the non vested. So this is, this is what we know that we, that we learn about, what we used to learn about in the past as the PBO projected benefit obligation was 11.9 million for year one. So this is what this statement shows. It shows you your obligation, it could be presented with the, with the, with the net asset available for benefit or it could be presented separately. So here we are presenting it separately. So those are the liabilities for the company. Okay, remember, we show the assets and those are the liabilities, how much the company is required, is responsible for today as of today in their pension obligation. So remember, this only applies to traditional pension and this number, this 11,900,000 is coming from actuarial assumptions. You know, how long our employees would live, how long would they work for us, what's their salary, so on and so forth, actuarial assumption. Now we also have a statement of changes. So let's see where the changes came from, we started with 11.9 million, then they increased the plan by a million, they have an increase in the plan by a million, they had a plan amendment for some reason, they said now employees are living longer, we have more employees, whatever the reason is they, they, they increase the plan by a million, then they reduce the plan, do do changes and actuarial assumption, maybe people are living now shorter, 210,000, they accumulate, they, they, they benefit accumulated during the period, 660, then benefit paid 650. So basically, they contributed to the plan, then they took out, which is to cancel each other out, the net, the net increase was 800,000. Therefore, what we end up with a liability at year two, 12.7 million. So basically we went from 11.9 to 12.7, which is 800,000. And this statement of changes and accumulated plan benefits will show you why we had this increase, it's only an increase. Again, those statements could be shown separately or part of the net asset available for benefits, either or. Also, we have statement of net assets available for benefit for 401k, 401k pension plan, which is 401k and statement of changes and net asset available for benefit. The good news is they follow the same concept. We have assets, then we have liabilities, we take assets minus liabilities to get to net asset available for benefits. Simply put assets will be investments and they're also reported at fair value. We have different type of receivable similar to the receivable for the traditional pension and we have liabilities which should be minor. This is year one, this is year two. Then we have the statement of changes and net asset. We have to explain why did the asset change from 8,840,000 to 9,534,500. Well, we have what's called additions and deductions. Notice additions and deduction, think of them as income and expenses. But again, they're not income and expenses, but it's the same concept. There was an appreciation in the investments, we receive interest, dividend, the employer put some money, the participant put some money, the participant rolled over some of their money from other 401k plans. So we have an addition of 1,595,000. The plan paid 852 to retirees. There was administrative expenses of 550,000, total deduction 900,500, the net increase is 695. Take the increase, plus what we started with will give us the year end. So the difference between those two was 694,500. It explained in this why did it change. We had contribution, we had deduction. So what do you need to know? You need to know what goes where, what goes where and how these balances, how do we arrive to those balances. So generally speaking, the multiple choice questions on this section is not basic. Yeah, I would say basic. They're not going to give you a simulation about this most likely, but you have to practice multiple choice. 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Well, hello and welcome to Understand Men Now. I'm Johnathan Asley of johnathanasley.com and I'm so excited to be doing this live stream for you today. Our topic, the eight signs men give when they're about to cheat and you must learn about these. All right, really quickly, if you're brand new to my YouTube channel, please hit the subscribe button, hit the bell so you can be notified of new videos. And if anytime during this video, the content resonates with you, please hit that like button so I could be seen in the YouTube algorithms.  It's direct, a little tough love and a lot of heart. And occasionally I use expletives to enhance a sentence. So if an F-bomb or two isn't your cup of tea, I suggest logging off right now. Lastly, these are my thoughts, my perceptions, my opinions, by no means do I suggest this is the truth. You have to decide the truth for yourself. I'm a bit of a contrarian, so my advice goes contrary to public opinion and traditional expectations. And lastly, most of my coaching is based on what I believe is the more important conversation and that is for two people to be in partnership with one another. So for those of you who are interested in casual relationships, friends with benefits relationship, situationships, polyamory, this isn't really the channel for you, most of what I talk about centers around partnership. And nothing screams no partnership like the idea of cheating. And I'll be candid with you, I'm not enthusiastic about this topic and yet I've noticed that there are other, some of my contemporaries talk about this on a regular basis. And I was recently reading an article about the signs you see before someone cheats. And I thought, you know what, this is great content. Why not share this with my audience? Because here's the thing, when we give our power to another human being, and what I mean by we giving our power is when you need someone else to love you for you to feel good about yourself. When you need someone to care about you for you to feel good about yourself, you're giving your power away. And yet part of the agreement to be in relationship with one another is a sense of commitment, a sense of commitment. And that commitment just isn't about fidelity, that commitment is a commitment that you've expressed that you want to explore a future with someone. So while the signs I'm gonna give you tend to be more related to fidelity, I think this is intertwineable with those people who haven't really made a commitment to the relationship. More so, they haven't made a commitment to trust. I'm gonna repeat that, make a commitment to trust. And what I mean by trust, trust isn't just about that feeling that this person isn't going to physically cheat with you with someone else. Real trust is, can I count on this person to care about my feelings? Can I count on this person to really, to look beyond themselves and their own selfish behavior and put my feelings first? Or when I use my, I mean the collective my when I say that the collective you, put your feelings first. And sadly in today's dating realm, most people are operating from a very selfish place. And this is true for men and women alike. This isn't singular to men being selfish. I know I hear the rhetoric over and over and over again about narcissism, narcissism, narcissism, narcissism, as if it's all men. And I'm not going to discount or diminish that there are people who have real clinical issues that makes it, that can be torment another human being. And nothing torments another human being like the feeling of being betrayed, not just from betrayal from fidelity, but the betrayal from the, it's almost a betrayal from the fantasy of commitment. And I said the word fantasy because many people fantasize about commitment when they're not actually in a committed relationship. I'm gonna repeat that. A lot of people, let me reframe that. When I say fantasize, they're delusional. You know, it's interesting. Men create the delusion that they want a commitment with you so they can get laid. And women then create a delusion that they're in a committed relationship once they've had sex with a man. I'm sorry, I'm laughing at that, but I literally witnessed delusion behavior between men and women consistently, especially those in midlife. And midlife is after baby making years and before retirement, my area of specialty is centered around midlife. And I've witnessed men and women are rather delusional. I'm sorry, I know I'm bursting your bubble, but I'm speaking to the women out there as well as the men out there. Men, you operate from this delusion of, I think the difference is you create a false sense of fantasy to a woman that you're actually willing to lean into commitment. And women then believe this false fantasy that they're actually in a committed relationship with someone they barely know. I mean, it's rather, if it weren't so terrible, it would be comical. It literally is.  Because listen, these days we are meeting total strangers in the dating realm. We're meeting total strangers. And if you're not familiar with the book by Malcolm Gladwell talking to strangers, it requires a lot more due diligence on your part before you get emotionally close to someone.  You ladies on the other hand oftentimes get attached because there's a chemical released in your body known as oxytocin that bonds you to a man that you barely know. And let me explain to you about this because this really relates to trust. When we fantasize about traditional relationships it's because most of the time you met someone in your family circle, your social circle, your friend circle or your work circle. There was a level of accountability for that person not to break a covenant of commitment whether it was fidelity or the commitment of being in a committed relationship. I know this can be very confusing but many of you are delusional in this old realm of thinking we have to adapt ourselves to the reality these days that when we meet total strangers it takes way much longer to get to know one another. And when Steve Harvey wrote his book act like a lady, think like a man. I'll be candid with you when he said wait 90 days to have sex I scoffed at that. Maybe because I'm a guy and I'd like to get laid on the first, second or third date but when I now recognize and by the way I'm not in love with this book either I like some of what he says but the point is is we have to actually vet one another before we give our heart to another human being and you ladies you literally give your heart away so quickly. I know some of you will say the opposite but I witnessed this over and over again and all it takes is a guy coming on strong or love bombing and you open you drop your drawers let the penis go inside the vagina and then you're wondering why the guy disappeared because you didn't build a strong bond with one another and it's because most human beings don't understand the principles to a healthy happy relationship. I'm gonna refer you to another book and while this happens to be about marriage seven principles for making marriage work this teaches you the mechanics to a relationship whether you're married or not. But Jonathan I'm in a long distance relationship I can't do that. Folks when you're in long distance relationships when you're in virtual relationships when you're in fantasy balanced relationships it's going it's almost virtually virtual cyber virtually impossible to build the deep roots of trust. What do you need to build the deep roots of trust? You need social activities you need hobbies you need mutual interest you need spending time with family and friends over a consistent period of time to build trust but most of you guys women and women by the way ladies I am so tired of hearing the rhetoric that all you have to do is sit in your feminine and let a man claim you. Yeah that works. Jackass men will claim submissive women.  He met her mother at age 62. They had a 30 year life together. So for those of you that think your life is over at age 60 I work with 70 year olds. I've even occasionally worked with 80 year olds to actually help them really that the men who are genuinely serious versus the ones who are just winging it. And by the way if you need some support with that check out the link to a free discovery call with me to see if working with the coach is right for you. By the way all the books I recommend are listed in the Jonathan recommend books including my book what the heck is self-love anyway a journey of personal development self-help and spiritual work. Folks if you really want to have a vaccination to emotional chaos then begin doing the inner work. So you're not dependent upon a man loving you or being in a committed relationship with you or being faithful to you. And yet there is nothing worse than feeling betrayed whether it's betrayal of physical infidelity or emotional infidelity. In fact my ex-girlfriend wrote a book called chatting or cheating. How to detect infidelity rebuild love in a fair proof your relationship Dr. Sherry Myers that's a picture of my ex-girlfriend. I by the way I'm in this book she shares some she shares her appreciation for me helping her because when she was writing her book I was writing my book understand men now. Because she gives some of the warning signs of emotional infidelity that happens to men and women alike. So what I'm gonna share with you today are the signs that you'll begin to see. And here's the deal when your spider senses are tingling that's usually a good sign that something is off. I'm gonna repeat that when your spider senses are tingling something is off. Now here's the thing our own insecurities and fears can make up stories in our head. Our own insecurities and fears can make up stories in our head. What's more important is to just pay attention to the clues. So I'm gonna share with you my trusty notes. Eight signs men give for they cheat and most women miss this. You know the thing is you're not really missing this even though that's in the title you actually on some level are picking this up. You are picking it up on an intuitive level. Now I just wanna draw greater attention to it. I'm gonna repeat that you're picking it up on an intuitive level. I just wanna draw greater attention to it. So number one, number one, he gets very jumpy around his phone when it rings. If someone gets jumpy when their phone rings or they're constantly looking at their phone. Now, let me retract that. I will, when I see a notification that's natural to the pellet to touch and look at the phone. So not everybody is cheating because of this but when they act jumpy, jumpy, jumpy, that's a sign that something is off either the relationship is off or there's infidelity going on when the person is jumpy around their phone, okay? Number two, he begins to micro disappear. This is a new term, I call it micro disappearing. Micro disappears where you get this sense that he hasn't returned a phone call for a while.  I call it micro disappearing. When you start to notice a pattern where you regularly talk, regularly talk, all of a sudden he just disappears for a little bit and then he has an excuse for it and then it happens and then it goes back to normal and then it happens again and then it happens again and it happens again. That's possibly a sign that something is up either he's avoiding you because he's emotionally left the relationship or he's avoiding you because he's physically left the relationship for somebody else. I call it micro disappearing. Number three, his behavior changes. Guys who cheat feel guilty and sometimes compensate for it by buying gifts for no reasons, being nice for no reason. Now, in other words, all of a sudden he starts being nice, his behavior changes because when a person is feeling a level of guilt, they might start doing more in the relationship to compensate for the fact that they're either most likely, these are for the people that are actually cheating, physically cheating, not necessarily those who have emotionally left the relationship. Number four, he suddenly starts picking fights and acting moody. He suddenly starts picking fights and acts moody. This is a sign where a person is on edge because they know they're being unfaithful whether they're unfaithful to the commitment to the relationship or unfaithful because they're physically having sex with someone else. They'll start acting, they'll start picking fights. Because then it's easier to break up with someone if you've been fighting for a while, it's easier to say, hey, this relationship isn't working for me. Is this sinking in? Is this resonating? Please let me know. Please hit that thumbs up if it is. Number five, he's acting emotionally distant. These are all piggybacking on one another, but all of a sudden you feel a sense of distance from him. You can tell something is off and you feel emotional distance. He's not being vulnerable as much before. He's not being authentic as much before. He's not being transparent as much as before. Let me improve my grammar here as much as before. And so you start noticing a slow fade. This is what Dr. Sherry talks about in her book once you start to experience emotional sex, emotional sex with someone. Number six, and this is for Heather out there, his taste in music changes, his taste in music changes. Now, it's really his taste in movies, his taste in music, his taste in things change because he's actually being influenced by another person. And the song he isn't listening to is shaggy like Heather brought up earlier, but his tastes in music, movies, things begin to change because he's actually being influenced. We oftentimes are influenced by the people around us. So if a man is in his fifties and he's dating someone in his thirties, he might be listening to rap more than he is eighties music like I would be. So when you notice this, and someone says he may start wearing cologne or picking stupid fights, a sign of cheater. So yes, his taste in music changes. He starts maybe dressing up a little more. He just starts to act a bit different.  Usually these things relate to time or they relate to places he's been. You can start catching him in little lies. You notice discrepancies. You notice discrepancies. Here's the thing, we oftentimes make excuses for people when we know something is off, we make excuses because it's better for some people it's better to be in a bad relationship than no relationship at all. I'm gonna repeat that. It's better to be in a bad relationship or no relationship at all. So it's not uncommon that most of you when you're experiencing this you're not actually talking to them about this because oftentimes this is what happens with people. They'd rather be in a bad relationship than no relationship at all. And here at the Understand Men channel we want you to be in a juicy, delicious, happy relationship.  Okay?  Take charge of your relationship, Destiny. Don't give it up to the man. And last but not least, your gut says something is wrong. It's a quiet voice inside of you. Here's the thing about intuition. Intuition actually comes from a calm place. Not an agitated place, not an anxiety-based place but it actually comes from a calm place when you feel something is off. What happens is the ego, the monkey mind start makes up all kinds of stories instead of just knowing something feels off and then start to pay attention to the signs instead of making things up in your head. And the signs are usually there when someone is emotionally left the relationship or they physically left the relationship for someone else. And why does this happen? Because you human beings are rather clueless when it comes to the mechanics to a healthy, happy relationship because you've been indoctrinated in this belief that chemistry equals relationship success. If you're not familiar with my relationship to iceberg, you can see the tip of the iceberg is chemistry, which attraction is based. What most of you forget is shared values, blendable lifestyles and emotional maturity is where compatibility comes in. And you spend more time in chemistry and romance and not enough time building the deep friendship with one another.  This is all game playing techniques to temporarily get someone. And I'm here to suggest doing something deeper. Read the book by Barbara DeAngelis, How to Make Love All the Time so you can actually learn how to co-create a relationship together. And if you're with a man who's not willing to invest in a relationship then why are you giving him your vagina? Why do you do it? I know because sometimes it's better to be in a mediocre relationship and something's growing. My channel is all about empowering you to take charge and use your voice, use your voice. By the way, if a guy genuinely cares about you, he will lean in. You don't need to lean back in your feminine. You can lean into your empowerment when you're with the right guy. And guess what? When you're with the right guy, he's going to appreciate this. I get email after email after email from women saying, Jonathan, thank you so much. I am now empowered. We read this book, eight dates together. We're reading this together. We're co-creating a relationship together. In fact, if you're not familiar with the book, I Hear You, you have to, ladies, you all think you're good communicators. The fact that you're afraid to communicate tells me you're not good communicators. Learn more effective communication skills to express yourself because you can easily express and vomit your feelings to your girlfriend. And yet you seem to be like deer in the headlights when it comes to communicating with men.  I'm here to suggest more healthy communication.  The average person has mediocre relationship skills at best. If you're not familiar with my relationship skills chart, emotional maturity, by the way, this is not a fact, it's an opinion. Roughly 20% of the population has clinical issues. And while I say 20% is healthy, I'm being rather generous. Most of you human beings are dysfunctional and I include myself in the dysfunctionality. And I do this for a living. I'm a good communicator for a living and I still struggle with articulating my feelings in a way that's seen, heard, or understood, mainly because I was picked on as a kid. I was bullied as a kid. I had a hard time expressing my feelings. Many of you felt the same way. And so many of us have a stuffed voice.  I'm your wake up call and it's why I yell so much. All right, eight signs. He may be cheating on you. These are the subtle eight signs, but what I really wanna lean into more is not just the physical infidelity, but the fact that he's emotionally leaving. And these eight signs can be applied almost the same way when he's ready to end the relationship. And if you wanna avoid a relationship that ends, then co-create something right from the get-go.   By the way, if you're not familiar with the work of Neil Clark Warren, he started the website called E-Harmony. Now I'm not endorsing E-Harmony, but he wrote a great book called Two Dates or Less. He talks about the 25 areas of compatibility and when you're aligned in these 25 areas of compatibility, you have a greater chance of relationship success. Most couples are aligned. This is how you think of compatibility. You like sushi? Oh my God, me too. You like stand-up paddleboard? Oh my God, I go to the marina every weekend and do it. You like the Rolling Stones? Holy shit, I've seen them in concert eight times. Oh my God, we're so compatible. Like this is the nativity. Compatibility is do we share the same values? And here in the United States, we're a divided country. We literally have 50% of the country that thinks one way and 50% thinks another way.  Number one, is our lifestyles blendable with one another? Can we blend our two lifestyles together? I see dysfunctional couples try to blend their lifestyles together after dating for two years only to have it implode. And last but not least, is this person an emotional grownup? And you know where emotional maturity comes from doing introspective work? If you haven't read the book, The Hoffman Process, The Hoffman Process, this is a deep dive into healing childhood wounds and traumas that causes most of the dysfunctionality. Do the inner work so you can be better prepared for a relationship. Okay, I'm done yelling, I'm done ranting. I've said my piece. Are you gonna make a difference in your life? Say to me in the chat box or in the box below, I wanna begin to make a difference in my life. I'm gonna take charge of my destiny. I am not gonna give it to another human being. I retain my power. Say any of those words in the chat box, I would be so grateful. I retain my power. All right, I think we're just gonna take a few questions today. We're gonna have a short live stream. So those who know my live streams, if you write the word question or post the question, and then write the word question and post the question there after or purchase a super sticker super chat. All the monies through the super sticker super chat goes to a scholarship fund in the name of my son, Connor Asley. That's him there. That's him there. That's him there, isn't he cute? He's my son who passed away a few years ago. And in his honor, I've started a scholarship fund to give to charities like The Hoffman Process in site seminars and defray the cost of personal development for those who are in need. And we're seeing a lot of women saying, I retain my power. Yes, yes, yes. All right, and say it in the chat box as well. All right, I saw a question from Jade. Again, we're only gonna take a few questions tonight. Question, how to ask the right questions without sounding bossy, vomiting or too cool girl passive? What if when talking early on, he lies straight faced? You can't know how to protect yourself. Oh, these are great questions. By the way, I noticed on YouTube, there's a lot of FBI agents who are giving YouTube tutorials on how to tell if a person is liar. And it's not, they look up to the right and they're thinking kind of stuff. There's a Secret Service agent on a Louis Howe video. But I think the reading the book, Talking to Strangers is a great precursor to protect yourself because you know very little about a person. I'm a big believer in, if they're not Googleable, they're not worth dating, number one. Do they have a social media footprint? If they don't have one, they're not worth dating to me because I don't trust people until we've actually spent some time and I get a sense of their whole life and their social circle and whatnot. And this is becoming progressively more difficult when we have a transplanted community of people out there. So in my private coaching, I teach you the questions to ask based on your personality. So I would check out the link to a free discovery call. That's what my private coaching is all about, vetting the guy before you give your heart away. But I would definitely watch some YouTube videos by FBI profilers talking about lying. But again, you have to do your due diligence. Ask a lot of, by the way, I know people say don't interrogate people. Look, you can simply say, hey, so we don't waste each other's time. Do you mind if we ask each other some personal questions just to see if we're on the same page? That's a great way to start. So we don't waste each other's time. Do you mind if we ask some, and by the way, people will straight up lie. This is why ladies don't buy into the love bomber the guy who comes on strong. Oftentimes when you fall for that, it's because there's a lack of love within yourself. That's the sad piece here. So anyways, that's my advice for you, Jade. I hope it helped. Thank you so much. All right. 21 new you 21 says, question have a friend that only wants to meet in a hotel. I enjoy his company, super intelligent. I don't feel like it handle a relationship that requires for a year, four days a week. So guess what new you, you didn't ask me a question. You just made a statement. This is an example of what ladies you do this habitually. That wasn't a question. That's a statement.    All right. Lucy says, Jonathan, personal question. How did your date go with the matchmaker? Okay, folks, about a week and a half ago, I guess it'll be two weeks ago today. I had a date that was fixed up by a matchmaker. And officially, as I shared in the video the following day, it was not a love connection. Just not a love connection. I should have asked a few pre-qualifying questions, but because it came from a matchmaker, I didn't. But we had some big differences between us, but there just wasn't any spark or connection between us. And I think we were misaligned on things. All right, looks like 21 knew you. Thanks for that question, Lucy. She has a question. Is it okay to have an open relationship? I hit the button by mistake. That's a question. 21 knew you, 21. You can do whatever you want.  I think Jada Pinkett Smith and Will Smith are in an open relationship. So watch what they do if you need some guidance. By the way, I am gonna be clear, everyone. My channel is for those who want partnership with one another. If you want real partnership with one another, read this book, Spiritual Partnership by Gary Zucca. Spiritual Partnership by Gary Zucca. He wrote The Seed of the Soul. This is a life, Seed of the Soul right there. It's a life-changing book, and this is a great book. So if you want partnership, follow my channel. If you want just friends with benefits, do what you're doing, 21, you knew you. That's cause that's all it is, friends with benefits. Anyway, thank you for that question. I appreciate it. Justin, thank you for the $3 super sticker. Way to go. G disparate says, don't follow Jada Smith. By the way, folks, anybody can do whatever they want. We are in a world where we have the blessing that we can choose whatever we want. What I don't appreciate is when people are delusional. You ladies are delusional, you men are delusional. As I said in the beginning of this broadcast, men express the delusion that they're capable of a committed relationship, and you ladies believe the delusion.  You have to build a real deep friendship first before you actually give your heart away to another human being, because this idea of cheating is the cheating on the commitment. It's really cheating on the idea of commitment. And it feels like such a betrayal. How are you gonna avoid it by doing a better job vetting in the beginning? Is this sinking in? Is this resonating? Please let me know. All right, folks, we're gonna do a short live stream tonight. Not too many more questions. Listen, my role here is to be a wake up call. Sometimes I yell, sometimes I curse. I share other people's books. I share other people's content because I'm here to really be a facilitator to invite everybody to do the personal development work, self-help and spiritual work to actually find a place of inner peace. Sadly, we are a world here, at least in the United States, of hypocrisy and victim consciousness. And repeat that we are, at least here in the United States, we are hypocritical, victim conscious human beings that judges far too much, that judges ourselves far too much, and we talk about love. And I'm saying the collective we, I mean, I know you may not feel about, you might not feel this way, but that's what delusion does. It blinds us to the fact that we are not a loving community here in the United States, as much as we talk a big game. That we're in a divided country of divided human beings and the worst division of all is the fight between men and women and the anger between men and women. That's the sad reality, the judgment, the jadedness, the bitterness. Men have it towards women and women have it towards men. And yet many of you claim to be so loving and yet at the same moment, you will crucify someone in the name of love. That's not love. So I invite everyone to take a deep breath and put their hand on their heart. I invite love into my life.  I'm gonna operate from the most loving place. I'm gonna love myself and I'm gonna love everyone else so I can invite more and more love into my life because the old way of doing things doesn't serve me. And I want to begin a journey of exploring all those facets of me that blocks me from attracting true love in my life and I want to be a beacon of love and I want to express love in a way by paying it forward each and every day by doing one simple act of kindness to a stranger each and every day to make a difference in the world. And no matter whether or not I have a romantic relationship in my life, I have the best relationship of all and that is the relationship with myself.  Are you with me? If you are, give me an amen. Excuse my pit stains. Give me an amen. Give me a thumbs up. Share this video with your friends. I would be truly grateful if you did that. All right. I think this will be, I see one more question here. Birth says, how do you overcome dating burnout? I rarely can meet people who have done their past on self-growth. You know what? I vaguely remember a poem that says, fall off a horse seven times, get up eight times. You know what? My once friends once said to me, love is a risk and yet it's still the greatest game in town and I'm a believer of that. So hold that in your space. All right, I'm gonna wrap up this video as I always do.  I'm gonna reach into the camera and give you a hug of love if that's okay. I'm asking you to turn to someone, a pet, a teddy bear, a pillow and give it or them a hug of love because hugs are a great source of love. And let's face it, we could all use more love in our lives. I wanna thank Julie and Marianne and 21 New You. I'll please purchase a super sticker before we wrap up. I wanna thank Erica and Kit Kat and Felicity and Angie and Jennifer and Cheryl and Khaleesa and Bertha and Heather and Jill. Everyone, Cheryl, R.O.K. Kreese of Bertha, Rhonda. Everyone, thank you so much. Wishing you a super duper, wonderful, fantastic day. Bye-bye now, bye.


Is this body really me? I would like to ask a question about experience. This morning it was the assignment, you know, in meditation to allow the body to move, like as it felt. And what I noticed is, when I am sitting without thoughts, there is no impulse to move. And then I was feeling sensations, if there were any sensations in the body. And I felt tingling in my hands. I felt like patches of tingling. I didn't feel an outline of a body. And then I thought, I must be thinking because otherwise how could I feel or experience anything because feeling comes from thinking. That's what I think. And so now my question is, first of all, is that true? And is awakening an experience? And if it's an experience, is it unconscious thinking or how, what is it? Is that clear the question? Yeah, yeah. Your metaphysics are very, very accurate that it is thoughts that produce feelings. And that's why in a state of deep meditation and deep stillness you do actually lose awareness of the body, not that you actually lose something that was really there. You simply become aware of the love and the light and the stillness, which is actual, which is natural. Awareness of the body and the way that the body feels is actually very unnatural. And that the deeper you sink in, the deeper states of meditation, many people have those experiences where they'll have those glimpses where they'll lose awareness of the body. Now, there's a lot of steps in spirituality because of the unconscious belief system. And sometimes when the mind gets so caught up into intellectual defense mechanisms, and it's not so much, you can't categorize it as like left brain and right brain or the head and the heart, those are very simplistic kind of generalizations. They only take you so far because there's nothing special about a heart or a head. And actually thinking does not occur in the head.  The brain is just a gray matter. The mind is not the brain and on and on and on. But actually when you have used a denial mechanism of getting caught up into intellectual ideas and into concepts and we'll even say numb out. You know, sometimes part of intellectualization is just to kind of numb out. But actually a step in the right direction can be to feel the feelings and feel what seems to be going on with the body when it's been like a numbing condition. That's a step in the right direction to start to feel it. There are no memories in the body. The body is not autonomous in any way. It doesn't have like Candace Perth, you know, each cell has its own individual consciousness. That's as ridiculous as each body has their own individual consciousness, which I was talking about at the movie last night. But everything about the body is just a projection. And you may go through phases where you're guided to actually start to get in touch with feelings and it can be, the body can be used in that way too as part of the awakening. But then the deeper you go, you can go into these deeper states where Jesus actually says this in the workbook, when he's talking about this deep stillness and meditation, you can tell you've practiced well by this, he says, the body will not feel at all. Wow, that's coming from the master. You know, if you take it all the way out and you keep working with this, you won't, the body won't feel at all because in fact the body has never felt. It's just a projection of the mind that the body can seem to feel. That's part of the trick of the mind and the ego staying hidden is it projects the feelings even out to the body. And then you go inward in the whole other direction and you actually reach these still states where there's no feeling whatsoever. Not a good feeling or a bad feeling, it's just gone. And that's making those inroads. Now along the way you may have things like tinglings or you may perceive like late around familiar objects Jesus says in the Course. There can be all kinds of perceptual things and feeling things like the tingling can be along the way. But it's just your job is not to try to judge any of that. Just know that there's like a process undergoing in which you're coming from upside down thinking to right side up thinking, you know, you're getting into true alignment with Source. And, you know, it's definitely a practice in the sense that it's taking you into an inner awareness where Jesus says the body is outside you but it seems to surround you. And then in another point he says there's nothing outside of you. Well, let's put those two senses together. The body is outside you and there's nothing outside you. The body is nothing. You know, and you will as you go deeper into this experience of awakening you will seem to lose awareness.  But, yeah, you're on the right track. You're on the right track with that whole thing.