I really have tried to surround myself with people who deliver value who who enrich the lives of everyone else around them. We talk about value on the podcast enough. And I also want to be that person. Remember as that person that goes above and beyond in helping others and delivering that value to others. So we're going to kick off our values episode. Now, if you've been a fan of the show for a number of years and paid attention to anything that Johnny and I said, some of you even write us about all of the notes you've taken, you've heard time and time again how important defining your values are. Value based life leads to personal happiness, mental health, well-being, and a host of other things. And one of the most common questions we get is how do I choose my values? And of course, a lot of us when we think about our values, we look to mimic others. We look to take on values that we see around us, but it can be a little overwhelming at first. It can be difficult for you to really put pen to paper. So our goal today is to talk about our values, share the company values as well as our personal values and our journey discovering these values about ourselves. And then we'll get in all the host of science behind why values matter so much. Yeah. And I also just want to start it off by saying that by understanding and learning values about values, my life had changed of how I was engaging in the day every day. You know, it's funny. I've always said that we run on scripts. And these scripts, if you haven't meticulously put it together for yourself, you've adopted one that you've gotten from family, friends, media, wherever it might be. And it wasn't specifically chosen for you. You just adopted it, decided to live by it.  When you change the guide rails to your life and meticulously put together the values that you feel best living through, you will see your life then be a result of living through those values. And of course, today we're going to be talking about how whatever goals you choose, how we can backwards engineer what the values would be that we would need to get there. So that by living a value-based life every day, we get closer to the life we're fighting for. To those goals. And that's the thing. When most of us think about planning out what we want to do, figuring out our North Star, the first thing we think about or the first tool we think about is goal. Set up a goal and now I work towards the goal. And goals are very helpful. There's no doubt about it. And as we talked about to start this year, setting some resolutions and goals for yourself, that's fantastic. But there's also values on the other end of it. And when your values align with your goals, you have essentially endless willpower. You have the ability to push through when times get tough, when things aren't going in your way, when that goal feels further off into the distance. Well, you mentioned about times getting tough, they're going to. That's just part of life. There's ups and downs, ebb and flow, trauma, loss, victory, success. All these things are going to play a role. And in each one of these things, and this goes back to something that Stephen Hayes has talked about how our body works like a calculator that doesn't have no subtraction or delete. You can only enter things in and then you have to compensate for what you've entered in. So those losses and trauma and victories, they're all going to be crammed in there. And you have to go about your life with those things adding up, and it gets more and more difficult. However, by putting together those values, you have something you can lean on every day to get you through that when everything else because of that trauma and loss seems to muddy the waters. It doesn't give you a clear picture of which way you should be going. In order to not have to worry about that, you just push through and leaning into those values, and they'll carry you through whatever dark, muddy waters are there. And this is not to get confused with value, which is another topic we've talked a lot about on the show. Value is what we give to others, and we define that as attention, appreciation, and acceptance. But what we're talking about here is those core motivators in your life that you want to live your life by. And these become very clear in all of your decision-making. I know we had a decision-making month theme back in, I believe, August. And decisions are complicated to begin with. And if we're not clear on our values, if we're not clear where we stand or what's worth fighting for, then it's very easy to become indecisive. I also think in today's world, we've sort of lost sight of the railings that hold us together, these values that we can lean on, exactly what you were saying about when there's times to make difficult decisions. And if you don't have these values to lean on, then the idea of being a principled person falls apart. If you don't have anything to lean on, and you're not principled, or there's no principle set up to lean on, then you become very unwaverly in who you are and what you stand for. It makes decision-making incredibly difficult. And it also makes the people around you uneasy, because if they can't recognize patterns of principle within you. Where you stand, where you wish you washi, if you are wavering in your viewpoint and unsure of yourself. Well, of course, that's going to lead to people not feeling at ease or comfortable around you. And this brings up a good point. Why are we on a podcast dedicated to self-improvement, of course, but really focusing on how we communicate with one another and build relationships and conversation? Why are we so concerned about values which are internal? Guess what?  So they are important to define. And for a lot of our younger listeners and even our younger participants in our coaching programs, bootcamp especially, picking those values for the first time or thinking about it can be a little bit daunting, a little bit scary. If I don't really know what I value or, you know what, I have 20 things that I value. How do I pick the top five? We'll get into that. But I want to talk a little bit about the problem with goals and goals alone, because goals are all about something in the future. They're a desired outcome. Values are more encompassing than that.  When your goals spring from those values, then magic really happens. So when we were getting ready for this show, we were talking with Michael about how excited we were to share our values, because I think for a lot of our listeners they probably picked up on them here or there. But I don't think they fully know what our values are. Well, I also want to state that even for myself, when I was younger and I would hear about these things, I would brush them aside. Why? Because I was like, I know what my values are. I'm good. I have values. I don't need to do it. I don't need to do the exercise. However, we're going to talk about how to do this exercise. But upon doing it, and this goes with anything when it comes to writing it out, the ideas and the thoughts and the goals and the aspirations that you might hold in your brain are just that. They're thoughts. And there's not much weight to them until they go to paper or until you've given them enough attention to where those thoughts have then turned to beliefs. But even so, they need to be actually articulated for you to understand what those beliefs are. This is why for a lot of the guys, the clients who come through our programs, why, how they view the world coming in is different when they leave. Why? Because they had the opportunity to articulate to themselves some ideas that weren't ever fully fleshed out. And because of that, they were nebulous. They couldn't, the proper filter or lens, I like to call it, could never be completely built. But once it's articulated, that lens then comes to fruition. And now you're solidly looking through it. And you're not swayed. You're not influenced by things that take you off course. That's the point of value based living is that it gives you a level of resilience. Because listen, sometimes you're not going to be able to achieve those goals. Sometimes it's not up to you. There are other factors that go into those goals. And what happens when you don't achieve your goals are you set up for success. And that's really where the values come in. And studies show that very goal oriented people sometimes have a fragile sense of self. So what that means is when all your focus on is external outcomes and factors and motivations, when things don't align, when you don't reach those goals, your sense of self is going to collapse. It's going to crumble. It's going to lead to a lot of inner turmoil and stress. But if your values are solid and clear, even missing a goal is not going to shake or rattle you, because those goals are in alignment with those deeper values. And this to throw it back to something our first guest of the year, Dr. Judy Ho had brought up when she brought out her life acronym and the very first part of that was low self-esteem shaky self. And as you were just mentioning it, if you're focused on that and you don't have the steps that it takes to get there, you can easily get knocked off course because there is no plan. And listen, it's okay for your values to change. When I think about starting this company 13 years ago and throwing myself into coaching, my values at that stage in my life were very much around proving other people wrong. So I had doubters, I had people who, and we've talked about this, family members even, who didn't believe in what I was doing or the choices I was making. And out of that, some of my values were actually unhealthy. When you're trying to prove it to someone else and your values are not anchored to yourself, well, all of a sudden you're going to find yourself between a rock and a hard place and frustrated. And I valued socialization to the extreme, going out constantly because I was introvert. I was trying to work through that introversion. I was trying to gain all these skills to be a good coach. And now that I'm in my 30s, I don't value that as much. I don't value going out and going crazy socializing as much as I did in my 20s. And that's fine. Well, the goals have changed. And so if the goals have changed, then so did the steps in getting there. Yeah, so I want to point out that as we talk about our values and unpack our own, it has been a journey for us. There have been values that we tried that didn't work for us that we'll get into. And understanding that it's not set in stone. We're not carving this out and stamping it on our tombstone and saying, these are your values for the rest of your life. But values serve a very important purpose in your life. And, you know, this is something that I learned growing up being raised Roman Catholic. Obviously, there are a lot of values instilled by the church. And those values then lead to goals lead to the way we interact with one another, the way we treat one another. So that's what we're getting into today is how do we develop our own values that matter to us? And now with all of the guests we've had over the last couple of years, we now realize that when we plug in those values with some great goals, that willpower component that we're struggling with, the getting up, the going out the door to work out, that shrinks. It doesn't have to be so difficult for us if we only focus on the external. Now, one thing that I do want to point out is that when we're talking about values, how important they are, it's not about discarding your goals now and saying, Oh, I have no goals. I just live in a life of values. They go hand in hand. They're synergistic and they are important here. So how do we go about finding our values? Well, when you think about values, what do you stand for? How do you want to behave as a human? How do you want people to view you? What do you want to hear them say behind your back? These are good starting points to start building those principles that you live by, as Johnny was saying earlier. We've talked about how important it is for companies to build out their set of values, that everyone on the team knows, Okay, this action that I'm taking is in line with our values. I feel good. I know that I'm moving the needle forward. Something else to go along with that. We have a guest coming up and it's going to be in a few months, but his name's Kevin Cruz and he wrote a book called Leaders Don't Have Rules. One of his points in the book was just that. Leaders don't have rules that they live by. They live by values. He was talking about the importance of getting your team to rally around those values so that everyone is on the same field. Whereas if we give people rules, there's all sorts of objections of I don't like to live in rules. I'm a rebel or I don't like people telling me what to do or just figuring out ways to tweak the rules, to get one over on the rules, to find the loopholes that we know those people as well. That's all there. Once there is rules and I think there's just something innate in humans of wanting to break the rules. But if you can get everyone to subscribe to the same values, well now things are completely different and you may interpret them differently than the person sitting next to you, but they're still holding true to that same value. There's usually a mutual respect that can go along with your approach to it as long as you're still having that same value. And when it comes to corporate culture and building this company, we didn't start with the values first. We kind of all came in, jumped in, started working with our own value set that we were bringing to the table. And there was a lot of times in this company's history where the values weren't in alignment. We didn't put them to paper. We didn't commit to them.  But that comes from the top. And someone who's run the company, I now realize not only the importance of values in my own life, but also the importance of instilling values in the team and the way that we want to treat our customers, the way that we want to be seen, the way that we want to be treated as well. And just to go back to that point, rules certainly doesn't work. People tend to think that you're trying to put them in a box when you hand them rules as well. I can even, as someone who sees himself as a creative, the minute I hear rules, that's my first thought, because what if my creativity has me venturing outside these rules and now you're neutering me, so to speak, to be able to do what I do? However, if we're rallying around values, that completely changes. And let's say, for instance, a value is loyalty. So a company's value is loyalty. Well, for Johnny, that might mean following up with customers who just came through in the last month. For another team member, that might be sending a birthday message on Facebook to cheer up our customers. So even having a value of loyalty, each person is going to respond to it differently, but it's a framework to start from. So I would like to dig into my values. And they've been a work in progress. I'm not going to lie. And in talking a lot with Amy over the last six years of our relationship, they've evolved over time. But the one, and I think we can all sort of pick up on this from the trajectory of the company, the first and most important value to me has always been deliver value. Sometimes to a fault, right? We hear a lot on the show. The show is so dense. You guys go into these topics. I want to learn more about you, but I really have tried to surround myself with people who deliver value, who enrich the lives of everyone else around them. We talk about value on the podcast enough. And I also want to be that person. Remember, as that person that goes above and beyond in helping others and delivering that value to others. Well, that's why it's the first role in the company or the first value in the company, above and beyond. And understanding that there are going to be times where it's difficult. And there's certainly been times when Amy has been a little frustrated. But that commitment to going above and beyond has allowed us to build a team that not only supports one another, but then supports everyone who comes through our doors. And I view it the same in all of my personal relationships. I want to be there for my fiance. I want to be there for my friends. I want to be there for my family. And when you think of that and the way it works, you can, for me, it's to make sure that the listener of this podcast gets a lot out of it. And for me, it is for the person who comes through a program knows that we are there for their journey. And we are going to be there when you sign up. We're going to be there when you come through. And of course, all the systems that are in place for you when you leave. And I continuously let the guys know that I'm always here. And one of the things that I say is I have time for everybody. It's just a matter of me finding when that time is. But if you let me know you have something that you want to discuss or an idea or a problem, you text me, you send me an email and I will send out Calendly Invite and we will figure out a time. And listen, we've been in the self development space for a long time over a decade. And when we started and we met a number of people doing coaching, social skills coaching, personal development coaching, leadership coaching. And I've met coaches whose viewpoint is we start working together when the check clears and we stop working together when the seminar is over.  We have never as a company entertained that idea. All of our alumni have our personal phone numbers. We talked to alumni who've come through the program nine, 10, 11 years ago. And I feel that not only is that in line with my value, it becomes very easy for me. It's not a willpower thing.  Oh, God, I have to help this person out. It's in my ethos. And of course, as someone who's led the company, it's infused into the company's ethos. And it's one of the most important lessons that we try to teach in all of our programs. Well, I think you could also say a lot for the people or the podcasters and the coaches that we enjoy. You know, when I think about the podcasters that both of us get a lot from, we see that very, that ethos, if you will, that you use your words in their work. And of course, it's like, well, of course, that's going to be in ours because that's who we're modeling. And it's interesting. I get a lot of emails from people who are starting out in podcasting, people who are fans of the show and want to start podcasting and ask, you know, how do we prep for the show? How do we deliver value in the content? And, you know, we have three plus pages of notes, science to back it up. We have multiple conversations about anything that we're talking about here, recorded for you. And that's been the case for over a decade now of putting in the prep to deliver the value. And this is something that we do for free. This is not something that we're charging for. So that delivering value is not only my own personal value, but I look for that value in others, right? And that's how I stay away from transactional relationships.  And listen, there are a ton of transactional people out there, but being someone who values delivering value for others, I look for that in others and I look to lead my life by that. And that's really one of my core values. And that wasn't very hard for me to find. So that one's been pretty, pretty standard. The second one, and this one, you know, has led to some people leaving the company has led to change on the team. But this is really a personal value is keeping it real, being honest and transparent with how I'm feeling sometimes to a fault. I know Johnny laughs that I wear my emotions on my sleeve, but I think we both do that. I that's the Midwest. The same time, I would rather be in a situation or an environment where people are being upfront with each other. And I want that in my personal relationships. I want that in my friendships. And of course, I want that in my business partners and the people that I work with. And it is challenging at times to be authentic. It is difficult to deliver bad news. And for a long time in my life, I tried to avoid conflict and avoid arguments and being a people pleaser. You know, sometimes being authentic is not always the easiest road. It can be difficult to be truthful in those situations. But what I've found is that it allows me to say no to things that aren't helpful.  And it allows other people around me to know where I stand. The third value for me, and trying to keep it straightforward with these five here, the third is just loyalty. And I think that really was instilled by my family. Family is very connected and loyal to one another and loyalty growing up was a very important value for my father. And I picked up on his relationships in life. And of course, because of that, I've lost some friends along the way. I've had to make some difficult decisions around relationships. We've talked about value vampires and people who may not live up to that, but loyalty is being supported by the people in your life and being true to the people who've been there for you, which is funny. You know, you move to a big city, it's easy to get drawn into some of these other circles and people back home, at least for me, remark about how I've stayed true to myself and I try to surround myself to do the same. Oh, that's, you know, that's always a welcoming picture to have from somebody who's known you for such a long time. It's, it's, and I know for myself that I really enjoy hearing that, and it's, it's not so often that East Coast friends can make it out here, but when they do, I do try to spend quality time with them. And that is certainly one of the things I love hearing. I don't want to hear this town has changed me. However, there, you know, there's those people too. Well, they'll see the social media and they'll ask, you know, why are you talking about that? Why is that important now? And it's easy to get caught up in some of that. But ultimately, yes, trying to stay true to myself and true to the people certainly back home who've supported me on this journey, not just the no offense, Johnny come lately's who get excited about the big numbers and what's going on after the 10 plus years of hard work. The fourth one in this one, we've talked about a lot on the show. In fact, one of our favorite guests hammers this home, David Goggins, and it's discipline in everything that you want in life. All the success you're looking for is based on your habits and habits are built through discipline. There's no getting around it. There's no shortcuts. We've had what, how many guests now talk about that exact thing, whether it's getting up early, whether it's always working out, whether it's watching what you eat, whether it's making sure you follow through with your meditation. That discipline instills the successful habits that you need to reach the goals that you have. And there are certainly times where I fall off. There are certainly times where I'm less disciplined than I would like, but it's an aspirational value that I think is really important in my life. Well, and that's one of the things that makes value based living important and fun is that it's just not, it's not something you just turn on and you begin doing. It takes effort and it takes consistent effort every day. However, you do know what you're doing. So all you have to do is go ahead and get to it, but no one said it's going to be easy. No, no one, no successful person has built their empire or achieved what they wanted on shortcuts and lack of discipline. Now this one, the fifth and final value for me might feel a little opposite of the last value, right? So the last value is discipline, straightforward. The fifth and final value for me is spontaneity. I do think that variety is the spice of life. Johnny's seen me learning how to cook and always trying to pick up new skills, traveling, exploring. I'm always looking for those moments. And what I found that's so interesting is as you become more disciplined, you actually unlock more freedom. Yes. It's counterintuitive and I know that we've had guests come on and talk about this, but when you have those guardrails of discipline that you know you're not going to be out too late, you're going to get things done in the morning, then you can create that freedom in your life to be spontaneous, to try that spicy Thai food, to go on that trip, to zip out to Las Vegas for a weekend for the hell of it. That is something that I value in myself is that ability to try new things, to not be stuck in a rut or a routine, and also to be more open and accepting of others. And the spontaneity one at times has come in conflict with Amy's discipline, and it's been funny. Oh, I've seen it. Yeah. As someone who values it so much, you know, now about to marry someone who spontaneity is not the name of her game, right? But it's fun to add that. And it's also fun to see how Amy's values have influenced me over time. Sure. Absolutely.  Well, there certainly is. And I talk about these every week with the guys because I can't expect them to put theirs out there if I'm not willing to do that for myself. And certainly over the years, they have changed. But the ones that are important to me now, first and foremost, we just, I take health out of the way. And that to me is diet, sleep, exercise. Those three things all make up. Now, that was not always the case. Someone who's lived with you. Exactly. Seeing what you eat, seeing when you went to sleep. Yeah. And certainly I can still get better with some of those. But I take those very seriously because, and this is, I've stated this multiple times and I'm going to state it again, because this is important. And this is why health is the first one. Because I know what I need to do eating, sleeping, exercise wise, to be at my best. And when I'm at my best, the longer I'm in that zone of my best, the better my life is. And the better my life is, the better other people's lives are who are around me. And so I owe it to myself and to those people because of that, to be at my best. And that takes care of that. And that's number one. And I don't think there's anything else I need to say to that other than that very Yeah. This is not a health and fitness podcast. So we're going to stick to things where experts Yeah. So that's why I take that very seriously. The other ones that come in, creativity is certainly one of them. I want to be able, and it's important for me to engage in things that A, allow me to create and B, think creatively. And so whatever I need to be able to do those things. So reading, film, music, these things allow those juices to flow. And then from there, I get to create myself. And so I take that very seriously. And I want to be able to produce more than I consume. And so that's very important to me. Yeah. Next is humor. And I have been saying this for a long time, which is as an entrepreneur, I find humor one of the most important traits that one can have because of the, the ups and the roller coaster that is entrepreneurship and, and you need to be able to laugh at yourself and the circumstances that you're in in order to make it to the other side. It does does get dark at times. You do question yourself a lot at a time. And if you can't laugh about it, it's going to be it's going to be grim. And one of the things that always stuck out to me being the Dan Carlin fan that I am, which is he was doing a podcast on trench warfare. I believe it was his World War one series, which is phenomenal. And in one of the questions he was asking or had been asked is what did he know about the soldiers who were able to persevere in the worst of conditions and the worst of conditions could be in those trenches. It could be life in a gulag and a tournament camp, whatever those awful conditions are, but it's always been purpose and humor. Those two things go hand in hand. The purpose is the hope that pulled you out, but humor allows you to deal with the situation while you're in it. So humor is certainly for me as well. You've compared the company's history of gulag and trench warfare. It's quite the analogy. Well, I temper it a little bit. Once again, finding the humor in all of it used to be presence, but now it's moved more into mindfulness as a as a whole. Because for everything that's going on, I need more opportunities to diffuse thoughts from emotions. I think that helps with creativity. It also helps with humor to be able to compartmentalize things and see them for what they are. I think that all plays a role. And lastly, ceaseless learning, so which also fosters the creativity and the humor. I want to be able to learn every day.  And what's also great about this is looking at your daily calendar. Yeah. And how you're going to arrange and engaging in those those five values. The other thing that we know about this is through our own research on, we have a challenge on Facebook and part of that challenge with number two is to to put up your values. Yeah, you can join our Facebook group that at the challenge, the art of charm.com slash challenge. And this this challenge is a fun one for a couple reasons. Yeah. Number one, it's intimidating. So a lot of people sign up for the challenge of like, great, I'm going to work on my social skills. And we hit them with, well, what are your values? And then it's like, Oh, man, I haven't thought about that. Or Oh, I want to see your answers. And it can be something that if you're not prepared for might feel a little overwhelming. But the flip side is when they complete the challenge, there's like the sense of relief of like, Oh, now I have clarity. Or as my buddy David calls it, a North Star, you have a guiding light, a flashlight as to what direction you should be going in. And the other thing about it that goes along with that is most people can easily put two, three, maybe even four together. But once you get the three and we realize that people had stopped at three, because they still have this giant list of values. But there's now only two spots in the dilemma becomes, well, I don't want to leave something out. Well, it doesn't mean that you're leaving it out. These are just the things that are important that you need to engage in. And today get one step or one day closer to your goal. And on top of that, to have a sense of being fulfilled at the end of the day that you've engaged in what is important to you. And so the best thing about this is, let's say that you've guessed wrong. After one week, you stand on Sunday and you review your week, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, et cetera. Were you able to engage in your values to the level that you wanted to? If you answered yes to all those, then did you feel fulfilled at the end of the evening? That's a pretty good week. Yes, absolutely. And if you've engaged in those to where you're fulfilled, you've been incredibly productive. That week is going to blow your mind, which only sets up for you to do this again. And so why wouldn't you want to? You've just engaged in everything that gives you a sense of being and purpose. It's that superhuman productivity that we're all looking for. Everyone. And so you're fired up. But here's the best part. Let's say you're not. Let's say something was missing. Let's say that I could have been better, okay? Then you either A, have to think about as you set up the new week, what do you feel you were lacking in, and that you can gauge in to a better degree, or you change up one of the values that you feel just wasn't doing it for you. And then you give that a shot. And guess what? After a week, when you stand on the next Sunday and you're looking at your week, you'll either, A, know exactly what you're going to be doing to be fired up, to lay it out again, or you'll know exactly what you need to do to shuffle around the change. I mean, this change is everything. Now you bring up some powerful points. And this again is the distinction between goals. So you can bring your values into anything you do. Yes. You could bring your values into the way you cook. You could bring your values into the way you do the chores. You could bring your values into your relationship with your friends. Goals are outcome dependent. They are in the future. So you can't live in your goals. You can work towards your goals, but you can live in your values, meaning your values can be present in every moment that you are awake. You are alive. You are in action. And it's completely up to you to live your values. You pick them. You get the choice. And then you get to instill them in others by the way you live your life. And guess what? They're never checked off. They're just that guiding light for you each and every day, every morning to fire you up, to get you through, to not have to worry about the willpower. You know, a lot of people spend their evenings before going to bed, staring at the ceiling and going, asking themselves, what if, and this is where you're in FOMO as what the kids call it, fear of missing out. Yes, fear of missing out. You're staring at the wall and you have this, there's a feeling inside of I'm not living life the way everybody else is. And it's easy to get in that position when you're looking at social media and everyone else's amazing lives. However, going to bed at late at night or whatever time it may be, you don't have to go to bed experiencing FOMO. And we laugh. We talk about this, but you get flipped a script and actually go to bed experiencing Jomo, joy of missing out, where you are, you're content. You're fulfilled. There's nothing left on the day. The no is not an issue. The no is not anxious or what am I missing out on? The no is I'm clear on my values and that's not in line with my values. Rocked them out. So it was a great day, which leads to a great week, a month, and a year. And as we said, with goals always happening in the future, we need our values to keep us on course. Goals sometimes get met. And I would love everyone perfectionists included to reach all of their goals, but we know that's not always helpful. Sorry, that's not always possible. So what happens when you don't reach your goals, right? That's why these values are so important. And Stephen Hayes, who we've had on the show a number of times now said values work helps to build socially positive emotions like gratitude and appreciation and the feeling that you're making a meaningful difference in the lives of others. So it may feel self-centered to divide. It may feel self-centered to decide your values, to define your values, but actually it's a service not only to yourself, but to the world around you, to the people you interact with. When you are in alignment with your values, you have these superpowers. You have the initiative, the wherewithal, the excitement, the joy, everything that we're talking about. So we want to end with how do you find your values? It's been a journey for me and Johnny. And I know that, for example, the loyalty value, how did that arise? Well, growing up, my dad was a single parent and he won custody. And what I always found remarkable is he was in the Navy and his friends were scattered all over the country and he remained loyal to all of his friends, all of their relationships, and his friends remained loyal to him and they were there to support me and my sister when he needed a helping hand. And I'll never forget that value that he instilled in me of staying loyal to the people in your life because at some point, you're going to need each other. And if you're not someone who's loyal, you're going to be left without having that support.  Discipline was not something that was instilled in me. I wouldn't say that my dad was very disciplined with his diet or working out or his habits. He was a hard worker. And in order to make ends meet, he was forced to be disciplined for work, but it wasn't something that he really instilled in us. And that led to my sister being a creative, it led to me being spontaneous, but now it's something that I've picked up from others. And truthfully, the guests on the show have really inspired and instilled that in me. And as I started putting some things together, physically working on my health, all of a sudden I started to realize that, yeah, discipline actually unlocks this unseen potential in myself. Things that I didn't even imagine I could do were now possible because I was getting up at the same time every morning because I was disciplined in my routine. Well, values giving you a glimpse of what you're capable of is truly, it could be a bit scary, but it's also liberating because you're now being able to really crack your true potential. And that's what I love. So if we were to tell you listening, hey, come out, spend a week with us in LA and we're going to define your values. You'd be like, well, that doesn't sound like much fun. What the heck's that? I want to learn how to talk to people. I want to build better relationships. I want to be able to reach my goals and build allies and wow, my boss. Why do I values? That doesn't sound like a valuable exercise to me, an interesting exercise. The fun part is Saturday after the week is over and everyone in the week has started to crystallize around their values. They've started to really look into themselves internally and define what these values are and how they want to live their life. They are so fired up to go back home to live life through these values that it unlocks that extra battery, that supercharger in your life that allows you to stay motivated. So for those of you who are listening, feeling run down, feeling you're lacking in motivation, feeling everything's a struggle, taking some time to think about your values and going about your life in alignment with those values can start to recharge that battery.  A lot of people just put their values up and they're like, I'm done and they move on to the next.  Why did you choose them and how did you get to that? Because having an understanding of how you arrived there and why it is so important to you only fuels it inside you that much more, but also gives you a sense of its importance, so it sticks much better. And then also put it somewhere as a visual cue where you're going to be reminded of it on a daily basis, whether it is so you can't forget them, right? So you can't forget them. And Michael has his, our coach, Michael in Vienna has his on his phone screen wallpaper. And then also stick it on post it notes around your house.  And it is it is those visual cues of those values that will that will will lead you when you don't have answers. So let's let's do this week's challenge. Let's help the audience to find their values. Now we've learned how important they are and what our values are. And there are many ways to find your values. We talked about it with Judy Ho. You can check out her book. She has a great exercise, but here's a visualization exercise that we're going to do that I think can help you with a few questions you can ask yourself at the end of this visualization. So close your eyes and imagine that you've reached all of your goals that you could ever imagine.  And ask yourself, how do you want to be treated? How do you want to treat yourself? How do you want to treat others? What do you stand for in life? Right? So now that we've removed all those external factors, all the things we're chasing, the cars, the house, the fancy this, the fancy that, we've achieved those. What's left? The way that we treat others, the way others treat us and what we stand for. Right? And what you're aiming for, as Johnny said, is key five or six. We're not asking for 30. Overwhelmed does not help us here. So you want to have it concise so that it's easy to remember. And the important part is after this visualization, take pen to paper, write them out, write out your values and write out why it's important to you and how you intend to bring this value to life.  And this is a fascinating study that we'll end with a recent study done by Emily Sandos and Emmy Herbert titled meaningful, reminiscent and evocative, an initial examination of four methods of selecting ideographic values, relevant stimuli, found that by taking the time to write out our values, it can actually give you a huge book. It can actually give us a huge boost towards implementing them successfully. So the act of writing them out, committing to them on paper, thinking about the why, actually makes you more likely to succeed in achieving and implementing those values. That's powerful stuff.  And especially at the beginning, it's important that you're reminded of your values often as we start to try to build new habits and still some discipline in our lives. It's important that you're reminded, hey, these are my values. This is what matters to me. And as Johnny said, in those days when he hasn't had an opportunity to tap into creativity or he's been bogged down in emails and he hasn't had an opportunity to quench his thirst for knowledge, listen to a podcast, read a book, whatever the case may be. That's a rough day. That's a tough day. But when you realize it's part of your values, well, I'm going to make time for it. And I can also say that I know that when I do not engage in them at the end of the evening when I'm laying in bed, I'm pissed off. I'm mad. I feel I left points on the board. And at this point in my life and everything that we have going on around us, I don't like to have that feeling. That feeling is awful. And so, you know, and you for working with me as long as you have. Well, as a Lions fan, I know about leaving points on the board. That's a special meaning for me. Yes, it's awful. But I have recently arranged things in such a way that certain things get done at certain times that where it's the that's the other values have infused your calendar. Yeah, they've infused your routine. And so those things get met and easily and consistently. And that makes for a great evening and a great sleep. And it just when and with entrepreneurship, things can get difficult. And however, I know that I'm always able to lean on those values. And and even in the worst times go, well, I know that I'm doing the right thing. Why? Because I engaged in what's important. Or even in the best of times. Yeah. Well, it's just the ups and downs, right? It's without values, it's tough to stay grounded. It's tough to stay humble and and have humility. So if you've enjoyed the episode and you're ready to define your values, join us on the challenge. It's a free Facebook group with other podcast fans. John and I are in there and you can share your values, commit to your values as part of our social skills challenge. You can find more at the art of charm.com slash challenge.


Welcome back, folks, Dow.  Let's go over to our man, Mr. Basil Chapman, as we do each and every Tuesday at 20 past the first hour. Now, don't forget, folks, Basil has an outstanding show here. Every trading day, 12 to 1 Eastern Standard Time, also has a great news at the opening call. Now, coming up a week from tomorrow, Basil... What is tomorrow? Oh, tomorrow, my God. That's the 12th. Thank you. That is sick. That is sick. Time I'll tell you. We all know time goes quick. Coming up tomorrow, folks, I'm man, Mr. Basil Chapman. I'm going to be doing a great webinar for all his subscribers. That's going to go from five to 6.30, hour and a half. And the title is the tie that you're going to love it. The way you come into this workshop, you're going to hit the open and call under featured content. You hit subscribe. You can get the open and call for one month for $128, six months for $5.95, which is a savings of $173, a year for $995, which is a savings of $5.41. Now, they all come with a 38-money-back guarantee, folks. So, it's a great way to come into the workshop, get a good month of Basil's newsletter. If you like it, great. You keep it. You don't like it. You get the money back. You get the workshop. You get the whole ball of wax. And inside the workshop, folks, Basil had done three other workshops that you get right along with that. Basil Chapman, what's going on, brother? Besides, he's saying a week from tomorrow. Yeah. Yeah. So, this is, of course, timing here is really quite important because we've had a very strong move from the Monday week ago low. And as I said, I'm showing you, it's the tie. These are the tools to help identify trends in different timeframes. What I'll be looking at is techniques to be discussed. I really want this to be a very practical workshop. Yes, I'll be discussing the different indexes and all that, but I really want the subscribers to understand very much the way I show every single day. I show the technical tools, how we're using them, how they've been really successful, especially lately. So, it's the MACD, the Moving Average Convergence, the slow stochastic that I use a lot. Yeah. Also, the most important thing about this particular webinar is I'm going to be talking about key moving averages. These are moving averages that have really given us a sense of both the intermediate term of each time frame so that you can be looking at a daily, but the intermediate term might be like for a swing trader. For instance, we went long on Monday a week ago. This morning, I said, swing traders, we've had a fantastic move in the Dow. It's up for you. It's up over 11%. If you want, this is a good time to take some profits, but the core position for those subscribers are not swing traders. We're still holding those positions because we got in so well. So, the time frame is moving around quite a bit. So, right? Yeah. Correct. Yes. So, and what's really important here is that I want to give a sense that each time frame can have a different perspective. You can be looking at the shorter time frame. It looks very bearish. But if you put it onto the weekly, say, hey, wait a minute, this is just a mere consolidation within an up move. And then the monthly chart can have something completely different. I'm going to also be explaining the triggering a trend reversal. That's where we'll be using where we went short the Dow the day before the most recent high in April and what gave us the long position on the Monday week ago at the very bottom. And we're looking at the sustaining move. We're going to be looking at monthly charts. I'll show that in a moment. And then the inverted relationship because we were short the Dow here, the DOG, which is one to one short. And when that started to make a move to the upside, they gave it a potential leg F in the Chapman Wave methodology. That's where you really have to be very careful. That was corresponding to move down in the market. I'll be talking about sentiment risk and reward. And just to show you exactly what we're looking at here, let me go to this chart right here. This is the big picture. I'm using this left side chart here as a kind of a template for what's happened on the right. Okay. And on the right, you see these ovals, these light blue oval patterns. Well, look at the MACD and the stochastic. I like this because in the background, it's a little difficult sometimes to see. You can see all these different lines fabulously. You can see the downward move here in the MACD and the stochastic making this W formation. Hey, wait a minute. This is exactly what we're doing right now. The MACD is coming down. The stochastic is making this W formation. You've got the oval pattern. So I've been showing this for about a year now, especially my last webinar, I made a big deal about it. And then I'm going to explain where I think we are in this matching template. This is the down monthly chart. And we're using this one on the left as some kind of a template. So far it's working. The other thing that we're going to be looking at is within the monthly charts, there's something that I often talk about. And I something I developed a long time ago. It's the Chavenway projections of resistance and support. And here you can see in the monthly chart, these green numbers, 27,500 and 28,900. That's on the upside for resistance and 21,264 is the low and we made a low in December of 21,700. So these are the parameters we'll be looking at. And then even more important, we'll be looking at the different time frames. So here you can see this, we went long at that just before that peak D in on the 22nd of April 23rd, the Dow went to 26,695. Then we use these different techniques to come down. And then using our explaining what we were looking at here with the support that was coming in, I'll expand this chart and you'll see. Look at that. There was a head and shoulders pattern, the left side shoulder, the head, the big arch and then the right. And then it broke down and then went right to the gap that we had seen earlier on that goes all the way back to February. So those are the techniques that we were using. So we went long. And then as I say on a very short term basis also because there's a technique that I use where I've got two parallel lines here called the Chapman Wave inside track repellent zone. Whenever price gets into this area, it should be forced back. And until it breaks out, you know exactly where your resistance is. So that's going to be very important. So if you look at the monthly chart, you'll see that the Magdi is stochastic are not all that good. And yet look at the price, the price is very much over the nine period moving average. So I'm going to be talking about these things. What can help you in your trading? What techniques can you use that can can help? And I'll be using some kind of a template to run through our stocks that we have, which have done very nicely lately, to show where they are, where they stand, and why we want to start, we've been for the past few months, we've actually been putting in positions that I think are more intermediate term positions. And we'll be talking about what we want to add. If we add what sectors we want to add, you're talking about the dollar the moment ago. So I agree on a shorter term, the dollar is weak. But I'm still looking at the monthly chart. And so for the monthly chart, technicals are still pretty good. But I do agree the cell mode we've gotten the daily and the cell signal the weekly suggests that gold certainly should be the beneficiary here. And I'll be talking about these cup formations and the arch formations. So it's going to be detailed. But it's really for people and subscribers to really get a big benefit out of the technical conditions. And what we're looking at, of course, every day I do my technical analysis of the market, which they use for their own, maybe trading or our positions. Big time.  So you get an hour and a half. Great education. You're going to get a great newsletter for the month. And you can see that he's melted the education with the newsletter. So you're really going to understand what's going on inside the marketplace.  You're going to see I'm a Mr. Basil Chapman right there. You just hit the opening call, you hit subscribe. That's going to get you into the workshop as well as the three archives and a great newsletter for the the whole month. Basil, you have a great one, safe one. And of course, we look forward to the program tomorrow as well as the workshop. Thank you very much. Okay, man. Have a great one. Thanks so much. Stay right there, folks. Come right back. 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Hello, my name is Fernando, and I'm a Technical Marketing Manager here at GitLab. Today I'm going to go over GitLab security features and how they enable collaboration between developers and app stack engineers, while at the same time making each of their workflows more efficient. It starts with a developer creating a merge request from a feature branch they have been working on. The security scans are automatically run as part of the CI CD pipeline, detecting vulnerabilities and displaying them along with detailed information in a uniform interface. Developers can resolve and rerun the pipeline for regression testing. This shifts security left, catching vulnerabilities before the code is pushed to production. Here's a GitLab pipeline containing several stages. There's the build stage, which builds the application, containerizes it, and pushes it into a container registry. Then there's the test stage, which runs unit tests, as well as a variety of different security scans. These scans include SAST, or Static Application Security Testing, which searches the static code for known vulnerabilities. There's secret detection, which detects unintentionally committed secrets and credentials within your repository. Then there's container scanning, which searches the container images for known vulnerabilities. We also have dependency scanning, which searches through your dependency file versions for any known vulnerabilities. There's coverage guided fuzz testing, which helps you discover bugs and potential security issues that other QA processes may miss by sending random inputs to an instrumented version of your application. Then there's the deploy stage, which deploys our code into a staging environment. After the code has been deployed, we run DAST, or Dynamic Application Security Testing, on the running application. This sends malicious requests to the application, in order to detect vulnerabilities. That's a good idea. There's the deployment stage, which displays our code into a staging environment. Then there's the application, in order to detect vulnerabilities. DAST can also be run on ephemeral staging environments, spun up by GitLab CI. All the security scans are run on a feature branch, and find vulnerabilities before they are merged into the main branch. By finding vulnerabilities in the feature branch, we can resolve them before pushing to production, minimizing risk and enhancing security. These scans can be configured with the GitLab CI.yaml file, or using AutoDevOps. The pipeline we saw earlier runs on the feature branch and pushes all the scan results to the MR. As part of the developer workflow, the developer edits some code on a feature branch and pushes up a merge request, or MR. This MR has approval set up. There is a vulnerability check, which means that if there is a vulnerability of a certain severity detected, then an approval is required before this MR can be committed. There is also a license check, which requires approval if a denied license is detected. These checks can be configured in the CI CD section of the project settings. Now let's take a look at the results from the security scans. This is an example of a SAS vulnerability. It contains detailed information on the vulnerability, its severity, its location, as well as how to resolve it. In order to start a discussion around the vulnerability, a confidential issue can be created without alluding to the vulnerability. This enables developers and the security team to collaborate on finding a resolution. A confidential merge request can also be created, only allowing those with permissions to read. Open-to-issue status changes are tracked, which is great for compliance audit trails. Now let's take a look at a dependency scanning vulnerability. You can see that there is also detailed information on the vulnerability and how to resolve it. There are also relevant links to the CVE, which go in-depth on how the vulnerability affects the system. This is great for furthering an organization's security knowledge. Next we have a container scanning vulnerability. It provides detailed information as well and can be auto-remediated with a click of a button. A merge request will be created, which will re-run the pipeline, allowing for regression testing. This tests if the changes succeed. Then there's a DAS vulnerability, which shows information on the request sent and received, along with relevant links to the vulnerability. If a developer feels this vulnerability is not valid, they can dismiss it with a comment. This information is tracked and can be seen by the security team. The dismissed vulnerabilities are set aside for the project, but the security team can evaluate them within the dashboard. There is also license scanning, which detected a new license. A member of the security team can add the license to the denied licenses policy, and it will block the MR from being committed unless it is approved. We have seen how developers interact with vulnerabilities and how they can verify, dismiss, and resolve them. The security team is able to collaborate as well with the full overview of all the vulnerabilities within a project or group of projects. Security professionals use the security dashboard to obtain a high-level overview on all the vulnerabilities detected, enabling them to see the status of the detected security issues. They can sort through all the vulnerabilities and determine their status, severity, and which scanner detected them. The vulnerabilities can also be exported to CSV format, which is useful for consumption by outside applications. When clicking on a vulnerability, a member of the security team not only sees detailed information on the vulnerability, but can change its status to confirm, dismiss, or resolve it. This change is recorded in order to enable auditing. The security dashboard can also be seen at the group level, providing an overview of vulnerabilities in each project and grading each project by severity. You can also sort through all the vulnerabilities within the group by status, severity, scanner type, and project. For more information on GitLab's DevSecOps solution, check out the links in the description. Thanks for watching, and be sure to subscribe. Here at GitLab, everyone can contribute.


While H2 evolution from water may represent a renewable energy source, there is a strong need to improve catalytic efficiencies while maximising materials' utilisation. Here, authors examine single-atom PT on nickel-based hetero structures as highly active electric catalysts for alkaline H2 evolution. This article was offered by Kailin Zhu, Zellin Wang, Zhang Baohan, and others.


An emergency meeting of the BOT of the PDP has been slated for today. The address internal Wranglin rocking the opposition party and that includes calls for the resignation of the party's national chairman, Prince Uche Secundus. The resignation of seven national officers of the party on Tuesday has ignited a fresh crisis. They had been having a sad relationship with Uche Secundus. The party has also been battling with a gale of defections of its top shots, including three governors, David Umahi, Ben Ayade and Billum Atawale, who joined the APC. Also on Wednesday, a BOT of Trustees member of the party joined the APC. They said they quit due to poor management of the party by Secundus. News updates.


This is the Big Picture, an official television report of the United States Army, produced for the armed forces and the American people. Now to show you part of the Big Picture, here is Master Sergeant Stuart Quain. Today, with the United States playing a larger and more important role than ever before in world affairs, we sometimes lose sight of some of the basic facts about the origin and structure of our government and institutions here at home. Under the Constitution of the United States, the duties and responsibilities of our Army are well defined. The ideas of our founding fathers and 180 years of experience all point to one central theme, the subject of today's Big Picture. Our Army is an instrument serving the will and the best interests of the people of the United States. Liberty enlightening the world, say Americans of the Statue towering at the gates of the New World, an everlasting monument to freedom. Impossible? The Statue of Liberty is here to stay permanently, not necessarily. The people of the Nile, the Tigris and Euphrates, the Indus and the Pole, the Araxes and the Mayo, they too felt their monuments would long remain dynamic. But the nations of their builders were overwhelmed or withered from within. Now ruins bear mute testimony to their conceit. What of America? The preservation of our heritage. In the colonies, the spirit of independence was abroad long before any formal declaration was made. From the beginning, before the beginning, Americans fought for freedom. Long years of warfare were needed to prove that the Declaration of Independence had to be respected by the world. Proclaimed liberty throughout all the land and unto all the inhabitants thereof rang the bell. The successes that conquered in Lexington, the citizen soldiers found that victory without organized training was costly and elusive. Though unskilled in the arts of war, the Americans at last prevailed. The architects of the Declaration were now free to expand their ideas in the Constitution. Its foundations were so broadly laid as to provide for the expansion of national life and to make it an instrument which would endure for all time. Phrases of its preambler terse but explicit, we the people of the United States in order to form a more perfect union, establish justice, ensure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare, and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America. Posterity of yesterday is the America of today. How far-sighted were the makers of the fundamental law of the Republic is revealed throughout America today. Among the nations of the world, the United States is the leader both in the supply and the consumption of energy. Ever-increasing power supplies have allowed us to grow. Farming today bears little resemblance to the farming of 18th century America. Our yield per acre is unparalleled. We have been called a nation of small towns and their number is growing fast as is our population an estimated 200 million people by 1975, nearly 300 million in another 50 years. From the crowded cities our population spread to the suburbs, the suburbs stretching deeper and deeper into the surrounding countryside. Our expanding population, our expanding economy, neither has progressed entirely free of setbacks or trouble spots, but in the main our advances under the Constitution have been orderly and steady. Nowhere is American leadership more apparent than in our industry. Our volume production has been the envy of the world. Our production methods models to be copied by scores of other countries. Nowhere in the world is material prosperity more apparent than in the United States. Increased production, increased spending power, and increased leisure time. This has been the legacy of the framers of the Constitution. To secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity reads the preamble. To implement these words to bring them to life, the Constitution continues, the executive power shall be vested in a president. A president shall be commander-in-chief of the army and navy of the United States and of the militia of the several states when called into the actual service of the United States. All legislative powers here in granted shall be vested in a Congress of the United States which shall consist of a Senate and a House of Representatives. Congress, President, Supreme Court, the cornerstones of American government. To our representatives we seek to have the objectives of the preamble maintained. In the United Nations we have an instrument working to provide for the common defense and to promote the general welfare on an international level. The United Nations has tackled nearly 50 world problems since its birth. They range from border disputes to shooting wars. In search of collective security we have joined in a variety of facts and alliances, both military and economic. In NATO we are joined with 14 other nations stretching from the North American continent through Europe to the Middle East. NATO provides for mutual defense, mutual aid, and the establishment of the North Atlantic Council for Treaty Supervision and Military Command. NATO since 1949 has been one of the strongest factors helping to keep peace in Western Europe. In 1952 the United States signed the USA Brazil Mutual Aid Pact. This was the first in a series of pacts with Latin American countries. The pact concerns exchange of military advice and materials plus joint armed action by our people if necessary. The following year we joined with South Korea in a mutual aid and defense treaty. The United States does not have to send armed assistance except in the event of an armed attack against territory recognized by the United States as lawfully brought under the administrative control of the Republic of Korea. Our Treaty with Free China in 1954 proclaims our interest in Formosa and the islands between Formosa and the Red Chinese mainland. No specific military commitments are made but there are provisions for consultation whenever a potentially dangerous situation arises. In the Southeast Asia Treaty Organization we are joined with Great Britain, France, Australia, New Zealand, the Philippines, Thailand and Pakistan. With headquarters here in Bangkok, CETO's aims are mutual consultation and defense and discussion of overall Pacific regional security. Of top concern to Americans in recent months is the Middle East where we are linked with five nations in Europe and Asia under the terms of the Baghdad Pact. The Middle East today is of great importance due to two possessions, oil and geography. Both are vital to the modern world. Two-thirds of the world's known oil reserves lie here. Our defensive alliance is with Iran, Iraq, Great Britain, Turkey and Pakistan. Bland and peoples of the Middle East link three continents, Europe, Asia and Africa. Here lies the link between the Mediterranean, the Red Sea and the Indian Ocean. Here are the world-connecting caravan routes, the traders' high roads, few places in the world are considered more important by strategists. For Soviet Russia, control of the Middle East is a prize much to be coveted. Our current foreign economic aid program seeks to deploy our economic might, not merely to stave off communist aggression, but to roll it back by enlarging the area and the appeal of freedom, plus economic progress. The aim is to destroy the myth that only through communist-style regimentation can an underdeveloped country create the capital it must have for development. In all, we have mutual security treaties with 42 nations. Our military aid bolsters the common defenses of the United States and the free world by supporting the military forces of our allies. Since the organization of NATO, these countries have invested approximately five of their own dollars for every one America has offered. Such military assistance helps create security and confidence among our allies. Our military and economic aid program is designed to help moderate governments in new countries to remain in power. It also follows in the best American tradition of helping people in other countries to improve their lot. An integral part of our foreign aid effort is the military advisory program. Military specialists and technicians accompany the equipment and remain to instruct our allies in its proper use, maintenance, and repair. As a free-voting people, we are responsible for all efforts made to preserve our monuments and institutions, our Statue of Liberty, our Constitution. All the people have their say. We designate the military's commander-in-chief. We designate the legislators who raise and support the military, to determine how much aid our allies around the world will receive. The task of providing for the common defense has become vastly more complex in the years since the Constitution was formulated. Our defense establishment of necessity has brought in, has come to encompass more men, more machines, more sciences. Each of the military branches performs a specific function in maintaining the national security. In retaliation to an enemy attack, our Air Force is ready to make a strategic assault against the enemy's ability to continue the fight. Heavy bomber strikes in vital areas destroy his centers of industry and his tools of production and supply. Simultaneously, tactical air power is sent into action, destroying enemy aircraft and transportation on the ground, driving enemy planes from the skies. Supporting our ground troops in battle, dual military concepts are static for any of the services. Plans, tactics, and missions change to serve the best interest of the nation's defense. The roles of each service are equally vital. The basic purposes. Its primary function is to destroy enemy naval power, whether battle wagon or crater. While seeking to eliminate the enemy's sea forces, the Navy at the same time protects our own lines of commerce and communication. Clearly it's the Navy's job to transport troops and supplies, bringing them to the enemy's shore. Just as each service is designed to perform a specific function in our defense structure, so each service also requires men of special skills and training. The soldier is just such a specialist. His job? To defeat an enemy's land forces, then to hold the hard one ground. Should our military might fail to deter another war, no matter what weapons are used, the final winning of the war will be the business of soldier facing soldier. It has always been thus. Just as during the Revolution, on land the war of 1812 was fought by enlarged by skimply trained militia raised by the different states. To meet the challenge of the Mexican war, our regular army, though small, was well trained and wisely commanded. Augmented by volunteers, the Army fought brilliantly. Its success in Mexico marked the first time that Americans were victorious at great distances from their homes. The battles of the Civil War were waged by citizen soldiers, volunteers on both sides. The years of training and fighting produced armies second to none. Again, in 1898, when war with Spain broke out, volunteer units of militia hurried to answer the call to duty. The experience gained here led to the reorganization of our citizen military reserve. The enormous demand for troops to fight in France exceeded even the remotest estimates of planners. Unfortunately, we believed our own slogans too well. The war to end war was not. This happy phrase proved to be a fiction. For the Second World War, we were mobilized before the storm broke. For than 10 million men in arms, the United States came as near to total mobilization in World War II as we had ever come. From the remote and scattered battlegrounds, the United States had emerged as the leading power of the Western world. But once again, the lessons of history for the time were lost upon us. In Korea, generation after generation, we had tried to keep the peace through weakness. In this bitter infantryman's war, we perhaps appreciated the dictates of history for the first time. Although all our combat forces were essential for victory in Korea, only the army was able to provide the decisive forces to stop communist aggression. Korea taught us that never again should we weaken our army and encourage limited aggression. Might, we decided, is a deterrent to war, a power for peace. In the atom, in atomic energy, we have a force which has changed the complexion of all military strategy. In the atom is locked tremendous energy, the same kind of energy that created our universe. This energy was first harnessed in the United States for man's use. It represents a source of power for peaceful uses or for awesome destruction. Minutes after an experimental atomic blast, the soldier of today moves forward toward ground zero to see for himself the effects of nuclear devices. Equipment, weapons, and men are checked with digger counters to learn the amount of contamination received. The atom has revolutionized the mechanics of warfare, but the infantryman remains. Born of the atomic age is the army's new pentamic concept and reorganization. A reorganization now an evolution. To preserve the common defense demands that we place reliance on a strong combination of combat-ready forces in being, heat, mobility, and firepower are the key concepts behind the army's new look. Fast-moving, highly skilled paratroopers are part of the army's answer to the pressing military demands of today. We may be faced by aggressions where powerful nuclear weapons are used, or it may be a case of a brush-fire conflict confined to a small area. Men and equipment must be mobile. Move fast. Radical new battlefield techniques are adopted as soon as American science and industry make the new equipment available. Both the battlefield movement of troops and in the flexibility of its firepower, the army's tactical mobility is being steadily improved. There are new tanks and armored personnel carriers for the swift movement of the infantry-armor artillery team over fire-swept areas. Our current need is for infantrymen who can fight in independent actions in small groups, who can accomplish their mission swiftly and then move on to fight where they are needed next. The final and decisive element in warfare is not the weapon, not the equipment. It is the men who operate the hardware, men with many different skills. For all the men from thousands of different communities who possess a variety of aptitudes and abilities, the army has a place. The soldier's primary job is destruction. The question of why the army doesn't make more use of civilian skills is readily answered. There is no civilian skill comparable to ground combat. There is no civilian activity requiring the year-round physical fitness required of the soldier. And there are no civilian tools comparable to an army's weapons. More than ever in our history, the future of the army depends upon its research and development programs. Ranging far into the future, our army research and development pioneers are making spectacular advances. As the barriers of scientific knowledge are pushed further back, the complexity of the army's equipment makes increasing demands upon the soldier. Thanks to scientific advances, today's soldier must know not only his foxhole and M1 inside and out, but also the wise and hows of a wide range of elaborate or intricate equipment. As the advances increase, so the demand for technicians increases proportionately. As a result, the average soldier must be better trained in more skills than ever before. He must also be prepared to serve in a wider range of foreign land. More and more attention being directed by tacticians toward the Arctic army activity here keeps pace. Fortunately, the army is rich in courage and skill in the research and development papers. Technological superiority is perhaps the greatest single weapon for peace which our country possesses. The army's major research and development effort is in the field of missiles. Artillery is being augmented by surface-to-surface missiles. Anti-aircraft by surface-to-air missiles. Invaluable missiles are now in the development stages, guided missiles. Missiles to intercept and knock down missiles launched by an enemy. Technology and improved weapons. Combat soldiers still remains the symbol and the basic unit of the army. It is to him we must look for the guarantee that our army will be victorious in any future emergency, as it has always been in the past. Serving in 73 countries today, the members of our regular army form our first line of defense. Ready to swell the ranks of our regular army is the National Guard, the present-day descendant of the state militia of our constitutional planners. In a national emergency, the Guard is an organized force immediately available for action. In the event of internal disasters such as flood or hurricane, the Guard is a local protective force, too. It supplements local enforcement of law and order. At the same time, it assists in emergency relief of disaster victims. A third great force in preserving our liberties under the law is found in the army ready and stand by reserves. Their memberships follow the tradition of citizen volunteers of the past. A strong, well-trained reserve by its very existence does much to prevent an emergency by proclaiming to a potential aggressor our readiness to fight if a fight is needed to protect our heritage of liberty. Events in the past have left little doubt in the minds of most Americans about where the greatest threat to freedom lies. The Soviet Union's unparalleled military might, time and again put on view to instill apprehension and fear in the pre-world, has been used repeatedly to crush and to liquidate the desires of conquered peoples for freedom from foreign tyranny. Threats to the peace of the world have been exposed with the spread of communism's flood from Eastern Europe to Southeast Asia, with advanced thermonuclear weapons in its arsenal, with the world's largest standing army. The Soviet Union threatens and cajoles by terms. Its deeds give us mute but unmistakable warning. Communism rule is from the top down Constitution guarantees the reverse. Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion or prohibiting the free exercise thereof. A bridging the freedom of speech, or of the press, or the right of the people peaceably to assemble and to petition the government for a redress of grievances. Under the Constitution, the people of the United States control the armed forces. They elect the President and the Congress. The President is the Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces. Only Congress has the power to declare war. It appropriates funds thereby determining the size and activities of the armed forces. Monuments to older civilizations, to earlier cultures and ways of life have been toppled or allowed to decay. In our military forces, in the men who can rest victory from an aggressor, we have our greatest deterrent to war. The strongest safeguard of the institutions and heritage Americans today are pledged to defend. Such then is the role of our contemporary army under the Constitution. An army which is a unified, mobile force for peace. An army which stands as a major deterrent to war. This is Sergeant Stuart Queen inviting you to be with us again next week for another look at your army in action on The Big Picture. The Big Picture is an official television report for the armed forces and the American people. Produced by the Army Pictorial Center. Presented by the United States Army in cooperation with this station.


I saw my life in the wrong way for 10 years, yeah. Okay, so I love to-do lists. I'll take any opportunity I can to make a list, a grocery list, a reading list, a chore list, a goal list. It makes me feel accomplished, productive, and in control. I took that same mentality of a to-do list and applied it to how I saw my life. Benchmarks to reach, tasks to complete, and plans to arrange. But what happened when something would go wrong? I would ask God, what is he doing? Have you not read my to-do list? I need to get this stuff done. Okay, but here's the thing.  No, God is writing you a story. To-do lists focus on tasks to complete. Stories focus on bringing together both successes and failures for greater character development and a more compelling story. When I realized this, my life changed. I got out of the mentality of self-preservation and I began to take risks and step into the compelling story that God's writing in my life. Stop living the to-do list and start living the story.


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Mental illness is one of the most troublesome health concerns of society today. Today we're going to be exploring the different aspects of mental illness that may be difficult for those afflicted to share. Number one, they worry about the stigma attached to mental illness. People suffering from mental illness often fret over how mental illness is perceived in society. Although major strides have been taken in acceptance and understanding of mental illness, there's still quite a negative connotation about it. There's fear that they're labeled as crazy and alienated from the rest of society. Number two, they're concerned that they won't be taken seriously. It's often the case that ignorant, ill-informed people will dismiss the claims of individuals genuinely going through mental illness.  Number three, they're anxious about getting treatment. Many people suffering from mental illness do not want to talk about it because they're scared that they're going to have to go under treatment. They worry about being separated from their friends, from their society, from their family. They may also fear from being sedated from drugs that could powerfully change their personality. Number four, they feel like no one understands them. Some individuals don't speak out about mental illness because they feel like most people would not understand. People who suffer in this way feel extremely alone and it often pushes them to further torment. It takes a lot of encouragement and support to get these people to open up. And number five, sometimes they just want silence. Just because someone doesn't want to talk doesn't mean they're hiding something. They may just want peace and quiet. Sometimes silent contemplation and reflection is a way for mental illnesses to heal. For people on the outside looking in, it may seem like that there's something in their mind that they want to talk about but they can't. For people with mental illnesses, it's hard to explain why they want silence. People who witness the silent behavior often misinterpret it as being ignored. And in turn, the people with mental illness often become annoyed at being continuously questioned about what's bothering them when all they want to be is left alone. And that's all we've got for today's video. If you want to check out the full article with the nine things that people with mental illness don't tell you, you can check out the link in the description below. If you think that this video can raise awareness for people suffering from mental health issues, then please share. Don't forget to leave a comment below. Give it a big thumbs up, subscribe, and don't forget to check out my channel where I make videos every single Thursday. The link will be in the description below and I'll see you guys next time. Bye!


Senator Bernie Sanders released a statement saying that he will be voting no on the upcoming Defense Authorization Act. So here's what he says, isn't it strange how, even as we end the longest war in our nation's history, concerns about the deficit and national debt seem to melt away under the influence of the powerful military-industrial complex? He adds, combining these two pieces of legislation would push the price tag of the defense bill to over $1 trillion with very little scrutiny. Meanwhile, the Senate has spent month after month discussing the Build Back Better Act and whether we can afford to protect the children, the elderly, the sick, the poor, and the future of our planet as a nation we need to get our priorities right, I will vote no on the National Defense Authorization Act. Now the next day he released a video further explaining his reasoning and why he will be voting against this and he also took some time to call out the hypocrisy of his warmongering colleagues who always concern-troll about the debt and the deficit when it comes to priorities that actually help people, but they're conspicuously silent now that we're increasing the budget for the military yet again, whereas the concern over the deficit is nobody concerned anymore. Take a look. I wanted to tell you briefly why I'm voting against the defense bill, which is $778 billion. I find it very strange that many of my colleagues are very worried about the deficit and the national debt when it comes to the needs of working families, the children, the elderly, the sick, the poor, oh my God, we can't afford to do anything, deficit is so big, national debt is so big, but wait a minute, when it comes to the military industrial complex and the defense bill, $778 billion for one year and that is $35 billion more than Trump's last budget, $25 billion more than President Biden wanted, that's okay, we'll pass that. Don't worry about the deficit, the defense bill. Then on top of that what is likely to happen is they're going to attach another piece of legislation called the Competitive Act and that is $250 billion and in the midst of that there is $52 billion, $52 billion going to a small number of microchip companies. Now I think we do have a microchip crisis in this country, very important, we want to produce them in America, but you just don't hand out corporate wealth there to a handful of very profitable companies. You make sure there are some strings attached so the taxpayers don't get ripped off and oh yeah I forgot, also attached to this bill is $10 billion going to our good friend Jeff Bezos to help them get to the moon. So there you have a bill loaded with corporate wealth there, significantly adding to our deficit very little discussion about it, especially from the so-called deficit books. It is tragic to me that Bernie Sanders is just one of a handful of politicians saying that. If every single American actually knew about this double standard, knew about the hypocrisy of most politicians, I don't think that they would tolerate it. Imagine if more than just like five politicians said that, imagine if the mainstream media actually educated people about this. I mean we've been talking about the cost of Build Back Better for Months, but when it comes to military spending every single time it's increased, not a peep from the mainstream media, not a peep from deficit hawks. And it is absolutely absurd. Now I do want to show you by putting things into context how much we spend on the military compared to other priorities. So there's a graph that I want to show you from the absolutely brilliant Andrea Whitty of ConnectTheDotchUSA.com and what this shows is our total budget for 2018. So if you look at the yellow portion on the right, that is our discretionary budget. That's the part of the budget that Congress can actually adjust year to year. Now you see that in 2018, education got just a little tiny piece of the pie at 2.3%. Environmental spending got a tiny, tiny sliver, I mean very insignificant, less than a percent. Yet when it comes to military and defense, we chose to spend the most money on that. And this is the same thing year after year after year. Out of the money, Congress can allocate towards things in the country. And then again, they choose the military over education, over healthcare, over the environment. And this is actually going to blow your mind. But that chart from 2018, that's actually less egregious than other discretionary budgets that we've had in the past. In fact, in 2019, military spending accounted for more than half of our total discretionary budget. More than half. Now let's see what that looks like over time and how it varies. So you can see from president to president, we keep seeing increases in the military budget. And as you can see, since 1950, our military budget has continued to creep up more and more and more. It doesn't really matter who's in charge. It just keeps getting bigger. And to put things into perspective, we consistently spend more than the next 11 biggest spenders combined. And notice that in most of the countries on this list, these are allies to the United States. So for every single so-called deficit hawk, like Joe Manchin, to reliably support every single increase in the military budget, but always sound the alarms when we spend anything on people, on his constituents, I mean, you know what's going on here. In America, this is what we prioritize. When we are blowing up people in the Middle East and North Africa, we have unlimited sums of money. We don't even question it. But when it comes to people in our own country who need food, who are dying because they don't have health insurance, crickets, and anytime their needs are brought up and there's a legislative proposal, it's how are we going to pay for it? We've seen this time and again with proposals that would save lives, like Medicare for all.  So it's it's bittersweet seeing this, right? Because I love seeing Bernie Sanders call out the hypocrisy of all of these corporatists in Congress and both parties. But at the same time, it's so sad that this burden of educating people about this double standard and hypocrisy from these deficit hawks, they're the only ones doing it. Bernie, AOC, Elhan Omar. It's just a few people who are saying this. We need the mainstream media to educate the public on what's going on on this double standard, but that will never happen. That will never happen. When it comes to military spending, it's never going to be a question. And that has to change. And I think it's starting to. More people are waking up, but not fast enough. Every single politician who says anything about the debt and the deficit, but votes for military budget increases every single year, they should never be taken seriously.