Okay, so we're gonna start at level zero actually, and I didn't wanna count this as one of the levels because it's literally not improvisation at all. And that is sheet music. We all know what that is. I'm reading a piece of music and playing exactly what it's written on the page. It dictates the rhythm, it dictates the harmony, it dictates the chord voicings, it dictates the melody. Anything about what you're playing is written down on the page. That would be level zero. There's no improvisation at all. That's just reading sheet music. Let's step into the world of improvisation on the very, very first level. And mind you, this is just sort of like my own self-organization of how I would explain this to somebody. So I'm sure there's plenty of other ways for somebody to kind of explain what all this is. And it may be completely different from this. But so to me, number one is I have the melody and I have the chords. And the only part that's improvised is how I'm actually playing those chords, right? So if somebody says E-flat, well, if I'm just playing an E-flat triad means. Okay, but what can I do with that, right? I can play. Or I can spread it out. Maybe I add a note to it. Like an add nine voicing or something, I don't know. So there's all these other things, just because it says E-flat, I get to then decide what I'm gonna do with that information. And none of that is decided ahead of time. So it's a level of improvisation. Here is a little bit of me playing a melody that's pre-written to a chord sequence that's pre-written. But the actual way that I play the chords has not been decided at all. And that is level one of improvisation. Okay, so that brings us to level two of improvisation. Now we have the chord structure. We're making up how we're voicing those chords. But we're gonna toss out the melody and now we're gonna replace it with our own melody that we're coming up with in real time. So at this point, everything that I'm playing is improvised. The only thing that is not is the form and the harmonic structure of the tune. So the chord progression, basically. I'm still playing a certain number of bars from beginning to end. I'm still playing the same chords, even if there's slight variations in there. Maybe I make a decision to change a few of the chords here and there just to add some different colors or whatever. But I'm still using that pre-written formula for how to play this tune. It's just every component of how I execute it is all improvised. This is what I would call this level two. And here's an example of that. So that brings us to level three or what I would say the absolute purest form of improvisation. Now this is something that was very difficult for me to learn. And that's kind of counterintuitive because you're like, well, it's all made up. It's improvisation. How, what is there to learn?  Well, that's in some ways true. But that's really tough for us as musicians because we don't want to sound bad. We don't want to play things that don't make any sense or don't sound like anything. It's not really fun.  And most of the time, that's a good thing, except for the fact that if you really want to free yourself up from any of the confines of like a chord progression or just some sort of pre-determined aspect of a song, you have to let go of that desire to sound correct. Just be willing to sound bad. That means literally placing your hands on the piano and just kind of going, what is that? What does this elicit? What does this feel like? Where would I, if I were to continue playing, where do I go from here? You know, like. Like obviously that doesn't sound like anything, but the development of this process as you practice and practice and practice, you learn to start incorporating those elements of music that you do understand, you know, different chord voicings, different movements, different harmonic motions. I don't want to say chord progressions because it's never that structured, but it's just the idea of being willing to go anywhere, right? And it's not that you have to just place your hands on the keys and just play random shapes, but you want to take those, maybe a random shape or a sound or even a single note and just kind of follow wherever it is that it's kind of, it just feels like it wants to go. And that's going to be informed by what you do know about chords and music theory and all that stuff. And so all that stuff is okay to incorporate. You know, I don't think it takes away from the improvisatory, is that a word? Improvisatory, I don't know. The improvisatory nature of what you're actually doing. I don't think it takes away from that. It's just utilizing the language that you know in order to better inform these decisions that you make. I think conversation, for example, right? So if you and I were having a back and forth conversation and of course this isn't, but if it was, you would say something to me. I would hear that, I would interpret it and then I would respond with something that ideally pushed the conversation forward. Now what would I use to respond to that? I don't know what you're gonna say and you don't know what I'm gonna say, but yet we both know the language that we're speaking, whether it's English, French, German, whatever. We know the language, so we're able to utilize that language to just kind of keep going in a direction. That's all we're doing with this, is we're just allowing it to keep going in a direction and we're utilizing our knowledge of the language to help that happen. So here is me just sort of, I'm gonna call this free improvisation. It's literally based on nothing. I have no structure. I don't know any single chord that I'm gonna play. I'm just gonna play something, listen to it and just kind of allow it to push forward. And that's it, that's the three levels of improvisation. I hope that maybe introduces some concepts that maybe you hadn't thought about before. Try this, really seriously, try it. Just allow yourself to play something and let it be whatever it's gonna be and just follow it. And it might sound bad at first, but that is okay. It is totally okay to sound like garbage. That is a part of the learning process. We gotta get through that before you can start to speak fluent sentences, right? Anyways, that's it. Thanks for watching. If you'd like to more videos like this, I mean, I do enjoy doing these types of videos. They're a little different than I guess, you know, the sketches and the memes and stuff, but they are a lot of fun for me to do. And if there's subjects that you'd like me to cover, put them in the comments below because I'm happy to do it if it's something you guys would like to see. Thanks so much for watching. Please remember to subscribe and I will see you next time. Bye.


Joe Gibbs, yes, good to see you. It's my pleasure. I think we should appreciate this. This is very kind of you. Dad Williams, you probably recognize? How you doing? Just fine. Let's give him a hug. Thank you. Well, my god. You weren't using those in the game. No, I almost had to. You should have, you know, I had a better first body better, our general manager. There he is. Yeah, I think I can see you. And this is Nate Fine. You may know him, Nate. He's our photographer. Thank you. We'll see you. Now I understand there's a phone call. If we could. If you want to get a good photo here real quick before we do that.  Yeah, Coach. You may want to just... You messed up the overall score. You sure there's confetti up there? I got it on my hair. It goes with the skirt. Everybody's looking right here. One more. Thank you, sir. All right. Phone call? Yes. That's Roseanne. Thank you. She'll be here soon. Yes. I'm just going to give you some clues on what it is. Just kind of take a rank at any occasion. I'm not going to show pain. I'm going to... Yes. I'm going to run up a couple of steps. So you want to start training on both coach. I'm going to take a bit to the right when you're driving up, you know, Sandy and Esma. Sandy. I'm going to call this coach one. Coach Roblin. Joe. We got a... Someone I'd like to talk to you for one second. If you got a minute. It's the president. Joe. Sorry, you're over there. We're all here in the Oval Office and just going outside to see the people out there. I miss you. You take care of yourself now. That's okay. All right. Well, it's a pleasure. Come on and face the crowd. All right, you bet. Bye. Thank you for doing that. You really appreciate that. Thank you. You haven't called him many times, have you? No. Trainers used to be my favorite people. I was a sucker for a rubdown. This looks a little bit like my office. Just a little different. All right. Well, we're ready to go out. And then we'll come back and get it. I don't understand. They're expecting us. They must know the schedule. We'll do this well. The risk is down. Every single person in the family. We thank you very much. And thank you to the president.


Hello everyone, welcome to daily news headlines. Prime Minister Narendra Modi to chair the concluding G20 Submit virtually. Virtual G20 Submit to be held under the chairmanship of PM Modi. The 27th meeting of the committee constituted to devise ways and means to curb offences of atrocities against SCs and STs was held in New Delhi. Uttarakhand rescue operations continues for safe evacuation of 41 workers' traps in collapsed Silkaya tunnel. India and Australia recommit themselves to empowering court and partnership for regional and global good. Israel's cabinet approves four-day ceasefire deal with Hamas. UAE advances in solar-powered green hydrogen production. Founder of Shankar Nithrali, Dr. S.S. Badrinath passes away in Chennai. Thank you so much.


Hello and welcome to the Dave Trumbo show. I'm Joe Wamba, joined now with Dave Trumbo, head coach of the Beach Volleyball team. Coach, you guys traveled down to UNC Wilmington. Play some very tough teams all as a precursor for the Fiesta on Siesta Key. Just talk a little bit about how those matches went for you. Well, we play in all division ones. Our first match was against Caledad Charleston, who are getting votes for the top 15 in the country. And it just helps you learn so much about yourselves. And the same kind of shots, to be truthful, that would drop against maybe a D2 or D3 team. They don't drop against a D1 team. Those kids are pretty athletic. And they're big. So the speed of the game is a little bit different. I thought our kids really did well. Sammy Perillo and Kristen Brooks at number 1's, actually. They won a set. They played a really, really great set. And 1-1-1, we had some other close ones. But Caledad Charleston was pretty good. 6 foot 4 blocker. It's like she shades a lot more court than she was 5'10. A larger net front presence there, for sure. And then we played Coastal Carolina in the afternoon. That was a lot closer. At number 2's, Lauren Weaver, Katie Leffridge, won their pairs. So history made there. History made, because we've played some Division 1 club teams that are very, very good, but we've never beaten a pair in Division 1. That was NCAA team. And Katie and Lauren being able to do that. And then at number 3's, Grace Coleman and Jan Christensen, they lost 15-12 in the third. So they got close. Another close one. Yes. And Megan Ren and Darian Hillman at 4's, they got close. They lost 21-18, 21-19. And everybody else was in the high teens. So it was competitive. Shows you we're on the right track. We can compete with D1 teams. The next day we play UNC Wilmington, who are very good also. Yang Christensen and Grace Coleman at number 3's, again, got close 22-20 in one of the sets. But we'll move on this weekend to the Fiesta on the Siesta Key on the Gulf Coast of Florida for the Small College National Championship. Let's talk a little bit about that trip that you guys are going to make down there. It's going to be an awfully exciting match, a little bit different than what you've been doing this year. You're going to be playing three matches in one day on Saturday. How has the season that you've been having so far prepare you for this? Well, last weekend the great competition. We're not going to see D1 teams. It's all D2 and D3. There's 10 teams and it's pool play. So there's five teams in our pool and we'll play three of those four teams on Saturday. Two of them, while we're playing a team from San Diego who has been playing beach for five years. That'll be pretty competitive. And we're also playing Warner, who we did beat 4-1, but we're also playing Eckert, who we lost to 4-1. All those matches close. The 4-1 to Warner sounds like we killed him, well, we really didn't. It was very close. And the 4-1 to Eckert that we lost seems like that would not have been, but it really isn't. A couple points either way and we could have won 3-2. So that's three matches in the Florida sun. Definitely going to be warmer. The heat was an issue, not an issue. When you're playing D1 teams, the rallies are longer. You have to work really hard, even for points. There's not as many mistakes made. The rallies aren't short. Down in Florida, I'm not sure what the weather's going to be like. And from what I understand, it changes. This is still like up here, it changes every hour. So we'll play three matches on that Saturday and then early Sunday morning we'll play the fourth match of pool play. That will seed us for a single elimination tournament. So it's very possible we could play on Sunday. If you count the pool play game in the morning, if we get to the finals, three more matches. That could be four on Sunday. So they're going to be tuckered. I imagine they are, especially if a lot of the matches go to the three sets or hopefully you can get them taken care of in two. Is that the key to try to get out in front early or just get the W if you can? Well, you always want to get the W. But if you can do it in two, it's very difficult because when the other teams, their backs against the wall. Unless you are significantly better than the other team, it's tough to win in two. So you want to get done in two, especially when you have so many matches coming, but ultimately you want to get the W. There's a little bit more riding on these, I think, because there is not a team there that, oh my gosh. I mean, things happen and we could win, which does seem a little unbelievable, all these Florida schools and California schools. And here we are from Baltimore. And we're going to compete. We expect to win matches. Another person team I didn't mention is Huntington, which we beat there from Alabama. So we've got a good shot. Yeah, I would definitely believe that you guys have very strong possibilities. And you talk about these sets, like when somebody gets back into a corner, you've seen it even when the teams are, when you're practicing, our girls are playing against each other. They love each other and they're rooting for each other, but they compete. And they'll go into 18-19 scores on the third set. Yes, yeah. There's just some kind of mentality that you just don't give up. It's 19-15 or 19-16 and the game is 21.  And that little extra effort to get the ball up when the game is depending upon it. Well, Coach, we wish you the best of luck this weekend. And those games will be broadcasted. The links are on our website. Yes, yes. So we're looking forward to watching some beach volleyball. We don't get to watch that too much. Right, and I think the streaming's not going to start until 11.30. Our first match is at 9.00. Our second match is at 12.00. That one should be streamed. I think it's an experiment. They have not done it much. But I think that our game at 12.00 and our game at 3.30 will be streamed. So we'll see. Well, definitely a test to experimenting with broadcasting Beach Volleyball. Last year was the first time we had a chance to do it. Yeah, we did it. We were able to do it. We were able to do it. So I definitely know their struggles. But Coach, all the same, good luck. And safe travels down south. Thanks, Joe. He's Dave Trumbo. I'm Joe Wamba, and this has been the Dave Trumbo Show.


special correspondent cat wise reports on a new university program training students to become human rights investigators in the digital age these students are part of the recently launched human rights investigations lab at the University of California Berkeley's Human Rights Center we've noticed over and over that there are a number of frontline human rights advocates that are really trying to figure out how do you ensure that the videos they're getting from survivors on the ground are what they purport to be the University and partner organization Amnesty International are training the students to verify videos and other publicly available social media content coming out of areas like Syria I think it has a lot to do with my background coming from Egypt and then being affected by the political scene in the country and having your life upended let's turn our attention to the robots and making them the best athletes we can meet Salto a battery powered robotic leg that jumps faster and higher than all the rest Salto jumps over a meter high and can jump repeatedly like a Pogo stick thanks to onboard stabilizers biologists have found in specialized jumping animals is that they have this special crowds posture where their muscles have more time to load a bunch of energy into stretchy tendons and then they release that energy to jump really high there weren't any robots made using that idea we were able to show that with this new jumping strategy you can get better performance than like any other robot could welcome to Sunday night I'm Megan Kelly they call it surgery on a cell and it just might end up changing life as we know it she's a biologist at the University of California Berkeley Jennifer Doudna she's talking about a discovery that has made her an international science celebrity how about the invention of a tool that can edit the genetic fate of almost anything alive I'd go to PTA meetings for my son's school or I'd have my neighbor over for dinner and I realized wow you know people outside of my little science world have no idea what's going on and yet this is going to impact everybody's lives scientists in the climate realm teamed up with economists the the dismal science meeting climate science if you will and they looked at the economic impacts of climate change as you project out to the future and perhaps the most interesting finding was that climate change will hit different socioeconomic classes differently in the south where it's hot and along the coast we might see populations losing the equivalent of 20% of their income whereas in the cooler northern and western regions we actually see that populations might benefit a little and because the north tends to be wealthier and the south tends to be poorer what we see is that in the future climate change is going to increase economic inequality within the united states from the cbs bay area studios this is kpi x5 news new at six nasa is looking for help on a special space mission uc berkeley researcher dr erin meisner says there are so many things in the sky they need help examining them so nasa and cal have teamed up to create backyard worlds a crowdsourcing project in which individuals are sent still pictures from a different tiny piece of the galaxy to examine for any signs of movement actually people are really good at finding motion in crowded scenes so that's what we're trying to leverage here better than computer sometimes oh yeah definitely you're watching pbs maryan diamond is one of the founders of modern neuroscience when you see a lady with a hat box you don't know what she's caring and there you are she joined a team of three university of california berkeley researchers who were looking for evidence that the brain is affected by one's environment our most important finding showed that within richmond the brain increased mentions and with impoverishment it decreased a six percent difference nobody else had made such measurements and found these results we were terribly excited about it this is abc7 news uc berkeley is about to have its commencement ceremonies every year a few students stand out and this time we met a us army reserve captain with a mission and that is to tell the story of u.s military veterans who've been deported captain jill bush a former u.s army soldier and marine at 36 soon to have a master's degree from the uc berkeley graduate school of journalism his experience in the military and what he's learned at cal have helped him to create videos that highlight issues pertaining to veterans bob calo is one of his professors and all the stories he's done it's all about this passion for like who are we as veterans and maybe we don't get seen i want to make sure it's told correctly by the people who've been there and the people who've done it


It's one of the most fundamental cornerstones in all human relationships. It doesn't matter whether the relationship is deeply personal or intimate, or whether it's with a co-worker, boss, or someone you may wish to do business with, trust is important. However, not everyone understands the vitality of trust. Many individuals treat the issue of trust with levity, forgetting that when trust is broken, it is difficult to repair it. In this video, I will share with you 9 signs that someone is not trustworthy. 1. They don't open up. After a few meetings, an average person usually opens up and starts talking about themselves, but people who cannot be trusted will never talk about themselves. Instead, this set of people will ask you questions and make you open up even more. Studies have proven that people who open up are usually trustworthy. Since no one exposes themselves quickly to their enemies, they see you as a friend, which is why they are free to discuss themselves with you. But beware of those who never open up to you that may not be trustworthy. 2. They lie a lot. What is the one thing we all deserve from those we trust? Honesty. If someone is lying to you and you witness them doing it not only to you, but to others, do not ignore this. One small lie will eventually lead to even bigger ones and you will soon be the fly cut up in the spider's web. If you find out that someone is constantly lying to you, don't just sweep it under the rug, or give in to whatever excuse they give to you. Give that person the boot because they cannot be trusted. Furthermore, don't ever trust the person who deliberately lies to someone else in your presence because you might be next. 3. They are gossips. The truth is, almost everyone talks about other people to a certain extent when they are not present. Nevertheless, the question is, what is being said? Why is it being discussed and in what manner? If someone speaks badly to you about people all the time, then probably that person will also talk about you when they have the chance. Meanwhile, if someone always comes to you to tell you about what other people said about you, their trustworthiness is questionable as well. Hence, you must be careful with anyone who always brings the issues other people to the table during conversations. 4. They are two-faced. We've all come across our fair share of this type of behavior. When a person is with you, they will be as pleasant as pie. But when your back is turned, they won't think twice about criticizing what you do and say. They won't hold back on sharing any juicy nuggets of gossip about you. This set of individuals are pretenders that will make you feel good about yourself but join others to condemn you in public. For instance, a friend who compliments your looks in private yet joins others to run you down cannot be trusted. In some cases, they will even try to avoid you in public. As soon as you detect this kind of behavior, it's time to make a sharp exit from the relationship to protect yourself. 5. They turn their back on you in public. When you're alone or in unfamiliar situation with this type of person, you'll find they are friendly and enjoy your company, but contrast. When you find yourself among their crowd or among people whom they are trying to impress, they won't give you the time of day. They will act to see if you have barely ever met. This kind of behavior indicates that they are trying to get something from you in some way or the other. Their trust in you is just superficial. When they have reached what they want, or it's clear to them that they are not going to succeed in getting it, they will drop you without thinking twice. 6. They can't keep secrets. Do you remember those times when you were much younger, when you swore a close friend to secrecy? When they spilled the beans to others, how did you feel, pained and betrayed?  One way to know if a person can be trusted is how well they are able to keep the things you confidentially tell them to themselves. Also, if a person is keen to share someone else's confidence with you, you can be sure of their untrustworthiness. Untrustworthy people relish the opportunity to share juicy nuggets of information that they have been told in confidence. They would trade confidentiality with their need to be noticed and acknowledged. 7. They are not committed. Tartiness and crookedness are apparent indicators that an individual has no respect for the value of your time. A trustworthy person will make an effort to keep to words and appointment. Indeed, some delays are unavoidable, but making a quick call or sending a brief message is the obvious thing to do when it happens. However, if a person often shows up late without making any effort to let you know that they're delayed or worse still, fails to turn up at all. That's a clear sign that they can be trusted to fulfill their commitments. If they change or cancel plans without letting others know, they clearly don't understand the value of other people's time. They don't see that their actions impact others. In business and every aspect of life, it is incredibly unprofessional behavior which will undermine any trust. 8. They are unstable. Although people tend to confuse both of them, being indecisive is widely different from being fickle. Let's face it, most of us are uncertain when it comes to making decisions, like choosing from a menu with too many tempting options. And of course, we all change our minds now and again. Occasionally, even about important issues, the difference with fickle people is that you can never trust any of the other decisions, no matter how important the case being considered. Their emotional state can be volatile and the outcome of their choices shows a pattern of inconsistency. Not only that, a fickle person will make promises they quickly come to regret and then retract at the last moment. Fickle-minded individuals are easily influenced and given to external factors rather than stand their ground. A vividly fluctuating emotional state that leads to constant changes of mind or the inability to make a decision and stick to it, however, means that there is no anchor on which to base your trust. 9. They are friends to your enemy Yeah, you heard me correctly. Have you heard of the saying, the enemy of my enemy is my friend and the friend of my enemy is my enemy? Well, don't get me wrong. Although it is not advisable to label anyone as your enemy or to attempt to make your friends hate someone simply because you don't like them. However, if someone had betrayed you before, it is only regular that you don't want them around. You may even label them as your enemies and as much as you can, try to be civil, yet careful with them. Hence, if someone you are close and who is aware of your feelings towards the said enemy decided to become friends with them, it is only standard that you are careful around them because the truth is that they cannot be trusted. I wish to end with this piece of quote from popular businessman, best-selling author and educator, Stephen Covey, which says, in trust is the glue of life. It is the most essential ingredient in effective communication. It is the foundational principle that holds relationships.


The United Nations Security Council has called for an accelerated availability of coronavirus vaccines for Africa and said the continent had so far only received 2% of the vaccines produced globally. The comments were made in a presidential statement approved by all 15 members at a council meeting on promoting post-pandemic recovery in Africa on Wednesday. The statement also said there should be equitable access to quality, safe, efficacious and affordable COVID-19 diagnostics and therapeutics medicines and vaccines. United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres said equitable and sustainable vaccine rollout worldwide is the quickest path to what a fast and fair recovery. Guterres said healthcare systems should be better supported and have more effective vaccine access through global COVAX scheme.


With the overarching goal of ensuring food security and creating sustainable livelihoods for all stakeholders involved, recent efforts were made by the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries, Food Security and Rural Development to underscore the importance of the agro-processing sector in national development. A meeting was held with agro-processors across St Lucia, providing comprehensive insights into the prevailing dynamics of the agro-processing industry. This served as a platform for industry leaders, entrepreneurs and experts to delve into the current state of affairs within the agro-processing arena. Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries, Food Security and Rural Development, Honourable Alfred Prosper acknowledges that while the sector contributes to the GDP, there is ample potential for it to assume a more substantial role within the local economic framework. An analysis of the importance and export data for agro-processed food items was performed for a five-year period from 2017 to 2022. The data showed that agro-processed products accounted for an average of 37 percent of St Lucia food imports, making up the largest part of the local food import bill. Minister Prosper emphasized the importance of collectively addressing challenges and capitalizing on the nation's strengths to foster a more resilient and prosperous agro-processing sector. A lot of what we produce here are exported but we have to import them back into St Lucia and we must do better than that as a ministry, as a government. There have been a number of calls to me. Why is it we have so much citrus wasting all over the place? We have mangoes wasting all over the place but yet we import a lot of those products. I believe it is time for us to take stock of what we grow locally and find new innovative ways to get into small manufacturing plants that can make those products easily available to us locally. The Ministry of Agriculture is and we are in dedication to supporting the agro-processing sector, fostering its sustainable growth and ensuring the welfare of its citizens underscores its commitment to the nation's food security and economic prosperity. From the Communications Unit of the Ministry of Agriculture, I am Anicia Antoine reporting.


Hi friends, welcome back to my channel and a special welcome if you're new here. My name is Jen. I'm a certified weight loss and nutrition coach and I'm on WW personal points. It's Friday, it is Friday, so it is weigh in day. I had quite the week, so I'm going to be sharing with you how my week went. We'll talk all about this week's WW workshop topic, spoiler alert, it's a good one. And of course I'll share this week's weigh in. So if you're excited, don't forget to give this video a thumbs up. It really helps out my channel and of course I appreciate it. And subscribe if you're not, I would love, love, love to have you here. I do a weigh in every Friday and I upload five days a week. So make sure you're subscribed and your bell notification is turned on. Check out the description box down below for nutrition coaching. I do offer personalized to you macros and calories. Highly recommend as well as one-on-one coaching if you need extra support or want to talk with me directly. Links discounts to all of my favorite healthy things. And lastly, come on over, join us on Facebook. We'd love to have you. So let's jump into my week, the workshop topic and my weigh in. Happy Friday, friends. I hope you had an amazing, amazing week. Like I said, I had quite the week. If you missed my Wednesdays, what I eat in a day, I actually traveled back down to Arizona. I gave an entire update as to why I was back one and a half weeks later. It was quite the experience. And I vlogged my entire trip and what I ate and kind of showed you how you can travel and stay on track. So I'll make sure that that video is linked down below. So I flew out on Sunday, came back on Monday, really late, like midnight on Monday. So it was just a whirlwind of a beginning of the week and the week continued to be extremely busy. We are less than two weeks out from our move to Arizona. So it's a mad dash to pack, get everything done, make all the phone calls to change addresses and close accounts here and open accounts there. It's just been quite the whirlwind. I did go ahead and do my closet clean out. So stay tuned on Sunday for that video. I know a lot of you are excited to see what I got rid of.  So definitely stay tuned for Sunday. Make sure you're subscribed and your bells on so you don't miss the video. I was able to stay on track all week. I didn't get in a lot of exercise this week or should I say intentional exercise? I got in a lot of steps on my trip. I actually closed out my rings on my Apple Watch every single day and I've been getting a lot of activity and steps at home, just packing and preparing to move. We're just really busy right now and not that I can't make time to go to the gym. I'm just not making time to go to the gym because I have so much on my plate. But overall, I feel like I had a great week. I stayed on track with my food and as I always say, weight loss starts in the kitchen, fitness starts in the gym and if you just focus on food, you're going to see success and that's kind of what I did this last week. Before I jump into my weigh-in for the week, I want to talk with you guys about this week's WW workshop topic and this is how to make healthier choices easier. A lot of times choosing the healthier choice isn't the most convenient and it's certainly not the easiest option. As human beings, we like to follow the path of least resistance. Whatever gets us what we need the fastest is what we naturally do as humans. So this can really play a part in our food choices as well. We can easily stray off track when we're busy or when it's inconvenient for us to plan or prepare meals or when we're out and about, it's easier to just pick up fast food than it is to plan ahead a little bit. But what if the easier choice or the most convenient choice just isn't the best choice? Instead of focusing on food choices, although this definitely plays a part in that as well, like I mentioned, when we're inconvenienced or out and about or we didn't plan ahead, we can make unhealthy food choices but I wanna talk a little bit about behavior choices because mindset and behavior is a bigger part to overall weight loss success and weight maintenance than even the foods that we're choosing. So when it comes to behavior, think about an unwanted behavior that you have. What is something that you do on a regular basis that just doesn't serve you or maybe isn't the best use of your time? So for example, what about laying in your bed at night before you fall asleep and just mindlessly scrolling on your phone? That could actually be an unwanted, unhelpful behavior. So instead of mindlessly scrolling on your phone, what is your wanted behavior? What should you be doing or what do you want to be doing instead? Maybe that's finishing that book that's sitting on your nightstand and maybe your phone is plugged in across the room so you're not tempted to pick it up and mindlessly scroll. We're talking about bedtime behaviors here but this can apply to any behavior, whether it be mindset, routine behavior or even our behavior when it comes to the foods that we're eating. We all have behaviors or activities or choices that are unwanted or things that maybe just don't serve us when it comes to our weight loss journey. So think about a behavior that you would like to stop. Pinpoint the environment and how it makes that behavior easy for you kind of back to the whole bedtime routine. It's easier to lay there and scroll on your phone but really you should finish that really good book on your nightstand and by putting your phone across the room it's less tempting and less convenient and remember, we follow the path of least resistance. It's very unlikely that we're going to get out of our comfortable warm bed to go pick up our phone across the room. We're more likely to grab that book on our nightstand.  So I really, really like this topic. I know for me, I'll choose the easier path. I'll choose what is more convenient for me because we're busy. We leave very busy lives that it's hard for us to do things that are harder and easier for us to do things based on convenience. So again, think about a behavior that you'd like to stop.  So now let's jump in to my weigh-in for the week. Like I mentioned, I traveled the beginning of this week and we know, I know that sometimes traveling cannot benefit us when it comes to the foods that we're eating but also travel blow is a real thing. It is a real thing. I feel like I'm always heavier coming back from vacation whether I made healthier choices or not. I think it's a mix of the foods that we're eating, maybe not getting in as much water and of course traveling or flying can really play a part in our overall weight loss. Lucky for me, I was able to get back on Monday and really have the rest of the week to recover from my trip. Even though I stayed on track, even though I made good food choices, I still felt a little bit heavier coming home. So I just waited a few days to step on the scale. So when I jumped on the scale this morning, to my pleasant surprise, I am down an additional 1.4 pounds. I will go ahead and put my overall weight loss here on the screen for you. If you didn't miss last week's weigh-in, I hit 90 pounds down, which was a huge goal for me. That's kind of what led to the closet clean out and I am well on my way now to reaching my big picture goal, which is 100 pounds lost. That is so crazy to me, you guys, 100 pounds lost and it's inching me closer and closer to my overall weight loss goal. So now I wanna hear from you guys. How was your week? What did you think of this week's workshop topic? And share maybe some of your unwanted behaviors down in the comments so we can share with the community what's unwanted and how we're going to correct that. And if you enjoyed today's video, don't forget to give it a big huge thumbs up. Make sure you're subscribed and your bell notification is turned on because I do a weigh-in every single Friday and I do upload five days a week. Check out that description box for nutrition coaching, links and discounts to my favorite things and don't forget, take a moment, join our Facebook group. It's a great community and we'd love to have you. Thank you so much for watching. Happy Friday, friends and I'll see you in tomorrow's grocery haul. Bye.


People wonder why I say take it all down. I opened up the wall behind the toilet and there was a wire hanging down to the floor that was live. The floor was actually ran to the direction of where that electrical wire was and I told the homeowners, had you have had a shower, not only would you have flooded the kitchen right away but if it had pooled up to touching that electrical line and you were standing in the water, what would happen? Could be very, very bad for your health. Could be fatal. Very, very bad. Because now you're the ground. This was done with someone who didn't really know how to do electrical, but was trying to do the job properly. $500,000 later, we come in, we take the place apart and we redo the whole house of electrical.


last day of the anniversary target and we're in and around Queenstown we're doing the iconic crown range twice and right up the top of the lake to Glen Orkey who's leading while Glen Inkster still in control of the event leading overall by over three minutes Martin Dippy leads the two-wheel drive and Mark Kirk Bernard is leading the classics


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Hey there, this is Ona with Art of Awakening. Thanks for watching and just wanted to tell you today about something that happened to me maybe two three weeks ago and I was just having one of those horrible days where I mean it wasn't like I Like not nobody got hurt or anything, but it was just one of those days where I couldn't get anything done It was just frustrating.  We'll just hit the woods, right? So that's what I did. I got in the car and went out to the woods and and just found a Spot in the Sun and just lay down and as soon as I laid down This was like a bolt of lightning just I you know, this phrase came into my head I was just giving this phrase 40 days in the wilderness and I was like Oh and I just knew right away that like I It was sort of this call to create a second Oracle deck. So it's like this huge creative idea And I just want to share this to you with you first of all just to tell you about this because I'm excited about it And I'll be posting videos having to do with this deck and you know for a while starting now But also just so hopefully, you know, maybe it'll inspire you if you're having one of those days You know, sometimes that's the biggest blessing to have a day like that or you know something coming up that that frustrates you from from your your everyday routine and Rather than looking at it as a bad day Think of it as an invitation an invitation to open open up to the spirits Just you know, what their suggestion is because very likely they're gonna have something way more exciting in store than the to-do list That we put together So briefly I want to just tell you about this deck. It will be called 40 Days in the Wilderness Oracle hard deck and What the idea is I'm gonna be going out into the woods or into nature You know 40 days and each day nature always gives me a lesson when I come out here and So I'm just going to sort of it's like it'll be a journal and each day you know, I'll make a little video of the lesson and Create an oracle card out of it and at the end of the 40 days There'll be a deck So I am excited about it Hey, if you are excited, then you know, I'd love to have you subscribe and follow along and and just just as a Warning and here's another little thing is like I this like as I said it happened to me a couple weeks ago Maybe it was three or four weeks ago by now and it's been sort of sitting in my head It's like oh, I want to do this deck. I want to do that It's been waiting for us like when can I start this because you know I wanted to just like take 40 days and be able to go out there 40 consecutive days no matter what rain or shine and I finally realized that given the way my life is right now It if I if I wait for that perfect amount of time to do that It might never happen. So So what I've decided to do is just take 40 consecutive days that I'm able to get out and do it and Because like I'll be going out of town next week and so forth and I may you know, I've got deadlines to me I mean, you know, I have clients. I'm a writer and so that I'm not always able to get in the woods But I'm gonna be doing my best to get out here as much as I can and to actually follow through with the project each time I get out. So that is my commitment and and I'm just gonna encourage you to just take a moment, you know And and you know, maybe just ask spirit. It's like well, okay What's my divine projects, you know that that I can be working on and open to it Open to it and and when it comes in there's gonna be lots of reasons why It's not practical or why you can't do it and just find a way and it doesn't have to be perfect We don't have to do these things perfectly, but when we're called to do them, you know It is important that we go ahead and follow through and do them. So All right, so thanks for joining me today If you've enjoyed this and if you want to follow along and and see what this deck turns out to be absolutely hit hit subscribe Like I love your comments as well and we'll catch you again soon