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Yeah, it's got the audience exactly Same dude Jalen Suggs for the magic 99 Darius Garland to 75 and Johnny Davis Green to 30 week is young very true Wow Kendrick Perkins Six of 25 for the Celtics a big perk auto in this. Oh man Good gosh, that is kind of cool though. I'm not gonna lie I know Lenny Wilkins going to the Hawks 54 of 99 St. Louis Hawks legend Lenny Wilkins We've got Johnny Davis. That is a 42 of 99 for the Wizards. I just won their Washington Big Perf baby. Let's go Jason kid one of 25 immaculate honors rookie of the year. It's going to Dallas. Let's go Hawk Doc For the maths and then how about a Benedict Matherin purple stainless stars auto 17 of 49 Nice hit there congrats Pacers Andrew K Andrew K on that one. There's tiktok. You can uh Mad the Matherin Box to books to nice 30 at 49 that is gonna be chat Holmgren To nice stainless metal cards Perkins broke Shaq records in Texas in high school. That's nuts actually That's what I got. We get asked where we get their boxes about At least once or twice night. Nicola Yolkic to 75 for the Nuggets and Christian Brown 6 to 20 rookie for the Nuggets Narnia, we got it from Narnia. There's 10 of 99 Wizards Bradley Biel Kenny Skywalker nice one there 12 of 25 indelible ink for the mix Followed by another Nick hit that is gonna be Bernard King for 59 of 99 for again the Knicks Congrats, New York NYK Yeah, it's Michael Porter jr. 20 of 75 that's going to the Nuggets Michael never swing the rock Porter jr. He did You got a huge contract to Jeremy so hot one of Going to the spurs Wow on the RPA Tack Chun see let's go. Holy cow. That is that is a huge card, man. Good lord.  Let's go dude Hell yeah, we'll get that right into a mag and then we've got redemption Chris Paul impeccable rookie season signatures. I can be New Orleans Let me see really quick that might be I'm gonna say that's gonna be a New Orleans Hornet's hit Hey, let's go tack Chun congrats, buddy. What's up on the top? Oh, yeah, we'll send an empty box and wrapper with that just in case Tack Chun There is a little kind of like a ding on it Chris Paul See rookie. Nope. Not a strap against Jersey number rookie season. Yeah, that's gonna be New Orleans Hornets So I don't go to the pelicans. That's gonna be number to five as well. Good Lord. Yeah, congrats tack Chun That's awesome, dude Yeah, that'll go to the pelicans right there. You can make that one too.  Good luck. Oh, man.  That is a massive card right there There's to be sure. Yeah number to five and Pretty big redemption actually Alright, let's do the Bar card that is James Harden into 75 and Malachi Brandon 49 Then Simmons the next The school for the wizards is crown butler 93 of 99 Yukon legend illustrious ink This one's cool. Go into the Rockets Edward E. How about a big shop Bob Robert Ori? 11 of 25. What is he eight rings dude? Yeah It's a big club shots. No, he did he's good. He's good big shop Bob Robert Ori Next up we've got a David Roddy stainless stars rookie Otto 91 of 99 That's one there for the grids. We've got going the Hawks AJ Griffin 75 of 99 for the Hawks That's on that Atlanta and going to the Thunder Shane Gilgis Alexander 24 of 35 indelible ink Congrats. Okay. See nice one there Brendan H All right to our bar card. Good luck everybody. Come on see like a Palo Palo 101 or something nice Like the player that it's gonna be Ochi egg bodgy five of 20 Go into the jazz It's like weirdly like miscut on the back. I don't know if it's supposed to look like that I feel like it's not We'll sign an empty box and wrap it with the jazz as well. So the jazz and the spurs will each get an empty box All right quick recap here everybody. That was a fun break We've got auto Shay Gilders Alexander AJ Griffin David Roddy Robert Ori Big Shot Bob Koran Butler That is Michael Porter Jr. Bernard King Kenny Skywalker a Lenny Wilkins Jason Kidd Johnny Davis Kendrick Perkins. We had mad cards. This is gonna be number two five Chris Paul Peckable rookie season signatures Benedict Matherin 249 For the Pacers we had Ochi bodgy that is gonna be to 20 Rookie bar for the jazz and then a one-of-one Jeremy Sohan RPA for the spurs Absolutely massive that'll do it for the break guys. Thanks again for the field up next is time box


This can be so frustrating. If I had hair, I'd pull it out. What has become obvious and apparent to me is the lack of understanding of what salvation is, what it's for, what's the purpose of it, how do we get it? And even more to the point nowadays, can it be lost? Well, if it can be lost, that necessarily means that what was done to get it is no longer in effect. What was applied for your salvation is no longer applicable to you. And if people think about what Christ has done for salvation, how salvation is given to us, they would move away from this point, but in many cases because of pride, because they just don't refuse to see what's happening, refuse to see the scriptures, or maybe sometimes not even know how to read the scriptures because that's an issue sometimes too. There would be no issue this discussion about losing salvation. Now, is it true that you must abide? You must remain. You have to keep remaining in Christ. Yes, is it true you have to keep believing?  That is true also. Is it true that unbelief gets you to hell? That is true as well. Is it true that if you reject Christ at any point in time, if you lose your faith at any point in time, you go to hell? That is true. But the issue to that point is, will you? Will any of these things happen? Will any of these things even cause what was applied to you to no longer be applied to you? Remember what God has said. Remember what we have with us if we are saved is a supernatural work of the Lord. And out of you, you simply knowing some facts, you simply knowing what, and I say some facts, knowing the fact that Jesus died on the cross, knowing the fact that he rose from the grave and that he ascended, knowing the fact that you can't save yourself and you need to be saved, knowing the fact that you are low in his death, atone for your sin, knowing that if that's all it took, well then anybody could be saved. As a matter of fact, a lot more people than we think are safe, but that's not the case. So before we get into our scriptures or more into it, let me reference some passages and let you guys go back because we don't have time to go through that. Remember what atone for us is our faith in God. And in this case, what we have is a system whereby blood has been given to pay the price and that blood has been applied to our account. It pays a debt. Therefore we can be reconciled. Sin is gone, the debt is paid and we are reconciled. And under the old, in the Old Testament, and even now after the cross, we are in right standing. It's this term that we're gonna hear justify or justification. That means, listen guys, it means to be declared right and treated as such. So we are in right standing or we are righteous. Our righteousness is brought about by our faith, our faith in what? In the blood. Don't miss that point. And the way this worked under the Old Covenant, the way it would work is that this justification, this right standing, this righteousness was only temporary. There were these offerings that you will also have throughout the year, but this day of atonement, you being atoned for and being in right standing is good for one year. And you would have to do this year, after year, after year. But if a person were to die in that time in right standing, not because of what they've done, but because atonement was made, then therefore that's God saying, there is no death that person owed. That person in my eyes are in right standing. And so if God has stated what was owed was paid, then nobody can come back and say, you owe more. That's why he makes a statement in Romans 8, that who can bring a charge against God's elect? It is God who justifies. Paul goes one step further and says, speaking about Christ, having canceled out the certificate of debt, consisting of decrees against us, which was hostile to us. And he has taken it out of the way, taken it out of the way. This certificate of debt, how so by nailing it to the cross. So our debt is nailed to the cross. In other words, we have no debt. That's why Jesus makes a statement to tell us die. It has been finished. It's a perfect tense. And so he has determined that the debt that will be paid will be his blood. And that blood atones, not just temporarily like the blood of bulls and ghosts know it goes one step further, even more so, not just temporary atonement, but a permanent atonement. This debt that God requires was paid. And he does not come back and say, you need more instead. Jesus says to tell us that it is finished. No more debt owed. So now in the scriptures, we understand that mankind, even though the debt is paid, does not necessarily guarantee the fact that he is going to believe and keep believing. And the issue is the keep believing part. So yes, you have to keep believing. You have to keep walking. You have to keep remaining. You have to keep having faith. You can never walk away. That part is understood. The part that people don't get is that God also remedies that because he understands we are not trustworthy. So what does he give us? No longer do we have these different offerings. No longer do we have to have a sacrifice year after year, but instead, what does he give us? Not a profit, not anymore signs and wonders to remind us of God, but instead he gives us himself in us, the Holy Spirit, which is what he says in Jeremiah 32 and 39 and 40. Now he's speaking of Israel. We're going to see this also applies to us. And guys, there's just no way to get past this. And so if you come up with a scripture that seems to go against this, and now we've got a Bible that contradicts itself because you cannot get past this. And I will give them one heart and one way that they may fear me always for their own good and for the good of their children after them. I will make an everlasting covenant with them that I will not turn away from them to do them good. And I will put the fear of me in their hearts so they will never turn from me. So his spirit in mankind's heart, not just Israel's we're going to see in John 1, Jesus says, it's all of those people, whoever it is that happens to have that, it's been born of God. You were born from the will of God. And so that's whoever it is that has been born of God, Jews and Gentiles. And so if you have the Holy Spirit in your heart, if your heart has been regenerated, God says, this is God says that he will not turn away from us nor will we turn away from him. Ezekiel says the same thing in Ezekiel 11, 19, which is he'll put his spirit in man and they will walk in him in his statues. He says the same thing, he reiterates again in chapter 36 verses 27, I will put my spirit within you. And what happens, ladies and gentlemen, if and when he puts his spirit within you, he says it will cause you to walk. This cause means to make to do. There's no way to get around this. You have to explain this away if you want to. But he says, I will cause you to walk in my statues and you will be careful to observe my ordinances. These are the statements that God has made when he says I will put my spirit within you. We see this also in Hosea. We see this brought up in Jeremiah. We see this brought up in Deuteronomy about what God will do when he puts his spirit in man, when he regenerates that person's heart. Now, not getting towards the issue of does regeneration proceed faith? No, what I can tell you this is that regeneration keeps faith. Forget the fact of whether it proceeds faith or not. We do know for a fact regeneration keeps faith. So you will keep having faith. You will keep abiding. You will keep bearing fruit. He just said he will. He just said he will cause that to happen.  But as many as received him, that's the Son, to them he gave the right to become children of God. That's us. And we're sons of God, even of those or to those who believe in his name, that's through our faith, the believing ones, cause this is a part of simple. So we are believing and how are we believing? Cause we have been born, not of blood, not of the will of man or flesh, but we have been born of God, act through and at the time, which means we have been born of God. You can't get around that. Peter says that he caused us to be born again. We didn't cause ourselves to be born again. We didn't do some magic words. We didn't do extra spiritual pushups to give us the strength to make ourselves be born again or to stay born again. That's not how that works. Peter says he caused us to be born again. And then with that, John says that all those that are born again are overcomers. We are told that we no longer have a debt. So when someone says that we can now lose our salvation or walk away from it or forfeit it, we have a huge problem. Why? Because one, Jesus says we won't do so. Jesus described this in John 10. He says that when he puts forth all his own, his own sheep, he says he goes ahead of them and the sheep follow.  Why? He says because they know the sheep know his voice. And look what he says in verse five. He says a stranger, a strange voice or a stranger, they simply will not follow. And he is as emphatic and as definitive as you can possibly be. What if Jesus were to say you can never, ever, ever under any shape from a fashion, stop following and follow another voice? If he said that, would you believe him? Well, you're gonna say yes, but in many cases, those that say yes, don't believe that. Yeah, he didn't say that. Well, yeah, he did. In this passage, that's literally what he says. A stranger, they simply will not follow. Well, how is that the most emphatic way? Because what he says is, ooh, may, I call you with faith to sin. A future active indicative is stating that this will happen in the future. But what precedes that is a double negation. Ooh, may says that it will never, ever happen. They, what will never happen? They will never, ever follow this strange voice, but they will flee. So not only will they not follow, they will flee. This is Jesus speaking about his sheep. You know, you and I, those of us that raised our hands and said that we are his sheep, those of us, he says we will never, ever follow him. Why? Because they do not know the voice of the stranger. And so presumably a sheep can do something, a Christian can do something that would cause a new debt to be incurred.  If there is an outstanding balance, a debt owed by you to God. The problem is Paul says that debt has been paid. If you come back and say, a new debt has been incurred, how? How was that happen? What incurs the debt? Is it sin? Well, let's think about that for a second. If it is sin, that means this sheep or that person sinned. At what point in time does the debt incur? Especially to an amount that causes them that they not now owe something to God. At what point in time do these sins amount to a debt now incurred by God? At what point in time if they, if it's believed, you mean telling me that the person walked away, no longer believes, they believe that Jesus died on the cross with them, all those things, but they walked away. Is that considered not believing? No, because the belief that the Bible talks about when someone's walking away is a walk away from the belief, the noun, attendance of faith, the tenets of the faith, what they hold to, they walk away from that. I don't know if I believe that Jesus is the only way. I don't know if I necessarily believe that he died on the cross anymore. I don't know if I necessarily believe that he actually existed. Well, that's them walking away from the tenets of the faith, but even still, a person who has placed their faith in Christ, Jesus says, God says, the Bible says, that person will never turn away. I want you to consider this famous passage that we typically don't apply it to this, but we should. He says that we know that God causes, he caused, Sunerge, he works with, he causes all things, what things, all things to work together for the good to those who love God, to those who are called according to his purpose. Who is that? That's you or not. If we are here, that's us who raise our hands and say we are sheep. He's gonna cause all things. What things? Maybe it's some sort of, I'm wondering about this. I'm not sure about this text. What does this verse mean? Or I've done something, some sort of sin, something that's coming to my life, some people are coming after me. He says, I'm gonna cause all those things to work, what he says, for good, to those who love God, who are called. So as believers, a sheep, he's gonna cause those things, even the horrible things that happen on life, the bad things, the missteps, the falls, the fumbles. He says, I'm gonna cause those things to work for good. Well, if we lost our salvation, that's not working for good. There's no way, shape or fashion, that you can spend that to say, well, that's for the good of us. No, it says work for the good of those who love him. So when even if we sin, that's why he used those things to discipline us, to grow us, to cause us to get back in line. That's why punishments and consequences come. He's gonna cause those things, even sending somebody else or scriptures or what have you, or just this uneasiness by the Holy Spirit to keep us awake at night, uncomfortable in our own skin. He's gonna cause those things to work for those who absolutely love him. That is if indeed you do loving. And because of that, there is no longer an offering that is needed. Again, the only way that you can go to hell is if you owe something to God. The only way to pay off what you owe to God is you bring about an offering. Either you can do it yourself, which is gonna be as efficient, or God will do so through the person of Jesus Christ. This is why the writer of Hebrews says that for by one offering, he has perfected, this is perfect in so in the past. He has a, it's a completed action from the past. He has perfected for all time, forever, those who are sanctified. That's you and I. That is if indeed we are actual believers. And since he has forgiven our sins and swore never to remember them again, that is past, present, and future. What does he state? There, if there is forgiveness, there no longer remains an offering for sin. There's no more offering that you could possibly give. And you cannot go back and look at how Jewish law works, how the covenant, how the old covenant works, how the atonement works. There is no retroactive offering. What was offered in the past? Well, I remember that offering. And I had faith during that offering so I can retroactively apply my faith for that past offering for today. That's not how that works.  The blood of Christ that can be temporary and can be forfeited just like the blood of bulls and goats that can be forfeited and it's only temporary. Instead, what we actually have is a blood is a payment that lasts forever and that very same blood that comes with the power of the Holy Spirit keeps us, sanctifies us, cause us to keep walking, causes us to remain, causes us to keep believing, make sure as Jesus says that we will never ever follow any other strange voice. I say this, shame on the individuals that will downplay the blood of God. And I understand they may be honestly misunderstanding the text that they love the Lord, they mean no bad intentions but still shame on the fact that this is coming out of their mouth. The fact that believers would come back and say that what Christ has done in many cases works well for them but not for others. The effectiveness of the Holy Spirit in them works for them but not for everyone else. Stop calling people who aren't saved and then saying see, that person was saved and walked away. We don't have an example of that in the Bible. I wish that people actually understood salvation. I wish people understood actually what the atonement meant in the old and what it means now, what it did. The fact that there is no longer a debt. The fact that when Jesus says it is finished, what he meant. I wish somebody would actually read the Bible instead of trying to prove their doctrinal or theological points and get to the matter. I wish that people knew that what Jesus did was enough. Amen.


Martha has a question about content strategy. She says, my problem is I have a lot of ideas. That's great. That's a great problem. I feel like I might not be putting out the right content to match and offer or launch. So glad you mentioned this because that is the common training marketing idea out there is that your content should match your launch and I disagree with that because when you try to match your content with your launches, except, okay, I allow you one piece of content that's matched to each launch. For example, yesterday, I wrote a blog post that is matched to my current launch, but that's only one piece. So you could technically say it's two pieces of content. It's a blog post plus a video related to the blog post. That's it. But did you see any of my other blog posts recently related to my current launch? None of them are. None of them are. Okay. Well, this is not really a blog post. This is an updated one, but none of my recent blog posts are related to this current launch. I believe greatly, not just believe, I've seen it work really well to separate your content from your selling. I mean, the problem with most marketers is that there's so much agenda for every piece of, every blog post, every video. There's always agenda. Ah, I'm pretending to be nice to you and trying to be generous to you with my heart and my ideas. But secretly I just want you to buy from me and hire me.  Sorry for the language.  Before I understood what authentic marketing was, I was doing the same thing everyone else was doing. So if you want to read more about separating content from selling, do that. When we can give content from a place of generosity and genuine exploration of our ideas and genuine service, it feels so much better. Our audience feels it. We build a great relationship with people over time. And when we're ready to launch, we're just ready to launch. We're just gonna tell people, just be honest. So I am authentic about two things, right? I'm authentic about my content. Number one, I'm not trying to sell you anything in most of my content. Number two, I'm authentic about my launches.  I'm gonna sell it to you. I'm gonna be loud. Not maybe I don't have to be loud, except now.  Why shouldn't I sell it to you straight to your face?  You see what I mean? Now this YouTube video has to be have the explicit tag, right? So, but you see, like we authentic people, we were like caught in between two worlds. On the one world, marketers telling us our content should have agenda. Should always try to sell something. And on the other part, like we're so afraid of selling. I'm like, let's drop both of those and be authentic in both. So anyway, that's my rant about being authentic in our content. Does that make sense? Yeah, okay. Yeah, it does. And then let's get to this other one now.


Whoever you think is in charge of this universe, whoever, whatever you think is in charge of everything, you do realize it's not their job to meet all of your preferences, right? I'll say it in the first person because I don't want to, I'm not trying to project on you guys. Whoever's in charge of this whole thing and ain't their job to make sure Alan Stein Jr. gets all of his preferences every day. So when you look at it like that, it makes me laugh. How foolish was I to think that the universe should conspire to meet all of my preferences? There's no shortage of things for us to have very valid complaints about or to make excuses about. And almost all of those things are outside of our control. If the way we perform, the way we behave, our attitude, our optimism, if all of that is contingent on what's going on in the outside world, then we are at the mercy of whatever's going on around us. And that's dangerous. That basically means we're just, we're puppets.


You just follow your heart, so however it plays out, it plays out, but then in the end, you feel this connectedness, this feeling like nobody is leaving anybody. It's not a given fact of life that you have to leave or that you have to separate in some way. It's beautiful. There's a part where Jesus teaches that he says you have many, many strange beliefs, but perhaps the strangest of all your beliefs is the belief that you have to lose the ones that you love. And when you think about it, in this world, that seems to be a basic belief that you only have a limited time with the ones you love and that that time ends and then you lose them in the end. And it really, when you think about it, is pretty strange belief. That's where we're feeling all our love and connection, the belief that it has to end is a good one to question. So it's like what we get when we go deeper into spirituality and have the experiences, the continuity of life, but it's within our hearts. It's not a continuity that we find in time. And so it's good as we go along to stop looking for it in time, to stop trying to depend on time to bring us the continuity. Because it's like this world seems to be a world of beginnings and endings, of breaks, of departures. And if you really keep your faith in that, that's when it can get kind of disheartening, depressing, sad, lonely, and so forth. If you keep your faith in the world, in the images of the world, you can't help but come to that kind of feeling. But it's not the end. It's not the goal. And you can find that in the Emangio lot, about page 7, something like that. There is no end to relationships. It's impossible to have an end to a relationship. It will continue sooner or later, when you are ready for it. Yeah. It helped me one time when I was going through a breakup many years ago, and I just read one sentence, and it was basically that you will appear to separate. I mean, just that word appear, and then followed by the message that all relationships are maximal, that each one has taught and learned the most that they can in any relationship. And it's like healing words coming through, because I think the heartbreak and the sadness is always what could have been, or this idea that I didn't complete what I needed to complete. And this is saying, oh, it's maximal, even when people appear to separate the most that you can teach and learn, the closest you can come to forgiveness you did with this experience, and it's maximal. And, of course, it continues on, and you have other opportunities. It's not like, oh, it's over, and that's it. It's always like you have more opportunities. So even when people will say, oh, I didn't get to say goodbye to my father or my mother before they passed away, or I didn't really get to say what was on my heart, or express the love that I had for my parents, or something before they passed away, the opportunities just keep coming and coming and coming. And also, there's an idea that somehow that communication is limited to the body, as if like, oh, I blew my chance. Their body is gone now, so I blew my chance, and it's like there's all kinds of research, everything from near-death experiences to out-of-body experiences to all around the world now. There's lots and lots of literature on people that seemingly are in comas, are brain dead, have no activity going on, and they seem to be completely out of it from what the world would say. And if communication was based on the body, and on brain activity, and on words and so forth, then it would seem like that is a break, a coma is a definite break in communication. And yet, over and over, you'll hear stories of patients that come out of comas, and they'll say, why did you tell that story about me? And during operations, they'll come back after they come out of anesthesia and say to the doctor, why were you joking about this during my operation? So clearly the evidence is starting to flood in over and over that communication is not limited to the body. And a lot of the sadness and hurt and loss is based on the belief that it is limited to the body. I mean, it's one thing to feel somebody's touch or hug or caress, that's one form of communication. It's another form of communication to sit there and have a cup of tea and coffee and have just a very intimate talk. Talk about your deepest thoughts and feelings, and it seems like if that body is not there, then you can't do that. I always tell people, well, you might as well keep on talking to them because they're still there. You just can't see them, but they're still there. When they talk about communicating with the dead, it really is, it's really that you're communicating with yourself all the time. Everything you think and say and do is really teaching yourself and the whole universe.   And then when you learn to change your tune and you start to replace those thoughts with loving thoughts, with thoughts of your true nature, then it's like you're broadcasting with a new frequency. You've changed your channel to a higher channel, a channel that's more approximate to the truth of who you are, and that is teaching you and everyone who you are. So this is why now when they're coming in quantum physics, they're saying that there really is no matter in matter, that basically all of time and space is just energy and it's vibrating either very slowly, we would say that what seems to be flesh or the earth or something that's very hard like wood, this seems to be vibrating, energy vibrating at a very slow rate, and then as you go higher and higher into the vibrations and into the ethers, you start to approach more of a purified state of energy or light which is who we are. That's what we were created, we were created by loving God and the likeness and image of God. God certainly isn't a piece of wood or a little slab of flesh or a rock. God is far beyond those tiny little manifestations. God is this beautiful pure abstract light of wisdom and love that just radiates forever and ever and ever in eternity and who we are is an expression of that light. So when we forget who we are, we seem to identify with what we could call more dense vibrations of energy and the more we release these beliefs, these limiting beliefs and these thoughts we hold about ourselves, when we approach that much more abstract experience. We truly are an idea in the mind of God. You know, sometimes people say, I like the feeling that I'm a child of God, but I don't even know what that means, you know, are we all children of God? It's like, well, that's a nice metaphor, but God didn't create the body. God is perfection and what God creates is perfect. Just like we get apples from apple trees in this world and bananas from banana trees and oranges from orange trees, you get the same fruit from the parent. And so if the parent is spirit, the fruit of the parent is spirit. It would be strange to have a creative parent that was pure spirit that started popping out these avocados. You know, where do these avocados come from? Where do these little slabs of flesh come from? But except that they are the projection of the belief in separation. If we believe we could separate from that love in life. It's a crazy idea, but if we actually believe we could separate and you could use the same dynamics of in heaven, we just extend and radiate love forever and ever. But if you took a crazy idea that you were separate from God and you projected it like a little dark speck, you projected it, then this world, these bodies are projections of separation. And it does even look like separation.  It looks pretty convincing. It really looks like everybody is separate. They've got their own space, their own histories, their own goals and agendas, their own personalities, they seem to be unique, their own little fingerprints, each one on the hands. If they were like little toys, they would look pretty convincing. As convincing for the idea of separation, they're also unique. You know, even the ones that look alike, the more you get to know them, hmm, no, they are not the same. But this is why we need to forgive because we are perceiving a realm of separation and we need to have a unified perception. We need to come to a different way of looking at the world like Jesus did. When he was on the cross and could say things like forgive them for they know not what they do, that's not the typical words you would expect from somebody who's just been strung up on a cross.  That's not what you would expect. But if he was in a state where he could see the unification, the unified field of everyone, Jesus could see beyond the separation, he could see the unity, he could see the unified field of perception where everything was completely unified. Like a dance, like you can see the whole dance or the big picture that people talk about. I want to see the big picture. And therefore it would be easy to say from that perspective, forgive them for they know not what they do. It's just like, don't put belief, don't put faith in these actions and these behaviors. God is still love. God hasn't changed. God is not changing no matter what the appearances are. So how beautiful that we have an opportunity that that is our life's purpose is to see the world in a different way, to see the way that Christ saw. And the beautiful thing about Jesus is that he really didn't try to beat people over the head with it either. I've seen lots of portraits and pictures and paintings of Jesus and the ones that really stand out for me are the ones where he's standing there and he's got his arms out like open, outstretched. You know, come unto me. It's like he's not trying to grab anybody and twist their arm behind their back. He's not forcing anybody to come. He's just got the arms outstretched and they're open and they're very welcoming. It's just like saying, come, come and rest. Rest in me. Rest in my love. So that's really the invitation that what seems to be time and what seems to be separation is just playing out like a movie. And we could say that this, we could call history, a very long movie. It's just a very, very long movie.   And that's about what a human life is. It seems pretty long while you're living it, but it actually is more like just a little flicker that's flickering on the water, just a reflection. And so what is the purpose of life? What is the purpose of that flicker? Except to forgive, except to awaken to your true nature, your true reality, the way God created you. You know, that's a vast purpose. And yet how easy it is in this world to lose sight of the flicker, to lose sight of the purpose. Look at all the things that you can get distracted on, worried about, concerned about. Things like money. You could see from the movie last night that these people were really concerned about the money. They had a budding relationship starting, but most of their conversations were about television ratings, selling trinkets, kinds of crazy trinkets they were selling on those shows. But most of their time and their energy was focused on the selling of these trinkets, the ratings, getting higher ratings, getting an 8% increase. You know, is it selling things was life or death? And then in the middle of that they were trying to fall in love, which is not easy to do when your life is so distracted on trinkets. You have to begin to release your mind a bit from the trinkets to do that. And you could see how the holy man was just symbolizing a state of detachment, a state of non-judgment, of allowance, when they would come to him and they would say to him, after they gained a bit of respect for him, at the beginning they were trying to just, he was trying to get rid of him, you know, get him out of here, let him go on. I told you you shouldn't have waved, that whole grievance came up over and over about waving, waving, waving. You started this whole thing by waving to a stranger. And yet by the end they were saying, Ricky was saying to him, you know, what do you think? And basically G was saying, what do you want? I'll do it, I'll do it for you. What do you want? You know, how beautiful, so much allowance. Imagine the kind of relationships you'd have in this world if you were partnering up with someone or a group of people that you just poured your heart out and you were asking for help and advice and instead of telling you what to do, you simply said or your partner simply said, what do you want?  You know, it was like G was saying to him, I love you. I love you. I totally unconditionally love you. Now what do you want? I'll love you after your decision. I love you before your decision. You know, that's really a beautiful expression of love with so much strength and confidence that you can just allow someone to make a decision and then love them right beyond whatever that decision is. And we do get a lot of practice.  We get practice with our friends, with our family, with our coworkers, with our boss, you know. And it seems like we get lots of opportunities to get so in touch with what we want that we actually come to a state of mind where we realize that we are very powerful in God's, created in God's likeness and image, and what we want is what we get. We always get what we want. As you sow, so shall you reap. Giving and receiving are the same. What goes around comes around. The law of karma. I mean, it doesn't matter what culture, whether you read the Bible or the Bhagavad Gita or philosophy or whatever, there's a basic law of the universe which is that giving and receiving are the same. That's also why we have sayings like, be careful what you pray for. You just might get it. Oh, it's more than just might. It is. You will get it. And if you will get it, if you pray, if you ask and you shall be given, if you knock and the door shall be opened, you really have to get clear on what you're asking for. Because if you're asking a miss, if you're really asking for something that we'll call egoic or something that is a private wish or desire, you will get it and it won't be satisfying. And then you'll wish again, like a wishing well. Or like having a laden with the genie. How many was it? Ten wishes? You get more than ten in this universe. You keep wishing and wishing and wishing and you keep receiving and receiving until you purge, until you purify your heart and get to the point where you're asking is in alignment with the Spirit. And then you can become so in alignment with the Spirit that suddenly asking sounds absurd. Like, what if you had everything? What would you ask for? What if you had the Kingdom of Heaven in your hand, so to speak? You really knew what the Kingdom of Heaven was and suddenly you wouldn't be asking for things to be a certain way, for things to be different. Imagine how funny that prayer sounds to God. Please, God, let things be different than they are. And yet, when we grow up, how much of our prayers, how many of our prayers are that prayer? Can I have more of this? Can I have more of that? Can I not go to this? Can I, you know, asking for circumstances to be different? Yes. You say that you always get what you want. I have a friend that would not agree with you because she's coming to our Costa Americas group in Los Shafi and she is 45 years old now. She has always wanted a man, a husband, and a child and she has not got it. And she's praying and she's praying, and we say to her that we love to God, but you say that yes, even if it's very private for us and even if it's our ego that wishes it, so what would you say to her? The one who's single and alone when she's ready to be...  Yes, yes. Well, it's kind of like on the surface of form we could say that whatever seems to be going on in specifics and forms is just the answer or bringing us the answer to the prayer of our heart in a specific form. So we never really ask in our hearts for things. We're really asking for an experience for a state of mind. And if you have to talk more with her you would have to say, well, what is your experience? And she said, well, I'm lonely.  I want a feeling of joining, of connection. I want to share my life with someone and I want to share the joys of being a parent and so on and so forth. But I'm lonely. And so if you really got her to get to the point of starting to admit that there's a lack going on and it could take the form of loneliness or feeling isolated or feeling empty, unfulfilled, whatever words she would come up with and you would talk with her and she would express her things, feeling empty and a bit alone and a bit unfulfilled. But okay, the world, the way your life looks is a reflection of those feelings. You're feeling empty or isolated or alone and the way your life looks, it's not the way that it looks isn't making you feel that way. You're feeling that way because of your consciousness because of where you're at and you're feeling that way because of your prayers. If you're feeling lonely or empty or isolated, you're praying for loneliness, emptiness and isolation because you're always getting what you're praying for. So the form is simply outpicturing it's bringing witness to an inner state of mind. We always look inside first and then we look outside and we see out there what we saw in there. So that's how you would talk with her and approach it with her and you would start saying, you don't really want to be lonely, do you? You would start working more and cultivating the experience within the feelings, looking at the beliefs, looking at the thoughts that are running through the mind on a daily basis and say, good news is you're not a victim. You're not powerless based on those thoughts. You are not powerless based on those beliefs. You can change them. You can change them as quickly as you'd like. You have no time limits on it. You can change. Then, of course, demonstration is the best. All of us have known people we've met who we've met some very, very happy, joyful people. Some of them are what the world would call single and some of them are what the world would call married. Some of them have children. Some don't have children. Happiness, joy, love, they're not circumstance dependent. If they were circumstance dependent then everyone would go for the same thing. Well, you've got to be married and have children to be happy. Then it really puts the pressure on the dating game. You know, if it was so. Or you must be single and you must not have children to be happy. Some people have told me they believe that. If only I was single and didn't have children then we see it's not dependent on the circumstances. And people all know this, so you could talk to her about that. But she can recognize this. It's just that feeling of being alone. Sometimes people can say, even when I'm in a crowd of people, I feel alone. And sometimes when they're on a walk in the forest and they're all by themselves they feel such joy and connection like they feel connected to the whole universe and everyone. So it's the same with the feeling of connectedness versus aloneness. It's not really circumstance dependent. Even though the ego or the error would teach us that, oh yes, you are feeling the way you are because of some circumstance. So it's very practical. You can have a good heart-to-heart talk with her. So it comes down to your core belief about this. Yeah, your core belief. Quite vicious. Yeah. Yeah, I had students back in the 1990s and I would just go every day. We'd have these sessions and be so happy and some of them would say, David, you know, yes, yes, we see you're very happy but your circumstances, you know, I said if you were married and if you had children and if you had a mortgage and if you had a boss like I've got and this and this and this, let's just see how happy you would be. And I'd say, well, it would be really strange that God would set up a world where some people could have fortunate circumstances and other people could have unfortunate circumstances. You know, wouldn't it be much more reasonable to think that whatever world you're perceiving is there by your own selection that you've selected your life as you know it. You've built it. It's like a little child with the building blocks, you know, making a castle, making a little fort or something, you know, building it and then looking at what has been built and it's like there's really no point in lamenting circumstances because they're thereby decision they've been chosen and of course you can choose again. You know, it's not like you're locked in to those circumstances. You can even choose to seem to change those circumstances although I would say that that's not even a real change. It's like I always say like rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic. You know, the ship is going down. You've seen the movie Titanic. The engineer who built the ship knew exactly how many compartments were in it and asked very commonly asked questions when it was at the big party underneath from the deck. The ship's been hit. We've hit an iceberg. It's taking on water. How many compartments of the ship are filled up? They told him how many were sunk. He knew he knew his engineering. He knew he didn't have to wait for time. He said, we're sunk. The ship will sink. There's no doubt about it because so many compartments had already filled up with water and he knew exactly how many it would take to sink the ship. And it's the same way. You don't really have to try to figure out the world. How am I going to get out of this situation and then when I get out of that then I've got to deal with this one and then if I escape this one then I'll have to face that one. It can get pretty depressing and I don't think how am I going to unwind myself out of these circumstances that I've put myself into. But then if you say, no I don't really have to figure it out. In one sense, you know, the Holy Spirit, Jesus, are saying, oh, this world was over long ago, he says. So you don't have to be concerned about how to revive it or revive your life. It's history. Your life, even if you think it's ahead of you, it's all history. It's all over and gone and it's been gone for a long time. The Holy Spirit healed this thing long ago. Then he comes in with a section on the real alternative and he says, all of the roadways of the world lead to death. It doesn't sound very positive, actually. All of the roadways of the world lead to death. You can choose, you can continue to choose as many as you would like. You're given to you straight. They all lead to death. So there is another way. The Kingdom of Heaven is within and there is a real alternative. It's not really a dark pessimistic thing because you have an alternative that's always there waiting for you. But it is helpful to know that no matter how much you try to improve the circumstances of your life, that in the end it's more of a surrendering. It's more of a yielding over. Thank God I was wrong about this. Take this from me. Take the whole thing. I'm not going to try to prop it up or fix it up or improve it anymore. Please take the whole thing and then let me receive your grace as a certain replacement for this thing that I seem to make. That's a very relieving, comforting idea because then you don't really have to do the task of trying to work out your salvation or figure out how to extract yourself from a certain set of circumstances. You actually just have to be willing to be guided and led moment by moment and share confidence that the guide within you knows the way and all you have to do is listen and follow and you will be led surely back to a state of peace. And that's wonderful. You can just say thank God that it's that way. Instead of being concerned about the question what should I do, it does help you cultivate and go deeper and deeper inward. So instead of really asking yourself what shall I do, you can say what is it that I want? I mean really go back much deeper like Shakespeare said, to be or not to be. That is the question. It wasn't about doing this or doing that. There was no pressure put on what do I have to do. It's very heavy. No one likes to feel if they have to do something. But to start in a realistic way to go inward and say what do I want? What do I really want? First you start to acknowledge the power of your wanting. Instead of feeling like a victim of the world oh, this is my life story and this happened to me when I was 7 and this happened to me when I was 12 and if you're just a victim of circumstances, that's not true. And if everything that you experience is there through what you want, it couldn't even seem to be in your experience unless you wanted it, then the first thing to do is to acknowledge the power of your wanting. Instead of playing little, instead of playing weak it's important to say okay, I must have a pretty powerful mind going on here and these thoughts that I've just called are all this crazy static that's in my mind and I'm just trying to go away, get away. I better first acknowledge that even with this chatter that I have a very powerful mind so whatever is chattering that little chatter box in there I better investigate what's going on with this chatter box because if I have a powerful mind I will experience. I am not alone in experiencing the effects of my thoughts that's the way Jesus puts it in Course of Miracles. And then once you start to acknowledge the power of your wanting, the power of your prayer then you can start to go deeper inward with what is it really that I want? What is my priority here? And I would say as you go deeper inward with that you start to realize that you want to use the power of your wanting and direct it towards peace of mind. What trinkets of the world could you possibly want if you had the option of choosing peace of mind? Everlasting peace I mean what I had a guy in Florida one time who says if I open my mind to God can I still have my Maserati? Well you just have to really get clear of what matters most to you. What you really really want and then once you get into the power of your wanting then you start to discern to use your discernment determination and I think everyone of course is more and more to that place of seeing that oh I want a state of mind I really want the peace of God in the workbook of A Course in Miracles Jesus says I want the peace of God to say the words is nothing but to mean the words so that's where you really have to be in touch with what you want because there's no spiritual cliches or phrases that magically you just say the words and ah it is there we're like Dorothy in the Wizard of Oz they told her all you have to do is click your heels together little red ruby slippers three times one two three and say the words there's no place like home there's no place like home to go home in one sense Glenda the Good Witch is telling the Holy Spirit speaking and saying you always had the power to go home and that's true it's just that it's beyond a catchphrase or knowing the right mantra or saying the right words like one of those old stories about witches abracadabra and you've got to say just the right words to have it unlock the spell this is really saying you have to go in your heart and you really have to be sincere about this wanting what is it that I really really want and then all things open up from that you don't need intelligence you don't need lots of money you don't need lots of skills and abilities all the things the world would say are essential but you do need willingness you just need willingness and willingness goes a long way I know in my life I didn't have a lot of money I didn't think I had a lot of skills or anything I know I was very, very willing to be shown to let the doors be opened show me the way with real honesty and sincerity you know and wow if you come to God with willingness and sincerity then watch out I would say you'll knock your socks off really David it's little and you don't know how can you increase willingness how can you find I mean you can have a little willingness and you're very attracted by ideas of the cause for example so you can start and then you stop maybe so the willingness is not there really so how can we work for for ourselves and even for others and increase willingness it's just like something of this world if you were going to learn it if you were learning anything of this world you practice it and it's the same with willingness or it's like with the muscles you when you exercise muscles and you exercise then you seem to be developing a strength over time by through the practice of the exercise and it's very much that way with willingness that you have a little willingness and then it seems like you're called upon again and again in circumstance in opportunity after opportunity to have this willingness you know he says in the course no matter what the circumstance no matter how many times it seems to repeat or no matter how challenging it can seem to be my brother choose again so it's a little different than the things of this world we're used to to practicing we're used to doing things like exercise or reading something over and over memorize it for an exam or something like this but we just weren't raised with this idea of opening to guidance from God and practicing this little willingness over and over we through the ego generated a world of seeming authority figures from teachers and parents and so-called experts that tell us what to do and very much have been in the role of blindly just following I was told what to do so I must do it instead of questioning and saying why like that story of the little child the emperor has no clothes on the emperor has no clothes everybody can see that the emperor has no clothes and everybody goes along with the charade never acknowledges that the emperor has no clothes until the little child comes along and goes hey he's not wearing any clothes there's a certain sincerity to be able to just let's call it spade to spade let's call it like it is and not just blindly heed and follow those that are supposed to be in charge we certainly have a lot of us have gone through that with religion where we've just listened to figures priests and ministers and could be a pope it could be a rabbi some kind of figure that is supposed to know the religion and know God and we feel like we don't know God so we better follow somebody who does and then there's of course a lot of disillusionment of that because a lot of times we uncover all kinds of hypocrisies and things that don't seem to be have integrity or have congruity we follow the flesh and then we get the results of following the flesh and yet the willingness I think what I would say is like with a course in miracles if you're willing for miracles then you start to experience them and they feel good they feel very good and so when you have that experience of being willing to listen and follow and then you have a very joyful wonderful experience something inside you goes hmm interesting maybe I should try that again and so you do and that's why it seems to be a course in miracles it just like with learning in this world you have to have successes to build your confidence just like a child always was falling off a bike when they were trying to learn to pedal the bike it could be very discouraging and very depressing and they may just say that's it I don't want to ride a bike the experiences of falling off the bike but as soon as they have that experience of actually pedaling the bike and feeling a sense of balance and equilibrium and then hearing usually their friend or their parent are going you're doing it, you're doing it you can do it they still may fall off like in the movie as it is in heaven Daniel he falls off but Lena and she's encouraging and how far he has to have success at riding that bike before he's willing to go further with it so that's how miracles work and that's how willingness works you increase the willingness by your practice of it and then the more successes you have the more you gain confidence and you need that confidence because what the miracle is showing you is going opposite of everything you've ever learned in this world and that's why miracles have to be heavily reinforced because the old way of perceiving the separation way was heavily reinforced so you need to kind of turn the tide Jesus does even all of this talk about little willingness he does say at the end of the book you know it takes great willingness to see that all events and outcomes and circumstances are helpful that's another version of all things work together for good for those that love the Lord all things work together for good there are no exceptions except in the ego's judgment that's the mind training that we're working on you can imagine just being in that state where it's like la la la la la no matter what's happening, earthquakes typhoons all things work together for good you know it's not really people will say David that's so Pollyanna Pollyanna she just it's all the good it's all the positive it's kind of got a negative pejorative context in this world but it's actually beautiful to be in that state what would you say about Burma and what has had the earthquake in China all things work together for good yeah they do all things I was just talking to some friends about that because I was visiting in Berlin and they were saying interesting things going on with China with the Dalai Lama and all this conflict around Tibet and then the Olympics coming and all the controversies and peace marches Tibet and saying they were going to communicate with the Dalai Lama with its envoy but then how much it is just for show versus actual heartfelt communication and then lots of things going on like during the winter intense snowstorms people trains and transportation systems shut down and it's been quite a series of events that have been going on and in one way what's going on with China is just paralleling what goes on with everyone every individual that we really need to open our communication channels up in honesty and sincerity and when we don't when our heart is closed then it seems like there's all these obstacles and blocks in the world but they really aren't in the world what's going on with China is kind of a symbol about how it's so important to open up guidance and to be guided and to flow with that guidance as opposed to staying with the hard line or staying with the old ways every it really comes down to mind or consciousness even when you see pictures or stories of monks that are becoming more proactive for like freedom fighters again for the month you have to go back to what's my purpose am I to find peace of mind or am I to try to free a country this is the same thing Gandhi went through he kept trying to free India from the British and the deeper he went the more one guy said Mr. Gandhi are you a saint trying to become a politician and Gandhi answered no it's the opposite I'm a politician trying to become a saint Gandhi was well aware that as much as he was going for a political solution that he grew up in India the tradition of the great saints and mystics and Gandhi hated to be called Mahatma because it was great soul and he in the context of Ramana Maharshi and Yogananda and many great great Bira Kannanda and Krishna and the whole tradition of coming to enlightenment and self-realization he was like no I'm a politician trying to become a saint I don't care how famous you say I am I don't care how many people you say follow me and this and that I'm experimenting with truth I'm trying to work on my own soul here and trying to purify it and it doesn't help when you call me Mahatma it's just feeding my ego so stop it no so you see it puts everything in a context of how it's really valuable to go for that transformation of consciousness where you are seeking not to change the world not to free a country or to free a group of people even but actually going for a state of mind that is free that has forever been free and that's a huge leap in consciousness I mean I get a gathering I think in New York City one time and this woman came who has spent her whole life as a child advocate and a social worker and striving to make people's lives better to leave the world a better place and she spent a whole afternoon with me and a gathering and just had her pad and pencil and just with all her openness and sincerity she was just like almost squinting to try to open up to some of these ideas at the end she came up to me and she just said oh I feel you all the love pouring from you and I feel such sincerity and such wisdom and happiness she said but ideas you're sharing are just contradicting so many things that I believe in my whole life my whole my job my all the effort and energy I met a woman I did a talk in Geneva and I met a woman who was the head of UNICEF in all the Middle East I think it was she had been based in Iran and so she had been working with UNICEF her whole life was dedicated decades to helping children and feeding the poor and so on and so forth and she came to me there in Geneva and she came up afterwards and she just was smiling she said oh I'm just so glad I got to hear these ideas oh it's so exciting but wow really it was like it was a stretch such a passion and a desire to help to be altruistic and truly helpful and then start to come into some of the deeper ideas the most helpful thing you can do is to free your mind from ego thinking and from trying to fix and change the world and so it's a progression I certainly went through the very stages myself from starting off and oh David you're very good in science and math and you would excel in taking all the aptitude test in high school going to this program in high school called engineer for a day and they took me to they took me to the plant where most of the the propulsion the jet engines, those big things that are hanging on the plane are built, general electric in Cincinnati not too far from my peace house built these massive turbine engines and they stick on the planes all around the world so I went there and kind of toured and oh you're very good in mathematics and calculus and science and everything so I started off in the university in engineering something wasn't right just wasn't my calling so then I got into more of the urban planning and then I got more interested in causes and making the world the planet a better place and that's the progression you know if you watch everyone goes through these progressions where you want to be helpful to become less egocentric and less self centered on the personality stuff and you want to help and then you kind of swing over maybe towards more towards service or helping others in some way and many people burn out with that along the way they feel so tired they feel drained working with clients and it's almost like they're trying to there's a dam and the dam is breaking loose and the water is squirting out and they're taking little rocks and little clumps of clay every day and try to plug as many holes in the dam as they can and they come home exhausted they're just totally exhausted just plugging the holes every day and feeling like almost like a martyr I'm sacrificing my life here to make the world a better place and it's too big of a job and then progressively you go deeper into spirituality and you get to a point where you start to realize the reason it is so draining is because it's an inside job that you can't fix all of the problems of the world on all those different levels from communal levels and interpersonal levels and psychic conflicts and conflicts between nations you know if you put all your energy into trying to solve the world in that way you will become drained because you're looking for a solution where there is no solution you know you can't just keep trying to plug the dam you know you have to get back to where all that pressure that water pressure is coming from you've got to go back into the mind there are many examples of people I remember when I first got into A Course in Miracles I started watching these videotapes of people who are working with A Course in Miracles the speech writer for the president of the United States studies A Course in Miracles I'm like you've got to be kidding me I'm listening to Milton Friedman and he's like going he said on the video before we can have peace between nations this is the speech writer for the president talking we need to come to inner peace we need to learn to forgive in our own awareness in our own consciousness before we can have peace in the world oh then I saw another guy who was a pentagon general former pentagon general who got out of he got out of being the general thing and he started working for the Library of Congress United Nations he left his whole general role behind and he became an advocate for communications better communications between nations he was representative to China and he worked for United Nations Library of Congress he got into A Course in Miracles we have this former pentagon general now who's working for the United Nations and he says on the video I opened the book up and the passage that really struck me because I had spent my whole life trying to change the world was seek not to change the world seek rather to change your mind about the world this is like a pentagon general and somebody who's in the United Nations reading, getting hit from Jesus and what did he do he married Judy Scutch the publisher of A Course in Miracles and he spent the last decades translating A Course in Miracles into all these different languages he's the one who was in charge of getting it translated into Swedish so the book if you're reading the book in Swedish there's a ex pentagon general from the United States that was involved in you reading that book in Swedish because he married the publisher and he spent he's very devoted, his name is William Whitson and he spent the last decades starting off in the 70s and now we're in 2008 like a steward stewarding this book along


Hi, welcome to Visual Studio Toolbox. I'm your host Robert Green, and with me is Phil Jepixi. Hey, Robert. Hey, Phil and I are continuing our series on design patterns. Correct. And today we are going to talk about the template method pattern. True. So let's, as we've done with the other ones, pull up the definition, courtesy of Wikipedia, and the template method pattern defines the program skeleton of an algorithm in an operation deferring some steps to subclasses. Whole lot of mumble, jumble words, right? Really what we're talking about is we want base classes to have specific implementations of certain steps of a process. Okay. Right? We want the process to happen in the right order. We've been using the e-commerce example through all the episodes so far. Take the order, pick the order, pack the order, ship the order. Right. Right? Think about making a pizza. Mm-hmm. You certainly want to take the order, process the payment, which we forgot to mention just prior. Make the pizza, cook the pizza, cut the pizza, box the pizza. Well, we got to box it. Box it. Right? See, that's where we have a template. As soon as, maybe, or plate it. Or plate it. Right? Well, let's say it's going out for delivery. Yeah. So you don't want to get that order messed up. No. Right? You don't want to put it in the box and then put it in the oven. That would be bad. Right? Right? So we want this. But that can't possibly be the pattern. No, that's not the pattern. Do things in the right order. But that's part of it, right? So we've got this template to do things. Yeah. Right? So defines the program skeleton of an algorithm. So the algorithm is, how are we going to make this pizza? But it's the deferring some steps to subclasses that makes it part of the pattern. Because if it's just, oh, what are the five steps you need to do to make a pizza? Get them in the right order. That's not the pattern. No, because you could do that with the command pattern. Right. Right? Well, you could do that by writing the right code for crying out loud. Well, yeah. Right. Okay. So you can read the fine certain steps of an algorithm without changing the algorithm structure. Mm-hmm. Right? So let's say if cooking the pizza, you're only going to half bake it. Or you're going to twice bake it or things like that. Right? So a derived class can change how that particular step works. Okay. But I haven't rewritten the algorithm. The algorithm itself is still the same. Cool. Right? Right. All right. So let's look at the code. And this is one of the rare ones where I don't have unit tests around it. But it's a pretty self-explanatory pattern. Mm-hmm. But I think there's a lot of... It's pizza that's going to pass. Yeah. There's a lot of... Pizza is good, right? It's how you get all the developers in one room, right? You bring in free pies. So here is my abstract base pizza store. Okay. And I have to thank the... You know what? We haven't been mentioning resources in any other episodes. But one of the things that we're going to put in is a link to the headfirst design patterns. And we'll put that in all the show notes. That's an awesome book. And so I want to thank them for inspiring the whole pizza theme that we'll see in several other patterns as well. So here are our pizza steps. Take the order. Process the payment. Make the pizza. Cook the pizza. Deliver the pizza. And then we're returning this out of the method. Didn't really need to do that. Okay. But we are. And we've got some things that aren't going to change regardless of the type of pizza. Right. Processing the payment and delivering it happens the same. Yes. Regardless of the type of pizza. I'm going to charge a credit card. I'm taking cash. However that works. You got to calculate the price. Calculate the price might be something that varies but not actually processing the payment. And delivering the pizza is the same across all pizzas as well. It's entirely possible that depending on the pizza you make you could deliver it differently but. It is possible and then you would have to extend this to overwrite that. Yep. Right. Okay. So we've got these base implementations for processing. So it's the fact that take order make pizza cook pizza that's always going to happen but how it happens can be different and therefore you put it in an abstract class. That's what makes this the template method pattern. Yeah. And to be clear it doesn't have to be abstract. I could have made those virtual and have a standard implementation which for example we could have done with the deliver pizza. Okay. So if it's a hot pizza it's always delivered the same way. Right. But let's say you're going to order a or deliver a half baked pizza at the one that you finished cooking at home. Maybe that has a different delivery style. Maybe it has to be refrigerated. Okay. Who knows. Right. But the fact that the implementations of these live somewhere else and are brought in at runtime that's what makes this the template method. Going back well they're actually brought in at design time not runtime. Because we've got these classes built we're not changing the implementation at runtime. Okay. We're defining the implementation at design time. At runtime we could pick a different style of pizza store. But that's not the strategy pattern. We're just picking a different implementation. Okay. Right. So again we've got the program skeleton defined and we're deferring some steps to subclasses. So we've deferred the make pizza cook pizza and take order to a subclass. Okay. Now the reason to take order I love my Chicago style pizza. My wife loves the New York style pizza. But you take the order differently. Right. Because it's a different set of ingredients and different options. So that really needs to be subclass. So I've got my New York style pizza store. And there's no real implementation here because again I'm just trying to show the pattern. Right. Okay. But for take order I'm going to operate on this pizza for delivery which is defined in that abstract class. That's the eye pizza in the abstract class. And this is probably a great place for the basic factory pattern. We haven't aired that show yet but it'll be coming up as part of this series. But just know that we're going to return some sort of eye pizza. Probably be a thin crust. It's New York style. Spicy ingredients, lots of sauce. Right. And then we're going to make the pizza. And it's going to be thin crust. So we have to cook it less. Maybe blue Chicago style pizza would have to cook it longer. Right. So it's a specific implementation is deferred to the derived class. That's like make and cook. Right. Both fall into that. Right. Right. So probably cooked in a wood-fired oven for New York style pizza and a different style of onion for Chicago style pizza. Right. So that's the crux of the template method. One thing that you'll notice when we get to the factories. So you would then have a separate class for the various types of pizza. Correct. And if you created a new type of pizza that you were offering you would just have a new implement a new class different style pizza store which still has a take order make pizza cook pizza the steps are the same but how you do it is differently but regardless you're always processing the payment and delivering in the base class. Correct. Okay. And what you just maybe inadvertently called out is one of the problems with the template method is if I have a Upper East Side style pizza where the only difference is maybe the types of ingredients not pepperoni cheese but the type of cheese or the type of pepperoni now I have to create a whole new derived class handle that one method. Okay. Right. When we get into the factory patterns and there's three at well two and an honorable mention but we'll just call it three you'll see where it takes the template method and fixes that problem but for a lot of implementations this is great because again going back to that e-commerce thing if I have probably the level I would do is books perishables fragile right and so again taking the order processing the payment picking packing shipping but if I know that perishables need to be shipped a certain way impact a certain way and fragile versus books or things like that right so now we've got the take order and delivery in the base class I'm going to send it out to UPS or United States Post Office or I gotta make sure I hit everybody since you don't have sponsors FedEx I'll be like NASCAR here I'll just have stickers all over me for delivery companies yeah that would be the template method right so we've got this base but but you can have an explosion of classes with this right because every time I need a variation now I'm making another yeah now I could also implement this I'm using the strategy pattern right where I can I where the take order make pizza and cook pizza change at runtime based on the type of pizza that's being ordered yes we covered strategy pattern in the previous episode so what how would I know which one to use or how would I decide well some might say it's a coin flip okay I would say that this is probably not the strategy pattern because you're really not changing at runtime you're going to know ahead of time that this type of pizza gets cooked this way okay there's other type of pizza get cooked this other way now if you wanted to take a Chicago style pizza and not cook it all the way then maybe that's a strategy pattern right or maybe you should just make pizza the right way well or you're stuck in a hotel that doesn't have an oven and you bought a Dijon pizza and you're trying to cook it in a pan so which by the way doesn't work I can tell you from experience so but that's changing the implementation at runtime as opposed to at design time right so at design time I'm changing it because I'm pulling in a different class right I'm instantiating a different object of that interface got it right and runtime it's still for the strategy pattern it's still the same instance I'm changing its behavior at runtime not picking a different implementation detail okay make sense yep so we talked about some of the drawbacks that you could have code creep right and just explosion of classes but this is the kind of the first time we mentioned patterns aren't in isolation normally some kind of are like the the simple factory pattern you don't normally combine with a lot of others but even when we look at this what what kind of screams out at you where I've got take order and make pizza and deliver pizza you already said it that's like the command pattern right yeah go do something I don't care how it gets done right just go do it right so now we've got the command pattern tying into the template method yeah we're also going to see that in the factory patterns in lots of different places so while the command pattern and memento were pretty simple to talk about the reason I felt they needed their own show is because they're foundational to so many others okay and we're going to keep seeing in this recurring theme of how these all work together so let's say process payment and delivery pizza also changed based on the type of pizza so all five of these methods were in a different class okay is it still the temp the template method pattern so by definition what if all all of the functionality then we'd actually be looking at the factory method okay pattern okay which they're very similar and I thought about doing them together like we did the command and memento but they're different styles of patterns this is a creational sorry this is a behavioral pattern and the factory is creational okay so and again it's an arbitrary it's an arbitrary some wicked smart people when they put their book together came up with these definitions but I right I never sit there in code and say well I had a behavioral here and go through my list I'm looking at this code saying how how has this been solved before and I remember patterns I don't always remember which category they're in right right so you're going to see some that are similar and they're cousins sometimes second cousins sometimes they're not related at all but but that's pretty common in software design right because there's really nothing new that we're doing in software I mean there's new tooling and there's new processes like agile and test development things like that but at the end of the day what we're writing gets translated into ones and zeros and goes through a processor and does something right right so I think that's it okay cool the nails it template method pattern yes sweet all right hope you enjoyed that see you next time when we'll look at another 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Hey everyone and welcome to Norris Cove. I'm Yoshida. You guys today we're gonna do little little cash envelope stuffing but I wanted to keep these budget videos coming so they're not just on Mondays now for Monday Mondays but I want to cash stuff every Friday. Today is Saturday so I'm thinking of moving it to Saturday but um I have to go back and retract for last week's cash stuffing. I think I stuffed $135 after I stuffed it. I'm looking at the dates on everything, looking at my bills coming up and guess what it was bill money but it worked out where I didn't really have to use it all. I only used like 80 of it so first let's check for change and my tips. So here's my tips. I think I got some change in there. So here's my change drawer or change bottle. Let's drop that in and I felt like I didn't have a lot of change this week but I guess I did. So now we don't have anything. Now y'all here is the disclaimer for this video. This was a slower week for me work wise so you'll notice I won't have a lot of tip money. Now I do have cash but this is my booth rent and I just didn't pay it yet. I haven't paid it yet so we have 20, 40, 60, 80, 100, 120, 140, 160, 180, 200. It's no need of me stuffing this into the booth rent envelope okay. I have to pay that. So like once I finish this video I'm going to go ahead and pay that. So we're going to talk about my wins this week and we're going to do maybe we're going to do some cash stuffing. Hold on let me put this in the change drawer hold on. Okay so now let's see how much we made in tips and I'm actually think I'm about five ten dollars short on this. So we have forty dollars. I think like I said I think I'm missing ten dollars out of this and that's in the bank but that's okay. So I'll move my tips over to the side. So what I'm doing basically y'all this is pretty much what I have left. Now I I do have my online store. We did pretty good this week. We had a sale. We had some new products. I'm leaving that in there. I'm going to probably use all of that for my Vegas trip. You all know right now I'm just funding Vegas and paying bills and if I have something extra I'll put it aside. So what I think I'm going to do is I have a Vegas envelope. Here it is. Oh that's not it. Let's find the Vegas envelope. Hold on because I'm going to eventually just move everything to the Vegas envelope. I'm going to put it in my challenge envelope. So I'm going to look and see if there's a forty dollar day. I did fund this so that's what we're going to talk about this week. We're going to talk about let's see if I got four. Here's forty dollars right here. Boom bam boop. Let me take that out. So and I don't contribute contribute to this every day but what I've been doing like this week I had she wasn't a new customer. She's been to me once before but she was last minute kind of unexpected and I made like 120 from her. That's part of the tips 10 is part of the tips 110 was part of the payment. So what I did was I said that's going to the challenge. So that's what we're going to do. We're going to add this 20 to the challenge and we're going to count how much I saved in my challenge. So so that's where my tip money is going. It's going into the challenge which eventually will go to Vegas. I hope I'm making sense. So we have forty dollars was today the seventh and let me do some calculating. Okay so I don't know if y'all can see that but we should have three hundred and thirty dollars. Y'all this is just two weeks of me doing this challenge and saving not I didn't start on the first of the month or anything like that. So let me add those and then I added a hundred and ten dollars two days ago and that brought me to two ninety so we have one hundred and twenty one forty one sixty one eighty two hundred two twenty two forty two sixty two eighty three hundred three twenty three thirty. So we have three hundred and thirty dollars in our two thousand dollar challenge. I know I'm not going to have the two thousand. I'm anticipating having fifteen hundred but I don't see it because y'all this is what kind of threw me off. I should have had more money to stuff but what threw me off was all of my credit card bills were due on the first and the second. So I just go ahead and pay them on the first. Like there was one on the first the rest of them are pretty much on the second and then the fourth. So I just went ahead and paid them all on the first. So like I said some of that money that I cashed up last week was a part of that. Now here's another win for the week. Let me get to it. Eating out that envelope is empty. I'm so proud of myself. I used I took it was forty in here. I used twenty the beginning of the week I think Monday. I didn't eat out again until Thursday. So I was like oh good I use my forty dollars and roughly it was you know change left but that went into the one in five. I gotta show y'all that too. So I have eaten out again like yesterday last night and then the day so that just came out of whatever money I had in my bank account. I'm not funding anything this week cash. I think anything this week but my challenge which goes to the Vegas goes to Vegas because it's just it just wasn't there y'all. I'm just going to be honest with you. This wasn't there. This week was a very low income week. I'm going to go back to doing my weekly check ins and then you'll see how much I made for the week and how everything was allocated. Okay. I took money out of gas because guess what you guys I like it was time for gas and I had 20 in here. So I took that 20 out put another 20 with it out of my bank account probably out of that 135 or 80 dollars I put back in the bank. So that's empty. Now next week I'll probably have to put 40 and then probably use it. Okay. Booth rent like I said we could just take that 200 sticky and booth rent but it's no point. Household I had 20 in here. I took that out because I needed dishwashing liquid. I couldn't wait. I needed dishwashing liquid. I needed I skipped on the paper towels but I got dishwashing liquid. The Dawn spray. My dog needed dog food so I need to get him his own envelope. And what else did I get? Oh plugins instead of mine like three packs I bought one. My total came up to like 40 something dollars but this is what I did. I was like gosh I don't have you know the cash. I put the cash in the account but I was like I don't have all of that. So what I did was I used my Walmart card and I'm just going to pay I have a bill coming up on the 25th. I'm going to put an extra 20 on it. That makes sense. Okay. I'm basically going to pay it back. Okay. Now I'm not doing the 1000 challenge. This is the 2k challenge and we have 330 dollars in there. Y'all it was rough to three but I refuse to touch this. Okay. Refuse. And then Christmas still has 10. I didn't touch that as bad as things was. I just said nope. I'm not taking from there. So I took from things that I really needed and if I could you know float the money I would. Nothing in planning. Did I buy anything planning wise this week? No. And the one in five challenge. The one in five challenge I should have 42. I added eight dollars two days ago on the 5th. So let's count that. We got five, 10, 15, 20, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43, 44, 45, 46, and 47. So 47 dollars saving 500 ones in two weeks. Not bad. So what I said 47. Wait a minute. I'm sorry. 5, 10, 15, 20, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43, 44, 45, 46, 47. Okay. I'm off. So this should be 47. Unless I just threw some money in there and I just totally forgot. So let me change that to 47. Again, $47 for two weeks of just starting to save 500 ones. I'm not mad at it. Okay. And I'm still working on these little slips here. I just want to make sure that they're perfect because I want them a little bit smaller, but they work for me for right now. So that's fine. So put that back. Now let's see. Nothing in vacation, which again, everything from the channel is going to go on vacation. I'm going to start everything back over in September. I think between Vegas and my bills because I just decided to start saving for Vegas, which is sad because I could leave to go to Vegas in like less than two weeks.  So, and then we have my husband. And so nothing goes to debt this week. Nothing goes to eating out. I'm not stuffing that thing. Now let's get into our next binder. I'm going to separate these binders, make them make sense to y'all. But it works okay for me right now. Self care. I left this $25 in here. This is one I just didn't touch because I'm going to go get a pedicure probably if not next week, the week after that for Vegas. I wanted to do it this week, but I said, you know what, I might as well just hold off. Just oil the feet up and they'll be fine. So I didn't touch that. I just knew I was going to have to touch this, but I didn't touch it. I'm still again, this is a win for me because before seeing knowing that I had this money, I would have spent it. I would have spent it and then products. I took money out of products because I did get products and like I spent $29. So this went right away. I put a negative 30 here, that little tab. I did I spent products. So I had change left. I use Apple pay to pay my distributor. So this went into the bank. Miscellaneous went into the bank that was helping with like the bills and whatever. And it probably went to food. So we're going to cancel that. And that's that. And there was no rollover. So y'all that's pretty much how my sinking funds went this week. But again, I'm excited because I mean my sinking funds, that's how my cash envelopes went this week. But I'm excited because I've y'all it's been a long time of me not saving. And just to have this in two weeks, I'm very proud of myself. I didn't even touch Christmas. Okay, I know this is not a lot, but I'm gonna get back on Christmas once. I'm like I said, I come back from Vegas. But again, the wins this week was not touching my challenge money, not touching my one and five and adding to it. Y'all this envelope is thick and I'm just loving it. So that's that.  But it still came I still came out on top, I still paid bills. And again, I didn't touch those other items. And I was able to save. So I'm still winning. Like I said, I just threw let me make sure on the challenge. I think I did 110. Yeah, I threw 110 at this challenge this week. I didn't get to do every day, but I threw some money there. I think I did. I did $90 one day, 110 on the second, then the fifth, I put 110. So not bad. And hopefully next week, I'll be able to stuff some envelopes. So I'm thinking like not every week, I'll be able to stuff, because I'm still considered low income. And I'm just trying to make things do what they do with what I got. And I want y'all to know something. If you don't make a lot of money, it's not really how much you make is what you do with what you make. And as you can see, even on a low income, you can save. And I've really, like I said, I've just had a hard time with saving because I get paid cash daily or now, you know, you have cash up or sale or whatever. But even with those things, you can always think of something that you want.  That's another update. I need to make an envelope for nail supplies, because I do my own nails, if y'all didn't know, I do my own nails, I've done nails in the past for other people. So to create some more income, I'm going back to doing nails, taking on clients again. So that way, I can make some extra money. Also, I'm just trying to figure out different strains of income. I'm looking into the survey thing. I need to pay down this debt and I will do it by any means necessary. I said, after I come back from Vegas, I may even look into Instacart. I don't know. I've got to make some money and it has to make sense. And the only way to pay down this debt is to possibly get another job. Also, I no longer was working on Saturdays in the salon. I may have to go back to working on Saturdays in the salon. Or at least if I'm going to work on a Saturday, I could be doing nails on a Saturday and it could supplement what I would have gotten in the salon. So I'm just trying to make money anyway possible. I'm going to also sell some things around my home that I'm not using anymore. I'm going to sell that on Facebook Marketplace, Poshmark. My Poshmark probably will be listed below. So any planner items that I'm not using, I'll probably just sell them there. Trying to think of other things I'm thinking of doing. Also, I'm doing my best to increase my YouTube following. So you guys, if this is your first time watching, please do my favor, hit that subscribe button. I would like to also take YouTube income whenever I hit, you know, to be able to be monetized. That will go towards debt as well. I just want to pay off this debt. I want to get to the point where I'm comfortable, not necessarily rich, but comfortable. We all kind of think we want to be rich, but I want to be comfortable. And I want to have a nice little nest egg in the bank. So I'm going to be adding new categories. Like I said, I need a nail supply category. I'm really, I just ordered, and that was another thing I bought nail supplies this week. Didn't really need them, but I did. So I need a nail supply category. Even though I'm, like I said, I have products to do people. I just like to have that money there. So if I need to go get something or if I need to order something, I can do that. Like I bought a light for the business this week as well. So those three categories, there was another category I'm going to add, but I'll show you guys when I update those things. I will see you guys next week. Like I said, I don't know what we're going to be stuffing next week, but I'm going to surely work hard and get this debt paid down. Again, after I come back from Vegas, I'll start that $2,000 challenge again, and we're throwing everything at Barclays. Okay. All right. I will see you guys in my next video. Again, if this is your first time watching any of my content and you enjoyed today's video, do me a favor, hit that subscribe button. Also hit the notification bell so that you're notified whenever I upload content. And I will see you guys in my next video. Bye.