Hi friends, welcome back to my channel and a very special welcome if you're new here. My name is Jen. I'm a certified weight loss and nutrition coach. I'm on Weight Watchers and I track calories and macros. Happy Sunday. It is Sunday and today, today I am putting out a video that you have highly, highly requested. I get asked about this all the time, how I navigate eating out regularly and still losing weight. If you're new to my channel, I've lost almost 140 pounds and I eat out at least once a week. Sometimes two or three times per week. So today I wanted to share with you my top five tips on how I navigate eating out to still be successful with weight loss.  Make sure you're subscribed and your bell notification is turned on because I upload new videos five days a week.  Check out the description box down below for nutrition coaching, where I offer personalized two U macros and calories. Highly recommend. This is how I lost 90 pounds in the year of 2022 and almost 140 pounds total. And for accountability, I have one-on-one coaching. If you would like to chat with me directly, links and discounts to my favorite things and come join our Facebook group, we would love to have you. So let's jump into my top five tips on how to eat out on a regular basis and still lose weight. Like you, I am super busy and sometimes picking up food on the go or eating out is not only a necessity, but something that's really enjoyable in life in general and eating out is sustainable living. We eat out, we go out to dinner every single Saturday and there's at least one to two other meals that I eat out, not only for convenience, but sometimes pizza, a good old burger, Mexican food, it just sounds really good and making sure that we allow ourselves to eat out and enjoy our favorite foods is what makes weight loss sustainable long-term. We never wanna restrict or eliminate any foods or food groups or eating out or parties or enjoying our life because we're on a weight loss journey. You can put all of this together, eat out regularly and still be successful. I could come up with lots of tips and tricks to share with you when it comes to eating out, but these top five are the ones that I do every single time I eat a meal out. I'm going to share with you my favorite game-changing tip for last, but tip number one is to do a little bit of research, whether that's looking up the menu of the restaurant you're going to online, seeing what the points are, what the calories are, what are good choices for you to choose at the restaurant and even more importantly, what sounds good to you? Are you going there to have a burger and fries? Do you wanna have a sandwich, a salad, a pizza? What sounds good to you on the menu? Now, a lot of mom and pop restaurants or non-chain restaurants, they're not going to necessarily be in your calorie tracking or at the Weight Watchers app. You can often find menus online and sometimes no information is available and you won't know what you're going to be ordering until you get there. But my number one tip for you is to do a little bit of planning, prepping and research ahead of time. If you can find the menu, take a good look at it and kind of plan ahead what you're going to order. You can even pre-track that if it's something that's in your app, whether it's on Luzit, MyFitnessPal or Weight Watchers. If you know that you're going to Pizza Hut for dinner, you should be able to find that in your app and you can pre-track that and have it already in your app and deduct it from your points or calories for the day. But doing a little bit of research and preparation ahead of time can make you much more successful when you actually get out to eat. If you can't find the item in your app, if you can't find any nutritional information, do your best guess. This is not an exact science. So just track it as accurately as you can, whether that be points or calories. Just do your best to track it accurately if the nutrition information isn't available to you. Tip number two kind of ties with tip number one and that's doing a little bit of preparation ahead of time and that is to pre-track your dinner. If you can find it in the app, if you know what you're going to be ordering, pre-track it. That way it deducts it from your bank of points or calories, protein facts, carbs for the day.  You can also pre-track any other meals or snacks that you're having so you know kind of where you fall prior to going to dinner. You may be pleasantly surprised that after tracking your meals for the day, your snacks for the day and even what you're thinking about having for dinner, you may have extra points or calories left over that maybe you can have some dessert or some chips and salsa at your favorite Mexican restaurant. By pre-tracking, you know where you fall. It's kind of like a bank account. You have a set balance every day and then you deduct from that as you spend money or use your points or calories. And it's really important to know where is your balance at the end of the day or before going out for dinner. Bonus tip for you. So we could really say this video has six tips, but one thing that just entered my mind that I do all the time when I go out to dinner is I always make sure I'm the first one to order. Then I'm not tempted by what other people are ordering. So when the waitress or waiter comes to the table, I try to make sure that I order first. Generally they'll do ladies first. So if it's just me and my husband, they always ask me what I would like first, but it just takes a lot of the temptation out and going, ooh, that sounds really good. I'm gonna get that instead.  So if at all possible, try to order first. Again, so you're not tempted by what everybody else at the table is ordering. Tip number three is huge.  Do not starve yourself all day long because you're going out for a meal. Don't restrict food. Save up all your calories and points for this meal. Eat normal throughout the day. Now, if you know that you're going to be having a heavier point or caloric meal out, then make sure that the other food that you're choosing during the day is less points and less calories.  You're at a restaurant. There's a lot of excellent food choices. There's other people at your table with food that you can pick off of. And before you know it, you've overdone it in that one meal where if you would have just eaten normal throughout the day and not saved up all your points or calories and starved yourself for that meal out, you're a lot more successful when eating out. You stick to your meal. You stick to your serving. You stick to your portion. And you go into that meal hungry but not starving. That's a huge, there's a big difference between ravenously hungry and just hungry for your next meal. This is something I have really focused on with healing my relationship with food is not restricting or eliminating all day long because I have a treat or a special meal or a meal out planned for the day. I just eat normal the rest of the day and that has really helped me stay on track and not overindulge when I do go out for a meal. Now these last two tips are my favorites. These are absolute game changers for me when it comes to eating out. Tip number four, when you order your meal, immediately ask for a to-go box. This is something that I do every time I eat out. I order what I would like and when I finish ordering I say, can you go ahead and bring me a to-go box with my order? When my food arrives, I take half of it and I put it in the to-go box, seal it up, set it aside. That way I am focused on the remaining half of my meal on my plate. I don't feel bad if I eat it all.  So I can eat half of my meal and feel satisfied and get to indulge in my favorite foods while going out to dinner and I have the other half of it for another meal. This has really helped me from overeating. I have done this right out of the gate in my weight loss journey. From day one, every time I eat out I always ask for a to-go container and put half of my meal away for later. Honestly, most of the time my husband eats my leftover so I don't even get them but I know for sure what I've tracked in my tracker, I can enjoy every single bit of what's on my plate and not feel bad about it. And tip number five, my big tip, the big kahuna, the one that has saved me when it comes to eating out regularly and continuing to lose weight is to order what I want to eat, just make healthy swaps. And I've talked about this a little bit in previous videos. I do this when I travel, when I'm forced to eat out all the time. I do this whenever I go to a party, an event, or out for a meal is I make healthy swaps. One thing for me that's again, really been an integral part of healing my relationship with food and making this a lifestyle for me, not a diet. Tracking calories and macros is a lifestyle. I truly can eat whatever I want. I don't have to restrict or eliminate anything and that includes eating whatever I want when I go out for dinner. Anybody who knows me knows that I am a burger and fries girl. I love a good burger and fries. I love pizza. I love a lot of the unhealthy options when it comes to going out to eat and I still order those, I would say 90% of the time that I go out for a meal. I don't order the salad. I don't order the grilled chicken. I really truly order what I want off of the menu. And typically that's a burger and fries or pizza. We also have a lot of amazing Mexican food here in Arizona. And again, I just make healthy swaps when I order my meal. So I wanna share with you some examples of how you can do this and share with you some of my favorite foods that I like to order when I go out to eat and how I navigate that and make those healthy swaps for weight loss. So first let's chat about pizza. My husband loves pizza, I love pizza. We have an amazing pizza restaurant in our area that we go to frequently. Pizza can be really high in points, really high in calories and really high in fat.  So I really have to be mindful with pizza but I still wanna be able to enjoy pizza and go have it regularly. So my tip for you when it comes to pizza and what I do every single time we go out is I have one full slice of pizza. This means the crust, the toppings, the cheese. I eat the entire slice of pizza. And then for my second slice, I scrape off the toppings and I leave the crust behind. Generally the crust is where the majority of the calories and points are and I don't really need all that bread. I still got a full slice of pizza, right? I still ate an entire slice of pizza and then I just scrape the toppings off of the second slice. And sometimes I just eat the toppings and sometimes I add those toppings to the first slice of pizza so that it's loaded up with all the meat and cheese and vegetables and I still get to enjoy pizza crust and all. I just make a healthy swap and I have one full slice of pizza and one slice of pizza with toppings. Now, if you want a third slice of pizza I would just scrape the toppings off of that as well and eat those and leave the crust behind. I didn't eliminate the crust. I didn't restrict the crust. I actually had a full slice of pizza crust included and then I just made a healthier, less pointed, less high calorie swap. And when I track just the toppings I track what was on it. So if there's mozzarella cheese, pepperoni, salami, mushrooms I just track that in my app as individual components and then I track the one full slice of pizza that I ate crust included. Now, moving on to burger and fries this is another one of my favorite things. I love a good burger. I have always loved a good juicy burger. So what I do every time I order a burger and fries is I order my burger without the bun unless I forget to ask without the bun then I just remove the bun when my burger comes and then I just have the hamburger patty with any of the toppings lettuce, tomato, onions, pickles, cheese, bacon whatever was on my burger and then my side of French fries. I always, always eat the burger first because protein is king with weight loss and for me I focus on protein first.  So for me it's a healthy swap. No bun so that I can save those carbohydrates those calories, that, that for those French fries.  I still get French fries which are some of my favorite food but I'm generally not hungry enough to eat them all because I focused on protein first and I made that super healthy swap of taking the bun off the burger to leave room for carbohydrates, fats and calories for French fries and I would much, much, much rather have a French fry than a hamburger bun any day of the week. And lastly Mexican food again this is another thing we eat a lot. I always order a one item meal at a Mexican restaurant. You usually get to choose the item that you want on your plate whether it's a taco an enchilada, tamale, a tostada you pick the item and then it usually comes with rice and beans. I generally 99% of the time choose the enchilada. This is generally the lowest calorie lowest pointed Mexican food option with the exception of maybe like a hard or soft shell taco which I can have at home so I generally don't pick that. I try to choose foods when going out to eat especially Mexican that I can't have at home or maybe I'm not very good at making enchiladas and the ones at the Mexican restaurant are way better. That's generally what I choose. And then of course again you have the rice and the beans. So I focus on the enchilada first that is where I'm getting most of my protein from is the meat that I've chosen for my enchilada chicken, beef, shredded beef, pork whatever you choose I generally will either do shredded beef or chicken enchilada. So I focus on eating that first. I usually skip the rice I might take one or two bites of the rice and if I'm still hungry I will eat my refried beans because at least I'm getting in some added protein and some extra fiber. But to be honest with you once I finish the entire enchilada I usually only have room for a few bites of my beans and one or two bites of my rice take the rest home put it in that to-go box and again once my meal arrives I take all of my rice put it in the to-go box eat my enchilada put the rest of my beans in the to-go box and like I said usually my lovely husband finishes all of my leftovers. It is very, very rare that I eat the rice at a Mexican restaurant because I'm focused on again getting in my protein which is from the main portion of my entree which for me is generally an enchilada. Now you might be wondering what about all the chips and salsa that come to the table? I generally will have a couple of chips in salsa when the basket arrives but I would rather again focus on my meal getting in my protein and really eating what I came to the Mexican restaurant for which generally isn't the chips in salsa so I do allow myself to have a couple of chips a little bit of salsa but I save my room for my meal. I do these same swaps when I go out for fast food I do these same swaps when I go out for really any meal I make sure that I am making swaps and enjoying all of my favorite foods but just less of them similar to that burger and fries leave that bun behind so I can have the french fries or maybe you love the bun the burger is your favorite part of the meal then eat the bun instead of eating all of your french fries making these really healthy swaps allows you to still eat all of your favorite food and really order what you want off the menu not the diet food on the menu or you're not scarfing down a salad just because you think it's healthier for you spoiler alert salads generally have more calories and fat and points than a burger and fries eat what you want just eat less of it and make healthier swaps that's a big rule of thumb overall if something has more points or more calories has more fat, has more carbs you can still eat it you just eat a little bit less of it kind of like I do with the burger and fries the pizza and the Mexican food this talking about eating out is making me hungry I keep thinking about my favorite Mexican food a burger and fries we may have to eat out for a meal today but overall this is how I navigate eating out these top five tips have helped me lose almost 140 pounds and like I said eat out on a very very very regular basis I do wanna also briefly touch on going to events or parties you guys know that we have a girls night once a month with my boot camp group we hang out with my neighbor all the time go over to their house for barbecues and potlucks same approach when you're going to an event focus on protein first make sure you're filling your plate with protein vegetables and then a small amount of carbohydrates or sweets so that you can still eat everything at the party but again you're focusing on protein and vegetables first and then whatever room you have left you can add in some of your favorite carbs or sweet treats I built my plate the same way at parties and events as I do for holidays I actually shared a video over the holidays where I talked about how I navigate that and I spoke about how I built my plate I'll link that video in case you missed it because that is the same approach I take for parties and events so I hope that these five tips for eating out and still losing weight and eating the foods you love while eating out and picking your favorite foods off the menu definitely helps you out this is what is sustainable restricting, eliminating, stopping going out for dinner stop eating fast foods, stop going to parties none of this is sustainable you wanna live a sustainable lifestyle while reaching your weight loss and health goals that's exactly what I've done and for me this is how I know I'll keep the weight off because I can still eat out still go to parties and events and just learn to navigate them a little bit healthier let us also know down in the comments what are some of your tips and tricks that have been successful for you when it comes to eating out and going to parties and events and of course if you enjoyed today's video and you found it helpful give it a big thumbs up subscribe if you're not I would love, love, love to have you here and check out the description box for those videos, nutrition coaching links and discounts to my favorite things and of course we'd love to have you join our Facebook group as well next time you go out to dinner enjoy your favorite foods and still lose weight thank you so much for watching and I'll see you next time bye


YouTube this is one of my best games in a while Super Bowl for all the marbles Brady on the field And I'll show you guys how I was attacking his defense and what he was doing and what plays I used and how I manipulated Not only his user, but his zones and everything else on the field to get what I wanted down the field. So let's check it out He was running man coverage So the one thing is you I go to your man beating plays your man beating plays are great and man coverage Honestly is not that great Without zones or without pressure So if you guys want all the plays man turf calm that link is below you can get the full e-book there But the main plays I'm gonna want to try to mix in here are gonna be Saints in and they're gonna be PA shot seams now These have deep routes that beat man coverage deep down the field That's kind of what you want cuz obviously some people don't put deep blue some people put purples This guy was running a little bit of spinner or a lot of bit of spinner all game And he was running what he would do was Instead of most people you guys watch me would play blitz blitz blitz. He would go with something like this Man up everybody just like that three-man rush and he'd have purple zones on both sides most of the time While he was still in spinner. So we always had a blitz ready I always had to worry about the blitz but this is what he had he had Fred He's gonna have Fred Warner fully theme team down with like 99 speed So I gotta worry about that but this is pretty much the same defense every play How do I know because I went through enough reps of the game? This is why people pass all the time.  That's why you pass every single play That's why most players good players pass every single place So you just get repetitions against what they're doing you get familiar with the doing and I got familiar that This guy was not blitzing that often, but he always had it as a weapon So this is the play I want to run mostly because of Julian Edelman's route. It's gonna be deep down the field I kind of like to put that to the Y side doesn't really matter when they're playing zero coverage So what you're gonna see is he does a great job in this game as you watch it You can go ahead and watch that he does a great job being disciplined with his user deep down the field That's something he's been really good at. He's gonna take away this deep route to Edelman So now my goal is if I'm going to occupy his user with a deep route like that What can I put underneath of these zones and underneath of his user to get big yards against man coverage And that's pretty much the Texas route because I know I'm going to occupy his user deep with Julian Edelman down the middle of the field Now I have the whole field to work with and what I like to do is use my flat routes A lave and kiddle to kind of open up the zones and they'll take those flat zones to the sideline That way I have more space to those slants crossing routes slant and angle routes Whatever it is in the middle field. I have more space. So when I run a play like this, it's really kind of I'm only going to throw two Edelman or buyers. It sounds crazy. But those are my reads. Where are you on a user? I know you're putting zones to take away corner routes So I'll use my flat routes to push those zones to the sideline Open and vacay areas in the field for me to throw the buyers throw the slants and ultimately I want to throw deep But if he's going to take that away, I have to throw underneath. So that's pretty much what I like to do And if they're putting a bunch of purple zones or flat zones Let's put more routes to the middle of the field away from those flat zones And I'll still keep those two flat routes the kiddle in a lave. You see here They will still open up those zones that those slants and anything like that Now if you watch this game Brady kind of sold me, but you'll get into that as it goes The other play I'll show you guys is pa shot seems This is a play if you're running this playbook It's going to help you against man coverage so much It is one of the best man coverage beaters that Edelman route will eventually run Oh, we snapped the ball will eventually run by the coverage You see it right there Edelman running by Cheverius Ward And that was I didn't even let it really develop that much now in this game Now here we go. This game you guys also pay attention. Normally, I run my my tight this way But because he has a deep knockout on the right And I went and looked and he didn't have a deep knock out on the left Bang, I put this route over here. What's better about this route as opposed to the saint's in route is It's not in the middle of the field So it's harder for him to lurk with fred warner where if I keep that post in the middle field He can kind of bait me You know 10 yards and then shoot back to 50 yards down the middle of the field Whereas if I put this route all the way out here, if he doesn't put a deep blue Now i'm swearing a touchdown, you know all the way to the sideline outside the red line So he cannot use her at all. So for me, that's why this route compliments the other route so much better And one last little tip that I'll show you guys I know I defensively I get into this all the time as far as what routes are on what side of the running back Okay, his best corner route is on the side of the running back or it's on the opposite side I know this when I play defense So if he's leaning his coverage or leaning his user to a lave with this man beating route Put your running back on the other side and bluff them as if now now it's edelman running this route You know and if you don't want to bluff them if you really want to do it All you got to do is flip and now he has to guard the other side So if you mess around with where your running back goes Then you're going to mess not allow him to continually fall back and lurk that route with his user He's not going to know what side it's on. So that's pretty much what I like to do Like I said, I want to do a deep route and then we'll just have two crossing routes over the middle Pretty much the entire game just like this one going left one going right somebody deep That's pretty much how I want to attack man coverage. I don't have the idea I'm all five receivers are not an option for me when I snap the ball It's so easy to watch somebody play and say this dude was open that guy was open But you have to realize when I set up a play Half of the players aren't even an option. They're literally on the field to take up space or Remove some defensive players or make defensive players go to a spot that I want them to go to So a lot of times when I go to pass, there's only two or three people that can possibly get the ball So that's why even somebody is great and as marvelous as me may miss a read But watch how I miss reads make reads and play in this super bowl for all the marbles with tom brady a quarterback Ed, you don't be playing mad no more. Will you be grinding? What other games you guys grind boys talk to me? I I do feel like spinner I feel like I want to start mixing in some short. I think against really good players short will be more helpful than The medium, you know, not that I'm playing henry's and for us of the year But I honestly there's so much I can't wait to watch in the uh The game tomorrow night between henry and does I think it's monday, right? There's so much I want to watch man. And like I just I'm just like I want to watch henry play defensive or offense against that, you know, the dollar high pressure You know, and I like the way he played against kobo because kobo played like how I would play defense There's little things that I would have did different and I feel like henry does such a good job at like Just checking down or taking short passes against pressure That I feel like having a short knockouts against henry would almost be like a better thing to have, you know This guy sucks That is gonna stop the run Right, there's a lot but it was really like a lot of things that for me to like think about in that game is like How well is henry gonna stop the or dad's gonna stop the run with his line spread You know, he doesn't want to pinch his line, but he will if he if he has to you know I honestly feel like henry's so much. I feel like I does is like Does is really good. That's why henry is like Oh my god, was that the most perfect timing route of all time? Holy s*** good tackle though Let's go. We make that pay. We make that work. Come on. Let's go make it count I like to put my zones on 30 down here. So they play the back of the end zone or they play like in the end zone It might be stupid But a lot of these dudes that do hitches and that s*** that like, you know to attract the zones I feel like it doesn't work as well when you put it put your zone drops on I always like to play man and then like zone one side and I have the other side I got tight an out route I'll try to click on as fast as I could right there. Let's see what he does He's quick snap the s*** out the ball both times here Oh, they let him skedaddle, didn't they? Oh, they let him skedaddle, didn't they? Oh my god I feel kind of cheated I think Henry's defense is unreal. I wouldn't want to play against him to be honest I don't even know what I would do. It's man. It's zone. It's match. It's everything That dude is a demon on defense Like I only think people like I couldn't like I wanted to do a video like What does Henry do on defense? But I wish I don't even know like his is like He does a bunch of different s*** and he'll adapt Like I think he's really good on defense And that's the beauty of the cub is that it can be a lot of different defenses like dollar I mean you could run match in dollar, but you're running spinner. You're running spinner. You're running zone You know, that's what makes cub so good is that it has matching it. So this is just man and on top of that It negates threat detector So you have no idea when he's really sending the crib and when he's not which is what's really good about cub Well, everybody knows everybody that put Henry's good on defense like he's the defense player first He's even said that at once a time Tried it good effort Like I I don't see a world and where Henry gets blown out So you're gonna have to out execute Henry and I don't think I think Execution is Henry's like greatest strength, you know, he's had so many games where he kicks the game when he field goal like You're gonna ask somebody to out execute Henry is is tough dude for real How well can Dez stop to run out of dollar with his line spread? You know baseline dollar how well can you stop Henry's run because Henry's want to try to run for sure You know Especially in those clocking situations.  Do you have that? Oh my god Brady had that though. Brady had that throw just so you guys he had that One thing I was wish I was better at I feel like the run is so bad this year that like You can low key stop the run by accident You don't even have to have run defense this year and I wish I knew how to stop like All right inside zone was coming or base is coming. Why do I shoot the gap all over nickel? I feel like it just it's just screams and it's symmetrical Nichols not when I mean symmetrical is like when they audible when these crabs audible Oh my god, what the I thought it's what's all that was out of the field Like he low key got way too much yards on that run right there. Like what are we doing? Oh my god Ward Almost a medium pass right there Yep, I didn't blitz my user so my team didn't pass rush Milk man I almost want to put a spy, but I need that yellow zone. I have to use your spy right here I have to this is why sometimes I almost want to put like get a double or nothing on my team Just so you can only rush one person and they actually rush. All right, so excited. He's on quick snap I already know quick please quick snap in here God man Red zone defences fail twice Not ideal this guy's been playing like spinner, but then he's been playing coverage out of it Brady, what the Man, are you kidding me dog? All right, man I'm losing my mind right now This fair Warner is fast as Yo Now what I realized is he has deep knockout on the right side, but not the left So what I have is a At a lobby route is when a beat man covers deep and he doesn't have Deep knockout on that. So Oh, no, he ain't let him tackle me like that He's due for a blitz here pretty soon. You know boys We could even flip this play because I can catch this route He's doing a good job covering the middle of the field Definitely due for a blitz here And I wasn't ready for a good play Brady the second one in a the second time you smoke a slam Thank you, man. Just chucking in the air Like dog like are y'all am I trolling go big boy? Oh boy, he's like that's like way too much like milk man. Come on Swat he's gonna quick snap whatever it is. He's not making a hot route adjustment anything He's going to snap the ball right here Yes, sir ski Let's go man. Come on Keep sending them Ah gamble that he wouldn't put the running bag out. I didn't guard the running bag right there I really didn't because we knew somebody would come free. He well He didn't want to throw the running bag in a flat on third and 10 He didn't want to throw the running bag on a flat on third and 10 right there He didn't want to do that big boy time Hackles, let's go. Come on. Yeah, come on boys Same things don't quick snap tight slots. Oh, he don't quick snap in tight slots though He's been just throwing over the middle against me here.  I just can't click on there. That's me That's my bad, dude. I don't even know where my man went. I don't even know like That was bad That was bad too much time on a clock for a Brady man It's right inside stuff Let's go buyers That's how you start a drive right there. Maybe that's how you start a drive Let's kiddo not in and we're gonna run the ball again here My blocking just for let's go boys. Come on. I'm not clicking on the chucks the moss I'm really not. All right. It's just gonna come down to chuck the moss. That's all it's gonna come down to chuck the moss Still sending all the running bag juice, please Take a time out. Thank you. Uh, I don't want to give him time though. I just don't it's just a debate like I just don't want to give him time What's Dbo Samuel got? Short out of late. He's not even gonna get open Oh press these dudes they're not getting open End the game Let's go Harris and get far bigger off the field man. What do you think this is? Daycare? I'm just always a la ve another bomb in the super bowl a la ve Going nuts I mean, I got stuck because I swear Brady just smoked so many passes like I don't know what you guys want me to do ggs ggs ggs ggs Super Bowl Champions of the world in Texans jerseys. Will the Texans ever make it the Super Bowl? I don't know ggs Super Bowl champs a la ve mvp. What does Brady look like? Remember Elway look like Simba. What does Brady look like real Brady? I don't even see Brady. Oh, that's really Brady. Oh damn, okay Okay, EA Give us a one to ten on Brady. I feel like that's a nine. I feel like it's a nine maybe nine nine five pretty decent Brady 335 four tutties three picks though like a la ve 199 and three touchdowns. That's tough That's a tough. That's a good outing right there. 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Yn y peth ynghyd, mae'n ystafell i symud ymddangos, ac mae'n ystafell i symud ymdangos ymdangos ymdangos ymdangos ymdangos, mae Sophie Reid yn y Cymru i dda i'r gweithgwrs gyfloresgol, a'r ddangos ymdangos gyfloresgol. Sophie Reid. Thank you, Deputy Presiding Officer, for inviting me to speak to Parliament today. My name is Sophie Reid and I am chair of the Scottish Youth Parliament. I was elected to the Scottish Youth Parliament as one of the MSYPs for Girl Getting Scotland when I was 14 years old. I'm now 19 years old and in those five years everything has changed. From the Covid pandemic to the war in Ukraine and the cost of living crisis, the world has become a much more hostile and scary place. At times like these it can be even more difficult for those of us outwith the political system who are not MSPs to have our voice heard. We know all too well that often the views of those who most need to be heard aren't listened to or are crowded out by the more powerful, louder voices. As a newly elected MSYP at 14, it was a daunting and intimidating experience to step into political spaces. Even now at 19, as a young woman in political spaces often occupied by older men, I still sometimes feel alienated or ignored when they don't have young people at their centre and don't demonstrate that everyone's voices counts. Within MSYP I was able to find my voice and build my confidence in an environment that nurtured and supported me to do so. That's why I'm so proud of our youth-led structure at MSYP and to be in this position as chair. Now I'm able to work with and support other young people like me who would otherwise find it difficult to have their voice heard. That is a request I now want to make of each of you. The challenges facing us and all of you in your work in this building are immense but they are not insurmountable if we can work together, collaborate and engage meaningfully. In your roles as MSPs I urge you to make every effort to listen to and to hear the quieter voices, to nurture them, to cherish them and to empower them. Listen to the voices of young carers, of young people with disabilities, from ethnic minorities or children and young people who are care experienced. Listen to the quieter voices in the room like I was at 14. If you listen carefully the things that you may hear may surprise you. Thank you.


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Use the link in the description below to learn more about this. Chelsea, obviously, is a very difficult game after whilst we're in the middle of a very difficult run. It's the last thing you want.  You've got to play them sometime, haven't you? It's a tough game coming at the time when we're in a terrible run of form, one win in seven games in the Premier League, not good enough. But the Premier League loves this to us. Loves giving us dreadful December, doesn't it? You know, last year it was the winterest coming, wasn't it? And ironically, last December, okay, the first two games of December were great. We lost to Leicester and Liverpool, but then we played Chelsea and beat them and they were doing really well at that time. I think we drew with Arsenal and we won a couple of games and Carlo Antillotti coming in and we got to the end of December going. Actually, that was all right. It wasn't as bad as we thought. So, you know, we started December with a draw, apparently. And this is a game that is going to obviously pose many different challenges this summer to Burnley, but the players will know all about Chelsea, will know the threat Chelsea carry going in as the big underdogs. We are the underdogs, aren't we? And I think we've done all right in the games with being underdogs this season. Spares in Liverpool. I don't think we were underdogs against Manchester United, because I think everything that was happening with Oligona Solskjaer, it was all the talk coming into the game was about them and them being sacked. But obviously, Spares first day of the season in Liverpool, even though Liverpool, it was a derby, so we're always going to be, but I think this game obviously would genuinely underdogs. Chelsea, you're having a great season. Qualified top, I think, in their group for the Champions League, the third in the Premier League. So, everything is about us trying to stop them. A little bit like it was last season when we played them. Obviously, we've been in a lot worse position. So maybe that'll suit us. I don't know, but we'll have to wait and see what happens. The crowd being back in obviously will make a little bit of a difference, but it's about whether you think the two things at the weekend forever can create a seed mentality, which I think it was easy to do last year. We had Duncan in the dugout, Silver had just been sacked. It was a renewed vigor from the fans. It was like we've all got to get behind Duncan because we're in snow. We're in snow, we're in the bottom three. The manager's gone now. It's a new start. Not quite the same thing. I think we're a better team this year. We've certainly got better players. So it's whether we can create that seed mentality with all of us, but the other thing we'll have to do is we'll have to defend properly. You're up against the team now. The team over there now, outstanding. He's lightening. You've got players like Kai Havett in the Olivier. He's bangin' goals in left-right and centre. You've got even like the Tami Aibb and Ammus on the bench. So they've got top quality players. Pula Sitch is back. We know this, but you know, that's the challenge isn't it? That's the challenge. This is a team now. West Brom have beaten 3-0 at half time and now Chelsea four back and got an injury time equaliser. West Brom, who's struggled. It's got three goals against them. So it'll be a tough game. There's no doubt about it. Chelsea had a big favour for the game, but they haven't got to start producing on the day. We know we've got quality. We've got that front three that can score goals and I think will score goals with the weekend against these. It's weather for me anyway. It's weather we can keep them out. That's the bigger issue and I really hope we don't start with 3-4-3 this week. I'd like to play the 4-3. I don't think we will. I think the manager's late now. From last week, Delph probably was the last throw of the dice and obviously he's injured. So I think we will go back to 4 at the back. What that 4 will be, I'm not really sure. I suppose that's the conundrum for the manager is the 3. Three at the back, he said it was an emergency system. It was an emergency system because of pace in Elmwood and anything. He's got four centre backs. Who can play? Is there an argument this weekend for playing four centre backs or across the back four? It is. Mason Holgate can play right back or left back. I think God 3 will play left back. And God 3 may start at left back. I think they might. I think what that, listen, it's proper negative. But I keep on saying it. No, no. But I keep on saying it. I said it last week. How can you not look at the situation and go, it's dire. We have to be negative. We have to start keeping clean sheets. And if that means the game ends nil nil, so be it. But we've got to start looking to keep clean sheets. Mason Holgate can play right back. Is he going to give you anything going forward? Not massively. Could a woby play right back? The other thing is, do we just go with a woby and go right back? We're playing God 3 at left back like we did for an hour of the game last week. A woby is going to be the one who offers us that offensive nature from the defensive position. Because it means we'll always have three at the back then with God 3 chucking in. I don't know, maybe or maybe it is a case of Holgate at right back. But I don't think it really matters unless we have another real body in midfield. I don't know whether that would be Andy Gomez. I don't know whether that would be a Tom Davis type player who's in there just to break things up. People can be watching this now and saying, Tom Davis. What does it matter? We're going round in circles. I'd ask anyone who's having a go with Tom Davis and say, would you prefer Gilfy Shrigat in in there? Because I wouldn't. Not any chance. We need someone in there who's going to break up the play, who's going to make it hard for the opposition. Someone who's going to, who can get over to filling it right back, who can get over to filling it left back. I think if you had, I think I've said it many times on here. It'd be well documented who had that in midfield at the moment. It'd be Holgate or God 3 because I think they can free the other two.  Yeah, by the way, well, we was right back, I mean. But free the others up. But Tom Davis certainly would be an option if he played the position he did against Brighton and said to him, right, you're the six. So just sit and let the others round and do what they're doing. But you're the six. And I think if you do, I think if Everton, this might sound negative and I would get anybody who's in the comments and goes, that's not how we should be playing. I agree. After spending the money we've spent, we should be able to go toe to toe with these. The reality is we can't. So therefore this weekend. And we're trying to, don't forget, we're also trying to play our way back into a bit of form. But what you could do this, there could be an argument this week for almost going. We're going to have, like, seven defensive minded players. We're putting it all on the front three to do their stuff in the final third. Obviously, then you're banking on someone like the Corey, breaking from the field, of course, you know. But what it would do is... You're playing the counterattack. Exactly. These will, these. I watched them against Leeds at the weekend and they ended up winning three one. But it wasn't comfortable. Leeds gave as good as they get the way they do. But Leeds were defending on the half-way line almost. And they've got Timo Verna who's just lightening. One ball, he's through every time. Everton can't play on it. No. Especially if Meener and Keener playing at centre back.  But it means Everton can sit deep, play on the counterattack. Because if I think if we play high up, Timo Verna will kill us all day long with his pace. It's going to be a really tough game. I think we've set unfortunately now, and this is the difficult part, is we've set ourselves a mountain in terms of where do we go from here. Like we've lost the full backs. And without, instead of just dealing with those two positions. For some reason, Karen Tullotti's moving parts around the pitch that I don't think he needed to. He's creating other problems around the pitch which didn't need to. Yes, of course, when we played 4-3-3, he was looking at it thinking, well, if I haven't got Seamus, we're going to be hit. We've seen it in the game against Southampton. We're going to be hit on that, on our right hand side because Hamas Rodriguez isn't coming back. And he's been trying to find a solution to that because we haven't got Seamus coming. So that's something he's created, but by not giving players maybe the chance, by not putting, whether you like it or not, saying to John Joe, well, here you've got ways of one of four, five, six games here. On the other side, saying to Uncuncu, well, Dean's out, so is your chance. Or whoever, or whoever, you would say, Anthony Gordon and Richard Ellison was back and you'd be fair to point that out and say, if Richard Ellison, if result for three games, then it's only fair that Anthony Gordon should have been played for three games, whether him or Bernard. But every game it's like, that didn't work, change it, that didn't work, change it, that didn't work, change it. And it's evolved into something that it should never evolved into because it should have been. We should have adequate replacements to come in. That's why teams like Chelsea are so good because they have adequate replacements. If someone goes out or someone's out of four, someone needs a rest, they can bring players in. And that is the difference between a team like Chelsea and a team like Heaven, unfortunately. There is. So while you're trying to get to that quality that they've got, and they have got quality all over the place, Chelsea, you then need to establish a framework and work with that framework. And I think teams, you've got lesser quality squads are getting better results out of it because they do that. Like Southampton Frag, you know what I'm saying? They had Walcott, how Armstrong came in. Danny Ings went out, he pushed Walcott closer to Tia Adams, kept the shame for me. So they've trust in the players. Well, yeah, but trust in your formation. And I think, listen, I said on the podcast this week, I was wondering whether we could play three at the back the other week. So I'm not going to get on call until Chelsea's back for doing it because it would have been something I would have looked at. But I think we just look more comfortable with Hamers as part of a front three rather than being in the middle. So just create that framework now. And go, yeah. And I would personally, I would put in cwng Cwyn and go, that's your position for six games and then we'll evaluate it. If you're struggling in six games time, we might take your out of it, see whether he can do it. But keep the framework so that if you keep most of the stuff the same, then you can swap one in and one out. And it doesn't affect it as much, I think. Obviously we've been very unlucky out losing both fullbacks who are very important parts of our attacking options. They both are. And that's just the way it is. You're going to get injuries. It's okay. A lot of teams wouldn't lose both of them. It's just the way it is. So we've got to counteract that and he's looking for that. But if you just, I think if we can just establish a way of playing now for the next few weeks and just try to keep the main players in the main positions, keep the spine like we talk about, you know, you couldn't sit here and name the best centre-back partnership. We don't know. We've got four of them. We don't know by necessity now. All four of them might have to play because we haven't got fullbacks. And we've lost people like Delph and quite clearly doesn't trust John Jo. So it's just the key areas. Can we get the back four right? If he's going with the four centre-backs across the back, then in midfield, is it Tom Davis who comes in? Because Alan wants to go and get involved in the game. You can't trust him to sit. It's those little things. I think if we get them right, then we'll know what we're doing. And then it's can we get better at what we're doing? We're at the minute. We're almost looking a little bit like, well, we played three last week and we had them over there and he's now over. It's no coincidence. It looks disjointed and not cohesive. Yeah, there's no consistency. There's no cohesiveness, as you said there. There's no continuity. It just feels a lot of the time like it's coming off the cuff and the manager's searching for, almost like he's searching for to see if things will happen on the pitch rather than did you do that to a manager? No, no, no. Famously like Tim Kale was discovered because I had a necessity where his best position was. No, I appreciate that. That can happen in games. That can happen. It's just. Someone plays and you go, no, he's that good there. Yeah, and maybe that's what you, I mean. Maybe a woe will become the tack and riper. No, maybe he will. He'll have to get up and down that wing. He did though, didn't he? Who's to know? Because what you've got to look at as well with these is Ben Shillwell very good going forward. So obviously a woe will be, you know, it'd be one of them, but then if you've got Mason Holgate to say right back, is he going to threaten Shillwell where a woe will be would because he runs at him. No, possibly, yeah. Sometimes having an attack on full back means that you're pushing them back. Otherwise you're saying, right, we'll defend and we'll just try to beat you on the bridge. Well, I suppose one advantage is there will be fans in the ground. There'll be 2,000 fans in the ground, Gladys Street and top balcony. And I suppose that gives, that removes that little bit of neutralness that has almost been created with home guards. There is, there's no fans in here. So there's no, you know, no, it's just a game, isn't it? And the best team wins. But maybe with the 2,000 in there, it just gives that little added something that has been missing. Because at the end of the day, it's fine saying 2,000 fans can make a lot of noise in an empty ground. They fill the silence at the end of the day. Yeah, yeah. So if they don't need that push, second half shooting towards the Gladys Street, you know, who's to say that's just that little bit of something we need? When you look at it, they're not going to be intimidated by 2,000 fans Chelsea. So I don't know, it's not going to be like normal goodlison. And certainly like it was just over a year ago when Duncan was in charge for that game. So what it does do is it can give our players a boost who might need it, you know what I mean? If you're struggling or if you feel like it'll give you that.  When you're having been playing in front of crowds. So that, you know, hopefully the Blues who are there can make some noise, you know? And even things just do appreciating. Have a shot and it's clapping or you get a call. The little things that add to the game and for Chelsea it'll be getting used to that defending against that as well. So this isn't the pros and you've got to go out and do it. But it's an opportunity. If Everton could beat them and they've only lost one game so it's not, you know, it looks like a long shot at the minute. But I do believe Everton's got plays who can win the game definitely. Chelsea, if both teams played the full, potentially you'd expect Chelsea to win. But Everton, where to win? We'd be two points behind. In my eyes, they're looking like a really strong team. They've had a great start. Me, looking at Everton, now we're like faltering a little bit. And yet if we were to win at the weekend and we're two points behind Chelsea. You'd be like, we actually are. We said it before, if our defeats would have been spaced out. We'd be saying, we're doing all right. We're in the home for you. More like if our wins had been spaced out. That's another way to look at it. If we'd have amassed this amount of points over the period of time, you know, more space, you'd be looking and going, we're doing all right here. We're in, at the moment we're in the home for a European place. You know, we'll see what happens. Just to bring the mood down. Some of the stats. Everton won the last two Premier League home games against Chelsea. Good stuff. Last time he won three in a row was 2010 to 2012. Chelsea have kept six clean sheets in their last eight Premier League games against Everton. They've lost the two they've conceded in. It's good, isn't it? Everton boss Calamante lotty took charge of 76 Premier League games with Chelsea from 2009 to 2011. Averaging 2.0, 7 points per game. Corom boss Frank Lampard played in the 60 of those 76 matches, scoring 32 goals in that time. Chelsea won two of their last 15 away Premier League games against fellow ever-present side in the competition. Everton have lost their last two Premier League home games. They've not lost three in a row since March 2016 under Roberto, wasn't it? Chelsea have kept the clean sheets in each of their last three away games, as many as they had in their previous 35 away games. Managers previous, no swerve. That one, because I don't like it. In his first five Premier League games this season, Evans, Hammers, Rodriguez was involved in six goals, three goals and three assists, and created on average 3.2 chances, paying 90 minutes. He's not registered the single goal involvement in his subsequent five games. Still averaging 2.1 chances created the game. And that again, Dominic Calvert-Lewan is the Premier League's top scorer, 11 goals in 11 games, just too few of them netted in 36 games last season. Just on that Hammers thing before we finish, there's been some debate this week. Basically, Gabi Agbonohor and people like that. Some fellas should play for Villa. Shane is being found out on different things. Obviously, it's talking about the pair. I think I read after three games, Agbonohor was Shane, he's the best player in the Premier League, now he's being found out. That's coincided with an injury and with the team being disjointed. But on Saturday, and just looking at those numbers there, it shows what he does actually bring to the Everton team. So, he's still averaging over two chances created per game. When he was at his peak there, it's saying in the opening four or five games, it was three chances per game. It just shows that even without him sprinting up and down. I think you said he's made the second most tackles in our team anyway. That's what he brings to you, doesn't he? And against Saturday will be key to getting him on the ball, won't it? Because stats can be interpreted anyway, they won't, can't they? And he's a great believer in using the right stats. At the end of the day last week, gilffy Sigarton just told Pokeshit's fate, Hamas Rodigus has just got himself an assist. And I've got three points. So, you can use stats anyway you want to. The fella at the end of the day, it's also like you look at stats of other people, depends what you interpret Hamas Rodigus to be as well. To me, he's a, you know, you've got to say he's a winger. Chances he creates would be probably more than adequate or what he's involved in would be more than adequate. So when you start him, he doesn't do this when he's playing in the centre or he doesn't track back enough or he doesn't because he's not that thing, he's a player who plays in his own role and I think we have to pull plays around in there to protect him because that one last week for gilffy Sigarton, no-one else does that in our team, no-one else can do that. Yes, with Charleston, you can get to the barline and put crosses across or whatever, but you've got to have that mix, haven't you? And whenever that shame is coming, and we said it loads of times, Hamas Rodigus was absolutely fine. Just very quickly then, so we'd have an extra man in midfield this week because that's what we've done, we're someone who can do a bit of both. Would you play a wobie or would you play Mason Holgate? I don't know and I'd say why because I just don't know what a wobie can... It's like Godfrey on the other side. It was Godfrey good because he knew what his job was for an awy. He knew that and the play he was up against wasn't as fast as him and he didn't have a trick, so therefore it was easy for Ben Goffy. Now, was it the same for a wobie? Did barely really attack on that side or was the player coming inside trying to nullify our centre midfield? Did a wobie have just the ability to go and do what he wants? Can he do that against top opposition? Can he get up and down? It could be we could be sitting there going, oh my God, this just hasn't worked, he's all over the place. Or we could be sitting there going, oh my God, we may have found something here. This could be the solution in the short term. A wobie could play that position and all comes down to... At the end of the day, it'll come down to, can he play on the right hand side? Yes, he can. And can he get, can that extra play in the midfield go over and cover? So say it was Tom Davis, can Tom Davis go over and get over and become that right back when a wobie's too far up the pitch? Or can he come over and help him when a wobie's on the back foot? And that's what it comes down to for me. That's what other teams do. That's what we've done in the past when we had wingers flying forward. MacArthur and Barry should do that. We had Colman and Baines flying forward. Exactly. Interesting. So he's got... Carlo's got key decisions and things that have been taken out of his hands, but I think what we'd all like to see is maybe if a team getting nailed back and playing every week and like you said, a framework where we know what we're going in, playing 4-3-3, three in midfield who are going to do all the running and go from there. Do you go? There is no your thought in the comments you agree to disagree with. Anything we've spoke about? Let us know your thoughts on the full back positions and midfield positions. Whatever it is, let us know. Make sure to check out the link in the description if you want to know more about that. You'll see us on the flipside. I'm going to the other side. I'm very lucky. I was showing off the ball at the time. I was very, very lucky. It's lucky to draw. Does this mean you won't be in any other ball? No, I'll be putting in for every ball. I think the club will swerf you after this.  That would be fair, but they're not doing that. That would be fair, but they're not doing that. I'll be kicking off. Big turn. That's scandalous. No, but imagine if someone gets two games on, he'll scan to me. Absolutely scandalous. But that's just my thing. They will be getting told. There you go. Thanks for watching. Come on boys. Subscribe. And if you want daily live videos, join us on Patreon. See you later.


Hi everybody. Hi. Thanks for joining us again. Great to see everyone. Yeah, we've got a beautiful day ahead of us. So I'm Peter for those who are joining you, and I'll be the host. And yeah, so we've got a movie commentary with David today. He's coming in from the monastery in Utah. And so we'll start with David in the movie. We'll then have a 10 minute break afterwards, which will be a time when you can submit questions. And then we'll have a Q&A session with David afterwards. So I'll pass it over to you now, David. Thank you, Peter. Hi everyone. Welcome. We're going to have a great awakening time today for sure. This is going to be something that will warm your heart. I'm broadcasting to you from the Living Miracles Monastery here in Utah, where we have a minus two degrees Fahrenheit day going on here. So we're going to keep our hearts warm, though, in feeding your heart with the truth and inspiring ideas that will lift you higher and higher and higher in awareness to happiness, to joy. So well, it's interesting. Today we're going to have a movie that is basically over 99% animated until the very end. And I always say that after we have a series of pretty intense, serious movies, I like to come back to some animation. And I like to always come back to humor. Jesus tells us in the Course in Miracles, the world will end in laughter because it was a place of sorrow. How's that for the end of the world? Laughter. The world will end in laughter. And this movie has a lot of humor in it, a lot of wit. It's deep. It's profound. And yet it's also very fast-paced and fast-moving. So I don't think there's one single lull in the movie. This is a fast-paced animated movie that will take you on a ride. But it's the kind of ride that all of us want to go on because we want to be happy. So as usual, you voted for your themes and the top theme that you voted for this week, which is what our movie will take us into, is coming into true honesty, being aligned with the source in all I think and say and do. And the second theme was accepting I am perfect just the way I am. Those two themes will guide us today as we move through this movie because we want to live an honest life and we want to feel we're lined up with our source because our source is love. And our source is happiness and joy and peace. And that's really in our hearts, that's what we're praying for. We really want to have a very happy, joyful life. And in order to stay aligned with the source, we do have to accept ourselves as we were created by God. The ego made the body. The ego made the personality. The ego made the perceptual world of time and space. It made the stars and the planets and the mountains and the trees. The ego projected a world that was meant to be a hiding place, as Jesus says in the Course, a place where God could enter not. The world was made as a veil to cover over our true identity as pure love. The world was made as a distractive device to distract us from going within and finding the love within our hearts. And the world was made as a place of hatred and sorrow. And many of us have gone through a lot of experiences that were pretty difficult, pretty dark experiences. But Jesus is saying, not to worry, you just had a misperception and I will help you correct your perception. And then you'll see things truly and you'll know that you were just mistaken about the world. The third theme that was voted on is don't be fooled by the tricks of the ego. The fourth theme is facing the belief in loss. And finally, the last one is seeing that giving and receiving are the same. So this movie is, we're going to see today is called the Lego Movie. Is anybody familiar with with the children's toy called Legos? These are little building block toys, yes, where you can build things and build all kinds of things. And that's kind of pretty symbolic of this world. This is a world where there's a lot of building. Jesus tells us in the Course, he tells us that you learned this world and you kept building on and adding on complexity on top of complexity on top of complexity.  And you never really paused to ask, why am I doing all this building? And Jesus is saying, well, you forgot that you were created perfect.  And some of us have put so much energy and effort into building that we've tried to become master builders. You see, that's what you try to do when you're off in a world of illusions and you're trying to overcome deep feelings of unworthiness and lack, sadness, sorrow, hatred, all kinds of dark emotions. Legos says, well, why don't you compensate to make it a little more fascinating and interesting. You can become a builder.  And people try to build wealth. They try to build fame, popularity. They try to build success in all kinds of crazy ways. And yet I think I believe it's William Shakespeare that said it's best. The world is much ado about nothing. In this world, we become masters of nothing. We don't know who we are if we identify with this world and the images of this world. And so we think that we can become good at something, but really, we're just slip sliding away like the Simon and Garfunkel song. Believe we're nearing our destination, but in fact, we're really just slip sliding away. So this world is a trap when I mentioned one of the themes was don't be fooled by the tricks of the ego. Every image that seems to be a separate image in time and space is a trick of the ego. Tricks are not here and there. The whole perceptual world is a trick. Jesus tells us in the Course, he says, a son of God can only be happy in the environment in which the son of God was created. Well, that is heaven. God created us as spirit and we can only be purely happy in heaven and nowhere else because there is nowhere else. Heaven is reality. Spirit is reality and the images of the cosmos are fictitious. They have no reality whatsoever. In a couple of weeks, I'm going to show an amazing movie called Einstein and Eddington where it'll take quantum physics all the way into a whole different perception of this world. And using Einstein's theory of relativity show that everything in the cosmos is relative. Gravity is relative. Space is relative. Time is relative. Everything you can think of, knowledge in this world is relative. The human body is relative. Countries are relative. And even physics as we're called Newtonian physics are all relative and there's only one absolute and that absolute is God. God is the only thing that can be known and who you are as a creation of God is tied in to that. So this movie is called the Lego Movie and some of you might remember the theme song from the Lego Movie. Everything is awesome. Everything is cool when you're part of a team. Everything is awesome when you're living the dream. And today Jesus was saying, well, I can give you a reinterpretation of that. Everything is awesome. Everything is awesome when you're part of a team. I asked Jesus, what team am I a part of?  And that's the only team that counts. There is no other team that counts. There is no other team except the Holy Trinity, the Father, Son, the Holy Ghost. They're all spirit. And every other team in terms of earth is just a fictition. It's a projection of the idea of team because there are no teams in this world that you can identify with. You should have no loyalties for anything of this world. You should have no attachments to anything of this world.  And that team of the Holy Spirit will call it is the part of the team where everything is awesome. And that's the only way the awesome word applies into spirit, to eternity. And then he said, and everything is cool when you're dreaming the dream. Don't try to live out your dreams in this world. You were not created for time and space. You were not created to build an environment or an identity in time and space. There is nothing of this world that means anything. That's less than number one. Nothing I see means anything. And you are only going to be happy when you realize who you are in spirit. Partial happiness is not happiness. And you can have glimmers and bits and pieces of happiness, but you will only be happy in spirit. So now some of you remember about 1999. Let's roll back the clock. Does anybody remember what movie came out in 1999 and kind of got our attention? The Matrix. The Matrix. Why was everyone so fascinated with the Matrix? Because it was a parable of awakening. It was a parable of you are the one. It was a parable that you can transcend duality, transcend multiplicity, transcend every form of fear and guilt and pain and shame, and have dominion over the world as the one, as the one who has forgiven the world. So we all remember Neo and remember Morpheus and Trinity. Well, about 15 years later was 2014. And I remember I was just marveling at the movies were coming out in 2014. I said, wait a minute, this is 15 years after the Matrix. Interstellar 2014. God's not dead 2014. The theory of everything. 2014. Divergent. Lucy. The maze runner. The giver. And on and on and on. I'm like, oh my God, the floodgates are breaking here. We started off with the Matrix and now the Holy Spirit is streaming through, streaming through to reach us in a point where we're ready to wake up from the stream. And this movie, this movie we're going to watch today, the Lego movies was also there in 2014. I remember I went into a movie theater with some friends of mine and we walked, it was like a discount movie theater. And I could not believe how many awakening movies were in the theater. I walked through that theater and I was like, oh my God, there's like 10 awakening movies in the theater in 2014. And we just kind of went between one theater to the next.  I think he was about eight years old. And the father said, well, I'm going to see the Lego movie. And the little boy said, I think I want to see that dad. And his dad said, okay, come with me. And the mom said, I don't think the Lego movie is for you. Well, I just was watching the scene because I thought here this little boy has a choice whether to follow his dad into one of these profound awakening movies or not at eight years old. And it was just a beautiful scene to watch because when our mind is ready, we start calling forth witnesses to spiritual awakening. And that's what activates our awakening is our desire to experience the truth, to let go of the lies, to let go of all the things that distracted us from knowing God. And now it's time to wake up. This is our big wake up call. So we're going to watch the Lego movie. This is a matrix only it's made into an animated movie. So even kids can follow the Lego movie. That's right. And also the matrix, I have to say, the matrix was not really a comedy. There were not really very many comedy scenes in the matrix, not so with this movie. This is made for the children. We're all children wanting to wake up to know our creator.  It's just I mean, every scene is loaded with humor. This is so great to have a wake up movie with animated characters, Lego characters, and it's got superheroes in it. It's a parody on this whole world. I have never seen a movie that pokes fun at this world so much as this movie. It pokes fun at business with Mr. Business being the main character. It pokes fun at time where Mr. Business is all about profits, about making more. And basically Mr. Business wants to freeze the world, freeze the world in the past. It doesn't, Mr. Business doesn't like innovation, doesn't like change. Mr. Business just likes pain and suffering and guilt and wants to freeze the whole world with the fraggle. And basically the fraggle is basically, it's basically super glue. It's basically super glue where some of the letters have been taken out. So the ego is always trying to freeze our mind into the past. Anytime anyone accuses you of something, they're trying to freeze your mind into the past instead of witnessing the presence of the holy instant. Anytime somebody is pointing out grievances to you, something that went wrong in the past, something that you're locked into based on the past, that's the ego. And in this movie we're going to see that that is what Mr. Business is trying to do. He's trying to end the world by freezing it. So if the ego could just take a snapshot of this world, it would just say you are the past, you are the separation, you are the guilt, and there's nothing you can do to escape. But the Holy Spirit is the voice of happiness, of sanity, of collaboration, of let's join together. Let's remember the truth of who we really are. Let's remember that God didn't create us for this world, that this world was made up by the ego to cover over who we really are. And that we should invest in nothing of this world. That's how you escape from fear, that's how you escape from pain. Now we're not saying that the world is bad or the world is good. To the Holy Spirit, the world is neutral and it's just a group of symbols that can be used to reinterpret the world into the forgiven world or the happy dream. So there's nothing good or bad in this world, but the ego tries to judge aspects of this world as good and bad because it keeps the separation, it keeps the perceptual problem going in awareness. And once you realize the world is not what it seems and never has been what it seems, then you're ready to escape the world and see the world differently. So when we look at this world and I know everybody is wanting to to lift this heaviness from their heart, this heaviness of being identified as a human being. And the two main ways that the ego tries to reinforce a bodily identity is either to accentuate individuality, to accentuate the autonomy of the personality self, to accentuate the belief that you as a person can be a hero. And what Jesus is telling us is the hero of the dream is the body. Heroes don't escape. Heroes are distractions. Superheroes, Batman, Superman, Wonder Woman, all the superheroes, Mighty Mouse, there's a lot of superheroes. One thing we know about superheroes is they're always into saving bodies. The Superman is always trying to save bodies. Batman, Batgirl, all of them are trying to save bodies and Jesus is telling us, no, no, no, the body is not in need of saving. It's your mind. Your mind is sleeping and dreaming and it's perceiving a hallucination of a world and that world is not real. It's your mind that needs the help. It's your mind that needs salvation. Your body does not need salvation. You don't need superheroes. Superheroes are an invention by the ego to put yourself to distract on something else, to cheer for someone and root for the superhero to defeat the evil, the evil ones. Jesus is telling us there aren't any good guys and bad guys.  It's all a projection of the ego to keep you from going inside and forgiving the entire world because God didn't create anything of this world. The whole perceptual world is a perceptual temper tantrum. It's a perceptual nightmare. There's no way to escape it through heroes and that's why Jesus has the hero of the dream section in his text because he's saying the serial adventures of the body is what the hero of the dream is about. In this movie what we're going to see is it's a world of conformity. It's a world of people pleasing. The Lego movie is called Bricksburg. That's what the name of the place is, Bricksburg. It's the Lego world and this world is entirely built just like this world that we perceive with our five senses is entirely built. It's also a world of conformity of rules where you're supposed to fit in and the way that you're supposed to be happy is by following the rules and fitting in. Has anybody here tried to follow the rules of this world? Okay, Don, there we go. Don's got his hand. Do we have any rebels? Do I have? Do I see any rebels? Ricky, get that hand up there. We've got rebels and we got conformists here and the ego doesn't care which way you go because if you rebel against the world you still believe it's real and if you conform to the world you still believe it's real so the ego doesn't care whether you rebel or conform because its world is made on false rules and if you fight against the rules or you obey the rules that God didn't create the world's rules. God didn't create gravity. God didn't create time. God didn't create space. God didn't create the laws of physics, you know, for every action there's a reaction. Guess what? God didn't create economics. God didn't create the laws of medicine. God didn't create the laws of nutrition. God didn't create the laws of interpersonal relationships. That's right. If you believe in the laws of this world you're in for a stressful ride. It's going to be fraught with guilt because the rules and the laws of this world were made up by the ego and the ego is guilt. The ego itself is guilt. It's a death wish. If we follow the laws of this world we're following a death wish. Why would we be surprised if we're upset? If we if we follow the rules of the death wish, you know, why would we be surprised? So Emmett, he's our main character. Emmett is he's our little yellow Mr. Lego and he he just follows the rules. He tries to follow all the rules to be a good person. He tries to exercise. He tries to eat right. He tries to obey all the rules of the world and we'll notice that he's he doesn't really have friends. He's so busy people pleasing with the world that basically Emmett is just trying to fit in. He believes to be happy is to fit in to this world and this is what we would call people pleasing to the max. Okay, he's trying to conform to the world and to be happy by conforming to the world. Well, he's going to have some things happen to him where he is actually going to be part of a prophecy of waking up and transcending the world. And the prophecy will be that he is the he's going to be called the special. Okay, our main character in the movie Emmett is is going to be the special. And some of you are saying, well, how does that fit with the Course in Miracles? Jesus says, isn't he telling us that specialness is the problem? No, Jesus says in the Course, all my brothers are special. You see, it's saying everyone is precious because everyone is equally the same and underneath the forms is the Holy Child of God. So Jesus actually says in the Course, all my brothers are special. And in this movie, the prophecy is that Emmett is the special because he's going to discover what's called the piece of resistance, P I E C E, a little part of resistance. And it's buried deep down in the earth. Now, how does this relate to what we're talking about? For us with a mind asleep, we all have a part in our mind that's buried very deep in our mind. And that part is a piece of resistance. And the resistance is to the light, the resistance is to who we really are. So everyone who comes to time and space has a resistance to remember that they're really perfect, that they're really pure love. And the human being is an outpicturing of this piece of resistance. This is the part of your mind that would rather sleep than to be awake. This is this is the part of the mind that would rather judge than be at peace. This is the part of the mind that would rather have imprisonment instead of true freedom.  And it's so pushed out of awareness that this little piece of resistance is unconscious now. It's it's out of awareness.  Jesus says in the Course that this little part of resistance, this little belief in separation, he says it doesn't belong to you, give it back. In other words, Jesus is encouraging us to give our peace of resistance back to the Holy Spirit. Imagine if you had it in your hands and Jesus said you don't want that. You don't want that resistance. You need to give that to the Holy Spirit because you'll be really happy when you give the resistance over. But while you hold on to the resistance, you you are choosing to be miserable. You are choosing to be less than holy happy. So in the movie, Emmett, there's a prophecy that Emmett will find the peace of resistance. And when Emmett does, the piece of resistance is going to stick to his back. What does that mean? The piece of resistance is sticking to his back. It means that he's in for a wild ride because when you make a decision not to dissociate or forget the resistance and rather to face it, rather to call on the Holy Spirit to face the resistance in the mind, you are actually on your way to heaven. You are you are going to remember heaven because you're not trying to hide the resistance. Every day when you wake up, you're saying to the Holy Spirit, bring it on. Let me face my resistance to love. And wow, I can tell you it's a rocky ride. If we thought we had a pretty nice life, wow, hold on to your hat when you start to face your resistances because that's how you break free from the resistances. As Ricky would say, that's a ride of a lifetime. That's a ride of a lifetime when you face the resistance. When you're not going to try to pretend that it's not there, but you're going to say bring it on. Bring it on. I want to face it. Now, basically Emmett starts off with a very, very structured life. His everything in his apartment is completely structured. He goes to work every day as a construction worker. He basically doesn't have any close friends, but he tries to cheer himself up with popular songs. He goes to the Legoland version of Starbucks and has his $37 coffee every day. And when the woman at the coffee shop says that'll be $37, he just goes, awesome.  Don't laugh. Someday we may be paying $37 for a Starbucks coffee. It's not that far away. But the choice is whether you just take it and spend the $37 and go, awesome. Or whether you start to question your need for a $37 coffee. You see, we always have a choice. We always have a choice of the world we see, what we think we need, what we think we want. So when we go into this movie, we're going to see that Emmett will discover the peace of resistance. He doesn't know what it's about. But in this movie, Morgan Freeman plays the voice of Vitruvius. You know, like Morpheus was there in the Matrix to help guide Neo. Vitruvius, Morgan Freeman always ends up playing God or the Holy Spirit. It doesn't matter if it's an animated movie. He's always the voice of wisdom. But this is the funny Morgan Freeman. This is the comical one where they're going to poke fun at gurus. They're going to poke fun at everything. It's a parody on this whole world. They're going to poke fun at the spiritual journey. They're actually going to poke fun and make a a joke out of the spiritual journey. But that's why you got to love this movie, because it's starting to teach you remember to laugh. Don't take anything serious. Don't take anything serious in this world. That's what this movie is really showing us. Yes, there's superheroes, Batman's in it. Superman's in it. The Green Lantern's in it. A lot of the superheroes are in it. Shaquille O'Neal. Shaquille O'Neal was in this movie. The Shaq is in the movie because it's going to blend all the different characters of time and space. And it's going to say that even if you have had seemingly success in this world, maybe you've developed your skills and maybe you have some very highly developed skills. In Lego world, you would be called a master builder. Some of us have learned how to develop skills in time and space and we've learned how to use the skills with the power of our mind to make what we believe is good in this world. Although the Holy Spirit knows nothing is good or bad. It's all just neutral. So in this world, the manifestors, I'm going to use the word manifestors, okay, we'll use a new age term. In this movie, the manifestors are the master builders. They can use the power of their mind to build things in many different ways and shapes. But it still doesn't make them happy. All the master builders are still not happy because remember, this is a world of illusions. So what does it mean to build something in a world of illusions? It means nothing. It means like you've just demonstrated to yourself you can use your skills to make nothing. You can try to convince yourself it's something, but really it's still nothing. But when you bring all of these characters together, all the superheroes, all the characters and they start to actually collaborate for a greater good that's beyond each and every one of them, then you start to get in towards the forgiven world. And that's why even though each of us have different skills and abilities, it's not until we give them to the Holy Spirit to use that they really start to bring happiness in our life. Because the Holy Spirit is like the symphony conductor that can use all the skills of the ego to point toward the light. And that's what this movie is really about. It's not about trying to defeat an enemy, which much of our movies, you know, they're always about the good ones facing the bad ones and do the good ones defeat the evil ones. This movie is not about that. This movie is about collaboration. Because the one thing about superheroes is they usually operate very autonomously and they're always trying to save people. But this movie is about learning to collaborate so that you can let your mind be saved by the Holy Spirit. And that's what the first two themes are really about. Coming into true honesty, being aligned with the source in all, I think, say and do, and accepting I am perfect just the way I am. When we say accepting I'm perfect just the way I am, that's talking about our spirit. That's not talking about our personality selves. That's talking about our spirit. That's what's perfect. The body and all of its serial adventures are just opportunities for us to let go of identification with the body and to really serve happiness or to serve God's will. So I think you're in for a beautiful ride today. I remember when I first saw this movie in the theater, I was just, I just had a big smile on my face because I went, what a trip. This is a modern day animated spiritual awakening movie that emphasizes collaboration over competition, that emphasizes joining over pride, that emphasizes spiritual awakening over success in terms of the world. This is a movie that emphasizes humor over seriousness. And we need a lot of movies like that. We've had some pretty intense movies recently. So Jesus won't only let me show three or four real intense movies when he's got to come back to the comedy. Jesus is a comedian. He's always telling us don't take anything of this world serious because nothing here is serious. Everything is light and lighthearted if you can see it with the Holy Spirit.  So enjoy the ride today with Emmett and I'll pop in from time to time and I think we're going to have a good laugh. The parodies and the jokes are just throughout the whole movie. You can just see how Jesus is poking fun at this world and he's telling us don't forget to laugh. Okay, so I'll see you soon.


In this presentation, we will start the bank reconciliation for the second month of operations, this time focusing in on the beginning balance, the objective and the deposit side of things. Time to engage with Sage 50 cloud accounting. Here we are in our get great guitars file. We're going to start off by opening up our financial statements. So we're going to go to the reports up top, we're going to be opening up those financial statement reports this time, taking a look at the balance sheet, opening up that balance sheet first report. We're going to be looking at the second month, which is going to be February now, month two. So that's what we're on. So I'm going to say, okay, that's what I'm on at least. And then so you, so we're going to go down here to the check it account now at the 105 30 601 as of the end of February, February 29, 2020, if we go to the bank statement then for February, we see the ending balance here at the 105 5 73 84. So once again, those two items are different as of the same point in time. Therefore we're going to need to reconcile the two with a bank reconciliation. Note that as we look at the bank statement, the beginning balance now, of course, matching what was on the ending balance as of the end of last bank statement. So there's last bank statement, ending balance. That's going to be the beginning balance for this bank statement. So when we do the bank reconciliation process within the bank reconciliation, it already knows what the beginning balance is. We know what the beginning balances with regards to the cleared balances in the bank reconciliation process. We know what the ending balances now on the bank statement. And then the difference between the two are going to be these items. In other words, these are going to be the items that are that are going to be the activity of course in the deposits and the checks and other withdrawals down below that we're going to have to find if they're on this bank statement, we need to find them in our books, check them off. If we check all of them off, then we have to have the reconciliation process must work. So in other words, if it's on the bank statement and it's not on our books, we're going to have to add them to our books. Unless under the rare circumstance, the bank made an error, unless there's a problem with the bank statement. And if it's on our books, however, it may not be on the bank statement and those will be the outstanding checks, the outstanding deposits, the things that we will use to reconcile the ending balance that's currently on the bank statement to the ending balance that's on our books. That will be the actual bank reconciliation report. We're going to be focusing here on the deposit side of things. So let's go on over to our our transactions or our books again. And we want to go into the banking section now. So we're in the banking section and then we want to reconcile. So we're going to go to the reconciliation process, which is going to be down below reconcile accounts. I'm going to make this large and I want to make sure that I'm on the checking account. So make sure that you're on the checking account. We want to reconcile for the end of February. So the date should be at the end of February at this point. Then we can start off by going down below and saying we need to put our statement ending balance. This is from the bank statement. And that's going to be the 105 here, the 105 573, the 105 573 84. So this is 105 573.84. So I think that's right. 105 573.84. Let me just check it one more time. 105 573.84. Yes, that is correct. That's an important number. And then at the end of this, we're going to have a zero balance over here. And that will indicate that we have indeed reconciled. Now this is going to be all the transactions in our books. So this is what is in our books that we're going to have to be matching out to what is on the bank statement. So I'm going to go ahead and look at the deposit side of things by selecting the drop down up top deposits and bank credits. And again, just notice that terminology of bank credits as being, you know, different than what's in our, our books, right? Depots and credits being different if you're talking about bank debts and credits, because they're the bank, you know, not our, our books. So a lot of things will be kind of reversed from their perspective. All right. So then we're going to be back in here. And again, always going from the bank statement to our books. I'm not going to be starting the bank statement, bring that back to our book. So here's the 139875 and then on our books, the 139875 note that this one right here, we wrote that in January. So it was one of our outstanding items in January. It's a timing difference. So it didn't clear the bank until February. We're checking it off now, even though it's in our books as of January. Note the cutoff and that flow over the cutoff. That's going to be part of the bank reconciliation process. And then we're going to go back on over here. And I'm going to make that green because that's what I do when I find it. Because that's that means it's good. Green is good that it's been found. So I'm going to say that's been found and that's good. And then we have the 17. So I'm going to go back on over to the 17 and there is the 17. So we found that one. And then I'll come back over here and say that that one's been found. I like the lighter green. That one's a little darker. It may not be able to see the number anymore. I'm going to change it to this green, the lighter green there. Let's try that one. All right, then we're going to the 140750, 140750. It's important to get the shade of the colors you're using correct, obviously. And then there we have that. So we're going to go back on over and then check that one off. So those are going to be all the deposits. Notice we found all the deposits that are on the bank statement on our books. And we have one deposit on the books that's not on the bank statement. So a couple of things just to realize here is second bank reconciliation. We had one of our deposits that cleared in February that was actually written in January. That's a cutoff issue, obviously. And that's fine because that's part of the bank reconciliation process. And we have this other one, which was written at the end of the month. That's didn't clear. That's not going to clear until March. So that's going to be one of our reconciliation items. This is going to be a reconciliation item here between the ending bank balance on the books and the balance on our statement as of the same point in time. So that's going to be one of those items. So then we're going to continue on with this next time. Also, just realize here that how easy it was if the grouping of the deposits in your books is the same as the grouping of the deposits on the bank statement. If you have some kind of system where the grouping of deposits on your books is not the same, such as depositing transactions as you collect them during the day and then not putting them into the bank and the same kind of grouping as they'll be seen on the bank statement. So you go into the bank and you deposit it all into the bank in one group, even though you put it in the books in multiple. You might think that might be easy to reconcile. And it's not too bad. But if you have a lot of deposits, that becomes overwhelming. And again, if you're dealing with something like credit cards that are batch depositing things into your in your account and it doesn't tie out to how the banks does things and those deposits aren't tying out. You really want to find a way to reconcile those things. Talk to the credit card company. Talk to the bank. How could you get these things to match up the way they're going to be reported? The batching needs to be the same or some way that we can basically reconcile it. If you're collecting deposits and you have to go through a clearing account, then do what you have to do to make the reconciliation process easy to deal with. That's going to be it for this time. We're going to then continue next time, of course, with the check side of things and the decreases within the checking account and reconciling those items. That's it for now. Let's get out of here.