Speaker 1: I'll get a welcome to another installing the You Project,
Speaker 1: Craig Anthony. But you know that's happy, bloody terrific. So
Speaker 1: a couple of things before we get under way, Before
Speaker 1: you and I have a little one on one, I
Speaker 1: wanted to say we've been pushing pushing. I've been talking
Speaker 1: about the U Project podcast Facebook page, which is just
Speaker 1: a little handy kind of resource for people to tap into.
Speaker 1: I'm not selling anything on there. There's no hooks, catches, agendas.
Speaker 1: It's not a gateway or a path way to something.
Speaker 1: There's no upsell on sell, there's no bullshit, there's no
Speaker 1: smoke and mirrors, as I think you know is not
Speaker 1: my way, the smoke and mirrors, the bullshit. I hate
Speaker 1: selling stuff. I need to sell some stuff sometimes, but
Speaker 1: this platform, or this particular page is not It's not
Speaker 1: a gateway to that. It's just a virtual for people
Speaker 1: to get together and support and talk and share, and
Speaker 1: as I've said before here, but also on the page,
Speaker 1: for people to start a conversation, to ask a question,
Speaker 1: to help somebody out, to offer some advice, some love,
Speaker 1: some kindness, to talk about some of the topics and
Speaker 1: ideas and themes that run through these shows. I like
Speaker 1: the idea of I like the idea of having a
Speaker 1: virtual space where people can kind of get together in
Speaker 1: inverted commas without any agenda and without any meanness, without
Speaker 1: any bad kind of juju or energy or vibe. And
Speaker 1: if there's any of that, which there almost never is,
Speaker 1: if there is any of that, I'll take it down.
Speaker 1: It's not say we can't be honest and we can't
Speaker 1: be real, of course, but we just don't let anyone
Speaker 1: running anyone down. It's not the vibe. It's not the
Speaker 1: vibe of the tribe. And with that in mind, I
Speaker 1: want to share with you a couple of things that
Speaker 1: have come up lately. One one came from a lady yesterday.
Speaker 1: I just want to read it because it's nice and
Speaker 1: her name is Melody. Hi Craig and the You Project.
Speaker 1: I started listening to your podcast a few weeks ago
Speaker 1: and now I'm addicted, absolutely love it. And you were
Speaker 1: just great. Thank you. I've been through some serious crap
Speaker 1: the last three years. And finally in which she goes
Speaker 1: you were great, I think she means all of us,
Speaker 1: So I think the vibe of the trip, all of that.
Speaker 1: Like to show the guests so I wasn't saying that
Speaker 1: as a personal thank you. I've been through some serious
Speaker 1: crap the last three years, and finally I've had the
Speaker 1: strength to face up to the problem and stop harming
Speaker 1: myself by doing stupid things to maintain a normal life.
Speaker 1: I work full time as a nurse for thirty five
Speaker 1: is in the NHS in Great Britain, and lost my
Speaker 1: sister and nearly lost my job and became a nan
Speaker 1: for the first time and still went through the menopause.
Speaker 1: Fuck hell, that's a tough gig, I hear, but still
Speaker 1: managed to run every day, bike at the weekends and
Speaker 1: walk my dog every day. On the surface, I looked okay,
Speaker 1: but now I've lost too much weight and I'm not
Speaker 1: taking care of myself, and I've finally made the first
Speaker 1: step to stop what I was doing and turn my
Speaker 1: life back around. I know it's not down to you
Speaker 1: or your podcast, but it helped me realize I couldn't
Speaker 1: go on the way I was to. So here's to
Speaker 1: you and the great work. Please don't ever stop. Thank
Speaker 1: you Melody, And we get lots of things like that
Speaker 1: a lot, and for me, what that means is not
Speaker 1: that I'm great. What it means is we're on the
Speaker 1: right track, we're doing something right, and I really appreciate that.
Speaker 1: And what I loved I loved Melody's message, but what
Speaker 1: I loved was that well, as I'm looking at this,
Speaker 1: almost one hundred people have shared a love heart or
Speaker 1: a care emoji or and a bunch of people have
Speaker 1: actually written Melody a message, including myself of course. And
Speaker 1: I don't know. I just think in this day and
Speaker 1: age where there is so much bullshit, there is so
Speaker 1: much anger, there is so much fucking division. There are
Speaker 1: so many echo chambers where there is so much pretend
Speaker 1: kindness and pretend care, and you know, there's real care,
Speaker 1: there's real kindness, there's real love, but there's a lot
Speaker 1: of bullshit. Then there's a lot of people who are,
Speaker 1: you know, doing something which looks like kindness, but it's
Speaker 1: not really because there's an agenda, because they're giving with
Speaker 1: one hand but holding out with the other, and so
Speaker 1: it's not love or kindness. It's actually a strategy. There's
Speaker 1: actually an agenda. And I hate all of that shit,
Speaker 1: which is not to say that I'm perfect or flawless,
Speaker 1: because I'm flawed and very imperfect, But I like the
Speaker 1: idea that we're creating something that that you know, people
Speaker 1: can plug into. Where there are other flawed, broken, sometimes brilliant,
Speaker 1: sometimes you know, crazy, all the time trying hard, humans
Speaker 1: like me, just trying to make a tiny difference. And
Speaker 1: if that is making a tiny difference in our own
Speaker 1: lives and also the lives of one or two people
Speaker 1: around us, then you know, I think we're doing okay.
Speaker 1: So Melody, thank you so much for that. I also
Speaker 1: got another one that I want to share, and I can't.
Speaker 1: I can't say too much because I can't say who
Speaker 1: this person is for reasons that I can't explain. But
Speaker 1: nothing sinister greetings, mister Harper. Don't you love that this
Speaker 1: is from a dude? And by the way, I love
Speaker 1: it that it's from a dude. I love it that
Speaker 1: it's you know, what's funny is so much of my
Speaker 1: stuff and I don't know if you've got a thought,
Speaker 1: go into the group and tell me. Why do you
Speaker 1: think you know? It's like if I write a post
Speaker 1: and I get feedback, or even if I get you know,
Speaker 1: two hundred likes or something on that of the two hundred,
Speaker 1: one hundred and eighty will be from women, and I'm
Speaker 1: not talking about towards me. I'm talking about to what
Speaker 1: I write. I don't know why I'm interested in to
Speaker 1: hear your or as to hear your thoughts on why
Speaker 1: perhaps there is such a disproportionate number of females who
Speaker 1: are who resonate with you know this podcast who resonate
Speaker 1: Most of my listeners are women who resonate with my posts.
Speaker 1: I'm not fishing here, I'm not looking for a compliment.
Speaker 1: I'm genuinely curious. I have a few thoughts and ideas,
Speaker 1: and I think it's probably around the fact that generally speaking,
Speaker 1: maybe women are more vulnerable and more open to be
Speaker 1: emotional and a bit raw, and to think more about
Speaker 1: behavior and to be open and honest about what's going
Speaker 1: on on a deeper level. I'm not sure. Maybe that's
Speaker 1: part of it. Maybe it's you know not but love
Speaker 1: to hear your thoughts. And what I was going to
Speaker 1: say was last week I was in Bendigo and I
Speaker 1: did I did a gig up there for the public,
Speaker 1: which was fun. Shout out to everyone in Bendigos. In fact,
Speaker 1: this time last week, as I record, is it, Yeah,
Speaker 1: this time like exactly exactly seven days ago to the hour.
Speaker 1: It's three twenty two now, and this time last week
Speaker 1: I was in front of a bunch of people in
Speaker 1: in Bendigo. And one of the things that happens is
Speaker 1: whenever there, whenever I do a public event, there's always blokes, reluctant, reticent,
Speaker 1: sometimes resentful blokes that have been dragged along by women.
Speaker 1: That's funny because I said, just before we get underway,
Speaker 1: who are the blokes here that don't want to be here?
Speaker 1: But you've been dragged here under sufferance by by a
Speaker 1: female in your life who thinks you need to listen
Speaker 1: to me. And a bunch of hands went up, and
Speaker 1: also a bit of laughter happened, and I apologize to
Speaker 1: them as that I'm sorry you've been dragged along. Let's
Speaker 1: hope it's not too shit. But it is funny. It
Speaker 1: is funny that that is a regular current occurrence, and
Speaker 1: that never is not the case, Like it's never the
Speaker 1: case that there's no men in the room who haven't
Speaker 1: been dragged along. There's always somewhere between one and twenty
Speaker 1: men who have been dragged along because somebody thinks that
Speaker 1: they need to open the door on this. You know,
Speaker 1: this world of personal development or self improvement or you
Speaker 1: know whatever it is. You know human behavior and they
Speaker 1: need to tune in and fucking listen up and do something.
Speaker 1: So if you got any thoughts, jump in the Facebook
Speaker 1: page and let me know. All right back to the
Speaker 1: so from the dude, greetings, miss tap Of. Firstly, thank
Speaker 1: you for bringing such well being, such an inspiration, super nice.
Speaker 1: I followed you for about two years and I'm one
Speaker 1: of those sad listeners who have heard every episode very nice.
Speaker 1: Your insights and the topics covered by you and your
Speaker 1: guests had a major impact in my life, both personally
Speaker 1: and professionally. I can't thank you enough for that. I
Speaker 1: was recently lucky enough to meet you in person at
Speaker 1: I won't say where, and to meet I don't even
Speaker 1: want to say this bit because it sounds I sound
Speaker 1: like saying it anyway, but I read it. To meet
Speaker 1: the legend in person was generally genuinely a highlight. Thank
Speaker 1: you for the compliment, not a legend, but thank you
Speaker 1: that night. Well, I can't read that bit anyway. You
Speaker 1: gave me an incentive to commit to a course of
Speaker 1: action and to reach out to you and let you
Speaker 1: know how it's gone. Well. The time is up, I'm
Speaker 1: checking in. I actually don't need a response pass a
Speaker 1: mic at but as part of my personal accountability, I
Speaker 1: wanted to send you this message. And he talks about
Speaker 1: all the stuff that he does, and he talks about
Speaker 1: the stuff the decisions that he's made. I'm just realizing
Speaker 1: as I'm reading it. If I read out the specifics,
Speaker 1: people might figure who this is. Anyway down towards the end,
Speaker 1: I feel amazing and to have a new verb and
Speaker 1: focus to continue to build on my growing strength. Even
Speaker 1: got a personal best time doing something, achieving a time
Speaker 1: I thought was impossible at the start of the year.
Speaker 1: Hopefully I'll get to another event in the future, but
Speaker 1: in the meantime, I want to thank you for doing
Speaker 1: what you do. You generally have added knowledge and quality
Speaker 1: to my life and I appreciate everything you do kind regards.
Speaker 1: You know, and we get a bunch of those, and
Speaker 1: you know on behalf of Melissa and Tiff and myself
Speaker 1: and you know, all of you who contribute to the
Speaker 1: totality of the typ experience. If we didn't have you listeners,
Speaker 1: we wouldn't be doing shows. Still, if we didn't have
Speaker 1: the audience, we wouldn't have the we wouldn't have the
Speaker 1: relationship with Nova that we do, we wouldn't have the
Speaker 1: sponsors that we do, we wouldn't be able to keep
Speaker 1: this thing running. And so you know, it's just just
Speaker 1: a shout of gratitude for me to you, and also
Speaker 1: just an acknowledgment that you know, we're still growing, we're
Speaker 1: still going, we still have better and worst episodes. I'm
Speaker 1: still figuring it out, you know. And in the middle
Speaker 1: of all of the nones and the unknowns, you know,
Speaker 1: we are. We're doing some good. And I don't often
Speaker 1: say things like that about myself, but we're doing some good.
Speaker 1: We're getting things wrong, of course, but we're doing some
Speaker 1: good and we're making a little bit of a difference,
Speaker 1: and for me, that's really important. All right, And again,
Speaker 1: thank you for your support. So I want to chat
Speaker 1: quickly with you today about about this. I wrote this
Speaker 1: post a while ago and it said something like, you've
Speaker 1: had lots of Mondays, but you've never had this one.
Speaker 1: And for those of you who listen to this when
Speaker 1: it comes out, it will be a Monday. For those
Speaker 1: of you who listen down the track, same applies to
Speaker 1: whatever day it is. That you're listening. And it's one
Speaker 1: of the interesting things about the psychology of time and
Speaker 1: the psychology of our experience over time. And this is
Speaker 1: a weird thing I'm about say, but the relationship that
Speaker 1: we have with the days that we have, it's like,
Speaker 1: when you're sixty years old. Let's see, there's let's round
Speaker 1: it out, fifty Mondays a year. We know it's fifty two,
Speaker 1: but sixty times sixty years old me times fifty Mondays
Speaker 1: a year is three thousand. Well, we know there's an
Speaker 1: extra sixty times too. So was that three one hundred
Speaker 1: and twenty or something like that, but three, you know,
Speaker 1: So I've had three thousand Mondays, give or take. So
Speaker 1: when Tomorrow rolls around, it's just another Monday. And it's
Speaker 1: really easy to have that mindset that it's just another Monday,
Speaker 1: or it's just another Tuesday, or it's just another day.
Speaker 1: But for some people tomorrow will be their last Monday.
Speaker 1: That's not what we want to hear, but that's true
Speaker 1: for some people. Tomorrow, or for you, if today is
Speaker 1: Monday for you, or whatever day it is for as
Speaker 1: I'm sitting here now on a Sunday, for some people,
Speaker 1: tomorrow will be the last one they have, or maybe
Speaker 1: they've got ten more, or maybe they've got three thousand more.
Speaker 1: We don't know. But I think that sometimes in the
Speaker 1: middle of the thousands of days and tens of thousands
Speaker 1: of days and hundreds of thousands of hours that we have,
Speaker 1: we lose perspective and we forget how precious a day is,
Speaker 1: and we fail to understand the potential and the possibilities
Speaker 1: of a single day. You know, I think about even
Speaker 1: on this podcast, if I forget anyone, I apologize, But
Speaker 1: I'm thinking about so a friend of mine that used
Speaker 1: to be on regularly, Nima Nima Larvi, the pharmacist, you know,
Speaker 1: he has in the last year, has passed away and
Speaker 1: he's he did lots of episodes with me. Danny Frawley,
Speaker 1: who has been on this show, former AFL star and
Speaker 1: coach of Richmond, and you know, he's passed away. Simon
Speaker 1: Hammond marketing guru, branding guru, was on this show at
Speaker 1: least once, maybe twice. I'm not sure. Simon's not having
Speaker 1: any more mondays or any more any days. Neither is
Speaker 1: Nima or Spud Spud rigas Danny, and neither is the
Speaker 1: beautiful Johnny Ruffo. How gorgeous was john And how much
Speaker 1: do I still feel Johnny Ruffo's energy. It's like, I
Speaker 1: know this is sad. I know this is maybe, I
Speaker 1: don't know, weird for some of you, but for me,
Speaker 1: it's like there was just an energy about him, and
Speaker 1: an energy about all of those people. You know I've had.
Speaker 1: You know, one of my best friends when I was
Speaker 1: in my early twenties, he worked with me. He worked
Speaker 1: with me all day, every day. His name was Maddie.
Speaker 1: He was my first personal trainer. He was the first
Speaker 1: employee in Harper's. He worked with me, and he started
Speaker 1: working with me when he was nineteen, and we spent
Speaker 1: the next five years together. And he died when he
Speaker 1: was twenty four. I think it was twenty four, and
Speaker 1: I miss him every single day. I've got a bracelets
Speaker 1: that stays locked on my wrist, which there's just two screws,
Speaker 1: there's no clasp, doesn't come off, and that the bracelet
Speaker 1: has not come off my wrist since he passed away.
Speaker 1: It's got his initials and my initials. It was made
Speaker 1: the following week, and so, you know, I think about him.
Speaker 1: I think about Dicko, Robert Dixon, whose brother Pete has
Speaker 1: been on this show. And Dicko was one of my
Speaker 1: best few friends at school and he passed away years ago.
Speaker 1: And it's there are so many people that come into
Speaker 1: your life and that are there for a you know,
Speaker 1: a reason and sometimes a season and and we don't know.
Speaker 1: And I don't mean to be melodramatic, but in the
Speaker 1: shadow of life and death, you know, in the context
Speaker 1: of a person's life, in the context of somebody being
Speaker 1: here and then not being here, we realize how precious
Speaker 1: a day can be. Even though this is just you know,
Speaker 1: whatever day you're listening to this, you're never going to
Speaker 1: have this day again. You'll have another if you're listening
Speaker 1: to it tomorrow for me, which is Monday. Yeah, you'll
Speaker 1: have hopefully you'll have a lot more Mondays. But you're
Speaker 1: never going to have this Monday. And you've never had
Speaker 1: this Monday. You've never had this moment in time. You've
Speaker 1: never heard these words right now as I am saying
Speaker 1: them to you. You've heard similar words. You've heard a
Speaker 1: lot of similar shit from me. But what I'm saying
Speaker 1: right now, in this moment. On the twenty fifth of
Speaker 1: August twenty twenty four. As I sit here, you've never
Speaker 1: heard these words delivered by me this way to you.
Speaker 1: This is a first for you. It's a first for you.
Speaker 1: But because you're very familiar with me and my ideas
Speaker 1: and my words, it seems like something you've heard before,
Speaker 1: but it isn't. And this day feels like many days
Speaker 1: because you've had many days, but it isn't any other day.
Speaker 1: It is just this day. And the potential of each
Speaker 1: day is vast. The possibilities of a single day are vast.
Speaker 1: But what gets in the way of our ability to
Speaker 1: do so something powerful and amazing and transformational on a
Speaker 1: day is not the capacity or the potential that that
Speaker 1: day holds in store, but rather our thinking, Oh, it's
Speaker 1: just another Monday, It's just another day, it's just another
Speaker 1: moment in time, it's just another conversation. And when our
Speaker 1: thinking is oh, it's just another we've already succumbed. You
Speaker 1: think about all of the things that we chase in
Speaker 1: our world. You think about how much we love and
Speaker 1: I'm talking about the collective we, the global we, the
Speaker 1: group we. You know. You think about what is success.
Speaker 1: When people talk about success in our culture, they are
Speaker 1: always talking about things. Success in our culture is stuff.
Speaker 1: It's what you have and what you earn, and what
Speaker 1: you own, and what you drive and where you live.
Speaker 1: You've heard me say this before. Success is about things. Apparently,
Speaker 1: success is about your brand and your bank balance and
Speaker 1: how well you're regarded by others, and your titles and
Speaker 1: your degrees and your position in the organization. And there's
Speaker 1: nothing wrong with any of all of that. But are
Speaker 1: those things really the gift? What a gift is time?
Speaker 1: What would you if you knew? Now know this is melodramatic,
Speaker 1: and yes this is hypothetical, but if you knew that
Speaker 1: you had one week to live one week, but there
Speaker 1: was a way of getting another ten years, what would
Speaker 1: you give for that ten years? I would imagine if
Speaker 1: there was something that you owned, anything that you owned,
Speaker 1: any money, any possession, anything that you could swap for
Speaker 1: that decade of life, you wouldn't even have to think
Speaker 1: about it. But because none of us are looking through
Speaker 1: that lens, or few of us are looking through the
Speaker 1: lens that time is precious, that today is precious, that
Speaker 1: one day, twenty four hours, fourteen hundred and forty minutes
Speaker 1: are precious. And we don't think that way, and I
Speaker 1: don't a lot as well, so I'm putting me in here.
Speaker 1: But this awareness of the value, of the preciousness of
Speaker 1: the gift that is a single day. If you knew
Speaker 1: you had seven days left, what would you do? Would
Speaker 1: you be online bullshitting? Would you be hanging shit on people?
Speaker 1: Would you be I'm not suggesting you do that on
Speaker 1: the best or worst of days, but I'm pretty sure
Speaker 1: you wouldn't be wasting energy and time on meaningless things.
Speaker 1: I'm pretty sure most of us, if we had one
Speaker 1: week to live, we would love to be with people
Speaker 1: that we love. We would love to be hugged and
Speaker 1: held and to connect. We would love to have precious
Speaker 1: moments and precious conversations. We would love that. We would
Speaker 1: love that. But guess what, we don't do that. We
Speaker 1: don't have that urgency because we got we don't We're like, ah,
Speaker 1: I don't need to do that because I've got all
Speaker 1: the time. We don't know. We don't know how much
Speaker 1: time we have. I'm not being melodramatic, but we don't.
Speaker 1: But even if we do have all the time, why
Speaker 1: do we have to wait? Like? What are we waiting for?
Speaker 1: I'm not as you know, of course, I'm not against money.
Speaker 1: I'm not against building wealth. I'm not against building an
Speaker 1: organization a business. I've done it. I think building a
Speaker 1: brand and all of those things can be an important
Speaker 1: part of our journey. I'm nothing against any of that.
Speaker 1: But I have intoected with so many people, and I
Speaker 1: have been one of these people. So many people who
Speaker 1: from the outside looking in are winning at life. But
Speaker 1: when you dig, when you get below the picture, when
Speaker 1: you get behind the curtain, when you scrape away the persona,
Speaker 1: when you get down to the emotion and the psychology
Speaker 1: and the experience. In the middle of all of that,
Speaker 1: so many people they're not happy. They're not connected, they're
Speaker 1: not joyful, they're anxious, they're depressed, they're lonely, they're disconnected.
Speaker 1: It's just an opportunity for us every day to pull
Speaker 1: back that curtain, to think about what can I do
Speaker 1: today to make my life better? As you listen to me, now,
Speaker 1: think about what is one thing you can do today.
Speaker 1: It might just be to say something kind to somebody.
Speaker 1: It might be to ring a person and tell them
Speaker 1: you love them. It might be to enroll in a course.
Speaker 1: It might it doesn't have to be something spiritual and deep.
Speaker 1: It might be something practical. But the reason that we
Speaker 1: don't feel like every day is a gift is because
Speaker 1: we have so many of them, and we close our eyes,
Speaker 1: then we open them, and then we're fifty and some
Speaker 1: of us say things, or we're forty, or we're sixty,
Speaker 1: and some of us say things like, this wasn't my plan.
Speaker 1: And when someone annoying like me says, please show me
Speaker 1: your plan, nearly everyone says, I don't have a plan.
Speaker 1: I don't I want to see the plan that you
Speaker 1: speaking of. And there is no plan. There was just
Speaker 1: an idea of how things would end or be or
Speaker 1: eventuate or unfold. I don't know why, but I have this.
Speaker 1: You know, maybe part of it is because my parents
Speaker 1: are old as fuck, God bless them, and I look
Speaker 1: at the I look at their lives now, and I
Speaker 1: look at their reality, and you know, they're doing pretty good.
Speaker 1: But there's also days that are not pretty good. There's
Speaker 1: you know, there's peaks and troughs and and honestly, you know,
Speaker 1: I go see my mum and dad. As I've said
Speaker 1: to you before, it's it's a fair hike. It's four
Speaker 1: hours of driving each time, and They're definitely worth it.
Speaker 1: And but I see them as much as I can,
Speaker 1: but I just I just have a different value and
Speaker 1: a different feeling and a different level of gratitude for
Speaker 1: every hour that I see them and I be with them.
Speaker 1: And it's not that when they're necesarily doing anything spectacular.
Speaker 1: Sometimes it's just being there, just saying, I'm here on
Speaker 1: a Saturday with my dad. I'm here on a Saturday,
Speaker 1: which is when I genuinely go by the way. I'm
Speaker 1: with my mum on a Saturday, and I'm hanging out
Speaker 1: with them and I'm doing and not much, but I'm
Speaker 1: really glad because I don't know how many Saturdays I
Speaker 1: have with them, and I don't want to wake up
Speaker 1: one Saturday without them and think I wish I had
Speaker 1: have done this. I wish I had have done that.
Speaker 1: You know, It's I feel like sometimes and this is
Speaker 1: just my feeling and I'm rambling now or I'm freestyling,
Speaker 1: so feel free to tune out or feel free to
Speaker 1: lean in. But I feel like we think that kind
Speaker 1: of life or the universe or God kind of owes
Speaker 1: us something, or that things will work out, or that
Speaker 1: you know, we need to wake you know like, yeah,
Speaker 1: we need to wait for the right time of the
Speaker 1: moment or a sign. We're waiting for a sign, you know.
Speaker 1: But honestly, if you need a sign, here's a sign.
Speaker 1: I don't think by the way the universe or God
Speaker 1: has sent me. I just think maybe it is a sign,
Speaker 1: or maybe you can make it a sign, like building
Speaker 1: our best life, creating our best relationships, building our best
Speaker 1: mental and emotional and physical health states. It's not We
Speaker 1: don't need a knock at the door. We don't need
Speaker 1: an invitation. We don't need some cosmic sign. We don't
Speaker 1: need some ethereal, spiritual, mystical, bloody revelation. We don't need it.
Speaker 1: We just need to act. Knowledge that we are wasting time,
Speaker 1: that we are wasting days, we are wasting opportunities, We
Speaker 1: are waiting for opportunities to present themselves rather than creating
Speaker 1: opportunities ourselves. Every day is truly a gift. But sadly
Speaker 1: most of us don't think like that. Can you walk,
Speaker 1: then that's a gift. Can you walk to a tap
Speaker 1: and have hot and cold water, that's a gift. Do
Speaker 1: you have money to go and buy a coffee? Well,
Speaker 1: that makes you rich. In some countries and some environments.
Speaker 1: Can you open a fridge and there's food, or a
Speaker 1: pantry and there's food. We live most of you and I,
Speaker 1: most of us listening to this anyway, Maybe not everyone,
Speaker 1: but most of us Compared to many people in the world.
Speaker 1: Most of us live in relative luxury and privilege. And
Speaker 1: every day you and I get the opportunity. You and
Speaker 1: I have the gift of doing better, making decisions, changing
Speaker 1: the direction of our life, being grateful, choosing our attitude,
Speaker 1: choosing our words, opening the self awareness doore, opening the
Speaker 1: other people awareness door, choosing to operate in love, choosing
Speaker 1: to live a life aligned with our values. And every
Speaker 1: day we get the opportunity to be grateful for the
Speaker 1: day that we have