WEBVTT - Greater The Vision (w/ CJ Gross) 0:00:01.120 --> 0:00:04.280 Well, hello, there, you are listening to the very first 0:00:04.320 --> 0:00:07.440 episode of the Vitamin D Podcast. I'm your host, a 0:00:07.520 --> 0:00:10.000 Dawn Day, and I'm here to get you excited about 0:00:10.080 --> 0:00:12.600 your life. Now, first, let me tell you Vitamin D 0:00:12.720 --> 0:00:15.040 is a multi vitamin for your mind. It is a 0:00:15.080 --> 0:00:17.119 pun off of my name. You know, like dawn the 0:00:17.200 --> 0:00:19.680 break of day. As you know, you get vitamin D 0:00:19.840 --> 0:00:21.720 from the sun. So I'm here to share some light 0:00:21.760 --> 0:00:23.960 into your life. You see what I did there? On 0:00:24.079 --> 0:00:28.120 this podcast we talk about the importance of speaking life. 0:00:28.600 --> 0:00:30.880 Life and death are in the power of the tongue, 0:00:30.880 --> 0:00:34.760 and I truly believe we have the power to create 0:00:34.840 --> 0:00:38.520 whatever life that we want. And we got to realize 0:00:38.560 --> 0:00:41.080 too that we have to live on purpose and for 0:00:41.200 --> 0:00:43.919 a purpose. Now, as for me, Dawn day, all day, 0:00:43.960 --> 0:00:47.400 every day, and I'm from Detroit. What I've don't right 0:00:47.440 --> 0:00:49.400 there off for a mile between Evergreen and last Year, 0:00:49.479 --> 0:00:52.760 and I'm just a Detroit girl with a big dream 0:00:52.840 --> 0:00:55.600 and a brave voice. The thing that I find more 0:00:55.640 --> 0:00:59.320 importantly is that people always say have a sense of 0:00:59.360 --> 0:01:02.279 bringing you boy and happiness to their life and just 0:01:02.600 --> 0:01:05.120 making him feel good and and provide us a good 0:01:05.160 --> 0:01:08.240 insight which leads me to the topic of this episode 0:01:08.280 --> 0:01:12.039 of Vitamin D greater division, because you can't be what 0:01:12.160 --> 0:01:14.559 you can't see. So I took some time to talk 0:01:14.640 --> 0:01:18.680 with a mentor, a close friend, the very first person 0:01:18.720 --> 0:01:23.720 that gave me an introduction to the public speaking world 0:01:23.800 --> 0:01:27.840 on a professional level, The one and only c J 0:01:28.040 --> 0:01:31.360 growths about what it means to have the greater division, 0:01:31.520 --> 0:01:35.360 the greater the opposition, the greater the reward. Take a lesson, 0:01:37.680 --> 0:01:43.040 get your vieminy right with me, and get excited about 0:01:46.360 --> 0:01:50.600 Thank you so much for coming on today, No problem 0:01:50.600 --> 0:01:53.280 at all, anything for you die. But this is this 0:01:53.360 --> 0:01:55.800 is near and dear to my heart, like this hell 0:01:55.840 --> 0:01:58.200 of stuff. You know, I haven't doing diversity inclusion stuff. 0:01:58.240 --> 0:02:00.880 Mostly I can't believe I look it all this time 0:02:00.920 --> 0:02:04.360 now um, and I'm like, wow, I am sitting here 0:02:04.400 --> 0:02:09.200 for one of my original mentors, see J Gross, the 0:02:09.280 --> 0:02:15.920 host with the most The interesting thing is, was it 0:02:15.960 --> 0:02:18.240 the greater the vision, the greater the opposition, the greater 0:02:18.320 --> 0:02:22.480 the reward. I was sitting here today and I was 0:02:22.520 --> 0:02:26.000 thinking about our interview and or like I'd like to 0:02:26.040 --> 0:02:29.280 say chat, and I was like, the greater the vision, 0:02:29.320 --> 0:02:33.119 the greater the reward. But guess what when you talk 0:02:33.160 --> 0:02:36.760 about a great vision, it comes with a climb M 0:02:37.680 --> 0:02:40.399 And I'm like, that's the opposition. So now it makes 0:02:40.440 --> 0:02:42.639 sense because I was like, hmm, I wonder how we're 0:02:42.639 --> 0:02:45.840 gonna put this together. But that was the link. But 0:02:45.960 --> 0:02:47.920 you just you just said something that was powerful. You 0:02:47.919 --> 0:02:50.280 talked about you said the climb, right, So you know 0:02:50.280 --> 0:02:52.600 how You'll go on into the internet and look at 0:02:52.720 --> 0:02:59.239 like these uh, really beautiful uh photograph photographs of landscape 0:02:59.280 --> 0:03:01.880 and sometimes they're a high and we never think about 0:03:01.919 --> 0:03:05.680 like how did you how did that person get that photograph? Right? 0:03:06.080 --> 0:03:09.880 A lot of times they you know, the most exotic photographs, 0:03:09.919 --> 0:03:13.960 there's danger, whether it's surrounding exotic animals or you know, 0:03:14.200 --> 0:03:17.840 aerial views or on the mountaintop or the desert or something. 0:03:17.960 --> 0:03:22.440 So it's like the beauty of that photo, that photograph 0:03:22.600 --> 0:03:25.799 really is indicative of what was necessary to get there. 0:03:26.320 --> 0:03:29.480 And I think a lot of times we're just magazine 0:03:29.480 --> 0:03:32.959 turners were like that's a nice photograph. That's nice photograph. 0:03:33.040 --> 0:03:35.360 But I believe when you can look in your own 0:03:35.480 --> 0:03:38.520 phone and you have beautiful pictures, there is a story 0:03:38.560 --> 0:03:43.920 behind those pictures that you know, is is really how 0:03:44.000 --> 0:03:45.920 you bring your vision to life, Like what you what 0:03:46.040 --> 0:03:48.280 you went through to get that to make that happen. 0:03:48.640 --> 0:03:50.560 I'm sitting here and I'm like wow, because well, I 0:03:50.560 --> 0:03:53.320 thought of two things. One, I've been telling people to 0:03:53.480 --> 0:03:57.880 check out this. Uh it's a Disney animated film, so 0:03:57.960 --> 0:04:05.240 animation and it's called Onward and oh, by GE's your life. 0:04:05.240 --> 0:04:08.360 It just came out like this year. It is everything. 0:04:08.360 --> 0:04:13.920 When I say on a spiritual on a motivational inspirational tip, 0:04:13.960 --> 0:04:16.359 but just one of the characters on there, she talked 0:04:16.400 --> 0:04:20.159 about her challenge and her opposition. Rather, it was all 0:04:20.200 --> 0:04:25.800 about the greater the risk, the greater the reward. Yeah, 0:04:26.160 --> 0:04:29.119 that's exactly what it is. I'm gonna definitely check that out. 0:04:29.160 --> 0:04:31.120 You gotta go all in. And so just when you 0:04:31.160 --> 0:04:34.640 were talking about that, you know, you think about that climb, 0:04:34.960 --> 0:04:38.080 but guess what on that climb to get to that level, 0:04:38.120 --> 0:04:40.320 to get to that peak, A lot of people don't 0:04:40.360 --> 0:04:44.440 tread there. And unless you work out those muscles to 0:04:44.440 --> 0:04:47.560 to to get there, that's like that's a whole other moment, 0:04:48.200 --> 0:04:51.920 whole other moment, whole other moment. So you taught me that, 0:04:52.160 --> 0:04:54.640 and I feel like when you always talked about the 0:04:54.680 --> 0:04:56.960 greater division and what was just back? I met you 0:04:57.000 --> 0:05:00.680 when I was a student at Howard University, found you 0:05:00.800 --> 0:05:11.839 on Craigslist. You were looking forward? Does that? And you 0:05:11.880 --> 0:05:18.400 were my first connection with a motivational speaker, right because 0:05:18.400 --> 0:05:20.919 you know, see Jay, that's that's the grand vision of 0:05:20.960 --> 0:05:24.480 it all. I am going to use radio and television 0:05:24.520 --> 0:05:29.000 and voiceover to inspire. And then you always used to 0:05:29.000 --> 0:05:32.719 tell me, you said, Dawn, I don't say motivate because 0:05:32.760 --> 0:05:35.720 you get motivated to get started, but you get inspired 0:05:35.760 --> 0:05:41.120 to change your life. Talk about seeds of life. Stop 0:05:41.200 --> 0:05:45.920 playing with me, see Jay. Yeah, that's a that's yeah, 0:05:46.200 --> 0:05:50.080 it's because that's it. That's it. Motivation is for time 0:05:50.200 --> 0:05:54.279 and inspiration is for lifetimes. Like and and this shows 0:05:54.440 --> 0:05:58.159 right how many years ago was that we calculated? One time? 0:05:58.520 --> 0:06:05.520 I think we were between thirsty. Yeah, it it's more 0:06:05.560 --> 0:06:08.800 than that. It was a Wow, I'm like a junior. 0:06:08.960 --> 0:06:13.240 Look now you got me telling my age, but I'm 0:06:13.279 --> 0:06:16.440 gonna tell them too. Yeah. So we you know, both 0:06:16.440 --> 0:06:19.719 of us had our visions and look at you know 0:06:19.760 --> 0:06:22.480 where we are now. You know you're a California You're 0:06:22.520 --> 0:06:25.760 doing your thing. Um, you pursued it. You know you're 0:06:25.800 --> 0:06:30.119 catching it and you're ascending. And I think that's that's 0:06:30.160 --> 0:06:33.480 the beauty of you know, the ability to have your 0:06:33.560 --> 0:06:37.520 vision and and what you um you want to accomplish 0:06:38.040 --> 0:06:40.159 and doing the work to create it, to bring it 0:06:40.200 --> 0:06:42.200 into life, to bring it into fruition like you just 0:06:42.279 --> 0:06:43.760 like you're having a baby. But I don't have an 0:06:43.760 --> 0:06:46.600 experience with that, like having a baby. But you know, okay, 0:06:46.640 --> 0:06:49.320 so how about this as a word right now? I 0:06:49.360 --> 0:06:51.320 mean I just had to jump up for a second 0:06:51.400 --> 0:06:56.119 because I actually put that up on Facebook to day. 0:06:57.200 --> 0:07:00.240 I said, I have been working so hard, but I 0:07:00.279 --> 0:07:02.839 know all this is for, you know, my greater purpose, 0:07:02.880 --> 0:07:05.120 and I'm gonna walk in faith with it that I'm 0:07:05.160 --> 0:07:07.960 doing things I've never done before, things that I am 0:07:08.000 --> 0:07:11.080 so uncomfortable with that I want to go hide that 0:07:11.160 --> 0:07:13.760 I've said here and cried, tried to figure things out. 0:07:14.000 --> 0:07:16.000 I just completed a sketch and I was telling a 0:07:16.000 --> 0:07:19.920 friend I said that felt like I gave birth because 0:07:19.920 --> 0:07:22.040 I was frustrated. I was crying, and then when I 0:07:22.080 --> 0:07:26.840 got it out, it was like, yes, yes, we're talking 0:07:26.840 --> 0:07:29.640 about vision. And I think it's one of the important 0:07:29.680 --> 0:07:32.880 things that every person that's probably alive needs to have 0:07:33.360 --> 0:07:35.760 and I'm like, I don't know anybody better other than 0:07:35.920 --> 0:07:39.440 you that I would speak to this about, because you talk. 0:07:39.600 --> 0:07:42.960 You were the first person that introduced to me what 0:07:43.120 --> 0:07:45.840 it was to have vision and what it meant and 0:07:46.000 --> 0:07:50.360 and the diligence. And you know what I've realized. I 0:07:50.360 --> 0:07:56.520 started meditating, uh, and of probably like fall of twenty nineteen. Uh. 0:07:56.560 --> 0:07:57.960 And it was just a matter if I said, I 0:07:58.000 --> 0:08:01.640 gotta get my chakras together. I have to move into alignment. 0:08:02.240 --> 0:08:04.440 And I'm one, and just because of grinding, of just 0:08:04.600 --> 0:08:08.680 constantly hustling and moving and everything that I'm not doing 0:08:08.680 --> 0:08:11.480 a self check in and I said, God, I have 0:08:11.680 --> 0:08:13.760 grinded for years and I know that I have a 0:08:13.760 --> 0:08:18.320 long way to go, but I need to move soundly, right. 0:08:18.480 --> 0:08:22.800 I hate need to move with discernment because now you know, 0:08:22.880 --> 0:08:26.160 you just start realizing time, you start realizing your efforts, 0:08:26.160 --> 0:08:28.760 and when you sit down and you smell the roses 0:08:28.800 --> 0:08:30.880 and you're like, okay, God, I see where you've placed 0:08:30.920 --> 0:08:35.120 me order my steps. That's so powerful to be in 0:08:35.120 --> 0:08:37.319 that place. And when you know that, you can lean 0:08:37.360 --> 0:08:39.320 on it more. Because I think when you first start 0:08:39.320 --> 0:08:42.080 out on your journey and your vision, it's like being 0:08:42.120 --> 0:08:44.160 a baby, you know you're taking me steps and you 0:08:44.160 --> 0:08:47.320 don't know why how, And as you grow you start 0:08:47.400 --> 0:08:50.200 to think, okay, well that was meaningful. I didn't see how. 0:08:50.320 --> 0:08:52.679 And then you get to the place where the place 0:08:52.679 --> 0:08:55.640 around at now it's like I know my steps are ordered, 0:08:55.640 --> 0:08:58.439 and I know things are unfolding. There's some things that 0:08:58.480 --> 0:09:01.320 I don't know, but there's so much more that I 0:09:01.400 --> 0:09:06.160 know now because I've seen it in my past. I 0:09:06.240 --> 0:09:09.400 felt that one Okay, I'm listening, you know, I was 0:09:09.400 --> 0:09:14.200 thinking about our interview, well, our conversation. I think about sight, 0:09:14.360 --> 0:09:16.360 you know, like vision and sight, and I remember I 0:09:16.400 --> 0:09:19.040 think what Willie Jolly has said, Um, which we wille 0:09:19.040 --> 0:09:21.240 who we will know? And and then the four from 0:09:21.360 --> 0:09:24.080 from my book, Um, he's a greatness, he said, there's 0:09:24.080 --> 0:09:28.720 four different sites. There's um, there's hindsight, when you can 0:09:28.800 --> 0:09:33.439 have reflection on what has happened. You know, you're able 0:09:33.480 --> 0:09:36.840 to look and reflect on on your past experiences and 0:09:36.880 --> 0:09:41.800 gain information from that. And um, there's foresight, so when 0:09:41.800 --> 0:09:44.880 you're able to see the future in your mind's eye 0:09:44.920 --> 0:09:47.120 and see what you want to come and pass. And 0:09:47.160 --> 0:09:51.120 then there's oversight when you've been given you know, resources, 0:09:51.120 --> 0:09:58.000 and opportunities, and you oversee those resources and opportunities, Like 0:09:58.000 --> 0:10:00.440 people have opportunities right now that they're not they're not 0:10:00.480 --> 0:10:03.120 actualizing on like on their job, or maybe someone got 0:10:03.200 --> 0:10:05.000 laid off and maybe they can start a business, but 0:10:05.040 --> 0:10:07.800 they don't have that, you know, oversight of the resources. 0:10:07.840 --> 0:10:10.120 So they're just chilling, playing on the couch. You're not 0:10:10.240 --> 0:10:13.000 utilizing your time. But the most important one, I believe 0:10:13.120 --> 0:10:15.800 is insight. So insight is when you're able to gather 0:10:16.080 --> 0:10:20.440 deep information about yourself or a person in that moment. 0:10:21.000 --> 0:10:23.440 And it's not something necessarily that you can see what 0:10:23.480 --> 0:10:26.400 the naked eye. It takes time to know that this 0:10:26.480 --> 0:10:29.160 is something special, this is something I should move on, 0:10:29.720 --> 0:10:32.880 this is something that um and it's something sometimes your 0:10:33.000 --> 0:10:35.240 your head can't help you with. It's like you gotta 0:10:35.280 --> 0:10:40.800 lean into your heart. My daughter was diagnosed with a 0:10:40.840 --> 0:10:43.520 serious illness and I had to really make a really 0:10:43.520 --> 0:10:46.840 difficult choice. Um where I'll getting all into it. Had 0:10:46.840 --> 0:10:48.720 to make a really difficult choice, and there was this 0:10:48.840 --> 0:10:52.559 opportunity that came up for me and um my my 0:10:52.640 --> 0:10:55.559 daughter was in this place of transition in the hospital 0:10:55.840 --> 0:10:59.240 and I had some support systems and I really it 0:10:59.320 --> 0:11:01.959 was really lunge. And it was. It was the one 0:11:02.000 --> 0:11:03.600 of the hardest decisions I ever had to make in 0:11:03.640 --> 0:11:05.680 my life, because I had to make a decision whether 0:11:05.920 --> 0:11:08.800 I was going to get on an airplane to capitalize 0:11:08.840 --> 0:11:11.319 on this opportunity, or was I gonna stay in hospital 0:11:11.320 --> 0:11:13.840 because I wasn't sure my daughter's gonna get a hospital. 0:11:13.880 --> 0:11:16.720 Better not to be moved, right, And so, without getting 0:11:16.760 --> 0:11:19.400 into the particulars of it, I had insight. And people 0:11:19.440 --> 0:11:21.080 did not understand me. They thought I was being a 0:11:21.080 --> 0:11:22.880 bad parent because you know, I was a single parent 0:11:22.880 --> 0:11:24.040 at the time. But they were like, oh, this is 0:11:24.120 --> 0:11:27.480 rocaching his business dreams and all those other things. But 0:11:27.800 --> 0:11:30.679 I had insight. And when you have insight, you move 0:11:30.760 --> 0:11:34.160 in faith. And I moved in faith and and and 0:11:34.240 --> 0:11:38.560 it changed the trajectory of my speaking and coaching and training. 0:11:38.679 --> 0:11:43.640 And from that I became a international speaker. I I 0:11:44.320 --> 0:11:46.880 you know, I was able to Uh. It led me 0:11:46.920 --> 0:11:49.640 to a path where I was able to, um, purchase 0:11:49.720 --> 0:11:54.280 multiple homes, uh you know, you know, travel, travel the world, UM, 0:11:54.320 --> 0:11:57.480 you know, work on my fourth book, and um, you know, 0:11:57.559 --> 0:11:59.920 just so many other things. But a lot of other 0:12:00.040 --> 0:12:01.839 people couldn't see that at the time. So I think 0:12:01.920 --> 0:12:04.200 insight is one of those visions that you know, like 0:12:04.240 --> 0:12:07.000 in your situation and being able to block our fear 0:12:07.120 --> 0:12:09.640 in all the noise. M And it's so interesting you 0:12:09.640 --> 0:12:12.600 say that, because that's one of the things that I 0:12:12.640 --> 0:12:16.559 was realizing when it came down to manifestation. And if 0:12:16.600 --> 0:12:19.720 you get even down biblically speaking of why do you 0:12:19.720 --> 0:12:22.640 have to write the vision? And and for me, what 0:12:22.840 --> 0:12:25.880 I've realized of why you have to write the vision 0:12:25.880 --> 0:12:27.920 and how you have to put things in hindsight because 0:12:28.280 --> 0:12:31.200 this whole thing about life is a matter of communication. 0:12:31.720 --> 0:12:33.960 And just like you said, with going in and getting 0:12:34.000 --> 0:12:37.360 into that insight is getting rid of the distraction and 0:12:37.440 --> 0:12:40.960 the noise. So what I found is that your spirit 0:12:41.000 --> 0:12:44.600 already knows that's the intuition, that's your gut that's speaking 0:12:44.640 --> 0:12:47.680 to you. But at the same time, we're spiritual beings 0:12:47.720 --> 0:12:50.360 having a human experience, and so now we have to 0:12:50.360 --> 0:12:53.080 have a communication of what's going on to the spirit 0:12:53.120 --> 0:12:56.040 and with the mind. And hence that's why I'm like, Okay, 0:12:56.080 --> 0:12:58.080 we have to write the vision. We have to make 0:12:58.120 --> 0:13:00.920 sure to see things even if it's not naturally out there. 0:13:01.080 --> 0:13:03.679 How would you orchestrated and put it together, and I 0:13:03.760 --> 0:13:07.200 find that sometimes that's even more fun because guess what, 0:13:07.800 --> 0:13:13.480 you live your life limitless, that's right, you said, limitless. 0:13:13.920 --> 0:13:16.680 Tapping into the potential that we that we all have. 0:13:17.040 --> 0:13:21.480 But turning that potential within the acorn into the oak 0:13:21.520 --> 0:13:28.120 tree is the everybody's like, you know that that acorn. 0:13:28.320 --> 0:13:30.040 We want to be the oak tree. But we don't 0:13:30.040 --> 0:13:33.760 want to move off the ledge. We don't want to 0:13:33.800 --> 0:13:36.640 get a little dirty because we gotta get some fertilized 0:13:36.679 --> 0:13:39.079 with some nutrients. We think we can just jump out 0:13:39.160 --> 0:13:44.599 there and fresh fertilize those things. Oh, doesn't it us 0:13:44.800 --> 0:13:48.959 start hurt? But it's beautiful, it's it's amazing. It teaches 0:13:49.040 --> 0:13:51.760 you just it gives you everything you need, your nutrients 0:13:51.800 --> 0:13:55.160 to grow, that's right, it makes you have You gotta 0:13:55.200 --> 0:13:57.920 go deep. The roots go down before the style comes 0:13:58.000 --> 0:14:00.760 out of the dirt, right, the roots go down to 0:14:00.760 --> 0:14:03.800 build your foundation, and in that time you don't see anything, 0:14:04.240 --> 0:14:05.920 but that's where that's why it's important to have the 0:14:06.000 --> 0:14:09.600 insight knowing that the season been planning, something's going down 0:14:09.679 --> 0:14:11.600 and it's like the same thing you know in your story. 0:14:11.679 --> 0:14:15.480 You you you know, you graduated from Howard University and 0:14:15.559 --> 0:14:16.880 you know, that was just the seed that you were 0:14:16.880 --> 0:14:19.840 planning part of your education and building your foundation. And 0:14:19.880 --> 0:14:22.320 then I was, I was, I was impressed. You were like, 0:14:22.480 --> 0:14:25.240 I'm going to New York. I'm gonna go do this thing. 0:14:25.240 --> 0:14:27.240 I'm gonna make it happen. And I was, I was excited. 0:14:27.280 --> 0:14:29.680 I was like, oh cool. And then even you went 0:14:29.720 --> 0:14:32.400 to California, I was like, oh, you know, you were 0:14:32.480 --> 0:14:35.000 working with Lisa Nichols, you you know, and then you 0:14:35.440 --> 0:14:39.240 needed to Steve Harvey Show and you know, and I'm like, wow, 0:14:40.320 --> 0:14:42.800 those those seeds you were planning and then they were 0:14:42.840 --> 0:14:45.040 just starting to take place. But you have to have faith. 0:14:45.080 --> 0:14:48.160 You have to you know, overcome the fears that were 0:14:48.200 --> 0:14:51.520 necessary in order to bring and bring into fruishing your 0:14:52.080 --> 0:14:54.840 your potential. But yeah, I needed so a couple of 0:14:54.840 --> 0:14:57.960 things that were special. Well, I definitely had my sweat equity, 0:14:58.000 --> 0:15:00.720 were probably some tears or just the to go around 0:15:00.760 --> 0:15:03.640 and go. But I had to go through a process 0:15:03.720 --> 0:15:06.800 that allowed me to have those nutrients and photosynthesis because 0:15:06.800 --> 0:15:09.000 I have mentors like you just show me the way, 0:15:09.160 --> 0:15:11.600 to show me the light, which leads me to wonder, 0:15:11.680 --> 0:15:15.560 what was the inspiration behind seeds of life? LLC because 0:15:15.880 --> 0:15:18.560 I find when individuals find mentors like you, there's a 0:15:18.640 --> 0:15:22.480 planting going on. What inspired that? So? I mean, I'm 0:15:22.520 --> 0:15:25.080 not a gardener. I'm gonna tray my hands on, but 0:15:25.120 --> 0:15:28.000 I'm not really a gardener. But what I do understand 0:15:28.240 --> 0:15:32.160 is that there's something special about the way agriculture happens. 0:15:32.520 --> 0:15:34.240 You have to plan a seed in the ground, right, 0:15:34.280 --> 0:15:36.560 So there's nothing that's gonna come up if you plant 0:15:36.640 --> 0:15:38.440 no seeds, right, or if you keep the seeds in 0:15:38.440 --> 0:15:42.480 your pocket, you know, there's nothing's gonna happen, right. So 0:15:43.040 --> 0:15:46.440 it made me think about life. You're always those who 0:15:46.560 --> 0:15:50.520 grow or listening and hearing and you know, finding information 0:15:50.640 --> 0:15:53.400 and they're seeking the information. They're not just sitting and waiting. 0:15:53.400 --> 0:15:56.040 They're actually going out and seeking the information. And those 0:15:56.240 --> 0:16:00.280 that information is seats and then that information is life. 0:16:01.040 --> 0:16:03.840 And if you plant it into you the ground, to 0:16:03.920 --> 0:16:06.680 the soil of your spirit, into your heart, they will 0:16:07.120 --> 0:16:09.800 they will, they will birth. Now here's the thing about that. 0:16:10.200 --> 0:16:12.240 Some people are planning some seeds, but it's not what 0:16:12.280 --> 0:16:16.000 they want, well, land seeds of dandelions or you know, 0:16:16.200 --> 0:16:17.560 you don't need to see the damnim or I guess 0:16:17.600 --> 0:16:20.360 you do. But the point is they have all these weeds, 0:16:20.760 --> 0:16:22.600 but they're not planning the things that they want, Like 0:16:22.640 --> 0:16:25.440 they want apples, they want avocados and all that. You 0:16:25.480 --> 0:16:27.440 have to plant the seeds for those things too in 0:16:27.560 --> 0:16:29.840 order to grow. Is that because they don't have the 0:16:29.920 --> 0:16:34.160 proper vision for it? Or what what's knowledge? Again? If 0:16:34.160 --> 0:16:36.320 I go to the if I go to the um, 0:16:37.040 --> 0:16:39.640 to the nursery, to you know, we play, we buy seeds, 0:16:40.040 --> 0:16:42.880 I can tell them exactly what kind of um trees 0:16:42.920 --> 0:16:44.760 I want, what kind of plants someone, and they'll tell 0:16:44.800 --> 0:16:49.080 me exactly what to to plant, how much water it needs, 0:16:49.120 --> 0:16:51.000 how much um, what kind of dirt to put it 0:16:51.040 --> 0:16:54.000 into everything planting in the shade that needs this amount 0:16:54.000 --> 0:16:57.560 of life. If I'm willing to listen, that those seeds 0:16:57.560 --> 0:17:00.360 will grow. And what most people are doing one is 0:17:00.480 --> 0:17:03.720 they're not seeking the knowledge, right which the knowledge as 0:17:03.760 --> 0:17:05.679 the seeds. They're not seeking the knowledge like what you 0:17:05.720 --> 0:17:07.320 did and like what I did. I had a mentor 0:17:07.359 --> 0:17:09.719 and I have mentors as well. So people are kind 0:17:09.720 --> 0:17:11.160 of just trying to figure out on their own. They're 0:17:11.200 --> 0:17:13.440 just throwing seeds around, some of some of the landing 0:17:13.480 --> 0:17:16.919 on the concrete and even going into the dirt, and 0:17:16.960 --> 0:17:19.240 some of the land on top of the dirt top soil, 0:17:19.680 --> 0:17:21.560 the birds come and picking them off and they're like, 0:17:21.560 --> 0:17:24.080 but I have no crops, I have nothing to eat. No, 0:17:24.400 --> 0:17:27.240 because you didn't plan it, you didn't nurture it, and 0:17:27.520 --> 0:17:29.760 you didn't get the knowledge to even how to do it. 0:17:29.880 --> 0:17:32.800 And I think that is one of our biggest challenges 0:17:32.840 --> 0:17:36.679 because if you don't reach out to someone that is 0:17:36.720 --> 0:17:39.320 further along than you or has insight on some different 0:17:39.640 --> 0:17:42.560 components of life, then you're gonna stay stagnant, and it's 0:17:42.560 --> 0:17:45.399 gonna happen year after year after year after year, and 0:17:45.440 --> 0:17:47.000 someone else is gonna be sitting, you know, a couple 0:17:47.000 --> 0:17:49.080 of years later. They're gonna be sitting under their tree 0:17:49.359 --> 0:17:51.760 that has is producing fruit, and they're gonna be able 0:17:51.800 --> 0:17:55.200 to eat the salad that they put on the fruit 0:17:55.880 --> 0:17:58.479 that they had planned a couple of years ago. And 0:17:58.520 --> 0:18:01.880 you're still out there, you know, on the wilderness. And 0:18:01.920 --> 0:18:05.320 so you have to be willing to um to step 0:18:05.359 --> 0:18:07.239 out on the lim someone said step out on live 0:18:07.280 --> 0:18:09.680 because that's what the fruit is, right, and that means 0:18:09.720 --> 0:18:12.040 like buying the book, you know, that means listen to 0:18:12.080 --> 0:18:21.280 this podcast day um reaching out the going to Craig's 0:18:21.320 --> 0:18:23.919 Listen and answering the ad. You know someone else saw that. 0:18:24.280 --> 0:18:29.440 It was like, nah, it's probably they're not really doing that. Yeah, 0:18:29.560 --> 0:18:31.600 that's unfortunately because I think so many people have so 0:18:31.680 --> 0:18:34.080 much talent. And again I get this from less Brownie. 0:18:34.080 --> 0:18:36.920 So you should die empty, just giving it all out, 0:18:37.200 --> 0:18:40.840 just coming with well, I don't, I don't not not 0:18:40.920 --> 0:18:44.040 necessarily broken. But when I say you got dying empty, 0:18:44.280 --> 0:18:45.960 I don't know if it's necessarily for me if I 0:18:45.960 --> 0:18:48.760 would ever say completely empty, because I would hope that 0:18:48.800 --> 0:18:51.960 whatever joy or whatever purpose I'm doing, I'm on overflow. 0:18:52.040 --> 0:18:55.040 So I'm just constantly going like I never really lose 0:18:55.080 --> 0:18:59.160 out because it's more like an energy source or flow. Yeah. Yeah, 0:18:59.280 --> 0:19:00.760 So I think what even you said the quote is 0:19:00.800 --> 0:19:04.000 that you know the world should know that you were here. 0:19:05.280 --> 0:19:08.760 If things happen and they can't find you on the internet, 0:19:08.760 --> 0:19:10.800 you know, what was the whole purpose of you being here? 0:19:10.840 --> 0:19:12.560 You know, you just sucked up the air. You know, 0:19:12.640 --> 0:19:16.560 you got on people's nerves. You know somebody has to 0:19:16.600 --> 0:19:19.720 deal with your stinky attitude, and you didn't leave the 0:19:19.720 --> 0:19:22.880 world no better then how you found it. I think 0:19:23.040 --> 0:19:25.320 I think I think that's the sense. Should you want 0:19:25.400 --> 0:19:28.160 the sense? All right? Taking up occupancy? When you look 0:19:28.200 --> 0:19:30.680 at how much life is a gift and it's like, 0:19:30.800 --> 0:19:33.080 wait a minute, not the treasurer. But here's the thing, 0:19:34.119 --> 0:19:37.200 you know. I think sometimes we have people that may 0:19:37.240 --> 0:19:42.480 not necessarily go after dreams or necessarily feel like as 0:19:42.520 --> 0:19:45.320 though they have something to pursue because they feel like 0:19:45.320 --> 0:19:48.480 they don't have a vision. Like is everybody given? Is 0:19:48.480 --> 0:19:52.200 everybody given a vision? Can everybody seek a vision? Can 0:19:52.280 --> 0:19:57.800 everyone attain acquire a vision? What is the vision? That's 0:19:57.800 --> 0:20:02.719 a great question. I think I think both happened. I think, um, 0:20:03.160 --> 0:20:05.440 you sometimes we're giving a vision but we don't see 0:20:05.440 --> 0:20:09.679 it right or we suppress it. Um. And I always 0:20:09.680 --> 0:20:11.840 tell people when I'm coaching them, um, and they're trying 0:20:11.840 --> 0:20:14.960 to figure out what their career goals are businesses, I said, 0:20:15.000 --> 0:20:16.399 what is that thing that keeps coming up to you 0:20:16.440 --> 0:20:18.919 that you're ignoring? What's that thing that keeps you up 0:20:18.920 --> 0:20:23.000 at night? What's that thing that? Um? Someone you think 0:20:23.040 --> 0:20:25.000 it and you you you shut it down, you suppressed it, 0:20:25.040 --> 0:20:26.760 and then someone else says it and every way you 0:20:26.800 --> 0:20:30.800 turn is that that is the thing that's the vision 0:20:30.800 --> 0:20:32.959 that you're that you're that you're looking away from, you're 0:20:33.040 --> 0:20:35.359 hiding from. Some people do their whole lives and it's like, 0:20:35.800 --> 0:20:38.480 you know, you would be great, you know, making donuts 0:20:38.560 --> 0:20:41.000 or something, and you just keep not doing it because 0:20:41.000 --> 0:20:43.639 you're like, oh, you make up excuses. So that person 0:20:43.720 --> 0:20:46.280 has a vision, but they're not willing to see it. 0:20:46.680 --> 0:20:47.879 You know how you get up in the morning and 0:20:47.920 --> 0:20:49.960 the sun comes in. Instead of letting them when the 0:20:50.000 --> 0:20:52.640 sun come in, you should close the blinds. The sun 0:20:52.680 --> 0:20:55.159 is still there, but you just close the brands and 0:20:55.160 --> 0:20:58.320 those things go back to sleep. Yeah, that's the vision 0:20:58.720 --> 0:21:02.439 when you put it like that, and you know, for 0:21:02.480 --> 0:21:05.240 somebody that might be listening to us, the vision it 0:21:05.320 --> 0:21:08.919 should be so big that it right. Yes, for for you, 0:21:09.440 --> 0:21:11.800 I've met people that they didn't want to you know, 0:21:11.880 --> 0:21:13.639 travel the world and those things. They wanted to go 0:21:13.680 --> 0:21:15.560 back to school to be a teacher, but they didn't 0:21:15.600 --> 0:21:18.120 want to let their parents down because you know, their 0:21:18.280 --> 0:21:21.160 doctor or engineer or whatever it was. Because of their culture. 0:21:21.240 --> 0:21:25.120 They felt like they couldn't do it. So for us 0:21:25.280 --> 0:21:27.359 like that, I wouldn't want to take away that money, 0:21:27.400 --> 0:21:29.600 but that's not a big deal. But for them it's 0:21:29.600 --> 0:21:31.480