Speaker 1: Good morning, good afternoon, good evening. You are tuned into
Speaker 1: the Vitamin D with Dawn Day podcast and I am
Speaker 1: your host, Dawn Day, here to get you excited about
Speaker 1: your life so that you can live life on purpose
Speaker 1: and for a purpose. And this is your first time
Speaker 1: tuning in and welcome Vitamin D. It's upon of my name.
Speaker 1: My name is Dawn and you get Vitamin D from
Speaker 1: the sun. So I'm here to shed light into your life.
Speaker 1: And I do this with inspirational insights and conversations with
Speaker 1: celebrities and everyday people like you and me, because if
Speaker 1: you want to be better and you want to do better,
Speaker 1: then you're going to have to be able to see better.
Speaker 1: So join me on this journey of living our best
Speaker 1: lives and understanding and realizing how you are your greatest
Speaker 1: ass at call it all joy. That's what I'm screaming out,
Speaker 1: calling it all joy. I'm calling the joy because guess
Speaker 1: what I am the host of the front page on
Speaker 1: Radio Free one or two point three k J L H. Wow.
Speaker 1: I took some time to get there for joy, and
Speaker 1: I want to remind you that as I'm in this journey,
Speaker 1: I can't say that it has been the easiest, but
Speaker 1: it's me identifying what it is that I want and
Speaker 1: also staying in gratitude. You know, they say, the more
Speaker 1: grateful you are, the more things you have to be
Speaker 1: grateful for. But one thing I've realized, even on my path,
Speaker 1: and as I've talked to different friends, family members, people
Speaker 1: that I know, that oftentimes, on this journey called life,
Speaker 1: we have a tendency to look at other people and
Speaker 1: what they're doing, checking their tempo, checking their speed, and
Speaker 1: while all in all we lose our rhythm. Why is that?
Speaker 1: Why do we lose focus on our most important asset,
Speaker 1: which is ourselves? Now? Because we are spiritual beings having
Speaker 1: a human experience, I'll say this is quite normal, but
Speaker 1: I'm reminded to tell you that you have to check
Speaker 1: yourself before you wreck yourself. I'm looking back and I'm
Speaker 1: thinking about the episode. It was actually posted on October
Speaker 1: three and titled stop Comparing Yourself, and in it I
Speaker 1: talked about my friend's mother who said, hey, Dawn, why
Speaker 1: aren't you further than when you are right now? Dahn,
Speaker 1: look at your friend. They've gotten way further than you, Dawn.
Speaker 1: The people that you're with aren't gonna be with you forever. Now.
Speaker 1: I could have gotten distracted and focused on that, but
Speaker 1: you have to realize that timing is everything. Sometimes you
Speaker 1: go through things so that you can get through the
Speaker 1: other side, so that there's a better understanding of where
Speaker 1: you're going. But if you're so concentrating on looking at
Speaker 1: the next person, you'll miss the goal right in front
Speaker 1: of you. And I remember telling her, I said, oh,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna write space. Timing is everything because there are
Speaker 1: some things that I had to get ready for. And
Speaker 1: that's why I say such a time as this and
Speaker 1: I can count it all joy. So I want you
Speaker 1: to count it all joy, whatever it is that you're experiencing,
Speaker 1: whatever it is that you're working towards, because you best
Speaker 1: believe every lesson is a blessing. You just gotta hold
Speaker 1: on and just remind yourself. The more grateful you are,
Speaker 1: I guarantee you, the more things you have to be
Speaker 1: grateful for. Gratitude is everything. Dahn day is getting paid
Speaker 1: to be on the radio. Get your rightem right with me.
Speaker 1: I get excited about. So I'm sitting here wonder what
Speaker 1: I'm gonna talk about, and I was taking a look
Speaker 1: at this box. Jeremiah rough in the studio. It's called
Speaker 1: an icebreaker starter pack and as an over or has
Speaker 1: a hundred and fifty prompts in here in various categories
Speaker 1: such as life, things that are random, deep experiences. If
Speaker 1: you could, and of course would you'd rather, I'm not
Speaker 1: so let me just delving in here and see what
Speaker 1: I see. And I pulled out from the Life question
Speaker 1: a card it says what book has made the biggest
Speaker 1: impact on your life? Immediately? The book that came to
Speaker 1: mind it was a Game of Life and How to
Speaker 1: Play It by Florence Scobell shin for many years, I said, Skowell,
Speaker 1: but um shout out to Patty Jackson, Auntie, Patty Jackson
Speaker 1: up in Philly, she said at Skobel, So the Game
Speaker 1: of Life and how to Play It. I came about
Speaker 1: this book when I was a senior at Howard University
Speaker 1: and we had to do a practical course. And the
Speaker 1: practical was basically having an internship that was an alignment
Speaker 1: of whatever your major was at school. I majored in
Speaker 1: TV production. I might have in business, but I was
Speaker 1: all in the theater classes and all up in radio.
Speaker 1: But as you know, TV is an extension of radio.
Speaker 1: I say all that to say because I was currently
Speaker 1: having my internship at Excellent Satellite Radio now in order
Speaker 1: to graduate, uh, so that the internship counted towards my
Speaker 1: practical course. They said, well, hey, you doing, why don't
Speaker 1: you go ahead and film and record the interviews and
Speaker 1: things that go on at the station and we can
Speaker 1: include that as part of the TV practical So that
Speaker 1: gave me the credit for the class. So I will
Speaker 1: go to my internship, come at to class. And then
Speaker 1: one day my teacher was like, oh, shout out to
Speaker 1: Professor Saunders, Vicky Saunders. She said, we got to read
Speaker 1: this book and it has nothing to do with television.
Speaker 1: Immediately I'm tight because I'm like, why are we wasting
Speaker 1: out time reading this? Little did I know that that
Speaker 1: was going to be one of the best books I've
Speaker 1: ever read to date. Probably it may be one of
Speaker 1: the best books I've read in my life, but my
Speaker 1: life and over, so I'm not gonna buckle that up yet.
Speaker 1: But the book is phenomenal. And I'm sitting here and
Speaker 1: I had to just do a little quick Google search
Speaker 1: because I was like, I remember there were so many
Speaker 1: revisions with a book, and I think it initially was
Speaker 1: published and what I think, according to uh Wikipedia says
Speaker 1: and in the book it was my first introduction. So
Speaker 1: I guess the world of metaphysics, the whole idea of
Speaker 1: speaking things into existence, the law of attraction, um understanding
Speaker 1: how karma comes to play, not forcing things in our life,
Speaker 1: and the power of manifestation. It's so interesting how we
Speaker 1: can be so quick to block our blessings. Sometimes God
Speaker 1: be like, yo, let me rain down blessings on you,
Speaker 1: and the first thing we're grabbing as an umbrella. In
Speaker 1: some retrospects, one can say, when we asked God to grow,
Speaker 1: sometimes it rains, and this time it was raining for
Speaker 1: so much information, and yet I was trying to pull
Speaker 1: out my umbrella. It was this book that got me
Speaker 1: on the rhythm of reading books and really understanding books.
Speaker 1: So much so I actually gifted this book to a friend,
Speaker 1: Chris Massey, and what this was probably don't be calculating
Speaker 1: my age at least what fifteen sixteen years And he
Speaker 1: still thanks me to this day for this book. And
Speaker 1: I guess two things. One, check out the book. I
Speaker 1: promise you're gonna thank me. I want to give you
Speaker 1: a heads up. She does refer to a few things
Speaker 1: in regards to religion, as as Christianity. But if you're
Speaker 1: anything like me, and if you can deal with me,
Speaker 1: I say you eat the meeting, you spit out the bones,
Speaker 1: You take what you need to get, and you put
Speaker 1: the rest out, such as the way with life. But
Speaker 1: I promise you this is going to open up your
Speaker 1: mind to a world of possibility that you probably had
Speaker 1: no idea ever existed. And you realize this world is
Speaker 1: right inside of you. It's like you have the magic
Speaker 1: Wand in factually also has another book entitles Your Word
Speaker 1: is Your Wand I also want to use this as
Speaker 1: a moment of not only saying get the book, but
Speaker 1: then also what are you blocking in your life? What
Speaker 1: is there a message that somebody's trying to tell you
Speaker 1: that you're trying to push away. If you just take
Speaker 1: a minute to listen, to look over and to review,
Speaker 1: I promise you, I bet you that you will receive something.
Speaker 1: Because I can't imagine if I was so adamant and
Speaker 1: so frustrated about oh not reading this book because it
Speaker 1: has nothing to do with my TV practical, I probably
Speaker 1: wouldn't be the dawn sitting in front of you that
Speaker 1: you here coming out of your speaker right now. It
Speaker 1: was almost like I accepted in my power. When I
Speaker 1: read that book, it was almost as though the lights
Speaker 1: were cut on. You know, sometimes I feel when we're
Speaker 1: in moments of despair, when we're really not feeling like
Speaker 1: we're living our best lives, it's almost like living your
Speaker 1: being in a room with the lights off. There's book
Speaker 1: cut on the lights in my room, and rather than
Speaker 1: just being in a dark room trying to get out,
Speaker 1: being in the dark room, not knowing how much space
Speaker 1: I have, being in the dark room and not realizing
Speaker 1: the tools that I have in front of me. Now
Speaker 1: I can see And what do I always say? If
Speaker 1: you want to be better and you want to do better,
Speaker 1: you have to be able to see better. And this
Speaker 1: book allowed me to see me. It allowed me to
Speaker 1: just to say, Okay, Dawn, what is it that you
Speaker 1: really want and what is it that you're calling forward?
Speaker 1: And understanding how important it is to choose to speak life,
Speaker 1: to choose your best life, to choose your mood, to
Speaker 1: choose your day, to understand that you have a cho ways.
Speaker 1: I think sometimes many of us are living a life
Speaker 1: of inactivity while we're allowing life to happen to us
Speaker 1: versus we're happening to life. We gotta change that. You
Speaker 1: know that we are artists, were created by creator. Therefore
Speaker 1: we were meant to create eight guys that dating Michael,
Speaker 1: everybody get your dose about him, indeed with dawn day
Speaker 1: and get excited about your life. If art is life
Speaker 1: and life is art, what are you painting? What is
Speaker 1: your song? What colors are you using? Were palette? Where
Speaker 1: is the light? But over all of that, what is
Speaker 1: the vision? What's the vision you have for your life?
Speaker 1: If life is a game, how would you choosing to
Speaker 1: play it? See, sometimes we're dealthy's hands, and sometimes we
Speaker 1: have a tendency look at someone else and thinking they
Speaker 1: have a better hand versus and realizing how important it
Speaker 1: is to play the hand that we're doubt. See, we
Speaker 1: were equipped with various tools or whether that is to
Speaker 1: have the game face on, whether that is to know
Speaker 1: to play the card at a certain moment, whether that
Speaker 1: is is too If I were playing space, I would
Speaker 1: say to cut that book. You listen to your advantage,
Speaker 1: stop feeling like you've got things missing, that you ain't
Speaker 1: got it all white and understand it is a game,
Speaker 1: and a game is meant to have fun. A game
Speaker 1: is where you use your strategy. A game is when
Speaker 1: you say, I want to make my next move my
Speaker 1: best move. What is your next move? How are you
Speaker 1: choosing to walk into your life? Sometimes life can be overwhelming,
Speaker 1: But as my old Barbara Lewis t Palus always say,
Speaker 1: the journey is the experience, and the experience is the journey.
Speaker 1: We get so caught up in this journey of what
Speaker 1: we think life is supposed to be like, versus just
Speaker 1: sitting back and having the experience. If I got so
Speaker 1: caught up in the journey of me thinking that, oh,
Speaker 1: in this class, I shouldn't have this book, we don't
Speaker 1: have to read it, I wouldn't be right here. But
Speaker 1: instead I had to sit back and I had no
Speaker 1: choice but to experience. So I want to charge you
Speaker 1: to sit back and experience your life. To move forward
Speaker 1: and experience your life. To listen intently and sperience your life,
Speaker 1: to speak life and experience your life, realizing that you
Speaker 1: can create the life that you choose to experience. What
Speaker 1: is the vision you have for your life? What are
Speaker 1: you accepted in your life? What's the last book you read.
Speaker 1: You know, when this prompt came up, it made me think,
Speaker 1: I gotta get back to reading my books. I will
Speaker 1: read books all the time. It made me sayd my
Speaker 1: tolls keep me well versed. It also helps with my speech.
Speaker 1: So I want to employ you to read your books
Speaker 1: because it was this book that led me to Russell
Speaker 1: Simmons book Do You. And out of that book I
Speaker 1: learned that how your ear is like an embryo. We
Speaker 1: know this because we understand how important affirmations are. You
Speaker 1: know me, I have life pattern in my mouth, so
Speaker 1: you know how important it is to speak life. We
Speaker 1: know how important is to speak life of our children
Speaker 1: because what you put in your ears allows things to grow. Again,
Speaker 1: I was Russell Simmons Do You. Another book that I
Speaker 1: read wasn't titled A Limited Power. It was by Tony
Speaker 1: Robbins and I don't know what's last thing Johnson James.
Speaker 1: I'm I wanna, I feel so off I can't recall
Speaker 1: right now, but it was the the Black Edition, and
Speaker 1: in it they talked about the tennis player, the legendary
Speaker 1: Arthur Ash and it talked about the consistency and how
Speaker 1: he would constantly be there and just work his moments
Speaker 1: and getting his rhythm of life, and it just reminded
Speaker 1: me we can't stop. You have to keep moving in
Speaker 1: the rhythm of life. And once we start moving, we
Speaker 1: understand how important is that we need to duck, if
Speaker 1: we need to dige, if we need to ben. We
Speaker 1: notice how flexible we are, and more importantly, we notice
Speaker 1: how solid our core is. Because when you get to
Speaker 1: the core, you get to the heart of the matter.
Speaker 1: And in that book, well I got to the heart
Speaker 1: of that. It was something talking about love languages. That's
Speaker 1: something that stuck with me too, because it talked about
Speaker 1: relationships not only just intimate but also platonic and understanding
Speaker 1: people's love languages. And it gave me a sense of
Speaker 1: how important it is is to make room for somebody,
Speaker 1: and making room looks like even though the way I
Speaker 1: may express my love may not be the way that
Speaker 1: you express your love, but being able to see that
Speaker 1: and seeing what we meet in the middle, I can
Speaker 1: say all day and saying my affirmation is how much
Speaker 1: I love you. But if you're a person that likes touch,
Speaker 1: you may be saying, hey, you're not giving me that
Speaker 1: warming brass. But if we make room and we take
Speaker 1: no from Big Sean and understand and and co communication
Speaker 1: is not always about how we talk, but how we listen.
Speaker 1: We are making room to see people where they are
Speaker 1: and then meet them where they are. They said after times,
Speaker 1: that's why relationships fall apart, not because the individual doesn't care,
Speaker 1: but perhaps we aren't able to receive and to give
Speaker 1: the person's appropriate love language. And not because we don't
Speaker 1: want to, but perhaps we haven't made room to take
Speaker 1: time to see them almost the same as I did
Speaker 1: almost take time to see this book The Game of
Speaker 1: Life and How to Play It. So what book has
Speaker 1: made the biggest impact on your life? Let me know,
Speaker 1: Shoot me an email, go on social media and leave
Speaker 1: a comment, Go on Twitter, Vitamin D doing Day let
Speaker 1: me know. I'd like to know. I have since another
Speaker 1: book I should read, but I wanted to share that
Speaker 1: with you. If you see it, go check it out. Um,
Speaker 1: you will be inspired. And I'll just say right now
Speaker 1: you're welcome. Okay, listen. If you'd like to be on
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