What’s going on Facebook. It’s been a minute since I’ve done a live and opening. Shut the window because it creaks just a little bit. Makes, like, the creaky noises to make me crazy. That amplify my craziness. How about that? Instead of it makes me crazy, it amplifies my craziness. Brings out my crazy accentuates. It’s been pretty quiet for me on the new year. Even Meg was like, hey, you haven’t posted much lately. You haven’t put too many interviews out. I was like, just taking a break, I think. Another challenge. Well, first of all, first of all, I want to say thanks to everybody that reached out to happy birthday. I want to say thanks to Meg for making it a great birthday. She’s always super awesome with, like, just making sure that that day is special for everyone in the house, herself included, and rightfully so. I don’t have any stupid shit to say. Like, another round of the earth circling the sun is going by, man, it’s my birthday. It’s cool. Super excited to be alive. Had people reaching out messenger had people reaching out online and just saying happy birthday just reminds you of the number of lives that you’re with, you’re impacting you’re connected to. Sometimes when you’re just seemingly going at it alone, even with inside the family, sometimes it seems like you’re on your own. And when you get all these reminders from everybody past and present, this isn’t even people that I’ve currently engaged with. When I say currently over the past year, really? And they’re reaching out saying happy birthday, just remind you that you’ve got other people out there whose lives, whether or not they’re super meaningful in regards to quantity and quality of interactions over its past period of time, it’s still enough for somebody to say happy birthday. Even I remember when I had set it up to be automated, right? Happy birthday. Just send a happy birthday wish to these people on their birthday. And even that, to me, seems like it’s enough, right? Just enough to let people know a couple of interesting things that I found in those people reaching out. And I think that they certainly mean well. But I’ll say this. There’s something I realized when I was doing the I’m still coaching. It was when all getting started, and every conversation had to be deep. Every conversation had to be meaningful. Watch out. Every conversation was like, yeah, but tell me more. Let’s dig deeper into that. And I don’t know about you, but after a period of time, and if everybody’s asking those questions of it just gets exhausting, or they’ll be like, tell me, what are you working on this year? And again, great questions. I think for me and these days, what I would find more meaningful would be especially since all my ships online, you would be like, hey, how are things going with Liam 3D shop? Hey, how are things going with Finn Sujitsu? How are things going with you? Because it’s easy enough to just kind of ask those other questions because they’re generic and they’re great. Don’t get me wrong, they’re great in a coaching setting, but I don’t think that they’re great in a sustained relationship setting. I’ll say all that being said, still grateful that people reach out, right? Still grateful to hear from people. Still cool. I just don’t always have the fucks to give on some of those in depth conversations. If it feels trite, we’ll say we haven’t talked in over a year, and you want to know what’s bringing me excitement in my life? I don’t know. Check my feed. If I don’t seem excited, then say, Why aren’t you excited? Right? It seems like you got a lot of awesome things going on, like X, Y, and Z. Sure seems like it’s an exciting life. Brand and keep living a good one. Right? That’s well wishing. Please as well. Wish me on my birthday, wish me a happy birthday and continuous fortitude and some other shit, but not in the Fortress of Solitude. So what else is going on? Like I said, been holding a lot in simply because I’ve got a lot kicking around, and I haven’t, like, felt like, super compelled to post something for a couple of reasons. 190 percent of the time after I leave Jujitsu, which is where I’m leaving right now, BJJ report. If you recall, the place where I go to BJJ right now is two minutes away from the house. Is not a lot of time to elucidate the right word. I don’t know, share what it is that’s going on and what I’m going through with everyone. And also, times have kind of changed in the sense that there’s so much shit out there and it’s all good. People don’t like to just kind of hang out. Right? They want their bits and pieces of value and get the fuck out. And sometimes that’s cool. Wherever Dave is and whatever he’s doing, I haven’t checked in lately. I actually have Stokes to what he’s doing. Dave G, he would come on and he would ramble, and at some point he would land on something that was profound enough. Right? And it was fun for me, and it still is fun for me to listen, tune in if I’ve got the time. And I want to make the time, because oftentimes he would get to a place and a point that was like, man, that was great, and I loved how you got there. Now we’re like, Listen, I’m here for gold only, and if you don’t give me the gold, then you are shit. Right? And I don’t know, man, that’s not fun. Every day is a sunny day. It’s kind of boring, monotonous, and sometimes you got to catch it’s like watching your garden blossom. It’s like watching the fruits develop in a time lapse. At least if it happens in ten to 20 minutes, or less. So I’m real similar to that. I have been working on getting better. I do, at times, sit down and formulate something before I actually say it. And they turn out great. And they’re great, don’t get me wrong. So that’s one of the reasons, I guess, too, for me, that I haven’t been just putting stuff out there. I want it to be better. I want it to be more impactful for you. The other part is I realized, I think in the first year of doing the Spiritual Dope podcast, that there was a lot of meandering and no getting, which is great, but if you’re listening to a conversation for an hour and we don’t get any fucking wear within an hour, I get it. I’d be frustrated too. And I brought that up with plenty of the people that come on to the podcast. And I said to him, I said, Listen, let’s make sure that what happens today in this conversation. First, I’ll be like, hey, this is how the beginning of the podcast to A Valley of Darkness, the podcast process usually is there’s a questionnaire? Say, hey, what are you really trying to impart with the people listening in today? What is it that you really need to share out? Nine times out of ten, you can step into your graceness. You can be anything you want to be. You can eliminate your limitations. Awesome. Cool. Tell us how tell us how it worked for you. What’s an illustration of how it worked for you. If you are a coach, if you are a teacher, share some stories of what happened in your life and how that worked out. Right. I just interviewed a gentleman who owns an Ayahuasca retreat in Peru. And one of the cool things, one of those cool stories that he had, it wasn’t just Ayahuasca, it was about plant medicine. And one of the cool stories that he had was about this gentleman who had prostate cancer. Came down and did I think it was like a six week session of all plant medicine. Ayahuasco was but a part of the plant medicine left. They treated his prostate cancer. The cancer went away. He went back to his home in San Diego and the cancer had been treated cancer. There was no sign of the cancer anywhere. And over ten years later, it still has not returned.…
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