[00:06] Speaker 1: Welcome to Apple Pie Playground, where we serve up slices of healing for the heart. Stay tuned for a journey of transformation back to the divine inner child. Can you come out and play today?

[00:25] Speaker 2: Welcome, everybody, to Apple Pie Playground. I'm your host, Valerie. Let's get to the playground day with lots to talk about. Thank you so much, BBS, for being on the playground with us. We love you, BBS. Everybody, my inner child is feeling vulnerable today. Maybe it's desperation, feelings of excitement that keeps you out of your seat. Full moon could be right. Today could be right. I have been wrestling with imposter syndrome this week. Imposter syndrome. What is it, imposter syndrome, that has us so uncomfortable in our skin? We are hearing about this idea a lot lately. So like we do, let's unpack this idea. You want to? So what is a syndrome? What is a syndrome? Well, a syndrome is a pattern of impulses or symptoms that co-occur in the brain and the body that characterize a specific disorder, right? And imposter syndrome is a disorder of the psychopathological kind, okay? In other words, it's created in the ego mind. Do we see that?

[02:11] Speaker 2: So a syndrome is generally characterized by a persistent emotional state, right? For example, have you ever sort of had a feeling that stays in the back of your mind, and sometimes it pushes to the forefront at maybe the, the most inopportune times, and it ebbs and flows, right, coming and going with your stressors and your anxieties and fears? Imposter syndrome is basically another way of, of (laughs) feeling like a hypocrite, right? Like our identity is just not genuine enough, like somehow our ego has erred in its grandiosity, right, by creating a narrative that is not well reflected in our physical behavior. And I suppose others might see this in us at times when we, when we're trying to create an identity that's maybe not expected or consistent with old actions or behaviors, and I guess folks might say, "What a hypocrite for signaling such inconsistent identity markers," right?

[03:42] Speaker 2: In other words, folks feel like they can't know who you are, and they, they're sort of irritated that you might not know who you are anymore, or that your identity isn't dependable anymore, right? We can't trust who you say you are. So when we're accused of something like imposter syndrome, it goes to the heart of our human condition, doesn't it? It questions the whole of our identity, either the identity we're building or the one we're trying to shed, right? Our identity, it's the thing that signals safety and dependability and consistency to everybody who knows us so they can keep something of a solid bead on, um, on who we are to them, right? So consider that we do this as physical bodies instead of what spirits might do, right? And that's reading energies. As bodies, we read identities, don't we? Instead of energies. And some of us have learned to read energies, but those folks aren't calling each other imposters, right? Who could do that? And why not?

[05:22] Speaker 2: Because the greatest form of sickness in the human condition is allowing the ego to create a safe identity that is static and dependable, that we spend the rest of our lives supporting to mask who we truly, truly, truly are. It's our safety net, right? It's our safe harbor in, in this physical world, this identity that ego works so, so, very, very hard to create. Well, and what's wrong with that, right? After all, we're here to have a human experience, and indeed, we are...But then, that's- there's a question, right? What is an ego made of? Right? Can we ask that? What is an ego made of? Is it made of l- things like love and light, right? Of- is it made of things like remembrance and knowing intrinsically that we're God source energies? Is an ego any of those things? Well, no. No, it's not.

[06:42] Speaker 2: So, ego is- is created as a biological storybook, I guess you would say, and most of us have had many stories through the ages that we love to read, and some of us just read again and read again and read again. The ego narrative starts the- the moment words are spoken to the newborn baby, okay? An ego is born of a thinking mind that- that really has to order its existence, and it's gonna start with safety and security first every single time, and the child, as a full spirit, evolves out of the celestial very quickly, and into physical identity that shapes her, right? That shapes her, that shapes him. Ego pulls in belief systems, and patterns of behavior, and physical judgment of every single thing around it. It creates a hierarchical universe, right? Where there's a top and a bottom, where there's a separation from heart and right action, because ego needs brains and dependable action, right? It doesn't need heart and right action, so it thinks, right? So it thinks.

[08:15] Speaker 2: For the ego, the heart can energize whatever it wants to, just so it doesn't act on it. Do we see that? The ego can abide a kind heart, right? And a wise disposition, just as long (laughs) as we are not so kind and so wise that we stop identifying with needing the ego. Do we see that? As long as we will refrain from acting differently, right? Or feeling differently, or seeing things differently energetically, as long as we don't do any of that, our body is fine with us saying what we wanna say, right? Oh, sure, we can daydream just as long as we don't call it real, right? And you can see where we're- we're starting to feel the tug, right?

[09:15] Speaker 2: The resistance to growth and energetic evolution as the brain and the body resists our efforts at these things, and we endeavor, really, to live outside the physical restrictions of identity as we grow, or we try to reshape it or evolve it, and we might fail as we go, and- and feel like hypocrites, because this tug of war between the body, mind, and spirit creates a lot of chaos, right? It's a chaos of beingness there, and we sort of see the chaos of our evolution in others who don't know who we are anymore, because we're trying to be something new or different, and the dark really, really has created many a roadblock for spirits, but none greater than a mind who needs a home, friends, an ego who needs to define its limitations, right? So, to order a fixed universe of physical matter, which is what the ego does, right? And spirits don't live that way. Spirits just don't live that way. So, we are at odds much of the time. Do we see that?

[10:52] Speaker 2: And we can easily feel like somebody faking their way through life amidst this chaos of mind and matter and- and heart and energy. Do we see that? And I get it, it's a human fixation to organize each other by ego. Unfortunately, friends, when we lose the ego, we lose a need to identify with other egos, we lose judgment, we lose expectations for a lifestyle, and we lose the need for performance, right? Do we see that? Once we break free from the ego mind, we can see ourselves as the energies of everything, right? Of absolutely everything. We can be what we want, whatever that is. We can be what our purpose needs us to be. We can be our true selves, unlimited and real, and we may go through growing out of an imposter syndrome and growing away from ego.And it may take some time, but time is just sort of another egoic control mechanism, right? Isn't it? So, what is time really, but another hurdle toward a freer spirit, if you wanna think about it that way? And we'll get there, friends.

[12:35] Speaker 2: We'll get home to our true selves. We'll be guided by source in the celestial realm, and we'll get there. We'll feel vulnerable about it a lot of the time, until the journey maybe becomes more comfortable and (inhales deeply) that's okay. And I think about my own vulnerability and maybe my own fears and my own daydreams, right? And in my particular journey, all I really have is a message. All I have is a message, friends, and I can get as loud as anybody and as dramatic and I can talk and talk and talk and love the talking. So, what do I do with this message, right? This, this message that is my purpose, this message for humanity, what does it want from me? Does it want predictability? Does it want conformance? And what do people want from me, right, a show? A production? Do they want a loud performance? Do I go on tour with this message? Do I, you know, (laughs) do I hit the road? How do I walk the walk when what I have to offer is words? So, you know, I think about it.

[14:16] Speaker 2: Do I dance around? Right? Do I, do I sing? How much and how loud, right? So, do we see how easy it is to feel like a pretender when our passion isn't maybe big enough or loud enough or busy enough to pacify the human ego? You know, should we resist the idea, friends, that we would lose the ego? Should we wrestle with it, this, the mystery of us that is replete with uncertainties after all? And, you know, we seek to grow and evolve and to remember, and I guess a question might be, can we handle the unknown of stepping out of old roles and expectations and habits, you know, ways of thinking, ways of being? And I guess it really only matters for a very particular reason that I'd like to share, and that is, you know, each of us is here on purpose. Oh, yes. We have a purpose. That purpose is invaluable in our age.

[15:50] Speaker 2: Our mission, if we choose to accept it, is to discover that purpose by our passions and what gives us joy and meaning, and when we're brave enough, we can stop the pretending, right? We can end the pretense of ego and, you know, we'll find compassion for ourselves as we go, and we'll grow into our shoes, as it were. It's a good sign that someone sees something more in us that we can aspire to, right, when we can grow into the shoes we wear. So, true story, when I was a young child in kindergarten, we'd get on the school bus with kids from all across the mountain, and a lot of kids went to school barefooted, barefoot, and I sort of felt lucky to have shoes to wear to school. Even as a young child, I was building that identity, wasn't I?

[16:58] Speaker 2: And a lot of kids would refer to their hand-me-down clothing as growing into their shoes or their pants, et cetera, because families handed down clothes from oldest child to youngest and everybody wore 'em until they sort of gave out, and it's kind of the same for the evolution of our purpose. Our purpose as spirits in this physical changing of an age that we're in right now, in the building of an age of Aquarius, right, in the architecture of a new beginning, we're, we're growing out of the clothes we used to wear. We've worn, as identities, all of our lives. They've been handed down to us, and we've been expected to wear 'em, right? But now, we're growing into new shoes, and this time, we're ready to choose a pair that activates us uniquely as spirits, aren't we? We are ready for a new pair of shoes. We're ready to walk our own path in our own purpose.And it takes practice and measured steps towards sovereignty from an ego mind into the liberation of our own sovereign purpose.

[18:42] Speaker 2: That is quite a transcendence when we think about it. And no wonder sometimes we suffer from impostor syndrome, as we're trying to feel our way through a dark tunnel, so to speak, and the light is up ahead and, and our goal is to move into that bright, beautiful light. Does it make sense, friends? When we're clear enough about who we are, we can open up and step forward and stand tall. And I'll tell you why it's so important for us to pursue this evolution, right? This evolution in our purpose. It's essential for the cosmos, honestly. You are something essential to source consciousness. Absolutely essential. You are the light of the world. You are the light of the world. Not a light. Not a light. The light, friends. The light. Let me use an analogy to explain that. When a very small David picked up his rock and said it at Goliath, he did it with strategic precision. He did it with calm calculation. He did it with presence of mind and energetic heart. He did it with knowing. Why? Why?

[20:56] Speaker 2: Because he knew something. He knew something, friends. He knew that he was the one. His intention made him the one. His purpose, his right action made him the one. Does that make sense, friends? Fun fact, this story of David and Goliath, it's, it's supposed to be one of the only really provable historical events in the Bible. Did you know that? Archeologically, right? Not so sure that's very reliable, but somebody did go to a lot of trouble to prove this story, with, uh, lots of landmarks and lots of writing and, um, and other things like that. But it was David standing there, or nobody, right? It was David or nobody against a Goliath. He realized he had to count himself in. He had to stand and be counted. So when I say that you are the light of the world, that's exactly what I mean.

[22:31] Speaker 2: If all the earth went dark, like a day the earth stood still, and chaos and confusion and darkness were all around you, and there were no others to be counted on, and nobody could be relied on to do their part, your light is all source creation would need to hold its ground. When you stand in your remarkable, magnificent, powerful, loving, brilliant light, you will do one thing perfectly, and it is the most important thing of all, friends. You will cast the dark away. Everything that is source, everything that is the source of your being, the power you have proved within you, mighty, immovable power, such a light casts out the darkness. And if there was only one of us left, only one, one true shining lamp, it would be enough to hope with. It would be enough.... to maintains the orbit of the heavens around us. Do we see that, friends?

[24:43] Speaker 2: With one Christ to pull in source energy and anchor our powers under our feet, we could resuscitate all of creation by standing firm in that light, because that's what that light does. It reclaims the energy of celestial souls, co-creating the vibration of beingness itself to its very beginnings, endless and bright and powerful. So, imagine the power of a great many lamps, a great many Christs. Imagine the message of who everyone called a pretender who said, "Don't judge. Don't judge. Just listen. Listen for a better way, and become a lamp under the feet of your neighbor. Hold the light, grow your light so that others can see the way, so that others can find the way. Go within and awaken your heart. Activate the energies that flow from your center, energies tethered to source." That is the way, that is the truth, and that is the life of a child of God, friends.

[26:38] Speaker 2: And, you know, I don't really think many of us really realize just how close we were to losing our fight against the darkness here. I just... I don't think we fully realize the dreadful possibilities of our, our demise as a physical creation. But there were those strong enough within themselves that could carry the way of our salvation, and that's what they did. They banded together, and they carried the weight. And, you know, the work is not done, friends. The good part really has only just started. Rest assured that those who lead from the heart do things differently than an ego wants to do things. And instead of praying for salvation from a bunch of popes and saints and Christs, and begging a scary Biblical God to give in to a luxury resort in the sky called heaven, and believing that our errors are something of a combination of sin and lack and luck, right?

[28:24] Speaker 2: Instead of doing all of those things, soul men, as they were, know they are their own salvation, carrying their own light, and anchored to a cosmic truth, and evolved in goodness. And do we understand that, friends? So, what does it take to fight back the void? Well, it takes soul, friends. It takes soul. It takes soul work from the inside out. It takes allowing a perfect spirit to dwell inside a physical body, and to be that perfection, teaching the body a different way of being. That's what it takes. And we can do that right now. The path is clear for us in our evolution of man. We are becoming the holders of light in our new incarnations on a new Earth, and the rest is gonna fall away, friends. It will fall away. And while we're here, we join the army of angels, as it were, the army of light, to form a better union, right? To liberate souls. We, the people, we remember our sovereignty as celestial beings. That's what we do.

[30:10] Speaker 2: And fun fact, did you know that when our bodies increase in vibration, we build up extra energy in our physicality, and that extra energy is released as discrete photons that bind through what's called quantum packets of light?... right? Quantum packets of light. As we increase the normal vibration of our bodies, we create light, literally. We emit biophotons of light, and we've talked about this. And do you know that when a physical body expires, when it expires, it stops generating light altogether? Its life force literally transcends, and light goes with it. And so, I guess when you think about it, we're sort of our own ascensions, really, aren't we? And, you know, this idea of ascension as an idea is, is all about the great extinguishing of the cosmos, really, in a, in, in an event of sorts, where, where all of source is gathered in itself as light back into itself.

[31:49] Speaker 2: And when we say that our goal is to go within and pull light into our bodies, it's more literal than you, than you might imagine. We want our frequencies vibrating at a level that lights us up, right? So we can be counted, so we can be seen, so that source will gather us back up. We stand to be counted, just like David, as an analogy, right? Just like David. So, you know, maybe that's groovy talk, Val, right? But how do we do all that great mouthful of stuff that you literally just, just gave us? How do we do all that? Well, we let go of what binds us, don't we? And as somebody who's really dealt with quite a bit of fear this week and has worked with harmonizing extraordinary daydreams with the fears of losing what's most important to my heart, I can tell you, that's no easy task sometimes, and that's okay. We just keep working at it, right? We let go of what binds us. We have to. We have to let go of the fear.

[33:24] Speaker 2: We have to let go of what may be and what may not be and what may transpire and what may pass us by. We, we have to lose judgment over those things that confound us and maybe stop searching for a while for answers to questions we don't exactly know how to ask, and maybe in our stillness, we can just release all of that ego stuff, right? And allow the light to help us vibrate a little differently and... That's a good thing, right? And when we can do that, we do this incredibly brave thing that is scary and uncomfortable and may fail in the eyes of many, many times, as a matter of fact. We do this thing, we, we follow our hearts, right? We follow our hearts into the unknown, into the what ifs of life, right? We risk imposter syndrome. We risk being called names. We risk being judged. We risk being asked about why we're so slow and why we do things differently and why we can't catch up and why we, we're being the way that we are, and why we fight back an ego, right?

[35:07] Speaker 2: We fight back an ego in all of that, and this ego needs us not to evolve, right? This ego doesn't want us asking, "What if?" Right? It doesn't want to deal with the imposter syndrome. It just doesn't want to deal with us stepping out of what's always been, right? That's the ego. Once we're loosed from it, we start shedding the trappings of all of the parts of our identity that keeps us stuck in a world of enslavement and suffering, right? And fear, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera, blah, blah, blah. We talk about it all the time, but it's no less true, right? We unclothe and don new garments, so to speak, when we can let the ego loose from our heart space, right? When we can shed the trappings of our identity. That, that little word, identity, it really wreaks havoc on, on a spirit, when you think about it.

[36:17] Speaker 2: We transcend the truth work we do into heartfelt goodness as we struggle through this transition, this transformation, th- the path that we're on that has us feeling like hypocrites sometimes, and that's okay. We are learning to activate who we are through right action, and sometimes we just-... talk it up and talk it up, and we keep talking, and we think a little bit, and we talk some more, and folks look at us and say, "Wow, why don't you walk your walk?" And we're thinking, "Well, I'm kind of afraid to take a step, let me talk some more and my, my, my, what will I do but take a step." And then one step follows another and eventually, somehow, the imposter syndrome disappears, right? Eventually. And we activate who we are, and we step out into right action and into purpose, and our truth becomes our goodness, right? What is the, the language of, of what is true in the universe actually becomes activated within us.

[37:45] Speaker 2: It becomes our goodness, it becomes what we do and not just what we say. And it's a beautiful transformation, right? A beautiful transcendence to hold our goodness as what we are and not just what we think and what we say, and that's a beautiful evolution of service, friends. And we all have felt this. We all have felt the big hearts of beautiful service, right? And the goodness that comes with it. And we walk out of the hypocrisy of an ego, right? That won't let go, and we journey into purpose, right? And I challenge it for each of us, friends, to risk the journey to our purpose into a life of service and goodness, no matter what. No matter the hypocrisy we might feel, no matter the loneliness of, of an imposter syndrome that may give us shivers down our spine when we worry about what others think about us, right? No matter, no matter what, we're brave. We're gonna be brave. We are brave. We're gonna put one foot in front of the other. Eventually, we shall, eventually we shall.

[39:19] Speaker 2: We will grow into our new shoes, as it were. So, what is this word purpose? What is purpose? When we say we're guided by a life of purpose, well, what does that really, really mean? Well, first of all, is it possible that purpose is not even an activity? It's not even a project, it's not a plan, it's a lifelong evolution of self. And this evolution of self comes through service to our inspiration. Is it possible that purpose is the process of living our inspiration, our service to our passion, the guiding principle of our purpose, right? What are our passions? The guiding principle of our purpose and we need look no farther than our passions. Does that make sense, friends? So, I read recently that passion is a sensual experience no matter its form, right? Sort of just like our bodies are elevated energetically, and I'd say spiritually, through great passions, right? So is our purpose, because passion is sensual, right?

[41:07] Speaker 2: It's, it's unquenchable as we rise and fall from it and it wanes when we're satiated for a while, and then it returns and needs more from us. And that's true too, for our purpose, right? It's sort of the heart's passion, the spirit's sensuality. Do we see that, friends? To have passion and sensuality for, you know, what we enjoy in a life of physicality, the guiding principles of what, uh, our inspiration is. You know, it's what attracts us to more of what is us. Does that make sense? And, you know, lets us flourish in being our true selves. It, it allows us the abandonment of our limitations and ego and identity and time and space, right? Purpose gives us meaning, right? A reason for being. Purpose transcends us, right? Into the celestial where bodies are tools for our discovery of the sensual nature of our own creative essence. Does that make sense? It's what our creative expression in the physical realm really is. Can we see that?

[42:44] Speaker 2: A way to reach the sensual nature of source creation energy. So, what do I mean by sensual? Well-How about energetic and magnetic? How about bio-electric impulse that raises our vibration and creates light in our bodies? So, I read a powerful explanation of the idea a while back, and I'm delighted how true it rings for us. So, how do we find our purpose? Life is heavy sometimes, and things are often uncertain, right? So, how do we do it amidst the uncertainty? How do we find our purpose? Well, we start by paying attention, right, to what we prefer and what we don't. Well, how do we do that? Well, we become observant, don't we? We notice how our heart aligns with our body, with our mind, and when it doesn't align all that well. Right? Make sense? So, there is a particular kind of journaling exercise that we can use to get a better sense of that. Right? Of where our alignment is coming, the hits and the misses, right, during our day. It's called 5-2-2-1 journaling. Right?

[44:31] Speaker 2: 5-2-2-1 journaling. So, in the evening, what we do is we spend about five minutes journaling on the notable activities of our day, and we just sit down and we just write. Right? We're not editing. We're just journaling. We're, we're noting everything in our day that is notable. And then we add two minutes of journaling on what drained our energy. Two minutes on what drained our energy in that day, and then we add two minutes on what increased our energy, what energized us. Right? And then we end the journaling with one minute on how to act on the day's experience for a preferred outcome. So, we end outlining a couple of actions that we wanna take for the next day to keep us more closely aligned with our preferences. Right? That last minute really, really is key, the last minute where we, we really journal on how it is that we can take action given the day's experience so that we can have more preferred outcomes. Does that make sense, friends? Then we follow through, right?

[46:09] Speaker 2: We, we get up the next morning. We remember our journaling. We look at our action plan, those, those couple of ideas that we can incorporate into, uh, our day's environment that will help us flow through things that we prefer. So, pretty soon then, we learn what we prefer and how to fill our day with what we want more of. Right? Does that make sense? There are tons, actually, of reflection questions that we can ask ourselves when we are wanting to realize our purpose. Right? And there, there are a few that I pulled off of a list because I thought they were super fun and, and very telling. Right? And so here are a few that are recommended for us when we are reflecting on how to recognize what we prefer in our lives. Right? And one of the things we can ask ourselves is, let's reflect on what activities make us lose track of time. What is it that we find ourselves doing and we lose all track of time? We leave this physical environment, the physical realm altogether.

[47:47] Speaker 2: What activities help us to do that? It, it's worth reflecting on because wouldn't you rather spend your day doing an activity you are wholly invested in, and you enjoy it so much you don't even keep track of time? You're outside of time. How extraordinary would that be? So, another question we can ask is, what problems in the world stay on our mind? What problems in the world stay on our mind, and, and what do we feel compelled to solve? What do we sit and talk about? What are solutions that we find ourselves coming up with for certain ailments in the world? Right? This could be a very telling kind of a question that might point to some of our passions and, and some of the things that we prefer spending our time on as far as-... problems in, in a space that we can enjoy resolving or solving those issues. Another question might be, what gives us a warm feeling inside, right, a tingling feeling? What makes us smile? What helps us feel the way that we like to feel?

[49:23] Speaker 2: What things do we do that gets us that way, that gives us that warm feeling, that gives us the tingle, that helps us put a smile on our face? What do we find ourselves doing that puts us into that experience, right? And we can ask ourselves, what did we enjoy doing as a child that we wish we could do right now? And maybe we try some of that out and see how it brings up our creativity, our co-creation energies, our passions, right? And we could ask ourselves, what is it that we would do right now if money was no object? And we want to be very specific. What exactly would we be spending our time doing right now if money were no object? And that's always a very interesting to sit and reflect, interesting one to, to reflect on. We could ask ourselves, what skills do other people often ask us to help them with, right? That is a, you know, a really good question to guide us to how it is that we enjoy engaging our talents. What are other folks coming to us for?

[50:55] Speaker 2: What do they see and value in us that may be things that provoke our passions, right? Do we realize, friends, that finding purpose is a day-to-day process, right? Well, what do I mean by that? It's not a dream, right? It's not a weekend activity. It's not a to-do list. Purpose is the passion we put into every day as directed creation energy, right? Directed creation energy. It's a lot like our sexual encounters, right? The passion of the sensual nature of our directed energy and the extraordinary bursts of energy and co-creation energy that come from those acts, there's nothing more powerful. I highly recommend, friends, that you find a love to create universes with. Find a love to create universes with, put that directed energy to use, right? There's nothing better, nothing more passionate, I'm sure we'll remember one day as we move into those beautiful opportunities to co-create and to enjoy sensual encounters with those we love and in a new earth.

[52:43] Speaker 2: It will be enticing and exciting and something to look forward to. So I thought maybe we could end our time together with something of an activity from experienced coaches on helping folks find their purpose, right? Um, it's called The Best Possible Future Self Exercise, okay? The Best Possible Future Self Exercise, it's, it's created by Dr. Laura King and Tal Ben-Shahar, um, and he is at the Whole Being Institute. Now, I don't know these folks, but I enjoyed the exercise, right? And it was put together, uh, in an article by Alan Furlong, and the article is entitled The Best Two Exercises to Find Your Purpose and Bring It Into Day-To-Day Life, okay? That's the article. Now, I don't know these folks personally, but I did enjoy the exercise and I want to share it with you, right, in our last few minutes together. What do you say?

[54:00] Speaker 2: So as always, we might like to get our notebooks out for a little expressive play and, and work with the activity on paper, or we can use any old thing to write with and any old thing to write on, right? Maybe some of us prefer to meditate through the activity, and that's, that's groovy too, right? So it's a simple activity and it has three parts, okay? And we will use our imagination to work through each part one section at a time, right? Make sense? So I'm quoting the instructions so I get them exactly right for us as we begin, okay? So let's begin with step number one of three, okay? And on our papers, we are going to reflect and we're going to jot some things down according to our instructions, okay?So step number one of our activity, we are going to do some reflection without judging. We're gonna do some reflection without self-editing, okay? We are not going to edit out what comes to our minds or what comes to the paper, right? So whatever comes to the mind goes on our paper.

[55:35] Speaker 2: Make sense? Okay, here we go. Step one, think about your life in the future. You are 109 years old, okay? Imagine that everything has gone as well as possible in your life. Right? You have worked hard and succeeded at accomplishing all of your life goals, okay, at 109 years old. Think of this as the realization of all of your life dreams, okay? Now, jot down what you imagined as you sit and think about being 109 years old, having accomplished all of your life goals. What do you imagine them to be? What do you imagine them to be, your life's goals that you have accomplished? What are they? Jot them down, whatever comes to mind. We- we're not gonna edit. At 109 years old, we're looking back at a life well-lived, and we are choosing what it is that we consider accomplishments or life goals. What are they? Okay, step number two, imagine that your h- your 109-year-old self had access to a time machine, okay?

[57:48] Speaker 2: And you jump into that time machine, and you arrive to this very moment in time, right? And you climb out, and you sit down next to the you right now that you are, right now. And the 109-year-old gives you some advice. What would you say to yourself? What would you say to yourself? Jot down everything that comes to mind, no self-editing, no criticism, right, no limitation. Jot down what would you say to yourself. Jot it down, this conversation with you. What would you say? And step three, and I'm quoting the article so I get all of this right, step three, we're going to take that advice that you just gave yourself, and we're going to create a list of action points from that advice, okay? So we're going to simply focus on the top three action points that come to your mind with the advice you were just given, okay? Consider those three action points and putting those points into practice every day for a week maybe. What would you put into action to get to this successful 109-year-old?

[59:39] Speaker 2: The advice that you were given, how would you put it into play every day? Think about that. Think about that, okay? What you will see begin to emerge is, in essence, what gives your life some sense of meaning, okay? But crucially, what you have also articulated is a series of today steps that ensure that meaning does not stay in some far o- off, never attained future, right, but that today's steps can be taken every day, right? Make sense? And I'm so glad you took a chance on our activity today. I think it was a wonderful way to begin thinking about right action and what it really means and choosing our preferences, don't you? It was so good to be with you. Striking out into the unknown really might have us feeling like imposters sometimes, friends, but that's our ego speaking, right, and it's the ego of others speaking, right? Because when we leave our egos behind, there is no imposter. There's only us. There's only us and the choices we make.

[01:01:08] Speaker 2: And...And I'm up for good magic any place, anywhere, and when we stop listening to the ego, magical things can happen, right? We are open to the wonderful magic of possibility, and you know, this actually has been something of an historical week for us, speaking of magic, a historical week for us in America, and I don't think anybody really realizes that yet, but we will. One day, we will find out just how magical the story is about our emancipation of America. Right? And we will point to some beautiful events of this week, and we will enjoy the re-emancipation of our sovereign beings in America, and that's going to be such a beautiful experience. You know, each of us as nations, each on our own, will probably go through the very same thing that America does, right, on every continent. They'll have a story. We'll have a story.

[01:02:31] Speaker 2: The magic of our liberation will inspire us in all manner of extraordinary endeavors as we, all of us, rebuild a better world, right, as emancipated beings, as sovereign beings, as spirits taking back a, a physical realm that we can enjoy, right, and we can co-create in. Don't doubt it, friends. Don't doubt it. I wanna thank you for being here, friends, loving our Sunday afternoons together, and I love you so much. And thank you, BBS, too, for being here with us. You are tried and true, and we love you, BBS. So, friends, until next time.

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