Episode 10_ Moments in Advice

Kim Family Lifestyle
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Hello my beautiful people welcome back to the moment podcast it's actually been a really long time since I recorded
I took my first week off of the podcast last week just because there's a lot going on and
I've been super focused on just kind of hanging out with family and like doing things for myself
I haven't really focused on social media or work at all and it was really good for me
But I definitely missed you guys
There are so many points where I was like should I just record anyways and just and just talk about I don't know
But I didn't end up doing it and I'm kind of glad
that I didn't because it gave me a lot of time to reflect and really figure out what I wanted to talk about in this
episode and
This is kind of an episode
I've been wanting to do for a while and I've been thinking about it for a while
Just because with the year coming to an end there are so many valuable things that I learned this year
I don't know how to explain it
But more happened to me in this year of my life than the other 19 years that I've been alive
I think just between I don't know the pandemic and when I moved to Hawaii and just
Buying the van like so many things happened so fast that when I look back on this year, it's truly crazy
Just realizing how much can happen in a year in a month in a week
I don't even know but I wanted to title this episode moments in 2021 takeaways
I don't know if that's exactly what I'm gonna call it yet, but we'll figure it out
But what I'm basically gonna be doing is sharing with you guys a lot of the things I learned this year
And I also put one of those
answer question things on my Instagram story and asked what you guys learned this year and there were a couple really good things so I
definitely added them in and
I'm gonna share them because I may not have realized them throughout the year, but reading it. I was just like wow
I want to focus on incorporating that into 2022, you know
Isn't that crazy?
Guys it's about to be to them 22
What and the pandemic started in?
2019
Holy cow, right. It did start in 2019. I think
Anyways, not really the point. Let's just go ahead and get right into it
now to simply put it this is the
Most important thing that I learned this year
Not everyone is gonna understand and that goes in so many different ways at so many different levels
Not everyone's gonna understand what you've been through or what you're going through or what you're gonna accomplish or what your dreams and goals are
It's not gonna make sense to everybody because we all have these minds that are focused on different things and they've all been
Taught different things throughout their childhood and by what they're surrounded with
We all have a different mind and we all have a different goal of what's right and what's perfect and what's supposed to be done
in life and how life is supposed to feel so
when you really start to accept that
It's powerful because for so long people would question everything that I do
They're like, well, you can't do this because of that or you can't do that because of this and I would sit there and I would
Listen, and I'll be like, well, maybe they're right. Maybe maybe they have a point
They might have a point
But here's the thing if you're confident in what you're doing and you're aware of what you can create create and what your passion is
Then what you're doing is
the right path
you're on the right path as
Long as it feels right for you and
the same thing goes with
when when someone has something to say
Oh, you don't even get what that's like because you've never dealt with blah blah blah or your situation isn't even that bad
Stop giving in to what people say
You know what?
You've been through you have to value that you have to know your own worth when it comes to situations like that
And I see this a lot with mental health
You'll be like well your anxiety is not that bad or you just don't get it and that's okay
You don't have to understand what they've been through but at the same time you should never
Take that experience away from yourself, and I don't know if that makes sense coming out. It makes sense in my brain
But you know what you've been
You know the work that you put in you know what you're capable of you know your potential better than anyone else on the planet
So don't discredit yourself
Don't let what people have to say have such an effect on you because they're not gonna get it and that's okay
If they don't get it
It's another thing that we don't need to do is force people to understand everything that we've done or everything that we've been through
They're not required to get it just like we're not required to understand what anyone else is going through I
Didn't initially write this down to talk about it. But now that I'm thinking about it. I will say it
Just like no one's gonna understand you
You're not gonna understand everyone so if someone has this crazy dream or goal or passion that you don't like
There's no need to tear it down. There's no need to make them feel bad about what they want to do
Because again, we're all meant to do different things
We're all in this earth, and we all have a different path
It would be kind of stupid if we all had the same one so we shouldn't try to force people
To live the exact same way as us
It defeats the whole purpose of being unique and being one of a kind, you know
And that being said it kind of goes into the next one. I wrote down which is that not everyone is gonna like you
And this is such a tough one for me. Like it really is. I'm still having a hard time
Just processing it because I try to be a likable person
I consider myself to be a likable person and I've always been a people pleaser. I want to make everyone happy
I want to be the best person ever. I want to inspire everyone
but again, I
Can't do that
No matter what you do, no matter how good of a person you are
there's always gonna be people who don't want to see you thrive and don't want to see you grow and
You just kind of have to realize that
It's gonna happen and it's it's okay
As long as you know that you're living with good intentions and you're doing what you love and you're passionate about it
And you're doing your best to be a good person
That's all you can focus on that is the key
If we spend every day of our lives
Trying to be good enough for other people or trying to be liked by other people
Eventually, we're not gonna like ourselves
Which is a very interesting
concept
But once you do grasp it
It just makes your life
simple
You just start to understand
That you're doing what you're supposed to be doing and what anyone else has to say doesn't matter
And I'm not saying don't take advice from people. This is more so
Under the impression that someone is just like what you're doing is pointless. You're doing nothing
That's what I'm talking about
Advice is a good thing. We love some constructive criticism
But moving into the next one
Who you surround yourself?
Seriously affects where you become and your mental health and I've always known this people always say this I've heard it so many times
But this year I experienced it and I really started to process it
I'm sure I've said this before but the five people that you keep closest to you is who you're gonna become
And under that same impression another analogy or I don't know if it's an analogy
Whatever it is
If you surround yourself with 20 people who are constantly working on themselves or taking care of themselves or inspiring you
The odds of you also starting to take care of yourself are very likely
But that goes the same thing the same way the other way around you're around
20 people who are constantly
Going out or smoking or doing drugs. There's a high chance that you'll end up doing the same thing and
That's not to say that those people are bad people but it's to say that you need to be aware of who you want to
become and
When you look at the best evolved version of yourself, who is she or he what are you doing?
those are the kind of people you want to keep around the people who are gonna motivate you the people that you look up to and
This goes the same way with consuming media if you're constantly consuming media
You're not gonna get better
Consume things that are good for you
and I promise that you'll start to see a huge difference and
I understand that in a lot of cases. There's certain people that are impossible to avoid
But in other cases it is a boy. So I just want you to be aware of that. It's something that you
Have been thinking about and haven't acted on here's your sign to take action on it
I was surrounding myself not with bad people, but with people that I
didn't necessarily
see personality traits in
That I wanted to have
I'm not sure exactly how to make that make sense
but moral of the story is that you need to be with people who are involved in you and
Just people who are making you feel good
And yes, I know I just said not everyone's gonna like you people are always gonna have something to say about what you're doing
And what your dreams are?
But those aren't the people that you want to keep closest to the people that you want to keep closest to you are
The ones who understand when you have this crazy dream
That might not make sense right now, but they are so on board and they're like, I know you can do it
I believe in you. I know you're capable of that and
Want to see you do it
If you found yourself with friends
You don't want to see you thrive and grow and be happy then those aren't your friends right now
And it's possible that you're just at different points in your life, and that is very much. Okay
But don't keep that around you 24-7
Because you have to be there for yourself and you have to look out for yourself at any given moment
Because I'll get into it later, but you have to be your own best friend. You are the person you're always gonna have
And actually while I'm on the topic, I'll just get into it right now
Friendships are gonna come and go
Relationships are gonna come and go even if it feels like they're not in some cases they do and sometimes it's just out of your control
But you are the one who's stuck with you until the day you die
if you can't
Be kind to yourself and show yourself compassion
Life is not gonna feel like this beautiful world
Because if you treat yourself badly
You're technically surrounding yourself with people who don't evolve you
Therefore you never feel involved you never feel like you're growing and I know it's such a hard thing to do
Especially when it comes to insecurity or just self-doubt
It's so hard to believe in yourself
It's so hard to look in the mirror and be like you know what I got this or you know what I look beautiful today
You just got to start by saying it out loud write it down think it in your mind
You just have to start somewhere and eventually you start believing it
This goes again back to the people you surround yourself in the media that you consume if you constantly watch things that are negative
You always feel negative and you start to believe that if someone tells you something that's not true enough times
Eventually you believe it so
When it comes to yourself
Just start telling yourself
To love who you are and to love who you're becoming and just watch it happen
It's really one of those trust the process things
Because it won't happen overnight. That's okay. The best things in life don't happen overnight
So throughout this year, I want you to work on that and I say this one all the time
I say most of this all the time
so if you've heard any of these other things from different podcasts, that's because
Well, clearly they were the most important things I took away from this year and it probably won't be the last time
But I want you to be your best friend
That's what I want you to work on this upcoming year is no matter what even in your hardest days
Or the moments that you're the most insecure
Just convince yourself that you're amazing and that you are where you're supposed to be and that eventually it's all gonna make sense
Because I promise you it will I'm talking from experience here
I learned this the hard way and I wish I knew at the time that it was just simple enough. I
Just wish I knew it was as simple as
Telling myself
That I was good enough
You got this. I promise moving into the next one. I
Love this one so much. I actually saw it
I don't know if it was in a book or a TED talk or a quote or a tick-tock
I don't know where it came from
but it'll never be your turn if you can't clap for others and
It has stuck with me since the second that I saw it I consider myself to be someone who
Just understands that everyone's got a different goal and everyone's on a different path
But there was something I loved about this quote so much and it really just put things into perspective
We have to be happy for other people
we have to want to see people thrive and grow because if anything that only inspires us and it only motivates us and
We don't want to be the person that people don't want to have around
and we don't even realize that sometimes we are I
See this a lot in myself when it comes to my best friend Lissette
You guys all know and love her, but she wants to be an accountant. I
Don't want to be an accountant and every once in a while. I'll check myself and I'll be like
What's that? Why do you want to be an accountant? Why don't you want to do blah blah blah blah?
and then I really have to sit back and
Become aware of the fact that that is so unnecessary of me
Her life is not my life
Just like mine is not hers and I can't sit here and try to change what her passion is. That's not our job
what is our job is being a good person and living with good intentions and being kind to one another and
Wanting to see everyone happy
Because seeing happiness and other people
can really
Just make us all happy. I
promise you
If someone's doing something and you don't know why just let them be let them go let them do what they love
They're on their path and you're on yours
Which leads me into the next other people's actions are not your responsibility
this is a cool one to think about because
all of these
Takeaways kind of connect to one another
But if someone's giving you a hard time
It's not your responsibility to prove to them
Anything
And it's not your responsibility to change people either if someone shows you
That they're not a good friend or a good boyfriend or a good person
You don't have to fix them
They're on their own time
They're working on their own schedule and eventually they will learn what they need to learn and they will become the person that they need
to become or who they want to become
but in the meantime
You don't have to try to fix them you don't have to try to prove to anyone anything
It's not your responsibility
Your life is your responsibility
now obviously
Again, kind of like the advice thing that I said earlier
This doesn't go if someone's doing something really really messed up and you know them personally
I don't think there's anything wrong with saying hey, I don't think you should say that because it's disrespectful towards someone
Again I just mean if someone is giving you a hard time about what you want to do. Let them say it let them do it
It's okay. I
Think a really big thing. I
learned this year is
just that
Everything's okay. It's literally all gonna be okay. Life is just this circle. It's this wave. It's whatever you want to call it
we're gonna have moments of
Being and feeling completely on top of the world we're also gonna have moments of being at our lowest lows
It's just inevitable there are things in life. They're out of our control
But when you just look at them
You really sit with it and think okay?
I mean they're gonna learn something from this or I'm gonna appreciate this moment
And know that eventually it's all gonna make sense
It just lifts this huge weight off your shoulders
It's like a weight that we don't even know it's there
It's like there's this elephant sitting on your back because you're constantly thinking about everything so much like wait
Why is this happening? I don't understand. This is so bad. I'm so sad life sucks
when you just
Kick the elephant off your back and just realize this doesn't suck. This is actually all gonna be okay eventually
This is one day out of however many days. I'm gonna be alive one month out of however many months
I'm gonna be alive even if it's a bad year
It's one year out of however long we live
In the grand scheme of things when you look at the big picture
It's really all just gonna be okay. I promise
Take the elephant off your shoulders because I know that it's on all of ours and every once in a while
I'll feel mine starting to come back, but no
No
Eventually life makes sense
The good bad the ugly is all part of the picture
I don't know if you guys have ever seen any anyone who draws on tik-toks or does paintings
It'll look like so bad in the beginning. You're like what it where are they going with this?
I'm so confused and by the end. It's just this beautiful work of art
Sometimes that's how I view my life when something's going really really wrong. I'm like, okay, this must just be the beginning of the picture
eventually, it's gonna be beautiful and
I love that so
Take it as you will
But hold on to it
Moving into the next one
the smallest changes in your habits are what are gonna make the biggest difference and
this is when I actually just recently learned because I just started reading the book atomic habits and
Don't I'm only a hundred pages in here not even a hundred pages
So I'm not a professional on this and I'm definitely gonna learn more about it as I continue to read the book
But the smallest differences
Make the biggest difference
You start by drinking one cup of water each night if you find yourself to dehydrated eventually
You're drinking two cups of water and then three and then all of a sudden you're more hydrated than you've ever been in your life
But you started small you go to the gym. You can only walk a quarter of a mile
Okay, next time you go to the gym you walk half a mile and then before you know it you can run three miles
But you started small and you started somewhere and you have to give yourself credit for those small wins
Because it makes you appreciate the big wins even more
Things don't happen overnight
Becoming the best version of yourself will not happen overnight. And if you discredit yourself
For one bad day, don't you dare do it?
You did something right that day. We do something right in every single day
Life is constantly a learning journey
And if we spend every day being mad at ourselves for what we didn't accomplish we are never going to feel accomplished
So just appreciate yourself appreciate the small wins and eventually you'll notice the big change
Sometimes we don't even realize that it's happening. There's been so many things over the course of my life
where
especially when I look back at like my old snapchat memories and see the person that I used to be versus the person I am
today a lot of these things that I do now and the person that I am now I
Wasn't a long time ago, but I didn't even realize I was making small changes
I just see the big difference now, which is another cool concept to hold on to
But just believe in yourself me and be proud of yourself
All goes back to being your own best friend be proud of your accomplishments, even if they're small
Anyways moving into the next one. You guys are gonna feel like I say this a million times because I do
Your life is only as good as your mindset. I'll say it again your life
Is only as good as your mindset
You sit here and spend every single day thinking about what sucks and
Everything's bad in the world
Obviously, everything is gonna seem bad in the world. That just makes sense, right? It does now think about it the other way around
if you choose to only see the beauty in the world if you choose to only see the hard times as lessons and if you
Choose to just believe that people are good and things are good
Suddenly you become a more positive person and for some reason people have a much harder time accepting that than accepting
That if everyone's negative all the time everything's gonna be negative, but it works the same way
It really does and if you haven't tried it try it
Having an open mind and thinking positive and being willing to learn and understand and accept things
Is gonna lead you to a much happier and a much more fulfilled and a much more educated life
in my eyes
Having an open mind is the key to a good life. And obviously not everyone's gonna agree with that
We all have different things. We're all different people
But to me you're willing to accept
Everything for what it is
Then nothing ever feels wrong in your life
Everything just feels like learning and I love learning
I always noticed my like open-mindedness started when it came to traveling because I grew up in such a bubble
I live in Boca Raton, Florida
So I grew up with all the same people all the same families and I thought that I lived in the perfect location
I wanted to you know, raise my kids here send them to the same high school
I went to and do all of that and
Then I traveled and I realized that we all come from such different backgrounds
And there's so much more to life than just where you grew up
And that's when I started really realizing that being open-minded can change a lot because the values in my hometown
Are not the values that I support or believe anymore
Obviously not everyone in my home
But a lot of people in this area
Believe certain things therefore when I grow up with them and I'm like forced to think like them
Then I think that that's the only thing that's right
But it's just not
At least be open-minded
Minded to learning about other people's cultures and other people's values and other people's morals
Because maybe you'll resonate with them more and you just don't even realize it
Maybe not maybe your hometown values and morals are what you're gonna stick with and that's okay
But at least be willing to hear people out
That's all I'm gonna say
Okay next one
This one's a little straightforward
But
You have to stop blaming outside factors for your own poor mental health
This was a really tough pill for me to swallow. I learned this one from personal experience
That's why I don't feel so bad about saying it harshly because I blamed everything but myself on why I was going through it
I blamed the people I was surrounding myself. I blamed the environment I blamed
Everything you can think of
But what really got me motivated to actually start working on myself and feeling good again
Was realizing that I was the root of my problem
I was the one who wasn't willing to accept that. I wasn't okay at the time
And it was powerful because when I did that
Obviously, there were still factors. I changed about my outside environment
But what gave me the motivation to change them was realizing that I needed to take care of myself
And that that's what I was avoiding
Here I go again
But it started with changing my mindset and my mindset is something I've had to fix many different times in my life every time I
Go through a really really rough patch or I'm at the bottom. I'm at the bottom of the wave and I feel like I'm being held
underwater
my mindset shifts into that dark place and I have to rebuild it and
That's something that we don't always realize just because you've fixed your mindset once you've had these really really good times once
Sometimes you have to put the work in all over again
We're always evolving
We're always going through different waves and different emotions
And that's okay
It's okay. If you have to rebuild your mindset, it's okay to accept it
Maybe you went into a dark place after you were in a good one
Just know that it starts with you and you have to rebuild that
which brings me into my next thing I
Was always someone who believed therapy
was
Stupid I thought it was a sign of weakness. I thought no
No, there'd be stupid. Literally. It's all I thought to myself and I didn't understand why people went there until I went therapy
I go to therapy now and I see it as such a sign of strength a
Sign that you became aware and you became willing enough to work on yourself and to ask for help
It's beautiful. I don't care what anyone tells you
Asking for help is strength not weakness
Which leads me into something pretty cool. This podcast is actually sponsored by better help online therapy
Better help is something that I'm gonna be discussing a lot on this show
But this month especially we're discussing some of the stigmas around mental health
For example, a lot of people wait until things are super unbearable and really really bad to go to therapy
But in my eyes this just isn't true
Therapy is something that could benefit all of us and sometimes just being able to talk to someone
unbiasedly is
amazing and
It's a tool that we should utilize before things get worse and it can help you from getting to some of those really really low
Points another thing that I realized about therapy is that a lot of people say it's for crazy people. It's not true
It's a way to become aware of your emotions in a way to learn how to control them versus just avoid them
Which is something I noticed that I struggled with for so so long and better help is literally
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Slash moments. I'll spell it for you. That's B E T T E R
Moments I
Seriously cannot recommend therapy enough the way that my life has changed
You can ask any one of my friends the amount of time I talk about how much I love therapy
Might be concerning but I don't think it is because I have learned so much not even just about myself
But a lot of the things that I'm talking about and that I've learned this year have come from therapy
Which is just cool to me. So just try it
If you're considering it and if not try considering it anyways, we'll move into the next one now
This next one is one that I learned from a YouTube video, but we have to stop doing things just for the outcome
It leads us into this vicious cycle where we're only living life waiting for a reward
but life is actually way more fun and
Enjoyable when you do things that you actually enjoy
the whole time
Obviously there's times in life where this is kind of unavoidable especially in school or
Certain jobs when you know, you're working to make money or you're studying for these exams that you don't enjoy studying for but you have to
pass them
Yes, that's unavoidable. But there are certain situations that are in your control simply put don't do it doesn't make you happy
Which leads into another one, which is everyone has a different version of fun and I learned this one a lot this year
A lot of people enjoy going out and socializing as fun and don't get me wrong
I enjoy that sometimes
but a
lot of times I'm more of an introvert and I have the most fun when I'm at home reading or just staying in or hanging
out with my family and
That is what's fun for me, but that's not what's fun for everyone else. Just be okay
Knowing that what's fun for you doesn't have to be fun for the people around you
And do your best to find balance if you have a best friend who has a different idea of fun
Then have fun with them. Sometimes there's ways to make it enjoyable, but just be aware that it's okay
You don't have to feel alone. You don't have to feel sad that what's fun for everyone else isn't fun for you
It's not a bad thing. I
Promise you that
next one
Self-care is essential
Definitely learn this one throughout this year because there was a point where my mental health was really really low and I wasn't taking
care of myself I was
Literally, just living to get to the point where I got a reward. So I wasn't doing things. I
Enjoyed I wasn't surrounding myself with people. I should be surrounding myself with
And I just wasn't taking care of myself
So do things like reading or journaling or baking?
It's different for everyone
Self-care and self-love look different for every single person another huge takeaway from this year. I'm sure you guys have caught on to it
It's just that everyone's different and everyone's supposed to be different, but whatever makes you the happiest
Even if it's not reading or journaling or waking up early in the morning
Do the things that make you happy?
and understand
That it is a requirement because again, you're your best friend you have to love who you are
You have to love how you spend your time
And how you see the world?
Live a good life another one that I learned this year
This is more so one that I'm just learning and one that I have not quite incorporated into my life yet
But I'm going to start incorporating you can't expect to keep a relationship with someone if you don't show any effort
I
Struggle with this because I don't really talk to people on the phone very often
I hang out with the same people all the time and I do the same things every day
but then I
Like want to build these relationships and like hang out with new people and meet new people and I don't know maybe find a boy
from one of these days
But if I don't step out of my comfort zone, and I don't put in the effort just as much as the other person
I don't know what I expect to gain from it
So I don't have too much advice on that one just because it's one that I haven't quite
Understood yet, but we're working on it
So if you want to hold that and and use that as a takeaway take that away because we're in this together
The next one I have written down is be your own best friend, but I already got into that
so the one after that is
Pause before you react immediately to something. This is another one that I'm definitely still working on
especially when someone has something to say on like a post of mine where they just
Assume things about me or try to comment something really negative. My immediate reaction is this person just doesn't get it blah blah blah blah blah
I'm gonna make sure I prove my point and all this
But when I really sit with it and don't react to it immediately I
Become aware of all those things. I talked about earlier. Not everyone's gonna understand it. Not everyone's gonna get it
I know what I'm doing and I know who I am and
Then suddenly the comment doesn't bother you as much and this goes into a lot of different things in our life next one
stop talking badly about people I
Could go on and on and on about this one
People who hurt other people are hurting for themselves
And what they really need to do is take some time to take care of themselves and eventually they realize that what anyone else is
Doing isn't their problem. And again, he's all just tied together. But if you find yourself
Thinking something badly about someone or talking negative about someone
Just become aware so, you know what I'm not gaining anything from this neither is the other person
I'm hurting myself and I'm hurting them. Let me just let this go and let me go focus on myself
next one
Life is not supposed to be perfect
I talked about this a little bit earlier, but life is gonna have ups and downs and when you just accept that it has ups
And downs it seems a little bit more perfect
We have to change the idea of what perfect is
Sometimes perfect involves learning lessons that you don't necessarily want to learn or you learn them the hard way
That's okay
which also goes into
Everything happens for a reason
Every single thing and when you don't understand the reason it's because you're in the happening
And this is what I talked about in the first ever episode of the podcast still one of my favorites
You're in the happening. You don't get it. Eventually. It's a full circle and
Get this I just had such an experience with this a
Lot of you guys know back in in middle school
I had a really hard time with this mean girl with like this bully and I never understood why that happened and then eventually
Recently it all made sense and I just understood it. I was like that was the reason
the reason that I felt that was so that I can understand this now and
I
Don't know everything really does happen for a reason. It's my favorite quote. It's it's so basic, but it works because it's true
The next one be nice to strangers simple as that goes back to not talking badly about people
Just be nice to people random people. You never know who's having a bad day, especially when someone's nasty to you
Don't be nasty back. It's just gonna ruin your mood kill them with kindness. Always kill people with kindness and
Wave at random strangers and hold the door open for the person behind you or make small talk with someone who looks like they don't
Have anyone to talk to
Just do your best to live with good intentions
That's one of my biggest goals for this next year and it's always been a goal of mine
But it's one that I really want to hold on to this upcoming year and the last one I want to talk about
Is that even if it gets hard?
It's never a sign to give up
Things are going to get hard and if they are it's a good thing because it's a sign that you're making progress
And when you choose to look at it like that it more so becomes motivation
For example, I don't really know if this is an example
but today listen, I were at the gym and we're doing leg presses and I was struggling and then
Lisette went and she didn't struggle and I was like, you know what? I want to be able to do that
So I went again and even though it was hard I pushed through and then we ended up having this friendly competition and we ended up
Tying but I know that's not like a real real-life example
But still things are gonna get hard use it as motivation. Let let that push you even further
let that give you the drive to keep going and to know that it the grass is greener on the other side and that it's
gonna get better and
Just believe in yourself. I
Think that those are my biggest takeaways
from the year and
Some of those lessons I understood and processed almost immediately
some of them took me well a whole year to understand and
You'll notice that that's often why I repeat so many of the same things
And a lot of the advice that I give you guys is also advice that I need to hear
so sometimes when I repeat something over and over and over again, it's because I still haven't even instilled it in my own brain and
Since I know I'm not alone and since I know that so many people have like the same struggles that I do and the same
Difficulties processing what we need to do to like reach the best version of ourselves
I don't mind repeating them because I think we can all use the reminders at any given moment
but
That's really all I got. I love you guys
More than you will ever understand and I actually really enjoyed recording this episode just because it's been so long
If you're still here and you're still listening if you guys want go follow on Spotify go leave a rating on Apple podcast
It means the world to me and this whole podcast means the world to me
I have so many goals in the new year to grow this into more than just a podcast
More than just a thing that I do but like a whole community a whole lifestyle
I don't know how to explain it. But eventually you guys I'll be able to put it
into real life
For now, I'm just talking
From my mind which never makes any sense. Okay, I'm gonna cut us off here
But I'm so grateful for you. You guys have made this year
More incredible than you you will ever ever ever understand
You guys are also the reason that I've been able to understand so many of these lessons
You guys have made me feel so much less alone in some of my hardest times and always reminded me that there's good around
the corner
So you guys are the good people that I like to surround myself with
Thank you for everything not to be cheesy indeed, but you guys are the reason I'm here today
So I love you, and I will talk to you next Monday. Have the best year ever
Next episode we're gonna talk about some New Year's resolutions. I love you. Bye
