New Year, New Intentional You!

We trade noisy resolutions for quiet clarity, exploring how attention and intention reshape identity, soften ego, and turn vague wishes into specific, livable change. From the “perfect day” practice to money mindset and roles as costumes, we map a practical path to start the year as the mover, not the pawn.

• winter light as a cue for renewal
• attention plus intention as the engine of change
• identity and ego as helpful masks that become cages
• shifting from vague wants to specific goals
• roles as costumes and freedom to rewrite them
• tolerating being bad to grow skill and confidence
• imagination as neural rehearsal for manifesting
• perfect day practice and real-world momentum
• money stories, pricing, and aligned value exchange
• practical steps and questions for the new year

Chapters

• 0:00 Winter Morning And New Year Mood
• 1:05 Reflection Over Parties
• 2:03 Attention, Intention, And Agency
• 3:01 Identity, Ego, And The New Character
• 4:12 From Vague Wants To Specific Goals
• 6:15 Letting Go Versus Control
• 7:36 Beliefs As Invisible Barriers
• 10:44 Authentic Self Beyond Roles
• 13:01 Costumes, Roles, And Flexibility
• 16:25 Tolerating Being Bad To Grow
• 19:24 Pricing, Worth, And Money Identity
• 22:09 Perfect Day Practice And Results
• 24:36 Imagination, Perception, And Manifesting
• 27:26 Practical Creation And Micro Decisions
• 40:00 Closing Thoughts And Tomorrow’s Tease

Transcript

SPEAKER_01: 0:07

We are on the line.

SPEAKER_00: 0:10

Morning.

SPEAKER_01: 0:10

It's a little lighter.

SPEAKER_00: 0:12

It's a little lighter, I guess. It's cloudy still. Cold.

SPEAKER_01: 0:16

Freezing. Cold day.

SPEAKER_00: 0:19

We're gonna believe in the sun coming back. Because it's gonna be a new year.

SPEAKER_01: 0:23

New year, new me. Once the cheese is gone. I have to eat all of it over the next 24 hours.

SPEAKER_02: 0:36

Exactly.

SPEAKER_00: 0:39

I think it's a great time of year, though. I mean, it you know, we talk about the sun, the short days becoming turning the corner and becoming longer days. You know, the next six months, days just keep getting longer. So it's kind of neat living in an area where you get to experience if you pay attention to it. It's it's a time of family and celebration, no matter what you're doing, you're spending time with family. And it comes with, you know, a calendar shift, a new year, possibilities, the hopefulness. It's a neat time of year, and although I think there's lots of people who uh enjoy the uh celebration of New Year's as just a night to have fun, let loose, dress up. For me, it's just a really, really reflective time. And uh although I've enjoyed my parties in the past, it's not my way of it's initiating the new year anymore.

SPEAKER_01: 1:39

Yeah. I don't think we've ever gone oh maybe once we went to a little little gathering, but ever since I've known you, you've been like uh on the first. You just want to be journaling or quiet or reading or meditating or something introspective.

SPEAKER_00: 1:57

Yeah, I think that there's value in planning. I mean, I think that um, yeah, I'm learning this. I can't claim to be good at it, but I'm learning the power of intention and the focus of intention, right? Our our attention, where we put our focus, is our point of power, it's our point of energy. It's it's the thing that we are engaged with. If we don't put our attention on something and we don't put our intention behind that attention, then we're observing things happening. And when we put our attention to something and we put an intention behind it, then we're doing something, we're accomplishing something. We are we are more likely to have a positive experience because we're not waiting for something to happen, we are engaging our own happening. So when New Year's comes, I really find myself. The truth is, I find myself lost most of the time because I tend to be the person who's not using his attention and intention to make every moment of every day purposive and creative. And I I recognize that in myself. I mean, what we talk about for the last couple of days, identity and ego, you know, that's that's self-reflection more than anything else. You know, I'm learning, I'm at a at a place in my life, you know, as we launch the school, and I embrace sort of a new character that we're gonna call less. You know, I think, well, what do I want that character to be? What do I want his focus to be? What does he want to accomplish this year? What are the things that we cast off and say, this isn't helping, this isn't useful, this isn't what I want, this is interfering with what I want. How do we say, what do I want? That I think for a lot of people is a really tough question. They say I want to be happy, or I want to be safe, or I want more money, or I want some better things. You know, saying I want a better job is not the same as saying I want that job.

SPEAKER_01: 4:25

Yeah, that's true.

SPEAKER_00: 4:28

To say I want more money is not the same as saying I want to make this amount of money this year. I want to have this amount of money. You know, to say, you know, I have this bad habit, I call it a bad habit. There's this thing that I do that I don't do, I don't put any thought into, right? Habit is action without thought. So I have this habit, I've labeled it bad. I do this thing without thinking about it, I don't want to do it anymore. Well, what would I want to do instead? I think that it's easy to identify stuff that you want to have change, and it's really hard to identify what you want to change it into. And I think that's because of beliefs, right? We have mental structures, we have thought forms, we have rules, self-imposed rules in our mind, what we are and aren't capable of, what we are and aren't entitled to. And those are the beliefs that stop us from saying I want a better job, and saying I want this job, right? It's the beliefs that get in the way. I want something better, but I don't I don't know if I deserve what I what I really want. I don't know if I'm even safe to articulate what I really want. And I think that there's a lot of value in using the new year that way.

SPEAKER_01: 5:57

Yeah, I've I've um I've never really used the new year. I I'm excited to use it this year, but I've never really made resolutions or thought about making changes on that day specifically. So we're gonna delve into some meditations and methods of change and looking at ourselves. And I'm excited about that. I'm excited about starting something new and looking into the new year in instead of waiting for things to happen, sort of being the more of a creator. Because when you wait for things to happen, you just have to sort of go along with it. It's like uh I like the idea of a uh of a chat board and you're the pawn being moved around and instead become the the person moving the pawn. So I'm excited for that. And I think this year, I mean we our our house goes on the market today. And yeah, it's it's exciting, it's scary, it's I'm starting to feel like I'm having to tie some uh a bunch of things up here in Ontario. And as much as oh what what comes to me is as much as we want to be the creator, there is an an awful lot of letting go as well. There's like a balance between what putting what we want out into the universe and then and then going with the flow, not trying to control it so much. The ego wants to control, I'm sure.

SPEAKER_00: 7:42

Well, uh again, I we we talked about it for the last two days. I think you know what interferes with our desire to move into something new is that it may conflict with what we've already decided is our identity. And that we have beliefs about who and what we are, yeah, and what we are and aren't capable of, what's possible for me, what's possible for people like me, the stuff that we inherit from you know uh loving, fearful parents.

SPEAKER_02: 8:19

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00: 8:20

You know, oh, so you're the one who thinks you can go to university. I remember being told that by a relative when I was young. Oh, so you think you can do university do? Yeah. And it was funny, you know. That said, as always, it said so much more about them than it did about me. I just saw it as showing up. Let's go, right? They saw it as something enormous to attain, and that it was only for special people with special abilities and special backgrounds.

SPEAKER_02: 8:54

Wow.

SPEAKER_00: 8:54

Right. And so it's, you know, what are the beliefs that that interfere, you know, our identity as much as it is a beautiful construction sometimes? This is who I am, this is what I'm good at, this is what I've chosen to be, I'm the guy who does this, I'm the guy who has these skills, I'm I'm this guy, it's also can quickly and easily become a cage.

SPEAKER_01: 9:20

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00: 9:20

And when I allow my ego to come forward, that part of me that compares myself with others and is convinced all alone, and it's all up to me, and it's me against the world, right? There's a whole other set of beliefs that are really inhibiting and stop anything new. But all of these things are just constructions, they've just become an idea that seems insurmountable simply because we practiced thinking it for so long and committed ourselves to thinking it and living the personification of it for so long. And they're just thought forms, is why we say all the time I mean, you can't change anything until you change the way you think. You can't change your life till you change the way you think about it. You can't change who you are until you think about the limits you've placed on yourself. And that's why I like thinking about this stuff, because I I like to remind myself that it isn't real anywhere except in my mind. I mean, when you think about it, I I can have my own identity, but there's probably not a single human being in my life who sees me the way I see myself.

SPEAKER_01: 10:45

No.

unknown: 10:45

Right.

SPEAKER_00: 10:46

And that's true for everybody.

unknown: 10:48

Right.

SPEAKER_00: 10:48

They all have their version of what they think of me, and they're certainly going to be resistant to me if I decide, hey, I'm gonna change up who I am. I mean, I go and I dye my hair and I grow a mustache and I change my style of clothing and I change the music I listen to, and I change my car and I change my job, and they're all gonna be like, what the heck is going on? And they're going to resist, just like my my view of my identity is going to resist those changes.

SPEAKER_01: 11:24

Why do you think they resist? Why do you think they would resist if there was a major change? What do you think it calls out within themselves?

SPEAKER_00: 11:33

Well, I think it goes back to that old saying. I think there's a lot of value in that old saying, you know, um, what I fear most is my power. Not that I am small, but that I am bigger than I can imagine. And that I don't do anybody any favors by playing small in my life. And I actually give others permission by demonstrating it in my life. And I mean, we do that, right? I mean, how many people are sitting out there right now scrolling through some social media, looking at videos of people that they wish they were and being inspired by that?

SPEAKER_02: 12:14

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00: 12:15

Maybe not inspired to the point of action because those beliefs, that resistance kicks in really quick and really fast. Isn't that wonderful? Oh, I wish I could do that, but I could never do that. How many people say exactly that to themselves?

SPEAKER_01: 12:30

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00: 12:31

And that that reflects a lack of understanding of how things happen, right? Things happen because at some point or another you say, I want that so bad, I'm gonna try. Right.

SPEAKER_01: 12:42

Um and I I'd like to offer the audience. Um, if you notice once you put your mind to something, if you look back right now on your life and think once you made that switch in your in your mind, how fast things started happening in that direction. Right. When we move when we remove the resistance to it or when we open ourselves to it, it's suddenly right there. You know, think about how fast your lawn tractor arrived. Right? How much resistance for how long?

SPEAKER_00: 13:17

I think about my clients who came in and they were so unhappy, so disconnected from themselves, so disconnected from what they dream about. And then the instant we start just the slightest bit of momentum forward, how dramatically their lives were different. Within literally within a few months, so many aspects of their life were so different.

SPEAKER_01: 13:42

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00: 13:43

Right? Just that little bit, just move around that obstacle, and all of a sudden, the vista is huge.

SPEAKER_01: 13:51

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00: 13:51

I think a lot of the things that we're good at, we started when we were young and we didn't have all these beliefs. You know, there's things that we are that we would in our way of identity, in our view of ourselves. There's things we started when we were eight, nine, ten, eleven, you know, maybe you were, you know, a little kid who loved art. Maybe you were a little kid who loved music and you played the instrument. Maybe you were a little kid and you were an athlete and you just loved playing. And back then, you know, the motivation was from a real place of joy, just exploration, creativity, joy. There weren't a lot of limiting beliefs, although certainly there were some, but things were possible. And when you're young, you're we we do use those words a lot with young little ones, you know. Anything's possible. You know, you you can be anything you want. We try to say those kinds of things to little ones. There's a little bit more of encouragement, I think, with young ones. And then you'll take that out 30 years, and you say, Well, look, I have natural abilities at this, but it's not natural. You've been working at that for 30 years. You've you've embraced the joy of it for 30 years, and that's why it feels so natural and why people notice it and say, You're so good at that. And I really enjoy that when you do that. It's really because at some point when we didn't have a whole bunch of restrictive beliefs, we embraced it.

SPEAKER_01: 15:33

Yeah. Yeah. In the chat, we have we jumped off the roof, no thought for getting broken. We sang as loud as we could because we didn't judge it yet.

SPEAKER_00: 15:44

I remember being a little kid, like five and six, behind our house was a great big cornfield. And I would love to walk through the cornfield and sing to myself and just make up songs as I was going. Like I look at that little kid and I look at the adult, even looking at myself 10 or 15 years ago, and like, how the hell did that happen? How did that little kid become that guy?

SPEAKER_01: 16:15

Oh right, yeah. I I have the I we had a forest at the back of our house, and I remember walking through it singing like like I thought I was snow white or something. And I remember one day, uh, so our our uncle lived on the property on another parcel of land, and and I looked over one day and I was singing at the top of my lungs, and he was looking at me, and I felt so embarrassed, I like ran back to the house, and that was it. No more singing.

SPEAKER_00: 16:50

There is a real fear in rip in revealing ourselves, isn't there? And we do get resistance from people when we change, but at the same time, I don't know what's more important than to be your authentic self. And it's really easy as the years go by to lose any sense of what that means.

SPEAKER_01: 17:14

Yeah, I don't even know what I've changed so many times that I don't even know what my authentic self would be. You know, I I feel like I know sometimes, and then well, it's funny. As I'm saying it out loud, as I'm thinking about it, I'm thinking about work. Like work isn't my authentic self. So why am I thinking about my job as my authentic self? Where do you start when you think about your authentic self?

SPEAKER_00: 17:49

So a reframe. Consider everything you think and everything you do a temporary costume. I put on a costume that says, Today I'm the lawyer and I play the part of the lawyer. But the magic is in the I play the part of the lawyer. Means that there is a me underneath all of that construction, all of that creation. There is a me who's trying to play a part, you know. What we we put on costumes and we go out into the world, and we try to act from a central being, but we're so busy trying to suit other people's views and needs and their fears mostly. And it's just a costume, and the part I play can change. Yeah, I can play a different role in this play, I can put on a different costume. You know, if I see myself not as the lawyer, but as the one playing the lawyer today, if I see myself not as the teacher, but the one playing the role of the teacher today, I'm not the consultant, I am the one playing the role of consultant. You know, I'm I'm not a father, I'm the one playing the role of the father, and that's a neat one because as my kids get older, that costume has to change. And as my kids get more independent-minded, I have to change my costume, I have to change my responses, I have to change my contributions.

SPEAKER_01: 19:41

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00: 19:43

Sometimes the the costume that we've embraced doesn't fit anymore. And we have to find a new one. Or sometimes just to grow, you know, the costume that we wear, we realize. Is not really the costume we want to put out there. I spent 20 years teaching and I became a very different teacher towards the end of that than I was in the beginning. My view of what I was there to do changed as I learned what worked and what didn't work and what helped and what didn't help, and what was positively received and what wasn't. And you might call it style, you might call it approach. But no matter what, the costume, the identity that I embraced had to change so that they would see me in a way that was helpful and inviting rather than authoritative and control. I think that we we wear costumes and that's all it needs to be. It doesn't need to be identity.

SPEAKER_01: 20:53

Yeah. I keep defaulting to like, what is my job? What do I dress like? What do I, you know? And that's something to think about, I suppose. My default is what what are what is the external stuff? Sometimes I feel like my internal stuff is is solidified, you know, how I how I act and and what I think. I think more and more lately there has been a looking at my connection to the universe or trying to trying to see my soul underneath the layers of human. And I think that's been an interesting exercise for me to try to do that. But when you see your soul, what is there after that? When you feel like you're acting from your soul, or I don't even know, then what happens after that?

SPEAKER_00: 22:01

I think if you can get to a place where you cast off the identities you've created, and you've stopped using the comparisons and judgments of the ego, and you have now found a place where your beliefs that you're not good enough are gone. So that you're not acting from a place of fear, you're not acting from a need of approval or uh an external measurement of success. To get to a place like that, then what's left is your authentic self. What is left is your own curiosity. What do I want to do? What's what's out there? What the heck is that? How would that work? What would that mean? How could I help? And you're expressing your own authentic creativity. Here's what I want to try, here's what I want to make, here's what I want to create, here's what I want to engage in, right? And then it's just the spirit of play. I think so much of what's necessary is to realize how much of who we think we are is just a creation made by happenstance and other people's reactions shaped by our own need uh for acceptance and approval. Because we don't want to be alone.

SPEAKER_02: 23:33

Yeah, it's the idea.

SPEAKER_00: 23:35

Those who are aware of their higher connection are much less afraid of being alone and much more capable of genuinely acting from a set a safe, self-approving, self-loving center.

SPEAKER_01: 23:52

Yeah, that makes sense.

SPEAKER_00: 23:54

And I think we all yearn for that. And that's why I think we can find ourselves busy sometimes helping people cast off those beliefs, helping people see through the beliefs that they have, seeing them as beliefs, right? A belief is not a fact. A belief is a construction based on a series of experiences that are interpretations of events, not the actual events. Yeah. And I think that as you enter the new year, the question you ask yourself is can I tolerate being bad at something long enough till I get good at it?

SPEAKER_01: 24:32

Like learning a new skill or new role. New role.

SPEAKER_00: 24:37

Putting on a new costume, playing a new part. Yeah. Can I can I tolerate my own insecurity? Can I tolerate my own lack of certainty long enough for the certainty to come?

SPEAKER_01: 24:54

Without also looking externally for acceptance of that certainty.

SPEAKER_00: 25:01

And judgment is insidious, right? It's it's there, it sneaks into everything. And like you say, you're out there singing your heart out, and you see somebody notice you, and they didn't say a single negative thing.

SPEAKER_01: 25:17

No, it's not like he's pointing and laughing.

SPEAKER_00: 25:20

They didn't react. It was everything that caused you to stop was already inside you.

SPEAKER_01: 25:29

Yeah, right.

SPEAKER_00: 25:31

All the beliefs and structures were there.

SPEAKER_01: 25:35

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00: 25:36

To get you to feel like you needed to censor yourself. And let me clear, like that's everybody. That's me. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. There's an old saying by Lionel Barrymore, the old, old actor. You can only be as good as you dare to be bad. You can only be as good as you dare to be bad.

SPEAKER_01: 26:01

Yeah. There's sort of it, it reminds me of something that's I don't know what you would call it, a fad, or no, I don't want to call it a fad, because it is like what you're talking about, but it's in different terminology, I suppose. But I've noticed a lot of people on social media that there's this word that they're using, delulu. Be d be delusionally yourself, like out there, just just B B B, right? And delusional, not in a bad, not not in a negative sense. You know, uh, we're not out there having like crises and delusions and stuff. But if you want something, just be it so much so that it is all that you are, right?

SPEAKER_00: 26:56

And when you pause, you realize you're already doing that, you've just let a lot of circumstances, events, and others control what that is. Yeah, you are truly infinite potential, you have the capacity to learn anything, yeah. You have the capacity to become good at anything. You live in a world of plenty, you can access just about anything. It's only our beliefs that really stop us from our beliefs cause us to see it as a risk. Yeah, when a little kid is playing, they don't see that as risky. When a little kid is singing and and dancing and throwing paint on paper or you know, inventing games, right? They don't see it as a risk. And when we're good with those little ones and we're not judging them, not telling them that this is good or this is bad or I like this or I don't like that, the the little one just keeps on creating from that sense of being.

unknown: 28:11

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00: 28:12

And although we put a lot of rules on ourselves, and although we assemble a lot of beliefs that become our identity, and although we look at others and we put a lot of beliefs on them, and we start to compare ourselves to them, and we start to feel alone, and that we have to do everything ourselves, and our ego starts to get the better of us. The beliefs and the identity and the ego start locking us down into just what are simply habits and nothing more, right? Your personality, your tendency to make the same whole jokes, my tendency to make the same old jokes. That's just that's just a story that I tell myself about myself, and I go out of my way to honor that story rather than change it.

SPEAKER_01: 29:06

Yeah. I think my mind is drawn to and uh on the school, I believe sooner than later we're going to have our good friend Brian Rump do some money talk work. I received an email a couple days ago from a woman that's a coach, and I signed up for her stuff a couple years ago, and she sends emails a lot, but sporadically over the holidays. And she sent this email, and and this can bleed into another podcast, I know it, but she sent this email saying, Don't don't miss out on this amazing opportunity. My program is only five thousand dollars now. And I looked at it and I thought, why am I scared to charge five thousand dollars? Why am I judging her for charging five thousand dollars? Who would pay five thousand dollars? I'm as good as her in different ways, right? We both have different offerings, and I think, why am I scared to tell to ask my email list for five thousand dollars for a full program? You know, I it's a funny thing, right? So, this identity, that's what I'm getting at. This identity of me who wants to be nice. Oh, not that charging five thousand dollars is not nice, but do you want to get I'm getting it?

SPEAKER_00: 30:37

Like, no, exactly. Um what you said, yeah.

SPEAKER_01: 30:41

I just feel like my email list would be like, wow, that's not Hillary, like charging that much money. What's what's up with Hillary? What is she doing? Who does she think she is?

SPEAKER_00: 30:56

So our identity can be incredibly limited. Our beliefs about ourselves come crashing in on us. We are comparing ourselves to others, so our ego is taking a bounce, and and all these things get in the way of you being able to say, what do I have to offer? How can I offer it to the world? Yeah, and what would be a fair request for an exchange? And even still, your beliefs are gonna dictate in many ways what that is, but to see her offer hers, hopefully, expands your beliefs about what's possible.

SPEAKER_01: 31:40

Yeah, I mean, absolutely.

SPEAKER_00: 31:42

So, what is it about your identity that you really like? And what is it about your identity that you'd like to change? What are the comparisons you make between yourself and others that you don't like, and what would you want to change? What is the costume that you're wearing that just doesn't fit you anymore? What are the beliefs that you have about yourself and about the world that get revealed to you by examining your identity and your ego that you think need to change, that you that you recognize are in the way, are stopping you from changing costumes, are stopping you from revising your costume. These are, I think, great questions for the new year. And it's not enough, I think, to ask the questions and see the limitations and be aware of what's interfering. I think you have to take the next step and imagine what you want instead, and then form the intention of achieving that. Yeah. And then you do what it takes. You do what comes to you.

SPEAKER_01: 33:01

No, that's okay. I was gonna say it's a good segue into in the chat earlier. We had a question about just just chatting for a moment about our uh perfect day.

SPEAKER_00: 33:11

Go ahead.

SPEAKER_01: 33:14

So when you talk about imagining, we created, I don't know, two years ago? I don't even know. I've lost track of time now, but we created this idea of a perfect day, a series of questions that you fill out, and then we make a meditation for you, and you just listen to the meditation and imagine or sense, or you know, just know you're in that perfect day of yours, and we've had amazing uh success with it.

SPEAKER_00: 33:48

Well, the people who do it.

SPEAKER_01: 33:49

Yeah, the people that do it, yes.

SPEAKER_00: 33:51

Have amazing success, have have incredible stories of how aspects of this perfect day have just seemed to come to life all on their own.

SPEAKER_01: 34:00

Yeah. I think I was gonna ask you, what do you think makes that happen? If I was to answer it myself first, I would say, first of all, you're you're creating strong neural networks that say, yes, this is attainable, this isn't scary any longer. And also at the subconscious level, you're more open to see those doorways that are there suddenly, that have always been there, but suddenly you're able to see them because you don't have fear in the way, as much fear, I should say. Does that make sense?

SPEAKER_00: 34:33

Does to me.

SPEAKER_01: 34:34

Yeah. Would you add to that?

SPEAKER_00: 34:36

You know, to to use the simple awareness of the mind. Um, the mind doesn't know the difference between reality and imagination, which is why beliefs and fears have become so locked in. Right? When you think about the things that you fear, none of them have ever happened. But boy oh boy, are you afraid of them. And, you know, when something that you fear, actually something similar happens, that's it. You're done. Like you're locked down. You can't. So when you use that same uh mind construction methodology, using your imagination, where the mind doesn't distinguish between reality and imagination, then your mind shifts to a place where what you're imagining is real. And with that comes thought patterns, with that comes activated perceptions. Remember, what we think about the world impacts how we perceive it, what we perceive in it. So when we start to see the world as full of possibilities, that's what we start to perceive. When we start to, when we start to see the world as having the potential for me to have, do, or be, whatever it is I want to have, do or be, even just using our imagination. That's part of how we interpret the world. This is a really subtle cycle, this idea of how we interpret the world based on how we've interpreted in the past and created beliefs. So on a subconscious level, on an imagination level, it becomes possible. And that's enough for the subconscious mind to be open to react perceiving and reacting to that which would make it physical or actual.

SPEAKER_01: 36:27

Yeah. In the chat here, we've got repeatedly hearing this truth of your perfect day, you begin to manifest it because it becomes real in your mind. You begin to believe that this day is real, and so the reality of this life is created by our minds. It is the very basis of manifesting for ourselves. And that's coming from somebody who used it and is living a perfect day.

SPEAKER_00: 36:53

And I and as much as I love the awareness of how strong our mind is in terms of its ability to create, I think it's important for some people that that as soon as you use the word manifestation, there's a jump from physical reality to magic. And I think for some people, that's manifestation is this magic thing I can do. But what happens when you change the wiring in your brain is your perception of the world changes, and that's very subtle. So this is actually a very practical thing because when your perceptions and your interpretations change, when you change the possibilities, when you introduce the wiring into your brain of the reality of what you're imagining, because that's the base, that's the truth. The truth is your brain can't distinguish between what you imagine and what actually happens. It's all real to it. Yeah, you're changing the way your thoughts and beliefs are going to respond to the world around you. So all kinds of little tiny micro decisions and micro attitudes and micro approaches are going to come to life. So understand that absolutely the world's a vibrational place. Any physicist will tell you that. And absolutely, we live in a quantum field, and the way we think about the field causes the field to respond to us. And this is absolutely true. But understand that you shift as the being interacting with the field, you shift as the being perceiving what's going on out there in the world. And so it's really quite practical. It's really, you know, it's it's learning on your video game that when you press XXY down, something happens, right? It's you still have to press XXY down to make the thing happen. And the way the brain and the mind interact into the field gets changed by practicing seeing yourself in that. So all these little tiny micro decisions that you're not even aware of start to line up just as well. And you start following impulses, you start following inspirations that are pointed towards this state of being, this reality that you're imagining. You start to hone in without in a very subconscious way, you start to hone in on the kinds of things that will lead you there. So what I don't want people to say is if I imagine it, it will be real. If I imagine it, I change my brain chemistry, I change my brain wiring, I change my subtle responses to everything, I change my view of possibilities, I change my ability to respond to the world as it presents itself to me. It's there. Very, very practical. Now, I don't know if that's helpful or not, but I think for some people, you you you can say the word manifest and then they shut down.

SPEAKER_01: 40:08

Oh, absolutely.

SPEAKER_00: 40:09

Right? Or more importantly, they hear manifest and they think, what have I got to do to manifest? I don't know how to do that. I get frustrated with myself because I'm manifesting the same crap all the time and I can't seem to break out of it, that kind of thing. The imagination is an enormous tool for changing your life.

SPEAKER_01: 40:28

I would, you know, I would interchange the word manifesting with creating. And like we heard, I can't remember where we heard it, maybe it just came to, but you're you're constantly manifesting, you're constantly creating just what creations are you feeding? And it's very natural to feed old creations because they are comfortable. And to take that that intentional, using intention, intentional step in another direction, in whatever direction you want, start to feed that new version of you, or that that new mindset, or that new body, or that new life, or that new job. And that will bring creation of that to you. Yeah. Good chat.

SPEAKER_00: 41:22

It's a new year, and the new year is coming. Talk more about it tomorrow, I think.

SPEAKER_01: 41:29

All right, thanks for joining us today, and have a good day. We'll see you later.