Dec. 4, 2024
872. Have Your GROWN Content In Life? (Maybe that's a good thing)
Are you content? Instead of fighting against contentment, why not embrace it?
By the end of this episode, you'll look at contentment differently.
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Transcript
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I may ask you a question.
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Do you find that.
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You've grown contended in life.
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And I asked the question because contentment is nothing like what I thought it was.
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I mean, for the longest time, I've always seen contentment as something negative.
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Like it was just some sort of.
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Passive acceptance of mediocrity.
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So.
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In an, in an effort to not feel.
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Or be.
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Content with life.
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Uh, fought hard.
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Against being labeled content.
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Because to me, it felt like that I was settling.
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But.
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What if we've misunderstood, what contentment really is.
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What if contentment.
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Is not about giving up.
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It's about leveling up.
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Today, I'm going to explore what it truly means.
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To live a contented life.
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So when I think about someone who's.
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Considered content with life.
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I think about someone who's got a mediocre job, barely scraping by paying some bills, swiping the credit card on door dash and numbing out on Netflix with a six pack of beer.
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That's what I thought contempt of really was kind of like a low life.
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And honestly, I didn't want to be that person.
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No one does.
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I mean, yeah, there's one side of you that just, you want those Saturdays, man.
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You want those vacations to be that slouch, that sloth man.
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But, you know, overall from an overall standpoint, no, I don't want to be considered that kind of person.
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And then I come across this passage from James Allen.
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That totally changed my perspective.
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James Allen writes that contentment.
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Is not just the state of being.
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It's a virtue.
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And virtues by definition.
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are behaviors.
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That reflect.
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High moral standards.
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Contentment.
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He says becomes lofty.
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Which is insurmountable spiritual.
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There's a spiritual component to it.
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As the mind is trained to perceive.
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And the heart to receive guidance.
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And all things.
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Of a merciful law mercy means to bring relief.
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Let me reread that.
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Contentment becomes lofty, insurmountable.
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And spiritual.
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As the mind as your mind is trained to perceive, which is an awareness.
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And your heart to receive.
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Guidance in all areas.
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Not some, not personally, not professionally, not relationally, but in all areas when your mind becomes it's an evolution.
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So when it becomes trained, meaning it's an, it's an ongoing, active.
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Thing.
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That's what contentment is it?
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Spiritual?
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So it's a spiritual component as you evolve.
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Your mind.
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You train your mind to perceive awareness.
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And your heart is open to receive.
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Guidance.
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And all things.
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Of a merciful law.
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So let's unpack that.
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First off contentment is not passive.
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It's active.
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It's about training your mind to see with clarity.
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It's about opening your heart to receive guidance, your mind, and your heart are connected.
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And it's about aligning yourself.
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With a law.
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That brings relief in mercy.
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Dude this idea when you unpack contentment now, That's a game changer.
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It's not about settling for less.
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It's about living.
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With purpose.
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And clarity.
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Here's the part.
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Of James Allen's writing that hit me the hardest.
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When it comes to contentment.
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To be contended does not mean to forego effort.
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It means to free effort from anxiety.
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Pooh.
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To be contented.
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Spiritual component.
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It's lofty.
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You're it's an evolution.
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To be contented does not mean to forgo effort.
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It means that you're going to free your effort.
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From anxiety.
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Think about when you're so troubled it's because you're trying to overcome the past, or force the future.
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And now when I look at being content.
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Then I can free my effort.
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I just put in the effort.
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And I release myself.
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It's free from the anxiety, from the uncertainty.
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The results are going to be what the results are.
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This reframes, everything because contentment.
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Is not about stopping at all.
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It's about striving.
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Without the weight.
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Of fear of worry.
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or impatience.
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I don't have to worry about any of that.
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So when your effort is free from anxiety, You stop obsessing over the timeline or the results eventually.
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And ultimately is what we w until as my timeframe.
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So eventually.
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I just consistent.
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I just put forth honest effort today.
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Energetically and faithfully.
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So I put forth that I separate.
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The effort.
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From the anxiety, not going to be worried about that.
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Did I put forth honest effort?
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Was I faithful?
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Was I energetic?
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Faithful doesn't mean that you have surety.
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It doesn't mean I know exactly what the answer is going to be, but I trust whatever the results are.
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I'm gonna be just fine.
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Because I'm going to continue to.
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Liv a contented life.
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I'm going to continue to.
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Put forth.
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honest effort.
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You just got to do the work.
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You just gotta trust the process.
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Allen makes another crucial point.
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Contentment does not mean tolerating sin.
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When I say sin, I'm talking about.
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Toxic behaviors.
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Toxic environments, toxic people.
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It doesn't mean that you tolerate that it doesn't mean that you remain ignorant.
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It does it remain that you remain foolish?
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No.
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It's not about settling for toxic relationships.
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Destructive habits are foolish behavior.
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Instead, contentment is about resting in the satisfaction of duty.
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Done.
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And your work accomplished.
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Just check the box.
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I do that as a complete game changer.
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And this brings me to an important distinction.
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There's perceived contentment.
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Versus pure contentment.
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Perceive contentment.
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When you think of a contented person.
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You often picture someone who's just coasting through life.
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Mooching off someone ain't got no responsibilities, just barely getting by.
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That's what you think of perceived contentment.
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But pure contentment.
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This is something totally different, dude, pure contentment.
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Is the outcome.
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Of effort and true living.
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It's about working energetically, not big lipping.
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It not half-ass in it.
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It's about working energetically and faithfully with purpose.
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And it's about accepting all results with an untroubled spirit.
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Dude.
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How liberating is that?
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The only thing I have to do.
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His step into my moments.
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Energetically.
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Not half-assing it, not dialing it in.
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Faithfully.
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And accept all results with an untroubled spirit.
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It doesn't mean I'm going to have all W's.
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It doesn't mean I'm going to have all losses.
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It's just, it's a mixture of everything because you need the losses.
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To push, to grow, to learn, to be more efficient.
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And you need the wins to push you through those losses because the wins man, keep you in the game.
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So you need a mixture of both.
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Alan calls is James Allen calls is active achievement.
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I totally love that word.
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Contentment isn't passive.
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You just doing the work and you're growing in the process.
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It's all about aligning your life with something greater.
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. So, what does it mean to live a contented life?
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Here's what I'm learning.
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Contentment.
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First off, you got to do the work.
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Contentment starts with honest effort.
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I have a mantra that I say all the time, lay the brick.
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You just, the only thing I got to do today, the only thing you have to do today.
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Is show up energetically.
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and faithfully.
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Every single day.
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Number two.
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What does it mean to live a contented life?
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For your effort from anxiety.
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Separate the egg from the yolk.
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Don't stress about the timeline or the outcome focus on what's right here in front of you.
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win the decision.
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Go to the next thing.
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And so when you put in a little bit of a process, just a few things.
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That you can adhere to that.
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Keep you aligned.
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With the person that you are becoming.
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Not that you want to become.
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I've said that actually the person that you're becoming, because change starts immediately, the results take time to show, but change starts immediately.
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So when you just.
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Do the work lay the brick energetically and faithfully.
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The results are going to take care of themselves.
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Number three align with true living.
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It's not about chasing an Instagram perfect life.
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True living.
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Is about honesty.
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And purpose.
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And saying grounded to what matters.
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And number four, contentment is not static.
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It's not oh welling it oh, she's not in the cards.
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It's not meant to be with only I had no, it's not static.
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It's something that you are going to build over time by what James Allen says, training your mind to perceive.
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You have to have an awareness.
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And you'll have that awareness.
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As long as you're not hanging around toxic bullshit.
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You're not staying ignorant and you're not doing foolish things.
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When you eliminate those things from your life, you'll have a deeper awareness.
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You're not going to sleep, walk through life anymore.
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So you're going to have, you're going to train your mind to be, to perceive, which is an awareness and your heart to receive guidance in all areas with an untroubled spirit.
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Hallelujah.
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Amen.
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Closed the book.
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When you live this way, man, you can rest in the satisfaction of a job.
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Well done.
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Did you put forth honest effort today doesn't mean that you hit a hundred percent doesn't mean that you always check the boxes.
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Shit things come up, man.
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But did you put forth and honest effort?
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And did you accept the results?
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Meaning this is what it is.
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I acknowledge it.
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I don't have to be okay with it.
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I acknowledge it.
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Okay.
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And my mind.
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Is perceiving.
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And my heart is open to receive.
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Guidance on all areas.
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Just tell me what to do next.
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Tell me what I got to do next.
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If you can do that, man.
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You can accept every day.
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As it comes.
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Because you did your part.
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You fulfilled your duty.
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You took care of your obligations.
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And your fellow man.
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So here's, here's the truth, the human side of us.
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Resist contentment.
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If you think about.
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Pushing against contentment I don't want to be content.
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I don't want to be mediocre.
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You're fighting against contentment because of the way that you perceive it.
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And so when you push against contentment, You're actually creating more confusion.
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And anxiety and impatience in your life.
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So here's what's trippy.
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Is what's you're pushing against because you perceive contentment in a negative light.
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What you push against, you're making your life worse because you're confused.
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You're impatient.
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You're ignorant.
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You're not studying.
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You're not curious.
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You're not creative.
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You're being foolish.
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You're still doing foolish things.
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And you're still.
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Surrounding yourself.
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And you may not realize it.
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You're still immersing yourself.
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In toxic environments thinking.
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Behaviors.
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They're just bringing destructive.
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Outcomes.
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Even the things, man that you're, you're taking in.
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From media.
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Social media videos podcast.
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You know, I just, people that just love true crime stuff and they go to bed with podcasts, listen to true crime.
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Like if you look at podcast charts, like most of them are all true crime.
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Like.
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Why, why do I want to feed my spirit?
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I love a good horror movie.
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I'm just not gonna sit here and just.
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Pour that in day in and day out, but people do that.
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And then you wonder why your life is kind of fucked up.
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That's why.
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So instead of fighting against contentment.
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Embrace it.
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True contentment.
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Isn't about giving up.
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It's about stepping up.
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And when you step up.
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Now you're living a life of intention.
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You're putting forth on us effort.
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And you're trusting the process.
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So cliche to say, but you are man.
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You trust in the process without fear.
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And so when you embrace this.
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Your life becomes actually simpler.
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What do I end every podcast episode with keep it simple.
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Yes, we make things way too complex.
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I want to be content.
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I want to live content today to have a contented life.
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I don't need to chase all that bullshit.
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I put forth.
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Honest effort.
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And true living.
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Energetically and faithfully.
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And accept.
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Guidance in all areas with an untroubled spirit.
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And I'm okay.
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I accept the results.
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Cool.
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What's next.
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You gamify it man.
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So when you do this, man, your life's going to be simpler.
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You're not going to be fighting against the past or forcing the future.
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And you're going to focus on the moment, the task, you just lay the brick.
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You put the effort in today.
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So here's my takeaway.
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Contentment.
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Isn't about settling at all, man.
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It's an alignment.
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It's a balance.
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Spiritual mental, physical balance.
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That allows you to work.
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Faithfully without anxiety.
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So the only thing you have to ask yourself at the end of every day.
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Did I put forth honest effort today was my effort free from anxiety.
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I'm not trying to overcome the past.
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And I'm not trying to force the future.
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I just fulfill my obligations.
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Energetically, faithfully.
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I lay it out.
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I push hard.
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If you do that.
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Job.
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Well done.
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That's a contented life.
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Remember, keep it simple.
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Keep it moving.
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Never settle.
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Stay tough peace
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I may ask you a question.
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Do you find that.
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You've grown contended in life.
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And I asked the question because contentment is nothing like what I thought it was.
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I mean, for the longest time, I've always seen contentment as something negative.
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Like it was just some sort of.
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Passive acceptance of mediocrity.
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So.
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In an, in an effort to not feel.
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Or be.
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Content with life.
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Uh, fought hard.
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Against being labeled content.
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Because to me, it felt like that I was settling.
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But.
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What if we've misunderstood, what contentment really is.
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What if contentment.
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Is not about giving up.
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It's about leveling up.
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Today, I'm going to explore what it truly means.
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To live a contented life.
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.
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So when I think about someone who's.
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Considered content with life.
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I think about someone who's got a mediocre job, barely scraping by paying some bills, swiping the credit card on door dash and numbing out on Netflix with a six pack of beer.
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That's what I thought contempt of really was kind of like a low life.
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And honestly, I didn't want to be that person.
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No one does.
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I mean, yeah, there's one side of you that just, you want those Saturdays, man.
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You want those vacations to be that slouch, that sloth man.
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But, you know, overall from an overall standpoint, no, I don't want to be considered that kind of person.
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And then I come across this passage from James Allen.
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That totally changed my perspective.
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James Allen writes that contentment.
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Is not just the state of being.
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It's a virtue.
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And virtues by definition.
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are behaviors.
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That reflect.
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High moral standards.
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Contentment.
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He says becomes lofty.
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Which is insurmountable spiritual.
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There's a spiritual component to it.
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As the mind is trained to perceive.
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And the heart to receive guidance.
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And all things.
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Of a merciful law mercy means to bring relief.
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Let me reread that.
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Contentment becomes lofty, insurmountable.
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And spiritual.
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As the mind as your mind is trained to perceive, which is an awareness.
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And your heart to receive.
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Guidance in all areas.
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Not some, not personally, not professionally, not relationally, but in all areas when your mind becomes it's an evolution.
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So when it becomes trained, meaning it's an, it's an ongoing, active.
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Thing.
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That's what contentment is it?
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Spiritual?
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So it's a spiritual component as you evolve.
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Your mind.
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You train your mind to perceive awareness.
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And your heart is open to receive.
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Guidance.
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And all things.
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Of a merciful law.
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So let's unpack that.
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First off contentment is not passive.
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It's active.
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It's about training your mind to see with clarity.
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It's about opening your heart to receive guidance, your mind, and your heart are connected.
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And it's about aligning yourself.
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With a law.
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That brings relief in mercy.
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Dude this idea when you unpack contentment now, That's a game changer.
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It's not about settling for less.
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It's about living.
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With purpose.
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And clarity.
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Here's the part.
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Of James Allen's writing that hit me the hardest.
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When it comes to contentment.
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To be contended does not mean to forego effort.
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It means to free effort from anxiety.
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Pooh.
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To be contented.
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Spiritual component.
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It's lofty.
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You're it's an evolution.
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To be contented does not mean to forgo effort.
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It means that you're going to free your effort.
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From anxiety.
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Think about when you're so troubled it's because you're trying to overcome the past, or force the future.
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And now when I look at being content.
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Then I can free my effort.
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I just put in the effort.
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And I release myself.
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It's free from the anxiety, from the uncertainty.
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The results are going to be what the results are.
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This reframes, everything because contentment.
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Is not about stopping at all.
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It's about striving.
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Without the weight.
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Of fear of worry.
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or impatience.
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I don't have to worry about any of that.
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So when your effort is free from anxiety, You stop obsessing over the timeline or the results eventually.
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And ultimately is what we w until as my timeframe.
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So eventually.
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I just consistent.
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I just put forth honest effort today.
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Energetically and faithfully.
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So I put forth that I separate.
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The effort.
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From the anxiety, not going to be worried about that.
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Did I put forth honest effort?
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Was I faithful?
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Was I energetic?
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Faithful doesn't mean that you have surety.
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It doesn't mean I know exactly what the answer is going to be, but I trust whatever the results are.
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I'm gonna be just fine.
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Because I'm going to continue to.
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Liv a contented life.
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I'm going to continue to.
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Put forth.
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honest effort.
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You just got to do the work.
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You just gotta trust the process.
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Allen makes another crucial point.
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Contentment does not mean tolerating sin.
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When I say sin, I'm talking about.
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Toxic behaviors.
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Toxic environments, toxic people.
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It doesn't mean that you tolerate that it doesn't mean that you remain ignorant.
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It does it remain that you remain foolish?
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No.
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It's not about settling for toxic relationships.
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Destructive habits are foolish behavior.
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Instead, contentment is about resting in the satisfaction of duty.
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Done.
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And your work accomplished.
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Just check the box.
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I do that as a complete game changer.
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And this brings me to an important distinction.
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There's perceived contentment.
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Versus pure contentment.
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Perceive contentment.
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When you think of a contented person.
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You often picture someone who's just coasting through life.
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Mooching off someone ain't got no responsibilities, just barely getting by.
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That's what you think of perceived contentment.
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But pure contentment.
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This is something totally different, dude, pure contentment.
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Is the outcome.
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Of effort and true living.
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It's about working energetically, not big lipping.
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It not half-ass in it.
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It's about working energetically and faithfully with purpose.
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And it's about accepting all results with an untroubled spirit.
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Dude.
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How liberating is that?
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The only thing I have to do.
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His step into my moments.
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Energetically.
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Not half-assing it, not dialing it in.
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Faithfully.
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And accept all results with an untroubled spirit.
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It doesn't mean I'm going to have all W's.
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It doesn't mean I'm going to have all losses.
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It's just, it's a mixture of everything because you need the losses.
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To push, to grow, to learn, to be more efficient.
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And you need the wins to push you through those losses because the wins man, keep you in the game.
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So you need a mixture of both.
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Alan calls is James Allen calls is active achievement.
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I totally love that word.
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Contentment isn't passive.
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You just doing the work and you're growing in the process.
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It's all about aligning your life with something greater.
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. So, what does it mean to live a contented life?
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Here's what I'm learning.
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Contentment.
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First off, you got to do the work.
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Contentment starts with honest effort.
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I have a mantra that I say all the time, lay the brick.
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You just, the only thing I got to do today, the only thing you have to do today.
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Is show up energetically.
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and faithfully.
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Every single day.
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Number two.
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What does it mean to live a contented life?
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For your effort from anxiety.
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Separate the egg from the yolk.
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Don't stress about the timeline or the outcome focus on what's right here in front of you.
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win the decision.
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Go to the next thing.
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And so when you put in a little bit of a process, just a few things.
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That you can adhere to that.
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Keep you aligned.
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With the person that you are becoming.
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Not that you want to become.
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I've said that actually the person that you're becoming, because change starts immediately, the results take time to show, but change starts immediately.
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So when you just.
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Do the work lay the brick energetically and faithfully.
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The results are going to take care of themselves.
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Number three align with true living.
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It's not about chasing an Instagram perfect life.
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True living.
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Is about honesty.
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And purpose.
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And saying grounded to what matters.
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And number four, contentment is not static.
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It's not oh welling it oh, she's not in the cards.
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It's not meant to be with only I had no, it's not static.
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It's something that you are going to build over time by what James Allen says, training your mind to perceive.
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You have to have an awareness.
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And you'll have that awareness.
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As long as you're not hanging around toxic bullshit.
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You're not staying ignorant and you're not doing foolish things.
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When you eliminate those things from your life, you'll have a deeper awareness.
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You're not going to sleep, walk through life anymore.
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So you're going to have, you're going to train your mind to be, to perceive, which is an awareness and your heart to receive guidance in all areas with an untroubled spirit.
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Hallelujah.
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Amen.
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Closed the book.
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When you live this way, man, you can rest in the satisfaction of a job.
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Well done.
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Did you put forth honest effort today doesn't mean that you hit a hundred percent doesn't mean that you always check the boxes.
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Shit things come up, man.
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But did you put forth and honest effort?
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And did you accept the results?
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Meaning this is what it is.
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I acknowledge it.
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I don't have to be okay with it.
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I acknowledge it.
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Okay.
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And my mind.
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Is perceiving.
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And my heart is open to receive.
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Guidance on all areas.
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Just tell me what to do next.
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Tell me what I got to do next.
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If you can do that, man.
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You can accept every day.
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As it comes.
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Because you did your part.
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You fulfilled your duty.
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You took care of your obligations.
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And your fellow man.
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So here's, here's the truth, the human side of us.
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Resist contentment.
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If you think about.
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Pushing against contentment I don't want to be content.
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I don't want to be mediocre.
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You're fighting against contentment because of the way that you perceive it.
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And so when you push against contentment, You're actually creating more confusion.
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And anxiety and impatience in your life.
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So here's what's trippy.
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Is what's you're pushing against because you perceive contentment in a negative light.
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What you push against, you're making your life worse because you're confused.
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You're impatient.
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You're ignorant.
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You're not studying.
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You're not curious.
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You're not creative.
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You're being foolish.
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You're still doing foolish things.
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And you're still.
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Surrounding yourself.
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And you may not realize it.
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You're still immersing yourself.
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In toxic environments thinking.
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Behaviors.
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They're just bringing destructive.
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Outcomes.
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Even the things, man that you're, you're taking in.
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From media.
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Social media videos podcast.
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You know, I just, people that just love true crime stuff and they go to bed with podcasts, listen to true crime.
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Like if you look at podcast charts, like most of them are all true crime.
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Like.
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Why, why do I want to feed my spirit?
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I love a good horror movie.
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I'm just not gonna sit here and just.
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Pour that in day in and day out, but people do that.
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And then you wonder why your life is kind of fucked up.
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That's why.
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So instead of fighting against contentment.
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Embrace it.
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True contentment.
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Isn't about giving up.
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It's about stepping up.
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And when you step up.
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Now you're living a life of intention.
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You're putting forth on us effort.
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And you're trusting the process.
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So cliche to say, but you are man.
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You trust in the process without fear.
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And so when you embrace this.
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Your life becomes actually simpler.
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What do I end every podcast episode with keep it simple.
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Yes, we make things way too complex.
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I want to be content.
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I want to live content today to have a contented life.
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I don't need to chase all that bullshit.
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I put forth.
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Honest effort.
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And true living.
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Energetically and faithfully.
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And accept.
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Guidance in all areas with an untroubled spirit.
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And I'm okay.
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I accept the results.
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Cool.
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What's next.
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You gamify it man.
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So when you do this, man, your life's going to be simpler.
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You're not going to be fighting against the past or forcing the future.
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And you're going to focus on the moment, the task, you just lay the brick.
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You put the effort in today.
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So here's my takeaway.
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Contentment.
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Isn't about settling at all, man.
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It's an alignment.
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It's a balance.
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Spiritual mental, physical balance.
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That allows you to work.
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Faithfully without anxiety.
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So the only thing you have to ask yourself at the end of every day.
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Did I put forth honest effort today was my effort free from anxiety.
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I'm not trying to overcome the past.
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And I'm not trying to force the future.
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I just fulfill my obligations.
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Energetically, faithfully.
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I lay it out.
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I push hard.
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If you do that.
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Job.
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Well done.
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That's a contented life.
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Remember, keep it simple.
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Keep it moving.
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Never settle.
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Stay tough peace