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Millennial Foods and Apps Where Is It Going? #IYP

Millennial Foods and Apps Where Is It Going? #IYP
Millennial Foods and apps where is it going, and how is it going to effect the health of the nation and planet?
It is something that needs just a little awareness shed onto it as with this instant get anything and do anything now world we live, which is also very involved around us being attached to a phone, computer or some type of device which then leaves us some what sedentary, moving less and less as a people...well I then think it is open for a discussion
So the study which was done by a few Universities in the heartland of the USA reported that a high percent of the student body (80% or so) was charging massive amounts of money onto credit cards and the major or dominant charges were from delivery of food from certain apps. 
I mean there is so many areas we could look into here such as who is paying those bills (mom and dad) what type of foods are we putting into our bodies, and how is it we are so busy (playing games or on social media) that we have to order in, or why is it we don't want to be out socializing for real? It is such a massive area to chat about.
Either way for any of us as this becomes more of reality then trend, it will be a focus to not over spend, this is something that will need to be taught. The report stated that most of the students were spending anywhere from $1000 to $1500 a month on these apps. I mean that is major, massive and I get it, they have made it so so so easy to just click and boom here comes the food. Taking away responsibility of the actual physical money possession (which is the reward of earning that money and then breaking the bill and getting change). It also creates the removal of either making your own food which then again includes going out to a store and buying food (money exchange again from money earned, and socializing). 
So it removes so many steps from our lives which is awesome in one way, but it does however if we are not educated or not aware of these things make it so easy to over spend, over indulge, and put a massive amount of crap foods into our system.
Just some food for thought!
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Following The Crowd, Where Does It Get Us? #IYP

Following The Crowd, Where Does It Get Us? #IYP
Following the crowd, where does that get us really?
It is a human trait we all fall prey to, this is a fact. Myself included time and time again it happens to me...if I do not know what it is in the end that I want, or what my end goal is. 
That is when I will fall prey to it, as well if I do zero research on the "thing" it is that the crowd is following or doing. 
We tend to find trust in someone or something (a brand) and from there we (a lot of the time, not all the time) will over ride our own thoughts and processes or research or gut feeling and go with the advice or better yet follow the crowd to whatever the hip new trend is or to whatever all the cool kids are doing.
It's this over ride that has me fascinated, we will give our power away, we will give our self discovery away, we will give our intuition away, we will give our learning process away because we feel or we believe that the person / brand who has recommended a certain something has more power, knowledge, is better than us, you name the reason but each one of us at some point will fall prey to one of them.
I have said this many times 1 thing does not work for every person, there is nothing out there that is a one size fits all cure, yet if we find that our circle of influence is all about it, then we tend to jump on the band wagon possibly without doing our due diligence. 
The reason why, I feel from my own experiences is laziness and trusting. I anyway sometimes put that "getting hustled" feeling to the side because I think this person wants the best for me, yet in the end after doing major research and informing myself I see all the flaws in the long run, short term might be pretty awesome, but my goal is longevity. 
I also notice that we tend to skip or over look some of the downside or maybe that down side is never even told to us, which makes my wound sting ever deeper.  Example would be let's say 'they' forget to mention something like a possible negative side effect, and maybe we even forget to ask about the possible negative side effects. Again why because we trust and take that person or brand for their word, not thinking at all that they maybe just looking at us as another sale (this is not always the case BTW, but basically what I am saying is always do your due diligence before blindly following the crowd)
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Not Giving Up On You #IYP

Not Giving Up On You #IYP
Not Giving Up on You or better yet not giving up on yourself! It is that simple and the first thing I want to callout on today's show is the fact that if you are following people on social media that claim it's always perfect in life or it's always blue sky and rainbow's please unfollow them because that is not real life, remember we are all human and things both good and bad happen daily in our human life!
As well if you happen to believe or fall for the highlights these people are putting up and then compare their highlights to your own life and think less of yourself, then you also need to stop that nonsense asap!!
The first question that came up started today with, well how have you been keep up with your New Years Resolution XX amount of month's later? 
To which I replied I do not just do New Year's Day, I do almost every day resolutions to better myself. By doing this I keep myself on point daily for the long haul goals! Having said that I also immediately mentioned that some days are better than others. I have up's and down's (just like every single person on this planet). None of us are exempt form being human or from what humans go through.
The mindset does for sure have something to do with those who push on and those who either quit or never even start at all. 
That mindset I think comes from (not all the time bit some of the time) on how we were raised. If you were told or saw, yes saw, learned from those around you that LAZY was the normal, or if you saw that Working Hard was the normal, I think these items help influence us in ways we do not even understand this many years later. So that I think has something to do with the Mindset.
So a lot of time we need to go back to our upbringing to understand some of the blockages we have up to this current day. So don't be so hard on yourself! If you are asking the question of how do I stay focused or how can I stop wanting to quit, well then you are on the correct path. 
This path takes time, effort and continued attention, but just do not stop, keep at it. It will eventually come!
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The Attention Span Of A Goldfish #IYP

The Attention Span Of A Goldfish #IYP
The attention span of a goldfish which is something like 7-12 seconds is that what we have succumb to?
Is that not incredible, I think so, and sadly it is something we are seeing more and more as the days go by with all the gadgets, goodies and technology as it progresses and pushes forward.
So have we become one with the goldfish? Or has all this screen time and tech really just taken our minds to another level of dopamine needs?
The dopamine is the excitement factor that happens in our mind and body, the release of it actually (not unlike a high, drug or alcohol substance in the body). We look for more of these hits and how we get them...scroll, video games, screen simulation. 
We have no clue the true implications of the flicker rates on our screens but nonetheless they are making us more addicted that is a for-sure.
There is no finger to point or blame to be laid, however we do need to take on the responsibility of educating ourselves as to what the outcomes of these very small windows of attention will bring to our over all mental and physical health over the years. As well as what it will do to society in general.
Is it a cry for help that we seek fame and stardom or is it in fact we are so board with our own lives that we seek this external stimuli to give us hope and meaning.
We spoke about the EGG picture that was hot at one time on the internet. How a picture of an egg garnished the most likes ever online. How was that possible and why?
There are still patches and areas in day to day life that give me hope (like seeing youngster playing outside with no tech, just their own imagination) Or a door being held open showing me that there is still awareness of others. We just all need to make sure those items become louder and louder over the coming years!
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What I Want Is What I Got In The End #IYP

What I Want Is What I Got In The End #IYP
A trip to the Hospital lead me to an amazing conversation with an elderly lady and a massive lesson in understanding for myself and I hope all of you as well. Meaning what we want and think of something is not always the same as what the people who we want and think it for may think for themselves! Here is how this played out.
So I had an issue with my ribs from some Krav Maga training I was doing and I was told to be on the safe side to take a visit to the hospital. So I did, and within I would say 5 minutes this old timer rolled up beside me to strike up a conversation, and ohh boy what an awesome conversation it was!
She told me all about way back when how she had done the same thing (possibly breaking some ribs, and how painful it was) from there she started telling me how she would give anything to have those days back. She was not unhappy with where she was at or how she was living but simply saying (I think anyway) how she wishes she had her mobility and freedom back again.
Part of me wondered and maybe even judged how she ended up where and how she was. In an electric cart with oxygen and a patch over her throat. The wondering was about the oxygen and the cart. She is very old I can tell that, and very full of life which I love.
We continue on, and she tells me about not wasting time (all from her point of view being near the end as she called it) not worrying about the insignificant things in life that cannot be controlled (like what others think, or what we think others think). She said to enjoy my body, freedom, and health, while I still have it.
That last statement made me again wonder if she had done all the things she was telling me about. As I looked at her with amazement and respect I felt like the Universe was speaking through her to me for me but also as a lesson in the bigger picture of life.
Then the real lesson after about 10 minutes of banter...she looks at me almost like a used car sales person, like a hustler and say's "so you got a smoke for the old lady?" 
I think I must have turned red, she was on oxygen, she could not walk or not easily I assume, she had a patch over her throat (maybe surgery, maybe something else) and she wanted a smoke? 
Myself no I do not have a smoke I said, to which she replied not to worry I will find one. 
She then went on (again a lesson from the Universe) to say you know when you get to be my age and in my position there are only so many things you can still enjoy in life and a good smoke is one of mine.
In that micro second I thought ok then who the phuck am I to take away this person's joy? 
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The Future Looks Bright Once You Let It Part 2 #IYP

The Future Looks Bright Once You Let It Part 2 #IYP
In Part 2 of this chat I go deeper into the fact of my ant sized view (on how I assumed the world was crashing down on me) instead of my bird's eye view (which is now my fact of endless possibilities and not being held back). I also talk about the new found freedom, the new found creativity and the fact that I am not feeling held down or held back in anyway.
I am able to expand at a much faster rate as I know the amount of study and time I put into this discipline that others just are not able to keep up with nor do they have access to the teachings, this all allows me to do any type of content when and how I feel and see fit to best suit the audience.
None of these things were in my thought process when this news hit.... How blessed we are to have some tools in the shed to work with! 
I am so very thankful for the insight and for this lesson!
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The Future Looks Bright Once You Let It #IYP

The Future Looks Bright Once You Let It #IYP
So I have to let you all know how a piece of information that was told to me threw me into a tizzy for a few days because of all the wrong reasons.
You may ask what or why, so let me give you the background. I was leaving for a month away from my office and area, I had a few final calls and interviews to do before going, as I knew I would be offline due to travel and time changes for about 2 days. One of my last conversations was a massive exciting, high vibration, pump you up, type conversation, the sky is the limit conversation where you leave it thinking anything is possible. We chatted about the high hopes for the future of this here show, new gear (which I ordered that day) new avenues we were going to chase down, the private jets and world tours we would be doing in the next few months to years. Like it was a mind blowing type conversation...
But in the back of my mind I felt something was off, yet I paid no attention to it.
So 2 plus days later I get a text or email that once I finished reading it, felt like someone kicked me right square in my man junk area!
A very nice short and sweet email that said they were no longer interested in moving forward with me or the show (for their own reasons) and that was basically that.
In the grand plan of life not a major issues, but for me I was blind sided I had just ordered all this equipment, we talked about taking over the podcast game, so on and so on, to a complete 180 of, nope we are done.
It took me about 3 days to fully get out of the funk I had created for myself from this news. Yes, you heard me correctly the funk I had created for myself!!
I was tossed into such a negative thought process that I could not see the sunshine from my own ass! I was worried about all the wrong things and (now looking back) the most insignificant and stupid meaningless things. So by focusing on all of that I lost all of my own power and energy. I thought (for some weird and absolutely ridiculous reason) that I could not go on by myself, or it would be to hard by myself, or it would be to much work by myself, no one would listen to just me by myself (do you see a pattern here)?
This is the crazy thing, and this even after 10 plus years in the game of mind studies is I forgot I was doing this solo a year ago, I make music solo, I toured solo...no word of a lie when I was in my tizzy none of these empowering high vibration energies or thoughts came up...can you believe that. That is how focused on the lower self, negative energy and the reptilian brain I had been for a few days! 
However by the end of the second day it all changed my meditations, grounding, high energy and high vibration team, crew, and family being around, and some universal guidance hit me all at once and I was like a pre teen with his first errection! There was no stopping me I knew immediately right then and there that this was the best thing that could have ever happened to me and even better yet for me!
Looking back a few weeks I truly do not know how I did it with a partner for the almost year that once was. I know now there is no other way for me then what is! 
I am so blessed for this lesson of empowerment and the fact that I have the tools to overcome the power of the subconscious and reptilian mind! That part of the mind is one tough nut to crack!
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How To Protect Yourself From Negative Energy #IYP

How To Protect Yourself From Negative Energy #IYP
How is this done, why is this done and do I need to do it?
Well, I think with the times we are all going through currently on this planet that this is a very good idea. On today's show I speak about how remaining silent for a number of reason's may actually help you and the person or person's you are surrounding yourself with protect energies and sanity.
Sometimes we just want to be heard and sometimes we just want to be right!
It is not very often we just sit back and listen and allow what ever is meant to happen or be just happen, we tend to want to intervene or we tend to want to sound smart or be right or think we are some type guru trying to help others. Yet we are not GOD or the Universe, so why try to take on that responsibility?
Yes, I speak about this from experience of course. The first 3-6 months on this journey of mine with all the new information I was learning and implementing I just wanted to tell the world so when people would ask....Boom I would just talk and talk and talk. Probably scaring them away! 
Something I did not realize either at the time was the energy I was also giving away and the energy (from them) that I was taking on. Yup I was way to new. So the effects of some of the interactions at times left me super tired and even a few times I felt kinda sick or nauseous to which I never understood why.
I once spent a long weekend with a guy who asked for my help and wanted to shadow everything I did. I was so pumped up that I jumped at the opportunity. By the last day I could barley stay awake and I was sick to my stomach. This person for 3 days was just dumping excuses, negativity, problems and his issues on me because I was there with open arms and a powerful energy source for him to suck off of. Boy did he ever use up that energy and you know what he did not even implement a single thing I showed him, 5 years later he still has the same excuses and problems because he is not willing to nor will ever change, he just continues to look for new energy sources (people) to suck off of (people who will listen to him whine)!!!
After finding out years later about toxic energy and energy vampires it was only then that I learned how to avoid all together those who have no real want to change or improve, and how to protect myself from those who do want the help but are extremely toxic.
At times by being silent and just listening (instead of trying to give advice, which in some cases is just our own ego wanting to be heard and stroked) you allow and or protect yourself from going downwards into the never ending negative rabbit whole that is a t times impossible to get out of. 
Remember their lesson is not our lesson so do not take it on as if it was. As well sometimes people just want to talk and be heard, they do not want to hear what we have to say! Something to think about~
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Reliving Your Life With A New Outlook #IYP

Reliving Your Life With A New Outlook #IYP
How often do you, like me always think of the 'grass could be greener' over there option?
So on today's show I go over a great little reminder chat with a former business partner of my past and how that mindset set off 2 completely different emotions and this lead to a massive state of confusion and frustration, which as always once you sit with it leads to clarity and appreciation for the lesson at hand. 
The issues that came up for me;
1. The former Anxiety and Stress and relief for leaving
2. Fear, FOMO, lack, contraction for leaving
Crazy right, on the one hand so happy and grateful that I did not have to deal with any of the BS I use to have to deal with, but at the same time I was then doubting myself for letting go of the monies that came along with the business and company I had. So this massive amount of happiness and fear at the exact same time was a very, very new state of being for me.
The thing I noticed was that the feeling, the emotion of fear was much more powerful or much more dominate than the amazing feeling of lightness and freedom. 
This personally I feel is because since birth that fear emotion (which has a point if we are running from a tiger or whatever) is always, continuously promoted. The NO is always get's more attention than the YES. We are meant to stay in line, inside that societal box, and to teach us all that when we are children this is done through fear, which then get's hardwired into our program system and emotion system. So it is much easier to bring up past thoughts and experience's where these situations have come up before and we then just keep recycling the process over and over again. Very difficult to change.
The Fear of Not enough money, or not enough love, not enough things, keep's us in this lower level state. We cannot get out of this state without changing something. Or we are bound to just keep repeating
Let's stay aware of our emotions team!
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Judge Me Not For What I Do Not Understand #IYP

Judge Me Not For What I Do Not Understand #IYP
That is correct, the judgement in all of us, towards ourselves, towards others, towards events, towards everything basically. We run all the information that we get from our 5 senses "sight, sounds, taste, smell, touch" and then take that info a run it through our own filters, programming, mind,  and by that I mean how each one of us individually was brought up in the first 7 years of our lives. 
On top of that we are all victims and fall prey to mis information or lack of information or being sold or told a narrative that is either false or not complete. For an example I will use this, in school we are taught all the facts of the oceans that we know as humans. Fair enough correct, but what we are not told even to this day is that we have explored less than 5% of the ocean,(around there) so that means we no zero about 95% of it, yet as humans we think we know all there is to know about the ocean. So how can we (any of us) truly claim that we really know what is going on down there?
Mathematically not possible when you only have 5% of a puzzle, there is no way you can guess or assume the other 95%. 
Well, at least that is the way I see it at this point. 
Even for myself if I take the events that happened at Covington Catholic High School where as we all know an event took place. 
So I am not here to talk about the event or what happened, but what I am talking about today is how I reacted (even after 10 plus years of mind training in soto zen) to a sound bit and 30 second clip. Mixed with all the information being pushed out about the event itself.
I can remember saying their must be more to this, but at the same time the way the video and sound bits were edited I took that information into my system and filter's and programming and with the information provided even though I knew there had to be more to the story.... took it as somewhat fact. 
That just tells me how strong our programming run's. Even though I had questions, massive doubt's - at that moment with the only information provided to me my mind took that info and can up with an outcome. 
No different then still believing we know all there is to know about the ocean, untrue, yet we still teach and tell each other it is true. 
We always hear the saying "Question Everything" I agree with that, but I wonder with all this information hitting us 24/7 in these current times have we become to lazy to do so? 
Even though that statement rings true now more than ever!!
 
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