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The Language of Letting Go

"The more I cling to my past, the more I'm wasting my energy."

When you have a computer, and you have a program minimized, understand that that program is still using battery life on your computer.

"Not even God can change the past."

"Holding on to the past, either through guilt, longing, denial, or resentment, is a waste of valuable energy. Energy that can be used to transform today and tomorrow."

I want to transcend my past so that I have more energy to fulfill my day.

"I used to live in my past. I was either trying to change it or letting it control me. Usually both."

An audition where I didn't feel I did my best with the casting director, and then that casting director called me in again. What I used to do is then go, Oh, that casting director doesn't like me. So yeah, I will probably mess this one up as well.

Instead of going, Wow, that casting director called me back even after an audition where I didn't feel I did so well. Hey, wow. This is an opportunity to show that casting director how good I am and do an audition that I feel good about.

But when I'm holding on to my past, I'm not in the frame of mind where I can do that.

But when I've let go of that past, when I've transcended that past, I am in a place of power.

I am in a place where I can claim who I am and show the best work that I know I can do.

"I constantly felt guilty about things that had happened, things I had done, things others had done to me, even though I had made amends for almost everything. The guilt ran deep. Everything somehow was my fault. I could never just let it go."

One is, is that the definition of shame is believing that there is something fundamentally wrong with you.

"I held on to anger for years, telling myself it was justified. I was in denial about a lot of things. Sometimes I tried to absolutely forget about my past, but I never really stopped and sorted through it. My past was like a dark holy crap cloud. I can speak cloud that followed me around, and I couldn't shake clear of it. I guess I was scared to let it go. Afraid of today. Afraid of tomorrow."

That's the other thing when we don't work through the anger. The frustration, then, why hasn't it happened for me in our acting careers? The only thing it does is hold us back. And I think it's impossible to force yourself to forget something.

There's a fear of success and a fear of failure. I always say those two things are opposite sides of the coin.

But, what it is, is about taking responsibility for your past choices—taking responsibility for where you are today—and then understanding that you have a responsibility. And most importantly, and this is what is exciting, is the opportunity, the incredible opportunity I have. You have. We all have to shape our future.

Trace it. Face it. Erase it.

And then that is how it will be. Let go. Forgiving is not forgetting. It's letting go of the hurt.

"I've even developed gratitude for my failed relationships because they have brought me to who and where I am today."

All of the "failures" have actually been opportunities to learn.

I automatically develop peace with my new past.

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About Jeremy:

Jeremy Redleaf is an Emmy and Streamy award-winning artist and entrepreneur. He tells stories and creates experiences through his Brackets Creative shingle, including "Odd Jobs," the Streamy Winning web series, "3rd Street Blackout," a feature film (Available on Peacock), and the SYFY special "Who Won the Year?" He's the co-founder of Caveday, a global community built around having a healthier relationship to work. Follow him at @jeremyredleaf on all the platforms!

The ultimate multi-hyphenate.

"Every time I was waiting for the phone, he was going out to make something. And I started to get a little jealous of that because it can be disempowering to wait to hurry up and wait or just to wait."

How empowering it is to make your own films, to make your own work.

Successful working actors are very curious.

Curiosity sometimes just comes out of necessity.

"Well, as soon as I built some self-esteem, I encountered, you know, fiercer dragons."

At some point, I started to identify with being brave and being and being like in the arena and facing the dragons.

The most successful people do what they most don't want to do by noon.

I find for me that being in a community helps a lot. You know, just to know that other people are fighting similar battles is enough for me usually to sort of go like, "cool, I'm just one of the gang."

We all have these sorts of voices of self-doubt.

When I'm faced with a challenge, I go, "Okay, now, if I don't deal with this now, this sucker is going to repeat this kind of situation is going to repeat itself down the road, and it's going to be more painful and more uncomfortable."

There's ego, and then there's the universe or divine or spiritual.

And with ego, it's finite because it ends and begins with me. But with the universe, it's infinite. And so, do I want to tune my radio dial into Infinite, or do I want to tune my radio dial into Finite?

When you act and are in the flow , you transcend your ego and are connected to the infinite.

Yeah, the best way out is always through.

"I am willing, I am willing, I am willing."

I don't think that we're talking enough about the pandemic in terms of like what it has done to our sort of artists' souls.

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The victim trap.

Being a victim is just a way for me not to take responsibility for my life and when I am, quite frankly, scared.

The Language of Letting Go

"The victim trap. The belief that life has to be hard and difficult is the belief that makes us a martyr. We can change our negative beliefs about life and whether we have the power to stop our pain and take care of ourselves."

Assignment: Ask yourself

• Do I believe that life has to be hard and difficult?
• And then, if I believe life has to be hard and difficult, how do I operate out of that?
• What are the things, what are the thoughts that I think, what are the actions that I do that indicate that?

Because what we're trying to do here is to spot where we are a victim. So I'm immediately in this podcast episode just slamming you right into homework, giving you assignments on how to change so you can get out of this harmful thinking and belief pattern.

"We aren't helpless. That is the Truth. With a capital T, we can solve our problems."

I try and think of my problems as challenges. They're challenges for me to face. And every time I meet a challenge, I become more successful. Why? Because I gain more self-esteem.

Assignment:

• Make a list of challenges in your life and start putting them into categories.
• A category of what is mine to solve and a category of what is not mine to solve.
• And then those that are not yours to solve, what you want to do is you want to put them aside.
• And you want to focus on that list of challenges and problems that are your responsibility.

Taking responsibility for ourselves pays enormous dividends.

Using each problem that comes our way to prove that life is hard and we are helpless. Well, this is something called codependency, and it is the victim trap.

"Life does not have to be difficult. In fact, it can be smooth. Life is actually good. We don't have to "awfulize" it to ourselves or to anyone else. We don't have to live in the underside of life. And I just want to add that we can be on top. Now, that doesn't mean that we're not going to have challenges that sometimes feel insurmountable."

We do have power. More power than we know, even in the difficult times. And the difficult times don't prove life is bad. They are just part of the ups and downs of life, and often they work out for the best. We can change our attitude. We can change ourselves. And sometimes we can even change our circumstances. Life is challenging. Sometimes there's more pain than we asked for. And sometimes there's more joy than we ever imagined. But it's all part of the package. And the package is good. We are not victims of life. We can learn to remove ourselves as victims of life. By letting go of our belief that life has to be hard and difficult, we can make our life so much easier."

Whatever challenge I'm going through, it is survivable. And not only is it survivable, but by surviving, I gain that thing that can only be earned and not be bought no matter how much money you have. And that is self-esteem.

And for an actor, self-esteem and confidence are the two magical ingredients that core work gives you.

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Letting go of chaos.

Language of Letting Go, Melodie Beatty

What causes chaos? Well, what causes chaos is control.

"No good work comes from unrest."

And what I have learned about that is how true that is. Because if I don't rest, if I don't fuel up, I cannot be of service to other people around me.

Wake up in the morning and say "Good morning, universe. This is Peter, Pamela Rose, and I am showing up for duty." And I know that kind of sounds crazy, but it takes a lot of pressure off the day.

When I get overwhelmed, all I need to do is simply ask for help, ask for strength, ask for wisdom.

And what does that look like? I'll do it right now. "Give me strength. Please guide me. Show me, show me what it is you want me to do. Show me the things that you need me to do today so I can be of maximum service to other people on this planet."

"Unrest, fear, anger, or sadness may motivate us. These feelings are sometimes intended to compel action. But our best work emerges after these feelings have been replaced by peace. We will not accomplish our task any sooner or any better by performing it out of a sense of urgency, fear, anger or sadness."

And that's also why I think it's so important to do what I just did: stop and take a step back. And asking for wisdom and asking for guidance and asking for strength, asking for concentration, asking for brainpower. Or for more bandwidth.

"Let go of unrest. Let peace fill the void. We do not have to forfeit our power, our God-given or universe-given personal power, or our peace. Our peace to do the work as we are called upon to do today."

And again, sometimes I need to think that what the universe wants me to get done in a day and what Peter Pamela Rose wants to get done in a day are often two very different things.

And the universe is much kinder.

What's amazing about that is that I can plug into that universe any time I can ask for that guidance. I can. Ask for that peace. I can ask for that wisdom.

And I love that phrase "to do what we are called upon to do today," because I'm only responsible for today. I only need to do today.

I can't live for yesterday. I can plan for tomorrow. I can prepare for tomorrow. I can do something today that my inner self will thank me for a year from now.

But the fact of the matter is, I can only do today.

And that acknowledgment helps to let go of the chaos.

"We will be given all the power we need to do what we are meant to do when it is time. Let peace come first. Or I like to say let prayer come first or let asking come first, then proceed. The task will get done naturally and on time."

You're taking your hands off the wheel and trusting the universe, which is the pilot, to steer.

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About Molly:

Molly Noerenberg is a life and embodiment coach for performing artists. As a coach, Molly helps people make transformational changes in the way they connect to themselves, their bodies, and their unique nervous systems so that they can bring their most authentic selves into the world. Working with Molly means you will have someone on your team with unwavering belief in what is possible for you. As a coach, Molly has an incredible passion for helping performers connect to their truest essence and finding ways to express themselves that make them feel truly alive.

A fellow performer and singer, Molly has spent her entire career supporting the hearts, minds, and lives of performers. Molly is a certified Life Coach from the Health Coach Institute(formerly Holistic MBA), received her Bachelor of the Arts in Vocal Performance from Carnegie Mellon University, her Masters of the Arts in Vocal Performance from New York University, and her Advanced Certificate from NYU in Vocal Pedagogy. Molly is the founder of the coaching practice ExpressedLife.com, in addition to serving on the faculty of NYU Steinhardt, and being the co-founder of the NYC Vocal Studio.

The unchecked thoughts and beliefs are actually standing in the way of us just showing up.

It creates that feeling in your body too.

Catabolic energy and anabolic energy

if it's always someone else's approval, permission, or job to decide if you're good enough, then what a miserable experience that will be in your life.

Most artists want to perform at the highest level. But at each new level of success, we unlock a whole host of mindsets, stories, theories, and thoughts that we have to unpack and look at.

It's tolerance of really uncomfortable, painful feelings.

Walking through that fear is far less than continuing to live with it.

One of the things I learned about anxiety was that it's survivable. I always thought it was going to kill me.

Anxiety is Manageable, Survivable, and I can handle it.

Actors who have performance anxiety:

• Number one, go to your body.
• Ask: How am I feeling?
• Have a systematic way.
• What does this body, what does this brain need to feel the most connected to myself, to be free to do the work that I came here to do?

The clarity and the courage to look at, "who am I? Who do I want to be in the world? How do I contribute? What makes me feel alive?"

And for so many actors, it is their acting work. And so what am I willing to do? Or find a way to do so that I can put myself in the position to be in my zone of genius? Like, how am I willing to work on this?

Celebration and revelry of what you have the gift to do and to really like prioritize if there's something that makes you come alive.

Do you know how many people are walking around just feeling like shells of themselves?

The world needs more people who feel like themselves to connect to whatever they're doing.

We deserve to find a way to get to that place, free ourselves, and be in a position to do the work we came here to do.

Obsessive versus harmonious passions. And for many of us, we were kind of like taught and trained that the only way to succeed is to have an obsessive passion, and that is a way to succeed. And a lot of people find a lot of success that way. But there are a lot of other people who are much more fulfilled through a harmonious blend of our passions.

"I want to feel good."

We're not taught how to feel good or how to honor our feelings, or how to notice how even just notice how we feel.

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Surviving Slumps

I'm talking about not only slumps in your career but also emotional slumps.

"A slump can go on for days. We feel sluggish, unfocused and sometimes overwhelmed with feelings we can't sort out. We may not understand what is going on with us. Even our attempts to practice recovery or core work behaviors may not appear to work. We still don't feel emotionally, mentally, and spiritually good as we would like."

"Don't play yesterday's rehearsal."

When you're feeling shitty, you're trying to understandably recreate the feelings you felt so great about yesterday.

But it's kind of like eating. You can't eat for yesterday, and you can't eat for tomorrow. You can't breathe for yesterday, and you can't breathe for tomorrow. The only day you can eat and breathe and drink for is today.

When I am in a slump or negative space, the best thing I can do is accept it.

The Three A's: awareness, acceptance, and action.

Use your mind to govern your brain, to notice your behaviors.

It's better that you just accept:

• You're not going to get a lot done today
• You got so much done on Monday and Tuesday.
• You were operating at number ten, energy solving lots of number ten problems
• You're tired; you're burnt.

When I'm overwhelmed with feelings, I find the best tool is to stop.

Magic happens when you put a pen in your hand, and you write and allow those feelings to come out.

Don't try and live yesterday.

Stop. And try and be and get yourself to where you are at and go into that awareness. And acceptance helps you to get out of that slump faster.

"In a slump, we may find ourselves reverting instinctively to old patterns of thinking, feeling, and behaving, even when we know better. We may find ourselves obsessing, even when we know that what we're doing is obsessing and that it doesn't work."

Have you ever had a day where you're exhausted from thinking? It's such an emotional hangover.

But what can we do? I'm always about what I can do to help myself, transcend that slump, and transcend that time.

When I find myself reverting to an old pattern, I go through the steps that I've talked about before in these podcasts: Stop. Take a step back. Observe. Ask myself, "is this healthy for me or unhealthy for me?" And then make a choice to respond to it.

When you do it, you want to physically stop, and then you physically want to take a step back or adjust yourself in that seat.

Distance so you can ask yourself if your thoughts are healthy or if your actions are healthy or unhealthy. And then you can respond to it.

"A response is a reaction with a thought and a pause behind it."

"We may find ourselves looking frantically for other people to make us feel better the whole time, knowing that our happiness and our well-being does not lay with others."

My happiness comes from within.

My happiness is my choice.

Dr. Wayne Dyer has a great phrase. "I want to feel good."

Because when I feel good, I can give goodness to others. And I always feel that that is my purpose on this planet. My purpose on this planet is to give good to others.

"The other thing that when we are in a slump is that we may take things personally that are not our issues and reacting in ways we've learned all too well that does not work. Remember that when you're in a slump, it won't last forever. These periods are normal. Even necessary. They are. These are days to get through or, as I like to say, days to transcend. These are days to focus on core work behaviors, whether or not the rewards occur immediately. "

These are sometimes the days to let ourselves be and love ourselves as much as possible. Sometimes you need to give yourself a break mentally.

And sometimes, it's about taking the foot off the gas a bit.

"We don't have to be ashamed. No matter how long we have been doing core work, we don't have to unreasonably expect more from ourselves. We don't ever have to expect ourselves to live life perfectly."

When a plane is on autopilot, it's only on course 10% of the time. And then the other 90% of the time, it's trying to find the course.

Get through the slump, and it will end. "This too shall pass."

And that means for the good stuff as well. That's why living in the day is so important.

"Do something today that you one year from now will thank you for."

Understand that it's all part of the process if you're still in that slump and are still trying to get better mentally.

"Practice, one recovery in one small area, and we begin to climb uphill. Soon the slump will disappear. We can never judge where we will be tomorrow by where we are today."

Surviving slumps is so darn important because it can change at any time.

We must stay balanced because this is such an up and down business, and that's just the business part. We haven't even gotten to the work.

And when you find yourself in a slump, understand that it's not permanent.

You will get better. You will survive. This is survivable.

Take responsibility for your life.

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About Rick:

Rick first started acting in 1990 when he was cast as Tony in the long-running Off-Broadway hit Tony N' Tina's Wedding. He later made his Broadway debut in the Neil Simon comedy Proposals.

His first film role was in the 1996 short film The Dutch Master, which also starred a young Mira Sorvino. He recently appeared in Mank, directed by David Fincher.

In addition to numerous TV roles, including Friends, NCIS, and General Hospital.

Rick also does voice-over work for commercials and video games. Some of his more notable works include Civilization V, Halo 5: Guardians, Batman: Arkham Knight, The Darkness II, and Grand Theft Auto V. In 2010; he voiced Vito Scaletta, the main protagonist of Mafia II and its 2016 sequel, Mafia III.

He is the co-writer and star of the one-man touring show "Channelling The King."

"You need to believe in yourself that that's what you want for yourself."

Know your place on the set.

Professionalism:

• Show up
• Know what your job is
• You're bringing something that they need
• Know your worth
• Do it to the best of your ability

"The job of an actor is to know that you are enough."

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"If there is anything I've learned with the astounding amount of core work I've done, it's these three things: Give up living in the past. Be in the present. And don't allow yourself to project into the future."

It's so freaking simple, right?

And yet I find it so hard.

"Not even God can change the past."

The mistakes I've made and my regrets, in some ways, informed the person I am today.

I don't want to beat myself up for that anymore.

Try to find the compassion and to really look at it and "go, wow, you are really scared. You know you are really brave."

Compassion, but also understanding how much strength it took to get through those difficult moments and then using that strength to help you in your present moments when you get scared.

So if you're someone who likes to live in the past:

• Look at those times
• Go back and listen to Episode 102; What is Your Strength Story?
• Jot down and remind yourself of how resilient you are

Let's talk about the present.

What I find interesting about me, at least in being in the present, is how much I avoid it.

Use your mind to govern your brain.

"What if--? Peter, is that the present? Okay. What are you doing in the present? Okay. I'm brushing my teeth. Okay, well, let's be here and brush my teeth.

But what if--. Peter. You're not in the present. What are you doing now? Well, now I'm washing my face. Okay, so why don't you wash your face and just be here in the present? Okay. Wash my face. Wash my face. Wash my face. But what if--."

This is an old habit of mine, projecting into the future the "what ifing." And the fact of the matter is, that makes you cuckoo.

One of my dearest childhood friends taught me this lesson. And her name is Beth Singer. And I remember being in junior high school and always wanting to be the more popular kid. And yet I hung out with these three young girls. There was just something about Beth, and she always made me laugh. She was just hilarious. She loved fresh fruit as I did. She had the greatest cackle laugh. And I think back to that time that in that present moment when I was growing up with her, how could I ever have wanted to be with anybody else?

She passed away from liver cancer on Mother's Day, her 39th birthday.

I was lucky enough to visit her before she passed, and she said to her husband as I was leaving, "Pam and I had a nice visit."

And what kills me about that? It's such a simple thing. It was such a simple thing. I got to hang out with my childhood friend six months before she passed. And it was something in the present moment.

With the present moment. You're never going to get it back. And I'm never going to get my friend back. I have my memories of her, but I will never get her back.

And if there's anybody who has taught me about value, the present moment, and its Beth.

I encourage you to think:

1. From your past, what you're thinking of is those moments when you had so much strength and tenacity.
2. And in the present moment, what are those moments that you really were in the present that you would never give up?

So now I'm going to move to projecting into the future.

"Remain fluid."

When you're projecting into the future, what you're really trying to do is control.

Except the thing is that's not your job. Your job is to manage. Your job is to handle your life. Your job is not to control it.

The future will come. It will come faster than you even can imagine.

When I'm projecting into the future, I'm actually not preparing for it. When I'm projecting into the future, I'm trying to control it—but not doing what I need to do to create the future I really want to have.

"Do it, or it's never going to happen."

If you don't change this particular habit, the things you're trying to do for the future aren't going to happen.

Instead of projecting into the future, instead of trying to control the future, you need to be preparing for it by staying in the moment.

When projecting in the future, I start to go a little crazy because I'm trying to control the uncontrollable.

Instead of projecting into the future and what you want to have happen and maybe the fantasy of being whatever it is you want to be, ask yourself, Well, what do I need to do now to prepare for it?

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The Language of Letting Go:

"Have you ever been around people pleasers? They tend to be displeasing. Being around someone who is turning themselves inside out to please another is often irritating and anxiety producing."

"If you spot it, you got it."

So notice that if someone's irritating you, ask yourself, "what is it about that person that is irritating me? And is that also something that I do?"

"People pleasing is a behavior we may have adapted to survive in our family. We may not have been able to get the love and attention we deserved. We may not have been given permission to please ourselves, to trust ourselves, or to choose a course of action that demonstrated self-trust. People pleasing can be overt or covert. We may run around fussing over others, chattering a mile a minute, and when what we are really saying is, I hope I'm pleasing you. Or we may be covert, quietly going through life, making important decisions based on pleasing others."

If you grew up in a family that question when you do something that is good for you or will question your choices or will question your judgment.

That and those formidable, formidable years of your life will make you doubt yourself.

Anxiety is about not feeling that you can handle a situation.

The connection between people pleasing and anxiety

If you grew up, if your background was trying to stay out of trouble, if your background was trying to protect yourself, that is the fertile ground for which anxiety can then grow and flourish in your adult years, which is all about feeling that you cannot handle a situation that is in front of you.

Understand that we will never be given more than we can handle, but we will be given more than we can control.

Overt Energy Actors— "I hope you like me. I hope you like me. I hope you like me."

Or Covert--- we just will allow other people to make big life decisions for us. Because we feel that we don't have the right to make such a big choice in our lives.

Have you ever been in an audition where you walk into a room, and you just cannot stop talking?

This gives your power away as an actor.

But also, what it does is basically you're asking the casting director for validation.

And that is one hell of a responsibility to put on them. And one that I actually feel very uncomfortable doing because who the hell am I to do that for you? Because the person who needs to be doing it is you.

As a casting director, I want you to come into the room or into the session, and I want you to know that you are enough, that you can do the job that I have hired you for or brought you into the audition for. And I know that I'm in good hands.

Not the actor who keeps repeating, "like me." Or, "Hey, is this okay? Is this okay? Is this okay? I just want to make sure I'm doing this right. "

That makes me feel like you want me to do the work for you. You are unprepared, but also that you don't have the confidence in yourself to do this job or to do this audition.

No matter how talented you are, by the time you do that audition, I already have that seed in my mind.

"When in doubt, leave it out."

In other words, it's okay for me not to say so much.

"Taking other people's wants and needs into consideration is an important part of our relationships. We have a responsibility to friends, family and employers. We have a strong inner responsibility to be loving and caring. But people pleasing backfires. Not only do others get annoyed with us, we often get annoyed when our efforts to please do not work as we have planned."

"Expectations are premeditated resentments."

"The most comfortable people to be around are those who are considerate of others but ultimately please themselves."

As a casting director, the actors that I like to bring into casting sessions and the actors that I like to hire for jobs are those actors who I know that they are enough, who know that they can do that job, who I know have done the work. And so I know that I am in good hands.

Those actors who are not going to be focused on pleasing me, but focused on doing their job, which is to act.

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Humility and being humble

Where is that balance between showing off, which is what some of the best Actors do, but then in the promotion or acknowledging success, finding humbleness?

That emotion of humiliation:

• I've been at this so long, and how come I'm not making a living?
• Or How come things aren't working for me?
• I feel so humiliated.

"Humility was a tough concept for me to comprehend. Taught from childhood to place the wants and needs of others always above my own. I equated humility with taking care of others. And ignoring my own feelings and needs."

Being taught, you always think of the other person first.

And although that is a lovely concept, if you're always thinking of other people, you are drying up your own well.

The problem is you cannot give from a dry well.

You cannot give money from an empty pocketbook.

Because when you truly take care of yourself, you can truly take care of other people.

And it is only when you have a full well that you can truly give to others.

The problem is, is that when you're giving from a dry well, what happens is that resentment builds up.

"I have learned that true humility is not degrading. It doesn't require that I neglect my own needs. In fact, humility is not measured by how much I do for other people. But my willingness to do my part in my relationship with a power greater than myself and my understanding of that."

Say these words: I am willing, I am willing, I am willing, I am willing to show up. I am willing to do what is required of me.

I am willing to learn my lessons.

Humility is learned often when there has been maybe a touch of humiliation, or I'm feeling overwhelmed.

Actors, as artists, are to be vessels for the universe's work, to be vessels for the universe's work. But to do that, we need to be willing, and we need to have a certain level of humility about where we are at.

Responsibility is being willing.

By saying, "I'm willing to take responsibility. And what I'm saying I'm willing to take responsibility for is doing those things that will move me to that next level and learn that life lesson."

Take responsibility for the thoughts that go on in your head.

We're not responsible for our first thought. But we are responsible for our second.

And so when I say I'm willing and I'm in that place of humility, I can say, "Hey universe:

• I am willing.
• I am willing to step up,
• I am willing to dress up.
• I am willing to show up.
• I am willing to take responsibility for my life, happiness, and career.
• My health"

"As my understanding of humility becomes clear, I am better able to do my part. I take responsibility for myself and for others. And I also realize that it is better. That when I need strength, or I need help, that I go to that higher knowledge, that higher power, that energy that makes the sunshine, that that is a better use of my energy and my time."

"Part of learning humility is learning to contribute to my own well-being. Today, I will do something loving for myself that I might normally do for someone else."