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What is going on spiritual dope? A number Have you probably already got this message probably already saw, some of you may have skimmed it and didn\'t finish it. I know that a meg, she might have, she might have finished reading it after I left she said she would. But uh, so here\'s the deal, I shot out an email. After this weekend, I had just gotten done reading a book titled, the tools, the tools is five tools to help you find courage, creativity, and willpower and inspire you to live life in forward motion. I honestly I don\'t even know why I have this book. I know that I picked it up because it was referenced in another book. And that\'s just kind of how I am I will be reading a book and somebody will reference some material and said book, and I\'ll go to Amazon, and I\'ll grab it because I trust that person\'s reference. Before we get to that, though, that really No, the other piece of this was I interviewed a guy named Jonathan Potter, he\'s going to be coming on at some point in the year, I\'ve got a number of awesome podcasts that have already been recorded for your listening pleasure. And what one of the things that he had was this story. And I put this in an email. And the line really starts like this, the line says doesn\'t ask doesn\'t get right, Jonathan been working for one of the top five global consulting corporations in the world. And he was a nervous new consultant was working with his mentor, and the economy was a shitstorm. And he goes, they had, they had to put a presentation in front of their customer. And it was $20 million. It\'s like, Wow, that\'s pretty, that\'s pretty, pretty bold. Right? And his, his mentor says to him, says, hey, you know, don\'t ask, don\'t get, and they ended up winning this contract. Right? Even though and yes, and on top of on top of the economy, being shitty, and all these other things. They weren\'t even doing a good job at that point. And the situation that they were in, according to the story. So, you know, I\'ve been thinking, I\'d been thinking about making the email that I sent out yesterday, holy based on that story. And I just hadn\'t done it yet. hadn\'t done it yet. And so I had been reading the story was reading the book, the tools. And in the tools, the first tool that they have in there, that\'s called it is called the reversal of desire, then essentially, though, what is teaching you is that how often you stay in your comfort zone. I think that if you\'ve been listening to this podcast, or if you\'ve been in these circles, for any period of time, everybody talks about, you got to get out of your comfort zone. So you\'ve got to get out of your comfort zone. Because there\'s there\'s no growth, really inside that comfort zone. If you stay in the comfort zone, you stay small. And you stay small, you don\'t you don\'t live the life that you truly desire. And oftentimes, you don\'t live the life that truly be fit you. And you\'re missing out on your opportunity to experience your own greatness. And I think that there\'s gonna there\'s a lot of turmoil when you whenever you say to people, talk to them about their greatness, Nate, they think that, you know, it means like superheroes, shit and some other stuff, but really just means to tap into your source inside of yourself and to, you know, kind of feel the thrill of living your life as it was intended. So they talk about, you know, living in your comfort zone, they talk about this pain wall. And they talk about the stories that we kind of make up or the things that we allow for ourselves to get into this pain wall, the sanding in between us. And everything that we truly kind of desire all of these limitless opportunities. And just made me think right just made me think about this notes. Maybe think about the email that I sent out this weekend that said, hey, doesn\'t ask us and get and also brought to mind of all the people that have been on the podcast, I\'ve got several people that have been on the podcast immediately. Right after they write off they\'ve been on no matter what they just start adding me to their email. They\'re

right this time. I\'m like, wow, I didn\'t I didn\'t even sign up to be on an email or I signed up so that you could tell your story on my blog. But okay, you know, so I\'m often impressed with their boldness. Right? To be so bold to just add me to your list we just met bro. Right? And I talked an email about these other people that they sent me emails all of the target, some people email upwards of five times a day. And they\'re still on my list. I still haven\'t unsubscribed. And the reason for that is that I always feel like there\'s something in there, I can read from there, you know, like, I take something away from their emails, I\'m like, wow, this person is pretty, pretty, pretty freakin bold. And they\'re gonna keep sending me emails, like, what are they selling? What are they? How are they selling? What kind of marketing are they using, so I, I enjoy that. But the truth of the matter is, is that I\'ve been holding myself back and I hadn\'t been emailing, and I wasn\'t facing my own pains, I was living in my own small circle. And so I faced it. And using this tool called the reversal desire, you know, it leveraging kind of that pain as the motivator and as a driving force to get myself into this land of limitless opportunity. And they kind of remind you in the story that they\'re telling and the tool, that there\'s going to be pain in your life. And we\'re not talking about doing it on purpose so that you\'re always in pain and pain is growth. That\'s not it. There\'s no there\'s going to be some type of pain that is associated initially with a lot of things. And the thing that comes to my mind is in sales and rejection. Right? still afraid of rejection? I don\'t want to be rejected. I don\'t want to come across as like an idiot, you know? And that and I called myself out in my own email, and I said, You know what this is this is me. I was like, I was afraid of rejection. I was afraid like, maybe one person drops off the list. Well, maybe one person says, I\'m not interested in what you\'re saying here. And I was like, that\'s, you know, that\'s me holding myself back. That\'s me being afraid. That\'s me. Not doing the work, whatever you whatever that is right. And so I did it. And a shout out this email. And it this is like a great weight lifted off of kind of facing your own fears. There is a great line from my girl, Florence Scovel Shinn, she has long since passed. And I\'m looking at it up right now this he Florence Scovel, Shinn, Airedale, Airedale, it\'s a type of dog. Let\'s see if I can spell it correctly. She talks about for me, I walk boldly up to the line, I walk boldly up to the line on my pathway and find it as a friendly Airedale. And what she\'s saying there\'s this very same, really the similar thing that we\'re talking about, like this email, or, you know, sometimes, sometimes your pain or sometimes your, whatever it is that you\'re afraid of. It looks larger from further away for some reason. And the closer that you get to it closer that you get to your pain, the smaller it becomes. Right, you start you start getting rid of the stories and you just you begin to realize that there\'s an outcome that you\'re looking for there\'s and if you can get past it, you can leave it or you can drop it. Right, I finally, it\'s like all those open tabs. I finally shut it down. I shut down this tab that had been open for so long. I felt lighter because of it. And this with Florence Scovel Shinn is saying to when she talks about, you know, walking up to your line and walk up to a friendly Airedale, which is some type of dog.

What. And I brought this, I brought all of this into the breathwork session that I did yesterday as well, working with the group that I\'ve been working with, we\'ve been working on, hey, what are you trying to create in your life? And what\'s stopping you from creating that and then pulling this tool into the prep work and leveraging it so super exciting, to be able to kind of put all these things that you\'re you\'re learning together? I know, that\'s what I\'ve been doing. I\'ve been pulling different modalities together, trying to assemble them in different ways, different tools for different people, and put it all together and you know, again, doesn\'t ask doesn\'t get so I sent out the email what was asking for? I was asking for people to go ahead and say, hey, if you\'ve been checking out this podcast if you\'ve been a part of this community, if you\'re a listener if you\'ve been a guest I love it if you could go ahead and if you could leave a review I said, Hey, you know this guy, Rick, Rick, silence teaches Rick was on contemplation. He said, Hey, host ask powerful questions that made me seriously reflect on why I do what I do. This made the show very helpful for his community. Or perhaps you\'re a longtime listener, and you have 1000 wisdom and had some moments of inspiration. And feel like you\'re part of the community like my boy, Jeremy Todd of the positive side podcast. He says, Hey, I needed this podcast, I cannot believe I found this podcast, I\'ve been looking for a podcast that is on a different level. This show gives me insight about life dreams, and what is my purpose? Thank you, Brandon, for this podcast. And so I set out how to do it, I can leave some of those links on this podcast as well. The kind of the key takeaways here, if you\'re listening, and you\'re still hanging out, is, you know, face some of your fears and face, face some of your pain and leverage that pain is the kind of catalyst and realize that that\'s just energy to write that\'s just energy shaped in the form of thinking, the way God I thought about wonderful entire wonder, Wonder Twin powers unite right in the shape of pain, energy in the shape of pain, and you can reshape and leverage that energy to help build you forward momentum to get yourself into the things that you actually want. And one of those things and oftentimes is asking the question, in the sales world, where I live, if you don\'t ask for the PEO, if you don\'t ask for that purchase order. If you don\'t ask for the sale, if I don\'t ask for these, then I might not get them. And whose fault is it then? Right? Whose fault is it then if somebody doesn\'t know what I\'m asking for because I don\'t voice it, then that\'s all me. That\'s my own fear of letting things get in my own way of what I actually want. Because I am afraid and, you know, it doesn\'t have to be that way. And once you kind of get through that, again, there\'s just like, it\'s a tremendous that\'s your greatness you, you get in touch with your greatness. It might sound scary, but you get in touch with your greatness. You feel powerful, you feel liberated. And you feel like you can achieve so much more after you get past some of those. So hopefully that\'s helpful for you check out the links on this podcast. If you\'d like to go leave some of your own reviews. Thank you for anybody who has been participating in the breathwork and has been having some just tremendous. It\'s been having a tremendous impact. I\'ve got a couple of great breathwork facilitators lined up for you one of them will be Neeraj Naik of the creator of the summer breathwork. I\'ve got getting I don\'t have Gittens last name in front of me but it\'s like Tom cough. Another amazing breathwork facilitator. He does breath work to work with trauma. And I\'ve got a couple others lined up for you too guys. I know yours already kind of getting by had to stop and give this update. But we do have some awesome stuff lined up for you stick around. It\'s going to be great.

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