Masterminded Express Show with your host mar Lennie Cruz and welcome, ladies and gentlemen,
Welcome to one more episode of Masterminded Experts with your host mar Lenny Cruise.
Thank you so much for joining me today. Like every single Sunday,
it is beautiful out there, so I hope you guys, as you're listening,
you're enjoying this wonderful day. Today we are speaking of the importance of
adjusting and evolving through life's ups and downs. Right, let's let's break that
down a little bit, the importance of evolving and adjusting, adjusting and evolving,
and the order of that, of course may change. You may have
to adjust first and then evolve and then grow. You may have to grow
first and then adjust right depending on what life throws at you, depending on
the situations and circumstances that led to that, depending upon the support or lack
of thereof that you may have, depending upon the energy, the times,
the people, places and things that surround you. You will have to of
course have a reaction. So for every action, there's a reaction, and
your reaction upon these times, these moments, these circumstances are very crucial,
are very important because they're going to determine how everything goes right, So it
is important for us to be able to adjust. What does adjust mean in
this particular scenario or situation, or meaning or purpose that we want to give
it, Adjusting to life's challenges, adjusting to lives changes. Change is inevorable
as part of our evolution, right as human species, as to human you
know, species that we are. We evolve, All species evolved. We
change, we morph into something different, into something else, We become something
else. Right, the humans that we were a thousand years ago are it's
not the same as those or the humans are the species or the beings that
we are today. Maybe physiologically we are, but emotionally psychologically we're not.
In many ways we're the same. In many ways we're different. And why
are we different? Because we're never the same. We're never the same.
You are not the same you that you were just five minutes ago, five
hours ago, five days ago. You're a different you, right, The
you that you are right this minute has a lot to do with what has
happened, what is happening, and the energy, the circumstances, the people,
places and things that surround you at that time. Right, So it
changes, it evolves. Change is ineverable. So if change is ineverable,
we have no choice but to adjust and adopt right survival of the fittest,
survival of those that are able to adjust and adapt to the current environment.
Because there's certain things that you cannot change. Those things that you can't change,
of course, work towards changing them to the best of your knowledge,
to the best of your ability, to the best angle or route or destination
or path that you can fathom. Right, But most things, or a
lot of things in our life, we are not able to change. A
lot of things in our life are the way they are, and we have
to adjust to them. We have to shift our life, our perception,
our perspective, our energy, our approach, our direction, our way of
thinking around them in order to provoke the best results for our lives. And
of course that's challenging. Many times you have to act fast right. Many
times you have to change patterns. In order for us to make that abrupt
change, we have to change our patterns. We have to to change our
habits, we have to change our lifestyle. We have to change the way
that we look at things, and that we have been looking at things for
a very long time. Change is hard. Why what makes change hard?
Because change is exciting at the same time, but it's hard because it requires
an abrupt shift. Most of the time, it requires that adjustment from our
part than many times we do not want to make. And that's because we
do not like the unknown. We don't know what's going to be on the
other side. We don't know what's going to happen next, and that unknown
is something that is not taken lightly or is not taking with open arms with
most or foremost humans, right, because we don't know. There's a posability
that may be good, but there's also a possibility that it may be not
so good. And that's the fear that we most of the time have and
carry as it pertains to change. However, we must look at the reality
of life that life does change. Time does change, people do change,
circumstances do change. We change as species, right, So we have to
keep that into consideration. And where we're talking about evolving through life's ups and
downs, we are talking about those things that are inevorable, those things that
you cannot do anything about. Those things. There is no point for you
to fight against a wall, to push against a wall that would be pushing
against a wall because you cannot change it. You have to dance around it.
You have to find a way to adjust to it to have it work
for you instead of you working for it, whatever that it may be,
or it taking you down or bringing you down. It requires thinking, It
requires introspection. It requires for you to know yourself. It requires for you
to understand and be realistic of where you are right now in your point of
life. Where are you right now in life? Are you going through a
very difficult time and you know in space of your life where you're suffering or
you're in pain? Are you understanding that this is just a season. But
what season are you? Are you in winter? Are you in spring?
Are you in summer? Are you in fall? Right? Jim Rohne,
who is one of oh my god, my favorite speak years of old times.
Of course he's not around us anymore, but he did leave his treasure
of information so we can enjoy. And there is so much that he has
to say about the different seasons of life, right about the evolution that we
go through as a human being from birth, from before birth, right right
from when we are at our mother's stummy, and from birth and then from
childhood to adulthood to already growing old of old age. It is a transition,
right, and every step of the way it is a transition. And
every phase, every transition has a different requirement, has a different mindset that
it needs for you to have, has a different skill set that you will
need in order to not only survive but thrive in that And within every single
phase there are ups and downs, right, And within every ups and downs,
there are ups and downs. I mean, it goes deep. The
rabbit hole goes deep. Okay, so let's go down that rabbit hole for
a minute and understand that every circumstance is a part of an unfolding event,
and that unfolding event in your life is a phase, and that phase is
a part of a particular area of your life or season, if you will,
of your life, and that particular season is not forever. It is
transition tory. It transitions, right, It revolves, but it all revolves
around your evolution, your growth, your change. It all does because everything
changes. We change, the earth change, the environment change, the energy
changes, the vibration changes, the people, places and things change that are
around us, right, And that culminates with who everything that happens culminates with
who you are today. So at the end of the day, when we
look back in retrospect in our lives and we see those troubling times, for
example, I can name the COVID situation in area and time and phase of
our life. I mean, we can all do that, right, because
COVID changed all of our lives. Literally, all the whole globe was changed
by this event. Life itself was changed by this event. So when we
look at it, I particularly when I look at it, I am here
speaking to you, right in front of you, in this space, in
this studio, in this particular business and project, because COVID happened to me,
like it happened to all of us, and my reaction to COVID was
creating this right. So therefore every aspect everything that happens to us in life
has an effect, and that effect has to do with how you manage it,
how you evolve. Who you become, like Jim Ron speaks about,
is not where you work, what you do, is who you are becoming
while you're doing what you do. Who are you becoming? Right, And
now I'm not talking about the little splashes here and there of the downfalls that
are momentary or the up that are momentary. Right, I'm talking about the
foundation. There is always a floor, a foundation laid out upon your life
in which things and circumstances bounce back up and down, up and down,
up and down. But if that foundation is firm, is strong with your
core values and ethics, that internal compass that I often talk about, then
yes you're going to follow, but you're gonna bounce back up depending upon that
compass, depending upon that foundation you build upon, depending upon the path that
you took while you decided, right, the decisions you made while evolving.
Because evolution is for everyone, whether we like it or not, changes for
everyone, whether we like it or not. Is what you do with That's
how you handle that, is what you do with the pain, the struggles,
the crushing moments of that change. Let's think for a second. Nature
has such a beautiful way of showing us life's truths. Right, Let's look
at the butterfly, for example, how the caterpillar turns into a butterfly in
all the stages in between. Do you imagine the pain that that caterpillar must
have gone through inside of that cocoon to come out as a beautiful butterfly.
Do you imagine the change, the transition, the pain, the struggles,
the the you know, eminent kind of cutthroat changes that that animal, that
insect have to go through in order to become literally a different animal, a
different being, right, and it happens right before our eyes. In nature.
Let's let's take a look at, for example, the chameleons. A
chameleon changes colors based on its environment to blend right. So we all as
species, we all have our own defense mechanism. We all have our own
good and bad and ups and downs, and things that will help us and
shield us, and things that would give us away and not help us so
much. So we have to know ourselves right, and not only as a
conglomerant as a human species, but we have to know ourselves individually. How
do we react to things? What is our pros and cons what is our
highs and lows? What is our good and bad? Because we know we
all have them. That person that points the finger and criticizes you may have
a lot more going on than you do. Right. It's a matter of
understanding where we are right now in life, what stages we are, what
we need for our next stage, or at least if you do not know
what's going on. Because at the end of the day, we don't know
exactly for sure what is next. We can only try to position ourselves in
such a way that what is next is better better. But that requires action,
that requires introspection, that requires understanding and knowledge, that requires planning right,
That requires to have a vision, to have a purpose, to have
a path, to have an angle, to have an internal compass. That
would be your foundation, your firm foundation. I thank god I have a
firm foundation upon the persistence that I have the deep, deeply rooted persistence,
perseverance, vision that I have that allows me to bounce back after the difficult
changes in my life. That I have seen the evidence in my life,
and so can you, and I'm sure so have you in your very own
way. How go back to those moments? How have you evolved in transition
from one phase of your life to another phase? And how have you evolved
and transitioned within that phase from the circumstances and the ups and downs that happen
in that phase. Because I assure you every level that you go, either
up or down, every single level is going to have its own challenges is
going to have its own set of ups and downs. This is a never
ending race to where to where to the destination you choose, because at the
end of the day, a lot of life that happens to us that we
have those things that we have no control over. What we do have control
over is what direction we take that towards right, how we evolve and adjust
to that. I'm not talking to him speaking about those times where you do
cry, where you do feel pain, where you do touch. You know,
just with your vision and your eyes, you touch and you envision that
rose and you touch it, and you go and you feel the thorns.
Just the other day, I was walking and I have a tendency to pick
flowers and pick a flower and just give it to my daughter when I'm outside
with her. And I was looking at a beautiful red rose and I wanted
to go ahead and pick it for her. And while I was picking it,
I came by and I felt a thorn. I was like ouch.
Right Immediately, for some reason, it reminded me a life of life itself,
where there's so much beauty, there's so much depth and color and just
so much richness involved in life. It's self. But there are thorns,
and at the end of the day, that thorn that you came across was
something or someone else's protection. Right, If you look at it that way,
that flower is a living being, is a thing. It's a living
being, right. It lives, it grows, and it wants to continue
to live. And since it wants to continue to live, it's protection mechanism
is that thorn. So when you go through life and you reach certain certain
stop, certain rocks on the way, certain certain thorn, certain pains,
you can also consider and start to think about where is that thorn coming from?
Is that a protection mechanism put in place by someone else or something else?
Right? How can I protect myself from that protection mechanism of that thing
or person? How am I putting my you know, kind of boundaries,
setting my boundaries in such a way where I don't close myself completely to the
beauty of life, but I don't allow other people's thorns or other places and
things thorns to affect me, to hurt me. How do I put that
in place? Some people are going to be upset by that. Some people
are going to be bothered, But at the end of the day, you
have to do what is right for you without hurting anyone. You have to
do what is right for you right, So you protect yourself. You protect
your life, You protect your energy, You protect your vibration, you protect
your ideas, you protect your adjustment to life, because as life is changing,
life will show you where is danger either by pain through pain. Right.
That is, ladies and gentlemen, the purpose a pain. When we
have a toothache and it hurts, what do we have to do? Go
to the dentist. That means that our body is telling us listen, pay
attention, get that solved. Right. The same thing with life itself,
same thing with life itself. Pain is a way, discomfort is a way.
Challenges are a way of life telling you. We need to pay attention
to this. So do pay attention to it in your own way, with
your own resources, the best way you can, the best way you can,
because at the end of the day, that is all we can do.
We can do our best, and when you're able to expand upon that
best, do so with the knowledge, information, ability resources that you have
at hand at the moment that you need to use it. That's what you
use. Use that plethora of information and data to solve those things for the
next one to come, because there were for sure be others to be replaced.
Right, That's what life is about. Life is about going through those
challenges so we can grow. And we never stop growing. We never stop
growing. We stop growing physically at certain point, right, But we don't
stop growing as species, as humans, we don't stop evolving, we don't
stop learning discovering. There's so much of earth, of people, of life
itself that we still have to discover, and we're seeing that with chat GPT
for example. Right, there's a lot that we're discovering, and there's a
lot that's going to change drastically the way that life is forever right, and
the decisions that are made now will drastically affect how that looks like in the
very very near future. And we are going to be faced with having to
adjust, having to evolve, and some of that is going to be abrupt,
especially in how fast chat GPT, for example, is speaking of that
particular example, how fast chat GPT is growing, evolving, changing, shifting
life itself. That, ladies and gentlemen, is going to be an abrupt
awakening, an abrupt awakening. It could be good and it could be not
so good, or it could be any great, anything in the middle.
But what I do know and what we all do know, is that it
is going to be an abrupt change. So we have to learn to adjust
and evolve through lives ups and downs in such a way that it would do
more good than bad because you can't help. But in that process to get
hurt a little bit. Right, there is no true battle, true battle.
When you're in a battle field, you get hurt, you get punched,
sometimes you get knocked down, sometimes you get you scrape your leg.
Right, in a true battle field, you get down and dirty. But
what's important is that you prevail. You continue, You have the perseverance,
You are able to adjust life's changes accordingly, and if you don't, life
has a particular way of forcing you to. COVID was that example for me,
particularly for example, right I knew before COVID, Right before COVID,
I knew I felt I needed a change. I wasn't comfortable, I wasn't
happy where I was doing. I needed a change, And that was in
my heart, that was in my soul at that time. Though I was
a new mom, I was a single mom of a then one year old
or maybe months old when COVID happened, Life said, God said, I
told you so. You didn't change when you felt it, So now you
have no choice but to change so many times in order to If we want
to avoid that abruptness, then we would change with the time times a little
lot of time in a more nicer, more gentler way. I'm not going
to say that it is all going to be roses, but it does not
have to be as abrupt and we are essentially the ones to choose that.
Right. It's like right now in time and history where we have not seen
anything like what we're living right now. This is an opportunity to grow,
This is an opportunity to expand, this is an opportunity to change, to
shift, to evolve with the current times, keeping your foundation, keeping your
internal compass, and checking that out from time to time, checking back to
that. Right, do I still believe in this? Do I still believe
in that? Do I still stand back for that? Right? Are those
causes still strong to my soul and my heart? Because that may change now.
When you have a steady foundation, you can change in life circumstances and
adjust to life changes in such a way that you are keeping your core intact,
and you are allowing life to take you where it must with your perception,
with your perspective, with your choice of how you want to perceive and
see that, and dance with that if you will, right, because we
are all in this beautiful dance of life, and in that dance we often
get hurt and fall, and we often do a misstep, and we often
forget our next step and forget the song or the dance or the rhythm.
But life teaches us the rhythm of the current dance, and we have to
dance with that. We have to go with the flow with that. Always
remember the past, what the past has taught us, right, always understanding
that, yes, we are creatures of habit and we do have flaws,
and we are going to feel pain, and we are going to have difficulty,
and that's a part of life, is inevitable. We grow through these
times. They're not fun, I can tell you that much. I've been
through them myself, and I'm going through some of myself. They're not fun,
but they're roller coasters that at the end of the day will build that
resilient muscle, right, that anti fragility, which is that extra omph that
muscle that we are strengthening through these evolutions, if you will. So,
with that being said, thank you so much for joining me today and every
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