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Speaker 1: Stream thinking. It's learning how to trust what is in

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your present place of right now. To get there is

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going to require some practice. Here's what I do each day.

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It's just one sheet of paper, just ten minutes of

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your time. Write about whatever is moving through your presence

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of right now. It can be about the dog, it

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can be about your trip home from work. It can

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be about anything. It can be up, it can be down,

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it can be upside down. Just write about what is

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moving through your presence of right now. It doesn't have

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to be negative, it doesn't have to be positive. It

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just has to be what is in your place of now,

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without any type of judgment. Stream thinking will sharpen your

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skills as a listener, as a communicator, and as an activator.

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It's learning how to trust your right now. This is

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stream thinking today. We're reading from January fourth, twenty twenty four.

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There's always something. I'm sure you've said it, your grandparents

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probably said it, your neighbors have said it a billion times.

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There's always some mom used to remind us all the

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time that just when you thought you're catching up or

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you're feeling better about life, there's always something. One study

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suggests it's because life is blessed with a constant desire

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for growth, the pursuit of meaning, the constant presence of challenge,

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and the perception of our limitations. Why are we always

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getting injured social comparisons pushing those limitations beyond our normal ability?

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Managing You're always something requires gratitude, appreciation. Yeah, you've got

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to appreciate those moments of now, be realistic with your goals,

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and practice mindfulness. You are not the person you were

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a year ago or even ten years ago. That's why

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you've got to slow it down and be present and

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be here in the now. There's always something. Can I

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give you a good idea? So I get this big,

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humongous lie between the city street and my house, that

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means I'm now in charge of fixing that underground leak

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losing lots and lots of water. Later on in that day,

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after discovering that leak out there between the street and

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my house, we discovered a huge leak in our twenty

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eight foot RV and it has done tremendous damage to

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the inside of this pristine RV that we have taken

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care of since the day we got it in twenty eighteen.

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Two leaks, two huge, very expensive problems. It's moments like this,

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and I'm often reminded that although this was written on

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January fourth, twenty twenty four, and it being twenty twenty five,

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is this a note to that future self saying there's

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always something? And what does it say to do? It

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says that you've got to manage your always something with gratitude, appreciation,

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and you've got to keep your mind on your goals

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through mindfulness and through every angle of saying, hey, look,

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even though there's always something, there's no reason to try

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to speed life up. So let me give you the

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follow up to these stories. For the water leak and

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for it to be fully taken care of where it

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stopped was nearly four weeks to get fixed. That's a

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lot of city water that I lost. As for the RV,

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six weeks to go through the insurance, to work with

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everybody who's going to readjust everything on the inside and

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redesign the living room as well as the kitchen and

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the dining room area because it was destroyed, the floor,

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the walls, everything. Six weeks. So do you see what

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I mean? Slow it down, because there's always something. I'm

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errol and that's stream thinking,