Love Your Life - L,L,&L W/ Glenn Ambrose

Love the life you live and live the life you love. Spoken by Bob Marley and Muddy Waters. I dive into this concept, what it means, and how to integrate it into your daily life.

Streamed live on Monday, May 11th.

Transcript

Welcome to Life Lessons and Laughter with your host, Glenn Ambrose. Hello, Welcome to the show, Everybody. Welcome to Life Lessons and Laughter. With some guy named Glenn Ambrose. So here we are, Here we are, And I'm back to a sleeveless shirt today, It's hot, Man. It's hot and in the D. R. Anywho, So speaking of living in the D. R. , I'm talking about loving your life. So I was kind of contemplating some ideas and then. A few minutes later, I don't know, Shortly after, Somehow I ended up clicking on some. Some little video, And it was Greg Allman being interviewed, And he was he was talking about his life. And he said, He said, Love the life you live and live the life you love. And who was that? He was quoting Muddy Waters, I believe. But he was saying that he he loves his life and he loves the way he lives it. And. You know, It that just struck me, Of course, I started contemplating it a little bit and I was like, Wow, That's such a good. That's such a good. Mantra to life, You know, You know. Bear with me for one moment, Peeps. I got to pause this for a second. OK, I am back. I, I have a dog with an injured paw, So I have to pick her up and carry her around. She wanted I think she wanted off the couch. That's tough, Man. You don't know what a dog wants, Right? Anywho. So, Yeah, I was thinking that this was such a beautiful mantra on how to live your life. And I was like, There's my podcast. So. You know, Oftentimes our attention gets drawn to what we don't have, What we want. And and it's fine to walk towards those things, Right. But one of the biggest problems in how we live our lives. And why we don't get what we want. Why sometimes it takes so long to get what we want. All this talk about manifesting and and. You know, Most most people know that it the way it's taught, It doesn't work very consistently or well. It's because we're constantly reinforcing the lack. When when we're in a want, When when we're in the space of seeking something and wanting something, Basically what we're doing is we're ruminating in the energy of not having it. So we're in the energy of not having it. Which the universe matches. So we just don't have it. And then we try to do all these things because, You know, Just. You know, Everything other than changing our vibration. So. You know, We've we've heard it. Most people have heard it said before. That if you're grateful for what you have, More things to be grateful for comes in. Right. And this is basically what I'm talking about. It's just another way of coming at it. Love your life like. You know, I mean, Most people, Even when depressed. If they take a step back from everything that they don't like. They can find some things to be grateful for. You know, Even if it's just the fact that you're alive, So it's possible that things could change. OK, Well, There you go, Because if you're not, They can't. So. You know, And most people, Most people nowadays have a roof over their head. Most people eat. Fairly consistently, So it's you know, There's there's there's many things for us to be grateful for. And if we focus on those things, It's like, You know, It's it's interesting because the subconscious little hook is we think that. If we're grateful for what we have, That means that we're not going to get anything more or we're not going to achieve anything else because like we confuse gratitude with complacency. Why? Well, Because we've basically been taught that through conditioning, Through society, Our entire lives. You know, We've been taught that like you, You have to constantly push yourself to keep to to strive forward and you can't be complacent where you are. You can't be happy. Otherwise, You won't have that suffering to drive you towards other levels. And and it simply doesn't have to work that way. I mean, I'm not saying that it can't work that way, Or sometimes it doesn't work that way. I'm saying that, You know, If we're talking about a general rule about how things work, That ain't it. It's not it because it doesn't always work. If suffering drove us to achieve whatever we want to achieve, Then everybody would be achieving everything. Right. I mean, Look around. Are most people suffering in one way, Shape or form? Yeah, They are. There's tremendous suffering going on on this planet, You know, And so therefore, If suffering induced getting what you want, Then everybody would be getting what they want. And then once they got what they want, Their suffering would stop. Because, You know, That that's the other thing it implies. When I get what I want, Then I'll be happy. Right. None of this. None of that is true. None of that. None of it works that way. It's all lie, Lie, Lie, Lie, Lie. Misconception, Misconception, Misconception, Misconception. You know, We're driven by, You know, Our behaviors and the way we act are conditioned by punishment growing up, You know, Our parents, Our teachers, Our principal, The police, Everybody in our lives. If you're doing things that other people don't want you to do, Then they punish you to instill suffering in you. What's the point of punishment? It's to make somebody suffer so much that they start behaving the way you want them to. That's the idea behind punishment. Curtailing people's negative behavior, Which we found out doesn't actually work because it doesn't address the core reason why people are. I don't even like saying misbehaving because most of the time it's not misbehaving, Like not paying attention in class is not misbehaving. Not paying attention to something you don't care about. Is is not a flaw. As a human being. Although it's treated that way. But, You know, We found out that that negative reinforcement does not change negative behavior on the long term because it never addresses the issue. I've got podcasts on that, So I'm not going to get into it. But we've been raised that that suffering pushes us to be. Who we want to be. And it's not it doesn't work. Otherwise, Like I said, Everybody would be who they wanted to be and have everything that they wanted to have and they'd be happy. And, You know, Even a lot of people like, Let's say, Look, Look at the people. This is such a beautiful time in human history. Look at all the people who have hit new levels of of financial success, Fame. Prestige, All these levels to levels that like we didn't even know existed before. You know where you can't even there's people who can't go anywhere on planet Earth almost. Because people will swarm them, You know, Like everybody on Earth knows who they are just about. It's insane, The levels. And once they get there and they think that they're going to be happy, Lots of people are finding out they're going, Oh, My God, This isn't it. I'm still not happy. So getting what you want doesn't it doesn't make you happy. It can be an expression of your happiness. And I think we should I think we are capable of achieving whatever we want to achieve. And I think that that's a wonderful thing. So I'm not saying that we should just sit around and not do anything. It's just it's the how and the why of it. That's important. It's not what we're doing. Wanting, You know, Having this inner desire to fulfill anything in your life, A dream, An accomplishment, Whatever. When you have that inner drive to do that, This yearning to do that. To me, That's a that's a God given. Heartfelt desire, And why would we have heartfelt desires if we weren't able to accomplish them? That kind of seems mean. And I don't think God's mean. So. So I think we can do all these things. We just need to get clearer on what we're doing. And the beauty of it is, You know, To me, What's so cool is like when we're talking about expanding and being the best version of ourselves and maybe even taking that mentality over to the other side and saying, Wow, I'm expanding my soul as I stretch and grow and become more of myself. My soul is expanding. I'm becoming my soul is becoming a fuller version of itself. It's just and more capable. And wow, You know, So it even like we get benefits after this life from the work that we do here. And it's like, Wow, You know, And yeah, That, You know, I think that that's probably true. However, What's so cool about it is that whenever. Whenever we do something here on Earth. That is beneficial towards us and to other people. Sure, It could expand our soul. Will it does it? I don't know for sure. I'm not on the other side right now. I would probably say yes. But even if it didn't, Who cares? Like we. We get to experience the joy of it here and now. That's the beauty of of living the right way is that your life enhances now, That's how you know, Like. Think, You know, I always think logically, Like because it's so not logically, Because I like to think logically, Logically, Because if you look at the entire universe, There's an extreme logic to it. There's it's highly intelligent. You know, Like the distance between the sun and the earth is specific. Well, It's mathematical. It's logical, Like logic says that if the sun was closer to the earth, Then the earth would burn up and then there wouldn't be any life. So we shouldn't do that if we want life here. OK, And then if it was too far, Then it would be too cold and we wouldn't have life here. OK, So it's so it's logical for the sun to be the right distance from the earth. Just makes mathematical sense. It's logical. So. The whole universe is designed and runs through. Intelligent, Logical thinking, It makes sense once we understand it, Of course. There's the chaos theory, So if we're too close to it doesn't make sense, But if we back up, Then it makes sense like, Oh, And then once it makes sense, It's logical. So. Logic is. Is important, So what sense does it make for us or for the intelligence that that is out there? It's pretty obvious that it wants us doing good things. For ourselves and for others, Why? Because we feel good. So if you have this insanely intelligent. Thing, You know, That some people call God that designs this entire universe and has everything at perfect precision. Now, Why would it have you experience? Joy. From doing good things for yourself and others. Because it wants you to continue that. It's like it's like it's feeding you breadcrumbs. It's like when you do something that is in alignment with yourself and or the universe. It feels good. There's pleasure is when you take a deep breath and feel the oxygen in your chest, If you put your attention there and you pay attention, There's a pleasurable feeling inside your chest. Why? Because you just fulfilled the need of the body. It needs oxygen and you just gave it some. So there's this pleasure. Why do you experience that pleasure? Because that's your breadcrumb. Yes, Breathing is good. So so well, If you pay close enough attention, You'll feel the sensation of pleasure when you breathe. Therefore, You know, Breathing is pleasurable. Right, So everything is set up like that and real pleasure, You know, Not. You know, I just saw this little clip. Somebody somebody made a nice comment on my YouTube channel and I I read it and then this video started playing and it was about. It was talking about how. If you do something good, What was it? It was. Oh, That it was Bashar talking about. Doing something pleasurable, Following your highest excitement in life, Right, We're supposed to fall, Follow our excitement in life. And somebody asked, They said, Well, What if hurting other people is your is your greatest excitement in life? And he said, It's not. It can't be hurting somebody out, What what? Why would hurting somebody be your greatest excitement if you think hurting somebody else is your greatest excitement, Then you're confused on what excitement is. You don't understand what we're talking about. Because it can't be you, Why would you want to hurt somebody else unless it was out of some version of fear? Right, Like unless there was there was some negative thing pushing you towards that, Why would that make you feel good? It wouldn't. Right. So. This is what I'm talking about, Like the when we do something good, Don't be silly about it and go, Oh, Well, I'm sorry, I shouldn't say that. I was a little rude. Please try to understand it realistically. Hurting other people and doing bad things that that doesn't that that's not an actual source of pleasure for anybody. It's not it can be confused for pleasure. For some people that are extremely misguided and off and not centered and blah, Blah, Blah, Blah, Blah, You know, For for many different reasons, Usually trauma based, But but in reality. The only thing that brings us pleasure and joy and feeling good is love, A version of love. That's how we feel good. You know, So. And anything anything other than that is is misguided. So. So why would why would the this intelligence that is, You know, Give us breadcrumbs by having us experience things that we like and feel joy and pleasure and all this stuff if it didn't want us going in that direction? That that makes no sense. It makes no sense for us to experience pleasure or joy, The things that would hurt us. It makes no sense for us to do things that are good for ourselves, Good for our soul, Good for our self right here, Right now, And not experience pleasure and joy, Because how would we know? You know, Like when I'm trying to understand how to me, It's pretty obvious that that that there's a loving force out there that created everything. So when I want to make sense of something, I just go, OK, I just imagine myself creating a world for my son, Whom I love. And I go, OK, Would I create a world like that for my son? And if the answer is no, Then it is not how the world works. I would not make my son suffer. If I could create a magical world for him where I just designed the whole thing, I would not make him suffer and struggle. And and not experience any pleasure. In his life, In order to advance his soul on the other side. That's foolish. Because how would he know that he was even doing the right thing? He's over here suffering and all this stuff and and all the time he's doing the right thing, But he doesn't know he's doing the right thing, Like what a cruel game, You know. So we experience the benefits right here on Earth is my point. And we experience them on the other side, Too, I believe. But how do we know when we're doing the right thing is because we're experiencing it, We're experiencing joy, Pleasure. So if you take your life right now, No matter what there is that you don't want in it or or no matter what there is that you want, That you don't have yet, Like, And you just push all that to the side for one moment and just. Just ruminate on all the things that you have. All the things that you love about your life. You're going to feel better. And you're going to feel gratitude. You know, One of one of the very interesting examples of. This or at least this, In my mind, Was. Was. When I was. When my son was young, You know, I didn't have any custody rights. Because of a mistake I made very early on, But I didn't have any custody rights, My ex-wife had them all and. She was difficult to deal with. And I ended up seeing my son four or five days a week for 10 years because she wanted to go back to school. And work part time, So she needed a babysitter. So I rearranged my work schedule so I could be there all the time that she had class and all this stuff. And then once one school started for her, I went and got it locked in as my visitation rights because I knew it was going to get yanked as soon as she was done school. So, You know, That was a gift from God where I got to see my son. But four or five days a week for 10 years or close to it, Which was wonderful. But he only slept over Friday nights. Right. So when I say four or five days a week, I don't mean all day. You know, And of course he had school. But but what I mean is. I don't remember exactly three, Four hours, Maybe maybe five. I don't know. Somewhere around there per day. And then one sleepover on Friday nights. So he would like I was with him a lot, But I could move my schedule around to where I basically when I was with him, It was me and him time. You know, I had enough time when I wasn't with him to, Of course, Go to work, But also go grocery shopping and run errands and do stuff like this. When I wasn't with him. So that when I was with him, It was all about him. Right. And it was difficult. A lot of that now, Don't get me wrong, I really enjoyed it. I enjoyed it quite a bit, Like a lot. However, There was always this part of me that was like. You know, I wish he could just be with me all the time, You know, Because I knew the his his home life wasn't the best. So I really wished he could be with me. Right. And then I go and end up getting custody. He moves in with me. Right. First day in court, He comes home with me. I have full decision making capabilities, Placement, Everything. So now it's a it's a 180. She had 100 percent control. Now all of a sudden I do. Right. And he's with me 24 seven. She steps out of his life. Now, All of a sudden, I have to get him up every morning. I have to put him to bed every night. I have to make every meal. It's not just three or four hours of visitation every day. It's 24 seven all the time. With never a break. And it was a big adjustment. And he and I had a good, You know, Wonderful relationship when he was younger. And at that time, It was a big dramatic shift because. Now I'm more stressed out. We're trying to figure out our relationship. Everything's different. We both had this idea that everything was going to be a utopia when he moves in with me. And now all of a sudden I'm stressed out all the time and trying to navigate all this stuff and feeling overwhelmed. And we'd butt heads sometimes, You know, And it wasn't as smooth as I think we both envisioned it. So there was times during that period where I was like thinking back and I was like, Oh, My God, Like, I mean, Don't don't get me wrong. I never wanted to go back to the way it was. I loved having him in my house all the time. Like I knew that's what I always wanted. And I was very happy to have that. And I never second guessed it for a moment. I never, Never wanted it to be different. I loved that he was with me. However, There were times when I was stressed out, When I sat down and thought about it and I went. Man, I had it made before. As far as less stress and less things to do and a more manageable. Life system. You know, When when I had much more freedom, I didn't have to think things through so much. It was more laid back. Like I said, Did that change my mind? Never changed my mind like I was I was still glad he was with me, But I recognized in the past that I had it pretty easy. You know, And I've never looked for an easy life. I don't you know, That's not my goal. My goal is a full life and and and a happy life and. Living it to the best of my ability. So I never wished it was different, But I did recognize and said, Wow, You know what? Maybe I should have been a little bit more grateful for what I had back then. And this is my point is, You know, That's my example of this. And I think we all have an example like that where. You know, We we things were pretty good and we just didn't recognize it. Well, That's that's most of life, You know, And I recognized it quite a bit. Like it's not so much like I don't want to give you guys the wrong. Interpretation here, You know, Like it's. I've experienced quite a bit of gratitude for my life for the last 22 years in all different ways, Shapes and forms, But not always. Like, You know, I go through my ups and downs just like everybody. And when I'm when I'm. Where I should be between my ears and in my heart. I'm very grateful. Sometimes I veer off of that sometimes. That's all I mean. So. This podcast, What I'm talking about doing right now is just harping on loving your life as it is, Loving it, Just loving every everything you like about it. And at some point, You might even be able to get to the to the stage where you're loving things that. You're not even too excited about like actually seeing the value in some of the difficulties. You know, When you get to that stage, That's really when you're in a gratitude when you're in a gratitude beginning stages, You're just like, Oh, Wow. You know, Oh, I I love that. I live in the mountains of the D. R. And I'm surrounded by nature and it's peaceful. Oh, I love that, You know. And then once you get further, Deeper into gratitude. And you're actually living it. Not just contemplating it for a few minutes and then going back to your busy day. But when you're living in that vibration of gratitude. All of a sudden you start looking back and you're going, You know, I'll use my example of the the stuff with my son. You know, I can look back and go, Wow. You know, Like his mother was my best teacher. Wow, Thank God I went through all that. Look at all the stuff. That I've been able to teach all the help that I've been able to give all these other people because of the extremity of my suffering. And the difficulties that I went through. I was forced to figure out how to manage them, You know, When I would I'd get overwhelmed sometimes and I'd be like, You know, With my son's mother and I'd be like, If I can't figure out how to deal with her, How is he going to? How am I going to help him deal with her? If I can't deal with her, You know, And it would get that self-pity out of the way and then I'd be able to lock back on and stuff. But you know, So now like when I'm and now it's beautiful because like, I don't know if you guys can hear it in my voice, But I have no resentments towards her. Like I, You know, I when I'm talking about her to be honest with you. I don't really like talking about her too much because because I have no resentment towards her and I don't I don't like talking about her in a negative way. She's just a really good example sometimes of my personal life and the things that I went through and those I use as teaching tools for others, You know, But so people know that I've actually been through it and can relate. So that's why I still do it sometime. But hopefully you can tell just in my energy that I have no resentments towards her. I have no ill will. I wish her the best. Completely, You know, Like it's it is what it is man. We went through what we went through and it was hard as hell. I'm sure it's no picnic for her either. So we went through it and we learned well, I learned and I grew through it and I became a better version of myself because of it and I'm grateful for that. Would I go sign up for it again next time? Probably not didn't really enjoy it that much. But I am grateful for it, You know, Because it there's no way I could have become the version of myself that I am today if it wasn't for her. There's just no way so, You know, I'm grateful for it. And this is you know, That's when we hit that another that next level of gratitude. When we're not only grateful for the things that we have and that we enjoy and that we've enjoyed but we're also grateful for the challenges and the struggles because we understand that it helped shape us into who we are. So experiences the gratitude and live in that gratitude really love your life. And emanate from that vibration and then from there you go on to the second part of that saying, You know, Is love the life you live and live the life you love. So first you love the life you live love the life you're living love it love it feel it experience it practice gratitude for it. And then from there you can go out living the life that you love continue feeding what you love continue expressing what you love. Continue creating what you love and sharing it with the world. Whatever that is, You know, It could be art. It could be creating a business. It could be getting a new job. It could be growing plants. It could be volunteering. It could be helping others in some other way like whatever man, Whatever ever when you look at life and you go. Wow, Man a life that includes that would be amazing. Good. Go do that. Go do that. You know, Like I've talked about this before like people people think I like moving and I don't and and when some some friends were helping me move, They're like, Oh, Yeah, Glenn likes moving and I overheard him. I'm like, No, I don't and they're like, Well, Why do you move? So much. And you know, It was just such a profound question because it got me to understand myself better and and maybe help other people understand this aspect better. It's like I can't I if I'm sitting in in my house and there's I'm experiencing things that I don't like like at this point. I had my business space in Rhode Island. And it was on a main drag which was good for business, But not good for a house and Matteo and I lived upstairs and the business was downstairs. So it was a beautiful setup and I was so grateful for it. But but after a while living on that Main Street, It was loud and I like peace, You know, My home is my safe haven like I like quiet and stillness and and peace and you know, And it wasn't there and then sometime there was a gas station next door and sometimes they'd fill up the gas station the gas at the gas station. Those big trucks would come in at 3 in the morning or something and fill them up and I'm like, Oh my God. So after a while when it came time to downsize my business not to shrink it but to get rid of some of the things that I was doing that I wasn't really enjoying and do more of what I actually did enjoy which is a version of what we're talking about already. Then I stopped looking around and I wanted a dog to that was part of it and I started looking around for another place and I find a place where I can have a dog. I can it's much more quiet. It was a it was a I think it was seven acre horse farm. You know, So I'm out in nature. There's a pond across the street. I can go kayaking. I can have a dog. There's woods that I can go for a walk behind my house. It was just such a better setup that fit me and what I enjoy more like once I found that I couldn't not move. You know, And and when I'm sitting in a situation that I don't like I can't just sit there and not like it. Like I don't to me this seems obvious because it's just who I am and it's how I've always lived my life and I understand that a lot of people aren't like this. So like if I don't like my environment I look and I try to figure out how to change it or make it better or get myself into an environment that I do like. That's just what I do a lot of people. I guess just settle. I'm not exactly sure what they do. I mean. I mean it is a version of settling you just kind of go. Well, You know, I guess this is as good as it gets or something. I guess I don't know. I don't think like that. So nor do I want to so I don't follow it, You know, Like I just look at it and I go do I want to be like that? It's like no. Okay, And I push it aside. So I'm not going to spend a lot of time contemplating what I don't want. But I I just don't do that. I just don't I don't settle. I don't just go. Oh, Well. You know, I look for a way to make it better. So then when I find it, I can't not leap. I can't not move. I have to move because otherwise I'd just be sitting there not liking where I was and not doing anything to change it. So, You know, My son's mantra lately is if you're not. What is it? If you're not changing it, You're choosing it. That's my son's mantra right now, Which is beautiful and it's working very well for him. And that's how I am. If I'm not changing it, If there's something that I don't like and I'm not putting in the energy to change it, Then I'm choosing it. So. I would rather choose something. I think I would enjoy more. So you just do that lean in that direction, Put some energy towards it to, You know, Live the life you love. If you would love living out in nature, Then go figure out how to live in nature. Like it's not it's not impossible, You know, One of my pet peeves is is these people who own, You know, 300, 000, 400, 000, 500, 000 dollar homes, If not more. And you know, And they're and and they post a picture on social media of of this little cabin on this little land plot of land in the woods and go, Oh, Oh, This is my dream. This is all I want. I just want to live simply. Well, Then go do it like that little cabin that you just posted and the land cost about a hundred and fifty grand like you could sell your house pocket to 300 grand and live out your dream like now. Oh, If I could only live simply, Yeah, If you could only all you're stuck with this $500, 000 house. If you could only just somehow figure out a way to have one, That's a hundred and fifty grand. Oh, It ain't easy being you. People want to live simply and then they live complicated and they think simple is hard. It's it's not it's simple is simple. That's why they call it simple. Sometimes it can be a little bit difficult to get there to break all all you got to do is break out of your current paradigm in which you think that that's the hardest part. The actual doing of it is much easier. But you know, That's one example. So if you if you love living in nature, Then live in nature, You know, Live the life you love. If you've always wanted to have a garden have a garden. Well, I don't have any land. Okay, Have an indoor garden like we can do it nowadays. We can plant things and put them on our windowsills and have things that are designed to hold them. Start making your own herbs. Then you can have a tomato plant out on the porch or something or whatever just do whatever brings you joy. Whatever you love do that. And you can do it because that's why you love it. Like some people love teaching children. And I understand why like from a distance like I get the concept of how wonderful that is. I could never do it. I would not love that. It's right. So there's my point is is there's different people love different things. It's supposed to be that way. Not only because we're supposed to be individuals, But if you love something you're supposed to have that included in your life. That's why you love it. You know, Lots of people try to figure out like when I when I work with, You know, High school kids and college kids trying to figure out what they want to do with their lives. It's like it's so interesting to me like how disconnected from themselves that they are. At first, You know, So a lot of times my job is reconnecting them to themselves because they're just I don't know what I want to do with my life. I don't know what I want to do and it's all this external stuff and it has to do with money and how many jobs there are and what their junior high teacher said to them and what their parents had said to them and what's going to create a happy life and all this stuff and it has nothing to do with them who they are as a person. You know, That's something that school strips does a pretty good job at stripping most people of you know, Some people some people fit into the school system and can Thrive in it, You know. I don't know if I would say. 50% now I would say less I would say less people Thrive in a school system, Maybe 30% 33% Thrive in a school system and then the other you know to get it up to 50 60% of kids that are functional in a you know, Typical school system. They're just not suffering so much where it negatively affects them. They can kind of maintain, You know, Then you've got the rest that are just it just sucks the life right out of them. But but it does confuse people over what they should be doing because they don't follow their inner guidance system. You know that guidance system that I was talking about earlier like those breadcrumbs that you know. Oh, How do I know what I'm supposed to do? Well, You like what feels good. What do you enjoy you and that's why that's why you enjoy it. You know, We think if we do something then we enjoy it or something like I don't even I don't think anybody really slows down to think about it to see how lack of logic. There truly is to thinking of it any other way. The only way that makes sense is if you like something. The reason you like it is because it's what you're supposed to be doing. That's really the only logical reason any other way of thinking is just it just doesn't make any sense. It's like, Oh, Okay. I'm supposed when I like something that doesn't mean anything. Okay, Then why like what's the point? There's nothing on this planet that has no point. Everything has a purpose. Everything has a reason for existing except you. You have no reason for existing. What you like what you dislike just doesn't mean anything. Then why do you like things and not like things? Why isn't everything just neutral if that were the case? Right? So when we have desires when we have things that like that's our that's our breadcrumb system. That's that's inching us towards what we want. Now, We can very, You know, Very off of that like this this people in entertainment, You know, They always want to be a singer and then they couldn't make it as a singer and then they become a writer, You know, Or what was it that dude that makes he's making all the TV shows and stuff and he was acting but he wasn't a highly successful actor and somebody was like, You're never going to be a highly successful actor because of this that and this and he started writing and then now like half the shows on television are him, You know, Obviously he found his thing. So what I'm saying is just because he wanted to be an actor. Like that was the breadcrumb. Maybe that was the thing that captured his interest. But what his real meaning was was to become a writer. But and he gained clarity through his journey of life. And he still does some acting too, But in his own stuff. He can he wrote it, You know. So sometimes it's not exactly what you think. You know, Because our ego is involved in a lot of our wants. I want I want I want I want hyper focus. It's like whoa, Relax. Lean in a direction of stop thinking, You know, The final answer. We don't we just walk in a direction of and if like if he would have not been so attached to becoming an actor, He probably would have found being a writer sooner, But he probably, You know, And I'm guessing I don't I'm just using his outline of his story to make a point. I don't know him personally. I don't know his story, But just as a general rule, How people work is if they attach to some specific thing too much. Then a lot of times they're supposed to be something they're supposed to be doing something right next to it and they don't see it because they're too attached to this thing. Non-attachment to an outcome is huge. So so it's right there, But they can't see it until they let go or maybe fail. So live the life you love means leaning into it. Walking towards the things you love not with an attachment to it. Not with a oh once I get this then I'll be happy. No, You won't even even if you land even if you're doing what you're supposed to be doing that ain't going to bring you happiness. None of this is about happiness about about getting to a certain point and then being happy you if you love your life and you live the life you love you will be happy in the journey and then when you get to these accomplishments and these pinnacles of your life. Those will be expressions of your happiness and they'll fulfill you for long for a long time. Not just for 15 minutes or two weeks. They'll be part of you. So yeah, Don't attach too much live the life you you love on a daily basis. You know chase those things that you love that you enjoy. Walk towards them. Not in a when I get this then I'll be happy sense. You're enjoying, You know, Like you're already happy. This is my point. You're already walking in gratitude for what you already have you're expressing more gratitude and love in the way that you walk through life leaning towards more things that you love and experiencing more things that you love and embracing more things that you love that is a design for a good life. That is designed for a wonderful life right there and none of what I just said included an accomplishment. You don't arrive someplace and then be happy. Your happiness is a means of travel. It's a way of getting to the end of your life. Happiness is a way of traveling. It's not a destination. It's a means of travel. I always love that. That's one of my favorite things because I think a lot of people think they need to do a bunch of stuff and then they'll be happy and it doesn't work that way. It doesn't work that way. You know, Like I said, Maybe for 15 minutes or two weeks, But as a general and that's not true happiness. That's just momentary pleasure. So it's like happiness is the journey. It's how you live your life. It's the way you walk through your days. And if you're feeling gratitude and loving the life that you've created and the life that you have just the parts that you like starve the parts that you don't like if you don't put your attention on what you don't like in your life because you're just creating more of it. The more attention you put on it put your attention on what you do like in your life. And then more will come in whatever you put your attention on more of that comes in. So if you put your attention on gratitude then more gratitude come more things to be grateful for comes in. If you put your attention on things that you love then more things that you love come in but where most people are too busy putting their attention on what they don't like and then trying to change it out of an energy of lack. Oh, I don't have enough money. Oh, Okay. Well, I need to struggle and push and strive and do things that I don't want to do so I can get money. So then I'll be happy. Huh? No trash all of that untrue doesn't work. Be grateful for what you have. Live in love feel the vibration of love within you be grateful for what you do have bless everything that you do have feel that gratitude and then go out and through that gratitude energy. Put more love towards things that you enjoy and then you'll. Have more money if you know if that's what you need or you'll get to a place where you can be grateful for what you have. Where you go, You know what? I'm just so damn happy. I just realized that I don't even need any money not any more than I already have. I thought if I had more money I'd be happy but I'm happy as I am. So maybe I don't need a ton more money. Oh my God. Or maybe more money would enhance your life and then you'll get it like either way. It's a win-win. That's the beauty. That's why I talk about this stuff because it's a win-win. It doesn't matter like for the people who need more money, They will get more money because it's just another way to enhance their lives. So why wouldn't they get it? You know, It's God's good grace to give us the keys of the kingdom. We don't have to go pry him out of his hands. He's not over there with the keys to the kingdom with all this abundance and Glory and Bliss and peace and love and going. No, I'm not giving it to Glenn. I'm feeling selfish today. Like God doesn't do that. So if having more opportunity more money more. Access to things that you enjoy if that's going to enhance your life, Then it's going to come but you got to be in the vibration of love. Otherwise, You just reinforcing the vibration of lack. So love the life you're living first and then live the life you love go out there and live it live live what you love find things that you enjoy and go do them. You know, This is the number of people are on antidepressants in the United States is off the charts, You know, And and and everybody goes. Well, I have a chemical. Balance. It's like, Yeah, You do but why you know, We're so used to treating the symptoms. Oh, I have a I have a chemical chemical imbalance. So I need to take a supplement to enhance my chemicals. Why are your chemicals not producing themselves? Like when when you were younger you're you you produced all these hormones that made you happy. How come you're not producing them now? When was the last time you did things that you love on a regular basis? Most people go, What do you mean? Nobody takes time out of their life to do things that they love and then they wonder why they're depressed. That's why if you don't give your body anything to be grateful for or or anything to enjoy and then you wonder why it's not generating enjoyment hormones. That's why. And I know, You know, Sometimes is a chemical imbalance. I'm not against I'm not against medications when necessary and that are stepping stones. I don't believe in medications as a lifestyle choice. If you need to use them to get from point A to point B and work your way through something and get off of them. Well, Then I can understand. But just saying, Oh my body broke and now I'm going to take a pill. I think you need to look deeper into it, But that's going to do it for this one peeps. Hope you like it. Hope you live it. Hope you love it. So love your life. Love that life that you're living right now. And then from there go out and live the life that you love. All right, That's going to do it. Peace.