Episode 19

Empowering Personal Growth: Unleashing Your Full Potential Through Vision, Affirmation, And Responsibility With Lou Anne Hunt

Lou Anne Hunt speaks with Alan in this week’s episode of Mindful You. Lou Anne was diagnosed with type 2 diabetes and managed to reverse it in under three months. One of the key components to Lou Anne reversing her diabetes was creating a vision board. Vision board’s are a powerful way to keep you motivated and positive. They help us to manifest and affirm. Jack Canfield has also had a huge impact on Lou and she tells us about working with him and for him. Alan and Lou talk about how important it is to write out your goals and always take 100% responsibility for yourself. How can we overcome our fear and become the best versions of ourselves? Find out on this episode of Mindful You.

About The Guest:

LouAnne is a Canadian Keynote Speaker whose down-to-earth humour compels audiences to laugh while they learn. After thirty-six years, she retired from her government job. A second career in teaching the fundamentals of Business to thousands of adult students as a College Professor allowed her to polish her presentation skills. She has made a name for herself as a sought-after speaker, teacher, and Personal Development Coach.

 Additionally, LouAnne is an award-winning entrepreneur, putting into practice what she teaches every day. She is a Certified Canfield trainer in The Success Principles™

She is a 2-time Best-Selling Author for her contribution in The Book On Transformation and The Book On Gratitude.

 Her latest project as TV and radio talk show host for The Mindset Playground can be found on Youtube and your favourite Podcast App

 If you are interested in having LouAnne work with you, in a group or as a motivational speaker, connect with her through her website.

Contact:

Website: louannehunt.ca

Email: louanne@louannehunt.ca

About Alan:

Alan Carroll is an Educational Psychologist who specializes in Transpersonal Psychology. He founded Alan Carroll & Associates 30 years ago and before that, he was a Senior Sales Training Consultant for 10 years at Digital Equipment Corporation. He has dedicated his life in search of mindfulness tools that can be used by everyone (young and old) to transform their ability to speak at a professional level, as well as, to reduce the psychological suffering caused by the misidentification with our ego and reconnect to the vast transcendent dimension of consciousness that lies just on the other side of the thoughts we think and in between the words we speak.

Personal: https://www.facebook.com/alan.carroll.7359

Business: https://www.facebook.com/AlanCarrolltrains

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/aca-mindful-you/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/mindfulnesseminar/

Web Site: https://acamindfulyou.com/

Transcript
Alan Carroll:

Welcome back, everybody, to another episode of

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the mindful U podcast. Our guest today, I met several months ago

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at a seminar called embracing the Woo, focusing in on

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spirituality, focused on healing and focused on mindfulness. And

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when I was talking to our guest, she mentioned that she was a

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certified trainer for Jack Canfield. Jack Canfield is one

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of the most popular Buddhist instructors, teachers, author of

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books, seminars in the world. And I said, Wow, let's invite

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you on to the mindful you podcast to share about what you

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are discovering, working with Jack, and other things that

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you've done to become more present, and more mindful. Our

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guests name is Luanne hunt. And I am excited because she has so

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much knowledge. She has knowledge of the mindfulness,

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she has knowledge of the meditation, she has knowledge of

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vision boards, she has knowledge of books, she's written in

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books, she's written chapters. And so she's a wealth of

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information. And I enjoyed interviewing her on the podcast,

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and it is with a great joy to welcome the WAN hunt, to the

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mindful you podcast. Luann Welcome to the mindful you

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podcast. I'm excited to be here. I'm excited to be able to talk

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to you today. And well, I'm

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excited to be here.

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First two people that are excited, I like that, I

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like that. And what excites me Luann is the fact that you have

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traveled a path. And I will call that path, mindfulness

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meditation. And one of the key people that you have connected

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to on the path, which I've heard, all my life is Jack

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Canfield. And to have someone who has been certified by that

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organization, dealing with mindfulness, meditation,

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forgiveness, gratitude, all those, all those terms. And that

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conversation is very exciting to be able to have you share with

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us some of the learnings and some of the teachings that Jack

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has given to us and given to the world. Um, so that is just, you

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know, wonderful opportunity that I couldn't miss having you be on

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the podcast to share with us a little bit about Jax, Jax magic.

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Yes, magic it is. He's pretty amazing. He's

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written several books, and they become number one bestsellers on

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the New York best selling Times list. So that's exciting, too.

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And my understanding is that some of

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those best selling books has a chapter that was written by you.

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Well, actually, yes, I have written chapters in two

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books that are inspired

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to talk about the chapters. Okay.

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The first book was actually released last June. The

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forward is by Jack Canfield, and it was called the book on

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transformation. So how I basically transformed my life.

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In one chapter, I went from a reading a high reading for my a

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one C, which is the diabetes reading, I went from a pretty

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high level of type two diabetes, to actually lowering it to just

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below the minimum amount that should be or the maximum amount

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I should say, and I have actually reversed my type two

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diabetes without the use of drugs. And I did that wonder

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within three months, yes. And are you I wrote about it in the

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book.

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Yeah. I was wondering, are you making a

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connection between what Jack teaches and what you have

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implemented? Is there a connection between the two?

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Oh, for sure. Jack teaches us all about

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transformation and how important It is in our lives and how we

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will always be going through some sort of transformation in

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our lives, no matter what happens. So it just goes from

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one level to another. And at that point in the book, when I

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talk about reversing my type two diabetes, it's one of the

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highest pandemics, believe it or not, in the United States and in

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Canada. And after the pandemic, which was COVID, it actually was

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even higher, because of all the sedentary and everybody getting

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locked down and getting locked in and Jack chat taught us to

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never give up. And I was studying under Jack when this

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came about. And one of the things that I studied under Jack

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was actually vision boards. And I put right in the center of my

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vision board, which is right over my head that I look at

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every day that I wanted to beat type two diabetes within three

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months. And that is right in the center of my vision board. And

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what's interesting is, I actually accomplished that when

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I went in to get my A when C tested again, I told the nurse

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when she was taking my blood work, that I was going to lower

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my a one C two below the normal amount. And she started

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laughing. She said, Well, don't be disappointed if that doesn't

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happen. She said, because that's a kind of a rare thing. And I

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said, Well, it's going to happen because I put it in the middle

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of my vision board. And she started laughing. And she was

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telling everybody in the office, she's like, Oh, get a load of

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this one, she's gonna lower a one see, because she put it on

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her vision board. Well, I kind of had the last laugh, because I

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did lower it. So and I lowered it lower than what I had

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actually targeted for. So it was pretty funny at the time.

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And so there's a power that is available, if you

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can utilize various resources, and one of the resources you're

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talking about is a vision board. So for audiences may not be

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fully aware of what a vision board is, why don't you sort of

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take us on a little tour of what a vision board is, and how to

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create a vision board?

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Sure. Actually, I'm doing a talk next week, on

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Wednesday, through Kimberly Crowe, and I am doing my

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presentation on vision boards, how to create a magical vision

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board. So isn't this great timing? And wasn't that what I

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talked about during the session when I met you? When we did

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embrace the Whoo?

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Absolutely. Yes, I'm very familiar with embrace

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the Whoo. And also I want to delve into what are some of the

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key if I wanted to create a vision board? What absolutely, I

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What would I do?

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Well, the first thing that you should do is if you

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already have a vision board, there's ways that you can make

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it more powerful, which I'll talk about in a second. But if

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you're just kind of getting ready to start a vision board,

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the very first thing that you should do is you should sit down

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and write out I would say 20 to 25 things that you have

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accomplished goals that you have accomplished in the last six

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months to a year. And the reason why you want to do that is

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because you want to get those juices flowing. And you want to

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know that it's possible. You want to make your mind the

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mindset, you want to set your mind up so that it knows that

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things that you think about are possible. And then from there,

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what you want to do is you want to write down, you want to write

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out your goals that you would like to actually work on or the

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goals for maybe your business, or in the six areas such as your

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health community, maybe your love goals, your employment

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goals, your or your retirement goals, your fitness goals. You

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want to write those down, even if you just keep them short and

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sweet. That's okay. But you want to make a list so that you can

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know exactly where you're going. Because you don't want to go to

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the ocean with a teaspoon Correct.

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That's cute. No, you want to

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and you definitely don't want to go to a casino

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without any money. So when you write down your accomplishments

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before you even write down your goals, you're setting yourself

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up to know that it's fun Basketball, and that you can do

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it. So that's the first thing that you want to do, you want to

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sit down and you want to write out those goals. And then from

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there, what you want to do is you want to make it kind of

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visual, and you want to make it so that you feel those goals.

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And the best way to do that is to maybe flip through some old

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magazines, or believe it or not some travel magazines, that's

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exciting. You want to flip through magazines, because

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you're actually using both sides of your brain. When you do that,

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you're working both sides of the brain. And you're the one who

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kind of taught me a little bit about that. So you're engaging

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both sides of the brain. And that's a good thing. Because

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that will definitely bring into place, you want to wrap your

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head around that whole site. Since hearing, touching. And you

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want to pick out some pictures. Now I'm not saying that if you

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want to create a vision board on Canva, or on the computer on,

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I've done many on PowerPoint or anything to that effect, that it

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doesn't work, it's just a lot better. Like I said, it engages

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both sides of the brain. And it really is effective if you can

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cut pictures out. And not just pictures, but little things that

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that you'd like to hear that just they bring you a motion.

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And like they make you feel good. And this is where you're

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going to say, Yes, that sounds like me, that sounds like a

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goal. One of the one of the vision boards, and I just want

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to say this too, if I could back up a little bit, you don't have

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to have, you don't have to have a vision board with, say, the

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next year's goals. So you can have a vision board for

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something that's coming up that you want to achieve. So if I can

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give you an example, I had surgery last November, and I was

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very concerned about the surgery. So I sat down. And I

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actually put a vision board together to represent how I'm

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going to feel after that surgery. So all of the pictures

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that I cut out were pictures that were representing, you

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know, things that were healthy, I cut out some pictures on, you

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know, like me hiking or that type of thing. And words that I

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knew were going to empower me to feel better to really make it

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work so that the mindset would set in. And I would have these

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words. So if I can give you some examples I have I have living

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well that I cut out healthy choices with a heart. Feeling

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good starts inside. Give peace of mind this holiday because it

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was in November. So celebrate the moment I put down things

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like plumb Perfect. Keep on track, never give up. Take care

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of your health, naturally, I make a difference in the world.

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And right in the center is a huge picture of me with the

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mindset playground because that's my true love. And then

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down in the other corner is a picture of a bowl of fruit. And

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just things that are healthy. And keep going. Never let them

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dull, your sparkle. All things are possible, manifest. Feeling

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peachy, like all these things that I put on this vision board.

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So these are just words that I cut out. There's a little

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bathtub picture and it says take care of you. Just little things

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like that. That made me smile as I was flipping through the

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magazines. And I just cut them all out and arrange them on

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cardboard, just a piece of Bristol board. And I actually

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brought that with me to the hospital. And I had it posted

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right across from my hospital bed. And everybody came in the

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room. All of the nurses all of the visitors because I had a

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roommate, even my roommate, they all commented on the board. And

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they said, You know what is this and I said this is my vision

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board for getting healthy. And because I was really determined

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that I was going to do that I was really going to use that

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vision board to help me feel better to put me in a better

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mindset so that I found that I wasn't in pain, like I thought

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it would be and And I just found that I was up walking around the

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next morning, I just felt very invigorated and actually

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liberated, you know, that I had made it through. So I'm just

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saying that you don't have to have a year long vision board,

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if you're getting married, or if you if you're doing something

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that you want, you know, you're you're hoping to maybe win an

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award, maybe, maybe you're going to write in a book, anything,

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you can do a small vision board, focusing on just that, it

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doesn't have to be something that you want, you know, a year

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from now. So that's important. So then you just arrange them on

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the board any way that you want to, there's really no wrong or

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right way to do it. But here's a couple of hints. Number one,

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make sure that you include a picture of yourself, when you're

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happy when you're smiling. So make sure somewhere on the

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vision board, your picture is there. And you're smiling.

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Whether you're you know, if you want to lose some weight,

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whether you're heavier, or you're thinner, whatever the

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case is, it doesn't matter. As long as you have that smile. And

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you know, that that's what you're going for. And I would

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have to say the other thing is make sure that you put it

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somewhere where you're going to see it all the time, all the

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time, even if it's not completed. And if you come

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across a picture, or a saying, You have no idea why you're

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cutting out that picture, you just like it, right? To yet,

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like to give you an example, I have the cutest little picture

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of these two dogs and two cats that I found in a magazine, and

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I just loved this picture. I'm allergic to cats. I have two

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dogs, I had no idea why I wanted to cut this out and put it on my

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vision board. And it turned out that as soon as I did that, and

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I put it on my one vision board for the year and annual vision

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board. It turned out that Betty White had passed away. And that

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week, they were celebrating Betty White and she was very

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much into shelters. So it came to me that I wanted to donate to

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a shelter. Because of the Betty White. They had something on

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Facebook a challenge or something. And so I said, Well,

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that's the reason why I picked out that picture. I had no idea

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at the time. And the next day was really interesting, because

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this is how powerful vision boards are. The next day, when I

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walked into the pet store to buy my two dogs, some pet food,

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there was actually a lady there from the shelter, the pet

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shelter the local pet shelter. And they have, they were talking

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about their program that they have at this pet shelter. It's

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called the Blue leash program. And what it is, is it's a

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program where they will take animals who come from violent

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homes like domestic violence, and they will take the dog in so

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that the spouse or the person who is the victim can get away

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from the home. Because it's a proven fact that a lot of people

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will not leave a violent situation, because they're

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afraid of what will happen with their pet.

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And a lot of them can't take their pets with them. But this

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pro or this project, what they'll do is they will take in

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the pet, and they will feed it and take care of it. And they

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will, you know, make sure that it's safe so that when you are

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out of the home, if you can come back and pick up your dog

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because you're in a place that safe and will accept the dog or

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the cat, then they can come and retrieve their animal. And I

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just thought that was just amazing that they have a program

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like that. And although I can't adopt a pet because I have two

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dogs already, I said I definitely want to support that

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program because it's such a great program. So that's just an

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example of when you see a picture and you have no idea.

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You have no idea why you're cutting it out. Or why you love

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it. What's drawn you to that picture. Just put it on your

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vision board. Sure. Number one, it's going to make you have the

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every time you see it. And it's not going to hurt anything,

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that's for sure. And so these are some of the tips, and then

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you arrange everything on your vision Word and along with some

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great messages that you pick out, such as you know, feeling

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good, loving, well manifesting, I am enough, these things will

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happen, anything is possible, just words like that, that will

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just make it that much more powerful. Put them on that

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vision board. And don't be afraid to share it, show it to

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people. So that's what I have to say about vision boards.

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Well, that's wonderful. I get the idea that

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there's a there's another part of ourselves, we'll call it

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unconscious, that is below the surface, that's the seat that

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seems to know everything that's connected to mindfulness, it's

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connected to the space. And if you can sort of get out of your

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head and get it in and get in touch with through the vision

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board, for example. It allows you to access a dimension of

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consciousness that actually can transform your your experience,

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and it's a little hard to explain, because it's, it's, it

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is beyond consciousness is something that's underneath,

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under underneath the surface. All right, well, thank you,

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thank you for sharing about the about the vision about the

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vision boards, because I believe that that is that is a valuable,

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valuable tool that gives you some alignment of your rather

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than your thoughts being like a shotgun going all over the place

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like scattering, you focus your attention, your power on on a

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particular target, and then you create the collage around that

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target. And so you get power or energy from from the from the

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vision board. Wonderful. Well, thank you for sharing that. I

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noticed also Luann in the back you have a Jax, Jax Canfield a

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book, it looks like the success principles. And yes, I wanted

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you to share with our audience a little bit about about who Jack

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Canfield is, what your training was that you went through. And

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some of the mindfulness experiences that you have,

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muscles that you've developed or techniques or practices that you

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have learned from Jack are in your own journey with our

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audience so that we can build our mindfulness muscles also. So

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please share with us a little bit about Jax, Jax wisdom and

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the things that you've gleaned from being a certified trainer

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for him.

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I first met Jack in June 2019. And what happened

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was, it was my birthday month. And so as a birthday gift, I

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asked my husband if he would drive to Chicago, because it's

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about six hours from where I live. Because I heard that Jack

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Canfield was going to be speaking in Chicago. And the

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name of his seminar was one day to greatness. So we signed up

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for it. And then we had an opportunity to upgrade to VIP

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seats and we would actually get to meet Jack. So I was all for

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that. So we we made the trek down to Chicago, and we spent a

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couple of days in Chicago. And when I went into Jack's seminar,

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I honestly didn't know what to expect. I heard of Jack Canfield

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he was in the movie, The Secret and I knew that he was the

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author of Chicken Soup for the Soul books, but I didn't really

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know a lot about the success principles. So we sat down and

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we were in our VIP seats. And Jack started his training

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through the book. And I honestly with every little lesson that

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Jack gave us, I was honestly blown away. I really was I was

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blown away. And I said to my husband, I said everybody should

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know what Jack has to say everybody should know this. It

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just gives you a different way to to face the world to look at

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yourself. And the first lesson that he gave us was take 100%

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responsibility for yourself. And that right there blew me away

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and how much your life can change just by taking 100%

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responsibility for yourself. And at the time and still to this

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day. I was teaching business courses I am teaching business

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courses at to the local college. And I said, this should be in

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the curriculum, this should be, of course, everybody should know

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this, especially if you have a business. You can't go without

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this, the mindset, it's an unbelievable, it seriously blew

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me away. And that's the reason why I decided at that moment to

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get certified because Jack said, you know, will certify you in

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the success principles, you'll learn all of the success

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principles, you'll have access to everything I'm training you

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with today. And you'll have access to basically everything.

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And I said, I need this, I need this for college, I need it.

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Plain and simple. So I signed up for it. And it's just amazing

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how my life has completely changed. Because it was sat on a

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shelf. And for you know, a few months, because life happens

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when you're making plans, and I called it my jack in the box on

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the shelf. And, and then out of the blue, you know, the pandemic

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struck, and I had foot surgery. So here I am, I got my foot and

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cast, and it's up. And then the pandemic struck, so I couldn't

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go anywhere anyway. And I thought about that Jack in the

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Box, sitting on my shelf. And it's funny because I thought

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about it. And then I got an email from Jack. It's almost

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like Jack read my mind. And Jack said, you know that in this

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email that he was doing online stuff now and that he was doing

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reignite your life. And I was like, wow, I, I need that right

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now. I just need it. And I think so many people needed it after

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being shut down for so long. And so I started taking that course.

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And that led to another course. And that led to another course,

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this is all jacked. And then I ended up writing my

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certification exams. And I became certified. So it's just

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amazing how all of that work. So it was perfect timing, because

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it was during the pandemic. And I was actually, I was teaching

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classes online, believe it or not. And so what I did was I

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took the lessons that we learned from Jack, some of the lessons

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and I actually taught them online, just to kind of figure

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them out to see how they would go over to see if everybody felt

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the same way I did that type of thing. So the first lesson for

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sure was take 100% responsibility for yourself. And

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then I did another lesson with them on unleash the the power of

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goal setting, which is really important. And it during that

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goal setting, that's when I came across the vision board. The

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vision board exercises, what you see is what you get. That's the

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name of that chapter. And I also did one with them. And I still

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do it with them called Face your fears and do it anyway. So that

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one is a perfect chapter to talk about. And because fear, and I'm

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sure you know this, but fear really stands for false evidence

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appearing real. There's no such thing as fear. And fear is a

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lie. So it's interesting. So when I explain it to my

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students, how they can get past that fear. And do it anyway,

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because it's holding you back from whatever it might be.

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Everything just seemed to just start happening once I got

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certified and started doing those lessons and bringing them

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into effect. And when we weren't locked down anymore. I went back

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to the college, and I started doing all of these lessons. And

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these exercises, right in the classroom. And the students were

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interacting with each other and they just they loved it. They

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loved it. So I knew it was the right thing to do. And I myself

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have learned so much and so much has happened such as writing in

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these these chapters writing in these two books that I wrote in

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and setting up the mindset playground. I got an email from

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bold, brave TV asking me if I would be interested in hosting,

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you know, and I certainly never in a million years thought that

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I would be hosting my own podcasts and TV show. And now

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it's gone even beyond that. And now I actually have the mindset

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playground channel that's coming out on a TV station, transform

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your life network TV, that's going to be all over, you know,

Unknown:

the internet. So I'm really excited about that, too.

Alan Carroll:

Oh, boy, a lot of a lot of energy, a lot of

Alan Carroll:

wonderful things that are happening. I like the idea of

Alan Carroll:

take responsibility. Because the opposite to that is, well, I'll

Alan Carroll:

take responsibility for this. But I'm not going to take

Alan Carroll:

responsibility for that. No, no, that was done to me. I, I'm not

Alan Carroll:

responsible for that. So what's the benefit of, of telling

Alan Carroll:

yourself that even though it doesn't appear that I'm

Alan Carroll:

responsible, if I come from that I'm responsible, somehow it will

Alan Carroll:

allow me to sail through that storm in a more in a, in a

Alan Carroll:

stronger in a stronger position. With with if I if I assume

Alan Carroll:

responsibility? So take a take us on a little journey on that

Alan Carroll:

responsibility piece.

Unknown:

Well, there is a formula that helps you

Unknown:

understand taking 100% responsibility for yourself. And

Unknown:

that formula is E plus r equals O,

Alan Carroll:

I'm gonna go slow. There's your E as an echo.

Unknown:

Yes, plus plus r,

Alan Carroll:

r as an RA r

Unknown:

equals O. Okay, and what that stands for, yeah, what

Unknown:

that stands for is events.

Unknown:

Plus, response equals outcome. So you can't change the event.

Unknown:

The event happens, and life doesn't happen to us. It happens

Unknown:

for us.

Unknown:

Plus, your response equals your outcome. And let me give you a

Unknown:

great example. So if you don't do well, on a test, that's the

Unknown:

event, the test, your response to that equals your outcome. So

Unknown:

if you walk into your test, and I tell all my students this

Unknown:

knowing or saying, Oh,

Unknown:

I hate this subject, oh, there's no way I'm gonna pass this test.

Unknown:

There's no way I'm gonna pass it. Oh, I just, this is just

Unknown:

terrible. I suck at this. I just know, it's, it's, it's going to

Unknown:

be terrible. I'm going to forget everything I study, what's your

Unknown:

outcome? Your outcome is you will probably know, I'm not

Unknown:

saying in all cases, but you will probably receive the work

Unknown:

that you were looking for. Right? So now if you change that

Unknown:

response, if you change your response, and tell you yourself

Unknown:

something positive, like, Okay, I've done the best I can, I've

Unknown:

studied the best I can, this is going to be okay. It's going to

Unknown:

be a test I'm prepared. I know I'm prepared. I might not get

Unknown:

the a plus I'm looking for, but I'm going to shoot for it. And

Unknown:

even if I get a B, that is great. Start doing it that way.

Unknown:

And then walk into that test, feeling confident and feeling

Unknown:

good. You will probably change your outcome. So that's the best

Unknown:

way to say it. Because Oh,

Alan Carroll:

what, what I see or hear from what you're saying

Alan Carroll:

with with the formula, the the events is in the mindfulness

Alan Carroll:

terms, the event is what is it that's the way it is. It has no

Alan Carroll:

meaning. It's just that's the way the event is. Then the next

Alan Carroll:

thing is I look at how I am going to respond to to that

Alan Carroll:

event. And the way that I look at it Luann is that I can choose

Alan Carroll:

to respond to the events or I react to the events and when you

Alan Carroll:

react to the event you Take a choice out, you no longer have a

Alan Carroll:

choice. It's like an automatic automatic reaction based in my

Alan Carroll:

understanding, based on your conditioning, based on how you

Alan Carroll:

are programmed from your past, for example, GE, you're wearing

Alan Carroll:

a blue shirt. And when I was five years old, my father was

Alan Carroll:

wearing a blue shirt. And he yelled at me or something. So

Alan Carroll:

I'm associating blue shirts with yelling, and father and upset.

Alan Carroll:

So here we are 50 years later, blue shirt, and I and I react to

Alan Carroll:

it. And so being able to respond means that you have created an

Alan Carroll:

empty space between the events and your reaction to the event.

Alan Carroll:

That's like a buffer zone. Is that in my in the ballpark with

Alan Carroll:

what you're talking about?

Unknown:

Absolutely. You see a baby, if you take a baby, for

Unknown:

example, and baby doesn't know. I can't. So everybody is born

Unknown:

with an I Can bucket. That's what I like to call it the I can

Alan Carroll:

like it. I can see a n ca n i can bucket. Okay, I

Alan Carroll:

cannot bucket it's I can bucket. Okay?

Unknown:

I can block it. That's what I call it, the I Can

Unknown:

bucket. And the thing is, is that as we grow up all of these

Unknown:

I can't. I can't, I can't they end up going into that bucket.

Unknown:

So your I can bucket turns into an I can't bucket. And it's

Unknown:

really hard to get out of that. But if you think about a child,

Unknown:

for example, who gets up on a chair? Think about that. I don't

Unknown:

know if you have children or if anybody in the audience does.

Unknown:

But if you have children, I'm sure or nieces or nephews, I'm

Unknown:

sure you can relate to a child getting up on a chair. And you

Unknown:

know, they're there and they're having fun. And they're dancing.

Unknown:

And what's the first thing we say? Get down? Get down? You're

Unknown:

gonna fall you're gonna get hurt. The child doesn't know

Unknown:

that. Get down. One to write. That's what we do. Yeah, we're

Unknown:

putting more messages into that I can't bucket. Now. Yes, if

Unknown:

they fall and they hurt themselves, then yes, you were

Unknown:

probably right. But the child has to learn that because they

Unknown:

don't know. They don't know. So basically, it's the same thing

Unknown:

when they're sitting in the classroom, or they're sitting

Unknown:

wherever and they're off looking off at the stars. And they're,

Unknown:

you know, they're thinking about, they're going to be an

Unknown:

astronaut, or they're going to be a teacher or whatever. And

Unknown:

the teacher right away said, pay attention. They take them away

Unknown:

from that dreaming. That whole dreaming state, pay attention.

Unknown:

You can't be doing that you can't be looking off into the

Unknown:

distance. So believe it or not, it's a learned thing. And we

Unknown:

learned that through our entire life. You can't do that. So as

Unknown:

soon as you say, you know if I say, Well, I want to be an

Unknown:

astronaut. You can't do that. You can

Alan Carroll:

never be an astronaut. Come on. You got to

Alan Carroll:

know physics got to know math guy you forget to piano Yeah.

Unknown:

You gotta you gotta be on a special diet. your butt's

Unknown:

too big, whatever. Right. And so this is what we grew up with.

Unknown:

These are the tapes that are in our head, that are constantly

Unknown:

playing, you know, you can't do that. Who do you think you are?

Unknown:

No. And so that's what I'm saying by the I can't bucket it

Unknown:

becomes an I can't bucket because everything you think of

Unknown:

they take that one I can either that bucket that everybody is

Unknown:

born with, and they replace it with a cat. And did you know

Unknown:

that children hear the word no 5000 times in their first three

Unknown:

years 5000 times. So by the time they go to school isn't that

Unknown:

interesting?

Alan Carroll:

I'm writing it down. So I have it in 5000

Alan Carroll:

times. That's like the programming you pretty soon you

Alan Carroll:

you live in a psychological prison and you don't know you're

Alan Carroll:

in a psychological prison created by your own mind about I

Alan Carroll:

can't go beyond that because I can't go beyond that. Even

Alan Carroll:

though you could go beyond that your your your voice inside your

Alan Carroll:

head says no, I can't do Go beyond that, and guess what's

Alan Carroll:

the outcome? The outcome is? Yeah, don't go beyond that. By

Alan Carroll:

by your own force inside your head. Absolutely, absolutely. So

Unknown:

if you want to change the Oh, which is your outcome,

Unknown:

you need to change your response, you bet.

Alan Carroll:

And in order to change your response, you have

Alan Carroll:

to be awake enough to know that you are not going to

Alan Carroll:

automatically react, you're going to be able to stop going

Alan Carroll:

to be able to become mindful. Or that Gee, my button just got

Alan Carroll:

pressed, there's motions going on inside myself, attack

Alan Carroll:

thoughts, I'm thinking about I gotta get back I gotta get best

Alan Carroll:

person is doing and be able to calm that energy down. Take a

Alan Carroll:

breath, get your body relaxed, regroup, regroup, you just

Alan Carroll:

capsized, you got to right size the boat up again. Take that

Alan Carroll:

breath and take a look at what's what what the event is again,

Alan Carroll:

and and see what's what would be the healthy choice. The physical

Alan Carroll:

healthy choice, the mentally healthy choice, the emotional

Alan Carroll:

healthy choice. And usually, and my reality is you got to you got

Alan Carroll:

to figure out a way to shift the the negative. And to what you

Alan Carroll:

talked about earlier. Gratitude. Yes, I like to complete our

Alan Carroll:

podcast, because I know gratitude is something that is

Alan Carroll:

an important ingredient in that Springboarding yourself from

Alan Carroll:

that I can't and not responsible and world's doing it to me, I'll

Alan Carroll:

never be able to be able to blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.

Alan Carroll:

Most people are I find stingy with gratitude. And but I also

Alan Carroll:

find that gratitude is the one of the fastest ways that in

Alan Carroll:

forgiveness, forgiveness and gratitude to me, you're dealing

Alan Carroll:

with two things, forgiving that person that offended you,

Alan Carroll:

gratitude and appreciation of all the things that you have

Alan Carroll:

sort of pops you out of that, that negative space and put you

Alan Carroll:

into a more positive mental attitude. And you celebrate,

Unknown:

prove that, oh, yes, the reason for that is because

Unknown:

it is medical, it is a medically known fact that you cannot think

Unknown:

of two things at the same time. That's not how the brain is

Unknown:

wired. And women think it's just men, but it's us as well. So

Unknown:

what I mean by that is when you're in a bad mood, or you're

Unknown:

going to react in a negative way, or you're going to do

Unknown:

something that might not be the way that you should do it. You

Unknown:

need to like you said, either go into forgiveness or go into

Unknown:

gratitude. Because your brain cannot focus on those two, the

Unknown:

negativity and the gratitude, the negativity and the

Unknown:

forgiveness, it can I focus on both at the same time. That is

Unknown:

the quickest and the easiest way to rewire your brain. And that's

Unknown:

why one of the things I talked about is creating a joy list.

Unknown:

Write down the things that really bring you joy, and carry

Unknown:

that list with you. And the next time you're having any negative

Unknown:

thoughts whatsoever, or before you go into a job interview, or

Unknown:

before you do anything. Maybe go on your first date, I don't

Unknown:

know, whatever it may be be. Read your joy list. And you will

Unknown:

have a mind shift automatically, without even trying.

Alan Carroll:

What a fountain of knowledge put in a fountain of

Alan Carroll:

information, wisdom Luann that you've given us today.

Alan Carroll:

Everything from the the E plus r equals O the gratitude, the

Alan Carroll:

forgiveness, the vision board, all these are wonderful tools

Alan Carroll:

that allows us to become more present, less of a victim of our

Alan Carroll:

conditioning, more of a mindful presence, relaxed, still not

Alan Carroll:

agitated. Take that breath. Very, very present very, very

Alan Carroll:

mindful. So I want to thank you for all the wisdom that you have

Alan Carroll:

been pardoned today. And also if people wanted to connect with

Alan Carroll:

you, they wanted to find out more about you and the mindset

Alan Carroll:

playground, what would be the best way to connect with you in

Alan Carroll:

addition to the show notes that are accompanied the podcast

Unknown:

everything is on my website, which is super simple.

Unknown:

It's Luanne hunt, just like it shows in the window there. LEWIN

Unknown:

hunt.ca Everything is on my website. So how to connect with

Unknown:

me what I talk about the books that I've written in, and of

Unknown:

course, the mindset playground.

Alan Carroll:

Wonderful. Well, thank you Luann been a wonderful

Alan Carroll:

guest. I appreciate you sharing your wisdom with the audience.

Alan Carroll:

And just have a wonderful mindful stillness, joyful day.

Alan Carroll:

Thank you very much.

Unknown:

Namaste

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Alan Carroll is an Educational Psychologist who specializes in Transpersonal Psychology. He founded Alan Carroll & Associates 30 years ago and before that, he was a Senior Sales Training Consultant for 10 years at Digital Equipment Corporation. He has dedicated his life in search of mindfulness tools that can be used by everyone (young and old) to transform their ability to speak at a professional level, as well as, to reduce the psychological suffering caused by the misidentification with our ego and reconnect to the vast transcendent dimension of consciousness that lies just on the other side of the thoughts we think and in between the words we speak.