Episode 39

[00:00:00] : Hello and good day to you. Dear listener, this is Episode 39. Yeah, I'm laughing because these are the literally the first words that I have spoken today. I was up really late last night trying to get yesterday's episode loaded because I did an interview with a friend of mine and the Internet was down all day yesterday. So I did the interview over a cell phone connection and using a speaker phone to record on another device. And so the sound was all wonky and the interview was great. It was wonderful to talk to my friend tyranny. That was yesterday. But then it took me hours and hours and hours to figure out the sound and get the the sound cleaned up and right, So I was up super, super late and barely got that episode loaded to qualify as going up yesterday. In fact, it was past midnight my time. But if I did, if I went by Pacific time, which is still in the US, I technically could say Yes, I got the episode up. So, um, what you're hearing is my vocal cords, not having yet made any sounds or words for any human being except you so far today. So here I am. Talk. Now my wife is walking in in the middle of my I'm not in this shower this morning, I'm laying in bed. I'm starting this podcast from bed and my wife is walking through and she's making faces like, I'm not sure if I approve that that comment. And now my mind is going, Oh, now should I stop? Is this weird or should I just keep going? So I'm shooing her out of the room so I can finish my podcast. Um, but here's the Here's what occurred to me this morning that I wanted to talk to you about in my gravelly early morning voice. Sometimes you just need to be around someone who is being enthusiastic with their expressions and just the sound of their voice, the tone, the mood I have even you're gonna think this is really crazy. But I have even signed up for and tuned into webinars or info Webinars that air Super Sales E with absolutely no intention of buying the thing on Lee to be around and just listen to someone who is being energetic and off the chart and saying This is gonna be the greatest thing Sign up right now and you're gonna make a million dollars in the next three months. I'm here for you. Um, I've signed up for Webinars like that just because being around somebody who's being enthusiastic and kind of expressing energy and just letting that open up in their body affects my body and it's okay, just sometimes. Sometimes you just need someone to be energetic and enthusiastic on your behalf and say, You know what you're doing. A damn great job is a human being. You're a person who cares if your relationships in the toilet who cares if you don't have a job right now or you don't make much money or you feel crappy and neurotic all the time, you're still a human being, and that means it's workable. It's another day, and there's light outside and whether there's snow on the ground, it is beautiful because there's snow or there's no snow and it's just bright and sunny or even hot or rainy. It doesn't even matter what the weather is doing, because there's beauty in that. And just like that, human beings have beauty in them, you have beauty in you and life is workable and life is awesome. And you've got things you can do in relationship to life that are gonna make other people happy that are going to serve that we're gonna make you happy. You're going to have moments in this day that air worth celebrating, things you could turn your attention to that are gonna light you up that air wonderful that air worth feeling grateful about. You've got somebody in your life in some respect who you care about and cares about you even if it's twisted or weird or veiled or they have a way of loving you. That's just really odd. There's somebody out there who there are people who care about you and love love you and most of them. You know, for most of us, there are people who are just straight ahead care about you and would tell you that and just want to see you do well in your life. You are a good person because people are good people. Even if we pile a bunch of garbage on the surface and gets, um, weird habits in place or get negative and pessimistic or feel depressed. You're a damn good person and there's good shit in there that wants to come out, and that's the whole thing is that we're always trying to figure out how do we get good stuff inside of us were in this consumer mentality. How do I fill myself up with something good? And it's actually the problem is actually the opposite. We have really good stuff inside of us, and the question is, how do we let it out? How do we let it go? How do we just let that great thing that we are a human being and the things we could be expressing and serving and giving to others? How do we just let it out? Relax. Let our guard down. Stop being so scared that if we're just ourselves that we're going to die somehow we're gonna be imprisoned or excommunicated or sent to a deserted island that we can't ever get off of because we've been socially shunned. Oh my gosh, I mean, I think about this for myself and how much I've done that in my life, and it's crazy. So sometimes you just need to hear another human voice with this kind of energy in this kind of enthusiasm. Just bombard you with a big fat Yes, Just Yes. Just go do that thing. Whatever it is you want to do and stop freaking listening to that voice in your head that's telling you that the world is going to explode and and everything is gonna be terrible if you actually take the risk, Just stop it. Just stop listening to that voice. Take some action And what matters most to you. I don't even care what is going on. Even if there were a million emergency's happening in. Your whole family is freaking out. And people are just trying to convince you and enroll you in the fact that you can't possibly take time right now to do something that really matters to you. Do it anyway. Say, you know what I'm taking five minutes. Um, the house is burning down and you guys hold the hoses. I'm taking five minutes to go. Do what is actually important to me. I'm gonna go spend a few minutes, I'll be back and you can hand the hose back to me. And then I will help to stop the house from burning down. I mean, five minutes just to do what you really care about what you love, what you're good at. Just do that. That's what I'm saying. So here I am, And and I've titled this episode Actually, I don't even know what I'm titling it. But my idea right now is it's gonna be a title, something like Don't listen to this episode unless you need energy and enthusiasm. Because if you don't just want some energy and enthusiasm, um, this is gonna be a really annoying episode because you're just listening to me just kind of rant and go on and on. But there's a purpose to what I'm doing. The purpose is I'm giving you literal frequency off human vibration that has to do with being alive. And even if what I'm saying makes absolutely no sense, it's nonsensical. And it's not even good advice. Who cares? I'm throwing that out the window. I'm saying right now I don't need to make any sense. What I need is to speak to the body that's inside of the body that's holding you hostage, the body that's alive, and that's vibrant. And that just was it would be willing to go dance in the streets right now without carrying what anybody thinks. The part of you that's just wonderful and weird and willing to show it to the world, The part of you that's generous and funny and humorous and is just a big yes toe life. That's the part I'm speaking to because sometimes we all just need someone to speak to us that way to just say, you're good, you're awesome. I love you. Go be you today. Just go be you don't worry about what anybody thinks Put consequences aside unless you're standing on the edge of a cliff somewhere enjoying an incredible view Start dancing with abandon. Start dancing like you know you could fall down I'm just giving you energy That's all I'm doing And I know it doesn't make any sense And I'm trying to just find things to say to go on and on and on But that's it today I just wanted to give you some juice off what her toe lift you up and show you off to the rest of the world and say, Look, everybody look at my friend. Look at my friend here, Look at this person who cares enough about the subject off following through on themselves that they're willing to sit and listen to some crazy guy yell at them over the course of a podcast just to give them enough energy just to give them a boost so they could go be themselves unabashedly, unapologetically and love doing it and light other people up in the process. So there you go. That's my message for today. That is today's episode. How is weird and wacky is is so what? We're laying it down. And the beauty of this episode is I am not gonna have to spend hours editing it because it's just what it is. And it's so bad and weird in and of itself. There's no editing I could do to it that would possibly save it from exactly what it is. Okay, so now I'm awake. That's it for today. Episode 39. Can you believe it? If you've been in from the beginning, did you think we'd ever get here one episode every day continuously, day after day. Another podcast Episode 39 Where will it end at the end of yesterday? I thought Okay, I'm done. I'm I think I'm going to stop doing this. Should I just end the whole thing cold turkey and that's it. And or should I go toe once a week? Or those were the thoughts I'm having. But this morning, with this little pep talk, I've just given myself and you at the same time, why not keep going? Why not just be a big yes, too crazy, impossible goals and commitments that aren't perfect. They're messy, but they're just Ah, yes, toe life. I'm Rick Lewis. This has been Episode 39 of the follow through Formula Podcast, and I'm going to say it again. I'll be back tomorrow. I'll be back tomorrow. I'll be back tomorrow. And you should come to because we're having fun. All right, take care.