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Time to shine today Episode 13 be more than a puppet or upon Scott Ferguson. Let’s level up.

Time to shine squad. Thank you for listening in today is the middle of January and I actually watched the LSU vs Clemson national championship last night and what a fantastic game that was. Well, it was for at least a half anyways, but uh yes LSU is the is the best team in the nation and I’m good with that. I mean, I’m going to Michigan State fan but I guess I can deal with a school that really paid its dues and awesome coach, awesome work ethic. The Heisman Trophy winner won the game. Can I complain about that at all? Anyways, today we are going to dive into how to not be a pause. Or a puppet we? Okay last night, the commander in chief the United States, the whether you like them hate them. I’m either or, I mean, I love the United States periods so whoever’s commander in chief whether it was Obama, Clinton Bush, I am on the fence about everything. I don’t ever make assumptions just because it’s for me the values of that is not right. I fought for my country. So I have a right to voice my opinion, but I don’t because it’s just not in me to do that. My values, say, Hey, man, we fought for freedom. So you have freedom. Okay, and the one thing I do like is standing for the national anthem, but that’s for another story. But last night, there was some media going on about a movie star who happened to shake the president united states hand and he’s getting backlash for it. And it’s through the media. It’s through Twitter. It’s through Instagram. Everything in I’m just noticing that some people are really buying into it and they’ve been brainwashed into anything the media puts out. Whether it was when Bill Clinton had his indiscretions or Trump had his indiscretions. Bush on down the line, the media will put it out and people just they’ll say they’re not paying attention to it, but if they have it on it could be leaking into that subconscious mind, which is 100% available at all times. The subconscious mind never sleeps. So when this happens, their values could be pulled in a certain way. That’s really not them. Okay, and it’s not just the media. Okay, you have food commercials, peddling, just food that is absolutely crap for your body, drug commercials to give you, you know, stronger libido, make you lose weight, and it’s funny when you go through all those All of the side effects could be death, it could be breaking out throwing up. So these commercials just totally baffled me the movies that you go see you have to be really on guard for what’s at the movies, whether it’s someone that’s playing a victim or you know the rich are bad and the poor are good, you know that that could brainwash you into certain things and make you into a pawn or a puppet. Okay, there’s apps out there that make you play games all day and they’re firing ads at you and again, all that stuff sticks in your subconscious mind. In some of my students don’t get stuck in that I’ve been stuck in it. I’m not gonna sit here and say, Oh, I’m always present in you know, this, this that the other thing Well, guess what, it happens to me too, but what I do is I pull everything back to being present. As soon as I’m getting so much better at really realizing when Something that’s not serving me that I just turn it off. In my mind, I could still watch the movie, I could still read the book, The article, whatnot, I can turn it off to the point where it’s not going to bother me anymore. And that’s where I became more of a leader and not a puppet or upon. So I want you to be present in every situation that you’re in. Whether you’re in discussion with somebody that’s trying to make you believe them a certain way, whether you’re reading a book that has some negative narrative to it. Okay, I want you to remember your values. There’s a quote by Viktor Frankl, he says a man is pushed by drives and pulled by values. So a drive is your commercials a drive is that app that’s in your hand and your phone. The drive the drive is your movies. You’re watching the commercials, you’re saying I wish I saw I said that already with food and drugs, and whatnot. But I’m asking you to remember your values bring everything back, especially if you’re like us at time to shine today where we are looking to level up our lives. 24 seven, we are not going to be pushed by something that is not serving us, our values come back. We remember our values and we say present. So remember, try to feed your mind what’s going to serve you internalize the good stuff. Okay, talk to somebody that’s been there and learn from them versus somebody that’s never been there and is trying to drive you in a certain way. Okay, so we always remember your values, sticking to the correct values and being present allows us to have an inner awareness to prevent us from being puppets that’s from Ryan Holiday, and I’m leaving his book down in the show notes along with Marcus are really assists Meditation as well because both of those will really help you stay present and not let things leak into your mind. So again, I’m going to stay stick to the correct value and be present. Because that will allow you to have an inner awareness and prevent you from being that puppet or upon. Okay, so let’s not get brainwashed by every little thing that’s out there. If it’s entertaining, watch it, but keep your mind on guard at all times to not let things seep into your subconscious mind. Okay, I mean, it’s already gonna be in the subconscious, but if you’re conscious enough to block it, and you be that gatekeeper from coming into the subconscious mind, then you’re not going to fall into the trap of being upon or above it. Okay, so that is my message to you. That’s always press forward. That’s always progress. Let’s guard against the negative. All right. So guys and gals until next time, let’s level up our health. Let’s level up our wealth because it’s your time to shine. Have a great day.

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