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Hello and welcome back to the 
Tiny Pod. 

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A brand new year, a brand new 
season 5. 

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Happy new year. 
How clarifying is a new year. 

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Today's podcast is all about 
clarifying and the clarity we 

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arrive at through the process of
clarifying. 

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The word clarity comes from the 
Latin clarus, meaning clear, 

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bright, distinct, clarificare. 
To make clear. 

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Originally, Clarus wasn't just 
about visual clarity. 

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It meant fame, renown, and being
unmistakably known. 

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To clarify means more than to 
just see clearly. 

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It means to see completely 
without distortion. 

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Death can clarify endings, 
clarify grief, clarifies time, 

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clarifies it is non negotiable 
and illusions cannot survive. 

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Death removes fantasy instantly.
The end of a year strips away 

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stories we tell ourselves, and 
new beginnings expose what we 

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are actually willing to commit 
to. 

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Humans often want to skip the 
discipline, commitment, and 

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consistency that clarifying 
requires. 

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Playing the lottery or gambling 
is trying to skip the process of

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building wealth. 
Addiction is trying to skip the 

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process of naturally balancing 
chemicals in our brain through 

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nutrition, exercise, breath 
work. 

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When we rush romantic 
relationships, we try to skip 

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the process of natural intimacy.
But it is in the process that we

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grow the capacity to hold the 
wealth, the love and the skills 

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we need. 
To clarify means to make 

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something clear by removing what
does not belong, separating and 

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removing impurities. 
When you clarify butter, you 

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don't change the butter into 
something new. 

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You apply heat and let it 
separate and then skim off what 

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clouds it so that all that 
remains is pure, clean, and more

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stable. 
Time, patience, and fire reveal 

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essence. 
Clarifying isn't destruction. 

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Clarified butter lasts longer, 
is stronger, more resilient to 

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the fire that made it. 
Clarification is a process of 

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refinement, allowing the fog to 
fall away so that all that 

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remains is truth. 
Clarification reveals alignment.

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Clarifying moments show us the 
truth. 

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What needs to fall away, what no
longer makes sense to carry. 

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Most people love clarity. 
Few people love commitment to 

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clarity. 
But clarification without follow

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through is just insight. 
Clarification with discipline is

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transformation. 
You become cleaner, clearer, 

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right? 
Relationships grow, purpose 

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lands, capacity expands, and 
everything false falls away. 

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As humans, we have a tendency to
hold on to fear loss, but New 

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Year's happen regardless of how 
ready we feel. 

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New Year's provide us with an 
opportunity to let go or have a 

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new beginning. 
A new year can be really 

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clarifying because what an 
opportunity for 365 days of 

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removing what clouds truth, 
clearing the fog, letting what 

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doesn't belong fall away and not
adding more words, more 

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justification, more explanation 
or more defence. 

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Clarifying is less noise, less 
proving, less holding on, 

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clearing out space for more 
truth, stability, more 

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integrity, and becoming more 
yourself. 

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Strength comes from clarity. 
Clarity doesn't feel relieving, 

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it feels sobering. 
It brings gravity because once 

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something is clear, you can't 
unknown it and you can't hide 

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from it. 
Clarity removes excuses before 

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it brings peace, and that's why 
unconsciously, we resist it. 

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Clarity reveals where your 
energy is leaking. 

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So often after clarification, 
things feel heavier or louder 

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than they used to and strangely 
draining because misalignment is

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becoming obvious. 
There are many things that you 

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can tolerate or settle for after
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It costs too much. 
Clarity slows you down because 

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haste is no longer necessary. 
When things clarify, urgency and

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emergency disappear. 
You stop rushing timelines 

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driven by fear and obligations 
born from guilt. 

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Clarity is simple, quiet, 
unglamorous. 

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You take off the mask, the make 
up, the clothes, the trophies, 

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the jewellery. 
You lay down your weapons and 

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defences, drop your guard and 
strip back to truth. 

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Clarifying reveals what you 
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this becoming non negotiable 
actually makes life softer. 

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Before clarity, people negotiate
against themselves constantly, 

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bargain with their boundaries, 
and argue with their intuition. 

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After clarity, you can no longer
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Things either align or decline. 
Clarity creates a temporary 

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loneliness because fewer things 
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Your world gets quieter before 
it gets fuller, and that silence

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can feel like emptiness. 
It is often space preparing 

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itself. 
Clarifying sharpens discernment 

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and makes you more precise. 
You simply see, and seeing 

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clearly changes behaviour 
without force. 

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Your body relaxes, even if the 
answer is hard. 

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Decisions feel quieter, you stop
rehearsing conversations and 

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scenarios, and you don't need 
validation externally. 

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Clarity doesn't promise ease, it
promises honesty, and honesty 

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lived consistently becomes 
peace. 

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Clarification is a process. 
You don't just say I want the 

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butter to turn to ghee, you have
to add heat and time. 

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The same with alchemy. 
You don't just look at lead and 

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go turn to gold. 
There's a process. 

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The lottery, addiction, 
gambling. 

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They aren't shortcuts to wealth 
or relief. 

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Their attempts to skip 
clarification. 

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But skipping the process doesn't
get you there faster. 

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It gets you stuck because the 
end state we want cannot hold 

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without nervous system 
conditioning, patience, 

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restraint, integrity and 
capacity clarifying change and 

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growth. 
Start one day at a time, moment 

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to moment. 
You can start this minute and 

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you can return to the process 
any minute. 

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It's so wonderful to get to the 
end of a year and look back at a

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whole year of distance run, and 
it's pretty terrifying to look 

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back at a whole year and be in 
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So while it may feel scary to 
take the first step, it's 

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actually scarier staying in the 
same place. 

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Stagnation costs more than 
effort, confusion costs more 

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than courage, and avoidance 
costs more than fear. 

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Clarification is not an 
intention or a New Year's 

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resolution. 
It is the discipline of 

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returning to our intention 
consistently. 

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Clarification doesn't punish you
for wandering away. 

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It waits because real 
clarification is heat applied 

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again, patience chosen again, 
intention returned to again. 

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Clarification isn't about 
arriving somewhere new. 

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It is about no longer lying to 
yourself about where you are and

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choosing gently and repeatedly 
to move from there. 

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Clarifying is a process of lived
faith, one day at a time, 

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consistently. 
I'll see you next week.