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Hello hello. We are doing something fun
today. It's actually an episode that
I've been excited to record for quite a while and kind of forgot
about but we're going to talk about the books that we've read
on this journey which there's a lot of them and for me to narrow
it down, was very hard. Yes.
And I actually don't know if I really narrowed it that much.
We have a lot of books to talk about right now.
Now it's easily. So we're not going to waste any
time today. We're going to get right into it
and Carly and I have read a couple of the same books.
I just think it's really fun to see how different authors say,
kind of the same thing because there's definitely similar.
Themes in all of these. It's just like, you could read
five books and be like. Okay, okay, okay.
And then that's six book. All of a sudden, you're like, oh
my God, holy shit back. That's changing my lawyers
speakin my language. Exactly.
Like you just need to find the book that really hits home with
you. And so the ones that I've
grabbed to talk about and that Carly has brought up, I think
are fairly approachable if you're interested in
spirituality because there are some that are sometimes they
speak at a high level. I don't even want to say that
because that makes it sound like the readers dumb, but it's not
it's like lofty language. That is not as approachable. and
it's just unnecessary, like, there's some books that are just
hard to hop into if you haven't been into this at all,
definitely what I think because the deeper we get into these
things into these teachings or just our own selves, the less I
don't know if this is going to make any sense, but it's almost
like the less clear things get like the deeper, they get the
less like clear, they are with saying it because the deeper,
you get, the less language can even wrap itself around these
Concepts, like all of our languages, all of our King ways
of communication. I think they all get to a
certain point where then you just kind of start to sit with
the knowledge. You really like feel the
knowledge and the teachings and then Like Beyond language that,
I don't know if that made any is going to make any sense to
anybody but what it made me think of is what a lot of these
books say and like what kind of the point is that the more
knowledge you have, the more you understand that, you know,
nothing exactly. Yeah.
So let's get into it. I would say, let's start with
the first one, The Four Agreements.
Because I know that we both read that one, and it's one title
that I see. E floating around as a
recommendation all the time and I completely agree.
It's a very short. It is only 137 pages and small
Pages. It's a it's a baby book.
It's like a pocketbook kind of, it's just very easy.
I have something highlighted on every single page of this book.
I felt silly, even trying to highlight the things that I
found impactful because it was literally all of it.
I need to read it again, honestly, how did you feel about
it now? Okay.
I think what I loved so much about this is I just read this
may be within the past for sure, actually within the past year,
and what I loved about it was it was all of the stuff that I've
heard from other people that I've kind of witnessed Within
Myself, that I've come to understand all of it, simplified
in like a very short description and clear presentation like just
boom. Okay we got it.
Hmm. I just want to go through what
the agreements. Are.
So The First Agreement is be impeccable with your word.
The second agreement, don't take anything personally, the third
agreement don't make assumptions.
The fourth agreement always do your best.
It's just beautiful. I think when I tell people about
this book all the time, the one agreement that spoke and still
speaks so much to me all of them do.
But is the agreement, is it the second one that he talks about
don't take anything personally that One just it's like the
things that, you know, but the way that he spoke about it was
just oh my God, because he really talks about.
Don't take anything, personally, the negative things, or the good
things, the positive things because even if somebody You
know, really Vibes with you. They really love your if you're
offering something in or doing art or the way you are as a
person. If they really like you and what
you're creating in your life, it has nothing to do with you.
It has everything to do with them and what they like.
So the same thing goes for, if somebody doesn't like you or
doesn't like your art, it doesn't like your Creations,
whatever they are. It has nothing to do with you.
It's It's all to do with them and that was just like boom.
Well I have one paragraph that's completely starred in here for
that second agreement and I'm not going to read the whole book
to you guys I promise because we have a lot to get through but it
has to do with this. And it says if you can make this
second agreement, a habit you will find that nothing can put
you back into hell. There's a huge amount of Freedom
that comes to you when you take nothing personally.
You become immune to Black magicians and no spell can
affect you regardless of how strong it may be.
The whole world can gossip about you, and if you don't take it
personally, you are immune. Someone can intentionally send
emotional poison. And if you don't take it
personally, you will not eat it. When you don't take the
emotional poison, it becomes even worse in the sender, but
not in you. It's so good.
It's just everything every page. I read that it was like, oh my
God. Duh, of course.
Yes. Or like one thing I loved about
this book journey which I feel. We've both gone through is
reading books that I, even if I already have kind of deeply
connected with the message of the book, I still love reading
different takes on it because it gives you different words to use
based on who you're talking with.
And based on what points you want to get across to the crowd,
you know, it's I've definitely felt my ego pipe up looking at
some books to read because like, oh well, I've already learned
this. I've already read a book on this
topic. Yeah.
I'm like, okay that's kind of a sign that maybe I should read
this book and I this is amazing. Like it's something that I would
give as a gift. Literally anybody.
And like I said, it's very approachable language.
It's so simple. It's So short, I just I can't
recommend it enough and just like a not flip through it
anymore, just ancient wisdom. That is still so relevant today.
Yeah. Okay.
That's The Four Agreements. Let's move on to the power of
now, which we could have a whole episode about the Power of Now.
But when did you find this book? Carly when did you read it?
Read it a while back, right? Probably like a year or so ago I
read that. I had been hearing about it for
a while and then just finally was I read it during a time
where I was super in my head about everything and having a
hard time not thinking about the future and not questioning
things, all of that and I was like, okay I know that this is
not not how I want to be doing things.
So let's let's check this book out.
I am flipping through to see how much highlighting I have in
here, again. A lot of highlighting, I love
marking up my books. I know you're much better about
it than I am. I let me go grab this book
though, to place. The reason I like marking it up.
I used to be somebody who kept my books in pristine condition
because I just thought that that meant I was taking really good
care of them. But honestly, I would almost
rather go get a book from a second hand store and see.
What impacted other people and then those other people have.
And I also like marking them up because if I go back and read
this in the future, I like seeing what impacted me back at
that time and it, because I'll find myself highlighting
different things as I learn and grow, I could read The Power of
Now, again and get different information and knowledge from
it, with where I'm at now in my life.
Then when I read it the first time, which so much, I don't
even think I finish this, I am like a Serial non-book finish.
Sure, I read I like get obsessed with these books and then all of
a sudden I'm just done reading it but I'm not done with it.
I don't know. I'm trusting that I must have
been impacted in the way that I was meant to be and it will come
back around like maybe I'll pick this up.
Now, the biggest message on The Power of Now is just that
nothing exists, except the present moment and you are not
your mind. I remember reading.
Thing about the ego only paying attention to the past and the
future because that that creates your sense of self.
So as long as you're attached to the version of yourself that
existed in the past and what you did in the past that you can't
grow and like do what you're what you want to because you're
attached to that but then also the future doesn't exist either.
So what you're doing right now is the only thing that matters
so Carly is going to read something.
I put right to this. So because have you ever
experienced done thought or felt anything outside the now?
Do you think you ever will is it possible for anything to happen
or be outside the? Now the answer is obvious is it
not nothing? Ever happened in the past.
It happened in the now. Nothing will ever happen in the
future. It will happen in the now and
that basically sums up. I think the entire message of
the book. Yeah, but you should definitely
read it because There's so much more than that.
Oh yeah, no he like gets further deeply into that but it's
amazing. It just really I remember
feeling such a sense of Peace reading that book like it's all
okay like I've always been okay in the present moment and that's
what I come back to you anytime I'm really stressed out or
worried about something that's going to happen or having
anxious thoughts about something that I did that I regret or
something like that. It's like it's I overheard over
and done or it hasn't happened and either way, I am perfectly
safe, fine. And okay, right now.
So I don't need to feel this way and then I let it go.
So yeah, I think if I remember in this book because again, a
lot of this book's touch on this Sim same T, same teachings.
But he talks to you about the kind of the difference between
suffering and pain as well. Like, you know, pain is what
happens in the current moment, we feel the emotion and then
suffering is something we do to ourselves.
Elves because of the fact that we are not living fully in the,
now that we are stuck in our anxious thoughts.
We are questioning things were regretting.
Things were stuck in the past or we're anxious and thinking about
the future and the, literally, the easiest way to get out of
that pattern is to just be here now.
And it's, it's powerful. Have you read the war of art by
side must be light read that yet.
Highly highly recommend. This is another very short one,
and honestly, some pages have one paragraph on them, that's
like not even half a page. Each page / chapter is a
different little topic and his little Riff on it, but it's all
about resistance. So he focuses a lot on in
creativity because he is an author.
So, it's kind of all of his Thoughts and recommendations and
knowledge on the resistance that you feel when you're trying to
do something do something different trying to create
something, move forward with your business and you're feeling
anything. Like I mean, every I'll just
read some of the page titles like resistance has.
Internal resistance is impersonal resistance only
opposes in One Direction. Resistance is fueled by fear
resistance is most powerful. At the Finish Line, resistance
recruits allies resistance and Nation.
So like every single page is kind of a different different
little frame on Resistance. But again, this was another one,
I started highlighting and I just stopped highlighting
because I'm like every single page of the whole book is very
very helpful. And while he talks about kind of
logical ways to like, get over resistance, like after you read
this book, if you're still feeling resistance is something
you didn't really get the point. It also has that frame of it
doesn't freaking matter like get over it just it's all made up
and not taking yourself so seriously.
Exactly. So it really has that same focus
and while it it doesn't come off as like you wouldn't look at
this. The war of art break through the
blocks and win your inner creative battles as a spiritual
book. 100% is a spiritual book about just kind of letting go
and like doing what you want to do in this life and you just
kind of worried breaks through any excuse that your mind could
give you not do the thing. Ya, the war of art really
recommend, it's super short, very easy to read, it's like 165
pages. But again, some of the pages
have three sentences on them. So very easy to read and I have
to get that when I'm in the US. Yes, please do.
That would be an easy one to toss in your suitcase.
Excited. I hope I get to see you.
I know me too. So I think we both read discover
your Dharma by Sahara Rose. If anybody is into spirituality
stuff and follows people on Instagram, you've probably seen
Sahara. She's very active there in her
book is a Vedic guide to finding your purpose.
So if you are questioning what you're here for, trying to find
some Direction. This is a really fun book
because it's also interactive, you're learning a lot, there's
going to be some approaches, like it is a Vedic Vedic frame,
like Dharma, obviously, you're going to be reading things that
maybe you're not familiar with but if you're open to it and
like, finding out what energy you relate to and how that can
show up in a job or in like whatever you want to do it, this
is fun because there's quizzes, there's some reflection
questions at something. You definitely need a notebook
to go along. With and work through it while
you read it. This is one of those books that
for me, I don't think I will probably ever read it again.
However, it like really propelled me down the path of
like, mindfully creating my own life and really starting to
learn how to listen to myself and be aware of what I am
creating. So I would.
Yeah, I also would highly recommend it.
Yeah, I'd say the impact it had on me was Can you give me the
validation of where I saw my life going?
And I actually after I finish this book or in the middle of
this book is when we signed up for the coaching program.
So kind of going down that type of path and like, everything
lining up from that book and then that's when we found him a
design and my human design was saying the same thing as the
book was telling me and as my Myers-Briggs and Enneagram like
they were all saying the same thing about My life and I'm not
typing in singles and I would like okay yeah I'm getting this
repeated message from so many different places, so it was
which is on one place really in the end.
Yeah, so yeah not gonna talk about that one anymore but
highly recommend if you're feeling just a bit lost in
general, that it's a good book to just guide you a little bit
and maybe give you some that reassurance on what you should
do or what you might like to do. Never Should well what you might
like, and enjoy Harley brought up the artists way, and I
haven't read that. So, if you want to give a little
bit of a talk on the artists way and how that one is fun to work
with, of course. Okay, so cbh also finish this.
However, I did, I think the first half at some how many
weeks is it? It will kind of like a small
course. So I think it's 12 weeks We and
each week you go through kind of a topic.
Yes, 12 weeks. I did the first.
Yeah, the first five I think but it's really a beautiful way.
To reconnect with your inner child and to kind of see what
throughout your life, especially your childhood has been blocking
your connection to your own Artistry in your own creativity
and she uses a lot of beautiful terms.
That makes it kind of fun and light-hearted as well.
One of the biggest takeaways that I took from it and I think
you were doing them for a while as well.
Is she her name by the way is Julia Cameron.
She uses the concept of the morning pages in her.
So basically why you're doing this and a lot of people who
have done this course. So have done the morning Pages
for many years after finishing this as well, but it's just a
way right away in the morning to connect with what is on your
mind and get kind of those thoughts out of the way.
So then you can have more of a clear connection to your
creativity. I really, I really love it.
And if anyone is kind of creative already, may be doing
more, artsy things. It's perfect for them for you or
it's also perfect for people who maybe have never thought of
themselves as a creative person. To really tap in with your
creativity because we are all creative people.
We are creation. So we are here to create and
that looks different for everybody.
But we are we're here to create our lives and create something
unique for the world, and that's one of her main messages in this
book. So, for an example, the first
four weeks, week one is recovering a sense of safety.
So that's where you kind of go through your enemy with thing in
connection with your core negative beliefs.
And also though you're a lie within so affirmative weapons,
she calls them creative affirmations and then she gives
you some tasks. Yeah.
So then week two is recovering a Sense of identity, and I really
loved this this week. I read this section, says it go
insane poisonous Playmates. So basically, when you were
young, kind of those people that maybe unbeknownst to yourself at
a time, blocked your little creative child up a little bit
crazy makers in your life. So, just going around just
really taking when you're, like, taking stock taking stock of
your life and like, really looking at it from, A third,
party's View, and just being honest with yourself about
what's going on in your life, week three is recovering a sense
of power and week for is recovering a sense of Integrity.
So it's just I really it's so approachable and just fun.
And like I said interactive and I've heard many people say also
incredible things about this. So so I want to bring up loving
what is for a while. I was talking about that on
every episode. It's such a good book and it's
actually, it's actually transcripts from Byron.
Katie's actual talks, she does professional speaking and does
the work live and then she also does Retreats, so people can go
and do the work. It the work is for questions,
basically that she asks but it's not just for questions.
There's no motive. It's all about getting you to
come to your own answers about what is really blocking you.
Mmm. So my favorite things that she
talks about is that you have it highlighted.
The only time we suffer is when we believe a thought that argues
with what is, oh wait, God. Just cracks me up.
Anytime I'm feeling like upset or angry or Or like just it's
always because I'm feeling like the person in front of me should
drive faster. Well, they should nothing.
They're just not there driving slow and that's what it is.
Like, okay, just it's fine or so and so should apologize because
they were bad person when they said XYZ.
Well, they're not and they're they probably won't so get over
it. I mean, it's a little bit of
that. It's a little bit of tough love.
Like it. Just is what it is and no matter
how stressed or anxious or angry you get about it.
It's not going to For can change, okay?
So like how can you work through it?
And so that's what she does with her questions.
And she does it with very, very deep traumas as well.
Like this book, I like because you can kind of flip to
whichever transcript is a topic that you need to hear and some
of them, some of them like had certain parts that.
Yeah, I might not be going through what the person is going
through. Exactly.
But the advice, the advice that came through or the
realizations, the person came to through speaking with Katie it
applied to my life, like you always get from these books.
What you need? So, for example, some of the
transcripts in here are my husband's Affair.
Elise is ignoring me. My father was horrible, Stanley
didn't have to die. I need my family's approval,
Peter broke his word to me. My son and daughter are being
Reckless with their lives, so like those are some of the
topics that she goes through. With people.
So she'll just pull someone on stage that she feels called to
talk to. And so those were just actually
those were just doing the work on couples and family life and
then there's the doing the work on work and money.
So angry at Corporate America as one of those doing the work on
self judgments. Like the way people are seeing
themselves and thinking that they're horrible person.
So like doing the work on your own thoughts, doing the work
with children. So she actually brings a child
onstage and that's that was an amazing one as well, because
children are less, you know, filtered and blocked and it's
just amazing to see that shift when she asks the questions.
There's all sorts of things being afraid of death, or I'm
angry at so-and-so for dying. I need to make a decision.
She was supposed to make me happy or there's just so many
different Topics in here. Here.
But I just I can't even explain to you a couple of the questions
that she asked is like, first of all tell me what's going on and
then always, is it true? And then she says, is it really
true but she really digs into like what happens?
How do you react? How you, how do you feel when
you believe the thought that you're telling yourself about
reality? Anyway, I could go on and on
about this book and she actually has resources on her website of
how to do the work yourself, but I just honestly think this is
amazing. And once, you know, how to work
with the questions that something that you can even
apply to your relationships, just a deep in it and to become
a better listener and to help friends and family, work through
it to become a better parent. It's just amazing.
I can't say better. The things about this.
I'm gonna have to bring like five books back from the US with
me. That is a thick one.
It looks a bit aggressive. 355 pages, I guess.
That's not horrible, but I mean, it's a bit large.
But like I said, Frankie, it's chunky, but you can flip through
it and kind of read whatever transcript you feel called to
read at a certain time and the I need my family to And me one
really hit me that was like last year last year, I read that and
it was it like moved me to tears because it was it was amazing
the way she works through it with somebody.
So anyway you wanted to bring up the autobiography of a yogi
which I have not read. Oh yes.
Okay so this one's Very different than the other ones in
the sense that it's not so much like a self-growth self-help for
a mindset book if you will but this is incredible and I'm
actually still reading it. I'm about three-quarters of the
way through and it's an autobiography.
So of paramahansa Yogananda and this is actually a lot of
people's kind of first books into this kind of world of like
spirituality of the yogic, philosophies of all that stuff
that hat is kind of Basically all of this stuff that a lot of
these books we've already spoken about all of the deep deep
teachings can be even traced back to a lot of yogic
philosophies and actually, I don't know.
I think I told you this but when Steve Jobs passed away, this was
the only book on his Kindle and he gave it to every single
person who came to his funeral. So it's like like this one is,
is definitely a potent life-changer one as well, but
it's just about his life and a lot of it in here.
II have imagined, some of my family members reading this and
being like class of bunch of bullshit, like get that
happened. This is not even true what the
heck and a lot of the stuff that he witnessed as a child and
throughout his life like he was connected and in the midst of
very powerful beings on this planet.
And so things that he experienced seemed unbelievable
to us but it's just an incredible example of we really
know nothing at all and there's so much more out there than what
our logical brain wants to believe and think it's really I
mean, I really don't know what else to say about it.
It just shows that there's yeah, there's things out there that
are really beautiful and really incredible and that we all have
this ability to connect deeper and more No, we connect deeper
within ourselves is actually also connecting deeper to what's
with out of ourselves as well. You know, I don't know if that
made any sense but it's a, it's a good one.
I promised, I need to add it to my list.
I'm going to put a little dot, buy it for ones that I want to
read. There's been a couple of
different versions of it. The one I have is the original
point of the book. They've just been once that have
been changed a little bit or like added some things and
they're really good. I've heard good things about
them, but there's something about like, reading the exact
same way that it, he wrote it because this would have been
written in the 1940s. I think that's just really,
really special. I think I wanted to bring up big
magic because I think we've both read it.
Yes, I love that book. It's such a good book.
It's big Magic by Elizabeth Gilbert.
It's a very, I would say, kind of a mainstream personal growth
book. She also wrote Eat, Pray, Love
for anybody who's familiar with that as well, but it's creative
living beyond fear. So again, yes, she focuses on
primarily authors like when she's talking about being
creative, But not though, I mean she she frames some of her
examples as to authors because that's her experience.
But I would highly recommend reading this just if you're
anybody who has an idea and you're trying to bring it to
life. Yes.
Very helpful and useful and she's super funny too, but one
of the main things that I love about this, which Carly's going
to be like, yeah, that's what we talk about all the time, but
it's that The ideas you have are not just yours like they come to
you because they want to be created and they're searching
for you just as much as you're searching for them and they want
to come to life if you decide not to put in the effort and
that the idea isn't for you. Like no like creating my own
business. No, I don't really like that.
Someone else is going to get that idea.
And so you have to be okay with the fact that if you say no to
it, it's also going to leave you and find someone else.
And she had a crazy example where She almost finished this
entire book, it was a very specific like story time, it was
crazy. It was something about like oil
in the Amazon and a love story. It was like, something was
really kind of weird and Niche. She didn't finish it and then
she met somebody at a book like a conference or something
started talking to them and they had written and finished and
published that exact same book with this, very similar
storyline like different character names, but the Same
book and she was like holy shit. I didn't finish.
I didn't follow through and the idea found somebody else.
Yeah. And I feel like we see that all
the time like when someone had like oh my gosh, I had that idea
to or are like oh my gosh. One time I was going to do that
and then I just never got around to it and somebody else is doing
it or you think of something don't do it and then see a
commercial for it later that year.
God, it's so true. This also I like cause she she
talked about this and also Lee spoke about you know when an
idea comes to you to really sit with it and be honest with
yourself and with it like am I able to bring you to life?
Like is this really something that my energy is really here to
do? And if it's not to say thank you
and give it almost permission to like okay now go find someone
else. It's okay.
I do not have the capability right now to bring you to life
and That has been something. I actually really just connected
with this. Just now that I have kind of
taken into practice and I kind of forgot that it came from this
book but I get ideas all the time, every day about the
craziest things. And one thing that I've begun to
do after reading that book is to really be like, okay, is this
truly mine is this truly mine to create and sometimes sometimes
quite often If the answer is no, like it's it's not not in
alignment with me at this time and I literally would say,
sometimes out loud, sometimes in my mind.
Okay, now, go find someone else. Like I thank you for giving me a
chance, but I you please go find someone else and that has
allowed me so much more head space.
Because truly, when I do that, the idea really leaves me
whereas before I felt I had all of these unborn ideas floating
around in my head. All at once, taking up space,
and that was something that reading that book, I guess I
didn't really connect with that, I was going to be putting into
practice as much as I did. I want to read this page because
I dog-eared it and then put hearts and said this entire page
And it's under the title of decorate yourself, and I'm not
going to read the entire section, but basically she met
somebody who's covered in tattoos.
So kind of starts with that conversation and she said, I
love this. I asked her once how she could
allow her body to be marked up. So casually with permanent ink.
She said, Oh, but you must understand.
It's not permanent. It's just temporary confused.
I asked you mean all your tattoos are temporary.
She smiled and I said no Liz. My tattoos are permanent.
It's just my body. That's temporary.
So is yours. We're only here on Earth for a
short while so I decided a long time ago.
I wanted to decorate myself as playfully as I can, while I
still have the time. I love this so much.
I can't even tell you because, like Eileen.
I also want to live the most vividly decorated temporary life
that I can. I don't just mean physically.
I mean, emotionally spiritually intellectually.
I don't want to be afraid of bright colors, or new sounds or
Big Love or risky decisions. Strange experiences or weird
Endeavors or sudden changes or even failure mind you I'm not
going to go out and cover myself with tattoos simply because that
doesn't happen to be my jam. But I am going to spend as much
time as I can, creating delightful things out of my
existence because that's what brings me awake.
And that's what brings me alive. I do my decorating with printer
ink, not with tattoo ink, but my urge to write comes from exactly
the same place as Eileen's urge to turn her skin into a vivid
canvas while she is still here, it comes from a place of hey.
Why not? Because it's all just temporary
mmm. So good.
Yep. That sums up my perspective and
another in other words like we said earlier, don't take
yourself so seriously, just have fun.
Oh my gosh. If people just had more fun the
world would be a much better place.
Yeah. There's a couple honorable
mentions that I'm not going to really dive into They had an
impact on my life and I just wanted to mention it Early,
Retirement Extreme, which is ironic because Carly recommended
it. And I swear to you she only read
one chapter maybe maybe three and it had three chapters and I
breezed through the whole thing but I will say it's a very dense
book and it's a finance book. Primarily I would say, I
probably put in that category, I wouldn't recommend it to
everybody but long story short, what it showed me was how little
I really need to survive and it's kind of what Prompted the
it was like the thing that I needed to sell my a lot of my
possessions and like donate and pack up before I went on my trip
because I was really attached to the home that I created and I
was like well I can't get rid of that.
Like I just bought it or like my closet.
I'm like, I've had these calls for so long like I loved it like
what if I want to wear that? And it just kind of cut all that
shit and was like you really don't need Thing besides one
pair of pants a t-shirt like a plate.
Like at the end of the, you can you can argue and be like it's
nice to have more than that but truly you don't need more than
that. And we all have so much and you
just you don't need it to live. So it really it is early
retirement, extreme it is Extreme.
So please go into it with that mindset if you're going to read
this book but it was the advice I needed in order.
Order to take the leap and realize that I could live out of
a suitcase for a while with my car and my suitcase, and that's
all I needed. Anyway, I needed that advice.
The other one was year of yes, by Shonda Rhimes, love Shonda
Rhimes. And I thought it was going to be
kind of like, I don't know about Auto autobiography.
I always mix up biography and autobiography, and she wrote it
in auto So it's about how she used to be very planned and
organized very type, a very much.
Like I used to be needing to know all the information needing
to plan it out. Put it on her calendar needed to
weigh the pros. And cons said, no to a lot of
things because she was uncertain of what the outcome would be.
And she challenged herself one year to say yes, to absolutely
everything. And even like a lot of the
things she's like, I don't understand.
But yes, I guess like I'll try it.
I'll do it in the things that changed in her life and
opportunities that she had. Because she said, yes to even
something. As simple as dinner with some
person that she would have normally said, no to because,
like, why would I go to dinner with this person?
Just say, yes. Just go do the thing.
And that also really prompted my road trip and, and all Carly's
holding up the surrender experiment.
Because we need to talk about that one, too, and it has to do
with that. But I said, Yes, to a lot of
things on my trip that I would have normally said, no, to
because I would make up some some reason that it would be
dangerous or irresponsible or whatever.
So that book really spoke to me. The surrender.
Experiment, Carly. Oh yeah, it's on my list.
I need to read it like very high.
Seems like started reading it again.
Now, that is literally that like saying, yes to things that come
their way and this book, their surrender experiment is written
by Michael a singer. He also has written the
untethered Soul, which is a pretty popular one.
I've I have yet to read that but this I read within the last year
as well. and again kind of to those two that time of like my
brain trying to figure everything out and not getting
me anywhere and this I love this book for two reasons.
One was his own story about how his Awakening kind of happened
and it was like very small simple just a thought like that
came to him and he couldn't like, you know, just Put him on
this path. And that really spoke to me
because I feel that a lot of people in the coaching industry,
the spiritual Community, all the stuff they all talk about how
like they've had these like life or death moments that really
restrict them. They woke them up the wick in
there, their gifts and awake, and all this stuff.
And I would say that, you know, I've not had anything quite
like, that happens to me. And I don't think Alexis you
would say the same either. And for a while, I was really
Questioning my like ability to this is like so stupid, but I
was questioning my ability to really truly help people because
I was like, well, I haven't like suffered like some of these
people have like I haven't like gone through, I've gone through
shit because everyone's gone through shit but like not like
some people have, you know, and I realize I'm like, wait, wait
wait a second. I got to be very careful because
we attract everything and I do not want to be attracting things
like that in right around that time I read.
This and his journey was just so beautiful and he basically
realized that life was really trying to pull him in a certain
direction and create something with him and so he just
surrendered to it and whenever things will come his way and
things would happen if you would just say yes.
Even if his ego even if his mind did not like it, he started even
listening to that more and like really saying yes to those,
Those things down because he's like, okay the egos not writing,
not driving this boat, like I am and the shit that happened in
his life like where his life ended up quote is crazy but it
was just a beautiful example. That you don't, we don't have to
know, we don't have to worry about it.
Like every one of us are here to experience what we're here to
experience, and I truly believe that.
Our mind has nothing to do with it.
You know our desires really to a degree have nothing to do with
it because I just there's like a difference between this desires
that come through us like through nature.
You know that like movement versus the desires that we are
like taught to want and starting to Just Surrender to life.
Can really show the difference between those things have a
Barnes & Noble gift card. So I need to go get that one.
I have a couple. I just wanted to say the ones
that are on my list that I want to read.
I kind of already said this render experiment The Alchemist.
I actually have, and I need to read, that's another one.
I see floating around and people recommend all the time.
So I'm excited about that one and then we were both talking
about the Gita. Mmm.
Yeah, the bhagavad-gita that is. I have it right next to me.
I'm finishing up a couple other books right now that I can
mention, I was Get that it that kind of have to do with my yoga
training and they're written by Anand.
The guy who kind of brought together satellite yoga.
But it's basically his translations, his
interpretations of patanjali's yoga sutras Palace, one and two,
which are all in, not getting into this, but in The Vedic
teachings, this book is called this is that and it's one of you
feel. Consul.
Look it up, look it up. It's really, really incredible.
And just has again all of these teachings like in one shebang.
And then this book, I'm also in the middle of called Liberation
and interpretation of the Eastside punished ad, which is
again, yoga vedantic teaching really, really good.
But then, yeah, the bhagavad-gita is one of the most
famous. It's actually like a song.
I can't think of what they call it in.
In Sanskrit, but it's just, it says right here, a classic of
Indian spirituality. I was so many books.
So, we went through that so quickly.
I was kind of worried that we would get distracted and talk to
Ryu hours later. Yeah, exactly.
Like I said, we could probably do an individual episode on
almost every single one of these books.
But to anybody listening that has questions or wants to, I
don't dive deeper. The these or wants to read it
and then discuss it with somebody because I know that.
Yeah. Yeah.
Please please message us. Um, but I remember reading some
of these in nobody else around me, besides Carly had read them.
So that's why we were on the phone all the time.
Talking about them because there's just wasn't anybody that
I could discuss this stuff with in my daily life.
So if you ever feel that way or you want to get into, Like it
into like your spiritual regardless.
But if you want to, like dive into the concepts more or have
deeper discussions about things or talk to two people that like
to do the application and really dissect things with without
judgment. It's yes.
Of a fun thing to do so have fun reading.
Yeah, go pick out a new book. It's summertime go read it by
the pool. You Spirit Spiritual Awakening,
and get a tan. Hmm.
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