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Just posted in a parking lot at the Cox building in Las Vegas. This fucking is this little dog. I saw him. I saw him out here a couple days ago. I've been here
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probably a dozen times trying to get him.
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What I wanted to talk about today was, I don't know, I'm gonna try to relate it to all this kind of shit, but it's like, I've heard this from a
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couple different people. I just this guy, Bob Proctor, brought it up in a book. I think it was the change your paradigm, or something like that. And then
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Jocko willing says this all the time. And it's like, no matter what, no matter what, like happens, he says, good. So like, if somebody comes to him with a
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problem, like, hey, this thing broke, he's like, good. Or, you know, you know, we're going to be behind schedule on this project, good. And it's like,
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why does he say that it's like Jocko always finds some positive in that, in that problem, in that situation. And Bob Proctor was talking about it more along
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the lines, I guess it's similar, but sort of worded slightly different, was finding the good in everything. And if you look for the good and everything,
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you'll find it. And I forget about this all the time because I tried to implement this into my life when I first heard Jocko talking about it. And then just
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lately, just the last I don't know I was, I was out to dinner with Jesse, and I was just in my own head the whole time, and I didn't even realize I was doing
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it, but she was like, You look like you're deep in thought. And I was like, I was like, Yeah, I feel like I'm just in turmoil, like I'm just constantly, you
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know, just, I don't know, just overthinking and all this kind of stuff. I don't know. I think I'm gonna bounce around quite a bit, but we'll see, see if we
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can tie it all together. But so you know that the reason that I was like thinking like that is just my mind is, I don't remember exactly what I was
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thinking about, but, like, the problem was, I wasn't present with her, you know. And that's, that's not good. So, I mean, you gotta, you gotta be happy. You
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gotta at least find time away from the turmoil, to focus on the person you're with, you know. And I think this whole concept of, like, finding the
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good and everything can be really helpful for something like that. I'm looking around because I'm just hoping to see this little dog. I didn't. Every
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time I've come I've seen them, and today I don't see them anywhere. I put some food out and it's, like, covered in ants. So I'm not just, like, kind of
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worried. But so how do you find the good in everything? How do I find the good in this little dog being loose in in the heat of Vegas, and I just want to save
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him, and it's like fucking with me, you know, I keep coming back, he won't come over to me. What's the good in that? How do you how do you find the good in
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all that? I don't, I don't really know. I mean, there's, well, I guess I I guess I do know, because, like, when I get home and I have my dogs, I'm
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grateful that, that I have them. Because, you know, one of them was her mom was dumped at a shelter when, when she was pregnant with her, so she was
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there were the the rescue was going to abort the puppies, because, I guess that's like common practice. And I'm like, hell no, don't fucking do that.
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So that's how I got her and Taco that she some guy just showed up in Pedro, and he was like, I found this dog under the car, under a car, and I don't know, I
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can't keep her. So can you do something? And I, I was like, Yeah, I'll figure it out. So that's how I got her. And then Jesse came home with a puppy
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just recently that some somebody just showed up at the Animal Foundation, and they just found these three puppies in the desert. I guess somebody
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abandoned them. And, you know, my other dogs were rescues, the ones that passed away too. I mean, shorty was abandoned in Chicago, the family moved out
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and just left her there. And so there was some rescues that sort of like daisy chained her all the way to California from Chicago. They, they, you know,
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one person said, I'll drive her from here to here, and then another person said, All right, I'll take her from here to here. Her, and they got her all the
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way to California, and that's how I got her. And Herbie was astray and left at the shelter, same with Hooper. So anyway, all of that, you know, what's the
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good in this little dog that I can't seem to get? The only good I can think of is like, when I get home and I see all my dogs, and they're all healthy and
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sleeping on the couch, and, you know, they have good food and all that, I'm grateful for that, but it also makes me more bummed that this little dog doesn't
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have that life. Like, I wish I could just be like, Man, I wish you knew, like, if you just come over here and let me fucking get you. You'll have the best life.
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You'll have all this food. We'll play fetch. You know, you could sleep on a on the bed with me, if you want. Or, you know, I don't know. But then some other
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stuff going on at work, like we have some some people leaving. Couple people are moving out of town or out of the state, and then my top manager, like the
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top person in the company, is leaving for another opportunity, and I'm really happy for her, because it's a really good opportunity. And I'm really, you
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know, I'm understanding of of the other guys like that. I support them 100% like they need to go. And I just told them this yesterday. I said, You guys need
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to go and do whatever is the best to move your life forward, like there's no hard feelings for me. You know, even though I want you to be here, if that
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doesn't seem like the best, best path for your life, then you should go and and do what, what you think is the best, but at the same time it like it causes,
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no, I'm sorry. It doesn't cause anything. It's you're the one that allows any kind of inner turmoil to happen in your mind. But you know, when I'm thinking
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about these things, these are top people in my company and and I need to replace them or figure out a way to work around it. And it's, it's stressful, but
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where's the good in that? And, you know, I don't want to sound like I'm not, like, I would keep them. Like, if they said, You know what, I changed my mind. I
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want to stay. I'd be like, Yeah, let's go. But if you're looking for the good in something, like, what's the good in all of these people leaving, you know, it's
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possible, and I don't want to, like, say that it's possible, it's always possible that you're going to find somebody that's a better fit. I mean, that's
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definitely a possibility. But also, you know, the the that's, that's a potential thing. I don't know. I don't know for sure. I could find somebody
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worse like that. You don't know until you actually make the higher, of course. But the good that I know will happen is, this is another bit of adversity, you
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know. So like, if I'm just in the last few days alone, like, I know some people may not really relate to this little dog thing, but this fucking with me. You
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know, as soon as I saw that little dog, like, I felt like I was obligated to help that dog because I saw him, he happened to be right over there when I
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was over there turning, and there's something in my mind that like now that I've now that the universe has put that dog into my vision, it's now my
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responsibility to try to help them. So it really, really fucks with me. So until I keep if I come back here, like five, six more times, well more than that,
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if I keep coming back and I don't see him again, then eventually, you know, I'm just gonna have to, you know, forget about it. But if as long as I
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keep seeing this, this dog, I'm gonna keep coming back. Oh, sorry, I got totally sidetracked. So what I was going to say is, over the last, you
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know, couple weeks or something, you know, I found out that one person was leaving, the one guy I knew was leaving already, and then my top manager told me she
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was leaving. And so that's really stressful. And then, and then, just on Wednesday, my other guy told me he's leaving. So like, I'm like, okay, you
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know, this is tough. And the day before that happened is when I saw the dog the first time. So all these things are in my mind, along with all these other
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things, you know, like different general business stresses and stuff. So my mind is kind of in turmoil a little bit, not because of these things. It's
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because I'm allowing that, allowing that, to happen, but I'm trying to see the good in all of it. And so with the people leaving, I'm seeing the
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good. I'm going through some adversity right now, and I know that I'm going to be stronger. That's That's what I was getting at. I got sidetracked. I said. I
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said, I know the immediate good of all that stuff is that I'm going to, I'm going to be stronger at after this is all over or not over, but, you know,
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after I figure it all out, the good of this little dog I I don't know. I can't really, I can't really say, other than that, I'm grateful for the dogs
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that I have.
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But I don't know I'm working on that, but I do find it helpful. Is my stress levels have gone down significantly when I was reminded about finding the good
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and everything, and I I do practice that gratitude for adversity pretty regularly, and a lot of times, like when my mind is really, you know, I
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don't know. I guess turmoil is the only kind of word I could think of. But when my mind is really, like when I was at dinner, I couldn't, well, I
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can't say I couldn't I probably could have, had I had the awareness at the time to realize what I was doing, but I was racing through all these
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different things, and, man, I keep losing my train of thought because I'm looking for this dog, but I don't know. I hope that, how long are we into this
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11 minutes? I hope this is making sense. I mean finding the good in everything. What I was saying is like practicing gratitude for adversity and all
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that stuff that's that is very helpful, and it's actually one of the most helpful things that I can think of to help with with stress, because I'm stressed out
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all the time, and, well, I'm not stressed out all the time, but I'm stressed out a lot, and when I remember to be grateful for the adversity, it's a lot easier
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to manage. Because no matter what it is that I'm going through, if I can't find the good in that, like something good is going to come out of
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this, if I can't find any of those things, at the very least, I'm going through some adversity, and I know that I'm going to get through the other
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side, and when I do, I'm going to be even stronger, and I'm going to have more fortitude, or grid, or, I don't know what the term is, I think it's fortitude
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to be able to handle that next time. So I really want to find this dogs anyway. So that's what I wanted to talk about, just trying to see the good in
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everything. And if you can't find the good in everything, at least be grateful for the adversity, because you know you're going to be stronger when
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you when you get out the other side of it. So put out some good energy in the fucking universe to fucking send this dog to me, because I really want to get
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them anyway. I'll talk to you next time. Have a good one.
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All right.
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