The Benefits Of Aging
In this episode John and Kelly talk about the benefits of aging. As Kelly is about to turn 50 in a couple months, she has spent a lot of time thinking about aging. And she really likes the wisdom that comes from aging. The increase confidence. Caring less what other people think. Then John discusses the fact that aging gives you perspective. He says that the older you get, the more you realize that most things don’t matter. Only a few things matter. John shared the observation in his own life that he sees cases of where he is evolving. He mentioned that when he was in his early 50s and met his wife Ginger, she commented on the fact that every once while he would throw F bombs around. John didn’t like that part of himself because that’s now how he was raised. Wasn’t very classy. So he immediately fixed it because it didn’t serve him. He also a few years later observed that sometimes he would get mad out loud. Oftentimes it was around technology. But he realized that what you say out loud is 10 times more powerful than what you think. He was only feeding the anger by venting out loud. So he stopped it. The lesson is that as you get older, you see ways to improve yourself and often times you do. John also mentioned that as he gets older, he gets more and more grateful. He also said that one of the latest things he’s begun doing is each evening after getting on the treadmill, he takes about 30 minutes and just writes down what he’s observing in life. He says it’s powerful when you can articulate what your observing rather than just thinking what you’re observing.
About the Hosts:
John Mitchell
John’s story is pretty amazing. After spending 20 years as an entrepreneur, John was 50 years old but wasn’t as successful as he thought he should be. To rectify that, he decided to find the “top book in the world” on SUCCESS and apply that book literally Word for Word to his life. That Book is Think & Grow Rich. The book says there’s a SECRET for success, but the author only gives you half the secret. John figured out the full secret and a 12 minute a day technique to apply it.
When John applied his 12 minute a day technique to his life, he saw his yearly income go to over $5 million a year, after 20 years of $200k – 300k per year. The 25 times increase happened because John LEVERAGED himself by applying science to his life.
His daily technique works because it focuses you ONLY on what moves the needle, triples your discipline, and consistently generates new business ideas every week. This happens because of 3 key aspects of the leveraging process.
John’s technique was profiled on the cover of Time Magazine. He teaches it at the University of Texas’ McCombs School of Business, which is one the TOP 5 business schools in the country. He is also the “mental coach” for the head athletic coaches at the University of Texas as well.
Reach out to John at john@thinkitbeit.com
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/john-mitchell-76483654/
Kelly Hatfield
Kelly Hatfield is an entrepreneur at heart. She believes wholeheartedly in the power of the ripple effect and has built several successful companies aimed at helping others make a greater impact in their businesses and lives.
She has been in the recruiting, HR, and leadership development space for over 25 years and loves serving others. Kelly, along with her amazing business partners and teams, has built four successful businesses aimed at matching exceptional talent with top organizations and developing their leadership. Her work coaching and consulting with companies to develop their leadership teams, design recruiting and retention strategies, AND her work as host of Absolute Advantage podcast (where she talks with successful entrepreneurs, executives, and thought leaders across a variety of industries), give her a unique perspective covering the hiring experience and leadership from all angles.
As a Partner in her most recent venture, Think It Be It, Kelly has made the natural transition into the success and human achievement field, helping entrepreneurs break through to the next level in their businesses. Further expanding the impact she’s making in this world. Truly living into the power of the ripple effect.
Reach out to Kelly at kelly@thinkitbeit.com
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kelly-hatfield-2a2610a/
Learn more about Think It Be It at https://thinkitbeit.com/
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Unknown:Welcome to think it be the podcast. I'm Kelly Hatfield.
Unknown:Hey. And I'm John Michell. So today, Kelly, our topic is
Unknown:aging, and the benefits of aging.
Unknown:So I'd like your observations, what are you in your late 20s?
Unknown:Early 30s?
Unknown:Ever Told you, you're my favorite person?
Unknown:Oh, you can't be over the what? 35?
Unknown:I actually have a big birthday coming up. I will be 50 in June.
Unknown:Are you serious? Yeah. So are you serious? I am stop.
Unknown:Man, I'll tell you well, you know, you know what, what 50
Unknown:meant to me. So I'm, I'm curious to see what 50 All mean to you,
Unknown:but that this is perfect. So in two months, you're going to be
Unknown:50. So just explain to our audience, your take on Aging,
Unknown:the process the benefits? Just your observations about it?
Unknown:Well, I love it. I am so excited. Well, first of all, I
Unknown:think you're aging. I mean, what's the alternative? Yeah,
Unknown:no, kid, okay. So I'm gonna always have that framework
Unknown:around this that I'm lucky to see another year, and I'm
Unknown:excited about what the next one is going to bring. And so I love
Unknown:the wisdom that comes along with it, I love the
Unknown:how you really get to know but like, by now with all of the
Unknown:experiences that you've had, and the the trials and the
Unknown:tribulations, and there's just things that you know, now that
Unknown:you didn't know, then, you know, what I mean, and a competence
Unknown:that comes with that, you know, I remember being in my 30s You
Unknown:know, even as I turned 40, and in my early 40s,
Unknown:you know, still, you know, kind of trying to figure out who you
Unknown:are
Unknown:caring too much about what other people think or about where
Unknown:should I be, as opposed to where I am, you know, the kinds of
Unknown:things so I just love the confidence, and the wisdom that
Unknown:comes along with aging. The other thing too, for me is that
Unknown:it really is just like, I feel better than I did in my 30s from
Unknown:my physical, you know, I really take care of myself, my health
Unknown:is a priority. And, and so it's just a, a number, I feel more
Unknown:alive, vibrant and have more energy than I did in my 30s. So,
Unknown:yeah, you, you know, I think you hit on a couple of things that
Unknown:are great, you know, the wisdom and the confidence. And, you
Unknown:know, I don't know what made me do this. But, you know, one
Unknown:night, a week or so ago, ginger and I were having a talk and
Unknown:I've been I just been reflecting back on, on my life. And
Unknown:you know, I could see where I took a jump it just in, in how I
Unknown:played the game of life as as an example, when I was when I met
Unknown:ginger when I was you know, 52 I think or so, maybe 53 She
Unknown:observed that every one small, it wouldn't happen all the time,
Unknown:obviously, but but it would happen sometimes. Where I get
Unknown:mad about something, and I would have a pretty foul mouth, you
Unknown:know, I'd throw F bombs around. And and she pointed that out to
Unknown:me. And I'm like, well, that's not how I was raised. You know,
Unknown:I was I was went to Jesuit High School that there's no, that's
Unknown:not a classy way to be. And, and so I immediately stopped it and
Unknown:and she is surprised or because you know, just from that
Unknown:recognition of it, I could stop it. And you know, I and you may
Unknown:not even know this about me. You know there were three things
Unknown:that happen
Unknown:And in my 40s, that were pretty devastating. The first one is my
Unknown:best friend died. And I found it. Oh, no, I didn't, which,
Unknown:which was, you know, he died in a hot tub. And it was. And he
Unknown:was, you know, a interestingly, two or three months before that
Unknown:we both told each other, we loved each other, which guys
Unknown:usually don't do that. No, but, but that shows you and so it was
Unknown:obviously devastating. Then the second thing that happened, like
Unknown:a year or two later, the US government accused me of
Unknown:something I didn't do, you know, I owned a bank and my
Unknown:authorities and they accused me of something that I flat didn't
Unknown:do. And they were trying to put me in jail. And it was an ugly
Unknown:situation and, and got really ugly. And but ultimately, I
Unknown:could prove I was innocent, and they dropped the charges.
Unknown:But very, very difficult. Period. And then the third thing
Unknown:was I was in a in a business I really hated. And so those three
Unknown:things as I'm rolling into my 50s, she, you know, probably
Unknown:were the foundation for a lot of F bombs, you know, just to
Unknown:inclination to F bombs. Well, yeah, there's a lot of anger.
Unknown:There's a lot of anger there and right with the situations. Yeah,
Unknown:right. Right. And, and, and, you know, but as once ginger pointed
Unknown:that out to me, I'm like, Well, that didn't serve me. There's
Unknown:no, that's not really who I am. That's embarrassing that I'm not
Unknown:more articulate. Sure, I understand getting mad. I, by my
Unknown:nature, probably have a strong temper. But you know, I'm going
Unknown:to stop and and so I did stop it immediately. And, and she was
Unknown:surprised that that just that, you know, being able to stop it
Unknown:was possible. And and then, you know, I noticed, what was the
Unknown:other one that I I noticed? Oh, I would every once awhile, get
Unknown:mad out loud, like, I don't know, I bet everybody's like
Unknown:this, especially around technology. You know, if there's
Unknown:something technology that goes wrong, sometimes I, I would want
Unknown:to take my computer and throw it in the lake. Not that didn't
Unknown:happen a lot. But I'd be very vocal without using F bombs
Unknown:about my anchor. And then I'm like, what, what good is that?
Unknown:Do you know what and you know, this is part from learning from
Unknown:Trevor Moe had the mental coach at Alabama that what you say out
Unknown:loud is 10 times more powerful than, than what you think I'm
Unknown:like, all I'm doing is is giving 10 times the energy to whatever
Unknown:I'm upset about. I'm like, this makes no sense. And and, you
Unknown:know, I saw that I was able to
Unknown:immediately stop that. It just didn't make sense. And so the
Unknown:point of those two stories is i i As I look back on my life, I
Unknown:can actually see where I was one way and became more enlightened.
Unknown:And I changed
Unknown:it Can you can you think of things like in your life where
Unknown:you've you saw something and you you evolve to a higher level?
Unknown:Yeah, I mean, I think absolutely. One of the things
Unknown:for me that many people listening can relate to?
Unknown:Probably, probably a lot of women would be my guess is this
Unknown:tendency to people, please.
Unknown:You know, and so it was just part of my family dynamic.
Unknown:Growing up, I kept getting into my 20s, my 30s I stayed at a
Unknown:company that I shouldn't have stayed out as long as I did 14
Unknown:years out of a sense of a false sense of loyalty and wanting to
Unknown:please the owner, you know, and it all worked out the time.
Unknown:Exactly. It was supposed to, but you know, I think that tendency
Unknown:to,
Unknown:to,
Unknown:not at all costs, but to make everybody happy and to try to
Unknown:make it okay for everybody and just how exhausting that is. And
Unknown:in an effort to do that you, you put yourself nowhere on your
Unknown:list. You're right. You know, we've talked about this before,
Unknown:too when it comes to business or I'm saying yes to the wrong
Unknown:things. I'm saying yes to everything I'm you know, burning
Unknown:out running myself into the ground because of this, this
Unknown:tendency that I have to try to make people happy, you know, and
Unknown:it wasn't even to like me, it was more of just It's my nature
Unknown:to like fix things. You know, it was the family dynamic that I
Unknown:grew up in was just like if I can make this okay for
Unknown:everybody, then maybe we'll get through it, you know, right. And
Unknown:so that was a
Unknown:Hard pattern for me to break and so boundaries. Right? Um, you
Unknown:know, so going from not having any boundaries to setting
Unknown:boundaries is a huge thing for me in my 30s and, and especially
Unknown:the end of my 30s and, you know, 40 moving into my early 40s
Unknown:Understanding that, oh, you know what I mean, it's so important,
Unknown:I've got to start setting some boundaries around this, you
Unknown:know, both professionally and personally, or, I'm, I'm never
Unknown:going to be, you know, happy to the extent that I can be,
Unknown:you know, so that definitely was one of the things for me was
Unknown:that people pleasing nature and just understanding that.
Unknown:And I know, this sounds cynical to, you know, but like, here we
Unknown:go.
Unknown:Get ready.
Unknown:But I mean, it goes back to what your your, you know, that whole
Unknown:idea when I was talking about being a little about being
Unknown:judged, you're not talked about that before, people aren't
Unknown:thinking about you at all, you know, that center stage
Unknown:syndrome, you know,
Unknown:where you think, you know, people are, they don't? If
Unknown:you're not, if you say no, they're going to move on to the
Unknown:next person who will say yes, you know, what I mean, like, so
Unknown:just understanding the extent to which that, you know, saying no,
Unknown:doesn't mean.
Unknown:So, anyway, that was a big one for me where my behavior
Unknown:shifted, you know, definitely. And then the other thing that
Unknown:comes to with just confidence really quick, and that. So once
Unknown:you've gone through, like having started, you know, multiple
Unknown:businesses, having multiple businesses in operation now
Unknown:making it through the highs, the lows, this roller coaster of
Unknown:entrepreneurship and business ownership. One thing that as I
Unknown:knew, as I come into this next, were this confidence, like, I'll
Unknown:bet on me any day of the week. You know what I mean? Like, if
Unknown:I, so knowing that, so just that confidence that comes with
Unknown:having gone through all of that, and being able to reflect on it
Unknown:to say,
Unknown:I made it through that, or, man, here's how I would have
Unknown:navigated that a little bit differently if I had that to do
Unknown:over again, so that I'm carrying the lessons with me. So it's
Unknown:just a different way of looking at.
Unknown:There isn't that apprehension, like wondering if you can do
Unknown:something or like, I know I can, and I prove it over and over
Unknown:again, you know what I mean? Right, right. You know, I think
Unknown:you're right. And, you know, the, this idea of operating in
Unknown:life with confidence is, is so tied to what other people think,
Unknown:because if you're really focused on what other people think, or
Unknown:put too much weight on it, it detracts from your confidence,
Unknown:because you're always judging what are other people thinking
Unknown:about what I'm saying or doing. And, like you say, this is so
Unknown:true, they're not thinking about you, you think they're thinking
Unknown:about you, but they're not thinking about you. And, and I
Unknown:saw in my 50s, how much fun life was when, when I operated at a
Unknown:higher level of confidence. Of course, I was driven by our 12
Unknown:minute day technique I was, you know, just was that level of
Unknown:control I had over and have over my life was so immensely more.
Unknown:But, you know,
Unknown:I, it's always amazing to me relative to aging, is why do we
Unknown:really have to get older to learn these things. I mean,
Unknown:that's the natural effect of aging. But, you know, I look at
Unknown:so many, so many of the things sort of the lessons that that I
Unknown:have learned in my life, that people could have sat me down
Unknown:and said at
Unknown:25 or 30, and said, Now, John, here's about 10 or 15 lessons,
Unknown:get these things. I mean, friggin get them,
Unknown:so that you don't have to go through all the things that I
Unknown:went through. And you know, maybe as I talked about this,
Unknown:this is what, enthuses me about the new course I'm creating at
Unknown:the University of Texas
Unknown:to go even deeper than then they could be it but you know, but I
Unknown:just see that oftentimes you tell people these lessons and it
Unknown:goes in one ear and out the other, you know, I mean, what do
Unknown:you think about that? I think I 100% get where you're coming
Unknown:from but like this goes back to what we've been talking about to
Unknown:like the people you surround yourself with are like I didn't
Unknown:grow up around people who could sit me down and tell me the top
Unknown:10 lessons in life to that wasn't my reality. I had a
Unknown:couple of really a great, great teachers. You know what
Unknown:I mean, in high school, right? There's some great coaches in
Unknown:soccer, but nobody, not a mentor, you know, until I was in
Unknown:my 30s, you know, that sat down and said, hey, you know, these
Unknown:are the things that you really want to focus on in life, the
Unknown:whole idea of focusing on the things that move the needle and
Unknown:having clarity and all of those things, that wasn't part they
Unknown:didn't teach that in school. Right. And then I wasn't around
Unknown:that, you know, in my career, my company didn't offer that, you
Unknown:know, so and so the importance of having a mentor, and if not
Unknown:personnel, and I think, to your point, having been introduced to
Unknown:it in a class, at that age, I mean, we I'd say this all the
Unknown:time, man, I wish I would have been introduced to your method,
Unknown:you know, 20 years earlier, I imagine where things would be
Unknown:now and, and, you know, so I think it's fantastic, that
Unknown:you're putting a curriculum together for, you know, for
Unknown:young adults, to carry with them into their life? Well, you know,
Unknown:it's, it's interesting. So as I develop this new course, here's,
Unknown:there's four components to it. Leadership of self, which, which
Unknown:means having that mindset, you can accomplish anything you set
Unknown:your mind to, it's also personal responsibility, which means
Unknown:never letting yourself be a victim, and always owning your
Unknown:results. And if you don't like the results, you're getting
Unknown:changing your behaviors, then it's teaching them what I call
Unknown:six high performance, skills that like, like you just said,
Unknown:if I'd learned them at 50, I made it 20 instead of 50, what a
Unknown:difference that would have made. And then the fourth component is
Unknown:mentoring. And as you're talking, I'm like,
Unknown:I want you to mentor some of my students, you know, of course,
Unknown:this will be down the road, but you would be so good to do it.
Unknown:And I because I want to get successful people, once I get
Unknown:them through my class, I'm going to mentor them, and I want to
Unknown:stay in touch with them. But I need, you know, people have the
Unknown:right mindset and the right level of success to mentor them.
Unknown:It's just like, you know, this, just for our audience, we had a
Unknown:couple of years ago, you came to my class in Austin. And and you
Unknown:hired one of the students. Yeah, as a as an intern. Right. And
Unknown:she was so blown away by the experience of being around you
Unknown:that, you know, we need to replicate that. I guess it's the
Unknown:bottom line. Well, I, I love it. And it was so funny, I said, I
Unknown:say to everybody about that experience, and about doing
Unknown:think about with your, you know, the college program over the
Unknown:summer is, like, I have so much hope for the future when I meet
Unknown:with those young people, because they you know, these young
Unknown:adults who are just starting and are fulfilled with, you know,
Unknown:there's this. I don't know what the
Unknown:narrative out there around our young, young adults and the
Unknown:different generation, it's like, no, there are there are future
Unknown:and I'm very optimistic based on these wonderful young adults
Unknown:that are coming out of University of Texas. And yeah, I
Unknown:just been blown away by them. So that's something I would love to
Unknown:be involved in, you know that? Well, you know, our, the the
Unknown:motto at the University of Texas is What starts here changes the
Unknown:world. This has been the motto for like, forever, and they used
Unknown:to have when Walter Cronkite was alive, he went to the University
Unknown:of Texas, you can hear Walter Cronkite saying that. And so
Unknown:it's pretty cool. But but you know, on this thing with aging
Unknown:to this past year, I don't know how it happened. But we had all
Unknown:freshmen in our class, as opposed to
Unknown:primarily juniors in in, in the prior years, that Bill and I
Unknown:build the former Chancellor and I teach and what a difference,
Unknown:you know, those those freshmen, they're like deer in the
Unknown:headlights, you know, they're just glad to be away from mom
Unknown:and dad. And of course, my big push is around leadership itself
Unknown:and personal responsibility and, and for when you get out in the
Unknown:real world, they're not worried about the real world. They're
Unknown:four years away from the real world. And, you know, that's why
Unknown:it's sort of evolved for me to go. I want to teach
Unknown:basically, just seniors, maybe some juniors but primarily
Unknown:seniors, and I only want to teach athletes
Unknown:It's because the athletes are the highest achievers as a group
Unknown:on on campus. And this is what our 12 minute day methodology is
Unknown:clearly for high achievers. But you know, it's interesting that
Unknown:relative to age, you know where they are, when they're what 18
Unknown:versus when they are when they are 22. And as you'll see, when
Unknown:you turn 50 is going to be powerful. Because you're and you
Unknown:I, my prediction is, you won't think about it a lot until you
Unknown:hit it. But then over the next three months, you're going to
Unknown:reimagine your life. Promise and so that the lesson to our
Unknown:audience I think, is
Unknown:reimagine your life right now. Whatever your age are, don't
Unknown:wait for that decade. Birthday. Does you think that's lesson?
Unknown:Yeah, I think absolutely. That's the lesson. It's never, you
Unknown:know, now is the right time to reimagine your life. You know
Unknown:what I mean? Not tomorrow, not 10 years from now, don't wait
Unknown:for those big, you know, birthdays, now is the time and
Unknown:I'm doing a lot of that right now, in a reflection. Okay, what
Unknown:do I want this next season to look like? You know, so I'm,
Unknown:I've been kind of knowing that this has been coming up working
Unknown:on that a little bit and shaping that. And so yeah, you know, I
Unknown:got a suggestion for you. I just started doing this. Two weeks.
Unknown:And so I will see how it evolves. But it feels pretty
Unknown:good. Where, you know, every day I exercise, and I get on the
Unknown:treadmill at 530, and why it's the evening news. And after I
Unknown:get off of it, now, I go, and I sit down. And I've usually,
Unknown:maybe I've I've read the Wall Street Journal already. So I'm
Unknown:thinking about what's going on in the world. And I've just
Unknown:watched the news. And I'm, I'm sitting back, intentionally
Unknown:thinking, what am What am I observing in life? What am I
Unknown:observing in the world? What am I observing in my own life? What
Unknown:am I learning? How am I growing? And you know, it's really
Unknown:fascinating when you intentionally look at not just
Unknown:what is happening, but what am I learning? What's, what's the
Unknown:trends here? What do I think about my life? What What, what's
Unknown:reality telling me is, am I going in the right direction or
Unknown:not? Yo, I found it fascinating. I've done a lot of writing over
Unknown:the last two weeks around that because every, every Sunday, I
Unknown:try and write what I'm how I'm growing and learning, but it's a
Unknown:fascinating process. Yep, I am, I am all for it. I love that.
Unknown:And I'll give it a I'll let you know, I'll report back and let
Unknown:you know how it goes. Well, you know, we're gonna charge your,
Unknown:your path of turning 50 This will be good.
Unknown:You know, I see that, that doing our podcast is so interesting,
Unknown:because it it lets us both pontificate about life. Not that
Unknown:anybody cares. But nevertheless, you know, we have to, we have to
Unknown:take what's in our head and, and turn it into words to
Unknown:communicate with each other. And there's, there's power in that.
Unknown:But
Unknown:I think I think the takeaway to all this is
Unknown:aging is it the benefits are, are so great. And yes, some
Unknown:things decline physically, but, but I'm sort of like you, you
Unknown:know, I I feel sort of top of my game, both physically and
Unknown:mentally. And you know, the power of aging is you just get
Unknown:more confident you get you care less about what other people
Unknown:think. You also see that 98% Of all the stuff that goes on
Unknown:really doesn't matter. Right? You know, exactly. Yeah. And I
Unknown:know when I had 175 employees and I bet you're the same way.
Unknown:You know, I sort of learned that if you did the vast majority of
Unknown:the things the average it really didn't matter. Although your own
Unknown:pride wants to do them all. Well, the once you let go of
Unknown:that and just focus on what moves the needle. You know,
Unknown:that's that's what aging does for you is makes you forget all
Unknown:this stuff that's immaterial and just focus on the stuff that
Unknown:matters. It Real quick, John, I know we're wrapping it up but to
Unknown:that point, the other thing that aging is the way you spend your
Unknown:time, like the quality of my time the fact that it is more
Unknown:and more precious, right means you're spending it. At least I
Unknown:am have made a choice to spend it.
Unknown:More plugged in more present
Unknown:Even more, you know, so I'm squeezing, you know, as much as
Unknown:much joy. And I mean, that's one of the things that I analyze my
Unknown:day by when I'm reflecting on my day. It's like, did I laugh
Unknown:enough today? Because I gotta change that. That's joy is one
Unknown:of my, you know?
Unknown:Oh, I know, I know, you know, you gotta laugh. Yeah, man, I'll
Unknown:tell you. You know, I appreciate my relationship with my friend,
Unknown:Bobby,
Unknown:who I talked to every day, and I've known him for 40 years. And
Unknown:the beauty of him is it every day, we, we belly laugh, and is
Unknown:usually cutting each other down that creating the laughter. But
Unknown:I don't know. And I see is as I get older,
Unknown:how grateful I am for, you know, for my health for my friends,
Unknown:including you. But you know, my really close friends. And
Unknown:you know, and I was just watching this presentation on
Unknown:frontline PBS Frontline about retirement and how people are
Unknown:generally not prepared for retirement. And I'm so thankful
Unknown:that, that that's not me. And
Unknown:I just, you know, like you said at the start, as you get older,
Unknown:you just get more grateful and what a great way to live being
Unknown:more grateful. Yeah, yeah. And you don't have to, you know,
Unknown:think of it you don't have to get out you can start being
Unknown:grateful today. Start being grateful today. Everything today
Unknown:because this is the this is all we're promised. Right? Right.
Unknown:Well, you know, especially with our methodology, which is all
Unknown:about creating, creating immense intention and clarity about your
Unknown:life. Yes. Will you today, embrace being grateful? Embrace
Unknown:focusing on what moves the needle embrace, not worrying
Unknown:what other people think you know, and train your
Unknown:subconscious mind for all that. When you do, boy, watch what
Unknown:happens. Okay. Well, until next time, we'll see you.
Unknown:Thanks for listening today. If you've had your own aha moment
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