The Invitation . . It doesn’t interest me what you do for a living. I want to know what you ache for and if you dare to dream of meeting your heart’s longing. It doesn’t interest me how old you are. I want to know if you will risk looking like a fool for love, for your dream, for the adventure of being alive. It doesn’t interest me what planets are squaring your moon. I want to know if you have touched the centre of your own sorrow, if you have been opened by life’s betrayals or have become shrivelled and closed from fear of further pain. I want to know if you can sit with pain, mine or your own, without moving to hide it, or fade it, or fix it. I want to know if you can be with joy, mine or your own; if you can dance with wildness and let the ecstasy fill you to the tips of your fingers and toes without cautioning us to be careful, be realistic, remember the limitations of being human. It doesn’t interest me if the story you are telling me is true I want to know if you can disappoint another to be true to yourself. If you can bear the accusation of betrayal and not betray your own soul. If you can be faithless and therefore trustworthy. I want to know if you can see Beauty even when it is not pretty every day. And if you can source your own life from its presence. I want to know if you can live with failure, yours and mine, and still stand at the edge of the lake and shout to the silver of the full moon, ‘Yes.’ It doesn’t interest me to know where you live or how much money you have. I want to know if you can get up after the night of grief and despair, weary and bruised to the bone and do what needs to be done to feed the children. It doesn’t interest me who you know or how you came to be here. I want to know if you will stand in the centre of the fire with me and not shrink back. It doesn’t interest me where or what or with whom you have studied. I want to know what sustains you from the inside when all else falls away. I want to know if you can be alone with yourself and if you truly like the company you keep in the empty moments.

Although not an "Easier Ways" episode, this is a great podcast episode by @Thomas Gagliano about breaking the cycle of negative thinking that leads to addiction, infidelity, & self-sabotage. This podcast will discuss the ways childhood messages impact every aspect of our lives, to the intimacy we have or don’t have, our parenting skills, the careers we choose, even the roles we are set up to play in adulthood. Verbal and non verbal messages create the people pleaser role, the caretaker role, the invisible role, the defiant role, the perfectionist role, as well as the addictive role. Are you happy in the role you were set up to play? If the answer is no, or if you’re not sure, let's analyze which messages have helped you and identify which messages need attention. In this podcast, Thomas will also discuss who he was, and what happened to change who he is today, as well as the ways he has helped others avoid self-sabotage.

"This is what I did to get them to pay me back. I had a client who was known for not paying his invoices. What I did differently than other people who have threatened him to pay was simple. Instead of calling him rude names and insulting him to pay me back. When I wanted to collect the money I told him "Hey man, I just want you to know I'm not going to ask you to pay me back every day. I know that you are an honest person and you'll never do me wrong. I know you're good for it" The next day he visited me at my office and paid 2 years' worth of invoices altogether. The difference between what I had done to get paid vs the others was a psychological feature called labeling. Everybody who wanted their money was labeling him these terrible things and he was acting as such. Instead, I labeled him as an admirable human with a positive label and he acted as such to fit into that positive label. Most people, when you give them a positive label, will doing anything to maintain that label." . Alex Hormozi

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