Don't Sell Yourself Short

The following is a Terry Wise production. That it is, indeed, my friends, Welcome, Welcome, Welcome to another episode of Wise Thoughts, your virtual camp fire, Sit down with me, Terry Wise. So glad you're here today. We got lots in store on the program for you today as well. I think you're gonna enjoy it. So grab your favorite beverage, get yourself a place around our virtual campfire, and get ready as we delve into my mind on Wie thoughts. Hey, don't forget, I got a website, White thoughts dot com. Just make sure you spell my name right wyc E white Thoughts dot com. All right, and I can also be found on Twitter or now it's known as x at Terry Weiss. Well, let's get ready. Well, let's get into today's show. You are worth more than you know. We're gonna talk about that and so much more this time on White Thoughts coming up right after this. All right, Hey, everybody, Welcome, Welcome, Welcome, Welcome to Wise Thoughts. I'm Terry Wise. I'm so glad that you're here today. 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Hey, if you like the program, do me a favor. Would you leave me a positive rate and review with your favorite podcast provider or on the website? Okay, great, how are you? How are you, my friends, How are you feeling today? How are you doing? I hope all is well as we gather yet again around into our virtual campfire here and boy, lots going on in the news. Hulet's let's just talk about that really quickly here and get underway with that. You know what's coming back into the news, That that illness that we had to deal with back in twenty twenty, Han, that's coming back in the news. I don't even want to you know, it's getting to the point I don't even want to say its name because anytime you do, you know, then the content sensors they come out and like full garb and they're just waiting for you to say something that they can, you know, chastise you for. So I'm not even going to say its name. But you know what it was. It's the thing we dealt with all twenty twenty and beyond. But that's making its way into the news, wanting you to go back to the way things were, and I am I'm not in favor of that. I would just say, be healthy, take care of yourself, wash your hands, take your vitamins, eat well, get enough rest, exercise, and go from there. Anyway, what else is going on? Political seasons is starting to ramp up again. Yes, it's it's politician season. We got winter, summer, spring, what is it? Spring, summer, winter, fall, spring, summer, fall, winter, whatever, and politician season. That should be the next season. It's like I tell you, I I tend to pull back from a lot of that stuff. Excuse me, allergy, a little dry throat there. I tend to pull back from a lot of those things because, you know what, it's just for the most part, I'm over I'm over all politicians on all levels, you know, whatever political feelings or you know, desires or philosophy or ideology, ideology that you have, as long as you're not hurting yourself or wanting to hurt others, you know, you do, you man, That's that's kind of where I'm at. But I do have a big problem with a thought process or an ideology that wants to harm others or destroy others freedoms or a way of life, so that that I do take a lot of umbrage with and you know, provide pushback on. But that's hey, that's just me. But you know, everybody is entitled to their opinion, no matter how odd it may seem to others, and that everyone's entitled to their opinion as they should be. That's what makes America great is having the ability to have a difference of opinion. And I think we as a society, if I may wax poetic here for a moment before we get on to today's main topic of discussion here on White's thoughts, I think a lot of us have really lost that concept that people will have a right to their own opinions. I mean, let's face it, my friends, not everyone is going to think like you. Not everyone's going to think like me, and not everyone's going to think about like your grocer. You know, your your butcher, you're your tailor, you're you're dry cleaner, you know your your aunt, your uncle. And that's fine. You know, we're all born as individuals. We all develop our own thought process throughout you know, our time here on this big blue orb, blue, big blue marble called Earth, and we should be entitled to formulate our own opinions based on you know, what we deem is is best for us and ours And I just I don't know anyway, I don't I don't want to delve down that rabbit hole. Because it seems like everybody and their brother is talking about that on the internet these days, and I just don't want to keep delving down that that rabbit hole and going on about it. So we'll leave that as it were, shall we? But again, hope all is well with you, Hope all is well with yours boys. Summer is like man, isn't it. It's just now it's it is going and going by fast, ain't it? Oh my gosh, we're coming up on the end of March here as we go along, and I'm shaking my head, going, hey, man, where did summer go? Hello? Summer? Hello? Where are you? And I haven't gotten a lot of things done that I want to do yet? How about you? I mean you, are you finding that summer is really going fast? I had such high hopes for the yard this year? Are you? Are you like me? Do you like a well manicured lawn and well trimmed bushes and you know, nice plants out there and some flowers and you know, maybe a nice garden for some fresh vegetables and things like that. I had such high hopes this year. And are tomato plants? Me and missus w the tomato plants we got a varmint out there, and I don't know who it is. I'm not gonna blame the rabbits, because I like rabbits. But I'm not gonna blame the rabbits because they tend to stay away. But I don't know if it's the chipmunks that we got, or if it's a raccoon, or if it's a deer getting into the yard or some other type of vermin or vironment. But we had tomato plants in the ground while one was ripped up from the ground, and you know, we've been fighting, you know, trying to get some tomatoes produced from them, and we were getting there. We were getting there, and then lo and behold this morning, when I went out to look in the backyard, the wife called my attention to she goes, wow. She said some words I won't repeat on the podcast, but she said some things and said, hey, look at what these blankety blank blank blankets did to this tomato plant. And it was like ripped up almost by its roots and strewn off the side. I'm like, oh, man, okay, somebody was hungry, and you know, it was nibbling and munching on some tomatoes that were out there. So it's like, well, I guess that one's done for so we're gonna try and salvage what's left. Although we have gotten some great green peppers out of the garden this year, some nice sized green peppers, and now nothing. I'll tell you if you if you've never planted, if you have the opportunity and you have the space to plant your own garden, let me tell you what a interesting, challenging, but pleasurable experience. It is not only from the relaxing standpoint of your mind being relaxing, that you know, you're out there and you're just kind of your mind wanders and you're dig in the dirt a little bit, you know, commune with mother Earth and what have you, and you try and grow something and nurture it. But the other aspect of once you harvest said vegetables, you harvest said vegetables, The taste, my friends, is so I mean, I cannot tell you enough how the taste is different from your store bought vegetables. I mean, the difference in the taste of a cucumber, of a green pepper, any multicolored peppers, tomatoes. Oh my god, if you get a chance to homegrown your own, homegrown, your own tomatoes, and harvest them and eat them. Just I challenge you to put that side by side with a store bought and potato potato, tomato, two tomatoes. We want to compare apples and apples, terry. You know, grow your own tomatoes and then you know, have a bite of one of those, and have a little slice of something you bought at the store. I'm telling you you are going to taste a lot. I mean, unless you have no taste buds. I mean, and for those of you that have more sensitive taste buds, wow, I mean, just overall, the homegrown stuff is so much more flavorful, vibrant. It's a fuller taste, I guess is the only way I would describe it. It's a fuller, well rounded taste. And where now I notice the difference in a store bought tomato. It's caste, kind of bland, kind of generic. It kind of makes me wonder what exactly am I eating in here? What chemicals are going into my body? You know? But be that as it may. Just you know, same thing with a cucumber and the peppers and that which you can grow. We grew some watermelon of watermelon a few years back, and wow, it just that the taste was overall on every single one of those items that I the aforementioned items, was such a difference, such a more pleasurable eating experience from those vegetables, and that if you have the opportunity try it. I mean, you can't go wrong growing your own your own stuff because you control what's going in, what's coming out, what's put on it, etc. So anyway, enough with the horticulture and agriculture, right, So what are we going to talk about today on this episode of Wife's Thoughts. Well, I want to talk to you and implore upon you to let you know you are worth so much more than you may realize. Now. I know some of you are saying, Terry, what does that mean? What are you talking about? What I mean to say and what I mean by that statement that you are worth so much more than you even realize. Is this Many of us just kind of go through our lives. Yours truly voted at times and still do. But I was heavily doing this in the past. And just think unless I get that promotion, I'm not going to be good enough unless I make X amount of dollars I'm not good enough unless I'm able to comprehend this language or something. I'm not good enough unless I'm able to learn this skill. I'm not good enough if unless I can master the art of doing this particular task, I'm not good enough. And we put a lot of unnecessary and undo stress and misery upon our own lives because you know, I'm sure you've heard it said, we tend to be our own worst critics. And I'm raising my hand, folks, right here and telling you, right now here in the studio, I'm raising my hand. I'm just as guilty as the next person. I you know, you are your own worst critic. And believe me, I can just pound myself into oblivion. Believe me, I know it, and I do it a lot, and still do to this day, not as bad as I used to be. It's like that old story there was a boxer that was going to fight George Foreman. He was his nickname was Bloody Oh hang on, let me check here and see who it was here they called him. I think they called him Bloody Bill or Bloody Bathroom, something like that. I'm not one hundred percent sure in the name, but I just heard the story the other day, and that's what got me thinking about this and why I decided, Hey, I'm going to talk to you all about you know, realizing you're worth more than you know. Anyway, he was an up and coming boxer and he used to just get the living tire beat out of him. And he would just basically instead of blocking punches with his forearms and his and his fists and his boxing gloves, he would block him with his face. He would just this man would take an unbelievable amount of punishment in the ring. This was back in the days of George Foreman, Muhammad Ali, etc. And he just you know, some fights he would win. I mean, he would tire out his opponent, but he had a heart of a warrior, and he would just keep going and going and going and going and going. And he used to get beat into a bloody pulp. That's how he got the nickname Bloody whatever his name was there, And I apologize his name escapes me and I don't have a computer in front of me right now. But anyway, that's not really intrinsic or important to what I'm talking about this. The following is he got a chance one day because Don King saw him and heard about him and started following him and said, hey, man, how about do you want a shot at George Foreman, at a shot at the championship title. And he said, yeah, of course. Well the fight before that he was supposed to get his title fight, he was going to be next up to fight, you know, the world heavyweight champion. Well, Foreman was fighting Ali, and we all know what happened back in the sixties. Ali won be beat Foreman. So now he was going to have to fight Muhammad Ali. Well, this fighter bought his wife some neglige and said, hey, a night a night gown, and said, hey, he just wants you to know that after this fight I'm fighting tonight, you're gonna be, you know, spending a romantic night with the heavyweight champion of the world. And so you know, that's what he told her and she said, oh okay. Because he was very confident. He was like, okay, I got a shot at the title. Here I go blah blah blah boom. Well he fought Muhammad Ali. Now it went. It went the distance and Muhammad Ali though one by a technical knockout. I mean that's how there was some there was some close calls. In the ninth round where not where Ali, He hit him in the chest with a punch and knocked Ali down, and he turned to his you know, his ring man and said, hey, get the car started, man. We're Adi here man, and we're gonna be millionaires to get ready to go to the bank. And this ring man said, hey, you better turn around. Ali's getting up. Ali got back up and they went, you know, they went. You know, I believe it was fifteen rounds back in the day, and Ali ended up winning on a technical knockout, but he did go the distance. And the funny part of the story is there's two parts of the story here to end it, his wife had took out because she was on the audience near the front rouge. At the end of the fight, she took out the night neglige and said, so, will I be going to Ali's you know room or is he coming to pick me up? And she was laughing. You know, I mean, obviously she didn't. But well, sitting in the audience that evening watching that fight was someone who had an Aha moment. It was a writer. He'd be kicking around ideas for a book and he had an Aha moment. And he says, this is it. This is the story. This is what I can adapt a story to. And he went home and wrote a screenplight. And that person's name was Sylvester Stallone. Now Sylvester Stallone wrote Rocky based on this fight he saw between Ali and this other fighter. Now he took it to Hollywood. Hollywood get wind of it. They offered him. They said, listen, we'll buy this thing from you for like four hundred thousand dollars I believe was the price back in the day, which was a great sum of money back in the day, back in the seventies. And Sylvester Stallone said he had a dream. He says, no, he turned it down. He turned down the four hundred thousand dollars and he only took I believe it was either I think it was forty thousand dollars he ended up taking. And he got to play the lead role in the movie. And he got, at the time, what was screen an actor's salary, the minimum of three hundred and forty dollars a week. He took a chance on himself. He believed in himself, he knew he and this story was worth more than you could ever know. And the rest for him, as they say, is history now because Sylvester Stallone based the story on this other boxer's life. They went to said boxer that had lost to Muhammad Adli and said, listen, we'll give you seventy thousand dollars right now for this because it's based on your life. Excuse me, or you can forego to seventy thousand dollars and we'll give you one percent of the movie's proceeds forever. Well, the boxer, kind of being a little strap for cash and not really thinking that the movie and everything was going to be what it was. Obviously, not having that foresight, he took the seventy grand and walked away. Well, here's the thing, my friends, if he would have taken the one percent of the movie deal ended up being worth about eight million dollars, he would have had eight million dollars pay day over time. But instead he took the seventy thousand, and today, if you look for him today, last I have heard he is working in California someplace as a liquor salesman. Just goes and again, I do apologize the name escapes to me, but I just heard this story and I thought I had written it down, but I didn't. But just to give you an idea that just goes to show you that believing in yourself, you are the only you. You are the only you. No one can be you. They might try with artificial intelligence, they might try to copy maybe the way you write or the way you talk or emulate or that, but you are an individual. There is something unique about each and every one of us and our DNA and our thought process. And this was a nice reminder to me not to give up on your dreams, your hopes. Realize that you are enough okay, and you can go further than you ever even thought possible. Don't sell yourself short. That's the big takeaway. Don't sell yourself short. You are worth more than you can ever imagine, especially to you. So before you get depressed because that person called you a name, or because the boss put down your work, or maybe you got fired from a job or laid off from a job, or your company went on a business and you're feeling down and low, or maybe that relationship with that friend didn't work out the way you thought it would, or maybe that marriage broke up that you thought would last forever, or maybe that girlfriend or boyfriend decided to let you go and move on. What have you? Maybe something you were trying to ascertain. Maybe you started a company and it failed. Don't give up on yourself, is what I'm saying. Don't do it because you are worth more than you could ever ever know. And I implore you not to give up on yourself because you're worth so much more, so much more then you could ever ever ever imagine. And I implore you to realize that, live it, and embrace it because you're the most important person. Thank you very much for listening to the podcast today. And I just want to know one thing. Do you believe in yourself? You can do it. I know you can. I hope you got a lot out of this. I know I sure did bringing it to you today. And remember, like I always tell you my friends, to see the change you want in the world, you have to become that change you want to see in the world. It all starts with you, the person looking back at you every morning in the mirror when you get up. Be your best to you, be kind to yourself, be kind to others, be kind to animals. And thanks for listening to wise thoughts today. Remember to visit my website, Wise thoughts dot com. You can tweet at me on x at Terry. I visit my YouTube channel at white Slots, look for us on Facebook, Facebook dot com, back slash white White Slots. And until next time, my friends, take care and God bless