How to Change Your Life

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On this episode of White s Thoughts, we're gonna talk about if you made a major change in your life and found it difficult, Well that's happening here, so we're gonna talk about it can tell you some of the things I've done and some of the things that are helping me in that journey. It's all in store for you this time on Wife Thoughts. So grab your favorite beverage, pull up a chair, or just have a seat around our virtual campfire. We're gonna get started on changing your life and steps and things you can do to help on this episode of White Thoughts. Don't you go anywhere. It's coming up right after this. Thanks for listening to Wife's Thoughts. Liking what you hear, We'll go to the website to find more a's Wife Thoughts dot com, WYC E T h o U g hts dot com. There you can listen to more episodes, comment on a show, check out the Twitter feed, and so much more. It's all waiting for you at my website at wie thoughts dot com. And hey, do us a favor. 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But if it doesn't come out, I just wanted to let you know what was happening, and for the reason why, so that you're not sitting scratching your head going come on, Terry, You're better than this. You're a voiceover talent, you're an audio engineer. You've got audio engineers there at the Purple Pit Studios. What the heck's going on? Man? So anyway, how are you? Let's start off with that. I hope all is well with you and your family. I hope everybody's happy. Are you enjoying summer? Man? Summer has started, baby, that's right, Summer is here, and we are enjoying somewhat of a decent summer here in the Northeast, as it has kicked off already. And it's really wonderful to have decent summer weather. Although at the time of the recording of this episode for you folks, they're telling us we got about three or four day's worth of rain coming. So but you know, in every life, a little rain must fall, so I'll be willing to put up with that. 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And it goes a long way, especially in the United States today, my friends, we really I pontificate on this on almost every other episode, and I know some of you are out there going beating us over the head with this terry, Why why oh why must you just because maybe if we start repeating tolerance and valuing other people's opinions even you know, just because I disagree with you doesn't mean I don't like you. Now, if you do something nasty to me or you know, come up and smack me in the head or harm me or mine, then I might not like you so much. But barring that, just because we disagree doesn't mean I don't like you, and nor I think should it for you that you don't like me. Good discussion is like a fine steak, or if you don't prefer steak, good discussion is like a great Julianne salad or whatever your culinary treat of choice is. And that's what we really got to get back to. I mean being I was raised in an audio world and started you know, djaying at a young age, and got into audio production and all these kind of things. I enjoyed. Great conversation is as missus W always tells me, honey, you never shut up. Thank god, you don't talk in your sleep. That's the only thing, she says. I don't do that. That's the only time my yap isn't moving, just when when I'm sleeping. But then she says, well, sometimes you snore, and I got to go sleep on the other room. And well, I told her, hey, listen, I've never heard myself snoring. She says, hahaha, very very funny. But but missus W snores as well. I mean one night I woke up and she had the curtains moving, and I had to actually, you know, evacuate the room, me and the cat and seek other shelter for the evening so I can get some shut eye. But anyway, um so, anyway, Yes, what were we talking about, Terry, Yes, we were talking about the website wie thoughts dot com. There you can check out my blog wie Life wyc wis life at the blog at wie thoughts dot com. If you want to tweet at me on Twitter, it's at Harry Weiss on Twitter and Facebook page is voice Slots and I got a YouTube channel, believe it or not. And the YouTube channel is just fun goofy stuff, music oriented things and lessons and quick YouTube shorts and all that. You know, a lot of people say, hey, man, why don't you just put out all this crazy content on YouTube and get monetized. Honestly, the things I do on this end for you, folks, and not only for you, I do it for my own benefit too, because I you know, some people say, I love the sound of my own voice, but I just like to talk and express, tell stories and go on about things. And I'm not I'm not doing it as a business. But the business end the things I do is you know, the voiceovers, you know, audiobooks and things like that. 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Okay, all right, onward and upward, as they say. Now, Changing your direction in Life is the title of this week's episode of the podcast here on Waste Thoughts, and I also put a link to the blog post on the website too on Twitter as well. You know, changing your direction in life can be challenging, let's face it. I mean, it can be a challenging experience that requires a lot of courage, hard work, and persistence. And I don't know about you folks out there, but myself sometimes I got to really kick myself in the ass to get myself going. And you know, it can be scarier to let go of things you're used to or have worked for a while, but sometimes it's the best decision that you can make for yourself. And I'm going to give you some information and reasons why on this episode of the podcast. And again, take this at just face value, my friends, for what it is. I am not preaching to you. I am not saying, hey, look at me, I'm about a pedal stool. Well I'm so much better. No, I'm saying I'm going through the same challenges, the same victories, the same defeats, the same self doubts at times that you are. I just figured, you know, sharing stuff like this it helps us because I know when I listen to other people and they share their story and I'm like, you know, I've been through that. I get where you're coming from. Man, I've been there, or you know, that's really interesting. I haven't encountered that. But thanks for the heads up. Now I kind of know what to look for. You know, we can gain so much as human beings. That's one of the great things about being a human being. We can share information readily and freely with each other and help each other and nurture each other and you know, mentor each other along the way. So I mean changing, especially life changing things. You know, I've got some life changing things going on right now that's going to be coming up in the next thirty to sixty days that are happening in my life. Some would look at those things and say, wow, man, that at stinks. Well, what's going to happen? You know, a long time income stream is coming to an end in one facet. But I Molly was bummed about it for the first maybe couple three weeks of thinking about it. I'm excited. I'm excited for the change. I'm excited for the challenge because it has actually done is opened up so many opportunities for myself and my family. They're coming along for the ride of my wife. You know, the kids have long since gone on, but it's just me and the missus left. But it's opening up so many doors of opportunity for myself to do and immerse myself and what I truly love. And folks, I'm doing it right here talking to you, making audios, audio content, making video content, voiceover work, voiceover talent, voice over acting, and things of that nature. It's allowing me now to really dig in and get down in the weeds and start really diving more into something that I've just been dabbling with for ten or twenty years because I had to have the air quotes as I'm doing hearing in the studio. I had to have that steady, reliable income because I had responsibilities, you know. And now it's just like, you know what, We're in a position. We have been blessed and we've been really you know, smart with our money. And again, I don't say that to chastise some of you that I have come across some challenges or some things might have happened to you. All I'm saying is we made some good decisions after making some bad ones. We've made some good decisions with our funds. We managed to squirrel away some money. So it's allowing me and affording me this opportunity at this point in my life to say go for it. Man. I mean, what's that expression all the young people are saying, Yolo, you only live once? Why not do it? Then? If you only live once, why not do it? You know? I saw something on Facebook that really, believe it or not. As much as I bitch and moan about social media, there are some good things out there and there are some great ways to motivate you. And I saw something out on Facebook here about a week or so ago. I think it was a couple of weeks back at the most. You are responsible for getting you to where you want to be. I mean, wow, that just I mean it was just like bam, a ton of bricks fallen on You are responsible for getting you to where you want to be. It was one of those memes and I'm like, yep, yeah, you're right. So I mean, I'll tell you, you know, changing your life, deciding to change your life in whatever way, whatever way it is that you're deciding you want to change your life, whether you look in the mirror and say, man, you know what, I should drop ten pounds, twenty pounds, whatever it may be, or if you decide, you know what, I've been at this job for fifteen years and they're starting the downsize and I'm just yeah, I'm here just through force a habit, but I'm not really enjoying it or digging it anymore. I really want to do my passion and I want to pursue that, whatever the decision is that you have to make. You know, I want to get healthier. I want to, you know, start jogging, start running, swimming, whatever. I want to improve my golf game. I want to learn an instrument. I want to learn a language. I want to write a book. I want to do poetry. I want to recite poetry at an open mic. I want to play three songs in an open mic night. I want to be an actor. I want to be a voiceover artist. Whatever it is you want to be. I want to have a better relationship with my loved ones, whatever that decision is. You want to get closer to your God or your deity, or whatever it is that you may believe making these decisions. By deciding to change your life, it is the best decision you can make for yourself. I'm going to give you some steps here and it's again over at wie Life the blog at wie thoughts dot com. I'm going to put up a link to it on my Twitter account as well, and just if you, you know, do the Wie Life blog at wie thoughts dot com you'll see that as well. So evaluate your current situation. That's the first thing you want to do. It's essential to figure out, you know the reason behind you're wanting to make some type of a change in your life's direction. Is it because you're miserable, unfulfilled or do you yearn for something better? Evaluating your current situation will help you identify the problem areas and give you an idea of what you want to change. So you got to you gotta do that, man, and just sit down with a piece of paper the old fashioned way, go analog, baby, sit down with a pen and you know one of those legal stencil books and or you know, shade of paper or whatever, and just write down. Take a good heart introspective. Look now I'm not talking about this is some of you. This is going to happen in five minutes and you're gonna be like, yeah, this because you've been kind of ruminating on it for a while. Some of you are going to have to maybe give this quite a few days thought might be three, five days or a week or more. But just keep writing down those notes, get that information. Evaluate your current situation. The next thing you want to do is you want to build a clear vision. Once you have identified the areas that you would like to change, that it's time to create that vision of what you want your new life's direction to be and conclude include identifying new procedures a change in location or even a lifestyle change, but ensure you want to make sure your visional lines with the values and goals in your life. You want to make sure your vision lines up with the goals you have. All right, that's very important. It's paramount. The other thing. Then, what you want to do is once you've done that, once you've sat down, evaluated your current situation, thought about that for a while, you've you've built a clear vision. Hey, this is what I want to do. I want to do X y Z when with my life because I'm sick of this. I want X y Z to happen. Start small, that's right, Start small. You know that expression. Hey, Rome wasn't built in a day, no kidden, So you start small. The thought of having to rebuild your life it can be overwhelming, believe me, it was for me. However, taking small steps towards your bigger vision, it'll help you build confidence and it'll keep us motivated. Okay, it keeps you motivated. It'll keep you motivated. It's keeping me motivated, and it keeps you pushing forward. Just small little chunks man, every day, boom boom boom. You know, if you're twenty pounds overweight. You're not gonna say, all right, that's it. I'm cutting out sweets and I'm exercising, and in a week, You're not gonna drop twenty pounds. It's just not I mean, it's not gonna happen. My friends. We have to be realistic. But you might drop a pound or two or a half a pound anything, or you might even stay the same weight and not gain weight. But the key is start small. That'll keep you motivated. Because if you look at something and it's, oh, man, how many times have you said it? I've said it with things throughout my life here and there, and you hear other people saying out a lot. If you just tune in, you hear other people saying this quite a bit in society. Man, it's just too hard. Yeah. I always wanted to know how to play the violin, but now it's just too hard. I'm too old. I can't do that. Oh my hands are too big, my hands are too small. Oh. I always wanted, you know, I want to be healthier, but forget you know, I'm forty pounds overweight. Folks, there's people out there to have dropped hundreds of pounds. John Goodman dropped hundreds of pounds. People you know that have dropped hundreds of pounds and gotten in shape. Now I'm not saying that they went from being you know, forty fifty sixty one hundred pound two hundred three hundred pounds overweight to know, winning a gold medal at the Olympics, but they've dropped weight, gotten health, your change their lifestyle, which improved every aspect of their life. Those are just a couple of examples. Another thing you want to do. Okay, once you've decided you've evaluated cure in situation and you want to change, you've built a clear vision for yourself. You're starting out small, taking good small steps, celebrating those little victories, and building your confidence. The next thing you're gonna want to do is you want to build a support network. Again, making significant changes in your life can be difficult, and it's important to have some type of support network to help you through it. Surround yourself with people who encourage you in believing your abilities to achieve your goals. Don't surround and folks. This can be anybody. I've encountered it. It could be well intended friends and loved ones. Oh you've said you're gonna lose twenty pounds for the past two years and have you done it. That's not encouragement. Oh you said you were going to learn to play the guitar and what you know, three chords and you've been doing it for what five years? That's not encouragement. Now again, these people may mean well, they may have no malice in their hearts when they tell you or say these things off the cuff, but you want to surround yourself with someone that says, you know, says, hey, oh you're gonna taken up the guitar. Excellent, awesome, man, Hey, I can't wait, you know, send me a recording when you get you know, you know, get a song up or whatever. Or oh you're gonna lose twenty pounds, you know, that's great. Hey, do you want to walk with me? I can come over to the house three days a week. We can go for a nice walk, shoot the breeze. Again. Surround yourself with the people that are gonna encourage you, going to take pride in your dream, you know, along the way, and help you out if they can would, just even if it's just moral support and things like that. Those are the kind of people you want to surround yourself with because it's going to help you in the long run. Those are just some things I wanted to give you right off the cuff, just four things I mean. And again, you can read more in depth detail Wie Life. That's the blog at Wie Thoughts dot com and you can check out all that my friends, all that and so much more, you know. And again, like the old sayings, as Rome wasn't built in a day, you know, Michael Jordan just didn't wake up one day and he was Michael Jordan. For those of you who don't know who Michael Jordan is, the goat as they say, he's the greatest of all time basketball player and my honest, my humble opinion. But he had to practice, he had to go through the motions, he had to grow mature, he had setbacks, he had challenges. Wayne Gretzky I think it was Wayne Gretzy's says, you miss one hundred percent of the shots you never take. He was one of the greatest hockey players of all time. He didn't just you know, come out of his mom's womb and decided, you know, at seven or eight years old or whenever you started hockey throw on a pair of skates and just started scoring eighty goals a year. He had practices to go to, he had to learn his skills. Now he had some basic talent, just like Michael Jordan did. But they didn't waste their talent. They got passionate. They set goals, and they got passionate about what they wanted to accomplish in their life. So at the end of the day, you know you can do it. Anybody can do it. You know, you don't have to be an Academy Award winning actor or actress. You don't have to have your voice on every commercial and you know on the television. Take your small victories. Just follow if you find something a point in your life and says you know that speaks to you and says, you know what, I really got to change my life. Man, Saying it is one thing, Doing it is another. And I'm in the struggle with you and I'm on your side. No, I'm not going to do that to I'm not going to beat up on you. I'm on your side one hundred percent, just so you know. Okay, So just remember I'm on your side and I'm here for you. If you want to email me, mail at Weiss thoughts dot com, comments on the section on tweet at me on Twitter at Terry Weiss or the Facebook page, and good luck on your journey. Hey, thanks for listening to the program today. I truly appreciate each and every one of you out there, and remember to see a change in the world, you have to be the change in the world you want to see. It all starts with you, the person looking back at you in the mirror every morning. Remember to be kind to yourself, be kind to others. If you want to tweet at me on Twitter, it's at Terry Weiss. Stop by the website Wife thoughts dot com just to make sure you spell my name right. Wysee wife thoughts dot com, and hey, leave us a positive rating and review on your favorite podcast provider. 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