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Jan. 28, 2024

Practice #40 - The Cardinal

Practice #40 - The Cardinal
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The Cardinal story.

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1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:16,400 I lay down on the couch and I'm starting to take a nap. 2 00:00:16,400 --> 00:00:20,880 I'm 20 minutes into the nap, I am deep. 3 00:00:20,880 --> 00:00:27,000 I'm knocked out, unconscious, dreaming away. 4 00:00:27,000 --> 00:00:37,240 And then suddenly I'm pulled out of my deep rest because I hear my mom gasp. 5 00:00:37,240 --> 00:00:43,640 There's a cardinal over there on our neighbor's tree. 6 00:00:43,640 --> 00:00:52,680 And I find myself jump extremely fast and sprint to the kitchen where my mom is. 7 00:00:52,680 --> 00:00:59,080 And I just look out the window at our neighbor's tree and see the cardinal. 8 00:00:59,080 --> 00:01:07,200 And I just say, oh, it's a sign that spring is coming. 9 00:01:07,200 --> 00:01:17,600 Because for context, if you saw yesterday's YouTube video, I talked about how I'm beginning 10 00:01:17,600 --> 00:01:20,800 to dread the cold. 11 00:01:20,800 --> 00:01:27,360 And so I saw the cardinal and I'm thinking, oh, spring is coming, just as a joke. 12 00:01:27,360 --> 00:01:34,800 But I just really like this story because when I got so rudely pulled out of my deep 13 00:01:34,800 --> 00:01:38,640 sleep, I had a few options. 14 00:01:38,640 --> 00:01:46,600 I could have either just ignored it and gone back, tried to go back to taking my nap and 15 00:01:46,600 --> 00:01:51,680 end up getting mad in my own thoughts. 16 00:01:51,680 --> 00:01:59,840 Or I could have woken up and gotten mad for them waking me up. 17 00:01:59,840 --> 00:02:06,320 Or I could have done the best option, which is what I did, and just went along with it 18 00:02:06,320 --> 00:02:17,560 because sometimes you just got to catch yourself and not take it so seriously. 19 00:02:17,560 --> 00:02:24,600 Because for the first part, first of all, it was my fault that I decided to take a nap 20 00:02:24,600 --> 00:02:31,240 on the couch where everyone else is right next to the kitchen. 21 00:02:31,240 --> 00:02:40,600 But besides that point, it's also not getting mad. 22 00:02:40,600 --> 00:02:51,240 One of the greatest things that I've done over the past couple, one of the greatest things 23 00:02:51,240 --> 00:03:00,320 that I've worked on over the past couple months is working on my anger tolerance and not getting 24 00:03:00,320 --> 00:03:05,280 mad so easily and actually trying not to get mad at all. 25 00:03:05,280 --> 00:03:31,560 That has helped tremendously with my life and my discipline.