Hello, hello, and welcome to the new mindset who this podcast my name is case Kenny at case.cannyon

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All right, welcome to episode 173. Welcome to another episode of new mindset who this and I just got to say man, you know, I love doing this. I really do. I love the entire process of

sitting down, thinking of a topic, recording this. I love it. And you know, honestly, I'm humbled to do this. I'm grateful that I get the opportunity to just be a dude, just be a dude, live in his life, doing his thing, talking about his feelings and that, you know, you that you choose out of all the things you could possibly be doing right now to listen to me.

Like to me, it really does blow my mind. And I just wanted to say thank you. And and to really mean it. So, so thank you. Thank you for supporting me. Thank you for listening and sharing and telling your friends about the podcast and you know, just tune in and just listening.

You know, I say that it means the world to me all the time and that of course can just be something you say, but it really does mean the world to me. So I want to say thank you.

You know, I say this all the time that I do the podcast for me. It certainly is an outlet for me, a passion of mine. It means so much to me. And to hear and to see you support me, the way you do is is honestly just unreal. So my promise with you with the podcast is to always just keep it real.

I promise to you that I promise to just be a dude, being a dude, you know, nothing more than not an expert, not a guru, not a coach, just a dude, just a dude who's hungry to learn more about himself and the world around him and then to share it with you each week on the podcast.

That's it. That's my promise to you, you know, and along the way I promise to just keep it real. I don't do sponsors right now because I really want to show the truly be about my perspective, not slinging mattresses or credit cards or something silly like that. I don't I don't sell merch or anything that isn't something I've absolutely poured my heart into like the journal, for instance, you know, I don't ask for a whole lot because honestly you give me so much in return without realizing it.

You really do just listening, subscribing, sharing, that's enough for me. Truthfully, so all I ask is that if you enjoy the podcast that you tell a friend or two that you encourage them to subscribe and check it out. I do new episodes every Monday and every Thursday.

And I've got some really, really cool things coming up that I'm very, very excited about. I'm teaming up with some big name musicians and DJs to make, you know, mindfulness fun and cool to make mindfulness meditation, the practice of self development.

Energizing and just fun and and that's it. That's my mission. And also if you do dig the podcast and you didn't know I do write twice a week Mondays and Fridays on pursuit PR suit.com. It's a twice weekly email.

And I'd love for you to check that out as well. If you're into short digestible relatable life advice and written form. It's free, of course Mondays and Fridays. You can check it out pursuit.com PR suit.com.

So that's it. Just a quick thank you and letting you know that my promise to you is to keep it real always always keep it real. And funny enough, that's actually a great transition to today's topic.

I'm excited about today's topic because I'm talking about just that keeping it real or as the kids say keeping it 100 keeping everything about yourself honest and authentic real, you know, real with what you say how you portray yourself the things you say the promises you make the whole thing.

Just real keeping it 100 keeping it 100 because this is something I think I think about this a lot and it's particularly important to keep in mind as it relates to this whole category of self development self improvement because as you look to better yourself to improve yourself to push yourself.

I find that we all do this thing where you know we create versions in our heads of who we want to be what we want to have accomplished where we want to be the people we want to be with you know we set goals we visualize the best version of ourselves we we picture the day in our heads where everything is just clicked and we're rocking and rolling.

And I think that's great that's great practice you can't get to where you want to be in life if you can't even picture it of course you know it's great to set goals of course it's great to visualize this is an essential practice but I found personally that a lot of the time when I did this I didn't check myself and therefore in classic case fashion I I wrecked myself like the more I I would visual.

I realize who I want to be the success I want to have and all the surrounding things the more I start to be a fake it to you make it kind of guy the more I start to put on a filter the more I try to project certain qualities that I want the more I try to portray success and wealth and those things that I you know I want in my life.

And I think half of that equation is correct if you want to be confident you know at some point you're just going to have to say fuck it you know I'm confident in act that way at some point if you want to be creative and like a great writer or a podcaster at some point you're just going to be like yes this is who I am I am that person and and so on and so forth with any goal you have in your mind.

But even while that might be the case you always have to keep it 100 I still need to be the case Kenny I am the dude I'm always going to be the quirks the insecurities the things I'm bad at all those things I need to open those up I need to keep it 100 even as I go after what I want to become the dude I want to be and it's through like that realization that oh man I don't know I just I've realized an incredibly freeing true.

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