Welcome back to the podcast with myself Joseph Clough. I hope you are epic, my friend. I just wanted to tell you

how awesome you really are. I think that in each and every one of us, we have tremendous gifts,

and sometimes those gifts can come out from our issues, our problems, our shadows, our conflicts.

And remember, if it wasn't

for my issues if it wasn't for my depression my anxiety my low self-esteem my

blushing my self-consciousness my social anxiety I would not be doing this today

those issues caused me to look deeper on the inside, to figure out how the mind

works, which then led me to this position. So in a way, I'm very thankful for my issue, but on

the other hand, I'm also thankful I have the resources to resolve it. And when we think about what we are doing, you can also realize

that your very issue that you're experiencing may lead you to bigger and greater things.

I know it does not feel like it. I know it's a horrible thing to go through, but realize the silver lining is your issue

could be your greatest instigator, your greatest motivator to achieve all that you desire.

If we're just living a life of total balance, we might just not do anything.

So sometimes things have to go a little bit worse for us to go,

actually, I've had enough of this, I'm going to make a transformation. I mean, make a big example of

this would be someone who gets a dis-ease or a disorder. Unless the typical one would be, say,

like cancer, right? Many of people will go through life just living

their life normally and kind of not being quite happy or unhappy and then something big comes

out of the blue and then it shakes their whole world and let's say in this example it was cancer

and then sometimes they'll go wow I'm I know life is so precious. I'm willing

to do whatever it takes to really cherish, have gratitude for each and everything which is in my

present awareness. So sometimes our biggest issues may actually be our biggest instigators. And

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