Hello, hello, and welcome to the new mindset who this podcast my name is

Case Kenny at Case.canny on Instagram and this is my weekly podcast where I

create short no BS episodes dedicated to helping you be the person you're meant to be

leave your comfort zone and live a fulfilling and purposeful life. Let's go.

All right welcome to episode 455. Hello my friend welcome to a fresh new episode of new mindset

who this as always thank you so much for listening thank you for supporting me and today's

a special episode I suppose it's the last episode of 2022 so it's kind of a year in review

type episode kind of you know I really want to keep this short shorter than usual in fact

and I just want to talk about one singular thing that's it not my top moments from the year not

10 things I learned in this past year just one thing one singular thing that I want to talk about

because I think embracing it embracing this truth this mindset this change in behavior I think

it could set you up to have an incredible year maybe the best year of your life the year where

you prove to yourself that your best days are not behind you that you are capable of more of

better of different or of simpler and I'll start as I usually do by giving some context for why

I say this the biggest truth I've learned this past year is about the power of no longer pretending

no longer pretending in life the power the power of no longer pretending that's no longer

pretending to be someone you're not that's pretending to be a watered down or hyped up version

of someone you're not that's pretending to be someone that other people want you to be and I'll

start with a quote from a book that you're probably familiar with the movie Gone Girl but it's

in the book and there's a long monologue in it about being a quote cool girl it's this long monologue

about how there's this expectation that a cool girl is a hot brilliant funny woman who also

adores football and poker and dirty jokes and then it goes on and on and on about it but there's a line

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