Hello and welcome to the new mindset hootis podcast. My name is Case Kenney at case.kens.k on

Instagram and this is my weekly podcast where I create short no BS episodes dedicated to helping

you become the person you're meant to be, leave your comfort zone and live a purposeful and

fulfilling life. Let's go.

Thank you. live a purposeful and fulfilling life. Let's go. All right, welcome to episode 800. Hello, my friend. Welcome to a fresh new episode of New Mindset, Who Dis, as always. Thank you so much for listening. Thank you for supporting me. And today, obviously, it's a big episode. Today is episode 800. 800 episodes, which is crazy. And, you know, I've talked about so many things over the past, yeah, eight years. I've talked about

so many things. And I've changed so much. And so much has changed in my life as well that to try to

reflect on the biggest thing I've learned would be very difficult to do. But I wanted to take a

swing at it and offer you something new as well, not to just recap. And I thought a lot about

who I was when I started with episode one of the podcast. I think about who I am today. And the advice that I would

give myself, looking back on 799 episodes, would be, I would say case, don't wait for the stars to align, dance under the ones already

shining. That is what I would say. Don't wait for the stars to align, dance under the ones already

shining. That's the advice I would give myself almost 10 years ago. Because I think now with some

retrospect, having done a ton of self-reflection, obviously,

on the podcast, I've realized, frankly, that I have spent a lot of my life preparing to feel good

instead of actually feeling good. Now, I don't know if you can relate to that, but I have a feeling

you can, this idea of delaying your

joy in life.

And I've realized now that I've spent a lot of time preparing you feel good instead of actually

feeling good.

And it's not in some big, dramatic, tragic way.

In fact, it's in a very normal way that I've done this.

And honestly, I think that makes it worse.

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