Hello, everyone. It's Brian Underwood. The whole purpose of the show is, you know, my philosophy is I think so many people are looking for success. They're looking to find themselves. You know, they do all this study and with all these influencers and different things that they think might get them ahead. And I think so many times we have to realize that we have everything that we need to be successful

within ourselves. So we don't have to go seek out to be someone else. We just have to be more of

who we really are. You know, and I think that a lot of times we let society dictate our opinions of

others or our peer group dictate our actions in what we want to do. And the old adage that I think everyone historically knows

this quote, know thyself and be thyself, I think so many times we forget to just spend time

getting to know ourselves. And so if we want more out of life, we've got to become more.

We've got to do more. Through that, we're going to grow more. We're going to

become more educated. Therefore, we'll have more to give, more to contribute, back to the world.

So, you know, someone asked me the other day, what books am I reading? What should they do for personal

development? And I said, I stopped them right there. I said, that's it. You need to do for personal development.

You know, I believe that we're going to learn a lot more by doing than reading.

So if you do read something, apply it and do it immediately.

And so today I thought it would be important to talk about don't dwell don't judge yourself don't let someone

including yourself still your joy and lately I've you know been on a little bit of a

soapbox even internally within my own self you know with dwelling on things that I can't

control anyway instead of letting the dwelling

or the worrying steal my action. I'll give you a prime example. I've been dwelling on doing a

podcast for literally two years, right? I've been worried about it. I have not wanted to do it because

I didn't want to fail. I didn't want to do it because I was worried about how I would sound.

But the reality of it is, I think so many of us, we judge ourselves based on what we're

accomplishing or getting done or the fear of how it's going to look or how we're not going to measure up. And the reality of it is that

steals our joy, right? Most of us are harder on ourselves than anyone else is on us. But one of the

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