When you are planting the seeds for the life that you want, the only way that you can water

those seeds and give it the sunlight it needs to grow is from your love for the present moment.

Hey guys, you're listening to the Big Conversations podcast. I'm your host, Haley Hoffman Smith. I'm an entrepreneur, a best-selling

author, and a Forbes most influential speaker. You're in the right place if you're ready to step

into the bigger life that you were destined for because we're about to get real on how to do so.

So let's get started with today's big conversation.

Hello, my friends.

Welcome back to another episode of big important conversations.

I have been thinking about what to record this episode about because lately I've just been coming up with so many ideas.

And as always, I just tune in.

I do a little meditation beforehand.

And then it becomes very obvious to me what needs to be discussed. And to tell this backstory of today's episode, I actually need to go back to a time in my life that I was really

not performing this well, not performing the spiritual lesson well, which is all around present.

So some of you know that I transferred to Brown halfway through my college career,

but I actually really wanted to go to Stanford. And I got rejected, obviously,

which is why I went to Brown instead, but it ended up being amazing. But I remember this phase

of my life at the end of my sophomore year of college when I was

waiting to hear back from the schools.

And I was in such a desperate place and in a place of so much lack because I was just waiting

and waiting and waiting to hear from Stanford and to get this acceptance letter.

And I was pushing off my happiness until that fictional future moment that ultimately did not

end up coming to be.

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