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Welcome back, Shalinders. Well, I'm not sure about you, but where I live, spring is sort of in the air. I mean, sort of. It's a balmy 42, downright tropical. It feels like summer,

but hey, considering it was negative 17 the other week, we will take it. And spring is about renewal, rebirth, right? Emerging from the gloom and the boredom and the grayness of winter into something vibrant and vigorous. And we always want to do that too, right? We always sort of, we feel that spring in the air and we're like, I want to travel, I want to get out there, I want to make out with boys, I want to put on a bikini, I want to eat a bunch of fun, delicious fruits. But then we realize, oh man, man, maybe we should have been doing more work on ourselves over the winter, right? Maybe we should have been hitting the gym, not hitting the candy pantry. Maybe we should

have been reading more books and scrolling a little bit less. Maybe we should have been like seeing

friends, hanging out with family because now that things are opening up, we're going to be getting

back out there. I get it. But it's not too late. We can still do a lot of work on ourselves.

And it really, we're going to talk about this a little bit later, but doing work on ourselves, it can seem super fun at times. It can seem super hard. But actually what it is is much less time commitment, kind of than you think. If you ask yourself the right series of questions, you can get to a huge plane of like elevation and learning

and leveling up so much faster than you think. So today, we are going to be asking ourselves

questions about fear. And today's mantra is going to be follow the fear. Follow the fear. I know

what you're thinking. I don't want to follow my fear. I want to

follow cheese. I want to follow hot boys. I want to follow cocktails. Yeah, me too. But if we can just

spend a few minutes asking ourselves about the fear-based brain about the negative messages we're giving to ourselves, we're going to get

so much further, so much faster than if we just bury, very, bury.

So let's inhale through the nose.

And out through the mouth.

Oh, come on.

We didn't get comfy enough before we did that, did we?

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