Welcome to Let It Be Easy with Susie Moore.

Okay, my friends, I was moved by, I think it was a YouTube short that I saw recently.

And it was the actor Jack Nicholson.

Oh my gosh, if you've seen the shining, who, who, who, Jack Nicholson will haunt you forever with his scary face,

the incredible Stephen King book that became a movie. Anyway, let me digress as I talk about

horror movies. But Jack Nicholson, I think he's kind of known as this bad boy actor, right? Like he's funny, he doesn't give any fucks. Like he is this hilarious, do whatever I want to heck with it. I'm on a boat, I'm smoking a cigar kind of guy, right? Or that's at least the kind of interpretation that I have of him over the years.

And in this clip, he was accepting an award. I can't remember exactly what award it was, but it seemed

like it was a few years ago. And I absolutely love what he said. There were two things that he

shared. And I just felt the depth of him, the emotion that he clearly feels that I never

really thought about because I thought he was just this like feel good, fun guy. But Jack Nicholson,

he was emotional. I think he was kind of tearing up as he was accepting this award, acknowledging

that he was in, you know, amongst a

group of his peers and his friends, and had been for a long time. He certainly had a very long

career. And he shared two mantras that he has. The first was around acting. And he said

that his mantra is this, everything counts. Isn't that something?

Everything counts. And you think someone like Jack wouldn't even think everything counts, right?

Therefore, they just show up, have fun, do their part and then leave. But clearly, he pays attention, he's sensitive, he's looking at the larger picture, he respects

people, he respects the creative process. Everything counts. I mean, think about applying that

to your life today. Everything counts. The workout that you do,

the conversation you have with your kids, the way that you show up to work, what it is that you

eat, how you handle a problem. Everything counts. It's so interesting. It's almost a bit like the

old spiritual expression that how you do anything is how you do everything. It feels very similar

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