Hello, welcome to what we call the weekly pep talk. This is a short pep talk that my mom gives

every Sunday night, just something to get your mind right for the week. You know, a little break

from reality and you can listen to this honestly anytime. It doesn't matter to me, but it's just a

little dose of positivity as we start our week off and my mom with a pep talk right after this.

It's a beautiful autumn day in Georgia today and I hope it's beautiful wherever you are and

Ruth Ahmed wrote, there is something so special in the early leaves drifting from the trees

as if we are all to be allowed a chance to peel, to refresh, to start again.

And I've always thought of fall that way that it's it's a new beginning. It's like another cycle of

life where we can drop the things in our lives that are not beneficial to us any longer and let them

go back to the ground, get rid of them and take time during the winter months to come to truly

reflect on what we want our lives to be going forward. And when there's a wonderful time, we're

no longer busy with all the outdoor activities, we're indoors, more of the time than not.

It's chilly outside, we can cuddle up in our blankets in our wraps in our sweaters and stay warm

and have time, take time, learn to take time if you haven't already to reflect on your life.

I know for me going into my seven days is a time to think about what I want this next decade to

look like for me. You know, where will I spend my time? Who will I spend my time with? Is there

something new that I might want to try that I haven't done before or explore something new?

Are there things that I've maybe done for 70 years or so that I don't need to do any longer?

I know that I'm certainly getting more relaxed about, you know, entertaining with my family,

if you call that entertaining, but not feeling the necessity to do everything myself and to let

others help. And it's such a better situation than what I was accustomed to doing, which was doing

everything and just entertaining them. But now we gather and we share in the responsibilities.

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