Hey everybody, Dean Grazioci,

welcome to the Weekly Wisdom.

It's a pleasure and an honor to have you here.

You know, I always talk about things that are going on in my life.

And right now, I'm listening to a book called The Untethered Soul, my good friend Joe Polish recommended.

It's a great book and there was a section I listened to this morning while I was exercising

and it was so fantastic, it seems so simple, but yet it's the key to life in so many ways. It talks about how if you have a thorn that's in your arm and it's on the nerve and it's really sensitive.

You know, there's a couple ways to go around, really just two ways to go around to fix that.

You could build something around it so nothing hits it.

You could make sure that if you walk in the woods you clear a path first.

If you're in a relationship, you can make sure you create some kind of mechanism

so your spouse or the person in your relationship with doesn't hit it.

You can make sure you're really sensitive to it.

Because then if you don't hit that foreign it won't give you that

pain right and then he compared it to or you can just pull it out but what happens

in life so many times is that we have something that was given to us by a family

member by a first relationship by just insecurities and it's that foreign

right and we find a way to not go around crowds or maybe not start that new business or maybe not get too close in a relationship because it could hurt.

And we're just building a cushion around the thorn, right?

And we build up all these walls to protect this thorn

But what he talked about is what if you just let it go? What if you broke off all the masks? What if you broke off the bandage and the cage around the thorn and you just had the nerve to pull it out to face what bugs you to walk in and say I don't like crowds I'm going into crowds I'm just letting that go I'm worth it my soul is worth it because what happens and I don't

want to get too deep but if you if you have ever read the Eckhart totally is the power

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