Make Your Dreams Come True!

Good morning. We are live. It is Friday, like it is every Friday. Never stops. I get comfortable here and I'm in my dad blazer today, feeling very, very powerful in my dad blazer. Happy Friday you guys and welcome to my hopefully quick live stream today. I tend to ramble on and I was looking back at some of my lives and I just kind of keep talking and talking. But today is going to go, it's going to be quick and dirty. But the one thing that came to my mind, I never know kind of like what the theme of the week is in terms of what I'll be talking about.

Obviously it's always about making your dreams come true. We're here for that. But I never know like what is going to hit me in the week. And it kind of dropped in this morning. Uh oh, the dog sees a friend. I'm so sorry. We might have a barking dog situation. Anyway, this is live TV, live Instagram TV or live Cadre TV. We today are going to talk about authenticity. This morning I woke up with the sorest throat. Like out of nowhere. And I am prone to getting a sore throat once a year and maybe getting sick when I get really run down.

But I thought about it and I was like, what might this mean for me? And I recently saw somebody post somewhere about when your throat is sore, perhaps your throat chakra is closed or you want to say something. And what I'm trying to get to here is my theme of today, which is living in your authentic truth and living authentically. And I thought it was interesting that I've had a lot of this like authenticity messaging kind of drop in for me lately and just being 100% who I am, who I want to be, who I strive to be.

We talk about that a lot here when we're talking about big dreams. But one of the things that kind of came to my mind was like, okay, am I living authentically? Is there something that I want to say to someone? Is there a truth that I want to speak? I spent years spending a lot of time focused on what I thought maybe other people wanted to see or hear from me, and it exhausted me. it drained me. It was not living authentically. It was not living in my truth. It was not living my purposeful life.

And I think about, I was still chipping away at my big dreams at that time, but imagine what could have been done had I not been so worried about what other people were expecting from me. Hi, Abby. And there's, I realized like, sorry, this is a little choppy. I'm still like in my first few sips of coffee, but I realized that there is no longevity in playing pretend. You think about like little kids who play pretend and they're just playing for a short period of time and then pretend is over and they go back to their regular life and they go back to eating their real snacks and talking to their real friends and pretend is meant to be played for a short amount of time.

There is no longevity in that. And why is that? It's because it's not living your authentic life. It's dreaming for a minute. It's taking yourself out of reality for a minute or whatever it is, or pretending to be someone that you're not. But in reality, we don't live like that. We can't live like that. We can't sustain. Our brains can't sustain. Our minds can't sustain. We cannot sustain that. And I'm so sorry about this barkaroonie over here. Come here, Wally. I also follow this account on Instagram and they post past clips of celebrities in movies or whatever it is.

And I saw this clip of Paris Hilton getting out of her SUV and walking into a club and the paparazzi were catching her. And she turned to her driver and said, you know, in her regular voice, we're just going to be two minutes. I'm going to go get my sister. And then the paparazzi greeted her and said, hi, Paris. And she immediately went into that high-pitched tone that she built a persona around. And I'm using this as an example, and it's kind of out there, so follow me here, but she was the person that she thought the media wanted her to be in that time.

And she's talked openly about it. She's now written a book, she's done a docuseries, she's, or a documentary, and she's talked about that, like, that really wasn't who I am, that high-pitched voice, that really soft-spoken, high-pitched voice, that wasn't her. And you think about how long she sustained that for, and you think about how for so many years she was pretending to be somebody that she wasn't, and only now she's happily married and doing her thing. And I'm using her as an example because I, and this happens with a lot of people.

It's happened with me. I was engaged to somebody and I sort of went along with whatever he wanted. He never believed in my big dreams. And I wasn't living my authentic self because I knew my big dreams were gonna come true. And I sort of played to whatever I thought that he wanted from me. And it was so unhealthy. and it wasn't sustainable. And I've realized now, come here, Wally, that the more me I am, somebody must be here. I have no idea. You guys, you're getting like the barking circus. Come here, bud.

Come here. The more me that I am, the more I attract the right people. So sorry. Hey, Chris. Finally looking at the screen. We've got the barking circus here, you guys. This is the reality of working from home. Come here. Come here. So sorry. I hope that my message isn't lost. Okay, so hang on one second, everyone. Bear with me. Come here. Oh. Hang on, everybody. Real life. One sec. One sec. I'm filming a live stream. One second. Hold on. One second. I'm going to run your dress up. One second. I'm so sorry.

Hang on, guys. I'm so sorry. I thought you were coming at 10 and I'm filming a live stream, so I got to get back to it. Thank you. Bye. Guys, I'm so sorry. Live stream on pause. Somebody had to pick up a dress. This is just the reality of my life, okay? So here we are. Anyway, I wonder why the dog was going so crazy. I am so sorry. I am back. I am back to this live stream. This is the reality of our lives. Work from home. A client needed a dress for the Taylor Swift Eras tour that I picked up. So there you go.

This is life. Anyway, so what I was saying was the opportunities and the floodgates open the minute that you start living your authentic life, your authentic truth. And the minute that you realize that people want what you personally have to offer, they don't want the fake you. That person, as soon as they are exposed, as soon as they come out of you, like as soon as people realize that you weren't living in your authentic truth, They don't want to be around that. isn't going to help you get to the next level.

People want the special unique gifts that you have to offer just exactly as you are. So some of the things that I've done to live sort of more authentically and in my truth lately have been, number one, I've stopped drinking. I realized that I wasn't the best version of myself and I just didn't like who I was and I was doing it to be social or I was doing it to escape or whatever it was. But I didn't like who I woke up to be the next day. It wasn't my healthiest version of myself. And now I feel like I feel everything exactly as I should feel it.

And this is my personal choice. This is just something that I have done. But if you are hanging on to something in your life that is causing you to live less authentically, I encourage you to look at what that is and try letting it go, even if it's for a short amount of time. And then the other thing that I've done is to protect my energy. There are people that I don't even really know that well that have come into my life that say things to me like, oh, I love your energy, I love your energy, I just want to be around your energy, but they're not in my closest circle of friends.

And they call me all the time and they text me all the time and they DM me all the time and they want a piece of my energy and they want to hang out with me and spend time with me and get to know me. But it takes a lot to really like, protect myself and to protect that like that inner peace that I have about only letting the people into my circle that I'm super close to and that I love and that I want to give my energy to. I really have to preserve that energy. So I've been sort of living in that space where even though it's annoying and uncomfortable, I have to keep saying no to those people.

I protect my energy and that allows me to live more authentically. And the last thing would be just to be fully speaking my truth. sometimes it can hurt somebody and you have to make sure that your delivery is always kind. But you don't have to end up being liked by everybody because you don't like everybody. So I think if you can really learn to speak your truth and if something's really bothering you or if you don't like something or if you want to walk away from something, and you don't want it in your life, speak it.

Because otherwise it's gonna get caught in here, it's gonna get caught in your throat, it's gonna cause health issues. Actually not communicating and speaking your truth can lead to stress and inner stress and can lead to major health issues. There's a lot of people who have had cancer related issues and that's an extreme example, but whatever it may be, maybe it's my sore throat today. Let's use that as an example. Something must be on my mind that I need to say or do because I feel fine. It must be my throat chakra.

So what I'm saying is speak your truth, live your truth, and do your best to live authentically because nobody wants the version of you that isn't really you. They don't want that. They don't need that. They don't want that. The world needs you exactly as you are. And whoever loves you exactly as you are is meant to be in your life. So anyway, sorry for the chaotic live stream. You saw me in like total chaos mode, but this is just for life. So this is what these live streams are all about. So I hope that this was helpful today and I hope you guys have a wonderful weekend and thank you for being here Chris and Abby and anybody else who tunes in after this.

And don't forget to drop into the community feed, say hi and let me know what you took away from this live today. Okay I'll talk to you guys soon. See you next week.