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Karen Kenney: Hey you guys, welcome to the
Karen Kenney show. I'm super duper excited
to be here with you. If you're watching this
episode, you can see, you can see the title

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of the episode right on my sweatshirt. So if
you're not watching this, you can't see that
my sweetie, for Christmas, got me a
sweatshirt from one of my favorite artists.

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The artist name is Batsy head. You've
probably heard me talk about him, her, them,
we don't know. They never show a picture of
themselves, only their at work. And I'm just

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obsessed, with this person's at work. I
already have, like, several sweatshirts, and
this one I wanted so bad, and it says,
hatching a plan. And if you can see the

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little cat creature on it, he's got his
little hands tucked up to his chin, and his
eyes are looking off like all squinty into
the side like He's hatching a secret plan.

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And that's how I kind of feel when I'm going
into the new year, right when we have an
opportunity. And I think of our birthdays as
personal New Years. And then I think, of

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course, of the changing of the calendar as
we roll back around into January as another
opportunity to have a fresh start, a clean
slate. It's the perfect time to hatch a

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plan. So let's talk about this a little bit.
First of all, I think you can hatch a plan
anytime you want to, but very symbolically,
right? And I know a lot of people will say,

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Oh my God, but winter is the time for
hibernation. Winter is the time for slowing
down and being, you know, to reflect on
things and to be contemplative, to be kind

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of like to mull and to muse. And I agree
with all of that. And that's the great thing
about hatching a plan. It doesn't mean
necessarily that, like you're doing the

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plan, you're just kind of hatching the plan.
So the great thing, so I wanted to, like, a
lot of times when there's a phrase that I
love, I love to look it up and to see, like,

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what other sources say the definition is.
And to hatch a plan means to make a plan,
but it means to especially make a secret
plan. This is, this is what I love, right to

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make a secret plan. And I want to talk about
this aspect of it, especially as we're
moving into the new year, because there is
something that I have seen again and again

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and again in my lifetime, especially with
creatives and artists and people and
entrepreneurs, etc, people who are trying to
do original things or unique things, or to

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bring at into the world, bring ideas into
the world, new ways of thinking into the
world. Right? It's really, really easy to,
unfortunately share your plans, share your

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dreams, share your ideas with others who do
not have your best interests at heart. And
it's not that they're dicks, it's that
sometimes unconsciously, subconsciously,

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they have whether it's low self esteem,
jealousy, envy, a lack of whatever the thing
is, right? Is that when you come to them
with a dream or a plan or an idea, right?

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There may not be your balcony people. These
may not be the people that really see you,
get you, love, you, understand you, cheer
lead you, celebrate you, like encourage you.

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These might be people who for their own
reasons, sometimes known to them
nefariously, sometimes unknown to them,
pattern and condition from their their

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history, they're not really going to treat
your dreams, your ideas, your at whatever
you're sharing with them, your plans, with
gentleness, with tenderness, with seeing

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that this is like a seed that's trying to be
planted and it wants to take root, and it
wants to get some strength, and it wants to
grow. And so they'll come in with like,

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either sarcasm or roll their eyes, or like,
Who do you think you are to have this big
dream? Or, you know, why do you think what
makes you so special, or this stinks, or

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whatever, right? They give their opinions.
They give their fears. Well, that's what
they're let's get right down to brass tacks.
That's what they're doing. Is they're really

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just kind of vomiting their fear, right, all
over your idea, your plan, your dream. And
this is why I love hatching, quote, unquote.
Hatching a plan is because when you hatch

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it, and especially hatch, right, hatching a
plan means to, like, make a plan, but
usually in secret, and why that can be
really. Great is I often encourage people

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not to talk about what they're going to do
to I always say you don't have to talk about
it to, like, make it real. It can between,
be between you and yourself. It can be

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between you and your spiritual team, you and
your sweetie and your best friend, you and
the divine you and God you and Holy Spirit
you and your internal teacher. Whatever you

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want to say, but we want to put these
things, these plans, right in safe places,
in safe spaces, in safe hands, because a lot
of times people unknowingly can just trample

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all over your dreams. And dreams have been
stopped cold. I mean cold like in their
tracks, by people who are not able to truly
see you, and whether it's to see your

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potential, to see who you really are, to see
your creativity and your brilliance and your
genius. Remember the episode I did about how
the brain has a negativity bias, and it's

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always going to look for what's wrong. So
even with the best of intentions, you could
come to somebody and say, This is my plan,
and they're going to start saying all the

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things, why that it's not going to work. And
like I said, they think they're doing it out
of love, because they're trying to keep you
safe and they're afraid, and they want you

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to do a sure bet, and they want to make sure
that you're going to do something that's
going to have a happy ending. But, I mean,
part of this isn't even about the income

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outcome. It's about the process. It's about
the creativity, it's about the experience.
It's about learning as we go. But out of
their own fear, right? They just kind of

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like, like I said, they just kind of throw
up all their fear all over you, and then it
will stop people's dreams. We've also seen
it in schools with teachers who, you know,

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can't see the creativity underneath, maybe
the bad spelling or the bad grammar or
whatever. And they take that red pen and
they just, they just red pen the dreams out

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of kids, you know, they just kill. They just
kill these creative dollies, like with their
criticism and with their desire to be a know
it all, or sometimes they're just jealous

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because they didn't go after their own
dreams, and they take it out on the people
who are bold enough and brave enough and
ballsy enough and have enough hutzpah to

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say, like, Yeah, I'm gonna go for this
thing. So this is the thing about hatching a
plan. I can't stress this enough if you're
gonna talk about it, make sure you're

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talking about it in safe places. And we just
know that in brain science, right? So some
of you may know that I'm a certified
gateless writing instructor, and one of the

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ways that we do gateless or give gateless
feedback, which to me, gateless is really
just a way of showing love and extending
love, breathing life into the creative

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impulse and the genius of people. So the way
that we give feedback in gateless is really
different than how typical, quote, unquote,
typical feedback is giving, whether it's in

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writing or in life, right? We know through
brain science that criticism, that inner
critic, that voice, and the voice of
external critical voices can kill

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creativity. It will stop you dead in your
tracks. And so we want to focus on what,
what is really exciting about this plan. And
so we want to put it into the hands of the

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people who have the ability to truly see
you, and even if they don't quite get it,
because maybe your plan is beyond their
scope. Or is it like my sweetie sometimes

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can come to me and he can show me things
musically, and I can hear it and know what I
like. But if he tried to break it down and
say like, oh, I'm playing these chords, and

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I'm doing this, and I'm moving from this,
this chord to that chord, and these notes to
that, like, my brain just goes like, what?
But I can hold the space for him and

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celebrate him and cheerlead him, and, you
know, encourage, encourage his his craft and
his creativity and his genius. But so you
don't always have to talk about your plans,

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especially when you're hatching a plan, it's
sometimes best to keep things a little
secret. And I kind of like that. I kind of
try, tend to be the kind of person that will

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do a thing, or start to do a thing, or I'm
in a thing, and then I let people know I
don't always like to do a ton of, like,
behind the scenes first, and like all this

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stuff. Like, I know that people love to see
a process in action. I'm not saying you
should never do that. There's just certain
times I think when it's good to keep your

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plans close to your chest, especially if
you're not in an environment where you can
know that your

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that your dreams and your visions and these
plans that mean so much to you, that have a
lot of meaning and purpose to you, are not
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and celebration. Okay? Now the other thing
is, I wanted to look at the word hatch,
because I think this is really fascinating,
too, and I'm going to tie this all together

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with the spiritual principle in a moment. So
just stay with me. Okay? Because I've been
thinking about this for a while. So I love
that the idea hatch, traditionally, is kind

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of. Use when you think about hatching, like
little animals that are hatching, right?
Whether it's little chicks coming out of a
shell, it's like something needs to break in

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order to allow allow this like young
creature, this young little precious animal,
to like come out. And I think that's what
we're kind of doing, too, with our plans and

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our dreams and our hopes. Is, especially as
we're moving into a new year is there are
things inside of us that are trying to
hatch. There might be some things that have

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been gestating for a long time, like you've
been pregnant with an idea or a book or a
song or a business opportunity or whatever
the thing is, right? An invention, a new way

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of thinking or being, and you've been kind
of hibernating with this and gestating this,
and it's been growing inside of you, and now
this, this thing, is about to break free and

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like, come out into the world. And, you
know, imagine if we we used a hammer to try
and help that chick come out of the shell.
Like that will not end well. And this is

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what I'm talking about. Like, we want our
creativity and our ideas and our plans to be
fostered in environments where those seeds
can take root and germinate and get good

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light and good water and good nurturing and
nourishment so that it can grow. And that
includes you. It's just not just external
people. It's about how you're watering, how

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you're pouring into, how you're nurturing
that thing. And this requires a little bit
of discipline, right? And us being willing
to commit to our plans and to not do it all

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wishy washy, because you've heard me say
before that the universe cannot get behind
wishy washy. We want to have some clarity,
and we're going to talk about that in a

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minute. Okay, another way of looking at
hatch, a hatch, right is an opening, like
it's an escape hatch. And this can be like
through a wall or a floor. And back in the

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old days, they would talk about like service
hatches, like an opening where you could
serve through. And I really think about this
in our creativity, in our artistry, in our

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work and what we're doing in the world, it
is a way to hatch, to bring something
through, to be the portal that something can
break through and serve through. I think

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that this is fascinating. And sometimes what
we're breaking through is old ways of being,
old ways of thinking, old ways of thinking
about ourselves, sometimes our talents and

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abilities, sometimes other people in our
relationships and sometimes the world. So I
think when we're hatching a plan, there's an
opening for something new to take place,

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something divine and creative, to flow
through you and for you to be in service in
a way that feels both purposeful and
meaningful to you, but also brings something

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into the world that other people might find
helpful or entertaining, or gives them
guidance or creates purpose, right? Whatever
the act of creativity first serves us, and

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then if it lands out into the world in a
greater way, that's amazing. I mean, even
just think about this podcast. When I do
this podcast, if it wasn't fun for me, if

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the process wasn't in some way purposeful or
meaningful, or I didn't have fun doing it, I
wouldn't do it. The fact that you guys
listen, and you know, I hear from from some

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of you, that it's very helpful that, to me,
is like the bonus that's the cherry on top,
right? So being able to to create, to be a
hatch, to be an opening in the world, I

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think, I think is pretty cool, too. And also
sometimes when we're hatching a plan, when
we think about a hatch, we think about it as
an escape hatch. That's another way of

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looking at hatches as a way to escape. And I
think sometimes we need to hatch plans to
get away from old ways of being, or maybe to
get away from old relationships or old jobs

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or gigs that are no longer serving, or
whatever it is, an old habit, an old
addiction, an old thought system, an old
pattern, whatever it is, I think having a

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hatch, to be able to escape through in a
positive way can be a very powerful thing.
Okay, so let's, let's now whether we've
talked about the word hatch, let's talk

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about the word plan. And this is where, kind
of the the spiritual piece comes into this a
little more deeply. So I just want to, first
and foremost say this, that I'm a person

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that is like, all for going with the flow of
things. I think sometimes, you know, I'm I'm
a wicked planner, like, I love to plan more
on that in a second. But there are people

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who are just like, Ah, just going to go with
the flow and like, we'll figure it out when
we get there. And they'd like to be really
spontaneous and whatever. And I get that, I

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really get that. And and I think it can be
beautiful. I think that, but, but the thing
that I often say is discipline leads to
freedom, and what. I mean by that is there's

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a difference between having no plan and just
winging it and then crossing your fingers
and hoping that there's an outcome that like
is good. And then there's a time in a place

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when to have a plan right to be disciplined
enough to sit down and practice your thing
and repeat a thing, and so it's in you, and
that's what I often say, like, discipline

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leads to freedom. It's the discipline first,
that planning first, that then allows me to
be spontaneous with confidence. So there are
people who just like to wing it and say,

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Fuck it last minute. We'll figure it out. No
big deal. I like to put in the time, the
effort, the energy, and then release myself
to the intuitive or the creative or the

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spontaneous or the divine, you know,
intelligence experience, right? Because
first I already know that I've put in the
time, the energy, the effort, I know what

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I'm talking about, right? And then I can
kind of stand in that and then open myself.
I got the foundation is there? The plan is
there. Doesn't mean things are going to go

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according to plan. But I can plan on my feet
better when I've put some discipline right
into the thing first. So I don't want to
say, like, some people like, oh, I don't

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like having a plan. Having plans is boring.
Well, for some of us, I understand why that
is, right? Some our brains all work
differently. Some people just like, like I

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said, they like to say, wing it, fuck it,
chuck it. It's all. We'll see what happened.
Fuck around and find out, right? That's a
huge motto of mine. But I'm able to Fauci to

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to fuck around and find out because I have a
little bit of stability and foundation
underneath me. I also have a lot of faith.
So that's another story for another time.

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Okay, coming back to the plan, there's a
line in A Course in Miracles that I love
that says a healed mind does not plan. A
healed mind does not plan. Now let's talk

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about this for a little bit. It doesn't mean
that you don't make a plan, right? It's
really easy to interpret this, oh, a healed
mind does not plan. It's not saying don't

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have a plan. What it really means underneath
all of this is that you can have a plan. You
can make a plan, just don't make it, quote,
unquote, all on your own. Because, as I

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often say, if, if I just let me my ego, my
ego personality pass. Now who I really am is
not my ego in my personality parts. This is
like a part of me, my true capital S self,

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is often not the me that wants to make the
plan, right, the me that I can sometimes
think of myself to be. And we all do this,
right? We all confuse who we are, okay? So

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sometimes our ego personality is in charge,
and it's like, I'm going to come up with a
plan. This is what I'm going to do, and this
is how it's going to work, and this is going

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to be the outcome. Yeah, have you met my
life? Have you seen life and how it unfolds
surprising me all the time. So it means that
when we go to quote, unquote plan, you have

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often heard me say the prayer many times
that's adapted from A Course in Miracles,
right? And I expand on it a lot in my own
personal life. And sometimes it goes like

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this, right? Please have me go where you
would have me go. So first of all, I'm
asking for directions, like literally, where
do you want me to plant my ass? Where do you

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want me to go today. Where can I be most
helpful and be in service to love, right?

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Where would you have me go? And then it
says, Please have me go where you would have
me go. Please have me do what you would have
me do. Okay? And then it goes, so like now

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that I'm in the place that you want me to
go, please direct me to go where you would
have me go. Please direct me to do what you
would have me do, in service to love, in

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service to the best possible outcome for all
which, how could I possibly know what that
is with my very limited capacity, right? But
there is something within me which I call an

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internal teacher, which, of course, in
miracles, can call an internal teacher, Holy
Spirit, spirit. You call it whatever you
want to call it, right? Some people might

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call it intuition, instinct, whatever,
divine intelligence. Okay, so there's a part
of me that is in communion with the beloved,
that is in communion with the divine. Call

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it communion with God or the universe or
love or source, or the creator. I don't care
what your higher power, right? Okay. There's
a part of me that is in communion with that,

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and I'm asking that part of me to please
help me get the out of my own way, to please
not let Vicky, with two kids from Lawrence,
to be driving the bus all the time. Okay,

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so, so part of this is have me go where you
would have me go. Have. Me do what you would
have me do, have me say what you would have
me say, like, use my tongue, use my words,

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right and to whom? Who do you want me to say
it to? Please, give me please. Give me the
wisdom to know when to speak, when I do
speak, what encouraging or loving words can

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I say and when to shut the bump up to zip it
to just right? I always say, you guys have
heard me say before, right? Why be an
asshole when you can just be quiet, right?

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Okay? And then I also will add, have me be
who you would have me be. And then I say,
please use me. Please use me. Please use me.
So even though, on the mortal plane, right,

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we kind of gotta have a plan. It looks like
I gotta wake up at this time. I'm gonna do
my DSP, my daily spiritual practice. I'm
gonna do some writing. I'm gonna, you know,

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get on, like, work out, go for a walk,
whatever you're gonna do, right? This is
when I have this meeting. I gotta pick up my
kids, I gotta feed the dog, I gotta walk

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what, whatever you're doing. We gotta have
plans, right? We gotta know kind of what's
going on. But I don't want those plans to be
made by the part of my brain that thinks

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humans think we're a lot smarter than we
actually humans. Think we know a lot more
than we than we actually do. So I want
something smarter than me, directing right,

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guiding me, helping me make the plan I don't
want to today, I will make no decisions by
myself. Of course, a miracle says, and I'm
like, Yeah, you know why? Because I am now

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to I will make no decisions by myself,
because I am now smart enough to know how
much I don't know, and I can't possibly know
what the best possible outcome is for myself

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and everybody else at all times. So I ask
myself to be used in service to something
greater, right? And part of this requires
that I have some tools in my toolbox to

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quiet my mind enough to get still enough,
right? You know that old saying, Be still?
And know the old saying, it's from the Bible
somewhere, uh, be still and know that I am

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God. Be still. I always break it down, be
still and know, right, be still be so in my
beingness, when I get quiet enough, using
tools to help the chat of the ego mind,

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right, all that constant noise, if we can
dial it back, if we can Turn down the
volume, so that a truer voice, right, the
voice for God, the voice for love, the

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creative impulse, can speak. And if I can
listen to that and have the courage to take
action on that, my plan is going to be a
really different plan, that if I'm just

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letting my fearful ego, write the plan all
on its own. And I think a lot of times when
we go into the new year, this is what
happens, is that people make all these

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resolutions, these new year resolutions, but
a lot of them are made out of fear and not
necessarily out of love. We're looking at
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it's really, really helpful, I think, to
look at things through the spiritual lens,
through the lens of love. And this is a
really fun way to be able to do it, because

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if you're like, he, he hatching a plan, like
I am, right then, like, we don't have to
tell the world about it. And it's a really
fun to hatch plans, but let's not hatch them

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on our own right. Make new decisions by
ourselves. I'm smart enough to realize that
that I don't want to make all my plans with
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I want to ask. I asked my internal teacher,
Holy Spirit. Spirit to please guide my
thoughts, my words, my actions. Who would
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Please guide. I say this every day. Please
guide my head, my hat, my hands, and
definitely my big fat mouth. You know what I
mean? So this can be a really powerful

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thing. And the other thing too, when you're
hatching a plan, I want to, I want to share
this with you, is that while we can do this
all mentally, like in our head, okay, that's

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great. That's fine. You might have the kind
of mind you're like, I don't have to write
things down, whatever. That's awesome. But
writing things down is such a powerful

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thing, because they did a study right now,
look, I know how studies go. I don't know
the exact numbers of the participants, blah,
blah, blah, I can tell you the outcome,

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though. They did a study of like, a certain
amount of people. It was a pretty big, good
number of people. And I would think of a
psychologist, a woman psychologist, did

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this, and she had the participants write
down their goals, and at the end of the
period of time, whatever it was, I don't
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Whatever it was, they found that people who
wrote down their goals because you're using
a different part of your brain. PS, when you
hand write down your goals, don't type them

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out first. If you want to type them up
afterwards, that's fine, but first get out a
piece of paper, a pen, a pencil, whatever
your favorite instrument is to write with

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hand, write this down what your goals are.
People who write down their goals are 42%
more likely to reach their goals. I mean,
think about that, 42% that has no small

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number, you guys, so I think it's worth a
try. And the other thing that happens is
when you write things down, so like, imagine
you were trying to get from here to

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California, and you're like, we're just
gonna wing it. Like, no GPS No, no, no, no
system for getting you a no, going to triple
A and getting the triple A maps. Like, back

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in the old day, back in the day, you used to
have to go to triple A, and they would make
you a map literally from point A to point B,
and you had to, like, follow the map. That

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was before the GPS systems and stuff like
that, right? So, but imagine just kind of
codi whopping your way across country. Like,
might not end that well, unless you have all

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the time and resources in the world. So we
want to know, right, like where we're trying
to go and what we're trying to do, and when
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we're hatching a plan, right? It's going to
help us get some more clarity and helping us
to select maybe more specific things, rather
than just random things. So writing things

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down helps us to get more specific. It helps
us to decide, make some choices, and it
helps us to get clarity about what we want
to do. So number one, that's like, really

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fantastic when you have things written down,
what it also does is it helps you to keep
your focus on the goal, to keep your eyes on
the prize, as we like to say, because all

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throughout, like, not even a year, never
mind, like a day, like all throughout a day,
you might have a plan, and then life has
other plans, and it's really easy to get

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invited to things, or to have people Need
stuff from you, or whatever it is. And we
want to be able to use this written down
plan,

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kind of as a way to like, ping, ping, ping,
like, put it almost like in a bubble, or
like a filtering system so we can filter it
through and say, Okay, this, this plan that

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I have that is purposeful and meaningful and
reflects my values, and is what I'm trying
to accomplish, right? This year, this week,
or whatever this day. Is this thing going to

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detract me from it? So it's a really great
way. You know, when they used to, like mine
for gold or shift for gold, they would take
sift they would take those sifters and

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anything, right? They were trying to look
for the gold in a thing. So this is a way,
like a sifting process or a filtering
process, to make sure that it's helping you

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to stay, like, right on track with what you
want to do. Okay? It'll also help you to
overcome resistance. Now, I'm a big fan of
Steven Pressfield. If you don't know who

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Steven Pressfield is, I have like, you can't
see them, but they're all over there. I
have, like, all of his books over there, and
one of his books called do the work. He also

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wrote The War of Art, but one of his books,
do the work. This is what we do. Writing
things down is a way to really, really
focus, which will help you to overcome

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resistance. Because every time that you come
up with a dream, anytime you come up with
something meaningful for you, if it is big
enough, if it's a big enough dream, the

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Automatically, the ego is going to create
some sort of resistance to it. It's going to
be like, Who do you think you ought to have
this dream? You don't have the time, you

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don't have the resources, you're not smart
enough, like whatever it is. But when you
start to write things down, and you look
over at it, and you look at it multiple

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times, and you start to kind of get it set
in your subconscious, and you start to make
it more real, because this is how we start
to create new neural pathways and new neural

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connections, is we want to do something with
repetition, because that resistance is going
to be so strong, and so we will be able to
kind of look at this goal. Focus on the

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goal. See the goal in our mind, repetition,
repetition, repetition, with feeling, and it
will help us combat that resistance a little
bit more. Okay. Also, when you write things

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down, that's like a really great way that
points to the next step, which is not just
writing it down and keeping it all Woo,
like, like, up in the ethereal. We want to

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bring it down to earth practically. And when
we see something written down, we already
have our instructions for the day, we're
like, Yep, this is what I'm doing, and now

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I'm going to take action. And that's a very
powerful thing. A plan is just a plan until
it's executed, and then it starts to become
real, and then it starts to happen. And. We

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take the next best step, the next smallest
step, to take action in the direction of
your dreams. And when you review them
regularly and you look at them, it will

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provoke you. It will inspire you. It will
move you. It will shift something in you to
maybe take the next step or action, which
also helps us overcome resistance when you

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start to get a little momentum. Okay? The
other great thing that writing something
down does is it allows you to kind of track
and see where your progress has been. It's

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like, oh, this is what I said I was going to
do on this date. And look, I'm already here.
So it's kind of like, it's kind of like
proof. It's like your plans can be like a

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love letter to your future self, because who
you are now, if you just listen to, you
know, my episode that I just did, your life
is a reflection. Your life currently is a

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reflection of who you've been. So if we're
looking forward into a new year and how we
want to be and who we want to be and where
we want to go, those outcomes that we're you

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know, they may not happen, but they're gonna
happen a hell of a lot more probably, right?
If we write them down, we take them
seriously, we hatch the plan, and then we do

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something about it. And if we keep reviewing
it, and we keep looking at it, and we're
like, Okay, I'm gonna, I'm gonna, like, keep
my eye on the prize, you know, I'm gonna,

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like, go for this thing, right? It's really
gonna help us be able to kind of see just,
just what we've accomplished, and that's
really exciting, to be able to, how do I say

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this? To be to be a proactive participant
and the celebration of your own plan. And
you're like, I hatched this plan, but I
didn't just hatch it alone. I hatched it

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with my spiritual team, with Holy Spirit,
with, you know, my intuition, my whatever. I
made a plan. I hatched a plan, but I didn't
make it by myself. And this is one of the

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ways that we get to serve and have a more
meaningful, a more meaningful. You know,
life is when we're aligning also these plans
with what we really care about and our

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purpose and why we're here and what we hope
to do while we're here. And if those things
right are not in alignment with who we
really are and what really matters. Like,

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that's the first step, part of hatching the
plan. The first step is getting really
clear. And I think that at the end of the
year, one of the things that I always do,

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and I've talked about this in past episodes,
that's why I didn't want to do another end
of the year like. So I kind of asked myself,
what needs to stay like, what's the things

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or the people or the relationships or the
habits or the patterns that are really
helpful and positive and empowering? What
needs to stay, what needs to go like, what's

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the bullshit that I'm done putting up with?
What are the relationships that aren't
working, what, what feels not reciprocal,
what just feels like an energy suck and

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drain like? What am I ready to let go of,
old stories, old patterns, old habits,
whatever, and then what do I want to grow?
What do I want to expand on? What do I want

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to create? What do I want to hatch a plan
around? Right? That's kind of what this is.
This is all about. So let's do a little
recap. Okay, hatching a plan, to make a

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plan, especially a secret plan. So remember,
you don't have to blab out to the interwebs,
on the internet, on social media, to
everybody, you know, oh yeah, I'm gonna run

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a marathon. I'm gonna run a 5k I'm gonna do
that. Now, for some people, telling others
is a great way that they use to stay
accountable. I'm not saying don't do it. I'm

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just saying, if you are going to do it,
please make sure that you're sharing it with
people who have tender hands, who have kind
mouths, who don't just try to tear you down,

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or, you know, those people can suck it in a
bucket like no all set with that. So find
your balcony, people. If you haven't
listened to that episode, I recorded it. I

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think it's called like balcony and basement
people make sure you're not taking these,
these tender dreams, these plans, and
putting them with the basement people save

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yourself a lot of suffering. Oh, my God.
Okay, so what I was trying to say too
earlier is it's okay to have a plan, right?
But don't make the plan on your own, right?

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Make it with divine intelligence. Make it
with spirit like ask for get quiet. This is
what a DSP is really powerful for daily
spiritual practice, helping to discipline

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the mind, to quiet the mind, because an
undisciplined mind can accomplish nothing,
and discipline allows us to have more
freedom, even when we have a plan that's

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really helpful. Think about this as an
opening, right? Patching a plan is an
opening, and whether it's an escape hatch or
it's something hatching and being. Earth

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inside of you, and it's breaking out of its
shell and it's coming into the world. It's a
beautiful thing. Remember, criticism can
kill creativity. So again, we're going back

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to finding the people who will nurture and
nourish and breathe life into you and
support you as you're going after your
dreams and your plans, listen deeply

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internally when you sit down to make this
plan, write it down, things that get written
down tend to get accomplished 42% more
right? Clarify what you want, take action on

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what you want. Use what you've written down
as a filter to keep you on track. Reread
with feeling. Envision your dream. See your
dream. It will help you to overcome

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resistance, and then make sure you take time
to celebrate when your plan set to go
according to plan, it can be a very powerful
thing. All right, you guys, thank you so

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much for tuning in a couple of things. If
you are interested. I think this one's going
to come out on like January 2 or whatever.
So I'm doing an online yoga class. That's my

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plan. Is to start offering online yoga
classes right here from my home, so you can
tune in wherever you are from the comfort of
your living room, your comfort of your

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bedroom, wear your PJs. I don't care, as
long as you're not naked and you're decent.
You know what I'm saying? You don't even
have to turn on your camera. I prefer that

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you turn on your camera so I can see you, so
I can help you to have a better experience.
It's going to be a fantastic time. Tuesday
nights, at 6pm Eastern Time. My time for

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it's a 75 minute class. There'll be a bonus
15 minutes afterwards, optional, if you want
to stick around for creating community or
asking questions from 715 to 730 so six to

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715 Eastern is the yoga class. And then
there's bonus time after shavasana, once we
come up to like, hang out and talk and get
to know the other people, if you want to, or

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you just don't have to. It's just optional.
It's a bonus. It's for fun. 15 bucks a
class. Just go to Karen kenney.com/yoga to
sign up. We already have a bunch of people

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signed up. It's going to be so much fun. I
can't wait. I'd love to have you join us.
And if anything that I was talking about
today, right this storytelling and

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spirituality, of being able to take these
tools and apply them to our daily life.

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This is what it's really all about you guys,
when we when we work in the nest, my group,
spiritual mentoring program, it really is a
way of learning how to navigate the human

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experience from a more spiritual place, so
that we can do it with meaning and with
purpose, with more love and with more peace,
and having some really solid, applicable

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tools that you can use. And that's just
Karen kenney.com nest, okay, thanks for
tuning in. I appreciate you Happy New Year.
I hope it's a beautiful and abundant and

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joyous and wicked fun and creative, a year
full of love and purpose and creativity and
meaning and peace and so wherever you go,
may you leave yourself, the animals, the

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other people, the places you go, the planet,
the environment, better than how you found
it. Wherever you go, may you be a blessing
and spread more love in the world. Bye, bye.