Slow Down! The Joy You Seek Is In The Journey

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Welcome back to the podcast. I'm your host, 44th Power. And this podcast is all about stepping into your power, owning your truth and embracing the journey. So no matter how messy, painful or beautiful it may be. And today I wanna talk about something that so many of us overlook, enjoying the journey. We get so caught up in where we're trying to go, who we're trying to become, or what we think life should look like.

that we forget to actually live. We forget to find joy in these little moments, right? And to appreciate how far we've come and to trust that even the struggles are shaping us in ways that we cannot see, right? So whether you're healing from past wounds, you're rebuilding after loss, or just trying to figure out your next step, this episode is a reminder that the journey itself is just as important than the destination.

Right? So what we're doing is we're enjoying the journey, right? We're understanding that we are in a marathon now. We're no longer in a sprint, right? This is not the hundred yard dash, right? We're no longer in a sprint. This is a journey. This takes time, right? And we have to realize that moving forward, we're going to make mistakes, right? We're going to bump our head, right? We're gonna stub our toe, right?

However, we're gonna realize that this is part of the journey, right? Those setbacks are part of the journey, right? Everything is a learning moment as we continue to move forward. But what we're doing is we're embracing the transformation, right? We're understanding that, hey, I'm trying to do something different. I'm trying to express something different than what I was expressing yesterday, than what I was expressing a month ago, than what I was expressing a year ago.

And that takes change, right? That takes time and that takes change, right? So we have to remember that, be in the moment. We have to stay in the moment and realize we gonna stop looking to three years from now. We gonna enjoy it today, right? We gonna enjoy this transformation that we're going through today, right? So when you plant an apple tree, right? Study nature, when you plant an apple tree, that tree doesn't grow overnight. You gotta water that tree.

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You gotta water that tree. And the roots of the tree grows in what? Darkness. The root of the tree grows in darkness. So when you start that new journey, that transformation, you're gonna experience some dark times, right? And that's where you're gonna grow in that darkness, right? So when you come out and you hit the light, you're gonna be a full blossom tree, right? But we have to understand, it doesn't happen overnight, right? So we have to understand.

When we look at nature, nothing happens overnight. Everything is divine time and everything takes time. The nature is patient. know, nature doesn't have anxiety. Nature isn't rushing, right? Nature understands things have to fall in place in order for me to grow into what I want to grow into, right? The tree understands I need the water. The tree understands I need the sunlight, right? It doesn't rush anything. It takes its time.

and when it blossom and blooms, it's into its full essence, right? So that's what we're trying to become, our full essence, our higher self. We wanna understand that it's a gradual process, right? Just like any other form of personal growth, spirituality develops gradually, right? With small steps leading to larger transformations over time, right? Look, we gotta understand, we've been doing whatever we've

We've been doing it for years. We've been doing it since we were 20 years old. And we may be 40 now, right? Like myself, I'm 44. I've been doing certain things my whole life since probably childhood, since probably my teen years. So you have to break out of these things and it's not gonna happen overnight. It's a gradual process. It's a slow process, right? And we're thinking about time. Oh, I want it to happen now. I want it to happen now.

That's not how it works, right? Remember, we study nature. oak tree doesn't become an oak tree overnight, right? So we have to understand these things take time. It's a gradual process. You're cleansing yourself, right? It's like when you start to eat differently, right? When you start to exercise. When you hit the gym the first day, you don't lose 80 pounds the next day. It's a gradual process, right? So just like spirituality, it's a gradual process, right?

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So we have to understand it's going to take time. Don't beat yourself up because three months down the line, you're not where you want to be, right? Because if you're thinking, I'm not where I want to be, you've missed the journey. You missed the excitement. You missed the exciting part. You're missing the transformation, right? Be in the moment. Don't miss the transformation, right? So we have to understand, hey, this thing is gonna take time.

It's a marathon, You know, and I'm here for the ride. It's a marathon. It's going to gradually change. It's not going to happen overnight, right? You got to embrace the process, right? Focus on the lessons you are learning. Positive changes you are experiencing, right? Focus on the lessons. Along your journey, you're going to encounter challenges. Challenges, which I like to call there's lessons within that challenge, right? Focus on that lesson, right?

I just hit a brick wall. What is the lesson? Lessons are gonna present itself. And if we didn't understand and we didn't learn from that lesson when we first ran into that challenge, we gonna run into it again. And we gonna run into it again until ultimately what? We catch that lesson. And now we're learning from that lesson. Embrace the lesson, embrace the challenge, embrace the journey. Understand, hey.

Nothing's happening what to me is happening what for me these lessons of these challenges I'm going through is happening for me. So ultimately later down the line I can be who I'm meant to be and I can be that blessing You know to who I'm meant to be that blessing for right? So you start your journey today Ten years down the line someone's waiting for you to hit home to get to home base

people waiting for you 10 years from now. So we gotta do the work and embrace it and understand I'm in a marathon and understand this is gonna take time. This journey will touch your patience because you're gonna stub your toe multiple times. So this journey's gonna touch your patience. But understand, hey, I'm in it for the long haul. This is a way of life now. It's not a...

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Pretend thing, right? Or make believe thing. This is a way of life. This is me now. This is me becoming something greater. Right? This is me becoming something greater than I was yesterday. This is transformation. Right? Understand, hey, everybody can't come with me. That's cool. That's cool. Everybody can't come with me. Right? But guess what? The people that's supposed to be with you, they're gonna be right there. Right? So we gotta understand what? Embrace it. Embrace the process. Right?

Don't just focus on the final destination. Don't focus on 10 years from now. Don't focus on five months from now. Be in the moment. That's where you're gonna find the joy in the moment. Right? Go outside, walk, read. Read some self-growth, some self-healing books, some self-growth books. Go outside, listen to the birds chirp, right?

Going on a vacation somewhere where you can see a nice waterfall, you can see some nature trails, and you can go hiking if that's what you're into, right? Do those things, be in the moment, embrace the journey, and understand all of this is helping me what? Be in the moment, helping me understand myself, helping me to get closer to my higher self, right? Helping you heal, right? Helping you become who you're supposed to be. All of that is helping you, right?

You may want to pick up an instrument. Learn to play a different instrument. If you know how to play an instrument already, learn to play a different one. And if you don't know how to play, pick up one, if that's what you're into. Do things that you like to do. You might go into solitude. The universe may put you in solitude for you to grow in that darkness. And we'll get into solitude on a later episode.

But the universe may put you in a solitude for you to grow in that darkness like the roots of the tree grow. Right? Grows in that darkness. So embrace that journey and understand, it's going to take time, baby, and I'm here for it. I'm here for that time. Be patient with yourself. Setbacks are periods of doubt and are normal part of your journey. So when you have a setback, you may think, I can't do this. This is too hard.

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How is anyone doing this? Right? Why me? Why I can't get it right? Those are all what? Self doubts that creep into the mind, which is normal. Everybody has it. Because remember, you're trying to change something that you've been doing for years. So now that transformation feels a little tough. Your body likes what? To be comfortable. So your body is always going to try to drag you back into what? Your

comfort zone But this is where you have to shake that off and say no we're doing something different and eventually what's gonna happen your body is gonna start expressing the new idea that you're feeling Right and so but right now it's gonna it's comfortable where it's at Right, so you're always gonna feel like I can't do it Let me just revert back to what I was doing and that's the mindset we have to get out of right Understand like look enjoy my journey. I'm gonna book my tour. I'm gonna book my head. I'm gonna stop my

I'm gonna have some hiccups along the way and it's cool Everyone has them right everyone has them so we got to understand. Hey, this is a gradual process, right? I'm gonna take time out, you know, if I have a hiccup, I'm not gonna beat myself up over I'm gonna smile about it and understand and I'm gonna say hey, thank you for this challenge. Thank you for this lesson, right? I'm learning something. I'm learning something about myself. I'm learning. I'm learning that I'm not a quitter I'm learning that I'm gonna keep going

Right? I'm learning that I am strong. I'm resilient. Right? I'm built for this. And I'm understanding that, he's leading me into something greater than what I am where I'm standing at today. Right? A few years from now, I'm going to be standing at something greater because I did the work. Right? I walked the journey. I didn't run. Right? I didn't retreat when things got difficult. I tucked it out.

Right? I fought and I became more resilient through repetition. Right? I became more resilient through repetition. Right? So as we go through that repetition of stubbing our toe, hitting our head, making these mistakes and many hiccups along the way, your body becomes more resilient to the pain, more resilient to the pressure. You see? And now I like working out.

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Repetition repetition when you first hit the gym, you're not you're not bench-pressing 400 pounds when you first hit the gym, but through repetition You eventually get there. Why because you stayed the course You stayed along the journey Right, so that's key understanding. It's not going to happen overnight Nothing happens overnight right? Nothing happens overnight. You understand look this gonna take time. This is a process

This is something new for me. The universe is calling me to be greater. Right? I'm here to do what? Change my family tree. You may be the one that's supposed to acquire the wealth to change your family tree. You may be the one that's supposed to destroy those curses that's on your family. Right? They call those people the chosen. You may be chosen to do that. But you have to go through what? The fire first.

You have to go through the fire and you have to embrace the journey. You have to recognize it and say, I'm here for the ride. I'm here for this ride. It's going to be a roller coaster ride, but I'm here for it. Right. And understand you along your journey, you can get motivation from a lot of different people, a lot of different books, a lot of different mentors, a lot of different podcasts. If you listen to podcasts.

a lot of different gurus, always remember that answers are inside of you. You are your own guru, right? You are your own guru. And through meditation and through some breath work, through some walking in nature, you will start to understand and start to get the answers to the questions that you have, right? There's nothing wrong with listening to other people and taking advice from other people.

But when you do that meditation and that breath work, you're gonna understand I have the Google inside of me. I have the mentor inside of me, right? I am is inside of me, right? I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me, right? That Christ is in all of us, right? So we have to understand, look, as we go through this spiritual journey, I'm gonna come across different platforms. I'm gonna come across different...

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Books and I'm gonna come across different different people that shape me However, I know ultimately I have the guru inside of me. I have to look within I Have to understand this is up to me This is up to me to continue to walk the path to continue to stay along the journey to continue to stay along that long Road because this is a forever journey, right?

This is not a one year thing. This is life changing. This is who you're gonna be. This is who you're transforming yourself into. Right? So you're gonna be expressing yourself as this new person for years to come. And probably in your next lifetime as well. Right? So understand, hey, to recap, this is a marathon. This is not a sprint. It's not the 40 yard dash or the 100 yard dash. This is a marathon. Right?

Understand study nature understand things don't happen at night be patient with yourself Things don't happen at night things don't happen the next day You're not gonna make a drastic change, right? If you try to put down certain certain, you know vices that you feel like it's hindering you from moving forward You may fall back into that trap a week later You know three weeks later, but the goal is to do what keep moving

Right? Like they say, you know the scripture, righteous man fall down and gets up what? Seven times I believe it says. So you keep moving. You keep moving. Don't stop. You understand? Because remember, you're trying to change something that you've been doing for years. Ultimately, you got to change your DNA. Right? We all know that the cells hold memory. So you got to put something different and plant something different to that subconscious. Right?

I want something different. I want something different and start expressing what you want. It's a transformation and then you got it eventually and gradually over time start expressing what you want or start expressing the new you right the new man you're gonna start expressing the new man right so guys that concludes tonight's episode but I just want you to know that your journey is yours for a reason every step every challenge every unexpected detour

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is shaping you into the person you're meant to be. So take a moment today to appreciate where you are, not where you wish you were, not where you think you should be, but right here, right now, right? Because this moment is part of your story and it deserves to be lived fully. And I wanna thank you for spending this time with me on 44th Power. And if today's episode resonated with you, I'd love to hear your thoughts. So connect with me.

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