So what's good is we're talking about music.
Yeah, we're just talking about, like, you know, songs and cover
versions and who the original artists were and all that.
And it makes everyone feel good.
Something like it brings people together.
It's memories.
When people hear an older song, they think back to a time.
Hopefully that was a happy time for them and if it wasn't, they change the station
or or go to another song because you can get really sad. Can.
I'm speaking about myself, right, right.
Me and my husband is alive.
And what we used to do, sometimes I can embrace that.
And sometimes I have to turn.
And some people do embrace sad songs like Elton John's had Sad Songs Say So Much,
or Silly Love songs by Paul McCartney and wings or whatever, though, and
but hey, in case you're just tuning in, by the way, I'm John, this is Joyce.
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And our
and our mission statement really is
just to get you away from all the negativity out there.
I mean, it's kind of, you know, we're just hanging out here.
It's like coffee talk or water talk, watercooler talk.
But good stuff, good stuff.
So what we're talking about today is it abundance.
Abundance. It's always oh we can use that.
I mean, I have a deck situation.
You and I were talking about a deck situation
with someone to build a deck.
But now from the scratch.
I mean, I think the foundation is. Right.
So I'm not sure about the foundation of my deck, but
it needs some work,
right?
Somebody know a good person, a good carpenter?
Get in touch with him
or her?
Know where to find.
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Listening from another country.
Right, right. It's amazing how many people we.
We do the inside talk here, but, But our guy Dave and Robert,
who have been helping us here and Stephanie
have been telling us that people are tuning in from Europe,
in Europe right now and, in other continents as well.
And it's like, wow, thank you.
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Whatever you want to just share, share with us,
you know, share it with your friends.
And, we appreciate you. Yes.
So attracting abundance has been
something that has been near and dear to my heart.
You and me both.
Especially after looking at some of the bills coming in lately and,
you know, we had tax day recently and, yeah.
Yes. Yeah.
I drove through Dunkin Donuts yesterday that I had a little cup.
Right. And the price of that
okay.
This is up like 100% I think, since last year.
Are there tariffs on Dunkin Donuts coffee?
Or you go to Starbucks and you get a $22 latte, right.
Right. Yeah. Laugh at this stuff.
So you know what?
If you have to come back different place.
And we we made it through the past.
We're here today.
We're going to make it through this no matter what.
It may be 100%.
I remember my father had a gas station in New Haven,
Connecticut all my life.
I think he started when he was 17. Wow.
So I remember, gas shortages.
I remember talking about a lot of things didn't they had the odd even thing
back in the day, the late 70s on your plates.
Like on an odd day you can get your gas and an even day somebody else.
Was that like late 70s?
You and I weren't even born then, but I read about it in history books.
But my father.
He was very
rebellious in that he didn't pay attention to those rules.
In fact, when some things came under taxation
and his gas station, he absorbed the cost.
He would not pass it on. Wow.
So your dad was an amazing man.
You can't think of too many people doing that nowadays.
He just felt like it was unfair.
Right.
And, And that's what he did.
So we're talking about.
I'm talking about abundance. Yeah.
Why don't you show that book there?
A book called well, Live Abundant it now.
Right.
I should I should be talking.
I should have a,
Should it be a picture of a deck in your book
and manifest it to Dunkin Donuts?
Oh, geez. Wow.
And that's. Yeah. You know what?
That's a simple story
of just show how the grateful
and having, appreciation for your life
can make just good things happen.
So I am running late to a meeting.
I'm stuck in line at a Dunkin Donuts.
Once you're in line, you can't get out.
Oh, you look in the back.
It's like, can't even go around.
All right.
You get through.
So I'm stuck.
I realize I'm not going to make it to this meeting, and
I thought to myself,
Joyce,
practice what you preach.
And by the way, there was a big truck in front of me,
so I couldn't see how long the line went, but it was at a standstill.
It's like something bad must have happened at that.
Right, right. And people weren't leaving.
So I looked up.
And I encourage anyone to do that,
that if it feels like every day,
just like look up to the heavens, sometimes I look up and I just say,
I love you to all the people who have part of my life.
Or I say, what a beautiful day or whatever.
So I looked up and it was this massive,
A Flock of Seagulls.
Hahahahaha! Right, right.
What is there? That song.
I ran and Space Age love song and wishing I okay, three of them.
Okay. Yeah, right.
But the birds are making
these beautiful, like like,
figure eights.
I mean, it was the pattern was just amazing.
So I was looking up and smiling at it, thinking, wow,
that we have this nature that I have.
I just see this.
Why am I complaining about that?
And then I finally I got up to the window
and the man says,
no charge.
And I thought, oh, I said, because something really bad happened.
And he said, no, the man in front of you in the truck paid for you.
And he was still there, kind of like stopped getting out.
And he looked in his rearview mirror and I looked at him,
you know, and I went like this.
Anyway, you know, and I knew I made his day.
It wasn't that he just made my day.
I just knew that he felt so good, you know, about doing that.
And the other thing I felt was,
this may seem a
little too metaphysical for some people, but
I felt that he felt my energy
looking up and saw me smiling.
And maybe he did the same thing, and maybe that matching energy
said, I'm going to uninvite this woman whatever she's going to order.
Yeah, I mean, I mean, I buy that, no pun intended.
But, you know, the vibrations were all vibrations.
And you notice that when you walk into a room of people sometimes
and you could feel that if, people have a negative mindset
where there's tense, you feel, you feel it.
Right? You've been to some meetings like that.
You walk in and it's like, you know, you could just cut,
you know, the tension with a knife.
And it takes one person to kind of break that, like takes one person to
to take it off, switch and turn the light on.
Right. Change everything.
But we've all been there.
But just one person who walks in with a big smile can put everybody at ease. Yes.
Or just cuts.
Joke or says something funny.
Reminded me of something.
There's one person that I have a meeting with,
and he usually only has
meetings with me to tell me what he doesn't like.
We all know that person.
No way.
That's not good.
So now that I know that.
I when I have a meeting with him
and I promise you this works,
I sit there and while he's talking and complaining
I look at him and think I just wonderful.
You're just marvelous person.
You're so smart.
You're so good looking.
I'm not saying any of this,
but he begins to calm down and it always ends up well.
Since I started doing that because I was practicing the right right
to see if I could send it over
to someone and, yeah.
And he told me not too long ago that there was a meeting
that I was that with him and someone else,
and if it weren't for me, he would have walked out of that meeting.
But he felt calm with me sitting there.
So you can quietly do this.
You don't even have to say, why are you so angry?
Or put a smile on your face.
You don't have to say that you can quietly send an energy out to someone.
I totally agree, I think people pick up on the energy when they're around.
Just the body language.
The icon, your facial.
I mean, are you like you smiling at that person, making them
feel good or you're looking kind of judgmental or standoffish?
And a
lot of times you can mirror the person's body language by what they're doing.
If they're kind of like, you know,
you and I
are kind of like this with each other, and then we just might lean into each other
or whatever.
But subtle things, they go, they mean a lot.
Yeah.
You know, people who are,
I don't have this talk with someone.
Just the other day, and it was kind of a tough talk.
Because like I said, halfway
through, they are,
empaths.
So there's a difference between group and empathetic. Yes.
And then being an empath
or you absorb everything. Yes.
All the complaining and worries and woes that she had
was because she cared about the people.
But it's like she became their pain.
She was internalizing it all.
She she became it.
And then I let this go on for a while.
And then I just said, can I stop you for a moment?
I said, because I want to help you and I can see what you're doing.
And she said, but everyone, you know, I should care.
And I said, yes, but not to your detriment. Yes.
You know, so you can listen.
But at some point,
and I think I got through a little bit and then finally I said to
her, hey, tell me something.
Yeah, there you go.
What's good with your life, I love it.
She did this stutter step like, And I said
something good.
Yeah. Great about your life. Probably something.
It seems like they're in a trance.
And you broke that trance that.
That's that's what it was, a trance.
And we get caught in that trance, and it's so much easier for people
to be negative, and they don't realize they're on that train.
Right.
That trance that just right.
Yeah.
You abruptly like derail it a little bit.
Kind of jolt them. Yes. Right.
So so like that caffeine in the morning you know so that
but the conversation ended up
where she said,
I am so glad I spoke with you today because you were just what I needed.
It's like the angels. Yes,
but I think the angels,
God, the universe sends people to us all the time
and it's up to us to
pay attention.
I think that's a real key piece of advice we need to be, and intent
about what we do each and every day.
Just keep our antenna up out there.
We're walking around for the messages out there because they're there all the time.
Universe, God, you know, I call it God's talking to us all the time.
We just have to be listening in and we let we were.
So we're too busy being busy
and we're not listening for guidance.
Right.
And you talked about, you know, the energy that.
Yes, for manifesting.
So, you know, there's reasons why
certain things exist, like the rich get rich.
Same old, same old, you know, how's your day.
And another day, another dollar for.
All right.
So one thing goes for all of course it's more I live by.
No, don't live by.
I was talking so as long as there's somebody before you.
Right. Who's Murphy?
Not Murphy Brown, right.
But, I mean, who is Murphy and like this?
Well, you know, all my it's been a tough day already, and things happen in threes.
I'm expecting at least two more things said.
You're planting that seed of expecting things to go wrong.
And they will because you're expecting it right.
Change that thought.
How about three good things that can happen today.
Minimum.
You know you're so right about that because people have said
oh well two people time.
You know I'm waiting for the right.
And even if they don't know the third one and it's,
a celebrity, they'll say, oh, that's the third one.
And then I think I said to someone one day I said,
but everyone dies every day, right?
You can always find three people. Exactly.
Right.
Yeah, but people just
feel it's a justification or something to their their way of thinking.
But I would rather on the side of, you know, what good
things can happen today rather than just three good things happening.
Why don't we say that?
That's good.
But next time have a conversation with somebody.
What three good things happened to you today?
Because things comes in three they do. So yeah.
So we're going to change the whole paradigm.
Nicely done.
You should you should pattern that choice.
You should pattern that.
That's right. Your next book.
That's right.
But abundance really is a mindset.
We're not just talking about financial but abundance and health.
Abundance in relationships.
Yeah. Peace of mind.
Abundance.
You know, abundance in your fulfillment.
At your job, in your relationship with your kids, your spouse, your friends.
Yeah. You know, just a joyful life.
It is a joyful life if you don't hold grudges.
Grudges are dangerous
to your abundance.
It's like building up.
And I think it's like putting up a shield,
so to speak, from getting what you want from the universe.
When you put up that shield, you're blocking it.
There's only so much room in your container, your human body.
And to focus it with all that negativity, you know, empty out that container
and allow the positiveness that come in, the vibes, the abundance
that that we all really,
I think, think deserve, quite frankly, it reminded me of,
Doctor Wayne Dyer that I love Doctor Dyer,
his writings and, and in a presentation once
he had a he a globe sort of like a, lighting that we have here.
So like a round globe.
And he said, I want to use this as an example.
He said, this globe with this beautiful light,
this represents the heavens.
God, the universe, creator, and nothing but good
and love exist here, right?
When you step out of this light
symphony, unforgiveness,
holding grudges, all of that,
you can feel that
because you just got you put yourself off track, right?
That light is always there for you.
And that was really impactful on me.
And it took me back to when I was in grammar school
and I was in, Catholic school.
And I remember raising my hand and a priest was giving a talk,
and I was six years old.
And I said to him and he said, yes.
And I said,
Who is God?
What is he?
And his answer was,
God is love, right?
And that stayed with me
even through my rebellious, I just remember that
when when Wayne Dyer was showing that physical example, I thought, oh,
he to feel that good and to have that kind of.
You talked about abundance. Yes. Right.
You have to stand in that. Right.
But you can't stand in that light for a second
and do a prayer and step back out and go, yeah.
But I hate that person.
I hate my job. Right.
Because now you just put yourself out of it.
But it doesn't mean that you're still not loved and protected
and everything you need to go back into the light.
Yeah, we have to kind of look inward first.
You know, so many times things can change by the way we change.
Too many times we say, I really wish
my wife wouldn't do that or I wish that person wouldn't do that.
Well, what about us?
Why don't we change the way we look at things inside?
And by doing that, we can change the behavior of the other person.
You know, if we don't think we're being loved enough, will love that person more.
Yeah. Take the high road.
You know, I think that's really important too.
But looking inward, too many times, people look outward.
I wish I had more money, I wish I had more of this and this and
but how about I wish I didn't hate so much?
You know,
I mean, I think that's really good, or I wish I wasn't so judgmental.
Yes, I want to have an abundance of love
and care, not an abundance of hate and judgment.
And as human beings, we're judgmental,
you know, but I try to find myself catching.
So if I do become judgmental about somebody I may not like or a behavior
I try to back off, say, listen, I'm not perfect.
I don't want people judging me.
I make a lot of mistakes.
So what's good about that person, right?
Find something good about that person you like?
Sometimes I just need to stop and say, okay, somebody loves them.
They have parents.
Things are right.
Right, right right right. Yeah. There.
I think I know is it almost human nature like to critique all the time.
You know because that's what you hear right.
That's more the norm.
Almost like people connect with each other
on the people they TV shows they don't like.
Or TV shows they do like you know, but there's always kind of this
critique going on.
So I, I do I that's something I work on is it's just not saying anything.
Right.
Like you said inward and thinking why are we thinking this about this person?
I'm being a lot more proactive about that. Joyce too.
The thing is, I want to be.
That's something I know I need to work on.
I think we all need as humans.
I just don't want to be so judgmental.
I find myself feeling, almost, you know, dirty inside.
If I'm feeling so negative about somebody, I.
Because you're so on track that it's so good that you feel that.
Because when you do, that means it's showing you
that that doesn't feel good, right?
You get back on track with a lot of people.
They never feel that.
And they only feel good when they're commiserating
with someone else about how bad things are
and, you know, and being like I
said, I think many times before myself
and my grandson and a lot of things at my doctor's offices, a lot.
And I know you hear a lot of negativity there.
So just again, we can just by being there, that could be a blessing.
That could be abundance right there of spreading the cheer.
So when you can't
just leave the room.
Because I had to do that with my grandson.
And a couple weeks ago that room was packed.
But again, because I'm going through physical therapy with them
people, they're in physical pain, right?
So when it started to become too much, I just said,
why don't we stand out in the hallway?
And we did that out in the hallway.
And then we spoke, it was good to calm down
because I didn't want him absorbing that.
I mean, the people are in pain, you understand?
They're going to look at things in a more negative way.
You notice how, like they always say, when you're looking at a problem,
wait till the next day when you refresh after a good night's sleep,
you ever come back and you've been like had a challenging day,
and then something happens
and you look at it and it's like it seemed like the worst possible scenario.
And the best thing they say to do is take a deep breath, put it aside.
If you can get a good night's sleep and look at it from a fresh set of eyes,
the next morning.
And I'm finding myself getting better at that too,
because that you don't find things welling up inside.
But you take a deep breath, respond, and not react.
You know, which is hard, which is hard.
But am I getting better? Yeah.
I mean, I'm not where I used to be, but it's like a Tim McGraw song.
I'm not where I used to am now, but I'm better than I used to be.
Yeah, each and every day.
What are you better at? Each and every day.
What are you doing? Good.
Instead of focusing on bad, what improvement
have you made over the past day?
It's probably something.
Yeah.
Even if you felt like you ate too much.
Okay.
Don't you know, like, attack yourself for that?
Tomorrow's another day. Yeah.
And a lot of people do that. I've been guilty of that.
Do you feel like you went off it? Then you binge.
I screwed it up.
I went off to the nutrition plan, the diet.
I'm just going to eat like this.
And then you feel like you feel terrible.
So just give yourself some grace.
Give yourself.
Give yourself grace. Don't beat yourself up.
This is from a guy who's done that.
I beat myself up with that. You know?
And just, Tomorrow's a brand new day to start again. Yes,
that.
Listen, for that abundant thinking.
You know, that positive thinking that, there's plenty of grace for you.
There is, there is.
And you can,
you can do that in any time.
Abundance.
I really feel like we're we're designed for abundance.
And I think some people feel we're designed to suffer.
No, I can't understand that.
You know, we have a, I understand where people sometimes
have their feelings about, you know, God, the universe in that,
but I just believe that your father,
you know, your heavenly father,
like your father.
My father. My dad didn't want me to suffer.
He wanted to take care of me. He loved me.
He wanted the best for me.
And I think that's how he feels about us, even though some people
might differ with that.
If he loved us so much, this wouldn't happen to this wouldn't happen.
And I understand that thought that some people may have right now.
They might be going some through some pain.
They.
Why is a loving God allowing this to happen per se?
But my whole thing is, I know we live in a broken world right now
without getting too deep, but many times if I don't understand the choice,
I'll put it in the I don't understand file in my brain
that I'm not meant to understand that right now,
but I'm still going to have empathy for someone who has doubts.
And because I have doubts, I'm
a believer and I have my doubts every day.
Okay, thank the apostles.
They had their doubts.
The the the disciples walked with him.
They saw the good works he did.
And they still doubted.
They still does.
So cut yourself some slack if you doubt. It's okay.
You know something?
We're going to have father and, love Father Ed.
Mr. TikTok. He is Mr..
Today. Yeah
I love that guy
it early 90s and he's he's just a fabulous. Yes.
But there were things I brought up of thanks to him.
And he'll answer any question
with such honesty and
the one thing I love about him is that he loves God.
He loves Jesus and Mary.
And there's some, well, we'll talk to about this, but I know
there are some people who feel like, oh, the Catholics worship Mary.
And he's like, we don't want worship in oh God, it's that.
But when Jesus changed the wine to the Lord for his mother,
that was his first miracle.
Mother who asked him to do it.
That's right.
And they used it as a petition.
But but the one thing I do want to ask him is about the suffering.
But I think it means to turn
your suffering into, like, a sacrifice to God.
Like if it's something you can't get rid of,
it's really like turning it over, which is really what we call surrender.
Submitting.
I'm doing my best. That's what I do each and every day.
I try to submit more because I know that
the more I try to do things in my own power, the more I fail,
the more I feel like when I submit and try
to get out of my own way, things happen.
Things happen.
That's what's good, you know, it happens in my life with that.
But Mother Teresa, she doubted at times when she saw it.
I mean, she was in the lion's den,
in the trenches, and she doubted at times
if you read some of her journals that even she doubted.
Yeah.
So, I mean, she was a woman of great faith, so.
Absolutely. Yeah.
So before we before we close, I want to talk about that
five minutes again. Yes.
Everyone need to do and I it's something that I just love to do.
So for just five minutes before you fall asleep at night
and in the morning to forget about the money,
your career, your fears, problems, pain.
And during those five minutes,
the feelings
you most want to feel for the rest of your life.
It might seem awkward
at first, and that's okay,
but I could implore you to do anything it would it be
this little five minute exercise, nothing else that you might do?
Whatever.
A profound effect
on your fortunes, your friendships, your happiness.
It's when you do this because when
your mind is feeling that
you have already manifested it,
what you desire
or that dread starts to go away.
And when you do this for five minutes and you start out your day and your day
with that, you're going to see that thing start showing up in your life.
You're going to see you're
you can hear things, do things that you weren't aware of,
that may have always been trying to reach you these messages,
but because what you focus on appears absolutely right.
And the thing is the gratitude, at the end of the day, what happened?
That was good, you know, who did you come across that
that day that really made you feel good or said something really nice?
Or maybe you saw
somebody was really hurting or suffering, maybe pray for that person.
You may not know their name, but I'll say so many times, you know, God,
I saw that person who was having a hard time walking today.
I don't know their name, but you do, and that's all that matters.
So if each one of us
does our part to go out there and do something good each and every day,
you know, whatever, I just
I just think that's going to take us, I think spiritual bonds
or I'm a generational curses they talk about sometimes could be broken.
Yes. You know,
and the more spiritual bonds can actually bring us closer together.
Right. Oh my generation.
No, no, we don't want those.
But we've heard about those. I've read about those.
We got to that generational curse is being broken right now.
Right now.
But we appreciate you so much for tuning in to our podcast.
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