Expanding What You Think Is Possible

Today, JClay and Troy uncover the secrets to expanding your limits and achieving the impossible. Tune in for a mind-bending episode that will have you questioning everything you thought was possible - your future success hinges on it!

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JClay

JClay's music ignites a transformative experience, fostering spiritual growth, mindfulness, and a positive mindset through powerful and uplifting rap.

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Troy Washington

Real Estate Broker

What is Perfect Mode?

"Perfect Mode" invites you on a transformative odyssey to discover the extraordinary within the ordinary. Hosted by the dynamic duo of JClay, a rapper with a spiritual twist, and Troy Washington, a realtor with a mindset of abundance, this podcast is a sanctuary for those seeking to elevate their existence. Together, they explore the realms of personal growth, mental clarity, and spiritual enlightenment, offering unfiltered insights into living a life unchained by societal expectations. Tune in for your weekly dose of inspiration and embark on a journey to align with your highest self.

JClay: 00:02

If I reminded you that you are perfect, would you argue me down or step into your perfection? Welcome to perfect. Welcome to perfect. Where there are no excuses, no expectations, and we explore the world without limitations. I'm Jay Clay, rapper, the spiritual teacher with my co host Troy Washington, your friendly neighborhood realtor.

JClay: 00:26

Let's be real. So let's be perfect.

Troy Washington: 01:12

Yo. What up? Welcome to perfect mode. Welcome to perfect mode. First off, let me start by saying we love y'all.

Troy Washington: 01:18

We're grateful for the opportunity to be anywhere sharing our thoughts. Hopefully, helping you realize that you are perfect. And the reason why I can say that unapologetically is because I know that you are one of 1 numero uno. You cannot be replicated, duplicated, however you wanna say it. You are you.

Troy Washington: 01:33

And the only reason that you think that you're not perfect is if you're looking at this person next to you is damn. I'm not them. But guess what? You are you, and that's all you need. And, of course, it's yours truly Troy Washington, your friendly neighborhood realtor.

Troy Washington: 01:45

And I have my boy, Jay Clay, spiritual rapper and teacher, and we're about to get on here at Taco Bell expanding what you think is possible. Expand expanding what you think is possible. What up, Dave?

JClay: 01:58

What up? What up? Happy happy day. Happy perfect day to all my people in perfect land doing the perfect thing, always at the perfect place at the perfect time. Appreciate y'all joining us on this day.

JClay: 02:08

And yeah, man. I I wanna start off by saying again, this is an open forum. So if you ever got wisdom to share with with the crowd, we're gonna read it to the people, share it out there. Yeah. And don't forget, we do our water fast every Monday.

JClay: 02:22

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JClay: 02:35

You know, if you like what we're doing, click on that Patreon link and and and join. Join. Shout out to Jeff, and shout out to to everybody that's coming through. So, yeah, George.

Troy Washington: 02:44

Shout out to Jeff, man. Shout out to Jeff, man. Yeah. Go ahead. What'd you say, bro?

JClay: 02:48

Yeah. Let's just say, let's talk about it. Expanding what you think is possible.

Troy Washington: 02:53

Yeah. So so number 1, since you actually just brought up the fast, I just want to let everybody know that it is possible, fam. Like, I literally was looking forward to it all week, and I was looking forward to today. So, stop telling yourself that you can't do it. Stop telling yourself that you can't go, a day without eating.

Troy Washington: 03:11

No. Expand what you think is possible. But, you know, to the point of this topic, man, I love it. And I think this was kind of a reoccurring theme for my life this week because I, I, I continue to look at limits that I have placed on myself. And it's, interpretation of it.

Troy Washington: 03:39

Yeah. And I told myself, you know, funny enough, like, over the past couple days, it's time to expand myself and allow myself to be more than what I see myself as. But go ahead, Jay.

JClay: 03:50

Yeah. I love that. And similarly, like, everything we want is is really right here. We hear that all the time. We say it all the time.

JClay: 03:59

We believe it on some level, and sometimes we don't believe it on certain levels. And have you okay. Put it like this. Have you ever been been working on something or, you know, trying hard for something, and then it just didn't go out as planned and you kinda you didn't give up, but you put it to the side. Then all of a sudden, some stuff just happened that you had nothing to do with that got you everything that you wanted and more.

JClay: 04:23

It's kind of like that. It's like because because me thinking what is possible, I'm limiting myself. I'm limiting what can come from it when in actuality, anything can happen at any time if I allow that as well.

Troy Washington: 04:38

You know, well, so so number 1, to answer your question, yes. That that's happened to me a lot, I feel like, in my life when I just try to recall things that I've experienced. But the other part to this that I I feel like as well is that that's the reason why in my line of business, which is real estate, And I and I can say that as far as with music and all the other different things that we've done, allowing allowing yourself to hear other people, allowing yourself to digest what people are saying, not necessarily believe everything. But the reason why I point that out is because there have been a number of occasions where I had a limiting belief or a a limit that I had placed on myself, and somebody said something. And it wasn't necessarily to help me expand myself, but it was just a keyword that they may have said in the conversation.

Troy Washington: 05:28

And I was just like, ah, I didn't even think about that. And and it it generally causes me to reset and kinda re visualize what I saw in the beginning anyway, even even though that is sometimes limited as well. Go ahead, Jay.

JClay: 05:43

Yeah. Yeah. And and and I I love that you brought that up too, like, listening to people because there have been times, you know, I listen to people speaking or something and I might I might yell, that's not true or say, no, that's not true. But again, to them, it is. And the the better question is, can their truth serve you in any way?

JClay: 06:03

Like, does it, does it, does it bring you closer to what you want or it doesn't? If it doesn't, that's cool. You don't have to pronounce or denounce it because by denouncing their truth in a sense, you're allowing your truth to be denounced as well. Just let it be their truth and just say, oh, this doesn't serve me. But if it does in some way, like, listen and and see if you can apply that that same logic and reasoning and truth to your own life.

Troy Washington: 06:25

So I I wanna give you maybe, like, what I would consider a real life example without me exposing too much of people. Right?

JClay: 06:32

Yeah.

Troy Washington: 06:32

So, you know, I'm a real estate broker, and there's no 2 deals that are alike in real estate. Everything is generally different. And it's easy to depending on how how much real estate that you've done, it's easy to go into deals kinda pessimistic if they kinda start off to a rocky start. And so a lot of times in real estate deals, when I first start, I kinda have to meditate on it before I get really into the deal because I understand the dynamic by which something started has already programmed me into believing it's gonna turn out a certain way. And so along the way in some deals, specifically a deal that I'm working now, there was a whole bunch of hurdles that kind of just kind of dropped into a deal.

Troy Washington: 07:22

And so the very first thing that I thought to myself was, this is not going to work. Now I do not like that thought process myself, so it's I I recognize it fast. Right? When I first think these things, I'd be like, uh-uh, uh-uh, uh-uh, uh-uh, and so now there's a internal battle that I continuously have trying to make myself see outside of the boundary that I set. Now this is the beautiful beautiful part about it.

Troy Washington: 07:48

Right? And me saying something's not gonna work out, me, challenging myself and saying no. Something's gonna come up allowed me to be open to words that other people said, which is the example that I just gave. And so opened myself up to say, how can this happen? How can this be worked out?

Troy Washington: 08:08

How can this be fixed? And talking to my client, my client set a set of parameters around that I didn't even realize that I had. He was like, well, young young fella, look at this. This is what I'm working with, and nothing is a nothing is a end all, be all for me. So when he said that, it allowed my mind to be more creative.

Troy Washington: 08:29

It allowed me to be like, oh, okay. Cool. And so he said, now with what I've given you, go ahead and be creative and create what you feel like is going to work. Now the funny thing about it is now the deal is on because I was able to come up with what I felt like was a solution that wasn't even a solution in my head based off of what he told me. And, you know, I use real estate as an example, but this has happened many times over in a lot of situations where I didn't have the answer.

Troy Washington: 08:56

But my answer was the only answers that I had were the were set within the boundary that I had set for myself, and I didn't allow myself to think outside of that. Go ahead, Jay.

JClay: 09:06

Yeah. So well, quick question because I I I don't wanna gloss over what you said because I feel like that might be the most important thing. You said you allow yourself to meditate on it. Like, is that before? Is it during?

JClay: 09:17

Like, is that when you catch yourself? And what does that entail, like, when you meditate on it?

Troy Washington: 09:22

So it's really along the entire process. Again, that and that's that's the one thing. So so number 1, I I do think that is a very, very, very important aspect of it. But I think the other I think the most important aspect of it for myself at least is I'm able to recognize it right when it happens. So as soon as I try to inflict a wound on myself, I I immediately try to grab whatever I'm trying to inflict the wound with.

Troy Washington: 09:50

So, like, you know, just again, just using a a deal as an example, if somebody comes to me and says, this person's financing is not gonna work. The very first thing that you would think as a real estate broker or a realtor is this deal is gonna fall apart because they can't get the money. Right? So when I tell myself this deal is gonna fall apart because they can't get the money, I immediately say, how do I know that they can't get the money just because there's only one way that we've looked at? So now it it in in turn says, okay.

Troy Washington: 10:22

Quit ending the deal before it's ended. It's not over yet. And so once I identify what I'm doing to myself, I go into my meditation. And I try to, number 1, dispel because even with me identifying, it doesn't mean that I rid myself of it immediately because I'm still combating with that. So I have to meditate on what I feel like is the truth.

Troy Washington: 10:45

The deal is not over. There's other ways. The deal is not over. There's other ways. All the while in the back of my head, I still hear this deal is over.

Troy Washington: 10:55

And so I kinda meditate on the things that I want more than, the other to kinda offset it so that way I can allow myself. Because if I don't meditate on it, I don't even allow myself to hear what's coming next. But go ahead, Jay.

JClay: 11:07

Yeah. Okay. I love that. So okay. Just just to reclarify, it sounds like what you're saying is the the underlining belief is still there to a certain degree, but you won't allow yourself to look at it.

JClay: 11:21

Like, you're you're creating stimuli and reminders to focus only on the new belief that you wanna have. And in doing that, like, if you could guess when you when you honestly do it, like, is it a 100% success rate? Is it 50%? Like, is it tough? Because I because I know you do a lot of real estate deals, so I I figure it's easier to ask in that lane than just general.

Troy Washington: 11:45

I I would tell you this. A 100% of the time when I've given up, it was over. I know that for a fact.

JClay: 11:53

Love that.

Troy Washington: 11:55

It's just before a fact, when it was over, I gave up on it. And so I wanna say a 100% of the time when I haven't given up that I've been able to get it through because that's the truth. That's the truth too. Everything that I got to the end, I believed I would get there. And so there have been times when there I've been in the middle and I've decided to believe, and I was able to get to the finish line.

Troy Washington: 12:19

And this has happened on multiple occasions. So, I I I I dislike like the fact when I cannot when I allow the other voice to be louder in my head than the voice that I'm trying to listen to. And the way that I think about it is go ahead.

JClay: 12:34

Well, I I was gonna say what what what what not? Go ahead. Go ahead. I remember.

Troy Washington: 12:37

Okay. I I I think about it like when you're a kid. Right? And you're having a battle with a sibling or a cousin or something, and they trying to tell you something that you don't wanna hear. And they they they're as adamant about telling you what you don't wanna hear as you not wanna listen, and you do something like this.

Troy Washington: 12:54

You be doing everything to try to block them out, but they still talking. And so that's kinda how I think about it. Go ahead, Jay.

JClay: 13:00

So okay. Yeah. So so the question I wanted to ask before we move away from this example is, like, what's your attitude towards it? Is it is it a joyful one? Is it mediocre?

JClay: 13:10

Is it is it dreadful? You know what I'm trying to ask? Like like, when you okay. You you're faced with this this challenge, and at first, you don't think it could be done, but then you open your mind. Like, is it excitement there, or is it just curiosity, or, like, what is

Troy Washington: 13:25

it? So I'm gonna answer this 2 ways. The first thing is there's love there. The reason why I say there's love there is because I love for myself when I allow myself an out in a way that I envision it. So I'm always full of joy.

Troy Washington: 13:43

You know, it's not like I'm excited. I'm jumping around happy, but I'm proud of myself. You know what I mean? I'm like, okay. You didn't you didn't allow what you saw on the surface to dictate your actions.

Troy Washington: 13:53

But on the flip side of it, I think that the love and I didn't want to say this word, but I'm a say it now just so that way you can understand why I think the way that I think. I hate it, I hate when I allow what I hear first to dictate my actions. I hate it. So whenever I'm able to and this is only when it's when I hear something that's gonna dictate my actions in a way that's adverse to what I believe. Because things happen, like, every deal that I go into, I believe I'm a help someone get a home, or I believe I'm a create the song that somebody wants.

Troy Washington: 14:31

And so whenever something presents itself to me that says that's going to happen, I'm in love. Whenever something comes along that says that I'm not gonna do it, I hate it. And I hate it that I allowed that to infiltrate my mentality. So when I'm able to stop, identify, and then think otherwise, even though I still hear it flowing in the background, I love that about myself. I love the fact that I'm able to offset it.

Troy Washington: 14:56

And I'm up for the challenge of going back and forth with myself to win because I don't I I always feel like the one that I'm wanting the the one that I am, the one that I'm trying to listen to the most is the person that I am. And so whenever that wins out, I'm always in love with myself. Go ahead, Dave.

JClay: 15:16

Love it. And and, of course, the the reason I asked that is just I was thinking about my experiences with similar situations where there's something impossible or not impossible, but highly improbable. And then I get out of my own way and say, you know what? This is, it's still possible. And then I like and I go for it.

JClay: 15:34

Now, if I go forward with a positive attitude that carries me to a to new thought. But if it's a negative attitude, it's more like a burden. Then I start labeling myself as a procrastinator. All these negative things that don't need to be there, instead of just stepping back for a time. And that that stepping back could just be for, like, 5 minutes sometimes.

JClay: 15:55

And sometimes it can be for hours, sometimes it can be for a day. But when you allow yourself to kinda clear your mind so you can come back at it from a positive viewpoint, it changes everything. Like, it changes the momentum. It changes your excitement. Like you said, the love is there.

JClay: 16:08

You realize what you love about it, and it just makes it easier for all the ideas to flow.

Troy Washington: 16:14

And and 2, again, I'm not saying that I live in this space, but that's why I love the thought process of there's no other option when it's what I want. And you you know what I mean? Like

JClay: 16:28

Yeah.

Troy Washington: 16:29

Whenever we're creating a song, the times when I say this is gonna be a tight song no matter what, like, there's no other option, I generally make a song that I I'm in love with. I'd be happy about it, like, in a whole bunch of different ways. Yeah. But then there's sometimes when I hear a beat and I question myself because of the beep. And so I don't even allow myself to be free minded and say that this is gonna be tight no matter what, then that's when that internal battle happens.

Troy Washington: 16:58

But that goes on even once the song is done where I'm kinda pulled here or pulled there. And so the thought process of no other option, which, again, I don't live there and I would love to, is always, you know, best for me because that's when I'm able to be 100% of myself, I feel like.

JClay: 17:18

And so what was crazy, but when I I wanna apologize. So, because it's saying this and having this conversation. I I realized the same thing. The intention I said it it brings forth. So, like, before perfect mode, set my mind right, get the intention right.

JClay: 17:33

Before, like, just certain things, I I do. I I set my mind right. Even writing songs, like, I agree. That makes a difference. But, like, me and you, we meet usually Monday morning for perfect mode, and I don't, you know, just to discuss planning and stuff, I don't always do that before the meeting.

JClay: 17:47

And and I and I realized the difference in if I were to and if I wasn't, how the ideas get to flowing. And and so that's more of a reminder to myself too. Why not apply this to everything? Everything you do that you have an intention for, make sure you get your mind right and aligned with that intention before moving forward with

Troy Washington: 18:06

it. Okay. So I'm gonna give you a little game too for as far as my life concerning outside of everything that we're doing. Even though you are a part of my real estate business, for everybody that don't know, this dude has moved me in different ways when it come to real estate that and he don't even do real estate, but that's just need to hear no where yeah. So there's this big I'm not gonna go all into it, but there's this big deal that's going on that's supposed to, you know, change the entire real estate world coming in July June July.

Troy Washington: 18:45

Now the funny thing about it is at first thought, I can see how a bunch of realtors are taken aback by it Because it is really a big shift in what's going on and how we do our business. So even so much so that, you know, some of my agents have reached out to me and was like, Troy, you know, what are your thoughts on it? I changed my mind back then. Right? Now that doesn't mean that there's not work for me to do in the process of going forward once, you know, everything shifts.

Troy Washington: 19:32

But I changed my mind then, and now it's left me open to seeing different avenues or trying to find a different pathway within what we're doing to continue to be successful. Now with that being said, I understand, like I said, why so many people are taking it aback because expanding your mind to what you think is possible is difficult when you just to kinda give you, an example of how my business works. Generally in a deal, you you go into a real estate deal. I work for a seller or I work for a buyer. And then the seller will pay me a commission that I negotiate from the seller.

Troy Washington: 20:23

And then of my commission, I would negotiate with the buyer that bring I'm with the buying agent who brings me a buyer that's ready, willing, and able to purchase my property, and I will negotiate how much I will pay them. Well, now that's going to change. So sellers would generally give a certain percentage around a certain percentage. Now they're just pretty much cutting that out in a sense, right? Now the reason why I point these little facts out is because when you don't know what the commissions are, it's hard for people to find out where they sit.

Troy Washington: 20:58

And that's the reason why I said it's hard when someone doesn't kinda know what the landscape is gonna really be yet to imagine something that's not there. And so for myself, because I've been already opening myself up to look and see and don't get caught up by all the negative news that's surfacing around it to look, you know, at the, you know, the landscape and figure out how can I carve out a niche in it? But go ahead, Jay.

JClay: 21:27

So I I wanna bring back something you said. Like, it's a lot of directions I wanna go, but one of the key things you just said was imagination. And I feel like that's the that's the key in creating, like, to to see it, like, to to imagine it. If you can imagine it in your mind, you can create it. And I know that there are a lot of people out there that might not feel they have an a great imagination so that that they can't create, but it's not true.

JClay: 21:53

And the and the reason I know that is because sometimes people imagine the worst, the worst case scenario. It's just that we've been primed. Well, I I don't wanna say everybody, but in it seemed like from my perspective that generally we've been primed to look at the worst case scenario to be prepared for the worst. So we're always imagining the worst, but what can go wrong instead of what can go right. How can I be prepared if this goes right?

JClay: 22:16

How can I make this go even righter when it does go right? And it's it's a flip. It's a switch. So, like, in that scenario that you said, it's things were changing. It's gonna change the landscape so people won't know how much commissions they're they're getting.

JClay: 22:30

But you were like, wait a minute. What what what's the good in this? How can what happens if this does go right? What does this mean for me? And by allowing yourself that, in a sense, you're expanding what you think is possible because who cares about the worst?

JClay: 22:41

When the worst happens anyway, if it does happen, then cool, you don't want to focus on that. But when the best does happen with what you want, when all of your momentum is going toward it, you're you're able to just ride that wave of creativity in the life that you want.

Troy Washington: 22:59

So, a couple of things I I wanna mention. Shout out to, my both my boys, TJ and Brody. I got a 12 year old and a 6 year old. And, the only reason I bring them up is just because you just touched on imagination. And, funny enough, this morning, I got up.

Troy Washington: 23:14

My my wife is out of town right now, so it's just me and the boys. So this morning, I got up, and I fixed some breakfast. And, while I was fixing breakfast, Brody was like, damn, man. Let me tell you about my dream, man. So I was like, okay.

Troy Washington: 23:26

Cool. So he told me about the dream. He like, man, I was playing basketball, and then I passed it to McCray, and then he shot it, then he missed it, then I got it. And then I did the layup, and then it went off the rim. But I got it, and I made it, and we won the game.

Troy Washington: 23:38

Right? So he he tells me this story. Yeah. And literally, this morning, when I was talking to him, I was like, man, I like that. I said, you do know that everything that you dream, you can make true, especially if it's something that you want.

Troy Washington: 23:48

And, you know, it is you know, this is that just came to my head because that was literally a conversation, this morning. But, is not true. But the other part I wanna expand on when you said we always think about the negative. I wanna say that we always think about the positive and negative, but we only recognize or highlight the negative. And the reason why I say that is because we imagine everything we do before we do it.

Troy Washington: 24:20

I mean, literally every single day. When you say I'm thirsty, you have a picture of your mind going to go get your water or whatever you drink. You also have an, an imagination of how good like, I've I've heard people say when they get their food, this is gonna be so good. How do you know it's gonna be so good? Because you've already imagined yourself eating and what it's gonna taste like and how it's gonna smell.

Troy Washington: 24:39

And so we, like, you are professionals at imagining things. You are professionals at seeing things before they happen. Like, we do it all day. Even when it comes to planning your day for tomorrow, like, when you go to sleep tomorrow, my wife does it all the time. I've heard her do it.

Troy Washington: 24:56

I've heard other people do it. Like, when she say it's time for me to go to sleep, she imagines what her next day, I gotta get up in the morning. I gotta do it. Like, they you go through this entire process. And so what I would say is challenge yourself to highlight all the positive things that you imagine.

Troy Washington: 25:14

So that way you can see how great of an imagination you have because the reality of it is you can you can say that you're gonna go get a drink of water, but you don't really know what's gonna happen along the pathway. When I walk into the kitchen, I could stub my toe, and I never thought that was gonna happen because I didn't foresee it. So use your imagination to benefit you and show show yourself how great you are at doing it. Go ahead, Jay.

JClay: 25:38

Yeah. There there was this thing on social media that I saw, a few months ago that was talking about the levels of imaginative visualization. Like, it had, like, numbers 1 through 5, and it said, like, it'll show the apple how you can see a clear apple was number 5 and the number 1 was, like, maybe it's blurry because some people were saying that, you know, they can't imagine. But to your point, like, memories are imagination because a memory is not happening right now. Like, if you have that memory, if you remember anything, you're using imagination.

JClay: 26:08

Now it might not look the same. Like, everybody's the way they use their imagination might not be the exact same. It might not be very visual. It could be audible. It could be so many different things, but you have it.

JClay: 26:19

And and I wanna make sure that everybody knows that, like, if you can remember anything, you are imagining it because it's not happening now. So you have to imagine it to have had it happen.

Troy Washington: 26:30

And and I wanna I wanna add to that again because we we're talking about expanding what you think, and we're really trying to hammer home how great, how powerful your mind is, number 1. But just another example. And I I don't want anybody to confuse this with anticipation because anticipation is a part of this, but it's also imagination.

JClay: 26:50

Yeah.

Troy Washington: 26:50

When you're in front of somebody and the reason why I say anticipation because you can feel like because you've been around somebody already, you kinda know what they're gonna do or what they're gonna say. But you've been around somebody and they've been talking and you thought that you could finish their words. You thought that you could and have been wrong. But in that split moment, when you're anticipating, not only anticipating, but imagining what they're going to say, seeing what their lip what their lips are gonna say. That just shows you how powerful your imagination can be.

Troy Washington: 27:23

Because there's been times I know for my when I people have done it to me literally. This is the funny part. But I it's been times where they were saying a word, and then my mouth started to say the word, and they said something completely different. But my mouth was moving like I imagined their mouth was going to move, and it's crazy. But you you have a tool that has seen and experienced 1,000,000 things, a millions of things that you don't even recognize.

Troy Washington: 27:51

And you were that engine is continuously pumping over and over again. So what you even think that you can imagine is less than what you really can imagine until you open yourself up to it. Go ahead, Jay.

JClay: 28:06

Yeah. Yeah. And I I I agree a 100%. And, another way which is it is different from that way of of imagination, but it still allows you to expand and I'm going to explain why. So, one is letting go.

JClay: 28:20

And to give the bases like a lot of people would say that it's hard to let go. They don't know how to let go. But if you're holding a a a 100 pound weight, you know what I mean? If you hold a 1,000 pound weight, it's very easy to let that go. If you're holding a 50 pound weight, it's it's you can still let it go with just as much ease, but it you can probably hold it longer.

JClay: 28:39

If you hold a 2 pound weight, you might not wanna let it go. You might like that weight. So I say this to say, imagine nations or anticipations or, like, things that you have fear about are the same way. Like, you can let those go at any moment by just letting it go. Just not even giving any mental capacity to it.

JClay: 29:00

You can think about something else. You can do something else. You can do something to occupy your time where you're not thinking good or bad. You're just kinda in the moment. And by doing that, you allowed circumstances to to happen.

JClay: 29:14

You allowed circumstances to not be micromanaged because you know how it feels to be micromanaged. When you micromanage, you don't wanna do the work. You're like, why are you watching me? Why are you watching this? And sometimes when we want a certain outcome, we can be micromanaging reality.

JClay: 29:27

But by letting that go, things are that most likely happen in the way that you want or better than you want. And then you can expand your mind because you say, oh, I didn't know that was possible. I didn't even know that this can be done without me micromanaging the the growth of a flower or the whatever it is you're trying to do. And so just remember to let go. Like, when when all else fails, let go.

Troy Washington: 29:51

So I wanna add prayer into this with sunlight considered to be meditation, and literally, you know, I I I had a deep conversation with my my bros about this this past week. And, I kind of explained to them, you know, about me, at some point, I said, okay, I wanna have 10 agents on my team. Right? And I got it. It ended up happening to me.

Troy Washington: 30:17

Right? And I don't, I, I don't wanna say that I did anything strenuous for it to happen besides be me. And believe in the I believe I did never think that it wasn't gonna happen. I'll say that, right? And so, you know, I set a new goal and I said, okay, 17.

Troy Washington: 30:36

This is what I'm I'm I have that I I have in my mind. But, the key to this is the pathway by which I was going to go about getting them, I got more specific in my prayer. This goes back to you being intentional our meetings on Mondays or intentional in all things. So I thought to myself, okay, I said, okay, cool. I want 17 people to work with me, 17 partners, but what do they really look like?

Troy Washington: 31:06

How did they really come? How do, like I I started to think about the details of what that truly consisted of, how they performed, you know, where they came from, what I had to do to recruit them, and I literally, and you can say like I said, you can say it's meditation. You can say it's prayer. I specifically said a prayer tied to that, specifically. And lo and behold, this is what's funny about it.

Troy Washington: 31:36

The very next day, somebody called me. Not that I recruited. Not that I, like I mean, somebody that I spoke to before, but I never put any effort into recruiting them. And they called me, and we went through the process, and then they decided, I think I'm a ride with you. Right?

Troy Washington: 31:59

Now the the the coolest part about it is this is about expanding your mind. I never thought prior to that, even though I have all the evidence evidence to say is that if I say something and I allow it to be, it will happen. That if I was this specific in a prayer, that it would happen. And, literally, exactly the way that I prayed for it came true. And, again, it's it's it's tricky here because

JClay: 32:27

you

Troy Washington: 32:29

I'm telling you that I did it it's hard for you to believe that if you're that specific in a prayer that it can come to pass. It's like, that's an internal battle that you have with yourself over and over again. And so that's another part of the reason why people have limitations in their prayers or their meditations because I I don't wanna call it error, but you wanna leave room for, well, it's gonna come or it's it's gonna come later. It's just not gonna be now. And so I I again, I I challenge people in all things to be even more specific in your prayer or your meditation to the detail.

Troy Washington: 33:19

And I've seen many people that I consider to be successful, and imagining exactly the detail of everything that they wanted and how it came through. Go ahead, Jay.

JClay: 33:38

Yeah. So, well, first, congrats on the the 10 agents. Two quick questions. The first before setting your goal for the the next iteration of agents, did you celebrate just even internally or in some kind of way?

Troy Washington: 33:53

I always do it. Listen. Every single time somebody trusted me to lead them, I do an internal jig. I don't I don't really take a lot, for myself, you know, but I I literally you you it kinda go back to, when I told you I have a hurdle and then I tell myself that it's not a hurdle, how I fall in love with myself again. Every single time I accomplish a part of my goal, I fall in love with myself, to the point it it it's just a way for me to to motivate myself to keep trusting and keep going.

JClay: 34:29

So second question, how do I ask this? So okay. In the in the specification of prayer. Right? Because I've heard that a lot.

JClay: 34:38

Always be specific. Be specific. But again, have the intention without the expectation. But in this specificity, like, what you said sounds like a lot of work to me. You're like, yeah.

JClay: 34:48

You gotta have the agent gotta be like this and that. But then I thought about it from another standpoint. Like, let's say I was given an unlimited budget to design my dream home. That's not gonna be a lot of work for me because it's it's more fun. So my my question to you is, in you designing your agents or your practice like that, did it seem like work to you, or was it one of the easiest things to do?

Troy Washington: 35:10

So I'm I'm gonna show you how how what they say hindsight is 2020. So number 1, I'm gonna tell you, to answer your question short, it's not a lot of work. And the reason why I say that is because it's only work if you already don't know what you want. But the reality of it is you already know what you want. Once you and and again, this is just me.

Troy Washington: 35:38

Once you've decided the path that you want to follow, you already know you, you've, we talking about our imagination. So, when I said I'm going to go get a cup of water, like, I, I I don't it's my subconscious mind is running. So I literally know the pathway. I know I'm a get up from my computer. I'm a walk around my bed.

Troy Washington: 35:59

I'm a go into the kitchen. I'm a go grab my cup. I'm a grab the get the the machine. I'm a pull the handle down. I'm a put my I I know what it looks like.

Troy Washington: 36:08

Now, again, there are things that are gonna come up along the way that I maybe couldn't foresee, but generally, the entire detail of it, I've already kinda felt. I've kind of lived it. And so, when I decided that I wanted 10 agents, I also knew what I wanted the agents to do. I also knew how successful I wanted them to be. I also knew how many houses I wanted them to sell.

Troy Washington: 36:30

I also knew how I also knew how happy I wanted them to be. Like, these are things that I envisioned because I never, I never thought that I wanted to have teenagers that were gonna be mad every day. I never thought that, not one time. Now, I didn't have to verbalize that because in my mind, I kinda already foresaw what I wanted it to be. And so because I did that, me not taking the time to really meditate on it, even though I already knew what it was, it ends up being more of a job in hindsight because now I can look back and say, well, if that's what I really wanted, why didn't I ask for it?

Troy Washington: 37:05

And so I think that though, you know, when I was working at Carmack I used to work at Carmack for 5 years, man. And, my my boss had a saying that was wrote up on the board. And he said it takes double work to do something right the second time. And, essentially, he was saying you already know what you want. Just do it right the first time.

JClay: 37:30

Yeah.

Troy Washington: 37:30

And, you know, for me, again, it's not something that always hits, but when it hits, it hits. Right? And so, you know, for me, I just, like I said, to answer it, it it it's not a lot of work because I already knew the problem was I didn't I didn't love myself enough to take the time to really think it through.

JClay: 37:50

I love that. I love that. And it makes me think of the specificity of things. Like sometimes 1, you got to be real with yourself. Like, do I even feel I'm worthy of this, Which is a a different question in itself.

JClay: 38:01

But, again, we are all worthy of all things. So it's important that we remember that, which is one of the basis of perfect mode just to remember. We are perfect and worthy of all. Like, there's nothing we aren't worthy of. And, yeah, like like that that's when when crafting out my what I want, like, that's one of the the first hurdles.

JClay: 38:23

It's like, okay. I want this, but can I get that? What does this mean? Does this mean this? Does this mean that?

JClay: 38:27

And to what it sounds like you're saying and what I agree with is, don't worry about all that. Just focus on what you want. Don't get into what it looks like. What it like you get into what it looks like for what you wanted to look like. Don't get into what it could mean to others or or any other things because I feel that's when we limit ourselves and then we limit our prayer and then it's like, why do we even pray?

JClay: 38:48

Because we don't believe it anyway.

Troy Washington: 38:51

So so it's 2 things. Yeah. And and that's exactly what I'm saying. Like but but 2 things about what you're saying. So I wanna touch on worthy, and then I also wanna touch on timing.

Troy Washington: 39:00

Right? Like, something again, this is not for everybody. Just for me. Something feels like work when I don't feel like I have time for it. Like, when I don't like, when I when when I used to actually go and go to a physical job, I didn't feel like I had time to sit in traffic, so that was the job.

Troy Washington: 39:21

I didn't feel like I had time to be trying to learn a process or something that I didn't like. It was all about the amount of time that I had available to do the things that I wanted to do versus what I was doing. And so, the reason why I bring time into it is because for something that I say that I want, I should have eternity. And that's just kinda how I feel. And, you know, if you have eternity, then it's no longer any work in it because it's something that I would like to do and it's going to bring me to love over and over again for forever.

Troy Washington: 39:58

Now, again, I'm a go back to, a, a, a customer that I have. Right? Now, mind you, my job is to help people find houses or help people sell houses. Right? That's a part of my career.

Troy Washington: 40:14

That's what I do for a living. And I also would tell to you that I love to do it, and I tell you all the time I love helping people find houses. You know, this is what I I I I'm gonna do. So I have a client who's 84 years old. Now you should you would think that I'm over ecstatic that he's hired me to help him find a home, But he's also operating on a different timeline than I will you know, not just me, but most people will want to operate with when you're trying to help somebody do something that you have experienced that it can happen faster, or you have seen it happen faster, or all of these different variables that come into play.

Troy Washington: 40:59

So I had to reset myself and say, whenever I go to work with this person, I love my job. This is what I wanna do. And every time I help somebody accomplish this, it brings me a level of love that I've been looking for. So I'm a show you what I did just recently. I take this person to a house and now I've reset my mind to realize that what am I in a rush for.

Troy Washington: 41:28

Right? And so, literally, I get to this house and I walk around this house step by I'm talking about when I say one foot in front of the other, the and and and as slow as I possibly can walk around this house. And it probably takes me probably an hour and a half to walk around this whole house. Now the reason why I do it is because he's looking at this house, and he's gonna take his time looking at the house, which, generally, most people don't look at a house that long. But to reset myself, I said, you know what?

Troy Washington: 42:00

What am I in a rush for? Because I'm just helping him along the way for me to get to what I wanna get to. It's not about the money. It's about the joy. Right?

Troy Washington: 42:07

And so I take an hour and a half walking around this house, and by the time I'm done, he only has a little bit left. Now here's the beautiful part of it. I'm not frustrated about time anymore. Now number number 2, I know every detail of this house, which in turn makes my job even better or even easier. And it just changes the whole dynamic of it, and then, eventually, what ends up happening, he lights the house, we get it under contract, and now we headed toward the finish line.

Troy Washington: 42:36

But, again, there's a shift in how I move because I realize what am I concerned with time about when this is what I wanna do. Go ahead, Jay.

JClay: 42:47

Yeah. Yeah. That that that time thing that being in a rush is is a good question to ask. Like, why are you in a hurry? Because if it's what you love to do, like, you should be in it.

JClay: 42:59

And and I love that because it because you recognize that it's in something that you love to do. Like, I I've done that plenty of times where in something that I say I love, I'm rushing. But why? Again, like, the the all of the processes which you really wanted. This is this is what you rushed to get to.

JClay: 43:16

And now you're trying to just breeze through it like it's everything else to what do you what are you trying to get to rush back to and for what? And these might not seem like good questions to ask yourself, but everyone should ask themselves these questions because you'll be surprised to find out either you just had the habit of rushing, which is why you can never really be at peace as much as you would like, or you're doing something that you truly don't love. And now you're able to see so you can pivot into what you do love and expand what you think is possible in it.

Troy Washington: 43:45

And and, again, the question too is if I'm in a rush, when do I allow where is the time for me to expand? Like, where can I find that at? And so if I'm trying

JClay: 44:00

to

Troy Washington: 44:00

be a aficionado in my business, why would I not wanna look at every aspect of this house? I I want something that's gonna set me apart from like, these are things that I want. Right? These are subconscious things that I have running inside of my head. And, if I want to set myself apart from everybody that does what I want to do, being more informed is one of the ways.

Troy Washington: 44:25

How can I be more informed if I'm in a rush? Because, again, based off of my own interpretation and my own rules and my own laws that I've said for myself, being more informed means taking more time. So I want to take more time. I want to be more informed. I want to be more helpful.

Troy Washington: 44:40

I want more love. And see, again, something that we don't allow because there's a time constraint on us. And then the second part that I wanted to touch on was the worthiness. Like, I and I know this is a whole conversation, but there is if you don't feel worthy, there is no expansion. There have been plenty of times, fam, where well, I apply this.

Troy Washington: 45:03

I ain't gonna say there's no expansion because sometimes expanding happens even when you don't feel worthy. So that way you can learn a lesson. But there have been plenty of times where I literally stopped and was like, okay. This is just God teaching me a lesson for me not to get such and such and such and such. Right?

Troy Washington: 45:19

And I've already deemed that there's no way for me to expand, and I've deemed myself unworthy. And then it happened, and then I questioned everything. I literally questioned everything at that point. And that was the check on myself to say, how could you limit yourself, and how did you make any determination for god, period, before the end of the before the end of it. So, you know, I love the fact that you said we are worthy of all things because people have to recognize that But when you deem that you're not worthy of something, you don't open yourself up to expand that out.

Troy Washington: 45:59

Go ahead, Jay.

JClay: 46:00

Yeah. You you made me think of something about time and love. Like as you said, you wanted, you know, more love. Time in a way is the opposite of love. And what I explained is what what I how how I say this is time is very limited.

JClay: 46:15

You know, a lot of people believe that once time is gone, it's it's gone, you'll never get it back. But love is is unlimited. Like, it's all encompassing. It's it's forever and ever and ever and ever. And so, like yesterday, Saturdays are my do whatever I want day.

JClay: 46:31

Like, no rules. I'm I'm not following my regimens and certain stuff. I'm just, it it just it's it's a lot of flexibility for me on on Saturdays. And so I kinda got consumed with a a fun project that I wanted to do. And time flew by.

JClay: 46:46

Like, it was a great day, but it was one of the fastest days ever. Now I'm still I'm still grateful for it. Like, I would not have it any other way, but it is just interesting to just see the dynamic between time and and love. And I think as we focus on time, we do lose love because we're like, oh, I'd rather have all this time, but if you're not enjoying it, what for? And the and the thing is people might think, well, because you you age with time.

JClay: 47:10

Not really. I think you age because of lack of love versus, like, if you have love, you'd be as young as you you feel all the time. So it's just it's just interesting to look at the dynamic between love and time.

Troy Washington: 47:21

I I wanna throw this in there too. And, again, one of those sayings that you hear all the time from people is go after what you love. Right? But, again, there's so so number 1, I'm in 100% agreeance with your description and determination of what time and love and how they are polar opposites in the sense of each other. Like, I agree.

Troy Washington: 47:47

Like, but I I wanna throw this in there as well. We tend to think that the things that we do in time, or we allow the things that we do in time to distract us from getting the love. And so I I again, I promote everybody and I know it might sound weird and I don't know how it sounds to people. When I say I fall in love with myself over and over again, like, I I I I want everybody to understand that you should be falling in love with yourself over and over again. That's not anything that's, conceded or, self absorbed.

Troy Washington: 48:24

Like, you need to be falling in love with yourself over and over again. But I I like using exercise as the example, bro. I told you before we started the show, the last time I I told myself in January at the end of January, I was gonna start doing a 100 push ups a day, minimal. And the I started doing it, and I haven't missed a day. Like I said, some days I do a 100, sometimes I do a 150, sometimes I might do 200.

Troy Washington: 48:49

It just depends on how I feel that day. But here's the deal that happens every single day. Every day, I have an internal battle with myself. Right? Should I do these push ups today, or should I not?

Troy Washington: 49:03

Now I highlighted by saying it's something that I said I wanted for myself in the beginning. Right? And then something that I wanted for myself in the beginning, there's an internal battle every single day about whether I wanna get what I wanted for myself. But every day that I get what I wanted for myself, I fall in love with myself again. And the reason why I point that out is that, number 1, when you expand your mind to what you can have, every single time you accomplish it, every single time you see it, you're going to fall in love with yourself.

Troy Washington: 49:39

Every single day that I tell myself that I can't do it or it's hard and I complete it, there's an an amount of joy that I feel. It's not even about the outcome of my body. It's just the simple fact that I've said and expanded what I thought that I could do for myself when I do it. It's the same thing when we come off of a fast. When we were at the end of our fast, this last time, you told me time changed, so I needed another hour.

Troy Washington: 50:06

I told you, thank you for telling me that because I don't know how I would have been able to deal with me ending before I got to my goal. But the fact that I got to my goal, I was elated in joy. I was in love with myself again. And the reality again that I'm pointing out is, number 1, you trust that whatever you expanded yourself to, that you can get to no matter what. And then don't allow the pursuit of that to dictate anything.

Troy Washington: 50:41

And even so, in the process, and this is the part that I have left out to this point specifically, you can start to fall in love with yourself every time I push up, I can see my arms bulging. And I'm like, dang, I can't believe I got to this point. I can feel my chest bulging. Dang. Or when we're in a fast, man, I can't believe that I feel so energet and so you start to fall in love with things along the way that makes the love for falling in love with you even greater.

Troy Washington: 51:17

Go ahead, Jay.

JClay: 51:18

Yeah. I forgot what I was about to say.

Troy Washington: 51:23

My my bad, man.

JClay: 51:24

No. No. No. You can't. So so in that, one of the one of the the things oh, yeah.

JClay: 51:30

That's what I was gonna say. Okay. I'll bring it back to the fast. Fasting, water fasting is or just fasting period from from anything is a way to find that love again, to fall in love with yourself again. And the reason being that I've noticed is the last fast we did, the last 4 day fast we did, that 4th day, it was new territory to me.

JClay: 51:52

And it was it was a little different. I didn't know what to expect or anything, but I didn't wanna have any expectations for it. And but I would even though I wanted to eat, I would kinda go into these little projects or these little activities or these these little curiosities that I followed. And I will follow it to his end, and I'll look up another few hours past. But it was like a it was a fun quick hours.

JClay: 52:13

Like, time flew by. So it was like, oh, my fast is almost done. Yes. I could eat right now, but I still got 6 more hours. What's next?

JClay: 52:20

And then I I went into another thing. And and and these weren't some could say what I was doing was work, but it wasn't considered because the stuff that I had to do as work, I didn't wanna do it, especially in that state because I just didn't find it fun at that particular time. And so I said it to to, again, anybody considering, you know, just trying it out tomorrow, doing the 24 hour fast. It's a good way to to really hone in on what you love and what you don't love and just get getting back into that space.

Troy Washington: 52:49

Yeah. No. I 100, 100% cosigned that man. And, again, that's just one of those things that, that's one thing that I love about the fast when we talk about time. When you are not mentally when you don't approach it with the intentions that you need, the only thing you could think about during the fast is time going by.

Troy Washington: 53:10

Like, you just want the time, I can't wait till. I can't wait till. I can't wait till. I can't wait till, and then you start paying attention to now. And then you say, well, now I can do this.

Troy Washington: 53:31

Now I can do this. And now time is no longer a factor in anything that you're doing until you stop, of course, when you recognize, dang, an hour went by. Like, I didn't even realize that. And, you know, you know, one of the sayings that we've been hearing since we were kids, time flies when you're having fun, because time is no not even an issue anymore. And so, to me, I think that in those moments, you fell in love with yourself.

Troy Washington: 53:55

And you were in love with your life, and you were in love with the activity of now, which in turn made something that you were headed toward come sooner because you weren't so occupied with the time of it. So, man, yeah, I I I mean, I I love that you pointed that out. Go ahead, Jay.

JClay: 54:13

Yeah. Time does fly when you're having fun, and when you're focused on time, it is not. I I I'll never forget when I was in 3rd grade, I think. 3rd or 4th is one of them grades. Mortal Kombat came out, man.

JClay: 54:24

And I was in school, got the, got the disc in my hand from somebody at school. Not the disc, the cartridge, whatever was out. The longest day, like, I can't I can't stress how long that was. And I probably lived 10 years in that one day because I was focused on time. I didn't I didn't know not to focus on time.

JClay: 54:42

I didn't know to to just have find a way to have fun in school. I know that's crazy, right? But, it it's just it's just one of those reminders because you can't have fun in every situation, even situations you don't wanna be in. Like, definitely expand your mind on that and try it out. Like, if you're in a boring situation, ask yourself, what can I do to make this fun?

JClay: 55:02

And whatever ideas you get, I say explore it. Go with it and and and watch how not not only this time fly, but it also expand your reality of what's possible and what does it mean too because you might say, well, I can't do that. That means this. Not necessarily. Try it out.

Troy Washington: 55:18

Yeah, man. Look. I I used an example again earlier about in real estate deals, how sometimes just the way things start, I've already dictated how it was gonna end. And I immediately identify and I start to change my mind because I've recognized that I can't think that way. And the moment when I do that, my mind starts to be flooded with opportunity.

Troy Washington: 55:45

It starts to be flooded with idea, it starts to be open to imagination. And so, I bring that up to oh, go ahead, Jay.

JClay: 55:54

No. I just thought about something in that when you say, like, you you dictate the way it ends. Yeah. Nope. Nope.

JClay: 56:02

Okay. How do I say this? A lot of people don't like endings that much unless it's something that they don't want. But when you dictate the the way it ends, it's almost like that. That's how I talk my way out of stuff almost.

JClay: 56:14

Like, if I think about the ending, why do it? I know how it's gonna end. I don't wanna do that. But when you when you think about the beingness that you can be in when doing it, it makes a big difference.

Troy Washington: 56:25

Yo. I'm finna give you the prime example, and I know we gotta wrap up. I'm a very I'm a big, big, big basketball fan. Like, I love watching, you know I'm I'm the biggest LeBron fan.

JClay: 56:35

Yeah.

Troy Washington: 56:35

And if you know anything living in my house, I I won't stop myself from doing anything when the game is on. I try to be home when the games are on. But if the game is on and we have to go somewhere, I'll go do it. But I literally won't turn on you know, I turn off notifications on my phone. I don't want nobody to tell me about the game because I want to go home and watch it like it's on now.

Troy Washington: 56:56

But if if I see the outcome of the game, win or lose, I probably won't watch the game because there is joy in the journey. There is joy in the rise and the fall of it all. And that's, again, why I point out even doing push ups along the journey, as much as I can tell you I didn't like or it's hard, there are things that happen while I'm doing push ups that I appreciate more than I could ever even explain. Same thing when it comes to running. When you start to run when you start running long, there's things in the run that you start to appreciate.

Troy Washington: 57:30

And, you know, some people call it falling in love with the process. Because if you fall in love with the process, then you get to have love all the way through. But the only way you do that is expanding yourself to believe that it's possible. But, Jay, you can go ahead and, I know we got might have some stuff we wanna hit before we get out of here, man.

JClay: 57:46

Yeah. I I I do I do wanna kinda just, in wrapping this up and just kinda summarize how to expand what you think is possible. So, I can't remember everything. Well, I know one, let go, definitely. Focus on the state of being, like, really be in it.

JClay: 58:04

And when I I I feel like we're missing the big one. Use the use use your,

Troy Washington: 58:08

identify, then use your imagination. Act like the imagination can't be allow your imagination to be real. And that's what I told my son this morning. So, yeah. Allow your imagination to be real and just and just, keep going.

Troy Washington: 58:29

Don't

JClay: 58:30

stop. Exactly. So, yeah. So, yeah. So, I I I wanna say again, like, appreciate everybody rocking with us.

JClay: 58:35

Remember, join our fasting community if you wanna try it out. Even if you wanna try it out for a couple of hours. 3 hours. You can go 3 hours. And if you can do 3, you can do 6.

JClay: 58:43

If you can do 6, you can do 9. Next thing you know, it's bedtime. Then you wake up like, oh, I can I can do this? So I I would I would definitely say consider doing those those those fasting Mondays where you can just kinda get back into that into that mode. And join our Patreon, man.

JClay: 58:59

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Troy Washington: 59:10

Just man. We love y'all. We're grateful for y'all. Without y'all, we wouldn't be here. We'd be doing something, but we definitely wouldn't be here.

Troy Washington: 59:15

So we appreciate y'all. Again, you know, Jay, you can take us out, baby.

JClay: 59:18

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JClay: 59:32

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JClay: 59:42

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