Up-Level Your Life with Mindy
The Art of Intentional Goals and Mindful Experiences
Ever set a goal that's slipped through the cracks of your busy life? Join me, on a heartfelt journey into the world of intentional goal-setting as we navigate the often unwieldy path toward personal fulfillment. It's a candid look at the targets I've hit and missed, and a powerful reminder that every unmet goal is a lesson that fine-tunes our intentions moving forward.
Life's too short for 'someday' and 'maybe' - it's time to seize the day with a sprinkle of planning and a dash of accountability. Listen as I share the triumph of achieving a long-standing culinary goal and how that simple act of creating an Indian chicken dish became a reality. Looking ahead, I'm embracing a bold blend of monthly activities and audacious adventures for 2024 – from visiting mystical Sedona to cheering on the Savannah Bananas. And guess what? Your insightful suggestions are invited to complete my quest for extraordinary experiences!
As we wrap up this solo session, I touch on the serenity that comes from silencing the digital noise and invite you to join me in disconnecting from the constant buzz of notifications, for a more mindful and present existence.
Anticipate a lineup of inspiring guests and invigorating topics in future episodes, where your participation is not just welcomed – it's essential. Here's to a year of connection, sharing, and growth on 'Up-level your Life with Mindy,' where we turn the ordinary into the extraordinary, together.
To learn more about Mindy CLICK HERE
Ever set a goal that's slipped through the cracks of your busy life? Join me, on a heartfelt journey into the world of intentional goal-setting as we navigate the often unwieldy path toward personal fulfillment. It's a candid look at the targets I've hit and missed, and a powerful reminder that every unmet goal is a lesson that fine-tunes our intentions moving forward.
Life's too short for 'someday' and 'maybe' - it's time to seize the day with a sprinkle of planning and a dash of accountability. Listen as I share the triumph of achieving a long-standing culinary goal and how that simple act of creating an Indian chicken dish became a reality. Looking ahead, I'm embracing a bold blend of monthly activities and audacious adventures for 2024 – from visiting mystical Sedona to cheering on the Savannah Bananas. And guess what? Your insightful suggestions are invited to complete my quest for extraordinary experiences!
As we wrap up this solo session, I touch on the serenity that comes from silencing the digital noise and invite you to join me in disconnecting from the constant buzz of notifications, for a more mindful and present existence.
Anticipate a lineup of inspiring guests and invigorating topics in future episodes, where your participation is not just welcomed – it's essential. Here's to a year of connection, sharing, and growth on 'Up-level your Life with Mindy,' where we turn the ordinary into the extraordinary, together.
To learn more about Mindy CLICK HERE
Hey friends, this is your host, mindy Duff, and you're listening to Uplevel your Life with Mindy, your number one personal growth podcast that will bring you closer to uncovering your greatest self. As a certified holistic health and nutrition coach, I created this podcast for anyone who desires to improve physically, emotionally and spiritually. I'll be interviewing experts and sharing tips and tricks that have helped not only my clients, but that have guided me on my own transformational journey. I believe that we all have a greatness that lies within. We just need to uncover it. Are you ready to level up? Let's begin. Hi everyone and welcome back to Uplevel your Life with Mindy.
Speaker 1:I am your host, mindy Duff, and today I'm going to do a little random podcast for you. Usually, I'm pretty focused. I have had so many wonderful guests come on this show that have had great topics. I'm looking forward to that continuing here in 2024. I've got lots of guests lined up, but I wanted to do one more solo episode because I have some things on my mind and I wanted to share. Gosh, darn it. It's my podcast and I'm going to do what I want there. How's that for a New Year's attitude for you? I have a couple of different things that I wanted to talk with you about. The first one does relate to New Year's. If you are listening to this again and it's not New Year's, don't worry, it's totally relevant. It doesn't matter what time of year you listen to this, but it is January 3rd as I am recording this today.
Speaker 1:I wanted to tell you about a little thing that I did last year At the end of the year. Last year it was like the day after Christmas, I think. It was so 2022. I created a list of 23 new things to do in 2023. Maybe you did the same thing. Maybe you saw I saw it on social media a bit. It wasn't an overwhelmingly popular trend. I don't think. I don't know if maybe it was. Just the idea of doing 23 new things was maybe daunting to some people, so they just passed it by. Anyway, it was not my original idea. I stole it from somewhere off online, just like all good ideas are stolen usually. I made my list on December 26th of 2022. 23 new things to do in 2023. It was, I don't know, pretty random. I guess I would say I'm going to pull up my list right now and see if I can share some of these things with you.
Speaker 1:I just did a variety of things. Downhill skiing is on there. I've never been downhill skiing. We had just got back from a sledding trip so I thought, oh, that was top of mind, I should try to learn how to downhill ski. I guess, for some reason, that seemed like a good idea. Also, cross-country skiing, because I was in that mode, cross-country skiing. I've never done One of those things. I think that I'll probably try it for like 10 minutes and then be like all right, I get it, I'm done Because I think it's exhausting. I know it's a full body workout, but some other things I had on there that were not so didn't have to be expensive or go and do things like cook an Indian dish or get a facial. I have learned how to lucid dream All kinds of things on here that a lot of them were fairly small and easy to do. Then some of them were larger and maybe more expensive, anyway. So here's what happened.
Speaker 1:I had high hopes for myself at the end of 2022. Maybe you can relate. Maybe you're there now looking ahead to 2024, now that we're in it, maybe you've got high hopes for yourself for this year, I guess. If you want to look at it in terms of how did I do? What was my record? I failed miserably, but I don't look at it as a failure. I'm going to tell you why here in a minute.
Speaker 1:What happened was? I made this list on my phone and I forgot all about it I did. I had no method of accountability, nothing to keep me back in check, nothing to remind me that hey, remember that list you made. Have you done anything? No plans to? Oh, I should schedule this on my calendar nothing.
Speaker 1:If you have set any goals for yourself this year, in 2024, and you're like me and you're just like, ah, I want to do this stuff, and then you never think about it again, guess what's going to happen? You're never going to do that stuff. I knew this, but for some reason for me it didn't seem like goals. It wasn't New Year's resolutions, it was just stuff to do. So I thought I would remember to do it because it was fun stuff that I wanted to do. And I didn't. I didn't remember it at all. I totally forgot about it. So maybe a couple times throughout the year I was like oh, yeah, or I would remember a couple of things off the list and then I would try to do.
Speaker 1:But for the most part, the things that I did either happened early in the year when it was top of mind, or were things that, like, I was probably going to do that anyway, right, so like read a new book, like I'm not going to read a new book or read books all the time, so that was kind of an easy one for me. So I really, at the end of the year here in 2023, was a little bit disappointed in myself because I had this list and some of the things were cool and I think I could have done them had I made the time and remembered. There were a couple of things on here maybe three or four things that were seasonal aside from the skiing, which you know, we're back to winter again but there were some things that that ship has sailed. Like I can't, I can't do that now because you know I have to wait until the season is right to go out and to do some of these activities, because the weather is just not conducive for it. So that was kind of sad.
Speaker 1:But here's something else that was interesting for me in my brain. So I remembered this list right around a little after Christmas, so like a year later and I had one week of 2023 left. So I looked at my list and I thought, huh, I wonder if I can check any of these off real fast this week yet, like seventh, like I haven't been able to do it all year, but surely in seven days I could do some of these. And I made a list of let's see one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight things, eight of my 23 things that I thought, oh, actually I probably could do that in the next seven days. One of them was learn how to lucid dream. So I thought, all right, cool, I will get a book on Audible and I'll learn how to lucid dream. And I did sort of. I haven't finished the book yet and I'm not an expert at lucid dreaming, but at least I've learned some things about it. So there was a thing. And then there were some other things I could have done.
Speaker 1:But I decided you know what this is ridiculous. Let's just not that I don't care, but let's just add this onto 2024. Let's regroup, let's start over and try again. Maybe you have been in a similar situation with goals for yourself. So that was one thing about 2023 in my list. And then for 2024, the temptation was there to just like copy paste kind of all, just try it again, but obviously like, come on, like this didn't work. What am I going to do here?
Speaker 1:So I decided to try a new approach and I'm telling you all about it in hopes that, a perhaps you will be inspired and want to try this yourself, or, b at least give myself a little more accountability, because now I've told all of you that are listening and maybe I'll actually, you know, follow through with some of this. So 23 things to do in 2023 sounded catchy, but in terms of the things I put on my list was not very realistic, and actually sometimes, when we set these really high goals, it almost kind of puts this pressure on ourself, and some of us, self included, have this almost perfectionist tendency to where, well, if I can't do it perfect, I just won't do it at all. So there, I quit. I quit so that I can't fail at it. Right, which kind of is failing anyway. But that's how my brain works. I know that's how some of your brains work too, not so, but that's just is what it is.
Speaker 1:So what I decided for 2024 was that I am going to pick 12 things, and I actually so far only have 10, but I've got 12 things so that each month I can maybe focus on a fun new thing. And again, some of them are small. I did one yesterday, so maybe, you know, maybe I'll do a whole bunch all at once. Who knows what's going to happen. But the idea is that at the beginning of the month I could look through my list and go, okay, what seems like a good thing to plan this month. So, for example, this month for me, in January, is so busy. First of all, the weather's bad, or actually it's not bad yet, but it's winter here where I live, so there'll be snow and whatever. So this is not the time for me to say, oh, I should kayak down a river this month. Probably not going to happen, I'm so busy and I don't live where there. I mean, there's ice in the rivers. It's just not realistic. But because I'm so busy, this would be a great month for me to pick one of my smaller things.
Speaker 1:So I picked cook an Indian dish, which I found to be absolutely ridiculous that I did not do in 2023. I've been wanting to have a few Indian recipes. It's a long, kind of boring story as to why I really wanted to do this, but I did. I've wanted to make a couple of these recipes for a long time and here's the ridiculous part I eat every single day multiple times. I don't cook every day, but I cook most days.
Speaker 1:And how, over the course of an entire year, did I not accomplish making this Indian dish? The Indian dish that I made was not complicated. It was just like a basic chicken and rice with the right spices and whatnot. It's absolutely amazing. I made it for several last night, completely delicious. Look forward to leftovers today. But how did I go an entire year and not make this recipe that I've been wanting to make, even at one point in the summer?
Speaker 1:Part of what held me back at the beginning of the year on this Indian dish was that I didn't have some of the spices. There's some specific spices that I could have gone to the store to buy, but that was just like another thing and not every grocery store would have this particular spice. Well, randomly, I was gifted this spice for free this past summer. Still didn't make it. It still took me another six months to make this chicken dish. Ridiculous because it wasn't top of mind. It was always like oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, that's that thing that I want to do, but I didn't sit down and go okay, when am I going to do it? So, this month, at the beginning of the month, knowing it was busy, looking at my list of things, I wanted to do new things to try in 2024. All right, I'm not going to go anywhere, realistically, so let's focus on the things I can do at home. Made the Indian dish? Got to check something off my list already.
Speaker 1:My point being, if we are not intentional with our plans for our life, or just our lives in general, life is going to just pass you right on by, just like 2023 did and went the whole all 12 months without ever making this Indian dish. Your life is gonna pass you by if you aren't at least a little intentional about it. Now, that doesn't. I don't think we need to live in a world where we have to, like, plan out every minute and I gotta make sure I'm doing checking all the things off my bucket list all the time. No, I think, actually, most of your life needs to just be kind of present in the moment and enjoying what's going on. Right, right, this hot second, but you don't want to let some of these things slip away, especially the things that would be so easy to implement into your life If you just planned a little bit or gave yourself a little tiny bit of accountability or something. Put something into place where you can actually implement whatever these things are.
Speaker 1:So again, so my focus now for 2024 is just, you know, I want to, at a minimum, do one new thing each month, and at the beginning of the month I'm just going to look at my month and go realistically what do I think I even could do? Because that's a thing too, and you know what. Sometimes we have more space in our life, sometimes we have time to take a trip or we have extra money to go do a thing. Other times we don't, and that's fine, but just kind of looking and knowing where you're at. But just because maybe you don't have that much time or you don't have that much money doesn't mean you can't do any of the things that you want to do or try.
Speaker 1:I also put some bonus things on my list, if you really want, like all the details on my list. Here it is. So I have 10 things so far. If you can help me come up with two more, I'd be appreciative of it. So a new thing each month. And then I have three bonus things, which would be just like icing on the cake. Mindy, if you get to these things, then good on you, but if you don't like, don't feel horrible about yourself at the end of 2024 like you did at the end of 2023.
Speaker 1:My bonus things are things that maybe cost quite a bit of money, involve a lot more just planning and stuff in preparation. One of them is the skiing. Another one is a trip to Sedona. I cannot wait. I will someday go to Sedona, but the stars have to align and they haven't yet, and that's okay Someday. So I'm just kind of throwing it out there to the universe. More on that in a minute.
Speaker 1:And then I want to go to a Savannah Bananas game. I looked it up the Savannah Bananas I live. First of all, if you don't know about the Savannah Bananas, you need to know about them. So I'm just, when you're done listening to this podcast, check out the Savannah Bananas. They're a baseball team based out of Savannah, georgia, and I love them and would love to watch a game live. They do come to the state where I live. However, tickets are super hard to get to. However, I know how the universe works, so tickets are already sold out for when they come to my state, but I am more than willing to throw it out to the universe that, hey, I still want to go. So, who knows, somebody maybe one of you lovely listeners is going to message me in a few months and say, hey, I've got some Savannah Banana tickets. I thought I was going to go, but I can't now, do you want them, right? So I'm just throwing that one out there.
Speaker 1:So that's my list, and let me now kind of segue into why I have this little bonus section of things that I'm not going to actively plan right now, but I'm going to throw out to the universe that I want to do it, because here's why. Here's the other thing that happened with my 2023 list. So, when I made the list, I put on there all different kinds of things, some things I knew I would be able to do. Go to a new movie Well, yes, of course. Read a new book. Yes, I know I'll be able to do that, but I still wanted to do it, and I was trying to hit 23 things. There's a lot of things, and one of the things that I wrote on there was to soak in hot springs.
Speaker 1:I've always wanted to do it, ever since I knew hot springs were a thing, when I was oh gosh, I don't know like 10. I think I was 10 years old. We took a trip out to South Dakota and there are. I mean, there's a town called Hot Springs, south Dakota, and I remember learning about oh, they're actual, like, it's like a hot tub, but it's just the earth, it's like an earth's natural hot tub and you could go and you could soak in them and they're all over in random places in the world. And as a kid that just sounded super cool, but did not sound super cool to my parents, so we did not do that, which is fine. But then ever since then, I've just always wanted to try it. Didn't know if I'd like it or not, but just always wanted to try it. And I know that there are hot springs in Arkansas and South Dakota and I live pretty close to South Dakota. So I thought you know who knows what.
Speaker 1:I made my list. I thought maybe we'll take our family vacation to South Dakota this year I can soak in some hot springs seem like kind of a almost ridiculous thing to put on my list, but I thought, you know, I, I, whatever I want to do, it's a thing I want to do. I'm going to put it on my list and then, like I told you, I forgot about it, completely forgot about it. I forgot about it until September and it was after the fact. So my sister and I got to take a trip to Iceland. Long story short, I uh, for work related things, I went to England and then I asked her to fly with me and then our flight home had a layover in Iceland. So we extended the layover for a couple of days, because we'd never been to Iceland before and I'm not going to just like sit in the airport if I'm in Iceland. So we extended it by a couple of days, um, so we could at least like see a little bit of what Iceland has to offer. Super amazing place. I highly recommend it.
Speaker 1:And we my sister had planned a little, um, a little drive around. I don't know it's got a name like the golden, golden ring, golden circle, something like that, I don't remember. We did a little like a touristy thing, but, um, seeing all the natural sites, geysers and lots of waterfalls and so much beautiful, beautiful things there and we hit a point in the day where she was like, okay, we can't turn this way because that's going to take us further away from the hotel and it's getting to be the end of the day. So we can either, you know, do one more thing or just head back. So we look at the map and we're like, all right, well, where are we? What are we close to? Oh, look at this, we're close to the secret lagoon, which is a natural hot springs. Neither one of us had a swimming suit. I look it up online. Oh, you can rent swimming suits. Cool, should we do it? Of course we should. We're only like 10 minutes away. So we went to the secret lagoon, we soaked in the hot springs and it was so wonderful, um, just really, really fun experience.
Speaker 1:And it wasn't actually until we had gotten out and I think maybe even like I don't remember if it was even that day or like a couple of days later where I was like, wait a minute, I put that on my list for things to do this year. I had no idea when I made that list. When I made that list, I had no idea that I would be traveling to England. I didn't know that any of that was a thing, let alone stopping in Iceland and doing that, sitting in the hot springs. So, um, that's why I think it's worth it, when you make your little list, to put a little bonus section in of things where you're like you know what? I don't know how this would work, but I want to do it. So let me just throw it out there, because that was exactly what happened with me and my, um, my hot springs. I had no clue, none at all, and yet there it was and it was such a wonderful experience.
Speaker 1:So, leave a little bit of room for some magic in your list. Um, it doesn't have to be, you know. So, um, checking off lists and planning and doing everything. I mean a little bit of that if you want to actually get things accomplished, um, but, uh, leave, leave some room for the magic. So that was a super, super cool experience.
Speaker 1:Okay, so that's all that I'm going to tell you about my 2024 list, Um, my new things that I'm I'm wanting to do. Again, if you have some suggestions for things to do, I am all ears. Um, message me, email me. Um, I love, love, hearing from you guys anyway, and I love would love your, your feedback, because I need two more things, two more things, and I I'm just I'm looking at my list right now and, like I know I can do it this year, I know I want to just fill my fill, my year with lots of fun, new experiences. So, um, so, really quick before I go, I just wanted to.
Speaker 1:I told you this was going to be the random podcast. I wanted to pass one more little um tidbit on, and this is something that has been on my mind the last actually a couple of months, and I don't know that I feel that it's worth it. I don't feel like it needed its own entire podcast, but I'm going to tack it on to the end here, and it has to do with notifications, like on your phone or watching whatnot and your nervous system. So now some of you listening. This may not be for you, but I want to challenge you. If your first thought is, oh, this isn't for me, because this doesn't bother me, I want you to keep listening, okay. So I'm going to go ahead and get started. I'm going to go ahead and get started. I want you to keep listening, okay.
Speaker 1:So something that I have noticed, um, and I'm aware that, like, my nervous system is probably more sensitive than the average bear and I I'm aware of it and I get it and maybe there's things I can do to help it. I know there are some things, but also partly, maybe this is just some of who I am. I'm kind of a oh, I guess I would. I would consider myself a, quote highly sensitive person. Um, and I'm okay with that. I think there's a lot of benefits to it. You just have to know how to work around it.
Speaker 1:And I, a long time ago, turned notifications off on my phone for, like emails and Facebook, just, um, oh, like, just the regular notifications. Like Bob liked your post, like I don't need to know that, don't interrupt me. Um, I turned those notifications off a long time ago. So really, the only thing that my phone alerts me to, like actually makes a noise, is a text message, um, or anything any app that's like a text message, like WhatsApp or um Telegram, or Instagram or not Instagram, um, facebook Messenger, so that's someone in real time that's actually trying to send me a message, probably just directly to me. Um, or, obviously, if my phone rings like someone calls me on the telephone doesn't happen quite as much anymore in 2024, but people do still call Um, and so obviously I want to be notified, right, if those things happen.
Speaker 1:Other than that, um, my phone, no notifications for me, and still I noticed just like a month or probably two months ago that it was really distracting me and it was, I'm going to say, affecting like my nervous system in a weird way where I might be focused on something and it, or maybe I was like kind of stressed anyway and doing an activity, and then I'd hear a ding and like ah, like jumpy, and whatnot. So, um, my son actually did this a long time ago and it drove me crazy, but I put my phone on silent. Um, that's funny, cause I just got a notification right when I said that, but you didn't hear it because my phone is on silent. Um, and and I tell you what, it is such a game changer. Um, you might be thinking, well, how do you know when people call or how do you hear, or whatever.
Speaker 1:The reality is that my phone is almost always either on my person or, like right now, I'm sitting at a desk, so it's just sitting in front of me at my desk. That's the truth. Like 95% of my day, my phone is less than a foot away from me. I would say Maybe more than that. Like that would be an interesting little personal study to do. So because of that, I do have it on vibrate, like it's not. I don't have the notifications all silenced completely, it's just on vibrate. So it does make a little noise and I do hear it and I do see it. So if it's on my person I feel it vibrate. Otherwise I see it light up or do whatever, and then I can take action accordingly and it is just so peaceful. I mean it sounds ridiculous, but it is. It's just so nice to not have that other little like zzz, zzz thing interrupting me.
Speaker 1:And I think that, like I love technology. I love it. There's so many wonderful things about technology, but I think that we just have gosh. I don't even want to say we have too much, but it's we've allowed so many interruptions and so many breaks into our consciousness, I guess. But it's disturbing and I think that that's it's bad for our nervous systems, I think it's bad for concentration, it's bad for focus and it's bad for interpersonal relationships as well.
Speaker 1:You have spoken with someone before that you were talking to them. Maybe they'd said oh gosh, tell me about this important situation in your life. I'm all ears. And then their phone went off and they looked at it and it's like all right, are you even listening to me right now? And they probably are, and they probably didn't even realize that they looked at it because it's a habit. It's just, we're conditioned, it's Pavlov's dog. When the bell dings, we salivate. When the phone rings, we pick it up and look at it. So I just would encourage you to start paying attention to that a little bit.
Speaker 1:Whether you're noticing other people around you doing it, or if you're doing it yourself, I guarantee you that unless you have your phone away from you or on silent, you're doing it. You might be thinking, oh, this stuff doesn't bother me. You're doing it, and also with your watch as well. So I got a Fitbit a few years ago and Fitbits and Apple Watches I know they all have that capability to you know, you can get your notifications right on your watch and I'm not here to tell you what to do, because you know what works best for you and how handy that is or isn't.
Speaker 1:I opted to not have the notifications pushed to my watch because, like I said, my phone is always right there. It's always right there, it's always within you know, a foot or two feet away from me. Why do I need my watch to go off which is definitely on my physical person, definitely vibrating, making that little noise and have my phone go off too? And now I have to deal with it on my watch and then when I go back and pick up my phone later, I'm still probably going to have that notification on my phone. So I got to deal with it there too. Why and maybe some of you are going to come back and say here's why, mindy, here are all the problems that has solved for me.
Speaker 1:Normally, if having your notifications pushed to your watch have solved a lot of problems for you, I would actually like to hear it, because I'm well aware that it's very possible. I just know for me, I was like this is ridiculous, it's too much. Nobody need like. I'm not a medical doctor. The biggest thing would just for me would just be, like my kids, or if somebody you know is dependent on me needed whatever, I would want to be notified and I have a phone and it works, okay. Also a fun little thing that I do on my iPhone, which not all of my friends are appreciative of it, maybe, but that's too bad.
Speaker 1:My phone goes to bed at night and if you have, I don't know about any phones other than an iPhone, but my phone, my iPhone. You can change the time on this, but my phone goes to bed at 930. And what that means I still can use my phone. I'm frequently. If I'm up, I'm probably at 930. I probably am on my phone, but I will not get like, if you call me at 935, it won't ring. So I won't know the two called unless I look at my phone and go oh look, if you send me a text message, it will not ding, unless it won't ding at all and I can look at it and see, oh look, I have a message. But it's very dependent upon me actually seeing it with my eyeballs and not hearing it or feeling it, because it's just not going to alert me because I've told it to go to bed at 9.30.
Speaker 1:Very few people need to contact me after 9.30. There's one person that does if she's listening, she's probably the only one actually what I need to do. If you're listening, gina, I probably. I do this with my husband and my son who has a phone. They're on like the safe list. So my husband had asked me. He's like well, he's a farmer. If I'm like out at the farm and I have a problem you know and I need help, like, does it still go through? Yes, it does. So he's on my safe list, he can call me. I think my parents can call me and my son can call me. So if there was some kind of emergency it wouldn't matter what time of day, but my phone goes to bed at 9.30, because I should go to bed at 9.30. And it comes back in the morning whenever I've told it to wake up. So that's something that you have that ability on your iPhones, if you didn't already know and it's wonderful. I highly encourage it and encourage you to stick to it, just to put your phones to sleep, give yourself a little bit of peace Now. In a perfect world, I would also put my phone down and maybe not look at it, but we'll get there one thing at a time.
Speaker 1:Another thing I do want to say because, now that I mentioned this, one particular friend. She and I had a conversation about this recently. So here's my little caveat. And so she doesn't think I'm talking about her because I'm not. So there was a couple of weeks ago where I have a friend who was the contact person for an event that was coming up and so she was receiving just so many messages. I don't mean for her to just if you're that person where you've said, okay, I'm in the contact person, here's this one event. I'm in the week of the event and so now I'm getting contacted by all these people and it's craziness. I don't mean to turn off your phone and ignore all of those people. Vibrate might be nice, but you know, if you want to be able to make sure you get those messages, that was a one time deal. She signed up for that. She volunteered to just have a crazy amount of messages for just a short time and now it's over.
Speaker 1:That is different. If you are in the medical profession, if you are like an actual surgeon or someone who's on call will die, obviously you need to leave your stuff on. But I'm just talking about the regular average person. Why do we need all the notifications all the time, always buzzing and alerting and telling us you know this thing that you like on Amazon's on sale. You don't need to tell me that right now, like I can look at that later.
Speaker 1:So that's just a little. You know you can like it or not like it. You don't have to like it, but that's just something that I have done, that I just. I like not being notified so much. I think it's fantastic and I think that everybody should just at least give it a go and let me know what you think.
Speaker 1:So, okay, well, that is enough of my random podcast for today. I know this was super, super random, but I just had a couple things I just wanted to share with you all. I hope that your new year is turning off fantastic and I have several new podcasts lined up, lots of guests coming up soon, and I'm really excited to share those with me. If you ever have ideas or suggestions on potential guests that you would like me to bring on to the show or topics, please Don't hesitate to reach out, message me or email Mindy at MindyDuffcom, and I read all of them personally, and I would love to hear your suggestions on more guests to have on the show. So, okay, well, I hope, wherever you are at, you are having a fantastic day and I will catch you on the next one.
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