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On this episode of The Little White Lie Caren and Molly talk about “What are the 5 daily steps to living happier?” They cover the following topics:
Reading & Internet: “You don’t even have to go outside the planet to learn something new every day. Open up some of the pages so you can see them.”
Pro-Aging: Offset some of the natural aging. Everybody’s going to have senior moments, right? That’s, part of aging that’s inevitable, you can do a lot prevent too.
Brain Power: “Using your brain every day. This is something that has been proven to actually help prevent cognitive decline, help prevent dementia, help prevent the onset of Alzheimer’s”.
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what are the five daily steps to living
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happier I discussed this and more with
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my very special guest motivator and
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entrepreneur Molly watts on today's
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episode of the little white lie welcome
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to little white lie everyone this is a
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lifestyle show for super boomers and
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beyond that will enhance your lifestyle
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health empowerment and more hey guys
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this is karen Glasser i am very excited
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about our special guest today Molly and
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I met on Instagram we did Instagram and
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it's it's very cool what she's doing I'm
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excited about her because of her story
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and who she is she is the co-creator and
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founder of fiber light and the fiber
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life planner which were going to be
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revealing today very exciting she is all
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about aging with optimism and living a
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happier longer life and that's her
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message that she's sharing through the
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fight for life journal and movement
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which is inspired by her father who will
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turn 91 this January and she is joining
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us today so I'm very excited to welcome
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Molly watts
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how you doin Molly hey Karen thanks for
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having me so happy to be here well I am
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absolutely delighted that you are here
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and for many many reasons
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we bonded on on Instagram we bonded on
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our mutual missions and and today I
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asked you as the very first question
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Molly what what is your little white lie
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oh well I guess my little white lie and
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I'm not sure if it's you know so much a
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lie that I tell outside but it's
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certainly a lie that I've told myself
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and that is that since I went through
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menopause that you know that it was just
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gonna be a foregone conclusion that I
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was going to gain weight and I sort of
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just accepted that which is kind of and
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then I sort of got with the program and
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started taking a little better care of
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myself and turns out that it was in fact
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just an excuse and a little why I was
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telling myself actually can you can
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still this weight if you worked at it I
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love that and you know what for our
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viewers whether you
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here on repay or you're here live how
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many of you resonate with that how many
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of you give yourself that gave yourself
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that excuse that oh I'm gonna get to
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that you know that age and I'm gonna get
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heavier and I this is there's no you
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know it's an excuse hey put it in the
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comments let us know if you yourself
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have that little light line and we've
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got Joey Joey says hi Karen hey Joey
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good to see you
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alright today we are talking about what
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are those five daily steps to living
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happier now I know that you literally
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have five steps and I'm gonna put the
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first one up I know that the first one
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is move what does that mean well we say
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daily action number one is move and it's
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it's number one for a reason because
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really one of the things that people
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fear most about aging is losing mobility
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and it's simply one of the easiest
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things to prevent as people get older
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and that's by moving everyday and that
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doesn't mean you have to go out and do
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CrossFit or run a half marathon it means
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that you have to be organic in your
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movement and you need to do it you know
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a little more today than you did
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yesterday and you start from where you
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are and you get better and there's
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numerous numerous studies that show that
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no matter how old you are whether you're
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starting at 50 or 60 or even 80 you can
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and improve your and prevent things of
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injury and your loss of mobility just
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simply by moving everyday and that's I
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mean it's such an important thing and it
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really is actually easy to do
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walking is moving right yes absolutely
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walking moving and even so much as some
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of the things that we've looked at
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organic movement like you know using a
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spoon in a whisk to to bake things
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instead of a you know a hand mixer you
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know good getting out and just getting
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into organic movement and making
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yourself stand up more instead of
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sitting down and and it can be up to do
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and ensure and going on from there and
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building and strength training and
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lifting weights and things like
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that everything helps but it's just one
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of the things that's most easily
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prevented is the loss of mobility and
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that that way that we do it is by simply
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moving and then not exactly just by
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moving just get up yeah and take take a
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movement okay so what is number two
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number two is learn and so I know you
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mentioned my dad my dad was a
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superintendent of schools my entire life
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there he is
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yep there he is about to turn 91 this
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January and just still very vital alert
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and you know he just got he's just been
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recently taking on a new challenge again
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in terms of becoming an organizer for
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something and you know he continues and
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he did learn to play the organ when he
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was in his 80s Wow yeah and the thing of
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that is is that it's you know there's so
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there's an importance there just in
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terms of you know feeling good but again
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this is something that has been proven
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to actually help prevent cognitive
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decline help prevent dementia help
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prevent the onset of Alzheimer's and
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that is using your brain every day and
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whether it's you know and there's really
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just I I think there's like no excuse
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right anymore because there was way what
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are some ways I mean the obvious ways
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Reid yeah right right exactly I mean the
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internet everybody um you know if you
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don't have your own computer most people
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can find access to the internet on at
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through the library but I mean the
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Internet has so much information and not
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all good but you know you can learn you
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can go to a site learn so much and you
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know proudly we will say that even in
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the in our planner that we have you know
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we have a learning learning tip every
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day just something a little piece of
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trivia just so you don't even have to go
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outside the planner to learn something
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new every day we're gonna write about
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that actually have an open up some of
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the pages so you can see them because
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that it as you said that number two is
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learn and there are actually something
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to learn every single day even if you
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don't want to go out and find it right
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Journal right always and it could also
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be like even learning a new hobby
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whether that's knitting or painting or
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you know those taking those steps to
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learn something new no matter what it is
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is helps actually create new synapses in
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the brain and again helps prevent
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cognitive decline and dementia so it's
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it's critically important one of the
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questions that we answer quite
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frequently on this show are you ever too
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old to do something or to learn
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something or to take that next step I'm
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sure you that long probably have some
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very strong feelings about that oh I
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definitively have yeah very strong
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feelings about that my dad is proof
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positive that you are just simply never
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too old and I think that it's something
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that keeps him you know motivated an
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optimistic and that's really about what
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we're about
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it's about aging with optimism right and
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keeping a positive mindset as you get
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older it's not that challenges aren't
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going to come along it's not that things
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aren't going to happen it's being able
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to have a positive mindset about it and
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keeping your keeping your brain healthy
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and keeping your brain you know vital
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and and trying to you know offset some
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of that natural you know I mean
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everybody's gonna have senior moments
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right there right I mean there's a
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there's a part of aging that's just
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inevitable but you can do a lot to
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prevent to to prevent things like that
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absolutely you know I'm wondering what
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our viewers are thinking right now what
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are those things that you're doing every
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day to learn a little thing let us know
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what you're doing are you reading are
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you searching on the Internet are you
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going to the library
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are you learning a new skill what are
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you doing every single day to learn
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something to keep your cells vital what
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is number three
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yeah so number three is share there it
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goes and you know again
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this is really the number one two and
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three we're really dedicated to the
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three things that we hear most often
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that people fear about getting older so
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number one is like losing their mobility
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number two you know cognitive decline
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people are very afraid
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losing their you know cognitive
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abilities and number three people are
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very worried about loneliness and
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isolation and it's something that is a
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real problem for the elderly in our not
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only in the United States but really
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across the world but it we say that it
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is an actionable habit so share is all
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about social engagement and it's about
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developing a habit of connecting with
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people and again we have so many
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opportunities in the world today but you
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know it's as simple and as easy as you
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know striking up a conversation with the
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with the grocery clerk it's as easy as
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going out and having a conversation with
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your mailman with your neighbor picking
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up a phone and calling an old friend
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these are things again it's easier you
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know as people age and your life becomes
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you know you're no longer you're no
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longer working perhaps in an office
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place you're no longer right seeing at
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the school you know that you used your
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kids grew up and you don't have that
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natural just that that you know
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automatic time where you're gonna go in
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and see each other and so you have to
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you have to work at it and it's but it
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is a habit and it is something that we
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say you know you really have to make it
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a focus and take action on it every day
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right and so number four he doesn't give
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oh yeah yeah well you know I think
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gratitude has been kind of a movement
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for a while now but there's actually
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proof again and and this is something I
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should say about all of our five daily
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actions these are all backed by science
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to not only increase longevity but to
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improve happiness so there's there's a
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reason for all of them and the number
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four give is all about being having a
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sense of gratitude and joy that you know
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and thankfulness for where you are and
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what you have and you know it can be a
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little bit challenging probably as
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people as you get older and you start to
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have some challenges or you know that's
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like I said this isn't about like going
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through life and thinking everything's
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just going to be oh oh
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you know a cakewalk it means it's gonna
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what it was I know it means it but you
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know you have to be grateful for where
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you are and what you have and again it's
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improving that the people that have that
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perspective murder able to express that
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and actually express it which is gay and
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why we wanted to have it as a part of
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writing in this in our planner you know
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and I'm we're here today with Molly
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watts
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she is the the co-founder of the five
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for life journals and we're talking
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about the five daily steps that people
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can take
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we just finished number four which give
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is give and you'll notice that I put up
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these these are the journals that we're
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talking and we'll talk a little bit
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about them as we continue on there's
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four one for each season one for each
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three months basically three yeah ninety
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days you wait for thirteen weeks and the
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I mean the book is beautiful I want to
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actually pull this down for a second so
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that you can actually I'm going to fold
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this down I don't know if we can see
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this here but it's laid out beautifully
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and each one of these daily steps are
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actually listed in the journal so all
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you're doing is it's a prompt for me I
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look at it as the prompt it's prompting
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me which one of these five things and
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number I'd is let go right let go and
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obviously that has to do with letting go
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of stress and anger and fear and regret
12:35
and you know these are again these
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emotions are all have been proven to be
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part of some of our chronic disease
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states like hypertension which you know
12:45
it's high blood pressure these go hand
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in hand and so being able to let go of
12:53
those feelings and of those bad emotions
12:59
negative stressful things in our lives
13:02
is really important to not only prevent
13:04
disease but also just to you know it's
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it's a therapeutic thing and it's been
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shown again people that are able to set
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a set aside their regret set aside their
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anger that's they are less they have
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less depression they
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have less you know right hype those
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things and so there's it's again it's
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something that is critically important
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and as we age I mean I think everybody
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has it's I think more common that you
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might have something that you look back
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on in your past and you regret right
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make it easy for them yeah yeah
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hopefully so do you have a slogan that
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says living your happier longer life
13:48
starts now let's talk about that yeah
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you know what's great about all of our
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five daily actions is like I said they
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are all proven to increase longevity and
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improve overall happiness but it isn't
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it's not like something where you have
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to wait until you know you're it wait
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five years for this to take place the
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the right of way when you start doing
14:12
these things you're gonna feel better
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and so we say you know you're gonna have
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a happier longer life and it starts now
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you don't have to wait why wait right
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why we right now so let's talk about
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your why you've already mentioned a
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little bit about this what's your why
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well you know for me if they're yes
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again um I had sort of a you know my I
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watched as my parents took as they
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started to age and unfortunately sadly
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my mom took a different path she spent
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really the last 20 years of her life she
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passed away in 2012 at the age of 80 and
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even though she reached 80 she she
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didn't do it with you know she was
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progressively getting more isolated
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getting lonelier getting more just kind
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of you know didn't move much and she
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really spent the last 20 years of her
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life really in decline and despite the
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fact my dad has had four major heart
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procedures took care of my mom
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battled prostate cancer he you know he's
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going to be 91 and he's still he's still
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going you know and he's still he's still
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growing and he still sees his life as
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something that he wants to you know be a
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part of and he wants to - he's you know
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I can't imagine I can't imagine the last
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20 years without him around
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so you know he's an inspiration and and
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that's an inspiration to all of us when
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we can first of all to have our parents
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still with us at that age yeah and I'm
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gonna be able to say and know and
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understand that they are the reason that
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we are who we are or part of the reason
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we are who we are
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yeah and I think that also what I
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realized as when I very first you know
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kind of thought about this whole thing
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is I realized that my dad had a massive
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heart attack when he was 50 years old
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and I was in high school and I remember
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it very vividly and he started taking
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actions you know he didn't just get to
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91 in a vacuum he has he has made moving
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a priority in his life he's continued to
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learn he's very socially engaged he's
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got cheese he's busier than I am half
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the time you know he's doing so much and
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he's constantly grateful he's always
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told me you know that he sees everything
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past his 50th you know 50 as as gravy
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because he's been very grateful for
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these years and he doesn't he just he's
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always I think you know he he works on
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he doesn't hold on to anything negative
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he gets rid of it in his life and yeah
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so we've been talking a lot about these
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five daily steps and we've also started
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to mention the fact that you have an
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amazing journal that's out yeah yeah I
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first of all I love the colors I love
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everything about this I love I'm a
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journal girl anyone who knows me knows
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that I I collect journals
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this isn't Brad will becoming one of my
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favorite ones because I love the prompts
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in it I love the ease of use and I love
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the ability to just get to it get it
17:11
done and move into my day and you and so
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it's a set of for 13 weeks I'm gonna
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have a image up so that anybody can see
17:19
it and just put it on on soullow we have
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a special offer for our viewers today
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for them to actually go pick up a copy
17:30
of this it is just launching right now
17:33
like right now yeah very exciting we're
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gonna send you over to shop dot five
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four light co-ceo nazi om and when
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you do that we're going to because of
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the generosity of modeling and her
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partner when you put the the word super
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boomer in there into the code you will
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get 15% awesome yeah thank you so yeah
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and you know what it's you don't need
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somebody to be pushing you to do this
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the New Year is right around the corner
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we we all tend to think that that's a
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starting point or an ending point the
18:14
new year to the air you can start at any
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time but it does happen to be just
18:18
around the corner so if you were looking
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for that incentive I encourage you to
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take a look at this they're beautiful
18:24
the colors are soothing they come in up
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you can do it in a box set or if you
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don't want to make the hundred percent
18:29
commitment right now just get the first
18:31
13 weeks right yep absolutely
18:34
okay whatever dates you want in there
18:36
you start you go in there there's a
18:38
monthly version right there's that
18:40
there's the week I mean it's great
18:42
journal what are some of the hi I'm so I
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think you I mean you mentioned it so one
18:48
of the things I really like about it is
18:50
that it's two pages per day and really
18:52
you can you know you can keep track of
18:55
your daily appointments and everything
18:58
there but the the right side of the
19:00
planner is really all about tracking
19:02
those five daily actions and what I've
19:05
had what the feedback that I've gotten
19:07
from people which I really really love
19:09
and I love this idea is that you know by
19:12
tracking everything and writing things
19:13
down and actually putting in you know
19:16
thoughts about the time you're spending
19:19
with people or you know just even at a
19:22
lunch date with your friend or a family
19:23
member it's really a piece of personal
19:27
history in the making you know and if
19:29
you do it and you really keep track I
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mean like what a gift to give to you
19:34
know a child your child your grandchild
19:36
right to say oh and and this is I love
19:40
seeing that kind of stuff written in my
19:42
dad's handwriting you know it's
19:44
something that can be shared hopefully
19:47
and I love the evening of the evening
19:50
reflections because I'm before you get
19:53
into bed they say that our minds are
19:54
open and what you are thinking about
19:56
before you get into bed and go to sleep
19:59
you dream about and you and you it just
20:02
becomes part of you so that you're ready
20:04
to go the next day so I love this
20:05
evening reflection the ability to look
20:07
back on your day and put down what you
20:10
were grateful for and feel it and sit in
20:12
a moment of it so that it actually
20:14
internalize it's a beautiful beautiful
20:15
job Molly I I'm I have to tell you very
20:18
don't thank you thank you thank you I
20:20
really apparent and again I am the queen
20:23
of journal so I just I really I just
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love everything about it and I'm just
20:27
really happy that we're here to share on
20:29
your you know as you're getting ready to
20:30
launch here so again you go over to shop
20:33
dot five for Life Co put in super boomer
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and get 15% off I'm gonna actually let
20:41
people know how they can get in touch
20:43
with you as well because I know that
20:45
people are going to want to know how
20:45
they can really connect with you you've
20:47
got a great Facebook presence they can
20:51
go to facebook-dot-com forward-slash
20:53
find it for a life CO that's how they
20:56
can connect and join with you there they
20:59
can follow you and join in the fun on
21:00
Instagram as I do and live happier
21:03
longer and of course following you on
21:06
Twitter at live happy longer and um and
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again you can go to the website at 5:00
21:13
for life CO so there's lots of different
21:16
ways to communicate and to connect with
21:19
you and to learn about how awesome you
21:21
guys are and what you're doing over
21:23
there any last thoughts we will share
21:25
with us yeah you know in part of our
21:28
even off of five for life Co is we
21:30
actually have our podcast too which is
21:32
called the live happier longer podcast
21:34
so you can find this across all major
21:37
podcast players and we have some great
21:41
episodes hopefully you end with care if
21:43
you hopefully people have listened to
21:45
because we've had you in our show I know
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I was gonna say and I was honored to be
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a guest on your show and I had a blast
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actually I had a blast we've been
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sharing it out so I encourage you to
21:55
listen to that as well on Molly's site I
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just want to thank you it's time for our
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super Boomer moment so what I'm going to
22:03
be doing is I'm going to drop you into
22:05
the green room and have a little bit of
22:07
a moment with mocha with my guests and
22:10
my audience out there and I want to
22:11
thank you because I know how
22:13
you are you're in launch so I'm going to
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say thank you for joining us today Molly
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all of our guests and our visitors and
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people who are watching today I know how
22:21
pleased they are that had a chance to
22:22
get to know you and go out there
22:24
everyone enjoy your five daily steps to
22:26
living a happier life
22:28
thanks so much now we're going to talk a
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little bit about that super boomer
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moment I love the super boomer moment
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this is where we share something that
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really struck a chord with me during the
22:43
show and there were so many things that
22:45
struck a chord that it's going to be
22:46
kind of hard to pick out the one thing
22:48
that I think is the the thing you know
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we we are we live very very busy lives
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and I like I like to you know as I say I
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journal I do miracle morning I'm now a
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huge fan you know a five for life I am
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one of those people that when when they
23:09
see something and they grab on to it and
23:11
if it makes a difference in my life the
23:12
first thing that I want to do is I want
23:14
to shout it out from the rafters to let
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people know that I found something that
23:18
has made a difference in my life and
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this is one of those things
23:22
I know Molly can't respond because she's
23:24
down in the green room but I am really
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really blessed I feel very blessed that
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I had an opportunity to meet Molly and
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social media and that's really the
23:32
message here for me is that don't close
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yourself off to the opportunities that
23:37
are going to roll out in front of you
23:38
maybe it's in social media maybe it's at
23:41
a live networking opportunity maybe
23:43
you've taken an online relationship
23:45
offline don't miss out on those
23:48
opportunities as they roll in front of
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you because had I not looked in my
23:52
messages on Instagram and started a
23:54
conversation with Molly I never would
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have known about this and I never would
23:59
have known about her community and her
24:00
mission and her story about her father
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how amazing is that how wonderful is
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that so my you know my super boomer
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moment is don't close your eyes keep
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them wide open you never know what's
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going to cross your path I want to thank
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everyone I know that you have a choice
24:18
as to how you spend your time and you
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chose to spend it with us today on the
24:23
little white lie we're very honored that
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you did
24:26
that I encourage you to go out give
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somebody an awesome day and visit us
24:31
next time on the next episode of the
24:34
little white lie have a great day
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everyone bye bye
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