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Just Curious.
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Welcome to Just Curious Media.
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This is Good Thinking, and I'm Jason Connell.
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On the show today, I'm joined by special guest, Steve Barton.
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Steve, thank you so much for joining us.
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Jason, thank you for having me on your show podcast, and I'm excited to be interviewed by you and sharing what I know to your audience.
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Thank you.
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Well, this is great because this is a new offering that we're doing to Good Thinking, Positive Conversations.
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We it's a daily positive affirmation podcast, but it's grown.
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And with growth, we want to add new things and talk to different people with different backgrounds.
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Your bio came up to me, and I was reading through it, and I was fascinated.
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And this show also deals with people, you know, self-awareness, self-improvement, positive thinking, just anything underneath that.
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And you're the creator of a game called the Game of Ten.
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And I don't know much, I know a little, and I'd like to talk about that.
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Well, thank you.
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Great question.
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And the game of 10 is about the game of life, and it's based on awareness.
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And so many people hear the word awareness, they hear alignment, they hear all these words.
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But what does that even mean?
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And so I have ADHD, and I was a floral designer for since I was eight years old till 50.
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And so I like designing things, I like creating things, I like putting things together, I like simplifying things.
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Some of the best floral designs are the simplest, like ikobana, Japanese floral or anything.
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So yep.
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So same thing as life.
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It's keep it simple.
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The Kiss Theory.
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Now they're saying keep it simple, superstar.
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In my day, they used to say something out.
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Yes, I know.
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So the game of ten is based on that we are all appointed ten at birth.
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Everyone comes out, all created equal.
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We're at ten.
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We're at ten, the highest level of awareness.
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And then, as another California Dr.
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Bruce Lipton's in your area, he talks about how zero to seven, and this has been going on for centuries, the Jesuit says, give me your child at birth, and I'll give you a man at seven, because we're in a hypnotic state of theta.
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So we take on all the generational traumas of our caregivers, our parents, our grandparents, our caregivers, and we take it on.
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So I was trained by Marianne Williams, and she tells a story.
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Jesus' mother was the best mother in the world.
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She told him he was a son of God since the time he was born.
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How many parents told you that?
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Okay.
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And stuck to it.
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So we took on a lot of disappointments from ten.
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They might be minor, might have said, no, you can't have that, you can't do that.
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That might be traumatic.
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It could be abuse, it could be mental, physical abuse.
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If those stay with us, we don't have the tools to let them go.
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We stay at a low level vibrational awareness.
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Right.
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One through nine.
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And I've telling Jason before we got on.
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You can get to nine by positive thinking in the game, often played, but you can't get to ten by thinking at all.
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So people go, what?
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No thinking.
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I said, Would you rather think or would you rather know?
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Rather no.
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Would you rather believe or would you rather know?
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I'd rather know.
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Okay?
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So when you learn to quiet the mind through meditation.
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Whatever way works, I say whatever gets you there, do it.
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If you're not hurting anyone else, do it.
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Whatever you quiet the mind, I came up with six phrases.
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And why don't we try to do it together?
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Let's do it.
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Alright.
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I am ten.
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I'm ten.
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Yes, you are.
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I'm doing the best that I can with the awareness that I have.
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I'm doing the best that I can with the awareness that I have.
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I'm always right with the awareness that I have.
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I'm always right with the awareness that I have.
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I am enough.
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I'm enough.
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I do enough.
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I do enough.
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I have enough.
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I have enough.
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It answers all the questions our identity, our ego is asking us all day long.
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Involved up.
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Okay.
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Yes.
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Yeah.
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It answers every question.
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The first phrase is a declaration of you are.
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Can't argue with it.
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Second two phrases are declarations of our innocence, divine innocence.
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Always.
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The next three phrases put you in present moment awareness of the I am and the universal space.
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I am, I do, and I have in present moment all the time.
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And the universal space and the universal quantity is enough.
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Time space now is and always will be enough for right now.
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So once you're in that space, it puts you into that space of awareness.
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Think of awareness as your command center where you operate from and where you're connected to.
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Awareness is consciousness.
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And these phrases open up your subconscious as well.
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You even teach people how to, when you open up your subconscious, you will also open up what you have been suppressing.
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A warning label.
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I'll give you a tool that I learned from Marianne Wayne.
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If you have a way of letting go or forgiving, I'll teach you.
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Most people think they have to forgive a person, place, or situation that did something to them or happened to them.
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The truth is you have to forgive the thought.
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And the thought that had attached emotions to it.
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And the thought that created a story around it.
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And if we don't let these thoughts, feelings, and emotions go, we keep attracting them.
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The vicious cycle.
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Until we let it go.
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Yeah.
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It's really profound, the thought.
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Thank you.
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I love it.
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My clients love it.
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It works.
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They think I'm crazy in the beginning.
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And then about two months later, they're going, Oh, I thought you were crazy.
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Now I know you're right.
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Now I know you're crazy.
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I say, Yes, I am crazy like a fox.
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Okay.
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Yes.
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Yeah, this is really fascinating, Stephen.
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And I've trained as an athlete my entire life.
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I have a daily yoga practice and it's taught me that awareness.
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And I don't have all the answers, but I do know how powerful that is.
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Being present with self.
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And as you just said, you know, those things will come to the surface when you start to live in that framework.
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And for the forgiveness, it's such powerful thinking and ideology.
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Letting go of the negative thoughts you have about your body, your mind.
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Yeah.
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People say to me, I'm going to heal my spirit.
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I said, don't worry, it's fine.
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It's waiting for you to align.
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Okay.
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Your mind and your body.
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It's already there.
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That's all perfect.
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Okay.
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That's who you are.
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That's 10.
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Now let's get your mind and your body and your skills and your thoughts, feelings, and emotions all in that level of awareness that is what it is.
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So that's where you can operate with great intentionality.
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So if someone says, Well, how do you talk about how do you talk?
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How does this apply to impractical life?
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It is practical life because you start using your tools.
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I'm convinced that we are so traumatized by thought.
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Jason, what were you thinking?
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How could you have thought that?
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What is wrong with you?
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We're abused mentally at a very young age, and we're traumatized by it.
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Echo Tolley says, uh, the biggest addiction we have in this world is thinking and overthinking.
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So true.
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It is so true.
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And what I read about your bio was that you're helping people break through fear, self-doubt, guilt, and shame, just like you're speaking to.
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We are stuck in those things.
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We are reactive to those things until yes.
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We let those go.
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So uh Marianne Williamson gave me uh while I was taking working with her in my my book that I wrote with my son.
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She used to have Incubator Church.
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The best thing about COVID was I got to know and work with Marianne Williamson.
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She says, in your mind, we have it above our ears, we all have these two things temples.
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Oh, coincidence, right?
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So in your mind, she says, We're an idea in the mind of God, God's an idea in the mind of us.
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We're doing sacred stuff when we're forgiving.
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Yeah.
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A lot of churches fail at teaching how to forgive.
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So they're good at judging.
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Yeah, I'll forgive you and I'll get you back.
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Okay.
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I mean, this is fascinating, Stephen.
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We could talk about the game of 10 for so many episodes, and of course, this is more of a micro show as I've rolled out.
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But I'd love to, if I could, just pivot for the last few minutes.
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Just it's incredible.
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And I wanted you to tell people where to find it and look you up.
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But the origin of this, yes, how did you come up with it?
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Like what led you, Steve Barton, to want to create this?
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I had enough.
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You had enough.
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I had enough.
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I'm gonna figure it out.
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And 36 years ago, I had an auto-body experience, near death experience.
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And I knew who I was, I know who everyone is.
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Whether they know it or not, I had a choice to either go or come back.
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I chose, I was having, I finally was happy.
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I said we're gonna leave now.
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This is the first time I've been happy here.
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I want to stay.
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So I'm gonna stay here as long as I can.
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I'll be 70 in two weeks, and uh I hope to be here for another 25, 30 years.
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So as long as I'm having fun, I'm sticking around.
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And then that became the drive to help others see the light.
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Yeah, to see their own light, to be the light.
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You know, we are the shiny object.
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Yeah, we are the carrot, and we are the prize, and there is no box.
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Are you working with people individually?
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I work with individual groups of a team building.
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If everyone's working at a level of 10, treating everyone as they're doing the best they can with the awareness they have, you can always develop their awareness, you can always develop their skills, but if you do a place from uh unconditioned love with healthy boundaries of yes, no, stay and go, that is pure leadership.
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And leadership, in my definition, is great leaders create great leaders.
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Crappy leaders want to lead other people.
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True.
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It is true.
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And I want to touch on this before I run out of time.
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Please tell us about the book that you wrote with your son.
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Uh it's called And actually, Marion Williamson.
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I got to, I was taking Miracle Mind to coaching, and I'd been a student for 30 years.
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So I finished that course in one month.
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And there's people that were sponsoring her was Difference Press, so the owner calls me up, and she's a probably 40-year-old, autistic, brilliant woman, and very direct.
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I loved her.
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And uh she goes, Steve, you're in a pile of my desk going, we don't know what to do with you.
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And I said, Welcome to my world.
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Try to peg me into a hole.
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And she goes, You want to write a book?
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And you just in one month into Miracle Minded Coaching.
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I said, Yeah, I finished all the homework.
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We know.
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We looked.
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We wouldn't be on the phone with you had you not.
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So, what's the name of your book?
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I said, It's called The Game of Ten.
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And she goes, Nobody's gonna buy it.
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So I just let her.
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I love stuff like that.
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When people do that, I just love it.
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It just makes my day.
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I'm like Clint Eastford, do this now, do this now, do this more.
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Uh, don't you want to know why?
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I said no.
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Let her burn, let her smoke first.
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So she goes, Well, I'll tell you why.
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I said, Okay.
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I was having so much fun, as I do all every day, and I make fun with people, and I have fun with people.
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She goes, I'll tell you why.
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You're not Beyoncé.
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I'm just letting her burn at this point.
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And she goes, if you were Beyoncé, you'd sell a million copies.
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And I'm getting to your question.
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She says, What else you got?
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I said, I'm writing it with my 18-year-old son.
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Oh, a parenting book.
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I said, I'm like Chad on Saturday.
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Okay.
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That's what it is.
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A parenting book.
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So right now I'm in the process of writing the game of 10 six years later.
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And um, so the parenting book is called The Father, the Son, and the Aha Moment.
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Nice.
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I know, isn't that perfect?
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Yeah.
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Marianne's on the phone with me, uh, on a Zoom call.
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Steve, what's the name of your book?
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Tell me about your book.
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He said, Write it with my 18-year-old son.
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What's the name of it?
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And I said, The Father, the son, the aha moment.
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This is the New York Times best, seven-time bestseller.
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It's a 13-time author.
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Oh my God, I love that name.
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Where'd you come up with that name?
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Oh my god, I'm so horrible at naming my books.
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And she's doing it.
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And she goes, I love that name.
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She goes, You know the aha moment is the Holy Spirit.
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I said, I'm not even religious.
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Okay.
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I'm not.
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I'm the opposite of religion.
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I think they're all great out there.
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If you're religious, great.
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I support all of them.
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The game of ten is Afflak.
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It's kind of like a supplemental insurance policy of living a good life.
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So she says, uh, I love that name.
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She was it's the Holy Spirit.
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I said, it's it makes so much sense.
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My life has been led by that my whole life, and everyone's life has been.
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And uh I think that's what the game of ten is all about.
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Letting it lead you with your passion and your journey and your path, set super high goals and intentions, big audacious goals, and then get out of the way.
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Yeah, manifest.
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Manifest.
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You just get your ego out of the way.
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The ego that says it won't work, fear, self-doubt, guilt and shame.
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You can do all the positive thinking you want.
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You're still gonna be 10% off and veer up to roof.
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You're gonna undermine it with that thinking.
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Yes.
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You're gonna get you know, maybe a thousand miles into it, into the rumble strip, into the gravel, into the ditch.
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Fascinating, Steve.
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We could talk all day.
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I know we could.
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Let's tell the listeners where they can find you.
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Find more about the game of 10, the book, just Steve Barton, the man.
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Find me on uh LinkedIn, Steve Barton, High Performance Coaching.
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You can find me on my website.
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Download the book for free.
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Uh nothing's free because you're gonna get five trickles about my coaching.
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But if you do want to download that, you get a free copy, ditch the emails, or you can go to Amazon.com.
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It's got five-star rating, best selling.
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So it's good.
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It's a good book.
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Best father-son project I can imagine.
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Not bragging, just saying it was pretty cool.
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And that's a whole story.
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How we decided to do a book together.
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What was the URL again?
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Uh www.stevebartoncoaching.com.
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S-T-E-V-E-B-A-R-T-O-N coaching.com.
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That is so perfect, Steve.
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Thank you for coming on, sharing your story, and helping others find their own light.
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Yeah, we all have it.
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Some call it a spark.
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Yeah.
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You like lighthouses?
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I think I have a lighthouse.
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Yeah, there's a reason.
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Maybe I do love lighthouses for that reason.
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Game finding the light.
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Thank you again.
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Thank you, listeners.
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Please also check out goodthinking.
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And we'll see you next time.
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Just Curious.
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Welcome to Just Curious Media.
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This is Good Thinking, and I'm Jason Connell.
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On the show today, I'm joined by special guest, Steve Barton.
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Steve, thank you so much for joining us.
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Jason, thank you for having me on your show podcast, and I'm excited to be interviewed by you and sharing what I know to your audience.
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Thank you.
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Well, this is great because this is a new offering that we're doing to Good Thinking, Positive Conversations.
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We it's a daily positive affirmation podcast, but it's grown.
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And with growth, we want to add new things and talk to different people with different backgrounds.
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Your bio came up to me, and I was reading through it, and I was fascinated.
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And this show also deals with people, you know, self-awareness, self-improvement, positive thinking, just anything underneath that.
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And you're the creator of a game called the Game of Ten.
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And I don't know much, I know a little, and I'd like to talk about that.
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Well, thank you.
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Great question.
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And the game of 10 is about the game of life, and it's based on awareness.
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And so many people hear the word awareness, they hear alignment, they hear all these words.
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But what does that even mean?
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And so I have ADHD, and I was a floral designer for since I was eight years old till 50.
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And so I like designing things, I like creating things, I like putting things together, I like simplifying things.
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Some of the best floral designs are the simplest, like ikobana, Japanese floral or anything.
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So yep.
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So same thing as life.
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It's keep it simple.
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The Kiss Theory.
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Now they're saying keep it simple, superstar.
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In my day, they used to say something out.
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Yes, I know.
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So the game of ten is based on that we are all appointed ten at birth.
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Everyone comes out, all created equal.
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We're at ten.
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We're at ten, the highest level of awareness.
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And then, as another California Dr.
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Bruce Lipton's in your area, he talks about how zero to seven, and this has been going on for centuries, the Jesuit says, give me your child at birth, and I'll give you a man at seven, because we're in a hypnotic state of theta.
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So we take on all the generational traumas of our caregivers, our parents, our grandparents, our caregivers, and we take it on.
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So I was trained by Marianne Williams, and she tells a story.
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Jesus' mother was the best mother in the world.
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She told him he was a son of God since the time he was born.
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How many parents told you that?
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Okay.
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And stuck to it.
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So we took on a lot of disappointments from ten.
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They might be minor, might have said, no, you can't have that, you can't do that.
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That might be traumatic.
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It could be abuse, it could be mental, physical abuse.
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If those stay with us, we don't have the tools to let them go.
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We stay at a low level vibrational awareness.
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Right.
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One through nine.
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And I've telling Jason before we got on.
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You can get to nine by positive thinking in the game, often played, but you can't get to ten by thinking at all.
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So people go, what?
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No thinking.
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I said, Would you rather think or would you rather know?
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Rather no.
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Would you rather believe or would you rather know?
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I'd rather know.
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Okay?
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So when you learn to quiet the mind through meditation.
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Whatever way works, I say whatever gets you there, do it.
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If you're not hurting anyone else, do it.
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Whatever you quiet the mind, I came up with six phrases.
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And why don't we try to do it together?
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Let's do it.
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Alright.
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I am ten.
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I'm ten.
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Yes, you are.
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I'm doing the best that I can with the awareness that I have.
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I'm doing the best that I can with the awareness that I have.
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I'm always right with the awareness that I have.
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I'm always right with the awareness that I have.
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I am enough.
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I'm enough.
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I do enough.
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I do enough.
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I have enough.
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I have enough.
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It answers all the questions our identity, our ego is asking us all day long.
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Involved up.
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Okay.
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Yes.
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Yeah.
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It answers every question.
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The first phrase is a declaration of you are.
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Can't argue with it.
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Second two phrases are declarations of our innocence, divine innocence.
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Always.
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The next three phrases put you in present moment awareness of the I am and the universal space.
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I am, I do, and I have in present moment all the time.
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And the universal space and the universal quantity is enough.
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Time space now is and always will be enough for right now.
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So once you're in that space, it puts you into that space of awareness.
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Think of awareness as your command center where you operate from and where you're connected to.
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Awareness is consciousness.
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And these phrases open up your subconscious as well.
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You even teach people how to, when you open up your subconscious, you will also open up what you have been suppressing.
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A warning label.
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I'll give you a tool that I learned from Marianne Wayne.
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If you have a way of letting go or forgiving, I'll teach you.
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Most people think they have to forgive a person, place, or situation that did something to them or happened to them.
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The truth is you have to forgive the thought.
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And the thought that had attached emotions to it.
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And the thought that created a story around it.
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And if we don't let these thoughts, feelings, and emotions go, we keep attracting them.
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The vicious cycle.
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Until we let it go.
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Yeah.
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It's really profound, the thought.
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Thank you.
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I love it.
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My clients love it.
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It works.
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They think I'm crazy in the beginning.
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And then about two months later, they're going, Oh, I thought you were crazy.
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Now I know you're right.
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Now I know you're crazy.
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I say, Yes, I am crazy like a fox.
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Okay.
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Yes.
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Yeah, this is really fascinating, Stephen.
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And I've trained as an athlete my entire life.
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I have a daily yoga practice and it's taught me that awareness.
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And I don't have all the answers, but I do know how powerful that is.
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Being present with self.
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And as you just said, you know, those things will come to the surface when you start to live in that framework.
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And for the forgiveness, it's such powerful thinking and ideology.
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Letting go of the negative thoughts you have about your body, your mind.
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Yeah.
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People say to me, I'm going to heal my spirit.
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I said, don't worry, it's fine.
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It's waiting for you to align.
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Okay.
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Your mind and your body.
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It's already there.
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That's all perfect.
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Okay.
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That's who you are.
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That's 10.
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Now let's get your mind and your body and your skills and your thoughts, feelings, and emotions all in that level of awareness that is what it is.
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So that's where you can operate with great intentionality.
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So if someone says, Well, how do you talk about how do you talk?
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How does this apply to impractical life?
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It is practical life because you start using your tools.
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I'm convinced that we are so traumatized by thought.
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Jason, what were you thinking?
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How could you have thought that?
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What is wrong with you?
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We're abused mentally at a very young age, and we're traumatized by it.
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Echo Tolley says, uh, the biggest addiction we have in this world is thinking and overthinking.
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So true.
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It is so true.
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And what I read about your bio was that you're helping people break through fear, self-doubt, guilt, and shame, just like you're speaking to.
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We are stuck in those things.
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We are reactive to those things until yes.
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We let those go.
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So uh Marianne Williamson gave me uh while I was taking working with her in my my book that I wrote with my son.
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She used to have Incubator Church.
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The best thing about COVID was I got to know and work with Marianne Williamson.
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She says, in your mind, we have it above our ears, we all have these two things temples.
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Oh, coincidence, right?
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So in your mind, she says, We're an idea in the mind of God, God's an idea in the mind of us.
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We're doing sacred stuff when we're forgiving.
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Yeah.
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A lot of churches fail at teaching how to forgive.
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So they're good at judging.
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Yeah, I'll forgive you and I'll get you back.
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Okay.
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I mean, this is fascinating, Stephen.
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We could talk about the game of 10 for so many episodes, and of course, this is more of a micro show as I've rolled out.
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But I'd love to, if I could, just pivot for the last few minutes.
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Just it's incredible.
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And I wanted you to tell people where to find it and look you up.
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But the origin of this, yes, how did you come up with it?
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Like what led you, Steve Barton, to want to create this?
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I had enough.
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You had enough.
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I had enough.
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I'm gonna figure it out.
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And 36 years ago, I had an auto-body experience, near death experience.
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And I knew who I was, I know who everyone is.
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Whether they know it or not, I had a choice to either go or come back.
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I chose, I was having, I finally was happy.
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I said we're gonna leave now.
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This is the first time I've been happy here.
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I want to stay.
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So I'm gonna stay here as long as I can.
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I'll be 70 in two weeks, and uh I hope to be here for another 25, 30 years.
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So as long as I'm having fun, I'm sticking around.
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And then that became the drive to help others see the light.
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Yeah, to see their own light, to be the light.
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You know, we are the shiny object.
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Yeah, we are the carrot, and we are the prize, and there is no box.
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Are you working with people individually?
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I work with individual groups of a team building.
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If everyone's working at a level of 10, treating everyone as they're doing the best they can with the awareness they have, you can always develop their awareness, you can always develop their skills, but if you do a place from uh unconditioned love with healthy boundaries of yes, no, stay and go, that is pure leadership.
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And leadership, in my definition, is great leaders create great leaders.
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Crappy leaders want to lead other people.
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True.
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It is true.
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And I want to touch on this before I run out of time.
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Please tell us about the book that you wrote with your son.
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Uh it's called And actually, Marion Williamson.
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I got to, I was taking Miracle Mind to coaching, and I'd been a student for 30 years.
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So I finished that course in one month.
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And there's people that were sponsoring her was Difference Press, so the owner calls me up, and she's a probably 40-year-old, autistic, brilliant woman, and very direct.
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I loved her.
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And uh she goes, Steve, you're in a pile of my desk going, we don't know what to do with you.
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And I said, Welcome to my world.
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Try to peg me into a hole.
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And she goes, You want to write a book?
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And you just in one month into Miracle Minded Coaching.
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I said, Yeah, I finished all the homework.
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We know.
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We looked.
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We wouldn't be on the phone with you had you not.
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So, what's the name of your book?
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I said, It's called The Game of Ten.
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And she goes, Nobody's gonna buy it.
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So I just let her.
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I love stuff like that.
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When people do that, I just love it.
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It just makes my day.
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I'm like Clint Eastford, do this now, do this now, do this more.
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Uh, don't you want to know why?
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I said no.
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Let her burn, let her smoke first.
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So she goes, Well, I'll tell you why.
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I said, Okay.
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I was having so much fun, as I do all every day, and I make fun with people, and I have fun with people.
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She goes, I'll tell you why.
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You're not Beyoncé.
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I'm just letting her burn at this point.
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And she goes, if you were Beyoncé, you'd sell a million copies.
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And I'm getting to your question.
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She says, What else you got?
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I said, I'm writing it with my 18-year-old son.
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Oh, a parenting book.
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I said, I'm like Chad on Saturday.
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Okay.
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That's what it is.
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A parenting book.
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So right now I'm in the process of writing the game of 10 six years later.
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And um, so the parenting book is called The Father, the Son, and the Aha Moment.
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Nice.
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I know, isn't that perfect?
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Yeah.
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Marianne's on the phone with me, uh, on a Zoom call.
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Steve, what's the name of your book?
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Tell me about your book.
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He said, Write it with my 18-year-old son.
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What's the name of it?
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And I said, The Father, the son, the aha moment.
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This is the New York Times best, seven-time bestseller.
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It's a 13-time author.
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Oh my God, I love that name.
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Where'd you come up with that name?
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Oh my god, I'm so horrible at naming my books.
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And she's doing it.
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And she goes, I love that name.
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She goes, You know the aha moment is the Holy Spirit.
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I said, I'm not even religious.
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Okay.
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I'm not.
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I'm the opposite of religion.
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I think they're all great out there.
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If you're religious, great.
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I support all of them.
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The game of ten is Afflak.
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It's kind of like a supplemental insurance policy of living a good life.
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So she says, uh, I love that name.
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She was it's the Holy Spirit.
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I said, it's it makes so much sense.
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My life has been led by that my whole life, and everyone's life has been.
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And uh I think that's what the game of ten is all about.
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Letting it lead you with your passion and your journey and your path, set super high goals and intentions, big audacious goals, and then get out of the way.
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Yeah, manifest.
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Manifest.
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You just get your ego out of the way.
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The ego that says it won't work, fear, self-doubt, guilt and shame.
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You can do all the positive thinking you want.
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You're still gonna be 10% off and veer up to roof.
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You're gonna undermine it with that thinking.
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Yes.
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You're gonna get you know, maybe a thousand miles into it, into the rumble strip, into the gravel, into the ditch.
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Fascinating, Steve.
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We could talk all day.
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I know we could.
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Let's tell the listeners where they can find you.
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Find more about the game of 10, the book, just Steve Barton, the man.
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Find me on uh LinkedIn, Steve Barton, High Performance Coaching.
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You can find me on my website.
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Download the book for free.
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Uh nothing's free because you're gonna get five trickles about my coaching.
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But if you do want to download that, you get a free copy, ditch the emails, or you can go to Amazon.com.
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It's got five-star rating, best selling.
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So it's good.
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It's a good book.
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Best father-son project I can imagine.
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Not bragging, just saying it was pretty cool.
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And that's a whole story.
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How we decided to do a book together.
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What was the URL again?
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Uh www.stevebartoncoaching.com.
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S-T-E-V-E-B-A-R-T-O-N coaching.com.
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That is so perfect, Steve.
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Thank you for coming on, sharing your story, and helping others find their own light.
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Yeah, we all have it.
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Some call it a spark.
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Yeah.
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You like lighthouses?
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I think I have a lighthouse.
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Yeah, there's a reason.
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Maybe I do love lighthouses for that reason.
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Game finding the light.
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Thank you again.
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Thank you, listeners.
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Please also check out goodthinking.
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And we'll see you next time.
