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Speaker: This is a test of the Dirty Briefs Broadcasting System.
Speaker: How are you feeling today?
Speaker: Let's do a little check-in with yourself.
Speaker: Are you feeling agitated?
Speaker: Are you feeling anxious?
Speaker: Are you feeling excited?
Speaker: Are you feeling sad?
Speaker: Are you feeling lethargic?
Speaker: Are you feeling illuminated?
Speaker: Absolutely gospel today.
Speaker: Is that a way you can feel gospel?
Speaker: Because I know the gospel can be circulating through your system and making you feel good, whatever that gospel may be to you.
Speaker: But is it a feeling you can have?
Speaker: I'm going to say, yes, it is.
Speaker: And here's what I'm going to tell you.
Speaker: No matter how you're feeling today, whether it's inspired or maybe lazy, whatever it is,
Speaker: I'm giving you permission to be bored today.
Speaker: Yep, you have permission to be bored.
Speaker: When you feel yourself getting a little antsy, you don't have to take out your phone because you feel that tinge of anxiety permeating throughout your system.
Speaker: No, you can just be bored.
Speaker: You can allow yourself to feel.
Speaker: When was the last time you did that?
Speaker: Just really sat there and felt what was going on in your mind and your body.
Speaker: Some people are going to say, I never do that because that's scary because that's when the demons come in and make me realize that I'm not really doing my best.
Speaker: And I know, but maybe that's a good thing.
Speaker: Maybe that's how we need to feel sometimes because
Speaker: I'm a big proponent of feeling your feelings.
Speaker: If you feel yourself having a wave of depression, come on, let it happen.
Speaker: Because otherwise you are burying it deep inside you and it's going to manifest in another way.
Speaker: You're going to feel resentment.
Speaker: You're going to feel anger.
Speaker: I think it's very important to feel what you're going through.
Speaker: Recognize the feeling, know that it's temporary, realize that you can get yourself to a better state of being.
Speaker: But in this moment, if you're saying, hey, I'm being lazy right now, I don't feel it, good.
Speaker: Then don't do anything, but allow yourself to be bored.
Speaker: Because boredom creates inspiration.
Speaker: When you're bored, use that feeling to ask yourself, what do I really want to do with my time here on earth?
Speaker: What is the legacy that I want to leave behind?
Speaker: By being bored,
Speaker: you will start to realize the importance of just allowing yourself to feel those things.
Speaker: And maybe some of those questions that seem larger than life will start to get answered.
Speaker: Because I know the legacy you want to leave behind is not how much time did I spend on my phone?
Speaker: How many smiley face emojis did I leave on Mike's Instagram page?
Speaker: I know that's not what you want.
Speaker: One of my biggest fears, I'm going to get vulnerable with you all.
Speaker: One of my biggest fears is that at the end of my life,
Speaker: My life will flash before my eyes and it will just scroll through other people's posts.
Speaker: Can you imagine?
Speaker: It's not even what I did.
Speaker: It's what other people did.
Speaker: What a horrible...
Speaker: moment.
Speaker: That's not what I want to leave behind.
Speaker: So what do I want?
Speaker: What will fill my cup at the end of the day?
Speaker: What will make me say, Hey, I did it.
Speaker: So when I walk through that door at the end of my life, I can feel satisfied knowing that whether there's something on the other side or there's not, I did what I could hear.
Speaker: I left an impression.
Speaker: And it wasn't just my skin flakes because of my eczema that were left behind.
Speaker: Sometimes you just got to sit there.
Speaker: You have to.
Speaker: If you're waiting for Netflix or a video to load or it's something to render, just sit there.
Speaker: If you're in line at the store, just stand there.
Speaker: Just stand there and look around.
Speaker: When was the last time you really took in your surroundings?
Speaker: Next time you're in a public place that has a waiting room, take a moment and look around.
Speaker: Everyone will be on their phone, every single person.
Speaker: And if you're not sure, you're going to look like a creepy weirdo, but that's just because you're being a human.
Speaker: 20 years ago, that's what we did in waiting rooms.
Speaker: We read whatever shitty magazine that we never wanted to read was right there.
Speaker: It's like, okay, golf digest.
Speaker: I guess that's what I'm going to take in right now.
Speaker: Let me see how Phil Mickelson is doing.
Speaker: I don't give a shit.
Speaker: It's just something to do.
Speaker: But so is sitting there.
Speaker: So is sitting there.
Speaker: There's an old, like,
Speaker: Maybe it's a Buddhist saying or something, but don't just do something.
Speaker: Sit there.
Speaker: See, boredom can appear in multiple ways.
Speaker: It can manifest itself.
Speaker: You can feel lethargic, tired, or you can feel agitated, irritated.
Speaker: That's what boredom does.
Speaker: It creeps in.
Speaker: It's like a bug crawling on your skin.
Speaker: And it's like, why don't you do something?
Speaker: Why don't you look at something else?
Speaker: Why don't you watch something?
Speaker: Why don't you do anything?
Speaker: But sometimes when you don't go for the easy fix of opening social media, putting on a TV show,
Speaker: Sometimes that's when true inspiration comes.
Speaker: When you were a kid and you were bored, that led to creativity.
Speaker: If you didn't have a ball, you would find a way to make up a sport or a game with your friends so you could still be out there having fun.
Speaker: Well, as an adult, why would you lose that childlike sense of wonder?
Speaker: That's such a beautiful part of living is being a kid because you're curious.
Speaker: You don't know anything yet.
Speaker: You don't have responsibilities.
Speaker: And a lot of times what happens in adulthood is suddenly you're like, but I have to go make a dentist appointment and then I have to pay the utility bill and then I have to take Susie to soccer practice.
Speaker: And then when am I going to get a moment for myself?
Speaker: I get it.
Speaker: Even if you're in the car today and you're listening to this in the car.
Speaker: Thank you, by the way.
Speaker: But when this is over, don't just immediately put on another podcast or music.
Speaker: Just drive for a little bit.
Speaker: Just drive.
Speaker: When I'm on the road and I'm driving to another city, oftentimes I will have periods of time when I just let my thoughts take over.
Speaker: And sometimes, sure, they can feel a little debilitating, but sometimes that's when my greatest inspiration comes because I'm not letting in outside noise.
Speaker: Boredom isn't a bad thing.
Speaker: It's necessary for creativity.
Speaker: And it may inspire you to change your routine.
Speaker: If you're feeling bored, go outside and take a walk today down a different path than you normally take.
Speaker: Change the shower to cold at the very end.
Speaker: Eat ice cream with a fork and do it before dinner.
Speaker: Do something that changes it up inside of you and makes your brain create a new wrinkle that maybe will force you down a different path.
Speaker: I give you permission to be bored today.
Speaker: And I'm going to take that for myself.
Speaker: I'm going to spend a few minutes today just sitting, meditating, but not even thinking about visualization of my future self or what I can do to improve my status.
Speaker: No, I'm just going to sit and I'm going to breathe in through the nose.
Speaker: Well, through the mouth.
Speaker: Change it up.
Speaker: Change up the way I breathe.
Speaker: In one nostril.
Speaker: Out the other.
Speaker: Do things that are different.
Speaker: It's okay to be bored.
Speaker: It doesn't mean you're a boring person.
Speaker: There's an old adage like, if you're bored, you must be boring too.
Speaker: Disagree.
Speaker: If you're bored, it's because you're waiting for some source of outside energy to enter.
Speaker: And you're allowing the space.
Speaker: Your door is open.
Speaker: And who knows who's going to come into the house?
Speaker: You don't know.
Speaker: Could be an angry person that wants to kill you, but it's probably not.
Speaker: It's probably a beautiful being of light that just wants to make you feel better in some way.
Speaker: What is your legacy?
Speaker: Be a little bored today and maybe you'll figure it out.
Speaker: And while you're changing up your routine,
Speaker: I recommend going to a live comedy show.
Speaker: When was the last time you did that?
Speaker: Because I got some coming up.
Speaker: I'll be in Richmond, Virginia at Garden Grove Brewing, December 10th.
Speaker: That's a free show.
Speaker: Yep, I'm doing a free show because I'm going back there to visit my family and I didn't want to worry about selling tickets.
Speaker: So you can just go.
Speaker: So if you know people in Richmond,
Speaker: Send them out.
Speaker: Garden Grove Brewing, December 10th.
Speaker: And then the Comedy Store, December 14th.
Speaker: We're doing our second edition of Perfect Dose.
Speaker: Jerry Brandt and myself are running that show.
Speaker: It's got a fantastic lineup.
Speaker: Again, it's going to be great.
Speaker: I have lots of things coming up.
Speaker: But go do something that's going to fill you up.
Speaker: Go see a type of music that you've never heard.
Speaker: Go jump in a pool with all your clothes on.
Speaker: And maybe the pool's locked.
Speaker: Maybe you weren't even supposed to be in there in the first place.
Speaker: Maybe it's somebody's house and you broke into their backyard.
Speaker: Good.
Speaker: That's called changing up your routine.
Speaker: So go do it.
Speaker: Go break into someone's backyard.
Speaker: Make sure they don't have a giant dog that's going to attack you.
Speaker: And if they have a small dog, feed it some treats, give it some extra pets, and give it some extra love because that dog shouldn't be outside anyway.
Speaker: Thank you all for listening.
Speaker: I'll see you next week.
