Get Rooted ~ Episode #15 ~ 12/14/23

Hey mamas, welcome back. You guys I am so excited about this week. Like I am I don't know about you. But this week is crazy insane for I'm recording this on a Monday, but it will play on Thursday and by that time I will be through halfway through my crazy but you guys this is such a it's just a Time the holidays are a time of so many emotions, right? They're high. They're low. People are super happy. Some people are super sad. You have all of these things all over the place and it can get overwhelming and one of the things like we aren't too 2024 yet. But like I want to give guys like a great. Just something to think about something to hold close that you can hold in this time and just cling to and you know, it's gonna start with a quote right? So I will start with this quote and it's actually an African proverb and says when the root is deep there is no reason to fear the wind. So this week I want to talk about being rooted. So what whatever you think about, you Finding Your Word the year or you this year. I actually heard people are coming up with their song for like 2024 and I was like, I can't pick just one song right like I need a playlist right? So I they have been thinking about you know, why everyone talks about this word and why you know having a song and having this word and all of this is so important to people and people want to start thinking about it now because we're ending this year right because they start 20 Are
 
off with their new word in that new way like turning over a new Leaf, right? And it got me to thinking like why is this so important? And I feel like the reason it's so important is going back to that quote because when our roots are deep right when we know where we're going when we know what we stand for going back to like my first podcast episode about maybe not my one. So I like my pilot where I talked myself, but my one where I talked about us trying to find our true north and us, you figuring out what we truly want, right and that is probably when you're thinking about a long-term vision and thinking about where you're headed that isn't gonna change a like it may change some seasons of life things like that. But what does change is we change from year to year we grow from year to year we get better from year to year. So like last year my word for year was cultivate. I wanted cultivate all of these things in life cultivation is also like a term in not gardening but like in what is called agriculture where you you're cultivating the land right? You're stirring it up. You're turning it over. Right? And what I wanted do was cultivate all these new things in life cultivate Joy cultivate love cultivate all kinds of different things. I had I have whole vision board that look at it and I have I've been talking about
 
You my planner that read every morning. all these different things that do to stay rooted, right? And so I think when it comes to finding a word for 2024 finding a word for any year the reason that it's so important is because you can come back to that word and be okay, what did want for myself for this year? Because we tend to you know think a about that at the of the year. We make All These Years resolutions and all these things but I don't even I'm not even all that strong on making all these like New Year's resolutions things that you're going to you know, maybe like set out in this way for a year and set yourself up. I want to say set yourself up to fail because New Year's resolutions have a place right but I think the word is more powerful. As it gets to the root of what you're wanting do for the year. So for me when I was thinking about this year my word last year was cultivate my word this year. I want to I think I'm I think I'm still working a little bit. But this is what I want you to do over the couple weeks. I think it's shine and think it is shine and I think it's because I'm to point where I just want to be my true authentic self. That's I want for all of you. But also what want for me and want to just like silence the noise silence what everyone else says silence everything tune into God tune into what I want and tune into. Just my inner knowing and allow that to shine. I want love to like radiate from me. I want you know, I want to shine my true authentic self and I want for I know. I feel like I have so much to give and feel like the way that I'm going to do that best is by not caring what other people think of me and just literally tapping into my heart tapping into God tapping into my
 
truth and then shining like a diamond and I was like, okay, let's let's look shine like a diamond like that song of Rihanna's or whatever. I was I was I went down this path of like listening to all these songs and everything. I started my own playlist for 2024 songs that totally pump me up the Champion by Carrie Underwood, you different that that goes that speaks a lot to kind what I want to do. They're Shine by The Beatles like I love the Beatles carry what actually performed a beetle song once like that that Beetle song I feel what's it called is it called shine? I don't know what the Beatles song is called, but anyway, it is something where I feel like if you get a word and you get rooted in what it is that you want to do for yourself for 2024 what you want do and it doesn't to be like the whole year like your word could change who knows but like what do you want be rooted in that you can look back on that you can say okay. Am I shining right like last year? It like am I cultivating my cultivating what want in life and my cultivating what want in my and maybe your word power. Maybe your word strength. Maybe your word resilience. Maybe your word is
 
Come back. Like maybe your word I know what your word is for you, but I would love for you to think about that over like the next couple weeks when you're going about all this busy. Think about it. You when you get start get stressed out be like, okay. What what would I rather be doing? Right like this is this is what I'm kind trying to get people to do is just recognize in the moment when you're stressed like in the moment when you're feeling overwhelmed in the moment when you you know, have all the busy going on and kind like checking in and saying, okay, is this what want? Is this the feeling I want for myself. What is the feeling I want for myself? Like what is that feeling that want for myself? And I think that if you can take and you can get rooted in something like another quote by JRR Tolkien it says deep roots are not reached by the frost. Deep roots are not reached by the frost, right the Frost gets on the tree it gets on, you know, the leaves that there are leaves or the, you pine needles whatever it gets on the ground, but it doesn't get on the roots. It doesn't get on the roots, right the roots are there and it they can't be shaken. There's another quote and that by Virginia Woolf and it I am rooted but flow. I am rooted but flow so I feel like when you're rooted in something then you can flow right you are free because you are you
 
know, you're rooted in you don't get pulled and all these different directions. You don't get like blown the wind. You don't get shaken. You don't get the frost the frost doesn't bother you because you are rooted in something and you know what you're rooted in and you check back into that and even when you get knocked off course or even when the storm comes and you get blown and bent and whatever, you know, now I'm going like to this tree analogy you guys but it is so true when you're rooted. You will flow when you're rooted it. Will you will become unshakable. And you can tune back into that not to say that everything is going to be great and all roses if you are rooted, but it just gives you that. Thing that you can go back to it gives you some place that can you know, it's almost like going home. Right? Like if you're ever, you know, growing up and you're homesick or whatever and like or you just are feeling off or you're at college or whatever it was and then you're just in bad space and go home where you're loved and where you where you know, hopefully you're loved at your and at this worked for but like you could go home if were in this place and it would be like you would be renewed and it be like safe and you could start again, right? Like you would give you the confidence to start again. Well like that is what or if you made a mistake, right or if did something really stupid you always knew you could go home. And you were going be loved anyway, right? That's kind the same thing. Whereas if you're rooted no matter what's happening no matter what goes on no what mistakes you make no matter all the things you can come back to it. You can come back to it. But when don't have those roots, you're gonna get like blown away You're Gonna Get You Know taken You're
 
going to get knocked down and you may not get back up. Right? So I would just love it. If you would would think like that and would try to come up with something for yourself and whether or you come up with a word or not at come up with some Something you can hold on to you know, I again if you want go back and listen to the first, you episode maybe two or three or both of them. I like they kind all went together at the beginning when we talking about starting this journey on finding our true north and this is what it's all about right taking the steps towards that right. And so if you don't want to succumb to like word thing and again I kind was like when first started hearing this a years ago, I was I don't want come with the word right? Like, I don't know. I don't I'm I'm I could come up with like five words. Do I to narrow it down to one and you know, no there's no rules right? But like if you if you don't come up with more than Two or three like three would be a Max that I would come with because what's going to happen is then you can't you you have have if the words are related to one another then that's better too because like, you know, like a glow and shine like those two things. It's so funny because like I have products called glow and shine and it's really crazy to me like that. I was like in the shower this morning thinking of my words and was like and shine has one and I oh or maybe I do glow maybe I could do radiate right but shine and glower to products that sell. It's just like really funny that was like, those are be a words for the year. I love the products, right? So those are gonna be my words for the year, but it's going to be I believe I'm leaning towards shine radiate is another one but I think I like shine better. But anyway, I I didn't I
 
didn't mean to talk about me. What I want to talk about is just keeping you have something tangible that can Kind keep in your mind for these next couple of weeks because I know you're going hear this finding your word. And I'm gonna end with a of more quotes. I this is by it's Simone. I don't know Simone Weil. It says to rooted is perhaps the most important and least recognize need of the human soul to be rooted is perhaps the most important and least recognize need of human soul. So that is saying that you need she is saying that you need to be rooted because if you're not again, you can kind just get blown all over the place and I think it is a need because when we don't know where going when we don't know why we're doing things when are pushed in so many different directions when we are pulled, you know, whether it by friends and family by you your activities for your kids, whether it by your spouse, you know, all these other things that can get caught up in and you they're all important is the other thing right? Like it all seems so important like we want be involved with our kids. Activities we want be involved the school. We want be involved with our parents. We want be involved with our family. We want be involved with our spouse. We want be involved with our friends. We want be involved. You we we want all of these things. We have lives that are really
 
driven by marketing. A of times they're driven by the ways of the world and seeing and what mean by that when say that is like they're driven by what you see and you what you is social media and it's typically you see all these highlight reels of everyone's lives. Right? Like some people post things on in a real and things like that, but still the majority of what you see or everybody's best moments. And the bad thing about that is is that you can kind start to think that your isn't as good as their life, right or you try to you can try start to try to think that you want more for your life like they have but what's happening is you're seeing all these different glimpses into people's lives that are their highlights right? You have your highlights, right, but you start wanting do All of those different things, right and it's not possible. Like you can't do all of the things like you can't go to all of the different places that everyone's going to in the holiday season with their kids and create all these amazing memories and all different places. It's not possible. But the problem is is that you see that from lots of different people and then you're starting to think. Oh I want to do I want to do that. I want to do I want to do I want to do that and it just relate to just the holiday, but especially at the holidays right like you want to do all these different things. You can't do them all and then you start to feel inadequate. Well, that is what it's like in everyday life when it's not outside the holidays right? Like when we get into 2024, we want to have something that we're rooted in so that when we see all these things we can be like, okay. No. No, I want to do this this you can prioritize like you can stay and we're gonna talk a lot. Really? Like if you are thinking about possibly wanting to grow in this area. I have a whole course and a cohort that we're going be starting in the new year. So So I am not here to add things to your to-do list this week because trust me I know it's probably long but what I am here is to just plant that seed that when you're going through your day if
 
there's time when you're stressed or if there's times when you hear something from someone else that you're like, oh that kind struck a chord like I could that could be maybe my word. I would love for you to just jot it down or at the end of the day kind think back on your day and think about some things like you can write in your or write in your journal or if that's better in the morning for you. Whatever it is, but just say you can kind of start to think and marinate on what you want for 2024 so that we can get rooted. I think that is going to be really powerful and I am going to end with this it says be like a tree stay grounded connect with your roots. Turn over a new Leaf Bend before you break. Enjoy your own. Natural beauty keep growing. So that's a poem. I found a of different places. Nobody gave it credit, so I have no idea where it from, but I thought that was great, and I wanted to end with that and until next week y'all. I hope you have a great one. Talk to you soon.