Join us on the I Created A Life I Love podcast as we explore the power of minding your own business in today's noisy social media landscape. Discover the freedom and joy that come from refraining from judgment and resisting the urge to comment. Tune in for insightful discussions and practical tips on cultivating a mindset of compassion, empathy, and self-awareness. It's time to focus on creating a life you love, without getting caught up in the opinions of others. Let's embrace non-judgment and silence on social media together! #nohatejusthappiness #nomoreuncouthcomments #icreatedalifeilove #genxers #cancersurvivor #creatingjoy #fun
Join us on the I Created A Life I Love podcast as we explore the power of minding your own business in today's noisy social media landscape. Discover the freedom and joy that come from refraining from judgment and resisting the urge to comment. Tune in for insightful discussions and practical tips on cultivating a mindset of compassion, empathy, and self-awareness. It's time to focus on creating a life you love, without getting caught up in the opinions of others. Let's embrace non-judgment and silence on social media together! #nohatejusthappiness #nomoreuncouthcomments #icreatedalifeilove #genxers #cancersurvivor #creatingjoy #fun
Hello everybody, how are you? Welcome to another wonderful week on. I created a life I love. We are so glad you are here. I am Kristine and we have Janette with us as well, and today our topic I'm so excited Is going to be we're on our second week of talking about judgment. Last week, we were talking about judging yourself right and how that inner voice can really affect you and how to make sure you give the same amount of time to any negative thought to flipping it with positive thought. I thought that was some really great advice that we got Last week, and so this week we're talking about minding your own business and specifically kind of focusing on social media a little bit, but we'll talk about non non social media ideas as well, and that's what we're gonna do today. So let's start with our what's up.
Janette Rodriguez:Alright, so I'll go ahead and start with mine, continuing to do different things throughout the city. So I have a very funny story. I Tempted to go get my haircut and head a school salon and when I did that, it was, you know, everything was great, like the color turned out really good, but then when it got to the cut, it was a no bueno. One side is longer than the other. That's why I have my hair pulled back, as you can tell for those who can see me, and I Mentioned it to the student who is cutting my hair.
Janette Rodriguez:And the first of all, the reason why I went to the schools because, you know, I'm not currently working, I'm trying to save up money, but I, you know, wanted just to try something different as well. So I mentioned it to the student and this didn't was like no, there's nothing wrong. I was like what do you mean? You know, like hello, they're two different lengths. And she's like it's because you part your hair to the side. And I was like, okay, she doesn't want my feedback. Like I could tell she's that kind of student. And Basically, I was like you know, okay, it doesn't look too bad, I'll just tilt my head a little bit and I'll be. But then you know, at the end of the haircut she told me oh well, maybe, or give me a review on Google, and then I can sign up for masterclasses where they teach them more techniques.
Kristine Spindler Denton:I was like oh girl.
Janette Rodriguez:I'm gonna sign, I'm gonna, you know, mention your haircut so you can get a masterclass. So that was my funny story.
Kristine Spindler Denton:So you actually, because you still pay when you're going right, you still paid and you tip. No, no tip you don't, you don't tip, they don't take tips.
Janette Rodriguez:They don't, yeah, okay.
Kristine Spindler Denton:Because I went to one in Minneapolis when I was younger still living in Minneapolis and I Went to school there and they, I loved it. They were amazing. I was young, I, you know, I didn't I'm not a big Care of like how my hair is. Anyway, I have dyed my hair. My, how I permed I mean, you know I'm a gen X or so it. You know we had perms, from the moment we could get a perm and Consistently on top of each other perms, so like it was, I, I Loved it and thought it was great. But they always had someone come around like kind of the teacher instructor, just someone who knew what they were doing, walking around, and they would have to sign off on the cut. So they would come up and they would say, hey, are you happy with what they've done? Do you know what I mean? They would ask the customer to make sure they were happy. Before you know they would let you leave. So did they happen, did they Not? They did that right.
Janette Rodriguez:A color portion. Yeah, not for the cut, they did it for the the color portion, yeah, yeah. And so then, like by the time, like everything was done, I couldn't find anybody, so I was like you know, whatever, I'm just gonna let it be. Oh, this is my fault for going to school?
Kristine Spindler Denton:No, oh my god, we're gonna start here. We're gonna stay here for a second Because I think this goes to everything and this dev that we talk about, and so I think this directly goes to finding your joy and creating a life you love. So here's a teachable moment. If we got to take this, because I'm dying of laughter inside, this is killing me. No, you're gonna let me get this clear. You're gonna blame yourself for going there. So you're gonna let the whole negative thought and blaming yourself for going there, but your thoughts on just telling her the truth or saying, no, hey, I want the person to come back because, look, you're doing a very good job. You can do it very kindly, but like, yeah, doing a very good job, but I do feel it's uneven. Is there any way we could bring over the head instructor or whatever their title is, and have them check, please? I don't want to leave with it like this. I'm not. I'm not happy.
Janette Rodriguez:Yeah, I. I think at that moment, though, I was so hungry and I was over it, because at that time I it was already like three, four hours in and I was like, uh, whatever, I'll just go to a hair salon when I know I should fork up a little bit of money to, you know, cut my hair, and then, yeah, I In. The funny part is, I came home and I tried to fix it, and I even gave myself a little bit of bangs. Um, yeah, that didn't turn out well either. So I Definitely need to go one of these days back to her salon. That's just my exploration process of, you know, trying different things.
Kristine Spindler Denton:Oh my god, I love you. You're killing me, you're. I have so many comments, I do. I have so many thoughts, so many Comments well, no, let's go.
Kristine Spindler Denton:That's so funny.
Kristine Spindler Denton:I love you, though mine. What happened? I had a rough week. I gotta be honest, as I said, I would be if for those who ever listened to our first two podcasts. But I Am in the middle. So for everyone to know, I have cancer and I have three surgeries that I am Partaking in I don't know what verb to use here what that I will be having, I guess put it that way and I am recovering from the second surgery at this time, and so there have been very good days and not so great days, and I just lost my, my dog. So last week we talked about that that I had. We had three dogs. Our one dog died a couple years ago and then now we're down to two, and then our shadow left us last week.
Kristine Spindler Denton:So I it is just now me and Zito, and Zito is a German shepherd, rottweiler mix, 170 pounds. Rescue has been through a lot of trauma. We think his owner might have died and he was in the house. He gets very upset of someone's kind of coughing or like sick, like he's obviously dealt with some type of trauma of someone coughing a lot or being sick, and he'll leave the room, but you, him and I are now left on our own, except for Kit Kat, which that's a whole nother story we'll have to discuss later. But so it's really him and I, and I am realizing now that Shadow is gone.
Kristine Spindler Denton:Shadow was the like, even like the, even key, like the you know, just nice and even smooth sailing type of dog. He definitely, you know, would still have his moments and get excited or upset, you know, normal things. But Zito is a very reactive dog and he's either really into something or really not, and something's really upsetting him or not. Just a high energy intensity, stressed type of dog. And, as Jeanette knows, I have a pretty I'm a pretty passionate person myself. Like I don't have highs really and lows as far as my moods per se, but I definitely have lots of energy and then not so much energy, and lots of energy and not as much energy. So mine isn't up and down mood wise, but it definitely does go up and down energy wise. And so the two of us alone in this house is a little interesting, because we are either bouncing off the walls with each other in a good way, one of us is driving the other one nuts. It's just funny, like that calming, peaceful, you know, kind of even keeled that was the words I was looking for before type of personality is not in the house at this time and we are.
Kristine Spindler Denton:So that I will say, and in my healing I ended up throwing out my back because of where I have bandages at this point and where I've been cut up and where I'm kind of healing, I was favoring that area, those areas and on one side of my body, and then twisted and turned in a way that was funky on the other side so that through my I haven't had a back thrown out like that in like 20 years, like very rarely. I don't have that kind of stuff, back injuries or any problems like that. And so this was, you know, new for me. And then I was on the floor and then my dog, who was, you know, having a little bit of his own panic attack, was trying to be on top of me as I was trying to lay on the floor to like have something really hard and flat, you know, and like my knees up and stuff. So it was my fault. See, I'll go with you. I'll say it was my fault for putting myself in the floor in the first place. I should have found a way to do it like on the couch or on the bed and prop it all up with pillows and stuff. But I wasn't so much pain, I just went down. I just stayed down and my fault my dog, you know said she's on the floor, let's go Like. You are now my blanket, you are now in my bed and I will lay on you. So yeah, so it's been a.
Kristine Spindler Denton:It was a tough week and I tried to, as we're working on doing, find all the humor I can. And I will tell you, at first I got upset and because it hurt, but then within a couple of minutes I was laughing. I was just laughing my head off because I'm like, how, how like, have we hit rock bottom yet? Are we there at this point? Because this is pretty interesting. So yeah, so that was my, but I am much better. So you know, let's start there the good stuff. The back is all healed up. I am moving much better in the last two days, so I am very, very grateful for all of that.
Kristine Spindler Denton:So do you want to start with our topic before I go on my lovely little rant of what I have to say about all of this. Do you want to? Do you want to throw in your? Okay, let's go.
Janette Rodriguez:So our topic is mind your own business, embracing non-judgment and social media silence. So Christine is extremely passionate about this, like I said last week. So go ahead, take it away, christine.
Kristine Spindler Denton:Okay, well, this is, this is how I think we could make the world a better place. I don't hate social media at all. I'm on social media. I think social media has done wonderful things. I think, yes, there are a lot of negatives to social media, especially for kids. Again, I grew up as a Gen Xer in a very different childhood than I have raised my kids in. I feel sad for them in a lot of the things that I feel they've lost due to social media any sense of privacy, the anxiety it gives, the stress it gives, all of that.
Kristine Spindler Denton:So, you know, let's let's say this isn't a conversation on social media, but just to say that then let's set that to the side, right, like we're not saying everything about social media is great and we're not saying everything about social media is bad. But when it comes to judgment, which is what we're talking about right now Last week judging yourself, this week judging others I don't think one. We realize how often and how much we do it and it's just almost a natural thing, just like that voice in our head that's negative just pops in there consistently and you have to work as we talked about last week really hard to notice it first identify it and then stop it and then counteract it with something positive With judgment. I don't think of others were realizing just how much we're doing it. And just because you're not saying it out loud doesn't I mean great, you're not hurting their feelings, but you're still hurting yourself horribly by judging someone else. And so when you go on social media, my issue is this I think we should be using social media to inspire each other, so I think everyone should post. If you want to post, if you just created some cool piece of art and you want to post that up there, put that up there. If you just wrote this, great, you know, whatever it is, put it out there. Do you know what I mean? If you did this great dance and had the blast or did something silly and made a funny video, whatever, if your dog or animal did something, put it up there. I don't care, I don't think there's anything wrong with that.
Kristine Spindler Denton:The problem comes with when we get into the comments and the likes. That's when the issue happens. So if everybody, if we, could take away all the comments and the likes, we would be fine, because if I come on your page and you made a vase base out of you know what I mean out of something and it's there and I don't like it. Then guess what? I just move on to something else. I don't have to say a damn thing, I don't have to say anything, I don't have to say a thing. And this is what drives me crazy is everyone feels they have to say something and you don't.
Kristine Spindler Denton:I look at social media things all the time and some of them I like, some of them I don't like. Do I like or comment? No, no, I don't have to give them positive feedback. I don't have to give them negative feedback. People are like well, people you know like to hear positive and compliment and it's uplifting. You should be supporting and giving positive and uplifting comments to the people you actually know Like to try look around and look at your children, look around and look at your friends, look at your girlfriends, and support and give positive and loving feedback to someone you actually really know. That's a relationship that matters. That's a relationship, hopefully, that you're having.
Kristine Spindler Denton:But on social media, stop. I just don't feel any need. There's nothing good that comes from that. Do you know what I mean at all? Because people get addicted to the likes or they get built up right. Oh, they like me, they like it's none of it's real, none of it's real. And then or they're saying mean things. I saw a post the other day and what this girl wrote was horrid, very mean, and someone called her out on it. So now that's the big thing. Right now that's happening on social media Is everyone calling each other out on being nasty or mean on social media? So now they're fighting in the comments about and the main person who just posted the vase that they really like is so gone at this point has nothing to do with being inspired by the one piece of art that they posted. Now we're, now everyone's just going to social media to see these ridiculous fighting and cat fighting and weird stuff in the comments.
Janette Rodriguez:And it's so sad.
Janette Rodriguez:It's like they're very entertaining, like as far as coming up with additional ideas to the post Post can One original post and then somebody writes a comment, oh, and then try this, or you know, and do this, and it just keeps going, building, building up and it's kind of like a phone tag and I enjoy looking at those. But yes, with the negative comments those ones are, you know, half the time it's are they a real person or are they fake? Because we live in a world of AI, bots, all that good stuff and it's it's hard to tell if they're real or fake. So I think on TikTok they're actually limiting the comments. You know, like as far as if you don't want people to post comments or it's something like and Facebook and Instagram, like you, you'll only approve those comments that get posted. So I think there's a limiting factor on social media already, but you know to what extent. I'm not quite sure.
Kristine Spindler Denton:Yeah, I haven't seen a limiting thing, at least when I'm there and the comments are going wild and it's just, and like there was another. I can give you a million stories, but there was another one. There was a really cool posting on Instagram and this person was doing like a movie, but in little bits and pieces, so you got a couple minutes to put here, a couple minutes. Like each week they'd come out with, you know, or every couple of days They'd come out with a new part of the story, like where the character was now, and it was really cool, it was really fun and they they kept it, you know, very interesting and everyone who was following it when it was a small group, were hysterically funny, like they were making these really funny comments about what they were posting and I can't explain how it was, but just very like you're saying, you know, either helpful comments or funny comments, you know, or what you're saying are not harmful, and so these people were being hysterically funny and they weren't putting the person down at all, they were kind of just adding to it what if he goes, blah, blah, blah next year, and yeah, and then he falls off this, or you know what I mean they were doing like this whole little sub story to the plot in the comments and it was witty and creative and funny, right, love it.
Kristine Spindler Denton:But as this guy started to get more popular because I happened to find him and he didn't have many followers and, like I said, the small group, and then he started to get bigger and get more and more people so then all these people came in and all they did was start critiquing the making of this little movie. Oh, he's using AI here. Oh, that wasn't a good edit. Oh, why did he jump from that to that? It's really stupid. You can see this. Oh, you can see where this is happening in it. Why, that's that AI part of this? Why would he do it Like just ripping it apart continuously?
Kristine Spindler Denton:And so now you couldn't just scroll through and read the funny, witty comments and feel like you know what I mean and be a part of that. You had to scroll past all these crappy, crappy comments and the people who had been there the whole time were kind of like me, kind of like like I didn't post, but they kind of posted back and tried to say something and saying like you know what we know? We know he's using AI to make this. We're fine with it. Go away Like we're not stupid, we're just enjoying it for what it is. Like stop stop trying to explain art to us. Stop trying to explain AI to us. We get it, we're just not. We're not because we're stupid, it's because we're having fun. And now you're the idiot who just came in and like is analyzing the fun.
Janette Rodriguez:And it's a social media explaining Exactly.
Kristine Spindler Denton:And I was just like, oh my gosh, it just got ruined. It really really did. And I'm still following it and doing it. And many of those people have left because the person making the movie put up a little post saying look, if we all know what I'm doing, if you don't like what I'm doing, then go somewhere else. But I'm going to continue doing it. So you know, please move on.
Kristine Spindler Denton:And but I see so many of these posts now of like, oh, I'm getting negative comments from this, or oh, people are always telling me this, or people. So then it's almost turned into this victim thing. Where they're? They're sitting there saying how sad and hard it is to be on social media when these people are attacking them. And I'm like, why are you reading the comment? Turn off your comment. Like, stop reading the comments. Like, stop, stop.
Kristine Spindler Denton:If you're going to post on social media, you have to know, because my rule, which should be the rule, should be the law of the land, is not yet in effect. So you know you're going to get nasty comments. So like, if you even choose to read them, and then people say, well, I only read them because I do want to see the good stuff and who I'm affecting in a good way, why your ego doesn't need that. If you are purely doing whatever you're doing for the joy of you doing it, for yourself, to bring yourself joy, to make yourself happy right and to possibly inspire others, you don't need the feedback if you did or not. If you did, that's great, if you didn't, fine. But you still just go about your life, do your own thing, and I think people get very caught up in receiving feedback. And what's so funny is kids aren't like that at all. Like you and I as educators, kids don't want to hear feedback whatsoever, like they don't care if you like what they're doing. They don't care if you dislike what they're doing. They're gonna do their own thing for the most part, right, until they get to the peer pressure phase, and then they still don't care. But they'll just keep it quieter because they don't wanna be picked on by other kids and all of that. But they still don't care. Trust me when I tell you they don't care, they just wanna be accepted. So they're gonna keep it quieter if they feel something they do might not get them as accepted which is sad, which is a sad thing but they honestly don't care. And then we become adults and we have this such a huge desire and need to hear positive feedback all the time.
Kristine Spindler Denton:How am I doing today? Am I doing good? Is it okay? Am I good enough? Am I good enough? And it's a we gotta stop Like, as I said, we gotta go radio silence, we've got to stop. And I just think it's again.
Kristine Spindler Denton:It goes all the way back to that judging. We're judging if things are good, we're judging if things are bad, and then we're basing how we feel on that. Okay, if I get a lot of likes, that means what I did was good. If I don't get a lot of likes, that means or they say mean comments, that means what I did was bad. None of that's true.
Kristine Spindler Denton:The only point is is if whatever you did made you happy, if whatever you did, you know, gave you a creative outlet sorry for your creativity and you made something, created something, posted something that you like, then move on. Then move on. If you're not doing it just for yourself, you're still caught up in this judgment circle. Is what I'm saying? Because you don't think that that's judgment, but it is because you have decided that your post, or whatever you did, is based upon the response of everybody else, and everybody else is just as stupid as you are. We're all trying to find our way. No one no one has died come back and said this is the perfect way to live a life. There's a lot of people with suggestions, right, but no one's done it and everyone is just doing their best. The only opinion that should matter to you is your own.
Janette Rodriguez:Yeah, I agree with that. My generation is the generation that started off with social media as far as in so you had a young yes, yeah, and basically there was a bunch of different other social media platforms out there that I didn't partake in, but my first one was AIM, an American online instant messenger, and so that was the group chats, and then it went to MySpace, and then it went to Facebook, and then it went to Instagram. So it's kind of built from as I was going through high school, college and beyond. So my group is definitely the group of people that were kind of like the social experiment of how this is gonna go for everybody and it's been a challenge not only for I think it's a challenge for all generations, including myself. I partook in a comment one time and it turned out to be a very negative comment and I didn't think it was at the moment, but now back when I see it, I'm like, oh, that was kind of negative and I got chewed out for that online.
Janette Rodriguez:And now it's always out there, and that's the thing that we didn't understand.
Janette Rodriguez:Being online, anything you post, anything you do is out there and it's always out there for you to see. And even when I see my mom go on to social media, I have to teach her too. You don't have to comment on everybody's post, or you don't have to like everybody's post, just kind of like the social media aspect, or be careful of what you like too, or be careful, be mindful of the things you do, because people are gonna be like why does this person like that particular post? Because it's controversial, or X, y and Z. So it's definitely something to be extremely mindful, because even jobs or employers they go to social media and they look to see how you're interacting with people. I've heard about that as far as even people who are particularly famous and they receive negative comments and they actually committed suicide. So it's something that we have to take serious as far as if we post something negative, it's gonna affect somebody. They're a person on the other side, everybody's people and so you really have to be mindful of everything you do.
Kristine Spindler Denton:Yeah, I mean, my thing is, it's just, there's just no need for it. You don't, like I grew up, but again, I grew up in a very different generation, you know, we were not interacting with the adults and stuff. It was a very different generation and so there was just not this assumption growing up our whole lives that we had a quote right which drives me crazy to comment or to speak to everybody and to say our opinion all the time to anyone about everything it like we just didn't grow up that way and I think definitely most generations I know are strongly opinionated kids because you know people, because of it, like we all came out, I think, pretty like strongly, having strong opinions, because but I just I don't feel maybe I'm wrong. So everyone let me know Although I won't be reading the comments, so good luck but I just don't feel that we walked around saying we had this right to comment on everybody else's life and everything that they did and everything that they do.
Kristine Spindler Denton:We just didn't, we just don't and I feel that your generation and the generations below and all of them like you, there is a huge, huge, huge dessert like you can't go past. You can't scroll past anything without jumping on and either liking or dislike that and that's a judgment, like putting a judgment on it. There's no kind of just watching, you know what I mean just looking and going oh OK, there goes that. All right, that's fine, all right, there goes, like I don't have to be like. Oh, I hate that. Oh, my God, I love that, like about everything.
Janette Rodriguez:And I think it's. I think it's one to experience. You know something, like I said before, and you're like, oh, I shouldn't have written that comment. I think after that you're like, ok, I'm going to stay out of it and just mind my own business and move on with life, because it's not worth it in the end. You know, people get upset. People get upset.
Kristine Spindler Denton:Yeah, and again, with this, going and sticking with judgment and staying on our topic, we're also you know, of course talking about as well. What you lose when you judge yourself or judge others, is any sense of objectivity and curiosity, and all you learn and you lose any chance of learning something. You cannot learn from that person, you can't learn from the situation, you can't grow, you can't gain anything from it. If you're judging, you lose all, all objectivity, which is key to in any way becoming a better person and having a better life, for any of these things that we're talking about On our pocket yep, yep, yeah.
Kristine Spindler Denton:So that's, that's my two cents. So my, our challenge are, like you know, challenge for the week Is try and be trying, not. You know, every time you get annoyed with someone or something's happening, let yourself feel annoyed, but don't judge it, don't attach it to their character. Someone does something stupid? Say, oh my gosh, they made a mistake, they did something stupid and that's it. But don't say they're stupid, don't judge it, don't turn it into something bigger than it needs to be. And I'm telling you, please, I'm freaking social media, stop liking. I'm commenting, stop it unless you're funny. That's all I'll say. I'll agree with that. She's swayed me a little. She has swayed me a little, but our monthly resource that we chose to do with judgment was Michael singer.
Kristine Spindler Denton:Michael singer has a number of books out. He also has a podcast. I think he also does. You know the lessons or webinars or that kind of stuff. Like the book that Michael singer wrote that got it all going Was called untethered soul. But anyway, untethered soul is really about him tonight. I touched on it last week about Understanding how your brain works and how it's separate, and not who you are and how it is not your soul.
Kristine Spindler Denton:It is not who you are any more than your hand is who you are. It's part of your body that you're inhabiting at this time. But it is not what your brain is telling you isn't actual. Many times it's not true and you know this. We all know some of the thoughts that we have had and fears we've had and things going on ahead and they're not. They're not real like they. We can go to some crazy places with our mind and we all know that, and anyone who's been through you know a lot of anxiety, depression, knows that as well. And so his look is really about separating that out. And separating that out and knowing that you can control your thoughts, what a thought happened and then give it its moment and then counteract it and we talked about that last week.
Kristine Spindler Denton:But also, what's really cool is he talks about not judging. He talks about every single time. Your brains automatic reaction is to judge situations, people, yourself, everything. And he really says if you can start noticing every time you judge, start noticing it every time. The at least awareness of it and identifying of you doing it Can help you to start to become more self aware and stop yourself from doing it and instead of be like, oh, I wonder what will happen next. Instead of that's not. So now everything's gonna be back. So it's pretty cool. It's a good book. So anyway, on Tethered Soul, it has a lot of scripture quotes. It has quotes from Buddha, a lot of great teachers, so anyway, that's our resource for this month. There you go.
Janette Rodriguez:All right. So now we're going to go ahead and talk about our moments of joy. I'll start off first. So what I'm going to share with you guys right now is my social media post related to social media in regards to running my first half marathon, and it's just the amount of creativity you can do with post is just amazing. And I know my post is like completely basic, but it just shows my journey of going through, you know, training for a half marathon. I know it's not a full marathon. One of these days I'll do something where I can train for that, but we'll see. I'm going to push that a little bit until maybe after kids, but we'll see I might change my mind. But it was a great experience that I did with my good friend who wanted to do it for her birthday, and so it was amazing and I just had so much fun, adrenaline the whole day. It was great. It was a great experience.
Kristine Spindler Denton:I can't believe you in any way said oh, it was just a half marathon, it wasn't a full marathon. For those of us, the most I've ever ran, I think, is like I've done a like 5k, right, so that's like 3. Something miles, right, I've done different 5k runs around, that's it. But a half marathon is how many miles? 13.1. Yeah, 13. Yeah, that's insane. That's insane. That's insane. Do you know what I mean? Like what do you think about when you're like at mile eight and knowing, oh, I've got five more to go?
Janette Rodriguez:Well, the best part of the whole training is to train with a partner. So, even when we're running like we weren't running to be fast, we weren't running to beat our time or anything like that we were running to hang out honestly and to talk and to catch up and you know, to see, you know how our journeys are, you know in our lives that are going, and just talking and hanging out was really motivating. And then afterwards we would go get our coffee or we'll get our breakfast, because I didn't get to see her very often and she's one of my close friends, so it was. It was super motivating, it was, and plus I got in shape so and I needed to get it, so that is something that was motivating.
Kristine Spindler Denton:I am in complete awe of you. You are my hero. There you go. I love it. I'm very, very, very proud of you. I think it's incredible, thank you.
Kristine Spindler Denton:My moment of joy is a sunset. So I'm not going real far, real fast, real much real anywhere. So I'm pretty limited on my pictures and I didn't want to take an old one out, because this is really a journey for me with creating a life I love, while I'm healing from cancer, to be looking forward. And you know I've done a lot of reflecting, trust me, when I was first diagnosed, but this is the period of time where I'm really trying to be moving forward. So I was outside early one morning and the sky was just incredible. I just I think I've lived in the Midwest, I've been a lot of Colorado, I've been Georgia, you know a lot of Florida, I've been a lot of different places Washington, portland but I just think there's something so special about California sunsets and sunrises. I mean, I just have never, and even in other countries you know that I've been in, I it's, I've been here so long and I am still always struck by the colors, aren't you? Yeah, it's, it doesn't it? It just doesn't disappoint. I don't know what to say, and that's up to seeing it for decades. So anyway, it was a beautiful. I think it's a sunset.
Kristine Spindler Denton:I'm not even going to fully remember with you know what I've been through this week, but hopefully that's my moment of joy. So please make sure everyone that you send in, please, your moment of joy. If you have a picture that's fantastic, we'll post it up. Remember our website is Icreatedalifeilovecom, and please send any pictures or your moment joy or your stories to us at our email, which is Icreatedalifeilovecom. And also, to let you know our new Monday minute was up yesterday. Remember these are on YouTube. There are also links on the website, but we're putting them as shorts and on our YouTube channel and they're just a minute of nature sounds.
Kristine Spindler Denton:This is I'm doing a couple ocean ones right now, because I did get down to the ocean like last week I think it was before the last one and was just able to be there and stand for a little bit and sit for a little bit before we had to come home, and so these are some beautiful waves and just the sound of the ocean and the seagulls out there. So we suggest using these minutes to just take a breath in the middle of your day. We all start out in the morning with a great plan and then it always gets derailed. So that's what these little minutes are for For you to just take one minute, sit at your desk, wherever you're at, to breathe again, take some breaths and kind of recent yourself. All right, so that's it. What do we got coming up next week, jeanette, next week?
Janette Rodriguez:we're going to be talking about judgment free living for empowered women, Ew.
Kristine Spindler Denton:I like it. I like it. All right, everybody, go out and create a life you love. Have a great week.
Janette Rodriguez:Bye everyone.