The Pathway To Your Results
This podcast has been helping individuals remember what they truly were capable of before they forgot. Host Derick "DG" Grant dives deep into spirituality, metaphyics, and other topics to help listeners regain power of their minds. Remember, Life is Mental.
The Pathway To Your Results
Shedding The Old, To Make Room For The New
Life communicates with us through symbolism and metaphor, showing us through everyday experiences what needs to change in our lives.
• Lesson from a full computer: we must delete the old to make room for the new
• Our bodies constantly regenerate by letting cells die to make room for new ones
• Everyday incidents hold symbolic meaning if we pay attention to them
• Finding a bandage exactly when needed demonstrates the universe's perfect timing
• Injury to the thumb symbolized the need to stop holding onto things
• Relationships naturally change as we evolve to different frequencies
• Past relationships serve as mirrors showing us parts of ourselves
• Every person in our lives serves a purpose for our specific journey
• Letting go involves grief but creates space for greater fulfillment
• Express gratitude for what each experience taught you, even painful ones
If you want to learn more about healing and personal growth, check out my book "Seven Laws of Healing Your Inner Child" available on Amazon now.
Once you see what you actually are, that you're an infinite, limitless being, you'll see that nothing exists outside of you. I'm your host, derek Grant, and this is the Pathway to your Results Podcast. Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the Pathway to Results podcast. It is your boy, dg. This is presented by DG Mindset. This episode is so synchronistic, so symbolic.
Speaker 1:I record my podcast usually once every two weeks and I'll do like two weeks at a time. I got a little behind with travel and everything, so I had to do a bunch of them back to back to back to back. But anyway, I had been doing them and my computer. I went to save the podcast and I couldn't save the podcast. But the reason why I couldn't save the podcast is because there wasn't enough storage, there wasn't enough room for this new podcast. Hear me when I say this. There wasn't enough room for the new to come in. There was not enough room for the new to come in.
Speaker 1:I don't think you understand what I'm saying right now. I was ready, I had already done it, I had done the work, I had been putting the time in. I recorded the podcast but it couldn't be received, it couldn't be listened to, it couldn't be absorbed because there was too much old stuff. I had to go back and delete it. I had to go back and there was things in there and I'm like I still held onto this. Why am I still holding on to this? And here's what I realized oh well, I don't want to delete it, I don't want to let go of it, because I never know if I may want to listen. Boy, you know good and well you ain't going to listen to this, no more. Go ahead and get rid of it. It's time to clean up. It's time to let go. It's time to keep it moving. You're not going to keep using that relationship. That relationship is done. The information that was extracted from it is done. Stop trying to hold on to it.
Speaker 1:And you over here complaining saying, well, how come I haven't met someone, so how come these people? Because you haven't let go of the past. You haven't let go of it. So here's what life's going to do. Life is going to ensure that you let go of it, because life ensures that we evolve and grow. Hear me when I say it life ensures that you evolve and grow. Every creature does this. This is why you go from an embryo to a full grown adult, because there's going to have to be metamorphosis. There's going to have to be growth. Cells are going to regenerate themselves. Cells are going to die. But if the cells do not die, the new cells cannot come in. Hear me when I say this If I don't, if the cells don't die, the new ones can't come in. If I don't let go of the old relationships, the new ones can't come in. If I don't let go of the old way of doing things, the new, more evolved way of creating cannot come in. This is why it was so important for us to not hold on to things.
Speaker 1:So I started to see in my life, just through this podcast, the synchronicities and the symbolisms and how everything is nothing more than a metaphor in your life. We have talked about this before. We have talked about how everything that you encounter is nothing more than a spiritual metaphor. I'm going to give you a perfect example of this. So I had to take my son to a basketball tournament, right, and all week I was in Miami. I was busy, right. Shout out to Modern OM, modern OM. The event was amazing, but there was a lot of synchronicities that had happened. Now stay with me, I'm going to go on story time to show you how this all pertains and how it all works together.
Speaker 1:Now let's go to Saturday. Saturday I'm playing in a men's league. Playing in a men's league 40 and over. I've talked about it before. My goal this year is to average at least 50 points. We played two games so far. I had 40 the first game and 45 the second. So I'm a little behind, but I'm going to get there. My goal is to average 50 points for this 10-week league, right? So I know in order to do that, I'm going to have to be in shape. So I've been running to make sure I work out, get my workouts in every day. Right, I got to make sure my mind's in the right place.
Speaker 1:Be honest, we shouldn't beat. We shouldn't beat them. But we're winning and we got like four seconds left and we have a foul to give Meaning. We can foul them and they don't shoot free throws. We're four seconds left, they're inbounding. So we gotta say, look, let's go ahead and foul. So we go to foul, but when we foul, the guy is like raising up. So the referee's like no, he wasn't shooting it. But then the guy who found the league said no, he was shooting it. I'm like wait, you're not even a referee, what are you doing? How are you coming into it? It'd be like Adam Silver from the NBA coming down from the stands and telling the referee here, make this call on LeBron. Lebron fouled. And I'm like what is going on here? So anyway, I'm hot, I'm going to be honest with you and I'm mad. So I go up to the guy and go look, this is some BS. Blah, blah, blah, blah. He's like I'm going to give you a technical foul, gives me a technical foul. Now, if you get a technical foul, you have to pay a fine. That fine is $200. And I'm like look, man, at this point I don't really care about the $200. I just have to let you. I get a text message from my teammate. He's like hey, I'm just letting you know you can't play the next game until you pay your fine. I'm hot, y'all. I'm like I'm not paying the fine. He wasn't even reffing, he shouldn't have. Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
Speaker 1:That night I'm on the phone with my wife. I get back from an event. My bedtime's at 9.30. Make sure you note that. And I tell my wife. I say and we're talking about something. All of a sudden she's like breathing hard and she's like flustered. I'm like what is it? She goes somebody just rung the doorbell three times. Now it's 10.30 at night. Why somebody's ringing the doorbell at 10.30 at night, I have no idea. So she's like I'm going to go outside, you're safe in the house. I don't know what it is, but let's not go outside, let's just wait, take a deep breath and let's assess the information right.
Speaker 1:So she, though because she's actually experiencing is freaking out. I hear the dog barking. Now the kids wake up. All this stuff is going on. I'm 900 miles away in Miami. I don't know what's going on, but here's what I realized, okay, and I told her. I said there's a lady who lives next door. And I told her. I said it's probably the lady next door. She sometimes does stuff we don't know why she does sometimes a little quirky. Anyway, come to find out, it was her. You know why she came over.
Speaker 1:She came over to tell me thank you. She came over to tell me thank you for cutting her grass, and she was getting ready to go to Korea. So she had an early flight in the morning. At three o'clock in the morning she had to leave to go to the airport. So she was just coming by to say thank you and drop off an envelope. And you know what was inside that envelope? $200. $200. Now I told her I'll cut your grass. She's like 70-something years old. I said I'll cut your grass. You don't ever. I actually enjoy it because it gives me time to just spend time with myself and listen to my podcast, listen to my music and do whatever. And she dropped off that $200.
Speaker 1:And I realized that day. I realized, oh my goodness, I'm over here complaining about the fact that I got to pay this $200 for this. Fine. And the universe said here, here's your support. But I couldn't see it at first. I couldn't see it at first, right, so fast forward through the whole week I got two speaking events.
Speaker 1:I'm exhausted by the time I get home. I go out to dinner, have this event. I get back in my room, I turn the light off and I look at the alarm clock. It says 12.01 am. I'm going to sleep. My alarm is set for 3.58 am to go to the airport.
Speaker 1:I fly back home. I get home, I do my power hour. I have my meeting with the community. My son's going to be home. I get him. Let's head up to South Bend right Now. I have an electric car, my wife has a gas car, my wife's out of town. So I'm like, look, I'll just drive your car and that way I don't have to stop and charge, right, I get in the car.
Speaker 1:Now, this goes for all the moms, because my mother did the same thing. Now, look, I know that you got the kids. It's like the caravan You're taking the kids here, you're taking, here You're taking. But sometimes we got to just go ahead and throw a vacuum on that seat. Sometimes we just I walked in that car. I said, well, I guess I'm going to have to clean this car now, because I can't drive two hours in this car. So I told my son, I said, look, we got to go vacuum the car out. Right, and this is just a, just just a PSA for all the moms, right, I ain't gonna say it, I'm just gonna go ahead and say, just make sure that we take care of the inside of the car too, not just the outside.
Speaker 1:Anyway, we start and I tell my son I'm like we got to leave earlier because we got to go vacuum out the car, because I had to pick up one of his teammates. So we go to vacuum the car. Good God, almighty, stay with me. We go to vacuum out the car and I'm vacuuming out the car and I don't know another word, but I'm pissed. I am pissed because I said to myself I'm tired. I've gone off at three hours of sleep. I don't even want anyone to be vacuuming this car right now. I'm looking for any reason. I'm in a lower vibration, so this is all I'm seeing.
Speaker 1:I'm vacuuming the car and I get the vacuum stuck in the vacuum. When I go to pull it, it scrapes across my other finger, my other thumb, and it cuts it open. And now I got blood leaking everywhere. Blood is leaking everywhere. I got on like a light gray sweatsuit. I'm thinking like I'm going to get blood on this. This is going to stain. So I'm like swinging my hand, trying to get the blood off. Me Still have to keep vacuuming because I got to clean this car out. That's one thing that's going to happen. This sun's going to go down and this car will be cleaned out. And then here's the deal. You ready, you ready. I'm mad. Y'all I'm mad. Hear me when I say this. I get to the last seat, the back seat and I'm vacuuming it out.
Speaker 1:You tell me you tell me why the vacuum got stuck on something. And I look in it and it should have gotten sucked up, but it didn't. It was a Band-Aid that had not been used, still in the wrapper, that the vacuum had gotten stuck on. This, my friends, was the only thing that I needed at that moment. My finger's still bleeding, it's still leaking everywhere. I'm saying to myself all this stuff in this car, and there's not a tissue, there's not a paper towel. I need something to get this blood off of me. And tell me why? The only thing that I found was a Band-Aid, and it was the good Band-Aids, the Band-Aids where you can take three or four showers, and that thing ain't going to lose its stickiness, it's going to stay on. And I said to myself isn't this something?
Speaker 1:So now, here I am driving up, I'm driving two hours, and I'm saying to myself why did I find that bandaid? Why did I find it? See, this is what I'm meaning. Everything's a synchronicity, everything's a symbolism, but you have to see how it comes back to you, you have to see the relationship that it has to you. So, as I'm driving up there, I'm saying what was this? Why did it scrape across my thumb? It could have been any finger.
Speaker 1:And I started to think about us as primates and how we have an opposable thumb and because we have an opposable thumb, we can grab onto things, we can hold things. This is what separated us from monkeys, from apes we were able to hold things. And I said, oh, my goodness, am I synchronizing? Right now Is the universe showing me what the reason was, the deeper meaning, the symbolic, metaphorical reason of why this happened. It was my thumb. It was my thumb, it was my thumb, my right thumb, to be specific, and I realized, if I use my thumb to hold on, and now I got this wound, that means I'm going to have to let go. I'm going to have to let go.
Speaker 1:You've been holding on to stuff all week. You've been telling yourself this story I'm tired and I got to do this and I got to go here and I got to do that. And how many times do we do this? We get in this lower state and then we just keep telling ourselves this story and keep telling ourselves this story and keep telling ourselves this story in the universe life, god, source, creator, allah, brahman, whatever you want to refer to as all that, it is the absolute. It keeps showing you all of these signs over and over and over and it's trying to tell you you need to let go, you need to clean up, you need to keep it moving. That relationship won't work. But here's how it does it. It does it through symbolism, it does it through metaphors, but you got to be able to look at the reflection and see how it pertains to you.
Speaker 1:This is the hard part, not the hard part. This is how we decode the matrix. This is how you decode the matrix. You see how the matrix was communicating to you. How the matrix was communicating to you because everything was just energy. And when we see everything on the physical plane, the physical plane was nothing more than what was accumulated on the non-physical plane. So when I see the physical manifestation of something, I know that this was the corresponding energies on the astral plane, on the mental plane. Do you see what I'm saying? Now here's what people are going to say. People say, oh, this weird as hell, damn, that's weird. This motherfucker. I don't understand what he's talking about. How come he's? This isn't the way life works, okay. Okay, this was me, this was me. This was me. I said he's crazy.
Speaker 1:You over here, psychoanalyzing life and thinking, when you start to understand that this thing that we refer to as matrix, the matrix is nothing more than a set of automated programs. There's an automated program that makes sure that energy informs itself, it moves into formation. So when I start to see things, why is it when you think of your loved one who passed away and you're like, oh my goodness, every time I see a butterfly, that's them. What's the difference? It's the same thing. You have taken the symbolical meaning that only pertain to you in your individual experience to resonate, sorry, to create an energetic metaphor, so that when you saw that, you knew what this would be. We do this all the time. People say, oh my gosh, I saw a cardinal or I saw a dove land on my car, and I know that dove was my favorite thing of my grandfather. Now, that's my grandfather, I know. Okay, do we see how this works? So what is my point? My point in this whole podcast was to get you to see that your life was symbolic and everything was just trying to show you through symbolisms, through signs, through synchronicities, of where the misalignment was meaning, a misalignment, where you were acting or living out of your divine nature.
Speaker 1:So I was in Miami. I had to go speak at an event. I had to go to the Soho house and do an event. Now, I didn't know that there was two Soho houses, but apparently I went to the wrong Soho house. I went to the wrong Soho house there was two of them and I went to the wrong one and I show up.
Speaker 1:You know me, I show up early, I show up early and there's a lady right there. There's a lady, shout out, bailey. There's a lady right there. She looked at me. We made eye contact and it was something. It was weird. It was like, dang, you trying to tell me something.
Speaker 1:Time stopped, it moved in slow motion and I looked at her and she goes this isn't the place. And I'm like what do you mean? This isn't the place. And she pulls up her phone and she says, look, it was an email, it was me. And I'm like reading the email. And she's like, oh, she had the email for the event. And she goes it's not here at this place, it's at the other place. I said okay, so now I'm in, like, all right, we got to correct, we got to correct.
Speaker 1:So now I get in the Uber head over there and as I'm driving in the Uber, she actually barely look. I know you're probably listening to this. Thank you for offering me a ride. But the reason why I didn't have a ride I couldn't ride with you because I had to process and realize I want to understand why did this all happen? Right? So I end up riding over there. I'm like she could have been anywhere in the world, but she was right there to tell me this isn't it. And here's me, and this goes for all the guys out here. I don't know if I'm speaking asking for help. I'll stay in there for 45 minutes just to find those light bulbs. I'm not going to go ask somebody. That must be a pride thing. I don't know what it is, but that's just me. So here's the deal.
Speaker 1:I talked to Bailey after my event and she says to me I actually wasn't even supposed to be there at that time because she was waiting for her car to be picked up so she could go to the event. She said I wasn't actually supposed to be there, I had been pulled over. So, because I had been pulled over on the way there, that's why I was there and I started to think about how much had to happen for this lady to say and be there at the time when I need it and be there at the time when I need it. But you see, hear me when I say this the information could not be received until you had cleaned out the old compartment of the old. I couldn't see it, I couldn't understand it, I couldn't see this, I couldn't experience that until we had cleaned out the old.
Speaker 1:And here's the deal when you clean out the old, you'll start to see the signs and synchronicities that had been waiting and showing you hey, there's something coming here for you, there's something big, there's something big here, but you're going to have to clean it out. So why am I saying this? Because if we're going to move and we're going to grow and we're going to evolve and we're going to create and we're going, it will not be done that way. It's going to be done through you cleaning out that old. And this, my friends, is what we call healing. Now I'm going to take a pause there.
Speaker 1:For you, you can either clean up your room, clean out that closet, or life is going to help you. And if life helps you, and if life helps, you probably won't feel very good, or you can consciously do that, and that's the work and I say work, I put it in air quotes. That is the work. The more that I clean out, the more I will have room for, and then you'll start to see these things that we call blessings. These blessings will start to show up in your life in direct correlation to how much you can clean it out. This is why I've been telling you all go to amazoncom, purchase the Seven Laws of Healing your Inner Child book written by Derek Grant.
Speaker 1:I gave you the steps of how you clean out your closet. When you clean out your closet, now your closet's free and clear and now you can go in here and buy all the clothes that you want to replace the old ones, meaning life can come in and give you all of the things that are needed for the next journey, the next iteration. But we got to be able to let go of the old and clean it out. So I will tell you this here's what I've found about this journey of life the time that you spend cleaning out doesn't go unnoticed by the universe. The time that you spend cleaning out doesn't go unnoticed. And I have some warning for you that I've learned. Okay, this is a warning. This isn't like a threat, this is just a warning, right? So know this when you embark on this journey, you're probably not going to have the same dynamic of the relationships that you've had.
Speaker 1:I'm just going to go ahead and stop it right there and say it again real quick your relationships are going to change. Your relationships are going to change. They're not going to be the same, and this is usually the hardest part of when we clean out our closet. When we clean out our closet, see, you wore those clothes. You remember you wore those clothes where you was showing off every piece of meat that you had on you. You was showing as much skin as you could without being arrested. You remember those clothes that you used to wear? Huh, those ones with those. We call those the hot detracts. We wear those clothes when we step out on Friday, Saturday night. Girl, you know I'm wearing my best, and my best means you ain't going to see much clothes. But you realize now, as a mother, or maybe in this iteration of life, that you're in, you can't wear those clothes anymore Because it doesn't resonate at the frequency in the life that you're in right now. So the reason why I'm saying this is when you start to realize that your relationships will change as you change. Can I say this again? Your relationships will change as you change. Can I say this again? Your relationships will change as you change. Your relationships will change as you change. They have to, because you're operating on two different radio stations now, two different frequencies.
Speaker 1:So what I find the hardest part for a lot of people is when these relationships do change. We try to still hold on to it. And it's not that the relationships are changing. They're just mirroring a different part of you. Now, that's all. They're just mirroring a different part of you. Now, my advice, my suggestion, is not to hold on to the relationship, but instead extract the information for what that purpose, that person, served in your life. Wow, they helped me with this. If it was not for them, I would not have seen this part of me. Wow, yes, that relationship ended in such a bad way. But you know what? I extend the energy of gratitude towards them because they showed me how little I love myself and because they mirrored this and showed me this, I now can go on a journey to learn how to love myself, how to see myself just a little bit more. And now you'll see that that relationship had served its purpose up until this point. And just like the Alchemist you remember the book the Alchemist by Paulo Coelho when Santiago was on his journey and we go to the crystal merchant and he would meet Melchizedek, and he would meet all of these different people along his journey. They were never meant to be with him forever, they were just a part of his journey to help him with that iteration that he was in.
Speaker 1:So when I told you in the last podcast how everything is frequency, everything is vibration, you're going to have people, you're going to have relationships based on the frequency that you're in. Whatever frequency I'm in, I will have relationships that correspond at that point. But once those relationships have helped me to upgrade to the next frequency, I don't then need to bring that relationship to the next frequency. We used to square dance when we were on the same frequency as the country music, but now, guess what? We've moved over to reggaeton. Maybe we're in salsa, so I'm not going to bring you. We used to line dance in the country bar. We listened to Beyonce's. What is that? I don't know Miss Carter. I don't know what her new country album is, whatever it is, I just know she does country. Now we used to line dance to that, but that was at that station, that was at that frequency, that was at that iteration of life.
Speaker 1:Now I'm listening to Daddy Yankee, I'm listening to I don't know who else, I'm listening to reggaeton now and I just like to say reggaeton so I can roll my R's, but I'm listening to that now and I'm not going to walk into a reggae tone club and be salsa and dancing. I'm not going to line dance. I'm not going to do that. I'm at a completely different frequency now and that's okay. It's not that I had a problem with country. It's not that I had a problem with listening to Cowboy Carter and doing the line dance thing. It's that I've changed. I like to do this now. I'm telling you don't you stop doing your line dancing thing. You keep doing that line dancing thing, because that line dancing thing is going to take you to the next iteration. But right now I must continue on. Do you all see how this works? So this is what I'm telling you Literally like this podcast is a perfect example.
Speaker 1:You're going to have to delete the old to make room for the new. And when you delete the old, there's going to be a cutting of a cord and there's going to be some grieving and there's going to be an energetic dissolving and it's going to hurt a little bit, it may be a little bit painful, but, good God, almighty, hear me when I say this If you can clean out the old, there is going to be something so wonderful and so beautiful and so much more full and so much more aware and so much more. Uh, just so much more. Just so much more more waiting for you to come in. So when you go through that tough time, that hard time, you're like this is so hard.
Speaker 1:It could be a friendship, it could be a relationship, it could be a job, it could be a part of your body, it could be a haircut. Whatever it is, allow it, allow it to dissolve, allow it to go and give thanks to it. Be grateful for what it served in your life, whether it's that house, whether it was that relationship, how toxic it was. Be grateful for it. I'm grateful for some of the most toxic relationships that I've had, because they have shown me so much about myself that I did not realize. So keep going, my friend friend, Keep letting go, keep shedding. Shed that cocoon, be like that snake. Shed that skin so you can keep growing. Shed it, go ahead, let go of it, and please know I wish you nothing but the best On the pathway To your results.