{"version":"1.0.0","segments":[{"startTime":0.71,"endTime":3.28,"body":"Hello and welcome to Navigate the"},{"startTime":3.44,"endTime":4.78,"body":"day.Today is"},{"startTime":5.77,"endTime":6.56,"body":"January"},{"startTime":6.56,"endTime":9.27,"body":"14th, 2003."},{"startTime":10.36,"endTime":13.25,"body":"Exciting little episode because this is"},{"startTime":13.56,"endTime":15.97,"body":"2 weeks in a row of consistently"},{"startTime":15.97,"endTime":18.11,"body":"posting and journaling. So small"},{"startTime":18.8,"endTime":20.65,"body":"little victory for me.Today."},{"startTime":22.61,"endTime":24.83,"body":"We're going to jump into a theme."},{"startTime":25.97,"endTime":28.47,"body":"Of cut the strings that pull"},{"startTime":28.93,"endTime":30.88,"body":"your mind.We're in the month"},{"startTime":31.92,"endTime":33.71,"body":"of clarity, which is part of the"},{"startTime":33.84,"endTime":35.07,"body":"discipline of perception."},{"startTime":37.52,"endTime":38.98,"body":"And I'm gonna go ahead and read a little"},{"startTime":38.98,"endTime":39.75,"body":"excerpt here."},{"startTime":41.45,"endTime":43.38,"body":"Understand at last.That you"},{"startTime":44.19,"endTime":46.87,"body":"have something in you more powerful and"},{"startTime":47.06,"endTime":49.54,"body":"divine than what causes the bodily"},{"startTime":49.89,"endTime":51.98,"body":"passions and pulls you like a mere"},{"startTime":52.11,"endTime":53.66,"body":"puppet.What thoughts now"},{"startTime":55.07,"endTime":57.07,"body":"occupy my mind? Is it not"},{"startTime":57.65,"endTime":60.16,"body":"fear, suspicion, desire or"},{"startTime":60.35,"endTime":61.22,"body":"something like that?"},{"startTime":62.96,"endTime":65.44,"body":"Marcus Aurelius, Meditations."},{"startTime":66.4,"endTime":68.11,"body":"12/19."},{"startTime":70.26,"endTime":72.22,"body":"The journal prompt today.What jerks me"},{"startTime":73.09,"endTime":73.93,"body":"around?The world"},{"startTime":76.0,"endTime":78.28,"body":"is full of distractions.And it seems"},{"startTime":79.0,"endTime":81.25,"body":"like more and more are added every day."},{"startTime":82.3,"endTime":84.06,"body":"TikTok is luck would have it has"},{"startTime":84.22,"endTime":85.89,"body":"pioneered a new wave of short form"},{"startTime":85.89,"endTime":87.62,"body":"content and people are eating it up."},{"startTime":88.78,"endTime":90.52,"body":"There are several forces, internal and"},{"startTime":90.52,"endTime":92.83,"body":"external, that act as distracting"},{"startTime":93.46,"endTime":95.42,"body":"sinkholes. Temptations"},{"startTime":96.47,"endTime":98.9,"body":"and pressures distract us and pull us"},{"startTime":99.13,"endTime":101.04,"body":"away from the stuff that genuinely"},{"startTime":101.04,"endTime":102.09,"body":"matters.Modern"},{"startTime":103.46,"endTime":105.93,"body":"technologies and stigmas have"},{"startTime":106.41,"endTime":109.06,"body":"brought on new strings that tug at us"},{"startTime":109.28,"endTime":110.9,"body":"like a heavy-handed puppeteer."},{"startTime":113.48,"endTime":115.86,"body":"Some of these modern siren songs"},{"startTime":116.14,"endTime":118.56,"body":"include engineered food products to"},{"startTime":118.82,"endTime":120.29,"body":"exploit our taste buds."},{"startTime":121.47,"endTime":123.57,"body":"Games and social apps that are"},{"startTime":123.73,"endTime":125.9,"body":"addictive and unfortunately"},{"startTime":126.15,"endTime":128.07,"body":"manufactured or misleading media."},{"startTime":129.35,"endTime":131.23,"body":"I think the biggest problem is we keep"},{"startTime":131.35,"endTime":133.7,"body":"these tiny computers in our pockets and"},{"startTime":134.15,"endTime":136.01,"body":"any given part of the day we are"},{"startTime":136.19,"endTime":138.56,"body":"barraged with these notifications for"},{"startTime":138.56,"endTime":140.76,"body":"emails and reminders of work even when"},{"startTime":140.89,"endTime":142.04,"body":"we aren't there.We allow"},{"startTime":143.4,"endTime":145.34,"body":"ourselves to have this open line of"},{"startTime":145.34,"endTime":148.13,"body":"communication 24/7. No wonder"},{"startTime":148.13,"endTime":149.54,"body":"we're distracted.The golden"},{"startTime":151.05,"endTime":153.54,"body":"age of information and technology"},{"startTime":154.13,"endTime":156.19,"body":"overloads us with stimuli.And that"},{"startTime":156.95,"endTime":159.72,"body":"just amplifies our more universal,"},{"startTime":160.15,"endTime":161.5,"body":"timeless temptations."},{"startTime":162.75,"endTime":165.46,"body":"Evergreen enticements like gossip, the"},{"startTime":165.61,"endTime":167.64,"body":"endless call of work.And what some may"},{"startTime":168.33,"endTime":169.97,"body":"consider worse fear.All"},{"startTime":171.24,"endTime":173.28,"body":"of these human conditions have become"},{"startTime":173.28,"endTime":175.05,"body":"far more prevalent.Gossip now"},{"startTime":175.97,"endTime":178.04,"body":"includes people halfway across the world."},{"startTime":178.91,"endTime":181.35,"body":"Fear and unrest"},{"startTime":181.57,"endTime":183.69,"body":"fomented by us or"},{"startTime":184.31,"endTime":185.63,"body":"them Media wars.The"},{"startTime":187.02,"endTime":188.88,"body":"pandemic sparked remote work,"},{"startTime":188.88,"endTime":191.41,"body":"revolution, distance distancing us"},{"startTime":191.52,"endTime":193.71,"body":"socially.While also putting us in"},{"startTime":194.42,"endTime":197.31,"body":"a work mindset with no real disconnect"},{"startTime":197.44,"endTime":199.7,"body":"as we got used to work in personal"},{"startTime":199.82,"endTime":202.06,"body":"spaces being too intertwined."},{"startTime":203.87,"endTime":206.37,"body":"This almost hyper reality that we have"},{"startTime":206.54,"endTime":208.51,"body":"created doesn't leave us with much"},{"startTime":208.83,"endTime":209.45,"body":"breathing room."},{"startTime":212.3,"endTime":214.45,"body":"Fear.Fear is the impulse that"},{"startTime":215.18,"endTime":217.11,"body":"tugs at my strings and jerks me around"},{"startTime":217.11,"endTime":218.9,"body":"the most. I think For me,"},{"startTime":219.78,"endTime":221.6,"body":"the pull of fear is strong."},{"startTime":222.89,"endTime":225.49,"body":"I'm afraid I'm undeserving and uncapable"},{"startTime":225.49,"endTime":227.16,"body":"of the things I want to accomplish."},{"startTime":228.3,"endTime":231.07,"body":"And even before that, I'm not sure"},{"startTime":231.26,"endTime":233.69,"body":"what I want to accomplish out of fear"},{"startTime":234.16,"endTime":235.52,"body":"that I'm choosing wrong."},{"startTime":236.36,"endTime":238.56,"body":"Unsure as to whether the voice in my"},{"startTime":238.56,"endTime":240.05,"body":"head is clear."},{"startTime":241.56,"endTime":243.46,"body":"From my dreams.Or if the"},{"startTime":244.26,"endTime":246.73,"body":"message is being disrupted by outside"},{"startTime":246.89,"endTime":248.41,"body":"noise.I get jerked around by"},{"startTime":249.58,"endTime":252.19,"body":"myself by starting and stopping new"},{"startTime":252.33,"endTime":254.55,"body":"tasks, new hobbies, never following"},{"startTime":254.84,"endTime":255.52,"body":"through.I find"},{"startTime":257.5,"endTime":259.34,"body":"myself absorbed in these activities."},{"startTime":260.13,"endTime":262.38,"body":"And at the same time going about them in"},{"startTime":262.51,"endTime":264.39,"body":"an almost unconscious manner."},{"startTime":265.56,"endTime":267.52,"body":"I think part part of my problem.Is that"},{"startTime":268.34,"endTime":270.1,"body":"I'm still holding on to resentment"},{"startTime":270.1,"endTime":272.14,"body":"towards myself and I'm holding on to"},{"startTime":272.28,"endTime":273.21,"body":"this burden of guilt."},{"startTime":275.22,"endTime":276.71,"body":"As I move forward in this chosen"},{"startTime":276.71,"endTime":279.23,"body":"experience, I must consider my current"},{"startTime":279.69,"endTime":281.85,"body":"thoughts and emotions.And recognize that"},{"startTime":282.6,"endTime":285.15,"body":"they may be negative, such as fear,"},{"startTime":285.42,"endTime":287.94,"body":"suspicion, and reckless desire. I"},{"startTime":288.56,"endTime":290.76,"body":"have to tap into that inner power and"},{"startTime":291.12,"endTime":293.16,"body":"not be controlled by my bodily passions."},{"startTime":294.38,"endTime":296.41,"body":"This inner power is often"},{"startTime":297.1,"endTime":299.25,"body":"referred to in Stoicism.As the reason"},{"startTime":300.08,"endTime":302.15,"body":"or the logos.Which is the rational"},{"startTime":302.97,"endTime":305.22,"body":"principle that governs the universe."},{"startTime":306.52,"endTime":309.07,"body":"And that each person possesses a spark"},{"startTime":309.26,"endTime":310.82,"body":"of.Therefore, I must"},{"startTime":312.03,"endTime":314.4,"body":"connect with my inner wisdom and rise"},{"startTime":314.74,"endTime":316.08,"body":"above my base impulses."},{"startTime":317.89,"endTime":320.45,"body":"Simply journaling on regular basis is"},{"startTime":320.59,"endTime":322.37,"body":"proving to help immensely.As it's giving"},{"startTime":323.19,"endTime":325.56,"body":"me the space to create clarity within my"},{"startTime":325.69,"endTime":327.27,"body":"sphere of control.It has given me better"},{"startTime":328.12,"endTime":330.27,"body":"ways to express my emotions"},{"startTime":330.27,"endTime":332.42,"body":"rationally instead of impulsively."},{"startTime":333.92,"endTime":335.98,"body":"I also know that I will not be able to"},{"startTime":335.98,"endTime":338.18,"body":"master my emotions or the art of"},{"startTime":338.64,"endTime":340.61,"body":"living overnight.I have to be patient."},{"startTime":342.54,"endTime":344.77,"body":"I know I'm not my actions."},{"startTime":346.26,"endTime":347.77,"body":"My past actions.And I"},{"startTime":348.83,"endTime":351.32,"body":"need to find more ways to remind"},{"startTime":351.61,"endTime":353.54,"body":"myself of that. I still need to work on"},{"startTime":353.99,"endTime":356.03,"body":"stepping back once I identify an"},{"startTime":356.03,"endTime":358.78,"body":"impulse, distraction trigger,"},{"startTime":359.45,"endTime":361.94,"body":"or emotion that is unproductive,"},{"startTime":362.15,"endTime":364.61,"body":"and giving myself the room to breathe."},{"startTime":365.53,"endTime":367.72,"body":"And view them with a clearer perspective"},{"startTime":367.85,"endTime":370.26,"body":"and more logical and reasoned approach."},{"startTime":371.08,"endTime":373.13,"body":"Rather than the oftentimes"},{"startTime":373.46,"endTime":376.15,"body":"destructive initial thoughts and or"},{"startTime":376.4,"endTime":378.07,"body":"feelings.I dislike that trait of"},{"startTime":379.37,"endTime":381.84,"body":"mine. I'm done letting myself feel bad"},{"startTime":381.95,"endTime":383.85,"body":"about what isn't in my control.And"},{"startTime":384.92,"endTime":386.58,"body":"I'm really excited to be taking steps"},{"startTime":386.58,"endTime":388.62,"body":"that feel much more in alignment with"},{"startTime":389.09,"endTime":390.75,"body":"who I really AM and hope that I can"},{"startTime":391.34,"endTime":392.88,"body":"relax a bit more. There's no reason to"},{"startTime":393.46,"endTime":395.92,"body":"add pressure to myself when the world"},{"startTime":396.27,"endTime":397.61,"body":"seems to be doing a good enough job"},{"startTime":397.61,"endTime":398.65,"body":"already.I'm"},{"startTime":400.61,"endTime":402.48,"body":"going to end my entry here on a positive"},{"startTime":402.48,"endTime":404.19,"body":"note.And as an added bonus,"},{"startTime":405.47,"endTime":407.95,"body":"I have a long form affirmation that ties"},{"startTime":408.09,"endTime":409.84,"body":"the main themes together beautifully.I'm"},{"startTime":411.06,"endTime":412.59,"body":"also going to put it in the show notes"},{"startTime":412.8,"endTime":414.79,"body":"for future reference.So here you go."},{"startTime":417.91,"endTime":420.52,"body":"I am more than just a body controlled by"},{"startTime":420.66,"endTime":422.32,"body":"passions and impulses."},{"startTime":423.34,"endTime":425.97,"body":"Deep within me lies a power that is"},{"startTime":426.14,"endTime":427.72,"body":"divine and mighty.A"},{"startTime":428.76,"endTime":430.71,"body":"force that can transcend the"},{"startTime":431.04,"endTime":433.29,"body":"mundane and elevate me to"},{"startTime":433.84,"endTime":435.6,"body":"new heights.I must not let"},{"startTime":436.8,"endTime":438.71,"body":"fear, suspicion and"},{"startTime":439.42,"endTime":441.06,"body":"desire rule my world.But"},{"startTime":442.12,"endTime":444.2,"body":"instead tap into that inner strength."},{"startTime":445.0,"endTime":446.71,"body":"And unleash its full potential."},{"startTime":447.99,"endTime":450.25,"body":"I am not a mere puppet, but a master of"},{"startTime":450.49,"endTime":452.32,"body":"my own destiny.And I will strive"},{"startTime":453.12,"endTime":454.92,"body":"for, strive to reach for the"},{"startTime":455.58,"endTime":457.21,"body":"stars.And transcend the"},{"startTime":457.86,"endTime":459.85,"body":"limitations of the physical world."},{"startTime":460.98,"endTime":463.62,"body":"I am capable of greatness, and it's time"},{"startTime":463.88,"endTime":465.72,"body":"for me to rise up and claim it."},{"startTime":468.42,"endTime":469.95,"body":"That's going to be it for today.I"},{"startTime":471.24,"endTime":472.88,"body":"feel good about getting these thoughts"},{"startTime":472.88,"endTime":474.36,"body":"out.Thank you for taking the time to"},{"startTime":475.59,"endTime":477.48,"body":"listen to me ramble.Stay safe and"},{"startTime":478.43,"endTime":481.06,"body":"until next time. I wish you the best and"},{"startTime":481.29,"endTime":483.3,"body":"know you can handle the worst.Peace and"},{"startTime":484.23,"endTime":484.91,"body":"love, friend."}]}