Jeff's World Podcast
"Jeff's World" is a captivating podcast that offers a unique perspective on life through the eyes of Jeff. With a wide range of topics, Jeff delves into various aspects of life, sharing his thoughts, experiences, and insights. From personal stories to thought-provoking discussions, each episode of "Jeff's World" aims to provide listeners with a fresh perspective and a deeper understanding of the world around them. Ultimately, Jeff's journey leads him to explore the profound connection between life's experiences and the presence of God. Join Jeff on this enlightening podcast as he invites you to see the world through his eyes and discover the spiritual significance in every aspect of life.
Jeff's World Podcast
Reflections and the Power of Purposeful Beginnings
Embark with us on an adventure that transcends mere travel tales, recounting the profound changes and enduring spirit we witnessed in El Salvador. From the rhythmic beats of my brothers, Danny and Abraham, to the candid chats with locals, we weave stories of hope and resilience that echo El Salvador's incredible journey from a tumultuous past to its vibrant present. As my wife and I share our personal experiences, we invite you to feel the pulse of transformation that's reshaping this nation, driven by a people whose endurance is as inspiring as it is humbling.
This episode isn't just about a vacation; it's an exploration of the deeper currents that shape our lives. Together, we tackle the complex interplay between spirituality and societal challenges, pondering how ancient wisdom and modern-day issues intertwine in unexpected ways. From the biblical showdowns of Moses to the silent battles in our everyday existence, we reflect on the essence of good versus evil and the role of faith in guiding us through. Technology, often a double-edged sword, also comes under our scrutiny, as we consider its impact on our culture and the discipline required to harness it for our betterment.
Wrap your morning routine in a cloak of positivity and join us as we discuss the subtle yet powerful influence of starting your day with purpose. We share the trials and triumphs of self-improvement, the importance of respect, and how embracing our mistakes can be the cornerstone of growth. It's about spreading warmth and encouragement, just as we do in every conversation, and reminding you, our cherished listeners, of the extraordinary value you hold. So, let's foster compassion, laughter, and wisdom together, because every step we take is an integral part of this journey we call life.
I'm a girl who can't do it. All my people, what's up everybody? We're back, episode 3. Man, I'm so excited, man, shout out to all you guys. Man that's been reaching out to me. I love y'all. You know who you are, man, I do it for you guys, for those that listen in. So, thank you guys. I'm happy to be back here. I'm here with my beautiful wife.
Speaker 2:Say what's up what's up? Yes, sir.
Speaker 1:So we're back here, episode three. Man, it's been a long month. Seriously, I feel like it's been a busy month. It's been a crazy month. I feel like so much has been going on. I feel like the world is like so many things in the news, it's just like a lot.
Speaker 2:Yeah, thank God, we came back refreshed from our vacation. So, we're able to be okay with all these news.
Speaker 1:Man, I want to share with you guys, too, my vacation and everything. Real quick before we start, you guys heard that entrance beat that was going on there. Man, I want to give a quick shout out to my brother Danny and also my brother Abraham. That was both of them on drums and guitar. Man, it was sick. I love it, man. I'm blessed to be able to have friends that are such great musicians and, yeah, that beat is amazing.
Speaker 1:If you guys don't follow them on IG, go follow them. You have my brother Danny it's SirDanN. He's on the drums. Go listen to him. He's got some great content there. And also my brother Abraham, which is Ar ahm guitar. Go listen to him. You can see he has a lot of solos on there. You can see a couple stuff with his guitar. Man, the guy's a beast, he's a. They're both the beast. So I appreciate you, brother dan, for letting me, allowing me to use this track. Man, it's amazing. I love it. I love hearing it just sounds so good, it sounds clean. So quick shout out to them, guys. Quick shout out to them. But yeah, guys, we're back and we just came back from a beautiful vacation yes, and you were right, asalador is beautiful.
Speaker 2:It's so amazing. I wish I could be there and not come back, and i'm'm just kidding, there's nothing like home. Like like it's, you could be anywhere. I mean, I don't know about everybody else, but you can be in like super beautiful areas, but there's nothing like being at home.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:And I miss my dog so much, Like I miss just being able to get in my car and grab my coffee whenever I feel like it. Like much like I miss just being able to get in my car and grab my coffee whenever I feel like it like I don't know.
Speaker 2:I guess just that independence that brings living um here where we live. You know that I don't have that over there in el salvador, no matter how safe it is, because I will say that being in el salvador felt safer than being in in some parts around here right, exactly like that's. That's wild yeah.
Speaker 1:so yeah, we were the trip man, trip man, and this is not because I'm from there. I'm not trying to be biased.
Speaker 2:As he's wearing an El Salvador shirt.
Speaker 1:Yeah, but you know it was amazing, it was a great trip. I mean that president really has changed a lot of things over there. You know what I mean. I remember growing up as a kid I always wanted to visit El Salvador, like you know, with the family and whatnot, but I think it was like my parents would never let me, because if people from there they know, like the history, of yeah, people fled from there.
Speaker 1:Yeah, you know, either the Civil War or the gangs, right, it was like the biggest thing that that country had and it was corrupt, like you know what I mean. It was like the myrtle capital of like the world, like you know I mean. So that place was dangerous. But now going over there, like the fact that like I just rented a car and it was just me and you out there traveling anywhere we went, like it felt good yeah, like things that even like in other countries, like you don't even feel that comfortable doing, it's just being by yourself in a whole other country.
Speaker 2:I don't know, especially a country where, like you, couldn't go anywhere, you know, I mean, it was scary yeah, but it was nice and I I thought it was pretty cool how, like I know a lot of sabadorians and even being a hairdresser, I always had a lot of sabadorian clients, and if there's anyone listening to this podcast and you were my client you know we always clicked, I always click with sabadorians and and and the thing is that they always talked very highly of their country but, being over there um talking to sabadorians, you know from there that never left like and hearing their side of the story, how they living the change from like bad you know, being able to literally like being scared to even cross the street, yeah, to like you know now how things are like being
Speaker 2:able to like being scared to even cross the street. Yeah, to like. You know now how things are like being able to speak to locals, being able to speak to family, like that was super cool experience and I don't know if you noticed this, but it's something that I noticed over there was.
Speaker 1:There were some parts that we went to and some people that we talked to and you kind of still felt like like a pressure of like sadness over you.
Speaker 1:I don't know if you felt it over there, but like there was a certain area sometimes when you just sit there and and it kind of soaks in you like man, like you know, you, a couple years ago you, you couldn't do this, what you're doing now, like like it wasn't allowed, or when we went into like there's a place in el sable that they call like las margaritas, and like it was like a gang, like territory, like the highest, and I remember we were driving, we were coming back to, going back to um, our hometown, remember we got lost and I'm like we're like in the middle of that like town and and we're like you know, I told my dad and my dad was like man, if like that was back in the day, like you know, you probably even made it out well, yeah, the locals were like you people would accidentally go to certain territories and they would not make it back.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it was crazy stories and they don't know what happened to them Like bodies, just completely disappeared. They just disappeared oh.
Speaker 2:So that was pretty intense and I agree with you, with what you're saying about how like you feel that, like presence of sadness.
Speaker 2:I think it's because these people like this is all super recent. Still, like all the changes are super recent, it's also super recent, um, you know, like them, seeing their own family members being incarcerated or you know it's. It's a lot that that they're going through a lot of emotions, like you know, going from like scared to being able to be free it's kind of like weird and people are still going through that process.
Speaker 1:You feel it because some people are more quiet about it. They don't really want to talk about it. Oh yeah, literally like really want to talk about it.
Speaker 2:Oh yeah, literally Like I felt like the people who talk a lot, like you know just personality and like they're willing to talk that a little bit, you know, but some people, like they don't really talk about it, they just they don't, they're like yeah, Like how are you feeling about this?
Speaker 1:they're like good, but that's it, that's it. They won't say more. And a lot of people, a lot of people. And it's because I feel like some people are so scared that, like you know, everything can go back to how it was. You know what I mean. Yeah, they got a good president right now and and everything's good, but what happens when he's not there? What's going to happen in the future? So people still live with that scaredness that it can all come back and yeah, and you know what's crazy also?
Speaker 2:that that we went to a museum and on one of our tours, uh, that we did out there and the tour was in. I'm sorry, the museum was in nahut yeah, what was that place called?
Speaker 1:now, I was something like that.
Speaker 2:And then the the lady in the museum was talking to us about how there was a massacre and how people were terrified to talk about it, and it's crazy how sabadorians are kind of like used to like being quiet about the experiences you know it's kind of like in that time.
Speaker 1:I mean I can't speak for now. Isalco, now isalco yeah, so, yeah.
Speaker 2:so apparently this is an indigenous place and when the europeans came, they killed them all and people were scared of being Indian and there's no records of it. There's no records of it.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah, that was crazy, the lady was saying that, even if you go to the city hall and ask for records, there's no records of the people. There's just some people that you go in there and you look at the pictures, some of them that spoke up. But yeah, salvadorians don't like to speak.
Speaker 2:there's still some survivors, there's like a few. They're very, they're elderly and like they're taking care of them, but the crazy part is that they the. The reason why this was even brought out to light was because someone else discussed, you know, went and made a documentary about it, but it wasn't like. You know, salvadorians spoke up about this. So I I find that when I when I heard this story, I was like what?
Speaker 2:yeah, it's crazy that you know people had to. It was crazy what she was saying, like people would make dig up their own hole and then they will get shot and then they'll fall into the hole and that's it like that's how the how life was. And if you think about it, uh, we were watching a video the other day about there was, uh, about 10 murders a day in el salvador. Yeah, a few years ago 10 murders a day, every single day I think it's way more than that.
Speaker 1:I think it was just yeah, that was just records.
Speaker 2:I don't know, it was a lot, it was a lot and if you think about it and like now, now kind of seeing some people like I don't know if they're just trying to like, not really like think about that anymore, because it was like a very disturbing time, yeah, when it comes to the gangs and like the history of it, the civil wars and the indigenous people, it's a lot, you know.
Speaker 1:I mean like I'm just happy to see the country prosper yeah, and that we're able to, you know what's funny what the lady said. She goes, because it's funny that we're talking about the whole indigenous people from over there. But she said, you know, hey, you know, if you feel your heart to go back, you know it might be. One of your ancestors was indigenous or something. So like, maybe I might have some type of like indigenous yeah, ancestor calling me over there.
Speaker 2:I think she was saying that you know a lot of people are they feel attracted to enter that museum yeah and it's your ancestors calling you to the museum but low-key.
Speaker 1:I just didn't want to spend money, so so we chose the museum because it was free.
Speaker 2:It was a very humble very small little museum, very, very interesting yeah.
Speaker 1:Man look guys, I recommend you visit El Salvador if you haven't If it's not in your plans. I mean put it in your plans. I feel like it's just so much history there that you can do. The weather was beautiful, oh man.
Speaker 2:Tropical if you love palm trees, palm trees everywhere. The weather is great. I mean, it's a little hot, but I I could take it and I'm from boston, so you know we have.
Speaker 1:We're used to all seasons, but it was, that weather was nice, that weather was really. You know, what's interesting about the whole thing there in el salvador is that there was, there was governments before this president there that's now, and how come none of them were able to ever change this country. You know, it makes you wonder about these other countries that are all like going through issues and they're corrupt and all that. It really takes one person to be the difference, you know. I mean, like in my eyes, it's like this president said you know what, enough's enough, I'm changing this country and I'm destroying corruption. And it's literally what he did. And and you're seeing the country flourish. And there's people that I get it like look, because we spoke to a lot of people from el salvador, because there's people here, like you know, human um rights activists and those organizations saying that like what he's doing is bad to the prisoners and whatnot inhumane.
Speaker 1:But if you actually lived in the situation, I don't think you'd speak like that no, they would say.
Speaker 2:One of the our, our tour guide, the bus driver, was saying that, uh, they would have, they would shoot people because it'll be, um, one of the gangs on one street, the other gang on the other, and they'll just be shooting and shooting.
Speaker 1:Legit Like blocks All day long.
Speaker 2:Blocks across Just imagine being scared of crossing the street because you're already on someone else's territory, like that.
Speaker 1:And it's like these people didn't really respect and it's like now, like you know, I think the people that are allowed to talk are the ones that actually live there. Sorry to say, if you lived here, you grew up here, you didn't really grow up in El Salvador. If you're someone that was like me, or just heard stories, or just heard stories, but if you're someone like me that was actually just born here in the United States.
Speaker 2:First time visiting El Salvador, yeah giving comments.
Speaker 1:Oh, that's bad. You didn't live in the situation that they were in. And the people that lived there from speaking to them, they're some of them because they have family members that were locked up and I get it majority could, could some have been like maybe falsely in there, maybe? I don't, you know what I mean yeah, but the majority is not the majority. They have been accused of like murder. You know what I mean you have. If you have, like the, the tattoos, you know you're automatically considered.
Speaker 2:Or just being affiliated with them.
Speaker 1:They would say that if you just took a picture with them or something, and even if you, let's say you were in the gang and you have the tattoos of whatever gang it is, and let's say you change your life I get it right, maybe you found God and you've changed your ways and you're not in that lifestyle no more it doesn't mean you can't pay for all the damage that you've done before. That stuff, in my eyes, doesn't get erased. I feel like you still have to pay for that, even if you change your ways. Because, let's say, now, okay, you become a, because there's some cases where some gang member was a gang member but he became a pastor and then they ended up because he was a pastor. You, they ended up because he was a.
Speaker 1:He was, he was a pastor. You never noticed. But when the pastor took off his shirt, the back of his uh, the the story of my uncle was telling me was the back of his back. The tattoo was like a king cobra and they had like the huge, I think, like ms or 18, whatever the gang was. And now he gets locked up.
Speaker 2:Maybe he's been out of the game for a while, yeah, but he has caused some damage in the back and it just says, because it seems like they have to pay the price now, like in a different way, because we don't know if they pay the price. You know already. Somehow you know like we.
Speaker 1:We don't know I don't see it paying the price, but more of like justice consequences, yeah, like, like, like for my am I as a god is just yeah, I think god puts in account all of our, our, all of the things we do in life, right, all the bad things we do in life. I think god keeps that in account and maybe you won't see it in the first couple of months, the first couple of days, the first couple of years, but 10 years down the line, something can be like. You know happen when you're like why is this going on with my life? And it's like, well, maybe now you're kind of paying. You know happen when you're like why is this going on with my life? And it's like, well, maybe now you're kind of paying, you know, for the consequences that you've caused years ago and a lot of people I don't know how you see that.
Speaker 2:But I think People would say it's karma, right, like what goes around comes around, or like every bad thing you do, you know, comes back somehow. The way I look at it is kind of like some. Like you know, there's god's punishment, right, but then there's also just the consequences of your actions. It's like whatever, exactly whatever. Whatever you're doing like to your body, for example, is gonna show later on in life you know, so, but sometimes, you know, sometimes some things are unexplained, like but that's why your decision is so important.
Speaker 1:When you're like, that's why your decisions are so important, because the decision I can do right now can seem something simple or whatever, and it's gonna be like oh yeah, it's just to better myself, it's what I need.
Speaker 2:But then it's like if it's something bad, like a couple years down the line it's gonna come back and like haunt you but then I think about the people who've done it all good on paper and then that stuff still happened to them, for example, like someone who always took care of their health super healthy like you know, did all the right things ate well, worked out, took the vitamins and then ends up having like a disease afterwards and dies early or heart attack or something like.
Speaker 2:And then you see people who you know were smoking cigarettes and then live till they were like 99 so that's what you know, what I mean that's why I'm saying, like some things are unexplained yeah and it just goes to show the corrupt world that we live in that's like we just live in a cursed world where bad things are gonna happen yeah which it's kind of it, kind of um, makes us think about how we should look at the world that we live in, and kind of be able to not take things so personally sometimes like why did this happen to me?
Speaker 2:why? Why am I living in this house, in this neighborhood? You know, why couldn't I be? Why couldn't I've been born in a rich family? You? Know, we always ask those type of questions, but it's kind of like you know like try to use those circumstances to shape yourself and and make a character out of yourself, instead of always looking at yourself as a victim. I think it's important. It is, it's true, you know to be successful at least.
Speaker 1:It's crazy man and I don't know. But just like back to the El Salvador thing, shout out to the president it's great, like I said, not just because I'm there. I don't want to boast about it, but it felt safe. I wasn't. You know, I wasn't like always looking over my shoulder if what's going to happen, or scared like I didn't feel that at all.
Speaker 2:Yeah, and people were really friendly too, like super, super comfortable and and even the the roads, the pavement was nice, like I don't know if it was just the area we were in oh yeah, it was beautiful we drove from san vicente to son sonate something like that yeah for people who are from there. That's where we drove and then we went to san salvador and no traffic. We got lucky. I don't know.
Speaker 1:The roads were beautiful yeah, it was the weekend and I mean we're from where we're from.
Speaker 2:Literally, they're fixing our roads like every two days we're here. Oh yeah, here, yeah, legit like lynn boston man, what is up? Construction every single day it's so bad, like the roads are always bad, always bad, and I'm like how is that country like so much better to drive in than here, like it's?
Speaker 1:you know what it's a developing country? Shout out to them. I hope nothing for the best for them and and hopefully everything goes good for them. You know, and like, I like, I like what the president, I mean I like his ideas, I like his, his ideology. You know what I mean. He puts god first and everything, and hey it shows it shows.
Speaker 1:You know it shows the united states. You want to believe it or not, god ain't first. No more in this country, and I don't care what anybody says and it shows, and it shows you know I mean, just with everything going on this country, and I don't care what anybody says, and it shows. And it shows you know what I mean. Just with everything going on this country. It's tough. I love this country, don't get me wrong.
Speaker 1:But, seeing all the corruption that's in this country, everything just you know what I mean. You could tell God is just not like he's upset with this country. I don't think he's gone. I don he's upset with this country. I don't think he's gone. I don't think it's a way. I think he's still being patient with this country, but I feel like the day's gonna come where yeah, where he's gonna be sick of it.
Speaker 2:You know and I think that society does a good job at trying to make us like not aware of the corruption and the evil stuff, whatever.
Speaker 2:It's kind of like you know like blind us with with these things to get, keep us distracted constantly and it's like uh, you know there's always something happening in the background that you know we're either we're choosing to be ignorant of it or you know society's just really good at making us ignorant of it, so it. But when you start to look, look at it and look deep in it and I know some people don't want to get into that because it's depressing, but it's the truth and some someone out there is paying the consequences and it's something that we've been learning about lately, you know, at our church, and man, you guys, you guys listen like I'm like yeah, church has been super like, like when you, when you when you look at things into a deeper aspect of things, right, you get a more spiritual view of things, right, because sometimes we're humans, right, so we see things just how it is in the front, right.
Speaker 1:But I believe that there's more like. It can't be, that, you know, these things just happen. There's got to be like a darker force that really is manipulating everything to make everything go go bad, to destroy what we have, to destroy what it is here. I mean, yeah, what we've been learning lately, you know, at the church about the demigods and all that stuff, it's you know, it makes you wonder, like Demons versus angels. Demons versus angels yeah, Demigods versus.
Speaker 2:You know, again God's army, it's such spiritual warfare. And there's a verse that I always thought about and it didn't click until this topic came up and it was like we're not fighting with flesh, you know, we're fighting against.
Speaker 1:Principalities and darkness. Yeah, so it is true. Like when you read that verse, it's basically saying we're not fighting against each other here, human to human right. There's darker forces that we don't see, and if you're like yo, these guys sounds crazy, just look into it. I challenge you to look into this and try to look deeper into these type of things and you realize that you look at the music industry, right?
Speaker 2:Yeah, Jeffrey loves watching. Sometimes it'll be me, Jeff, and some other people.
Speaker 1:Jeffrey will put YouTube videos of Taylor Swift for example, t-swift is crazy and Jeffrey pauses all the time.
Speaker 2:Taylor swift for example, did you hear what she? Said dude it's guys so funny and I'm like I never thought about that and in that song I think it was like the. I don't know if it's called karma, but I know she's like karma is my something. Yeah, and he's like karma, that's. She's literally like glorifying it's not that.
Speaker 1:Just look at the visuals. I mean it's like oh well, it's just art like, yeah, look deeper to this, you know there's, there's you can choose not to right and not look deeper into it and just be like no, she's.
Speaker 2:She's just meaning this, right.
Speaker 1:But when you do look at it the other way, you can't see it exactly because in life we're taught that, we're taught that like, oh, we just kind of want to ignore it because it sounds good, it sounds nice, of course.
Speaker 2:Yeah, you know what I mean. It's super catchy. It's meant to be catchy.
Speaker 1:It's meant to be catchy. It's meant to catch like your attention. But if you sit down and you kind of listen to the songs and you just watch the videos closely like the doja cat, one like oh that one.
Speaker 2:You don't even have to be like spiritual to everybody. You know what I mean. So it's like.
Speaker 1:It's like you, you have the church, you have the people that that trust in god, that I want to be spiritual, but you gotta understand that there's people also being spiritual in the dark side yeah like there is people that are that are that are that are doing some things in the dark that we don't know.
Speaker 1:Look, I try to believe that there's good and bad. Right, there's God and there's the enemy, which is the devil. Right, the devil hates humanity and he's going to do everything in his power to destroy humanity and to keep us from meeting God and everything that God has to offer us. Because if he can keep us away, then he's kind of like good, you know, I have him in my hands, like they're not going to get away and you know, and man, I just like sit back and I forgot this girl that like I seen her on TikTok. She like now like talks about God. Even this whole Ryan Garcia thing. You know that he talks about the babies, the babies, the babies be a sacrifice, this and that you know people can be like, oh, it's a lie, it's fake, but is it?
Speaker 1:yeah you know, I mean back in the days in the old testament, they talk about sacrifices to these, to these, to these, uh, to these spirits and all that. You know, I mean there's, there's these things that people use to try to communicate with, with, with the enemy and these dark forces.
Speaker 2:Yeah, kind of crazy now that I think about it. Why, like, killing babies comes from like ancient times, you know, like it's always been like, let's like, let's kill something before it begins, or like you know, like, get rid of it before it. You know, has power.
Speaker 1:Exactly.
Speaker 2:Or influence old enough to influence people and like let's get rid of them. And now it's, you know being seen. Know influence old enough to influence people and like let's get rid of them. And and now it's, you know being seen, we don't know, right people we talk about the elite, you know they talk about the island and you know like all these stuff, but we really don't know what's going on. We don't know um. You know, some people I'm sure know stuff and we try to ignore they probably can never say and the problem is, we try to ignore it.
Speaker 2:Yeah, we try to ignore it.
Speaker 1:They probably could never say it, and the problem is we try to ignore it. Yeah, we try to ignore it, we try to just like. You know, if it isn't affecting me, then why does it matter? But is it not affecting you? You know what I mean. Like where's you know? I don't know. I love this life that we live in, but I believe that there's more to it and I believe that at the end of I don't die and I just that's it, Like there's nothing there left, I think a simple way to start like if this is all like a lot.
Speaker 2:One simple way that, at least for me, it started before even learning about this stuff was when I watched the new the Testament of Moses on Netflix when I started watching that documentary, which I highly recommend.
Speaker 1:Yeah, you guys should watch it.
Speaker 2:It's so informative because it made me view, because for the longest time, I couldn't understand why god hardened uh the pharaoh's heart, like I couldn't understand.
Speaker 2:I mean, I'm still trying to understand that whole part. But but one thing that they said that just clicked for me was when, when in documentary they say that the that in reality the war wasn't between moses and pharaoh, the war was between the gods of pharaoh because he has three statues in the documentary and they represented gods, right, and then it was the war between that, those gods and moses's god. Yeah, and out of the 10 plagues, uh, those gods were only able to replicate the first three, and then that's it and they got started getting scared when they were like, whoa, like the god of moses, he's, he's doing too much, like this is power that we can't, you know.
Speaker 2:But pharaoh, he was being so prideful, so stubborn, he was like, no, I don't care, I don't care. Until things got out of hand and even, and even after losing his kid, he still went after them. It's like still even he lost it, all you know. And his pride, just it just couldn't, you know, it couldn't bend in. But the, the whole point of the, the, the story of moses finally clicked in my head was it was never about them too, it was about the, what was going on behind the scenes, which forces that we can't see the god of moses versus the god of pharaoh.
Speaker 2:And that's what's happening right now for us, christians or believers, and, and, and, for everybody, like everybody, god is always going to want the best for us. Of course he wants us to be, he want, he wants us, he wants to protect us. Right, but there is always a darker energy who's trying to, you know, destroy us, destroy us the devil he's, he's always going to want to mess things up and and he's going to use and that's happening.
Speaker 1:I mean, if you look at the wars and all these things going on, those are forces that are fighting against each other, against each other. I, I strongly believe it that it's man.
Speaker 1:He wants to destroy, that he wants yeah the enemy wants to destroy us, man wants to destroy the good that we have. But I mean, god is good and like going back to like how we see this is kind of like because we were just talking about El Salvador, then we got into this, but it's. But it's to see that a country that, like you know, a guy, is putting God first and we're starting to see the country flourish.
Speaker 2:Right yeah.
Speaker 1:You start to see it like progress. And then and then here you see, a country in the United States where you know we don't say the pledge of allegiance. No more, you don't hear it right, everybody, when me growing up, I remember right I pledge allegiance to the flag to united states of america and to the republic for which we stand.
Speaker 2:One nation one nation under god right like.
Speaker 1:Think about our, our. The pledge of allegiance is you know. It says under god. You look at our money. It's in god. We trust like god has been a big center of this country from the beginning, but now we want to take that all away.
Speaker 1:Now we don't want that. And now we're seeing how this country so much is going on. There's so many. I don't want to get into all the things that's going on because we'll get there eventually, but there's some things that are really not going for this country, you know, and it sucks because the younger generation coming up it's kind of like like they're more in a technological thing now because you know, with the phone, you know you have, you have access to a whole computer on your hand whoa, what a crazy experience that we went through at the mall.
Speaker 2:Huh, when we, when we were with a friend and she went to the Apple store, she tried on those they have like the new, it's kind of like the.
Speaker 1:Oculus, oh, the Apple Vision Pros, yeah, yeah. That's crazy, because it feels that is crazy.
Speaker 2:She said she literally felt like she was. I didn't want to do it, but she said that like it literally felt like she was in that place.
Speaker 1:And the reason why I didn't want to do it? Because I knew I would feel kind of dizzy afterwards because we had the oculus and we used it like one time. Ai is crazy, even like the oculus. If you have an oculus, but even the vision pro, like it's, it's like a whole different level. It's legit your phone in a, you're in a different universe. Like, yeah, it's cool, though if I, if I can afford one, I would get one. But but it's, you know, it makes you those things that, like you know reality, like you don't have reality, no more think about how a computer looked like when it was first invented.
Speaker 2:Right, that giant box. So now we have like ipads think about how, right now you know those things are heavy on your eyes, they're, they make you feel so many things, right?
Speaker 1:right.
Speaker 2:Yeah, this is the beginning, Like 10 years from now. The new. What are they calling?
Speaker 1:Which one?
Speaker 2:The Apple.
Speaker 1:Pro Apple Vision.
Speaker 2:Pro Vision Pro yeah, so imagine what they're going to look like 10 years from now.
Speaker 1:It's just going to be regular glasses.
Speaker 2:It's like the movie the Player One.
Speaker 1:Already Player One. Yeah.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it's like that movie like oh man, we don't know what, where things are gonna be, and and you know, sometimes it's not good to try to like overanalyze things and but but it kind of just makes you think like okay well, yo, you know, you think about, like I hate to bring the bible into this again, but think about the bible.
Speaker 1:It's you know. It says like, you know, like this stuff will technology and this stuff would advance, science will advance, like it will, and like it's all happening. We're all seeing it happen in front of our eyes, like because that, that, that ai stuff is insane. And even some, some, some, like hotels we go to now, even some fast food spots, it's like you don't need people, no more machines do it all yeah machines and robot do it all like people.
Speaker 1:You need less of people and no more machine. And don't get me wrong, I love technology.
Speaker 2:Uh, you know yes but it's gonna get scary to the point where technology is kind of like overpowering and it's crazy how it makes us want to like be home more, to kind of like everything is accessible so I'm just staying home, but we need the sunlight, like literally oh yeah it's crazy how, like we're uh, you know a place, maybe because of where we live, but we don't really get that much sunlight.
Speaker 2:But that affects our mood a lot of times, like everyone has seasonal depression in boston like it's a it's common, you know, and that's probably why we have a dunks in every corner, because it gives us like some type of dopamine or something like oh yeah, I got my coffee because we need something to, like you know, spike us up again, and it's but think about why depression is probably so high now.
Speaker 1:Yeah, the the levels of people that have you know anxiety, depression, why you're not leaving the house because, yeah, you're staying in your phones.
Speaker 1:You got your video games, you got your ai stuff, like there's no need of you leaving the house anymore. You want to buy something, amazon, you go whatever, just order it. You know there's no need of, there's no need of going out to the store, no more, you know? I mean like sometimes you gotta go to walmart or target and you don't go anymore because it's I'll just order it and they'll deliver it.
Speaker 2:What's a great solution? Everybody should just get dogs why? Oh yeah, because then you can walk them yeah honestly, it's crazy because I I like me, you know, I'm trying, I'm in a journey where I'm trying to really, like you know, take care of myself more and uh, and one thing I always see is always you know, don't you don't grab your phone, don't, don't let that be the first thing that you do in the morning is grab your phone and the majority of people.
Speaker 1:That's what they do, right? Yeah, you use your alarm and you shut off the alarm. And when you shut off the alarm, you see, you know what I got. The who who messaged me, or what message do I have?
Speaker 2:my email that's the first thing we go to so what I try to do is I I do shut off my alarm and then the first thing I do is take out my dog. Why? Because, if not, he will pee or, you know, do his thing in the house like he will he's petty so like he is just petty.
Speaker 2:He'll be like oh, you're not gonna take me out, I'm gonna do it like he's a jerk. So I'm like I rush, I rush, I don't even use the bathroom, I just put my pants on it and I run out and I walk him and I get that sunlight. Man, what a difference it's.
Speaker 1:It really is a difference, but you know but sunlight when it's kind of nice up. But yeah, when you get out and it's like dark still I know, and it's just cold.
Speaker 2:Speaking for the people who wake up early. Yeah see, look guys, look, I used to be a huge boston guy.
Speaker 1:For the guys that know me, it was like new england my whole life. I'm never leaving new england. I'm never leaving boston like I love this place. Like you know, I love the cold back in the day.
Speaker 1:Catch me go sledding or something in the snow yeah, when you're young you don't care about that much nah, like you know, I don't you know, if I, if I, if I get the chance to go somewhere warm like hawaii, why do you think tom brady moved? Yeah, but if I could stop it well, but if I, but if I had the chance. You know I can't the the cold now. It's just annoying sometimes and the warmth is nice and it feels good.
Speaker 1:That's why the sun is so important. You know what I mean and that's another thing you think of. I just have these crazy thoughts, which is like think about the sun. The sun is huge, like the sun literally lights up everything. I think about that night and day and a sun. It's so big that brights the whole earth, but then it doesn't burn us.
Speaker 2:If we were any bit closer to the sun, we would burn.
Speaker 1:The perfection of the solar system and the galaxies. It's so perfect. Everything just makes sense, it sits perfectly. And even if they say like if it was off by a little bit or something like, then everything would be destroyed, and you tell me, like how was that created? Right, someone powerful that says it just creates it with, with the power of their, of their words, because you can go through science and all you want, but all you're gonna, all that's gonna lead you, there's a bunch of little rabbit holding. You're never gonna find the answer, I know, and you can go to any biggest scientists in the world and they're gonna. No one can give you a clear answer how everything was kind of created.
Speaker 1:But I know it was created, you know, but it's crazy. And yeah, seasonal depression, that's a real thing. But I'm happy the good weather is coming back.
Speaker 2:Definitely getting off your phone and like going out in the sun and then adding in a prayer walk, something Like start, like affirmations, like speaking out loud, you know, Like I don't know. Things like that like have really helped me a lot, like I've really seen the change and and just, I've grown up here my whole life. So you know, I, I know I, I've been able to practice different things and I know what it feels like when I just wake up and I'm just scrolling on my phone and I haven't even left the house, yet you know what I mean.
Speaker 1:Like how you, how you, how you edifying your body, like how you edifying your your mind, your mind and everything you know. It's kind of like. It's like you're going nowhere. You know, we want to, we want to, we want to better ourselves yeah we want to better ourselves. We want to, yeah, and I think we have the ability to do that, but sometimes we just get lazy yeah, and even like, and I'm happy that the good weather's coming out because you could do a lot of that, but, yeah, yeah, we get lazy.
Speaker 1:There's no discipline. There really is no discipline, and that I feel like that's just so important to have.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I remember during COVID we would always order our food and I like to take advantage to get in the car and go out and grab it. You know you're going to see Stubbsons, something and somebody.
Speaker 1:I don't want to say their name right now, put them out there. But I'm not rich man, but uber eats is expensive.
Speaker 2:Sometimes it's like a flex getting uber eats because like yeah, I don't know why, and and what gets me more mad is when you order uber eats and it's the place like mcdonald's, and it's in the corner of our house it's around the corner and it's I just want.
Speaker 1:I just want it could be 12, 12 dollars to pick it up. They go there and get it, yeah, and we end up paying like two minute drive.
Speaker 2:You could probably walk there and get your work, your steps in for the day it's laziness it's true, it's laziness that's what it is.
Speaker 1:There's no nothing. You can't beat around it, like us, naturally, we just get lazy, and but that's the problem. We have everything at at access, like you know what I?
Speaker 2:mean when uber eats and door dash.
Speaker 1:All those things didn't exist. You had to get up and go get it like but that laziness is meant right.
Speaker 2:All this access things are accessible to us, right and laziness.
Speaker 1:It's meant to destroy us, yeah it's made to weaken our body.
Speaker 2:It's made it's made to make us feel like like you don't have to think about it. Just lay down, watch your show, press a button. It'll come to you like no more having to think for ourselves, no more having to like fix up because think about it if you're laying down on the couch and you're not moving, you're messing up your body.
Speaker 2:So then you start feeling lazy, like, oh, like I don't want to get off, like you know what I mean and and that's not the way that god intended us to be, like, honestly, it's not in in and, as a matter of fact, if you read like the proverbs, it talks a lot about that stuff, like how to be if you want to be you know wise, read proverbs and it really tells you how to, like, live a, a life where you will be successful, and it has worked.
Speaker 2:I've taken some tips from there and and am I perfect? No, not at all. But I would say that those things like come to my mind a lot of times when I'm feeling stuck and I'm starting to notice, like man, like I'm not going anywhere, like in my life I've been kind of lazy recently and then I think about those verses that have taught me a lot and I'm like, okay, let me legit proverbs.
Speaker 1:One literally says the proverbs of solomon, son of david, king of israel, for gaining wisdom and instruction, for understanding words of insight.
Speaker 2:Legit that like it tells you what it's for. Yeah, well, one of the verses say um and I'm not gonna remember where verses are but there's a verse that says that a person who, uh, neglects wisdom is a fool yeah, right there.
Speaker 1:It says the fear of the lord is the beginning of knowledge.
Speaker 1:But fools despise wisdom and instruction, yeah it's true, and look something like even in the military, um, coming up in the military, we were always taught, you know the chain of command. We always taught to like follow, follow orders, and I'm big on that. You know what I mean. If someone's like my, my boss, and even if you don't agree with your boss, it's your boss, you know what I mean. Like you gotta you gotta learn to, to respect the authority that is that is put upon you anywhere you go. You gotta you gotta learn to respect that and and and.
Speaker 1:Sometimes you know when I feel like if, because I remember like in school I was kind of like, you know, hot-headed sometimes and I have, I, you know, sometimes I have my smart remarks, I'm not gonna lie, I got my smart remarks and my smart comments sometimes, but if I didn't have god, I feel like he'll never. I feel like sometimes I want to say something smart and god kind of kind of puts like a tape on my mouth and kind of like hold it shut because sometimes it's not worth it. Sometimes it's not worth, you know, opening your mouth and now hurting the other person and now you're causing more problems and more damage. I don't think that's the way it should be. I think that's where the wisdom comes.
Speaker 1:And following the instruction and submitting, submitting it to your authority. You have to submit to your authority. God put them there for a reason. If you have a boss, I strongly believe that it's because God allowed that person to be your boss and you have to submit to that authority and God will have your back. But when you disrespect it, it's kind of like man, I hate it, man, I don't know. Sometimes if I see somebody that kind of like disrespects, like the, the boss or something I don't, I don't like that. For me, like you know, it's crazy that you compare that it's crazy that you compare that to work.
Speaker 2:But yeah, in a household, right, uh, in a family household, right, the the, the head of the household is the man yeah and sometimes, you know, as women we want, like, sometimes we tend to challenge our husbands and there's problems caused, right?
Speaker 2:but there's a bible verse in ephesians 5, 33 that says, however, let each one of you love his wife as himself and let the wife see that she respects her husband. So notice how it says let the wife see that she respects her husband. It doesn't say let the wife see that she loves her husband. Because, you know, like a woman is where her husband she's, she obviously loves him. But it's like respecting your authority, because in in, you know, the bible talks about man being the head of the household and women should respect the man and there's not something more a man loves more than when their wife respects them.
Speaker 2:And and I, I've seen that change when I started to respect you more and be more, you know, try to hold down my you know my mouth. And. And then I remember going to a conference and recently, actually, we went to a, uh, something called a youth rally and it was pretty much like a place that we go and and we worship god together, but then they broke us up into like three rooms where it's like single people, married couples and teenagers. So then I it was. It was one of my like first time going in a while, so I didn't really know what to expect.
Speaker 2:And when I went into that the marriage one it was super cool because, like I always felt like I have to like I don't know prove my point yeah I always have to prove my point for my point, especially to you, because you know I'm comfortable around you and I'm kind of like no, no, you're not gonna talk to me that way, and like you know all this stuff. And then one of the pastors said, uh, he was a pastor and he, he was the one leading the conference and he was saying that a woman shouldn't challenge her husband. Yeah, because then he's just gonna look at her as pretty much like a, uh, like a competition, yeah, like a man. He's not gonna. He's not gonna treat her like a female and be that loving, like the because now you're looking at like another man yeah, like another man, like, like, like, like like and this, this doesn't think.
Speaker 1:Oh well, now there was the woman less than the man. It's nothing to do with that and listen to this.
Speaker 2:He said no, he talked about that and and I remember it because I was just like whoa, super well said he said it's like thinking about your ears and your eyes which one would you rather lose? You know, of course, a lot of people will say, oh, I'd rather lose my ears because I want to see the world. But then when you think about it and you actually lose one or the other, you don't think about it that way. You need both them, you want both of them and they're equally needed, but they, um, they, they do different functions, just as a man and a woman that's fire right we have different functions. As a husband, you have a function, a job, and as a woman, I have a job.
Speaker 2:And this bible verse is saying man, love your woman yeah you know, because that's something guys tend some guys, not all guys, but some guys tend to be like really manly and tough and it's like you forget to be loving to your wife. You forget that. You know we're. You know a lot of females like we like to be treated with sweet words and like we like that gentleness and guys actually like that from a woman too, and that's why that verse is saying that a woman needs to respect her husband.
Speaker 1:It's because all'll guys be honest with me, all you guys that are listening, that are in relationships. You might be hard with your boys around, but you know you like being a little spoon when you're out, when you're in bed at night alone, like yeah everybody got that little, you know yeah, and the thing is that when there's not, when there's no communication or there's nobody like teaching you these stuff.
Speaker 2:Because, because think about how we started dating, since we were teenagers who guided us, you know who? Sat down and told us hey, jeffrey, this is how you, how you're supposed to treat her house, and this is the way you're supposed to treat a man.
Speaker 1:No, like we, you know we've learned this stuff on the, on the, on the way, yeah, like kind of messing up.
Speaker 2:You know me thinking I have to like I know you can't talk to me that way, I'm gonna fight back. And then it's like you know as we, you know we mature. And then we hear these teachings and it's like hey, like you if you want your husband to be more you know, lovable with you, then maybe you should start respecting him and seeing him as that head of the household, that authority, because that's what he is he is that authority and it's crazy how, like everything circles back, like everything in the Bible, right can be applied into your life in different forms.
Speaker 2:It starts at home and then the same thing at work. Same thing it's like okay, you know you have to respect your boss, no matter how annoying they can be, and you get that temptation to talk about them with your coworkers Because there's nothing more fun than me with your coworkers and talking about your job and stuff like that.
Speaker 2:And it's easy to point the finger about your boss until you're in that position, exactly because when you're in that position, it sucks to know that everybody hates you, because you know you're telling them that they had to do their job. But yeah it's just you know if we all can respect our authority, then that's facts, man.
Speaker 1:You gotta yeah, you gotta respect the authority that's been given to you. You know you need it. You need authority. At the end of the day, nobody yeah, I don't think anybody can really live life there will be no order without having some type of authority over them, yeah, there'll be no order.
Speaker 1:You know, everybody gotta have some type of authority over you and and wherever you are, like if you're listening to this and your boss may has been maybe stressing you out, your manager's been stressing you out, you know. Ask god, like yo, help me out with this, with this, with this with this boss, with this manager, like you know, let me submit to the authority of this person and, and it just becomes less stressful, yeah, you know, because, at the end of the day, you know you, you gotta know your place and one day, like you said right, if, if the opportunity comes up, god can put you in that position and
Speaker 1:imagine how bad it would look that if, if you, if you just down talk your bosses and now you get there, now everybody else is gonna like down talk you. You know it looks bad, yeah, but I feel like if you lift your your bosses and then the opportunity ends up coming for you, then the people that that that were under you uplift you as well.
Speaker 1:And it can be hard, it can be very stressful. It can be very hard because sometimes, depending on the business that you're in, some things can be very, very stressful and you have to be like in your mind, you have to be mentally strong because you can't let anything just trigger you.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I remember when I would go through mentally strong because you can't let anything just just trigger you. Like, yeah, I remember, uh, when, when I will go through like really tough situations, I remember someone telling me like, instead of asking like, why to god, why did you let this happen to me? Ask why, what do you want me to learn from this? Right, so I started to apply that to like people around me, like how, how I'd react to people, the way people treat me. So you know betrayal with friends, or you know someone just you know family member talking a certain way to me or, uh, anything, right, like the way people treated me, instead of me seeing myself as a victim. Like people treat me bad or you know this and that I would. I would think about it like, what do you want me to learn from from this situation? So, if I just got into like an argument with somebody and you know I got offended, I would ask myself, okay, why does that comment affect me so much? And trying to really understand that person. Like, you know, we don't know what that person is going through. Maybe they had a bad day.
Speaker 2:Like we're so quick to like point a finger, like especially, like like us women, like we have so many emotions, like we you know we run by hormones. Like you know, one minute we're like, one week we're super happy, another week we're super sad and and sometimes it's like not taking things so personal and and forgiven and being able to understand, like yeah, you know we can't justify all actions, but it's like, okay, maybe I have to learn to be more forgiven and maybe I need to learn to be more, um, patient, and there were gonna be customers, family members who test our patience. But those situations, being in those situations grow those characteristics in us and we will become more patient later and on in life. Later on in life we learn to be more patient because of those circumstances. So it's like every time you're, you're, you're in like a tough pickle, I don't know like you're in a oh like, stop for a second ask like what can I learn from this?
Speaker 2:yeah, you know, I don't, maybe. Maybe this is mirroring how you behave.
Speaker 1:That's another thing. Like you say, like, guys, every situation that you go through it's for a reason, even the worst ones to the best ones. Every situation you go to it's a learning experience for you. Look at it that way. Don't look at it as like, oh, this is the worst thing ever, like, how do I get out of this situation? What can I do? Right, so now, next time it happens, one, you already know what to do because you've been through something like this. Or maybe in the future someone needs your advice. And now you've already been through the situation, you're able to help this person through it. That's your advice. And now you've already been through the situation, you're able to help this person through it. That's, that's what we gotta do. We gotta help each other. Like, not nobody, not one person's better than the other, the other is better than than the other. I try to be the most like, I guess, humble as I can.
Speaker 1:You know, maybe back in the day I probably wasn't I'm not, I'm not even gonna, I'm not even gonna lie to you. Like you know, back in the day I probably wasn't. I'm not even gonna, I'm not even gonna lie to you. Like you know, back in the day, you know, I had that feeling of, like you know, as a man, we always want to be the best, we want to be number one, but but now it's not. Man, you know, I like to put other people before me, and you know that and you know that's true. Like I've, I would sacrifice a lot of myself for, for, for the happiness of another person yeah that's just who I am and I might look serious and angry like, but I'm really not.
Speaker 1:I really do have a big heart, like I do, and I'm willing to help everybody. And am I gonna mess up? Am I gonna do things wrong sometimes? Am I gonna slip up? Yes, because I feel like sometimes in life we just we're trying to, because you're human, yeah because we mess up because we're human yeah, sometimes we want to like experience.
Speaker 1:How to, how is this, you know? Or how's that? You want to experience all these things and and then you realize, like I'm so dumb, like what am I doing? Like, and it's like, at the end of the day, it's like it doesn't. You know what I mean, you, you like. That's why you have to have that discipline. I guess that's why discipline is so important, because you have to let your no be no and your yes be yes. You know, you can't be, you can't be like, uh, like, like, like, uh.
Speaker 1:I I actually did this in my preaching recently was like you know, a man in this, this life without a purpose is like a ship without a rudder. So, basically, like you know the rudder, the thing that guides you. Like you know, you get pushed by everything. You're not really being guided. You need that discipline. You know what I mean. And even proverbs like 12 1 even says whoever loves discipline, loves knowledge, but whoever hates correction is stupid. That's literally how it says it, like one of the one of the translations yeah, the bible could be harsh sometimes whoever loves discipline loves knowledge, but whoever hates correction is stupid yeah man, you gotta be willing.
Speaker 1:You know how many times people have corrected me and like thank god for the military because I I'm able to like not take things too serious and actually receive these these corrections like get something like angry in you. To be correct some people, anybody like I don't know some people are so prideful yeah you try to correct them and they think, like, who are you to correct me?
Speaker 2:And it's like I think it's because sometimes, at least for me, it's like I'm trying my best, you know, and someone corrects me. I'm kind of like man, like I can't be perfect, you know what I mean so.
Speaker 2:I understand why people get upset about that, but I mean we need that correction. It'll be the only way we're going to learn and any way we're gonna learn and also, like what? Uh, even the the times that we do mess up. It's important to talk about those times that we mess up because that experience and, going back to you know, everything that happens in our life has a you know, happens for a reason, even when we mess up that talking about that experience will help somebody else that might be falling into that situation, like you know, messing up and some. And that's why I like volunteering to work with, uh, with the younger generation, because you know anyone who's like a teenager, because I like talking about my experiences, like I messed up a lot as a teenager, I made a lot of mistakes, and I like to let them know.
Speaker 2:Like hey, like not everything is as it seems out there like you know, it might look fun like to try this and try that, but it all comes with a price yeah and it's not really gonna bring anything right for you, at least in the moment. Yeah, of course, like it's gonna be fun in the moment, but then five, ten years go by and you're kind of like damn, like like how do you become addicted to drugs?
Speaker 1:yeah, you need to try it yeah, you need to try.
Speaker 2:it takes one time to try it and then maybe you were in your feelings that day. You know you just got into a breakup. Let me just drink.
Speaker 1:Let me just try it. And the next thing you know, you're like wow, yeah. I love it and now you're addicted. Now it's like 10 years old and you can't stop.
Speaker 2:And I hear people say, oh yeah, I super good, like you're lucky, but it's rare. But there are some people who you know struggle with that and and I understand that struggle and and just being able, if being able to get out of that addiction of, you know, drinking and smoking, being able to get out of that addiction, like it was really hard, and being able to just like talk about my experience to other people, at least the younger ones that are coming. You know. You know now you know things are like weed, for example, like that's available to people who are now.
Speaker 1:It's just just go, it's in every corner in our city.
Speaker 2:It's in every corner now like a, like a dispensary and all you need is your id. But when we were growing up that was illegal, so so it was always looked that bad like yeah, but now it's like you know, those lines are like long and it's kind of like okay, that's you gotta get the dealer.
Speaker 2:You had to be all sneaky about it, it's like we know how hard it is to get out of it, but you know, it's like hey, like right now it's gonna be given to you so easily, like hey it wasn't easy, like I've had people that say they could, oh, I could just stop you can't.
Speaker 1:Yeah, we used to say that all the time how many times I used to say that, yeah, you could just, and then, oh, yeah, well, I'm different, okay, then stop, yeah, stop. Do it for real, really stop. Let's see how long it goes. Yeah, maybe you can make it up to a month, maybe, but your, but your, your flesh is gonna want it.
Speaker 2:No, even years, I I've even taken like years of breaks and trying it again and I think that I not going to like it because it's been years, but no, it still makes me feel that, like you know, I don't know something. It makes me feel that, and every day I have to make a decision, not to do it. Every day. It takes time in my mind, I mean. Eventually there comes to a point where you don't really think about it anymore.
Speaker 2:But there was a time in my life where I would say, every single day, I have to fight it, fight, fight, fight. And man, that's a lot of work. It's a lot of work that could be avoided.
Speaker 1:But it's possible. So everybody that's listening, anything that you guys really want to put your mind to, it's possible. You just need to have that discipline, you know, have that discipline and and man, I just you know discipline is the key to success, literally in every single aspect.
Speaker 2:You want to do a career, discipline yourself to study. You want to be healthy or you know discipline to work out every day like discipline to you know, want to be good at a sport.
Speaker 1:Discipline to practice.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:Anything you do to be better, you need to be disciplined. It's super important If you want knowledge. You got to discipline yourself and it's hard sometimes.
Speaker 2:It's hard because you have to say no to what your body wants.
Speaker 1:In reality, it's what your body wants, because sometimes my body would want to just go relax, watch some netflix and next, you know, I watched a whole series of suits in like one day, especially when you work long hours like you come home. You don't want to do nothing yeah, you're so mentally drained you just want to go to sleep, shower, eat and you feel like your body deserves it like I worked all day.
Speaker 2:Like I deserve to go just lay down. But then it's kind of like okay, take our cross. You're gonna take lift up, also investing in yourself right like that, like think about it, that's only gonna benefit my body, so that when I'm 80 I'm able to, like you know, lift things and do this and that and, but you know it's again.
Speaker 2:Discipline is yeah it's hard, but it's possible, and it's just starting with small stuff. Literally that's it. Just one thing, one tiny thing that you can start adding to your daily life, that you're able to start doing every day. It'll be a cool improvement to maybe something even more difficult that you really want to stop or start.
Speaker 1:So so yeah, guys, man, it's possible. I encourage you. And if you never read the bible and you want some words of wisdom, read the proverbs. Just go in there, read the first couple of sentences, just google it just yeah google it, proverbs, and, and just read about it.
Speaker 1:You know what I mean. Let don't take, don't take it from me, like, whatever I say, like, oh, you know, you experience it for yourself. Try it out, try it out, have, have, try to. Maybe you don't believe in god and you don't believe in that? Fine, just go read.
Speaker 2:Yeah, go read, and proverbs was the first book that I read when I came back to church, actually, and I read it because I wanted to read something that was going to help me. I don't know just better myself and that's what it was, and I knew because of growing up in church back in the day. I knew that Proverbs was meant for that, but I liked that. I did that because it was the foundation of my Christian life in a way, because it would be literally like hey, remember this, remember that, and it was cool.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and everybody. If you want to better yourself in life and move up, the Bible can really help you.
Speaker 2:It really can.
Speaker 1:It really like test it, read it and you'll see how, like you start like realizing, like you like communicating with god and and you want to prosper in life and move up in life, that that is going to be a big help and usually it's more than likely successful. Yeah, you could do it out of your own will and everything.
Speaker 2:Of course, there's people that do it understandable yeah, you don't need to, but sometimes those that do it they're like oh I don't need.
Speaker 1:I don't need advice you know, some people like that, that like that they don't need it, they think they don't need to. But sometimes those that do it.
Speaker 2:They're like, oh, I don't need advice.
Speaker 1:Some people that like that they think they don't need advice on that. No, they know it all.
Speaker 2:Everybody needs some type of advice, so you just got to be willing to take it.
Speaker 1:So, yeah, I mean I invite you guys, man, it was a very interesting conversation Started with El Salvador, but it's very interesting stuff, man, man, like what's going on in this world, and it's just to keep our eyes open, like we'll get. We'll get into more, more things later on, deeper into certain subjects, but but, yeah, you know, I believe that you know, one day we're all meant to be happy and saved and and I believe also there's someone that's evil, that wants to destroy this world and destroy everything that we have and stick us that into some type of like cycle of just like eat, sleep, repeat type stuff, and and that ain't it, that ain't the way to go for me. But yeah, man, man, I appreciate y'all for listening. I love y'all, man. Thank you, it's been amazing and I don't know you have any last words babe?
Speaker 2:Yeah, just hope all goes well for everybody listening and hopefully that you know you can grab something from this conversation and, you know, just hoping that we're able to reach somebody out there that needed to hear something positive.
Speaker 1:Yes, ma'am, yes, ma'am, yes, ma'am. But all right then everybody, hey, I love y'all. Thank you for listening. Y'all are amazing. Don't forget to look up jeff's world on instagram. Feel free to message me any questions, doubts I'm here and I'll reply. Any questions, doubts I'm here and I'll reply. But listen in share with your friends. Thank you all and God bless you all everywhere you guys go. See you later, guys.