The Power of Choice: Reclaiming Your Agency and Creating Your Ultimate Life

You were born powerful. So why do you still feel stuck?
In this solo episode of Your Ultimate Life, Kellan Fluckiger pulls back the curtain on what really keeps people stuck in mediocrity, stress, and self-doubt. It's not your circumstances. It's not even the people around you. It's your choices—and the stories you tell about them.
You’ll discover:
- The hidden impact of perfectionism, resentment, and victim energy.
- How to break the cycle of helplessness and reclaim agency.
- A daily creation ritual to stay in your power.
- The “Twas I, 'Tis Not I” principle for owning your past without being defined by it.
Make one unapologetic, game-changing decision today—and watch your entire life shift.
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00:00 - Untitled
00:05 - The Shift from Hype to Truth
07:10 - The Power of Choice: Reclaiming Your Agency
13:09 - The Power of Choice and Purpose
20:20 - Understanding Your True Identity Beyond Circumstances
27:46 - Owning Your Past and Changing Who You Are
31:05 - The Power of Choice and Daily Rituals
Welcome to the show.
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Speaker AWelcome to your ultimate life, the podcast created for you to create a life of purpose, prosperity and joy.
Speaker AI had a wonderful opportunity this morning to conduct a class.
Speaker AI wasn't even really a class for about 25 people or 22 or something.
Speaker AAnd it was just magic.
Speaker AIt was a bunch of eager people who are adding good to the world in great and fabulous ways.
Speaker AAnd you know, when we talk, I talk about that a lot.
Speaker AAnd so for a second, this is the second part.
Speaker ARemember I told you I was doing a four part series and the overall title is from stuck to soaring.
Speaker ARight?
Speaker AStuck to soaring meaning getting out of the swamp and getting in the air.
Speaker ACreating whatever you want.
Speaker ASo why would I talk all the time about adding good to the world?
Speaker AWell, here's the truth.
Speaker AWe go to sleep every night and we wake up and whatever we do is what we add to the world.
Speaker AIf I wake up and I get frustrated because I've got too many emails or I get an email that's negative news, or I look, I turn on the, you know, television or thumb through Apple News or something and see some headlines that bother me, suddenly I am in a negative space.
Speaker AI've got negative energy.
Speaker AYou know that you've done it.
Speaker AWhat am I adding to the world?
Speaker AI'm adding negative energy.
Speaker AThe headlines are the headlines.
Speaker AI interpret them in a negative way.
Speaker ASo I decide I'm upset.
Speaker AThose stupid and I, you know, I carry that energy.
Speaker AIf I have a partner, then I've infected them with that energy.
Speaker ADon't you think that was really dumb?
Speaker AAnd you know, whatever we're going to talk about, right?
Speaker ASo conscious consciousness about what you're adding to the world and one of the biggest lies is.
Speaker ADoesn't make any difference, doesn't matter.
Speaker AI'm just one person.
Speaker AI'm in the privacy of my own room.
Speaker AThat is a gigantic lie.
Speaker AAnd it's not.
Speaker AIt might be told from a lot of reasons.
Speaker AOne is I don't want to take responsibility.
Speaker ATwo, maybe I'm just completely unaware.
Speaker AWhen I put negativity in the world, it's there.
Speaker AAnd what that means is I have a choice about what I put into the world, into the atmosphere, into the energy field, into the woo woo, whatever you want to call it.
Speaker AI have a choice about what I put in there.
Speaker AAnd if you think it doesn't matter, think again.
Speaker AAnd that's why I say add good to the world.
Speaker AIn that class I taught early this morning, there was a lady in there who's been a private client off and on for several years, and she said something that just tickled me.
Speaker AIt was unexpected.
Speaker AShe said, you know, one of the things that you, Kellen said long time ago that stuck with me forever is how are you adding good to the world?
Speaker AAnd that's a question I ask a lot.
Speaker AIf you watch a lot of episodes, you've seen me ask guests that all the time.
Speaker AAnd I asked her the same question these many months or years ago, and she said, it's just stuck with her like.
Speaker AAnd then she said, I think about that now every single morning.
Speaker ANow, I want you to just think about this for a sec.
Speaker AWhat do you.
Speaker AWhat difference do you think it makes in that woman's life?
Speaker ABecause she's saying, I think every morning.
Speaker AWhat.
Speaker AWhat am I going to do today to add good to the world?
Speaker ALike, you know, there's some choices we don't have.
Speaker AIf we breathe, we add carbon dioxide.
Speaker AFortunately, the Creator made it so that, you know, plants, you know, turn that cycle around, use carbon dioxide and produce oxygen, and that's a, you know, piece of the divine design of the.
Speaker AOf the planet.
Speaker AOr we'd all croak, but energetically, emotionally, with our language, with our attitude.
Speaker AYou've been around people that you go in where they are and you just feel nobody has to say anything, and you're like, ooh, stay away from them.
Speaker AOr on the other hand, it's really positive, inviting and loving and open, and nobody said a word.
Speaker AAnd we know that.
Speaker ASo the idea that we add good or not good, anger, evil, frustration, negativity, fear to the world by how we think, what we believe, what we say, what we emote is.
Speaker AIs not a fancy.
Speaker AIt is a fact.
Speaker ANow, armed with that fact, that puts you and me in a position to make choices.
Speaker ANow, one choice is, I don't give a crap.
Speaker AI'm just going to add.
Speaker AAdd to the world whatever I feel like at the moment, I'm not going to pay any attention to it.
Speaker AThat's a choice.
Speaker AIt's not a very empowering choice, because then what I'm doing is giving all the circumstances around me sovereignty over my life.
Speaker AEverything makes me feel like make makes me is the operative word, right?
Speaker AMakes me feel like whatever it does.
Speaker AAnd then blue.
Speaker AI add that to the world.
Speaker AOr I can choose to add negative Stuff to the world.
Speaker AI can be angry, ruminating over a slight or an insult or an injury or an illness and add negativity to the world.
Speaker AMaybe I'm in the hospital, I was remember several years ago for quite some time, and there were times when I did not remember and I was to add good to the world.
Speaker AAnd I was so frustrated about my own pain and stuff that I complained.
Speaker ANot a lot, not heavily, but even if I had, I was adding burden to those nurses and other orderlies and stuff that are already doing a very difficult job.
Speaker AAnd I was heaping that on them because I chose to be more focused on my own stuff.
Speaker ASo I'm.
Speaker AI'm urging you in every episode to choose.
Speaker ABe conscious of what you add to the world and choose it.
Speaker AAnd choose good.
Speaker AAdd good to the world.
Speaker AAdd smiles, add happiness, add friendship, add trust, add love, add kindness, add helping, add your own excellence and expertise.
Speaker AIn two weeks from when I record this, when you see it, it'll be over.
Speaker ABut two weeks from two weeks from now, I'm going to conduct a book challenge where I'm going to teach people about how to identify their stories and then help them, invite them to write, to organize and write a book about their life journey, not as a memoir, but as a tool to mine super valuable resources that they can offer to the world.
Speaker ASo this series, from stuck to soaring, episode one that we did was a couple ago.
Speaker AIt was before the last guest and that was the hidden cost of settling why good enough's holding you back.
Speaker AToday I want to talk about the power of choice.
Speaker AReclaiming your agency.
Speaker AExcuse me.
Speaker AAnd I've set that up just like you see, by talking about the fact that we choose what we add to the world.
Speaker ANow, this sign behind me, if you're watching the video, says, escape the prison of perfectionism.
Speaker AThat is just one tiny aspect of how we choose to add our energy, creativity and love or negativity, fear and the opposite kind of stuff to the world.
Speaker AWhen I'm being a perfectionist, and this is not always true, but 99% plus, it's because I'm afraid to finish.
Speaker AI did that in the recording studio a lot.
Speaker AIt was the myth among recording engineers about the one true mix, which is the, you know, mixing a song is, you know, bass and drums and piano and strings, whatever it is, getting the right levels and getting the vocals centered and in front and all the kind of things that are technical wizardry that you do with the mixing board and effects and all that stuff.
Speaker AAnd so the idea was if it were perfect, you know you'd have the one true mix.
Speaker AAnd the real truth is there's no such thing.
Speaker AAnd the reason is because everybody's ears are different.
Speaker AThe minute you move from the studio speakers, which are perfectly balanced, aligned, EQ'd and everything else to the room and you take it to a car, a boombox or anything, it sounds a little different.
Speaker AAnd even if you do a great mix so that it sounds good on all of them, there's no such thing as the one true mix.
Speaker AThe reason that's important right now with respect to this perfectionism thing is because if you spend forever trying to get the one true mix, you're never going to get your work done, never going to get the album finished, you're never going to get the songs done.
Speaker AAnd you know what?
Speaker AWhether people like your stuff or not, whether your songs take off or set a new trend or get a lot of streams or anything or not depends way less than you think as an engineer on the mix.
Speaker AIt depends on his song.
Speaker AI mean, it can't be crappy mix with something way too loud.
Speaker ABut you know, there's a big range in there that's the one true mix.
Speaker ABecause of different speakers and different genres and all that kind of stuff, our lives are the same way.
Speaker AWe talked about settling addiction to mediocrity last time.
Speaker ANow I want to talk about what's next.
Speaker AIf you choose, you're not settling.
Speaker AYou're not settling for the easy and obvious.
Speaker AYou're not going to go the easy route and settle for mediocrity.
Speaker AAnd you're going to say, I'm going to not let perfectionism slow me down.
Speaker AI'm not going to.
Speaker AAnd how this plays out.
Speaker AI coach businesses, a lot of businesses, and we'll talk about marketing.
Speaker AWell, it's not quite ready.
Speaker AThe copy's got to be better, the ads got to be a little better, the photo's got to be better, the graphics got to be better.
Speaker AMaybe it does.
Speaker ABut you know what the fastest way to find the improvements are?
Speaker APut it out there, split test to do two different things and see what resonates.
Speaker ASo execute, action, move.
Speaker AAnd you know the fun part that is completely within your choice.
Speaker ADon't know why I have such a bug today.
Speaker ABut anyway, the chute, the choice to act is always there.
Speaker AThere are days when I'm doing shows or going to interview somebody or be interviewed or whatever, when I feel more alive, a light aligned, whatever that is, than others.
Speaker AAnd I could say, well, you know, it's not the right time.
Speaker AI never do that.
Speaker AAnd the reason is because I have a message for you.
Speaker AAnd the message is you are divine.
Speaker AEven if you live a little or a lot in this swamp and the mud in the swamp is learned helplessness where you believe you can't do anything anyway.
Speaker AIt's addiction to mediocrity where you just settle for these and obvious because it's too hard or too much is against you and lots of other reasons.
Speaker AAnd a victim mindset where we blame everything.
Speaker AEverything's happening to me.
Speaker AWhy does it, you know that kind of thing that's being stuck in the mud?
Speaker ABecause if that's that cement around your shoes or the mud around your shoes or mine, we're not going to make much progress.
Speaker ANow, you know all that.
Speaker AThe other end of that rainbow, the place you can get to is the pot of gold.
Speaker AAnd the pot of gold is where you have fierce life ownership.
Speaker AYou recognize and acknowledge you are sovereign.
Speaker AAnd the second characteristic up there is radical excellence.
Speaker ANow, radical excellence isn't compared to everybody else.
Speaker ARadical excellence is a self determined level where you've done absolutely everything you knew you could do.
Speaker AIf it turns out not to be enough, that's okay, you can do it again.
Speaker AYou can make changes and so forth.
Speaker AThe thing that makes it get stuck in the meantime is we make that mean something about us.
Speaker AI suck.
Speaker AIt didn't work, therefore I suck.
Speaker AThat's not true.
Speaker AIt didn't work.
Speaker AMaybe the facts, it didn't sell.
Speaker AI didn't get the job, I didn't get the opportunity, whatever, but it is not a personal indictment.
Speaker AThe only failure is when we quit trying.
Speaker AYou only, you only die when you quit trying.
Speaker AYou only fail when you give up.
Speaker ANow all of those things and the third word up there.
Speaker ASo it's a fierce life ownership, radical excellence and a commitment or a passion to serve.
Speaker AWe're built as humans to love and serve each other.
Speaker AYou've heard me say that a lot of time, a lot of times.
Speaker ABut you know what?
Speaker AYou know that's true because of how good you feel when you're doing stuff for people.
Speaker AYou go help a friend move, you help somebody at the store.
Speaker AYou do it just feels good.
Speaker AGo work in the soup kitchen, whatever.
Speaker AThere's a thousand little and big ways to do that.
Speaker AAnd it makes us feel good.
Speaker AConnected, loving, unified as a human family.
Speaker ANow today is the power of choice reclaiming your agency.
Speaker AAnd we've just given a whole bunch of examples of where the, the choice is the fundamental determinant of Growth.
Speaker ABecause if I live with a victim mindset, I'm never going to rise above that.
Speaker AIf I live with an addiction to mediocrity, I'm not going to get very far.
Speaker ALearned helplessness.
Speaker ALike I said, it's learned.
Speaker AAn infant doesn't have that.
Speaker AA toddler, fearless.
Speaker AI remember one of my sons at a bookshelf in the, in the kit or living room that had somebody build a friend, two of them.
Speaker AAnd it went all the way up to the ceiling, right?
Speaker AAnd so there were several shelves in it.
Speaker AAnd I did it because I loved collecting books.
Speaker AAnd so I had a lot of them.
Speaker AAnd one day I came in there and found my son.
Speaker AHe'd climbed and, you know, he's a toddler, I don't remember exactly how old, but not very old.
Speaker AAnd he climbed up to the third or fourth shelf, way high enough that it, you know, could have hurt him, fall down, especially if he'd fallen on the piano bench or corner of a table or something.
Speaker ANo fear at all.
Speaker ASo these are all learned behaviors.
Speaker ASo let's look at some truths, let's look at some principles that are designed to help you.
Speaker ABecause remember, we're here to create your ultimate life, a life of driven by purpose.
Speaker AAnd if you don't have that, let's talk.
Speaker AI'm not going to do that right now, but reach out to me.
Speaker AYou see here on the URL, the screen.
Speaker AHelenfluecigermedia.com Go there.
Speaker AThere's a contact form.
Speaker ALet's talk.
Speaker ABecause if you don't feel like you know and have your life's purpose and it doesn't feel powerful and driving you, then let's fix that.
Speaker ABecause there's nothing more happy, satisfying, driving, energizing than to have a life purpose and to be focused and clear on it.
Speaker ASo the ultimate life purpose, prosperity and joy.
Speaker ANow, one way that people say that is do what you love and the money will follow.
Speaker AAbout the prosperity piece.
Speaker AAnd that's true, sort of.
Speaker AThere are guidelines and boundaries about that because everybody starts in a different place with or without certain skills and with or without certain commitments they've already made.
Speaker ALike if you've got family or kids or other things.
Speaker ASo it's true and it's powerful and good advice and sometimes there's a ramp or a transition.
Speaker APurpose, prosperity and joy.
Speaker AMy deepest wish for you is that you live day to day a life that is full of purpose, prosperity and joy.
Speaker AAnd do you know why I, I live that way?
Speaker AEvery day of my life is full of purpose and that has created prosperity financially and in relationships to my dear angel wife, to my God.
Speaker AMy clients and I have some relationships that are still under, you know, under construction.
Speaker ABut I live hopeful and joyful.
Speaker ASo I live with purpose, prosperity and joy every day, no exceptions.
Speaker AAnd I also remember vividly and painfully how it was to not have any of that.
Speaker AAnd I remember vividly and powerfully exactly things that I did to get from one end of the rainbow, addiction to mediocrity, learned helplessness and victim mindset to the, to the other end, where the pot of gold is fierce, life ownership, where you know and own the truth that you create every aspect of your life, radical excellence and a passion for service.
Speaker ASo let's go over these things that might help you.
Speaker AOne truth that will help you grab back the steering wheel of your life is you are not your circumstances.
Speaker AYou're not your circumstances.
Speaker ASometimes we identify with that.
Speaker ASo let's say you're broke, you lost your job, you're living in a small place and you're wondering where your rent is going to come from.
Speaker AI'm just making that up.
Speaker ABut I know right this minute there's people hearing this to feel that way.
Speaker ASo let's say that's true for you.
Speaker AIf you say, I am my circumstances, I'm a loser.
Speaker AI can't even keep a job.
Speaker AI can't keep a roof over my head.
Speaker AI'm a loser.
Speaker AI can't do this.
Speaker AThat kind of thinking leads to drinking or other substances it leaves to ruin.
Speaker AIt leads to ruining relationships.
Speaker AIt can lead to much, much darker places too.
Speaker AIf you, if you repeat that you, that you that's in you is a divine spark, a divine being, a divine spirit.
Speaker AYou may have this moment be right in the middle of some hard circumstances like we listed.
Speaker AMaybe you're ill, maybe you're out of money, or maybe you're worried about, you know, how long the job you've got is going to last.
Speaker AThere's a hundred thousand variations of that theme.
Speaker AAll of them, there's two parts to them.
Speaker AOne is the actual external circumstances and 2 is the choice that you make about what they mean.
Speaker ANow, I want you to let that land for a minute.
Speaker AThink right now, for a moment where you are identifying with your circumstances.
Speaker AThe positive ones are true also.
Speaker ASo let's say you've had some good fortune, or you've done some really good work, you got a great job, or your business is doing well and you make well and you make a boatload of cash.
Speaker ASo then you say, I am Joe cool or Jane cool, Because I got all this money and I know how to create cash and I'm better than.
Speaker AYeah, I'm all that.
Speaker AThat's not true either.
Speaker AYou're still a divine being.
Speaker AYou're a divine being who's trying and accomplishing some good things.
Speaker ABut you and I both know if the economy changed or a weather disaster struck or.
Speaker AOr some war or other government thing took place that fast, I want you to think back to 2008, which for some of you is a long time ago.
Speaker AFor me, it's not that long.
Speaker A2008, when the real estate and things crashed terribly in America and it affected countries all over the world.
Speaker ABut it was a horrific crash.
Speaker AYou know, bad, bad loans bunched up together and, you know, all of the reasons.
Speaker AOvervalued real estate, too easy of lending policies, lack of collateralization in banks.
Speaker AA whole bunch of reasons.
Speaker ASo overnight.
Speaker AI personally have friends, several.
Speaker AI can think of many, some of which have been guests on either this show or LA Talk Radio, who lost everything in that 2008 crash.
Speaker AAnd they went from wealthy to bankrupt, busted, and with nothing.
Speaker AIn about a week or a month, literally everything changed.
Speaker ADid that change who they were?
Speaker AWere they cool one day, in a dirt bag the next?
Speaker ANo.
Speaker AThe circumstances around them changed.
Speaker AAnd to the extent we let our circumstances define us, it robs us.
Speaker AIt makes us stupid.
Speaker AIt robs us of creativity to deal with the unfortunate circumstance.
Speaker ASo remember, you're not your circumstance, okay?
Speaker AYour power, the power of a divine being to create, doesn't come from your circumstance.
Speaker AIt comes from inside of you.
Speaker ANow, I realize that might be hard to internalize, but part of the process that I had to go through was learning how to hear and recognize and act on intuition and inspiration.
Speaker AThe divine God wants you and me to succeed.
Speaker ANow, his definition of success goes through some swamps and tough things, presumably because he's trying to make the most out of us.
Speaker AIf we just sail through with nothing difficult, then we haven't been refined at all.
Speaker AAnd there's nothing much to speak of.
Speaker AIf we get tested in the, you know, furnace of affliction, there's a lot that happens to us by how we decide to deal with that.
Speaker ASo the second one is the idea of choice versus compulsion.
Speaker AForce.
Speaker AChoice versus force.
Speaker AAnd I'll give you an example of language I want you to listen to in your own life.
Speaker ADo you say, ever I gotta do this?
Speaker AI'd love to, but I have to hafta H A F T A hafta and other version I gotta do this.
Speaker AI have no choice.
Speaker ATo know that kind of language, where you feel experience in your body is you've got some kind of obligation and you're not happy about it, you know what that means?
Speaker AObligation is a, is a, can be and often is a terrible word because it brings with it the seeds of resentment.
Speaker AI have to do that almost always means I'd rather be doing something else.
Speaker AWell, I'm going to invite you to do something crazy.
Speaker AEmpty your calendar, take everything out, cancel everything you think you have to do, period.
Speaker AAnd then.
Speaker AAnd you can do this in an hour.
Speaker AI don't mean to, you know, wreck the world, but if you take everything off your calendar and everything out of your checkbook and all the bills and everything, and then go back and look at them and make this choice, which ones am I committed to fulfilling?
Speaker APay my mortgage payment, be faithful to my spouse, do a good job serving my clients, be a good example for my kids.
Speaker AAnd the difference is this obligation is something that you feel like you have to do and you want to do something else.
Speaker AA commitment is something you choose to do and you have the opportunity in that choice to lean into it with all your heart.
Speaker ASo you may put many of the same things or all the same things back on your calendar, but if you turn them into commitments instead of obligations, it's going to change the energy.
Speaker AYou're going to do a better job, and you're not going to feel exhausted and tired and it's going to feel more like your authentic self.
Speaker ASo that is a choice you can make.
Speaker AEither quit doing something, bail out, stop, or turn it into a commitment that you're proud and honored to keep and then keep it as best you can.
Speaker ANumber three, I want you to think about micro decisions because when we talk about we each create the circumstances of our lives, it feels like we're talking about, you know, Mount Everest and big things.
Speaker ANo, we're actually not.
Speaker AWe're talking about the moment to moment, second to second decisions that we make.
Speaker ASo I'll give you an example.
Speaker AWhen I was in the hospital that I referred to earlier and I was frustrated with nursing or how I was feeling.
Speaker AI don't actually remember individual circumstances, but I remember the feeling.
Speaker AI know for sure that I made their job harder and it was less fun for them to take care of me, to answer my questions, to, you know, answer the call button and all the rest.
Speaker ASo those individual tiny decisions and add up to something, you know, the story of the hole in the dike told in the Netherlands There's a hole in the dike, you know, you plug it with your finger and if you don't, the water washes away more and suddenly it's a flood.
Speaker AYou know, it takes.
Speaker AIt escalates very quickly.
Speaker AYou also know that an argument.
Speaker AGet in an argument with somebody and people escalate.
Speaker AOne sentence, one sentence, one sentence.
Speaker APretty soon it's gone from mild disagreement to full out nuclear war in the relationship.
Speaker AAnd you know what I'm talking about.
Speaker ASo your micro decisions is what shapes your destiny.
Speaker AAnd it isn't only the things you do, it's also the things you choose to ignore.
Speaker ASo pay attention to.
Speaker AI have a phrase that I use a lot.
Speaker ANotice and choose.
Speaker ASharpen your notice muscle.
Speaker ALike a.
Speaker ANotice what the words are in your own head.
Speaker AHow are you talking to yourself?
Speaker AHow are you talking to others?
Speaker ANotice and then make choices.
Speaker AWait a minute.
Speaker AI don't want to say that.
Speaker AEven if you say something.
Speaker AWait a minute.
Speaker ALet's take that back.
Speaker AThat was stupid.
Speaker ALet's give me a redo.
Speaker ALike choose so that the impression, the energetic aftertaste that you or I leave in somebody's mouth is what you mean it to be.
Speaker AThat is choice, powerful.
Speaker AAnd it's one you can make right now.
Speaker AAnd you can start a new habit right this minute.
Speaker AIf you rag on yourself in your head, quit.
Speaker AIf you rag on other people, if you're a complainer, quit.
Speaker ASubstitute positivity and love.
Speaker AIt changes relationships and it also changes how you feel.
Speaker AThe fourth one is every one of us has a past.
Speaker AEvery one of us has skeletons.
Speaker ALittle tiny ones or great big ones in the closet.
Speaker AI used to have a lot of big ones.
Speaker AI say used to not because they're not big anymore.
Speaker AThey're big.
Speaker AThey were huge.
Speaker AMistakes, unkindness, you know, we've.
Speaker AYou've already heard the list.
Speaker AThey used to scare me to death.
Speaker APeople would find out about me and then they wouldn't like me.
Speaker AI wouldn't be able to do this or that.
Speaker AI wouldn't be accepted, loved, whatever.
Speaker AYou can own your past without being defined by it.
Speaker ABecause if I live in fear or you live in fear that somebody's going to find out something about you and that finding out is going to trash the relationship or make them not like you or want to be around you.
Speaker ANumber one, they're not worth being around, period.
Speaker AAnd number two, that makes you act way differently.
Speaker AYou hide, you lie, you shade, you avoid.
Speaker AAnd that energy is obvious.
Speaker AThat means to people you can't be trusted.
Speaker AIt doesn't feel good to be around you, then you're going to wonder why people aren't comfortable in your presence.
Speaker AOwning your past doesn't mean standing up on a podium and shouting out every mistake you've ever made.
Speaker ASo it's out in the open.
Speaker AA lot of that work is done in private.
Speaker AAnd the reason it's done in private is because lots of the mistakes were done in private.
Speaker AIf you have public reconciliation you need to make, then do it.
Speaker AIf you have debts you need to pay, then do it.
Speaker AClean up what you can.
Speaker AMost of the things that hurt the most, honor, you know, hurting someone's feelings, being, you know, betrayal, those kind of things.
Speaker AWe can't fix those anyway.
Speaker ASo we fix what we can, and then we change who we are.
Speaker AThis is how you own your past.
Speaker AShakespeare wrote a play called as you like it, and there were some characters in there.
Speaker AAnd it's an older brother and a younger brother.
Speaker AAnd to make the story short, the younger brother, or the older brother, hated the younger brother because the younger brother seemed like the favorite.
Speaker ASo the older brother kept trying to kill his younger brother because he was mad at him.
Speaker AAnd one day something happened, and the older brother got in trouble, bad trouble, like threatened.
Speaker AAnd the younger brother came and saved him.
Speaker AAnd so that caused the older brother some serious reflection.
Speaker AAnd he changed completely after that.
Speaker AHe never did that anymore.
Speaker AChanged his opinions, feelings, so he changed who he was.
Speaker AAnd later, a couple of women were talking to him and said, hey, wait a minute.
Speaker AWeren't you the guy that kept trying to kill your younger brother?
Speaker AAnd he said it very simply, twas I, tis not I.
Speaker ASo if you're trying to own your past and not be limited or defined by it, fix what you can, change who you are, like the older brother did, and then go about adding good to the world.
Speaker AThat's all you can do.
Speaker AThe important piece is changing who you are.
Speaker ABecause then you can say, twas I, tis not I.
Speaker ATwas I.
Speaker AI did those things.
Speaker AI own them.
Speaker AI wouldn't do them again.
Speaker ATis not I.
Speaker AI am not that.
Speaker ASo you've changed who you are.
Speaker AYou aren't going to choose what happened.
Speaker AEven if you did it.
Speaker AYou can't re choose right?
Speaker ABut you don't have to let it define you.
Speaker AYou get to choose what it means.
Speaker AIt meant a tremendous lesson for me.
Speaker AIt meant a massive shift.
Speaker AAll right?
Speaker AThe fifth one is the energy difference between a victim and a victor.
Speaker AOkay?
Speaker AWhen you become a victim, you're giving away your agency, you're giving away your power.
Speaker AYou're allowing someone else's words, their choices, their energy to define who you are.
Speaker ASo even if someone does something to you, they rip you off a thousand dollars, you can choose to go in a rage, scream at them, try to get revenge or whatever, and that contaminates you with poison straight up.
Speaker AOr you can remain calm.
Speaker AYou can do whatever's appropriate according to law and so forth, and that'll take whatever course it is.
Speaker ABut at all moments and times, you can remain a loving, kind person.
Speaker AEven the way we access the wheels of justice, whatever they are, if we're raging and furious, that only poisons me.
Speaker AIf I, you know, somebody insulted me and I can't.
Speaker AThere's no law thing to do, but I'm mad at him forever.
Speaker AAnd I kneel down to pray and I rage at God and tell him to, you know, damn that person or burn their house down or whatever.
Speaker AFirst of all, God's going to ignore me.
Speaker ABut second of all, all it does is poison me.
Speaker ASo I want you to be aware.
Speaker AThis is notice and choose.
Speaker AToday and tomorrow.
Speaker AThe moment, each moment where you give away your power by allowing someone to make you mad, make you lonely, make you anything.
Speaker ANobody can do that.
Speaker ANo one can change how you feel.
Speaker AOnly you or me.
Speaker AAnd the way we change it is by what we believe.
Speaker ASo someone insults me, I believe that they hate me.
Speaker AI believe, therefore, something's wrong with me and that creates the negative feeling.
Speaker ASo that's a really important one.
Speaker AAnd it's another notice and choose.
Speaker ALook for moments where you're giving away your power and.
Speaker AAnd end them.
Speaker ANumber six is a daily creation process, daily rituals of sovereignty.
Speaker AYou are sovereign.
Speaker AYou own your life.
Speaker ANobody can take any of it away from you, even if they put you or me in jail.
Speaker AThink of Nelson Mandela in jail for 27 years.
Speaker AI think I remember, you know, the poem Invictus on the wall, right?
Speaker AAnd we've all seen the movies and stories of those people.
Speaker AVictor Frankel, in a concentration camp, wrote Man's Man's Search for Meaning and talked about forgiveness of the captors and the choice of people in those horrifying conditions to express love.
Speaker AAnyway, we get to choose.
Speaker AAnd if you sit.
Speaker AIf you sit there and say it's impossible, I can't do that.
Speaker AThat might be true today.
Speaker ASo let's assume it's true today.
Speaker ABut growth is an incremental process.
Speaker AGrowth is something we do over time.
Speaker AAnd the first step is to say, I'm going to become a person who never allows anybody, make me mad.
Speaker AYou might fail within the first hour, but you still can declare I am.
Speaker AThat nobody makes me mad.
Speaker AAnd if you choose to work on it, an hour will go to two to four, to six, a day, a week.
Speaker AAnd you'll find that any of those things are possible.
Speaker AAnd you might say, why the hell would I do that?
Speaker AThey deserve to be.
Speaker AYou have somebody mad at them.
Speaker AYou know what?
Speaker AIt's not our job to judge or to extract retribution or anything else.
Speaker AAnd what I can tell you is when we live, and I know this from experience, when we live with hate and anger full in our souls, we're the ones who get hurt.
Speaker ARemember the funny saying, carrying a grudge is like drinking poison and waiting for the other person to die.
Speaker ASo what I do is I have a daily creation process.
Speaker AAnd if you're interested in what it is, it's in a book called Living with Purpose and Power.
Speaker AAnd I was going to hold it up, but I don't have it in front of me.
Speaker ASo.
Speaker ALiving with purpose and power.
Speaker AAnd if you go to that www.kellenfluecigermedia.com, you'll see it in there.
Speaker AI tell you exactly what I do for my daily creation process.
Speaker AAnd it's not a trivial morning ritual.
Speaker AChecks and boxes.
Speaker AOkay?
Speaker AIt is a go in the fire.
Speaker ALiterally create my soul from scratch activity.
Speaker AAnd it works every day.
Speaker AWhich means the things that I'm talking to you about are how I live, notice and choose.
Speaker AChoose to be loving and fix anything instantly.
Speaker AWhere I fail, nobody's perfect.
Speaker ASo one of my declarations is I am.
Speaker AThat when I fall or fail in any declaration, I get up, fess up, clean it up, and recommit.
Speaker ASo that little choice to take time in the morning to remind yourself who you are.
Speaker AA divine being on a mission to add good to the world with love in your heart.
Speaker AWith a choice to own your emotions and create your ultimate life.
Speaker AThose choices don't depend on anybody else.
Speaker AI don't care what they do or don't do.
Speaker APeople can get in the way of the speed of our progress, but they can't take your goal or your all of your progress away.
Speaker AI promise.
Speaker AAnd if you're arguing with me, that means you haven't tried this.
Speaker ABecause I promise you with a sacred promise.
Speaker AThat's true.
Speaker AThe last one I want to mention is back to what that woman told me.
Speaker AIt's just exes, remember?
Speaker AThis whole episode's about keeping and reclaiming your choice.
Speaker AChoose who you're going to be today, no matter what.
Speaker ALike you are free.
Speaker AAnd I urge you to make a declaration.
Speaker AI'm going to be kind today.
Speaker ANo matter what that means.
Speaker AEvery thought, every word, every gesture, every person that cuts me off in traffic or ignores me or, you know, steals some from me.
Speaker AWhatever it is, no matter what, I am choosing to be kind because I can.
Speaker AAnd you, you know what?
Speaker AYou can't make me not be kind.
Speaker AIsn't that interesting?
Speaker ANobody can make you be mad or unkind.
Speaker AAnd here's what I can promise you.
Speaker AGetting into that mode of declaring who you are and then living in, you know, authentic alignment with that, you will feel so good you won't know what to do with yourself because suddenly you will realize you do have sovereign choice.
Speaker AAnd all this crap about people making you this, that and the other isn't true.
Speaker AAnd the moment you actually realize that and it lands you, you feel like, you know, like you could do anything because you can.
Speaker AThat's the secret to this.
Speaker AOne of the secrets that we're talking about to creating your ultimate life is recognizing that you have sovereign control of what you think, how you feel, how you act and what you create.
Speaker ASo here's the CTA call to action, right?
Speaker AHere's what I want you to do.
Speaker AI want you to make one unapologetic, game changing, inconvenient decision or declaration today.
Speaker AOne difficult, unapologetic, game changing decision.
Speaker AAnd let it be about reclaiming your agency.
Speaker AI am no longer going to allow this situation or person or anything affect me.
Speaker AThat doesn't mean the person has to go away or even the situation has to change.
Speaker AIt's an internal game where you say, I no longer allow that to affect me.
Speaker AI challenge you to do that.
Speaker AMastering that skill is awesome, will pay massive dividends, and is a huge step forward to create your ultimate life right here, right now.
Speaker AYour opportunity for massive growth is right in front of you.
Speaker AEvery episode gives you practical tips and practices that will change everything.
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