re536: Just Put On The Shoes

[00:00:01] So what or who is going to possibly change the trajectory of your life now? It might be changing the trajectory of your life the next couple weeks or months or years or forever. [00:00:14] And yet who's it gonna be or what's it gonna be? [00:00:19] My answer right now is just put on the shoes. [00:00:23] Just get up off the couch. Just get out of the house. [00:00:26] Go out there and meet people and make it happen. [00:00:28] Be a little out of your comfort zone. [00:00:31] Just put on the shoes. I just put on the shoes. [00:00:34] I'm outside. [00:00:36] There's my accountability partner right there. Without him, none of this would ever happen. Because without him, I might not get out of the house. I'm Bradley Schrab, knows Thursday Thunder every single Thursday, no matter what. No hesitation, frankly, no editing, frankly, no quality control. But hey, let's go for it. Because consistency creates creativity. [00:01:02] Why have I public, have I published so much because I'm creative? Or am I creative because I have published so much? [00:01:09] That's going to be the one of the topics of my talk tomorrow night, which is sort of about YouTube and more about creativity and confidence. [00:01:17] But none of it would have happened without this guy. Why? Because he gets me out of the house. Who gets you out of the house? And then further, for the past two weeks, if you've been keeping along here the past two weeks, two and a half weeks, I've been in Italy. Now, before you say, Bradley, I live nowhere near Italy. I can't do that. The location, the actual geography, the actual map on the planet doesn't matter as much. What matters more is what you do there. How open you are to the change that comes to you in the world, to the change that you might be in the world. [00:01:48] That is what matters more, the location. [00:01:52] So what has happened over the past two and a half weeks? And why am I recording a 10 minute video following my trusty friend here talking about just put on the shoes. [00:02:04] Because these past two and a half weeks have been transformational. [00:02:07] And I don't use that word lightly, although I might say I use it now and again because I am frankly transformed on a regular basis. And by transformational, it doesn't mean the absolute angel inspiring descending clouds from the heavens and lightning bolts. Although that can happen, and possibly it did in the past two and a half weeks, but it can change the trajectory of your future. [00:02:38] I know I've talked about the word trajectory because I'm a bit of a fan of it. [00:02:41] So remember the rocket ship and the rocket ship is currently on Earth and it's headed towards Saturn. Like and here on Earth, if you change the trajectory of that rocket by a smidgen, and that is a technical term, by a smidgen here on Earth, that changes the final destination immensely so that that rocket is no longer going towards Saturn, but now it's going to Jupiter. [00:03:09] So what are you talking about? About the planets, Bradley? [00:03:13] That, let's just say one little thing that happens in the weekend or during the past two weeks can change the future trajectory of your life or of your coming weeks or coming months. And how, Bradley, do tell, do tell. [00:03:32] How might that happen? [00:03:35] Let's do a little recap, shall we? All right, Pepper, let's go. [00:03:40] Look at that. He actually listened as if he hears me. He's been super deaf. Watch this. Pepper. [00:03:45] Pepper. Yeah. He doesn't hear anything. I have to whistle now. [00:03:49] Okay, I'm gonna shout out some people here who have just dropped into my life and why. Bradley, can you get to the point here? What are you talking about? I am talking about. Honestly, I'm talking about. Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. What is that? [00:04:05] Oh, it's just a duck. Okay. There are like. [00:04:09] Are they called. [00:04:12] What are those birds called in English? Okay. Sidetracked much? [00:04:17] Let's get back to it. [00:04:20] On our very first day down in Italy, we met a person who's going to potentially help us move to Italy. That was kind of fun. And she got real practical. And then we met. Blanking on her name, it was like, I want to say Wembanyama, although if you follow basketball, you know that's not her name. [00:04:38] And she was like this prancing fairy and who did a yoga retreat out in the nature down somewhere near Celle Misappicia in southern Italy, in Puglia. [00:04:53] And she was just such a sweetheart. She only spoke Italian, so that was a little work on my translation brain there. But we made it happen. And she was such a sweetheart. And I could totally see her being part of some event in the future. Right, super cool. [00:05:08] Then at the yoga thingy, we met. Elle. I'm just gonna go with first letters here in case I don't want the shutter. Oh, give Pepper a little privacy there. [00:05:17] Elle from Wales invites Saskia to come to the next thing tomorrow or whatever and could possibly be a friend. You think? Like, whoa, that. [00:05:30] Is that possible? I could make a friend in like a minute, an hour. Okay, cool. She was really friendly and that was kind of interesting because that was sort of the open mindedness down there in southern Italy. That was really quite cool. And is that everywhere in the world? [00:05:46] No. [00:05:48] So that was fun. [00:05:49] What's next then? Actually, we met with the relocation specialist who helps you do the administrative stuff, especially down there in bureaucratic southern Italy. [00:06:00] And I'm totally E. I'll go with E. Letter E. I think her name is Eliza. [00:06:05] Oh. Oh. Shattered out her name. She was cool, and she gave us some of the reality checks. But also what she did was she is a friend on your team. Right. She's on your team now. And so, I mean, she's a paid friend on your team, but she's a friend on your team, and she knows stuff that we don't. [00:06:22] We met with. [00:06:24] I'm gonna go with F. [00:06:26] He's an accountant. Met with him. He gave us the real reality checks. That was interesting and a little depressing. So that was good. I mean, exciting and, well, both at the same time. [00:06:38] Then I met. I went up to northern Italy and hung out with B, a old friend of mine, who, oddly, I say old friend, but I don't know him all that well. And yet we had time to hang out and go to local restaurants and eat pasta for €9 and have a literal 3/4 of a bottle of red wine for also €9 or something. [00:06:59] Remember, because our total bill was €34 for the both of us. [00:07:03] That was nice. [00:07:05] Then we get to Pisa, or, to be more specific, Via Reggio, and I went to a conference recommended by my dear friend K, the letter K, going for that. And I kind of had no idea what to expect. [00:07:21] And sure enough, because I trusted her, it really worked, and it was really cool. And the people there were open and loving and caring and powerful and some more than others. And it was both magical and, dare I say, magical and mathematical to go with my word of the year. [00:07:46] And I never would have met these people had I never stepped out of the house. Right. If I had never put on the shoes. [00:07:53] So I put on the shoes, I get out of the house, I meet the people. Who do I meet? I meet Kay, who brought me there and who helped me adjust and connect, and she even literally introduced me to people right there. Hey, this is Bradley. Hi. Like, I give him a stamp of approval, so to speak. Right. Which was a nice, warm landing into a room full of 24 strangers. [00:08:17] No, it turns out I did know a couple people. I knew Em because I had previously been her book coach. [00:08:22] And I also knew H, briefly, who's a wild one. She's super fun, loads of energy. [00:08:31] And then there was Jay, whose voice just soared with us up into the heavens when I didn't Even know a voice could do that. Although maybe that's. My future is soaring voices and singing. Speaking of singing, there was R who played guitar and rocked us and did basically improv musical for us for days, literally. And just increased the level of the energy and brought us together even more and more singing and more. It sounds like very Kumbaya. And you know what? It was. And that's okay. And at the same time it was grounded. [00:09:22] We've got Letter I who is just a interesting character. Then there's another Letter I who crying and I'm crying on his shoulder later. [00:09:33] That's. How's that for a teaser? How's that for Bradley? Tell me what the hell you're talking about. I'm not gonna. [00:09:40] So there were some crazy things that happened. [00:09:45] Then there was Em. [00:09:47] Em took us on a journey and she said it was just an hour, but it was. It was a perfect example of Kairos time versus Kronos time and how Kairos time is bent and how Kairos time doesn't adhere to the physics of the regular clock or calendar. [00:10:08] And in a single hour and in a single weekend time somehow was completely transformed into from minutes of the hour to and hours of the weekend to somehow. [00:10:22] Was it days or years or in lifetimes? [00:10:26] And how. [00:10:28] How is that possible? [00:10:30] And if you ask the. The Kronos Greek gods, they will say, well, it's not because Kronos is tick tock the clock. And yet Kairos is where the magic happens. Kairos is where the. Where the power resides. And Kairos is. [00:10:45] Were we talking about lightning earlier? [00:10:47] This whole, My whole, my whole podcast YouTube thing here is called Thursday Thunder. Why is that? [00:10:54] Because the lightning strikes lightning. I often say lightning is overrated. [00:10:59] Lightning is the big powerful shock, the big. The big. The big kaboom. The big kablooey. [00:11:06] And yet the power is in the thunder. The power is when you let it sink in a little bit. You have that initial shock, the initial lightning bolt. [00:11:17] And then if you are of strong foundational mind and heart and gut, then you'll wait around for that thunder to see if it sinks in, to see if it resonates with you and to see how it pulls you in or not. [00:11:37] And do you allow it to come in? Do you listen for it and do you feel for it? This thunder is more of a feeling. [00:11:44] No, lightning seems, I don't want to say superficial. Lightning is the big shock. Right. [00:11:58] See, I think Pepper, I think most of his life is Kronos. [00:12:05] Like right now he's in the woods I don't know if he knows if he's here for a minute or an hour. [00:12:12] He's just a happy camper. [00:12:16] So Em brought us into Kairos time for an hour. And that hour expanded somehow into a few lifetimes, it seems. [00:12:22] And seemed like a lot happened, as did the time in the weekend. [00:12:30] Remember how it started? [00:12:34] Just put on the shoes. [00:12:38] Finally, things ended up with G. [00:12:41] The last day, breakfast and unexpected. I went on a run. It was actually after the last day. I stayed an extra night. [00:12:50] We had breakfast there, and G sat me down at her little breakfast table there and had sort of an unexpectedly quickened, powerful conversation. [00:13:07] And I don't want to spill the secret right here. [00:13:11] I'll tell you later, I swear. And you'll see it. You'll see it coming. And I'll tell the story about how it arrived. But G kind of maybe put a little ribbon on that gift of a weekend to rocket me out into the future. [00:13:31] That's G. [00:13:35] Yeah. [00:13:36] Met up with K again. [00:13:39] Walked to the station, took a bus, took a train, took a plane. [00:13:43] Now I'm back with P there, back with Pepper. Pepper's. Pepper's okay with the shout out because Pepper gets me out of the house every single day. And Pepper makes the math happen. Pepper is the math. Well, Pepper is the mathematician, really. Pepper is the math and the magic. Because Pepper will get me out of the house twice a day, and yet Pepper will enjoy that leaf he just sniffed over there as if it were the greatest leaf he has ever sniffed, as if it were the first time and the last time he's ever going to do it. [00:14:16] And he just enjoys every single day to its utmost. [00:14:20] And that guy right there, that's our role model. [00:14:25] How can we enjoy. How can we balance the Kairos and the Kronos without. [00:14:33] Because you think, okay, the mathematician in me might say, we need more Kairos. [00:14:40] We need more uplifting, wild and crazy and intense times. And you think like, well, I don't know, an hour of it this weekend with M. [00:14:50] And a full weekend of it, actually. [00:14:55] And it's a lot. [00:14:57] And now I'm back here in math land, hanging out with Pepper, that Kairos time is settling over the Kronos time. [00:15:12] What do you do about it? How do you balance. [00:15:16] You know what's funny? [00:15:18] No, Bradley, tell me what's funny. [00:15:22] I'm pausing here in this video and I realize I'm over my 10 minutes, by the way. I'm aware. [00:15:29] And yet I'm pausing as I reflect, as I don't know what to do with the trajectory of the future and it's still sinking in. [00:15:44] And I think of my AI editor that's going to chop out the pauses. [00:15:48] But the pauses are important. [00:15:50] There's bits of silence where you let it sink in and you, you let the thoughts rumble around in your, in your head and your heart and your gut, your mind and your heart and your gut. [00:16:04] You see where they land, See what you're gonna do about him. [00:16:14] Remember how it started. [00:16:17] Keep mentioning the shoes because I know a lot of you listening. [00:16:22] It's the scariest part. And I dare say that because it's always the scariest part. It's the scariest part for everybody. [00:16:29] Just put on the shoes. Just take that first step. Just get out of the house. [00:16:33] Now remember, I know I talk about Italy and I talk about all these glorious places, but believe me, it has not always been glorious places. And really it doesn't matter. The glorious place. A glorious place is nice. [00:16:45] But I've had some of my most transformational moments in my life in Carefree Arizona, in like a rundown resort, in some ugly business center in Munich in the dead of winter in a mountain, mountain retreat for like campers in California try to 10 day Vipassana retreat doesn't need to be the Eiffel Tower in Paris and a glass of red wine just needs to be you. Just needs to be you. Open to Cairo's time, open to that, that bending of time, open to beyond the math. You got to do the math, got to get out of the house. But then be open to allowing that kairos time in and letting it land and. [00:17:44] Seeing how it plays out. [00:17:51] All right. [00:17:54] I think I have more questions than answers at this point. [00:17:58] If you have any questions, leave me a comment. [00:18:02] Can you believe I record this stuff and publish it? Really Bradley, he's letting it all out, aren't you? Yeah, I am. [00:18:11] Why do I do this? You know, people ask me often about my YouTube channels, my books, my podcasts. How do you create so much? And the answer is simple and it's not a secret whatsoever. [00:18:21] It's because I can't not do it. [00:18:25] I often talk about the physics of like plumbing or a car. [00:18:30] A car you have to put in the gasoline and has the exhaust pipe because the engine is. [00:18:35] It needs to have an exhaust, the drain and the sink. It needs to go out somewhere. [00:18:39] Even the human body. You need to eat food and it needs to go out somewhere. And just like that we have thoughts and we have feelings and we have experiences and we need to digest them and we need to let them back out. [00:18:51] That's. [00:18:52] That's really why I do this. And if it resonates with you, wonderful. If it inspires you to do something similar, that's even better. Why? Because then you're putting on the shoes. You're putting on your shoes. I've. I've got my shoes on. [00:19:08] How are your shoes doing? You putting them on? [00:19:11] You heading out into the world? [00:19:14] You gonna go meet some people? [00:19:16] You can be open to their possible transformations. [00:19:20] It's not going to happen every time. In fact, Kairos times like this past weekend, I'm. [00:19:27] I'm not sure how often they happen in a lifetime, but you're not going to know until you put on the shoes. You're not going to know until you get out of the house. [00:19:39] There are not too many trajectory altering experiences that happen on the couch watching Netflix. [00:19:49] Wow. I'm almost at 20 minutes. Let's call it. All right. Let's call it a day. Let's call it a Kairos kind of day. And I'll see you next week because I'll be here every single week. Bye for now.