Episode 04 - Our Daily Motivation Routine: The Habits That Keep Us Positive and Moving Forward

Ken : Okay, so what do we do to keep us motivated every single day? Like real, the real techniques to move the needle. So there are some techniques that we use. We talked about meditation the previous episode. Yeah, we do meditate a lot. Meditation is one of the things that I think and I feel actually that increases my productivity because as I am meditating I am visualizing what I want to get accomplished. Maybe that day or the next week or for the year. I just go, I just let my mind sometimes to run wild just to kind of get the creativity from the field, from God, the universe, however you want to call it. But that's one of the tools that we use to really keep us motivated and engaged on the things that we want to do.

Kim: So what do you do when you meditate? I know what I do. But what do you specifically do when you're meditating? What are you thinking about?

Ken : So what I do in the morning, I start visualizing my day. So one of the first things I do is just to be grateful. Always grateful about my family, my health. I think I said that in the previous episode as well. Even grateful for my dogs, the opportunities. So I actually go deep. I close my eyes and I just go deep into how I want today to be unfolded. So I just get into these kind of trends of kind of really feeling good with myself.

Kim: Okay.

Ken : So sometimes I even put my hand on you, on your leg or your arm to kind of, you know, to kind of have a real connection, you know what I mean? Why am I grateful? Because I know you're next to me, you know what I mean? So this kind of gives me. I touch you, I feel you. And it kind of gets me this sense of, of be grateful that you're my wife, that you're next to me, that I love you, our daughter our son our house our health. I go through so many things, you know. So when you do that, there's no reason for you to be upset in the morning, regardless of what's happening because I'm basically anchoring my belief and acknowledging everything I have. So there is no reason to be upset after you really think about all those things. Even though if you have problems or you know, so that's one of the things that I do when I, when I meditate and or sometimes what I also do to kind of increase, you know, kind of to Maximize my intention through meditation. I get get my AirPods and I put some like a 10 minute meditation. I don't know, like a 432 Hz frequency, frequency whatever for 10 minutes, then 10, 12 minutes. And I really go deep into it, you know, and I also try to connect with again, the source or universe or God to connect, to give me answers, you know, answers about maybe personal issues, personal things that I'm kind of, you know, going through my head. You know, I go really deep into the meditation state to kind of get an answer out of again, the universe, God or whoever. And that kind of makes me again start my day very strong.

Kim: So when you're meditating, like, generally speaking, like on a daily basis, you're not just like closing your eyes and trying to stop the thoughts from coming and like clear your mind? No, because I know that's like a big. I mean, there's different ways of doing it depending on what you're looking for. But I know that's like. People are like, oh, I can't meditate because, My mind just never stops and I can't clear my mind of thoughts. And I'm thinking, well, like, yes, of course that's one way of meditating. But that's not the way I do it either. I don't. I don't look for a blank mind.

Ken : No, no, no.

Kim: Clearing all my thoughts.

Ken : Yeah, I do some others also to visualize what I want, you know. But in the morning, the first one that I do, It's just basically anchoring. Just basically being grateful, you know, so in the way I do it. So thought doesn't really getting random thoughts, you know, creeps in because they do. Even though. Yes, they do. I just basically saying everything out loud but in my mind, so there is no other voice creeping in. So I'm grateful to be married to you, grateful for this house, grateful for my health. So it's basically like some sort of meditation slash prayer or so that way keeps me fully, keeps me intentional. I'm not letting just my mind run, you know, because again, like a. Yeah. Crazy thoughts creeps in.

Kim: Yeah.

Ken : And they kind of breaks the flow.

Kim: Yep.

Ken : Of what you want to get accomplished now. You have to have an intention. Again, this is just my technique. I'm setting up my day for success. Being grateful in the morning.

Kim: Yeah.

Ken : You know, so that's. That's one of them that I think it actually really works. And I'm gonna tell you why it works. When I... months ago when I was working, we had this meeting at 8:30. From 8. From 8:30 to 9. And then I had another meeting at 9. Some of these meetings were just painful.

Kim: Yeah.

Ken : And I was like, I can't do this anymore. How am I going to go to. I just don't really want to go to these meetings. And I was thinking through my meditations, the meeting is going to go great. Yeah, the meeting is going to go great. The meeting is going to be productive. If it's unnecessary, it is going to be cut off. You know, the meeting is. The meetings are going to be great. Guess what happened after two weeks or three weeks when I was starting saying that from five days a week now they cut off to only Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays. And I was like, oh, thank God, now I have two days that I don't have to go to those dreadful meetings. And in the morning I used to get an email when I get the report from the previous shift and seeing the reports from production,quality and sales and whatever, and man, we gotta talk about the issues, you know, and there's always, you know, conversations or about what happened the night before. But then what I was trying to do also through my meditation before going to work was to, okay, it's gonna be productive. It's not gonna be confrontational.

Kim: Right.

Ken : It's not going to be. Is going to be less confrontational. It's going to go smoothly and it started happening that way.

Kim: Yeah.

Ken : You know, I don't know if it was my perception that was changing or I was just basically changing the world just with me setting it up in the morning. So just with me applying that technique in the morning, I saw the results within. Within the weeks. Within, Within a few weeks.

Kim: Yeah.

Ken : You know, so. And then you're like, oh, meditation works. Oh, my intentions, what I'm trying to do, it works.

Kim: Right?

Ken : You know, so those are the things that I, that I do. There's another one that I also do about the things I want. And I kind of get really get into visualization, you know, about the things I want. You know, it's funny because there is a car that I want, and I'm not even going to say the name in the podcast, and I was meditating here in the office and while I was looking at it, believe it or not, I just, I was able to smell the brand new car out of nowhere. So I wasn't even thinking to kind of want to really kind of smell it. Like, I want to have the sensation of smelling a brand new car, but I'm supposed to. But as I was meditating, I was just basically like, you know, the sensation of smelling the brand new car smell happened once because again, I just started meditating about that car. But. But yeah, so there is a power behind meditation that shapes your Reality shape shapes your reality. So. Okay, tell me about yours. What do you. What do you say? What do you do?

Kim: I. I mean, very similar. I just, you know, I usually. I like. If I have time, I like to put on music and my earbuds and I like to put on my eye mask just to get everything completely black. There's no distractions. Even if I open my eyes by accident or whatever when I'm trying to focus, I can just really block out the world better. And I usually set a timer for whatever, however much time I have. 10, 20 minutes, sometimes like 30 to 60, depending on what I'm doing. Yeah. I start out by just going over what I'm grateful for in detail. You know, my family, my house, my health, my wealth. You also. I also always want to put in there something that even if I haven't. Even if you haven't seen the thing that you desire come to fruition. So, for example, like, we're working on wealth or our businesses being successful. Like, I'm just being grateful where I'm at. Where we're at right now. So I'm like, thank you so much for our, you know, our wealth and our successful businesses and whatever. So I. You want to make it feel like you've already achieved the thing, and that will call it into your life. Like, it's a big one with manifestation. And no, we haven't hit on that yet. But you always want to act as if you've already received the thing, whatever it is. Love, wealth, health, whatever it is, you already. You want to act as if you've already achieved the thing. And that can look like so many different things. Like you're just being. If you're looking to manifest better health, just be grateful for the health that you already have. Even if you might be sick or you might have a ailment or a pain or this or that. Just be grateful for the health that you do have.

Ken : Yeah.

Kim: Or the wealth that you do have or the relationships that you do have, the love that you already have. Even if you're trying to get a relationship like you have, you experience love in a million different ways throughout the day.

Ken : Yeah.

Kim: You know, whether it's like a pet or a kid or a. A parent or a friend or even the mailman being really nice to you and, you know, giving you a compliment. Like, those are all acts of love, acts of kindness that you can still be grateful for, even if you don't have physically, like, the relationship that you want, you can still be grateful for those things. So I Try to touch on everything. A little bit of everything. When I'm meditating. What I'm grateful for.

Ken : That's why you do your meditations a little longer than me.

Kim: Yeah, Yeah.

Ken : I like to break them down into sections.

Kim: Yeah. I mean, this isn't every day. I mean, I try to do it every day, but like, you know, I don't hit all the things every day. I probably want to get more clear on it as I, as I go and I do, I get better and more clear on it.

Ken : But yeah, it's very important to do that. You know, again, for us. We. We saw and we see the changes. We've been doing this for a long time now.

Kim: Yeah.

Ken : And we have manifested a lot of things.

Kim: Yeah.

Ken : Doing this. Big things. Big things. Yeah. We. This is not like, oh, well, yeah, there's another, another story here now. This is happening in our life. Like, I, I think I said it in the, for one of the episodes that I wrote my letter of resignation in December.

Kim: Yep.

Ken : I got let go the month after. I think I wrote.

Kim: You got it let go in February.

Ken : February.

Kim: I think you dated it for February 12th or so.

Ken : Something like February 13th. And I was let go on February 6th. So just like that.

Kim: Yep.

Ken : Maybe. Did I feel that I was about. This was about to happen? Maybe again, I was just manifesting it somehow and it didn't even give me a reason why I was let go. It was a five minutes meeting. Yeah. And all I said, I have nothing to say. And I walked out. I know you didn't like that I said that, but I was just like my, my heart, Everything was so set. So, like, checked out. Yeah. And I wasn't. I didn't checked out because I had a meeting the, the week before that. We were restructuring stuff and I agreed to. But in a, in a, in a good way. It wasn't even, you know, everything was kind of okay. But whatever. Things happen for a reason. I'm not. I don't need to know why.

Kim: Right.

Ken : Honest with you.

Kim: No, we don't need to know why.

Ken : Even if they give me a reason. Okay. This is a big reason. Oh, whatever.

Kim: Right. That's fine. Because, you know, ultimately it's what we wanted. So I mean, it's what I have been doing in meditations and visual visualizations as well is picturing you, you know, visualizing you not going to work and visualizing our daily life the way we want to live, which, you know, includes getting up and not being a rush, being in a rush in the morning and getting up and meditating and taking our daughter to school together and doing yoga together in our beautiful yard and taking the dogs for a walk and then coming in and eating breakfast and showering, getting ready to start the day and work on our businesses together in our gorgeous office that we have now in our home and doing all those things.

Ken : So, yeah, another thing just to be. To go back to why meditating or visualizing is so important. When we moved from Arizona. I'm sorry, from Connecticut to Arizona, we had so much debt. And I remember also back then was more like a prayer, deep prayers of we're not going to file bankruptcy. We were so close to file bankruptcy. because he had so much debt. And I was working. You were working also. We were. We were paying all this crazy debt.

Kim: A couple thousand dollars worth of debt every month. We were a couple hundred thousand dollars in debt.

Ken : I think it was like almost. Almost $3,000 a month in debt. I just going out of credit cards and bank loans and 2 to 3. Yeah, yeah. And then I was like, are we going to file bankruptcy? Or you were asking me and I was like, no, we're not. We're not going to. We're going to make this through. And we did. Somehow, I didn't know back then it wasn't easy. Well, I was working.

Kim: Still hasn't paid off.

Ken : Yeah.

Kim: Yeah, we're still working on paying that off.

Ken : No we are still paying that off. But again, we just way better now than. Than before. And another thing that you wanted to be done with your job also years ago and work from home.

Kim: Yeah.

Ken : You've been working from home now, what, seven years?

Kim: Yeah. Well, when we moved here, I was working for my company remotely in Connecticut for a year, and then they went out of business.

Ken : Oh, yeah, I forgot. Yeah, you're right.

Kim: And, you know, then Covid and all that crap hit, but. But we decided I did not want to go and get another job because I was doing human resources. And it was like torture for me every day because I was just absolutely miserable being chained to a desk for 40 hours a week or even working remotely. I was still chained to my desk, doing it remotely, even though it wasn't 40 hours, but it was still miserable.

Ken : Yeah. And one of the goals was for you to work from home.

Kim: Yeah.

Ken : So. And that happened, too.

Kim: Yeah.

Ken : It haven't been easy, but it's happening. It's our life now. Right. So another thing that we do to keep us motivated, we make breakfast. I eat every single day. A mushroom, coffee, two eggs, maybe one toast every single Day, try to eat healthy or so in the morning. And I know, Kim, you make your smoothie.

Kim: Yep. I do a fruit smoothie with yogurt in there for protein and some strawberries. Blueberries and pineapple is my favorite. And then I add some chia seeds in there. Probably gonna get into some protein powders with for it, but not yet. I'm still.

Ken : Yeah, yeah. Just to keep you nice and healthy. And again, if you like it, if you enjoy it, you know, try to find a good breakfast that you like.

Kim: Mm.

Ken : You know, I don't enjoy having freaking two eggs and mushroom coffee every single day, but I'm just like, you know what? I know it's good for me. It makes me feel good, you know, so it makes me happy. Yeah, you know, that's it. That's done.

Kim: Well, I just, like. I like to pick a healthy meal that I can make fast. It's healthy, it's fresh, and it's quick, and I don't have to think about it. So, like, I don't have to sit there. Like, of course, when I taste, I'm like, this is good. This is tasty. But it's not like, oh, I can't wait to have my smoothie in the morning. Like, I don't, like, look forward to that, but it's. I don't. It's. It's quick and it's done, and I don't have to think about it. I don't want to think about what to eat, because that drives me crazy. Like, I hate sitting there struggling about, thinking about what's healthy, what can I make? I don't want to make it. I don't want to clean dishes. Like, I just want to do it fast, easy, and get it done with.

Ken : Yeah. Try to find something that you like, you know, look forward, you know, to it. Like, hey, eating something delicious.

Kim: Yeah, I don't look forward to it, but.

Ken : All right. Yeah. Well, everyone have their.

Kim: Everyone's different.

Ken : Yeah, everyone's different, for sure. So we. And then after. I know sometimes, Kim, you. You do Pilates sometimes, or workout or yoga sometimes. We're gonna mix. Throw a mix there, here and there.

Kim: Yeah, I don't do Pilates, but, yeah, I was doing Pilates at a studio five days a week. I was going, but for like, three and a half years or more. But as you know, I got injured my arm, so I could no longer do that. And I'm trying to figure out the best ways to go about healing my arm, because it's been very limiting. I don't yeah.

Ken : So we got to figure out how to fix the arm for sure.

Kim: Yeah. That's one of the goals I've been modifying.

Ken : Yeah.

Kim: Like, even the yoga poses we were doing this morning, like, I couldn't do a lot of it because I. It just hurts. But. Yeah, anyways.

Ken : And. Yeah, well, you went to the doctors a few times trying to figure it out, and we haven't been able to figure it out. So that's another thing that we need to fix. Just figure how we're going to figure it out. Your arm, to get the mobility back.

Kim: Well, I say my arm, but it's actually my spine, but. But it's radiating down my arm, so I cannot use it full capacity any longer.

Ken : Yeah. So, well, let's see how we're gonna get that fixed. And that will be another episode.

Kim: Yeah.

Ken : So. And then we also take the dogs for a walk. Not every single day, but we try to.

Kim: As they would tell you.

Ken : Yeah, but we try to take them for a walk. Now when we do the walking, we are actually also thinking and talking about our goals. Or, What do we want to get accomplished?

Kim: Making plan.

Ken : Making plans again. We're still kind of irradiating this kind of energy from our mind, from our bodies to the universe, you know, that things are working out for us. So it's not just like, yeah, let's take the dog. So we. Everything that we do, we do with an intention, because we know that we somehow, when you have an intention, things are going to work out one way or another. So that's what we do when we take the dogs for a walk and connect with nature, getting out in nature

Kim: and getting our energy flowing by exercising, and then that gets our thoughts and ideas flowing, which is what we used to do. And when we lived in Connecticut, we'll go back to that when we were trying to figure out, how are we. How are we moving to Arizona? Like, how can we make this happen? We have a couple hundred thousand dollars in debt. We have two kids. I had my son's father there that I had to make an arrangement with. We had a home that we had to sell, and you had to come here and get a job. We had so many moving parts, but that's one of the things we did. We just kept moving. Every day we would take our daughter, we'd put her. We didn't have dogs back then, but we put our daughter in her carriage. She was a year old at that point. Whatever. Something around there, and we would get out and walk up and down, you Know the street and take her to the park and think about ideas and discuss how can we move forward with all these obstacles that were, you know, potentially actually holding us back.

Ken : Yeah. The way I see it, meditation isn't only just gonna quiet your mind and just go to your room or whatever and try to again, quiet your mind or so. But even going for a walk, when you go. When you're walking with an intention. I remember when I used to work out, I used to go to the gym, two years ago. I like to jog or go on the treadmill. I was actually thinking about what I wanted to get accomplished. I always have this vision running. It's like a little engine.

Kim: Well, yeah, Energy is movement.

Ken : You know, you need to have that. You need to get. You need to have some sort of obsession. Not a bad obsession. It's just an intention.

Kim: Right.

Ken : You know, have a great faith that it's going to happen and it's happening. So after we do that, after we take the doors for a walk or so in the morning, we also get back home and then we go to our office and then we start working on our business or our online business. And also we work on the podcast episodes to see. Evaluate everything about the topics. And again, our podcast is just about our life, is about what actually works and whatnot. Our idea is to for our podcast resonate for the people out there. You know, how to manage, you know, stress, finances, family. So it comes basically from our own experiences.

Kim: Right.

Ken : You know, so nothing is made up here. It's just.

Kim: And I know that we've touched on another episode about hypnosis, but that's been a huge game changer for me as well that I would love to touch on again because I get very excited about the topic. Self hypnosis. If you can't afford hypnotherapy, you can go online on YouTube and get some hypnosis videos or whatever that you can just plug in and listen to. Yeah, that's been a total game changer for me because the. We all have such limiting beliefs and whatnot. So I needed to kind of eradicate those and fix those before I can. Yeah, I had to remove them because otherwise I. I was just getting stuck in my own. In my own thoughts and my own beliefs that are deeply ingrained in me. Which. Which we all do.

Ken : Yeah.

Kim: And at night...

Ken : No, then we go to pick up our daughter.

Kim: Okay.

Ken : And then you manage to go early to go pick her up, so you have some time to read your book.

Kim: Oh, yeah, every day. Not. Yes, I schedule that in my, my day specifically to give myself time to read my book and work on whatever it is I'm working on, whatever the book is about. But it's always personal development and, you know, because that whole genre just excites me. And so I go about a half hour early and I'm still not the first one in line. Yeah, there's always people ahead of me, but I take that time. And I know I rush Ken out of the house because he takes forever to get out of the house, but I yell and say that I'm leaving without you, even though I never do. We get in line and we have about you know, 20, 20 to 25 to 30 minutes to sit there and wait for the bell to ring and the kids to come out. Or I just turn off the, the radio in the car and I just focus on my book and really get into whatever it is I'm reading and try, try to not just read for. To read to get through the pages. I'm reading for meaning and I'm reading for implementation. And I want to make those habits and ideas stick of what I'm reading about.

Ken : Right.

Kim: Otherwise it's kind of pointless to be reading it because I want to make the changes. It's super important to me to make the changes and to implement them into my life.

Ken : Right, Right. So, yeah, yeah, always reading a good book is going to be beneficial for you, regardless of the genre. If you like it, if you like the book, you know, find something that aligns with you.

Kim: You know, if nothing else, even if you're not doing it for personal development or learning just to decompress and check out.

Ken : Exactly.

Kim: Get out of your head and, you know, just. Again, I take that time for myself. Like, that's my time. Like, even if I have friends texting me or I try to not respond unless it's, you know, important or whatever, I just try to check out.

Ken : Another thing that we do. We usually eat dinner at the table

Kim: with the whole family every night.

Ken : Every night. So we are connected. We put the cell phones on the side, even though sometimes our boy wants to bring his cell phone.

Kim: The only reason, the only time that's acceptable is when he's like texting his customers or something like that.

Ken : Yeah, exactly. So, but yeah, we eat and then we talk about, you know, what happened during the day or, you know, what happened at school with our daughter or, you know, we always talk about things, you know, we try to not argue on the table sometimes, you know, doesn't happen with two kids on the table.

Kim: Oh boy.

Ken : But we try to be, to create that bond, you know, with our family.

Kim: It's a little bit hard with our situation because our daughter is 10 and our son is almost 20 in a month. And so the topics range greatly of what they want to talk about. And of course you and I always want to talk about what our son wants to talk about, which is business or motivation or, you know, whatever. And our daughter does not want to talk about that. She wants to talk about what happened at soccer today at school and at recess or you know, the girl who said what. But. So it's really hard to manage that.

Ken : But yeah, yeah, but with your family, you know, I think that's one of our wealth. Yeah, some people don't even consider that as a wealth. I do like this. This is, you know, this is priceless. Being on the table, eating dinner with my family, you know, I don't take that for granted, So pause your day and focus on your family the half hour or so you're with them and embrace that. So that's one of the things that really, really keep us motivated through throughout the days and just enjoy your family.

Kim: And I know that they enjoy it too because honestly it's not even, you say half hour, but it honestly usually ends up being more like an hour because we eat and then we sit there and talk. And I truly believe that they enjoy it too. I mean again, our daughter gets restless and she wants to not talk about those topics. So she'll usually get up and dilly dally around or play with the dogs in, in the other room, you know, that's connected to our dining room. So she'll be around but we'll sit and talk with our son and he, you know, for a 20 year old to sit there, 19, he's not 20 yet. But for him as a teenager still wanting to sit there and talk to us every night, you know, that's kind of a proud parent moment also for me anyways, just knowing that he wants to be there and spend that time with us because I didn't want to do that at 19, 18, 17. We've been doing it for so long.

Ken : I used to tell my mom just leave it there, I was just playing with my friends and I didn't want it. I will eat a cold or put it in the microwave like everyone ate or never really. My mom wanted me to, but I was just too busy with my friends or you know, at that age or yeah, I'm not gonna eat at home. Or whatever, you know.

Kim: Yeah. So that's part of the priorities that we talked about in another episode of, you know, why we struggled when you were working to. To grow our businesses and stuff like that. Because we were prioritizing our family and our values and our beliefs and, You know, enjoying the time with them.

Ken : Right. Then after that, we go watch a show with our daughter. Our boy checks out at that time, of course, like, all right, I had enough.

Kim: Well, at that time, he's like, oh, nothing, nothing else is going on here but nonsense shows that my little sister wants to watch.

Ken : Then we, we watch a show with her every night before she goes to bed.

Kim: Either that or play a board game or something thing.

Ken : Then what we do right after.

Kim: or take the dogs for a walk or.

Ken : Yeah, if we don't do it during the day, we do at night. Yeah, take the dogs for a walk at night. And then what we do, sometimes we talk. You and I, Kim we talk about the business. What are we doing the day after or what we accomplished that day or what needs to be accomplished and or. Sometimes times if we feel like the day was productive enough, we decompress watching a show and we, it feels kind of. We. Sometimes we feel guilty kind of wasting time watching a show at night. Yeah, we should be grinding, you know, but the things that I want to do, the, the way that I envision our life moving forward is just to kind of work during the day, you know, try to work during the day and at night I can enjoy the family. And then if the day feels productive enough or so we kind of, you know, decompress. I noticed that when we are working at night, we go to bed thinking about.

Kim: You don't sleep.

Ken : You don't sleep. I'm just thinking about what we're working on and it's just.

Kim: We work too late. Yeah.

Ken : Because we used to do that. Sometimes we do. We don't want to, but sometimes we kind of All right, before we know, it's like it's 10 o', clock, 10pm, 10:30. And of course we want to read a book before we go to bed and meditate again. So I read, like to read a book. You got me into that. Reading the book before, before bed. And it's good because again, your brain marinates on those last pages or so that you, you were reading the night before. And then I go into my prayers and then I go to my prayers again or my meditation, which is again being grateful and visualizing now what I want, you know, trying to really put it out there and it's just, you know, it feels great, you know, when I. When I do all that and then I go to bed and. But, yeah, so that's basically our day. Nothing crazy.

Kim: But before I go to bed every night. Yes, I do all that of what you said. But I have a note in my phone. Oh, yeah, I want to talk about that. And I've been reading. I've been reading that note since before we moved to Arizona. So you're talking about 20. I want to say I started it in 2017, maybe 20, 2016. And I've.

Ken : 10 years.

Kim: Yeah. I've continually updated it as I've achieved the things. But the note is just something that, you know, says exactly what my life looks like or what I want my life to look like.

Ken : Yeah.

Kim: So I, for example, mine. I'll just give you, like, a quick synopsis of what it says. But I, you know. Well, I'll give you this. I'll give you the example of what it used to say. I used to say, I'm so grateful and thankful for my family. You know, now that we're living in this. At the time, I wanted a $500,000 house, fully paid, you know, in that my husband and I work in our office in our very successful business, and we live in Arizona and whatever. You know, things like that my kids are succeeding or happy and healthy and wealthy. All those things. And what I noticed is after we moved here, you know, I read that every single night. What I noticed is before we even moved here, I started reading that every single night. The last thing I do before bed, very, very last thing, so I can kind of make marinate in my brain while I'm sleeping. And after we moved here, I noticed that I was checking the things off on that note in my phone. Like, we started achieving those things because I was crystal clear about what I wanted and I was putting it out into the universe. And sure enough, one by one, I started achieving them. So now. Now I updated accordingly. You know, the things didn't happen just like that, but, like, one thing will happen, and then I'll notice in my note, like, oh, actually, I already have that.

Ken : Yeah.

Kim: And then I'll update it. And then the next thing, I can kind of check off and be like, oh, I. I already have that. So then I'll update it. I'll upgrade, and I'll be like, okay, now I want, you know, whatever. Whatever it is. But, yeah, so that is one thing that I swear by, and I still do that every single night. And again, I'm Working on some, some of the things I'm still working on from 2016 that we want. But they've evolved and they've changed and they've grown and. But we keep achieving and keep checking them off and updating and I will swear by that.

Ken : Yep, yep. It definitely worked. It definitely worked. A lot of things that we put on our heads to make it happen

Kim: and things that, by the way, I had no concept of how we could achieve these things because we. Hundreds of thousands of dollars of debt and then I'm looking for, you know, a five hundred thousand dollar house or a million dollar house paid for in full. I had, we had no means of achieving that, but I believed that we could. And I believed, you know, that it would happen. And I just kept focusing on it and repeating and repeating and repeating. And sometimes I read it throughout the day, random times when I would think about it. I just leave the note open on my phone all the time and I read it whenever I, you know, pass it by.

Ken : Yeah. And it's funny because when you were reading that I was going to work and I was driving through a road and every time I, I made a right, I said, one of these homes gonna be, it's gonna be ours every single day.

Kim: Yeah.

Ken : And then not even a year after there, right where I used to turn.

Kim: Yep.

Ken : We bought the house right at the corner.

Kim: Yeah.

Ken : I didn't even, I didn't even see the house. I couldn't even see the house because in Arizona they're all like a. Communities and they're all like enclosed with these walls. So I didn't even, couldn't even see the front of the house on the

Kim: other side of the wall.

Ken : Nothing. I was just. Every single day, one of these homes is going to be ours. Eight months after, Nine months after we bought a house.

Kim: Yeah.

Ken : How crazy is that?

Kim: It is when you think about it. And there's a lot more to.

Ken : For the fruit trees that we have now also.

Kim: Yeah.

Ken : That we remember back then that we used to say that we want to have fruit trees.

Kim: Yeah.

Ken : And we have them a lot.

Kim: Yeah.

Ken : A lot of things that sometimes you don't even see it, you just say it, you know, with a, with intention or plan it. With intention.

Kim: Yeah. A lot of the things that you, you say, you don't even remember that you say or you don't connect the dots, like, well, gee, I asked for that, you know, I asked the universe for those fruit trees. Like you don't connect those dots. But the good thing about making the notes that I was just talking about is I can visually see the things. And I remember because I'm reading it and because I have it in my notes, and then I'm. It's so. It's such a great reminder, like, oh, Shit, I did ask for that, and I did get it. Because a lot of things, you just. You don't remember. You're just like, oh, yeah, I thought about that once. But you don't connect the dots that you. You called that into your life.

Ken : It's part of your list. Yeah. Yeah. So, yeah. So that's basically our day.

Kim: Our daily routines just have to just.

Ken : We try to keep us motivated every single day. Mm. You know, so again, going through our meditations, reading books, enjoying time with our family, quality time with our family, our dogs, you know, so with ourselves and

Kim: being grateful for being grateful.

Ken : And you have to rewrite your brain, and you have the power to do it.

Kim: Yeah.

Ken : It's not going to happen just like that. No, it won't. You know, your brain defaults to this old habits, but you have to rewrite it. And then once you make the decision to rewrite it, okay, I'm changing the way I'm living, everything will start changing right away.

Kim: Yeah. And even the bad events that occur. And you'll say, but wait a minute, but you don't have a family member who's dying. Or like, we, of course, have those problems.

Ken : We have problems we haven't talked about.

Kim: We haven't even touched on a million problems that we have or have had. But we're choosing to look at them as we talked in the last episode about, you know, that. That everything is going to work out and trusting that it will. So, yes, we do have, you know, aging parents and my mother with breast cancer or, you know, different things. So, yes, we do have those problems, but we're choosing to stay positive and we're choosing to Trust that everything will work out

Kim: That mindset is what is keeping us happy in the moment versus dwelling on it and spiraling out of control.

Ken : Right. So, yeah.

Kim: So design your life the way you want it.

Ken : That's right. So you can do it. So. All right, so I guess that's all for today.

Kim: Yeah. We'll talk to you next time.

Ken : All right. Bye. Bye.

Kim: Bye.