And here I was and my initial thought was to let that go because I have other things and other obligations to fulfill.
And then I was like that's when it hit me and I said right we're going and I just simply said we're gonna go and we're gonna go for an hour and we're gonna enjoy we're gonna have a swim we're gonna enjoy that.
And so we did.
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Hello my lovely listeners and watchers on YouTube.
Welcome back for another episode.
It is nice to have your company once again.
Well today I gotta say this one's a little bit special for me.
It's a little bit personal so again a little bit of a change of pace but what a valuable lesson this reminded me of and I think it's a lesson we try to learn whether we fully learn it that's the big question but the beautiful thing is that this episode and this lesson was inspired by my beautiful little girl Nya.
So this occurred earlier in the week of our prior to this recording and we're in middle of Australian school summer holidays so it's the long break for us.
They left school finished school just early mid-December-ish or in like the 10th of December or something like that and they don't go back until January 23rd so it's the big summer break.
Of course we've got Christmas New Year we've got a whole bunch in between all of that and it's been pretty full-on and of course if you have been following you a part of my world some of my followers said I can't follow you.
I literally can't follow you.
I'm following you but I can't follow you because I don't know you're always somewhere different and I've lost track of where you are.
Yes that was me last year.
I really, well last year was my yes year in terms of like I said to myself and I made that kind of promise to myself I would say yes to opportunities and what an amazing year.
It was a pretty full-on year.
Ran my first international retreat but not just ran my first one I actually held two.
So I've never held a retreat before and I've gone from not doing it to having two international retreats in one year running my second members conference in less than 12 months.
Like it was insane how much I've done but I have to admit I loved it.
I've learnt so much from it and of course planning more for this year and I've got quite lovely two retreats planned in Fiji with my mate David Laws.
If you want to check the AQT website but you know because we enjoy it so much.
So it's really really full-on.
So but naturally like with coming off all of that and continuing that momentum for 2024 and moving into the next year it's it's always vital.
I don't like to lose momentum because I always find it very hard to get back so it's pretty full-on.
So in the throes of things it was really kind of just this beautiful moment that occurred and it it was a moment.
I'm not gonna forget this for a long time.
So simple it is always the simple stuff isn't it?
So simple but I'm gonna cherish it.
So just bear with me as I walk you through this.
So what had happened is that I had literally just done another quick trip around the globe.
I had just before prior to Christmas about I think it was the 7th of December.
I can't remember the exact date but I had gone to America for a conference.
Amazing conference.
Amazing people.
You know some of the people there might be listening to this and if you are hey I love love so many so many beautiful souls with just short of a thousand people at this conference.
Amazing energy to connect up with people and of course then I had the privilege of very cheekily sneakily flying from California over to Paris to surprise my lovely mother for her 70th birthday which was wonderful.
Ended up going over there for a couple of days to surprise her.
I did say to her earlier in the year that I wouldn't be able to make it just wasn't viable and lo and behold there was a way things turned out.
I don't know how I ended up getting the flight so cheap with point.
It was really it was really like really cheap. 35,000 points to fly from California to Paris.
I was really impressed.
So those of you who are a frequent flyer you'd know where I stand with that one.
So it was like whoa okay I can't say no.
The beautiful thing is it really did set it up and of course it was a beautiful thing because it was my mom's dream to have her 70th birthday in Paris and she was beautiful like there's five of us kids siblings and the beautiful thing is I was that last little ring in there and we're all there in Paris under the Eiffel Tower and going up the Eiffel Tower together as a family for her birthday which is beautiful.
So then of course came back for despite losing my luggage for a day that's okay different story but then of course I came home.
Now naturally I've been it's been a big year and I don't know about you but personally for me sometimes in my mind you know when you set something up in your mind like in a mental calendar or you might even have it in your physical calendar where you're like cool once I do that then I can do this or once I get to that point I know it's wind down time or I know I have time off like it's just that mental like you're over the edge or you finally get on to the other side of it and this trip to America and Paris was that in my calendar.
I was pretty much winding down and you had one more event for the year so it was kind of like I knew the big stuff was done I knew all the international travel was done as much as I love it it does get to you a little bit but yeah so I came home and this is obviously leading into Christmas lo and behold a couple of days after getting home boom I am out sick.
It was an interesting bug I know I haven't had it before no it wasn't COVID but it was definitely like it felt like to me like a type of influenza because it was quite heavy a little bit feverish not so much no running nose or anything like that it was just heavy on the body had a little bit of the sore throat and I actually did I lost my voice yeah I lost my voice the one thing the one thing that I need to do my work and universe you know they decide to say nope time out so that was pretty rough I managed to do my event but I have to admit by the end of that event I was cooked my voice was relentlessly gone I wasn't able to speak for about three or four days so it was pretty full-on and even so much so there was it was a really kind of treat tricky kind of virus bug because you know you have a couple of days and you and then all of a sudden you start to come up you start to feel better you know you wake up and go whoa I'm starting to feel I've got more energy I don't feel so lethargic and you feel good and so you start going about your day you're starting to get into a more normal routine and then by lunch or one o'clock crash boom nope sorry couch movie Netflix Disney plus Amazon Prime whatever it was it just it got me and it was like that thing was a massive roller coaster of some days I feel good the next day I'm out and I might be out for two days so it's a very very interesting kind of experience to work through and obviously energetically to manage so much so unfortunately I was also still not right for Christmas went to my family's place for Christmas so it's pretty full-on so I still wasn't right it was only two days after Christmas that I actually did get better so it's pretty full-on and it was hard like we had some nice weather but I was just on the couch and I was home and I felt really really did feel bad because my officer working the kids are at home with me I could not do much of anything with them I was just white so that was true that was kind of tough and what made it even worse is I had a whole bunch of clients like personal one-on-one clients that I had scheduled in and they had been waiting a number of months to speak with me couldn't do them I had to move 18 people not the easiest of things and then all of a sudden my calendar in the new year filled up really fast because trying to fit everything in was an ideal was not how I wanted to work but that said I'm super grateful to every single client that was able to move I'm super grateful that I also had the ability to do that and the ability to rest and I am very very grateful for that but then it kind of led into it and all of a sudden by the time I did feel better I was straight back into work I had clients waiting and sometimes new year is a good space to talk to people this one people want so I was just going through the motions and the other part was I was now kind of playing catch up not just catch up with what I had to move and postpone which was now ahead of me but I also had the commitments of what I already had planned and needed to get done leading in to the new year this is where it got really tricky like my to-do list really kind of went out of control it was very extensive and because of where I was at and what was happening it was a space of I need to work through this I need to get this done and I need to stay on top of it now fortunately in some respect through that time we had some pretty devastating storms up here where I live on Christmas night which is really sad and few people did lose their lives we had a mini tornado which is really sad and lots of people lost power and some people still without power and that's like we're now going on like two weeks like three weeks so it's pretty intense but you know so we're kind of going but we've had some pretty average dismal weather like it's not been summer it's been a very wet summer even though the weather bureau did say it's gonna be a hot dry one it's been anything but we've had floods so it's okay where there's been out there's not much we could do so work just was a priority for me so we've had a real interest in run like I've bumped this I love it my kids are really understanding cuz I'm working a bit from home to to be there with them anyway it was just this one day I was there and I was like cool gotta punch into this and it was raining in the morning it's just again it was crap it was just crap weather it just doesn't stop it starts in the morning it just kind of drizzles and like there's nothing you can do honestly it's like a typical English day it's just really bad like whereas most of us who know the Australian summers like we should be out there will be you know on the boats skiing fishing beach surfing traveling hiking summer it was just yet so I'm at home working through it and it was lucky my son had a play date so he was out but I had my daughter at home the rain kind of stopped and when it did I was there was working home because it was nice and cool but as soon as that rain stopped and the clouds lifted a little bit didn't 100% clear but they lifted and in that moment and anybody who lives Queensland or tropic Australian weather you'll know this as soon as that lifts it's like boom that humidity and that temperature just go through the roof and I was at home we were super comfortable windows doors open and all of a sudden I remember saying to my daughter to feel that humidity is to that temperature just jump like you could feel it just really started to get a little bit of pressiveness and sticky and in that moment God lover she looks at me with these eyes you know and if you watch on the YouTube you'll see the eyes and she's looking me with these eyes and she gets so dad does that mean we can go to the beach and I just remember she had her shoulders up and was just like this is like oh I just like to see it she was like this little you know like this cat waiting to pounce on it's like you know it's like oh I can see opportunity here and she did shoulders up her eyes popping out and she's giving me this big grin and big smile and she's so dad does that mean we can go to the beach and I have to admit my absolute immediate thought was no and I did actually say no I said no I'm sorry sweetie I've just got I'm swamped I have to do this I've got these things to do and I could see in that moment obviously the joy the the optimism and that lovely smile on her face disappeared but it wasn't like soul king all like oh you know it's not like she was just very very she gets okay dad so very understanding but you could also say like oh you know it's not there and it is because I was just there and I was present with her in that moment and watching her body language and her face and her tone and her voice change I noticed that I'm like this is not right and so in that moment I really did I caught myself I did and I was like Pete what are you doing and I just I really took a quick stock take of the situation at hand and the situation yes yes I have a massive to-do list and I know I need to do this because this is work and that work is you know providing income that income looks after all of our expenses puts a roof overhead puts food on the table you know that lovely stuff and I was thinking about that and I knew I had to get these things done but then it was like but hang on I have this to-do list so I can have the moments my daughter just asked me for now of course this is unique to like my situation or anybody who works for themselves or has set something up for themselves of course if you if you're in employment or you're an employee a little bit different you might be working 9 to 5 or shift work and you know you're in an office or a store or something like that you know it's a bit different but the thing is I'm doing this one because I love it but two for me it provides this flexibility and provides the opportunities to have the moments my daughter had just asked me for and that's when I had the aha moment I have to admit was also a little bit of a face palm moment that whole like oh my goodness Pete what are you doing you have just fallen for the trap and yes that to-do list is quite long yes that to-do list needs to be done but what's the point in doing it if I can't have the moments that I created it for it was just such an epiphany something so simple where I'm going the reason why I have this to-do list is to create and have the opportunities that was just offered and that's when I caught myself and I was like right we're flipping this we are changing this and we're doing this right now when I literally did I said sweetie you know what we're going to the beach because I had been sick for two weeks I couldn't enjoy Christmas and I felt a little bit bad for that because you know that couldn't even get into the Christmas spirit or vibe straight back into work didn't have time the weather was terrible it's been crap and all of a sudden here's this day here is this moment we are there by ourselves the weather has changed blue sky for the first time in I don't know how long had finally come out and here is a perfect moment to make the most of that moment and here I was and my initial thought was to let that go because I have other things and other obligations to fulfill and then I was like that's when it hit me and I said right we're going and I just simply said we're going to go and we're going to go for an hour and we're going to enjoy we're going to have a swim we're going to enjoy that and so we did we just I dropped everything she paused her lovely little program on the TV switched that off and we got honestly we got changed quicker than Superman and we were ready to roll we were down on that beach it was lovely because it had rained it was quieter than normal I think there's only about three other souls it was just such a blissful moment we hopped in the water it was so refreshing and cool and it was just like wow this is nice and not only that after we had a swim and we're body surfing and you know we got dumped but you know we had some time and then all of a sudden we hopped out and I just said would you like to go for a walk a little bit further down the beach she gets you're sure dad and it's in that moment that we had time like and I'm talking and anybody would know what I'm talking about here is we had the precious the absolute precious daddy daughter time that we so often do not get my daughter god lover 12 years old gone into year 8 this year she says so dad what are you doing with your work and business this year I was a bit taken back I was like oh wait but you know what she was genuinely interested because she'd seen me working at it she knows I'm talking to clients she knows I'm on the phone she knows I'm on the zoom and she was just genuinely interested knowing wanting to know more and so I kind of started telling her a bit more ago this is where I'm going got a new show new format kind of redoing this I've got this thing I've got new people in my program that I just launched you know it's like taking them through the accelerator program to help them kind of really get on their path and find their passion purpose and direction and what I wrote so I said I'm working that out she goes oh wow this is exciting she was just had this genuine interest and I don't think it's not the case if I didn't see that or didn't believe she didn't but I just don't believe we had the time or we hadn't created the space in order to have a moment like that because usually we're out together as a family but then the beautiful thing was then I could also ask her about well what do you think how are you feeling about school this year and lo and behold she had received her class and we're talking about how she was feeling and it was things of like how I'm in this new class and I've just found out I don't know anyone in the class and it was just this beautiful moment where we could just connect about what where we're at how we're thinking about and feeling for the year ahead and it was just so precious and we had a beautiful walk along the beach we had a beautiful swim and of course eventually I said okay sweet I think it's time to head home and we didn't have a care in the world at that point where we literally just enjoying the moment and as we're leaving she actually goes oh so dad how long we've been here and I went to check my phone for the time you wouldn't believe it we had been there for an hour on the friggin dot she goes oh you said we're gonna be here for an hour I said yeah no she was like she was like oh wow like that's amazing we didn't even care about the time and you know we said we we'd set the intention of like okay we'll come for an hour and it was an hour and the most beautiful thing is that is an hour that not only that we will remember it's unforgettable it's so precious and like as we know anybody with kids they do grow up so fast and sometimes we miss that and of course we're so busy with our own lives our own work our things it was just that thing and it's a moment that I almost lost because I was so in the grind I was so in the world of getting at things done and this is really where it's really important if you've made it this far really appreciate you taking the time to listen to story and this is like I don't share these particular stories very often but this one is special and I believe it serves as a great lesson and here's the lesson that I take away from this number one and the biggest lesson here is and like the title of this episode it's like don't sacrifice the moment remember in the grand scheme of things it is a moment but those are the moments that you take with us those are the moments that other people will also take with them those other things and those are the moments that have a ripple effect I look at that and who knows the level of extra trust level of vulnerability or understanding that my daughter and I in our relationship can grow I'm not looking at but you know I'm looking at go wow like you know we've developed that we're strengthening those connections because of a moment and because of one hour I wasn't expecting those things to happen I didn't we're just expecting to go to beach but what beautiful things came from taking that moment so here's the thing don't sacrifice the moment and if you're not sure whether you are or not here's some clues pay attention to what you are either saying to yourself or what you are saying to other people if you are saying things like well no I should do this or I should do that or it could be oh I can but and then whatever you need to put in front of that you know it's like or you might be saying oh yeah we'll do that but first we're gonna do this or the other thing too is once I have completed this right it's always putting something in front of the moment it's always justifying the reason to sacrifice the moment but you've got to remember what you're doing it for and you look at in the grand scheme of things my to-do list didn't grow anymore thankfully in an hour and the other thing too is I didn't lose anything by taking that hour out of my work day in fact I gained some of the most valuable and precious things and time that any human being could ask for so there are ways please don't fall victim to that grind I'm asking you now just to stop and think when was the last time you took that moment when was the last time you had the important conversations that you needed to have when was the last time that you took for yourself and for other people to build and strengthen those relationships and then ask yourself how are you responding to questions when someone is asking you can you do this or would you like to go out or do you want to catch a movie how are you responding and then look at the language oh I would love to but first or maybe next weekend because of this and this and this and like you know but it's fine obviously if you've got you know genuine reasons in between but if it's literally just because of your to-do list or you know like I need to prune like the trees and do some gardening I get that but you know what those trees aren't exactly gonna grow legs and uproot themselves and go off and run away from you so the whole thing is have a look at how you're responding have a look at the language that you are responding with these are gonna be big clues to help you see whether you are valuing your time and other people's time around you and or also let you know whether you are sacrificing the moment or not and I hope for your sake that you aren't and maybe you've realized that you have that's okay but now make the change you have the power to change that world you have the power to change the connections you have the power to make the change for you and the people around you and I encourage you to do it and seize that moment.
Carpe Diem people seize the moment.
Thank you for listening thank you for letting me share this beautiful little story it is something I carry with me and I really do hope it encourages you to do the same catch you soon (upbeat music)
