Trent Shelton
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first heard Nov 2024
last heard 28 Jul
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But it's really helped me be able to say no, be able to disconnect and just trust myself to know like the right opportunity to come. If you need peace right now, if you need to take a week off, you need to disconnect for a month.
whatever, make sure you're taking care of you because there's too many people that depend on you being the best you than for you to kill yourself chasing something that even when you catch it, your pride is not going to be fulfilled anyway.
Yes, it changed me. And I don't even know if I know how it changed me, you know, but it did change me. And I think it did, which you probably can relate to. I feel like there's a hole inside of me that, you know, nothing can fill. I mean, it's a part of grief because we love hard, but also it changed me in a positive way where it made me more intentional.
It made me realize that forever comes with an expiration, that you don't have forever with your kids, you don't have forever with your spouse. You don't have forever with your business. And it made me be more intentional with my life. It made me ask the question, like, how do I want to live? How do I want to show up in my relationships? Have I said everything I wanted to say to somebody?
Because I don't want to live in regret. I want to be able to rejoice. And so when my mother passed, I rejoiced. And of course I was sad, but I know that I gave my mom everything. We were tight. So I didn't have to live in regret. And I wish I would have said this. I wish I would have did this. It was more, man, I'm glad I did this with my mom.
And so she just brought more attention to my life through her passing for sure.
I would say keep trusting what's pure to your soul because those around you that's trying to pull you from that have no idea what's meant for your life.
And the reason I say that is because when I started this journey, right, a lot of people around me really kept me from, and of course I gave them the permission, but they kept me from really walking into what I felt like what I was meant to do because I was so interested in opinions and so interested in feedback. And so I just realized like, They didn't create you. So don't let them control you.
And I would tell my younger self that to just trust your gut and trust what you know is pure.
Yeah, you have to realize that most people are trying to protect you. And you have to understand that it's their perception that they're putting on you. While they mean well, you can't allow somebody else's perception to control your life because they didn't create you. I know your parents might have birthed you, but they didn't create you. Your creator created you.
And the plan that's for your life, nobody understands. So I talk about in the book, trust your vision. And what most people do, they depend on vision validation. And so when they have a vision, they have an idea, most people will go to the people closest to them to share that because it's like familiarity. And those people close to them, they're not a visionary. They're not a dreamer.
They're not somebody who really understands like how to make it happen. They're probably going to, I use this analogy, they're going to put on your set of lenses that's been specifically prescribed to you. They're going to look through them and say, oh my gosh, I can't see anything. Just like if I had eyeglasses that were mine and you put them on, you're like, I can't see.
And that's what people do. And what happens is, is we allow them not being able to see what we saw, what we see is clear, discourage us. And instead of taking our glasses back and putting them on and said, okay, well, you know, it's not meant for you to see it. Maybe one day when I achieve it, you'll understand it. We never put our glasses back on.
And most people live their whole entire life with the glasses that were meant for them. They live within their pocket. They walk around this whole life unclear. And so I would tell you, like, it's yours. Everybody's not going to see it. Some people are too close to you to see your greatness. So just ask yourself this simple question, and I'll end with this. Have they done it?
So everybody told me I couldn't make it to the NFL. Guess what? They never made it. Everybody told me I couldn't be a speaker. They never were speakers. So only take advice from people who have been successful at what you're trying to achieve.
At Trent Shelton, all social media sites from Facebook to TikTok to all of them. And the book, you can go to trentshelton.com. Anywhere on Amazon, obviously, audiobook is available. But trentshelton.com, if you ever forget anything, we'll have all the information on there.
I'm a believer, and I'm sure there's exceptions to certain rules, that people will consistently and continuously give you what you allow them to give you. I believe that you're in control of two things in this world. What are they? Nobody can stop you giving anything and what you accept. So if I was like, Mel, this is a cup of poison, drink it. You wouldn't accept that.
And it's crazy because I feel like emotionally, we accept so many emotional poisons in our life that we don't have to accept. Nobody can force you to accept it. And the first thing it starts with, again, we go back to setting that boundary, saying no. Boundaries are not walls to keep things out. We hear the word boundary. We think, oh, boundary is a bad thing and it's toxic.
And no, boundaries aren't walls to keep things out. Boundaries are bridges to let the right things in. Ooh, that was boundaries are not walls. To keep things out. It can be. If somebody makes it a wall where they disrespect your boundary over and over, then it becomes a wall. Like, hey, I'm blocking you from my phone. Leave me alone. I'm blocking you.
But boundaries aren't walls to keep things out. They're bridges to let the right things in. That's in relationships. That's in marriage. It makes it more beautiful. Me and my wife, we've set boundaries with each other. That makes it more beautiful. I give her her time on self-care day. She gives me my time, my hours. And we're better for our kids and our family when we come back to that.
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