Trent Shelton
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first heard Nov 2024
last heard 28 Jul
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So if I don't want to trade a mindset with you, I don't want to trade a life with you, not talking about the things, but who you are at your core, your core character, if I don't want to trade that with you, why are you around? And everybody around you isn't bad, but everybody around you isn't good for your journey. And so you have to be able to
I'm gonna say cut people off when they handed you the scissors. So when somebody keeps on disrespecting you, you set boundaries and they disrespect your boundaries over and over and over, they've handed you the scissors. So you might have to cut the relationship off or don't complain about the things you aren't willing to change. And so for me in my life, I had to go up a mountain.
I was just in, where is that place? I wasn't skiing because I can't ski, Flagstaff. I was in Arizona at what is called Snowbowl. And we were driving up the mountain. At the base of the mountain, it was no snow. So I'm driving like, how are people skiing? But as we got higher, it got colder. snow was there, it got less crowded. And it reminded me of hiking mountains.
Everybody at the base of the mountain is crowded. But the higher you go, the lonelier it gets. The higher you go, the colder it gets. And so for some of you, it's getting colder in your life because you're going higher.
For some of you, it's getting a little bit lonely in your life because people who started with you aren't gonna have the perseverance, the grind, the work ethic, the faith to finish with you. And the journey will always reveal what's real and who's real in your life. And so it doesn't make them bad, but everybody isn't meant to go with you.
And that breaks my heart because it's people I cared about. It's people I've tried to help. You have to learn how to let people go because I've tried to help people so much. And my dad told me this. He said, Trent, people will bring you down fast and you can bring them up. I know you want to. Yeah. Woo! I know you want to save people. That's not your job, bro. Stop playing God.
You're not there to save people. Because I don't know if you ever... I've almost drowned before in real life. And what happens if you try to save a person drowning, they're so frantic, they will pull you under and both people will drown. And so you have to trust that some people have to learn how to save themselves. I'm all for throwing out... The buoy. I'm all for throwing out the life jacket.
But at some point, you have to learn how to do for yourself because I refuse to lose myself trying to change people. And some of us, we can't keep peace in our life because we spend our whole entire life trying to change people. And people aren't going to change until they're ready to change. So for me, my whole thing is here you go, God. It's yours. Here you go.
This person that I believe so much in that I'm giving all the advice and I know you probably, I know you can relate all the advice and they're not taking it. Here you go, God. This person that I want to help And they don't want to be helped. Here you go, God. And I hand them over to God and it gives more peace in my soul.
So that has helped me tremendously in this journey because I care so much about people and I don't want to feel guilty for not doing the things that they want to appreciate no more.
For sure. Change is an inside job.
She is my sister.
Absolutely.
And on that journey, just to add this, as you're climbing that mountain or going on that journey, you will meet like mindsets.
They might not look like how you think them. Look, I have friends in my life that some are friends and peers. I'm like, hey, how did this connection even happen? Like we're totally different lifestyles. And but you you realize like mindsets will always find. So as you go on your journey, it might be a little bit lonely at first.
But I promise you, as you keep moving forward, you will find your people. But you just got to stay true to the path.
Do you feel that started a war within yourself?
I'm a hundred percent with you with that.
Yeah. It started, it starts, there's a beautiful quote and it's a rapper named Nipsey Hussle rest in peace. And I don't know if it's his quote, but he said, talk about this in the book. He said, would you rather be at peace with yourself and at war with the world? Or would you rather be at war with yourself and at peace with the world? And every time you're choosing them over you,
by not cutting things off or firing somebody that you know needs to be fired, you start a war within yourself. Every time you say yes, when you wanna say no, and you need to say no, you're starting a war within yourself. So I got tired of starting wars within myself. And one of my hardest things was speaking my peace.
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