Trent Shelton
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first heard Nov 2024
last heard 28 Jul
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And so I would challenge everybody listening to us, how can you make happiness so easy to obtain that you had no choice but to be happy every single day? And maybe not the whole day, but the moment. I have a little area in the book and it's called Morning Marley. Marley's my daughter. And I realized this as we get older, we complicated a lot more and I'm guilty of it.
And I'll never forget Marley. I'm sure you had this happen with your kids. Marley comes in the room at like 7 a.m. Sun rises up. She opens up our blinds. I'm tired. And she's singing a song. It's morning time. And she's so happy that it's morning. And the first thing I want to say is Marley, go back to sleep. But I caught myself and I said, wow. She's happy because it's morning.
Trin, when's the last time you've been happy that you woke up and that it's morning? Or you need some great thing to happen for you, for you to be happy. When she brushes her teeth, she has the brush your teeth song. She's happy to brush her teeth. And so if we get back, I believe this is why God tells us to be childlike. Because when we get away from being childlike,
we start to have all this complication around what brings us joy, what brings us happiness. Go look at a kid. A kid, they can hate you one second, love you in two seconds later. They're quick to forgive. They find happiness in simplicity. Playing outside, playing in the bathtub. At what point in our life as grownups that we start becoming so cold and so boring and just so tight with life?
And so I love that principle because I really feel like it can open up your life to more simplicity and experience more peace in your life if you just learn how to say, what do I need today just to be happy? And that question has literally changed my life.
It's morning. It's morning. It's morning. Something like that.
And then her brush your teeth. It's time to brush your teeth. Like, yeah. That whole song. And I love it. Right? Now I love it. Because I said, wow. When did I get away from being appreciative? And a lot of us aren't happy because we spend our whole life chasing. Chasing the next thing. More, more, more, more. And trust me, it's hard when you're in a position you got people to take care of.
But it's more, more, more, more, more, more, more. And The world programs us for that. And so this book and the mess of protecting your peace is like slowing down and being loyal to your pace. What's the pace setter in your life? You know what a pace setter is? When you run a race, there's a guy or a girl who sets the pace to keep you in pace in your race.
I would ask, who are the pace setters or what's the pace setter in your life? And for me, it was the wrong things at times. It was scarcity that was setting the pace. It was pleasing people that was setting the pace. It was comparison that was setting the pace. And all that did was burn me the heck out. And so now my pace setter is peace.
Now my pace setter is confidence knowing that I'm running the race that is meant for me to run. And to some people, I might look like a turtle. To some people, I might look like a rabbit. But I'm okay at this pace because I understand the lifestyle and the life that I want to live. So, yeah.
A thousand percent.
See, peace is not just At Earthy, I'm disconnected from everything. Like peace is flow. Peace is in the zone. Peace is taking care of your business. I'm at peace in my business because I take care of my business. It's the basketball player that's shooting the free throw with two seconds left and they're at peace at the free throw line. Why?
Because of all the preparation so that I can be at peace in this moment. So there's a whole approach holistically to experiencing peace. I can't be at peace if I'm not taking care of my business. I can't be at peace if I'm not doing the things that I know I need to do.
And so a big part of me protecting my peace is making sure I'm prepared, is making sure I'm efficient, is making sure I'm intentional, is making sure that I'm doing the things that I need to do so I can lay my head down at night and saying, man, I did what I needed to do today. I could be at peace. So I wanted to share that part for sure.
Absolutely. Some people will think like, there's two experiences. I mean, I always say there's the protect your peace trend where people are like, man, Trenton is on his own. They see like the athlete side where I'm pressing the gas. But it's all of those things. But it's also knowing, like in a race, you know your pace. Sometimes you got to run faster. sometimes you gotta slow down.
But you can't look at the next person and say, oh, I should be running faster because the person in year 15 is doing this. So I'm gonna do it. The person that started the podcast, you know, 10 years ago, I'm expecting to get the same amount of downloads. So I'm gonna do all the things. And we sit here, we compare ourselves. And it's like, no, this is my journey. This is my journey that I'm on.
And sometimes it's gonna be a season of busy, a season of dad, a season of everything, but I'm still at peace. Because I'm loyal to my pace. So when I need rest, I rest. When I need to go, I go. And I'm okay with that because I know at some point the finish line that's meant for me to cross will be there. And it might not look like the next person's finish line, but I'm okay with that.
So that's a big part of knowing your worth. It's a big part of being confident in who you are, a big part of knowing that what God has for you has for you. That's a big part because if you don't, you're going to think that I'm supposed to be doing all of these things. Not that you can't get influenced and motivated by someone else, but that's still their life. That's still their journey.
So I might not have that or have this, but I have what I need and I'm okay with that.
Yeah, experience. You know, I grew up in a church, so it was easy. My dad, my grandmother, my mother. But for so long in my life, it was the relationship that they gave me. You know, I believe because this is what you're supposed to do. You're supposed to go to church three days a week. And I believe because of that. But that wasn't a true belief. That was a given belief.
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