Powerful And Unpolished

Good day, everyone. Welcome to Powerful and Unpolished. I'm Tim Salmans. I'm your host. I just want to thank you very much for listening in today. Today's going to be similar, but different. There's been a lot that has transpired in the last month and I was like, all right, what's today's subject that we're going to dig into and explore?

And I was thinking, expectations or assumptions and, that's always present. I think each and every one of us on this planet has tripped over or experienced our expectations and our assumptions, and really it's about having the opportunity in this solo session here to just be, I think that's really what I want to emphasize.

Because the last month has been an interesting ride. It's called life. And had some wonderful, exceptional times and had some, some heartbreaking times and had some letdowns and had some uplift moments, if you will. And I really want to. You know this to be intriguing and interesting for people.

I'm always, when I think about this podcast, when I think about my business and the book and the information that we're here to help train and support and guide our clients with our listeners with, it's really, we just want to be a presence. And a presence of acceptance and positivity At times. You may notice I'm not as fully alive or as invigorating as some other podcast host or other people in general, and that's all right.

If this is a slow burn for people, then let it be a slow burn for people. I am at that point where I really, I still got myself, I still get caught up in the programming and the conditioning that the world has around us that we swim in day in and day out. And, I. You probably heard me say it before, but the programming and conditioning is, you're just not quite right.

You're just not quite good enough. Tell me your story. Tell me what makes you special. Tell me what makes you exceptional. You're already exceptional. Whether you have a platform, whether someone has, you have the potential in your life to create from the divine essence that you are.

I find myself at times getting caught up in the world of, you've gotta, you gotta catch their attention. You got three seconds to, and it's oh Lord. It's a lot of responsibility for other people who may not be taking responsibility for themselves. I don't know that I want to take on someone else's responsibility.

In fact, I want to be here as a source, as a presence to help remind them. Of the gifts that they have, the gifts that they are, and the ability of what they have to share in this experience. And like I said, we all have expectations. We all make assumptions. This has been my ride for the last month or so.

Little bit ago, about a month ago or so we lost our dog passed away and it's. What's interesting is the dynamic of the effect that it had on the household because the whole time that I was dating my wife and been married to my wife for 20 years, we've always had dogs. Even when we've lost a dog who's passed, we always had other dogs to take care of, and for the last month we haven't had that.

And you just have these like patterns that you. You assumptions or expectations that you take for granted. It's wow, I'm used to going outside several times a day, especially first thing in the morning and last thing at night. Now that I don't have to do that, it's it feels weird.

And it is the circle of life. We had 14, 15, wonderful years of loving this little creature. And bless him that he's off playing with the rest of the dogs in a field somewhere and doing something fun. Then we go and we take a trip and go see my mother-in-law who is a angel on this planet and we celebrate her 91st birthday and the fact that she is still so vibrant to be able to appreciate, her life, her opportunities.

To continue to move forward. It's a blessing. And so that's, that's one of the pluses. I'm doing a lot of business stuff where I'm engaging with different people and some people I really click with and other ones I, I do all right with, but I don't really, maybe quick as well, click as well with them, which is fine.

I don't expect to. But it is interesting how. You know who I am and the message I want to bring isn't necessarily, I don't run around telling people You're broken and I have this stuff that will fix you because the people I work with aren't broken. They have opportunities, they have possibilities.

They have awarenesses that maybe they haven't discovered yet that might be getting in their way or situations like that. But by all means, they are divine and they are not broken. They are a gift. They're a gift to me. They're a gift to this world. They're a gift to their, the path that they're on, that they're growing themselves.

And it's a blessing to be able to engage with those folks and that experience. I. The expectation and assumption. It's interesting 'cause it's I go to a bunch of networking events, I go to a lot of situations and I meet some very wonderful people. It's just sometimes I struggle with, the reminder of, oh, you gotta get their attention.

You gotta keep their attention. You, this is what you gotta do. And it's like going great. I'm here to learn, I'm here to grow. At the same time, I have to remind myself. Yeah, I'm not broken. You know who I am is no accident. I've had the lessons, I've had I still continue to have the lessons that I have and I get caught up in it as well and it's oh yeah, I have to bring myself back to, wait a minute, what is it that I'm looking at doing?

My lovely wife and I, we've had this wonderful opportunity where we've recognized some of our patterns that have been there for quite a while, and so recently we've changed up one of our patterns and for us it's just in the last, I think we're on Day 13 or 14, we are walking 5K a day. So we go out and we walk.

Most of the times we walk the lake that we live close to and we do some extra legs to get more distance, but we walk coming up on 14 days. We walk 5K a day just to change the pattern. Yeah, we're trying to get healthy and or get healthier and get our bodies into a certain, but we're not fixated like we have been in the past.

We're fixated on what is it that we want to play with and what do we want to create? One of the blessings that actually came out of this was just on the summer solstice, which was what, five days ago? Six days ago. We were walking the route that we walked and, it's a section where we had already walked by at once and then when we were backtracking, this was like eight 30 at night and the sun was still somewhat up.

It was still fairly bright. And when we were walking back the other way we recognized there was a duck that was doing, it was like, what's this, what's the problem with this duck? It's in the middle of this stream that feeds the lake. And it's the stream itself is anywhere from four inches deep to.

A foot and a half deep in spots and stuff like that. And we just noticed that this duck, and it was like we were like our two ducks fighting, our two birds fighting what's going on? And when we looked closer, we recognized that here was this single duck just trying to stay above water, trying to break free.

And we recognized that there was this, and it was on the other side of the stream. Which is about 15, 20 feet over. And if that, it may only be 12 feet over, but we recognized that this duck was hung up on some fishing line and it was a wrapped, somehow it got wrapped around his flipper.

And so I was like eight 30 at night. I'm like, my wife's do we call like animal control? Do we, we're in the mountains, so it's not like animal control comes up and checks this out or anything. And if we'd waited too much longer, this duck probably would've been so exhausted that it probably would've gone under the water.

'cause it was, it didn't have its flipper to be able to stay. I don't know if it could stay up or not, but the way he was struggling in the water was pretty significant. With that said, it was like going, okay, gotta do, let's do, and we're like, all right, do we go around and get on the other side?

Do we, try to have a stick? And we didn't have a knife or anything, and it was so far away. And so I just told my wife, I said, here, take my stuff. So I took all my, everything outta my pants and stuff like this. And then I realized when I was getting into the water, it was even deeper than I expected.

Actually, I was in my boxers, but I took off my pants and I started wade across this stream, this, significant stream. And with the runoff it was pretty cold water. So it definitely woke me up. But I was really just focused on getting over to this duckk. And when I got over to the duckk and I came in behind, so I didn't want to come directly at it and start all it.

I was trying to be considerate. I just cupped it up in my arm and it really became duckile. I think it really had, some people have said that it had a sense that I was there to help it, to protect it, to do something right, positive for it. So while I was trying to figure out all this.

This fishing line that was caught in his wing and then it was cutting into his flipper. So it was, he was stuck. I even had to peel it out of his, where it was grabbing and cutting into his leg. And once I got him out, I let him go and he was incredibly excited and I was like very grateful to the universe for the opportunity to make a choice.

At that moment in time. We could have walked away. We could have been like, other people are like, oh, you could have had duck soup or you could have, had a nice meal or whatever it was. You know what I get there trying to be funny and joke around, but for me, at that moment, in that time, it was to be a contributing factor in this world.

And so it just felt good. It felt good to, to know that I did something positive and walked the rest of the way in my dripping. Shoes and everything. And so that felt like a nice win. That felt like a nice success. And then, a few days ago I had a business interaction that kind of went south and all of a sudden I'm here like going, gosh, do I even fit into this world?

Is this, I feel like I, this business situation was one where I really. I felt the expectations that I really had to perform and sell these people, and it was just like it just didn't feel authentic for me and I. They, the people were fine. It was like this, it was just the situation how it was.

And I remember coming outta that so deflated. The interaction with the duck was, I felt very wow, feels good. I'm here for a purpose and I'm contributing. And then I have those other moments where it's like feeling a little bit down and wow, it's amazing how.

In my own experience, how I can swing from the good to the not so good. And knowing that a number of people that I've crossed paths with throughout my life have had those experiences. And that is the thing called life. And it is the expectations and it is the assumptions that we make that, I've said this on a number of occasions to people I've worked with who promised you a good day.

It's up to us to figure out what we want to do with this day and how we want to contribute to it. So I guess this message is just really, I just wanted to do this solo session and say it's really just about for what we're here to do in this podcast, and whether we repeat ourselves, whether we stumble around on ourselves, whatever it is, we come from the heart.

This message, the guests that we have on here it's really just to learn and discover about the uniqueness that they are the ways that they can contribute personally and professionally. And this is our focus is at Insights for Choice. It's really about being of support. Playing with possibility and helping people on their path feel more connected and more more constructive on that path.

With that said I just gave you a little snippet of the last month of my world a little bit, and that's probably just touching the iceberg, but. I am a true believer and I see it all the time that life is talking to us. Life is talking. The bird thing, then when my wife actually put it on her social media and it was like, all the positivity that we got from the people who thanked me and, it made me feel good the, that they thanked me.

But I think the biggest thing was this is I wasn't doing it to be thanked, but they. Still offered up their well wishes to me and it's very much appreciated. Like it is, thank you. You didn't have to, I didn't do this for any other reason other than to help this duck, but you have blessed me by just, sitting in some positivity my way and I am very grateful for that and to live in that energy.

And at our business insights for choice and for this podcast, powerful and unpolished life is always talking to us. It's always talking to you, the listener that's listening right now. Life has constantly been growing you, giving you feedback. Are you listening? That is the key factor that we are primarily focused on.

Are you listening and not just with your ears. Are you listening on the awareness of the spectrum, the awareness of the many layers and levels that exist, and the many areas of possibility that information can filter to us and through us. So for what it's worth, I hope we're going to be doing more of these.

I hope this speaks to the people that, and again. This may be a slow burn. I'm not going to try to necessarily entertain you, although maybe at times we might have some really fun, entertaining stuff that happens and we'll capitalize on it then. But, it's not my job to entertain you. It's not my job to entertain me.

I'm just here to play and I'm going to have fun with it. And if we have enough fun, I know it's going to be entertaining from time to time. And at other times it'll be poignant and at other times it'll be constructive and we will continue. To be a force for not only you, but for me to remind ourselves we are a contributing factor in this world.

We are divine and we offer great opportunities for others and ourselves. So my biggest question to you now and always is are you listening? And until our next podcast, I want to wish you all the best. If you found this helpful or insightful or could write a review for this that means something or share it with your friends or family, or, that would be wonderful.

But until next time, I just want to say in gratitude, thank you so much for listening and for con, considering what we're thinking and sharing and the ideas that we are, trying to bring forth. So wish you all the best. I hope you have a wonderful week ahead of you, and we will talk to you soon.