 We are live. Yes, you're probably wondering, why am I in a suit and why do I have wolves on my tie? So we had to baptize them today. My little girl got baptized. So I decided that I'm gonna do a live about the story of the two wolves and I guess the significance of it, especially at this time of the year. So if you know the story of the two wolves in the chat, just put yes I do. I know the story or put a wolf emoji in the chat. But it's a really cool story. I heard this probably five or six years ago and it resonated so much with me. And I think at this time of the year, it's a big deal. I think at this time of the year that people have doubts or they start maybe a journey. What's up, Derek? How are you, sir? They started a journey and then they find a reason why they stop the journey or life happens or something gets in the way and they stop. And so I've always been somebody that likes to work hard and I'm a charger. Like if I decide I'm gonna do something, I just go do it. And I kind of put my blinders on. But I always have a conversation going on my head. And so there's a story called the story of two wolves. If you get a chance, check out my tie. It's a pretty cool guy. This is a gift I got. And it was a really cool gift from a good friend of mine, Brian Underwood. And it means a lot to me because if you get to know me, I'm a hard worker. I put a lot of effort into the things I do. And but at the same time, I'm in this internal war inside my own brain. And when I heard this story, and it's a really, really cool story. So hopefully you've heard the story of the two wolves but I'm gonna tell you a little bit of it. You can always Google it. And there's some really cool things. But it's a story of a little Indian boy who's having some struggles. I was having these challenges and he was having this fight in his own brain. And he goes to the chief, his grandfather. And he basically was telling his grandfather this story. And basically he was talking about, he wanted to make these certain decisions or he was going down this path and he was committed to doing this. But then on the other side of his brain, it's telling him that you're gonna fail or you can't do that or it's not possible. It's too hard. And there's this constant war going on in his mind. And to keep the story somewhat short, it's a pretty cool story though. The little boy, the grandfather is like, yeah. He goes, you know, there's a constant battle and this will go on for the rest of your life. And the little boy asked the grandfather, like, well, which wolf wins? Which wolf is going to win? And his grandfather simply said, he goes, which one ever one you feed the most. And I thought that was really cool. And it really hit home for me because I'm a type of person where I'm internally here and I can get, if I get caught off guard, I'm down the rabbit hole of negative thoughts. Realizing though, when you look at the grand scheme of life, it's really good. And I can get caught on that. Well, what are you, what's gonna win is the negative thoughts, the negative energy that you put towards things. We can over, the world right now is a good example of this. We can show that we can make things worse than they really are, right? And but we can make things better than you really are. I got to hear Steve Harvey do a little talk with us and it was cool. He's like, it's just as easy to dream for a Rolls-Royce as it is a pinto or a beater kind of car if you want to call it that. And he goes, but people will always choose the easy thing because they're feeding the wrong wolf. They say they can't have something or it's not possible. So it's January. I'm wearing this tie, I had a really special day today. My daughter is sleeping right now. We had a really cool special day today and I put this tie on this morning whenever, if it works out in my outfit. I'll put it on and I love this because I have three shirts also with wolf's on them. It's kind of my thing because it's a reminder of I get to decide every day which wolf I'm gonna feed. Am I gonna feed the good wolf? Or am I gonna feed the wolf that's basically pulling the shit out of life, right? Making things harder. So thanks Melanie, I appreciate it. Big shout out to Northern Ireland y'all. Give a shout out to Northern Ireland. I love my people there. My mom is renewing my passport and we had a glitch in the passport right now Melanie and it's actually getting renewed out downstairs right now. So I can get over there as soon as the world opens back up a little better. And I can't wait to get it fully opened up that way. But so just it's January, it's mid January and I know a lot of you probably maybe know if you follow me I talk about a lot of people give up on their dreams too early. People give up on their new year's resolutions too early. And the reality is is every day we get to wake up we could decide which wolf to feed. And there's always gonna be life happening. There's always gonna be complications. There's always gonna be situations. There's always gonna be people around us that have impact on our emotions. But you get to choose how you wanna feed that wolf. You can choose Michael Rutherford. If you guys know Michael give Michael a big shout out. You can always choose partly sunny and partly cloudy. If you Google that on Google just for fun this little test Google partly sunny and Google partly cloudy, right? So it's like which way do you wanna see your day? Right now it is partly sunny outside. Some people see it as partly cloudy outside. True story, it actually is. Some people see it as partly cloudy. Some people see it as partly sunny. One of them has a more light to it, right? A more of a positive energy to it. One of them has a more of a negative energy in general, right? So the same thing happens to our day to day lives. So this is a representation. So I'm a big fan of having representations. It's the idea of tying the string around your finger as a reminder. People do rubber bands. That's like self-torture. If you have a negative thought that you literally have a rubber band. I've done this before. I didn't like the concept of it all. So I got rid of it. That's not a big teaching of mine. But you literally, if you have a negative thought and you catch yourself, you literally snap yourself a rubber band to remind yourself to get out of that. What I would rather you do is say when you have a positive thought, reinforce it with a positive reinforcement, right? Put a smile, dance. To me, that's a better way of reinforcing, but hey, you eat your own cookie. You eat your own way. Thank you, Jason. I am, yes, I'm pretty dapper today. Although, what do you think? One of my good suits. It's kind of cool though, if you see the back, it's actually, it's kind of cool. This actually suit, just so you kind of fun. So inside my suit jacket, which I actually forgot my wife got matchy. So you wreck all the pictures I forgot my actual jacket at the house when we got to the church. But if you check this out, another representation. If you look on here, you'll see it's, this is a representation of places in the world. So my liner of my jacket has, it's a destination, it's about exploring the world. It has different countries and cities and stuff on it. It's really cool. But when I had this suit made, we did that on purpose. And so when I've ever put my suit on, it reminds me that the world is what we make it. The world we can create and be anywhere we want. We can go out and meet people in Northern Ireland. And literally the first time that Melanie and I are gonna sit down and have a meal or meet each other in person, it'll be like we've known each other for years. We're gonna have great conversation and break bread. And that's what this suit was built for. I have another suit that I had made. It's actually in my closet right behind this wall that was made, has a different representation. It's a representation of vitality and health. And so it was a cool way to have the suit made. My name's in it somewhere, but not in this part. My name's in my sleeve there. But it's a cool way to kind of, to create things that you do of why you do what you do. So I'm very, very fortunate. Yes, Dublin, love inside of it. I hope Dublin is on it, is in it. Yeah, you know, actually I can't wait to go back to Dublin, I've been to Dublin a bit. I spent time at the Temple Bar and one of my, I know I'm off topic. We were talking, if you're just joining me now, we were talking about the story of the two wolves and now we're off topic. But true story, I was in Dublin. I was in, we were in Scotland. We stayed at the castle there. We did a really cool, unbelievable. I mean, I don't even want to talk about that day. I'd be out in for two hours. But we left there and I always wanted to go to Ireland. So I went to Ireland just for a couple of days. My wife, my kids, we had everybody with us. And we had two kids at the time. So we go to Ireland and ironically a buddy of mine, Adam, if you're out there, appreciate your brother, buddy of mine was actually in Ireland. We, he and I served in the Marine Corps 20 some years ago, at the same time I was. So we went and had dinner with him. My wife got to meet him. We got, I got to meet his wife and we went and had dinner. At the same time, my wife who joined the Marine Corps 10 years after I got out, her good friend from the Marine Corps and her husband were in Ireland at the exact same time. And we went and had drinks with them right after dinner that I had with my buddy in the Marine Corps. True story is crazy story. And we went to the temple bar. We got a seat. It's hard to get a seat. If you ever go to the temple bar down in Dublin, it's really hard to get a seat. We listened to music. It was absolutely an amazing night. Drank a lot of Irish carbons or sorry Guinness is we didn't, I don't think we did carbons. We maybe did one carbon, but we did Guinness's and was drink. Anyway, it was fun. It was fantastic. So yeah, it was a good night. We had a lot, a lot, a lot of fun. Our kids loved it. We had a great time. Anyway, I'm going to wrap up y'all. So story of the two wolves, if you're just jumping on now is basically a little Indian boy. He was having a challenge mentally about the war in his mind, who he was, you know, his thoughts, his energies, focus. He was having these challenges of the good and the bad of what he thought he could accomplish and what he wanted to do in his life versus what his brain was telling him he could do and what was possible. And it was a constant war going on. And he asked his chief, he asked his grandfather, you know, who's going to win? Like, who wins this war? And it's a story of the two wolves. It's the, we all have two wolves in our brain, the good wolf and the bad wolf. And he asked his grandfather, who's going to win? Which wolf is going to win? And his grandfather had a simple answer from him, the chief. He said, which whatever one you feed the most. And so that's, I wear this tie because that's my challenge. If we all have obstacles, I'm a guy that puts my head down and I'll run through a brick wall. If you, I won't stop, I'll go. I have that in me that work ethic of just go, go, go, put it down, get it down, go, go, go. The challenge I struggle with is when I wake up some days, the bad wolf in my brain wants to feed and I get caught up inside of it and I'll feed that thing and say to myself, I'm stupid. Say to the self, I'm no good. Like, I get caught there. If you get to know me, you're like, that's not possible. But inside here, it happens on a regular basis. And when I heard that story, I find things and I keep things around that in my, if you go to my house, you'll see, I keep things around like this tie as a reminder for me to go, which wolf are you feeding? Because I can go three, four, five, seven, 10 days and I wake up and go, oh shit, I'm feeding the wrong wolf. I've been feeding the negativity of the world. I've been diving into the crap out there when there's so much greatness that we can look forward to. And so I have to have a constant reminder, otherwise I can go that way. The good thing is the more I practice this, the more that I don't go there. I'm over here feeding the good wolf because I want that wolf to win. It deserves to win and I deserve to win with it. So that's the story of the two wolves. I have a lot of things that remind me of that. This, there's a huge illustration. I got this, I'll show you some other stuff, guys. I got more. I got these two things, don't go anywhere. Don't go anywhere. So I got these are two other things that I have that are the story of the good wolf. So look at this, look at this. I don't know if you've ever done a board break before but I did this one, I didn't date it. I should have dated this one. This was probably in 2015 or probably 2016. 2016. I did this board and I broke through this board. And this was some of the beliefs that I had, some of the things that I talked about. True story. I had a fear of looking stupid. If you get to meet me, people that know me now are like, are you kidding me? You had that fear? And then fear of disappointment, of disappointing other people. And then I broke through the board, have a happiness, abundance, wealth. So that's what I broke through. This one here, oh, this is the most recent one I did, which was ironic. There's a really, really cool story here too. I'm sorry, I'm not gonna do it, but this is the arrow break. You've literally put the arrow on your throat like this and you walk through the arrow and you break it and you walk through and break through your limiting beliefs that you had. My limiting belief was I'm broken. That was when I just did, I did it in August because I had multiple, I just had a big surgery, I just had another one done, I have another one coming. So anyway, this is just great stuff. But I have this tie as an illustration. This tie, ironically, when we do these arrow breaks and these board breaks, we literally play a little bit of the story of the story of the two wolves. This tie I wear on those days as a reminder that you get to fill, you get to feed the good wolf anytime. So y'all, right now it's January 15th-ish, 15th, yeah. January 15th, happy birthday to Niles out there and my brother-in-law's birthday. It's January 15th and your goals for 2020 are, it's a short year, it's not gonna take very long. At the same time, it's a long time to commit to one thing as you move forward, to just know that if you keep feeding the goodness in the world, in the life, in what you have in your life, and I promise you there's a lot of goodness there, there's gonna be some obstacles, there's gonna be crying, there's gonna be challenges along the way, but if you feed the goodness out there, you will accomplish those goals and you'll look back at that year and go, wow, that it was a great year. 2020 was the best year I can remember, I'm just telling you. And for a lot of people, it was the worst year. And for us, it was the best year that I can possibly, I can't even tell you the last time I've had a year as good as 2020. And I'm very fortunate, without going through all this work that we went through over the last six years, I don't think I'd had that same experience because I was able to look at something very differently. And it was a very big blessing in my life, in my wife's life for the year that we had. Although I know and I recognize a lot of people have a lot of challenges and most likely because they go through six years of training for an event like that. And we absolutely got to do that because of the company and the community that we spend time with. So y'all, I have to go join you. A last little thing before we go, I know there's quite a few people on live. We are doing a special guest then tomorrow, talking about our challenge. If you want to join our challenge, if you know anybody else that wants to join the challenge, we'll be going live on Dream Key Test's Facebook page. We have a Zoom that's gonna be going live. So we're super excited. So if you want to invite people to that, invite people to, it's eight Eastern Standard Time. Melanie, you'll be in bed, probably hopefully in bed at that time. And then Melanie, we're gonna be doing this. We'll do a special one for you guys next week. Just let me know. Also, we have Keto Academy coming up. It's our special event, our educational event. We have free tickets for anybody that wants to participate in that. Wednesday, it's a three-day event. There's a $37 cost for the tickets, but we're doing a free event for anybody that wants to start getting educated more on why ketones and health and wellness and vitality and the leading experts and research in the world, which I'm excited about because it's a event that I get to play a big role in. So, y'all, thanks for saying I look dapper. I do like to put myself together. I don't mind dressing up. When I was younger, I used to fight it. And I realized, you know what? I feel better when I dress up. My wife likes it when I dress up. So, frickin' dress up, then. Why not? So, every once in a while, I throw on some dudes. I actually have a reason to dress up today, but I still, I actually randomly will dress up just because I feel good. I like it. And you got to find your like and what you like. So, this is the way I like it. So, cheers, y'all. Have a good night.