Welcome to 7-Minute Sunday on the Switch, Pivot, or Quick podcast. I'm your host, Ayana Angel, and we are going to spend the next 7 minutes together getting you filled up with inspiration and goodness to get your mind primed to achieve greatness as you enter the week ahead. So, I was thinking about it, and I was thinking like, you know what, this holiday season, I want things to be different. I really want to live the moment.
And I am just as guilty as anyone else operating during the holidays in the cyber digital flash pose type of click-clacking culture, okay? I readily admit that. Most times, my phone is not too far away from me. Although I always keep it on silent because it's something about the ringing and dinging that I don't particularly appreciate, but I do like to know what's going on.
This year, I'm planning to make an effort to really live the moment. All the stuff happening on my phone, it will be there when I get back. I know it will, and I won't be missing out on much. I really decided that I want to lift my family members in the eyes when we were chit-chatting, appreciate the greetings of store clerks, taking the smells of the holidays, and let the smells and the scents and all the cinnamons and pine smells swirl around me.
I really want to be present. And I will readily admit that I realized more, I guess more recently, I've realized that I can be intense at times, and then at times, at the same token, I can be such a nonchalant person. So I can be both things all at the same time. But if I feel passionate about something, then I can be very intense.
And that's how I am most times when I'm talking to you guys. It's very intense because I feel passionate about the things that we talk about. But other times, when there's not too much excitement and things are just kind of normal, then I'm usually pretty easy-going, pretty go-with-the-flow, pretty nonchalant. Most times, I can take it or leave it.
I couldn't care less one way or the other. But I want to be a more active participant in my moments. I want to be grateful for the moments. I want to remember who was there in those moments, what was happening, what it felt like, how I felt, what the scene was like.
Because these are the things that I'll cherish one day, especially when you talk about spending time with your family members and the people that you're grateful for having in your life. These are the times where, as ambitious people, a lot of times we overlook the importance of the gratitude for family and for friends and for just loved ones, and that time to be able to spend together because we're so busy, like, worried about the next thing. But these are the times to really appreciate those people because, you know, as we all know, nothing is promised or guaranteed to us. So sometimes I fall victim to this myself.
I'm so worried about the next thing that I don't take the time to soak it in and let the moments live, to just be grateful in those moments. And when you think about it, the moments are the most important because they create the memories. Fully taking in the moments, the sounds, the company, the environment, even down to the sense in the air, those help to evoke those wonderful memories of the moments. We've all smelled like a scent or heard a song or recall the time in our lives with fondness when we come across something that creates, like, this nostalgia, and that's because we were present in the moment.
We took it all in, including the sounds, the sniffs, the scenes, all of it. So if we're not present in the moments, then we run the risk of losing the memories. And I don't know about you, but I want to make memories. I want to enjoy the memories.
I want to capture the memories. I want to keep the memories. So I want to be present, and I want to live in the moments. And I just wanted to share that with you guys because we all need to slow down sometimes.
And this is me saying this to myself. Slow down. Take it all in. Live in the moment.
This is all you got. There's no do-overs. So you better live in these moments now. I hope you guys enjoyed spending time with me on this 7-minute Sunday.
I thank you for hanging out with me. I hope you have an amazing week ahead, and I hope you live in the moment. And as always, you know what to do. Keep killing it.
Thank you.