Good morning everyone. Today I am totally filled with gratitude to share with you the news that my podcast has received 1k total place on anchor platform. I cannot track other platforms but to me this is huge. First of all I never set a goal or an intention to have 1k plays or 100,000 plays, nope that was not an intention at all.
My intention was just to do a meaningful activity when I turned 60 years and see how I am evolving. I took time to listen to my first episode today which I really do. I don't like to listen to my own episodes after I record it. I just test check and then I publish it.
Today I went back to my first episode. The episode is the title is Day 1, 21 Days of Exploring Your Magnificent Self. So when you listen to it you will agree that my intention when I recorded the first episode was just completion. That's it.
I wanted to complete one episode and I think even before even publishing it I was saying that I don't know whether I'm going to publish or not. That's it. That was my simple clear intention. I gave myself permission to do a 21 day challenge.
Then a 7 day challenge in Season 2 and then I think it was 15 days I don't remember. And see how I am evolving with this self motivated project. If I name some and leave others it is not fair. So I thank each and every listener, every listener for helping me reach the total of 1k.
That seems like a milestone. I did not. That was not something that I had planned for. But look, okay.
1k. That's like a milestone. I thank you for everything. Maybe it is listening fully and sharing your insights or just listening for a few seconds and exiting and saying you know what it's boring.
That's fine. Or not even clicking the link when I posted it in anywhere. Maybe I don't know which normally I do it in my WhatsApp status. So not even clicking the link.
That's fine. Or referring to your friends. Or not feeling like referring to your friends. Anyone.
You don't see value. Everybody. I thank all the people who got hold of the link regardless of any wherever you start. So every action, every inaction is highly appreciated.
Thank you. Thank you so much. I thank Keshev, Yogesh and Nushia for accepting my invitation to being a guest for my interview episode. And I thank my sister who motivated me quite a lot.
As of now, how has the podcast helped me as an evolving Dalita? It has helped me better understand the listener from their personal and professional perspectives. I have started thinking and realizing that the elder years are not bad. I don't need to know.
I don't need to know everything. I don't need to know it all. I can fail and learn. I can come across as bragging or even stupid when I truly believe and share the unconventional ways that work for me in making my life and business meaningful so that I can help someone.
I motivated to learn new things in each domain like learning new slokers on the spiritual side. New ways of working out at home regardless of how the weather is because I used to be a gym person. New ways to regulate my emotions and thoughts during pandemic and lockdown, solid rollercoaster emotions. Accepting the brutal reality that anything can happen to anyone anytime and reinventing to create my future superself and helping others craft their future superself through my workshop.
I'm evolving in the domain of my favorite arts like Trangoli, Naskolam and Knitting, which sprouted in the ninth grade, but had to abandon in order to pursue college and professional career. I'm evolving in the domain of learning through MOOC, MOC, Massive Open Online Course. I'm evolving in boldly pivoting from the traditional immigration form preparation work which I used to do as a self-employed professional to coaching and be coached. With that said, today I want to read an affirmation allowed on the topic Elder Ears, Elder Ears, from the book, My Favorite Book, Meditation to Heal Your Life by Louis Se.
I love experiencing every age. I rejoice in each passing year. In the early part of the century, the life expectancy was 49 years. Today, it is about 85.
Tomorrow, it could be 125. It is time to change the way we view our later years. No longer will we accept the notion that we must become sick and die, lonely and afraid. It is time to make nursing homes obsolete as we learn to take responsibility for our own health.
We take control of our thoughts and we create an elder time that is far grander than any other generation. I see myself as vital, vivacious, healthy, fully alive and contributing until my last day. I'm at peace with my age. As I move into my treasure ears, I allow myself to become an elder of excellence.
I lead the way in showing others how to be fully alive at every age. We each have the ability to contribute to our society and to make the world a better place for our grandchildren. This is so sweet. When I read this, especially in front of the mirror, it is so huge.
It really makes me feel get out of any of the ruminating thoughts about the past or threatening thoughts about the future. What I would like to say is I invite all the elders and all the caregivers to the elders to read this affirmation several times and empower yourself. Before I end, I want to quote what my listeners had to say about my previous episodes. Normally I record the testimonials first, but today I was so excited about that one key thing.
I said, oh my God, I forgot this, I must definitely cover this. So here you go. Now, first listener, very nice episode, Alita accepting our emotions indeed helps us to handle them better, of course, better. Of course, our minds habitual patterns make it hard.
The second listener heard your podcast, liked the way you were talking about writing to your compassion itself. I have to be consistent in that. The third listener said, awesome, just listen to it. The fourth, Alita, first, thank you for doing this venture.
Whenever I used to speak with you at the temple, I always thought to myself and told you as well that you know the exact lines to say to someone. That's an innate ability. That's so well proven here on your daily podcast. Your messages are so explicit and chanting and vibrant.
I wasn't with you from the beginning of the inception of your episode of your podcast, but I'm listening to it now. I stayed totally captivated. What I felt was, this is the other listener, what I felt was my personal feeling. I wrote, wow, thanks.
It sounds like the quote you said. Then I have one more listener who said that your podcasts are great. Please keep it coming. Thank you so much as always, each and every listener, each and every one.
Thank you for coming with me in my journey of my episodes, each episode of my podcast. I wish you all the best. Have a fantastic day. Bye.
God bless.