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Hey Everyone
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Its Kati again, and i'm in Mammoth Lakes, California
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as you can see.
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The snow, we don't get this down in L.A
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unfortunately!
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So today I want to talk to you about
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cutting off our internet connection for a little bit
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and vacationing, so stay tuned.
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So like I said, we need to take
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a little break sometimes.
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We need to cut off our communication online.
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And I know that sounds bad
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because a lot of us, that's our main outlet
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and I always tell you we need to vent
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we need to talk but sometimes
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its important to (*sigh) breathe and
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take it in because we get so stuck online
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and i'll tell you, to be honest, it was hard for me to do
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I've been offline for four days..
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and we go through this kind of feeling where
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I want to pick up my phone 'oh I should check twitter!'
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NO, I did not because sometimes we have to
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cut away from that so that we can
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interact with real people in our lives.
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You know, like 'in real life' people,
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like our family and our friends
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and people at school and
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we need to take that time to communicate
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where we're not talking but we're like
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checking emails and 'yeah yeah yeah, aha aha'
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We're not really listening
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and sometimes we need to take that time
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to give ourselves a break
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where we don't have to respond to anybody right away.
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They'll still be there,
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they'll know.
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It's okay.
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And it's kind of setting those little healthy boundaries.
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I have videos, my old videos, there's two of them
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'Boundaries 1' and 'Boundaries 2' and I talk about
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setting healthy boundaries within relationships,
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well this is kind of a boundary for yourself.
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For your self-care.
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Even myself, I have my fabulous five that I check, all of my sites.
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And I have to take some time for myself, right,
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so that I can keep doing this! Ta da!
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So, I took four days off and the first day or so
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it was really hard.
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I kept wanting to get online and check things,
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and 'oo, I know there's questions that need to be answered',
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but once I got past that I could finally relax.
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I would lean back but I'd probably fall off this rock
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that i'm hoisted on to.
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So, it's nice to kind of take a break.
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So, I would encourage all of you
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even if its just for one afternoon,
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and you kind of like want to check your phone.
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Try to give yourself a little break.
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Take some time.
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Do some self-care.
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Take a bubble bath, paint your nails,
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colour, call that friend you haven't talked to in a while,
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hang out with them, grab a coffee.
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Anything you can do that doesn't create
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too much anxiety but its a nice getaway.
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Right? Do something different.
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We have to change up what we're doing to
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continue to take care of ourselves,
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and we can't do that when we're online everyday
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because what that usually means is,
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when we're online, we're like inside, on the computer
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you know, sitting down versus being out talking to people.
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Being our wonderful selves, right?
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And we're trying to work on a healthy mind,
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a healthy body.
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But we have to put it into action.
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We have to show people.
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People love us, people care about us,
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and they probably miss the communication.
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So take some time away.
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Thats my task and my little
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homework assignment if you can do something
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this week.
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Take a couple of hours where you're
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not reachable....
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*gasp!!
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Horrible things could happen,
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but they won't.
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It's only a couple of hours.
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It'll be nice for you to not to be reachable.
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And the weird thing is, I know this is showing my age,
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I grew up in a time without cell phones.
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We actually had car phones.
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Like in the car, a phone, like a phone
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from your home. So ghetto now.
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But, at the time, you were unreachable,
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and nothing bad happened.
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We got along just fine.
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I didn't even have email.
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We didn't have twitter,
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none of that existed and
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everything was just fine.
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So lets try to take a little break
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so we can all take our little vacation right,
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we can get out, we can see people,
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we can reconnect because I'll tell you what
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It feels so good.
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And it's nice to reconnect with the people
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in our lives that love us most,
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who care about us most,
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because that's what life's all about, right?
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It's our relationships.
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And keep checking back,
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I'll keep putting out videos.
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I just wanted to talk to you all
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as I was on my vacation in Mammoth.
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Don't forget to subscribe to my channel
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because I put out videos every monday,
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and sometimes in the middle of the week,
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and then you'll get notified.
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And don't worry,
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I'm coming online tomorrow.
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So i'll be back and....
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I'm trying to think if there's anything else,
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oh, don't forget to check out for my workbook
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on my website if you haven't already.
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It's free.
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You can download it on there and
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it can help you get started
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thinking about who I am and
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what's important to me.
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So hop on and do that
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and we'll keep working together
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towards a healthy mind and
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a healthy body.