“Sometimes you have to let someone drown,” said the Lifeguard

“Sometimes you have to let someone drown,” said the Lifeguard

Video Transcript

Hey, good morning! So it's so weird for me to say good morning, um, because it is morning for me, but who knows if it's morning when you read this, so happy day I guess. So this morning I was doing my normal, like get up, get ready. I always listen to something in the morning to kind of set the tone for my day and I let whatever needs to be in the universe just kind of show up to me. Well, today I was really attracted to this one story, and it's so apparent to me that it's a story that is for me to share, and I'm reminding you. I told you to get ready for school. I should say that again, Jacoby, get ready for school. Our smart houses are a totally different thing to talk about today than usual. Yes, we'll be getting ready for school, but today is a snow day, so no school. But getting back to my story, thank you. Alexa. So the story is about this young lifeguard. This young lifeguard loved people. He loved the ocean. He loved the environment of the beach with its fun and joy. So he goes and is so excited for his first day of being a lifeguard. He gets his training. He figures out how to do CPR. He figures out how to use the different life-saving devices. He's super stoked. To really help the younger learn, most industries pair a young with an old and an experienced with an inexperienced individual. Well, one day you know their training is almost done and the older lifeguard looks at him and says, "Do you realize one day you might have to let someone drown?" And the young lifeguard's like, "No way, there's no way I'm ever gonna let anyone drown. You know, I'm committed to people. Can I save people? I would do everything I could to save someone. The old lifeguard goes, "Son, someday you might have to let someone drown and the young lifeguard, you know, he was raised where you don't talk back to your elders, you know, so he's just kind of like, "Uh, you know, and so he's giving him this look like, "You're a crazy old man, you know, there's no way I can do that. I see a lifeguard pause and just look at him and say, "Sometimes people are floundering around so much that if you try to save them, they would knock you out and you would die. And he goes, and sometimes people are so heavy, they are so weighted, they just sink down and if you try to pull them up, if you try to make them surface, they will drown you. Sometimes people will be so frantic that they'll just climb on top of you and push you down, as you know they're trying to get up. The moral of the story is that life is based on a true story and a true conversation that this lady was sharing. The truth of the story is that the real purpose of this in life is to look at where in life you have someone, something, some project, some emotion, some limiting belief that is really dragging you down. You know, we all have come across those people in life that we can't save. You know, there are clients in life that just like it's just not worth it. You know, there are thought processes and belief systems about yourself or even about your spouse or another that if you hold on to those thoughts they will really drag you down. So today what I really want to share and for you to look at is what in life is dragging you down, pulling you down, trying to climb on top of you while you're sinking and how can you give yourself a life raft and let that go so that way you don't drown with them?

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