384: You influence your reality

In todays episode Betsy is giving an update on the past few months, shares with you her fun magical story of turning away from worry and how everything is working in your favor and gives a tip on why you have more influence on your world than you think!Listen in to this episode for a new spin on how you see the world. Transcription Betsy [00:00:00]:Hello and welcome to the Art of Living Big podcast. My name is Betsy Pake. I’m an author, a speaker, and a trainer of NLP and hypnotherapy. And I’m focused on helping you understand and design your life with the power of the subconscious. This podcast is designed to help you think differently about what could be possible for your life. Now let’s go live big. Hello, fellow adventurers. Hi everybody. Betsy [00:00:35]:Welcome to the Art of Living Big. I have a lot of things to tell. I have a lot of things to update you on, so I’m really happy that you’re here. I have a really magical story that I think might be kind of fun and I have a couple thoughts. Some things that I have been thinking through this year as we kind of kick off 20, 25 and honestly January of the 72 year long month that it was. So last time I talked to you, I had put my house on the market. It was something that I had been thinking about for quite a while and just decided that it was time to sell the house. Now, if you’re not familiar or you’re new here, welcome. Betsy [00:01:20]:But I have lived in Atlanta, Georgia, in a house that’s like a hundred years old. And you know, I think now looking back, this house that I bought is the cutest. It’s the cutest house. It had the best front porch and I have fully, fully enjoyed sitting on the front porch and spending so much time out there, like all spring, all fall, I mean, just the middle of the winter, in the middle of the summer, it became unbearable. But I mean, I was out there for hours and hours every day. I did a lot of work out there and just really enjoyed this little house. You know, when I bought it, it was this idea that I really wanted to live in the city and live in east Atlanta, which is where I live now. And this house, I was ready for projects. Betsy [00:02:12]:I don’t know if you remember listening to any of the episodes back then, but I had this big house in the suburbs and sold, sold that and moved into the city and was renting. I thought I would rent for a year. I ended up renting for like almost three years and then was ready for this house and to do all these projects. So now looking back, I think what happened, this is my thought, is that I bought a house that probably wasn’t really well maintained. It looked good on the surface and the inspection wasn’t necessarily bad, but there were a lot of things in the inspection that I knew I was gonna have to fix. And I did A lot of that work right after I moved in. But it became a real. A real money pit, I guess you could say. Betsy [00:03:02]:I mean, you guys, I expected projects. I didn’t expect the thousands of dollars that it consistently cost me every single month, on top of just what it costs to pay for the house and the utilities and all those things. So it became this huge drain. And every time one thing would go wrong, the next thing would go wrong, or I’d have somebody out to fix something, and then they would notice something else, and it just became like something from a movie. It felt like. So I had fixed everything. I feel like at this point, I probably should have just kept the house for 30 years, because I think I had fixed everything. I had replaced every appliance, the havoc unit, entire bathrooms, toilets. Betsy [00:03:50]:You name it, I have done it. But I was pooped. And I just felt like, you know, I think there’s just some changes, you know, that needed to happen in my life, and it was time to make those changes. So back early fall is when those changes started to happen. So I put the house on the market, and I thought, this house is going to sell really fast. It’s so cute, and it’s insanely well maintained at this point. And I thought, it’s going to go, like, within the first week. And, you know, I’ve been really lucky. Betsy [00:04:22]:I think this is the eighth house that I’ve owned, and I’ve been really lucky when I’ve sold houses because they’ve sold really fast. And so I think I was expecting that. So here’s my magical story. So I decided, I put it on the market, and then I decided I was going to go to where I was going to go live. So I was going to go to an apartment. It’s an apartment, like maybe a mile down the road. I wanted to stay in the same community. I didn’t know what I wanted to do next or where I really wanted to go, but my daughter lives right here. Betsy [00:04:53]:And so I was like, this will make a lot of sense, and I’ll do that. So I go to the apartment, you know, they give me the tour. It’s actually really fun because I’m like, you know what? Something goes wrong, and they have a ...