What Do You Do With a Chance – Bonus Episode

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[00:01] Welcome to the Prosperity Podcast. Hello, everyone. Welcome back to the Kim and Tammy show. How are you, Kim? Wonderful. So fun to talk about these little books with you. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So we’re onto the third and final book in this incredible children’s series that Kim and I believe have these great entrepreneurial ideas in them. Kim, what’s the third book that we’re talking about today? This one is what do you do with a chance? And now we’re back to the fun colors. This is by Kobi Yamada, illustrated by Mae Beeson. What do you do with a chance? And these books are available on Amazon. You can also get them at the company website. We’ll put those links in the show notes and I’ll jump in here because I

[00:47] addressed this word earlier and it’s seemed S E E M or seemed S E E M E D. So he says, one day I got a chance, it just seemed to show up. And I think so many times things seem a certain way. Now in this situation, it’s a positive seeming, right? But a lot of times things are negative seeming. And so I mean, it’s a weird word. It’s why I keep spelling it so people know what I’m saying. But I think it’s super instructive to remember that sometimes things aren’t what they seem or sometimes I want to flip that. Sometimes things seem, I was going to have a cool saying and I lost it. But anyway, cool word and awesome little picture chance seeming. What was your first one? Yeah, I like that. I, the point that I liked about it is he said it acted like it liked me.

[01:49] And what I like about that is I think sometimes we think that, you know, it’s seemingly random, right? It’s just coincidence. I don’t believe that. I believe ideas come to us that are specifically designed for us, which is why they don’t go away. We talked about that earlier with an earlier one that I wouldn’t want to do with an idea. It doesn’t go away. It’s specifically designed for you. It wants you. Albert Einstein says that our imagination is a preview of life’s coming attractions. So right when this opportunity comes or an idea comes, it’s coming specifically for us. And I really believe that it’s preparing us. It alerts us like there’s something coming prepared. This is what it’s going to look like.

[02:38] And so then your brain goes into gear and figures out, okay, what are some first steps I have to take as long as you believe that you have the chops for that idea or that opportunity. But if you knew that the idea was specifically designed for you, the opportunity was specifically designed for you, why wouldn’t you take it? Well, and that’s so often what we do with the chance is become afraid and then don’t take it or inch it forward in some way. Part of my second item is he says the more I ignored them, the less they came around. And so I think sometimes we think, well, you know, we’ll just ignore them. We’ll get another one, but the more I ignored them, the less these chances came around.

[03:23] Yeah, yeah. And my point is a little attached to that one, which way it doesn’t give up on you. Yes, it doesn’t come as often because, but I would say that it seems there. What was that? Still there. Yes, yes, that’s exactly. Now the book, I would diverge a little bit. The book talks about multiple opportunities. I would suggest it’s one. It’s your next thing. It’s your next, it’s specifically designed for you. It’s your next thing. So it’s a single opportunity. It may look different from iteration to iteration, but yes, can I totally agree? It’s still there. It’s hanging out. It’s like at your door. Just because you haven’t opened your door doesn’t mean it’s not there. Knocking, trying to get your attention.

[04:07] Well, and my last one is the word let go, because he realized that if he lets go of all the fear that comes with the chance, that he can then do something with the chance. And he didn’t even know how to explain that. He just knew that if you let go of the fears that it would roll itself forward again. Yep. And that’s perfect segue to my last point, which is that his excitement, his natural enthusiasm for the chance, overcame his fear. And this again is an indicator that it’s meant for you. If it weren’t meant for you, you wouldn’t get excited about it. You wouldn’t be turned on by it. You’d be more fearful and afraid than excited. So it’s just such a great indicator. When your enthusiasm and excitement for the possibility overcomes the fear, that’s

[05:01] proof that you have within you what you need. You may not know that, but you do. Well, and as you start to inch forward, sometimes not knowing the direction, but just knowing that forward is the way, then the next step becomes clear. Or sometimes it becomes clear that the chance that you’re taking with the chance is not the right direction. And then from there, you find the right direction. And I think so many times we wait till everything seems to be aligned and the research is done and the path is clear and all the plans are perfect. And that’s like going literally against the definition of chance. Yeah. That is interesting. Explain that. Well, chance says to take a bet almost. Chance says it might not work out.

[05:50] Chance says you have to give it a try, even though you may fail. Yes, yes. And all these things enable us to then understand that sometimes it is two steps forward, one step back, or going left and then realizing left isn’t the right way. I need to go right or what have you. And this is where we get then the next step. And then that step helps us with the next step. So it’s all tied together in letting go of the fear, pushing things forward. And sometimes this is where we need to bring in others, right? Like we’ve talked about in some of the other books that he writes, the word love with a capital L to involve others in this chance so that it can be a win-win for the two people. And then to get clear on who you’re taking the chance for, which is a

[06:41] third either person or group of people. So you get a win and that chance explodes out a little bit more and you get this little bubbling effect of sometimes the bubbles get popped, but sometimes they grow and grow. Absolutely. I loved in the book, again, the drawings are just so poignant. The, when he failed, failed the first time. The looks of the people around him. And often that’s a perceived, it’s perceived on our end that people are looking at us that way. They’re not always looking at us that way, but I so appreciate the authors pointing that out. And that’s a concern of ours, a big concern, especially of our society. Our culture is that we are going to fail. And so we, like you said, if we don’t have it all planned out and

[07:24] figured out all the T’s crossed and I’s dotted, we don’t launch. We don’t risk, we don’t take that chance. And, and then consequently the opportunity stays away or it appears to. I’m curious to know what you would say about this. And I know you’re really good at answering questions on the fly. When I think about all three books, if I could think of, you know, what would a message be, what would a moral of the story, if you would, if I were to take a moral of the story out of all three books. My take on it is that within each of us lies this incredible possibility to create change, positive impactful change. It doesn’t matter who you are, where you are, how old you are, what you’re, none of that matters.

[08:07] Each one of us is here on purpose to do that. In fact, and you talked about it, a ripple effect, you know, like this bubbling effervescent effect when we put our good out there, whether we quote unquote fail or not. So to me, that’s an overarching message of all three books. What, what would you say is one of the overarching message that you got? Well, I’m going to add to what you’ve identified because that clearly is a really foundational message. And I think that the acts of the child in motion are a really important secondary message, like he’s got his workshop, he’s got, there’s when he’s dealing with weather, he’s going up and down hills. Like there’s motion in all of the drawings. And that’s I think been something super instructive in my life is any

[09:02] time that I felt unclear or fearful or not sure where to go, putting something in motion, just really, it got me out of my own way. It got me out of my own, whatever was going on up here that was limiting and motion forward movement just expands that. And I think you actually did a better job of paying attention to the pictures than I did. But that is one thing that the pictures really were instructive to me on. It’s a very good point. And it goes back to that point about failure too, or if you go in the wrong direction as you brought up, it doesn’t matter. I believe the universe, the world rewards motion. It does not reward stock. And as you’ve talked about before, you’re either growing or you’re dying.

[09:50] You’re never, ever stagnant. It’s a false sense of estate. Yeah. And yeah, go ahead. Well, one other thing too is I think the little boy is not technically, so maybe I’m reading this into it, but he’s always of service, right? He’s, he’s, it’s not just about him. He’s putting the thing into play, whatever it is. He’s turning the problem over, creating an opportunity, putting it into play. He’s taking the idea, moving it forward, opening the windows, putting it into play. He’s taking the chance and rolling with it, getting that momentum going, et cetera. So I think that’s a cool part of it too. I do too. And fear is very self-focused. Oh yeah. Right. Almost like exclusively, you could say self-focused.

[10:40] And so yeah, you’re, that’s a really good point. When you are thinking about others or even the possibility of the idea or the chance or the problem, you’re removing your focus off of yourself and you’re doing, putting on something else. And I agree with you that getting yourself into motion, creating whatever, that’s also putting your thought on something other than yourself. Even if it is first step, second step, third step. Yeah. There’s, there’s one final point that I would love to make. And that is again, in the drawings, I found this very interesting. Do you remember seeing the little bear like right over his shoulder? Yeah. Like frequently. And it wasn’t just the bear, it was some other like animals.

[11:17] And I don’t know if the author was trying to talk reference spirit guides, but I think often when we are pursuing an idea, something huge and crazy and fun and way beyond what we’ve ever done before, we feel so alone. And you know, the thought of failure and all of that, it just makes us feel like we’re completely isolated. And honestly, thought leaders, change agents, yeah, they are alone. You kind of have to be removed a little bit from the rigmarole in order just to think differently. So I loved how the author rarely represented him truly alone. And for the kid, it might’ve been imaginary playmates, right? Doesn’t matter. So the thought of bringing whatever it is, whether it’s other people,

[12:07] actual other people or authors of books or podcast people, speakers, Ted talk speakers, bring these people in as your community, even if they don’t know you personally, right? It just helps you take advantage of chances. Super cool. So the book again, what do you do with a chance? Kobi Yamada. What a fun thing to take a peek at. And their website is live-inspired.com. You can get the books on Amazon as well. Okay, Liv, I didn’t even know that. Okay, cool. Thank you. All right. And we’ll put that in show notes and comments and everything else. You guys can just grab it. Thanks so much, Kim. This was a fun, kind of off the beaten path. It was very enjoyable. And thanks all for hanging out with us.

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