Hi, welcome is week one to clearing mental clutter. And this week's affirmation is all about honesty. I am honest, I have honesty. And this is really step one, in cultivating the best life possible, and moving us from where we are to where we desire to go. So I want to read you a little bit that I've written on honesty and hope that it will inspire you. To be honest, is to live with honorable intentions, principles and actions.

It means to be fair, wherever you not been honest with yourself or others. And so I think this is a really big question that we have, honestly, honestly, and for ourselves, where have you not been being honest? Where have you not been being truthful? This is affecting how it is you propel yourself forward in life. So in the hopes to clear that mental clutter Constant confusion and misguided direction for where we want to go. We have to first get honest with ourselves.

So when I was knee deep in my eating disorder, and I spent 10 years in an addiction and depression, strung out with anxiety, I really had to take an honest look at myself. For years, I would say to myself, every single time I would find myself binge eating and purging or starving myself or whatever it is, I did that all get better tomorrow. I'll get healthy tomorrow. Tomorrow, I'll start tomorrow, I'll step into recovery. And the truth of the matter is, I didn't want to be honest with myself that I couldn't do it. I couldn't do it by myself.

And that was a really scary truth for me, that when I really truly had to get honest with myself, I didn't like what I saw. I was sick. I needed help. And I was out of control. And when I took that first look at myself at first honest look in the mirror, I cried. I cried because I was sad for myself.

I cried because I was unhappy that I let it get out of control. But I was also crying because I was happy that I was now recognizing that I needed the help that I needed. I was able to truly be honest with myself that I wasn't gonna wake up tomorrow and just be healed all of a sudden, that there was a long road ahead of me, but I was willing to do it, I was willing to step up. And in the hopes of clearing all of this confusion that living a life sucked into an addiction had dropped me to or brought me to, I was really hopeful. I was really hopeful that I could cultivate the skills and the tools necessary in order to claw my way out in order to not only just start trying to survive Each day, but truly live each day. So when you get honest with yourself over the next seven days, I really want you to each day when you wake up, look in the mirror and ask yourself, what do I need to be honest about today?

How can I really be more artists life? For me being honest means I'm also somewhat transparent, that I no longer trying to be someone that I'm not. I'm no longer trying to hide from my past, or hide from the fact that I make mistakes. I'm not perfect. And with that comes a lot of relief that I no longer am trying to live for other people but merely trying to live the best life possible in the hopes to inspire other people. So where is it that you can be honest with yourself today?

And where is it that we can be honest and Reuben honest life side by side and inspire others to do the same thing. Now that decision is up to you. So for the next seven days, I want to continually remind yourself, I am honest, I have honesty, I read with honesty, and let those affirmations run across your reds on a daily basis, an hourly, a minute by minute basis if you need to, if that's what it takes to show up each day, morning, noon and night, whatever it is for you. That works for you guys, do the journaling. This is detailed self reflection questions that I personally crafted for you in the hopes to help propel you forward out of that clutter out of that confusion and into the clarity that you deserve. All right.

So until next week, show up do the work and let's get honest together. From my heart to yours from my soul to yours.