Pause for just a moment and give some thought to your strengths which are your coping mechanisms. How do those playout for the things that you keep yourself occupied with? I'm obviously at the event site wearing my mask and I dare take it off. This is a horrible smoke smell.

After a week of rain, I found myself getting really blah. I guess it was depression. I have never experienced that.

I killed my gut with lectins from tomatoes and peppers. It's been a couple of days of fixing it with kimchi and chlorella. I had to use some of my tools to get my butt out of that crevasse. That one was horrible. Thankfully those tools work. One of the things I had to concede - allow myself to admit - is that for the first time in my life I know what depression is - for at least for a week. I unexpectedly lost my coping mechanism being able to be out here on the water and then had to accept that that's the end of the season. I was like oh my gosh I don't know what to do with myself. I ended up watching my episodes. Yeah, I went back and I binge-watched this whole thing. The weather and the inability for me to go outside as you see it's now sort of lifting.

I can say authentically I've spent a few days in a funk for the first time in my life because I realized that there wasn't anything I could do about any of them. That was mentally taxing. And then I went wait a minute. I've never watched my stuff. I had this amazing experience.

Last night I binge-watched half of my book. You should do that too. It's not bad if you consider that I didn't know where I was going. I just set out to do something as should you. I just stuck the camera out as I am now doing. I discovered that reliving your journey gives you perspective.

If you're trying to get up an Everest and you get halfway in a cloud layer and you can't see the valley and you can't see the mountain - ah that can be horrible. Although you're climbing you won't appreciate the journey. You'll be there but without a clear view of the progress.

Because I have all of the entirety of the book as video episodes I could sit and watch my progress. I could watch little signals I give on fixation or when I am triggered or when I am pegged processing the next word. I could see that. I could see an overall improvement in just that six months. That was enough to free up the fog that I'm not making progress.

By mimicking me - shooting your journey, looking at your efforts in hindsight you'll be amazed. Take your strengths assessment so you will know where your story-line is going to be - where your ropes are going to be attaching up your mountain. That perspective of making progress will be required at some point. It's really important. Don't just look at mine and think oh yeah I'll just watch this. No, you need to mark your pathway. I'm encouraging you to record your journey. Maybe you don't want to put it on YouTube but I'm assuring you that you're going to want to watch that at some point.

If you are watching this to have understanding for your partner or your child or your friend then hold them accountable. You need to see that they are journaling with modern equipment so that they can become aware of their progress. It's hard to see the value of your journey out of scotomaville while you are experiencing it. While you're being patient and stalled out on something or you have to wait for some event like graduation or getting out of the military or a wedding or childbirth or the next purchase or getting better from an illness. The thing that challenges you when you're going through it also thwarts us from having a healthy perspective of the journey.

You'll need to have the perspective of where you're at now versus where you were and that little improvement will greatly set you free.

Why is storytelling so important especially for triangulation?

Storytelling is a superpower in WBC. There are two reasons to understand it.

One is to specifically recognize when you're being gamed or when you're being handed a story. More importantly, when the story that you're accepting is omitting a large number of facts and the evidence you need for triangulation is straight-up missing.

On the other side of the coin is that the story you tell yourself determines how much effort you're going to make. 85 percent of success is just straight-up pure luck. It'