The Power of A Redirected Focus: How What You See And Hear Shapes Who You Become

Ever feel like your peace keeps leaking no matter how much you “unplug”? We go straight to the source: the inputs that shape your inner life. Eyes and ears are gates to the heart, and the heart drives your words, choices, and leadership. When we treat media, conversations, and constant noise as harmless, we end up reinforcing the very mindsets we’re trying to escape. Think of Israel’s 11-day journey that stretched into 40 years—distance wasn’t the problem; legacy mindsets were. The same drift happens when we accept labels others speak over us, call trauma “mine,” or binge content that muddies our lens.

We unpack the difference between good things and God things, why a flicker of excitement is a poor foundation for big projects, and how leaders invite consequences when they stop guarding their focus. From David and Bathsheba to the farmer’s fields, you’ll hear how neglect is as dangerous as poison: if you don’t choose what gets planted, the environment will decide for you. That’s why redirected focus matters. You don’t overcome darkness by studying it—you turn on better light. We share practical, simple practices: a media audit with one piercing question, conversation upgrades that trade gossip for growth, and a daily detox that renews your inner atmosphere in minutes.

This is an invitation to curate your world without hiding from it, to fight for peace rather than wait for it, and to clean your inner window so reality stops looking darker than it is. Choose inputs that are true, noble, and lovely; build circles that speak life and challenge compromise; and guard the gates that form your beliefs. If this sparked something in you, subscribe, share it with a friend who needs a nudge to protect their peace, and leave a five-star review so more people can find the show. What’s one input you’re cutting—or one you’re choosi

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Chapters

• 0:36 Return To Audio And Video
• 2:08 The Charge: Guard What You Take In
• 4:15 Egypt To Canaan: Mindset Detox
• 7:12 Gateways To The Heart
• 10:15 Labels, Identity, And Misplaced Ownership
• 11:19 The Farmer’s Fields: Neglect Versus Choice
• 12:33 Horror Movies And A Personal Boundary
• 14:00 Moral Responsibility And Silent Rooms
• 15:44 Thought Life And Its Sources
• 17:10 David, Bathsheba, And Leadership Focus
• 20:08 Good Things Versus God Things
• 25:56 Curation Over Isolation
• 28:07 Think On These Things: Active Focus
• 30:04 Fight For Peace, Don’t Wait For It
• 32:52 Clean The Lens: The Window Story
• 33:49 Practical Guardrails And Closing Call

Transcript

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Welcome back to the Inspiration Station and your Everyday Edge podcast. I'm your host, Mr. U. I know you guys are very, very surprised because we had an announcement last year that we were just doing audio only episodes for the Inspiration Station, but we're going to be doing both again. More audio than video, but this is uh one of those pop-ups that I definitely think will be good for you and beneficial for you to hear. So we're going to jump into that today. But thanks again for watching and listening, getting the love on all our social media platforms that we're on, that we're finding us, as well as on all the listening platforms like Apple Podcasts. Thank you again. Please leave a five-star review for this episode if you find this podcast helpful for you. I'm excited to get into some more stuff today and really excited about the Inspiration Station and all the things going to be coming in this year of 2026. Now, uh, we have some content along some of the same lines, but I want to talk about the power of redirected focus. Uh, in the past six months or so, there'd definitely been some emphasis for me personally on refocusing, dealing with kind of redefining some things that you hear in the course of relationships and really just understanding what these things mean and what our responsibility is in them. Uh, if you listen to any of our shows, I believe we have three excuse for moving podcasts, one-on-one with Mr. You, of course, and our men's roundtable series podcast as well every month. And of course, this show, the inspiration station. So happy to be here in front of you guys again. I believe we have a lot to talk about, so let's go ahead and get into it. Now, I I want to uh drop this in here, and I love you guys when you hear this. Drop it in the comments section, hashtag it, however you want to do it. You're responsible for what you see and hear. Really important from the outset, that's the primary uh message that we're gonna be talking about throughout the course of this episode today. You are responsible for what you see and hear, and also drop us in the comment section as well. You are the gatekeeper of your soul. Drop that in the comment section as well. You are the gatekeeper of your soul. These points are gonna be really important. I'm gonna bring them out throughout the course of this episode so we're gonna take our time, get through it when we get through it. Hope it's a blessing to you. But of course, welcome back to the Everyday Edge Podcast, where we sharpen the way we think, live, and how we lead. Today I want to dive into a subject that I believe is very, very important for all of us, whether we realize it or not. We got to guard what we see and hear. We have a moral and a spiritual responsibility to guard what we see and guard what we hear. We live in an age of constant noise. You know what I'm talking about? That's why we everybody's unplugging so much in this season because we're in the age of constant noise, images, messages, voices, downloads, competing for our attention every single second. Have you ever stopped to think what we allow in and how it shapes who we've become? Have you thought about that? You ever stop to think what are we allowing in and how it shapes and impacts who we've become? Some folks watching and listening may say, you know what, I'm fine, I'm the same person I was 10 years ago. Is that a good thing? Don't brag about that. But I'm saying, you know, a lot of people feel that way. They haven't changed, they're the same, they consider themselves faithful and reliable and consistent. But what forged that? What caused that to be what it is, where you are right now? Are you where you need to be? Is this where you should be 10 years from where you were? Is that the same? One of the reasons why I talk about the children of Israel so much out of scripture is because I believe that it's a a microcosm or a mirror of where we are today. They set out from a place of slavery and bondage. I forgot how many years they were in bondage in Egypt, hundreds of years for sure. They were removed from the situation because their cries were heard on heaven, and God sent a deliverer by the name of Moses. I'm sure you all have heard of him, even in Sunday school. You heard of him. Little kids know who Moses is, right? Brought them out of the slavery and the bondage, out of the physical place of slavery and bondage, where they weren't making bricks and straw and under harsh labor, and moved them into a place or journey to move them into a land of promise. That journey was supposed to take 11 days. That was the measurement of time, but of space and distance between where they were in Egypt to the land they were going to. 11 days. If you read scripture, you know that they got detoured just a wee bit. Instead of 11 days, they were lived for 40 years. Now, I know there's many of us out here watching and listening right now that have had plans and goals for ourselves, and it quite haven't worked out. As a matter of fact, some of the people are my clients because that's who I help. People have run into bottlenecks in their life and their marriage and their career, what have you. I help people with that. 11 days to 40 years. That's a long time. But during that time, something incredible had to happen. It wasn't pretty, it was grimy, it was messy, it was dirty, but it had to happen. The mindset they had of slavery and bondage, being good with that as compared to the unknown of this new promised land, had to be worked out of, had to die off. So that's why the 11-day journey took so long because they had to burn off all those things they brought with them habits, mindsets, negativity, stinking, thinking, if you will, that would keep them from enjoying and appreciating the place where they're supposed to be going. I started off for a reason that I want you to understand that in context to what we're talking about today. What we see and hear shapes what we believe. There were people in that time, even though they were brought out of Egypt, all of their enemies were destroyed. No threat from them whatsoever. It was done, eradicated, finished, done. But still, certain voices were speaking out in the community saying, Oh, how I wish we were back where we were. At least we knew what we were getting into. We didn't have to guess and wonder and wait. We knew what to expect. It was slavery and bondage, it was ugly, it was harsh, it was cruel. But at least we knew what to expect. What we see and hear shapes what we believe. Proverbs 4 and 23 says, Above all else, guard your heart, for everything you do flows from it. But here's the connection that most people are missing right now. The eyes and the ears are the gateways to the heart. I'll say that again for those in the back that might have missed that, that don't think it's important. It is. Listen, the eyes and ears are gateways to the heart. What you listen to, what you watch, what conversations you entertain. It doesn't matter if you're talking, if you're in the room when these conversations are happening and you are in the midst, no correction out of your mouth, no reproof, no rebuke. You just listen to these conversations that may not be good, and you entertain those. All of that becomes raw material that your heart uses to form perspectives, to form belief systems, and to even create action out of you. I'm gonna say that again because I just know you didn't catch what I was saying. So I'm gonna say it again. Your eyes and your ears are gateways to the heart. What you listen to, what you watch, and what conversations you entertain, whether you're in the conversation or not. If you're a part of it and you're in that room and you while it's happening and those convos are not good, all of that equates to raw material that your heart uses to form belief and perspective and even create action. It doesn't matter if you're down with that or not, it doesn't matter if you like that kind of show or you listen to that kind of music normally. If you put yourself in that environment, it can form belief in your heart, it can form a partnership in your spirit, it can cause perspective and create action inside of you. There's an old saying, garbage in, garbage out. How is the garbage getting in? Luke 6 and 45 says, A good man brings good things out of the good stored up in his heart, but the mouth speaks what the heart is full of. When people say, I didn't mean to say that, or I didn't mean it like that, where's that coming from? From the abundance of the heart, the mouth what speaks. So if your heart is full of anger or fear or cynicism, or you desire control so that you start manipulating people around you, what have you been watching? What are we hearing? What are we coming in agreement with? This is important. We got to get into this stuff, and this is really important stuff here, especially going in 2026. Because a lot of the things that I hear in coaching circles and in in counseling sessions and even in some mentorship spaces, I hear the same thing, and it comes from stuff just like this. Somebody said something to me, and I accepted it as the truth. And now this is my cloak, this is my blanket, this is my mantle, this is who I am now, because of what they said to me, somebody I trusted, whether it be a family member or a relative or a parent or a spiritual leader. They said this to me, so it must be true. I'm gonna go ahead and put this clothes on now. And I see that kind of stuff all the time. And people are living 20, 30, 40 years later, still living in that same identity, and God never had any intention of you being in that. So it calls the question that before we go into 2026, we might need to think about what we've adopted, what we have taken on, what we have made ours that may not be ours. I know people who have sicknesses for years, and guess what they do? They start naming it. This is my sickness, this is my trauma, this is my whatever. It's not yours, it's not your identity, it's not your burden to bear, it's not yours to carry. We had the wrong focus, and we think that thing about things in the wrong way. We're gonna get into this this episode, maybe a little bit longer than normal, but I think that's what God is saying for this season. So we're gonna go ahead and roll with that. There's a story of a farmer and the seeds. I love this, I'm gonna read it out to you. There's an old story of a farmer who had two fields side by side. One he filled with good seed, wheat, and the other he neglected. Let the wind carry it whatever it would. When harvest time came, the first field yielded abundance. The second one, it was overrun with thorns and weeds. The moral, neglect is just as dangerous as poison. If you don't guard what gets planted, the environment will decide it for you. I love that. That is so, so important. If you don't guard what gets planted, the environment will decide it for you. If you don't choose, likewise, if you don't choose what we see and hear and guard those gates of our hearts and souls, the world's gonna do it for us. The world's gonna feed us. That's important, man. You gotta understand that. Don't let that pass you by today. If you don't guard what gets planted, the environment will decide it for you. If we don't choose and be really diligent about what we see and hear, what we listen to, the world will decide it for us. I had a mindset back when I was a little kid, and I stood on that, and I've never moved off of it ever since I was a little kid. I didn't, I was a fan of horror movies, but I got into it because my friends were doing it. You know how that works, peer pressure. And I watched all of the series of Nightmare on Elm Street. Now, why would I do that anyway just because of how I used to sleep, anyways? I wasn't necessarily a sound sleeper. I had some challenges in that area. Maybe some of you guys can relate. But I watched a whole series of Nightmare Elms, you know, Freddie Krug with the big long nails, coming in your dreams and whatnot, killing you in your dreams. I watched that thing and it messed my head up, man. It messed up my sleep even worse. It messed up my daytime walking around life. Because I invited that into my heart. I allowed my eyes and ears to receive the message that was being sent to me through this movie and through this series. And I vowed that day I would never let it happen again. I know things get in sometimes and we get surrounded by things we shouldn't be watching and things we shouldn't be hearing and listening to. I get that. I'm not perfect. What I'm saying is that that was a hill that I had I was gonna die on. I said, I'm not watching this stuff anymore. I'm not putting this up in my spirit, it's not going on in my household. My kids ain't watching it, my grandkids ain't watching it, and my great grandkids, which I have three of now, they ain't watching it neither. Not in my house. I'm gonna guard that gate. And it's a really a response, it's a really a broader responsibility than that, but that's just one story, but it's a really broad responsibility that we have. We are gatekeepers of our souls. Put that in the comment section. We are the gatekeepers of our souls. Let somebody hear that today from you. We are the gatekeepers of our souls, we have a responsibility. It's not your pastor's job, it's not mama and daddy's job, it's not even grandma's job, it's your job to gatekeep your own soul. You got eyes and ears, and you're given giving those for a reason. We're responsible morally for what we put into us. We can't always control what we're exposed to. That's just life. That's for you can't walk around and feel you can't hide in your house and never go outside. God's not in that either. That's you trying to control situations, but you are responsible for what you entertain. You're responsible for what you listen to. I know a lot of folks that love me. I'm sure they do, I'm assuming. I'm sure they love me. But they'll sit in rooms where people talk about me and they won't say a word. I've seen and heard that for a fact. That's not a hypothetical scenario. I'm making up to get sympathy because I don't need it. I'm just telling you the truth. I've been, my name has been in room to hours and end, and people let people talk about me. What's it say about the person that loves me, that sits there, and lets them run me down? What does that say about the person? Do they fear man? Do they really love me? There's a choice that we have to make here, especially going into 2026. It's about moral responsibility. We can't say that we are pure in heart and we continue to keep feeding from all these different sights, all these different sounds. There's a quote from Ralph Waldorf Emerson that I love this quote. And it reads, A man is what he thinks about all day long. A man is what he thinks about all day long. I won't even add to that. A man is what he allows into his mind all day long. There was a story that I know many of you know about it. The story of David and Bathsheba. It's a really messed up story. It's a story about misplaced authority, it's a story about not being in your proper position. We use 2 Samuel chapter 11 as a reference for this. David was a king, arguably the greatest king in biblical history, and that still stands true today, despite his shortcomings. It still stands true today. Great man. He was supposed to be at war, but he chose the comfort of home instead. And in doing that, he fell into sin because he saw something that he wanted, and it was pleasing to him in his eyesight. He didn't guard his gates, he didn't guard his eyes. And what he saw, he wanted, he thought it good. Not much different than Eve. When she saw the fruit and saw it, and the Bible says it was pleasing to her eyes, so she took it. How many things do you see that you think are pleasing, you think are a good idea, and you do it, even though God may not have ordained it. See, that's the kind of thing that I think this is what our shows are good for. We ex we remove excuses, but we also begin to poke us some ideas and some models, some rituals, some traditions that God's not in. And I love our show for that. So if you don't, I'm sorry, you can go ahead and leave if you need to. But if you want to stay around and hang out and learn something and grow with us together, I invite you to do that with us. But that's important. What are you looking at? What have you invested all your time in that you see that you think is great? That maybe God didn't say all of that. Maybe God said a portion of this and maybe a shift in a pivot, and you're still going in the direction you want to go in with it. You think that's not happening to people? Think people are doing that? I think one of the things in scripture that we learn is that before you decide to go out to war, you take into account the cost. Before you build something, you take into account the cost. Because it's embarrassing. If you start something, you can't finish it, right? What do you do when you build something that God didn't say build? What do you do then? I know people, and this is not a commentary, anything that's going on in the news. I know people are gonna think I'm talking about that because it's so timely. My making this comment, but I really believe that this is more universal than just some isolated situation. But there are people who have built organizations, they have built groups, they have built businesses that may have started off with a flicker of revelation, something that God was saying. Maybe they felt like they had enough to go on with that flicker of revelation, but there was just so much more that they hadn't touched into yet. So much more digging and seeking they could have done to make sure it was built correctly. But no, they built it based on what they the little they had. They didn't seek for any more. They had enough to validate their feelings and emotions about the situation prior, and they started building. And now the organizations are falling. Now the businesses are falling, and they're trying to figure out what happened. This was a multi-million dollar business, a multi-million dollar organization. What happened? It's because foundationally it wasn't right. There was a fly in the ointment, if you will. The organization wasn't built on a strong foundation. They had some good things, but they didn't have God things in the organization. See, I know I'm gonna lose friends off of that kind of stuff, but I don't really care. I'm at that place in 2026. The truth of the matter is that a lot of people build organizations and they build it from good things, and good people are in it, but godly. People are they in it? People who will die for God, die for what they believe, die for their faith. People who will die rather die than compromise who died for them. This is the kind of stuff that we got to deal with. That good versus God thing is a present situation. And a lot of things, and we're still on point. We're still talking about being responsible and guarding what you see in here. We're still talking about moral and spiritual responsibility. We haven't left. We've been not gone. We're still talking about the power of redirected focus. But the point of this is that we lose something. We lose something when we look at something for face value and we don't fully understand all the consequences, all that it means, all that's going to do. We just accept, blindly accept things, and we allow ourselves to be loosely in situations. Any of you are a believer like myself, and you are believing in Jesus Christ, you probably remember the day that you were first uh initiated, if you will. The first time you received, you remember the feelings, remember how excited you were, you remember how you felt like you were on top of the world. You could do anything. You were so excited to be saved and so excited to be freed of all of the junk and the mess, to have a different mindset. You were so happy and so excited. I'm sure you remember that. If that alone was all that you had to build a ministry off of, if that's all you had, that excitement, that initial joy, which is not invalid, is valid. If all you had was that to build something of consequence off of, imagine what that would look like. I know people who started building ministries like that based on nothing but a dream. I had a dream about something, and I believe God is telling me to do this. They didn't ask anybody's opinion, no multitude of counsel, they just build something off of that based on a dream or a word that they got. And now they have a whole bunch of good stuff happening, but it's hard to find God in it. Jesus has fallen into the background of this stuff, and now it's just good stuff happening, people doing good moral things. In the situation with David and Bathsheba, all that happened was a single look, a glance or a stare, however long it took, I don't even know. But that single look led to a lifetime of consequence. It's about leadership. If you're called to lead, whether it's in your family, in your business, in your community, you can't afford to be careless with what you take in. You can't fill your eyes with dark things and expect your life to walk in light. We know people, and we've met people who have had problems with night terrors and not being able to sleep and all kinds of things along that line. And then we ask them what they watch on TV and what they listen to. There's a direct correlation to these things in what we see and what we hear. So we advise don't watch that stuff anymore. Close the door to that stuff, and you find it to be such a big struggle because they like it so much. The whole family, it's a family event to watch these shows. You are responsible for what you see and hear. You're responsible for what goes into your ears, what goes before your eye gates. You're responsible for this. And what and honestly, we really shaped by what we tolerate. But it it it really is that we can't claim to be unaffected by what we repeatedly tolerate. Repeatedly tolerate. Galatians 6 and 7 speaks to this really, really well, and I love this passage of scripture. Galatians 6 and 7. It says, Do not be deceived, God is not mocked, a man weeps what he sows. I'm gonna say it again for those in the back. I don't want you to miss that. Put Galatians 6 and 7 in the comment section if you can't you can catch this. Do not be deceived. God is not mocked, the man weeps what he sows. If you're the kind of person that constantly feeds on a certain thing, you're gonna struggle with a certain thing. If you're somebody who is sarcastic all the time, you're gonna struggle with sincerity. If you're somebody who listens to people who mock the faith, or listen to people who are, what's their word that they use? They're uh they're irreligious or whatever, you're gonna struggle to walk by faith yourself. You're gonna become the echo of the environment that you live in. That's why it's not just about protecting your eyes and your ears. It's not, I'm not saying I know people who go overboard with that and they'll just stay home all day and they'll never leave. Because they don't want to get nothing in their eyes and ears, but that's not what I'm talking about. I'm talking about just I'm talking more about kind of curating and and and crafting your atmosphere. We gotta redirect our focus here, not just guarding against negative things, we gotta make sure we fill ourselves up with the things that matter. Philippians 4 and 8 is a really good example of this. Apostle Paul talks about this a lot, and I love this because it kind of breaks it down. We're gonna read this version. I don't have the actual version, so forgive me for that. But it says whatever is true, whatever is noble, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is admirable, if anything is excellent or praiseworthy, think about such things. Now, this is an active focus. This is not something that you sit back and wait to happen to you. This is not a passive avoidance of doing the right thing here. This is the active focus. Whatever it is, blank. Think on that. Whatever it is, blank, think on that. If it's noble, if it's right, if it's just, if it's praiseworthy, if it's lovely, if it's pure, if it's admirable, think on these things. If it's excellent, think on these things. If it's praiseworthy, think on such things. It's the active focus. You don't overcome darkness by studying darkness, you overcome it by turning on the light. If social media drains your spirit, which put your hand up if it does, because most people feel the same way. Even a little bit of time you spend there sometimes is too much for you. But if social media drains your spirit, replace it with scripture, replace it with a book that edifies and and and builds you up. If gossip drains your energy, change the circle. Find attitudes and gratitudes and find circles of gratitude. If entertainment itself, film, media, what have you, it pollutes your peace, it makes you just feel ill. Replace it with worship. Put yourself in sanctifying, peaceful environments. That's a that's that's what a morally, spiritually mature person does. They don't try to suppress it and try to hide it and put it in the closet, hoping nobody notices it's in there. They substitute it, they trade that stuff out. We are responsible for what we see and hear. We're talking about the power of redirective focus focus today. Excuse me. Purity is really one one of the things that I just kind of feel like we just need to deal with is that whole active passive thing. Because in the realm of faith and in the realm of peace, and the I think it's I think we the whole world wants peace. I don't mean quiet, I mean peace, confidence that we're okay, that we're gonna be okay. And a lot of the reasons why I feel like we we miss that in our circles, in our neck of the woods, is because we're passive. We think peace means sitting back and waiting for something good to happen, some ball, some bag of gold to come out of the sky and hit us in the head and say, here you go. Peace is something that has to be attained. I I don't know any wars that have been fought, and I don't I'm not speaking to any wars in particular, so if you are, just stay with me. But any war that's been fought that had any kind of value, and use the Bible as uh great examples of that, if you will, because a lot of those were good wars in regards to the fact that they brought peace to nation, they brought peace to regions and communities. Those kind of wars needed to be fought to main restore and maintain peace, obtain peace. If you want to have peace, with all that we're talking about today, with what you see in here, you're gonna have to fight to get that. It's not gonna just be, you know what, I'm gonna cut off my TV completely, I'm gonna disconnect, I'm not gonna stream, not get cable or satellite, and not watch anything. Some people do that and they call it they call it peace. Maybe that's what it is, but maybe it's calm, maybe it's just uh silence. But does it mean peace? We're gonna have to fight to be in circles and communities where we need to be to function, operate, support other people, be a part of the community, be a productive part of the community, rather, and still be able to fight the things that we could potentially see in here that could rest on us if we are passive in our approach to gaining peace, if that makes sense. Our purpose needs to be purposeful. The more that we kind of guard ourselves, uh, our eyes and ears, and guard our heart, we see things a lot more clearer, but we can't pretend it's not there and just be passive. We gotta be active about it and fight. I really feel like that's where we're going. We're going with this. This is a story of a window washer. I had to write it down, so I'm gonna uh I'll be reading it, so forgive me for reading off the screen, but I gotta read it to you. A woman once looked out her window every morning and complained about her neighbor's dirty laundry hanging on the line. One day she woke up and suddenly the laundry looked clean. She told her husband, finally, she learned the wash right. He replied, No, dear, I just cleaned our window. Sometimes it's not the world that's dirty, it's our lens that we're seeing in the world in. That's why God is calling us to see and hear differently, to guard our hearts so that we can see, guard our eyes and ears so that we can see and hear differently. So our perception isn't clouded by all the corrupt things going on around us. Now, we're gonna go ahead and end the show here, but I want to just encourage you on some practical takeaways on how to guard your gates on a daily basis. One, monitor your media. Pretty simple. Don't scroll aimlessly on Instagram. I know all of us get beat by that sometimes, see a funny video with kids and puppies in or whatever, and we get caught and then we're scrolling. They call it doom scrolling now, which is a horrible name for it, but it is what it is. Does this feed my faith or dream my peace? Number two, choose conversations wisely. Energy flows through dialogue. Surround yourself with people who speak life into you and not death. I don't mean yes, man. A lot of people surround themselves with people like that, but that doesn't help you elevate and grow where you need to be spiritually. Surround yourself with people who would challenge you. And last thing, daily detox. The word of God is really good for that. Cleanses the what the world contaminates you with. If you watch TV, you listen to podcasts or or or music, a lot of stuff out there is really not good for us. It's detrimental to our health, mentally, spiritually, emotionally, in every way. 10-15 minutes a day in the world will reset your whole atmosphere, change your whole mindset. So just think about this on the way out as you close out today. What have you been allowing into your eyes and ears that could be dulling your senses, causing you to be hardened or causing you to be less sensitive or less compassionate? What can you replace that stuff with? Who's in your life that helps you stay accountable for what you consume? Is there anybody checking for you there? I want to close with this quote by AW Toza. I love this. What we look at and what we listen to determines what we become. Put that in the comment section if you if you can catch that. AW Toza. What we look at and what we listen to determines what we become. If you want to grow in peace and clarity and grace, you gotta think about what you're letting in. What goes past your eye gates, what goes past your ear gates, who's keeping track? You're the gatekeeper of your soul, or you step on the job. Thanks for tuning in to the Inspiration Station and your Everyday Hedgeh podcast. Appreciate your time here. If this episode speaks to you at all, share it with somebody who might need a reminder to guard their gates and protect their peace. Don't send a nasty message telling them to get straight. Lovingly share a reminder with them to guard their gates, guard their eyes and ears, and protect their peace. Until next time, live with purpose and stay present in the process. I'm Mr. U. This is your everyday edge podcast and your inspiration station. Have a great day. Thanks again for watching.