Getting Your Life Back on Track

Ever feel like life is speeding by, and you're just trying to keep up? We've been there too! In this episode, we dive into the chaos and share how faith has helped us find solid ground again.

Lanée opens up about her whirlwind life—filming a holiday movie while navigating a family member's unexpected health challenges. Sandy shares her struggle to fit in exercise and devotions while adjusting to a new radio gig. Their stories are real, relatable, and packed with practical advice.

From finding small moments of peace to shutting down that pesky "whim voice" that leads us off track, this episode is all about regaining balance when life feels overwhelming. Join us for an honest, encouraging conversation—you’re not alone in this!

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"Imagine Yourself" is hosted by Lanée Blaise and Sandy Kovach—two dynamic voices with a passion for inspiring and uplifting others. Lanée, a TV writer, producer, motivational speaker, and podcaster, brings powerful storytelling and insight. Sandy, a radio personality, voiceover artist, and podcaster, delivers warmth and wisdom with every conversation. Broadcasting from the Detroit Metro area, they welcome guests from around the world to share valuable perspectives on health, career growth, faith, and personal transformation. Tune in and imagine the possibilities for your life!

Transcript

Lanee Blaise [00:00:02]:
Hello, everyone who likes to listen to Imagine Yourself podcast. I'm Lanee here with Sandy, and I have a quick question for you because it's a question that I have been asking myself myself as well. How do I get my life back on track? What am I doing? Sandy, what are we doing? You and I had both we could barely even have time to get together to do this podcast today because of changing schedules. Everyone's life is busy. Everything in the world is changing. How do we slow down and get our life back on track?

Sandy Kovach [00:00:45]:
That is a question because we just did an episode with Andrea. Andrea Miller, the power of the pivot, and it was about pivoting if you need to. And both of us have kinda pivoted a little, and now we're juggling all this new stuff. So let's call this pivot part 2. Like, once you pivot, now what do you do? Exactly. Yeah. Exactly. What have you found with, the addition of all this stuff to your schedule? And just for anybody that isn't familiar, give kind of a brief synopsis of what you've had to do and be juggling lately.

Lanee Blaise [00:01:16]:
So I'll do 2 things. The first part I'll say is to just flashback to the past episode that from stuck to thriving, the power of the pivot with Andrea. So Andrea's in my bible study group. She's been with me for it's like been 4 years all through COVID, and we were all kind of commiserating together because we all have these things. Now personally, I have I've been telling my different friends who I haven't was like, oh, I've been too busy to talk to you. But now here's this. I've done, Sandy, you knew that I got to film that wonderful Christmas movie rekindled for Christmas that comes out later this fall. We have a premiere coming up for the TV show Blended, which very proud of that also.

Lanee Blaise [00:02:01]:
Also the podcast itself, we're always trying to make sure that Imagine Yourself is making leaps and bounds. For the holidays, of course, those were busy, kids came home. This one you don't even know, Sandy. My husband had been his health was just off the charts crazy. He got really sick with pneumonia during the holidays, then the medication that he took kind of did something wonky. He it was just a mess. It was a big mess. So these are those types of unexpected things that pop in, but also make you realize you don't want to take your spouse or your loved one for granted.

Lanee Blaise [00:02:39]:
So all this to say, I really need this episode just as much as anyone listening because I wanna get my life back on track. Because I have been getting these beautiful whispers from God asking me to, in the midst of the mess, be still, be quiet, take time, make room to listen to God. And I know you were mentioning you're trying to figure out what part of your day you want to do that, and it's been tricky for you too.

Sandy Kovach [00:03:14]:
Yeah. Because I had finally figured it out that the morning time was perfect and how I sit on my couch and open my bible app, and I just go over 1 verse or, you know, sometimes a devotional or whatever. My cat comes, sits on my lap, and and I'm all happy. Now so one of the things that I have added is a morning show. All the show radio shows I've done before have been in the midday or in the afternoon. And what I do is I, what I what's called voice tracking for people who don't know. I say that to people. Voice what's voice tracking? It just means you're doing a radio show, but you're not really in the studio.

Sandy Kovach [00:03:50]:
And you're doing it you can do it ahead of time. But I do it the day of. So and then especially on a morning show, you can imagine you're listening to a morning program. You know, you wanna be somewhat in the moment. Right? You can't I wouldn't, like, do it a week in advance Yeah. Unless I had to or something. But and I I already get up at 5 o'clock, and I have done morning radio in the past. And I've always hated the idea that you have to get up at 3:30 or 4 or whatever.

Sandy Kovach [00:04:16]:
So I'm like, I refuse to get up before 5 o'clock, but then I find myself having to skip my devotions, and nothing worked out after that. So I have had to, make some time and figure it out and, pushing some things to the night before. And then, you know, I didn't have any time. My husband just built this, he didn't well, he fixed up an exercise room and the treadmills and their big TV and all that stuff, and I wouldn't have any time for that either. So what am I missing? I'm missing my devotions. I'm missing my exercise. I'm, You're

Lanee Blaise [00:04:50]:
missing your time with your husband probably too?

Sandy Kovach [00:04:52]:
Yeah. Yeah. I get, like, maybe an hour, 2 hours at night with him, and it's you know, that wasn't the only radio show I added. I had added, another one too. So I've had just a lot of stuff that I like. I like doing radio, but it's been a lot. So yeah. And taking out that devotional piece really threw me.

Sandy Kovach [00:05:11]:
So I what I would say to someone is if you're contemplating taking that piece out, don't do it. No. Do whatever you have to.

Lanee Blaise [00:05:19]:
Pivot back. Pivot back.

Sandy Kovach [00:05:21]:
Come on back.

Lanee Blaise [00:05:23]:
Yeah. That's another thing that I have noticed, Sandy. It sounds to me like you are speaking to the fact that when we go ahead and let ourselves have that devotion time or get centered, it can make actually everything else more productive, more smooth, more sane, even. And there's this other component that I've been thinking about, and I I made it up, but I call it the whim voice because there is a voice inside of my head, and I know there's one inside of my husband's head, and it is just a whim. And And this little voice, the little whim voice will say, hey, why don't we get up off the couch and drive down the street to the gas station and buy 2 bags of potato chips and eat them because we deserve it because we've had a hard week. And that whim voice will say, why don't we do some online shopping for some crap that we don't need and we're never gonna use or wear? And that little whim voice will say, you know, I'm not doing enough. Why don't I go and find something else to, to crowd into my already busy life that has, you know, my life already has purpose, but this little whim thing will add something that has no purpose and will convince me that, you know, you need to do it because you're not really good enough as is. Wow.

Lanee Blaise [00:06:56]:
And I want to encourage folks to disregard this little stupid whim voice forever. I don't like this little voice and the true genuine godly voice will say, Take time with me and rest. And it'll say, Let's eat some vegetables today and not the bag of chips. Or at the very least, it will say, How about let's go ahead and close-up this bag of chips and put it away or sometimes even throw it in the trash and then go grab a healthy protein filled or vegetable filled snack instead. And let's, you know, keep doing what you're doing. Let's not add anything else that will distract from what I have for you. Sandy, I don't know. Do you have a whim voice? Or or is it just I think

Sandy Kovach [00:07:50]:
everybody does. You know? And, it's like the little angel and devil on your shoulder. And some people say, you know, that's the enemy. And sometimes maybe it is, and other times it's just you just because, you know, we have we want instant gratification. Like, I need to watch reruns of The Office and eat an entire pint of ice cream for, like, 2 hours because Yep. I deserve it because I had a hard day, and I don't wanna be productive for this time. I don't need to take the time to prepare things for tomorrow. I need to, see what Michael Scott does for the billionth time.

Lanee Blaise [00:08:25]:
Was it Tots? Scott's Tots. Tots. Yeah. Yeah. No. All this see, this is is really a component of that first question that I put out there, how do I get my life back on track? Because if we don't start with some little small changes, and if we don't nip some things in the bud that are possibly gonna grow into worse things, then all we're gonna do is, a year later, find ourselves in a place that will still be saying, how did I get here? I really want people to start also with maybe even reassuring ourselves that we are indeed good enough. I'm good enough. God sees me as good enough.

Lanee Blaise [00:09:14]:
I wanna see myself with the vision that God has for me, with the purpose that God has for me, doing the activities and the closeness with him and the living life out the way god would want me to, not the way society or social media or my whim voice tells me I need to.

Sandy Kovach [00:09:39]:
That's a great point. Basing your self worth on knowing you're a child of god is gonna be an entirely different perspective than basing yourself on, okay. So, I'm this age, so I'm supposed to be doing this. And if I'm not doing this by this age, then something must be wrong with me. And then you're gonna nitpick every little thing where you don't fit into what society or you don't fit into what I don't know. My mother-in-law is great, so I'm not gonna say anything about her. But, like, some people have, like, a a nitpicky mother-in-law or mother. You know, just that voice, whoever it is in your head telling you you're not good enough.

Sandy Kovach [00:10:19]:
It could be anyone. Usually, though, it's just you with your negative self talk.

Lanee Blaise [00:10:23]:
Yeah. And that's actually something I love to address because you mentioned how some sometimes we rush to say it's the enemy, but many times it is really just us. Like the not great part of ourselves kind of pushing that narrative into our brains. And we can we have the power to shut it down. And when you said that we can really, see ourselves and judge ourselves by what God wants for us, I feel that's so freeing because we don't have to live up to these huge standards that have popped up. And then the last part is you and I had talked after we'd spoken with Andrew Miller, about like how shift happens. S h I f t s h I f t shift happens when things shift that are beyond your control. And they might be difficult or hard things, then we really need to, gosh, double down even more on being centered in God and taking time to rest.

Lanee Blaise [00:11:27]:
I know that it seems counterintuitive. Well, if a whole bunch of stuff is happening and I've got to deal with it, how am I going to have time to rest? Even if you sit for 30 seconds while you're taking your shower or right before you fall asleep and you just get quiet and still and just speak out, God, please help me. God, please help us, guide us, guide me, show me. That little bit of a breath can be so helpful and transformative because there's a lot that we cannot control. And sometimes we feel like we can't even control ourselves. I know. Yeah. Possibly.

Lanee Blaise [00:12:07]:
You know? But but just ask God to help us with that.

Sandy Kovach [00:12:12]:
I was listening to another podcast and I wish I could say which one it was. So I'd like to give them credit, but it was I think this woman was a doctor and she had a crazy schedule and she could never take a breath. And what she did was she got in the habit of when she put her hand on the door to go in to see a patient, she I don't know if she counted to 10 or if she used it to say, okay. I'm centered. I'm in control. And then we switch it, of course. This was not from a Christian perspective, but you could switch that to what is something you do every day. I mean, you're not gonna go in to see a patient, but but what what would be something like

Lanee Blaise [00:12:52]:
brushing my teeth.

Sandy Kovach [00:12:53]:
Brushing your teeth. Okay. Perfect. Yeah. I mean, we all do that in the morning.

Lanee Blaise [00:12:57]:
Or Walking up the stairs.

Sandy Kovach [00:12:59]:
Walking up the stairs. Yep. Making coffee. Just say to yourself, god is in control. God's got me. Thank you, lord, or something. Yes. I mean I love that.

Sandy Kovach [00:13:11]:
Because, of course, we want to encourage people to take more of a time. But when you can't take more of a time, when you have a Zoom after Zoom, after you have to do this show or have to go there or have an appointment or take care of your husband or, you know, whatever, all these things that are going on in your life, make it something you're going to, you know, you're going to do every day. I really liked it when she said that. I thought that was really cool.

Lanee Blaise [00:13:33]:
I do too. And I like that. W I mean, everybody can choose their own one. I think mine would be either brushing my teeth or wiping down my countertops because, after dinner I clean up and, my husband goes and watches, you know, something on TV and I'm wiping down those countertops and it's mindless motion, but it can be mindful now that you put that thought in my head.

Sandy Kovach [00:14:00]:
Yeah. Or even something that what is something that we do multiple times a day if we walk into maybe every time I sit down at my computer for me because, I mean, I'm not just constantly sitting here. You know, you get up and down and whatever. Every time you sit at your office, every time, if you don't work in an office, every time you open the door to your house, you know, whatever. Something you know you're gonna do multiple day times a day, just tell yourself that god is in control. I don't know. It's worth a shot.

Lanee Blaise [00:14:32]:
I have another one, though, too. What? What about people who have pets? Say it to your pet. Like, you know, like, Hey, little max, God takes care of us. Thank you, God. God loves us. And then, you know, your little doggy or, you know, your cat bell will say, mhmm. Yep. Okay.

Lanee Blaise [00:14:54]:
I I understand exactly what you're saying. Yeah.

Sandy Kovach [00:14:57]:
If it doesn't involve canned food, Belle won't be impressed. But

Lanee Blaise [00:15:00]:
Right.

Sandy Kovach [00:15:01]:
But that's okay. Max is impressed with everything.

Lanee Blaise [00:15:03]:
Yeah. But anytime you give the can food, God gave you this canned food. A little bit. As opposed to dry, crunchy food.

Sandy Kovach [00:15:11]:
That's right. That's right. And the only Max only I mean, Belle only gets it in the morning, so I don't know. All all kinds of thing. Maybe I can think, oh, what a special blessing for you in the morning, Belle. Yeah. There's all kinds of things when we're stressed out. The enemy, and we're talking about the enemy, there's sometimes we really do have to think about that.

Sandy Kovach [00:15:31]:
He wants us to be stressed out. He wants us to forget about God because that's when we're most vulnerable to temptations, to doing stupid stuff running. Why did you say driving down to the gas station to get Yes. The tapes. Not even going to your in your cupboard. You don't have them, so you're literally getting in the car and taking the time to drive to the gas station in the cold.

Lanee Blaise [00:15:55]:
Yeah. Like, that is an absolute voice that I don't ever want to hear again in my head. And that one, I know it's me. Yeah.

Sandy Kovach [00:16:06]:
Yeah. Yeah.

Lanee Blaise [00:16:07]:
I, I've been reading a lot of people remember this book probably from the 1990s, but Conversations with God, and I was reading little parts of it the other night and one part stood out where, there was just this message to choose again, and it was kind of to the effect of if you're not happy with the way that your I'll just say in this case, like, that your diet is going or that your health is going or that your, finances are going, choose again. And, like, in an in an emotional, in a spiritual, and in a physical tangible way, choose again. Like so, of course, try to ignore that little dumb voice that tells you to go that even starts on the online shopping if you're, you know, if you're trying to choose again wisely for your finances. But then also say to God, dear God, not just I want a better financial situation, but I thank you God for setting me up on a route and in a life of better financial choices and of better financial blessings, and I am finding myself in more of a financial good space. I'm not saying that exactly like the book. I'm not saying it perfectly and this whole episode is about we don't have to be perfect, but, but I do

Sandy Kovach [00:17:38]:
just This whole podcast is about

Lanee Blaise [00:17:40]:
this whole podcast.

Sandy Kovach [00:17:41]:
Yeah. We're accepting ourselves. No.

Lanee Blaise [00:17:44]:
But at the same time, I really like and I've been saying it to myself sometimes too. Choose again. Choose again. The way that I say it, the way that I frame it, the way that I what I reach for in my refrigerator, in my cabinet, what I say to my husband. Do I want to start an argument with him? No. So let me choose again what I'm about to say, you know, what just happens to be it's up by my mind, yet there's crumbs all over the floor. Okay. That's a lot of stuff that just is unnecessary.

Lanee Blaise [00:18:16]:
Just either ignore it or tidy it up, but say something more loving to him. Choose again. Choose wisely this time. Yeah.

Sandy Kovach [00:18:25]:
So Do you think that there's a better way to approach something? Because everybody has that I wouldn't say every I would say 99.9 percent of people who live with somebody have something that somebody else does. Being really clean is not my strength. It happens to be my husband, so it's kinda turned around. But how would you approach that? Let's say your husband left some crumbs on the floor. If you wanted to choose again, what would be a better way to put that?

Lanee Blaise [00:18:55]:
So I'm gonna frame it all in a 2 part answer. The first part is, yes. My first go to thought would be, I need to fix him. I need to teach him. I need to be his mama, even though he has one. You know, I need to have him, like, realize how to do this differently. And on some days when he's in a really easygoing mood, I could just very gently say, hey, here's a plate or a bowl for you so the crumbs don't get on the floor because I just vacuumed in a nice way, but still let it out. Because sometimes he looks at me like he's like, I know you need to let it out.

Lanee Blaise [00:19:33]:
But there's other times when my choosing again would be to see the crumbs, and he obviously didn't see them, but, and sit down and watch a movie with him or laugh with him or finish whatever the conversation was that we were having and enjoy and savor this person that I don't want to take for granted. And that is not guaranteed that either one of us will be alive or doing whatever. That's my second part of the answer that when I'm able to, or when I know that maybe he's not in the best mood or he's maybe had a harder day, let it go. Yeah. And, I just got this book on Amazon by Mel Robbins called Let Them. And because I don't have it in my hands yet, I can't really say exactly what it's about. But you and I think had talked about the concept of let them. Like when people are judging and the whole world's acting crazy and the sky has fallen and all kind of political and global and all kinds of arguments let them just let them.

Lanee Blaise [00:20:41]:
Don't decide that you and I need to be the one who has to fix everything. That's right. In some cases, he's dropping crumbs on the floor. Let him and enjoy him, and then tomorrow I deal with cleaning up secretly.

Sandy Kovach [00:20:58]:
Well, I always, yeah, I always try to think of and I think my husband's getting better because, like, I'm the crumb leaver. I'm the one that doesn't see the crumbs.

Lanee Blaise [00:21:06]:
Sandy. I know.

Sandy Kovach [00:21:07]:
Oh, dear. Okay. Maybe not I'm better. I'm better than I used to be. And in some ways, you don't want to have one person have the total responsibility. So you do have to communicate that in one way or the other, but the timing is what it is. Now I have strengths in areas that he doesn't have strengths in. So for instance, and I know we had talked a little bit about this earlier before we got on the podcast.

Sandy Kovach [00:21:29]:
Some people are procrastinators, and some people are, like, running off and doing things. I'm more of a procrastinator, and he he's more of a running off and do things. For instance okay. So we're planning this trip to Europe, and we're gonna be in Paris. And he wants to definitely wants to see the loop. And me too. I've been there before, but you'd never be able to visit. Gotta go.

Sandy Kovach [00:21:49]:
Yeah. Yeah. I mean, there's too many things in the loop to ever conquer in one visit. So he's like, oh, we gotta buy tickets in advance. I hear it's always sold out. So before we even get our itinerary for all the things, he buys tickets for the Louvre. And as it ends up, that wasn't an available day that we could do it. And then you can't change them.

Sandy Kovach [00:22:08]:
You can't refund them. I mean, they're only, like, $40 each, but that's actually kind of a lot. Yeah. But what can you do?

Lanee Blaise [00:22:14]:
But he ran ahead. He's a run ahead guy.

Sandy Kovach [00:22:17]:
Because he knows I'm a procrastinator, and he's probably thinking to himself, if I don't do all of this and I could tell he was kinda get getting irritated with me that same day because he's figuring he's taking on all of the responsibility, which he did, you know, reach out and plan this because I probably never would have. Right? He is the one that takes care of things right away. Like, a package can come in, and if I know what it is, it's an Amazon. I can let it sit there, you know, unless I need it right away. He'll have to open the box right I don't care what's going on. We could be in the middle of important conversation. He's gonna open that Amazon box. Yes.

Sandy Kovach [00:22:56]:
So isn't that what so what is it with you guys?

Lanee Blaise [00:22:59]:
My thing on that is that whole rush ahead or procrastinate. I'm more of the procrastinator also. My husband loves to rush ahead and get it done, but I keep trying to explain to him nicely that I truly believe there is a flow that God gives us a flow. And for example, even what you just said, and I'm not trying to be judgy, but if you're in the middle of an important conversation, I think that there's a beauty to savoring that conversation and letting it flow until the end and then going and taking care of the Amazon package. But I also realized people are wired so differently that I don't even know if he'd be able to come concentrate on the conversation, knowing that that's over there waiting to be done. As soon as he does, then he can jump back in and be fully present with the conversation. So this kind of makes me think it all kind of goes back to God. God made us all so differently with so many different components that sometimes we see as faults and flaws, but sometimes it can be very beneficial because from my understanding even of the bible, I think Paul was not like the most warm and fuzzy guy.

Lanee Blaise [00:24:20]:
He was out there like persecuting Christians before he, you know, had his transformation from God. He was a very staunch rules kind of guy, consequences kind of guy, just hardcore, maybe not easy to live with or work with, but God used that as a strength to push forward so many of the writings that are in the New Testament. And how about my sister, Toby? My sister, Blaine, is a psychotherapist and she was talking about how even this is gonna go way sideways, but how even some people who we see as, I guess the term is antisocial, but but not the kind of like, oh, I don't like to be around people, but that kind where you really don't care about other people's feelings.

Sandy Kovach [00:25:17]:
So she's

Lanee Blaise [00:25:17]:
not even like almost maybe even sociopath or psychopath where in communities back way back, somebody had to go kill the tiger. Somebody had to go butcher the food for the dinner. Somebody had to go do that and not really get all breakdown crying about, oh my gosh, we're, you know, eating this poor little lamb or oh my goodness, the tigers, you know, has feelings too. You know? So there were what she was getting at is even those people have, in the ideal circumstances, have a place in this world to benefit everyone. So I don't know if we can focus on seeing how these people, especially if they're the ones in our lives and our loved ones, have these traits or even ourselves that we're not fond of. Sometimes we do need to prune them, sometimes God is, you know, trying to prune those traits out of us and change us, but some things, God can use.

Sandy Kovach [00:26:23]:
That's right. And even you brought up even ourselves, and I think going hand in hand with a negative self talk is when you do something wrong I don't know. This is definitely true for me. I just I'm like, okay. Well, that's that sounds about right. You know? You, forgot to do this again. Well, you're just gosh. You were forgetting all the time now.

Sandy Kovach [00:26:42]:
And I'll either go, like, maybe there's something wrong with you physically or just you're stupid. Not stupid, but, you know, lazy.

Lanee Blaise [00:26:52]:
Starts to go down that Yep. Down that path.

Sandy Kovach [00:26:54]:
Walk down that path.

Lanee Blaise [00:26:55]:
Yeah. Criticism, like bad, harsh criticism. And also they, you know, I don't know who they is, but they always say you shouldn't say always or never.

Sandy Kovach [00:27:05]:
The infamous counsel of they,

Lanee Blaise [00:27:07]:
the infamous counsel of they, I like that.

Sandy Kovach [00:27:10]:
Yeah. I heard that when I was in college. Yeah. Okay. So from now on, the infamous council of they

Lanee Blaise [00:27:15]:
o t. Yeah. T o Let's say that again. C o t. T I c o t. The infamous council of they. T I c o t. Tycott.

Sandy Kovach [00:27:25]:
Okay. Yes.

Lanee Blaise [00:27:26]:
Making up everything today. I'm making up WIM voices and, international organizations, all that. Yes. But now, all this I guess we rounded up. Guess this is coming to a full circle about how we're trying to fix ourselves. We're trying to fix others. We're trying to control all the things. But at the end of the day, I think all God really wants is for us to step closer to God, to spend more time in his presence, loving him, loving ourselves, loving others.

Lanee Blaise [00:28:01]:
Those are the commandments. That was

Sandy Kovach [00:28:03]:
what you clearly said. Right. The the most important love the Lord, your God with all your mind, heart, and soul, and love your neighbor as yourself. Jesus said those are it. Doesn't mean there was not other things that go along with that or do, but if you let these rule,

Lanee Blaise [00:28:16]:
have those be the most important and give yourself that grace. Like, well, I did my best to love God today. I did my best to love my neighbor, and I did my best to love myself. And I can't do it all. I'm not meant to do it all. I'm gonna go slow and steady. We learned this as little kids too, the little Aesop's fable, the tortoise and the hare, slow and steady wins the race. Mhmm.

Lanee Blaise [00:28:41]:
Not going full speed ahead and try to do 5,000,000 things and then burning out and not even making it to the finish line.

Sandy Kovach [00:28:49]:
Right. Exactly. Or, thinking the hair, you know, he what did he do? He just, like, took naps and stuff like that.

Lanee Blaise [00:28:56]:
Yeah. Or He ran really fast and took naps and messed up.

Sandy Kovach [00:29:00]:
The guy that who was the guy during this last football season that started? What did he do with the football before he even got across the finish line? And he he put it behind him or something, and he ended up

Lanee Blaise [00:29:11]:
not scoring the touchdown. Boating. Yep. Showboating and then didn't get to cross the dang on line to to make the touchdown. Yes. Don't be that person.

Sandy Kovach [00:29:23]:
Don't be that either. But

Lanee Blaise [00:29:25]:
even if you are how about this? And even if you are that person and you did do that, definitely say I don't want to do that again, but then choose again. Choose wisely. Don't hate yourself forever. That guy, I mean, he's probably like, yep. That was not my best moment, but I will choose again and do better next time and be better next time. And god still loves me. How about that?

Sandy Kovach [00:29:52]:
I like it. And we can use that for our own advantage to ourselves. I mean, there are things that I can think of that I did, like, 20 years ago that still bother me. It's like, dude, let it go. So we need to say that to ourselves. Yeah.

Lanee Blaise [00:30:06]:
Yeah. Because if we say it to ourselves, it's likely to happen because I definitely get you there or there were even a couple things from filming that Christmas film that I still wake up in the middle of the night and be like, I can't believe we missed. Like it'll be something like that was placed in the screen like, oh my gosh, I can't believe we we missed noticing that, and then it was too late, and it's everybody's gonna see it. I'm really trying my best to let that go. Haven't mastered it, but I'm saying to myself it's gonna be okay. I'm like talking to myself like a friend. Nobody's gonna really notice it like you think they are. Maybe they are now because I'm saying it.

Lanee Blaise [00:30:40]:
But Sandy's gonna be like, oh, yeah. I saw that part. Yeah. But, no, you know, it's all gonna be okay. It will all work itself out, and God is still in control, and God takes care of us.

Sandy Kovach [00:30:52]:
That's right. It's like a puzzle piece. We only see the one part as we're putting in, but god sees the whole thing done.

Lanee Blaise [00:31:00]:
I have never heard that, but I like that. I like that. I just wanna give a little shout out to Andrea Miller. I wanna to thank her for being on that last podcast that we just did and for being in the Bible study and for really helping me to think some of these new things. Shout out to Mel Robbins also for writing that book. Let them,

Sandy Kovach [00:31:19]:
you know, she's good. I like her podcast. Yeah.

Lanee Blaise [00:31:23]:
So I guess the only thing to say is imagine yourself taking time to step towards god, making room and space in your life and in your mind to listen for God's voice and God's view and God's vision for how you are supposed to get back on track.

Sandy Kovach [00:31:53]:
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