Hal Elrod: What if everything you need to be the happiest, most at peace, and most fulfilled you’ve ever been is already inside of you, available right now in this exact moment, and every moment of your life? Not after the promotion, not once the relationship improves, or the debt disappears, or the problems are solved, or the kids finally listen. Not when the world calms down, or the news gets better, because spoiler, it won’t, but right now, as you are, with everything in your life exactly as it is. Now, I know you might be thinking, “Yeah, that sounds nice, Hal, but you don’t know what my life is like. You don’t know what I’m going through or what I’ve been through.”

That’s fair, and you’re right. I don’t know what your life is like, and I would probably be skeptical if I were you, listening to this too. And we live in an age that I think has made skepticism almost mandatory, between the economic uncertainty, the AI revolution, which we talked about last week with Geoff Woods, all of that quietly dismantling entire industries, and a social media feed that seems specifically engineered to make you feel behind, anxious, and vaguely inadequate by 8:00 AM or whenever you check your feed. It takes a certain audacity to suggest that what you’ve been searching for isn’t somewhere out there, that it is in here. And when I say in here, I’m pointing at my chest right now. But that’s exactly what I’m telling you.

And I’m not saying it because it sounds good, and it’s fluffy, feel-good motivational stuff. I’m saying it because I’ve lived the alternative, and I’d argue it nearly killed me, literally. There’s a period of my life where I had built everything that I thought I needed to be happy. The career was working beyond where I’d imagined. The family was beautiful. By most measures, I was winning. And then within the span of a few years, you probably know my story, cancer showed up uninvited, my body stopped cooperating, and I found myself lying in a hospital bed, wondering what really mattered. And the external circumstances that I had worked so hard to arrange into something resembling a good life had been rearranged without my permission and in a way I had never expected.

And what I discovered in that hospital bed, and the painful clarifying years that followed, is that the one thing no circumstance can touch, that no diagnosis can take, and no economy can crash, is who you are on the inside. Think about that. The peace, the joy, the love, the sense of purpose that we spend our entire lives chasing in the external world, those things were never out there to begin with. They were always inside of us. We just forgot. Life got hard. People hurt us in school, in relationships, and on and on and on. And we failed, and we got rejected, and we got embarrassed, and we got scared. And over time, we literally were born as these innocent beings, these human/spiritual beings, and then life kind of beat us up along the way.

And most of us have been running a search in the wrong location for a long time. And this episode is about finding your way back to that place inside of you. I’ve been working on, and you probably are tired of hearing this, I’ve been working on a book for many, many years, like six years. And I’ve got 190 pages written of a book that I still don’t fully, like there’s… Anyway, I don’t want to burden you with my challenges. Actually, you probably would relate. You’re like, “Yeah, I’m not sure the exact direction to go sometimes in my life,” whatever. But anyway, that’s another story for another time. The point is one of the working titles for the book is The Miracle Within. Another one is The Miracle Life, and then there are some that don’t have the word ‘miracle’ at all.

Part of what I’m struggling with here is finalizing that. But the point is, The Miracle Within is about finding that place inside of you that I just described, right, that place that you were born in a state of pure consciousness, peace, love, joy, limitless possibilities. That place exists inside of us always. And the problem is that we have been conditioned to believe that everything that we’re searching for is outside of us. And one of my favorite authors, arguably my favorite author in the entire world, Kyle Cease, who has become a good friend. He lives, like, 20 minutes away. But Kyle, in one of his… It was one of his books, or maybe it was one of his talks. I think it was an audiobook of his, but he said, “Imagine that you got a phone call today,” right?

Just imagine this, okay? So, let’s say you’re having a bad day, average day, whatever. You get a phone call, and you find out that you won $10 million in the lottery, okay? Imagine that. You won $10 million in the lottery, right? Imagine, and they say, “Hey, it’ll be in your account next month.” And imagine hanging up the phone. Imagine the emotions that you would feel, the state that you would be in, right? Just excitement, pure possibility. Imagine you’d be on top of the world. You’d be so excited. Now, I want you to think about something for a second. All of the emotions and the feelings, the state that would be generated, would not be from any money actually changing hands.

Like, think about that. No money’s in your account. You haven’t bought things with said money. All that’s happened is you’ve given yourself permission, now unconsciously, albeit you probably don’t say out loud, “Oh, now I can feel good.” Unconsciously, you’ve given yourself permission to feel the way that you aspire to feel. Like all of us, we just want to feel good. We just want to be happy. And so, now you got this news that you won all this money, and now you unconsciously give yourself permission to feel all of the feelings that you want to feel. Like, you probably couldn’t feel any better than you feel in the moments following that phone call. Again, nothing’s actually happened.

You just got new information that shifted your perspective that allowed you to feel a certain way. Now, then, imagine I know this is going to be rough, but you get a phone call back, and they go, “Oh, we made a mistake. You actually didn’t win. We called the wrong person,” right? “We’re so sorry. You don’t get any money. Talk to you later.” Now, I want you to think about the new set of emotions that you would experience. Probably a level of disappointment that you’ve maybe never experienced in your life, or maybe you have. You probably have. You’ve been disappointed before. But imagine the way that you would feel. So, just, “No, no, I can’t believe this.” You’d be just crushed at this news that you didn’t win the $10 million that you had just thought you’d won.

Now you’d be even lower than you were before you got the first phone call. You’d be a wreck. You’d be ruminating it over in your head and wishing it, “No, how could this be? How could they have made that mistake?” And you’d be hoping that the second phone call was also a mistake and that they would call you back, and that they would say, “Oh, yeah. No, no, actually, you did win the money,” right? The point of that is what happened is this external illusion that you allowed yourself to feel all of the emotions that you want to feel. And I would argue, in fact, referencing another one of my favorite authors, Michael Singer, in his book The Untethered Soul, I think. It might’ve been Living Untethered, but one of Michael Singer’s books. Might’ve been The Surrender Experiment. No, I think it was…

Anyway, it doesn’t matter. One of Michael Singer’s books. And I’ll paraphrase what he said, but it was essentially that if all we want is to feel good, like we just want to feel at peace and we want to feel happy, we want to feel loved, we want to feel excited about life, and optimistic, like those are the things that we want to feel. And he said, “If you can figure out how to feel those things all the time, and you don’t base them on external circumstances or forces, you essentially win in like, you win, you win. You win life, you win life, right? You figured it out. Because that’s all we really want. Everything that we’re doing is an attempt to do something or create something or accomplish something or achieve something that we believe will give us those feelings, those emotions, that state that we desire.

So, the miracle within, the secret to success, is how do you rewire your brain, how do you rewire your brain and your nervous system, so that you can feel good and feel up and feel excited whenever you want? Not all the time. And the old me would’ve said all the time. But there’s value in feeling sad. There’s value in every emotional state. Every emotional state serves a purpose. Feeling sad, grieving, those are all very natural processes. In fact, I think I might have given myself cancer. One of my theories, nobody knows why, doctors didn’t know what caused it, but I’ve examined what are all the things that I did to my body, and essentially, that could’ve caused cancer.

And one of them is when you suppress your emotions, which I did. I think I started that at eight years old when my sister passed away. I didn’t like the way I felt having to think about her dying. And so, I immediately made it positive, and I was like, “Hey, guys. Amery’s in heaven. Isn’t that great? Heaven’s a great place.” And in that moment, I was like, “Oh, wow, when you focus on the positive, you don’t have to feel the pain.” And I don’t know that that was healthy. There’s a book called The Body Keeps the Score, which breaks down the science. There’s another one, I’m drawing a blank. But there’s another similar one. But anyway, the point is the body keeps the score, which is like your emotions are a literal physical energy in the body.

Like, there’s a physical reaction, which is why when you’re angry, your palms get sweaty, and your face turns red, and, like, there’s a physical reaction in the body from our emotions. And when you sustain painful emotions for an extended period of time, it has a negative impact on the body. Like, this is one of many reasons to learn how to control your emotional state, to learn what I believe is the ultimate superpower, which is being able to consciously dictate your mental and emotional state at will in any given set of circumstances. That’s part of what we’re talking about today. And so, it’s learning how to be at peace with the things that you can’t change so that they have no control over you.

It’s cultivating the optimal mental and emotional states every day so that they become your norm. And if you read The Miracle Morning Updated and Expanded Edition, well, two things in there. One is the emotional optimization meditation, which is a very simple technique where, essentially, you’re consciously identifying what would be the optimal mental and emotional state that would best serve me in this moment and today and in my life right now. Then you are accessing that state through either your memories or, meaning you’re going, “Okay, when have I last felt in that state?” You’re closing your eyes. You’re putting your hand maybe on your chest, or you’re resting them on your legs, and you’re picturing yourself in an optimal state.

Maybe you’re affirming that. I am capable of getting into that state right now. I’ve been there before. My mental and emotional state, that’s my choice. It is not dictated by my circumstances. See, a lot of this, it starts with a paradigm shift. Like, you have to believe and understand to know that you get to choose your state. That is your choice. Most of us were never taught that. In fact, most of us were taught by adults modeling the exact opposite of that, which is when things go good, that’s when you feel good, and when things don’t go good, when they don’t go well, when they don’t go your way, well, then, you get upset, then you get sad, then you get angry, then you get like… Right? That’s what we were taught. That’s what every adult in our life modeled.

And if you’ve ever studied enlightenment, which I’m trying to think. I don’t know the first book, but it was in my 20s, mid-20s, I think, when I think the first book I probably read on the subject of enlightenment was The Power of Now by Eckhart Tolle. And then I started going into some more, like, esoteric, deeper, kind of harder reads, which were, oh, Andrew… I’m drawing a blank on his name. He wrote Living Enlightenment, I believe, was the book. And then his partner in crime, his buddy, Ken Wilber, who’s a really hard read. You maybe get, like, you understand 50% of what you’re reading, and you just kind of have to gloss over the other 50% or get out a dictionary and a thesaurus and be like, “What is he saying?” But you get the gist of it.

But the point is, when you study enlightenment, that’s essentially how I would define enlightenment, is it’s like freedom. This is freedom. When you embrace enlightenment, a state of enlightenment, you’re embracing a state of freedom. Like, I am choosing to be free from unnecessary suffering because I’m not going to put any energy into wishing I could change things that are out of my control. And you’ve heard me maybe talk about this before, and this actually, I’m rereading The Power of Now right now. I read it 22 years ago, and I’m rereading it right now. And it’s so funny how, and here’s a little bonus lesson for you.

When we’ve read a book, we assume that we remember, like, if somebody mentioned a book like, “Oh, yeah. I’m reading this great book, The Power of Now,” or if someone’s like, “Yeah, Miracle Morning,” whatever, I’d be like, “Oh, yeah. Power of Now? Yeah, I’ve read that. Yeah, read that.” I would totally dismiss the value of that book because I read it 22 years ago, and I’m reminded of that as I’m almost done with the book now for reading it again. And I’m reminded, like, I don’t remember, like, 90% of this, right? There’s what? 300 pages in this book or 250 pages. Maybe I could summarize a page’s worth of content. So, the point is, make sure you reread books that changed your life.

Like, if you read a book and it impacted your life in a profound way, go back and reread it. Don’t think that just because you read it once, you got it, because you probably don’t, because I know I don’t. But the lesson that I got from The Power of Now, which really wasn’t the, like, surface primary lesson, meaning the surface primary lesson was live in the moment. Like, the only thing that is real is now. In fact, I’ll mention this right now, and then I’ll go into the other lesson that I think is even more profound and more valuable for you and for me. But that profound lesson, if you haven’t read The Power of Now, or not the profound lesson, the surface lesson, the primary lesson, the premise of the book, there you go, that’s what I was looking for, is that the only thing that’s real is this moment.

And I want you to think about that in this context of wherever you are right now in the world, okay, you could, like, I right now am in Dripping Springs, Texas. Okay? I’m at home. Well, this moment is the only thing that’s actually happening, and it’s happening across the entire world and arguably the universe. I don’t know about the space-time continuum and all of that, but… Right? Meaning in Japan right now, this exact moment is happening in Japan for every person in Japan. It’s happening in South America and North America and Europe and Russia, and you name it, right? I’m heading to Estonia tomorrow to speak at Mindvalley University. This moment right now is happening in Estonia. When I’m in Estonia, the moment that I’ll be experiencing in each moment will be the same moment that’s happening in the US.

The point is, at home here with my family. The point is that most of us live our lives in the illusion of time, where we’re reminiscing over the past or ruminating over the past or feeling stressed over things that we wish we would’ve done differently. We’re living with regret, or we’re worried about the future. We’re living in fear. And we’re missing life. Like, the reality is the only thing that is real is this moment right now that we are experiencing. And most of our problems are created in our mind, but there’s actually, like right now, like, if I were to say, “What are your problems?” You’d have to think about them and go, “Well, this one,” and then you’d feel stress.

Again, your emotional state would change based on you thinking about this stressful thing. “Oh, and I got this other thing going on, and my bank account’s not where I need it to be, and I’ve got conflict in my relationship.” But in this moment, is there really a problem? Like in this moment, when you’re living in the now, you actually allow yourself to feel fulfilled. So, anyway, I don’t want to go too far into this. This is a premise of that book, but I’m getting off track from the main focus of the message. The other lesson, the primary lesson that I learned that changed my life, and that’s relevant to being able to choose your optimal mental and emotional state in any given set of circumstances, including the circumstances that you’re struggling with right now in your life, in any area of your life, whatever those are.

The lesson I learned from Eckhart Tolle, and it’s funny, I didn’t know I’d learned it from him until I went back and read the book. I’m like, “Oh, I teach this lesson. I learned it from Eckhart. I need to start giving him credit.” It’s this: The source of all emotional pain is, in one word, resistance. In two words, resisting reality. In the simplest way to explain that is it’s our wishing and wanting that something that happened or is happening now, or is a circumstance we’re enduring, or we’re perceiving to occur in the future, like death, it’s our resistance to reality, our wishing and wanting that reality were different, that causes our pain. It’s not reality itself. And the way you can kind of prove that is that two people can be enduring the same reality.

Let’s say two people lost someone they love, or two people got fired from the same company, or two… You pick it. Or two people are getting a divorce, or two people have cancer. And one is suffering mentally and emotionally, and one is not. And when you talk to them, you find out why. The one that is suffering is resisting reality. You say, “Hey, how’s it going?” They go, “Oh, my gosh. This isn’t fair. I don’t deserve this. Life wasn’t supposed to be this way. I wish I didn’t have cancer. I wish I didn’t lose my job. I wish my spouse didn’t leave me. I wish.” I resist the reality of what’s happening. And listen closely to this part. To the degree that we resist reality determines the degree of emotional pain that we create for ourselves.

So, every painful emotion is caused by resistance to reality and therefore it is self-created because we are resisting reality. Now, if you talk to the other person that’s going through the same challenge, but they’re at peace, you go, “Wait, you’re going through the exact same adversity right now. You lost the same loved one,” or, “You also have the same cancer,” or, “You are bankrupt,” or whatever. Why is the first person, they’re so emotionally distraught? Like, maybe they’re suicidal. They can’t handle it. But you’re totally at peace. What’s the difference?” And they go, “Well, I’ve accepted my reality exactly as it is.” And an important distinction is it doesn’t mean I’m happy with that reality. It means I’m at peace with it.”

When you accept reality exactly as it is, it doesn’t necessarily mean that you’re fired up about the thing that’s difficult and challenging, and maybe it’s causing you physical pain, right? It’s far more powerful than that. It’s meaning being happy. Happiness is an emotion that’s fleeting. We already gave the example from Kyle Cease’s book, The Illusion of Money. That’s his book that I was referring to, which is the lottery winner, right? They win the lottery. They were having a bad day. Now they heard they win the lottery. They’re super happy because their circumstances change, because their happiness and their emotional state is dependent on their external circumstances. Then they find out they didn’t win the lottery. Now they’re depressed, and they’re sad, and they even feel worse than they got the first phone call, right?

So, most of us, our internal state is dependent on our external circumstances. So, the cause of that is resistance. The solution to that is acceptance. And if you’ve ever heard me share the five-minute rule, it’s where you set your timer. I learned that in my Cutco sales training when I was 20 years old, 19 years old. You set your timer for five minutes, give yourself five minutes to get upset, process your emotions, kind of alchemize them, if you will. And when the timer goes off after five minutes, you say three very liberating words: “Can’t change it.” It’s an acknowledgement I can’t change it, so I’m not going to waste another minute of my life wishing that I could because that resistance, that wishing and wanting you could change the unchangeable, which is often from the past, whether it was five minutes ago or five decades ago when you were much younger, five years ago, whatever, the timeframe is irrelevant.

Resistance is the cause of pain, and it puts you in a state of delusion. Wishing you could change something you can’t change is delusional, which, by the way, is where most of the pain in our relationships comes from. Wishing we could change another person, wishing they hadn’t said it, wishing they hadn’t done it. Think about when you’re upset at your significant other or a friend, a coworker, anybody, any human being in your life. You’re upset over something that they did because you’re not willing to accept it. You’re wishing they didn’t do it. They shouldn’t have done it. You’ve deemed it as wrong. You’ve judged it as unacceptable, right? I mean, think about that word. “That is unacceptable.”

If you are saying that or thinking that, let that be a red flag that, oh, wait a minute, nothing’s unacceptable. It might mean that it doesn’t meet your standard, and so you’re going to cut that person out of your life. Like, that’s fair. That’s a choice. But if you are deeming something unacceptable, that’s a red flag. That’s a sign that, oh, wait a minute, I am right now not accepting, thus resisting the reality of whatever just happened, therefore, I am creating emotional pain for myself. And emotional pain can be created in varying degrees. If you’re in traffic and you’re frustrated, right? You’re wishing the cars would go faster, and you’re kind of running late.

And here’s a good example. Let’s use traffic. I love traffic. It’s one of the best analogies or metaphors. I don’t know which one would be the right appropriate term here but imagine you’re in traffic. Now, imagine you’re in traffic, you’re running late, and you’re running late to meet a friend at a coffee shop who doesn’t really care if you’re late, but ideally, you want to be on time, but you’re running a little bit late. So, your resistance to the traffic is relatively low because the consequence that you perceive is relatively insignificant. So, you’re in traffic going, “Oh, gosh dang it, man. Ah, traffic, so annoying.” Right? You’re, like, the pain that you’re creating, you might define it by the word annoying, which is a very relatively low-level form of pain, right?

It’s like, eh, it’s kind of annoying, kind of whatever. You’re lightly resisting reality, wishing the traffic were faster. Now, imagine you’re in traffic. So, same circumstance. You are sitting in traffic, but this is a different scenario. But you are running late to a job interview. You are unemployed in this scenario, and this job means everything to you. And your alarm didn’t go off. Now you’re running late, and you are perceiving that you are going to lose this huge opportunity that came along, let’s say, like it was just like a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. Now, you’re running late to it. So, you’re in traffic, just like in the other scenario, but you are resisting reality to a degree. “No, no, no. How could this happen? How could my alarm not go off?”

And here’s the thing. You can’t control that your alarm didn’t go off, and you can’t control that you are in that traffic, and you can’t control that you are now going to be late. You also can’t control what the person that’s interviewing you for the job decides to do. But this is very, very important. Please listen closely if you’re not already. You might have tuned me out. I don’t know. But here’s the point. When you get to that job interview, what is going to be more effective? For you to show up emotionally distraught because you spent the entire car ride resisting reality and wishing things that were out of your control were different, the alarm, wish it would’ve gone off, wish there wasn’t traffic, wish you had left earlier, right? Resisting, fearing the things that are out of your control, such as what the interviewer decides to do or not do.

So, what’s more effective, arriving at the job interview emotionally distraught, or completely at peace and clear-headed? This is a metaphor for life. Of course, the answer is to arrive at the job interview completely at peace and clear-headed. And when I say it’s a metaphor for life, here’s what I mean. What’s the best way to do anything in life? What’s the best way to show up to conflict with another person? What’s the best way to show up to a cancer diagnosis? What’s the best way to show up to job loss or financial challenges? At peace and clear-headed. At peace and clear-headed. Acceptance is the key that unlocks the door to an optimal inner state.

Before we go on any further, I want to address something directly because if I don’t, part of your brain is going to resist everything that follows. When I say that everything you need is already within you, I am not telling you to stop what you’re doing. I’m not saying you lower your standards or abandon your goals or trade your ambition for a meditation cushion and a vague sense of calm. Like, this is not about wanting less. It’s about operating from a place of peace. So, it doesn’t mean that when something doesn’t go your way, you just resign yourself, “I’m just going to accept that life is the way that it is, and there’s nothing I can do about.” This is not resignation. This is about clearly accepting the things that you cannot change, so that you free up your energy…

Well, let me say, let me back up. It’s about accepting the things you cannot change so that you operate from a place of perpetual inner peace, calm, and clear-headedness, and then you free up all of your emotional energy to focus on what you want. The most effective version of you is the one who is at peace. Not complacent, not passive, not indifferent to outcomes. At peace. And again, there’s a profound difference, and that difference is what we are talking about. You think about the decisions that you’ve made from a place of panic and overwhelm and stress and fear versus the ones you’ve made from a place of clarity. Think about the conversations you’ve had when you were emotionally reactive, saying things you regret, versus when you were genuinely grounded.

Think about the work you’ve produced when you were running on stress and the work you’ve produced when you were fully present and focused. You already know which version of you performs better. You’ve experienced it. What I’m offering you is not an escape from ambition. It’s the foundation that makes your ambition sustainable, scalable, and actually enjoyable to live inside of. Because I think there’s like a quiet tragedy that most high achievers never confront. You can build everything you set out to build and still feel empty when you get there if you haven’t found that place inside of you that’s at peace with reality, that’s grateful for what you have.

And inner peace is the goal. It’s not happiness. Happiness is a byproduct of inner peace. And what prevents us from inner peace is resistance, resisting reality, wishing and wanting that things were different than they are. It doesn’t mean that you don’t want your life to be different or want to achieve goals, right? You understand it’s not about not wanting to improve things. It’s about being at peace with where you are while you take the next step toward where you desire to go. So, acceptance and desire and ambition, they work together. And they work together more effectively than resistance and stress and fear work underneath desire and ambition. And so many of us are striving in the wrong way, right?

We’re striving for what we want from a place of scarcity and fear, and not enough. Not enough-ness, if that’s an expression, right? So, today is just a reminder, and maybe there are some things you’ve never heard before, but like me rereading The Power of Now, I was reminded of a lot of things that I’ve known, but I’ve kind of forgotten. Or even if I know them intellectually, I’m not embodying some of the stuff that I’ve known. And that’s for most of us. I was talking with someone the other day, and they’re like, “Yeah, really, my Miracle Morning is, like, I know that I’m better when I’m on it. But I’ve kind of fallen off, and, like, I’m not reading my affirmations anymore.” And it’s like we lie to ourselves and think that if we know something, that’s enough, right?

Like, “Well, I already know that.” And it’s really important to go, “No, am I living that?” So, I would encourage you to use this one-way conversation we just had and turn it into a two-way conversation where you actually spend some time talking to yourself, ideally in writing through reflection. And ask yourself, are you resisting reality? Are you wishing and wanting to change things that are out of your control? And is that draining your energy, causing you to live in stress and fear and overwhelm and maybe anxiety and depression, and a lot of different states that we find ourselves perpetually in? And stress is the most common. That’s an all-encompassing word. And most of us are living our life in a low-level, some at a high level, and I can jostle it between the two, for sure. But a degree of stress that is preventing us from enjoying this one life that we have been blessed to live.

And I’m going to close with where I started. What if everything you need to be the happiest, most at peace, and most fulfilled you’ve ever been is already inside of you, available right now in this next, I mean, in this exact moment, and this next moment, and this moment, and this moment? And I’ll close with one more thing. When I was speaking to this group of international leaders in Utah, doTERRA. They brought in all their international leaders. It was last week. And I was asked what the ultimate superpower is for a leader. And it really is what we’ve talked about this entire episode. I said, “It’s their ability to choose their optimal state so that they can be the best leader they can be in any moment, any economy, any given set of circumstances.”

And the one thing I invited everyone to consider is that this is the best moment of your life. And you’re going to hear me say this over the next five years. In fact, it might be the title of my next book. I don’t know. But every moment of our lives is the best moment of our lives. And the only way that that cannot be true is if you choose to make moments a competition with other moments. But you think about the quality of a moment is the quality of your consciousness in that moment. Same thing can happen to two different people. One person’s at a low level of consciousness, living in fear and resistance and stress, and they don’t enjoy the moment. And the other person is totally at peace, and they’re in a state of love and gratitude and joy, and they love the moment.

And for me, every morning, I always start by saying, “God, thank you for this moment. This is the best moment of my life.” And I try to get present to that statement and that reality as often as I possibly can. Every moment of our lives is the best moment of our lives, and it has nothing to do with what’s going on outside of us and everything to do with our state of consciousness that we are generating, that we are sustaining, that we are choosing from the inside out.

Goal achievers, I love you so much. Hope this was helpful for you, and I will talk to you next week