You are going to be reading me reading these newsletters to you. For the folks that probably don't have enough time to sit down and read all of it. Well, whether or not it's worth your time. You get to find out here on me reading my memoirs to Millions newsletter. And one of the reasons why I'm doing this, by the way, reason I'm doing this, because like I said in the last time I read the newsletter, is that I am a little bit self-conscious of me reading out loud to the folks that like what I write. And I figure why not practice here with you, and we both get comfortable with me during this process of reading. And today's newsletter, brief number 22. So, what I'm doing right now is going back in time and reading some of the newsletters that I've written so far. It's the start of this journey this year, as far as writing newsletter, putting them out, putting them out. And again, this is weekly intel. You can find this newsletter as m2mweeklyintel.com. Now for the week 22, the title for week 22 weekly intel is mine your memories for more meaning. Subtitle The Memory You Protected Yourself From is the one protecting the most meaning. That came out on June 5th. So go check that one out. And let me go through. I'm just gonna read again, read room one and two, because I have the newsletter broken down into seven rooms, and just kind of give you some detail, some inspiration, something to think about. So, rule number one noise does not go where more noise is, it goes where quiet is. Something for you to think about. Your memoir needs a quiet room to go to. I record a conversation with Raleigh Grupo about why growth feels like a drug, and something I kept thinking about after we talk, send me back to a question I have been circling for months. Where do the memories go? Where do the memory go? Not the one on the surface, you can grab those. The birthday, the deployment, the day you got married. Those are sitting in front of in those are sitting in the front room, you'll walk in and there they are. I am talking about the ones you buried, the ones you put down because you did not have the time, the skills, or the resources to make meaning of them when they happen. You buried them with the intention of coming back, but you did not mark the spot. The meaning is the gap. You lost the location because you skipped the meaning. This is the mining problem, and this week I want to show you how to open the door. Now, let me move into so we're gonna skip room two, we're gonna move into room three, and this is probably the deep part of the writing. So for serious writing, five moon, five moves to mine what you buried. Here's the thing about mining memories. Mining said go dig for the treasure, but memory does not work like gold in the ground. You do not go to memory, memory comes to you, it surfaces when it decides, not when you decide. So the mining is not digging, the mining is making a quiet room and leaving the door open. Here are five moves to open it. Move one make a quick make a quiet room for the memory to arrive. Noise does not go where the noise is, it goes where it is quiet. Memory works the same way. You do not summon it, you make a space quiet enough for it to walk in. A photograph, a smell, a song from a year you did not talk about. Set the condition and wait. The memory will come when the room is right, my friend. Move number two. You did not forget where you buried it. You buried it on purpose. Stop blaming your memory. You put it down because you could not deal with it then. You lack the time, the skill, or the capacity to make meaning of it, so you set it aside, intended to come back. The burial was not a failure, it was protection. Now you have the tools to go back. Move number three. The memory you avoid is the richest vein. The comfortable memories repeat what you already know. The ones that still sting are the ones carrying the gold. You bury them because they were heavy, and heavy means they carry weight toward mining. Go towards the one you do not want to look at. That is where the meaning lives. Move number four. Allow the memory to find you so you can make meaning of it. When the memory arrives, you sit with it, you look at it again with the tools you have now. And the meaning forms. Once you make meaning of it, you do not lose it again. Meaning is what anchors the memory in place. You lost it the first time because you buried it without the meaning attached. This time you attach it. Move number five. You are not the minor, you are the mine. Ha! If you have free will, tell me what your next thought is going to be. You cannot you sit and wait for it to arrive. The same is true of memory. You do not choose which one surface, the ones that surfaces choose you. It came through you for a reason. Follow the one that keeps coming back. It is knocking because it is the lesson you have not graduated from yet. Alright, so that is just the some of the ideas inside of weekly intel, brief number 22. So go ahead and check it out. And again, you are part of my journey. You are part of my journey of getting better at reading, as you can tell. So for the folks that don't know, I like I'm off to go read the the symptoms of AD ADHD or dyslexia, and just kind of can you get for you guys can kind of see because when I read those, I'm like, man, oh my goodness. So some of those challenges I do have when it comes to reading out loud is something I'm gonna practice, just like we are gonna practice things to get better at it. But that's the journey, and again, this is a memory similarity community. And if you are a person out there right now looking for a place to sit down and start working on your book, writing your story out, I speci I specialize in memoir because I think your history is your intellectual property, and it's just a matter of you going back and digging into it and find the meaning in it because you can't change a path, but you can change the meaning of it, and that's the whole goal here. Changing the meaning by mining your history. With that, folks, make it a utterly, utterly fantastic day.