Welcome back. Shake and not stirred is the brief we're gonna talk. I'm gonna read to you today about weekly intel brief number 21. You can find this as m2mweeklyintel.com to where you will find my weekly newsletter that I sent out. And why am I doing this? Because as I've mentioned previously, I gotta get better at reading my own stuff. From from any books I've written, I haven't read one of them myself, and I gotta change that. And before I do that, let me practice here with you. And today you get to experience your Shulya Asher reading this newsletter. And the title of this one again is This one came out on May 29th, Shake and Not Stir. That's the title. Subtitle, You Were Never Afraid of the Shake, You Were Afraid of What It Turns You Into. Alright, and again, this newsletter is broken down into seven rooms. I'm gonna read two of the rooms to you, and you can go check it out, the rest of them. But just some inspiration, something to think about today. So, room one opening life will shake you. The stir is the part that is up to you. This week shook somebody you know. Maybe it was you, something landing that you did not choose, and you felt the floor move, or maybe it was someone close to you. You watch it hit them, and you saw them change in front of you. There are two ways a person comes out of a week like that shaken, they got hit and they were rattled, but they were still holding, but they are still holding, still ready underneath, still sounding like themselves when they talk it through. Stirred, it got inside them. They sent the message they cannot unsend, and they have read it back a dozen times since. Hearing the panic, wearing their own voice. You have been bold. So has the person you are thinking of right now. There is a James Bond line that people have repeated for six years at the thing about a drink. This week I am going to show you what it means when you apply it to your life, and I think it might change how you write about the hardest season you have lived through. Alright, skip room two when we go to room three for the deeper piece of it for serious writing. So, going back to the scenes from the James Bond film, and that most people remember at the brink. So, if you have not seen a James Bond film, because there's people that haven't probably ever seen it, here is what you need to know. James Bond is a British spy, codenamed W07. In films after films across decades, he walks into situations that should end him: gunfights, betrayals, mission where the odds are stacked so stacked so far against him that survivor would be unreasonable. And in the middle of it, sometimes right after one of those missions, he walks up to the bar, the bartender asks what he would like. Bond says the same thing he has said for 60 years in in cinema. Vatka Martini, shaken, not stirred. People know the line, they repeat it at parties. They think it's a man being particular about a cocktail, but apply those words to life and they stop being about a drink. Shaken is what happens to you when life hits hard. The glass shakes, the con the content shake, but the content stays whole. You are rattled, you are moving inside your own skin, but you are still you. Something reached in and re-road to you while you were being hit. Save same event, two different impacts. One leaves you intact, the other changes what you are made of. Your life runs on those two things. Life will shake you. That part was never up to you. The message arrived, the floor moved, the shake is coming whether you brace for it or not. Whether you lit, whether you let it stir you, whether you let it reach in and change your content, that is the part you hold in your hands. Shaken, you are still yourself, stirred, you handed the control to the panic, and the panic rewrote you while you were being hit. There's a lot more inside of this newsletter, and for the folks that are writing their memoirs that are working on their story, and this is part some more details inside our newsletter. So the week becomes a chapter, you are writing a memoir, or you are carrying one and have not started. Either way, you are looking for the moment in your life worth putting up on a page. The calm seasons are pleasant to live and flat to read. The shaken weeks are where the chapters are. The week the floor move. The week that the shook you is not an interruption of your memoir, it is a page of it. The question is which voice you write it in, the shake or the stir. Write it from the stir, and the chapter becomes a courtroom. You are the wronged party. Someone else is the villain. The reader smells it on the on the first page and steps back from the smell. Write it from the shake, and the chapter becomes a mirror. You tell what happened and what it acts of you. The reader stopped reading about your week and starts seeing her own. Same week, two different chapters. The difference is watching. Difference is which setting you wrote it on. Just getting better at writing myself, share with my clients. Different ways to think about their own story. Because the hard part about your history is that it is in pieces, and some of it is too heavy. Because your experiences that a lot of people just don't want to go back to. But that's where the treasure is, by the way. Where the pain is, that's where the purpose is. You just gotta go back there, invert it, flip it, turn it around, and look at it differently, and you will see a lot more meaning to it. Because your life is all about going back there and finding better meaning in your history. With that, ladies and gentlemen, check out the weekly intel. And again, for the folks that have been following the journey, I am here working on my skill set the same as you working on your skill set. Some areas I've mastered where I feel confident to share, some areas I've not mastered, where I'm still a little bit timid, a little bit hesitant of sharing it, but I will share because I'm on this journey with you as well. And if you're a person that wants to start working on your memoir, the live change with the marketplace is live now. We in the better season of it, the better season over the next 90 days. I will be onboarding my new vendors, the folks that want to put their book out in the world. We're gonna turn your story, your history into intellectual property so you can have a great conversation with the folks that want to have a conversation with you. And with that, let's connect.