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Hello and welcome back to the Good Vibes
podcast. Today we're going to discuss
Daled. Hopefully by the end of this
episode we're going to walk away with
some very practical tips and tools.
This translates loosely to she seeks out
wool and linen and her hands work
willingly. So this puzzle
learn something from it. So the phrase
we're going to focus on is daria. Why we
specifically use the word dara. How does
it relate with the rest of the puk?
Namely where it says that the asky does
things willingly. Okay. Okay. So, I want
to bring down a malb. The malb on this
word darot brings down such practical
and basic insights. What I'm going to
share right now is not anything like
groundbreaking that we haven't heard
before, but I feel like for me it's so
enlightening and powerful to see it from
the from the mafarium. So, he brings
down this basic insight that
I think that we can use. I think that we
can hear it again and I think that the
more we internalize it and the more we
apply it to our lives the more powerful
it will be. So he says that all the
things that is she does with zeras and
which can be translated to fast and
eager and she's giving it her all that
she will heir on the side of doing it
better doing it good. She's going to air
on the side of caution to make sure that
the task or whatever she's working on is
actually fully done. And if the Asia
Kyle chooses to make clothing, he brings
down this example. He says, "If the Asia
Kyle is choosing to make clothing,
that's why it says wool and linen,
right? Things that we use for clothing,
she will do this task not with laziness
or feeling of force. Rather, she will do
it from a place of desire."
So overall, the the the mal is saying
that the is her responsibilities and her
tasks with desire, hard work, fast like
quick zealous I guess the word is. And
she doesn't do it with a feeling of like
doom or anguish, but like with a feeling
of this is my responsibility. This is
what I'm going to do and with a feeling
of desire. And that's what the word
daria comes to teach us. Instead of
another word, let's say of that she's
going to go do something. The word dar
teaches us this
hard work, this desire. And that's why
he brings in this example of if the is
making clothing, that's why the puzz
says wool and linen. He's bringing in
that example. she's going to do it with
like almost like a kishek with like a
desire and a drive and not in a way that
she's forced to or doesn't want to. So
again, I feel like this is something
that as wives and mothers, we know that
it's important to not do our roles in a
way of doom and not wanting to and that
there's value in desire and working hard
and but this is an amazing reminder and
it's encouraging for me to see that the
pukim that the malim is bringing it down
and that this is a specific
characteristic of an asyle. I think that
like this teaches us how much this
specific characteristic of Zizos and
Karus and Kishak is not just like a good
quality for anyone to have which I'm
sure it is but the malam is saying that
this specific mida is something that an
asyle embodies and I feel like the
biggest message that we can gain from
this malim is how we can make it
personal and real in our lives today
obviously that's our goal okay so it's
very nice that I should be like
enthusiastic about my role and
responsibilities but how do I do And how
do I do that? Specifically for tasks
that are so difficult to me and the ones
that always keep on coming back and
everything else that's difficult for us
like those are the hardest. Everybody
has their own task that is the hardest
or that they dislike. So how with
something that keeps on coming back and
something that is in our role, you know,
embedded in our role as a wife and a
mother, how am I supposed to approach
this with this and withishek and with
desire and with not the feeling of like
I'm being forced to and like, okay, I
have to do this. So that being said, and
that's what we, you know, that's what I
want to focus on today with our puzzle
idea. We have Mrs. Rael Iram here with
us. Mrs. Iram is an amazing person and
I'm so lucky that I have gotten to know
her. She is a kala teacher and a mentor
and she teaches in seminaries as well.
She is a very passionate about kala's
knowing
who they are, why they are getting
married and what their toughket is for
the future. something that she teaches
in her seminaries and other classes is
this exact point bringing in excitement
into our daily lives and how this
relates with our overall goal and our
overall image of ourselves. So, welcome
Mrs. Iram.
>> Thank you so much for having me.
>> Of course. Thank you so much for being
here with me. I'm so excited. So maybe
you can begin by sharing your thoughts
on this concept of you know this idea of
living our lives with zealousness, hard
work and desire
especially when it involves roles you
know applying it to tasks and roles
within our asia domain I would say.
>> Okay. I think it's such a good question
and I think it's so important. I'm
really glad you're asking. I want to
start with the definition because I
think definitions are important. So
we're talking about andus and and I
think we all generally define that as I
mean they call it elacrity but I think
when we think about these words they say
we think of it as fast and first and
best and enthusiasm and we're brighteyed
and we're doing this like a nice base
yuck girl who smiles and never says that
anything is difficult. What 25 more
guests? No problem. I'm so happy.
I think that's how people generally see
that. And I just want to bring something
down that I heard from Rav Kalaman. He
mentions in the garam in Yuma says that
kohanim zim that when they were doing
that vote in the base mikdash they were
doing it with zerizus
>> right
>> and then the rav of I believe he was a
rav of the wars ghetto rav a grazinski
he had a kasha on that he's like okay
wait a minute zus means like moving
quickly and getting it done fast and
furious and that means that mistakes
could happen and the bas mdash I mean
>> doesn't do mistakes
>> right it's a precision operation you
can't there's no room for sloppiness or
messiness or cutting corners class
because that would be disastrous. You'd
have like ashes like all over the floor
like smeared on the coin guttle's
forehead, you know, terrible, not a good
idea. So, what does rezus really mean?
If you know, if we kind of strip it
away, it might manifest itself as
looking very enthusiastic and fast. But
what it really is is knowing our job and
being thought out and planned and
prepared and precise, which I think is
very important because we have a big
yates to, you know, keep up with the
Yoshkitzes. You know, if your neighbor,
you know, the lady living next door is
doing some amazing while she's raising
her 12 kids, whatever. you know,
>> you know, we think, oh, well, I have to
be like that, too. And she's so put
together. And this I think we need to
sort of redefine our terms a little bit.
>> Zus is not being fast. It's knowing who
we are and being planned and prepared
for the work that we have to do.
>> Meaning that's why the kohanam and the
bas mikdash are compared to as
>> right
>> because it's that lashon of um being
>> thought out and precise. So then how do
you think that it turned into this like
thing of like being fast? Do you think
that's just like modern Hebrew?
>> I think no. I think that it manifests
itself as being quick and excited
because when someone knows who they are,
knows what they're doing, knows how to
do it, usually they're going to go
faster than if they are sort of muddling
going, "I'm weird." Right. It's so
that's such a valuable lesson to me
because you're saying that the more
precise that we are within our own
beliefs and our own direction and our
where we're going, naturally we'll be
faster. Like,
>> right. So
>> if we know where we're going, then
you're even able to do it a little
faster if you don't have clarity or have
precision. So then you're just going to
float a little bit.
>> Exactly. So what we need to do then is
we need to figure out who am I, what are
my jobs, and what are my goals. And you
talked about the word daria, and I like
that word. I think we should be seekers.
We should be people who are seeking
things out. you know in the micro
escodas but doris is a a word that is
very specific to women and that's why
it's in the asyle because when a woman
knows there's a need she looks for the
way to to meet that need we and we
should seek we should be dores we should
be dorms ms we should be allin because
Jewish womanhood it's hard and so we
better know what we're doing you know we
only have 120 years
>> right right I think that like the
biggest thing that you're saying right
now to me is that when we know our
direction we know who we are we know our
direction I guess first It's knowing who
we are
>> and then from there building out our
roles and our tasks and our direction.
So then from there you have karitzas and
then you have desire but it's almost
like I remember in seminary always I
think it was from Rans
Zatel and he said you have to plug in
the GPS you have to know where you're
going. You have to know also like I
would add in here like you have to know
what vehicle you are. Are you on an egg
bus? Are you a motorcycle? Are you can
you drive in the carpool lane? You have
to know who you are and where you're
going. And only with that can you then
have this andas and this that we're told
that the malam tells us is part of an
asyle. And I think it it's almost like
the tip of the iceberg like okay it has
karitzas and andishek but really what's
underneath that. First you have to know
who you are. First you have to know
where you're going and only then can you
really have real zas. A lot of students
have come to me over the years and
they've said things like, "I want to
serve Hashem. I would totally do my Top
Kid if I only knew what that was." And
so, a long time ago, I believe I first
heard this, maybe not directly from
Ravikatess, but maybe sort of called
together from things that I either heard
or read from him.
>> So, I put together this quick little
cheat sheet called How to Find Your
Tough Kid in like five minutes.
>> That's amazing. So if you are over 30,
you grab a piece of paper and if you're
under 30, then you open a fresh document
on your computer on your phone and you
make two columns in it. So the first
column I'm going to call talents, that's
a very broad word. I've heard this in
the name of so many different people,
the GR and the Kazan. I'm sure many
people have said it, but that famous
quote oi to the person who doesn't know
their weaknesses, but oi vavoy to the
person who does not know their
strengths.
>> Yeah.
>> As you said, I love what you said, we
have to know what vehicle we're driving,
we have to know who we are. And Hashem,
when he gives us a tough kid in the
world, he gives us a job and then he
puts tools in our toolbox in order for
us to do the job. So, if I want to know
what my job is, let me take a peek
inside my toolbox. So, in column one,
you're going to write down all your
talents, your natural capabilities, your
skills, your proficiencies, your
personality traits, circumstances of
birth, the kinds of things that come
like relatively easy for me. Who am I?
What am I driving here?
>> Which if I can, I want to add that this
first step already takes a tremendous
amount of understanding who you are and
self like exploration. And I think that
just for our listeners, like even though
this is the first step, it could be that
you'll see this and be like, well, I
don't really know. My parents said this,
my friends say I'm this, but like really
I think I'm, you know, totally not what
they tell me, and I think I'm maybe a
little different. And it can take a lot
of like inner work and inner exploration
before we do this. And that's fine.
>> I mean, yes, you're right. But I would
say for the sake of this exercise, put
it all down. what I think I am and what
my parents think I'm because frankly my
parents you know all parents think their
daughters are beautiful I might think
I'm not beautiful so what am I going to
write down what my parents say or what I
say
>> right okay I hear that
>> write it all down and you know you're
going to see the MS is going to come out
>> I hear that the MS is going to like
you're going to weed everything out and
the MS is going to
>> parenthetically I don't think I've ever
met a Jewish woman who wasn't beautiful
just as a side note that we're talking
about this today but I just thought I
would say that okay so that's column
number one column number Do I wish I had
a better word, but the best word to use
is your passions. What makes you feel
happy? What makes you feel fulfilled or
motivated? And what makes you feel
indignant or angry? What do you love?
What lights you up from the inside? And
what do you want to fight for? What's
broken inside me that I wish would be
fixed? And I wish it would be fixed out
there in the world. So,
>> I love that. I think that is so telling.
Like, what inside of me do I want to
fix? Sometimes we think that like if I
need to fix this part so then like I
can't start thinking about the world
like I can't start thinking no but that
thing that you're so passionate about
that you yourself still want to work on
and need to work on that is something
that you're passionate about for not
just yourself for you know at large and
it can be little things like this
morning I took a walk and I was coming
home on the bus and I saw a lady holding
a three-year-old maybe running towards
the bus that was just about to pull out
of the bus stop and I was like oh and I
was in back of the bus. So, I couldn't,
you know, nudge the driver and I was
like, "Oh, I hope the drivers stop. He
doesn't go, you know, cuz sometimes they
just like drive straight ahead
pretending they don't see you in their
peripheral vision, which of course
>> they do.
>> Of course they do."
>> And this woman made it on the bus. I
actually felt a sima in my heart that
was like
>> it was like I felt it physically, right?
>> You know, that's I mean,
>> and that was something for you.
>> That would be something to put on my
list. I am happy when people don't get
left behind,
>> right? You know, it's a small thing, but
the more you do this, you just start
writing it all down. By the way, you
might need more than one piece of paper
because most of us are complex layers of
all sorts of interesting things that
light us up. Or if you find it hard to
find the things you like, look for the
things you hate. I hate to use the word
hate, but or I don't like to use the
word hate, but look for the things that
bother you. But when you see what
bothers you, you'll actually
>> see the flip
>> the flip side. You'll see what's really
important to you.
>> That's so interesting. So when you put
these things together, you just for the
first five minutes, you just write it
all down. And by the way, you will add
to this list over the years. For
example,
>> I had no idea that I love attending
births until I'd actually given birth a
few times. You know, there things you're
going to learn as you go through life.
And you're going to add it on your list.
But for our purposes, just start writing
everything you've got and everything you
love or feel strongly or inspired about.
And now you've got a tool that you can
actually look at. It's not swirling
inside you. It's outside of you.
>> Right?
>> Life is going to present a lot of
opportunities to do things and we have a
lot of decisions to make. What we're
going to look for, we're going to look
for areas where there's crossover
between what we are good at and what we
enjoy. And by the way, a lot of times
there's already crossover. Like someone
who's really good at painting in
watercolors, for example,
>> might also love painting in watercolors.
Well, that's a win-win, right? So then
if your son's yeshiva comes to you and
they say, you know, we're doing a um a
fundraiser and we'd really love if
someone would donate some art. What do
you think? Ah, I love to paint and I'm
good at painting and this is an
opportunity to serve Hashem using what
I'm good at
>> and what I love, right?
>> So if you've got the time and you're
not, you know, if you can manage it and
maybe you can't, but if you can,
>> I would say that might be something
>> that's a great example.
>> Like I this is an example I sometimes
use when I'm talking to my students. I
used to be a professional dancer back in
past life and I'm also a college teacher
and I am very I love helping women get
started on a road to a positive and good
marriage. It makes me feel so great and
there's no reason not to have a good
marriage for want of finding the right
advice. Right. Exactly.
>> So I love kalas and I love their
weddings and I happen to be that I also
enjoy dancing. I also I think I have
some talent or at least the people who
used to pay me did. So sometimes I will
go toas and if the kala wants it I will
come and do shikik. I will bring veils
and dance props and wings and ribbons
you know rhythmic gymnastics and I will
see likeick that's dance that's like
kind of fun and frankly the kala really
needs to sit down. Those wedding dresses
they weigh like 20 pounds totally
>> and every person who gets in the middle
of the circle for the first time is like
dancing with all their you know and the
kala is just dancing with all herk for
like 40 minutes straight. So get her in
the chair and do something nice for her.
So this is something that combines for
me as thing a small thing. I like to
dance and I like put it all together and
there you go. So that's finding your
tough kit and I printed this out for you
and you may have it if you'd like.
>> Thank you so much. I'm definitely going
to fill this out. This is really
exciting for me.
>> Okay. So I really like how this kind of
is like the almost like pre of
everything and it's giving me
perspective on first I have to
understand what my top is. First I have
to understand where I'm going, who I am,
where I'm headed. And only from then
will I have this desire and this karas
of being not even okay with working hard
and being precise and being quote
unquote fast, but it'll come naturally
to me and I'll want it. But let's say
like even afterwards, what if I have
tasks and I think all of us do have
tasks that we just really don't like.
And it can even be you know I go to and
by rabbits and dersitz and she says like
a chemistry child like some of our
children can be harder for us to work
with. So, you know, I would have deal
comparing a child to a task, but I'm
saying something within our overall isas
tough kid that is just consistently more
difficult for me. Consistently just
every time it comes up, I'm like, "Oh my
gosh." So, then what do I do? Because
it's something more specific than the
overall if that makes sense.
>> So, you're 100% right. I mean, being a
wife and a mother, it's a there are a
lot of people out there who aren't
married. There are a lot of people out
there who are still domining for
children after 5 and 10 and 15 years. Of
course,
>> but that doesn't mean that it doesn't
the matsus is that it can be exhausting.
It can be physical labor. It can be hard
and it can be challenging. I 100%
validate that. And anyone who's sort of
in the game to you like you're doing it,
you're getting up every day. You're
trying. Excellent.
>> Sometimes I think that we're like
Olympians and like nobody really no one
really knows it. Like we deserve a
million gold medals and we're the
Olympians of life.
>> We absolutely are. And yet we never give
ourselves gold medals. We only give
ourselves like, "Oh, you didn't do that.
Oh, you could have done that better. Oh,
you really wasted that."
>> I know. Maybe we should develop like
gold medals and like give them out cuz
everyone needs
>> I think we should. I think we should.
So, I do have a couple of Listen, I've
also faced my own difficult and
repetitive tasks. And I think the first
question that I think I've been asking
myself that I find really helps is this
my mitzvah? I used to live in the old
city and sometimes I had like 20 guests
for dinner on a le shabas and sometimes
I was pregnant I was nursing or whatever
like sometimes it was harder sometimes
it was easier first question is this my
mitzvah
>> so when someone calls and says hi can I
come over with a group from America and
there's 20 people and we'd like to come
to your house and by the way could you
also make sushi and really fancy food
because we want it to be like a good
cure experience sometimes I have the
co-op for it sometimes I don't sometimes
you need to shut your doors
>> and I think that's so important like be
a balis. I'm 100% in favor of being a
balass but also know when it's time to
close your doors, focus on your
children, focus on your family, your
husband, your own well-being and your
health. We need sleep. We need to drink
I mean like water and juice.
>> We need to eat healthy food. And I I
don't know if you're like me, but I have
this thing I always say when I go to a
restaurant. I'm like, "Oh, they have my
favorite salad on the menu." The person
I'm with says, "Oh, what's your favorite
salad?" Right on Q. cuz I set them up
for that. Is there any salad I didn't
have to cut by myself?
>> Yes. Me, too. I think And wash, by the
way. Wash the leaves if you
>> Uh-huh.
>> Yeah.
>> Okay. So, my first question I asked
myself, is this my mitzvah? I have a lot
of jobs. I'm a wife, I'm a mother,
you're a teacher, you're a student,
you're a you work, you have in-laws, you
have parents, there's a lot. You're a
member of the community or baselik.
There's a lot we have to do. The first
question is, is this my mitzvah?
>> And what if the answer is yes? If the
answer is yes, then we find in ourselves
the strength and we also plan it
carefully into our schedules so that we
can do it. And if it's not my mitzvah,
then we have to know that Hashem has
other
>> if I can't have those 20 guests
>> with sushi, mind you.
>> You know what? I'm not the only person
who knows how to make sushi.
>> Many people know how. So that's the
first thing. And then else when we're
talking about repetition and difficulty
and pain, this is something so
important. We have control over how we
feel about our physical and emotional
pain and frustration. I'm going to give
an example.
>> I love this. I'm so passionate about
this.
>> If you went to a gym and you saw a
person and their face is red and they're
persspiring and their veins are sticking
out of their shiny, glistening muzzle,
they're like
You would think that this person is in a
lot of pain and you know what they are,
right?
>> They're they're gasping for air. I mean,
honestly, you would think someone's
torturing them,
>> right?
>> But if you a an athlete or a bodybuilder
or something like not like we all know
bodybuilders, I'm sure if you
theoretically asked your theoretical
bodybuilder or athlete, they would
probably say, "I'm loving this pain.
Bring it on." Cuz they know that they're
building muscle,
>> right? or if you're in, you know, during
birth, it's called labor for a reason.
You know, it's it's not a walk in the
park. I have a lot to say about birth,
which is not the topic of this
conversation. I find it very intense,
but it doesn't actually be experienced
as negative, and it doesn't have to be
experienced as pain,
>> right?
>> It's a feeling of my body doing what
Hashem created it to do. And at the end
of it, it's not like you're just in pain
and then you're going to get better and
then it's over. You have this experience
that's maybe not the most easy, let's
say, and at the end you've held hands
with a kadesh.
>> Yeah.
>> And you've been a partner with him in
bringing an into this world to live,
please God, adv fulfilling his or her
tapid and doing great things. So this
experience that's not altogether
pleasant, I can choose to look at it as
pain and suffering or I can look at it
as like I'm going through this
difficulty to get what I want right and
meaning like to have that perspective
when it comes to these tasks that are
hard for us. Aside from the fact of, you
know, of course, number one, seeing if
it's our mitzvah, and I would add in
there like technical setup,
>> you know, but if at the end of the day
there's a task that is within your
mitzvah that you can't technically set
up for success more than you already
have, then you need to find the strength
within you to push through and this
perspective of birth of like labor that
it's hard and there's a purpose for it
and you come out with something
beautiful. I think that for me that
gives me a lot of because sometimes when
I go through that I'm like okay I'm
doing this this is really hard I am
doing this and sometimes I'll say like
my olhaba is right there right there
like through all the work you know
>> but also don't forget to reward your
goof at the end of it your goof works
very hard and we don't give it enough
credits
>> it's true
>> so get through but keeping the
perspective of
>> this is what I want this is my goal and
if I have that in mind it makes the
labor or the workout or the writing of
millions of papers and reading of
millions of books easier because I have
my end goal in sight.
>> To that end,
>> it just so happens that when I first got
married, I was working in finance in
investor relations. I was actually the
director of investor relations for a
investment company. And 3 months later,
I found myself married, living in
Israel, doing laundry,
washing dishes, making kala. I was not
prepared for this. I mean, I had my two
degrees and I I was prepared for
business. I was not prepared for this,
>> right?
>> And I definitely found myself in the
position that we've been talking about,
like, okay, I know that this is my job,
but
>> this isn't feeling great.
>> So, I sat down one day and I wrote for
myself what ended up becoming a magnet,
which I'm also going to give to you if
you want.
>> Yay.
>> And anyone else out there, if you want
to get in touch and get one, you can
have one called The Homemakers to Fila.
And if it's okay, can I read it,
>> please?
>> Okay. I wrote this for myself in my
first few months of marriage. I still
keep this on my fridge and it still
inspires me all the time. So here it is
the homemakaker's teila. May I take
pride in working to provide a clean home
for my loved ones and guests. May I give
them covet by serving nutritious,
attractive, delicious food on clean
dishes so that they may know that they
are kings and queens. May all who spend
time in this home and eat from this
kitchen feel your comfort, kindness,
mercy, and boundless fatherly love. And
may they use their energy to emulate
your ways to learn your Torah to inspire
others and to infuse your world with
kaduca.
This has helped me a lot.
>> Wow.
>> Anyway, if you want it, it's yours.
>> Thank you. Wow. Yeah, it's going to go
in my fridge. It's beautiful.
So,
>> so just keeping an eye on on why why
we're doing this why we're doing this.
>> Exactly. And again, I think that like
goes back to our puck of again, you
know, like when we have our goal, when
we know who we are, when we know where
we're headed, I would say, you know,
when we have the steps to do that, where
we have like, you know, a bit of a game
plan, I would call it, then we're able
to do things with more, with more, with
more
hard work, like determined, like almost
like I am an Olympian and I am doing
this even though it's hard cuz I know
this is part of my mitzvah. I know this
is why Hashem put me in this world
>> 100%. And I just want to say one little
like a caveat because I mean women are
so wonderful and amazing. We're so
hardwork and we don't give ourselves
enough credit. We don't take enough time
for ourselves.
>> And I just want to just add a little
sort of side note that the Gamar Shami
and also Masil Yasharim tell us that we
are for every permitted pleasure that we
did not partake of that we could have
enjoyed and we didn't. And that says to
us, we are supposed to enjoy the
beauties of this world. That doesn't
necessarily mean take 2 years off your
life to backpack through, you know, the
Amazon. But Hashem provides us with
sunsets and flowers and beautiful
experiences and moments. We are supposed
to stop and say, "Wow, that's really
nice."
>> And we should. So, in addition to eating
and sleeping and making sure we're
hydrated so that we can do our job
better, this is part of that. And that's
why we need time off. That's why we need
date night. Um
Green was a huge advocate. He said not
only in your baby years, but DAKA
through your baby years. You must have
one night a week where you and your
husband get together. Even if it's only
for 20 minutes where you don't talk
about buying diapers, you don't talk
about taking out the garbage. You just
go a boy and a girl on a date and you
talk and you have a connection that
doesn't have to do with we are partners
in raising this family, right?
>> Because it's really important. We're
supposed to enjoy our relationship.
We're supposed to be happy in our
marriages. That's part of it. And if I
can add to that when you said to like
enjoy enjoy these moments I found for
myself and I've spoken about this with
some friends like finding hobbies and
finding things that speak to you that
you know I kind of thought like okay I'm
married I you know this isn't the time
to like explore my hobbies but no again
it's not the time to take off two years
and go exploring but it is still the
time and it's so important to explore
what it is that I enjoy. Because first
of all we deserve it and second of all
it helps our tough it helps our resus
>> it helps the overall goal.
>> Very true. And also you can come up with
hobbies and things to do that actually
help us to get where we want to go.
There are so many examples in the world
of there's a game that's really popular
in Israel called Katan or the settlers
of Katan.
>> It's a board game and you can I love
this game because kids play it for like
hours. It's great. You know, for all of
us who don't have TVs, this is a great
way to keep your kids entertained on a
rainy day. But I think I heard I believe
it's this game. I believe that the
person who invented this game might be
from Germany. I think it was a dentist
from Germany. I could please someone
fact check me. I'm not positive about
that. But he was a dentist and he was
just looking to do something on the side
that was just a fun hobby.
>> Wow. Wow. And he turned it into this
game and this business and now there's
like 20 different expansion sets on this
thing. Like you know this man, I'm sure
I hope he's retiring and living in
Tahiti and I hope he never has to clean
a tooth again because my point is you
can have hobbies that can end up
bringing us to our desired goals.
>> Wow.
>> And I don't know if this is like too
much, but I have the advanced version of
sort of getting to our lives where we
want them to be. If we're young and just
kind of have a young family and we're
busy, this may not be the exact exercise
for you. But if someone's not married
yet or they're in their first year or
they only have maybe one child or if
their kids are more grown up a little
bit, this might be something. So, I used
to work in finance as I said and one of
the most important things in strategy
planning is knowing how to write a good
strategic plan.
>> And as I said, when I went into my
marriage, I didn't know what I was
doing. And you know, we come into life.
We come in as babies. There's no user
manual. I don't know what I'm supposed
to do. How to get the best out of your
life. I don't know. You know, you go to
seminary, you go to Shiiory, you listen
to Raana, and we hear these inspiring
things. But what we really want is to
make them stick. Have you I mean Ravitat
always talks about how you know in
living inspired we hear things and
they're inspired like this flash of
lightning in the darkness and you see
your path illuminated ahead of you and
you see the branches and the pitfalls
and everything but then it goes away and
we have to remember what we saw because
that inspiration doesn't stick right
>> what we need is we need to bring the
everyday routines into our lives in
order to take that inspiration
>> and create a life of being who we want
to be. So I sat down one day and I made
a strategic plan for my life and then I
made a template of it that I am happy to
give out to whoever. So the rule in
business is you have to be smart. Smart
is an acronym for specific, measurable,
attainable, relevant, and time bound. So
when we're doing this, we want to keep
them positive. We want to focus on the
asettov and the surra just sort of kind
of follows along like a piggyback ride.
be honest and you know you won't want to
share this with people because this is
private. This is like your diary. This
is like what do I need to work on here?
>> So it starts with our goals in one
sentence and overall like who do I want
to be like you know and uh
>> I think when I was about 25 I sat down
and this could be a little macabra. This
is not for everybody but if you want to
figure out who you want to be I sat
down. I wasn't married yet and I wrote
down how I would like to be eulogized by
my youngest daughter. like how I would
like my youngest daughter to speak of me
is God. I intend to live at May of Evest
from Shana and be there for all of their
highs and lows,
>> but this might not be for everybody. It
might be like a little negative,
>> but I thought to myself, how do I want
to be remembered by one of my precious
children when I'm gone? And that really
helped me sort of distill down like what
goals in life, who do I really want to
be,
>> and what are my values? I filled in some
of them because they're the same for
pretty much any Torah observant Jew like
mitzvah, good meos, personal growth,
well-being, good relationships. And then
I sat down and we did I won't go through
the whole thing with you because take
too long but strategic implementations
like okay here's the value.
>> Yeah it's really like a break of your
direction and how you're going to
achieve it. I think I've mentioned this
before on the podcast in it says
then that's exactly this
>> I am here today and then this is the
goal of where I see myself in the future
and this what you've you know written up
is the game plan of how to get there.
>> Absolutely. It's not something you can
do like in five minutes, but then when
you finish filling this out, it's
something to look at and it's sort of
like a piece of paper that shows us
like, okay, here's who I think I am and
here's who I think I want to be and
here's where I want to go. Right?
>> So, this is like a little bit of like a
kind of a higher level. I'm going to
pass this on to you to
>> Thank you.
>> But if you want something a little bit
more attainable, I've got one last
little present for
>> Okay. I'm so excited. And again, these
little things like the magnets and the
bigger things like the figure out the
tapet and the strategic life plan. This
all goes back to our pak because the
word dara the malam says and just want
to tie it back in. The malam says that
it's andas and we said that the only way
that you can get to and
is if you first know who you are and
where you're going and only from then
could you wake up with this like bren
and direction and enjoyment to even do
some of the hard things sometimes. So, I
just I really want to thank you. Thank
you for sharing with us all these cute
little magnets and tips and also, you
know, the overall just bigger picture of
the importance of finding our tough and
finding our direction and how that, you
know, is really the key to serving
Hashem happily and fulfilling our goals.
So, thank you so much for joining us.
And if you would like to reach out to
Mrs. Iram for any of her courses or any
of her cute little magnets or anything,
please reach out to
[email protected].
Thank you so much for having me. I
really loved being here today.
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