Ask Jordyn (Part 4): Enjoy Every Moment

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We will be continuing with the Ask Jordyn Series. Hope you all are getting some value from it.

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[00:00:00] Tuoyo Eresanara: Very true. And I remember getting to the realization that this whole start on this whole medical pathway in America, it gets kind of stressful and it gets kind of, I mean, to some level, when you look back at it almost toxic, you could say, because you're always looking forward to like, like so many times I realized, wait, did I really enjoy my today?

[00:00:28] I was really looking at tomorrow. I was like, yeah, I am in. Yeah. And got to get there. I got to get there. I gotta get there. 

[00:00:36] Jordyn Ruiz: And you're never truly present 

[00:00:38] Tuoyo Eresanara: you're never truly present. Like, I mean, I missed, I missed so many events. I mean, I was studying fair enough, but I missed so many small moments because I was too focused on the future I wasn't ever there.

[00:00:53] And that realization about your identity at a point, my identity was found in and I was like, oh, I'm going to be a [00:01:00] doctor. Yeah, that's my identity. But when I got that realization that Bro, your identity has no found in medicine, your identity is found in Christ. And I said, realizing that, who am I?

[00:01:10] First of all, I'm a child of God. Like it just really, it really changed the outlook for me. Like I was one of those guys too, like, I'm sure you can relate that an A minus was unacceptable. Yeah. The wall was falling. Like I almost fainted when I saw my first B plus I'm like, no, my 4.0 is gone. It's ruined. So when I say making that change, as long as I find my identity in what I do, and like, I'm not, my identity is not in podcasting is not in content creation.

[00:01:44] It's not in future medicine. It's not in anything else which found in Christ once I understood that and am still learning that then things start falling in place because then you can then have a ground zero to move from. 

[00:01:58] Jordyn Ruiz: Totally agree. And it's, [00:02:00] it's no fault of anyone's to operate in that mindset. You know, I feel like we're conditioned to a certain point to, you know, to be always in, in striving for the future and striving for that.

[00:02:12] What's what's next, when it's no fault of our own. Yeah. We're never truly satisfied. And that's a sort of egoic sort of mindset and it's never satisfied. 

[00:02:25] Tuoyo Eresanara: Idea. I just thought about something from what you just said, a shirt, maybe. So instead of like, what's next, but we x out the next and what's now 

[00:02:38] Jordyn Ruiz: wait, I love that.

[00:02:39] I, that is something I could design. I could do that tonight. 

[00:02:43] Tuoyo Eresanara: Let's do it. Let's do it. We were making it a shirt. Let's go 

[00:02:48] Jordyn Ruiz: because that's such like a very like important principle in so many philosophies, like stoicism, Taoism the importance of being present, because arguably it [00:03:00] is the only thing we actually have.

[00:03:02] Like the past is not real anymore. It's gone. The future does not actually exist because we're actively creating it in the now and so the practice of like mindfulness and like being present is the most powerful tool. And I found it so alleviating and the moments I was very, I was going through a lot of anxiety and sort of depression was to practice mindfulness.

[00:03:24] And I did that through many ways. Like yoga is a big, is what helped me so much because as even uniting sort of my mind and my body and we're all interconnected. So that was very helpful. But being present, I think is the most powerful tool we can have and like mindfulness especially like for people who, you know, struggle with the, like, like enjoying their moment right now.

[00:03:49] And like always looking for the future, we need to realize like, that is not promise. We're not promised another day. And so you're saying like, gratitude. [00:04:00] 

[00:04:01] Tuoyo Eresanara: Yeah. And, and that, like, that has been my slogan for so many years. Enjoy every moment. Let me tell you how much that has been in 2016. We went on a family cruise.

[00:04:11] We were on the M S M S L. What's the name again? Wow. The cruise from The Bahamas went to Jamaica. What else did we go? We went to Mexico. We started from Miami and on that cruise, we had this shirt making session. So on the, on the ship, we have this events. So we designed our shirts and the shirt I made was a guy holding a Magnum ice cream, .

[00:04:41] And the tagline was enjoy every moment at the bottom. Because I started to learn that that moment, every moment counts,