In this episode of The Art of Living Big, Betsy explores the concept of life patterns and how to break out of those cycles to foster growth. 







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[00:00:00 ] Welcome to The Art of Living Big, where we explore how to live intentionally and with more joy. I’m Betsy Pake, your host, master, coach, and creator of the Navigate Method. Here to help you listen in to your true desires, elevate your standards, and live life to the fullest. Now, let’s go live big.







Hello. Hi. Welcome to The Art of Living Big. I am, I’m doing [00:01:00 ] things a little bit differently this time. I don’t know how this is gonna turn out, but I am recording with video. If you’ve been here for a little while, you may remember that I mentioned that I tried to do this, I don’t know, many months ago.







It, it. It bombed. It didn’t really work, but we’re trying again. We’re gonna see. We’re gonna see how it goes. So I’m excited to get to be with you. You’ll hear on audio and if the planet’s aligned, you could go to YouTube and you could actually see me recording it. I don’t know. I mean, would you even wanna do that?







I don’t know. But I’m happy that you’re here with me, whichever way that you’re seeing this. So I’ve got a couple updates and I’ve got some cool stuff to talk about, and I have. A thought that I have been thinking about over the last few days, and I’ll get into that. I’ll get into that. So, okay, let’s, let’s start with the most important update, which is about Dean Martin.







So [00:02:00 ] Dean Martin, if you’re new here is my cat that I adopted from the shelter, and there’s a crazy story about me adopting him. You could go back a couple episodes and listen to that. Um, and. He’s really wonderful and sweet and he’s the cutest little thing. I don’t know. Something about his little mouth and his nose is like the perfect little pink.







He’s just perfect. And because two things can be true at once, he’s a total terror. He’s a real terror and he is just tearing things up. I have posted on Instagram about him. It’s kind of the joke. It’s kind of funny. Um, but he continues to tear up my life. I have gotten, I play with him. I mean, I play with him so much.







I’ve even paid somebody to come and play with him. Yes. Because I need to work and I need to sleep. And both of those things have become increasingly difficult. And [00:03:00 ] so, um. I’ve bought, I, I just, I mean, an insane amount of toys for him and he likes some of them and some of them he doesn’t. Mostly he likes the boxes, right?







So my point is, I’ve done all of the things the vet has even given medication to help calm him down at night. Uh, and I tried that once, but it was hard to give it to him. And so I’ve kind of abandoned mission there. But here’s what I wanted to share with you about that. ’cause we all have the Dean Martin in our life, right?







Whether it’s a cat or a person or a situation. And so I decided I was gonna really pause here and think like, what is this here to teach me? Like why is this like I, I, I didn’t get a kitten. I got a 2-year-old cat. Why did I get a 2-year-old cat that is challenging [00:04:00 ] me in so many ways. Like what is there in this for me to learn?







And I think that there is a level of, I mean,