It is time to get solar powered. We welcome you back to the solar powered podcast, and happy freaking New Year. Happy 2021. I'm recording this on January 1st 2021, and welcome to the solar powered podcast. My name is Ryan Hall from Oil Hearts Coaching, oil hearts coaching.com. Well, 2020 was a year, wasn't it? Yeah. Sure as hell was.
What big a year that began with just so much promise, so much happiness, so much peace ended with close to 400,000 American human beings dead from COVID 19, 19,000,000 infected, and it, honestly, it ended with my sister in the hospital. She's. I don't know of how much I've shared of this on this podcast, but my sister, back in the spring of 2019, my sister was diagnosed with throat cancer and went through radiation and chemo.
And and even now, you know, over a year after she ended treatment completed treatment, she is experiencing some aftereffects and some adverse side effects from the, from the primarily the chemo. She's going to be okay, but, definitely, some lifestyle changes will need to be made. But 2020 ended on a pretty scary note. But 2021 Oh, and she was diagnosed with COVID when she went into the hospital, and my poor brother-in-law can't see her. So there's that.
But my, yeah, just looking at 2020, looking at the promise, looking at the hope that we all had when the ball dropped a year ago and what has happened since then, I don't wanna look back too much because this podcast is primarily looking forward, But looking back on some of the things that happened during 2020 in the world, it began with Australia on fire, and it practically ended with the entire world on fire. I'm grateful that it's over. I'm grateful that it happened.
I'm grateful that all of it happened, but I'm also grateful and happy that 2020 is behind us. I mean, when you get kicked out of a home, it just it's not something that it's not something that you really want to live with. You know what I mean? But I wanted to I wanted to offer you offer you a new take here on this podcast, and I wanted to offer you a new take on the concept of the New Year's resolution. Now as a coach, I work with people who who want to accomplish big things in their lives.
I work with people who want to create big, powerful, purposeful and fulfilling lives. But I also happen to think that the New Year's resolution is complete and total bullshit. It is. It's a complete waste of time, energy, because nobody sticks to New Year's resolutions. How many people try to get a, you know, try to get a bench and a gym in January only to discover that nothing exists? You can't find weights. You can't find the bench. Forget about finding a treadmill because it's packed.
But by Martin Luther King's birthday, the young population starts to thin out, and by Valentine's Day, everybody's back to their same old grind because accountability is missing, because support is missing, because people are doing this alone. I wanna read you all something. It's a very famous very famous letter that was written January 1, 1969. And I'll tell you who wrote it after I read it.
But this was a handwritten note that reads, this year, I will be more thoughtful of my fellow man, exert more effort in each of my endeavors professionally as well as personally, take love wherever I find it, and offer it to anyone who will take it. In this coming year, I will seek knowledge from those wiser than me and try to teach those who wish to learn from me. I love being alive, and I will be the best man I possibly can. Those words were written by a young man named Duane Allman.
Now for the music junkies in the audience, that year is pretty significant in that man's life. This was in January of 1969. He starts putting together a band. He finds a drummer who played with Percy Sledge and a lot of big time jazz artists. Someone who I would love to have on this podcast, by the way. He finds, he finds a bass player who says, hey. I've got a kilo guitar player I'd love to bring along. They find a second drummer, a guy who primarily played timpani, to be honest.
And then Duane Allman picked up the phone, called his little brother who was out in California fulfilling a record contract. Baby brother, come home. So we did. This was 3 months after he wrote those resolutions. And when Greg Allman walked into that room where they were, where they were jamming, Dwayne handed in the lyric sheet of an old blues classic called Trouble No More. That was the birth of one of the most important bands in rock and roll history, the Allman Brothers Band.
But you see the lesson in that. You see the lesson in that. He made resolutions. Dwayne made the resolutions. But he had plenty of support. He had a band of brothers who, when they walked on that stage, played as 1 man. Butch Trucks and J Mo were like a Swiss watch behind those drum kits. Barry Oakley Strap that Fender bass around his neck and make the world shake.
And that guitar player that Barry brought in was a man named Dickie Betts, who, along with Dwayne, created one of the most unique sounds, that twin lead guitar sound, one of the most unique sounds in music history. And, of course, with Greg Allman's once in a lifetime singing voice and incredibly underrated organ skills. But he had support. Dwayne did. He had support. He had accountability, and he leaned on relationships.
He leaned on his relationship with his brother hard because Greg was locked in to a a pretty, a pretty ironclad record contract with a band that don't even exist anymore. Well, well, didn't even exist when, when it happened, when the, you know, when the phone call happened. New Year's resolutions on a whole are bullshit. They are. They really are. Yet I still make them. I still make them. I still you know, I do it every year. And I encourage you to do so as well.
I encourage you to sit down and ask yourself and just really be with us. But I encourage you to sit down with a piece of paper. Do it longhand, but to sit down with a piece of paper and a pen and imagine how you want your life to be 365 days from now. What kind of money do you wanna be making? What kind of relationship do you want with your physical body? What kind of relationship would you would you like to develop with your spiritual beliefs?
What kind of relationships do you want with other people? Do you wanna find a romantic partner? Do you wanna find business partners? What type of relationships do you want? Do you want to write a book? Do you want to start a podcast? Do you want to grow your YouTube channel? The latter I want to do, by the way. But it's all it's all just declare and fulfill. It's a simple concept that we coaches talk about all the time. Declare and fulfill. And not the 7 bell. Oh, I declaia.
And then get supported and make it so. Listen to me, y'all. 2020 suck for so many of us. I mean, I'm living in a hotel for Christ's sake. 2020 sucked for so many of us. But 2021 does not have to be more of the same bullshit, but just a different smell. Look, I lived for 10 years next to Glen Lawrence Lake in Ashford, Alabama. My closest neighbors were cowls. I've seen a lot of that. I've seen a lot of bullshit, like literal bullshit, on the ground. You don't wanna be anywhere near it.
You really don't. You don't wanna be anywhere near it. It stinks. It attracts flies. It's it's this. You know, my granddaddy, the world renowned cattle farmer that he was, I'll never forget this. We, my my family was visiting him one summer, and we had gone out to eat one night at Red Lobster. It was, like, the only place that he ever took us. Although I love the place. Don't get me wrong. I love seafood. Just that seemed to be a pretty regular occurrence.
But we get out of the car after he brings us back to his home, And it's a very how do you say? It's a very muggy night in Southeast Alabama. It's a muggy summer night, probably still 80 degrees at, like, 9:10 o'clock at night. And we get out, and there's, a special scent in the air. And then granddaddy just takes a deep breath. And I look at him, and he says, you smell that? That's money, son. Oh, boy. But not really.
Yeah. I mean, if you think about it, the amount of methane that I smelled over the years living in Ashford, Alabama could probably power one of Elon Musk's rockets to the, you know, to the moon. But back to the conversation about New Year's resolutions. I have some big some big plans for 2021. I really do, man. I have some big plans for 2021. Inviting some, you know, inviting some huge people to be on this podcast for one thing.
Because this was one of the this was one of the greatest joys that I took from 2020 was how much fun I have doing this. I mean, I would occasionally be doing 2, 3 episodes a week just because I love doing it so much. But on the other hand, I it was because I was so good at it. I mean, some of the conversations I had with some of the people, some of the women and men that I've had on this program have changed my life and have changed many, many lives of the people who have been listening to this.
In fact, I got a phone call yesterday from a dear friend of mine who who acknowledged a conversation that I had several months ago with Amla Mehta, the, the lady that I spoke with who has the, ocular disorder that something like 300 people in history have had that is causing her to go blind and just how powerful that conversation was. So I've you know, I've got big, big plans for this podcast for 2021. There are, at last count, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 different books that I have in the pipeline.
Y'all heard me. 5 different books that I have in the pipeline. And one of which is going to be is I'm not gonna say centered around this podcast, but in conjunction with this podcast. That's one I'm terribly excited about. Let me tell you. Another one is that I want to I wanna run a 10 k by my birthday by my birthday in March. Granted, I haven't hit the I haven't hit the pavement in a couple months because it's been too damn cold up here, but I wanna do that by my birthday in March.
I declared a 5 k by Labor Day from July, and I hit it with room to spare. Completed my 5 k on Labor Day, and I want to run the entire distance of that 10 k by my birthday. I wanna grow closer in my spiritual beliefs and grow them and nurture them because I have always equated my spiritual beliefs with almost like a religious dogma. I mean, when you grow up in the buckle of the bible belt, these things really go hand in hand. But it's for me, it's not like that at all.
I wanna grow, and I wanna nurture that, and I want to I wanna really enjoy that. I wanna invite new relationships into my life. I definitely want a romantic relationship because it's time. It's definitely time. So dating will also be on my, on my 2021 calendar. But I think more than anything, what I wanna accomplish in 2021 is this. I want to end this year with more love, support, and self love that I've ever had before. I want to grow and nurture and just really make it so. And I will.
I will because I said so, number 1. And number 2, I will because I have nothing but support. Nothing but support, nothing but love, and nothing but nothing but presence in my life of people who really wanna see me win. And that starts today, and that starts today. Now before I wrap up before I wrap up, I want to I wanna read to you a paragraph. I wanna read to you a paragraph.
It's one of my it's one of my favorite paragraphs I have ever written in my entire career, but this is a paragraph from hello again. My, my novel, which is gonna be one of those 5 books that I have in my pipeline this year. Yes. I am going to get that published. Thank you very much. But the paragraph is this. It's never too late. It's never too late to paint a new picture. It's never too late to write a new story. It's never too late to sing a new song. It's never too late.
2020 was one of the most challenging years in human history. I'm not gonna sugarcoat it. 2020 was one of the most challenging years in human history. But you know something? I think if we I think if we take the lessons from 2020 and apply them in the right way, I believe the human race is on the edge, just standing on the edge of another renaissance. I really do. So many people have been locked in their homes planning and scheming and working on just magic, absolute magic.
I believe so much great music is gonna come out this year. I believe so music is gonna come out this year. I believe so many great books are going to be published. So many great plays are gonna be put on. I believe that when that when musicians are allowed to have full shows again, that they're gonna play with more soul and more passion. I believe that once we're able to watch sporting events with full stadiums again, then the players are going to be playing with more passion and more purpose.
I believe that when that when theater can come back, that there's gonna be more appreciation than ever before. The applause is gonna come from deep in our souls. The love and appreciation is going to be deep. I truly believe that the human race is on the edge of another renaissance. And I believe we're gonna look back on 2020 with with just I don't even know how to say this. Just with a with an admiration that this was exactly where we needed to be. So many have, so many of us have died.
So many of us have have gotten sick or who have people we know and love who have gotten sick from this virus, and I'm not discounting that. I will never discount that. I had a cousin who passed away a couple weeks ago from this. But I want y'all to know this. Everybody within the sound of my voice I want y'all to really feel me here. Everybody within the sound of my voice, you've got an opportunity. You've got an opportunity to change the course of human history. You really do.
You've got the opportunity to change the course of human history, and let's do it together. Everybody needs a team. Everybody needs an army. Everybody needs somebody in their corner. Everybody needs somebody in their corner like me. I mean, I'm you know? Anybody know any good life coaches? But everybody needs somebody who will stand for them to move their life forward. I truly, truly believe we're on the edge of another renaissance. And not the, not the the fear, the loss, none of that.
And, you know, the the unrest, let's not let any of that, let's not let any of that be the legacy of 2020. Rebirth begin. Let's let the renaissance begin. And on that note, I think I'm gonna wrap up. Happy New Year, everybody. I really do love you all so much. Thank you so much for being a part of this, being a part of this podcast. Thank you so much for being a part of the solar powered family.
This podcast saw so much growth, and I believe that I saw so much growth during this during this past year in hosting this podcast, and I look forward to I look forward to further and further growth. I do want a couple of things from you. First of all, if you're listening to this, if you've gotten through to the end of this, episode, I want you to do one thing for me.
I want you to get on your favorite podcast provider, whether you're on Apple or Anchor or Google or, you know, wherever you're listening to me, and I want you to leave a review. Not just click the 5 stars. I mean, the 5 stars is great. Don't get me wrong, but leave a review. Share some value that you've taken away from this podcast. Share some share some feelings, some thoughts, some body sensations that you've taken away from this podcast. And then one more thing, share it with a friend.
This podcast grew tremendously, really beyond my expectation. We're sitting in almost 1200, total downloads so far, and I want that number to be into the 10,000 by the end of this year, and I think we can get there. I really do. And I can't believe I just made that declaration out loud. Holy shit. Wow. I'm getting bold in my old age. Anyway, thank you all so much for listening today to the solar powered podcast, a presentation of Royal Hearts Coaching.
For more information about Royal Hearts Coaching, you can find me on my website at royalheartscoaching.com. You can follow me on social media at ryanhallwrites on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram, or you can shoot me a good old fashioned email at ryan@royalheartscoaching dot com. But until we meet again, this is Ryan Hall saying thank you so much for listening to the solar powered podcast. So long for now.
I love you all, and go get solar powered right after you wash your hands, and please put on a mask.