Shift Perspective With Two Powerful Questions

In this one, we have movie references and two questions to stay focused on what will or won’t help a situation.

Would it help?

How is this helping me?

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#28 Fulfillment From The Best Thing You Can Bring

Some people bring a presence that is contagious in a good way. Sometimes we are in a great mood and state of being and we don’t even realize how we got there. Its usually not just how you rolled out of bed, but is strongly based on a choice you made, or someone else’s influence. Today I share stories from the life of Big Rig that we can use to purposely and intentionally develop that muscle of positive influence to be a bigger bonfire.

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#27 Who Are You “On Call” For?

We don’t wear pagers anymore, but anyone can metaphorically page us. This one is eye opening if you consider that you may be unintentionally bound to a 24/7 “on-call” shift in your life to more people than you think you are, and that pager is not silent.

The simple tactical exercise in this episode takes maybe 30 seconds to create awareness, but it brings back hours and days of your time if you do something with that awareness.

Enjoy!

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#26 Learning to better Use the Tools of Words and Language

Talk is only cheap if you cheapen it.

Yes running your mouth is a bad idea.

But how we use words matters just as much as what we do. Ignoring the power of words in the name of “taking action” is setting us up to have words overpower us. Words and Actions are meant to be companions that can feed each other. Often one does not exist without the other.

Saying that “words are just words” is like saying a powerful tool doesn’t work because it has not served you. At some point its not the tool, its the operator.

Words are actions.

We all think we speak and understand our native language well.

Since we know the words and the grammar of a language well enough to function and speak and write it, its easy to assume we hear others and understand the meaning of their words, and are being understood when we speak.

But all misunderstandings come from this overconfidence. A lot of missed opportunities and deeper connections are squandered because we thought we got the point, but we didn’t care to stop and take another step or two to look a little closer, and say what if I am missing something here?

Do you really know what someone means? Do the people you speak with understand you? Are you sure?

Time to use curiosity to make sure.

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#25 You Can’t Dream Big Without the Simple and Small

Its good to want to level up and grow and progress and push towards the highest potential in anything. So why does it sometimes feel like something is still blocking us despite great vision and attitude and knowledge and desire?

Why when you have done healing of life’s big traumas and conciously let go of the negative things holding you back, does it still feel like you can have high hopes and vision of the future, but you just won’t get going or stay going?

In this episode I share two things that are often the most overlooked and underestimated in clearing that last hurdle. Sometimes its the smallest things that are easiest to misplace.

Please consider these simple keys to finally unblocking your path and letting your bonfire grow to its brightest and fullest potential.

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Navigating the Irony of Fear

Fear is a tricky emotion. Sometimes helpful. Sometimes its the very thing that causes the pain we were afraid of. How should we interpret it in ourselves. In this episode we have stories from fiction, from real life history, and from everyday life to show that its worth getting to know yourself a lot better than you do, so you can tell the difference, and let it work for you, not against you.

Thanks for Listening. And if you love it. Please share it with someone else, and leave a rating on the show page so I can keep pumping out the good stuff.

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How To Write Your Own Life Itinerary

In this episode we dive deep into discovering the evolving and emerging Themes and Patterns in your life to chart your own course.

-Why you should be the one discovering who you are.

-The pitfalls of putting all your trust in one thing.

-Awareness of counterfeit coincidences

-How to follow and find the real themes and patterns pointing to your highest fulfillment.

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Curiosity Challenge #3: Don’t Just Count Your Blessings

Come on why try to number them all? Get curious with this challenge and list them out and describe them as much as you can in writing in a notepad or journal. Just do 10 and share one with a friend, and watch how it changes your outlook and daily interactions, and you can mark this one as completed. Its a great use of your time. I promise.

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Space To Accept the Challenge

A short follow up to the previous episode entitled The Forgotten Secret of: Creating Space.   

I realized over the last week, since I shared the 10 areas to create space in your life, that I had not mentioned that one of the major benefits to creating space in your life in the first place is that it allows you to be more open to challenges and critiques and coaching and dare I say the right kind of accountability.   

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