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Queen Elizabeth once gave a speech and speaking of our life experience, she said: "We are all visitors to this time, this place. We are just passing through. Our purpose here is to observe, to learn, to grow, to love... and then we return home."

This is such a powerfully simple statement about the purpose of our lives.

We have all been given the gift of life. You are here. And all that is left is to decide how you are going to spend your visit.

In today's episode of the podcast, I want to encourage you to make the most of your visit to earth, to use the days you have to do the things you want to do as you pass through this place and show you what gets in the way of that.

You are visiting earth and you get to do whatever you want while you are here and today I'm sharing some powerful thoughts to help you do that.

https://www.aprilpricecoaching.com/blog/your-visit-to-earth

Over the last nine months I have been training for a big endurance event called 29029, in which the participants climb the equivalent height of Mount Everest (29,029 feet) in 36 hours.

Before I started training for this event, I couldn't climb more than a few hundred feet, but over time, I have increased both my physical and mental endurance and learned some powerful lessons about overcoming my brain as I have worked toward this goal. I have never been an athlete, but over time my body has changed and adapted to meet this challenge—and if that's possible for me, I know it's possible for you!

In today's podcast, I'm sharing some of the most valuable lessons I have learned as I have trained and prepared for this endurance event in the hopes that they will help you as you face the challenges in your own life. You are capable of so much more than you think and I hope this episode will show you that and inspire you as you work toward your own goals.

https://www.aprilpricecoaching.com/blog/lessons-from-endurance-training

What would it be like to be your biggest fan? To scream and cheer and applaud and approve of yourself and the things you do?

For most of us, because we have a brain, approving of ourselves isn't easy or natural. In fact, it usually feels necessary and important to criticize ourselves. Noticing where we're failing and how we're coming up short seems like the best way to change and get where we want to be.

But the truth is that approval is the most powerful creative force in the world and cheering for yourself (instead of tearing yourself down) is the best way to create more of what you want in your life.

In today's episode, I'm sharing three important practices that will help you be the number one member of your own fan club so that you can stop playing small and start sharing your gifts with the world.

https://www.aprilpricecoaching.com/blog/be-your-biggest-fan

How do you know the things you believe about yourself are true?

Is it because you've always believed them? Is it because it's what your parents told you about yourself or because it's what everyone else thinks? Does it just "feel true?"

When we go to believe new things about ourselves, we can feel a lot of resistance to the new thoughts (even if they are amazing thoughts!) because our brain often prioritizes and validates our original thoughts and hates being wrong. And while it's true that we get to believe whatever we want, our brain feels much more comfortable believing the things it has always thought.

In today's episode, I'm offering you lots of help if you are trying to believe new things about yourself but your brain keeps resisting them. These tools will empower you to choose your thoughts based on the results you want to create instead of your brain's preferences.

https://www.aprilpricecoaching.com/blog/don't-believe-everything-you-think

To register for the Inner Critic workshop: https://www.aprilpricecoaching.com/inner-critic-workshop

Most of us realize how precious our life is, we know how lucky we are to be alive, and we want to do something important with the time we've been given.

But life is busy. We have lots of obligations and expectations and a lot of our time gets used up unconsciously. When we think about all that we want to do in comparison to all that we have to do, it can create a lot of stress and overwhelm and make us think that we're wasting our life or squandering our time. How do we balance it all and make the most of our time?

The truth is that we can't manage time. We have no control over time. The only thing we ever have control over is our own minds. Deciding what we're going to think about our time is going to create our feelings and those will drive all of our actions with it.

In today's podcast I'm giving you a couple of different ways to think about time and the choices you are making with it. This will give you a new perspective about how much time you really have and how much power you have to use it to get the life you want.

https://www.aprilpricecoaching.com/blog/making-the-most-of-your-time

To register for the Inner Critic workshop: https://www.aprilpricecoaching.com/inner-critic-workshop

Feeling scared and hopeless is a normal part of the human experience. We are all going to have moments when our inadequacies and our deficiencies are going to feel overwhelming in comparison with what is required of us and our brains are going to tell us that we don't have what it takes, that we can't possibly do it, and we should just give up.

But the real problem isn't our inadequacies. The real problem is our expectations.

We all have expectations (which are really just made-up thoughts) about what we should be capable of, what we should already be good at, or what we should have already accomplished. And when we look at our inadequacies from the perspective of these arbitrary expectations, we get really scared about failing and we feel hopeless about ever being good enough.

Today's podcast is a love letter to all of you who are feeling scared and hopeless, mostly because of your own expectations. I'm going to give you some new ways to think about your expectations, your failures, your feelings, and your human experience, so that you can feel better and know that, no matter what happens, you are always okay.

https://www.aprilpricecoaching.com/blog/when-you-feel-scared-and-hopeless

You can register for the Inner Critic Workshop here: www.aprilpricecoaching.com/inner-critic-workshop

Our feelings are always created by our thoughts. So when we feel bad and we want to change that and feel better, we do that by changing our thoughts.

However, this can be easier said than done. Sometimes it can be hard to shift our heavy, negative thoughts and it can feel impossible to find new thoughts to think. But there are some ways to make this easier.

In today's podcast I'm sharing six shortcuts to feeling better. These actions don't in and of themselves make us feel better (only our thoughts do that), but they can create a change in our physical state that shakes things up a bit and creates a space to access new thoughts.

If you are feeling bad and having a hard time changing your thoughts, taking any one of these shortcuts can generate a different energy to help you get into a different mindset easier and faster than simply trying to think your way there.

https://www.aprilpricecoaching.com/blog/shortcuts-to-feeling-better

Most of us get married and have a family so that we can have more happiness and feel more love in our lives. But the reality is that it's just as hard to choose happiness in love in family life as it is anywhere else in our lives.

A family is really just a bunch of human brains (all of which are programmed to find the negative and notice what's gone wrong) that are all living together, sharing the same space, and having lots and lots chances to interact and have thoughts about each other. You've probably noticed how hard it is to manage just one human brain…now imagine the difficulties that might arise with more than one brain involved.

And while this is challenging, this is also what makes being a family the perfect vehicle for you to learn the most important lesson of life—how to choose love no matter what.

In today's episode of the podcast, I'm sharing five things that will help you have more happiness and more love in your family and they probably aren't the things you think.

https://www.aprilpricecoaching.com/blog/happiness-in-family-life

In today's podcast episode I'm answering a few questions that I've received recently:

Once you become aware of what's happening in your brain, shouldn't it get easier to resolve the conflict between your brain and your spirit?

If life is really 50/50, why does it seem like my brain only gives me 100% negative thoughts?

What happens if agency (either the way I use mine or the way someone else uses theirs) messes up God's plan or goes against his will?

I think the answers I share will help you think about your agency differently and help you become a better chooser and a better creator in your life.

Remember that your brain is always busy asking questions and the answers our brain gives us are in direct relation to the quality of these questions. We can make a huge impact on the quality of the answers we are getting in our lives by intentionally asking our brain more powerful, useful questions.

https://www.aprilpricecoaching.com/blog/questions-and-answers-about-agency

When it comes to the story of your life, your brain is the most unreliable narrator there is. It wants to tell you that you did it wrong in the past, that it's too hard in the present, and that you can't have what you want in the future.

But it turns out your brain is wrong about all of this.

Your brain is programmed to find what's wrong with you, help you avoid feeling pain and spending energy, and notify you of any and all possible dangers. This means your brain is very good at keeping you alive, but it can't be trusted to tell the truth. And the more skeptical you can be about your brain's negative narration, the more ability you have to create a life that you love.

In today's episode of the podcast, I'm teaching how to question your brain's version of things and retell the story of your past, your present and your future, in a completely different way than your brain is telling it, so that you can harness your power to write (and live!) the story of your dreams.

https://www.aprilpricecoaching.com/blog/write-a-new-story