100% Awesome Podcast

When we think about creating new habits, we naturally tend to focus our attention on our behaviors and actions.

But each of us also have mental habits, thoughts that we have thought repeatedly and often, sometimes for years or even decades of our lives. The more we think the same thought, in fact every time we think the thought, the deeper and more efficient our neural pathways to that thought become—making our most repeated thoughts easy to think and easy to believe and more and more automatic.

In order to change our lives, we have to identify and replace our unproductive thought patterns and create new thought habits. But that is easier said than done because of all the practice our brain has had thinking the old thoughts.

In today's episode, I'll show you how to find, notice, and replace your old thought habits and I'll share the best ways to do the intentional and consistent mental work to create brand new thought habits on purpose.

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A lot of us spend a lot of time in our lives trying to figure out why we're here and what we're supposed to be doing while we're here. This can leave us trying to find fulfilment and purpose through the things we do—and this is a stressful way to live. Instead of figuring out what we WANT to do, we get preoccupied with what we HAVE to do or what we SHOULD be doing and measuring our worth according to how we are doing it.

The problem comes from thinking our identity, purpose, and intention are all the same thing when they aren't. Who you are and why you're here are completely independent of what you choose to do with your life and there is so much freedom and relief in knowing that.

In today's podcast episode I want to show you the really important differences between your identity, your purpose, and your intention. Because when you really understand that who you are and why you're here has nothing to do with what you do, then everything you choose to do becomes more joyful.

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When we set goals or go to create new things in our lives, we often feel excited and motivated and energized. However, these feelings don't last very long. Because our brain's objective is always to get us to stop, the positive emotions that were there when we set the goal are usually quickly replaced by negative ones.

This is a problem because our emotions fuel and power our actions. In order to not stop and to continue to create the results we want, we need to purposefully choose useful emotions to help us take action when our brain wants us to quit.

On today's podcast, I share some of the most useful emotions I know—courage, curiosity, compassion, and certainty—so that you can continue towards your goals when your brain bombards you with negative emotion. Your brain is going to offer you all kinds of reasons to stop on your way to the things you want, but knowing how to access these four powerful emotions will give you the tools to keep going and create any result you want in your life.

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When we go to change our lives, our brains automatically go to work trying to figure out what we need to do differently. We make lots of goals and plans. We set up new systems and schedule and resolve to stick to them. But changing what we do without changing our thoughts doesn't work for long.

This new year, I want you to think about the power of changing your thoughts instead of your actions. And especially, to think about the power of changing even one thought.

Think about a thought that you think on a regular basis that causes pain or procrastination, a thought that causes regret or resistance, a thought that causes you to stall or sabotage. Think about the power of changing that thought and thinking something much more powerful for a whole year. That one change would have an incalculable effect on your life.

In today's episode, I invite you to just choose one thought to change your new year and I'm offering a few suggestions of thoughts that have changed mine.

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The end of the year is always a good time to reflect on our growth and the things we are learning while we are here on earth. Most of us think we know the way things should go, but life is always giving us the exact lessons we need. Everything happens FOR us, and I think it's always valuable to stop and notice and remember the lessons that you got this year that you could get in no other way.

In today's episode, I share some of the most important lessons of my year, the things I am most grateful to have learned in the hopes that these thoughts will help you do your own reflection and see the incredible miracle of your own earthly learning experience.

Most of us have a lot of expectations when it comes to the holiday season. And when our expectations don't match up with reality, it can create a lot of suffering for us, especially when it's supposed to be "the most wonderful time of the year."

But our expectations are just thoughts masquerading as "rules" for a perfect holiday season. And when we believe these thoughts, we're likely to think something's gone wrong with us or our lives when the only problem is with the expectation itself. In today's podcast episode, I want to offer you some alternative thoughts to some of the expectations that you have about the holidays that may be causing you unnecessary pain. I want to remind you that you can give up those expectations, change your thoughts, reduce your pain, and increase your joy any time you want.

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Imagine yourself in the future you want. If future you could write a letter to yourself here in the present, what would you say? What would you thank yourself for? What decisions would you be so glad that you made now to create that future then? What would you be grateful to yourself for thinking and feeling and doing, to create that future moment then?

For most of us, our future feels uncertain and unpredictable but that's only because we don't realize what has created our present. It's all being created by the choices you make in your mind and when you really understand that, any possibility becomes available!

On today's podcast I'll show you the secret to unlocking any future you want no matter where you are now.

Sign ups for my next group coaching program end this Sunday! (12/19/21) To get signed up go to: www.aprilpricecoaching.com/madeformore

For show notes go to: https://www.aprilpricecoaching.com/blog/137

Our brain wants to tell us that changing our life is really hard. But I think you only really need to believe three things to change everything else. Join me on this special bonus episode of the podcast where I explain the only three things you need to believe to change anything you want. To learn about my coaching program and sign up for a free coaching call go to: www.aprilpricecoaching.com/madeformore

You've probably heard me talk a lot about how coaching has given me the tools to change my life, but the decision to be coached didn't just impact me—it changed my family, my clients, my community, and the world at large. And it doesn't stop there. The changes I have made in my own thinking have generational impact as well.

This is true of all of our choices. Every choice we make has a ripple effect. And I think that it is freaking awesome that even though I signed up for coaching to change me, it changed much more than that.

On today's podcast, I invited my two oldest children to talk about how their lives have been impacted by my decision to get coached, so that you can see that when you change your thoughts, you change the experience of your entire family, create totally new opportunities to love and know one another, and change the lives of future generations.

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You can learn more about the work my kids are doing here:

Olivia: Liv in Literature: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ffeyq5jXT5U @liv_loves.hair

Caleb (Coaching for young adults): calebpricecoaching.com

Accepting our life as it is can become a habit. We sometimes forget that it can be better. In this special episode of the podcast, I remind you that you can have more and share the best way I know to get it. To learn more about my coaching program and sign up for a free call go to www.aprilpricecoaching.com/madeformore