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Giving yourself permission is about allowing yourself to take control of your own actions. It has nothing to do with the result or the outcome of what you choose to do. It does mean that you can get out there and give it a try and see what happens. It’s about remembering the things that you have always wanted to do and allowing yourself to do them for any reason.

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Your action step today is to make a plan.  Whatever you have in front of you, for your week or your month or your quarter, take an extra 5 minutes to make a plan for yourself. You can make any kind of plan you want.  I personally like to write out my “I get to” list, and look at my calendar.  You can get out sticky notes and color code your plan.  You could brain dump everything out onto a napkin and leave it on your kitchen table to review at breakfast tomorrow.  Get a little creative and remember to evaluate your plan to make sure that it is continuing to work for you.  The most helpful thing that I have found when it comes to creating a plan is to write it down first. Any further organization after that is much easier once you have it all visible and in front of you.

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What are we taught about what failure means? Is failure something you’ve been taught to avoid?  What stories have you told yourself about your own failures? What power does failure have over you?  Could you learn to welcome failure? Could you understand how failure fits into your process of achieving a goal? Could you learn how failure is beneficial to creating? Tune in to learn about different ways to make your failures work for you!

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Time for a simple message today.  Breath. Slow down. And breathe again. Yes, most of the time during a 5 minute fuck yeah I am talking about getting excited and inspired, which are often high energy things! And normally I am rearing to get you pumped up to get out and crush it!

Today I want to go in a different direction.  I know that I regularly find myself going too fast. This comes in the form of racing thoughts, or too many ideas or wanting to do everything right now and not knowing where to start.  I am here to say that the act of slowing down can add good things to your life.  Listen and enjoy!

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So we are on part 3 of 3 of our conversation about confidence. It is time to start looking at some more action steps that you can take to build and cultivate your confidence.  Before we get into these action steps I want to make a specific distinction between confidence and arrogance.  I have heard this many times, and honestly I’ve said this to myself as well. And that is, “I don’t want to be cocky” or “I don’t want to be arrogant.”  Fair enough and now that we know what we don’t want, let’s get more specific and define what you do want to be.

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What is in the way of you finding your own confidence?  Let’s start here. First of all, one way to look at confidence is your ability to see yourself clearly or to believe in yourself and your capabilities.

On that note my question to you is… Can you see yourself clearly?  At some point in time, did you stop seeing the qualities and characteristics in yourself that you are proud of?  Or maybe you could see the awesome things that you were doing, but other people couldn’t see them. This, of course, is not a reflection on what you are doing, but an example of how others weren't ready to see your awesomeness. BUT then you started to believe that because someone else couldn’t see your awesomeness, that meant that your awesomeness didn’t exist.

Well I’m here to tell you, your awesomeness does exist and it’s up to you to find it, see it and acknowledge it!

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Let’s get excited about confidence!  What does it mean to be confident? How can we cultivate and practice confidence?  I, of course, have a few ideas I’d like to share. And I encourage you to start by sitting down and defining what confidence means to you.  When you think of a confident person, what do you think of?  What are they doing? What is their demeanor? How do they present themselves?  What did they do “behind the scenes” to become confident?  If you start here and go no further, you are already off to a great start in cultivating your own confidence!

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Why do we think we need to feel ready before we do certain things? I mean if it is something like driving a car or performing brain surgery, then I get it, you want to feel ready for those tasks! But what if it is taking action towards your health or your career or one of those goals you have been meaning to get to?  Are you telling yourself you need to be and feel ready before you go take action on ANYTHING?  Let’s dive into this a little more and see what it means to be ready!

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Stop "shoulding" all over yourself!  For today's You Got 5 Minutes episode, let's talk about what happens when we use the word SHOULD.  Personally I have noticed a number of things when I use this this word, including, shame and guilt, a feeling of pressure and even an indication of a goal or desire that I have neglected.  For the longest time, I didn't realize that I was doing these things to myself when I would say things like 

"I should be stronger than that by now."

"I should be doing what they are doing."

"I should have started earlier."

"I shouldn’t have eaten that."

. First I had to be come aware of when I was using the word SHOULD the most and pay attention to the emotions that accompanied it.  Then I learned how to refocus on myself, my goals and my actions!  Listen in to learn more about cleaning up your "shoulds" and shifting your mindset forward!

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Today it's story time! I recently came to a couple realizations!  One was “I can do all the things” and the second was “It feels really good to run my own race at my own pace.” In other words, I realized that I am in exactly the place that I need to be and I get to choose what I do next!  Now coming to the realizations is one thing. Letting those realizations sink in enough to implement them into my life is another.  And for today's 5 Minute F*ck Yeah, I simply want to share my story about what happened for me when my realizations sunk in.  If you like this episode, please check out a complimentary story I shared on my Buy Me A Coffee page called "Definition of a Spell."   Thanks for tuning in!

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