Do small things has changed my whole life. 

Today I'm sharing how motherhood really brought me face to face with my own neediness and limiting beliefs that everything and everyone else was causing me problems. 

Becoming self-aware of how I had brought myself to this point in my own life made me realize I can't be my own solution. 

I needed God. I met God in my neediness and he showed me some hard truths on what needed changing. 

Because I didn't want to stay where I was, on autopilot. There was a lot of victimhood and resent and anxiety and poor health where I was - if I stayed there and kept the status quo I could see that my life in 2 . . . 5 . . . 10 years was not the life I wanted. 

But this isn't all a big bummer. I have something that can help you, something I learned on the way in TAKING ACTION to shift my life. 

This is the COMPOUND EFFECT

A concept from Darren Hardy that tells us the little things we do, consistently, have a cumulative impact on our lives. Both the good habits the bad habits - they accumulate as the days pass. 

I will share with you about 10 SMALL THINGS I have worked on over the past 5 years that I feel have made my life so much better, and some of the things I'm working on this year. 

And if you are feeling like you are ready to pick one small thing and start it, I have some question to help you identify what that could be. 

Because our life is like a ship, we need to adjust it's course a little bit each day so we can end up pretty darn close to our destination. AND REMEMBER, you can only steer a ship that is moving - we need to take ACTION!

 

(Full episode transcript is at the bottom)

All the fun links to help you learn more . . . 

Homemaker, on Purpose (available from Amazon, or as an eBook)

Are you making motherhood harder than it needs to be (Episode 67 )

What are limiting beliefs and how they impact you (Episode 76)

Showing up for your future self (Episode 21)

Want to make a change, here are three tips to help you get good at it (Episode 70)

The Life on Purpose Workbook (available as a digital copy or from Amazon)

The Live Your Values + Live Your Vision worksheets (you can find both right here)

Apply here to learn more about the Life on Purpose 1:1 Coaching Program 

Spending the month on GRATITUDE in the Facebook Community Group (join here, make sure to answer the entry questions)

 

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 FULL TRANSCRIPT

Hi Friends, it's Shawna, your nerdy girlfriend and Life coach from simple purpose.ca. Welcome to The Simple on Purpose podcast. This is a place for you. If you are a mum and it just all feels like too much. The clutter, the life, the motherhood, the relationships I've been there. These are all signs that we're living on autopilot. That life is just happening at us rather than us being in our driver's seat, being proactive. Like I said, I've been there. And when I realized that I had living my life on autopilot, I wanted to take control. I wanted to live on purpose. I wanted to take action and build up the life, the home, the relationships, the mindsets that I craved, the one that God made me for, because you are made for more than anxiety and reactivity and victimhood, you are made for more than that. So this podcast is your place.

I aim to keep all these podcasts short and to the point, and to give you tips and ideas and encouragement and insights into simplifying, slowing down and showing up for your life on purpose. So I'm recording this podcast right now in an empty house. What, what my husband took our three kids to his parents' farm for the weekend. And he had all these chores he wanted to do there. And he said, you can come with me if you want, or you can just stay home. And I was like, let me think about that. Thank you. I'm going to be home. And I've been eating poutine in my PJ's watching TV in the tub at night. I've used like five dishes. It's glorious. I mean,