Abandon Ordinary Podcast

I recently saw a video on Instagram that inspired me to bring this topic to you today. He was talking about the sunk cost fallacy and, while it's something I live my entire life by, I've actually seen it be given a name.

So, in this episode, I explain what the sunk cost fallacy is, how sunk costs relate to quitting, why I hope you're a quitter, how we've been conditioned to do work we don't love, my tips for how to incorporate more of what you love into your life while you're in the process of quitting the thing you don't love, an example of a friend of mine who had her needs met by universe during a COVID-19 quarantine that turned out to a blessing, and more!

To get more information on things mentioned in today's episode, visit La Shell's show notes. Want to build your tribe filled with good vibes, genuine encouragement and tools for manifesting an outlandishly, amazing life? Join the Abandon Ordinary Facebook family. Bring your life questions to the show and let La Shell help you get moving now. Email La Shell here.

Samantha Smith is an HR professional who has always been the listener and go-to person in her circle for all things career. She has the ability to listen to a situation and create an action plan that will evoke a positive change to the narrative. She uses her skills, education, and experience to empower people to visualize, and actualize the career of their dreams. She also holds a master's degree in Human Resources, with over 15 years of experience in the field.

Sam and I met a few years and I knew I needed to bring her on the show because she is the living manifestation of the power of vision boards.

In this episode, Sam shares how attending one of my vision board presentations literally changed her life, the things she realized she was doing incorrectly for years on her previous vision boards, the importance of centering your vision board around feelings instead of words, the story of how she manifested her dream job and in a dream location during a pandemic after making some changes to her vision board, and more!

To get more information on things mentioned in today's episode, visit La Shell's show notes. Want to build your tribe filled with good vibes, genuine encouragement and tools for manifesting an outlandishly, amazing life? Join the Abandon Ordinary Facebook family. Bring your life questions to the show and let La Shell help you get moving now. Email La Shell here.

It's the first of the month and there's some things we need to discuss. Surprise, surprise … it's related to your vision.

A recent conversation with a client where I discovered a major flaw in her vision board inspired the topic of this episode because she isn't the first person I've known to make this mistake.

In this episode, I share the contents of that conversation and the flaw with her vision board, how our vibration factors into getting what we desire, why joy should factor into your vision board, the exercise I want you to practice after you create your vision board to see if you need to make any tweaks, the question you need to ask yourself if you're feeling resistant to the idea of vision boards, the details of the powerful resource I'm offering in just two weeks that will you avoid vision board flaws like the one I'm discussing today, and more.

To get more information on things mentioned in today's episode, visit La Shell's show notes. Want to build your tribe filled with good vibes, genuine encouragement and tools for manifesting an outlandishly, amazing life? Join the Abandon Ordinary Facebook family. Bring your life questions to the show and let La Shell help you get moving now. Email La Shell here.

We've got a lot to discuss, but today we're only focusing on one thing … looking for what you want and deserve from other people and in other places.

In this episode, I share why we can't accept love and appreciation from others before we love and appreciate ourselves, how we teach others how to treat us and show up for us, why it's crucial you don't diminish what's truly important to you, how focusing on yourself doesn't make you a terrible person, an exercise that will help you figure out how to focus more on yourself, how a vision board can help you keep your priorities top of mind, and more.

To get more information on things mentioned in today's episode, visit La Shell's show notes. Want to build your tribe filled with good vibes, genuine encouragement and tools for manifesting an outlandishly, amazing life? Join the Abandon Ordinary Facebook family. Bring your life questions to the show and let La Shell help you get moving now. Email La Shell here.

I saw something this week that made me want to immediately record this episode for you.

So, in this inspired episode, I share what it was that I saw, how saying yes is a choice, how making the choice to say yes can raise our energy and restricting ourselves can do the opposite, how everything in life is abundant, examples of scarcity messages we're receiving and telling ourselves, why scarcity is foolish and an illusion, why feeling your desires is so much more powerful than planning how to achieve them, what I want you to do in the coming week to bring abundance towards you, and more.

To get more information on things mentioned in today's episode, visit La Shell's show notes. Want to build your tribe filled with good vibes, genuine encouragement and tools for manifesting an outlandishly, amazing life? Join the Abandon Ordinary Facebook family. Bring your life questions to the show and let La Shell help you get moving now. Email La Shell here.

I recently received a message from a lovely young lady who's taken my vision board classes about a ritual she does at the end of every year to let go of things for the new year. She wondered whether or not she should do anything differently during this ritual because she noticed it doesn't always work.

In this episode, I share what that ritual is, why rituals like this will actually give us the opposite of what we want, what "love lists" are and why I want you to start writing them, how we've been conditioned to focus on the negatives, the difference between attention and intention, how we should handle negative experiences so we don't continue attracting more negative experiences to us, the exercise I want you to complete in the coming week, and more.

To get more information on things mentioned in today's episode, visit La Shell's show notes. Want to build your tribe filled with good vibes, genuine encouragement and tools for manifesting an outlandishly, amazing life? Join the Abandon Ordinary Facebook family. Bring your life questions to the show and let La Shell help you get moving now. Email La Shell here.

We just turned the clock on a new calendar year and that means there's a lot of expectations floating around out there about what's to come in 2021. It's those expectations we're talking about today.

In this episode, I share what 2020 taught us about expectations, how the disappointment of failed expectations prevents us from taking appropriate action in the moment, the micro-traumas that result from the disappointment we feel when others fail to meet our expectations and the anxiety we feel when we fail to meet the expectations of others, how holding expectations exhausts your energy, how to shift your energy away from expectations in 2021, two exercises I want you to do during and after this episode to help you with your expectations for this year, and more.

To get more information on things mentioned in today's episode, visit La Shell's show notes. Want to build your tribe filled with good vibes, genuine encouragement and tools for manifesting an outlandishly, amazing life? Join the Abandon Ordinary Facebook family. Bring your life questions to the show and let La Shell help you get moving now. Email La Shell here.

It's the final Monday of the year!

Actually, it's the final Monday THE year. The most confusing, unsteady, creative, unprecedented, mind-blowing year of our lifetime.

In this final episode of 2020, I share how there's strength in numbers when it comes to raising our collective vibration, why I believe our experiences this year go beyond just the pandemic, the collective positives that happened as a result of the events this, why I'm personally grateful for the experiences of 2020, the one thing I want you to think about during this last week of the year, what I discovered about myself this year, what I what you to do to prepare for the next era of your life, and more.

To get more information on things mentioned in today's episode, visit La Shell's show notes. Want to build your tribe filled with good vibes, genuine encouragement and tools for manifesting an outlandishly, amazing life? Join the Abandon Ordinary Facebook family. Bring your life questions to the show and let La Shell help you get moving now. Email La Shell here.

We've got to talk … and what we've got to talk about is talking.

Thanks to some recent conversations and even some stuff that I've been dealing with, I'm realizing that we're not really talking about our wants and our desires.

We're all trying to Abandon Ordinary and get to that extraordinary life, but we can't do that if we don't understand our desires and then effectively communicate them to others.

In this episode, I share why it's so difficult for us to declare our desires, why it's important to publicly declare our desires and not keep them hidden from others, an example of how I wasn't getting what I needed from a relationship simply because I didn't communicate my needs, my advice for how to respond when an interaction with someone hurts your feelings or makes you feel a way you don't want to feel, the action I want you to take after listening to this episode, and more.

To get more information on things mentioned in today's episode, visit La Shell's show notes. Want to build your tribe filled with good vibes, genuine encouragement and tools for manifesting an outlandishly, amazing life? Join the Abandon Ordinary Facebook family. Bring your life questions to the show and let La Shell help you get moving now. Email La Shell here.

This week, I'm digging into something I've been talking a lot about lately and that's how we censor our desires.

We give up our energy and time to meet the needs of others before we ever give ourselves the energy and focus to meet our own needs and this is a major problem.

We can't live our best lives if we're constantly living for others.

In this episode, I share how putting the needs of others before your own can destroy you, why it's crucial to spend time figuring out what you want, why you need to give others from the overflow of your own cup rather than the cup itself, an example of how a client is putting the needs of her mother before the needs of herself and why we're working on helping her say no more often, how a vision board helps you keep your focus on your priorities, how a vision board and Pinterest are different, an exercise to help you begin tapping into your desires that involves asking yourself a few simple questions, the action I want you to take in preparation for next week's episode, and more.

To get more information on things mentioned in today's episode, visit La Shell's show notes. Want to build your tribe filled with good vibes, genuine encouragement and tools for manifesting an outlandishly, amazing life? Join the Abandon Ordinary Facebook family. Bring your life questions to the show and let La Shell help you get moving now. Email La Shell here.