Changeworker Podcast with Diana Stemkowski

Many of us are familiar with the feeling of being stuck. Thinking thoughts like "I don't know" and all its variations only lead us to one place: inaction, stuckness and wallowing in confusion. We're starting to notice that confusion isn't as comfortable as it used to be and we want to become more effective in what we create. Taking those first steps out of confusion start with really questioning if the thoughts we're thinking are even true. Are we really stuck or are we making a passive decision to stay there? Listen now to find out how you can start taking more initiative.

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The term "putting yourself out there" is familiar to many of us, but what does it really mean and how do we proceed? Join me on this episode as I talk about why we think it's so hard to put ourselves out there and what the benefits are when we do. 

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Avoidance takes many forms, and when it comes to our businesses or jobs, it can look like a lot of activity with little impact on the goals we created for ourselves. Busyness is just an urge. Urges fuel us to overeat, overdrink and over spend as well, leading to undesirable outcomes- gaining weight, declining health, debt and financial stress. Busyness is just a short term distraction that feels good that doesn't have any long term gain. Join me as I talk about urges (and the emotions they cover) and how to allow them so we can be more intentional in how we feel and behave. 

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Acceptance and courage may not be emotions we instantly think of that are helpful, but they are powerful in their own way. Not accepting who we are or where we are only slows down our progress. Not accepting the reality of things only increases tension in our brains and our bodies. 

Courage is one of those emotions that, once you tap into it, will make you your own hero. We don't have to be first responders to make heroic decisions for ourselves. 

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Being the victim of our circumstances is a belief fostered by the media, advertising and the entertainment industry. It looks and feels real, but is it really accurate?

What if the circumstances around us (what someone said or did, the weather, politics, viruses, etc., etc.) were just facts that we reacted to? That they had no bearing on our feelings or actions? 

What if circumstances didn't happen to us, but around us? What if our brains, and not the circumstance, created our emotional experience of them? 

In this week's episode, I explore the concept that we are a lot more powerful than we think. From awareness, we can decide how we want to react to something, rather than believing we're compelled to react.

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I have different relationships with the days of the week and the months of the year. I have stories about Monday being a day of dread. Thursdays are when my energy starts to run low...or so I tell myself.

They're just names and numbers on a calendar, yet why do they have different meanings to us? Days, months, years and ages are just artificial constructs. What do you want them to mean in terms of goal setting? 

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What are your thoughts and beliefs about being sick?

I don't have time for this. I'll be better sooner rather than later.

I hate feeling this way. This is such a waste of time.

Your body is trying to tell you something during illnesses. Are you listening?

I learned a lot during my sick week. I see illness as a reset, something to learn from. 

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Where you are now isn't a bad thing. You've created families, jobs, careers, lives and businesses with an unmanaged mind and this is great! Imagine what you can do with a managed one. 

In this episode, I talk about the 6 different actions we can take with our emotions and why having options with what to do with them is empowering. 

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I also call this episode "my mind's doing WHAT when I'm not aware?!". The brain is our biggest asset, one that doesn't come with an owner's manual. In this episode, I talk about  tool that I use in my coaching practice with my clients. This tool brings awareness to the role our thinking plays in the outcomes in our lives.

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