Daily SPARK Minute with Simon T. Bailey

Guest Appearance presented by Emily Haruko Leeb: “This is Emily Haruko Leeb, one of your brilliant coaches and your Brilliant Coaching™ concierge here to tell you a little bit about one of the ingredients you need to crush 2024, and that is commitment! Really the opportunity for you to redefine what the word commitment means to you, to establish and reignite what commitment means in your life. What I mean by that is taking a couple excerpts from Shearson Lehman American Express’ definition that a commitment is the thing that transforms a promise into a reality. It is the actions that speak boldly of your intentions. It is the stuff character is made of. It is the ability to show up time after time after time, year after year after year. Remember that a commitment is the thing that you follow through with long after the mood that you’ve set the commitment in has fleeted. So, we’re really encouraging you to reestablish what it means to be committed.”

“I want to invite you to practice gratitude. What are you thankful for? For me, I’m thankful for my health. I’m thankful for my family. I’m thankful for work that I love, and it’s starting with that attitude of gratitude that creates fortitude. So, when I start with a grateful heart, a grateful disposition, I am literally setting the tone for how I want to show up that day.

“15 minutes a day. The first 5 minutes, I want to invite you to meditate, relax, take a deep breath, get centered. Inhale for 3 seconds, exhale for 7 seconds. Second five minutes, I want to invite you to read something that inspires you, that lifts you up. Then the third five minutes, stretch or get aligned with the day because what 15 minutes a day does, that routine, that ritual, you discover how you start the day determines the day.”

“How do you manage burnout? It simply starts with a decision where you say here’s what I have discovered about where I am in my journey right now, and no matter what happened yesterday, I am going to find the silver lining by asking myself what went well, instead of focusing on what’s wrong and didn’t go well. The reframing allows you to begin to discover how you can control where you are, and not worry about things that are out of your control. So, managing burnout is just this decision that you know what, I am going to focus on what is right in front of me. I am going to do it so that I become better tomorrow.”

Simon: “I am flawed beyond belief. I am perfectly imperfect. I am just a human being trying to figure it out one day at a time. That’s my story.”

Interviewer: “All of us, right? We’re going on this journey together, trying to navigate life and all of its up and downs. What’s worked? What hasn’t worked? Being really authentic and vulnerable in sharing so. 

Simon: “Well, I think for so long, I had a mask on. I had a need to be needed. Nobody really got to know the real me. Let’s just like be real and put all the cards on the table.”

Interviewer: “And how is that working out for you?”

Simon: “You know what? I can actually say I feel alive, and I feel free because what I’ve discovered is when you find your spark, you find your joy. When you find your joy, you find your voice. When you find your voice, you find your freedom and it is so liberating to live from the inside out.”

“Years ago, I heard Mike Murdoch say, ‘You don’t decide your future, you decide your habits, and your habits decide your future.’”

“One of my mentors, Willie Jolley, once said, ‘A setback is a set-up for a comeback.’ I love that quote! So, wherever you are today, get ready to come back. Don’t be overcome by the setback.”

“Hello O’ Brilliant Thriver, or what I like to say, O’ Brilliant One! I am Simon T. Bailey, and I am here to share with you your first tip for crushing 2024. Here it is: Write down what is right about you. Then, step back and decide what you can do to have a 5-star day. The first thing to consider in creating a 5-star day is to have breakfast with a friend. What would it be like the second day to write a handwritten note or send an email or make a video about yourself that you send to yourself? That’s right! Whenever you have days and things are going on, you go back to what is right instead of what is wrong because you have the ability, as you crush 2024, to really think about how do I make this a 5-star day?”

“Here’s what I know to be true. When you find your purpose, people will begin to show up and aid you and help you, almost as if they have been summoned to you. When we see an understanding of ourselves, we’re better able to take control in forging our career path. Uncover your DNA. Look for those clues and get ready to release your brilliance on the world.”

“Hello O’ Brilliant Thriver! I have a life hack for you, and this is something that I practice every single day, every other day. I don’t miss a week of doing this, and that is to find an inspirational quote that just breathes life into you. So, one of the quotes that is in my journal that I read is, ‘Value will never be established by how many one serves, but by how well one serves many.’ That is from Mother Teresa. When I read a quote like this or similar quotes, it allows me to just keep the main thing the main thing, and to think about how do I make this quote come alive today?