Decide Your Legacy

Sometimes it’s easy to gloss over the fact that we don’t always know our family and friends nearly as well as we think.  But with every day there is a new opportunity to increase that connection in meaningful ways, whether focusing on the past or the future together.  On this episode we discuss:

• The unexpected thing I learned about my dad
• Focusing on creating meaningful experiences together
• Creating keepsakes to deepen connection
• Being there when they really need you
• Interviewing family members (and not making it weird)

Shatterproof Yourself Video: 7 ACTIONS to START Building Your Legacy

Resources:

25 Tips for Strengthening Relationships (post) by Adam Gragg

40 Thought-Provoking Questions to Ask Your Family

Clients create a Legacy Plan which is a guiding document we co-create and use to stay on the path to your success! When you focus on your Legacy Plan every day, you will remember what you want and stay headed in the right direction.

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Adam is a life coach and counselor who specializes in helping individuals and organizations find transformational clarity.  He specializes in anxiety, depression, life & career transitions, adolescent challenges, and family counseling.

Sometimes even when we are pursuing our goals and passions, things happen that can just suck the wind out of our sails.  These obstacles, whether internal or external, can be challenging to overcome.  Today we will break down steps you can take to persevere on the path to achieving your own goals.  On this episode we discuss:

• Being inspired by my own daughter’s resilience
• Different kinds of distractions
• Visualize achieving your goals
• Wanting to want to pursue your goals
• Using a mindset shift to provide motivation
• Using the Pomodoro Technique
• Handling the doubters
• Doing one productive thing to build momentum
• Making a plan of action

Shatterproof Yourself Video: 7 ACTIONS to START Building Your Legacy

Resources:

Stop Procrastinating & Get Things Done (post) by Adam Gragg

Eliminate Mental Clutter & Procrastination (post) by Adam Gragg

The Pomodoro Technique: Beat Procrastination & Improve Your Focus One Pomodoro at a Time (post) by Todoist

Definition of Success Activity
If you died today, would you have lived a successful life? According to whose definition? Is your view of success driven by what you were raised to believe, something modeled to you, what our culture and society convey, or your own unique & inspiring idea of what makes a significant and impactful life? Use this Definition of Success worksheet to list two separate definitions of success. The first is the default cultural definition you’ve absorbed from outside social influences. The second is YOUR OWN personal inspiring definition of success.

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Adam is a life coach and counselor who specializes in helping individuals and organizations find transformational clarity.  He specializes in anxiety, depression, life & career transitions, adolescent challenges, and family counseling.

Have you ever read the page of a book and then realized you didn’t absorb anything because you were too distracted?  Today we are going to talk about how to get out of your own head.  On this episode we discuss:

• What’s happening in our brain when we get stuck in our head
• What is “brain lock”?
• Having a vision for life without anxiety
• Noticing that you are stuck in your head
• Getting the thoughts in your head out
• Choosing gratitude
• Taking an MRA (massive radical action)

Shatterproof Yourself Video: 7 ACTIONS to START Building Your Legacy

Resources:

What to Do When Emotionally Overwhelmed (post) by Adam Gragg
25 Gratitude Building Questions (post) by Adam Gragg
30 Happiness Building Actions (post) by Adam Gragg

Scary Actions You Can Take (worksheet) by Adam Gragg
Build Trust with Others (Episode 62)

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Adam is a life coach and counselor who specializes in helping individuals and organizations find transformational clarity.  He specializes in anxiety, depression, life & career transitions, adolescent challenges, and family counseling.

It can take a lifetime to build and a moment to destroy. So much of the depth of our relationships depends on how much we are trusted.  Today we are going to break down the key components to build trust with others in relationships.  On this episode we discuss:

• The importance of being trustworthy
• Ensuring appropriate boundaries in relationships
• Start by trusting yourself
• Stop overthinking
• Create the expectation of consistency
• Becoming more predictable
• Prioritize actions over words
• Build an appropriate level of vulnerability
• Live honestly with others

Shatterproof Yourself Video: 7 ACTIONS to START Building Your Legacy

Resources:
Daily 5 & 5 (worksheet)

How to Be Grateful When Life Is Hard (post)

7 Keys to Building Trust in Relationships (post)

How to Embrace Failure (Episode 61)

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Adam is a life coach and counselor who specializes in helping individuals and organizations find transformational clarity.  He specializes in anxiety, depression, life & career transitions, adolescent challenges, and family counseling.

Sometimes we are so focused on the dangers from failure we forget that many of the same traits that lead to failure also lead to success.  That’s why I’m so excited about taking the opportunity to fail and you should be too. On this episode we discuss:

• What happens when I get more comfortable with failure
• Defining what success and failure are (and what they look like)
• Success can be just as scary as failure
• Working on your mindset around failure
• Doing something hard every day (maybe multiple things)
• Reflect on the growth that failure has brought to you
• Fear stacking
• Planning actions that you could fail at
• Adding some comfort so that it’s easier to fail

Shatterproof Yourself Video: 7 ACTIONS to START Building Your Legacy

Resources:

Scary Actions You Can Take (worksheet)

DEAR MAN Assertiveness (worksheet)

Make Yourself More Attractive (Episode 60)

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Adam is a life coach and counselor who specializes in helping individuals and organizations find transformational clarity.  He specializes in anxiety, depression, life & career transitions, adolescent challenges, and family counseling.

I’ve been single for a few years now.  And as I have started dating again I became acutely aware of some things that I was doing that would make me more or less attractive to others.  Whether looking for a romantic partner or a great friend, the things we discuss today can serve to draw others to yourself.  On this episode we discuss:

• Being you as your best self
• What it looks like to be a jerk (but nicely)
• Assertiveness and honesty
• Taking risks in your own life
• Maintaining your values
• Being willing to express your passions
• Red flags to avoid
• How others expectations can negatively influence us

Shatterproof Yourself Video: 7 ACTIONS to START Building Your Legacy

Resources:
Know Thyself (worksheet)

Scary Actions You Can Take (worksheet)

DEAR MAN Assertiveness (worksheet)

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Get personalized coaching from Adam!

Adam is a life coach and counselor who specializes in helping individuals and organizations find transformational clarity.  He specializes in anxiety, depression, life & career transitions, adolescent challenges, and family counseling.

So many times fear has held me back from pursuing things that could bring me success.  When we look at the successful people around us, I’ve found that there are a series of habits they engage in that encourage them to move forward.  Today we are going to break those down so you can apply them to your life.  On this episode we discuss:

• The pursuits I could have taken if fear didn’t hold me back
• The value of regular and consistent sleep
• What my dad was always doing to support his health
• Waking early and getting the day started
• Taking time to read often
• Keeping space in your life for self-reflection
• Choosing to have a positive perspective
• Having a list of written goals
• Identifying a bigger purpose
• Living with a spiritual focus
• Taking care of your own health

Shatterproof Yourself Video: 7 ACTIONS to START Building Your Legacy

Resources:

Be sure to follow me on Instagram @adamgragg

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Get personalized coaching from Adam!

Adam is a life coach and counselor who specializes in helping individuals and organizations find transformational clarity.  He specializes in anxiety, depression, life & career transitions, adolescent challenges, and family counseling.

The foundation of so much of our lives can be found in our emotional and relational health.  To really unpack this, I brought in my good friend and fellow mental health specialist Todd Nickel to talk about the ways in which we can improve our relationships with others and ourselves.  On this episode we discuss:

• Improving our communication with others
• Identifying priorities and goals in our lives
• The faulty assumption we make with our relationships
• Making communication safe
• How to build new friendships
• The power that emotions create in our lives
• Emotion v. emotionality
• The danger that emotions can present
• Sharing your emotions with others
• Benefits of journaling
• Defining grief and how to support others through it

Shatterproof Yourself Video: 7 ACTIONS to START Building Your Legacy

Resources:

Benefits of Journaling (Episode 57)

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Get personalized coaching from Adam!

Adam is a life coach and counselor who specializes in helping individuals and organizations find transformational clarity.  He specializes in anxiety, depression, life & career transitions, adolescent challenges, and family counseling.

Recently I walked a group of people through the process of creating a vision board.  Following a similar process yourself can give you clarity and focus as you move towards your own chosen Legacy.  On this episode we discuss:

• How things on my vision board resulted in an RV adventure with my daughter
• Taking time to reflect
• Identifying where you want to be
• Giving yourself a vision board challenge
• How a vision board creates clarity
• The process is where the joy is found
• The four steps to creating a vision

Shatterproof Yourself Video: 7 ACTIONS to START Building Your Legacy

Resources:
How to Organize Your Thoughts (Episode 56)

Clarifying a Vision for your Future
Taking Opposite Action to Your Emotions (video) by Adam Gragg

Workshop & Training List

Vision Activity
Take some time to create a healthy personal and professional vision for your future. Read the articles How to Find Clarity in Life & Clarifying a Vision for Your Future. Then complete this 3 - 5 Year Vision Worksheet. Jot down anything that comes to mind.

Speaking in action clips

Don’t Play it Safe (YouTube) by Adam Gragg

Don’t Play it Safe (TikTok) by Adam Gragg

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Adam is a life coach and counselor who specializes in helping individuals and organizations find transformational clarity.  He specializes in anxiety, depression, life & career transitions, adolescent challenges, and family counseling.

You’ve heard it before, but journaling is a powerful way to gain clarity and organize your thoughts without being overwhelmed.  This week I’m joined by Nick Bertram to discuss how journaling has transformed his life. On this episode we discuss:

• Why Adam burned a bunch of journals
• The different types of journals
• What to write about
• How journaling helps organize your thoughts
• What happens when you physically write by hand
• Don’t overcomplicate things
• Being kind to yourself
• Seeing progress over time

And click HERE to get my NEW FREE SHATTERPROOF YOURSELF MENTAL HEALTH CHECKLIST!

Resources:

How to Journal for Self-Improvement

50 Best Journaling Prompts

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Get personalized coaching from Adam!

Adam is a life coach and counselor who specializes in helping individuals and organizations find transformational clarity.  He specializes in anxiety, depression, life & career transitions, adolescent challenges, and family counseling.