Decide Your Legacy

So often, we come incredibly close to having a positive breakthrough in our lives, only to turn around and self-sabotage the good things that are happening.  Why do we do that? And what can we do to stop it?  We discuss all that today on the podcast.  And don't forget to sign up for Tune Up For Life!  On this episode we discuss:

• Where does self-sabotage come from?
• Taking big risks
• Intrinsic v. extrensic worth
• The power of the pause
• Taking the opposite action

1. Improve your self-worth
2. Visualize success
3. Work on emotional and mental health

Be sure to follow me on Instagram @adamgragg

Resources:
Episode 19: Improving Your Self-Worth
Episode 36: Identifying Healthy vs. Toxic Relationships

A Transformational Self-Confidence Building Activity - Article

4 Tools for Becoming Emotionally Healthy - Article

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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.

Relationships are a key part of all of our lives and have major ramifications on our life satisfaction.  But how do we know which ones are good for us?  On this episode we explore what healthy v. toxic looks like.  And don't forget to sign up for Tune Up For Life!  On this episode we discuss:

• The risks I took last week
• Why healthy relationships are so important
• The monkey and his buddy
• 7 things to look for in healthy relationships

1. Do they having lasting relationships?
2. Do they have a sense of humor?
3. Are they easily offended?
4. Are they willing to deal with their past?
5. Do they have healthy lifestyle habits?
6. Do they establish healthy boundaries that are in line with their values?
7. Do they have a healthy amount of self-confidence?

Be sure to follow me on Instagram @adamgragg

Resources:
Easter Prank 2022
Episode 19: Improving Your Self-Worth
Episode 35: Practices to Overcome Anxiety
The Loony Bin

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5 Days to overpowering anxiety!

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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.

On this special BONUS episode of the Decide Your Legacy Podcast Adam walks you through a guided mindfulness mediation exercise to help you become more focused and aware.  Come back to this episode anytime you need some practice at mindfulness.

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5 Days to overpowering anxiety!

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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's time to get practical on dealing with anxiety.  This week we will cover 3 specific practices you can do today to overcome your anxiety, including walking through a mindfulness exercise together.  And don't forget to sign up for Tune Up For Life!  On this episode we discuss:

• How anxiety is different from fear
• Sympathetic v. parasympathetic
• Taking action to get out from anxiety
• Identifying negative core beliefs
• The value of journaling
• Adding humor to your life
• Practicing mindfulness

Be sure to follow me on Instagram @adamgragg

Resources:
How to Change Negative Core Beliefs (Part 1)
How to Change Negative Core Beliefs (Part 2)

Short Stories
The Essential Earnest Hemingway
Tales from the Klondike: A Treasury of Jack London's Best Short 

The Complete Stories by Flannery O'Connor
50 Great Short Stories

Funny Videos (I can watch these over and over)
The Farting Old Man
Nobody Messes with my BOY……FRIEND
Ultimate Dog Tease

Gag Gifts (Oh yes, I have these and many more)
Remote Controlled Fart Machine
Fake Beer Belly Waist Pack
Yodeling Pickle

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5 Days to overpowering anxiety!

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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.

Our world is filled with so many distractions that it is easy to go through the motions.  However, by using a process I help every client through can help you to build a life that you love and are passionate about.  On this episode we discuss:

• The risk Adam took this week
• When my house was on fire
• A process of transformation through "The Legacy Cycle"
• Starting with a good foundation of beans
• The importance of social skills
• Building your self-concept
• Connecting with your emotions
• Creating the right filters in your life
• How we are giving ourselves ADD
• Creating a balanced lifestyle
• Setting the right goals and their corresponding habits

Be sure to follow me on Instagram @adamgragg

Resources:
Creating Your Core Values (podcast)
The Legacy Cycle (guide)
Why I Started Decide Your Legacy (blog)
How to Find Clarity in Your Life (blog)
Clarifying a Vision for your Future (blog)

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5 Days to overpowering anxiety!

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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.

This week Adam is joined by a special guest expert on travel (and his sister), Erica Gragg from Escape to Shape to talk about the three ways that travel can positively transform your life.  On this episode we discuss:

• How Erica discovered her passion for travel
• How she approaches travel in her business
• Using travel to creating a shift in perspective
• How fear drives us to pull away from things that are helpful
• Becoming more flexible and open to new experiences
• Travel revealing opportunity for growth
• Getting started with travel through food

See how Erica can help you with your travel needs!
www.escapetoshape.com
www.escapeartiststravel.com

Be sure to follow me on Instagram @adamgragg

Resources:
Be More Spontaneous (podcast)
The Travel Book by Lonely Planet

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5 Days to overpowering anxiety!

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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.

Social skills can be a powerful way to develop the life you've always wanted.  In this episode we get down to how you can be more encouraging to those around you and the impact that can have on your life.  And don't forget to sign up for Tune Up For Life (and use the code "mylifepurpose" to get $100 off)!  On this episode we discuss:

• The risk Adam is taking right now
• Why social skills matter
• Asking questions instead of giving advice
• Letting go of having control
• The best types of open ended questions
• Learning to trust your intuition
• Seeking first to understand and validate
• Expressing appreciation consistently
• How to appreciate in the workplace

Be sure to follow me on Instagram @adamgragg

Resources:
Episode 14:Finding Your Life Purpose (podcast)
Episode 3: Asking Great Questions (podcast)
20 Questions to Ignite Meaningful Conversation (article)
Speaker/Listener Bookmark
Emotions Bookmark
5 Languages of Appreciation in The Workplace (book)
9 Key Social Skills
 

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5 Days to overpowering anxiety!

Get 50 free relationship building questions and a free e-book on life balance!

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 most common thing holding us back from the life we want is the fear of rejection.  Learn where that fear is coming from and how you can overpower it in your life.  And don't forget to sign up for Tune Up For Life (and use the code "mylifepurpose" to get $100 off)!  On this episode we discuss:

• The risk Adam is taking right now
• How fear of rejection is holding you back
• Avoiding being excluded from the tribe
• Rejection will not kill you
• The role of confirmation bias
• Knowing your "why"

Be sure to follow me on Instagram @adamgragg

Resources:
Start with Why: How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone to Take Action by Simon Sinek
Start with Why - How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone to Take Action - Ted Talk by Simon Sinek
Go For the No! Yes is the Destination, No is How You Get There (book)
Top Five Regrets of the Dying. A Life Transformed By the Dearly Departing (book)
What I Learned from 100 Days of Rejection (Ja Jing Ted Talk)
 

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5 Days to overpowering anxiety!

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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.

This is the year to beat back the negativity and build your self-confidence.  Adam breaks down three commitments you can make now to start engaging in a way that will build your own self-confidence.  And don't forget to sign up for Tune Up For Life!  On this episode we discuss:

• Why are we so negative?
• Commitment #1: Stop Avoiding Things
• Counting the cost of procrastination
• The confidence visualization exercise
• Commitment #2: Keep Promises to Yourself
• The dangers of self-sabotage
• Envisioning your ideal day
• Commitment #3: Don't Play It Safe
• Things Adam and his clients have done to step out in courage

Resources:
If I Had More Confidence Worksheet
A Simple & Powerful Stress Coping Tool
Focus on What You Can Influence Worksheet
18 Ways to Build Self Confidence
 

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5 Days to overpowering anxiety!

Get 50 free relationship building questions and a free e-book on life balance!

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 holidays can bring a lot of stress and anxiety, especially if you have strained relationships with friends and family.  But it doesn't have to be that way.  By shifting your perspective you can head into the holidays with a plan to strengthen and repair those relationships.  On this episode we discuss:

• What happens to our anxiety as we approach the holidays
• Why it is important to address the potential harm this anxiety brings
• Specific and actionable strategies to build your relationships
  • Lower expectations
  • Do something new
  • Be generous
  • Ask for help
  • Be curious
  • Open your heart
  • Focus on the positive

Resources:
7 Strategies for Positively Engaging Family Members Over the Holidays (blog)
11 Ice Breakers for Work Meetings and Social Events (blog)
50 Relationship Building Questions (blog)
 

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NEW FREE GUIDE! 

5 Days to overpowering anxiety!

Get 50 free relationship building questions and a free e-book on life balance!

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.