Everyday Strong Radio

I had the chance to talk about being responsible for your own happiness recently in a small group coaching call. 

Boundaries, demands and ultimatums are all ways we try to get someone else to do something to make us happy. 

The thing is, it’s not up to others to make you happy or do things for you so you feel better. 

That’s your job.

When we rely on others for our happiness we’re outsourcing our emotional wellbeing.

Tune in for this week’s podcast on being responsible for your own happiness and how fun it really can be. 

A client recently asked me what the gold nuggets were from the day I spent with Brooke Castillo. The discussion started with an answer to her question and expanded on what I’ve learned from Brooke and Abraham Hicks, and the mindset I’m using going into the next 12 months.

Wherever you are in your life and whatever you’re working on, concepts from this conversation can be applied. Take a listen, consider applying what resonates and see what happens!

Today marks one year since I left my job of ten years, sold my home and moved not once, but twice. It marks 12 months of entrepreneurship, becoming a coach who works from anywhere, training volunteers on mindset and helping women live the second half of their life on purpose. 

Why do I tell you all of this?

Because there is nothing special about me. 

I’ve simply learned how to manage my mind.

In this episode I talk about my last 365 days, and the thing is, your version of this story is 100% possible for you, too. Listen and learn how.

Words matter. And the words team and alliance matter a lot when we’re thinking about people we have to work with, volunteer with or are in any type of relationship with. 

A team is the joining of forces or efforts but an alliance, on the other hand is an agreement to cooperate for specific purposes.

The thing is, we often think we’re on a team when the other person sees it as an alliance. This can cause a whole bunch of unnecessary ruckus and drama, so in this episode I go over both, give examples and a tool to help open the conversation with others to find out just which one you’re on. Listen on your favorite podcast provider to find out more!

Equal airtime is a wondeful concept to remenber. It's ensuring you spend as much time looking at possibility and the positive as our brain does looking at the negative and what's going wrong. Where your focus goes, energy flows. This isn't always easy to do so in this epsiode I give your simply, easy tips on how to keep the focus exactly where you want it to be. 

How much of your life have you resigned yourself to?

It looks like thinking, that’s just the way my partner is.

That’s just how they do things at work.

That’s just how my kid is.

That’s just how the world is. 

How do you know if you’re resigned to something?

By the way you feel. 

You’ve stopped resisting or trying to make the situation different but you still don’t like it. You’re not happy about it and in a way, you feel a bit powerless.

It feels like a bad taste in your mouth. 

Acceptance on the other hand is when we allow the situation to be what it is (and often it’s a situation we’re not so keen about), and we don’t try to change it or protest it. We let it be what it is.

But there’s one more important facet that plays a bigger role than you’d expect in terms of being able to accept something rather than be resigned to it.

Listen to find out. 

When Spring comes you clean up the yard so your flowers have a healthy place to grow.

You water and care for them until they become established.

After that you check on your plants, deadhead them as needed and enjoy the fruits of your labor.

Taking care of your thoughts is the same exact thing. Learn how in this episode!

This past week marked 12 years since I was divorced. When I look back over the past 12 years I can see how I was operating and why. I can see the thoughts, the dedication to the action line at all costs and...what it cost me. It wasn't until coaching came into my life, first with nutrition, then life coaching, that I saw how it was even possible for me to be a creator in my life instead of at the effect of it. Maybe, you'll see some of you, too, and these insights will offer a little perspective.

If you're anything like me, you probably get in your own way from time to time. The thing is we don't always realize we are or understand why it's happening. It all comes back to our thoughts - as expected - and I share how, why and how I've done it time to time, too. 

March 8 was International Women’s Day, and, not coincidentally, Everyday Strong Radio’s second birthday. 

That said, this episode is a little different. It’s filled with some history, some stories, some inspiration all of which may create a mindset shift in you about who you are and how you show up in the world…..in the best way possible.