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“No one who cooks, cooks alone.”  This week I have been thinking a lot about food and the recipes we can’t live without.  I share some of our Thanksgiving must haves, like fluffy sweet potatoes and pumpkin chocolate chip bread.  I mention how I love how these recipes remind us of people, some family members who have passed on and even friends who are still around but we haven’t seen in a while.  In addition, I share my new found knowledge on how smell and memories are connected.  So enjoy this episode and let your food memories bring you back to special times in the past and also push you forward to connect them with the future. 

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“yet I was, by the endeavour, a better and a happier man than I otherwise should have been if I had not attempted it.”  This episode comes out and we have one month until the new year.  I am sharing this great idea of old year resolutions, an idea mentioned by Benjamin Franklin.   Old year meaning - starting in December, what are some things you want to do in the new year that you can get a jump start on. I also mention how it can be helpful to look back and reflect on how you did, where you need to change things or simply take them off your list for next year.  And adding some prayer and pondering in the process of figuring out what you are ready to start doing or becoming.  

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“Gratitude can change your brain.” In this episode I share how my family has started sharing gratitude each night for the past few weeks.  I mentioned all of the things that I have learned about gratitude and the multitude of benefits it has for us in so many different ways.  Reminding us of things like gratitude helps to change our focus, gives us courage, can heal us and even unite us.  I share what my family members thought about starting this and our goals for keeping it going.  How grateful I am for gratitude and looking forward to celebrating the holiday of gratefulness, Thanksgiving!

For more info and show notes come by www.findingthefloor.com/ep161

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Thanks to Seth Johnson for my intro and outro original music.  I love it so much!

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“Dear Older me … thank you!”  In this episode I explore an idea of dealing with expectations we have that come from our youth.  Ideas of what we wanted to be when we grew up or how we might have hoped or expected our life to turn out.  I share a few ideas of choosing to let some disappointment go and also being grateful for where you are.  I also share a few ideas to ask our own kids - questions that will help them understand more of their interests and passions and less about what job they might want when they grow up.  Ultimately helping us live a little more in the present and grateful for our decisions to get us there. 

For more info and show notes come by www.findingthefloor.com/ep160

I would love to hear from you!  You can reach me at [email protected] or dm @findingthefloor on instagram.  Thanks for listening!!

Thanks to Seth Johnson for my intro and outro original music.  I love it so much!

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“Appreciation is the highest, purest form of love.“ In this episode I talk about another chapter in the book, What Happy People Know by Dr. Dan Baker, Ph.D and Cameron Stauth. I begin by mentioning my favorite scripture and then I discuss courage as a tool for happiness and that love in what gets us to courage.  I share about the purest form of love or appreciation and how that can be an antidote to fear in our lives.  I share things from the chapter, like the appreciation audit which Dr. Baker tells us it can help heal us with good thoughts.  So if you battle fear and want the courage to do more, maybe this idea of appreciation might help.  

For show notes and references come by www.findingthefloor.com/ep159

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“... choice feels good because it is the ultimate expression of free will.” Choice is so important and according to the Book, What Happy People Know by Dan Bake, PhD. and Cameron Stauth, it is one of the tools you use to be happy.  In this episode I share how we all have possibilities.  I share the idea of learned helplessness and how we can over come it and then go back to some of the ideas from Habit 1 of 7 Habits of highly effective people, being proactive, using our choice of perception and the quarter-second delay.  Happy choosing and hopefully you will choose to listen! :)

For more show notes and references go to www.findingthefloor.com/ep158

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“...When we love a piece of music, it reminds us of other music we have heard, and it activates memory traces of emotional times in our lives.”  Lately I have been struggling to find the music that I like.  This episode I explore a little bit the reasons why I may be struggling to find new music that I like.  I also share why we as older adults tend to get stuck with certain bands and artists from our youth and young adulthood.   It is harder to relate to more popular music, I discover,  and according to one artist that is on purpose, to annoy the older generation.  I also share how music from our youth brings back stronger emotion because we have stronger emotions and experiences at that time.   

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Thanks to Seth Johnson for my intro and outro original music.  I love it so much!

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“If you carefully consider what you wanted to be said of you in the funeral experience, you will find your definition of success.”  This week I am reflecting on some thoughts I have had this past week after attending two funerals.  I share my thoughts about being a more aware and caring neighbor and friend.  I also reflect on habit two from the 7  Habits of Highly Effective People, Begin with the end in mind, by Stephen R. Covey.  Then I look into some ways I can be better at getting to know people and the idea of trying to find out what is awesome or interesting about them.

For show notes and references come by www.findingthefloor.com/ep156

I would love to hear from you!  You can reach me at [email protected] or dm @findingthefloor on instagram.  Thanks for listening!!

Thanks to Seth Johnson for my intro and outro original music.  I love it so much!

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 ”Gratitude is the antidote to foreboding joy.”  In the episode today we are talking about joy and how it actually can be uncomfortable to let ourselves feel it as it is very vulnerable.  I share a conversation I had with my daughter that sparked a reminder of two things - foreboding joy and our happiness set point.  So I share what these two things are and how we can learn to increase our happiness set point and combat foreboding joy with gratitude. 

For references and show notes come by www.findingthefloor.com/ep155

I would love to hear from you!  You can reach me at [email protected] or dm @findingthefloor on instagram.  Thanks for listening!!

Thanks to Seth Johnson for my intro and outro original music.  I love it so much!

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 “There is no such thing as strengths and weaknesses - it is all context”  Hey all!! So excited about this episode's topic of strength in weakness and really thinking about our weaknesses in a whole different way.  I share this week about my experience helping my brother prepare for his job interview and then thought about this idea of sharing your weakness.  I then share a few other things that I realized and heard from a few different sources, a guest on Follow him, Jody Moore and Simon Sinek.  Let’s rethink the way we look at the things we may think are a “weakness.”

For show notes and references come by www.findingthefloor.com/ep154

I would love to hear from you!  You can reach me at [email protected] or dm @findingthefloor on instagram.  Thanks for listening!!

Thanks to Seth Johnson for my intro and outro original music.  I love it so much!