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We’re traveling this week, so we hand picked one of our favorite past episodes to revisit — Zach and Lesley have traveled a lot together, both with and without kids, and we’ve compiled a bunch of our best tips for making your trip a little more like a vacation, even if you do have kids.

Today we’re talking with Tosha Schore! A parent coach for conscious parents, Tosha helps you shift your boy's behaviors through connection. Tosha is committed to creating a more peaceful world, one sweet boy at a time, by supporting parents to care for themselves, connect with their boys deeply, set limits lovingly, and play wildly. She helps you lose it less, and raise respectful, resilient boys inside her online parent community, The Playhouse. She is also the creator of Out With Aggression! A simple 5-Step Practice to Stop Your Boy's Aggressive Behaviors and Lift Your Parenting Confidence, and author of Listen: Five Simple Tools to Meet Your Everyday Parenting Challenges. Tosha also happens to be mom to three boys of her own and is an advocate for boys and their families worldwide.

Tosha is offering a Free Live Training -- How to discipline your boy without punishment -- that would be a perfect fit for you if you've got a boy between 2-10.

We’re traveling this week, so we hand picked one of our favorite past episodes to revisit — in this one, we discuss growth mindset, one of the cornerstones of personal growth and development.

We’ll be back next week with a great interview. Until then, we wish you and your better half the best on your journey of personal development, together.

Today on podcast, we're continuing our discussion of stress, but focusing more internally on things that you can do for yourself in a season of stress.⠀

We dive into 6 strategies for dealing with stress and anxiety.

Links:

• Podcast: Tips & Tricks to Combat Decision Fatigue — Half Better
• Whole Life Challenge | 7 Habits (That Might Change Your Whole Life)
• About JJ Virgin - Celebrity Nutrition and Fitness Expert
• Mel in Create and Cultivate: Top Advice For Success At Work
• The Three Worst Morning Routines - Brendon Burchard
• The Five Elements of the The 5 Second Rule
• Change Your Habits and Life with Pavlok | Pavlok
• Supporting Your Partner Through High Stress Times — Half Better

Are you feeling stressed!?? How about your partner?? It is inevitable, that at some point in your relationship, you are going to go through something stressful - for one or both of you. Well, today we’re going to talk about how you can not only make it through that season of high stress, but come out the other end more connected with your partner. We break down 5 ways to support your partner through a period of high stress. Listen in and let us know, what is one way you are going to support your partner when they are feeling stressed?

Links:

• WWDC19 - Apple Developer
• Introducing Voice Control on Mac and iOS — Apple - YouTube
• HPX with Brendon Burchard
• Create Your Own Family HQ! — Half Better

Last week we said our next episode was going to be about enneagram, but. . . our guest needed to reschedule, so we’re going to pivot (PIVOT!) and instead talk about our favorite productivity and self development resources.

Links:

• Newsletter Sign-up — Half Better
• SpaRoom Diffusers - SpaRoom
• Tribe of Mentors: Short Life Advice from the Best in the World: Tim Ferriss: 9781328994967: Amazon.com: Gateway
• Laracasts
• Quote of the Day - Sean Croxton
• Cortex - Relay FM
• Living Forward | A Proven Plan to Stop Drifting and Get the Life You Want
• Amazon.com: Getting Results the Agile Way: A Personal Results System for Work and Life eBook: J.D. Meier, Michael Kropp: Kindle Store
• Jocko Willink (@jockowillink) • Instagram photos and videos
• Mel Robbins (@melrobbinslive) • Instagram photos and videos
• Freedom - Block Websites, Apps, and the Internet
• Paper - Dropbox
• Moleskine® Official - Planners, notebooks, journals, backpacks

It’s time for another HQ Review with Lesley & Zach! We love these episodes where we get to check in with what’s going on in our lives, answer any questions that have come up from listeners, and give you a glimpse into how we look at our progress with personal development.

In this HQ review, we’re checking in about finances, work & side hustle stuff, health, planners, & creating a summer rhythm and new Ideal Week for when the kiddos are not in school!

If you have any questions you’d like us to answer in the next HQ review, leave them here (or on Instagram), and we’ll make sure to answer it next time!

Links:

• Goals — Half Better
• I am Beck Tench
• OmniFocus Video Tutorials, Articles & Webinars - Learn OmniFocus
• Zachary Lang - Coach Profile on Coach.me
• Half Better on Instagram: “Woot!!! We bought a second car - we are officially a 2 car family again after having been a 1 car family for a loooooong time. And yes, we…”
• Thinking Together: Financial Struggles and Beyond (with Nikki Beal) — Half Better
• Simplest budgeting method EVER! | Envelope budget you've never seen - YouTube
• Kroger : Fresh Food. Low Prices. | Shop Groceries Online
• Instacart: Groceries Delivered From Local Stores
• Free to Focus
• Full Focus Planner – The Full Focus Store by Michael Hyatt and Co.
• Brilliant Life Planner – Brilliant Life Shop
• Project EVO
• Clear Habit Journal • Baron Fig
• 5 Second Journal | THE MOST POWERFUL JOURNAL ON THE PLANET
• The Bullet Journal Method
• Half Better Life Planning Clarity Sheet

So last week we talked about Life Planning together as a couple - but WHAT if your partner isn’t a planner? What if they are a reluctant goal setter? Today we dive into this topic, because we know there are lots of you out there in this boat (heck, we’ve been there, too). We discuss five tactics on how to navigate planning with a partner that is reluctant to, well, plan.

Links:

• Acura Legend - Wikipedia
• Confessions of a Reluctant Goal Setter - Gail Hyatt
• Dr. Dennis Kimbro: “When are You Going to Find Your Area of Excellence?” - Sean Croxton

Life planning is like building a house.  When you build a house, you use a blueprint - it has all the instructions on it, such as where rooms, walls, stairs and windows are going, along with the dimensions, etc.  Think of life planning as creating that blueprint for your life “house” you’re going to build.

If you’re in a relationship though, there’s another dimension to this! What you ask?  Now it’s not just you building a house, it’s you and your partner.  You’re building a house together. So what does that mean?

It means…. you need to use the SAME blueprint!  You don’t want one of you to be building a mansion, while the other one is building a cottage.  Yes, it is possible that together you build one house using separate blueprints, but neither one of you is truly going to be happy with the results. It’ll be this combo house that you neither one of you particularly loves.  

So what are you to do?  Well, it means you’ve got to work off of a similar blueprint.  That way you’re building a house that you are both in love with.  That, my friends, is called life-planning with a partner.  It’s deciding together what kind of house you’re going to build.  Together.  So when the house is finished, you can both look at it and say yes - that’s the house I’ve always wanted.

Today on the pod, we’re talking about exactly that - writing that blueprint for your life.  We’ll break down the steps to getting it done, and go through some real-life examples for what it looks like, especially when you’re life planning alongside the love of your life.

This episode comes with a fun clarity sheet to help get the process rolling, so listen in, download your sheet, and let us know - what life channel are you going to work on first?

Links:

• Living Forward | A Proven Plan to Stop Drifting and Get the Life You Want
• Getting Things Done® - David Allen's GTD® Methodology
• Half Better Life Planning Clarity Sheet

Here’s a question for you: What was so appealing about your partner at the beginning of your relationship? Why did you want to spend time with them? And when you were together - what did you do?

Today on the podcast, we’re talking about how to incorporate more play into your relationship. How can you get back to doing more of what you loved doing with your partner when you were first together. Everyone plans on keeping that fun, playful part of their relationship intact, but then work, kids, chores, activities, stress, and really, just LIFE takes over. While we may not realize it’s happening, taking time to enjoy life often just gets pushed to the side. But that is what makes life fun - PLAY!

And playing together has some serious benefits. As Markman writes in his book 12 hours to a great marriage: A step-by-step guide for making love last, “having fun together is the greatest factor in a sense of friendship, commitment and the greatest influence overall in marital satisfaction”.

Who doesn’t want more of that? So listen in, and we’ll give you 4 ways to incorporate more play into your relationship as well as as list some ideas for some of our favorite ways to play together, and as a family.

We’d love to know - what’s your favorite way to play with/date your partner? Let us know in the comments below.

References:

Links:

• Amazon.com: Pandemic: Legacy Season 1 (Blue Edition): Gateway
• Becoming My Own Hero - The Chic Site
• Amazon.com: Cobble Hill More Ice Cream, A 400 Piece Jigsaw Puzzle: Gateway
• Half Better Partner Meeting