Happy You Are Here Podcast

Peggy Caruso is an author and certified executive and personal development coach.  Her new book, Take the First Shot: Strategies to Fire You Up and Change Your Life recently launched on Amazon: http://bit.ly/takethefirstshot

In this episode, we discuss her practice as a coach and how what she does differs from the traditional idea of a "life coach."

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Who are you surrounding yourself with? 

Are these people you want to be more like?

This is something I’ve become more aware of in the past year. The people you surround yourself with is INCREDIBLY IMPORTANT‼ You can still love and care about people while giving yourself some distance. 

Doug Bopst has a great quote that is more-or-less: “Spend time with people that have COMMON FUTURES, not common pasts.” 🔥🔥

That’s a paradigm shift for most of us.  This is true online and offline. 

So who are you following? Who are you hanging out with? What ideas are you letting slip into your unconscious mind? 

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The way you've had meditation described to you is wrong. Whoever started saying the goal of meditation is to clear your mind is completely full of it.

That's just not how it works at all. Let's talk about it.

So we've covered Infomation Diet, Gratitude and minimizing complaining, and taking care of your physical health. This episode is on meditation.

I'm really into a bunch of different types of meditation. There are literally hundreds. BUT in regards to basic mental fortitude and sense of wellbeing, there's one relatively simple type of meditation we're going to focus on. That is mindfulness meditation.

Benefits of Mindfulness Meditation: https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/mindfulness-meditation-is-huge-but-science-isnt-sure-how-or-whether-it-works/2018/03/23/2fa510a6-1e4e-11e8-9de1-147dd2df3829_story.html

We discuss my least favorite thing that is also one of the most effective ways of boosting mood, mental clarity, and general wellbeing: a healthy diet and exercise.

Link Between Physical Health & Mental Health: https://hside.org/link-between-physical-and-mental-health/

1. The first one to adjust is food. The other two are going to feed-- ha, pun-- off what you eat. 

2. Once you do that, get your sleep cycle in check.

3. Finally, Physical Activity.

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We're going to get you to stop being so negative... not for anyone else's sake but for your own. PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE take this to heart. Seriously sink into this one. 

If you're stuck in this rut of complaining all the time-- and we'll talk about reprogramming your brain in more detail later on-- then you're pushing people away. You probably never chose this state, but circumstances in a life built up these default pathways in your brain to look for the problem in everything and everyone.

It's a miserable life to live. I'm sorry if this is you. Not only is it miserable for you, but everyone you're around. It's kind of a self-fulfilling prophecy. If you find yourself saying, everyone leaves and nobody likes to be around you... maybe it's because you push them away with your incessant negativity. 

I'm not saying it's your fault that you got to this point. But from this point on, it's your fault if you continue to live in a state of constant negativity.

Let's get started digging into this a little deeper.

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How significant is information overload and what you can do about it? Our brains do take in a LOT of information daily. There are two problems with this: 1. We're inherently bad at assessing the quality of information we are presented with. 2. Our brains need downtime. In this episode, we'll discuss how to manage this modern information overload problem with practical techniques like the information diet.

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References in this episode:

Factfullness' Foundation, GapMinder: Objective Information about the State of the World

https://www.gapminder.org/

University of California San Diego: Amount of Data We Consume

https://ucsdnews.ucsd.edu/index.php/pressrelease/u.s._media_consumption_to_rise_to_15.5_hours_a_day_per_person_by_2015

Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology: Why We Need Downtime

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/1745691612447308

Review of General Psychology: How Gullible Are We?

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/317073563_How_Gullible_Are_We_A_Review_of_the_Evidence_From_Psychology_and_Social_Science

We're going to go discuss four tools that practically will help you build a stronger brain geared towards a positive, fulfilling life. Once I stripped back all of the other advice and things I had read or listened to over the last few years, there are four clear things that changed it all. This episode I'm going to briefly cover each of them. Then over the next four episodes, we'll go in-depth for each one.

Each and every one of you has something incredible to give to this world. Through this show, I want to share ideas, tools, and techniques to live a happy, fulfilling life so that we can bring our best selves to everything we do.

I'm happy you're here with me, listening to this show.

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In this episode: Does anything really matter? A lot of us reach this point. You might be there right now. I've spent most of my life in that state.  Helpless. Hopeless. Nothing seems like it matters. HERE IS WHY IT DOES.

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Welcome to the Happy You Are Here Podcast. Each and every one of you has something incredible to give to this world. Through this show, I want to share ideas, tools, and techniques to live a happy, fulfilling life so that we can bring our best selves to everything we do.

Please feel encouraged to reach out on social media with your thoughts, ideas, struggles, and accomplishments. This show is for you and the more this communication goes both ways, the better I can serve you.

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