IMPACT Driven

QOTD: “If ever you think that you’re losing control of a situation, just shift your mindset and watch your situation change.” – Dr. Amelia Rose

If you are experiencing low energy, or are not in good spirits, you may want to consider altering your mindset. When you are down, it can be due to negative thoughts. You start to dwell on everything that is going wrong. You reflect that you aren’t where you thought you would be and it gives you a sinking feeling.

When you start to have negative thoughts, you are setting the stage to beat yourself down. What’s worse is this situation continues to grow. Negativity feeds on itself. When you put yourself down, you will eventually put others down. You will look for others who share your negativity because misery loves company. As the negative energy thrives, you fall deeper into the mental abyss.

To turn this around, you first have to realize that it’s happening. No one likes to admit to doing something wrong, but negative thinking is wrong if you are engaging in it. You have to try and reflect on your life. Think back to when you were happy. Was it a couple of months ago or a couple of years? That will give you a good indication of when you started with the negative thinking. When you were happy, it’s unlikely you were thinking negatively.

If you don’t believe you are negative but you feel down about your current situation, consider asking friends and family how you have been behaving recently. Tell them you want an honest assessment. Unfortunately, because you are in a negative mindset, you may lash out at their answers. That will make them upset with you since you told them you want an honest assessment. However, if it helps you to see what you are doing, eventually they will forgive you when you turn the situation around.

Once you have identified that you have a negative mindset, work hard to introduce positivity into your life. Set up a bad thoughts money jar and whenever you say something negative, put money into the jar. You can do this at work, at home, or both. When you see the jar filling up, you know you have more work to do.

Avoid other negative people as much as possible. They will try to bring you back down, and you may even let them do it. Limiting your exposure to these people is a great step to take on your journey towards positivity.

Flipping your switch can seem like a massive undertaking. One that there are a million different ways to achieve if all the articles on the internet have anything to say about it. However, flipping your switch is a personal undertaking, one that may have similar milestones for everyone, but really can and should be curtailed to a person’s needs in order to be successful. Keep reading for the 7 steps you need to personalize to flip your own switch.

2. Find an Activity that Challenges You
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The activity that will most help you flip your own switch is the one that challenges you. Not your neighbor or your sibling. But you. This could be as simple as folding an entire basket of laundry in one sitting or the Sunday morning crossword in pen!

2. Commit to yourself
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Whatever challenge you’re undertaking, you’re doing it for you. Make a promise to yourself that you will try your hardest and not give up when the going gets tough.

2. Set Realistic Goals
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Make sure your goals are attainable. You aren’t going to fold all the laundry that you do on Sunday by the end of Sunday. But maybe you could at least hang up the stuff that will wrinkle. Or perhaps you will only use a pen on the crossword answers you feel 100% certain about, pencil on the rest.

2. Turn off the T.V. (or the Internet) In...

Quotes of the day:

“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety.” ~ Benjamin Franklin

“Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.” ~ Abraham Lincoln

“If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.” ~ George Orwell

“What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans, and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or in the holy name of liberty or democracy?” ~ Mahatma Gandhi

True liberty is one where each person gets to decide his or her own path. They don’t have to deal with other people ruling over them.

At a recent event I attended, hosted by Nicole Sauce, Living Free in Tennessee, I learned a few things about myself that I hope can help you as well. 

Being an introvert, I find it hard to put myself out there when I’m around large groups of people I don’t know. As I found a bit of alone time to recharge my batteries, I found myself thinking about how, while introverts like me need time alone to rest and recharge, other people need to be around lots of people in order to charge up their batteries.

But, whether we need people to recharge or not, we still need a community of like-minded people to help us and lift us up when we’re down, and who we can pour ourselves into as well. We need that, whether we want to need it or not. Community is vital to thriving.

As you think about life, consider why it is you react the way you do in different situations, and what the factors are leading up to that reaction.

In the future of this show, I want to start to incorporate more about how to prepare for when the tough times come our way, and how to create a life that’s resilient against those tough times.

Mentioned in this episode:

Check out Nicole Sauce’s podcast, Living Free in Tennessee, for quality content, and interesting and informative ideas.

In order for you to achieve what you want in life, you have to first know what that thing is: you have to VISUALIZE it!!

Visualization typically has five steps, looking something like this:

Here is where you prepare yourself for visualization by cutting out the distractions and detaching the mind. In other words, you're supposed to relax. Find a comfortable place to sit or recline. Make it as free from noise and outside interruptions as possible. Maybe darken the room or create a soft ambiance with light music or even something restful such as the sound of water from a fountain. Get comfortable and breathe deeply, counting backward until you feel calm. Generally, doing so from 25 is sufficient, but if you're a little more stressed, you might want to pick a higher number to give yourself adequate time to unwind thoroughly.

Here is where you want to layer in all those senses mentioned before. Create the intended goal in your mind. What does this look like? Sound like? Taste like? Feel like? Smell like? Ask yourself each of those questions, in turn, taking time to explore the answer fully. This is your future you're talking about, so you want to be sure to not be stingy on the details. Make this as full of a picture as you possibly can.

When you have the image, explore what it means from an emotional viewpoint. How do you feel when you think of this goal? How do you think you'll feel when you achieve it? What emotions come up as you explore these thoughts? Again, experience them each in turn. Don't get caught up in thinking you should feel just one way. Your emotions might be all over the place. Seek out the predominant one.

Here's the hard part. You need to trust you already have this. This vision is yours, in all its completeness, somewhere in the future. It's up to you to take hold of it.

This is essential. If you don't detach from this visualization, you'll get so caught up in it that you won't be able to effectively enjoy the process of getting there, much less create it. This is a funny feeling because your initial response might be you either will just be given the result you want like some kind of magical genie granting wishes or that you need to throw yourself at creating this result, half killing yourself to get there. Neither of these is true, by the way. The truth is much simpler. You focus only on doing the next right thing with the assurance you're always moving toward the correct outcome.

Remember, the key to this entire process lies in the practice of it. You have to undergo these same steps more than once. Revisiting your visualization is where you're going to find the best success.

Stress is a huge roadblock to living a lifestyle of freedom.

In today's show we talk about ways to eliminate that stress and live a lifestyle of freedom.

Quote of the day :

We love our habits more than our income, often more than our life.

-- Bertrand Russell

We do not go to work only to earn an income, but to find meaning in our lives. What we do is a large part of what we are

-- Alan Ryan

How to Increase Your Earning Potential

1. Ask for a raise
2. Explore new opportunities
3. Learn new skills
4. Ask for more responsibility at your current job
5. Become the kind of person your current employer doesn’t want working for the competition
6. Move to a new employer
7. Find a mentor
8. Someone who’s been there done that
9. A career development/planning specialist
10. Start a side hustle
11. Using the skill set from you current workplace
12. Using skills you already have but aren’t using in your current workplace
13. Learning new skills
14. Learn to code
15. Computer programmers control the future
16. Everything runs on code
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Those are all physical things you can do to increase your earning potential. But the greatest potential for increasing your income comes from developing yourself as a person. Things like:

1. Confidence
2. Asking for a raise
3. Recognizing new opportunities
4. Moving to a new job/position/career
5. Awareness
6. Opportunistic

These personal skills are critical in truly becoming someone who can earn a high income.

1. Rent things out
2. A room in your house
3. An extra vehicle
4. A boat
5. A campsite
6. Sell things 
7. Stuff you don’t need or use
8. Tools
9. Clothes
10. Farm products
11. Drop shipping
12. Flipping things
13. Become a consultant
14. Teaching your current skills
15. Marketing
16. Developing an existing business
17. Your own business
18. Buying and developing a business that isn’t operating at full potential
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20. Investing
21. Land
22. Stocks
23. Websites
24. Businesses

Dream a little: What do you see yourself doing in 15 years, if you could do anything you wanted?

Do you know your purpose in life?

Quote: “The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well.” ― Ralph Waldo Emerson

To-Do list hacks:

• my3things
• 1-3-5 method

Link to story I read: https://betterlifecoachingblog.com/2013/07/19/panning-for-gold-a-story-about-finding-your-purpose-in-life/

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Today is a bit of a topic roundtable.

• Money maker minute
• Decentralized social platforms
• Productivity tip
• Main topic: personal development strategy

Question of the day: What would you love to accomplish or do more of?

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New show segment today for the first time: 1 Minute Money Maker

Main topic of the show is: How do you define a meaningful life?

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QOTD: “You are by no means only what you already know. You are also all that which you could know, if you only would. Thus, you should never sacrifice what you could be for what you are. You should never give up the better that resides within for the security you already have—and certainly not when you have already caught a glimpse, an undeniable glimpse, of something beyond.” ― Jordan B. Peterson, 12 Rules for Life:

Thirty rules for life:

1. Never shake a person's hand sitting down.

2. Learn how to cook a signature dish.

3. Spend 30 min a day on personal development.

4. In a negotiation, never make the first offer.

5. Be grateful

6. Request the late check-out.

7. When entrusted with a secret, keep it.

8. Hold your heroes to a higher standard.

9. Return a borrowed car with a full tank of gas.

10. Play with passion or don’t play at all…

11. When shaking hands, grip firmly and look them in the eye.

12. Don’t let a wishbone grow where a backbone should be.

13. Be like a duck. Remain calm on the surface and paddle like crazy underneath.

14. Experience the serenity of traveling alone.

15. Never be afraid to ask out the best looking girl in the room.

16. Never turn down a breath mint.

17. Try writing your own eulogy. Never stop revising.

18. After writing an angry email, read it carefully. Then delete it.

19. Ask your mom to play. She won’t let you win.

20. Manners and attitude make the person.

21. Give credit. Take the blame.

22. Stand up to Bullies. Protect those bullied.

23. Write down your dreams.

24. Add value everywhere you go.

25. Be confident and humble at the same time.

26. REFUSE to just be ordinary!

27. Change the world, don't let it change you.

28. Keep your word, even if it means you lose something.

29. Live within your means.

30. Remember to keep first things first.

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