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Are you grateful? Do you see the constant good in your life? What's your attitude on gratitude? When an Earth is at their best, they are filled with gratitude and living in the season of never-ending-harvest! So start your morning routines, get out your journals, and begin moving towards the solution, not the problem!

"Stuckness is Suckness!"

By Jaye McElroy and Leta Herman | Follow: Facebook, Twitter, Instagram In this Pod, we talked about:

• Gratitude!
• The grateful 4's and our morning routine
• An attitude of gratitude adjustment
• Finding mercy for yourself
• Harvest time of the year and the Earth Season
• The hedgehog and complaining
• The hedgehog challenge: can you stop complaining all day and be grateful for the things in your life?

Take the Hedgehog Challenge – No Complaining Thought Quotes:

"When you have gratitude you can have mercy on yourself."

"A little bit of gratitude in your life is like plugging into an outlet."

"You can find a hundred things to be grateful for about climate change, and I'm sure you can find a thousand things to complain about. Let's focus on the hundred!"

Links in this Episode:

• The Secret Movie
• Abraham Hicks – She was in The Secret! Abraham affirmation techniques are powerful ways to create change in life. Abraham speaks to us through Esther Hicks.

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Bend It Like Beckham

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Water is POWERFUL! Their stamina and ambition are unstoppable when achieving goals if they can learn to harness their energy effectively. But what happens if they freeze?? Tap into the Wood inside you or even a Wood friend to help you get moving!

“We need to tap into our Water to get bleep done!â€

By Jaye McElroy and Leta Herman | Follow: Facebook, Twitter, Instagram In this Pod, we talked about:

• The Water superpowers of stamina and ambition
• Water's biggest challenge
• The amazing Water marathon runner Courtney Dauwalter!
• How Water can wait too long, or even freeze!
• How Water can find the Wood to help them!

Thought Quotes:

"Another strength of Water is being patient. They'll wait for the right moment, and sometimes that right moment won't come for a long time."

"Wood and Water work really well together. It's the drive and the strategy!"

"The cure for any Water woes are getting out of your head and getting in the present moment."

Links in this Episode: Courtney Dauwalter – The ultimate Water stamina!

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Why is it so hard to become the BOSS of YOU? Where can you find your Authority? Authority is a Fire Virtue and everyone has Fire in them somewhere! Fires like to be perceived well by their peers and their community, so it can be hard to find their own Authority. If you're having some Fire challenges, the solution may be to start being accountable to… yourself! Stop all the worrying and stresses and create the life you always dream about! Start, in the name of love! Listen in and join The Minority Who Have Authority!

"With Authority comes responsibility."

By Jaye McElroy and Leta Herman | Follow: Facebook, Twitter, Instagram In this Pod, we talked about:

• What Fires really want!
• What Fires really hate!
• How to turn Morality into Authority
• What is the Supreme Controller
• The societal norms with children and Authority
• The serious side effects of worrying and the Health Palace
• The importance of accountability
• Authority Work: Are you willing to be the Authority of you? Do you trust you can be in control of your own life? And if you were what kind of life would you be living?

Thought Quotes:

"When something takes charge of the being, we speak of the heart."

"The vast majority of people are not being accountable to themselves."

"I am safer by not worrying."

Links in this Episode:

Underoos still exist! (although we are hoping for Captain Marvel – but Wonder Woman is okay too.)

• Abraham techniques – Abraham affirmation techniques are powerful ways to create change in life. Abraham speaks to us through Esther Hicks.

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Metals' goal setting strengths come from their ability to be precise, organize a physical space, accountability, and possess truth and integrity. Jump on that magic Metal carpet ride!

"Reach the unreachable star!"

By Jaye McElroy and Leta Herman | Follow: Facebook, Twitter, Instagram In this Pod, we talked about:

• Organizing a physical space
• Thinking in black and white or shades of gray
• Truth and integrity
• How Metals' are with confrontation
• The duty to be responsible
• A love of service and wandering

Thought Quotes:

"I like fudge. I think sometimes fudging helps you achieve your goals from the Wood perspective, until it bites you in the bleeeep."

"We can all benefit from the Metal in us to hold ourselves accountable to our commitments."

"If you're stuck in Metal and the world around you is the excuse for not doing what you want, activate your Wood to make some changes!"

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Are you courageous enough to be selfish or do you tend to be the cowardly lion? Find the courage to do and be what you really want in life! It's time to take a look at our societal values and make them more about YOU, YOU, YOU… find the Win/Win in your own life. Muster the courage and find baby steps to make changes.

"Our souls have longing…"

"Muster the courage despite the fear."

By Jaye McElroy and Leta Herman | Follow: Facebook, Twitter, Instagram In this Pod, we talked about:

• Practicing what you preach
• The individual virtues vs. societal virtues
• Putting yourself first
• Selfishness
• The Five Elements and the individual virtues

Leta and Jaye (and Xena) out climbing on a perfect day. Thought Quotes:

"Courage doesn't mean a lack of fear, it means doing something even though you're afraid."

"People restrict themselves for so long that they go through a midlife transition."

"The courage virtue is the courage to be your authentic self."

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Earths' goal setting strengths come from their ability to think things through, play it safe, take care of themselves, and keep it appropriate. Earth's rock!

"Earths can better serve everyone else by spending a little time taking care of themselves."

By Jaye McElroy and Leta Herman | Follow: Facebook, Twitter, Instagram In this Pod, we talked about:

• Goal setting and thinking it through
• Earth, The Home Palace, and the safe container
• The importance of social compliance for Earths
• Taking care of yourself
• Reading books, walks in nature, taking a bath!

Thought Quotes:

"Home is the safe container from where we launch our ambitions from."

"We need some spontaneity, but we also need some safety."

"In order to set and achieve goals, you have to be able to think it through."

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What are the modern day virtues? Are they liberating you or imprisoning you in your life? Does society hold you down? Do you ever want to run away to the middle of nowhere? It's okay, we talk about this and more… listen and find out how an Alchemist can move through the world and become a Virtue Virtuoso!

"We want to be limitless!"

By Jaye McElroy and Leta Herman | Follow: Facebook, Twitter, Instagram In this Pod, we talked about:

• How to be free and still be a part of your community or society.
• The 5 Confucian Virtues
• How each of the Five Elements connects to the Virtues
• The worst thing that can even happen to someone
• The Alchemist's Path
• Society and guilt
• HW: How do you exhibit these 5 Virtues (or not) in your life?

Thought Quotes:

"Human connection is one of the greatest sources of happiness."

"Being kicked out of your community can be the most painful things that can happen to a human being."

"You can run away to the North Pole if there's anything left to run away to. Are there mountains in the North Pole? I don't think so. Just glaciers"

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Do you ever put yourself first? How do you set and achieve your goals? Are you Shiny? Do you stuff everything into every minute of each day? Do you have passion in your heart? Access your Fire Element to find your passions and motivation.

"You really need to have all Five Elements to set and achieve your goals. And luckily you have all Five Elements within you!"

By Jaye McElroy and Leta Herman | Follow: Facebook, Twitter, Instagram In this Pod, we talked about:

• Goal Setting by each of the Elements
• Fire's passion and aligning it with your heart
• The Shiny Bubbles syndrome
• The Stuffing (Turducken) syndrome – time management challenges
• Putting yourself first…what a concept!

Thought Quotes:

"If you really want to master your Five Elements, it's like an alchemical process… you need all of them to get what you want."

"Fire is the key to our motivation in life!"

"First you have to light a fire in your heart to get something done."

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Whooo are you? Who, who, who, who? We really wanna know! The Daoist belief is this is all an illusion, so let's start telling different stories, honoring our suffering, and become better watchers in our lives. Time to let go of *bleep* from the past that is holding you back. So how are you going to let go of your Tentacles and those pesky Triggers? Listen in to our conversation about tendrils, tentacles and triggers… oh my.

"A free heart is what we want!"

By Jaye McElroy and Leta Herman | Follow: Facebook, Twitter, Instagram In this Pod, we talked about:

• Setting your heart free
• How to release your Tentacles
• Authenticity and freedom
• Trading your problems away
• How to deal with suffering
• Inherited Tentacles

Thought Quotes:

"If we are not free we are not being authentic."

"Leave your temple and you're free!"

"The suffering isn't the issue. You honor the suffering. Remedy the conditions that cause the suffering and transform, or just feel the pain and get stuck."

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Introvert, Extrovert or Extra-Vert?!

"You get an Element, and you get an Element, and you get an Element, and you get an Element, and you get an Element! Everybody gets an Element… and it's Friday."

By Jaye McElroy and Leta Herman | Follow: Facebook, Twitter, Instagram In this Pod, we talked about:

• Which Elements are extroverted and which Elements are introverted?
• How does society and our upraising affect your introverted or extroverted-ness?
• Be the Watcher (Eckhart Tolle-style) to discover your Elements.

Thought Quotes:

"That's the Extra-verts, not the Extro, the Extra!"

"There are a couple exceptions to this Introvert/Extrovert rule…""

"You might be confused based on how you were brought up."

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The Inspired Action Podcast App (available in iTunes store and Google Play)

Be The Observer – Eckhart Tolle

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