Live A Vibrant Life Podcast with Life Coach Kelly Tibbitts

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Taking the time to think about how to match your time and your energy can make all the difference in reaching your goals and achieving the results you seek for your life. What’s truly important should show up on your calendar. On the face of it, that seems SO obvious. 

But are you really doing that in reality?  How often do the things that are truly important TO YOU get procrastinated or pushed out completely? How often do you put together your to do list without prioritizing or without considering your available time and energy?  And then berate yourself for not “getting it all done”? Take a listen and learn how to steer your calendar “ship” in a different direction. 

Main points: 

• Make a chart of time, task, and thoughts for the major tasks in your life.
• Use the three main categories of priorities: self care, responsibilities, relationships to sort the tasks. 
• Use your available energy - not imaginary energy, when creating your calendar. 
• Make sure there's a balance over the course of a month.
• Consider what can be delegated, eliminated or modified. 
• Try to make these decisions with compassion for your future self. 

Links 

• Join Kelly's Group Coaching Program
• Marie Forleo's Everything is Figureoutable 

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Learn to notice the energy you want to embody BEFORE making decisions. 

What is YOUR  best way of noticing - through verbal processing, journaling, art creation, something else? Don’t underestimate the significance of aligning your energy before making decisions in enabling you to live your most Vibrant Life!

Main points: 

• Commit time to learn how to notice and align your energy. 
• What kind of energy do you want to be in? Does that line up with your values?
• Consider and explore YOUR best way of noticing - there is no one right way.
• Be intentional about cultivating a lifetime habit of “noticing before deciding”.

Links 

• Join Kelly's Group Coaching Program
• Pete Scazzaro, Emotionally Healthy Spirituality
• Cathy Heller

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Stop by Kellytibbitts.com to learn more, or send me a text.

Learn to notice the energy you want to embody BEFORE making decisions. What is YOUR  best way of noticing - through verbal processing, journaling, art creation, something else? Don’t underestimate the significance of aligning your energy before making decisions in enabling you to live your most Vibrant Life!

Main points: 

• Commit time to learn how to notice and align your energy. 
• What kind of energy do you want to be in? Does that line up with your values?
• Consider and explore YOUR best way of noticing - there is no one right way.
• Be intentional about cultivating a lifetime habit of “noticing before deciding”.

Links 

• Join Kelly's Group Coaching Program
• Pete Scazzaro, Emotionally Healthy Spirituality
• Cathy Heller

Let's connect.

I am cheering for you!

Stop by Kellytibbitts.com to learn more, or send me a text.

Creating a budget for your time and energy can totally change your life. 

On the podcast this week, I share a brief overview of the 5 steps and then help us focus on the value of making our plan in advance. It is so much easier to decide and do what is important to you, than it is to allocate energy throughout the day without a plan.

 The 5 steps of my Time & Energy Management System:

• Protocol - Create a protocol or budget for your time and energy.
• Plan - Make a plan, decide in advance what to do each week, day, and hour.
• Priority - Choose ONE priority/project at a time to move forward.
• Practice - Decide small practice steps for your chosen priority. 
• Pivot- regularly reflect on your system and make changes to pivot as needed.

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Does your calendar line up with your available energy? 

What changes in the Fall for you? Is your calendar serving you or are you serving it? If you feel like a slave to your calendar, it might be time to rethink what you are using it for and how it can better work for you. 

It’s critical to make time to notice what’s working, what's not working and decide the small changes you can make so that your calendar work's better for you as we transition to fall.  Take a listen and find out more!

Main points: 

• Reflect on what it is you actually love and like, the things that you don't mind doing, and then things that you dislike or detest.
• Notice the changes that occur in the Fall - to your responsibilities, your relationship, and your self care.  
• Decide power thoughts about your calendar to take control of it and align it with your available energy. 
• Practice small steps to adapt your calendar gradually.  

Links 

• Join Kelly's Group Coaching Program

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In this episode, deepen your understanding of the importance of reflection. Reflection involves looking back, noticing the big picture, noticing your goals, noticing where your energy is going, noticing how you're doing. Once you notice those things, you have the power to pivot and make adjustments. 

• Main points: 
  • In order to give your important goals the time, energy, and resources needed, it’s critical to create what I call a protocol, which is a budget for your energy 
  • Creating plan in advance for how you want to spend my energy can transform your ability to create the results you seek
  • But equally important is making time to look back and reflect on how your protocol is working for you (and making adjustments as needed)

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How do you “desummer”? Is it time to pivot as the seasons change?  Take a listen and consider how you can better take charge of your transition from Summer to Fall. 

Main points: 

• Look back and reflect (without self judgment) on the goals you had at the beginning of summer.  
  • Notice what worked and what didn’t work.  
  • Note down if  there is anything you'd like to change for next year. 
• Do you feel like you're ready for the transition to Fall? 
• Use my Energy Check In chart 
  • Do you notice any kind of natural energy shift as the daylight hours shrink?
• How do the other changes, like food, sports, school schedules, etc. impact you and your energy?  
• Look at your next six weeks of your calendar, where will you be resting or enjoying your own life? Guard that time, put it into the calendar first.  

Links 

• Join Kelly's Group Coaching Program
• Atomic Habits by James Clear

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Many of us think of “rest” as maybe a nap or just a break from what we're currently doing.  However, there are many kinds of rest and it’s important to choose and practice the ones that are right for you.

I was inspired by an Instagram post from ninetypes.co on how we can rest based on our Enneagram.  In this podcast, I'm offering my thoughts on different ways of thinking about rest that roughly correspond to the nine Enneagram types.

As none of us need to stay “stuck in the box” of our main type, we are also not “stuck” with just one version of rest.  There likely are several types of rest that will work well for you in different circumstances.  It doesn’t matter if you know your Enneagram type or not. 

Take a listen and try out some new kinds of rest in your regular practice - see what a difference it can make in your life!  Nine KInds of Rest

1. Gift yourself some time away

2. Give yourself permission to not be helpful

3. Be unproductive on purpose

4. Connect to art or nature

5. Make time for solitude

6. Let someone else make decisions and take responsibility

7. Allow time for stillness

8. Create a space you enjoy

9. Take time to journal & notice what you’re thinking

Links 

• Join Kelly's Group Coaching Program
• https://www.ninetypes.co

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Did you know that getting satisfaction from completing a task isn’t the same thing as enjoying the action of completing that task?

When considering what you “enjoy” in life, many of us squeeze out true fun and enjoyment by focusing on getting things done and checking things off our lists. 

Getting things done is certainly important, however, checking things off our lists is not the same thing as “having fun”.  Taking time to really consider what you actually enjoy, like, and love to do is not a trivial exercise. 

Main points: 

• Noticing the nuance and creating balance in your life matters.
• Take some time to consider what you actually enjoy, love, like, dislike, even hate.
• Of course it’s not always possible to ONLY do the things you like or love, but that doesn’t mean those things should always be your lowest priority or pushed aside entirely.

Links 

• Join Kelly's Group Coaching Program

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In this episode, Kelly talks about the value we bring to our families as being so much more than how much money is on our paychecks. 

All work matters and is full of purpose - the work managing a home, the work caring for children or elderly parents,  the volunteer/community work, AND the work you do that brings in money.

In addition, it is ALSO work to stay healthy and aligned so that you can pour into other people.  It ALL matters! You bring more value than you may realize. Take some time to consider this.  Decide that you are worth regular, intentional, committed self-care and the ongoing management of your thoughts & feelings. 

Main points: 

• ALL work matters, but work is not ALL that matters. 
• You need rest AND play AND work.
• You need to start with your mental, emotional, physical, and spiritual rest to make sure that you are not exhausted, overwhelmed, and depleted. 
• Connect with your breath on an ongoing basis.
• Remember - you have ZERO agency over the thoughts, feelings, and actions of others-you are only in charge of your thoughts, your feelings, and your actions.  
• Take time every single week to notice. What do you want? What do you want to stop doing? What do you want to keep doing? What's first, second, third?

• Links 
  • Join Kelly's Group Coaching Program

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