In today's podcast episode, I talk about the importance of making mistakes and how being open to making mistakes is actually going to help you achieve your goals and find success in life. If you don't give yourself a chance to make mistakes, you aren't giving yourself a chance to succeed. You need to be willing to make mistakes if you want to grow from who you are now into the person you want to become. 

Here's the thing about life, you are going to be judged if you do right, and you are going to be judged if you do wrong. Well, you might as well be judged for being the real you and making mistakes that you are going to get you closer to your goals. So, become a master of mistakes. Make as many mistakes as you can so that you can learn from them and grow into the individual you've always wanted to become. 

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In today's podcast episode, I talk about why you should stop being so realistic and why you just need to let yourself dream. So often we allow the judgment and opinions of others to stop us from living the life that we want to live and also to stop us from dreaming our dream. If you want to find happiness, fulfillment, purpose, and joy in life, you need to dream your dream, live the life that YOU want to live, and stop being so realistic.

Will others make fun of you for being a "dreamer?" Maybe. But at that point, you might as well be judged for being the real you and pursuing your dreams as opposed to being judged for being fake. 

If there's one thing to take away from this, it's to make today matter. Be whoever you want to be, chase the dreams you want to achieve, and be the person you want to become, not who others want you to be. 

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In this episode, I talk about the importance of smiling and how smiling can help to boost your mood, strengthen your immune system, how it can benefit others around you, and how much more positive of a life you will live if you learn to smile more. 

According to research, the average child smiles 400 times a day. The happiest of adults smiles 40-50... It's no wonder adults often wish they could go back to the "good old days" of being a kid. Maybe if we conditioned ourselves to smile more, we wouldn't have the desire to be a kid again, but rather, would be happy with the life and the blessing we are living today.

Daily challenge to you. If you want to do something hard and something that will bring happiness and positivity to your life, try smiling more. It's the easiest, but the most effective thing you can do to boost your mood and increase happiness in your life. 

In this episode, I talk about how to let go of the negative bs you are feeding yourself and how to focus on a positive mindset. Our mindsets shape our reality. Whether we think we can or can't, we're right. It might seem cliche to say, but if you want to live a more positive life, then you need to focus on the positives. Fill your mind with the thoughts you want your reality to reflect.

In this episode I talk about the power of critical thinking and the impact critical thinking can have not only on your life, but on those around you. 

I am in the starting weeks of my master's in Industrial and Organizational Psychology and one of our first assignments was on critical thinking. I never realized how beneficial critical thinking is and how practicing critical thinking can help you not only improve your life but also the lives of those around you. There are many benefits to thinking more critically, some of which we will talk about in today's episode. 

Psychology really is one of the few fields that is constantly changing with life. No matter how much you have learned, you are always going to need to continue to seek and expand your knowledge. 

In this episode I talk about how to cope with COVID and the ever-changing world around us. 

We all know it's a different world now with COVID-19, but it's important to remember to take care of your mental health and personal well-being during these changing times. 

I saw an article from the American College of Cardiology and this article resonated with me more than any psychology or self-improvement article has. These are actionable things that we can all start doing in our daily life to help manage our mental strength and mindset during the Coronavirus pandemic. 

Let me know what you are doing to manage your mindset and personal well-being during COVID.

Original article: https://www.acc.org/features/2019/07/clinican-well-being-portal/covid19/tips-to-cope-with-covid-19-stress

In this episode, I talk about why you aren't achieving your goals and the steps I have taken to start achieving more of my personal goals. 

Are you struggling to achieve your goals? Don't know why you aren't achieving your goals? 

In today's podcast, we talk about 5 reasons why you aren't achieving your goals and how to turn around those negative habits so that you can start achieving your goals in 2021. In order to achieve your goals, you need to know how to set goals

Avoid doing these 5 things if you want to achieve more of your goals and find the success you deserve! 

Why you aren't achieving your goals: 

1. You are choosing too many goals.

2. You aren't focusing enough on making progress.

3. You are expecting them to happen overnight.

4. You don't learn from your failures.

5. You let your doubts control you.

Avoid doing these 5 things and there will be no telling how much success you will find in 2021. 

Welcome to the first-ever episode of Make Today Matter.

In this episode I talk about my mission, my purpose, and my plan for this podcast. 

This is a podcast for those who are looking to improve their life in the areas of self-improvement, time management, money, careers, psychology, motivation, success, mindset, and just anything that will help you to make today matter.

Sounds like a lot, doesn't it? That's because life doesn't have just one focus. There are a lot of different areas that make up our life, and that's what we talk about. 

You want to know how to make money? We will talk about that.

You want to know how to improve your life? We got that covered as well. 

You want to find more motivation to achieve the success you crave? Again, we talk about that as well. 

Really there isn't anything we aren't going to talk about. If it's a topic that is going to help you in life, you'll find it here. 

Now let's make today matter and start living the life we deserve to live.