One Life with Donny Raus

What are those moments where you get excited about the possibilities in life? What was it exactly that stirred this emotion? It is important to pay attention, as moments like these are really your heart guiding you to what will make you feel fulfilled and alive. The problem is that the majority of people just shrug it off and continue down their usual paths. This is a recipe for safety and emotional death, not happiness. So how do you tune in and allow your heart to be your guide? I cover that in this podcast...

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Planning is your priorities in action. How often do you make time for the things that matter most in your life, such time with family and friends, experiences you want to have, improving your health, and time for yourself? If you aren't planning your priorities, you'll end up prioritizing your to-do list. Which do you think leads to a more joyful and fulfilling life? Correct, your priorities. In this episode we'll start the practice with small steps, focusing in your daily priorities and gifting time to yourself.

Questions to ponder:

• What are your priorities?
• How often do you schedule the important things in your day/week/months/year?
• Write out your priorities, schedule time for yourself today, and make the commitment to yourself prioritize your life priorities.

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You are the only person responsible for your happiness and creating a life you're passionate about. There will be decisions you'll have to make along the way and they won't always be popular, nor will you get approval from those around you. When those moments present themselves, step into the fear and follow your heart. This is the only sure way to feeling alive and live a passionate life. If you choose to go against it, a life of apathy and regret await. It is your life, you get to choose how your story will play out. Which will you choose?

Questions to ponder:

• What is one thing you want to take action on, but haven't?
• Why haven't you taken the action? What are you afraid of? Who are you afraid of? What holding you back?
• Imagine you've made the decision and are now 3 years down the road. How do you feel? What other opportunities have come into your life as a result?
• If you were worrying about what others would say, what are they saying now? How do they feel about your decision?

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What do you want out of life? Do you even know? More often than not, you'll hear the answer, "I don't know." However, that just isn't true. Deep down you know exactly what you wan or at the very least, have a vague idea as to the direction you should go, but something else gets in the way... You're seeking permission, permission that no one can give you, but yourself. Go after your dreams. Trust, that the fact that you have this desires, it is meant to be in your reality.  Once you realize that you're the only person holding yourself back, you'll be unrecognizable.

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If you want to do the extraordinary, faith is the key ingredient. It allows us to step up to the challenge at hand and move beyond the fallacy of failure. As a result, we grow, become more, and have more to give. What happens when we fail to act in faith? When we fail to take the step we know we need to take? Instead of growth, we experience a shrinking of our zone of comfort, that is until we're given the opportunity to again act in faith and take the leap. Be unapologetic for what you desire for your life. You deserve it. 

Are you a conscious creator or are you playing the role of victim in your life? There is one sure way to tell which to tell which side of the coin you're on and that is by the stories you tell as to why you don't have what you want.  Manifesting the life we want starts with taking control of our focus and putting it towards what we want to create.  Put your energy there and you will have no other choice, but to move int its direction, because where emotions go, energy flows.

Questions to ponder:

• Look at the different areas of your life, what role have you been playing?
• What stories have you been telling yourself?
• What are the thoughts and beliefs you have about this area?
• What experiences are those thoughts bringing on?
• What are the things that you do want in your life?
• What are the thoughts/beliefs someone with this outcome has?

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Everything you want in life requires consistency and discipline. We've all exemplified both of these characteristics for certain areas of our life and have dropped the ball in others. The key to becoming more consistent is to bring awareness to the force behind the drop off. Plus, it helps to have some trusting friends to hold you accountable.

Questions to ponder:

• Think of an accomplishment that you're proud of. What consistent actions were required for you to achieve this?
• What is an goal you have where you are getting in consistent results? How consistent have you been in showing up/doing what needs to be done?
• What is the thought patterns that throw you off kilter?
• Who do you trust that can hold you accountable while reminding you of your truth and what you're really after?

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What have you been avoiding? How do you distract yourself in your day from the decisions you know you must make? Some people spend their lives distraction, jumping between coping mechanisms, never really addressing emotional wisdom trying to surface. While these distractions may feel good in the moment, they come at the cost of your long term happiness. What if the only way out was through? While it may be scary to confront the very thing you've been avoiding, wouldn't it be worth the momentary pain, in order to finally be free?

Questions to ponder:

• What  have you been avoiding? What feelings have you been trying to cover up?
• What is the change that the emotion is telling you to make?
• Imagine you made the change/decision, what would the possibilities would become available in your life/what would open up? 

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It's common practice to label something good or bad, but what if the worst day of your life was actually the best? What if things were just as the are, without assigning any meaning to it? Removing the judgement will allow yourself to open to the present moment, the moment where everything you want is created.

Questions to ponder:

1. List 3 experiences in the past, which at the time were difficult, but looking back, they don’t carry the same emotional. Charge.
2. What good emerged from this experience that wasn’t in your life prior?
3. What are you currently struggling with?
4. What if you knew good things were going to unfold as a result of it? What could those good things possibly be?

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What if life was constantly unfolding for you and those interruptions in your day/plans were actually serendipitous events moving your forward? When you start to look for the divine hand at play, that's when you'll see it. As you see it, you'll start to be it. Said differently, you've entered the state of co-creation.

Questions to ponder:

• Think of a in your life where things didn't go as planned and as a result of surrendering to the moment, something greater came out of it, such as meeting a lover or a best friend.
• What was your mindset in that moment of surrender?
• How would bringing this mindset into your day change the outlook of it? 
• Bring this mindset into your day and look for the synchronicities or the hand of the divine at play. 

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