One Life with Donny Raus

If you don't have a plan for your life, someone else does. We were brought to this earth to live a life that is unique to us, so that we may share our gifts with the rest of the world. This is true purposeful work each of us are called to do. Will you heed the call? Will you act?

Questions to ponder:

• Who's life are you living?
• Do you feel purpose behind the work you're doing?
• What kind of work do you want to do? What would you find purposeful?
• What is the smallest of steps you can do now to partake in that work? 

Everything worthwhile has a cost. However, sometimes you can miss forest for the trees. You have all the plans for "when", but forget the reality that not a single day is guaranteed and that every moment is a gift waiting to be opened. Taking action creates momentum and brings those things far out in the future to the present. What gift will you open today?

Questions to ponder:

• What are you putting today, until you have more time or resources for?
• What is the downside to putting this off?
• How can you start living this now? How can you start being active in this experience?
• How would spending time here impact your life/day?

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When you die, as we all will, how do you want people to remember you? What will they say about how you lived your life? This can serve as the ultimate litmus test to see what direction you're headed, so that you can course correct. Let these words be your guide as to how to live this day going forward.

Questions to ponder:

• How do you want people to remember you/the way you lived?
• Where have you been placing your "interest"?

Assignment: 

• 3x a day ask yourself, "What have I been interested in (where are you putting your focus)?
• Notice what emotions are you feeling.
• Where do you need to put your "interest"? (the finish line vs. the car crash)
• By doing so, -putting interest there, how will you feel?

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There is an intelligence within you that knows the answers. This is sometimes called your "gut" and it is there to serve you whenever you need it. All you need to do is ask. In this episode we'll cover a simple method of feeling out those decisions and courses of action, when fear is getting in the way.

Body Intelligence Exercise:

1. Take an area of your life and write down all the all of the options/paths available to you.
2. Go through each line item, reading it aloud, and check in with your body. Notice how each item feels in the body:
   • Joy/Fear
   • Expansion/Contraction
   • Liberation/Suffocation
3. (Extra. Credit) Take action on one of the feel good items.

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What if those uncomfortable feelings were actually your best friends. How would that change how you felt about them. Your emotions are there to let you know that something is off or needs to be addressed. They area a magnification to our inner world. The objective is to start becoming friends with these feelings vs pushing them down. Doing so will open a world of possibility and growth.

Questions to ponder:

• In your day, notice an uncomfortable emotion.
• Notice the trigger and how you were feeling.
• What was the triggering thought?
• What is the distortion in your thinking?
• After noticing the distortion, how do you feel about the above event?

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Are you anchoring the emotions of stress/fear/worry into your every day existence? There is a process that you do and may not even be aware of that is making these emotions "sticky" and more likely to show up in your day.  When you realize what that process is, you'll be armed with the ability to stop yourself from going down that road, as well as, gain the ability to anchor positive emotions and learnings into your day/life. In this episode we'll cover that exact technique.

Is it possible to live "la dolce vita" without leaving your local geography? During my coffee deliveries today I had a serendipitous encounter with two guys, one from France and another from Poland who were complaining about American quality of life. What happened next shifted both of their perspectives on what it means to live in a European state of mind.

Questions to ponder:

• Is it possible to live "la dolce vita" every day of your life?
• What do you do different when you're on vacation vs when you're home?
• How much time do you spend in distraction, doing things that subtract from your life, rather than add value (social media, calling friends with no purpose, consumption of food/beverages)?
• What can you do today to make times for the things you enjoy, so that you can start enjoying life even more?

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When we hold on to an outcome, we often stifle it out of existence. Not only that, but the experience of it is not pleasurable, because there's always this undertow of worry surrounding it. What if you could (and you can) let go out the outcome? What if by doing so, it came to you faster than you could ever imagine? In this episode we'll go over a simple practice of allowing.

Questions to ponder:

• What is the life you want to live? 
• What are the forces outside of you that are influencing your decision to live that life?
• Looking at their experiences of life, is that the experience you also want to have?
• What is one thing you can do to start going after that life that you desire? Do it.

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Life is emotion and so if we want to live an emotionally rich life, it is important to know the set point of our emotional thermostats, so that we can increase the good vibes. Finding your set point sounds straight forward, but might not always be that easy. Once you've distinguished where you are, you can design a strategy for where you want to go. You can't eliminate the undesirable feelings, but you can make it so that they're not taking a room in your home.

Questions to ponder:

• Where is your emotional thermostat set? What are the dominant emotions you experience in a week?
• Who do you surround yourself with? What emotions do they feel on average?
• What kind of language do you use? Are you pessimistic? Happy for others when they succeed?
• Put yourself in an environment where high vibes are the extreme. How do you feel? How do you feel after being in it for an extended period of time? Contrast can give you an idea as to where you are and time will slowly raise your bar to match those of your peers.

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When we hold on to an outcome, we often stifle it out of existence. Not only that, but the experience of it is not pleasurable, because there's always this undertow of worry surrounding it. What if you could (and you can) let go out the outcome? What if by doing so, it came to you faster than you could ever imagine? In this episode we'll go over a simple practice of allowing.

Questions to ponder:

• What is something you desire, that has been eluding you?
• What has been your emotional connection to it and how has it made you fee?
• How would it feel to be absolutely certain that it would show up? Said differently, to have complete faith in its arrival? 
• How would that change how you show up in your day? Live from this place.

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