One Life with Donny Raus

Life happens outside your comfort zone. I am going to take it one step further and add, "outside your habitual patterns".  Habits are good, until they aren't. They turn bad when they cut us off from new experiences. You wouldn't plan a vacation, only to look forward to your return home, would you? Never! So why do you do that with your day? Your life is composed of your days.  Open up to the possibilities within it and you open up to a new experience of life.

If you've ever traveled for an extended period of time, you know it could be hard establishing the routines to get you productive in your day. The beauty of having your routines "scrambled", is you get to re-establish your routines, letting go of the things that didn't add value to your life. When facing this challenge, it helps to first establish a keystone routine. This is the routine that will impact and influence every action you take thereafter. For me, that is waking up early for sunrise. What is it for you? Even if you're not relocating, the steps in this podcast will help you establish your daily routines.

We've all beat ourselves up for not behaving a "certain way", but what if the excessive behavior was actually a way of realigning? What I want you to realize is that engaging in negative self talk doesn't fix a behavior, it reinforces it. When you allow yourself to go through the motions, you naturally realign or hit a breaking point, where the only option left is to correct.

Who's vision for your life are you living? When you awake in the morning are you filled with emotions of excitement or dread? It is so easy to get caught in the habitual patterns of day-to-day living, falling prey to the "should's" of society. However, if you take a moment to check in, being brutally honest with yourself, you may realize that you've veered off the path. Congratulations! Now that you're aware, you can self correct. A passionate life doesn't happen by chance. It must be seized, each and every day.

Anxiety is the byproduct of fear and uncertainty.  When feeling anxious, what are triggers leading you to feel this emotion? One of the things that helps is sharing your feelings with friends. Doing so not only releases the "pressure", but also allows us to realize we're not alone and that there may be fault in our thinking. In this episode I share a strategy on how to deconstruct and transform your anxiety, so that you can start on the upward trend of feeling good!
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Time... Time is our most valuable resource and each of us have been given equal. The problem is that few people consciously decide how they want to spend it. As a result, they forfeit their rights, and as a result, allowing others to spend it for them.  A passionate life doesn't happen by chance. It is a choice and must be seized! It starts with first understanding why you're playing the game...

Are you choosing a sub-par experience of life, because you're more worried about the thing you'll be giving up, rather than what you'll gain? If so, you may be stuck in a cozy prison.  Before you can get out of the cell, there are a few questions we must first address... The answers are your "key" to the cell. Once armed, you must decide, will you serve a life sentence or will you step out to your freedom?
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What do you like? Do you even know? Sometimes when we spend so much time with our heads in the sand (a metaphor for work), when we come up for air, we have a hard time remembering what exactly it is we did for enjoyment. In today's podcast I address that very question from a friend of mine, giving a framework to start to rediscovering life and what brings her joy.

 We all experience trauma at some point in our lives. Sometimes, that trauma can hold us captive, preventing us from moving forward in our lives. It is almost as if it has us preserved in amber. Luckily for us, these traumas can be transformed, but only when we decide to let the skeletons out of the closet. Doing so allows us to shine a bright light on them, so that we can reframe and give them a new meaning.  It is the new meaning that opens our lives to new opportunities, allowing us to see past previous limitations that seemed cement walls only moments earlier. Are you willing unpack your closet?

What are the promises you made to yourself, that you keep putting off? What are the lies you tell yourself, that prevent you from taking action towards the life of your dreams? We tend to think that we have all the time in the world to do the things we want to do, when the truth is that our time is finite and that we're not guaranteed a single moment outside of now. The time to make good on those dreams is now. So what do you want? If you haven't given much thought to it, perhaps it's time you do. While you're at it, here are a few examples to make you realize that there is not time like present to start making moves.
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