Superglue Podcast

Hey friends!
I am so incredibly grateful for your support. The Lord has certainly blessed me with a lot of work after starting my own business in June. I am finding myself moving at a fast pace again and need to pull back a bit. For my own wellness, I am going to put our podcast on hold. I will stay in touch. I have every intention of doing this again, but for now I need to refocus my time. I wish you all the very best. Thank you for listening in!

Meredith

1. How do you start your day?

2. How do you end your day?

3. What's a book that changed your mind and why?

4. What's a strategy to keep focused?

5. When you were a kid what did you want to be when you grew up?

6. What did you learn from the worst boss you ever had?

7. Who has influenced you most when it comes to how you approach your work?

8. What inspires you?

9. What does work-life balance mean to you?

10. How do you prevent burnout?

Ya'll...I have a story to share in this episode about a super embarrassing sing moment. Music helped me get over the yuck recently. Listen in to learn more!

1. Increases happiness.

It reduces anxiety, boosts your mood, and even slows your heart rate

2. Reduces dementia.
It reduces depression and isolation, and can also help people with dementia tap back in to their personalities and sharpen their senses

3. Improves mental health.
And it can also help you process trauma.

4. Makes you smarter.
Studies show that people who play instruments have better connectivity between their left and right brains.  When the two hemispheres of your brain communicate with each other, your cognitive function improves.

In our fast paced society where productivity is highly valued and instant gratification is coveted, it can be very difficult to step away, unplug and just sit quietly with ourselves. Let's discuss the benefits of meditation and take a moment to simply sit. Like many things that are good for us, this can be hard. The time is worth it because you matter. Be gentle with yourself and take time to restore your soul.

In The Prayer Process we take time – a minute, two minutes or maybe ten minutes - to spend time with the Lord every day. 
Pick a specific time when you will pray; ex. Morning Prayer or Night Prayer. 
It is an intentional way that we grow in our faith. 
The seven steps of The Prayer Process are as follows: 
1. Gratitude: Begin by thanking God in a personal dialogue for whatever you are most grateful for today. 
2. Awareness: Revisit the times of the past twenty-four hours when you were and were not the-best-version-of-yourself. Talk to God about these situations and what you learned from them. 
3. Significant Moments: Identify something you experienced today and explore what God might be trying to say to you through that event (or person). 
4. Peace: Ask God to forgive you for any wrong you have committed (against yourself, another person, or Him) and to fill you with a deep and abiding peace. 
5. Freedom: Speak with God about how he is inviting you to change your life, so that you can experience the freedom to be the-best-version-of-yourself. 
6. Others: Lift up to God anyone you feel called to pray for today, asking God to bless and guide them. 
7. Finish by praying the Our Father.

Life is messy.

It isn’t a color-within-the-lines exercise.

It’s a wild and outrageous invitation

full of uncertain outcomes.

The mess of life is both inevitable and unexpected.

It is filled with delightful mysteries

and frustrating predicaments.

In our disposable culture,

we throw broken things away.

So, what will we do with broken people,

broken relationships, broken institutions, broken families,

and of course, our very own broken selves?

We are all broken and wounded.

The answer will fill you with hope.

There has never been a more urgent need

for us to attend to what is happening within us.

- Matthew Kelly (Author, Life is Messy)

Habits 4 and 5 focus on creating Win-Win situations by engaging in the practice of seeking to understand before needing to be understood.