Special Guest: Alisha Fanning

April is Stress Awareness Month and I have a few KEY stress-busting tips for you in this episode.

My wife joins me as my resident meditation expert with some quick tips to maximize your time and effort here as well.

Stress Tips:

• Sleep (and electronics)
• Meditation 
  • Headspace App Link
  • 10% Happier Link
• Water
• Gratitude

There is obviously a whole lot more stress busting ideas but these are some "sure wins" for you to start immediately.

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April Fools!  This fun, and sometimes infuriating, holiday of sorts is upon us!

But it is also a good reminder of asking ourselves a question, "Are we fooling ourselves?"

Are we fooling ourselves when it comes to:

• Our Health: are you feeling fine and yet taking pills or overweight?
• Our Finances: living paycheck to paycheck or even day to day?
• Our Spouse: thinking things are "fine", or even just happy with "fine

Just a few examples of ways we could be lying to ourselves!  So, what's the plan?

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Special Episode:  On July 9th, 2016, I weighed 295 pounds.  By December, I was down to 236.

No shakes, no infomercial gimmicks, and no MLMs.  

Wanna know how I did this?  Check out my facebook page to officially sign up for the email list.

Learned this amazing new principle that I just had to share.

LOVE + FUN = CONNECTION

Think about it.  Your kids, your friends, your spouse, your team at work.  You want connection, you just need the above equation.

And the best part?  It only takes 90 seconds.

Where did I learn this?  From the group I coach with to push me to a better version of myself.  Men, check it out at www.wakeupwarrior.com.   Ladies, sorry, it's for men only. 

HOWEVER, I do know this powerful lady that has an amazing message for you - check out her podcast "WOMEN WANTING MORE".  Go there right now before you forget.

Peace!

Howdy 'Murica - we have now turned Pi Day (3.14 or March 14th) into a celebration of overeating PIE.  And so I've come to talk to you about using Pi (or really a Pie Graph to upgrade your life.

You will have FOUR PIES:

1.  Your Plate - 1/2 of your plate must be veggies.  Then eat whatever shit you want, but start with the good and go from there.

2.  Power hour - 60 minutes - movement, fuel, meditation, prayer, learning, and notes to the family.

3.  Clean and prep:  30 minutes each - it will change your environment for the better.  

4.  Family Time:  Put your phone away or the TV away for 60 minutes.

Listen in for more details and as always make sure to check out www.peptalksforparents.com and sign up for our newsletter.

We're obsessed with "overnight successes", touchdown passes, home runs, and all things flashy.  While there is rarely a true overnight success, and those professional athletes spend thousands of hours of training that we don't see - instead we cheer and shout for moment.

Instead, we should be focusing instead of a base hit.  Base hits are easier, smaller, and yet have an amazing impact as they are done every single day.  If you are trying to hit home runs instead, you're spending most of your time striking out.

I also discuss how oxytocin (the connection hormone) supports this theory - check it out!

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While hiking the mountains during a recent bootcamp immersion experience, one of the coaches made the claim, "it's better to keep up than to catch up".

What a declaration, and it's good advice on all fronts.

Lay waste to the thoughts that you can push your kids aside to somehow make up the difference with a ski trip or a night at the movies.  Instead, what can you do daily to invest in them.

Your health.  Why do we "sacrifice" for an extra hour of sleep or to watch TV at night because we're too tired from working... only to have a health crisis that forces us to "catch up"...

It's time to change your paradigm.  It's time to keep up.

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Want to change your habits?  I first heard about this on reddit (subreddit/thexeffect); and it has made my goal completions set to hyperdrive.  I am KILLING IT as far as new habits and the payoff has been huge!   I have lost 60 pounds already and turned my life around.

The basics are this:  we love to cross stuff off our lists and we hate to break streaks.  So, you map out 20 days (or longer) and set a new habit.  Each day you complete it, you cross off the day.  That simple, but you'll be amazed at what you will do in order to cross the day off.

Listen in for more!

I was playing CandyLand with my kids and I saw a lot of parallels with some of the clients I work with and my kids.  Mainly in how they complain when losing.

"I'm terrible at this" - was a common complaints.

Now mind you, Candyland is completely random change - merely a spin for how you move your piece across the board, but we choose to still be so hard on ourselves.

What's the lesson here?  Listen in to find out!

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As I mentioned in my last episode, we have recently moved.  Anyone who has ever moved has experienced the frustration of wondering where they have accumulated all of these surprise belongings.  As it goes in our home and personal belongings, it also goes for memories - our mistakes, bad blood between people, and past conversations.

I discuss cleaning both house and headspace.  Listen in to find out how.

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