Merry Christmas from everyone of us in Team Awakener Podcast. We wish you a fired up celebration. We hope your holiday is full of love, peace and joy! Best wishes for 2023.

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Every parent's dream is to be able to raise their children with discipline and strong moral principles, but parenting is not and will never be as simple and easy as it seems. In this episode of The Awakener, I will share some NLP learnings with you that you can apply in your daily life and use as a parenting guide. Improving your parenting skills can help you close the generational gap and make things you thought were impossible, possible.

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For this episode of The Awakener, I will share a part of the online training I did with one of our clients on Building An Awesome Team. Learn about one of the three ingredients to a fired-up culture, inspired by the work of Matt Church: Leaders Worth Following. Let us also discover the importance of a Culture Worth Belonging to and the energy within the organization.

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How is ambition related to passion?

Having ambitions is a great thing when creating your life plans. It is a desire to achieve something and the determination to succeed. Growth happens at the ambition level. Having a powerful internal drive gives us the ability to strive more and be a better version of ourselves. A vision contains ambition, which helps you know how to work and what role you should play towards your goal. In that way, a clearer mission helps you find your way towards your passion.

Do not be afraid to have a dream or an ambition. Tune in to this episode of The Awakener and awaken the hope within ourselves to be the dreamers we want to be.

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Life is full of uncertainties, the feeling of being clueless is a common for fresh graduates. Anxieties, pressure is also present, where they should go and how will they begin. But it all comes down with one thing, GROWTH.

From this episode, I am going to share how to start a fired up career and what employers are looking for. Enrich your talent, skills, energy and be brave to step out of your comfort zone and be able to show yourself with your best potential.

Tune in, listen with your heart and mind to awaken and spark the passion in you. 

Giving comments and suggestions can be an interestingly delicate task especially if you’re not sure how to do it as the people you know are always different from each other. It could make or break relationships at work and at home.

Learn from the second TAP TGIF Live episode how to give unapologetically fierce yet graceful feedback to your colleague who needs it. Understand how to go about it and see them loving you more for it!

We know that this question is the center of most HR meetings nowadays. Which one is better - online or face to face? And we believe that some people still prefer to have online meetings, while others are very excited to return to the office. 

And so, for our very first TAP TGIF Live, we decided to have a free discussion about which one is indeed better. I go for Team Face to Face since I would like to meet people in person rather than look at different small squares via Zoom, while my friend Josel is for Team Online because he can have the luxury of getting out of bed five minutes before a morning meeting. 

Now that we can see the light at the end of this pandemic, we should go back to school and the office. But this pandemic also taught us that it is more practical and safer to do things online. 

So how about you? What do you prefer? To what team do you belong? Tune in to this episode to know more. Maybe, one of us can change your mind. 

What is a metaphor? A metaphor is a figure of speech that describes an object or action in a way that is true but helps explain an idea or make a comparison. For example, we can use metaphors to compare something challenging or a difficult situation. 

Metaphors are creative; it appeals to the resistant person, not just to difficult situations. Take, for instance, the term "Trojan Horse." You can use the metaphor of a Trojan horse to generate a strategy to win over the competition. 

Find out the benefits of using metaphors by tuning in to this episode. 

In our last episode, we discussed how to get through an ordinary day. Of course, it’s ok to have an ordinary day. The seldom occurrence of special days is what makes them unique. But you have the power to make an ordinary day a special one - that is if you are creative!

So for this episode, our chief mindfulness officer, Josel Gaston, joins me once more to discuss how to access your creative state. If you are feeling stuck or can’t even squeeze out your creative juices, Josel shares some simple techniques to bring them out with us. 

Negative emotions often overshadow or eat up creativity. So the first thing to do is to be calm. Josiah Gilbert Holland quoted that “Calmness is the cradle of power.” So to harness your power, you have got to calm your mind. And this can be done by meditation or by action. 

There are several podcasts where you can listen to guided meditations, and one of them is produced by Josel - Find Your Daily Calm. You can find the link to his podcast below. Simple movements like walking after lunch instead of taking a nap is an excellent technique to spark some ideas from inside you. 

So if you have been stuck for some time, listen to this episode. May this episode awaken you, stir your hidden creativity, and lead and inspire others to move as well. 

Important Links:

Ep 19 - How to Get Through an Ordinary Day

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Find Your Daily Calm:

https://spoti.fi/3Nasp2J

We rarely have days when we are in a sad or depressive state. Even rarer are days when we are in a happy state. But all of us have ordinary days. Meh days. We wait days to be finished and sleep off, and then we unexcitedly wake up to another ordinary one, just dragging ourselves out of bed. 

Are your days like these the past weeks? Seemingly cloudy, just dull. Lifeless. And you find it difficult to get out of the situation. So let me help you get through another ordinary day because you could! You need to decide and act. 

In this episode, I share about a girl on the brink of suicide. Good that her mother could identify what was happening to her and asked for help. We talked for some time, and a particular painting suddenly inspired her and helped her to have hope. 

And that’s the spark of getting through another day - awakening hope. 

So tune in and know more about not just getting through another day but making it a better day for you and the people around you.