The Bed Head Chronicles

Good morning, everyone and welcome to the bedhead Chronicles. Today, I am officially six months from my bone marrow transplant that I had on February 21st of this year. So I am celebrating being six months down the road from that, celebrating being alive and celebrating being cancer free. It's an absolute miracle. And it got me thinking, you know, now is the time. 

Today. This moment is the time to be all that you dream of being. Don't wait, you may be afraid. You may feel like you're not ready, but don't wait. Take that first step. Start now. I was thinking about back when I was an amateur triathlete and I had set this goal that I needed to win the amateur world championships.

If I were to turn pro, like I couldn't turn pro unless I won the amateur world championship. And on that day I came in third. And I went to the beach that afternoon and Karen's Myers. She was like the best athlete in the world at that time was on the beach and I congratulated her. She just won the world championship on that day.

And she said, how do you go?  And I told her, I came in third and she said, Oh, that's amazing. Congratulations. And I said, no, you know, I really wanted to turn pro , but I told myself that I had to win that race in order to deserve turning professional. And she said, Siri, don't wait, my God, you you're doing such a great job.

If you turn professional, if you take that step, yes, you're gonna be stretched. You're gonna be pushed. You may be beaten a lot, but it will lift your level. It will make you better. It will push you to be your very best. And so I turned pro, soon after, and it was the best decision, one of the best decisions in my life.

But that the idea is this, that life is an absolute gift. For me, life is a miracle and every single day matters to me. I wanna be all that I can be every single day. Don't wait to love with all your heart. Don't wait to  believe in you and to go after your dreams, don't wait to be the person that you dream of being take that first step today, celebrate you because I'll tell you one thing.

And I realized this more than ever, not just through my career as a triathlete  but getting through this whole experience with leukemia. And  and my bone marrow transplant is that we are so much stronger than we think that we are. We are so much more powerful than we think that we are. Believe in you. Believe in you now.

Believe in the people around you. Don't wait to love with all your heart. Don't wait to give your heart to someone else. Don't wait to throw everything you have into your dream. Yes, you may falter. Yes. You may be disappointed once in a while. Yes. You may fail once in a while, but that is all a part of succeeding.

We must fail to succeed because that's how we learn and that's how we grow. So it may seem scary, but today this moment, take one step towards living that life you dream of and being that person that you know that you are and that you know, that you wanna be. And that person that you can share with this world. Start now, life is a gift.

Every moment should be cherished. Believe in you believe in what's possible. I love you all. Hey. Six months... I believed in this woman and I got vulnerable and I gave her my heart. I gave her my soul because I've never loved anyone on the planet as much as I love her. And it was the best risk I could have ever taken.

It was scary. But look what I have now, my soulmate and the love of my life. So six months post bone marrow transplant. Live life to the fullest start now. Believe in you. We love you. We love you. Thank you for giving my wife such great inspiration and encouragement. You guys are awesome. I wouldn't have done it without you.

Thank you for your beautiful support and, we love you guys. Love heals. We love you.

 For more information about Siri visit https://sirilindley.com

Good morning everyone and welcome to the Bed Head Chronicles. Today. I want to talk about how we treat ourselves, how we celebrate ourselves, how we encourage ourselves or how we don't. Think about this. Imagine you have a child or a parent or your husband or your wife and you both are going to go out and you're going to do some kind of a great challenge.

Say, you're going to go run 10K. You've been working hard on this. You've been training hard and you've got these high expectations and you personally go out and you'd go as hard as you can and you plan it perfectly. You do everything right, but you fall short of what you hoped for.

Now. I can imagine that you get down on yourself.

You get upset with yourself. You get, you're disappointed and you tell yourself, darn, what did I do wrong? How could I fail like that? But now imagine that your beloved has done the same thing and they've gone out and they've given it everything they have, their heart and soul and they planned it perfectly.

They gave it everything they had and they fell short of their goal. How would you speak to them? What would you say to them? Would you talk to them the same way that you spoke to yourself about your disappointment? I doubt it. I bet you would say you did great, you gave it everything you had, you planned it perfectly. 

Next time we're going to get it.  Next time you're going to make it. We need to speak to ourselves as we would our most beloved. And that means our husband or wife, our parents, our kids, our best friends. Because it is so important that we are our own biggest supporter in life, that we believe in ourselves, that we love ourselves, that we celebrate ourselves, that we encourage ourselves.

I've learned this more than ever over the last six months. I needed to be my own biggest supporter to make it through this and in other situations, imagine, you know, you've got a bad habit and you can't seem to quit, whatever it is, whether it be drinking or smoking or drinking coffee or OCD, whatever it is, this bad habit.

Instead being hard on yourself and saying, Oh, I'm so how come I'm so weak? How come I can't fix this? What would you say to someone that you love with all your heart? You'd be encouraging. You'd try to find a solution. You'd be there to help them to let them know that they have everything they need inside of them to eliminate this habit. Treat yourself in the same way.

Love yourself, encourage yourself, believe in yourself in the same way. It is so incredibly important. I hope this helps everyone. Have an amazing day and I'll see you during the next Bed Head Chronicle.

For more information about Siri visit https://sirilindley.com.

Good morning, everyone. And welcome to the Bed Head Chronicles. Sorry, I've got a hat on. So you can't see the bed head. I'm just out here on a beautiful walk and started getting so emotional, thinking about the past six months and, what I've been through and, sometimes thinking, how did I ever have that strength and that courage to get through all of that.

Cause it was really hard. And that got me thinking, and I'm just so grateful. I just start crying, you know, looking around me at, you know, any little flower or blade of grass or butterfly, and it's just such a miracle to be alive. But in the same note, it made me think how sometimes, you know, I remember how I in the past would. I'd have a big workday and I'd say to myself, oh my God, this is going to be so hard. Or, you know, I've got to do the laundry. This is going to be so hard. I've got to undo the dishwasher. This is going to be so hard. Is it really that hard? Think about the things that you say this same thing too during your day, whether it's you've got a work call or a meeting.

Oh, this is going to be so hard. You make it so hard just by saying. You make it so much more un-enjoyable because of how you're perceiving it and it made me think like doing the dishwasher. Is it really that hard? No, it's not. And God, I feel so grateful that I can unload a dishwasher right now.

Let's not make the things in our lives so difficult.

This is kind of an extension of my Bed Head Chronicle the other day, where, when we say we get to do things, instead of have to do things, it changes our entire experience of whatever it is we're doing. But when you're about to take on any task, whether it's a big task, like running a meeting at your business or having to pay your bills or having to get on the phone with Comcast because your TV is on the Fritz. When you find yourself saying, Oh, this is going to be so hard, ask yourself, is it really that hard? It's not. And your experience of it will be that much nicer because you're not perceiving it to be something so horrible and so daunting.

I hope this helps everyone have an amazing day. I am just so grateful to be alive, this beautiful miracle of life and being able to share my experience with all of you. So blessed to have you all in my life. Have an incredible day, make it amazing and be you.

For more information about Siri visit https://sirilindley.com

Good morning, everyone, and welcome to the Bed Head Chronicles. It's great to be back, My bed head is not quite what it used to be. but going through cancer, you lose all your hair. And what's crazy is my hair has come back black and curly, and there was not a single person in my entire lineage that has curly or wavy hair. And here I've got black and curly hair and I'm so deeply grateful because I have hair and I'm alive and it's such a gift. So this is what it's going to be for a while everybody and I thank you for tuning in. 

Today, I want to talk about the difference between "having" to do something and "getting" to do something.

If there's one incredible lesson that I've learned through cancer, it's that when you have been given this gift of life, and I have been given this miraculous gift of life, I am alive and I get to live and everything that I do, whether it's going to work or working out or everything that I get to do in my life, I get to do this.

It's no longer, I have to go to work or I have to work out, or I have to do this, and it's this chore. It's a gift. Everything I get to do because I'm alive is an absolute gift. I want to share this with you because so often I hear people say, "Oh, I have to go to work and oh I have to work out."

And it makes the experience something that becomes a chore. It becomes work. It becomes un-enjoyable. But if you just shift your focus to, I get to go to work, I get to work out. I get to take care of my body. I get to take care of the people around me. It changes the entire energy and changes the entire experience for you to something that is enjoyable.

It's a gift. It's something you appreciate. It's something you embrace. So please look at this in your own life. And when you find yourself saying that you have to do something, try and look upon it as, wow. I get to do this. See how that changes your entire experience of whatever it is that you're doing.

Life is a gift. It's an absolute miraculous gift. Embrace every moment and make it what you dream it to be. Have an amazing day.

For more information about Siri visit https://sirilindley.com.

Good morning, everyone, and welcome to the Bed Head Chronicles. I'm out, excuse all the sunscreen and, and the helmet, but I'm out here. And I just did an hour on my bike the most beautiful day for months. Post bone marrow transplant, and all I can think about is just how grateful and thankful I am to be alive.

And I'm marveling at the beauty of this planet. And when someone goes by the other way, and I wave and we smile that beautiful feeling of connection. I just feel so blessed to be alive. And I want to thank all of you because your love, your support, your belief in me has helped me heal. So thank you everyone.

I just really wanted to share this moment with you because every single moment of this bike ride has been the ultimate gift of joy. I love you all so much. Have an amazing 4th of July weekend and thank you. We're all alive and life is so good. God is so good. Thank you.

For more information about Siri visit https://sirilindley.com

Good morning, everyone. And welcome to the bedhead Chronicles. Today, I want you to think about. How hard or how easy do you make it for yourself to feel accomplished? I know a lot of people including myself. when I look back at my time in triathlon, I was learning how to feel accomplished just by making progress.

[00:00:27] But in the beginning, I've felt like I needed to do something absolutely extraordinary to be worthy of feeling good about myself or feeling accomplished or feeling successful. Does it take achieving something monumental before you even give yourself credit for a job well done? Or do you celebrate each step forward each small victory along the way?

[00:00:57] Think about it. And how easy do you make it for that feeling of accomplishment or success to be stripped away from you? For example, someone I know in my life does an amazing job in their job, like just does an incredible job and everybody loves her and the reviews are just awesome all the time. And one day she got a bad review.

[00:01:21] One day. Did she focus on the thousands of other people? That it said what a wonderful job she had done or did she focus on that one negative comment? She was really focusing on that one negative comment. And that made me think about this, that we really need to build upon our successes to build up our confidence, to build up our pride in what we're doing every day.

[00:01:49] Because every day you've been taking one step forward. Is a great victory and his progress and something to feel proud about. And that will give you added strength and added confidence moving forward and really build upon that. But also let's make it a little bit easier to feel proud of ourselves, to feel accomplished, to feel successful.

[00:02:12] Instead of, if you're an athlete saying when I win that big, huge race, that's when I'll feel successful. How about you say every time I take one step closer or I get a little bit faster, I finish, you know, a little bit higher up in the standings. Feel that success feel accomplished, feel proud of that because that's going to give you the confidence to build up to that ultimate win that ultimate success that you're looking for.

[00:02:43] Let's make it easier for ourselves to build confidence, to feel proud, to feel accomplished because when you do that, you are building up a strength inside. That's going to allow you to achieve that much more. Celebrate the small victories. Everybody have an amazing week. Thank you for tuning in, and I can't wait to see you next time.

For more information about Siri visit https://sirilindley.com

Good morning, everyone. And welcome to the bedhead Chronicles. Today is a very special day for me. It is day 100 post my bone marrow transplant. And when you reached that point for anybody who's been through this kind of a thing, like I have. Day 100 means that you have gotten through the riskiest scariest part of your recovery from the transplant.

At this point, everything is en-grafting. My new immune system is taking place in my body and I am now well into my recovery from the transplant and I am so deeply grateful. I had two donors. I had my sister who facilitated the umbilical cord donor that came in and basically has taken over my entire system.

And now my immune system is that, this miraculous gift from that umbilical cord donor. So I am so deeply grateful to reach this point in my recovery. It truly means that I am on my way to full health. And as you all know, from a week ago, when I announced that I am cancer-free, it's the greatest, most miraculous gift in the world.

Life is such a miraculous gift. This has been the greatest challenge of my life. I mean, I have had some incredibly dark moments. Um, I have experienced things that I, you know, I look back and I actually started crying the other night because I thought when I looked back at some of the things that I've been through over the last six months, I don't even know how I had the courage and the bravery and the strength to get through it.

but I'm so proud of myself, uh, to know that I found a way to know that I found that strength. I found that courage. I found that bravery and I made it through, I think in life we underestimate how powerful we are as human beings. We underestimate our bravery. We underestimate our strength. We underestimate the power of our heart, our soul, the power of what we believe in the power of what we want.

And if there's one thing I've learned from this, I know that in the beginning and I made the decision when I was diagnosed with acute myeloid leukaemia, I knew what the statistics were. I made the decision that I am going to triumph over this. I am going to conquer this cancer. I have so much life to live.

I have so much more to give to this world. I have so much loving to do. And I knew that I wanted another 50 years, at least of living to be able to touch lives, make a difference, live this life and be grateful. And I made that decision. And when we make that decision, when we know that there is no alternative, that is what we want.

That is what we're going to create. Then no matter what comes your way, you find the resilience, you find the strength, you find the courage to get through it and to get through it bravely, no matter how far I felt, no matter how sick I felt, no matter how scary it got, no matter how much it hurt. I never wavered from knowing.

That I am going to triumph over this. I am going to be victorious and I'm going to live a very long life. It's making that decision and if you're not dealing with something like this, you can, this, this applies to anything in life. It's making a decision. So you have a dream of accomplishing something in your life and you make the decision that you will not stop until you achieve this goal.

That is making a decision that is commitment. And that means that no matter whether you fail or you get disappointed that you will change your approach or find it another way, you'll figure it out and you will keep moving forward until you make that dream come true. Or until you accomplish that, what you dream of accomplishing when you make that decision, it is so incredibly powerful.

You begin manifesting creating that. And nothing will get in your way. And it allows you to tap into all the strike, tap in all the power inside of you to do whatever it takes to achieve that ultimate goal. Making that decision is everything. That's what leads to building your strength, building up your resilience.

I've made my decision. I'm cancer-free now, and I'm the most grateful. Grateful human on the planet. I praise God every day for this miraculous gift of life. And I know that I have so much more to give this world and to give all of you and to give those around me, make a decision and it can be something as small as another decision that I've made in my life is I don't want to suffer.

I don't like suffering. I don't like being uncomfortable. So in every moment, if I find myself in a state of suffering, I find a way out, I look for solutions. I'm not focusing on the problem of suffering and whatever it is I'm going through. I'm focusing on, okay, what are my possible solutions here? I'm going to change my focus.

All the things I learned from Tony Robbins, I'm going to change my focus. I'm going to change what this means to me. I'm going to reframe this in a way that gives me strength and makes me feel good. This has been a really tough time for everyone in the world today. It's hard. It's scary. It creates anxiety, but if you want to feel better, choose to feel better.

Choose not to suffer, choose to find the gifts in every day. Choose to find meaning in this, that we will all come out of this better than ever before, with a greater understanding, with a different perspective, that's going to allow us to live even more fulfilling lives. Make the decision on a small scale from deciding that you're not going to suffer and you want to be happy or you want to be as comfortable as possible to a big decision of, I will try them.

But make that decision. And then in every moment, recognize and acknowledge the thoughts that you're having, the way that you're thinking and make sure that those thoughts are aligning with what you want. Discipline your mind, discipline your focus, discipline the way that you give meaning to things and make sure that what you're focusing on the meaning you're giving things is empowering you and making you feel good and helping you move forward on the path towards achieving your ultimate dreams and goals.

Thank you for being here with me on this journey, your love, your thoughts, your prayers, your support. it's meant everything to me. Love heals. It truly does. And knowing that you have all these people supporting you and believing in you and believing that you can make it through believing that you can achieve something, just believing in you in general.

It's the greatest gift in the world, so thank you all. I love you have an amazing Day and just thank you.

A special interview this week where Mike Reilly from Ironman interviews Siri about being cancer free, her love of coaching and struggling through tough times.

Thanks so much to Ironman for this interview and allowing us to share.

You can watch the original Video on Ironman's Youtube channel here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oPbgGCkqLVQ and find out more about Ironman and their very special events on their website https://www.ironman.com/

Good morning everyone, and welcome to the Bed Head Chronicles.

I am here in the hospital with my amazing wife, Bek, whose been by my side every second. I'm so deeply grateful.

But I was thinking today about how, especially in tough times or if we're experiencing something we don't want to be experiencing, we learn what we do want in life or where we want to go oftentimes by experiencing that which we don't want, that which we don't enjoy.

So, part of those bad experiences is to remind you of the good that you want in your life. What you want to feel. The joy you want to feel.

And it's so important in every moment to know exactly where you want to go. Where are you know? But where do you ultimately want to be? And envision yourself there. See and feel yourself there.

I see myself vital, healthy, and strong and fit. I see myself back doing the things I love and helping people, touching lives, and making a difference in the world. And I think about that all the time. I feel the sensation of what it will feel like to be doing that again -- how strong and vital and healthy I feel. I sit in those feelings and recreate it so I know exactly what I'm working for every single day.

So, have a vision. We all know that in life, having a vision is so crucial. Know what you want in life, whether it's joy, health, happiness, peace or connection, success, prosperity, or abundance. But have a vision in your life. Not just what you want to achieve, but how you want to feel, who you want to be surrounded with, how you want to make the people you love feel, how you want to make the people around you feel. Have a vision.

I know my vision is what gives me so much strength every single day. Through the good days and the bad days, my vision and my knowing what I'm working towards, where I'm headed and where I'm going gives me so much strength and so much hope.

Thank you so much, everyone, and have an amazing day.

For more tips and advice about living an authentic life go to https://www.sirilindley.com/authentic/

Good morning everyone, and welcome to the Bed Head Chronicles, or the Bald Head Chronicles as we are right now.

I'm here today. I'm sorry. I've kind of lost my voice a little bit. Some of the things that happen when you have a bone marrow transplant or you're going through something like this, it's quite a long recovery process. I get a lot of sores inside my mouth. And I've been struggling quite a bit with lack of appetite, just not wanting to eat, having no taste. Yet knowing that we all need to care for our bodies like, they're a Rolls Royce, not a rental car, right?

Treat your body with love. Give it everything that it needs to be healthy and to be strong and to be vital has always been my attitude. So not having an appetite for the last four months has been really hard on me cause I'm losing quite a bit of weight and it's frustrating. And a lot of that has to do with nausea and vomiting, which I'll have to tell you, I had a phobia my entire life. Literally since as long as I can remember. And that phobia was of vomiting. It used to put me into a frenzy of anxiety. It would give me a panic attack if I saw someone that was doing it, if I heard that somebody had done it, if I thought about it happening, or if I saw it in a TV show or in a movie. Like it literally would bring me to a panic attack.

So going into this whole process was super scary for me because I knew that that was kind of going to be a reality in my life. Nausea and vomiting is something that when you go through chemotherapy and all the kinds of treatments that I'm going through, it's just kind of a given.

So one of the things I'm so proud of is that I have been able to overcome that phobia. I've had to, I had no choice. What did they say? Being strong when strong is, is all you have to be.

So anyways, I've had a few tough days. but we all know that, this is a long process and I'm so deeply grateful to be home with my horses and my dogs, and my cat and my incredible wife, with my mom right down the street who comes and walks with me every day. It's been an absolute, total blessing and miracle to be home at this time.

So what happened yesterday?

I want to share this with you because I think it's so important that we all -- and I ask all of you, you know, especially now in these really tough times, it's so much easier to hold on to our biggest fears and our anxieties and to sit there. And I talked about this the other day, but it also really hurts us and it makes things harder and it makes the whole situation worse. So we know better than to sit in those emotions of fear and anxiety, and to get out of that space by focusing on something we can be grateful for, doing something that makes us happy, doing something for another, loving another, thinking about another. So I've been focusing on all of these things as well. And I really have had a tough week this week, but yesterday I had a bunch of tests done and it was great news all around. I had a great blood test results even if I was feeling crappy. I had, my viral panel was completely negative. I have no viruses. They tested me for COVID. I don't have COVID. So it was an amazing day of incredible results. Right? Like just incredible results, which I was so grateful for and so happy.

But I also have this lingering, this greatest challenge that's going on with me, and that is this whole appetite and trying to eat -- forced myself to eat basically, which for me, I'm one of the biggest food lovers in the world. I love my food. It's like my favorite thing. So for me to not have an appetite and to not want to eat and to have to kind of force myself has been one of the biggest challenges of my life, really. I know that sounds kind of silly, but it has been.

But anyways, so I was thinking about it yesterday. I had all this great news, this amazing news, and it was a really snowy day. We got a foot and a half of snow. And I noticed that I wasn't fully feeling the joy and the gratitude of the great news that I got that was such a relief and such. To get great news like that is something that lifts your spirits and changes your whole day. Right?

But I realized that I was still holding on to this challenge of really stressing about my appetite and food. And wanting to put weight on so that I can be strong and healing. So I woke up this morning and I decided I'm going to have a great day today because I know everything's moving in the right direction.

My body knows exactly what it needs to do to restore itself to perfect health. It's a beautiful day. The sun is shining. I've got my wife beside me. I've got my health to the extent that I do, and I thought, my whole life, I've kind of, I've achieved a lot, which I'm very grateful for. But I've achieved a lot by pushing myself, pushing myself, forcing myself, doing whatever it takes to get it done and making sure I do it right and leaving no stone unturned. And that has served me so well.

But in this situation right now, I feel like I need more flow. I feel like I need to surrender a bit more. I need to, except a bit more where I'm at and the fact that I'm gonna take two steps forward and a step back, and I'm going to have good days and bad days. I'm going to have challenges that really pushed me to my highest potential. These challenges that when I overcome them are only going to give me more to share with the world, more to talk about, more to share with others that can make a big difference in the world.

So. I decided that what I wanted to talk about today, and I want you to think about in your life, the things that you have achieved to this point. Has it been through force or through flow? And by flow I mean just enjoying it and being present and being grateful and being at peace. And most of the time I live my life that way. But this has been the biggest challenge in my life, and there's been a lot of other challenges added to it that makes it a lot harder to discipline ourselves, to live in that beautiful state.

But ask yourself the things that you've accomplished to this point have been done by force or with flow. And imagine how much better it would feel to be more in a flow state. You can recognize and be the observer of those thoughts that get in the way of you being happy and get in the way of you being at your best. Observed them.

Like I said last week, love yourself through them. But just let them pass by and then come back to the present moment and think about what can I do for another right now? How can I show love to the person next to me? What can I be grateful for? What things can I be proud of about myself right now? What things make me happy? Even if it's something super simple.

I believe, especially during a time like this, we need to remove that force, that pressure that pressure to have to perform or to have to do something perfectly or it has to be this or to has to be that. Instead, just be. Just be you. Live from your heart. Give from your heart. Believe in you. Love yourself because loving yourself is everything. You must love yourself first before you can love others the way you dream of loving them. Let's get after our lives, and I'd love you to think about this throughout the week. Going through life and handling every situation that comes your way with more flow rather than force. And catch yourself if you are in that force mode, catch yourself. Be kind to yourself. Acknowledge it. Love yourself through it and say, ‘you know what? I'm going to flow through this. I'm going to enjoy this more. Life is short. Every moment counts. And I want to make the most out of every single moment, and I'm going to make this an amazing moment and an amazing day.’

So I was able...