The Causey Consulting Podcast

Saturday is Halloween... a full moon... and a blue moon. There's no way there won't be ghosts and ghouls and things that go bump in the night.  🎃

If you like a good ghost story or have an interest in the paranormal, this is the episode for you!  👻 

Special nods to:
House on Haunted Hill, 1959
The Wolf Man, 1941
Bram Stoker's Dracula, 1992 

If you've thought about starting a family tree-- or maybe you have one that needs to be fleshed out more-- this is an auspicious time of the year to do it!

Key topics:

✔️ So many people had to couple up and survive harsh conditions for you to be sitting here right now, interacting with this podcast.
✔️ Enjoy the cultures. Cook recipes. Learn some of the languages. Listen to its music.
✔️ By Celtic tradition, the veil between the physical world and the spiritual world gets thin this time of the year. Who knows... could it be true?
✔️ Exploring the connections that helped to create you also helps you understand yourself better.


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The month is halfway over. If you have been using this time to fret over Thanksgiving, Christmas, New Year's... STOP. Enjoy this time for its own sake. The rest of the year will fly by. Once we are firmly in the dead of winter and craving Vitamin D from the sun, you'll be glad you celebrated October.

Key topics:

✔️ Autumn is its own season for a reason. Enjoy it and stop trying to rush headlong into who's gonna go where for Thanksgiving or Christmas. You'll have plenty of time to deal with that in the coming weeks.
✔️ Engage all five of your senses in the season.
✔️ As the old-timers say, "Don't wish your life away." If you have a job that makes you hate your life Monday through Friday, find a different line of work.
✔️ Special lead-in music "Early Autumn" by The Four Freshmen. Special outro music "A Sort of Homecoming" by U2.


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Lots of people advocate journaling. If you don't like writing or you don't want it to be a rehash of your daily activities, how do you actually use it to deliberately create your own future?

Key topics:

✔️ If you skipped your shadow work last week, DO IT.
✔️ The gremlins always find their way out, in one form or another.
✔️ If you focus on what is, you get more of what already is.
✔️ Instead of "hoping" for the best, create it for yourself.

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Welcome to Q4. 2020 will be over before you know it. The days are getting shorter as darkness overtakes the light. So what now? For the rest of October, I will be giving you homework assignments to answer that question.

Key topics:

✔️ How do you want to spend the rest of the year?
✔️ The holiday season will be here soon... probably not the best time to start family battles and drama.
✔️ Are there any projects you've left undone? This is a good time to finish them.
✔️ What habits would you like to reinforce and which habits would you like to break?
✔️ If you haven't done any shadow work before, this is an opportune time. You don't have to dwell on negative things or spelunk into the sadness. But you should take the time to drag your gremlins out in the cold light of day.

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The words that you use to describe yourself carry a lot of weight. And if you allow other people to speak negativity over you and you believe it, that carries a lot of weight in your life, too.

Key topics:

✔️ Other people's opinions and gossip do not matter. That said, if you internalize their negativity, you can poison the well for yourself.
✔️ If you are saying things like, "I'm bad with money. I spend it as soon as I get it. It just never lasts for me," CUT IT OUT NOW!
✔️ Are your beliefs about yourself your own? Or have you internalized things you were told by parents, grandparents, teachers, etc?
✔️ People will often follow your lead. If you command respect and do not accept ill treatment, the people in your life will either show up differently or will make an exit.

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Too much of a good thing is not a good thing. We can take generally good advice or a generally good principle to an extreme. Let's face it: 2020 has been an odd and often insane year. Be gentle with yourself. This may not be the most fun and amazing time in your life and that's OK.

Key topics:

✔️ If you are listening to "gurus" on YouTube screaming that you are a loser, turn that mess off. Offffffffffffffffffff.
✔️ "Living your best life" can turn into a cult if you're not careful. Sometimes we have to do what the crisis demands, which may not be the most glamorous solution. 
✔️ There is a season. Some seasons may require you to be conservative and cautious and others require risks and leaps. 
✔️ Let common sense prevail. 

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In order to achieve victory, you have to understand the battle you're fighting. Are you treating an emotional issue with physical means? Are you using medication or alcohol to mask the symptoms rather than getting to the root cause?

Key topics:

✔️ Battles can be physical, emotional, or even spiritual in nature. Know which is which.
✔️ Numbing out may provide relief in the short term, but it is not a permanent solution.
✔️ Beware the Dr. Feelgoods of the world!
✔️ Rather than preparing to slay dragons every day, put your armor on and keep it on. Don't anticipate problems, but instead, understand that if the sh*t hits the fan, you can handle it.


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Nowadays you can outsource almost anything. But: the one thing you must do for yourself is critical thinking. That cannot and should not be left to someone else!

Key topics:

✔️ Caveat emptor. If something seems too good to be true, it probably is.
✔️ Who fact checks the fact checkers? How did we even get to this place?
✔️ You are free to act as you choose to, but not free from the consequences.
✔️ If ethics are a personal code of conduct, your self-sufficiency should be a code of how YOU will take care of YOURSELF.


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If you are a coach, consultant, or other service-based business owner and you work 1:1 or 1:few with people, this is an important episode. Trigger warning: I speak candidly about the dark triad personality cluster and the ways it can manifest. If you start to feel overwhelmed by this, please turn this episode off!

Key topics:

✔️ What is the dark triad personality cluster and why is it important to understand?
✔️ Protect yourself. This applies on every level: emotionally, spiritually, financially, physically, etc.
✔️ Narcissists and ego-maniacs are out for themselves. Your well-being or even an overall sense of the Golden Rule does not factor into their decision making.
✔️ The key is not to be paranoid, but simply to be aware.
✔️ TRUST YOUR GUT!



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