TELL The Every Day Life Lesson Podcast is featuring a special guest: Dustin Wiggins Dustin comes from a long line of entertainers. Art and music is in his blood. From the entertainment capital of the world, Dustin was raised in Las Vegas, NV. It was there he developed a desire to fight against abuse and sexual assault. Using his experience in the US military he took principles from the Modern Army Combatives Program, Mastery Resilience Training and additional training as a RAD (Rape Aggression Defense) instructor and blended it into a course called Always Be Strong. He is passionate about serving others and strives to add value to each human soul he interacts with. His current efforts to serve can be found at www.DustinWiggins.com   Get the basic course 'Always Be Strong' from Dustin for Free by sending an email to: [email protected]

The Lies We Tell Ourselves!

As we go through life we tell and re-tell our life stories, to others and to ourselves. Do we stick to the facts or do we add things with each time we tell our story?

I'm an author of a bestselling book in which I write part of my life story at least the way how I remember it, but maybe more so the way how I want others to hear it or the way how I want to hear it.

If one person tells a story to another and the other tells that story to someone else and this person in his turn tells it to another person and-so-forth and-so-forth, we all know that by the 10th person the story has changed quite drastically. This is not so different when we tell and re-tell our own story. The questions to ask here are: Why is that, and is that so bad?

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Should we have been mentally better prepared for the injustice in the world?

 

Several accounts from holocaust survivors were like this: 'The worst emotional damage of the Holocaust for me and many other victims was an absolute loss of faith in humanity.”

How often did I feel this too, not saying that I was in a comparable situation like the holocaust, but as a victim of child abuse, I often doubt the goodness of human beings as well.

If I look at today's crisis I wonder: maybe we shouldn't be so surprised that something like Russia invading Ukraine still happens in 2022. Perhaps it is my faith in human beings that is simply too naive?

 

This week we'll try to give an answer to the question: should we be (mentally) better prepared for unfairness and injustice, instead of having faith in humanity?

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Are you using your (unique) abilities to change today's crisis?

 

The overwhelming situation of what's going on in the world can make us feel that whatever we are doing is trivial and of no or less meaning. It can make us feel powerless and but a vapor on the tides of world events.

But maybe we are more powerful than we think? And maybe we have more influence on changing these situations than we believe or at least be a support in the situation of the people around us.

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Are we selfish if we admit to our own fears during today's crisis?

All the people I spoke to this week were in awe and disbelief of what's happening between Russia and Ukraine. They all expressed deep sympathy for the 'common people' who are thrown in times of turmoil and uncertainty.

 

I also noticed personal fear in the people I spoke to, not only in them, but also in myself... Should we give that fear attention or concentrate our focus on the people who are in direct need?

This week we'll try to give an answer to this question.

 

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We all say we that we want freedom to make our own choices ... but are we secretly AFRAID of FREEDOM? Afraid of what you might ask, perhaps we are all afraid that we can't handle it or don't know how to deal with true FREEDOM... providing that true freedom is something that really exists. This week at the place we'll look at the current cry for freedom we hear around us, but at the same time where we ask for freedom in one area we might not even know that we don't use the freedom we already have in another.

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It really helps if we learn how to suck at what we do.Well at least if we want to be really good at what we do, no matter what it is. The 3 things that stops us in our tracks to become really good at things:

• We often expect results too quickly
• We are ashamed to be a beginner or to suck at what we do
• We take what others think of what we do too much into account

All this goes away if we learn how to suck at what we do...

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The question we try to answer today is: should we let others dictate our actions? It seems like there is an obvious answer... but is it really that obvious? or is there more to it?    This Episode of TELL - Should we let others dictate our actions?    ☕️ Found this episode helpful and want to buy me a coffee? https://www.buymeacoffee.com/jean7

 

We think we live in our body, but most of us are trained to live in our mind.    In this episode of TELL: We need to relearn how to be in our body.    ☕️ Found this episode helpful and want to buy me a coffee? https://www.buymeacoffee.com/jean7  

 

ot only a common sayings but often used in coaching as well is: "Let's worry about that when we get there". Surface deep, this sounds like good advice. Well I honestly think that it is most of the time a bit of rubbish. However we might live more by this 'credo' then we are aware of.    This Episode of TELL - If we want to cross a bridge when we get there, we better make sure there is a bridge to cross.