The Improvised Life with Katie Goodman | How To Create A Courageous, Adventurous, Meaningful Life, Driven By Purpose

People ask me all the time how I can stand the hater comments on my Youtube comedy videos and other social media. They look at me like I've got a heart of steel, but that isn't the case. If a friend or peer who I respect critiques me I take it to heart and listen and think about it. But the haters? I couldn't care less.

So here's how to become someone who isn't really fazed by criticism.

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What happens when you get in the habit of following a strict schedule, and suddenly in the middle of a phone call or in the middle of reading you have an idea for a new project or a new way of doing things or someone you want to reach out to. Will you allow yourself to do that?

What if on the way to the coffee machine in your office, you have a great idea, but it's not the time that you have scheduled for creative ideas. Can you let yourself to stop and follow that needs or that idea? And let's say you do follow it but after an hour you suddenly realize the idea wasn't really that great or you can't flush it out or for some reason it's a fail. Will you allow yourself to do that same off schedule Muse-following riff the next time? Or will you say no you know what that was a total waste of time and I should go back to sticking to my schedule?

Today's episode will teach you how to intentionally add spontaneity to your life.

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When my friend Sarah was in deep, deep labor, she told me, she suddenly became utterly polite, apologetic and thanked everyone around her continually. She was being the "good girl" she was conditioned to be. I myself swore like a sailor and decided the grass was definitely greener somewhere else right at that moment. Another friend got angry at her husband and started telling him this was all his fault, and yet another woman I know let everyone else make all her decisions for her and regretted it later.

When we are stripped down to our most primitive level, you'd think we'd become wonderfully clear, instinctive, a perfectly functioning animal. But clearly this isn't what happened to many of us in labor, and in the creativity workshops I lead that doesn't happen there either.

What comes up is our conditioning. Don't be ruled by your conditioning. Listen in today as Katie walks you through an exercise so you can see where your "deep labor" sends you. And then finally, once you've had the delightful experience of learning about yourself, you get to play. You get to try to do it in a different way.

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Uh oh. Katie's gonna force you to like something that you hate again.

In improv, we have rules and gimmicks to our games. This is great news because trying to do a scene with no rules, no starting suggestion from the audience and no nuthin' is really difficult. So here's the deal. Being constrained actually makes you create better stuff. And today I'm going to tell you how to make this work for you.

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So, what if you want to find the real you, but don't know how…Who have I become? What do I want to do with my life? What if I give it all up and become someone else? And who the hell would that be??

If you are assessing everything too much (and if you're not sure, just ask your spouse or best friend who will happily tell you if you are!), you might realize you are only ruminating and getting nowhere fast. But before you get a drastic haircut -- the half-shave is NOT a good look on you, trust me -- a better way to get a grip on who you really have become and who you want to be, is to first Get Lost.

Today I'll walk you through my life-coaching system on ways to get lost that will bring confidence, adventure and engagement to your life.

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Katie's "Mid-Life Crisis Song

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This episode is going to teach you how To REALLY Gain Confidence. I am not a fan of throwing all caution to the wind and saying, "If I REALLY believe in myself, this will work!" That's bull-oney… So what does work?

I am a big fan of self-confidence building, no doubt. I use improv games and exercises when I life-coach, keynote speak and to get my workshop participants to see that everything they need is right inside their head: all their ideas, all the things they have to offer the world. You are unique and we need you for that. So today I will give you tons of tools and strategies to really gain self-confidence and get unstuck and get your work out there.

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Habits are going to screw you or save you. We are in Mexico and my husband Soren is standing at the sink, and he KNOWS you don't use tap water in Mexico to brush your teeth. So he's standing there, with his toothbrush in one hand and puts the tooth paste on it, then reaches for the sink, turns it on, then stops because duh Mexico water. So then turns it off, opens the bottled water, pours it over his toothpaste tooth brush, brushes his teeth and then 30 seconds later, reaches and turns on the tap to rinse, then stops because duh Mexico water. Pours the bottles water on his tooth brush to wash it off, then reaches for the tap AGAIN to get water to rinse his mouth! And then starts to crack up and then finally, uses the bottled water for time #3 because BIG DUH, Mexico water. Habits. Love 'em or hate 'em but the habitual brain is TOTALLY in charge. How to use that to your advantage without Montezuma's Revenge

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This is my Annual Women's Improv Self-Discovery Retreat in Montana - You Should Come

My Husband Soren's Chill App about Mindfulness

The Power of Habit by Charles Duhigg

If you go to Tulum, go see this Cirque du Soleil Cuz It's Amazing

So here's the thing I started realizing about achievement. It's completely random. I have about 5 million views of my comedy videos. So what's the goal here? 5 million and 1???? Your brain wants to believe there's some actually number that means something. Like NOW I've arrived. What if you work in an emergency room and help 100 people a week. But you feel like it's not enough. Would 110 make you a better person?

It's the belief that there's this certain amount of visibility or validation or appreciation or money or fame that makes you OKAY. And I imagine a lot of you totally get what I'm saying but how many of us really question this on a regular basis. How many of us just keep plugging away stressed and striving and overworking and being disappointed that we never have enough success?

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Katie's book on Amazon

Katie's Song "Halfway Closer To Dead"

Katie's blog "Promoting Myself Into Oblivion"

Katie's old podcast with genocide preventer Simon Adams

Schindler's list that you should see cuz it's a good movie...

I spent the last 2 weeks trying to go cold-turkey on complaining, and I have surmised it's all about wanting things to be different than they are – which leads to suffering, as any good Buddhist will tell you. Or, your spouse might tell you, if you're lucky enough to have someone who recognizes your issues faster than you do. Lucky me. Actually, joking aside, I do mean that: lucky me. And, actually, a dose of "lucky me" gratitude is just what the self-help doctor usually orders to combat complaining. But affirmations and gratitude lists don't always work, do they? So, when we need something more, what does work?

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Katie shows you how to create a very specific checklist of the things you need in your life that will keep you on-target to reach happiness and fulfillment so you don't run off down some crazy road trying to create a work life you think looks good, but really ends up taking you somewhere that will cause stress and disappointment. Get your ducks in a row! Create the checklist that will lead you to flourishing.

To get more info on Katie's online courses, Mastermind Membership, or to bring her to your company or conference for a workshop or Keynote Speech, go here: https://katiegoodmanspeaking.com

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