The Productivity Shift

If you want to dig into so much more from Mindi, check out her limited series podcast Unconscious to Conscious: mindihuebner.com/podcast
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“What is success? What does it look like? What does it feel like? What does it taste like? What does it sound like? Let's dive into who you get to be and let's start being her right now.” ~ Mindi Huebner

Have you heard me talk about Betty before?

Betty is the name my wife gave to the unhelpful voice in her head. I haven't named my voice because I don't hear her as clearly. She's a LOT like me. She sounds like me...but she's the opposite of me in her lack of optimism, drive, kindness, and can-do-it attitude. Maybe I should name her Bizarro Elise.(Ignore that if you're not a Seinfeld or Superman fan.)

Anyway, our brains are powerful and sometimes we need help channeling that power to be more helpful in our lives.

Enter Mindi Huebner.

Mindi is an Intuitive Mindset Mastery Coach, an IBCP certified NLP practitioner, Health, Life and Success coach and Clinical Hypnotherapist. She knows that rewiring your brain is the key to unlocking your magic so that you can create a soul-aligned business and extraordinary life. Her number one mission is helping women to reveal and release their limiting beliefs and embrace the confident, wildly successful humans they already are on the inside.

There were so many great nuggets in our discussion, and here are just a few of my takeaways:

And now for our question of the week:

What is ONE way you will show yourself some compassion this week?

I can't wait to hear all about it.

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On October first, one of my buddies posted a picture to FB. It was of a Christmas wreath and tree display outside his grocery store. ON OCTOBER FIRST.

He was like "Gimme a break!"... and I couldn't like his sentiments fast enough. I hadn't even started working on my nieces’ Halloween costumes yet. Don't try to sell me a holiday wreath in October!

So, don't get mad at me, because we haven't passed the stuffing or sliced the pumpkin pie yet...but let's talk about the December holidays.

More specifically, let's explore how simple systems can support you through what can be a crazy time of the year.

I recorded this as a behind-the-scenes episode to give you a little glimpse into the stuff I put in place to make my life a little easier during the holidays. A way to reduce some of the stress.

I gave 3 simple systems that I use to keep my holiday season organized and stress-free, and even added one bonus system;

And one last thing…that bonus…take stock of your gift wrap supplies right now and replenish them immediately.

And that brings us to our question of the week: What is one simple system you could put in place this week to make the holidays a little easier?

If you are experiencing symptoms of anxiety or depression, be sure to reach out to a trusted health professional to get the support you need.

You can also find resources here:  https://www.mentalhealth.gov/If you are in crisis, reach out to the Suicide and Crisis Lifeline by calling or texting 988 OR go here for more information https://988lifeline.org/
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Sometimes what matters most is our mental health. I mean, it always matters, but sometimes we need to prioritize it above other things.

In this episode, I had an open conversation with a couple of my coaching peers, Mari Wuellner and Darci Daniels, about anxiety and depression.

Darci is mom to a teenage daughter and @moose.the.corgi(Moose the Corgi), a daughter, sister, friend and coach at darcidanielscoaching.com. She loves to work with people who are either entrepreneurs or in charge of their own destiny and schedules.

Mari Wuellner is a mom of 3 and a wife. She also owns an insurance agency and a coaching practice at mw-coach.com. She loves to help women live a life of purpose. Mari is also the host of The Living on Purpose Podcast.

Mari, Darci and I each shared our personal approaches to the questions;

Now, you will clearly hear how different our approaches to dealing with mental health struggles are. None of us are medical or mental health experts.

So, if you think you might have anxiety and/or depression, please reach out to your trusted medical or mental health provider to find an approach to manage your anxiety and/or depression that will work best for you.

And now, let me ask you a question…

Question of the week: How are you feeling today?

Let me know your answer over on Instagram.

PS:
Find Darci on Instagram at https://www.instagram.com/coachdarci/

Find Mari on her podcast at https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-living-on-purpose-podcast/id1476053981
and on Instagram at https://www.instagram.com/mariwuellner/

I know that I've always been able to get more clear about things when I am talking with or am guided to clarity by someone else.

If you are someone who needs help with this kind of thing, accept that and give that to yourself.

In fact, if you want to see if I can help you with this, just go to eliseenriquez.com/chat to book a complimentary chat.
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If you’re listening to this episode when it first airs, then you know we are smack dab in the heart of fall. For some reason, this time of year is when I really start thinking about what I want at a bigger level.

Now, I am an Enneagram type nine, and that can mean that it can be very easy for me to defer getting what I want until everybody else around me has what they want or need. Or maybe I won't pursue something at all if I'm worried that pursuing it will disrupt things in my life and the lives of others. In fact, what I can do instead is just merge with other people's wants and visions and goals and help them achieve those, and then I can find myself feeling unsatisfied, frustrated, and resentful for not making my own thing a priority.

And for the longest time, there was something that I really wanted in my life. Come on over and hop in a time machine with me to go back to the fall of 2012, because, in this episode, I share about:

Here’s my invitation to you as the trees are letting go of their leaves and are going into a season of building up strength for what's going to happen next:

And with that in mind, let me ask you this question of the week…What would it look like to live a life you love?

And I mean truly look; like, draw a picture. Write out a story of your future self. Get specific, and then watch for the paths that might lead you there.

If you are feeling stuck when it comes to a collaboration you are in, feel free to schedule a quick consult with me.

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One of the things I love most about running my own business is that I get to decide what I wanna do and how I wanna do it.

Now of course I always want to make sure that what I'm doing is in line with where my business is going and the values that I hold.

And one of my values is around collaboration.

Even though life and work can feel lonely at times, none of us are ever truly in this alone. So I thought it would be fun to talk about what makes for kick ass collaborations and I did that by doing something a little different.

In this episode, I interview three different people that I collaborate with to make my life and my work happen. And really, they make my work and life better. My podcast manager Rachael Sanya, my GYST Community Coordinator, Carrie Kelleher, and of course my wife Kim each shared three things that make our collaboration work so well.

Here is a quick summary of the what they all had to say:

Question of the Week: What makes your best collaborations work so well?

As always, head on over to Instagram or Facebook and let me know.

Hey there, dear listener. If you want to see if GYST would be a good thing for you, head on over to eliseenriquez.com/GYST to learn more and to schedule a chat with me.
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I haven't done a straight-up how-to episode in a while. So I thought we'd get into some step-by-step stuff in this episode.

I have a community I support through training sessions, goal-setting, group coaching, and productivity co-working sessions.

During the productivity co-working sessions, I ask people to claim what they'll be working on when it comes to getting their systems current.

In one such co-working session, one of my GYSTers said "I have a bunch of cans I've been kicking down the road. I'm going to take a look at those and decide what's really going on."

I love that she saw this for herself and decided to focus on addressing these things she'd been putting off.

In fact, by the end of our co-working session, she had reprioritized some things and deleted a bunch of them. Once she gave them her attention, she realized it was stuff she really didn't need or want to do.

This made me think about you.

Do you have some cans you are kicking down the road?

Well, in this podcast episode, I will be walking you through what to do with those cans.

I will start by walking you through four(4) basic steps to get you started, and what to do with the information you uncover.

Before you get started, answer this question for me.

Question of the week: What is the can you are kicking down the road? What are you gonna do about it?

Remember to hop on Facebook or Instagram and look for the Question of the Week post to respond.

Our guest in this episode, Gaby, created a free gift page just for you.
Head on over to www.forbetter.love/breakthrough to claim it.
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“Your beloved that you choose is perfect for opening up your unhealed wounds, but they have very little skill for healing them. If you take responsibility to know what your own childhood wounds are, know what the needs are underneath those wounds and, how to get those needs met - both by self meeting your needs and clearly communicating your needs to your beloved - AND you're willing to teach your beloved those skills, that's when that person becomes more whole and complete themselves.” ~ Gaby Sundra

I believe that relationships are part of what makes our lives beautiful and worth living. So why is it that we often wait until they’re in crisis mode before we even think of proactively doing anything to help keep them alive and healthy?

Just like it is with our mental health, it’s good to have a plan to support the health of a romantic relationship and critical to have things in place to help when times are tough.

This is exactly what I'm talking about in this episode with my guest, Gaby Sundra, the Love Trifecta Coach, bringing more play, peace, and passion to relationships worldwide.

While Gaby has a Master's degree in Education, Counseling, and Guidance and 25 years of coaching and teaching experience, it is her own “messy-to-magical” marriage that allows her relationship guidance to be so spot on. Her innovative methods at For Better Love are fiercely forward-focused, gently shifting any negativity into concrete action steps. And you know I like that, dear listener. She’s a wiz at supporting couples in not just digging themselves out of a relationship ditch, but cultivating a couple culture of "aiming for awesome".

Gaby and I talked about:

She also left us with a Question of the week: What do you want?

What do you want? Most of us default to focusing on who is to blame for what we do not want. Focus on what you want, find the overlap and be partners in THAT. True up to your shared vision. What do you want? How could you true up to that positive and empowering vision? 

Find the question of the week post on my Instagram or Facebook @productivitybreakthrough and let me know.

And remember to head on over to www.forbetter.love/breakthrough for the free gift page she created just for you!

If you are feeling stuck in some part of your life or work, please go to https://eliseenriquez.com/whatmattersmost/ to apply for a free coaching session and your chance to be on a What Matters Most podcast episode to help yourself and inspire others.
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Back in August, I ran a free week-long challenge called Dare to Prioritize. In this challenge I guided people through a daily exercise for a week to get everything off their mind and prioritized so they could, most importantly, take action to make progress on their TOP 1-3 priorities each day.

Part of these daily sessions during the challenge is to do a brain dump to get everything off your mind. This is critical because you can't prioritize what's not known. So you gotta get it all out of your head.

AND the brain dump isn't enough. In fact, if you don't pair your brain dump with a process to identify action and a system to hold everything, the relief a brain dump brings is often short-lived.

This is what happened to my wife, Kim, who was in the challenge.

She allowed me to share her struggle with one of my communities and then agreed to let me share it with you here. So this episode is a debrief Kim and I shared after she sat down with me for about 15 minutes to help her make her brain dump more actionable.

My main takeaway;
1 - A braindump is a great way to move forward, but again, it's not enough to keep you from a constant cycle of overwhelm.

2 - Leading and lagging indicators are the key to progress. Really, it's just being clear about the results you are trying to create and the actions you need to take to get there.

3 - Kim, like all of you, is brilliant at what she does. AND sometimes we are too close to our own stuff to see our way forward. It can help to talk it out...so do that.

Question of the Week:What action can you take consistently to make progress on your most important goal?

Let me know over on Instagram.

If you have a stellar team that could use some help polishing up their productivity skills AND uncovering ways to work better as a team, going through the GYST Productivity Program as a group might be exactly what you need.

You can email me directly at [email protected]
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In this episode I bring you Shilo Lockett, an expert on wealth management. Shilo is the president of Comprehensive Wealth Management based in Lynnwood, Washington.

Shilo takes a special interest in helping women – and other populations who have not historically had a seat at the table – develop their financial literacy and professional opportunities.

Whether you’re all good with your financial knowledge and planning or not, I know you will benefit from hearing what Shiloh has to say about:

Go on to https://www.cwmnw.com/ to find out more about Shilo and her team. You'll find a host of personal financial resources, market updates and you can even sign up for a free, 30-minute call to ask questions and discuss your own situation.

Question of the Week: Think of your life 10, 20, 30 years from now. What do you want it to look like?

Bonus question: What's one thing that you'll do TODAY that will move you closer to that life you envision?

Let me know over at @productivitybreakthrouh on Instagram and Facebook.

This is a What Matters Most episode, where you get to be the fly on the wall of a coaching session. The goal of these sessions is to help someone get clear on what matters most for them RIGHT NOW and identify what action they can take to make progress on that.

If you would like to be a part of an upcoming What Matters Most episode, head over to eliseenriquez.com/whatmattersmost to apply for a spot.
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Meet Kris.

Kris is a renaissance woman…or at least to me, she is.

Professionally, she is a freelance writer, audiobook narrator/producer, voice actor, and actor.

Personally, Kris is in a committed relationship, has two dogs, and cares for her 92-year-old mom. She manages her mom's caregiver, home and land upkeep, and is the person on call when emergencies happen.

Kris is such a pro at what she does and is clear about what she wants. But with so many ways to get there, her focus and energy were dispersed.

In fact, the week before Kris and I sat down to chat, she had just spent the week managing all the aspects of a medical emergency with her mom. Thankfully by the time we spoke, her mom was doing better, but Kris was feeling like she had lost a week and was not feeling productive.

So during our chat, we found ONE thing she could make progress on for now— pitching herself.

Something from our session that stood out to me was the little lies we tell ourselves about productivity.

Lies like…

I see these lies surface over and over again for people...heck even for me. And all this got me thinking of a question I want to ask you…

Question of the week: What is one lie you are telling yourself about productivity and how is it hurting you?

Head on over to @productivitybreakthrough on Instagram or Elise Enriquez Coaching and Consulting on Facebook - find the question of the week post and share your answer.

And remember, if you want to be on an upcoming What Matters Most episode, head over to eliseenriquez.com/whatmattersmost to apply for a spot.