Losing your “spark” is an interesting thing.

For the most part, when you look around you should be really happy. But instead you feel numb, apathetic and like you’ve lost your sense of purpose.

Everyday feels the same, you struggle to get to excited or onboard with anything, and because your “spark” is a bit mysterious - maybe like me you couldn’t see an end in sight.

After the last time, and probably most significant time that I felt like this, I managed to come out of it stronger than ever.

At first I didn’t know how I managed it, but when I look back - it was very intentional, and not at all passive.

Through this process I discovered 5 keys/phases to getting your spark back, that I share in this episode.

Do you believe you can actually live in the reality of the life you desire? Do you believe you can actually reach the potential you know you have inside you?

If you can't visualise it, you won't truly believe it and if you don't truly believe it, it's a hope or a wish. Therefore, you won’t receive it.

It would be a really sad day if we got to the end of our lives and hadn’t reached our potential because we just didn’t believe in ourselves enough.

In this episode, I share a 6 step process and some inspiration found from studying Napoleon Hill’s book ‘Think and Grow Rich’. Despite its title, it’s not just about money - it’s about acquiring anything in life.

It (whatever your ‘it’ is) must first live in your mind, before it can live in your reality.

What’s wrong with me?

I’m too much.

I’m not enough.

Why haven’t I been able to figure it out yet?

I should be further along by now.

How have I found myself here again?

Have any of these shut you down and made you feel like you must be doing it (life) wrong?!

In this episode, the ultimate goal is you walking away empowered and firm in the belief that you are not doing it wrong - there is a battle for your mind.

A battle that you can win!

I share 3 practical tips to help and then ultimately remind you who you really are!

There are things in life that you can wait to do, but you shouldn't wait to do.

It’s not the time to sit around and wait for the world to return to whatever it used to be, or till you understand what it’s all going to look like when it’s over - whenever that is...

No, now is the time for you to put legs on your dreams, specifically the dreams that you’re embarrassed to speak about because they’re so big.

They are not fantasies, they aren’t a joke for you to shrug off. They have been given to you intentionally for you to bring into reality.

I know it will help you get moving and propel you forward... if you let it.

I think it’s true that no matter who you are, whether you’re naturally inclined to be confrontational or not or how potentially unpopular it may be - we all need to grow in our ability to say “no”.

Bill Crawford says “One key to successful relationships is learning to say no without guilt so that you can say yes without resentment.”

Simply put your “yes” and your “no” are how you have decided to invest your focus, time and energy.

“Yes” shouldn’t be the default, and “no” shouldn’t be the last resort. They both hold equal value as responses to any question, request or opportunity.

Flex your “no” to strengthen your “yes” and you can close the gap between your potential and your reality.

This episode goes through 5 reasons I've identified as to why we struggle to say "no" and what we can do about them.

Have there been times in your life where you haven't done the thing that you want to do, or believe you should or could do, simply because you know it’s going to be hard?!

To do anything great or even just good, one must grow.

Growth is both inevitable and necessary and therefore so is pain. Hence the title of this podcast ‘I can do hard things’.

Dr Samuel Chand says in his book 'Leadership Pain'...

“The difference between where you are and where you want to be, is your unwillingness to endure pain”.

In this podcast we talk about changing our approach to pain, increasing our willingness to endure it and about changing our internal message to "I can do hard things".

Finishing it up with some questions to get you moving in the direction of closing the gap between your potential and your reality.

Book Reference: Leadership Pain: The Classroom for Growth by Dr Samuel Chand

Have you ever been jealous of the success or achievement of your friends or family? If you're a living, breathing human being, I'm sure you've experienced this before.

In this episode, we talk about how to harness jealousy, redirect it and use it as a tool to discover purpose and calling.

Not the lofty and unattainable kind of purpose you've maybe felt overwhelmed by before, but discovering how to put yourself on the journey to the kind of purpose that is ever-unfolding and evolving.

With practical takeaways and questions to ask yourself, you'll finish this podcast fired up and set on the path to take your first or next action step in closing that gap between your potential and your reality.

Links mentioned:

www.danielacheson.com | Coach - Helping you start your journey from artist to creative entrepreneur.

Instagram: @achesondaniel

www.rebekahryburn.com | Coach and host of the Rebekah Ryburn Podcast - Helping you close the gap between your potential and your reality.

Instagram: @rebekahryburn

It doesn’t matter what you do, whenever you commit to living a life that will reach your potential negative thoughts will come to try and stop you - they are an inevitable.

The question and important thing is, how do you respond to them?

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