The Team Meeting Podcast

This is a previously recorded episode.

Let's talk about how we change. Let's talk about what we need to do to allow our lives to change. Change is painful, just talk to the caterpillar who experiences extreme discomfort to become a butterfly.

In this episode I talk about a book called Hope for the Flowers.

This is a season of newness with graduations for college, middle school, high school and even pre K. Newness is always on the horizon but its highlighted now with the beginning of the summer in the US.

Let's talk about the cost of welcoming  changing into our lives. It is worth it, are you ready to pay the price?

Let's start the meeting.

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I wrote a book. It was or is on Amazon as an ebook and its called Activate Your Inner Superhero. It's still there, I checked.

Today, in an episode I previously uploaded I am re sharing the episode where I read a few paragraphs from the book. We entering Superhero movie season, for SpiderMan and Batman and there are probably others so I thought it would fun to talk about superheroes and how they can motivate us. 

I also share this because I want to remind you that your pain and your vulnerability is actually a superpower. You can use it for good, for your good and it can actually help others.

Don't be afraid to embrace who you are and where you've been.

Peace out, from the girl with fake hips.

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Previously Recorded Episode.

What are you doing to open yourself up to success? Positive thinking is not at all enough, it's a start it makes you show up some days, but it is not enough. You have to change your habits and your thinking to change your life. 

Let's talk about it. This is an episode I published about a year ago and it's still relevant.

Let's start the meeting.

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How do you handle rejection? You can see it everywhere, maybe friends go out and they didn't invite you and your family. Maybe a family member didn't choose you to do work for them even though they know you are a business owner. Oh, and relationships single, married or dating you can experience various forms of rejection on a daily basis.

I had a recent experience with it and it reminded me of how often we need to talk ourselves through feelings that come with rejection to be sure we are not being seduced by sadness and or depression because we think the rejection means we are not enough.

Sometimes rejection can be a protection from someone or something that is just nnot right for you. It can be hard to digest this reality but if you eventually accept it you can be free.

Let's start the meeting.

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There are so many things that we have to do that are absolutely boring or terrible or just uncomfortable.

Let me list a few of mine:

I hate swimming and beaches.

I don't like exercising when I'm tired.

I don't like drinking this green juice that's supposed to be mixed with water and promises to help your gut.

I don't enjoy looking at my bank account balances.

I don't like swimming because I don't like water in my eyes, oh I already mentioned the swimming thing.

I don't like big crowds so going to Disneyland isn't really my jam.

But guess what, I have to do all those things, and many have to be done in the next few weeks. I have a soon to be  5 year old who should see Disneyland. We  also need to go to a pool because she takes swim lessons and she needs to practice swimming. We'll talk about that in today's episode.

You probably have some examples too so it's time to discuss.

Let's start the meeting.

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Don't hate the things that happened to you. I get it.  Trauma, tragedy are painful and heartbreaking. The pain from it does not disappear.  But let me make a suggestion.

Anything that doesn't end your life, gets to fuel your life. If you have someone who you loved that is no longer in your life because of a death or tragedy, this means you get to think of ways they made your life better and you get to honor them. Does this mean it's less painful? Probably not. My dad died 30 plus years ago and I still get angry that he's not here to give me advice, talk to me about books or give me advice about men.

I adopted my daughter. However, I spent most of my adult life like 30 plus years thinking I would someday have this wonderful experience as a pregnant woman. I wanted that. I didn't get that. I can be disappointed that it didn't happen while I am also extremely grateful that I adopted my daughter.

You probably have tragedy and sadness that you may be angry about and disappointed that it happened.

I'm not saying it's wrong to be sad or disappointed that these things have happened. Feel your feelings, don't be a robot. Be a real person.

Action: Can you consider being a person who learns to appreciate things that have happened to you, because it is healthier than walking around overtaken by sadness and regret. I want us to exercise our courage muscles and get into this.

Let's start the meeting.

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Henry Ford said "Whether you believe, a thing or not, you're right." That quote has haunted me for 20 years.

I agree with it and it also makes me angry.

Why? Because I want to think there are things stopping me from having what I want in life. That makes the pain easier.  I fully acknowledge trauma, privilege and other horrific circumstances can detour your success and undermine any path to your dreams. But I believe in healing and I have to believe that there is as way out of devastation even if the path is painful.

So, back to the quote.

In today's episode, I want to ask you a simple question.  What do you believe about your future.

Think about one area in your life where you're dissatisfied. What do you expect to happen? Good things, bad things or no things.  Your private answer to yourself will tell you what kind of action you need to take next.

Let's start the meeting.

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What we are doing right now in this moment is impacting our future. 

Are you brushing and flossing your teeth? If yes, then you may not need to wear dentures later, if no, then you, like my dad may have dentures that you put on the kitchen counter. I kid, I kid, maybe you'll take good care of your fake teeth.

Apply the same theory to how you eat. I love sugar. However, if I eat sugar today and tomorrow and forever without making any changes, I could be diabetic. That sounds horrible. I don't want that. I don't want the future version of myself to deal with that. 

I'm being extreme in my examples here because in big ways and small ways we are impacting our future days.

What can you do now to support the future version of yourself.

Let's talk about a few ways to help ourselves.

Let's start the meeting.

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I'm a guest teacher for elementary, middle and high school. I walk into new classrooms weekly and daily. For safety reasons we keep the doors locked. Whenever a student leaves they must knock to re enter.

There are two types of students.

There are some students who boldly knock when they return and stand super close to the door waiting for it to open.  There are other students who knock and then hide away from the door almost as if they feel like they've inconvenienced the classroom. Those who knock in the second example feel like they are a burden and their body language often gives an apology when they re-enter.   They have no reason to apologize.

Let's use this door analogy for opportunities in business, at work or in love,

My question for you, is which are you? Do you expect doors to open or do you pause before knocking on a door and hate waiting for someone to come to the door.

Let's start the meeting.

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With growth come some pain, that is my opinion. However, let me clarify, I think pain can also be described as discomfort. So, you don't necessarily have to suffer as you grow but you will likely be out of your comfort zone as you grow which may be just as painful.

Growing Pains is actually a thing.  Merriam Webster defines it in two ways:

1: Pains in the legs of growing children having no demonstrable relation to growth.

2: the stresses and strains attending a new project or development.

Dictionary.com defines it 3 ways:

1; Quasi-rheumatic pains of varying degree in the limbs during childhood and adolescence, often popularly associated with the process of growing.

2: Emotional difficulties experienced during adolescence and pre adulthood. (In my opinion this applies to adults as well,

3; Difficulties attending any new project or any rapid development of an existing project.
 

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