The Team Meeting Podcast

For today's meeting  we're talking about the Mel Robbins book The High Five Habit.

I'll reviewing the entire book, I read it once and I also listened to it on audible. I recommend it.

This week we are on Chapter 6:  Where's All This Negative Crap Coming From? This is part one because it is a long chapter.

Summary
In her global phenomenon The 5 Second Rule, Mel Robbins taught millions of people around the world the five second secret to motivation. Now she's back with another simple, proven tool you can use to take control of your life: The High 5 Habit.

Don't let the title fool you. This isn't a book about high fiving everyone else in your life. You're already doing that. You're cheering for your favorite teams. You're celebrating your friends. You're Supporting the people you love as they go after what they want in life.

Imagine if you gave that same love and encouragement to yourself. Or even better, you made it a daily habit. You'd be unstoppable.

In this episode we talk about a term most people don't know about. It's the "Reticular Activating System."

WHAT IS THE RETICULAR ACTIVATING SYSTEM?

The Reticular Activating System (RAS) is a bundle of nerves that sits in your brainstem. And its job is to regulate behavioral arousal, consciousness and motivation. What that means is, the RAS is able to control what incoming information (stimulus) you’re aware of, so that you’ll be motivated to behave in a certain way.

But what does that mean? It’s a “guard” that sits between your brain and your senses (sight, hearing, touch etc.) and filters what information gets through and what doesn’t. Bet you didn’t know that your brain is not processing everything that happens around you!

In this book, Mel teaches you how to start high fiving the most important person in your life, the one who is staring back at you in the mirror: YOURSELF.

Also, did you know I have an Etsy Shop. I have products in the shop to help you exercise your courage muscles. 

Let's start the meeting. 

For today's meeting  we're talking about the Mel Robbins book The High Five Habit.

I'll reviewing the entire book, I read it once and I also listened to it on audible. I recommend it.

This week we are on Chapter 5:  Am I Broken?

I know for sure that love saves me and that it is here to save us all. Maya Angelou

Summary
In her global phenomenon The 5 Second Rule, Mel Robbins taught millions of people around the world the five second secret to motivation. Now she's back with another simple, proven tool you can use to take control of your life: The High 5 Habit.

Don't let the title fool you. This isn't a book about high fiving everyone else in your life. You're already doing that. Cheering for your favorite teams. Celebrating your friends. Supporting the people you love as they go after what they want in life.

Imagine if you gave that same love and encouragement to yourself. Or even better, you made it a daily habit.

You'd be unstoppable.

In this book, Mel teaches you how to start high fiving the most important person in your life, the one who is staring back at you in the mirror: YOURSELF.

Also, did you know I have an Etsy Shop. I have products in the shop to help you exercise your courage muscles. 

Let's start the meeting. 

For today's meeting  we're talking about the Mel Robbins book The High Five Habit.

I'll reviewing the entire book, I read it once and I also listened to it on audible. I recommend it.

This week we are on Chapter 4: Why Do I Torture Myself?

To be beautiful means to be yourself. You don't need to be accepted by others. You need to accept yourself. Thich Nhat Hanh

Summary
In her global phenomenon The 5 Second Rule, Mel Robbins taught millions of people around the world the five second secret to motivation. Now she's back with another simple, proven tool you can use to take control of your life: The High 5 Habit.

Don't let the title fool you. This isn't a book about high fiving everyone else in your life. You're already doing that. Cheering for your favorite teams. Celebrating your friends. Supporting the people you love as they go after what they want in life.

Imagine if you gave that same love and encouragement to yourself. Or even better, you made it a daily habit.

You'd be unstoppable.

In this book, Mel teaches you how to start high fiving the most important person in your life, the one who is staring back at you in the mirror: YOURSELF.

Also, did you know I have an Etsy Shop. I have products in the shop to help you exercise your courage muscles. 

Let's start the meeting. 

“To love without knowing how to love wounds the person we love.”
― Thích Nhất Hạnh, How to Love

Gary Chapman's book The Five Love Languages is what we're talking about today. This book has been a New York Times Bestseller since 2009.

I read this book several years ago and I still refer to it when I'm thinking about relationships. Chapman outlines five general ways that romantic partners express and experience love, which Chapman calls "love languages". The focus is on romantic relationships but there are other versions that he has written for families to learn how love each other and even for parents to understand the personalities and love languages of their children.

In this book Chapman outlines 5 languages which include the following:

• acts of service
• gift-giving
• physical touch
• quality time,
• words of affirmation

 
Take the quiz. Maybe it will give you information about yourself. Of course it's not an exact science but it may help you understand how you receive love and how you're giving love. Interesting fact, we can often give love the way we like to receive it. However, showing love the way we want to rather than the way our partner or family member needs it can hurt your partner.

Today lets discuss how learning to love helps us and the people we give the love to.

Let's start the meeting.

***You know we have a Team Meeting Shop. In the Shop there are resources, greeting cards and quotes that will help you exercise your courage muscles. You can view the products here. 

Friends, I hope your 2020 is not horrible.

My first couple of weeks have not been horrible. However, the days have been  full of tough lessons. One lesson I will talk about in another podcast. It involves me walking into a public restroom (you know how they have the one stall restrooms for men and women.)  I didn't knock. Awkward pause here. I walked into the restroom that was occupied by a man. I am traumatized but I have laughed about it and when I feel better I will make more jokes. Wait for it, it will be a good laugh at some point. OMG

Today I want to talk about fear, my fear. How I deal with it. I have plenty of fears, that makes me human, it doesn't make me weak. I hope you know that fear does not make you weak, it means you're living life and in many ways your fear is your way of keeping yourself safe.  The problem is that we often allow fear to trick us into believing new experiences or moving out of our comfort zone are unsafe and not worth the effort. That's what I'm talking about in today's episode and I hope hope hope it helps you.

If you didn't know, we have Team Meeting products in our Etsy store. I created them to give you words of encouragement and humor to get you through your days. Go over to Etsy and check it out. 

Let's start today's meeting.

Friends!

Thanks for joining today's meeting,. Today's question is "Why Are We So Hard On Ourselves?"

I say we, but I mean me.

Life is not designed to hand us success or satisfaction, but rather to present us with challenges that make us grow. Terry Laughlin, founder of Total Immersion. 

This past summer was a major challenge for me and I thought I had become an expert at managing a crisis, with hip replacements, bankruptcy, heartbreak, tragedies, adopting via foster care, I thought I checked a lot of boxes for painful things. However, this summers challenge involved me spending 4 nights in the Intensive Care Unit at a Children's Hospital with my daughter. It was an expected surgery. I knew we would be in the intensive care unit. It was still terrifying. I still remember the beeping sounds.

Good news, my daughter is healing and we got through it. We will likely go back for more surgeries but I will address that when the time comes. 

Here are 4 things I learned about that experience and I hope these things help you with any challenge you're facing now. 

1. Give yourself credit for your wins. You have some wins, even if your win is that you're listening to podcasts and seeking information or ways to get better at managing your life.  You have one, so recognize it.

2. You can't wait until you have everything figured out to feel confident. You have to do things that are uncomfortable and solve the problems that you need to solve along the way. This is life.  I am swimming in the unknown and I think this is the ocean I will continue to live in and that's ok. 

3. You will make mistakes. Solve them, forgive yourself for errors and move forward. Repeat this cycle as needed, especially the forgiving yourself part.

4. Don't be so hard on yourself, you're growing. You're a human being that is growing. 

Let's start today's meeting. 

Hey team

Happiest New Year to you. I'm gonna let you know that the first week of 2022 was not great. I can't even say why, because I don't know, but I think I am dealing with growing pains. I need to do a lot of things that are uncomfortable in order to do what I want in 2022 and it is not feeling good in the moment.

For today's meeting  we're still about the Mel Robbins book The High Five Habit.   

I'll reviewing the entire book, I read it once and I also listened to it on audible. I recommend it.
We are on Chapter 3, I don't think we talk enough about how much we need to support ourselves and stop hating our mistakes, our stomachs, or bad decisions and our imperfections. This is so true for me now because I am always tempted to be very critical of my mistakes and unkind to myself when I haven't met a goal that I've set.

However, one of my quotes in the Etsy store is this
"Hopelessness is seductive, but you are too good to be in a relationship with it. I made that quote for myself and its still true for me and it's true for you too."

Please remember this quote as we move through this year. Be kind to yourself and don't give in to hopelessness when you get frustrated about the virus and how it's impacting your life, don't be hopeless about your money or about your kids and their school.

Summary
In her global phenomenon The 5 Second Rule, Mel Robbins taught millions of people around the world the five second secret to motivation. Now she's back with another simple, proven tool you can use to take control of your life: The High 5 Habit.

Don't let the title fool you. This isn't a book about high fiving everyone else in your life. You're already doing that. Cheering for your favorite teams. Celebrating your friends. Supporting the people you love as they go after what they want in life.

Imagine if you gave that same love and encouragement to yourself. Or even better, you made it a daily habit.

You'd be unstoppable.

In this book, Mel teaches you how to start high fiving the most important person in your life, the one who is staring back at you in the mirror: YOURSELF.

Also, did you know I have an Etsy Shop. I have products in the shop to help you exercise your courage muscles. 

Let's start the meeting. 

Hey team

I hope you find peace in the middle of the chaos and shopping and the decisions on which holiday parties are safe to attend. Have fun, but stay safe. I'm uploading this on New Years Eve while I listen to fireworks that sound like gunshots. My dog is going to have a challenging night.

For today's meeting  we're talking about the Mel Robbins book The High Five Habit.   

I'll reviewing the entire book, I read it once and I also listened to it on audible. I recommend it.
We are on Chapter 2, I don't think we talk enough about how much we need to support ourselves and stop hating our mistakes, our stomachs, or bad decisions and our imperfections.

Imperfections are fine. Anna Wintour. 

Summary
In her global phenomenon The 5 Second Rule, Mel Robbins taught millions of people around the world the five second secret to motivation. Now she's back with another simple, proven tool you can use to take control of your life: The High 5 Habit.

Don't let the title fool you. This isn't a book about high fiving everyone else in your life. You're already doing that. Cheering for your favorite teams. Celebrating your friends. Supporting the people you love as they go after what they want in life.

Imagine if you gave that same love and encouragement to yourself. Or even better, you made it a daily habit.

You'd be unstoppable.

In this book, Mel teaches you how to start high fiving the most important person in your life, the one who is staring back at you in the mirror: YOURSELF.

Also, did you know I have an Etsy Shop. I have products in the shop to help you exercise your courage muscles. 

Let's start the meeting. 

Hey team

I hope your holiday season is merry and bright!

I hope you find peace in the middle of the chaos and shopping and the decisions on which holiday parties are safe to attend. Have fun, but stay safe.

For today's meeting  we're talking about the Mel Robbins book The High Five Habit. 

I'll reviewing the entire book, I read it once and I also listened to it on audible. I recommend it.

Summary
In her global phenomenon The 5 Second Rule, Mel Robbins taught millions of people around the world the five second secret to motivation. Now she's back with another simple, proven tool you can use to take control of your life: The High 5 Habit.

Don't let the title fool you. This isn't a book about high fiving everyone else in your life. You're already doing that. Cheering for your favorite teams. Celebrating your friends. Supporting the people you love as they go after what they want in life.

Imagine if you gave that same love and encouragement to yourself. Or even better, you made it a daily habit.

You'd be unstoppable.

In this book, Mel teaches you how to start high fiving the most important person in your life, the one who is staring back at you in the mirror: YOURSELF.

Also, did you know I have an Etsy Shop. I have products in the shop to help you exercise your courage muscles. 

Let's start the meeting. 

Today I'm doubling up on hope. I talk about hope a lot because there was a time when I was so hopeless the dark thoughts I was thinking almost took over. I know what its like to feel like you have nothing to look forward to. So, I will for the rest of my life tell you that you have so much good coming your way and you are not alone. So,  I'm referring you back to Episode 3 from this season, Season 2 and I'm talking about hope and giving an update on my experience working on puzzles which I hate.

These next few months will test our hope because we may feel like we're on a hamster wheel going no where. 2022 may feel similar to 2021 and there may be a temptation to be a cynic about what 2022 will bring.  I assure you though there is a different way to think about what's happening to you, if you're wiling to hear me I have some tips.

Hope is important because it can make the present moment less difficult to bear. If we believe that tomorrow will be better, we can bear a hardship today.  Thich Nhat Hanh

Hope is not a dirty word.  Let's start today's meeting.

Also, if you haven't been to the Etsy store, go go go. I have products that will help you feel hopeful and exercise your courage muscles. You can use the cards I've created to set the tone for your day, you can choose one of the 30 quote cards and mediate on it to change your thinking. 

Go here