“Journal writing is a voyage to the interior.”

Christina Baldwin

In today's episode, I'm talking about one of the tools I use when I am feeling stuck and need a little clarity. The tool is writing. What I love, is that it comes in the form of a little notebook that costs only a few dollars. When I’m upset, confused, sad, anxious, I open my book before talking to anyone else. Sometimes all that is needed is the release. The journal is usually where I get the answers that I’m looking for. “What should I do?” The simple act of writing that question allows the fog to lift and clarity to appear. It even gives me clarity as to who I may need to reach out to for more support. Maybe not right in the moment, but at some point in the day, the answer will appear.

Have a listen to find out why this simple act of writing in a journal can help you get clear and get unstuck.

In today's Beat The Monday Blues Happiness Challenge, I am talking about why it is more important to work towards being happy, not perfect. I share two challenges to unleash your inner contagiously positive, and how I learned that happiness is better than perfection by failing at a pole dancing class. You definitely want to hear that story.

Challenges are: Stopping the criticism and doing something you really want to do, but are afraid you won't do it perfectly.

Have a listen and enjoy this weeks challenges.

“None of us knows what might happen even the next minute, yet still we go forward. Because we trust. Because we have Faith.” Paulo Coelho

Today's episode is all about trust. A five letter little word that can trip us up and prevent us from moving towards the things that we want. Along with sharing my own personal insights and experience, I'm sharing a few things you can begin doing today to build up your trust muscles, and start to allow life to work for you, not against you. Life happens for you, not to you.

Show Link Mentions:

www.contagiouslypositive.ca/creatingalifeyoulove

In today's Beat The Monday Blues Happiness Challenge, I am sharing an audio excerpt from my signature program, The Contagiously Positive Woman's Guide To Healthy Living. I am talking about upping your happiness game by getting clear on how you want to feel, not just to up your happiness game, but to up your health game. Having strong emotional and spiritual muscles is just as important to your health as food and exercise is. Have a listen and enjoy this weeks challenge of working the work of feeling the way you want to feel.

Show Link Mentions:

www.contagiouslypositive.ca/healthyliving

In today's episode, I'm talking about how to get yourself out of the negative vortex without feeling overwhelmed or thinking that you have to go instantly from sadness to happiness, or unhealthy to an immediate health overhaul. Have a listen to see how you can get yourself out of taking up permanent resident in negative-ville.

Show Link Mentions:

www.contagiouslypositive.ca/creatingalifeyoulove

www.contagiouslypositive.ca/healthyliving

In todays beat the Monday blues podcast I'm talking about something I use called reframing to take you into solution mode instead of getting stuck in problems-ville, and how to take gratitude to another level by thinking of some problems as 'Good Problems To Have.' It is a two part challenge and by the end of the week, you will notice how strong your mental, emotional and spiritual muscles grow by doing this podcast challenge.

In this episode, I'm talking about some keys you hold to upping your happiness game. One being, getting clear about the expectations you have for yourself and that you believe others have of you. Plus, taking action from your loving voice, not your saboteur voice. This one is so good!

Show Link Mentions:

www.contagiouslypositive.ca/creatingalifeyoulove

In today's beat the Monday blues challenges, I'm talking about taking one step forward to feel the way you want to feel, to achieve a goal, or to get you one step closer to something that you want.

If you are not doing anything to move yourself forward, I want you to know that big or small, every action you take builds up momentum. When you gain momentum, your confidence increases, your energy increases, and most importantly, your motivation begins to rocket you forward.

To ease back into work-mode, I decided that today's podcast would be about a few lessons I learned while I was away in Spain for 2 weeks. I'm only 2 days home, so while it is fresh is best.

I'm talking about how it was okay to shut work off for 2 weeks, how I learned that I was diminishing the work I do at Contagiously Positive based on my ego, and about fully stepping into our authentic selves.

In today's episode I'm talking about trusting in your vision and letting it move you instead of stressing, forcing, manipulating your way towards achieving it.

If you are feeling like there is a massive barrier getting in the way of you achieving the vision you have for your life, this episode is for you.

Show Link Mention:

www.contagiouslypositive.ca/creatingalifeyoulove