Wake Your Dream

In This Episode:

Annaliese and Alan talk about how your thoughts are creating a story in your head (all the time) to make sense and meaning of what you’re going through. Annaliese highlights the profound impact your thoughts have on creating a storyline in your head. This internal narrative is the main impact on whether you approach situations feeling unsure or confident. Understanding the thoughts story forming behind the scenes in your brain empowers you to take control of your inner world, no matter what's happening in your outer world.

You’ll Hear About:

Mindful Interaction with Thoughts: Interact more purposefully with your thoughts. By asking questions and observing your chosen perspective, you can identify and change the ongoing story in your mind.

Positive Self-Talk: Recognize the positive stories you're already telling yourself. This self-awareness helps you navigate challenges with evidence that you already can do this, and helps you make intentional changes in the stories that may be holding you back.

Curiosity in Thought Life: Ask yourself, "What did that mean to me?" Dive into the layers of what you're thinking, remembering that much of it is optional. You have the power to decide what serves you and what doesn't.

Navigating Challenging Moments: While you can't control outcomes, you can control your responses and picking different thoughts. Practice thinking thoughts in challenging situations that remind you of what you CAN do, reaffirming your capability and resilience.

Long-Term Change: Remind yourself why you're doing the hard work in your life that's leading you to longer term goals. Choosing this perspective helps you find meaning and enjoyment in your thought story as you navigate difficult situations.

Balance in Acknowledging Success and Failure: Take note of where you're weighing failures a lot more heavily than successes. This unbalanced perspective feels disempowering and limiting, right? Set yourself free again by normalizing failures and mistakes more and crediting your successes regularly.

Facing Uncomfortable Feelings: If a particular story in your head makes you feel unsafe, acknowledge that. Recognizing where you feel uncomfortable gives you strength to face fears, understanding that discomfort is a normal part of how you're growing.

Resources:

• www.linktree.com/coachannaliese : Ready to live more authentically? Grab your free 60-minute Discovery Chat with Annaliese. No strings attached, just an hour of insightful tools and support for your life.

Practice: Stop The Story

• Visualize a Big Red Stop Sign to interrupt the negative story when you feel it

Remember, you have the power to change the story in your head. It's time to live authentically and embrace the narratives that actually empower your journey.

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3 Steps to Change Your Thought:

Listen in with us and feel yourself empower your life by redefining the terms that are shaping your journey!

In This Episode: Annaliese and Alan explore the profound impact of procrastination on your own confidence, and really show the significance of following through and living more from your core values. Learn how to live in more freedom from people-pleasing and start prioritizing yourself.

You’ll Hear About:

• Procrastination's subtle yet negative effects on your identity and trust in yourself.

Resources:

• Ready to live authentically and intentionally? Have your free 60-minute Discovery Chat with Annaliese. No strings attached, just invaluable tools and support.

1. Do I know what I want specifically? (describe this, how I’d feel, what it is)

Don't miss this episode to help you deal with procrastination, connecting with your core values, dropping people-pleasing habits, and living authentically.

Annaliese and Alan dive into the power of your words, and how they shape your personal growth journey. They emphasize the importance of the language you're using in your self-talk and how it impacts your ability to make progress. Annaliese highlights that the story you tell yourself can either empower you or stress you out. It's all about recognizing and adjusting your thoughts to steer your choices more intentionally, free from external pressure or the old standard you've been used to.

You’ll Hear About:

• You're telling yourself a story in your mind. Does it feel empowering or limiting to you? Your inner story reveals whether you see possibilities in your situation, or feel trapped. Try adding the word "yet" if you want to do something that you haven't been able to before, or using words that make you feel allowed to be right here, right now.

• “I don’t know.”

• to a thought like, “I do know something. What do I know that can help me progress?”

• “I can’t change it, what do I do now?”

• use this as a prompt to explore deeper: “What can I do right now? What's one action I can take to move forward?”

Resources:

• Visit www.linktree.com/coachannaliese to take a new route on your journey to being your true self. Have your own free 60-minute Discovery Chat – a no-strings-attached opportunity for insightful tools and personal support with Annaliese.

1. How do I actually feel about this? (use real words to describe your true emotions)

1. Identify a specific challenging situation.

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Annaliese and Alan talk about how when you’re working to make changes, it’s good to be aware that the ways you think about yourself make a huge impact on your new behavior, words, and thoughts, and your results.

In this episode, you'll learn ways to:

Unlock Your Brain's Potential: Notice the power you have to update your self-image by rewiring your brain using better thoughts that redefine your capabilities and help you embrace change.

Empower Your Choices: Take control of your decisions by helping yourself think in ways that break you free from old unhelpful patterns that had you settling, and let go of limiting standards like perfectionism.

Transformative Self-Stories: Discover how noticing and updating your self-stories affect your body and mindset, and give you more fuel and motivation by practicing celebrating your growth more daily.

Building a Better Relationship with Yourself: The "Update Yourself" tool acts like your bridge inside yourself, helping you move away from self-doubt and into belief in who you want to be, owning your own newfound capability to make change happen.

Positive Mindset: Shift your focus while you're working on making change happen from negative assumptions to more positive expectations when it comes to navigating uncertainty. Keep it lighthearted and doable!

Annaliese also provides a practical 3-step process to Update Yourself:

Reflect on how you're different today compared to your past self. "What do you care about now that you didn't before? And how am I different than I used to be?"

Acknowledge your improvements and share these positive changes with yourself. This self-recognition is a powerful motivator!

Remember that the ultimate goal is engaging with your life as your true self, not chasing a perfect outcome. Focus on the changes you want to make and find thoughts that make these changes seem possible for you and satisfying to you.

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Are you giving yourself credit for even your smallest, daily steps? Annaliese and Alan talk about how this helps your confidence because you know you're going where you're trying to go. When you don't credit your progress, you'll feel stuck more quickly, believing there's an obstacle to where you're going and who you want to be.

Crediting each step helps you think more capably and confidently and feel like you matter and you're creating things you want for your life.

You'll Hear About:

• The difference between who you are and who you want to be is in the way you're thinking.

Resources:

www.linktree.com/coachannaliese <-- Are you ready to live like the real you, more and more? Grab your free 60-minute Discovery Chat here so I can show you how. Just you and me, no strings attached. Just an hour of insightful tools and support. Can't wait to connect with you!

Mental Tool: Ladder Thoughts

1. Picture your current thought as a rung on a ladder you're standing on.

Annaliese and Alan talk about getting caught up in the feelings of right now. Bring yourself back to feeling more present and give your day another chance. Annaliese brings up ways to practice emotional self-care, and how to face and handle the struggle throughout the day so your mind can work for you, not against you. You can act like you DO have a choice even when you don’t feel like you do.

Annaliese and Alan talk about finding your Why and how knowing your inner reasons for making change is what helps you follow through. Annaliese brings up how finding your Why connects you with your actual purpose, and owning what you care about underneath your goals and the decisions you’re trying to make makes you feel like you matter in your life.

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Annaliese and Alan talk about how obstacles are a frustrating, but normal (and sometimes empowering) part of making changes in our life. Annaliese brings up how obstacles are challenging, but thinking new ways about them help you get better results than before.

Embracing Normal: Obstacles are a normal part of intentional living, and acknowledging they will happen is the first step towards growth.

Your Relationship with Yourself: The way you navigate obstacles is a reflection of your relationship with yourself. Learn how self-awareness can empower you to overcome challenges.

Handling Obstacles: Understanding how you typically respond to obstacles gives you a valuable opportunity to redefine how you see yourself and start thinking better thoughts.

You Have A Choice: Every obstacle is an internal choice point for you. You have the agency to decide how you'll handle challenges, even when it feels like you're trapped.

God Made You Capable: Annaliese reminds us that we're designed by God to conquer obstacles from a place of real capability, confidence, and curiosity.

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Annaliese and Alan talk about making shifts to use your productivity to get more of what you want, even in the messy middle and uncertain circumstances. Annaliese brings up how daily productivity doesn’t have to feel so anxious! She shows how you can make shifts to a more peaceful and meaningful productivity.

Music Credits: Lo-Fi Chill Hip Hop - Rob Barnes