Work Life Play with Aaron McHugh

My savings account just hit zero. We've bet our life on what we believe, and I'd like to shoot straight with you about what its been like the last seven months. In October, I left my cushy $six figure career. It was intellectually challenging, but it wasn't soulfully and purposefully satisfying. With the support of my wife, family and close friends, it was time to leap.

My big life experiment- the big bet, was to align the work I do every day with the person that I've become. If it sounds super vague and lacking textbook, strategy-you're right. With no more specificity than this prayerful mantra, we stepped out into the unknown. For our family, it was time to push all of our chips into the middle of the table and spin the wheel placing bets on "cause good every day." Full original post is here

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The future is difficult to forecast, but our next brave step is the one thing we can do. Where are you suppressing the parts of you that appear to not fit in your world today? Where can you experiment with expressing the fullest version of you? Where do you feel that you don't fit in?

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Today's episode was previously recorded at our Reboot Live event back in October, 2017.

In 2015, we sold everything we owned, pushed pause on our life and started over. Not everyone needs to jettison their life like we did. But everyone can benefit from the lessons we've learned from taking the road less traveled. Read our full story here.

As your guides, we will take you on a journey to help you architect a sustainable life you want to live forward. Reboot is not a marriage conference.

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Alex Woodard reminded me of how pliable our lives and dreams are if we let go. Alex's story is a powerful example of driving hard towards his goal of playing his music to thousands. On the eve of achieving his dream, the bottom fell out. His record contract vanished, his dog died and his dream became a nightmare. Enter stage left; he received a letter from a fan telling her story about loss and love. Alex decided to write her (Emily) a song based on her letter and send it to her. A new dream was born, For the Sender, became the project of Alex and team publishing books and music inspired by letters from the senders. Today he plays for thousands of people, raises money for charity and collaborates with top musicians. The irony is his original dream had similar ingredients, but once he let go of his desire for fame and fortune, his career took off as his story is rewritten focusing on others.

Shawn Askinosie's book might change your life if you allow it.

Meaningful Work is not a book about "saving the world"— but it is about how businesses can and should solve problems in the world, and how positive change begins with individual action.

My top ten reasons why I believe we won't change.

1-No guarantees of an outcome. 2-We really aren't yet in enough pain in our current reality. 3-The devil I know is better than the devil I don't. 4-A template was installed in us a long time ago that is difficult to refute. 5- It's easier to bitch and complain than to do something about it. 6-We convince ourselves that everyone else must have won the golden ticket, found a shortcut, has a rich uncle, got to skip to the front of the line and bypass all the pain, the risk and the uncertainty. Or we're tell ourselves we're too old, beyond repair, too... 7-We've believed a story that isn't true that only we believe. Everyone else around us sees past our living myth. 8-We're so busy managing our life, we don't realize there's a problem. We ignore the warning signs. We hold other priorities. 9-We refuse to allow transformation-fold our arms and say "this is how I am, this is how it will always be". And we get busy dying. 10-We fail to see that LIFE is an invitation to be on a journey-remain under construction until the end. BONUS-#11 We ignore the mythic as irrational, childish, lacking proof and entirely fiction and miss all of the nuance, the beauty, the mystery available to us.

Today is the Ryan Miller Show. I've titled this episode, Who Am I as we talk about their creative work in the world through 08Left, Mango Ink and his upcoming show on May 3rd in Spokane, Lights Like Us.

Kristy Dickerson, keynote speaker, businesswoman, and active CEO and co-founder of Start Planner has devoted her life to providing hope for individuals who are looking to achieve balance, success, and happiness in their lives. She has been featured in numerous national media outlets and has shown thousands of others how to be productive, efficient, and live more fulfilling lives.