Podcast No. 140 – QUOTE: “It is our attitude toward events, not events themselves, which we can control. Nothing is by its own nature calamitous – even death is terrible only if we fear it.”~Epictetus
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NOTES FROM THIS EPISODE:
-Some things in life you can’t control
-How you react determines what kind of a person you are
-Improve your chances of greatness
-Choose your destiny
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Podcast No. 136 – 10 Ways to Face and Overcome Fears
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NOTES FROM THIS EPISODE:
TEN TOOLS TO TAKE ON FEAR AND OVERCOME IT
1. Expose fear to truth
2. Frame the fear fairly
3. Limit the fear’s scope
4. Prepare and reduce fear
5. Encouragement-seek in the face of fear
6. Break the fear down
7. Purpose overrides fear
8. Feel the fear and face it
9. Charge the fear
10. Familiarize the feared
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-Live a Happier, Fuller Life by Ben Balden – https://benbalden.com/books/#Live_a_Happier_Fuller_Life
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Podcast No. 135 – QUOTE – “Life is ten percent what happens to you and ninety percent how you respond to it.” — Charles Swindoll
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NOTES FROM THIS EPISODE:
4 WAYS HOW YOU SHOULD RESPOND TO WHAT HAPPENS TO YOU:
1. Control the meaning place on what has happened
2. Choose to consistently maintain a positive attitude
3. Respond through taking action to improve your situation
4. Engage your intelligence to change what you can and accept what you can’t
BOOKS MENTIONED IN THIS POST*:
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Podcast No. 135 – QUOTE – “There is something wonderfully bold and liberating about saying yes to our entire imperfect and messy life.” — Tara Brach
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NOTES FROM THIS EPISODE:
QUOTE – “There is something wonderfully bold and liberating about saying yes to our entire imperfect and messy life.” — Tara Brach
5 LESSON FROM THIS QUOTE
1. Self acceptance is liberating (self-love)
2. Life has both good and bad (roller coaster, yin/yang…)
3. You will be off course most of the time
4. You must, by necessity, keep trying
5. Accept and embrace your humanity, and unlock more personal power
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Podcast No. 134 – Tell yourself supportive stories
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NOTES FROM THIS EPISODE:
Tell Supportive Stories
– The stories we tell about ourselves are ultra important
– Stories of ourselves shape our identity
– Identity shapes our upper and lower limit boundaries
– How
– Identify unsupportive stories
– Reframe the stories
– Effective story telling
– 1. Emphasize good, supportive stories
– 2. Speak the truth
– 3. No need to oversell
– 4. Leave room for growth
– 5. Limit the negative
– 6. Accentuate the positive
– 7. Fess up and embrace your humanity
– 8. Don’t identify with failure
– 9. Beware of cultural traps
– 10. Stories should be inspiring and make you feel good about yourself
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Podcast No. 131 – QUOTE – “Everyone is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid.” — Anonymous
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NOTES FROM THIS EPISODE:
-Here are 4 lessons we get from this quote:
1. UNIQUE-Everyone is unique and has unique talents and abilities
2. SPECIALTY-There is something in everyone’s world they are good at
3. CONTRIBUTE-Everyone can potentially contribute value to the world
4. COMPASSION-We should withhold judgement
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Podcast No. 124 – QUOTE – “You don’t have to turn this into something. It doesn’t have to upset you.” — Marcus Aurelius
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NOTES FROM THIS EPISODE:
-Humans naturally assign meaning
-You have control over the meaning
-You can choose no meaning or a supportive meaning
-You must sometimes act counter to your subconscious intentions
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Podcast No. 123 – What would you regret most after you’re dead?
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NOTES FROM THIS EPISODE:
-Do you have any regrets in life?
In her book, Top Five Regrets of the Dying, Bronnie Ware shares wisdom she learned as she loved and cared for many people who were facing their final years on Earth. She summarized their regrets as follows:
1. “I wish I’d had the courage to live a life true to myself, not the life others expected of me.”
2. “I wish I had not worked so hard.”
3. “I wish I had the courage to express my feelings.”
4. “I wish I had stayed in touch with my friends.”
5. “I wish I had let myself be happier.”
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Podcast No. 121 – QUOTE – “Do what you have to do until you can do what you want to do.” — Oprah Winfrey
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NOTES FROM THIS EPISODE:
-Passion brings you excitement and energy
-You can design your life
-You must bridle your passions
-You can grow your desire through focusing on your passions
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Podcast No. 119-Common Limiting Beliefs
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NOTES FROM POST:
-Limiting beliefs are those that hold us back
-Beliefs could be unsupportive, supportive, or neutral
-Beliefs could be false, true, or a bit of both
-That makes 9 different categories of beliefs
-But the most important of these is whether the belief is empowering or limiting
-Furthermore the beliefs can be either conscious or subconscious
-So, what do you do about it?
-Use your intelligence to sort the beliefs out in your mind
-Decipher which are limiting and which are empowering
-Beliefs are just one type of mental block: (1) beliefs, (2) fears, and (3) unmet needs
-Limiting beliefs can fall into one of these categories:
1) General limited beliefs
2) Limits of identity
3) Limits of circumstances
4) Limits of truth
5) Limits of consequences
-So, what do you do to fix them?
1) Identify the limiting belief
2) Seek to understand it
3) Replace it with the truth
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Podcast No. 118-Common Limiting Fears
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NOTES FROM POST:
-Fears are one type of subconscious force that can limit your progress
-Fears are designed to protect us, but they can limit us by keeping us from taking supportive actions
LIST OF COMMON LIMITING FEARS:
1. Sick, Broke, Starving Doomsday
2. Physical Harm
3. Overworked, overwhelmed, or exhausted
4. Everything will change
5. Bored to death
6. Fundamentally flawed
7. Different or don’t belong
8. Wanting, never enough, unwinnable
9. Confrontation
10. Rejection, humiliation, locked out
11. Unloved, neglected, and abandoned
12. Betrayal and disloyalty
13. Disloyalty and abandonment
14. Crime of outshining
15. Stuck and stagnant
16. Mediocre
17. Success brings burdens
18. Jealousy
19. Other common fears worth noting
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Podcast#116-19 Unsupportive Beliefs About Money
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THE 19 UNSUPPORTIVE BELIEFS ABOUT MONEY:
1. Impossible for me
2. Scarcity-there’s not enough
3. There must be some poor
4. Blame-I’m a victim
5. Money is not for me
6. I can’t learn about money
7. I can’t manage money
8. Money = life’s unenjoyable
9. All money must be earned
10. Poverty is admirable
11. Money is evil
12. Money corrupts people
13. Having $ = not loved
14. Money requires too much
15. Money makes me a target
16. People will hate me
17. I’m not worthy to be wealthy
18. Having money is just luck
19. I have to always struggle
Podcast#115-12 Supportive and Winning Attitudes You Should Adopt
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HERE ARE THE 12 SUPPORTIVE WINNING ATTITUDES:
1. Gratitude
2. Growth
3. You can change
4. Look for Good
5. Outward thinking
6. See silver linings
7. Figureoutable
8. This shall pass
9. Failure is useful
10. Embrace humanity
11. Laugh at yourself
12. Abundance
Podcast #103 – QUOTE: Change the way you see the world and change the world you see~Ben Balden
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