Episodes
Monday Dec 27, 2021
Betwixt and Between: 3 Tips for Better Living During Transitions
Monday Dec 27, 2021
Monday Dec 27, 2021
How can you stay calm, clear, focused and effective when you're in transition? Use these 3 tips to consider how to be (and how to help someone else) when you find yourself betwixt and between stages, opportunities, or situations.
Sunday Dec 19, 2021
Focus on Strengths (when it‘s hard to see them)
Sunday Dec 19, 2021
Sunday Dec 19, 2021
This is a podcast version of a workshop on how to focus on the strengths in other people when those people are making it difficult. What can you do when you go into a conversation hoping for the best and find yourself being sucked into irritation or anxiety or confusion? Stop looking at the problems and start focusing on strengths. This podcast will walk you through three ways to do that.
Friday Sep 02, 2016
How to clear your head
Friday Sep 02, 2016
Friday Sep 02, 2016
Take about 10 minutes and think first about why you might want to clear your head. Is it crammed with different priorities and information? Is it too full of past experience to move toward a better future? Maybe you need to let go of old learning to accelerate your progress in a new situation.
Wednesday Aug 10, 2016
Banish distraction through small wins
Wednesday Aug 10, 2016
Wednesday Aug 10, 2016
When there's too much in your head, too much going on inside you and around you, it's time for a little will power. You don't need to build barriers or use force. You just need to step back and ask "what's the one thing I want to do right now?" And then, when you know what to do, ask yourself "what state will support me in accomplishing just this one thing?" The way to trigger that state is to look for tiny changes you can make in yourself, your actions or your surroundings. Each change that begins to create the desired state is a small win. A series of these small wins leads to the state, which leads to accomplishing the goal. And as soon as you have, you can ask yourself again, "so what is the one thing I want next?"
Saturday Apr 23, 2016
Be Mindful of Your Anxiety
Saturday Apr 23, 2016
Saturday Apr 23, 2016
Anxiety is a peculiarly human condition, a worry about something that has not happened and might not ever happen, and yet something that is having an uncomfortable influence on you in the present moment. Since anxiety is a state of worry about something in the future, the only resolutions also seem to be in the future and therefore out of reach.
Monday Mar 14, 2016
Mindful limits: How language helps you find the edges of your pain
Monday Mar 14, 2016
Monday Mar 14, 2016
This exercise takes less than 10 minutes to demonstrate that mindful attention in response to language allows you to find the edge to your experience of pain. As you do, you'll find your breathing settles, your mind clears, and you develop the ability to choose to focus on your pain or to focus on what is on the other side of the edges of your pain. And if you do focus on your pain, you will find that human focus blurs, so that paying attention to only one thing creates a sense of calm and space, even when what you give your focus is painful at first. And you will notice that on the other side of the edges of your pain, you are calm and centred and you have what you need to move forward.
Saturday Feb 13, 2016
Find Your Calm
Saturday Feb 13, 2016
Saturday Feb 13, 2016
When you look at a picture of your life, do you see calm or chaos? Most of us get caught up in the nots: not clear, not comfortable, not on purpose. Take five minutes to look for grounded, specific, and true. You'll find your way to calm, no matter what's in the picture.