Mar 25, 2019 | Podcast
Trying to figure out how to change your life? Maybe you just want to change your habits, your motivation or your crappy attitude. I’ve got 4 tools for you! If you feel overwhelmed with things you want to change, if you’re not sure where to start or if you’re feeling like change is hard and an uphill battle, we’re going to clear that up today.
What I’ve found to be undeniably true is that there are a VERY small handful of tools that apply to just about every problem or obstacle in our lives. By mastering these few tools, you will make your life easier and your journey to self-improvement far more manageable and enjoyable!
Make sure to join me for a FREE 4-night workshop on implementing these 4 pillars!
REGISTER NOW!
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How To Change Your Habits – 4 Pillars for a Joyful Journey
These four tools will dramatically simplify your answer to the questions:
- How do I change my habits?
- How do I change my mindset?
- How do I change my beliefs about myself?
- How do I change my attitude?
- How can I stop struggling?
- How can I make change easier?
I’ve got you covered, my friend, with these 4 pillars.
Awareness
Alignment
Advancement
Adjustment
We also talk about how registration is now open for the Spring 12 Weeks to Transformation. We kick off April 7th but you can get your identity journal sent out today by registering.
However, I expressed a major caveat on today’s podcast – if you aren’t willing to watch the entire Q&A and truly understand the process, my coaching style and the elements of our 12 Weeks to Transformation, it’s probably not for you.
But, if you’re ready to change your life and you want me to be your coach and help you enjoy this process, please watch the presentation below and reach out if you have any questions.
Resources:
Episode 559 on Identity Journaling
Episode 571 on Limiting Beliefs
Join me tonight (and throughout this week) to learn how to apply these 4 pillars for lasting, joyful change!
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Mar 23, 2019 | Podcast
Need some tips for overcoming procrastination? How about battling that feeling over overwhelm or frustration?
It’s another Q&A episode where Sarah and I dive into your questions and challenges!
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Register for the CHANGE MAKER live webseries!
Today’s topics include:
- Sustaining and amplifying motivation
- Overcoming procrastination
- Becoming better in any area of your life
- Identifying negative triggers
- Helping children develop a healthy relationship to food
- Feeling overwhelmed by the journey ahead of you
If you have questions or topics you’d like to hear on the show, you can submit them here.
Register for the CHANGE MAKER live webseries!
Learn more about the 12 Weeks to Transformation
Resources:
Register for the CHANGE MAKER live webseries!
Learn more about the 12 Weeks to Transformation!
Mar 21, 2019 | Podcast
The idea of personal transformation can seem daunting – impossible, even. Fortunately, it’s far simpler than you might think!
In today’s episode, we’re exploring the simplest, happiest, most sustainable path to personal transformation and we’re doing so by way of a poem that one of my 12 Weeks to Transformation clients wrote and is allowing me to share.
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On Creating Personal Transformation:
84 Days
84 days to make myself proud
84 days to say it out loud
That I am not limited, oh no, not me
I get to choose who I want to be
84 days to re-write my story
84 days to shine in my glory
My brain believes what I tell it to
I tell it be happy and powerful too
84 days for me to let go
84 ways to say, “Drama?” Just..NO
Emotional waste just isn’t my style
I’m staying in reality, not getting riled
84 days of daily fresh starts
84 days of doing my part
Daily I’ll journal and set my small goals
And soon I realise that I’m on a roll!
84 days of choosing to be grateful
84 days of being optimistic and hopeful
Focusing my mind on beauty and grace
Beginning to see possibilities all over the place
84 days of “What do I WANT”?
84 days of questions and thoughts
I answered the questions and my heart is reeling
I just discovered “The Goal Is The Feeling”.
84 days and yes, I did drift
84 thoughts and emotions to sift
I got sucked in to my own futile nonsense
I needed EB, her words and good sense
Now it’s 24 days and I’ll finish well
24 days with a mindset that’s swell
I’ve set new goals and they’re big and they’re good
They’ll take some effort as worthwhile goals should
24 days and I am undaunted
24 days to get where I wanted
I don’t need a formula or scalpel precision
I just keep on making One Good Decision
84 days of creative solutions
84 days of generating motivations
I’m making goals with energy and passion
I’m even manufacturing enthusiasm!
84 days of affirmations
84 days of identity creation
Now I am prepared to go from strength to strength
I’m standing tall now, I AM as I THINK…
~ Shannon L
Begin Your Own Personal Transformation
Resources:
Learn more about the 12 Weeks to Transformation
Listen to episode 559 on the power of Identity Journaling
Join the free Primal Potential FB group
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Mar 18, 2019 | Podcast
Being goal oriented might not be the most effective way to achieve your goals. In fact, I don’t think it is! In today’s episode, we’re talking about the difference between goal oriented and growth oriented and how the latter is likely a far more powerful, lasting approach to creating change.
Being growth oriented doesn’t mean you don’t care about your goals and it certainly doesn’t mean you won’t reach them. It means that you’ll enjoy the journey more and you’ll optimize who you are instead of merely trying to manipulate what you choose.
“Education is not the learning of facts but training the mind to think.” ~ Einstein
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Learn More About Your 12 Weeks To Transformation
Resources:
Learn more about the 12 Weeks to Transformation!
Join me Wednesday March 20th at 8pm ET to learn more about the 12 Weeks to Transformation and find out if it’s the right move for you! Register here.
Episode 559: The Most Powerful Way to Journal
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Got questions for the podcast? Submit them here!
Mar 16, 2019 | Podcast
I am so pumped that we’ve added this third podcast episode each week because it allows me to do something we both appreciate: mindset coaching. Even though the questions are about weight loss, overwhelm, inconsistency or motivation, the solution is often the same: mindset.
In today’s episode (and likely all subsequent Q&As) we’re taking your challenges, struggles and questions and using them as mindset coaching moments.
How can you create a solution? Where are there limiting beliefs at play? In what ways are you lying to yourself or only considering one small part of the story?
If you have questions or challenges that you’d like my $0.02 on, you can submit them here.
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Mindset Coaching Questions:
- How do I stop quitting?
- How do I stay motivated?
- How do I overcome my “all or nothing” attitude?
- I want to be happy with my body again. I’m overweight and pretending to be happy. Can you help?
- If you have always failed to keep the weight off or failed to be successful at work (or really anything) and you feel like there’s no point in trying, how do you get back on your feet to try again?
- How do I become a better mother & wife and at the same time, lose weight and take great care of myself?
- One of the things that ruins my motivation when I get going is work and other obligations. I am sure you have an episode in the podcast or have sent an email but how do I prioritize my personal health goals in the midst of work and grad school?
Resources:
Learn more about the 12 Weeks to Transformation and get on the wait list here
Register for the March 20th live information session!
Podcast episodes mentioned in this episode:
Episode 548: 3 Strategies to Create Change
Episode 559: Identity Journaling
Episode 572: Overcoming Limiting Beliefs
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Mar 14, 2019 | Podcast
Are your limiting beliefs holding your back? Here’s the reality: your life is a reflection of your beliefs and I think it’s time to upgrade!
I am 100% convinced that the primary reason people are inconsistent and continue to struggle with the same change for years is that they are focused on changing their choices while neglecting to change their beliefs. For example, if you fundamentally believe and continue to make a case for the fact that you’re an emotional eater, your choices will align with your belief.
Here’s the reality about all beliefs, including limiting beliefs:
“Your body is a barometer of your belief system.” ~ Pam Grout
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Your life reflects your belief system. Your limiting beliefs will limit your choices and your ability to grow!
It’s time to edit your beliefs and upgrade your identity! In today’s episode we’re diving into the impact that our belief system has on our choices, identifying the beliefs that hold you back and talking about how we can fundamentally change what you believe about yourself and your life.
Learn more about the 12 Weeks to Transformation
Resources:
Learn more about the 12 Weeks to Transformation and get on the wait list!
Join me Wednesday March 20th at 8pm to chat about your goals and how we can crush them (and enjoy the journey) during our Spring 12 Weeks to Transformation.
Join the free Primal Potential Facebook group!
Want to hear that 12 WT client testimonial from today’s episode? Click here.
Episodes mentioned in today’s podcast:
559 – The Most Powerful Way to Journal
548: 3 Strategies to Get Out of Your Own Way
Books mentioned in today’s episode:
Atomic Habits
Think & Grow Rich
Breaking the Habit of Being Yourself
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Mar 11, 2019 | Podcast
Whether you think you’re a drama queen or you’re sure you’re not, you MUST listen to today’s podcast! Drama is draining and every single one of us has room for improvment in our creation of and response to drama.
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Drama takes the form of assumptions, gossip, worry, rumination over the past and so much more. In case you’re still convinced that you’re not a drama queen, let’s take a minute to get on the same page.
Clarifying for the Drama Queen:
Cy Wakeman defines drama as emotional waste and describes drama as mentally wasteful thought processes and unproductive behaviors that keep you from your potential. Drama includes:
- Lack of ownership, accountability or committment
- Blaming circumstances or other people for your lack of results
- Arguing with circumstances that are non-negotiable
- Resistance to change
- Spreading gossip
- Projecting (and believing) made up stories instead of focusing on facts
- Defensiveness to feedback
- Dealing with hurt feelings
Questions for the Drama Queen:
Is this mine or someone else’s?
Am I doing something productive about it?
Is this my business or someone else’s business?
Am I trying to control someone else’s thoughts or behaviors?
What actually happened without my story?
What do I know for sure?
What’s my part in this?
What are my ideas for resolving the issue?
Am I grounded in reality?
What am I doing today to resolve this?
Other powerful ideas from “No Ego” and today’s episode:
“Venting is your ego’s way of avoiding self-reflection.”
“Your ego is brilliant at finding insult where none is intended.”
Drama is draining!
Resources:
Join the Primal Potential Facebook group
Learn more about the 12 Weeks to Transformation
Check out No Ego by Cy Wakeman
Previous book club episodes:
Episode 137: Always Hungry
Episode 388: Keto Reset Diet
Episode 540: Younger by Dr. Sara Gottfried
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Mar 9, 2019 | Podcast
Growth and change will both require facing your fears. Progress demands that you face your fears.
Personally, I believe that fear is a doorway. Whether we’re talking about fear of failure, fear of judgement, fear of missing out or any other fear, it is a doorway.
Do you go through the doorway of the fear or do you remain on the other side, letting fear stop you and allowing it to limit your life, your growth, your happiness and your relationships?
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In today’s listener Q&A episode, I’m introducing the newest Primal Potential team member and we are sharing honestly how this transition has required both of us to face our fears and step through the doorway of fear.
We’re also answering your questions about:
- overcoming emotional eating and the story of the struggle
- leaving your job to start a new business
- whether or not there are truly foods that make it more difficult to remain in control
- adding vegetables to protein shakes
- which veggies are best raw versus cooked
One of the major things I did recently to face my own fears was make three significant financial investments in Primal Potential.
- I hired a new team member (you meet her on today’s episode)
- I joined a $30,000 business mastermind
- I hired a business coach
Talk about facing your fears! These kinds of major financial investments have always been scary to me. However – here’s what they did for me: they forced me to level up. They demanded a next-level committment and performance from me. They were big and scary enough to help me think bigger and work smarter.
How are you facing your fears? What will you do about it today? If you’re ready to face your fears and make some changes, think about joining me for our next 12 Weeks to Transformation!
Resources:
Learn more about our next 12 Weeks to Transformation! Registration opens soon and you can learn more by hopping on the wait list!
Are you part of the Primal Potential Facebook group?
Learn more about Sarah’s company: Seasouled
Get on the wait list to learn more about ASCEND, Primal Potential’s weekend workshop! And save the date! November 8-10 in downtown Portland, Oregon – right on the waterfront! It’s a weekend that will change your life!
Share your questions or challenges to the Primal Potential inbox!
Check out our last listener Q&A episode from Primal Potential episode 567
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Mar 7, 2019 | Podcast
Recently, I shared in one of the Primal Potential VIP emails a personal growth mantra that inspires the heck out of me:
If you want to double your income, triple your growth.
To me, this doesn’t mean triple the growth of your business, it means triple your personal growth.
I believe this has much broader appeal.
If you want to double your rate of progress in any area of life, triple your personal growth.
If you want to 2x the quality of your relationships, triple your personal growth.
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Without fail, one of the ways that I create personal growth every single day is via the circle of achievers inside the 12 Weeks to Transformation and the Primal Potential Masters Club. In fact, that might be one of the most powerful ways I create daily personal growth.
Recently, of my 12 WT clients shared someone that helped me grow tremendously, and we’re exploring it as a personal growth strategy in today’s episode. This is one you can apply immediately and with incredible results.
Here’s the post that started it all:
In today’s episode we’ll be walking throug how this perspective can be applied to health, fitness, fat loss, relationships, careers and more. Through it’s immediate application, you will reduce stress & frustration and accelerate your progress toward any goal! This is a must-hear episode!
Resources:
Learn more about the spring 12 Weeks to Transformation!
Are you in the Primal Potential Facebook group? Join us there to discuss today’s episode, create motivation, help each other grow and so much more!
Listen to episode 521 to hear more about how you can get out of debt no matter how much you make (and learn about my sister Debi’s journey to becoming debt free!)
Listen to episode 548 for more tools that will help you overcome frustration, accelerate progress and facilitate personal growth.
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