Your Heroic Journey (S2E13)

Everyone in this life is on, what can be referred to as, a journey.

Let’s assume in this context, that one’s journey starts at point A and ends at point B, with many stops and stays along the way.

In this episode we explore Joseph Campbell’s take on this through his “Hero’s Journey” work. We interview Marion Moss Hubbard, Ph.D., founder of Heroic Journey Consulting which helps individuals and organizational leaders facilitate personal, organizational and global transformation through human consciousness development.

What that means for the listener of this week’s podcast episode, is the opportunity to reframe one’s life in the context of a powerful story about courageously facing life’s challenges with heart and grit, in order to live fully and authentically.

When we are able to do this, we come from a different consciousness about ourselves that results in contributing to the world from a more evolved state of being. That shift brings out the best version of us and that positively impacts, not only ourselves, but also those around us.

Learn more and listen to Marion’s Heroic Journey and the model she uses to transform herself and others. It’s well worth the ride!

To your inspired, heroic self,

Mark

What We Discuss:

• We start with Marion’s “heroic journey”

• Lesson learned on her journey

• Personal growth as a marker for being on the “right path”

• Dropping the baggage that tethers our soul and authentic self

• The difference between an intellectual connection and spiritual connection

• Going through the transformation process in one’s journey

• The tipping point from Texas to a sabbatical in Sedona, AZ

• Marion’s journey from Sedona to Seattle

• The story of Peace Pilgrim

• Universal deeper truths we all know intuitively

• Examples of Marion’s self-discovery during her questioning of “what’s true for her?”

• The difference between Knowing with a capital “K” and knowing with a lower-case ”k”

• Knowing what’s really true for you and how do we “Know” that?

• Marion’s story overlaying her heroic journey

• Creating our sacred container from our life experiences on our own heroic journey

• Seeing our challenges as part of our triumph in our heroic journey

• The Seven Stage Labyrinth Model archetype for one’s heroic journey

• Vertical alignment of spirit and true self at the intersection of the labyrinth core

• How to stand in truth by peeling away the nontruths and stepping into our divine-self

• Mythological time vs earth time

• Catalysts for growth are always found in personal and group relationship trials

• What’s your story? What do you want? What’s your intention?

• Writing your own story from outside yourself as the detached observer

• Ways of reconnecting from a state of disconnection
  

Supporting Resources:

• You Can Heal Your Life by Louise Hay

• All about Peace Pilgrim

• I Need Your Love — Is That True? by Byron Katie

• A New Earth Podcast by Eckart Tolle and Oprah

• Joseph Campbell Interview by Bill Moyers

• Hero with a Thousand Faces by Joseph Campbell

• Story Telling by Annette Simmons

• Paul Selig Website

• Jane Roberts work

• Heroic Journey Consulting by Marion Moss Hubbard

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Do You Accept Yourself? (S2E12)

We continue the conversation around another of the 14 constructs of well-being as presented by Psychology Today.

The importance of well-being has been widely acknowledged over the past twenty years by psychologists. But the concept itself is surprisingly complex.

In a recent study which aimed to bring some order to the confusion, Dr Ylenio Longo at the University of Nottingham, in England, examined the similarities and differences in the six most widely used theoretical perspectives on well-being.

Looking for similarities and differences across the six theoretical perspectives in how they defined well-being, he identified fourteen distinct and recurring constructs that are used to describe well-being: happiness, vitality, calmness, optimism, involvement, self-awareness, self-acceptance, self-worth, competence, development, purpose, significance, congruence, and connection.

Here we tackle self-acceptance as defined as “accepting yourself the way you are.” What does that mean? How do we that? Can we fully accept ourselves? Do you accept yourself? Fully? Completely?

Listen in as we carry on with some interesting banter exploring acceptance and the successes and struggles we endure as find ways to accept ourselves.

To you well-being and fully accepting who you are,

Mark

What We Discuss:

• A recap from the Phycology Today constructs that contribute to a sense of well being

• Acceptance and “who” and “what” are we that do accept

• Needing to know who we are

• How we define ourselves

• What parameters we use to that inform our acceptance of ourselves

• Navigating in the world with our five senses

• Love’s relationship to acceptance

• What’s the opposite of acceptance?

• Understanding the different nuances associated with words as we define them

• Mark’s model of acceptance for himself

• Acceptance as a process for many of us

• Being confident of who you are in the world

• Aries’ struggles with sharing our podcast with his tribe

• Mark responds to Aries’ discomfort with how others respond to what he says

• How Kundalini yoga shines the light on your behavior and thoughts

• Accepting the fact that we make mistakes

• Other interesting examples of challenges with self-acceptance and dealing with actions that have negative consequences

• Tools used to support acceptance

• Acceptance and the stories we tell ourselves

• Are there moral issues with how we deal with accepting ourselves

• Some of the suffering that Aries deals with around acceptance of others’ behavior

• Acceptance as a life long endeavor

Supporting Resources:

• The Five Love Languages by Gary Chapman

• The Book of Ho’oponopono by Luc Bodin M.D, Nathalie Bodin Lamboy, Jean Graciet

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Are You Living Congruently? (S2E11)

There are many facets of living a life of well-being.

A lot of ingredients go into that recipe. One often overlooked, but key ingredient is congruency. What does it mean to be congruent, and how does it contribute to one’s state of well-being?

Congruency in this context is all about alignment. It is living and being fully aligned with what is true for each of us. That is, in alignment with who we are as our human persona, as well as living in alignment with our spiritual persona.

Behaving, speaking, thinking… and living each moment in congruency with one’s beliefs and values will almost assure one of a sense of peace and wellness.

All change starts with awareness. I would invite you to look at your life. How are you living? Do you know what is and what isn’t congruent for you? Identify those things that are not in alignment. Begin to shift away from those areas of your life that aren't, and move towards those that are in alignment.

Do it and you will find more empowerment and resulting freedom in your life.

To your life of well-being!

Mark

What We Discuss:

·      A little back story from Mark’s battle with self-worth after what he felt was an embarrassing experience

·      Defining congruency

·      How do we see ourselves?

·      What tools can we use to better understand ourselves?

·      Who are we?

·      Are we our name? Are we our body?

·      Is there a duality of self? Physical-ego and spiritual-true nature?

·      Aligning congruency with one’s soul

·      Our natural state of being

·      Frequency congruency: What’s do we mean by that?

·      The choices we make regarding chasing thoughts

·      Discovering what is NOT congruent with your true nature

·      Exercises we can do to help us learn what is congruent with themselves

·      The need to grow

·      Are you living from a place of Spirit?

·      Knowing your Unique Ability

·      The role feelings play and how we deal with them

·      The importance of exploring, sharing and discovering our feelings

·      Are you living the life you really want to be living?

·      Are you being the person you want to be?

Supporting Resources:

·      The One Thing by Gary Keller

·      The Miracle Morning by Hal Elrod

·      Unique Ability by Catherine Nomura

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Facing Challenges: Larry Stein Interview (S2EP06)

This week’s episode is unique and dedicated to our “Health” series.

I’m on the road interviewing a friend and colleague about his journey of triumph over a very challenging speak impediment: Stuttering. It’s a story so inspiring that I decided this would make a great episode with a great lesson in hope, determination and resolve to never quit on your dreams to live the life you’ve always wanted to live.

This idea is central to the podcast and the work Aries and I do in the world.

About 3 million people in the US stutter. They do so silently in jobs that don’t require much talking. Research suggests that after the age of 10, only about 5% of people who stutter, actually overcome it.

This fact makes Larry’s story all the more remarkable. In his story you will learn how he creatively sought, not so much a solution initially, but simply a way forward. And through that way forward, one small step at a time, he ultimately found his cure and solution.

Listen here to learn how at the tender age of 57, Larry triumphed to became a successful investment advisor living a life that has exceeded his wildest dreams and allowed him to be his true self and live authentically.

To learn more about Larry, go to his blog, FacingYourChallenges.com.

Enjoy!

What We Discuss

·       Larry’s childhood and his early challenges with stuttering

·       How talking was the most difficult thing for him

·       Avoiding talking and hiding as a way of coping

·       The challenge of ordering food for the first time at a McDonalds

·       Larry compromising his passion for the stock market because of his stuttering

·       How asking questions was the toughest part of a conversation

·       How being able to ask only one question of one person can change the course of your life

·       The more he talked the more comfortable he was speaking

·       The most difficult thing was making phone calls to new people and introducing yourself

·       Larry’s career journey from CPA to starting his own RIA firm

·       The next challenge: Getting clients the old fashion way… Prospecting and calling….

·       An aha-moment… “my public speaking is more comfortable than speaking directly to a person.”

·       Why not public speak all the time!

·       There’s not always a solution, but there’s always a way forward

·       Learning all over again at the age of 55 how to speak again through modeling Matt Lauer and Bob Woodward

·       Fifty years of stuttering developed many bad habits based on fear and how Larry had to retool how he thought.

·       Another aha-moment… Doing the exact opposite of everything I’ve ever thought

·       A breakthrough idea: Imagining rays of warmth and smiles from each person Larry encountered shifted him from fear to warmth and acceptance

·       Example of a way forward: Practice talking with no risk

·       How the hardest thing to do for a person who stutters is getting the first word out

·       Now after all those years in survivor mode, Larry starts breaking more bad habits

·       The Three “Bs”: Break the mold. Build confidence. Be unstoppable

·       There’s always a way forward

·       Having a larger purpose in mind to overcome a challenge

·       Think and do the opposite if you’re not getting the results you want

Resources

Facing Challenges Blog: facingyourchallenges.com

Contact Larry: larry@facingyourchallenges.com

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Find Your Freedom Trail: Cory Schmelzer Interview (S2EP05)

It’s all about freedom!

In this episode, our subject expert on wealth and abundance, Cory Schmelzer, is what I call an “entrepreneurial freedom fighter!” This guy lives and breathes freedom! It’s central to his life and he walks the talk.

He brings a fresh perspective on an expanded definition of wealth and abundance through the path of freedom. He talks about the importance of mindset, self-confidence and living without fear. Powerful life lessons for all of us!

You will hear a very common theme in this episode. It’s the “entrepreneurial spirit.” George Kinder is his latest brilliant work, A Golden Civilization, defines it as: “The freedom of each individual to live in authenticity and within that to find the passionate purpose they are meant to live by, and then live it!”

Take a listen! Come with an open mind and define for yourself what true wealth and abundance is all about for you. And check out the great reads and resources available in our show notes.

To your happy and inspired life!

Mark Dale Mazur, RLP®

Registered Life Planner

What We discuss

•  Wealth and abundance redefined

•  Cory’s background growing up

•  The role education played in Cory’s development

•  The entrepreneurial spirit

•  Starting in the industry at Smith Barney

•  Began investing during his high school years in the great performing Fidelity Magellan Fund

•  International travel expanded his life experience and knowledge

•  The value of time vs. money

•  Cory’s definition of wealth and abundance

•  How Cory’s parents influenced his definition of wealth

•  Freedom, health, and mindset are the keys to one’s wealth and abundance

•  Bringing the abundance mindset to the financial services business

•  The value of planning and investing wisely

•  How the life planning process helps us focus on things that are really important

•  The value of freedom, liberation and justice for each human being

•  How Cory overcame a learning disability in 3rd grade

•  The impact of self-confidence and work ethic on a wealth and abundance mindset

•  The importance of having a good long game

•  Living below one’s means that can allow for the experience of wealth in relationships and shared travel experiences

•  The Cory Formula: Happiness = (Friendship + Trust) x (Money + Courage + Freedom)

•  Self-confidence rules the day

•  The key routines to maintain wealth and abundance:

- Time with his son Cole

- Time outdoors: Camping and hiking 

- Gratitude for what you have

- Reading and learning

- Reviewing his net worth statement

•  A great example of diverting negative energy into positive energy

•   The universal truth about wealth: It’s all about mindset and not being fearful

•  Being content with yourself

•  Staying in the flow and momentum of that which is good in your life


•  Book recommendations on the expanded definition of wealth and abundance

- Rain of Gold by Victor Villasenor (Love)

- Millionaire Next Door by Thomas Stanley and William Danko (Frugal living leading to wealth)

- The Snowball by Alice Schroeder (Putting good investment principles to work)

- The Razor’s Edge by W. Somerset Maugham  (Mindset)

•   Cory’s advice to his younger self:

   - Hire someone and build a team sooner than later

   - Continue learning about yourself and expand your mind

   - Go outside of your comfort zone

   - Be present in the moment more

            - Laugh more

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Wealth and Abundance (S2EP02)

We’re off to the races for Season 2!

Our previous episode set the framework for how we’re tackling the subject of health and well-being. In this episode we’re doing the same for the subject of wealth and abundance.

We make a case that our collective definition for wealth is one that’s been shaped by society, culture and industry. Many are the actors, and each has contributed towards influencing our thinking about how we value and define wealth.

Capitalism driven by human behavior has its virtues. But it also has its “dark” side such as greed, dishonesty and manipulation. Take it from a marketing guy; don’t underestimate the power of advertising and marketing to sway our behavior and thinking regarding money and wealth.

As we like to quote Socrates, “The unexamined life is not worth living.”

We invite you to listen to this episode and examine your definition of wealth. Is it best supporting the essence of who you are at your heart’s core?  Are you taking a balanced view? Is the amount of time, energy and focus you spend on the money side of wealth-building better used towards those things near and dear to your heart?

Listen here and please don’t forget to check out the links to all the resources shared in this podcast from your podcast app or from our website at www.hwph.org.

In support of living your inspired life!

Mark Dale Mazur, RLP®

Registered Life Planner

What We Discuss:

• A traditional definition of wealth

• Wealth as physical assets of monetary value

• Redefining and expanding the definition around wealth

• Are we spending too much time and energy dealing with money

• Net worth statement vs self worth statement

• Why are we so focused on wealth?

• The link to insecurity, status seeking and social acceptance and seeking wealth

• Shifting from an external focus on life to an inner focus

• The influence of the financial industry marketing machine on our focus on money

• What was the original American dream? Freedom.

• The American dream today is more about the external things of the affluent

• Is it still relevant and does it hold true for all of us today?

• The role of your unique ability and in a more expanded definition of wealth

• What is unique ability for each of us? Expressed through why we are here.

• Your unique ability is a big part of your self worth statement

• Prosperity as a more expanded and comprehensive definition of true wealth

• Prosperity as the anchor word true wealth

• Prosperity as a state of flourishing, thriving and good fortune

• Abundance of the things we love as a part of understanding true wealth

• Knowing and being thankful for what you have an abundance of

• What is enough money and the things it buys enough for you?

• Mark’s feeling of prosperity from the questions posed by his granddaughter

• Focusing the “Big Five” on what gives you a feeling of prosperity and abundance

• The importance of defining what true wealth means to you

• Explore embracing this wider view of wealth that can lead to greater freedom

Supporting Resources:

• Unique ability by Strategic Coach

• Unique ability the book

• HWPH Unique Ability Podcast Episode

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Health and Well-Being (S2EP01)

Welcome to Season 2.

Now we get down to the business of health, wealth and happiness for you.

We open this season with an overview of how we define health. It’s really about answering the question of what’s the framework for living a life in good health with an ongoing sense of well-being. What does that really mean? Is it achievable? And if so, how?

It’s actually simple. Simple in that it’s not hard to understand and grasp. Simple in that it’s not rocket science, but it is the science of the how the human mind and body work. The good news is we are also not required to understand at a deep and complex level how it all works.

The requirements of the mind body connection to operate at an optimum level is simply a matter of how to practice the basics of living. That is to eat, to drink, to move, to rest, and most importantly to be, in a way that fully supports the wiring and operating system of our bodies.

This season is dedicated to bring to you the subject experts that will share the ideas, knowledge and best practices that will create a strong foundation for experiencing good health and a state of well-being.

With appreciation for the opportunity to help you fully live into your inspired life!

What We Discuss:

• Our intentions for Season 2

• Living healthy, wealthy and happy

• Broadening the subject on healthy living

• Why thinking more globally about your health is important

• The Wheel of Health:
  - Physical
  - Mental
  - Emotional
  - intellectual
  - Environmental
  - Social
  - Vocational
  - Spiritual

• Defining health as an overall state of well-being

• Defining well-being as a state of existence with an overall combination of health, happiness and prosperity

• Pathways to disease and pathways to well-being

• Feeling good is not the ultimate marker for a healthy body

• How do we approach maintaining a state of well-being?

• Developing best practices of preventative care

• Taking personal responsibility for our health. What does that really mean?

• Top three precursors to health issues:
  1. Eating the wrong foods
  2. Not managing stress well
  3. Not getting enough sleep

• A balanced life is important for maintaining a life of well-being

• Practicing and how we live our lives when we get off track and getting back on

• The 80-20 rule

• The 14 Constructs of Great Health and using it as a barometer of one’s well-being

• Mark’s suffering experience with headaches in his 20s as a teacher about health

• The power of moving your body on a regular basis

• Mind body routines: The key to good health and well-being

• Stress and how we handle change impacting one’s energy and diet

• The master of dealing with change leading to good health and longevity

• Living a simple life and the power of environment for well-being

• Define what health and well-being is for you and “take the right action!”

• Being aware and viewing health on the broadest holistic level

Supporting Resources:

• Jim Reese and The Reese Wellness System

• Alina Sepeda and Pivotal Acupuncture

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The Master of Your Freedom (S1EP13)

The penultimate episode of Season One features the father of life planning, George Kinder.

When one wants to master a skill, one should learn from a master.

If you want to understand what living a life of real freedom is all about, do yourself a favor and listen to this interview with someone who walks the talk and lives the words he speaks. George is such a person and master of the art of life planning.

He personally has been an inspiration to me and has inspired the myriad others that have known or been taught by him.

In this interview George takes us through his early life, when the seeds of freedom were sown, and the early stages of the life planning movement. You will learn more about the most important skill we can bring to others: being fully present and listening with unconditional positive regard for the one who is sharing with us.

Enjoy and please don’t forget to check out the links to all the resources shared in this podcast.

In love and appreciation… and to your inspired life!

What We Discuss:

• A brief recap of Mark’s and Aries’ intentions for this season

• Both of them hoped for “one thing” this first season. Learn what it was.

• George’s young life growing up in the foothills of the Appalachians

• The best year of George’s life at the young age of three

• Being conscious of vitality and inspiration at this early age

• Growing up in a small “salt of the earth” town

• Harvard in the ‘60s with students “ruling the campus”

• Valuing our democratic freedoms and how he can live and make it accessible to others

• Came out of Harvard wanting to live a life of poetry, painting and meditation

• Inspired by the work of Christo as a sculptor

• Became an accountant providing tax planning part time to support his life as an artist

• How George evolved from taxes to financial planning in the ‘70s

• Learning about empathy and listening skills from his niche-building with therapists

• How listening was and has always been at the heart of planning

• Viewing money as simply a means of facilitating our dream of freedom

• Why he shifted from service to the public consumer to service toindustry professionals

• When you live a life of freedom and vitality you gain greater sel f-knowledge

• A bit about George’s spiritual journey

• How just living a life of freedom, vitality and vigor can propel the client forward

• We were born to be authentic and bring something extraordinary into the world

• Finding our authenticity, self-knowledge and wisdom to model integrity and freedom

• The Three Questions, Heart’s Core Grid and living your Ideal Day, Week and Year

• Being awake and present in every moment of our life

• George’s latest book: A Golden Civilization & The Map of Mindfulness

Resources:

Websites

• A Golden Civilization

• Life Planning for You

• The Kinder Institute

Books by George Kinder

• A Golden Civilization & The Map of Mindfulness

• Seven Stages of Money Maturity

• Life Planning for You

• Lighting the Torch

• Transforming Suffering into Wisdom: Mindfulness and the Art of Inner Listening

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Your Unique Abilities: Changing Your World (S1EP10)

Imagine knowing what your unique abilities are and spending 80% of your time using them!

Central to your persona in this life are characteristics and values entirely unique to you. When you create a picture of the type of inspiring future you want to live, you’ve connected to your deepest self. In your deepest self lies the power to make your dream a reality.    

Oftentimes, coming from that space of your deepest self lies a code unlocking your purpose in life. Within that code are the insights into your unique abilities. These unique abilities are the “tools” and will provide the leverage for you to build your vision. Do you know what these unique abilities are for you?

You can find out through The Strategic Coach’s Unique Ability® Discovery.

This guide will be the stepping stone to becoming the very best version of you. When you define your Unique Ability you obtain a wealth of self-knowledge, clarity, and confidence that empowers you to live the life you’ve always envisioned.  

Listen to this Podcast and begin your journey to discover your unique abilities. They may not be what you think!

What We Cover:

• Mark’s experience with determining his unique ability through the Strategic Coach Program

• A brief review of the opening exercise for discovering unique abilities

• Realizing the essence of who you are

• Examples of unique abilities played out in life

• Superior skills and playing them out in your life

• Passion and energy reflected in living your unique abilities

• Why is unique ability important?

• Unique ability tied to one’s bigger purpose in life

• Life planning and unique ability

• Looking at unique ability from a team standpoint

The Resources:

• Unique Ability 2.0 Discovery by Catherine Nomura, Julia Waller, and Shannon Waller

• CliftonStrengths by Gallup

• Conative Connection by Kathy Kolbe

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The Big Five: Energy (S1EP09)

The entire world spins on energy. It is the life force of the Universe and it’s the life force that will play a major role in delivering your big, true vision.

The first step when you become clear on this grand dream is to live into it!

Living into it means seeing it, fully feeling it and connecting with the power and energy of your excitement and joy experiencing it. You should feel inspired and alive—really energized, so your vibrational energy is spinning at a very high level!

This is important because here, as in physics, your energy is “the capacity to do the work.” In other words, it’s what you need to move forward through those obstacles and challenges that stand in your way!

For you, the “action” starts with the intention, inspiration and inner listening required to effect shifts in your consciousness. It’s that shift in consciousness that is the movement of something (your vision) against something else (your obstacles) that will begin to make your vision a reality. This is the “physics” of what’s going to move the mountains for you!

In this episode, we explore best practices that will support your vibrational energy levels, along with best practices in support of your shift of consciousness to create your expanded vision.

What We Cover:

• The four major “holders” and “channels” of energy for human beings:
  1. Physical
  2. Mental
  3. Emotional
  4. Spiritual

• How Kundalini yoga awakens your physical and spiritual energy

• What are you doing with your time to keep your vibrational energy level high?

• What energizes you? What drains your energy?

• Methods of better managing your energy

• Identifying the people who raise your energy level and transfer positive energy to you

• Aries and Mark share the steps they’ve taken to better manage their energy

• Mark’s routines to awaken his energy: walking, meditation, yoga and weight training

• Bad thoughts will drain your energy and how to deal with that?

• Mark shares his experience with the “stop, drop and roll” technique

• Consider the “BEAR” acronym: Belief leads to an Energy which leads to an Action which leads to Results.

• Stay away from this formula: negative beliefs = negative results

• Being aware of our natural tendencies that lean towards a positive or negative reaction

• Habits and energy make up a part of an interrelated web of contributing factors that help you realize your vision—or keep you from attaining it

• We all have the power to make changes

• Focus, tenacity and commitment are required to change

• Mark’s tops three game-changer habits:
  1. Daily meditation
  2. Daily movement
  3. Consciously eating clean

• Mark and Aries share how they deal with the struggles of eating or doing those things you love but which don’t serve you.

• Starting change one item at a time

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The Big Five: Time (S1EP08)

In Episode 8 we discuss what’s required for people to move forward on their big, true vision. For most, if not all, it will require change and a recalibration in five key areas of your life: Time, Energy, Money, Relationships and Personal Gifts or Skills.

 Mark and Aries take the deep dive on the subject of time. What is time and why it is so important.

 Time is limited. It’s one of a few things you actually have control over. Once it’s gone you can never get it back. Time is money, economically speaking. It’s a big piece of your life and we must master it, to achieve that big, true vision.

The big question is, are you spending your time in a way that supports your vision? For most of us the answer is a resounding “no!” So how do we change that?

Like everything, it starts with awareness.

How are you spending your time? Are you intentional with your time?  Are YOU owning your time, or do others? Are you aware of how much time you spend doing for others vs. caring for yourself? Do you know what an ideal day is for you?

Can you answer this question: If you had total freedom to choose to do anything you wanted on a given day, would you know what to do?

What We Cover:

• How time is finite

• Understanding what time means for you in support of your big, true vision

• Getting empowered over your time, and how you are using and managing it

• The relationship between happiness and a regular focus on time management

• Helpful tools to help you measure time

• Being intentional with your time

• Increments of time that we should focus on

• Going from illusion to reality with your concept of time

• Deconstructing time and building your ideal week

• Doing a time diary. Noting your hour-by-hour activities

• Why we do things we know we don’t really enjoy doing

• How we need structure to help us best plan our time for those things that count

• The important skill and exercise of prioritizing

• Obstacles to managing your time

• Opportunities to better leverage time

• Awareness is the key to making changes with your time

• Example of a wild crazy exercise and study on life expectancy in terms of hours and days

• Creating a greater sense of urgency around time

• What’s one change you can make in the area of time that fully supports your life plan?

• Being more strategic about your time

• Make your ideal week exercise intentional and authentic
  
  

The Resources:

• Longevity Calculator by Blueprint Income

• The Focused Daily Planner by Michael Hyatt
  
  

Bonus Exercise:

Here’s a way to start:

Step 1: Set the intention to change how you are spending your time.

Step 2: Start a time diary. Measure it and track what you are doing each day.

Step 3: Identify areas that clearly are not supporting your vision.  

Step 4: Describe and actually schedule out an ideal day. This is the target for you.

Step 5: Compare your ideal day with your dairy days and set the intention to move into the ideal day, one activity at a time.

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