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307. How To Be Awesome At Creating A Special Connection With Each Child

How To Be Awesome At Everything Podcast

Release Date: 11/17/2024

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How To Be Awesome At Everything Podcast

It’s back to school and back to routines and for me that means a new season of podcasting and starting this one off with how to maximize our time while our kids are in school.   Insane to say but I now have a high schooler and in my many years of having school age children I’ve learned so much about how to use this time to have time for yourself, get the things done that you need to, catch up with people that you love, fitness & nutrition, take care of appointments and errands… without wasting any time.    My goal of this podcast is to give you a really helpful...

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How To Be Awesome At Everything Podcast

How To Be Awesome At Not Having FOMO   This is one huge deep dive into FOMO.   The fear of missing out and why I think it can quietly steal your peace, confidence and joy if you don’t have a plan for how to think about it.    Lots of things I talk about on this podcast, I’m currently also working on becoming awesome at the thing.    This is one of those things that I’ve got down.  I don’t have FOMO ever and I don’t get my feelings hurt if I wasn’t invited somewhere.    Not that either of these things are bad feelings - I don't actually...

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How To Be Awesome At Everything Podcast

We just officially passed the 1 million download mark on this podcast and I’m so crazy grateful for it.    What an incredible time to be alive and have so many ways to connect with people that you would never connect with otherwise.    To celebrate- I wanted to share things I know for sure.  Some of the lessons and thoughts that feel like the most valuable right now from books and interviews and conversations with really interesting people.    We were renewing our passports yesterday and I asked the girl helping us how her day was going and she looked at...

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How To Be Awesome At Everything Podcast

What if disappearing for 30 days felt like a rocket ship toward the goals you’ve been thinking about… the habits you’ve wanted to build, the changes you’ve wanted to make.  In this episode, I’m showing you how to hit pause on your normal life, go all in on what actually moves the needle, and come out with results that would’ve taken years.. or never happened at all. This episode is about changing up your routine and getting quiet for a certain period of time so that you can be laser focused on doing things differently.  It will mean passing up things you normally do and...

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How To Be Awesome At Everything Podcast

I feel like there is this shift in what used to be the habits and routines of “extreme biohackers” or “health gurus” and now those same things have become part of a lifestyle that people are adapting to make it their new healthy normal.    What we eat, how we move, what we focus on, how we approach health & supplements & body recovery, having a low stress lifestyle - all of it.    This is - my opinion - the best ever cultural shift… because it makes us all healthier, happier in our day to day because we feel great and we will live longer and age better....

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How To Be Awesome At Everything Podcast

If you spend 18 minutes a day — focused on learning or practicing a skill, you will become better than 95% of the population at that skill.   That’s the 100 hour rule.  It’s about consistency and this concept of small daily progress that compounds over time.   Jesse Itzler popularized this concept and it shows that you can become great at anything you’re willing to put 100 hours towards.     You don’t need more time. You need more intention.   In this episode I’m pulling out so many of the highlighted sections from...

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How To Be Awesome At Everything Podcast

We took Parker and the girls and a few buddies to Dave and Busters a few weeks ago and there was this small thing that happened that has been a huge perspective shift in my life. it's worth a podcast episode.   I was telling Craig on the way there that I've kept all our past Dave and Buster's card organized in the Ziploc baggie in my purse so we have so many cards we have endless game credits we won't have to buy any cards it's literally gonna be the easiest trip to Dave & Buster's ever. So we get there and we're at that scanning machine and one by one each of the 10 cards I had been...

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The craziest thing that I’ve learned over the last year of reading and re-reading aging and longevity books is that much of what we think is natural aging is actually neglect.     My goal in this episode is to reframe what we assume or are told is “natural aging” or “just getting older” and show all the small things that we might be neglecting over time.   This whole concept is so empowering!!  Rather than feeling like we aren’t in control of how we age, we realize that we are actually in control of so much of it.    Focusing on all the tiny things we...

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How To Be Awesome At Everything Podcast

In this episode, I’m sharing the best tips for maximizing your budget when it comes to party planning - especially kids parties.   I have this way of doing it that’s efficient and organized and easy to decide what’s worth paying for and what’s better to do yourself.    I’m sharing specific examples from the Party I just threw for Parker because I think it will give you lots and lots of ideas for the parties you plan in the future.   This one was a baseball and ice cream theme so I definitely needed ice cream cones.  I got two quotes for companies to scoop...

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Whether you have one kid or 5 kids or you don’t have kids but plan to one day… this podcast episode is filled with ideas for you to really connect with each child - starting at any age. 
 
Life is busy and the months go by quickly.  I’ve learned just how important it is to slow down and be mindful of the relationship and connection that you have with each child and how it changes as they get older.
 
My goal in this episode is to give you lots of ideas of ways to really connect and stay connected with your child.  Ideas that will really get you thinking about how you can insert the best ideas for you, into your daily lives. 
 
I believe so much that an extra ordinary life comes largely from taking ordinary moments and making them extra ordinary and this episode is filled with so many ways to do just that with your babies. 
 
**Lots of ideas… 
1:1 time consistently 
Leave out something to do together (book or football etc)
Do what they are interested in 
Ask questions that are open ended and curious 
Show your love in the way that resonates most with them 
Celebrate tiny wins- things you wouldn’t normally celebrate 
Learn a new skill together 
Share a hobby 
Create traditions with each child (ex: Sunday am pancakes) 
Work together on a charity project 
Frame pictures of them that represent special accomplishments or moments 
Projects that live on like a time capsule (digital or actual) 
Dream day together - make a list, look forward to it, do all of the things on the list 
Plan dream playdate together for their friends 
Plan their birthday parties together 
Start a small business, podcast or blog together 
Go on walks after dinner - low pressure environment 
Make a seasonal bucket list (summer bucket list to go zip lining etc) 
LAUGH! 
Plan vacations / adventures 
 
 
**With each kid have a…
TRADITION once a week or once a year  
SONG that is theirs/yours
THING that is yours (star, magic, champion etc)
OUTING to look forward to

 
**Things to avoid… 
Always solving everything for them 
Dividing your time with technology 
Be curious and not judgmental 
Allow them space to fully be who they are 
 
 
**How we can use what we know about habits to make this all happen! 
Anchor to exiting (after brushing your teeth..)
Start tiny - 2 minutes of something 
Focus on behavior, not outcomes 
Be flexible - helps you be consistent 
Change your physical space 
Just start- build on small wins - momentum 
Focus on doing, not perfection 
 
 
CHEERS to having the most awesome connections with your awesome kids!