021: Do You Have a Hard Time Speaking Up
The MindStream Podcast
If you struggle with feeling anxious, lack confidence in what you have to say and know your quietness affects your relationships at home or work, then this MindStream Podcast will help you understand the importance of speaking up. You’ll learn four different approaches that can help you more capably use your voice, speak with ease, assert yourself and develop confidence. ...
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020: Emotional Mastery and Effective Leadership
The MindStream Podcast
I was interviewed by Mark Sylvester, host of the 805Connect business podcast. The focus of our interview was initially on a topic dear to him . . . he’s been discussing leadership and how to increase your effectiveness as a leader. It was an informative interview that covered my Emotional Mastery approach and a variety of other topics. I think you’ll enjoy the interview just as much as I did.
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019: Words that Inspire
The MindStream Podcast
This podcast is all about ideas, insights and inspirations drawn from books. Think about the words that have inspired you. Think of this podcast as a “wordspiration” – talking about one or more key ideas or the overall theme of books – perhaps elaborating on an idea or talking about its impact. ...
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018: Breaking Free of Bad Moods
The MindStream Podcast
Ever get into an emotional funk where you're down or depressed mood just seems to have you by the throat? Like you can’t shake feeling sad, blue, or down? Or maybe your mood is mixed in with feeling frustrated, anxious, disappointed, angry or even jealous. And as a result, you feel insulated in your own shell, isolated on your own island, you don’t accomplish what you want to accomplish and you become unproductive. Instead you end up sitting with a glazed over stare. ...
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017: Words that Inspire
The MindStream Podcast
#goal setting,#how to set goals,#goal setting ideas,#senseofmeaning ...
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016: Exploring Challenges to Your Relationship or Marriage
The MindStream Podcast
Looking for some marriage advice? Leery of marriage counseling tips that don’t really help? Relationships are hard but it can be harder still without the proper roadmap. You need an approach that keeps you on the road to deeper and deeper trust. Whether you are in a marriage or thinking about it before marriage counseling you’re in the right place. This podcast is for men, women, those in love, and those in stress. ...
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015: How to End Fear of Failure and Fear of Taking Risks
The MindStream Podcast
Consider failure just an opportunity to learn since you didn’t achieve the outcome you were desired. Yet, when many experience failure, they stop pursuing their dreams and goals because the result wasn’t what they wanted. And they turn the failure at a task into a judgment that, as a person, they are a failure. ...
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014: Why Asking for Help is Not a Burden for Others
The MindStream Podcast
Do you feel like a burden to others when you do ask for help? Feel vulnerable? Feel like a burden to others when you do? Perhaps you find it very uncomfortable to ask for help, believing that if you make a request of others then you are “asking too much”, that your request is burdensome or that you are a burden. Drawing on your own experience and feelings, as well as a simple military analogy, in today’s podcast you will learn why asking for help, is anything but burdensome for others and instead a compliment.
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013: How to Experience and Move Through Your Feelings
The MindStream Podcast
Most of us don’t like to experience negative or bad feelings – those considered unpleasant or unsettling. In today’s podcast, you’ll learn the first of 12 key strategies that help you more easily experience and handle (especially) unpleasant feelings like anger, disappointment or sadness. You’ll learn how to “ride the waves” of feeling.Most of us don’t like to experience negative or bad feelings – those considered unpleasant or unsettling. In today’s podcast, you’ll learn the first of 12 key strategies that help you more easily experience and handle (especially)...
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012: Does Crying Really Mean You Are Emotionally Weak?
The MindStream Podcast
Don’t confuse feeling better with actually getting better. Feeling better is just a change in your state or mood and is temporary. Getting better is a change in your overall pattern(s) of handling life challenges and is permanent. ...
info_outlineThe purpose of reflecting and planning is to get clarity on what you really want.
Today’s podcast is intended to be interactive so you can listen to it once just to hear the questions, then come back, pause it as much as you want and really take the time to think about who you want to become and what you genuinely want in the coming year. Consider:
- What are your wins from last year and what did you learn by achieving them?
- Is there a key word, intention or theme that can help guide your daily decisions?
- What did you do to promote connection and healing with people you care about?
- How did and will you invest in your own growth and development?
- How do forgiveness, gratitude, kindness and love thread through your life?
- What qualities and values will you exude and how will they guide your life?