64. How To Use The Power When You Shine Bright
Playing Full Out™ with Rita Hyland
Release Date: 04/15/2021
129: How To Stay Motivated When You’re Just Not Feeling It
Playing Full Out™ with Rita Hyland
How can you stay motivated to achieve your goals—especially when you don’t feel like it? As entrepreneurs, team leaders, managers, bosses, and parents we have times when we lose motivation or lose track of the reason that we're doing what we're doing. Moments where—even though we might not want to admit it—we're just not feeling it. And while that feeling is totally fair, what can we do to change that? This podcast episode was inspired by a great question from a listener in Texas! As the lines between personal and professional life get blurrier than they’ve ever been, it makes for a...
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128: What Working Hard May Tell You About Your Self-Worth
Playing Full Out™ with Rita Hyland
Many of us are struggling with the pace of life and the drive to hustle to accomplish more. Often our drive has been a part of our career or financial success, but what happens when it never feels like we enjoy what we’ve created? Through the years I’ve worked with scores of leaders, parents, and high-achievers who—from the outside—seem to have it all. But when the curtain is peeled back, there’s a sense of never enough, not good enough, and deep dissatisfaction. They continue to chase the next accomplishment hoping that then they’ll finally feel fulfilled. But what is really at...
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127: The One Strategy To Level Up Your Problem Solving
Playing Full Out™ with Rita Hyland
Future Writing is your ticket to moving beyond sticky, unpleasant situations. Whether you’re worried about how the team will perform while you’re away, or unsure how that big meeting will go—this exercise is sure to help you. And I would know! I started using Future Writing years ago and never stopped because of the profound effect it had on my professional and personal life. Plus, research shows it will increase your overall level of happiness. In this episode, I’ve included several examples of this exercise as well as best practices. You’ll hear exactly when you should use...
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126: How To Overcome Your Resistance To Work Less
Playing Full Out™ with Rita Hyland
Do you have a deep desire to work less but find it difficult to slow down despite how much you want to? Many of those in midlife with good careers and successful businesses are finding themselves exhausted today. They’ve hit their threshold where they know the pace is no longer sustainable. Working hard is coming at a cost to our kids and relationships, and more often than not – our health. I understand. I’ve been there. We can do all of the things we’re supposed to do: delegate more, hire more people, get better technology or a smarter time management system. Any of these...
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125: Feeling Pressured? Don’t Stay Calm — Get Excited
Playing Full Out™ with Rita Hyland
When the pressure is on, do you find that you tell yourself to calm down? Relax? Maybe even to breathe? It seems like the smart thing to do, right? But there may be a better way and it’s backed by research. Shifting your energy in the opposite direction—up vs down—has been proven to be more effective. In this episode, I’m sharing a practice you can use to quickly generate your best when the stresses in any situation are high. Easily get yourself inspired to respond to these challenges—or opportunities— confidently and with every cell of your body on board! This tool not...
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124: A Practice To Cultivate Your External Self-Awareness
Playing Full Out™ with Rita Hyland
External self-awareness is a vital leadership quality. Today's leaders must do more than bring forth the best ideas, strategies, or plans. They must be able to manage the energy of those they lead. This is a critical determining factor of whether or not people will actually follow you. If you want to be able to engage others, you must speak to a specific part of the brain. But you don’t have to figure this out on your own! Today I’m showing you how to engage others, so your message lands. Talking to others in the way the brain feels safe, allows us to be hears so that we can...
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123: Your Mindset Management Practice For Higher Performance
Playing Full Out™ with Rita Hyland
High-performing athletes are doing this right—it’s time the rest of us in other industries receive the benefits of incorporating a daily mindset management practice, too. Athletes know that managing their minds is as important as honing their skills which keeps them at an elite level. Mindset management is a practice they’re dedicated to and that the industry prioritizes. Leaders, executives, and parents alike can greatly benefit from a daily mindset management practice. Too many of us put extreme pressure on ourselves to perform extraordinarily every day but don’t train our...
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122: Feeling Your Feelings So They Don’t Run You
Playing Full Out™ with Rita Hyland
Let’s face it. Life is full of a LOT of BIG emotions. And yet we’ve grown up in a culture which tends to encourage dismissing and compartmentalizing our uncomfortable feelings. To prevent ourselves from feeling certain feelings we often numb ourselves. We do this by drinking too much, medicating, overeating, and workaholism —- just to name a few. These are all signs that we may be resisting feelings that we’ve made impermissible to feel. The problem is when we don’t tend to our feelings, they start to run us. We may make choices to avoid the feelings in ways...
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121: Four Ways To Win Your Battle With Resistance
Playing Full Out™ with Rita Hyland
Have you ever wondered why you procrastinate or get distracted when you're about to tackle something significant? Join me as I define and illustrate how the true culprit is Resistance, that invisible force that often derails us from adding positive habits and keeps us from accomplishing our most important tasks. In this episode, I’ll detail the impact resistance has on our lives as purpose-driven leaders and why it's crucial to overcome it. Discover valuable insights about how to combat resistance when you sit down in the morning, learn to separate yourself from resistance and equip...
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120. What We Were Taught About Happiness That Isn’t True
Playing Full Out™ with Rita Hyland
What are you overthinking or trying to control right now that is getting in the way of your happiness today? What would happen if you let go of the overthinking and the control that too often hinders you? Recently, I had the opportunity to spend a week in Jamaica with my family, where I was reminded of valuable lessons from the people I met there. In this episode, I share the message I received and provide you with an important tool to shift your energy towards living in the present moment and becoming someone who no longer must manipulate the world to feel ok but instead is happy even...
info_outlineThere is a disconnect in our culture. We are told from a very young age to be successful and happy, yet we should do so modestly. Celebrating victories and wins is often perceived as bragging, and so we avoid it so as to not make others feel uncomfortable. I’m here today to put a stop to this approach. Rather than hide and deflect our wins, let’s be proud of them. Let’s talk about them freely and authentically. By doing so, we have an opportunity to inspire others to do the same.
For full show notes, head to ritahyland.com/podcast. Connect with Rita on Instagram @rita_hyland_coaching.