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589: Mental Wellness & Creating Your Own Rules Apr 15, 2019

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Mental wellness drives physical wellness. Without a strong mental game, it's just a house of cards. You don't want to miss today's episode! I'm interviewing one of the most positive, enthusiastic women I know: Brooke Thomas.

When I asked her what she's most passionate about sharing, she told me her incredible story that led her to the realization that mental wellness trumps physical wellness.

We dive into strategies for when you feel stuck or burdened by the life you designed. It's a powerful conversation about creating the life you want, slowing down to speed up and not settling for less than what you're capable of.

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588: Carb Sensitivity & Sugar Addiction Apr 13, 2019

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What is carb sensitivity? How do you know if you're carb sensitive? In today's episode, we're answering listener questions about carbs, sugar addiction, the best foods when you're on a budget and much more!

Questions tackled in today's episode include:

How can you tell the difference between being sluggish from something you ate and not getting quality sleep. I'm struggling with knowing if I'm getting enough/quality sleep.
I've listened to your episode on Identity Journaling but after I answer the questions,I'm not sure where to go with it. What do I do with my answers to the questions?
If I take your advice and ask myself, "What is possible?", what do I do with the answer?
What I struggle with most, I identify as "sugar addiction". I know that I would be healthier if I never ate refined sugar, but it's a mind game where I feel deprived instead of feeling elated that I'm choosing to do good things for myself. I just don't know how to get out of my own head.
I have no willpower. I listen to your podcasts and although they are so good, nothing is helping me. I lose 2-3lbs and then go on a blitz of eating poorly. At 58years old, I don't think anything will help me.
How can you tell if you are sensitive to carbs or not?
What are the best nutritious foods available for a person currently living pay check to paycheck?

Resources for Carb Sensitivity

Wired to Eat by Robb Wolf

Primal Potential Episode 316 on Wired to Eat

Carb Sensitivity Program by Dr. Natasha Turner

Primal Potential Q&A 2: What's Your Carb Tolerance

Get on the Wait List for the Summer 2019 12 Weeks to Transformation

Resources for Eating on a Budget

Thrive Market

21 Day Sugar Detox Salmon Cake Recipe

Episode 066: Eating Healthy on a Budget

Episode 116: 5 Meals Under $1.99

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587: Busy is Bullsh*t Apr 11, 2019

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You aren't too busy to take care of yourself or to prioritize your health.

Sure, you might be able to tell yourself and others that's the reason you aren't making progress or doing the work, but it doesn't make it true. It's just a convenient story - a permission slip you write yourself for being inconsistent.

The reality is - taking great care of yourself increases your bandwidth, it doesn't decrease it. It gives you more energy, more focus, more determination, clarity and efficiency.

I love the Zen saying about meditation. "If you don't have time to meditate for an hour each day, meditate for two hours." If you think you're too busy, you need to adjust both your schedule and your perspective!

There are so many other elements to this permissive lie and we're exploring them all on today's episode!

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A Few Tips If You're "Busy"

Stop using "busy"
Ask yourself if you're creating a life you love or just keeping yourself busy
Are you getting the results you want?
Create more space
- Talk more slowly
- Think more slowly
- Move more slowly
- Meditate
- Eliminate obligations that you aren't passionate about

Resources

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586: Personal Growth as a Drug of Choice Apr 08, 2019

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Get ready to expand your perspective about personal growth! Get ready to get excited about it and more enthusiastic in your pursuit of it!

Today, we have Tara Romano on the show! Tara and I met a few months ago and when I saw her Instagram post where she said that personal growth is her drug of choice, I just had to have her on the show.

Personal growth is a gift, not a burden. It's something you do FOR yourself, not TO yourself. It's not a sacrifice.

In today's episode, we dive into both personal growth, the gift of it and overcoming insecurity and comparison.

Some of Tara's personal affirmations include:

Interupt the pattern
It's not that serious
Stop making up so many stories
I'm a perfect work in progress
I'm a magnet for all I desire
My life is perfect as it is and I'm capable of making any changes as I desire
All I need is always taken care of. I am safe.

Resources:

Learn about Tara and her fitness empire, Tone & Tease

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Mark Nepo's The Book of Awakening

"The glassblower knows, while in the heat of beginning, any shape is possible. Once hardened, the only way to change is to break."

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585: Getting Yourself to Follow Through Apr 06, 2019

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Need to get yourself to follow through on the promises you make to yourself? I've gotcha! Today's episode will give you the mindset & strategy for success!

https://primalpotential.com/585/

Questions Answered in Today's Episode

Why do I keep holding myself back?
How to stay focused on the process today and not go down the rabbit hole of worrying about the future or how long change will take?
Who's your favorite band?
I am quite OCD, so why is it I have trouble following through with my goals?
My inconsistency is driving my frustrations. What is the key to overcoming this?
What should I do when I feel mentally blocked?
I need to take action. What can I do to get out of "learning mode"?
When does the next 12 Weeks to Transformation start and how much of a daily commitment does it take?

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584: Fear of Failure & FOMO Apr 05, 2019

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Fear of failure and fear of missing out (FOMO) reflect incomplete truths - emotional corners of the truth - and we can overcome them! I've been having a lot of conversations with clients about fear and today we're breaking it down so we can set ourselves free!

https://primalpotential.com/584/

Questions from Today's Episode:

What's possible?
What stories do you tell yourself (or excuses do you sell yourself) that talk you out of your potential?
What else is true?

Fear is a liar because you are in control! You create your results! Fear of failure is a liar because you have the power of choice! You don't have to fear failure because you control it with your own actions! The fear is a distraction!

Instead of submitting to the fear, challenge it with those questions. Instead of limiting yourself to the boundaries of your fears, choose to press on in spite of any fears.

"The fears you don't face become your limits." ~ Robin Sharma

Primal Potential Episode 577: Money Mindset

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583: Your Bad Mood Tool When You're in a Funk Apr 04, 2019

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Being in a funk sucks but you don't have to submit to your bad mood! In fact, getting yourself out of a funk is a skill you must build if you want to be consistent. Today's episode has the strategy for you! You are not a victim of your bad mood but being in a funk can threaten your progress UNLESS you know how to pull yourself out.

You are in control of your own funk-extraction!

This is actually one of the weekly challenges from the Winter 2019 12 Weeks to Transformation spring group and I'm excited to share it with you!

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Questions from Today's Episode:

How can you help yourself today?
What are you able and willing to do today to help yourself?
What do you want more of?
What do you want less of?
What's hard?
What's in the way?
What are you focused on when things feel hard?
What's in your power to change?

Don't settle for the funk. Don't allow it. Recover the person you were intended to be!

Primal Potential Episode 553: Chaos without Crisis

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582: Change Maker Part 4 Apr 03, 2019

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The barriers to adjustment are defensiveness and avoidance. To create change, you have set those aside and get clear on what you want & if it's working. Today is part 4 of our 4-part change maker series where we're exploring the 4 pillars of creating change:

Awareness

Alignment

Advancement

Adjustment

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The Path to Effective Adjustment:

Clarity + Consistent Assessment

Clarity: What do you want? What is the outcome you're seeking? What is the result you want to get or the change you want to create?

Consistent Assessement: How will you know it's working? What factors drive results? When & how will you monitor your progress without defensiveness?

581: Change Maker Part 3 Apr 02, 2019

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We are working our way through the 4 pillars for creating lasting change and today we're diving into the third: advancement.

Are you advancing your position? What action can you take now and next to move in the direction you want?

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Since these 4 pillars of being a change maker build on eachother, make sure you've listened to the first 4 parts!

Creating Advancement:

What can you do now or next to advance your position?
What's your next best choice?
What am I able and willing to do today to make progress?

Change Maker Part 1: Awareness

Change Maker Part 2: Alignment

Resources:

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580: Change Maker Part 2 Apr 01, 2019

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Do positive affirmations really work or are they just wishful thinking? Simple answer: it depends on you.

Yesterday, we kicked off this Change Maker series on the podcast with Part 1 on awareness. Today, we're tackling the second pillar of change: alignment.

Alignment is about making sure that your intentions (what you want) and your attention (what you're focused on) are in sync. When they aren't in sync, you will experience excuses & inconsistency.

While there are many tools we use within the 12 Weeks to Transformation to create alignment, one of the simplest and most effective (when done right) include positive affirmations. In fact, I just did an episode about how affirmations related to money have been changing the game for me lately.

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Here are a couple of my favorite affirmations and you can hear more in episode 577.

Fear is a liar because I am in control.

I create the results I want.

Resources:

Join the Spring 2019 12 Weeks to Transformation

Change Maker Part 1: Awareness

Learn more about affirmations and limiting beliefs by listening to episode 577 and episode 571.

Atomic Habits by James Clear

Learn more about the practice of Identity Journaling

Positive Affirmations for Weight Loss