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#138: Creating Effective Habits with Amy Porterfield Apr 25, 2022

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In a world that feels so chaotic, it might surprise you that something as simple as a habit can provide you with both clarity and peace in your life. Today, Courtney and Verbs speak with Amy Porterfield about the importance of habits and how to install them into your daily routines.

In this episode, you will learn:

How people get stuck when developing habits
How you can identify the habits that fit into your life
The power that habits have had on Amy’s life
Which of our hosts drink a gallon of water a day (spoiler: it’s none of them)
Amy’s trick for making sure she sticks with her habits

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#137: 3 Reasons To Seek a Balanced Life Apr 18, 2022

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Most people feel like they have to choose between one area of life at the expense of another. But for life to be whole and feel full, there needs to be balance.

In today's episode, Verbs, Courtney, and Blake give you three reasons why balancing your life is actually the best way to achieve your goals.

In this episode, you’ll discover—

What a "balanced life" even means
Why "work harder, work longer" isn't the solution
How to tell when there's an imbalance in your life
How all 10 of your life domains are connected

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#136: Get Off the Struggle Bus: 3 Tips for Gaining Ground on Your Goals Apr 11, 2022

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Do you feel like you’re on the struggle bus with your goals? Maybe you find yourself always working on something else that seems more urgent. You might begin to wonder if you should have made those goals at all, or if you’re even cut out for goal achievement.

In today’s episode, Courtney, Verbs, and Blake discuss a mindset shift that will change the way you approach your work. Follow these three guidelines as you set your Weekly Big 3, so you can make some forward momentum and reenergize your goal progress.

In this episode, you’ll discover—

How to tell if you’re thinking of goals as additive versus essential
The importance of sharpening your ax
Why simple steps are more effective than planning all the steps
How to filter the urgent to focus on the important
What to say when your boss hijacks your day with an urgent task

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#135: 3 Beliefs That Keep You Stuck Apr 04, 2022

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You don’t want to feel stuck. But in your relationships, in your finances, or in your career, you find yourself in the same rut over and over again. You want to break free, but you just don’t know how.

Many of our emotions and actions aren’t caused by our situations but by our thinking. With help from Courtney, Verbs, and Blake, you can identify the beliefs holding you back, trace how they’re impacting your behavior, and reexamine your thinking.

In this episode, you’ll discover—

The best clue you might have a limiting belief
The power of past experiences to shape our expectations
Why you need to start acting like your future self wants to be
How beliefs spark self-fulfilling prophecies
Examples of limiting beliefs you may be bought into

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#134: Power-Up and Refresh Your Goals Mar 28, 2022

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When our goals no longer feel exciting, the pursuit can feel cumbersome. It feels like everything is a drag, like there’s something wrong with your goals or the way you set them. Should you just let your goals crumble and aim for different goals next time?

In this episode, Verbs and Black walk through four key actions you can take to refresh your goals. Follow them closely to get back on track and make your goals exciting again.

In this episode, you’ll discover—

One of the best actions you can take in between quarters
The question to ask yourself to move forward on your goals
How to reassess the relevance of your goals
Why changing goals can be necessary—and even good

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#133: "But Why?” Refresh Your Goal Motivation Mar 21, 2022

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You’re coming to the end of the first quarter and are feeling totally unmotivated by your goals. It feels like such an effort to take one more step forward, and you wonder why you even set those goals in the first place. What can you do to stay on track and maintain momentum when you have no gas left in the tank?

In this episode, Verbs and Blake discuss the three forces behind every goal and how reflecting on them regularly keeps you going—or helps you decide if something needs to change.

In this episode, you’ll discover—

How to revisit your driving whys
Why “should goals” tend not to be effective goals
The importance of writing down your rewards
The potential costs of not hitting your goals

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#132: 4 Questions to Reflect on Q1 Mar 14, 2022

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Moving from one quarter to the next is often seamless. So much so, that we rarely give intentional thought to how things went. But that’s exactly why we can experience repetitive frustration and feel driftless. Call it quarterly déjà vu.

In this episode, Verbs, Courtney, and Nick walk through four questions to reflect on for a better and more successful upcoming quarter.

To see this full episode, go to https://youtu.be/omieOMcejeg.

In this episode, you’ll discover—

An underlying importance of the Weekly Preview
The purpose behind asking, What didn’t work?
How a quarter can feel different without intentional reflection
The necessity of naming the required change
The power of decision in who you become

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Full Focus Planner Community

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#131: Start Journaling Now! Mar 07, 2022

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We want to live and work by design. We don’t want to drift to destinations. But we can’t design the path for our lives until we know what’s happening and where we currently are.

(Watch this episode in its entirety on YouTube: https://youtu.be/pJjHbCRl41o)

In this episode, Verbs, Courtney, and Blake offer four ways journaling helps us learn from our lives, so we can then live more fully into them. You no longer have to feel like you’re coasting from one thing to the next, with life just passing you by. In as little as five minutes a day, you can gain further clarity in your thinking, record lessons learned, and take back ownership of your days.

In this episode, you’ll discover—

How journaling helps us understand what’s going on around us
The helpfulness of slowed reflection
The benefits of writing out your thoughts
Why distilling lessons learned is crucial

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#130: Email Inbox Therapy Feb 28, 2022

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Email is part of our everyday—in work and in life. From one-on-one messages to calendar invitations to marketing emails from somewhere you purchased a couch from. It’s one of the most powerful communication tools at our fingertips. But that power can also weigh us down, keep us stuck, and prevent us from moving onto our most important work. Is this the new normal we should accept?

In this episode, Verbs, Courtney, and Nick outline three actions you can take to maintain the chaos of your email inbox, so you can spend time on work that really matters.

In this episode, you’ll discover—

How to reframe expectations around communication
The email process Courtney and Verbs follow
The effects of a compromised Workday Shutdown Ritual
Tools to automate your inbox flow

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#129: Using the Planner as an Entrepreneur Feb 21, 2022

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Getting the vision, alignment, and execution you need to drive extraordinary results isn’t always easy. And it can be especially tough when you’re doing it alone. So much around you feels chaotic. How can you bring order and structure to the mess?

In this episode, Verbs, Courtney, and Blake speak with Stacie Simpson, a seasoned Full Focus Planner and new Full Focus Planner Certified Pro, about what life was like for her before she started using the Planner—and how things became different after she did. Plus, Stacie shares her personal tips for getting started, building good habits, and more.

In this episode, you’ll discover—

Courtney’s mishap at Disney World
What drove Blake to be a Full Focus Planner user himself
Stacie’s discovery of the power of “no”
How and where to start using the Full Focus Planner

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