Does it feel like the stress in your life has increased exponentially since COVID? Are you all too often jumpy, anxious, upset, or just plain mad? How are you to survive all this, much less thrive?! In this podcast, discover a few simple techniques to help you deal with some of that stress, and feel an “Ah” of relief so you can get on with your life.
Friday, September 24, 2021
Monday, August 30, 2021
Pull Out Your Superpower
As we struggle to emerge from these long months of pandemic, it can be challenging to find the strength to keep going. It’s not just the constantly shifting COVID protocols, there’s our work situations, our finances, our living conditions, which for many of us keep changing and morphing. Sometimes into non-existence. And there are the continual stresses of our family life, as kids do (or don’t) make it to school, whether online or in person, and it’s hard to have any kind of stable routine, whether you have 5 children, none, or are single.
Factor in the climate crises – hot/cold/fires/hurricanes/floods – and the political/social chaos pretty much everywhere in the world, and it’s enough to make even the strongest among us want to crawl down to the bottom of the bed under the covers and stay there until it’s all over. Which is, at this rate, highly unlikely . . .
So pull
out your Superpower. Yeah, right, uh-huh. As if leaping tall buildings in a
single bound or throwing a punch of white light could do anything for you. Ah,
but that’s not what a Superpower is necessarily. A Superpower can be – well,
let me give you an example by way of explanation.
Sebbie
Hall, 17, has a rare chromosome anomaly, which at one time looked like it would
make it impossible for him to ever walk or talk. Despite Sebbie’s learning
difficulties, among which is a difficulty in finding words, he’s a normal
English teen in many ways. Disappointed that his good friend couldn’t
communicate with him as the pandemic started, Sebbie wanted to give his friend
his own iPad. Sebbie’s Mom had a better idea: why not raise money so his
friend, and others like him, could get what they needed during these rough
times.
But
how? Sebbie’s not a celebrity, doesn’t have a unique musical or another such
talent, and is differently-abled - which often makes approaching others dicey.
But then Sebbie thought “I can be kind,” and to date, has performed over 1,600
acts of kindness, from walking neighbors’ pets to washing cars, handing out
PPE, giving coats to the homeless, and even collecting unwanted Halloween
pumpkins so they could be turned into soup and pies for the needy. This, Sebbie
declared, was his Superpower: kindness. With it, Sebbie has raised via
Crowdfunding approximately $39,000 with which to help others in need.
What’s
your Superpower? I know what mine is: appreciation. Once I stumbled into the
enormous power
of appreciation and realized I could appreciate something, somewhere, at
any time and any place, regardless of what was going on in my life, I had it.
Appreciation is most definitely my Superpower. Nope, I can’t leap over tall buildings
with it, but I can appreciate tall buildings and those who do leap. Turning to
appreciation no matter what has been my saving
grace, and appreciating others purposefully has brought many a smile to
many a face.
How
about you? What Superpower might you claim as your own? You may surprise
yourself with what comes up for you, and then with just how wonderful claiming
- and using - your Superpower can be.
Tuesday, August 17, 2021
How to Rock the Boat – Safely – Episode 24
Have you ever been scared to death of making a change, no matter how much you wanted it, because – heck – what if it didn’t work out? What if it made things worse? Yikes! A valid fear, for sure, but one that you don’t need to carry around with you. In this podcast, you’ll discover a powerful yet easy way to make those changes you want without endangering all that you care about.
Tuesday, August 3, 2021
Quit Rescuing, Start Empowering! – Episode 23
You are so over being the go-to person for everyone in your life: at work, at home, wherever. How can you free yourself of their demands without being a jerk? Great question! In this podcast, you’ll explore how to do just that in three easy steps that allow you to genuinely support your peeps without doing it all for them.
Monday, August 2, 2021
The Problem Isn’t The Problem
The problem isn’t the problem. You read that correctly.
Really. The problem isn’t the problem: the problem is when we forget to focus
on the solution.
Take Ben Lovell, for example, a 42-year-old Englishman whose
right leg was amputated due to a life-threatening blood clot in 2017. He went
through it all: suicidal thoughts, depression, PTSD, the works. And then Ben
figured out it wasn’t serving him to focus on the problem, namely lack of leg
and his inability to walk for more than 20 minutes at a time.
So Ben started working on the solution. For him, it was
two-fold. First, Ben created AmpCamp, a fitness boot camp for fellow amputees,
which given that prior to his amputation, Ben’s fitness consisted mainly of
getting off the couch to stroll down to his local pub, was already a feat.
Secondly, Ben decided to climb England’s three highest peaks – he who had never
climbed a mountain in his life – and did so this year in 27 hours. Again,
despite the inability to walk more than 20 minutes at a go.
In other words, Ben stopped obsessing on the problem, lack
of leg and all it entailed, and turned his mind, heart and body 180 degrees in
the opposite direction. Which brought him success, purpose, and fulfillment.
Not bad!
Now you don’t need to lose a limb or have anything else as
drastic to occur in your life to re-focus from whatever your problem is to
tracking down a solution. It doesn’t matter whether the problem is as minor as traffic
or a bad hair day, or as major as an ailing child or loss of a job. Whatever
the problem is, it won’t disappear or be resolved by staring at it.
Your best bet, in all situations, is to follow Ben’s most
excellent example. Resolutely turn yourself from groaning about the problem to
figuring out a solution. Or several.
You can do this. Yes, you can.
Tuesday, July 20, 2021
Put the Fun Back Into Your Life – Episode 22
When did the idea of fun vanish from your life? What happened that turned you into this serious, perpetually worried, anxious person? Wouldn’t it be nice to have that feeling of “fun” once again? Well, in this podcast, you’ll find out just how to re-discover “fun” no matter what you’re doing, and in the process enjoy your life so much more.
Thursday, July 8, 2021
Meet An “Amazing” Whose Talents Spans Decades
Marilyn McCoo, at 77, returned to the soap opera “Days of Our Lives,” along with her husband, Billy Davis, Jr., to reprise roles originally featured in 1986 and 1987. How nice that wonderful characters are never forgotten in the long life of a soap opera.
Marilyn, however, is probably best known for her hosting appearances on the 1980s music countdown series “Solid Gold.” Or, if you’re a music aficionado as I am, for her astonishing 4 octave range in such 1960s and 1970s hits by the group “Fifth Dimension” as “Up, Up, and Away,” and “One Less Bell to Answer.” True talent is a gift that just keeps giving-- ageless, timeless.
For more Amazings, go to https://www.Facebook.com/MeetTheAmazings.
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