10 Sources Of Inspiration To Raise Your Vibration and Boost Your Health Part II

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Imagine getting up every day full of energy is

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if you were in your 20s. Again, what would that be like? What

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would that be worth to you?

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What is your health worth to you? Think about it. Your health

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isn't everything. But without it, everything else is nothing.

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And yet too many of us are taking it for granted until

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something goes wrong. No one wakes up hoping to be diagnosed

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with a disease or chronic illness. And yet, we've never

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been taught how to be proactive in our health through our school

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system, or public health. As a registered health coach and

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integrative health practitioner, I believe it is time this

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information is made available to everyone. Combining new

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knowledge around your health and the ability to do my functional

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medicine lab tests in the comfort of your own home will

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allow you to optimize your health for today and all your

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tomorrow's don't wait for your wakeup call.

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Welcome back to another episode of The don't wait for your wake

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up call podcast. My name is Melissa Daly and I am your host.

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And this episode is a continuation of episode number

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62 episodes ago as I continue to focus on the theme of

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inspiration. And so if you haven't listened to Episode 60,

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I suggest you go back and listen to episode 61st. And then listen

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to episode 61. Because oh my goodness, the story of Tanya

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Joyce, going from wheels to heels is such an incredibly

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inspirational story. And I know you will absolutely love it. And

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once you've listened to those two episodes, come back and join

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me for episode 62. Here as we continue with 10 more sources of

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inspiration in my life and how they impact me. So again, when

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we are living in a place of inspiration, we are feeling

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good, joyful, happy, motivated, we're looking towards the

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future, we're looking at possibility. Instead of feeling

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that things are impossible, can't be done, being afraid,

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being angry, leave behind all of those negative emotions, and

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we're moving towards the positive emotions feeling

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lighter. And so that's why being in a state of inspiration is

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such a wonderful place to be. And honestly, one of the easiest

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ways to get there is to simply go out into nature. And I'm

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very, very fortunate I am surrounded by nature. But I'm

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surrounded by nature by a very conscious choice I made about 32

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years ago, I came to Whistler, British Columbia, in October of

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1990. And when I stood in the village and was surrounded by

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the mountains, I was in awe of the sheer beauty of Mother

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Nature. And I spent that winter here and it was my intent to

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only be here for one winter, and then go on to London, England to

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a career in Merchant banking using my Commerce degree. And

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partway through that season. I have many people telling me all

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you have to stay for summer because summer is amazing here

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you can do even more in the summer. You can kayak and you

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can paddleboard and you can canoe and you can swim in the

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lakes and you can sail and you can hike and you can bike ride,

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whereas winter was skiing or skiing downhill or cross country

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but it was still skiing, right. And so I thought, That sounds

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pretty amazing. I can say because it was just an

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internship, I can push that back six months. And so I did that

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then as it was coming around to the end of that year, and I

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should have been going off to my internship. I also realized I

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know what that life is like ahead of me in London. I've been

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there I have friends in banking, I've seen their stressful life.

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They're long days and then going to the pub at the end of the day

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and eating crappy fried food and drinking and then going to bed

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and getting up and doing it all again the next day. And is that

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what I wanted for my life? Or did I want to be here in this

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place surrounded by nature with all of this beauty? And okay,

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maybe I won't make as much money as I would have made if I went

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into Merchant banking. But what was more important to me, my

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money or my health? And even then I wasn't in health and

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wellness. I had no desire to go into health and wellness at that

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point. I still knew that my health was important to me, and

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more important to me than money. Because after all, what is your

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wealth? What's it good for if you don't have your health,

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right? I made a conscious decision then I have never, ever

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regretted choosing nature. And nature truly is inspirational.

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It lowers our stress the moment that we're in it, we can feel

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our body calm. And when we look around at every everything that

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nature is offers the variety, you know, the different types of

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trees, birds, animals, etc, etc, etc. There's so much mountains,

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lakes, beaches.

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There's so much variety, and it's different every single day.

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And I'm 32 years later, I still wake up and see the mountains in

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the winter covered in snow and have a hard time imagining what

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they look like, in summer. And in summer, they're, you know,

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grass, green, and beautiful. And I have a hard time imagining

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what they like in winter, because I love to just be in the

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moment, and enjoy what nature is offering me in that moment in

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time. hiking in the woods, and leaving, you know, modern day

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life behind the stresses and the worries of the world technology,

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etc, etc. And just going out and being. And so, in that place in

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nature, when we lower our stress levels, and when we find a place

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of calm, when our conscious mind can slow down enough. That's

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where creativity comes in. That's where inspiration

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happens. We can be inspired to, you know, come up with a new

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problem, new solution to a problem, we're trying to solve a

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new plan for what's next in our life. Or we can just be inspired

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to slow down and enjoy the peace and quiet and calm because we

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get those opportunities so rarely in our world today. So I

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am literally in awe of Mother Nature every day, every time I

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go up the mountain skiing. It's beautiful to me, and I just want

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to take photos. And some of my friends laugh at me because

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they're like, you've lived here for 32 years, and you look like

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a tourist. And I'm like, I don't care. I really don't care. I

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want to capture this every time. And what's been really

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interesting over the last 18 months, as I've been doing this

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and sharing this on social. And through this pandemic, when you

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know everybody's we've been staying home and doing less,

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etc. You post these photos, and other people are commenting how

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just looking at my photos brings them calm or inspires them where

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they just appreciate seeing them. And then that inspires me

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to continue posting my photos. And sometimes I think well, it's

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kind of the same photos I posted last time. It doesn't matter

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because somebody else is going to see it somebody who needed to

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see it on that day. Because Mother Nature has so much to

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give whether it's in person, or even through a photograph or a

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picture. And so, those of you who know me, you absolutely know

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I love spending time in nature. Whether it's downhill skiing,

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cross country skiing in the summertime getting out on my

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paddleboard. I actually don't know how many people I lost

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count that I inspired to buy paddleboards in my last two

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summers of paddleboarding and posting about it and I love that

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I love that other people are getting out into nature and

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enjoying that time on the water and the calm and it's so

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healthy, we're letting go of stress in those moments. Hiking,

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I used to always you know, I've done a lot of hiking over my

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years here. But in since the pandemic taking out back country

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hiking with my daughter, something the two of us can do

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together and totally enjoy quiet time memory making just

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relaxing, leaving all the devices behind, or simply

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sitting in nature and enjoying the warmth of the sun coming

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through the trees or what I absolutely love is walking

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through the trees with a canopy above my head and you can't see

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up to the sky. But then every once in a while the sun will

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come through and you can see the rays of the sun coming through

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the trees and hitting the ground ahead of you. It's just

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absolutely beautiful. And what about the changing of the colors

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in the fall? The spring you know that brilliant bright green of

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new leaves and buds in the spring to the beautiful oranges

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and reds of the fall.

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Yes, I love nature. I could probably do a whole show on

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nature. But I'm going to move on to the source of inspiration

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number 12 which is laughter. Right? Who doesn't love the

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sound of laughter think about that baby that new baby laugh

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when you're just going boo at them and they think it's the

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funniest thing ever. And it's just that really cute little

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baby giggle and you can do it Over and over and over again.

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And every time they laugh more, and it's that same little cute

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baby laugh. We've all seen that experience that too, you know,

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comedy shows to, you know, comedy television, just allowing

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us that time to laugh. Those belly laughs are great episode

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that my family and I love. It's called Miranda out of the out of

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the UK, there's only three seasons, there's only five or

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six episodes per season. But it is a laugh out loud hilarious.

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To the point where you're laughing so hard your tummy

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hurts. And that is so healthy for you. Because one minute of

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laughter can boost your immune system for 24 hours. One minute

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of anger or fear or stress, on the other hand can weaken your

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immune system for four hours. So what would you rather laughter

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changes your energy, it shifts your mood, it lightens your

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load. And it's a very quick and powerful way to move into that

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place of feeling lighter. So I absolutely love laughter for

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what it does, because it makes us feel good. It's contagious.

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When my oldest daughter starts laughing, she has an absolutely

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contagious laugh. And I can't help but laugh along with her.

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And sometimes she's you know, playing tricks on her dad and

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laughing at her dad. And then I'm laughing too. And he's like,

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Thanks for the support. And I absolutely can't help it. I just

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start laughing when she starts laughing. And so that contagious

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nature of laughter is really powerful as well, because it

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brings us together as human beings enjoying the moment. So

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laughter is yet another source of inspiration. Where can you

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find laughter in your life? The 13th source of inspiration is

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spirituality. Whether that's meditation, prayer,

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contemplation, all of these can be a quiet source of peace and

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inspiration. Sometimes inspiration comes to us, when we

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slow down, right? I said that, in my last episode, when my

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daughter and I were sitting at the sunset and quiet of the

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morning. In fact, inspiration often comes to us when we slow

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down. And we just don't slow down enough on a regular basis.

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But when we choose to slow down and go within the inspiration

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can reveal itself to us. The problem solving the ideas,

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creative ideas for something we might want to do next. And so

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what does that look like for you, it doesn't have to be a

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make work project to slow down or to meditate or to pray. It

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could be five minutes at a time. And sometimes it's a matter of

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just starting. And initially it might be five minutes. But then

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as you get good at meditating for five minutes, and you're

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really like the peace and the calm and the inspiration that

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comes to you, it's easy to build upon that to 10 minutes or 15

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minutes. For me, yoga is almost like meditation that can be a 45

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minute to an hour long class, of just being calm being within

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closing my eyes to all the external input and the

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bombardment of what's thrown in our eyes all day, every day, to

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just allow the brain time to calm. And from that place, we

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get inspiration. Number 14 Are my clients. My clients are an

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incredible source of inspiration to me. And perhaps for you, it's

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clients, maybe it's colleagues, maybe it's your bosses. But who

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are the people that you work with? That might be a source of

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inspiration for you.

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Very often the clients that come to work with me have been

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looking for solutions to their root cause of their health

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issues for quite some time and not getting answers being told

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nothing's wrong with them, or that we don't know what's wrong

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with you. And they're frustrated. And sometimes

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they've almost given up, they don't think they can heal it all

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and they have to feel like crap for the rest of their life.

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Which is absolutely not true because your dis ease does not

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have to be a life sentence. But sometimes that's what people are

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led to believe. And so when they start working with me, they

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don't have a lot of hope left. They're thinking will this work?

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Won't this work? I'm not sure they have to buy into my belief

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that My programs work. And I know my programs work because

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I've seen them work with hundreds and hundreds of

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different people and get great results for all of them. And so

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I have to share how the programs work with them. And then they

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have to choose to step into that. When we have hope, we can

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continue the healing journey is when we quit, that we've lost

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our hope and nothing happens. So as long as we keep trying,

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there's the chance that will then the body can keep healing,

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right. So they step into that. And then as we create the

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environment for their body to heal, and they start noticing

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the benefits very quickly, usually within the first three

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weeks. Now they develop their own belief that, hey, there's

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something to this, this can work for me, I'm feeling better, I'm

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on the right path. And they're inspired to keep going, and

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their belief blossoms. And when I see them take on their own

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belief, and I see them step into doing the work. That inspires

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me, because it isn't always easy. But they do it. Because

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they start to see the benefits. And that inspires them to keep

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going. And that inspires me to keep doing the work that I'm

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doing, because there's more people out there that need that

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kind of help and support and guidance on their healing

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journey. So I want to say thank you to every single one of my

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clients that trusted in me. Because you inspire me every

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single day and stepping into doing the work that you need to

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do to help your body heal with my guidance. And you inspire me

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to keep doing the work that I do. And it brings me great joy,

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because I love seeing the results that people get. So

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number 15, the 50 source of inspiration, are our friends. We

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have all different kinds of friends, friends in different

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shapes and sizes, that all have different skills and different

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knowledge that we don't have. And so they can do things that

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we can't do or don't do. And this is inspiring, because from

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there, we can learn from each other. And I have a particular

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very good friend who I've actually only known for the last

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six months where accountability partners in a business coaching

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group that we're both in. And we both agree that our coach

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assigned us to be partners together, it was just a perfect

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match. And honestly, this lady is an angel. Recently, she moved

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into the house of neighbors who had a disabled daughter and a

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son. And they hadn't had a vacation since the kids were

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born. And caring for a disabled child is anybody any of you

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would know if you have disabled children, that's 24/7. And

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they've never had a vacation. And so Jackie, who I've

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nicknamed an angel moved into their home leaving her own

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teenage son and husband in their family home in order to care for

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these two kids while their parents got their first ever

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vacation.

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Is it easy looking after a disabled child? Absolutely not.

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This is a disabled teenager, she's you know, got some weight

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to her. So Jackie had to be lifting her, you know, getting

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carrying her into bed and bathing her and getting her to

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eat food and taking her to her brother's Christmas concert. And

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she sent videos of her dancing with this child who's standing

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in her leg braces and holding her up so she could dance and

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playing music. And remember in the last episode, Episode 16

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music was one of the sources of inspiration. And they were

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dancing to this music. And the brilliant smile on this girl's

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face was absolutely incredible. And the gift that Jackie gave to

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this family in moving into their home and caring for their

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children. That inspires me to be a better person. Because to me,

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she is an angel. And I was watching this as she was sharing

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videos of her experience thinking could I do that? What I

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do that? I don't know. But Jackie did it. And now, next

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noon, if there's a time where I'm asked to do that I would

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want to say yes. Because Jackie's inspired me to be that

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better person. So that I can say yes to that. So thank you,

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Jackie, for that inspiration. And then we have affirmations as

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our 16th source of inspiration. And again, there's many

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affirmations out there, you can Google them, you can make up

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your own. And I made up an affirmation that many of you

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have heard many times over, in regard to self care when I first

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started my health coaching certification course, because

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that's where I first learned that self care is the most

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selfless act, and that we should be looking after ourselves

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first, not last, because I always thought I had to look

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after everybody else first. And me last, and then I never really

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got to me. And when I flipped that on its head, it made so

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much sense, you know, we can't serve from an empty cup, put the

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oxygen mask on first in the airplane, etc. Right? Fill your

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cup until it's overflowing and serve from the saucer that made

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so much more sense to me. So I created an affirmation that self

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care is the most selfless act, as it allows you to show up and

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give the world the best of you instead of what's left of you.

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And I say that every single day. As I shifted my habits into

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looking after me first. And as I did that, I noticed a shift in

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me, I noticed a shift in my family. Because I was looking

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after me first. And I was actually more stress resilient.

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I was actually calmer two teenage daughters at time when I

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first implemented this and notice this and one day I had

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this aha that. There, they're not riling me up like they used

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to. I'm not responding and yelling like I used to. They

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still push my buttons, but I respond calmly. And the only

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difference was that I had started looking after myself,

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blocking myself care time in my calendar, making sure I got my

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workouts in or my paddleboarding or my skiing or whatever it was.

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And self care for every single person is different. For me,

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it's some form of exercise, or it's enjoying a bath and the day

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for reading a book. For you, it might be totally different. But

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affirmations really help us to change habits. We're so

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programmed to just be in our comfort zone and do what we've

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always done. And it can be hard to get outside of that and to

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create a new habit because our brain wants to keep us safe in

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our comfort zone. And anytime we step outside of that we start

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doing something differently. It starts sending us messages to

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pull us back, questioning what we're doing, why are you doing

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that? You sure you want to do that? That's hard, this looks

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different. Is it safe? Why don't you come back over here where I

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know I can keep you safe. And that's why so often, when we're

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doing something that has a stepping outside our comfort

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zone, we might even feel butterflies in our stomach, like

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standing on stage to give a speech, a piano recital standing

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at the start line of a marathon. Because our brains like whoa,

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what's going on here. And it's questioning us and we're feeling

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a little bit nervous.

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And when we continue to step in outside of our comfort zone and

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move forward on that path, those affirmations can help us keep

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moving forward. So that is a 16th form of inspiration. The 17

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is exercise. So when we exercise, we have endorphins

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moving through our body, we're feeling good, we're better

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oxygen flow through our body, therefore, you know, more blood

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flowing through our body, etc. We just feel better. And I

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realize if you're used to lying around on the couch, that it

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might be really hard to find that motivation to get up and

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exercise. But when you do you always feel better. I don't

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think anybody's ever gone and done a workout and then said,

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Gee, I wish I didn't do that. And so it's incredibly

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inspirational because we're always feeling better. And again

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we're getting out of our conscious brain when we're

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exercising our brain can calm and you know new thoughts, new

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ideas, new inspirations can come to us. I've recently invested in

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the mirror button Lululemon is partnered with a mirror to

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promote that and so now I have a whole exercise gym in my living

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room with over 10,000 workouts in it from chair, workouts you

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can do in your chair to yoga to stretch Change toning to barre

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Pilates boxing kickboxing, tai chi, cardio competition family

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fun. I, I can't even remember all of them. There's so many to

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choose from. And then from beginner to intermediate to

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advanced to expert, and five minutes to 60 minute classes,

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and some live classes, and then a whole bunch of recorded

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classes. So every single day, at some point, I can go to the

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mirror and I like to do my workouts in the morning, I can

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go to the mirror, and I can do a half hour of this and a half

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hour of that. Or maybe I do an hour of something, try different

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things. And just enjoy that. And I can play my music, play their

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music. And again, remember, music is another source of

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inspiration. I'll often play my energy shifting tunes just

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because they're faster, especially if I'm doing cardio.

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Oh, dance was another one I forgot to tell you, then I have

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to play their music. And I'm totally uncoordinated. And you

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know what, it doesn't matter because I'm at home and no one's

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watching. But I'm moving. And I'm creating that blood flow.

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I'm getting out of my thinking mind and just being in the

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moment and from their source, if that's the source of

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inspiration. So I absolutely love my mirror. And but it

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doesn't matter what exercise do you like to do? Maybe it's just

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getting out and going for a walk. I told you in the two

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episodes ago, about my mom walking the pole to pole without

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even knowing it and getting her Fitbit badge because she was out

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walking her dogs. And then she's getting out and getting close to

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the beach because she's living in Australia. So she's closer to

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nature. So all those benefits from getting outside and doing a

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walk. So what type of exercise do you like, because that's

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what's most important. If you like bike riding, then go ride a

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bike, if you hate bike riding, don't ride a bike, find

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something that you like, because then you're so much more likely

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to do it. And you can start off in baby steps, 15 minute

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increments, and build up. And as you build up and you feel better

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and you feel fitter, you're further inspired to keep going.

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So number 18 is acts of kindness. And love this one,

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because so often acts of kindness don't actually even

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have to cost you anything. Think of it if you're just giving

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someone a compliment. And in this world, how often does that

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happen? Not often enough, to the point where if you do

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acknowledge someone and give them a compliment, they might

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feel uncomfortable. And try to push it off or say it was

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nothing. Because they're not used to receiving compliments,

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because we're not giving them often enough. And giving a

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compliment doesn't cost you anything. But it gives the other

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person so much. And guess what it's actually giving you

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something to because you feel good about giving that

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compliment to the other person. Any act of kindness leaves you

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feeling good. Whether somebody drops something and you pick it

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up for them. Whether you're opening the door for someone,

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whether you're buying someone in front of you a coffee in or

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behind you a coffee and wine just because whatever it is,

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that act of kindness leaves you feeling good.

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And you've made someone else's day, at the same time. And what

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if all of us could just go out and give five compliments today

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to five different people genuine compliments. And notice how you

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feel as a result of doing that. And notice how you've made each

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and every one of those people's day. Now, if that isn't a source

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of inspiration, I don't know what it's making someone else's

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day from a simple act of kindness. Number 19 change

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change as a source of inspiration. I've always said

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the only guarantee in life is change. And yet some people are

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very resistant to change. Because they're in that comfort

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zone where their brain knows they can keep them nice and

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safe. And they don't want to get out of it. But there's no growth

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sitting in your comfort zone. So in order to have growth we have

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to get out of that comfort zone staying in it all the time

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simply gets boring. And boredom can actually lead to depression

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and depression can actually lead to negative health implications.

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And there's no better sign of that then people in retirement.

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They count down the days to retirement and Then retirement

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starts and then they have maybe have a whole month first month

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planned out are going to travel. And then after that they have no

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idea what they're gonna do with all of this time. And if they

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don't make a plan on how they're going to spend that time, it

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gets boring. And that boredom leads to depression and

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depression leads to illness. And too many people die really soon

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after retiring. It's actually tragic, because you work all of

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these years of your life looking forward to retirement. So you

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can do all of these things, and then it doesn't happen. Which is

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why I actually believe in the Japanese approach of IKI guy

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where you find your passion and your purpose. And you do that

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every day for the rest of your life. You don't have to retire

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from it because you love what you do. And so then retirement

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isn't even a thing. You might do it less as you get older, but

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you don't have to actually retire. But if you're living

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life by design, you can take vacation when you want to take

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vacation, you can live your purpose when you want to live

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your purpose. But moving out of our comfort zone, and inviting

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change into our life is inspiring, as we don't know

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where we're going or how it's going to turn out. And that's

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totally why your brain wants to keep you in the comfort zone,

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because it's like, where are you going, I don't know, if I can

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keep you safe over there. Let's come back to the comfort zone.

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But the reality is, when we step outside that comfort zone, it's

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an adventure. And that is inspiring. And we just have to

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gently tell our brain that it'll be okay that we've got this. And

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let's go over here and you'll find a new Comfort Zone later

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on. You see, your brain is your best friend and your worst enemy

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at the same time. It's your best friend when it stops you from

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stepping in front of a bus. But it's your worst enemy when it's

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holding you hostage in your comfort zone. So learn to talk

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back to your brain and bring it with you on your adventure out

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of your comfort zone. And that is inspiring that yourself Be

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inspired simply by not knowing what the outcome is going to be.

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But being open to the journey. And the 20th source of

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inspiration is a conscious rethink, slow down, meditate,

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take the time for check ins with yourself. Excuse me, are you in

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alignment in all aspects of your life? Is there anything you need

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to shift in order to get into alignment is when you are in

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alignment in all aspects of your life, you will find yourself

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living in peace, harmony, and joy. And there will always be

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room for growth, there will be always room to try new things.

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And that is a great source of inspiration. When we rethink

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when we do check ins with ourselves, check that we're on

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the right path. And if we're not, we do a little zig here, a

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little zag there. So I hope you've really enjoyed these over

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the course of two episodes, these 20 sources of inspiration.

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And I truly would love to hear from you whether you email me at

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of inspiration most resonated with you.

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When we take the time to just stop and think about all the

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ways that we can be inspired in our life, we can truly start to

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create a little bit of change, we can start to realize we're

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boredom setting in we're bogged down when we're just doing same

Melissa Deally: 00:33:53

old, same old and we can shake it up. And that is inspired. So

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thank you for listening to the don't wait for your wake up call

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podcast. And next week I have yet another fabulous guest and

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this particular guest has had two near death experiences. And

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clearly her work isn't done on this planet because she's here

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to share her story with you. Amazing woman so inspirational.

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So come back next week and listen to episode number 63.

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