Your Personal Constitution

Silence and Patience

How often do you use silence when you are having a conversation as a strategy? How often are you patient when you are listening to someone else talk? What if I told you that these are a couple of your superpowers, when you know how to use them in a helpful way for someone else? These are strategies that can work for both children and adults and skills that you can learn.

The Balance of Being in Charge

What are some tools or strategies that you use when you are feeling like someone else is trying to control you? Or maybe they aren't even trying but you give up what you want to accommodate them? Whether its to keep the peace or to be nice or because you decide that what they want is more important than what you want, you are still giving up your agency for them. Here is a way to balance it all.

Your Personal Constitution

All of the little decisions that we make everyday- big ones, little ones: they can sometimes lead to decision fatigue. We are going to talk about a personal document that you can create that can cut through all of the chaos. What if you had a guiding tool that made your decisions for you ahead of time by knowing which options beat out other options because they aligned with your values. It's a little shortcut to a lighter brain-load in your every day life.

One Good Decision Leads to Another

Did you ever wish that it felt easier to say 'yes' to yourself for those decisions when you WISH that you would decide to do something a certain way for yourself, but you just keep on deciding the other way. Maybe you don't go exercise. Or you keep on giving in to your kids when they whine. Or you say yes- you will go to the event when you don't want to. If there was a hack to make it easier, then you could practice it until even the big decisions felt better to make. Well, there IS a hack and you will learn it today in this episode.

More Than the After Photo

When we picture ourself achieving a goal that we have set for ourselves, how many times do we put ourselves into that scenario in our mind and imagine us as confident, happy, and no longer struggling with any challenges are problems. It sounds nice, but is it realistic? And what does that mean for how we are thinking about ourselves right now? Come and discover the reasons why we deserve our own respect right now.