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Your entire life is nothing more than your personal experience of it. An angle. A way of looking at your life that became much more than just a simple viewpoint. It became an excuse for why you keep falling into the same destructive patterns. But it doesn’t have to be.
Who’s scamming who? What makes self-reflection challenging is that you’re both the con artist and the one being conned. Whoa…where are we pulling the wool over our own eyes? Jenn and Karen talk about how we are 100% in control of setting ourselves up for success.
Choose. What are you going to fight for? The past or the future? Your self-sabotaging BS or long-awaited freedom? All of your past is based on how you currently think about the past. Jenn and Karen talk about how your self-sabotaging is just trying to get the pain over with all because you told yourself stories about who you think you are.
If you know why you’re stuck and you’re still stuck, that ain’t it. Jenn and Karen take a page from Gary John Bishop’s Unfu*k Yourself calendar and talk about if you know why and aren’t taking action … what is the thing behind the thing?
Calm the F- down! Actually, we’re too zen in this episode to yell at you. We’re wrapping up our month on the emotional intelligence skill of emotional expression by talking about how to find your sense of calm despite what might be swirling around you. What other emotions make up calm? We want to inspire you to find what works for you to get you to that place. Let’s get the right questions and observations going.
As we continue down the Yellow Brick Road of emotional expression, we run right into fear, uncertainty and doubt, oh my! In this episode, we’re talking about how to challenge fear and uncertainty, and consider whether we’re feeding or fighting these emotions. We’ve got some aha moments in here if you have trouble articulating your fear and limit your opportunities. If this is you, or you’re a coach guiding your clients through fear, you need to listen to this.
Bad pun alert (you’ve been warned)! Let’s amp our confidence this week. Confidence is one of our favorite aspects of emotional expression and it’s the emotional intelligence skill we’re focusing on all month. How do you get more of it? Listen up and learn about the emotions that make up confidence and ask yourself what resonates and what you might do differently. And don’t forget to listen to episode 310!
What does a song played on the ukulele have to do with emotional expression? And why are we so pumped to be talking about it?
In this four-part series of episodes, we’re putting our J&K spin on the emotional intelligence skill of emotional expression. This time around, we’re talking specifically about what it means to be bold. Listen in and try to tune into what feelings come up for you around boldness.
Don’t worry! It doesn’t have to happen overnight, but you CAN learn to be assertive (or more assertive). This episode is devoted (not hopelessly) to developing more of this important EQ skill. We’re sharing some very real and very doable tips for using your voice in growing your assertiveness. Remember to start small, and realize your boundaries and opinions are important to you. They deserve airtime.
