Once you know that the way you feel and the things you do are being created by your thoughts, being able to manage those thoughts becomes a priority. But acquiring the skills to question and change your thoughts is just like any other skill—it takes practice. And, just like swimming or playing the piano or cooking, when we’re trying to practice any new skill, the better the practice is and the more specific and targeted the rehearsals are, the faster our overall proficiency improves. In today’s ...
May 18, 2023•36 min•Ep. 211
As a mom, you are the giver of gifts. You gave your children life and you haven’t stopped giving to them since then. Everything you do is for your children. You think of them first, last, and all the time in between and give everything you have to help them learn and grow and be happy. And even with all that, you sometimes still worry that it’s not enough. Today on the podcast I’m sharing the things that I think are the most important gifts you can ever give your children. But you should know th...
May 10, 2023•28 min•Ep. 210
Are you good at feeling happy? Recently I noticed that I pay a lot of attention to my negative emotions and sometimes I am much more aware of my pain than my joy. And while the goal isn’t to be happy all the time, there is a lot of value in purposefully noticing, appreciating, and cultivating more happiness in our lives. Your emotions never make you good or bad. They are just an experience. But if you want to have more of the experience of happiness in your life, you will need to make intentiona...
May 04, 2023•32 min•Ep. 209
Our relationships are the most important part of our lives, but they can also cause us the most pain. In the places where we want to feel the most love and joy and connection, we often end up feeling the most conflict, tension, and isolation. And even though we want to get along with and love the people in our lives, sometimes it feels impossible. But it doesn't have to be. It’s just that everything you’ve been taught about relationships and every instinct you have are pretty much wrong. And to ...
May 01, 2023•12 min
Your brain has a native language system—a natural, native way of thinking about who we are and what we’re capable of. We have used this language to create our identity and tell us who we are—and that informs what we do. That means that in order to change your life, you have to change this native language system. We have to learn to speak to ourselves in a new way, with new words, and new sentences, and practice this new language enough to embed it into your life. Choosing new thoughts is learnin...
Apr 27, 2023•31 min•Ep. 208
When things in our life don’t turn out the way we think they should or we struggle to create the results we want, we sometimes wonder if we need to try harder or if we need to turn things over to God instead. Is getting a life we want a matter of striving or surrender? And how do we reconcile our agency and our power to choose our experience with God’s will and his plan for us? In today’s podcast, I’m wrestling with the balance of taking responsibility for your life with being open and receptive...
Apr 20, 2023•29 min•Ep. 207
All of us want less conflict in our lives and less conflict in the world, but that desire often feels out of our control. It’s easy to feel like the amount of love we get or the amount of conflict we experience is up to other people and their choices. But the truth is that everything we feel—whether it’s love or hate or anything in between—is always up to us. And that means that if we want to have less conflict and more love in our lives we can. We just have to know how to do it. In today’s podc...
Apr 13, 2023•35 min•Ep. 206
When you think about what you want for your life, one of the things that can get in our way is the fear that what we want might be selfish. Going after our goals, following our desires, and paying attention to the things we want can feel self-serving and self-focused and sometimes we are suspicious of our own desires. What if we want isn’t good? What if it takes time and energy away from the other priorities in your life? On today’s podcast, I’m talking about how our fear that pursuing our desir...
Apr 06, 2023•29 min•Ep. 205
The hardest battle we all face is the one inside our own heads. But most of us think it should be easier in there than it is. We think we shouldn’t have to fight so hard to feel good about ourselves or positive about our lives. But once we understand that the opposition our brain creates is there on purpose, and that nothing has gone wrong, then we can stop resisting our brain’s opposition and start doing in the work that is required to overcome it. In today’s episode I’m showing you why thought...
Mar 30, 2023•35 min•Ep. 204
We are all capable of way more than we believe. To tap into our true potential and create new possibilities for ourselves, we have to allow ourselves to dream big and we have to know how to keep going. Because even though we each have unlimited potential and are capable of creating anything we want in our lives, we aren’t capable of it all at once. We only open new possibilities to ourselves one step and one choice at a time. Today I’m sharing a special interview I did with my endurance coach, M...
Mar 23, 2023•51 min•Ep. 203
Usually, I’m against any kind of self-doubt, but in this week’s episode of the podcast, I’m inviting you to start doubting what you think about yourself and questioning the conclusions you’ve drawn about yourself. When it comes to figuring out who we are and what we’re capable of, most of us are using an incomplete data set and our conclusions are holding us back. We have to start doubting what we’ve decided to believe about ourselves if we are going to progress. In today’s episode I’m telling y...
Mar 16, 2023•33 min•Ep. 202
The way we think about ourselves is so important because our thoughts about who we are is directly correlated to what our life looks like. Our personal identity dictates the choices and decisions we make, the actions we take on a daily basis, and those actions build our lives. Who do you think you are? The answer to that question is creating your life. Everything you do is because of who you think you are. On today’s podcast, I’m offering you four identity shifts to help you change the way you t...
Mar 09, 2023•31 min
We have officially reached 200 episodes of the podcast! And if you’ve been listening to the podcast for any length of time, you’ve probably heard me say many times that you and your life are 100% awesome. But how can that be when your life contains both good and bad, as much that is difficult and challenging as enjoyable and fulfilling? And how can you be 100% awesome when you are also 100% human which means that you are both good and bad, amazing and terrible, and that you are going to make at ...
Mar 02, 2023•35 min•Ep. 200
On this special bonus episode of the podcast, I’m sharing a brand new way to work with me and the three words that are the driving force behind everything I do in my business. Whenever my brain thinks what I’m doing is too hard or too scary or when it points out my inadequacies, these three words remind me of the reason that I’m doing any of it in the first place and they help me to keep doing my work in the world. I also invite you to think about your own contribution in the world—what you are ...
Feb 28, 2023•27 min
Most of us have a desire to be great, for our lives to matter, to make the most of our time here on earth. But at the very same time, we’re all just trying to survive. We’re full of dreams and desires for more, but also inundated with fear and self-doubt and insecurity. We all want to live our best lives but also, life is hard and we experience real suffering. How do we navigate this experience? How do we reconcile our desires for more with the realities of just trying to get through the day? Co...
Feb 23, 2023•31 min•Ep. 199
Sometimes it feels like our life just exists, as it is, without any say from us and we spend most our time reacting to it. But the reality is that you are always creating your life. Even when you don’t know it! Our lives are created one decision, one choice at a time. And most of the time those choices are being made unnoticed and unexamined inside our own heads. But when you truly understand the creative power of choices, and the built-in, unchanging power you always have to make any choice, th...
Feb 16, 2023•27 min•Ep. 198
You are invited to be a part of the 200th episode. If you'd like to share your experience of the 100% Awesome Podcast and the share the episodes or thoughts that have helped you in your life, I would love to hear from you! To share your experience click this link: SHARE YOUR EXPERIENCE Everyone who submits an experience will be automatically entered to win 1 of 2 $100 Amazon gift cards. You are so awesome!...
Feb 13, 2023•5 min
What gets your attention? What are the things that your brain returns to again and again, day after day? Are the things you are giving your attention to creating the results that you want? When we aren’t paying attention to our attention, our brains can focus on things that are unproductive, distracting, and even detrimental to creating the things we really want. Your attention is your most powerful resource for creating your life, but it the amount of attention you have is a fixed quantity. You...
Feb 09, 2023•29 min•Ep. 197
We know that everybody has the right to choose. But what do we do when our thoughts about what’s right or wrong or what’s good or bad don’t line up with other people’s choices? Especially when those other people are people that we love? Our brains like to notice, worry about, and judge other people’s choices, but this puts all of our focus in a place where we have no control and causes us to focus on the wrong problem. In today’s podcast episode, I am sharing four principles that will help you s...
Feb 02, 2023•33 min•Ep. 196
It’s easy to think that our problems and difficulties are getting the way of our best lives. We often think we’ve got to fix ourselves and conquer our limitations before we can get onto the “important work” that we came to earth to do. But I believe that within the challenge of our own personal limitations, there is a priceless opportunity to do the very work of learning to choose that we’re all here to do. In today’s podcast episode, I’ll show you how to use your difficulties to increase your a...
Jan 26, 2023•30 min•Ep. 195
This is the season of self-improvement. Almost everywhere you look someone is talking about goals and fresh starts and changing our lives. And for our naturally critical brains, this can be added fuel to notice all the things that are wrong with us and all the things that need fixing. Today’s podcast episode is a reminder to choose to like yourself as you. Right now. No matter what goals you are or are not pursuing. Being able to like yourself is never based on the things you do or don’t do. Lik...
Jan 19, 2023•26 min•Ep. 194
One of the easiest ways our brain can stop us from getting the life we want is by telling us that it’s going to take a lot of effort, a lot of work, and a lot of time. We think we need to make huge, sweeping changes and we end up trying to do too much too fast, which leads to burn out and quitting. Our brain tries to talk us out of small, daily action by telling us that we aren’t really making any progress day-by-day. However, your brain is underestimating the effect of cumulative action and eve...
Jan 12, 2023•31 min•Ep. 193
A lot of us like to set goals at the beginning of a new year, only to find ourselves getting frustrated, giving up, and ditching our goals before the end of January. This isn’t because there is something wrong with us—it’s because your brain is specifically programmed to sabotage the work you need to do to achieve your goals. Goal setting is easy, but goal achieving isn’t. To make it easier, on today’s podcast episode, I’m sharing the top 12 mistakes that I have made or that I’ve seen others mak...
Jan 05, 2023•33 min•Ep. 192
At the close of one year and the start of another, our brains often become reflective. This can be a good time to look at your life and check in with yourself to see if you are creating the things you want in your life and decide what you want to do next. Usually when your brain does this, it can tend to be critical of your past and skeptical of your future and this is not helpful. In today’s podcast, I’m sharing an exercise that will help you evaluate last year and plan the next one in the most...
Dec 29, 2022•28 min•Ep. 191
Christmas is just days away and so I’m taking the opportunity to share my thoughts and reflections on Christ and the effect his goodness has had on my life. Today I’m sharing the Christmas letter that I sent this year to all of my family and friends with you. Of all the thoughts that I share on my podcast, these are the ones that mean the most to me and have brought me the most comfort, hope, and joy in my life. I hope they help you feel the love of God in your own life. Merry Christmas! There a...
Dec 22, 2022•17 min•Ep. 190
What if you could get a compilation of your thoughts for the year? What if your brain could give you a summary list of the sentences you thought the most, the thoughts you spent the most time with, and the words that ran through your mind more than any others? Today on the podcast, I did an honest assessment of the thoughts I spent the year with and looked at what they created in my life. I found powerful, useful thoughts that allowed me to do lots of things I wanted and plenty of thoughts that ...
Dec 15, 2022•29 min•Ep. 189
This time of year we’re all thinking a lot about gifts—about the ones we’re giving, about the ones we’re receiving. So today I’m offering you the ultimate gift list. These are all gifts that will decrease your suffering and increase your enjoyment of your earth life experience, and best of all, they are all gifts you can give yourself anytime you want. To sign up for my January coaching grouop go to: https://www.aprilpricecoaching.com/madeformore
Dec 08, 2022•37 min•Ep. 188
Coaching is what allowed me to turn a life of regret into a life I love. And I just want any of you who might be in the same place that I once was, how very different it can be. There is so much possibility and love and joy available to you. You can love yourself and your life and design it the way you want it—and you do that by changing the choices you are making in your head. To sign up for my next coaching group go to: https://www.aprilpricecoaching.com/madeformore
Dec 05, 2022•19 min
When I think about the differences between me today and me five years ago—and I see the differences in my body or my money or my relationships or my daily activities or my spiritual life—it is shocking how differently these two versions of me are experiencing our lives. It can be tempting to think that these two versions of me are living different lives because I am taking different actions and making different choices every day. But that is only happening because what I am thinking. All the cha...
Dec 01, 2022•29 min•Ep. 187
I almost missed some of the best parts of my life because of a story in my head and I don’t want that to happen to you. Today I’m sharing some powerful tools to make sure you never let your brain keep from the things you really want. To sign up for the FROM DREAM TO DONE EVENT: https://www.aprilpricecoaching.com/dream To learn more and sign up for coaching: https://www.aprilpricecoaching.com/madeformore...
Nov 28, 2022•18 min
