Synergistic Saturdays-#427 March 3rd The Strong Within Daily Affirmation Podcast I Take The Time To Understand “Not until we are lost do we begin to understand ourselves.” ~ Henry David Thoreau I was working with a life coaching student of mine who was going through a rather tough time in their life. They were going through a messy divorce, and it was bringing them to the edge of their sanity. We discussed how to see the games other people play, and how to deal with it more effectively. Their ex...
Mar 03, 2018•14 min•Season 2Ep. 427
Fantastic Fridays-#426 March 2nd The Strong Within Daily Affirmation Podcast I Attract Great Things Into My Life “Within all of us is a divine capacity to manifest and attract all that we need and desire.” ~Wayne Dyer The thing I always try to remind my life coaching students, and myself, is that we don’t get what we want, we get what we focus on. While it’s a profound statement, it’s really hard to wrap your mind around. We live in a world of cause and effect. You do something and you get somet...
Mar 02, 2018•17 min•Season 2Ep. 426
Thoughtful Thursdays-#425 March 1st The Strong Within Daily Affirmation Podcast I Can Weather Through Any Storm “The fishermen know that the sea is dangerous and the storm terrible, but they have never found these dangers sufficient reason for remaining ashore.” ~Vincent Van Gogh You are the architect of your life. You design your life; you build your walls, you build a solid structure or a weak structure. And while you create a blueprint to begin designing your life, there has to be an understa...
Mar 01, 2018•15 min•Season 2Ep. 425
Wisdom Wednesdays-#424 February 28th The Strong Within Daily Affirmation Podcast This, Is My Moment “I am building a fire, and every day I train, I add more fuel. At just the right moment, I light the match.” ~Mia Hamm We search our whole lives questioning whether we did the right things, whether we acted at the right time, whether we went to school for the right profession, whether we picked the right mate, and whether we made the best choices in all manners of our lives. We look at life as equ...
Feb 28, 2018•15 min•Season 2Ep. 424
Tag Me Tuesdays-#423 February 27th The Strong Within Daily Affirmation Podcast I Am Love “When angry count to ten before you speak. If very angry, count to one hundred.” ~Thomas Jefferson What you put into the world is what will be returned to you. We know this on a conscious level, but we don’t understand it on a subconscious level. It’s hard to really understand that the energy we emit is returned back to us in a magical way. That Universe is returning to us who we are in every moment. It’s a ...
Feb 27, 2018•18 min•Season 2Ep. 423
Mindful Mondays-#422 February 26th The Strong Within Daily Affirmation Podcast My Disappointments Guide Me To Better Decisions We must all suffer one of two things: the pain of discipline or the pain of regret or disappointment. Jim Rohn I remember watching a comedy called Meet The Millers With Jennifer Anniston and Jason Sudeikis. It’s a silly premise where the main character creates a fake family to smuggle in a shipment from Mexico because he got involved with the wrong people and needs to co...
Feb 26, 2018•15 min•Season 2Ep. 422
Smiling Sundays-#421 February 25th The Strong Within Daily Affirmation Podcast Kindness Is My First Language “Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love.” ~Lao Tzu I’ve had the pleasure of meeting some amazingly authentic and kind people, and I’ve had the pleasure of meeting some major a-holes…and if I was being loving towards myself both would have the same effect on me. Meaning, I wouldn’t let unkind people get to me because...
Feb 25, 2018•16 min•Season 2Ep. 421
Synergistic Saturdays-#420 February 24th The Strong Within Daily Affirmation Podcast I Choose Efficiency Over Perfection “Some people mistake grit for sheer persistence - charging up the same hill again and again. But that's not quite what I mean by the word 'grit.' You want to minimize friction and find the most effective, most efficient way forward. You might actually have more grit if you treat your energy as a precious commodity.” ~Reid Hoffman I work to teach people to be more efficient tha...
Feb 24, 2018•15 min•Season 2Ep. 420
Fantastic Fridays-#419 February 23rd The Strong Within Daily Affirmation Podcast I Keep My Eyes Straight Ahead “The man who can drive himself further once the effort gets painful is the man who will win.” ~Roger Bannister In the mid 1900s, there was a story that began circulating in the running community. The world record for running a mile at the time was 4:01.4 seconds—a record that stood for nine years. And so a mammoth story was born that it was impossible for any human to run a mile under 4...
Feb 23, 2018•14 min•Season 2Ep. 419
Thoughtful Thursdays-#418 January 22nd The Strong Within Daily Affirmation Podcast I Am Constantly Nudging Progress “Progress lies not in enhancing what is, but in advancing toward what will be.” ~Khalil Gibran I came to an epiphany today, which reminded me that I’m more appreciative when I’m in pain. I’m more aware of the things I miss, of the things that are great in my life, and of my place in this life because of pain. I think it is easy to get caught in the misery of life looking at what is...
Feb 22, 2018•13 min•Season 2Ep. 418
Wisdom Wednesdays-#417 February 21st The Strong Within Daily Affirmation Podcast I Find Wisdom Thru Silence “Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom.” ~Francis Bacon A westerner came to a Zen master to learn the ways of enlightenment. As the teacher invited the visitor in to sit down, he placed a teacup in front of his guest and began pouring tea, and after the cup was full, the master kept pouring as it began overflowing. The teacher just kept pouring as the liquid began flowing onto the flo...
Feb 21, 2018•16 min•Season 2Ep. 417
Tag Me Tuesdays-#416 February 20th The Strong Within Daily Affirmation Podcast I Am Centered By Being At Peace With My Past “I don't have mom issues or dad issues. I think I have found peace about many things in my past. I have forgiven and asked to be forgiven.” ~Xavier Dolan A great swordsman wanted to make amends for the killing he had done over his lifetime. He was considered the best swordsman alive, and so people came near and far to fight him and beat him so they could gain the title. The...
Feb 20, 2018•14 min•Season 2Ep. 416
Mindful Mondays-#415 February 19th The Strong Within Daily Affirmation Podcast My Focus Dictates My Future “Consult not your fears but your hopes and your dreams. Think not about your frustrations, but about your unfulfilled potential. Concern yourself not with what you tried and failed in, but with what it is still possible for you to do.” ~Pope John XXIII Who we become is not determined by who we are, because that is a faulty question in itself…and the reason I say that is because you were cre...
Feb 19, 2018•16 min•Season 2Ep. 415
Smiling Sundays-#414 February 18th The Strong Within Daily Affirmation Podcast New Opportunities Excite Me I hope that in this year to come, you make mistakes. Because if you are making mistakes, then you are making new things, trying new things, learning, living, pushing yourself, changing yourself, changing your world. You're doing things you've never done before, and more importantly, you're doing something. Neil Gaiman I was discussing with a friend of mine years ago. I said that I hated bre...
Feb 18, 2018•15 min•Season 2Ep. 414
Synergistic Saturdays-#413 February 17th The Strong Within Daily Affirmation Podcast I Rest Purposefully “It's so great to find that one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life.” ~Rita Rudner Guess what, you guys are my one special persons???, my peeps, my crew, my spiritual gangstas, my brothas from anotha motha, my sisters from another mista, my friends, my community. So I hope you don’t mind if I do like Rita says and annoy you for the rest of my life 😉 We got a long haul ...
Feb 17, 2018•17 min•Season 2Ep. 413
Fantastic Fridays-#412 February 16th The Strong Within Daily Affirmation Podcast I Believe In Myself “When you have exhausted all possibilities, remember this - you haven't.” ~Thomas Edison A salesman heard a story about a powerful magician being able to grant people their wishes. And as of late his miracle health products weren’t selling like they used to. So the salesman decided to find this magician to see if he could help him change his luck as of late. The salesman traveled many days until ...
Feb 16, 2018•17 min•Season 2Ep. 412
Thoughtful Thursdays-#411 January 15th The Strong Within Daily Affirmation Podcast I Listen When The Universe Speaks To Me “The gigantic tension before the shooting of an arrow, and the total relaxation seconds later, is my way of connecting to the universe.” ~Paulo Coelho I recently did a podcast on freeing ourselves from resentment, and the funny thing I was tested immediately on that affirmation. When you become more intentional about how you want to map your life, you’ll see that the Univers...
Feb 15, 2018•16 min•Season 2Ep. 411
Wisdom Wednesdays-#410 February 14th The Strong Within Daily Affirmation Podcast I Am Free From Resentment “The worst resentment that anybody can have is one you feel justified to keep.” ~Louis Gossett, Jr. Happy Valentines day everyone…and if you hate this holiday because you feel you have no one to love you…just know you will be my valentine, as I’m going to love you. And on that note of love…let’s talk about hate: Is there someone who gets on your nerves, and they don’t even have to interact ...
Feb 14, 2018•15 min•Season 2Ep. 410
Tag Me Tuesdays-#409 February 13th The Strong Within Daily Affirmation Podcast I Am Prepared For Anything That Comes My Way “Peace is not absence of conflict, it is the ability to handle conflict by peaceful means.” ~Ronald Reagan We live in an aggressive world. If you want something, you have to fight for it; you have to put on your armor and go to war. We use different language on how we pursue things, but when it all comes down to it…we are endlessly fighting life aggressively: As we wage war...
Feb 13, 2018•17 min•Season 2Ep. 409
Mindful Mondays-408# February 12th The Strong Within Daily Affirmation Podcast I Say Yes To Great Opportunities “I imagine that yes is the only living thing.” ~E. E. Cummings That’s a pretty powerful quote when you think about it, and usually the simplest things are the most profound. What I heard when I saw that quote is—there is ONLY life in yes. And if No is the opposite of yes, then “no” is lifeless. But how can that be, because “no” is an answer in helping us describe what we don’t want? An...
Feb 12, 2018•15 min•Season 2Ep. 408
Smiling Sundays-#407 February 11th The Strong Within Daily Affirmation Podcast I Wait Patiently Through Action “The two most powerful warriors are patience and time.” ~Leo Tolstoy The right moment doesn’t reveal itself to us as we wish it would. We want things to be perfect, but wants and wishes will blind us from seeing a moment as what it is…already perfect. For in every moment there is perfection within it. Because in every moment is the chance to fall in love, it might be the moment when you...
Feb 11, 2018•14 min•Season 2Ep. 407
Synergistic Saturdays-#406 February 10th The Strong Within Daily Affirmation Podcast I Am Purposeful In How I Want To Feel "The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls." ~Pablo Picasso Let’s face it…we all are living the busiest lives we know. It doesn’t matter what anyone else is doing. We still think we have the busiest lives in the world, and if only people understood this maybe we could get some of that sympathy we deserve. I’ll admit to how frustrated I was this week....
Feb 10, 2018•13 min•Season 2Ep. 406
Fantastic Fridays-#405 February 9th The Strong Within Daily Affirmation Podcast I Follow My Intuition The only real valuable thing is intuition. Albert Einstein A few years ago I was working out with a good friend of mine. This friend was so energetic, they were such a happy soul, and they displayed so much kindness in who they were…everyday. It was a joy to be around this person, and I was glad to call them a good friend of mine. When we would do our workouts together at the gym we’d talk about...
Feb 09, 2018•14 min•Season 2Ep. 405
Thoughtful Thursdays-#404 January 8th The Strong Within Daily Affirmation Podcast If I’m Going To Be Anything, I’m Going To Be Useful “Be yourself, but always your better self.” ~Karl G. Maese I wrote this poem back in September of 2016 and I wanted to share it for this podcast I wanted to be a pilot Crashing through the heavens, But I realized that I shouldn’t have touched Things that weren’t meant for me yet, That I shouldn’t have reached so high Because sometimes a dreamer needs to be grounde...
Feb 08, 2018•16 min•Season 2Ep. 404
Wisdom Wednesdays-#403 February 7th The Strong Within Daily Affirmation Podcast I Invite The Burglars In Because What I Have Cannot Be Stolen “Our Intention Creates Our Reality.” ~Wayne Dyer A burglar broke into a home. He heard a soft voice say, "Jesus is watching you." Thinking he was just hearing things, he continued stuffing items into his burglar bag. Again, he hears: "Jesus is watching you." He turned his flashlight around and saw a parrot in a cage. He asked the parrot if he was the one t...
Feb 07, 2018•14 min•Season 2Ep. 403
Tag Me Tuesdays-#402 February 6th The Strong Within Daily Affirmation Podcast There’s Enough Room For Both Of Us To Pursue Our Dreams “I think that you have to bear in mind that music is about escape, and it's not unreasonable to think the music business would be based around escapism.” ~Peter Hook I’m all about fairy tales. I’m all about asking for more of your life and not settle for being ordinary. I’m all about being a dreamer awakened in a life where dreamers have all gone back to sleep. Bu...
Feb 06, 2018•16 min•Season 2Ep. 402
Mindful Mondays-#401 February 5th The Strong Within Daily Affirmation Podcast I Make Everyday Feel Like Payday “Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.” ~Mark Twain A young man left the life he knew in order to study the ways of Zen. He decided that he needed a master to teach him the ways of mastery. He traveled many miles seeking for the answers. And upon his journey he came to wild river of great depth and width. One he was unsure of, in how to...
Feb 05, 2018•14 min•Season 2Ep. 401
Smiling Sundays - #400 February 4th The Strong Within Daily Affirmation Podcast I Am Quick To Love I shall allow no man to belittle my soul by making me hate him. Booker T. Washington I was listening to a video on anger where Dr. Ryan Fuller talked about what happens to us when we get angry. He said when we are angry the body’s response is survival, so it focuses on metabolizing energy, and thus our brain isn’t at its sharpest during these times. He said some studies have proven that our cogniti...
Feb 04, 2018•15 min•Season 2Ep. 400
Synergistic Saturdays-#399 February 3rd The Strong Within Daily Affirmation Podcast I’m Committed To Finding The Best Way “Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.” ~Thomas A. Edison Sometimes our lives are hard because we make them hard. I was thinking back to my college days where I used to eat a lot of hard boiled eggs. I wanted to get some good and easy protein in for my workouts so I’d hard boil a lot of eggs during the we...
Feb 03, 2018•21 min•Season 2Ep. 399
Fantastic Fridays-#398 February 2nd The Strong Within Daily Affirmation Podcast I Remain Focused On What I Really Want "One way to boost our will power and focus is to manage our distractions instead of letting them manage us." ~Daniel Goleman I’ll be honest with you, this week, writing has been hard. I’ve wanted to watch Animal Planet II on Netflix, watching those lemurs fly from tree to tree is a beautiful thing, or those baby lizards escape those racer snakes. It’s amazing how my heart’s in m...
Feb 02, 2018•19 min•Season 2Ep. 398
