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(This episode was partially transcribed by computer and may contain small errors. If quoting this podcast, please refer to the original audio.) Each week a new theme. Each day 10 minutes to focus our mindset on what matters. I'm Sarah Parker, Wolf, and you're listening to the FOCUSED INTENTION PODCAST. Thanks for joining me. This week's theme is GOOD INTENTIONS, and today is Freestyle Friday when we focus on living life to the fullest. Hi everybody and thanks for joining me for another episode of the FOCUSED INTENTION PODCAST. I've hope you've been with us all week where we are thinking about GOOD INTENTIONS and we have got a very positive mindset going. If you haven't, you can always go back and listen, of course. Here we are at Freestyle Friday, so let's get started. So it's Fri-yay. Yes, I say that in a ridiculous mom way to my children, but don't make fun. Yeah, we're having a positive outlook this week. Remember? yeah. Anyway, I think after all of this positivity we've been generating this week, we're ready to take it one step further. Yep, we've got this. We have been talking about intent and assuming that those around us have GOOD INTENTIONS. So now let's widen that. And focus on seeing the good first no matter what we're talking about. So if you're a teacher or you are a frequenter of parent teacher conferences, you will know exactly what I'm going to say here. So teachers try like heck to work with this “seeing the good first” idea, especially during parent teacher conferences. In fact, it's like required. The administration tells you that you have to do this. So I spent 14 years as a high school teacher, and always, especially at parent teacher conferences. Before you tell parents anything bad about a student, you need to tell them at least one good thing. And really, truly, it wasn't just a defense mechanism, although of course it softened a few blows, no doubt. But as a teacher I really wanted parents to know that although there were things that needed adjusting in my classroom, their child was, at their very essence, a good kid. So we roll into today in parent teacher conference mode. When we feel like we want to complain or argue, let's look at the good first. We can even say it out loud if we're able. The complaint or the argument may come too. Maybe it didn't go away, but that moment of looking for the good often helps our brains back down so that we can respond mindfully. Instead of reacting off the cuff to a situation, it so often buffers that negative thought or comment, and every once in a while it erases it completely. So today we focus on this intention: I see the good first. I see the good first. You know, Angela has her pencil every day, which is awesome. But we do need to work on having her wipe her nose and a tissue. You get it, right? The good always comes first. Alright, let's do something good for ourselves right here and take a nice deep breath. Hold it for a second. Breath in that nice oxygen and then exhale. Let's do it one more time. Inhale and say to ourselves... I see the good first. (repeated over relaxing music.) Thank you for sharing your time with me today and if you are enjoying the FOCUSED INTENTION PODCAST and don’t want to miss any of our daily episodes, make sure you subscribe or follow us. If you have a minute, we appreciate a rating or a review but the best thing you can do if you love the FOCUSED INTENTION PODCAST is share it with a friend. And if you would like to have a nice printable of our intentions sent to your inbox every Monday morning, you can visit my website: sarahparkerwolf.com where you can sign up for my weekly email. And on that same website you will also find the transcripts and the audio to all our past episodes. Plus, you can find us on Facebook if you look up “FOCUSED INTENTION PODCAST.” Alright everyone, it’s time to go out, see the good, love like crazy, and have a great day.
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(This episode was partially transcribed by computer and may contain small errors. If quoting this podcast, please refer to the original audio.) Each week a new theme. Each day 10 minutes to focus our mindset on what matters. I'm Sarah Parker, Wolf, and you're listening to the FOCUSED INTENTION PODCAST. Thanks for joining me. The theme this week is GOOD INTENTIONS and today is Thankful Thursday where we focus on gratitude. Hi everyone and thanks for joining me for another episode of the FOCUSED INTENTION PODCAST. I'm so glad you're here with me today. And I hope that you'll join me each and every day of this daily podcast. Today, we're focusing on gratitude as we do every Thursday. So let's get started. Oh boy, have I got a challenge for us today. So here's my question. So what kind of advice have you received? Good, I'm sure some bad advice, yes, but how about the advice you received unsolicited? Yeah, my husband and I quite often get some tidbits, some gems about parenting, especially regarding one of our children who has special needs. And the vast majority of this advice is completely unsolicited, meaning it wasn't even part of the conversation. Just something someone thought we should know. And even more often it comes from someone who doesn't even have children, let alone one with special needs. And often this just annoys the heck out of me and my initial thoughts go something like well. Who does so and so think they are? Like they know what we go through...like they know anything about anything. Well maybe I should just lay out some advice for them about, you know, fill in whatever their issue is here. And I suppose it's natural to be taken aback by advice, when you didn't ask for it in the first place. But like all things this week, let's take that feeling of annoyance and turn it right on its head. Today I want us to start thinking about re-framing those thoughts. I want us to be grateful for these people who give us opinions we didn't ask for. What? Let me say that again. I want us to be grateful for those people who give us opinions we didn't ask for. Yeah, why? If we look through a lens of GOOD INTENTIONS, these friends, family members, or even strangers probably thought they were helping. And here's the facts. We don't have to take that advice...ever. So knowing that, let's turn in otherwise completely awkward or annoying moment into one of thanks and gratitude. Let's just be thankful for those who are not indifferent to us. It's a challenge I told you. So today's intention is simply: I am grateful for those who care enough to offer advice. I am grateful for those who care enough to offer advice. Hey, the upside is maybe some of it is actually good advice. And the bonus is it's up to you to discern that, but right now we're just going to soak in all these good vibes of gratitude. Let's take a deep breath in. Hold it up at the top. And Exhale. One more time. Clearing our thoughts of negativity. And Exhale. Let's say to ourselves... I am grateful for those who care enough to offer advice. (repeated over relaxing music) Thanks for sharing your time with me today and if you are enjoying the FOCUSED INTENTION PODCAST, please be sure to join us daily. You can make sure you know of every new episode when you subscribe or follow. If you have a minute rate or review us or please just tell a friend. We would love to have some more listeners. And if you are interested in reading transcripts of past episodes or listening to past episodes, you can find them all at Sarahparkerwolf.com and you can also sign up for my weekly email there and I will send you -- every single Monday morning -- a lovely printable of the week's intentions that you can refer back to whenever you need to refocus. And of course, you can find us on Facebook, if you look up FOCUSED INTENTION PODCAST Alright everyone, it's time to go out and live with intention, be super grateful, love like crazy, and have a great day.
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(This episode was partially transcribed by computer and may contain small errors. If quoting this podcast, please refer to the original audio.) Each week a new theme. Each day 10 minutes to focus our mindset on what matters. I'm Sarah Parker, Wolf, and you're listening to the FOCUSED INTENTION PODCAST. Thanks for joining me. This week's theme is GOOD INTENTIONS, and today is Well-being Wednesday when we focus on how to take better care of ourselves. Hi everyone and thanks for joining me for another episode of the FOCUSED INTENTION PODCAST on this Well-being Wednesday. I'm so glad you're here. Hopefully you got a chance to listen to Motivation Monday and Truthful Tuesday, but if you didn't, please go back and check it out or one of our other themed episodes from weeks past, but right now we're going to talk about how to take better care of ourselves. So, let's get started. So a few years back we had a neighbor who would walk all the way around the front of our house to the back where there were a ton of windows and knock on the door, but she would pick up her hands around her eyes to peek inside it, scared the living crap out of me almost every time. And the worst part was I always thought Oh my gosh, there is no escape. There're too many windows. She would totally see me sprint for the bedroom and close the door and I'm pretty sure knowing her, she would have stayed outside and waited for me to come out of hiding. But no matter what she wanted, I resented that intrusion and I got myself all worked up and annoyed and stressed out. Now for a second, let's imagine a different scenario. Let's imagine if I had just assumed GOOD INTENTIONS. What if instead of assuming she was being nosy or irritating, or that she was trying to catch me? What if I assumed she was lonely or concerned or just liked to see my cute little kids? Sure, her knocks may have still scared the crap out of me, but I could have saved myself that fight, flight or freeze moment. And perhaps I could have even relaxed an enjoyed a minute or two of conversation and then still excused myself back to whatever I was doing. Same time frame but no annoyance, no strain. No stress. So take a minute and think of your own scenario. What if when that coworker asked for help for the third time, you assume GOOD INTENTIONS and write down the answer. Or when your relative calls for the 60th time, you pick up an, you're polite and you listen, and then you excuse yourself back. What if we assume first that people are filled with goodness...with GOOD INTENTIONS... every single time. So today's intention is very straightforward: I assume GOOD INTENTIONS. I assume GOOD INTENTIONS. Now don't get me wrong, there are definitely those people who have bad intentions, but I'm just saying, let's not pin that on someone right out of the gate. Positive interactions are the goal of the day that one's going to take a minute to sink in, right? So let's take a nice deep breath. In through the nose. Exhale and let go of all those thoughts of bad intentions. Take a nice deep breath in again. Hold it and exhale and let's say to ourselves... I assume GOOD INTENTIONS. I assume GOOD INTENTIONS. I assume GOOD INTENTIONS. I assume GOOD INTENTIONS. I assume GOOD INTENTIONS. I assume GOOD INTENTIONS. I assume GOOD INTENTIONS. Thanks for sharing your time with me today and if you're enjoying the FOCUSED INTENTION PODCAST, please share with a friend and never miss a daily episode when you subscribe or follow. And if you have a minute, please write us or review us. Or you can go to sarahparkerwolf.com. We now have transcripts for all past episodes. They are posted there at my website. You can also sign up for my weekly email and every Monday morning I will send you a lovely printable of the week's intentions so that you can refer back to them throughout the week. And of course, you can catch us on Facebook if you look up FOCUSED INTENTION PODCAST, there we are. Alright everyone, it's time to go out, live with intention, love like crazy, and have a great day.
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(This episode is partially transcribed by computer and may contain small errors. If quoting this podcast, please refer to the original audio.) Each week a new theme. Each day 10 minutes to focus our mindset on what matters. I'm Sarah Parker, Wolf, and you're listening to the FOCUSED INTENTION PODCAST. Thanks for joining me. This week's theme is "GOOD INTENTIONS" and today is Truthful Tuesday which means today we tell it like it is. Thank you so much for joining me for another episode of the FOCUSED INTENTION PODCAST. Welcome to Truthful Tuesday. I hope you were able to join us for Motivation Monday yesterday. If you didn't go back and check us out or check out one of our other themed episodes from weeks past. Today we're talking truth about "GOOD INTENTIONS", so let's get started. Since I was a little kid, I was a writer, not always on paper, but in my head there was and still is always a constant run of dialogue and in my imagination I am having conversations and making arguments that will most likely never, ever happen now. That might be good when writing some fiction, but when we interact with people, real people in real situations already knowing what will say is not even close to interacting with "GOOD INTENTIONS". Let's think about that... but but but you might say I just want to be prepared. And I ask prepared for what a speech? If there is truly a conversation there, we have two jobs talking -- of course, and that's right...listening. How can we pre-script a conversation when we don't know exactly what the other person will say, or even more importantly, how they will say it? Let's just take a minute to think of all those people we're going to listen to or interact with today. Are we moving into each of those interactions with an open mind and an open heart, or have we already decided our feelings and responses and reactions before we even begin? And, if you're thinking, “but I know what she's going to say.” Maybe, but you'll only know for sure by listening. And even if that person says what we thought they'd say if we're really listening, we may just hear in a new way. So starting today, let's decide to truly listen and be present in our interactions. To go into any conversation with good intent, ready to consider issues from all sides before we respond mindfully. Today's intention is: I listen and consider issues from all sides. I listen and consider issues from all sides. Ooh, that's a hard one. Now remember, that doesn't mean that you have to agree with someone or that you can't respond. It simply means that we are moving into our interactions with the good intention to listen. Alright, let's really internalize today's intention. Take a nice deep breath through your nose, hold it at the top. Okay, let's do it one more time. Slow it down just a little bit. Inhale and exhale and say to ourselves... I listen and consider issues from all sides. I listen and consider issues from all sides. I listen and consider issues from all sides. I listen and consider issues from all sides. I listen and consider issues from all sides. I listen and consider issues from all sides. I listen and consider issues from all sides. Thank you so much for spending your time with me today. And I hope you'll join me every day for the FOCUSED INTENTION PODCAST. If you were enjoying what you hear, please subscribe or follow. If you have a minute rate or review this podcast. But most importantly, if you're enjoying it, please tell a friend who might enjoy it as well so we can spread the word and bring even more people into our little community here. And I am happy to say that if you visit Sarahparkerwolf.com, we now have full transcripts listed with each episode that you can read along if you need to while you're listening. And you can also sign up for my weekly email. I will send you a nice printable of the week's intentions right to your inbox every Monday morning, and you can also find us on Facebook. If you look up FOCUSED INTENTION PODCAST, there we are. Alright everyone, it's that time. Let's go out, live with intention, love like crazy, really listen, and have a great day.
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(This episode was partially transcribed by computer and may contain small errors. If quoting this podcast, please refer to the original audio.) Each week a new theme. Each day 10 minutes to focus our mindset on what matters. I'm Sarah Parker, Wolf, and you're listening to the FOCUSED INTENTION PODCAST. Thanks for joining me. This week's theme is GOOD INTENTIONS, and today is Motivation Monday. And that means we focus on getting ourselves ready for a great week ahead. Hi all and thanks for joining us for another episode of the FOCUSED INTENTION PODCAST. I'm Sarah and I'm so happy that you're joining me today for Motivation Monday. We are talking this week about GOOD INTENTIONS, so let's get started. So sometimes Monday isn't my favorite day. I have to get up with an alarm, have to shower and be ready by a certain time. Even during my work at home pandemic schedule, there is no leisurely coffee drinking or sitting around and watching the news. Plus, sometimes there is just a mountain of stuff waiting for me with work and you add to that kids with school now E learning and add to it anything out of the ordinary that's getting to me like world events or car issues or money issues or kid issues or family issues or self issues (because you know that diet I'm on flew out the window over the weekend). Of course all of that is to say it is pretty easy to move into a day or even a week, dooming the entire thing before it even happened. I am pretty sure. I have never heard TGIM -- Thank God it's Monday. I know we've all done it from time to time. We have launched into a day already intent on how horrible it will be like, have a meeting or a dentist appointment or another week. Same old, same old you know, and it rarely proves us wrong. So I say this to my kids and maybe you do too, or maybe you heard it as a kid, but I tell them “You can't say you hate something before you even try it.” Right, it makes sense with food, but why doesn't it make sense with Monday? Or really any day? I mean, we're miserable before we're miserable. So, let's stop that in its tracks. Starting today, we will choose good intent. Does that mean something crappy won't happen? Of course not, but the difference will be that we won't be out there looking for it. We won't be chasing it. We won't be expecting it. We are going to be bound and determined to make good things happen this week and good things start on a Monday. So, our GOOD INTENTIONS start off with this good intention: My week is filled with good people and positive events. My week is filled with good people and positive events. See now does not feel better knowing that Monday is going to be good to you, knowing that you are moving into this week completely certain that it's going to be filled with goodness will look for it and we'll find it. All right, here we go. Let's take that nice deep breath in. Through your nose, hold it ...two, three...and let it all go. One more time. Take a nice deep breath in, hold it there and exhale. And then let's say to ourselves... My week is filled with good people and positive events. My week is filled with good people and positive events. My week is filled with good people and positive events. Thanks for sharing your time with me today and if you enjoy the FOCUSED INTENTION PODCAST, please come back every day. And so that you don't miss an episode, you can subscribe or follow us. Whatever it says on your favorite podcast app. And if you get a minute you could rate us or review us. That helps other people find us. And of course, most of all please share this podcast with someone you think would enjoy it. And now I'm happy to say that includes those who may need the transcript while listening. If you go to sarahparkerwolf.com, we now have full transcripts of every episode that you can read along as you're listening. And also on my website, you'll be able to sign up for my weekly email where I will send you a nice printable of the week's intentions that you can print out, hang on your fridge, put in your purse, put on your desk so that you can refer back to it when you want to remember your focus for the week. Alright friends, that's all the time we've got for today. So, let's get out there, live with intention, love like crazy and have a great Monday. |
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