Truthful Tuesday (September 8, 2020)

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TRANSCRIPT
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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 "THE COMFORT ZONE" and today is Truthful Tuesday. Which means today we tell it like it is. 
 
Hi everyone and thanks for joining me for another episode of the focused intention podcast. I'm so happy to be here with you on a Truthful Tuesday and if you weren't able to join us yesterday for motivation Monday, I encourage you to go back and listen. We talked yesterday about our comfort zone and how we can start living, start noticing what's around us and get out of our autopilot, that default mode that we get stuck in. Now today I want us to go one step further so let's get started. 
 
So, did you try something new yesterday? I hope so. I mean, did you brush your teeth before you showered instead of after? Or did you take a new route to work? Or did you just simply notice what's around you all the time? I really hope you took the time to do that -- to try something new yesterday. But today I want us to talk some truth and that is that when we take this concept of "THE COMFORT ZONE" just a little bit further, we realize that without stretching our boundaries we don't grow. We don't evolve, we remain the same person we always work with no deeper knowledge or understanding of why we're here. So, we need to dig a little bit deeper with today's “new thing.” 
 
So this week I because I just started a podcast I joined all of these Facebook groups and there's a few where people you know, they post their podcast trying to get others to listen -- to give them feedback. And so, I did something new. I listened to a couple of podcasts that I would have never picked out in a million years. And, let me tell you, I really enjoyed it and mostly I was listening to podcasts of people way younger than me. One person even referred to a singer as someone “really old like her mom” who is 45. I about died right there. Yeah, I'm 46 so... 
 
But the point is, I got a new perspective on things and it was exciting to me. I listened. I couldn't talk back, which was even a better advantage. I listened to somebody else’s point of view and I felt, because I did that, that I grew as a person. I now understand a different point of view on things that maybe I didn't think about before. I feel like I opened my mind to a different viewpoint. 
 
So today I want us to stretch ourselves a little bit with the intent of growing as a person or as a friend or as a parent or as a coworker. So what could we do? Maybe listen to new music you never tried before with the intention of trying to understand why someone else might connect with it. Or try a new kind of book. If you love mysteries, read a biography or a memoir. If you read business books, try a romance. Or try a new type of food and learn about where it's from and how it's made. Expand your world. I want to expand mine. 
 
All right, baby steps to bigger steps. So here is our intention for today: My ability to grow depends on my willingness to stretch the boundaries of my comfort zone. 
 
That's a long one, I know, but it's packed with a lot of good things and you can always go to my website at sarahparkerwolf.com. Sign up for my newsletter an get these intentions in a printable format. OK, here we go. 
 
Take a deep breath in. Hold it there as you count to 3. Exhale through your mouth. Take another nice deep breath. Exhale and let's just say to ourselves... 
 
My ability to grow depends on my willingness to stretch the boundaries of my comfort zone. 
My ability to grow depends on my willingness to stretch the boundaries of my comfort zone. 
My ability to grow depends on my willingness to stretch the boundaries of my comfort zone. 
 
Thank you so much for spending your time with me today. If you're enjoying the FOCUSED INTENTION PODCAST, please follow us or subscribe. Please leave a rating or a review that helps others find us too. And if you would like a weekly print out of the intentions that we use here on the FOCUSED INTENTION PODCAST, please visit my website at sarahparkerwolf.com and sign up for my weekly newsletter and they will be in your inbox every Monday morning. And you can also join us on Facebook if you look up FOCUSED INTENTION PODCAST, there we are.  
So it’s time now friends to go out and live with intention, love like crazy, and have a great day! 
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