Awareness Addicts Show
19 episodes - English - Latest episode: about 7 years ago - ★ - 1 ratingIf you are feeling stuck...knowing something is missing in your life but not sure what it is, you are right to sit tight. Rather than making a change just to relieve the tension, you are better served by developing awareness...so that the action you take is inspired. This sort of inspiration comes from your own divine guidance...or your spiritual connection. It is Sage Advice for inspired action. Awareness is the key. With this key, it is easier to navigate in the human world with all of its detours. Here, we are getting to know ourselves intimately as we become Awareness Addicts...alive, alert. awake and aware of life's possibilities.
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0019: The Multi-tasker's Guide to Prioritizing Your Life
April 08, 2022 20:34AwarenessAddicts.com/Episodes As I’ve challenged you to make some changes in your life, you may have found yourself asking, “How am I going to fit that in?” You’re already juggling too many balls. Something will have to go … but what? We have to choose our battles. Where will we reap the most benefit from applying our resources? There is a key that we can use to help us sort this out. We’re going to apply the Pareto principle as we consider the changes we want to make. We need to identify the...
0018: Why We Fail: How to Get Motivated to Change
April 13, 2017 07:00 - 18 minutes - 14.1 MBAwarenessAddicts.com/Episodes Goals can be tricky. There’s a reason why so many abandon their New Year’s resolutions within a few days of the start of the new year. Do you have trouble setting goals and staying motivated all the way to achieving them? As we become aware of the sources of divine discontent in our lives, we may feel compelled to set goals to get the change process started. Effective goals have a comprehensive plan and typically quite a bit of preparation … but they also have...
0017: How to Stop Being Negative and Be Happy
April 06, 2017 07:00 - 20 minutes - 15.2 MBAwarenessAddicts.com/Episodes Do you find yourself complaining regularly about some condition in your life? This may require a bit of internal investigation … also known as applied awareness. When we are repeatedly dealing with a situation that causes us to express dissatisfaction, there is something at work in our subconscious. We are committed to something that we are not consciously aware of. Why would we commit ourselves to something that doesn’t make us happy? In this episode, you w...
0016: How to Stop the Negative Effects of Clutter
March 30, 2017 07:00 - 19 minutes - 15.2 MBAwarenessAddicts.com/Episodes What happens when we know we need to let go of something and we resist? We may be able to get away with it for a while. But eventually, the consequences will mount. Taken to the extreme, this demonstrates itself as hoarding. You probably don’t have a diagnosable hoarding problem, but it can still be causing you stress or harm. We’re going to look for ways that hoarding shows up in our lives that we may not initially recognize. It makes developing awareness muc...
0015: How to Take the Stress Out of Stress - Dealing with Life Events
March 23, 2017 07:00 - 23 minutes - 17.5 MBAwarenessAddicts.com/Episodes Are you thinking about making a change in your life? Or, maybe a change was thrust on you … without asking your permission, like the death of a loved one, the loss of a job, or a relationship coming to an end. For anyone dealing with change in their life … whether the change you’re dealing with is proactive or reactive, you are going to deal with many of the same issues. When confronted with change, resistance shows up in all sorts of ways. We need to have som...
0014: Making Good Choices - How to Create Healthy Habits That Stick
March 16, 2017 07:00 - 23 minutes - 32.4 MBAwarenessAddicts.com/Episodes Are you ready to release attachments that are not serving you? There is an element of chaos that accompanies change. But even chaos has structure to it. It is orderly in its own way. Our work is to find easy and practical ways to create order … even in the midst of chaos. It will make a difference and soothe the chaotic feeling that accompanies change. Let’s explore some easy and practical ways to create order in the midst of chaos. In this episode, you will...
0013: Feeling Stuck in Your Life – Declutter Your Mind
March 09, 2017 08:00 - 22 minutes - 29.3 MBAwarenessAddicts.com/Episodes If you are feeling like it’s time to make a change, you may be feeling some fear. One of the big reasons we resist change is fear of the unknown. By proactively cutting ties to something we’ve been attached to, we create space for something new to come in. This is sometimes referred to as a vacuum that the universe is on a mission to fill for you. What if the new isn’t an improvement? It’s a valid fear, but we can meet it head on and redirect it … if we don’t ...
0012: Divine Discontentment: Finding Happiness, Satisfaction, and Contentment
March 02, 2017 08:00 - 18 minutes - 24.2 MBAwarenessAddicts.com/Episodes Are you content with your life just the way it is? What does it mean to be content? The definition of contentment is the state of being happy and satisfied. Discontent would then be unhappy and unsatisfied. It’s not really black and white though. We never are really content or completely discontent. Certainly, we can be content in some areas and discontent in other areas simultaneously. Rather than buying into the concept of contentment, we’re going to conside...
0011: Ways to Change Your Life - How to Make Positive Life Changes at Any Age
February 23, 2017 08:00 - 23 minutes - 29.9 MBAwarenessAddicts.com/Episodes If the objective of good planning is to avoid failure, why bother? Should we just skip the planning and take things as they come? I think we can agree that failure can be quite painful. While you can’t plan for every possibility, planning IS critical to get the most out of every failure. This can be applied to any sort of change of habit that we want to make. In this episode, you will: Learn why planning is important for making changes Prepare for failure...
0010: Lessons for Success: What We Learn from Failures
February 16, 2017 08:00 - 22 minutes - 29.2 MBAwarenessAddicts.com/Episodes If you’re like most humans, failing was discouraged. We would try to hide it, or worse, avoid it by not trying. But, we’re going to learn to celebrate failure. It is failure that precedes growth and development … and success. As you develop awareness, you’re going to have ideas that call you to bigger and better things. If you’re willing to experience some discomfort, the payoff could be HUGE! In this episode, you will: Focus on the dreams you have had and ...
0009: How to Stop Negative Thinking and Self-Sabotaging Behavior
February 09, 2017 08:00 - 21 minutes - 27.3 MBAwarenessAddicts.com/Episodes In this episode, we’re going to acquaint ourselves with that voice in our heads. Honestly, some of the things it says seem illogical . . . even irrational. It has tremendous power over us, though, if it is allowed to prattle on unchecked. If we give that voice much freedom, it can be a self-fulfilling prophecy. It doesn’t have to be that way. In fact, that voice can actually serve us. But we have to show it who’s boss. In this episode, you will: Develop con...
0008: How-To Techniques for Managing Emotions-Anger
February 02, 2017 08:00 - 19 minutes - 25.2 MBAwarenessAddicts.com/Episodes When we bump up against our fellow humans and overreact, it consumes a TON of energy. We need to learn to deal with these upsets more efficiently so we can stay focused on what matters. One of the things that we have to consider as we learn to manage our anger and emotions is how to allow passion and enthusiasm to be alive and well, while at the same time not feel like it’s got to turn to anger and bullying. In this episode, you will: • Learn how to react ...
0007: How to Make Big, Positive Changes in Your Life Intentionally
January 26, 2017 08:00 - 18 minutes - 24.3 MBAwarenessAddicts.com/Episodes We know change happens. Wouldn't it be nice if change happened on our own terms? I'm not suggesting we can control everything in our lives, but we can certainly be more deliberate as we create the design and blueprint. We are going to become intentional with the big changes we're making. In this episode, you will: Learn to be more intentional in your choices Focus on the desires and goals that are most important in your life Make choices and actions tha...
0006: How to Change Bad Habits Permanently
January 19, 2017 08:00 - 18 minutes - 25.8 MBAwarenessAddicts.com/Episodes Change is inevitable. But we do have control over it much of the time ... if we are willing to ignite change intentionally. You may be wondering how to change bad habits or behaviors permanently. And ... with intention. It’s going to require that we accept a bit of discomfort in the short term. We can make the process easier. From the happiness book I mentioned last episode, it's clear that even ill-conceived habits create happy chemicals in the brain. ...
0005: “Don’t Worry, Be Happy” – Ways to Increase Your Happiness
January 12, 2017 08:00 - 22 minutes - 26.1 MBHow happy are you? If you’re thinking it’s a long way from where you are right now to happy, I’m going to challenge you to try a new approach. If we want to learn to manufacture happiness, examining what I refer to as “newness drug” can provide some much needed insight. Let’s take control over our happiness factory. Time Stamped Show Notes: 01:40 In this particular research study conducted by Rutgers University in the US, they found that the presence of flowers triggers positive emotions...
0004: Spiritual, but Not Religious – Difference Between Religion and Spirituality
January 05, 2017 08:00 - 17 minutes - 24.2 MBIn this episode, we’re going to explore a term. You’ve undoubtedly heard of its components but may not have put them together. What is meant by the term “practical spirituality?” If we’re confused trying to differentiate between religion and spirituality, adding practicality to something that is oftentimes illogical can put us into a head spin. Let’s try to make some sense out of it . . . shall we? Time Stamped Show Notes: 01:27 In the news, this was the economic times of India to put th...
0002: Understanding Differences Between Appreciation and Gratitude
December 29, 2016 08:00 - 16 minutes - 22.6 MBPracticing aware appreciation is a great way to change my perspective and to help me focus on the things I appreciate rather than things I don’t appreciate. As humans, when things don’t seem to be going the way we think they should be going it is easy to start seeing more things that aren’t going the way we think they should be going. This aware appreciation practice will turn that around and start moving things in a different direction for us. Time Stamped Show Notes: 01:03 I read this ...
0003: Developing Daily Mindfulness for Problem Solving
December 29, 2016 08:00 - 21 minutes - 30.1 MBIn my book, Sage Advice, I shared a technique I developed for nurturing awareness. How do you tap into your own source of sage advice? When I wrote the book, I assembled a bunch of concepts that I had already put into practice into what I term the Sage Technique TM. I'll explain what Sage stands for and how to put the technique into practice. Time Stamped Show Notes: 01:01 One of the world’s best known trends experts, Daniel Levine, released an article recently where he reveals the top 6...
0001: Understanding the Relationship between Knowledge and Awareness
December 22, 2016 02:28 - 19 minutes - 35.3 MBIn this episode, we are going to talk about the difference between knowledge and awareness. Awareness is what allows the light bulb to flash. As we really practice this and build our muscles around our awareness skills, the idea is to close that gap so we can switch into awareness much more quickly and apply awareness and understanding before we get into something that we regret. Time Stamps Show Notes (click the time stamp to jump directly to that point in the episode.) [01:27] —Do you...