WTF did she just say?
Oh my goshhhhhhhhhh welcome to my podcast!!! I'm so excited that you're here and I am honoured that you choose to place ME in your AirPods every week!!!
Here's a bit about me:
My name is Sandra. I'm a business coach for women, a feng shui practitioner and a 2x national leadership award winner. In saying all of that though, I feel like I'm just a girl from Saskatchewan, who is put on this earth to inspire you to step into your power ... right fuckin' now.
I think that all too often, we convince ourselves that there is nothing we can do ... that our life "is what it is" and that ONE DAY we might be able to have the life that we dreamed of.
Uhmmmm NO.
That's bullshit.
Sorry ... but it's true. In a split second, you can choose differently. In THIS moment, you can take that courageous step toward the life you desire. It's my job, my gift and my obsession to help you share your sparkle with the world and I'm excited to get started.
You got this. Let's go.
Sandra
WTF did she just say?
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I'm so glad that you're here. You are listening to what the fuck did she just say with your host? That's me, sandra Priestly. I'm all about living our best life and finding our zone of brilliance and then removing the resistance so that we can go all in. I say random, crazy shit, which is why I called this podcast the way that I did, and I really hate long drawn out intros. So let's fucking go.
Speaker 1:When you're trying to achieve any type of goal, when you're trying to manifest something, or you're trying to achieve something, you're trying to take on a new challenge, you're trying to change your behaviors, change your habits, change your mindset, change your energy, there is one thing that will stop you in your tracks, and that's the bitch in the back seat telling you you've failed. And that's the bitch in the back seat telling you you've failed. It's the negative thoughts that we tell ourselves, and there's two ways that I see this happening. First off, is we fail at something. Let's say we set ourselves, we set a goal for ourselves, a daily task list that we're going to achieve every single day, and then we don't. Then that day, the end of the day, we sit and we talk badly to ourselves. The self-talk that we have is negative and it's constant. Why did I eat that? I shouldn't have done that? I didn't do this. I need to do this. Why am I always failing? I'll never achieve this. I mean, you know the drill because we are really really hard on ourselves and no matter how many times someone says to you, would you say that to a friend, talk to yourself like you'd talk to a friend. I mean, that's great advice, but it's really hard to follow when you're in your head. If you were to say the things that you say to yourself in your head when looking in the mirror, I guarantee you wouldn't continue it, because you would see how harsh you are being to yourself. But instead in our heads, when we're thinking it, for some reason, it doesn't seem so bad. I mean it is, but it doesn't seem bad, right? The other thing that happens is we can see ourselves failing and the bitch in the back seat says you know what? Now's not the time. Now's not the time. I think I'm just going to take a break. I don't think that I can continue this. This is really a bad idea. I mean, we talk ourselves out of it or we tell ourselves that we are worthless. It's one or the other, but there's a third option, and this is the option that we are doing in the work.
Speaker 1:This is where the magic happens when you decide what you're going to do every single day and at the end of the day, you remove all emotion from it and you just reflect on the day. Reflection is key and remove the emotion from it. It looks like these were my tasks. Did I do them or not? Why did I do them or why did I not do them? That's it. That's it. Did I do them yes or no? Why or why not? What can I learn from today? I'll give you an example.
Speaker 1:January 10th was National Quitters Day in the US, and this entire time, like January 1st and 9th, I was a rock star. I mean, I have been following my formula for success. I was doing so so well. And then, january 10th, on national quitters day, at the end of the day, I reflected back on what I did and I went whoa, what the fuck happened here? I completed one of the six things that I have set out on my task list to do. Now, here's the difference. I could sit back and talk badly about myself, right. I could decide oh, this wasn't for me. I shouldn't have done this. This is too hard. I'm never going to continue with this. I think I should just pull back. This will be the last time I do this 90 day group challenge, which was never going to be an option. But what we do in this group is reflect on the day and decide what will I do differently tomorrow, no emotion tied to it. So I looked at it and went whoa, I did not rock January the 10th. Okay, what did I do? Well, I journaled in the morning, which, like I always do, but then I wasn't really hungry and I didn't have my breakfast. And I didn't have my breakfast.
Speaker 1:All of a sudden, I had to go and run some unexpected errands that day and I was gone for several hours. By the time I came back, I was freaking, starving, hangry, and there was a lot going on in the house. And then a lot of things that sort of just cropped up as unexpected tasks. All of a sudden, it was like my brain took a fucking hiatus and I completely forgot about everything that I had planned to do, all of my tasks that I planned to do. And at the evening, by the time the evening came around, I realized, oh shit, today I did not do a great job, but I knew exactly why.
Speaker 1:And by the time the evening came along, there was no possible way I could continue all of my tasks. It was 1130 at night, I still hadn't exercised, I still had another liter of water to drink. I mean, there were so many things that I hadn't done my affirmations and I didn't feel like doing them. And this was a big, huge reflection and realization that, okay, the next day I'm going to have breakfast early in the morning, I'm not going to go anywhere or do anything until I've moved my body, because I'm not going to get stuck later on. I'm also going to drink a lot more water throughout the day and less coffee.
Speaker 1:And so when you reflect on the day and there's no level of judgment and there's no level of judgment, it comes from a place of power it becomes knowledge. This is the same for me as when I learned that I could step on the scale without crying or jumping for joy, because the scale is just knowledge. I mean, let's face it, I can drop three pounds in a day, but I did not lose three pounds of fat, I lost three pounds of inflammation. Now, that's good, right, it's water weight and I don't like it. If you are my age, in your fifties, you know inflammation sucks, and so any amount of inflammation that is gone is a thing to celebrate. But it's just information, and when you can remove the emotion from it and look at it as an objective observer and go okay, what do I need to do? What worked today? What didn't work today? What am I going to shift tomorrow? What am I going to keep tomorrow? Let's fucking go.
Speaker 1:Your whole life will change. You will stop stopping yourself and you will be a lot more kind to yourself, and that's really the goal. Because you don't want to get to the end of this goal. You don't want to achieve the goal and feel like shit. You don't want to achieve the goal and feel like you have done so by punishing yourself harshly. You don't want to achieve the goal and still have negative thoughts about yourself.
Speaker 1:The goal is to love yourself in the process and love who you are becoming by the time you get to the goal. It's not even going to be about the goal itself. It's about who you became in the process and reflection and then adjustment, without any emotional baggage. That's really the key. Thank you so much for listening. I hope you've had some laughs, maybe some ideas, and that you've been inspired to take some type of action toward the life you've always dreamed of. If you feel so called, I would love it if you would share with your besties and leave a review down below. I look forward to bringing you along on this journey and I will see you in the next episode.
