30-Day Challenge to Empty Nest Success: Your Thoughts 💚 (11/30)

The Your Empty Nest Coach Podcast, Episode 179

30-Day Challenge to Empty Nest Success: Your Thoughts

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Your Thoughts are our topic for today (Day 11) in the 30-Day Challenge to Empty Nest Success. 

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If this is your first time listening, know we are diving into the challenge content. If you like what you hear, jump back to the episode titled “Getting Started with the 30-Day Challenge to Empty Nest Success” and then work your way through from the beginning - or visit EmptyNestSuccess.com to sign up for daily or weekly email delivery of this challenge that will lead you to companion videos, additional journal prompts, resources and more!

Here we go: 

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Amazing human and beautiful soul, this topic is one that I’ve already touched on throughout our first ten days, and you’ll find it threaded within all of my content, whether I explicitly point it out or not. 

The next handful of days (including today) is the meatiest portion of Challenge content. That doesn’t mean the episode is longer, it simply means you may need to chew some of these over a bit more in your mind before moving on. As with all of this challenge, you’ll find more on these topics in Season 1 of the podcast and in the Empty Nest Success online home.

The analogies I’m about to introduce, think of them as building blocks in your conscious effective olympian living.

Starting with our thoughts, the analogy I have for you is to think of your mind as a house. Imagine that the doorbell to that house rings every time a new thought shows up in your mind - And we have lots of thoughts. There are so many of these thought-box- deliveries that you can't keep up and out of frustration, you decide to provide your delivery person with a key to put the boxes wherever they can in your home. Yes, you’ve given up and - stay with me here for a moment - those thought-box-deliveries are everywhere: cluttered in the hall, in every room: floor to ceiling, on the stairs, blocking doors from closing, some doors from opening, and making it extremely difficult to move. 

There are so many of these thought-box-deliveries in your house that  it's difficult to find the ones you love, and you have a really well worn path to the same thought-box-deliveries you continue to open time, and time, and time, and time again. 

What if you have a choice? You can stay overwhelmed or begin inspecting the packages. Who sent these to you, anyway? 

You probably won’t be surprised to hear that I recommend looking for that thought-box delivery labeled: I am amazing. Meaning, you: you are amazing - and open that one up!  

For today, we’re going to introduce this first building-block of the analogy. Consider how cluttered your house might be. 

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Your journal prompt for today is … What are some thought-box-deliveries that you continue to open at the moment? 

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Thanks for listening today! Check those thought-box-deliveries, and don’t you dare forget that you are freaking amazing! 

Chat next time! 

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