Are you ready to Live Brave?

Dawn Damon 0:07

Hey, beautiful women. This is Dawn Damon, the brave heart mentor and you're listening to the brave hearted woman. This is a podcast designed to help you find your brave so you can live out your beautiful vision. I have been working with women for years. And now I want to help you too. I'm here to awaken the brave heart inside of you so you can ignite the flame of your vision. You can reach your goals and achieve your dreams. Come on this good brain.

Hello, there you amazing, wonderful, brave woman. I'm glad that you're joining me today. I'm speaking just to you today. Yes, I'm speaking just to you. I want to tell you what my niche is. I love helping women. I love inspiring people to feel brave and to reach for their dreams to get bold. I help women specifically over 40 who are ready to put an end to unfulfillment. Live a brave like an audacious second half of life. So you can flourish in your body and your soul and your spirit. I really want to help you create a vision for your life. In fact, you can visit my website, Dawn damon.com. That's Dawn damon.com. And there you'll see my online course and some other things that I do for coaching for women. But are you living your dream? Are you living your vision? Do you have a vision, you know, so very often I speak with women who are overcomers they're survivors of maybe some trauma in their childhood, maybe years of a difficult marriage, perhaps where they experienced some domestic violence. Maybe they themselves just really struggled with rage, just kind of not being in control of their emotions kind of

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There's more to me than just, you know, doing the same thing day in and day out. There's a creative gene in me that hasn't found its full expression, or I haven't lived an inspired life in a while, I've been in the grind, and I actually would look forward to doing something else. Living your best life means you're living a brave life, I can tell you this. If you're a woman who has achieved any sort of success, you've been brave, you've had to make some hard decisions and some hard calls. But are you craving more. So Now is your time to release resistance and say yes to adventure.

If you see nothing, then you can expect nothing. We can go from wishing things are different really to living our dreams. And it all happens in this thing in between our ears called our mind and our mindset. I think it was Myles Munroe, who said the wealthiest place in all the world is the graveyard. And people that that have died with their gifts still in them or their dreams still in them. Well, that's not you, that's not me. We're going to fulfill our purpose, we're going to live out our dreams, we're going to we're going to live a life that we love. And we're going to love the life that we live, I'm gonna say it again, make a decision to live the life you love. Because you're never going to leave where you are right now until you have a picture of where you rather be. So if you're if I talk about health a lot, but if you don't, if you're not happy with your health, you're not going to leave your current situation until you see yourself the way you'd rather be. See yourself putting on those skinny jeans, see yourself running that marathon, being strong lifting that weight or see yourself you know, in that race or playing tennis or canoeing, see yourself being strong and active, not feeling embarrassed to put that bathing suit on? Or what about what about your success? What about your career, see yourself achieving goals and and owning your own business or starting that daycare or writing that book or starting that that entrepreneurial idea that you have? You have to succeed on purpose. It's not going to just accidentally happen. That that's like getting hit by lightning. It's it can happen. But it's rare. You're going to succeed because you had a plan. Because you were willing to face down fear because you had faced your fear with a plan. You said yep, I'm afraid but I'm going to do it afraid. So your new life starts with that decision. We talked about that in an earlier podcast, you might want to go back and listen to the last podcast that we dropped last week. You have the decision to make changes in your life. Take 100% responsibility for your life. In fact, I have that quote in front of me. And it jack Canfield says this in his book. And if you don't have a the book by jack Canfield, you're going to want to get it It's so good. He says if you want to be successful, you have to take 100% responsibility for everything that you experience in life. This includes the level of your achievements, the results, you produce, the quality of your relationships, the state of your health, your physical fitness, your income, your debt, your feelings, everything. And this is not easy. I understand it's not easy, but it can be done. It has to be done. We talked about this last week, most of us been conditioned to blame something else outside of ourselves for the parts of our lives that we don't like, you know, we blame our parents or siblings, our bosses, our friends, our co workers, our spouses, we blame the weather, the economy, our lack of money, or anything, or anyone that we can pin the blame on. Because we never want to look at the real problem. And the real problem is looking at you in the mirror, it's looking at me, I am my real problem, you are your real problem. So if you want to create the life of your dreams, then you're going to have to start by taking 100% responsibility for your life. And that means giving up all your excuses. I know it's tough, right? You're like Wait, what? I don't mind taking responsibility, but you mean I have to give up all my excuses. Yep. All your victim stories, all the reasons why you can't and all the reasons why you haven't up until now. All your blaming of outside circumstances. We have to say goodbye to our excuses. You have to give them up forever. Okay, if you're going to live brave, and I did, I had to say, Don. Yep. All that happened to you, you're still responsible for your life. So you look around you don't like something you like. But remember, you chose it. You are exactly where you are because you chose it. Ouch. I know. I chose it. I'm sitting here today because I chose it.

I like the FE are famous, Dr. us We here at the brave hearted woman have our own doctor. His name is Dr. Seuss. And he said, You have brains in your head, you have feet in your shoes. And you can steer yourself any direction you choose. You're on your own, and you know what you know, and you are the one who will decide where to go. So there it is, you get to decide. Jim Rohn said that certain emotions can cause enough pain that they serve as a catalyst for us to change and certain emotions. disgust is one of those. I have a friend Her name is Monica Boyer. And she is a keto coach. And she's phenomenal. And she has lost over 100 I think it's 115 pounds all by herself just by changing the way she was eating. And then she went on to have the reconstructive skin removal surgery. And it's her testimony. It's public, so I'm not sharing anything that that she wouldn't share her name is Monica Boyer, Bo y e R. And she says she can still remember her enough moment, that moment of disgust where she said enough. I am making a change. I am not living like this any more. So have you reached that enough moment? Have you reached that time in your life where you say, I'm not gonna live like this anymore. I'm ready to do something brave, I'm ready to. I'm ready to face myself and forget who it was that said that sometimes just showing up. Maybe it was Brent a brown. If you have not read any of her books, you need to bring a br e n e. Brown. She said, sometimes showing up is the bravest thing that you can do. You show up and you say to yourself, you know what? You're uncomfortable, but uncomfortable is not unsafe. I'm safe. And I'm at the gym, and it's uncomfortable. But today's the day I make a change. I'm uncomfortable in this class, but I'm not unsafe, I'm safe. And today's the day I show up to make changes in my life. I'm uncomfortable here. But I'm showing up, I'm going to make a change, I get to decide, right now that I'm going to do that. I'm going to face my creditors, I'm going to go to the bank, I'm going to go to my boss, I'm going to place an ad, I'm going to make decisions, maybe you don't afford to live on your own, I'm going to get a roommate, maybe you're in a toxic relationship. So I'm gonna say goodbye to this. Now I don't want to ever sound like I'm against marriage, if you're in a marriage. You know, I just really believe it's very beautiful and powerful and the best to try to save that marriage. We just can't bounce from one relationship to another. But then maybe you say I'm gonna go to counseling, I'm gonna show up. I'm gonna fight for this, and I'm going to quit blaming my spouse, I'm going to take 100% responsibility. And when I show up for counseling, I'm not showing up to figure out how to fix him. I'm showing up to say, speak to me, speak into my life. I'm ready to look at what I've been denying. I'm gonna own my stuff. And so for me, I started writing things down. I got a journal. And I started writing down what I wanted to do in life, where I wanted to go, how much money I wanted to earn, who I wanted to marry what I wanted to look like, I plastered it all up on a vision board. I carried it around on a yellow piece of paper in my purse. You have to use your imagination. You have to see where you want to go. You have to live into and feel what it would be like to see your dream coming to pass. How joyful would you be? How radiant would you be? how enthusiastic about life would you be? And so I started writing them down. I wanted to write books. I wanted to speak at women's conferences. I want to do what I'm doing right now. And so I began to see that what I focused on and what I thought about came about. So you know your mind is like a magnet right? And whatever becomes important To you, whatever stays in front of your mind, you will begin to draw to yourself, whatever you meditate on, it works both positively and negatively, whatever you think about will begin to come to pass in your life. And so be careful. Because you only want to think and say what you want to come true, you will attract it. So what are you constantly thinking of? If

I told you your mind is like a magnet? And your words will create? Wouldn't you be very careful about what you're thinking about? And what you're speaking about? Well, it's true. I believe it, test it, see if it's not. So you might be living in the reality that you created with your tongue. Ouch. I know it hurts. But you know what? First it hurts minute sets us free. That's what the truth does anyway. So what can you imagine? You know, where can you see yourself in one year, in two years, in five years, they can be the most amazing, spectacular adventurous years, or they can be mundane, and average. And that is up to you. It's up to you and your ability to imagine where you want to go and who you want to be, and how you want to show up. And it's not disingenuous. If you look at someone else's life, and you say, there are qualities in that person's life that I really admire, you can write those qualities down and say, What do I have to do to to encourage an increase and create that kind of character that I see in this other person that I really admire? And you can begin to sculpt and craft the type of person that you want to be? So I ask you, are you an impassibility? thinker? Do you say it looks impossible, but I believe it can happen? Or do you suffer from this fatal this fatal flaw or this condition, I would call possibility blindness. If you can't see it, you won't achieve it. Because everything has to be seen on the inside, before we're going to produce it on the outside. And if your dreams if they seem possible to you, you're probably not thinking big enough. That's another podcast where I'm going to encourage you to really stretch your thinking and think bigger. But for today, I just wanted to encourage you about your vision. Where do you want to go? Who do you want to be? What do you want to create for your life? Are you ready to live brave? Are you ready to live bold, this is your invitation to do that very thing. So hey, if this has helped you, I hope that you'll drop me a line make sure that you follow me and you'll never miss an episode of the brave hearted woman, it'll come right to your mailbox. And you helped me a lot by the way. Hey, if you would review me and if you would follow me, that really helps get the message out that I'm trying to share with other women. So I'm gonna leave you like I often leave you I hope that you will uncover your vision and live your grave. This is Dawn Damon, you're brave hearted mentor, living.

Thanks for hanging out with me today and becoming brave. If this has helped you, be sure to share it with someone and subscribe so you never have to miss another episode. For more about me my books, my coaching or online courses, visit Dawn damon.com. And as always be brave and live your vision

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