Get Back On Track

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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, let's get brave.

Here we are, again, talking straight to you, brave hearted woman How you doing today? I hope things are going well for you. But you know what? When someone asks you, How's life treating you? Or how's it going? It doesn't matter. The only thing that matters is how you decide that you want to react to it. That's right. How do you want to react to life, life's coming at you in a million different ways. But you are a brave hearted woman. And you have the power to choose. You get to choose whatever kind of attitude you want, you get to choose what emotion you're going to foster and fuel, you get to choose the framing that you give the meaning that you give to each experience that's coming at you. You can say, Wow, that person treated me that way. They don't care. They don't value me I'm not significant. Or you can say, you know, they're kind of in their own space right now in their own head, they all charge it to their head and not their heart, they didn't mean that you get to choose how you're going to frame something, you get to choose what attitude you have and what mindset you have. And I want to just remind you today, even as we're just kind of opening up here, your mindsets are very important. Think about your mind like a garden, you know, you don't want somebody coming in your garden planting seeds that are going to bring you weeds, they're going to bring even maybe poison toxicity to the rest of your garden. Now you're going to watch that you're going to guard that you're going to put a fence around your garden. And your mind is the same way we don't let anybody just deposit into us. I don't let somebody with a nasty attitude or temperament or something they say, caused me to lose sleep at night or gripped my mind and caused me to meditate on things. I've literally been learning more and more the older I get to take that thought captive. I literally do thought stopping. I say to myself, No, you're not thinking about that. And then I don't just try to not think about it. Because if I said you know to you right now don't think about a pink elephant blowing bubbles with purple bubblegum. That's exactly what you saw just now that's kind of fun to actually think about. But you have to stop it and then add what do I want to think about. So whatever is true, and write an honorable, good and pure, uplifting, motivating positive, that is what I'm going to think about. So I keep my garden guarded, I keep the fence around my mind, I keep boundaries around my mind. And I do indeed stop thoughts and say no, that's not what I'm thinking about today. That's not where I'm going to let myself go. And the reason why that's so important is because you get outcomes from your thought life. Because thoughts create feelings and feelings, create actions, actions, of course, behaviors, and then eventually habits. And so I don't want to have habits that don't serve me well. You know, habits that take me down a road that I ended up one day going How did I get here? In fact, I want to just talk about that just for a moment. How did we get here? How did I relapse to this place? I was doing so well. I was watching the way I was speaking I was watching the value of my relationships. I was keeping my body strong. I was keeping my mind strong and all of a sudden you may find yourself in a place where you feel like you've slipped. We often say that you lapse long before you relapse. And elapse is when you let a day go by without doing what you know you should do you know you need to get on that treadmill every day or three times a week for sure. You know you need to eat right you can't have french fries every day. But when you lapse, if you lapse day after day, two days, three days that ends up into a week. A week ends up into two weeks two weeks ends up in a month. And before you know it you look and you say I have been off routine for four months. How did I get here? Well, you got there one slippery step at a time you got there one laps at a time. So now we have to reverse, reverse engineer it, we have to start doing small things every day to bring you back to that place. And I want to affirm you. And that's what today is about. I want to affirm you to become brave, when help you get back into your routine. This podcast is designed today to help you get back to the things that you know, you're supposed to do. You are beautiful, and you are accepted, just as you are. But you want to become the person of your dreams. You want to become the person that you know you're called and destined to to be I heard Ed, my let say this one time. He said, I believe that when I get to heaven, God's gonna say to me, Hey, by the way, I want you to meet someone. This is the man you were supposed to be. This is the man who wrote the book. This is the man who had all of the potential that you were supposed to have. He's the one who did the deal. He is the one who reached his potential. He had that career, he had those relationships. He's the one that created the new business. He was fit he was, you know, all the things that he would begin to say. He says, And when I look at that, man, I want to say, hey, you and me are twins. We are exactly like, I don't want him to say wow, I don't even recognize you. I don't know, you know, I want him to say Ed, meet Ted. We are identical twins. And I want to say to him, Hey, I've been chasing you all my life. I've been I've been reaching for you all my life. Now I don't know about the theology without but I do love the I do love the idea of saying that you are already you've been gifted with everything that you need to live. A godly, prosperous, beneficial life first, Peter tells us that in the Bible, if you're a Bible reader, you can go there and you can see that God has already given you everything that you need. But it's all in seed form. And you get to choose if you're going to develop it, grow it and reach your full potential. So I when I get to have and I want to say hey, Dawn, meet fun. Hey, fun. We are identical twins. And in actuality, I know that's gonna be Jesus, like, Hey, you look just like me. You reached your full potential. So woman today, you brave hearted woman. Yeah, you are brave. You are stronger than you know. You've survived every trial that you've ever gone through. You made it. And now you get to decide what you're going to do with that rich education, that experience are you going to let it work for you? Are you going to let it crush you, you get to decide, even once wants to steal your victory. I'll tell you that right now. Evil wants to squander your potential and steal your destiny. And average men average invites you to be comfortable. Average says to you, hey, just come on. Put your feet up for a little bit. Relax, you worked hard today. Just be satisfied with where you are. That's that's the deadly invite of mediocrity. But greatness stirs within you. Because you know that you were created for more that God put inside of you. I believe in each one of us. A living, breathing dream that will not die. It might go dormant like a seed. But your dream wants to be birthed. Your dream wants to flourish, it wants to grow. And you get to choose, am I going to let my dream grow? Or am I going to let evil when because I've squandered my potential. I've squandered the opportunity to become everything that I was meant to be. So now, yes, I do have to renew my mind to look at it differently. I did lapse. You might say I did. I am not where I want to be. In fact, I confess. Today, Don, I'm stuck. Well, let's

get some intentionality going. Unfortunately, you know, there's no app you can download for this. There's no hey, I want to download the new mindset. Silver Bullet app. There's no magic wand here. There's no more you know, new, improved powerful mindset that you can get from Amazon. You have to cultivate it and you can remember you can do you have to become an A active participant in the process, and it is a process. But let me ask you this, what are you reading every day? What are you listening to? What are you watching on TV? And more importantly, are you aware of the sneaky small, quiet thoughts that filter through your mind? Those things on the regular, that talk to you? What about those judgments? Oh, man, the other day, I caught myself with such judgments. People were too slow. They were selfish. They were cutting in line, I was in the airport. But I was doing the exact same thing as everybody else. So I caught myself and I had to repent and say, You know what, I've got no room in my mind for those judgments, those shaming tones. And what about you? Are you shaming others? Are you shaming yourself? Do you have thoughts of fear and insecurity? While you must become an active participant in the process is getting back to your routine? So what is it that you've let go of? What is it that you let lapse, and what is it that you can start immediately, and that you can begin to do, don't give yourself these lofty, massive goals. Remember to get back on track and get back to routine. Let's start small, so that we can win and feel the victory of the immediate reward that our brain will send us that dopamine and little fireworks will go off and our self esteem will soar. And you want to do that every day to begin to build back into you the things that you know that you ought to be doing. So start small start today. And remember, I like the book Mel Robbins when she talks about the five second rule. And that's not the rule about you know, if you drop food on the floor, you get to eat it. No, this is the don't overthink it. Don't talk yourself out of it. Don't process it too long in the brain. Because if you do that, your brain and mind, we have powerful rational thinking that comes to us. And when I say rational, I mean rationalizing. Well, you know, I can do this tomorrow. Yeah, tomorrow will be better. I'll start tomorrow. Because today I kind of not really prepared for it. And I've got a lot to do. And I think what I'll do is I'll get up early tomorrow. No, you're overthinking it, and the brain is trying to protect you. The brain does not want you to exert yourself. You have to throttle past, the dormant. The mediocrity the comfort of the brain, just like an airplane. The law of lift had to supersede the law of gravity. Your brain does indeed like the law of gravity, the law of comfort, it wants you to stay right where you are. And to reach your goals. You have to not throttle back. But you have to push it forward. That means you're going to feel the rumbling, the shaking, if you've ever been in an airplane and you've ever taken off, you know what I'm talking about, it starts to rattle a little bit in shake. And just for a moment you kind of take a deep breath and hang on because you think ooh is are we going to get to the law of lift? Is the law of soaring over the law of drag? Is it going to work? And it does, and it will for you in your life. But you have to be willing to be uncomfortable. Just for a minute, you have to get comfortable. A lot of people say you have to be comfortable with being uncomfortable. But you have to throttle forward and get through the discomfort the screaming of the flesh. The voices that tell you come on, you don't need to do this. What's the big deal? Anyways? What? You can do it later and tomorrow? Well, what if I asked you if five years from now, who you be if you stay on the trajectory that you're on right now?

Do you like her? Do you want to be her? Or do you want to have the discipline to stand a routine that brings you in five years to the person that you want to be? So that's what I have for you today. I'm going to challenge you with that. And I'm going to I will just give you one last thing. I want you to think about that future girl that you're going to become I want you to think about that future women, woman because without having a relationship with her without seeing her and knowing her and loving her. You will not make the decisions that you need to make. People who have a relationship with their future self are the ones who do the discipline. You do the deal. They're the ones that say yeah, no, I'm not going to be satisfied with this kind of life. If I'm not better than This time next year than I was right now, there's no, there's no average you're either getting better or you're lapsing, you're getting worse. We've got to continue to improve. We've got to be smarter, wiser, wealthier, more in shape stronger, even as we age, even as the number goes up, we still have to show up better than we were last year. Is it possible? You bet it is. And not only is it possible, it's probable. So that's what I've got for you today. I hope you'll embrace it. I hope you'll do it. You are a brave hearted woman. And I'm going to leave you like I do every time. Alright, first of all, visit my website, Don damon.com. Check out my books, my online program and my coaching program that's available for you. I'd love to meet you drop me a line. And I'd love if this value brings value to you like it and share it write a review. But most importantly, here's what I want you to do. Uncover You're brave, and live your vision

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