Ep 249: 4 Ways To Journal (For People Who Don't Like Journaling)

Ep 249: 4 Ways To Journal (For People Who Don't Like Journaling)

I know why you don't journal. I also know why you should journal.

In this episode, I'm sharing all the benefits you'll gain from the occasional journal session and how to combat the (many) obstacles that keep you from starting. Then I'll share the 4 types of journaling that you can try in order to see growth and clarity in your life.

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Ep 244: 10 Journal Prompts To Finish The Year Strong

Ep 244: 10 Journal Prompts To Finish The Year Strong

With less than two months left in 2024, I'm sharing ten questions that will help you finish the year strong. We're talking achievable goals, mantras, connecting with others, and lingering decisions that need to be made. These questions will give you clarity for the weeks ahead and and let you set intentions for how you want to feel and who you want to be at the end of 2024.

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Ep 198: 10 Questions for the End of the Year

Ep 198: 10 Questions for the End of the Year

The 10 questions in this episode are meant to bring introspection (if you work through them alone) and connection (if you bring them up in conversation). Bring these to your journal, to your travel companions, to the holiday table, or just let them flow through your mind in these last few weeks of the year as we wind down 2023 and gear up for 2024. 

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Ep 190: Whose voice lives rent-free in your head? (And how to mute them)

Ep 190: Whose voice lives rent-free in your head? (And how to mute them)

I thought when I turned 40 that I had turned a corner in my personal developement, that the shift into caring less about other people's opinions would also mean that my inner critic would pipe down. 

But here I am, a few years down the road, and the voices from my past live rent-free in my head and their chatter can affect my confidence and my choices. 

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Ep 184: 8 Questions for the end of the summer

Ep 184: 8 Questions for the end of the summer

In this episode, I'm walking through 8 questions to ask yourself as we close one chapter of the year and enter into another. As usual, these questions work best when you share them with a friend, partner, coworker, or the whole family. They're also great for taking to your journal and sitting with your thoughts in this seasonal transition. 

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Ep. 155: 3 Mantras + 3 Habits for the New Year

Ep. 155: 3 Mantras + 3 Habits for the New Year

Happy 2023! 

As we kick off a new year, it's natural to think about what we want to do differently going forward. For me, I want to return to some habits that promote work/life balance and I'm activitely working to shift some of my mindsets by using affirmations. 

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Ep 151: 10 Questions for Starting Over

Ep 151: 10 Questions for Starting Over

We all have to start over sometimes. A project, a job, a relationship, a new year.

And for me, this podcast! 10 Things To Tell You is BACK and this week I'm sharing 10 prompts that will help you think through anything you're starting over.

Take these prompts to your journal, to a business partner, to significant other, or anyone who is walking alongside you in your fresh start.

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Ep 148: 10 Questions for the End of the Year 2021

Ep 148: 10 Questions for the End of the Year 2021

10 Prompts for self-reflection or great conversation at the end of the year (any year).

My third annual 10 Questions for the End of the Year episode is here and while some of it may be a little familiar, there's a lot of new thoughts in this one.

Take these 10 questions to your journal, the holiday table, or to start any great conversation with friends, family, co-workers, neighbors, or anyone at all.

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Ep 138: 10 Questions To Ask Your Kids

Ep 138: 10 Questions To Ask Your Kids

Fall schedules are SO full around here, and this time of year our family can easily go weeks without a meaningful conversation.

I've created 10 Questions To Ask Your Kids that you can pick and choose, modify for your family dynamics, or toss up one at a time over a week or so in order to spark great conversations between kids and adults.

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Ep 125: 10 Questions for Couples

Ep 125: 10 Questions for Couples

The main point of these particular prompts is to build CONNECTION. The questions don't go too deep (in case you have a partner resistant to this type of conversation), but you should definitely come away from any discussion using these prompts feeling just a little bit closer.

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Ep 118: 10 Questions for a Successful Summer

Ep 118: 10 Questions for a Successful Summer

We're kicking off the summer season with 10 Questions that will help make it successful.

Answer these prompts in your journal or with a partner, or go around the table with your colleagues or family. These questions are slightly summer-flavored, but really they could used at the beginning of any season.

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Ep 106: 10 Questions To Mark One Year of the Pandemic

Ep 106: 10 Questions To Mark One Year of the Pandemic

This month marks one year of the coronavirus pandemic affecting our lives so greatly.

To mark that time, I’m offering 10 Questions for you to journal through or use as a framework for important conversations with friends, family, coworkers, or online.

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Ep 95: 10 Questions For the End of the Year

Ep 95: 10 Questions For the End of the Year

2020 was nuts no doubt. There was confusion and loss and frustration and grief. But I hope we can all point to some moments of beauty as well. This episode asks 10 questions to help you come to terms with year.

Take these questions to your journal or use them to spark a good conversation.

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Ep 88: Write Down Right Now (10 Prompts For This Historic Moment)

Ep 88: Write Down Right Now (10 Prompts For This Historic Moment)

In America, we are in the middle of a major historic moment. We’re 9 months into a global pandemic and 1 week out of a high-stakes Presidential election.

It’s easy to get lost in all the noise, or to believe that our personal accounts don’t matter. After all, we have journalists and essayist and artists of all kind documenting 2020, right? But wouldn't you love to hear from your OWN ancestors at pivotal moments in history? Don’t you wish you could read their journals or letters from that time?

This episode has 10 journal prompts meant for you to document YOUR feelings in this important era. Hopefully, this will something that will give you some clarity, and something to look back on in the future. We’re covering the pandemic and the election with thoughtful, simple questions that will mark this moment in time.

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Ep 85: Ask Me in 3 Months (2020 version)

Ep 85: Ask Me in 3 Months (2020 version)

This episode is for anyone who has ONE BIG TASK they really want to get done before the end of the year.

It’s October, which means we have less than three months until the end of the year. And while 2020 has been one of the weirdest years in modern history, we still somehow have normal life things that have slipped through the cracks.

Those things that we just keep procrastinating: home improvement, emotional chores, creative projects. These aren’t goals, they’re just tasks, the ones that keep slipping to the bottom of the priority list.

Let’s commit to choosing ONE thing we want to get done between now and the end of 2020 and share it as a way to stay accountable. Let’s make our future January 2021 selves super proud of how we finished the Wild West of 2020.

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Ep 79: 10+ Mantras and affirmations for RIGHT NOW

Ep 79: 10+ Mantras and affirmations for RIGHT NOW

This episode is for anyone who needs a little help with their attitude and self-talk right now.

I know I beat this drum regularly, but I really believe that the way we speak to ourselves shapes the way we move in the world. And these days, my self-talk can be all over the place. On this episode, I’m sharing my own personal current mantras and affirmations, and also just talking about how these things can work in your life. (Hint: it’s not magic. It’s brain science.)

But the best part of this episode is hearing from the listeners who sent in THEIR own mantras. So many great words out there.

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Ep 76: 10 Questions to ask yourself in the middle of anything

Ep 76: 10 Questions to ask yourself in the middle of anything

This episode is for anyone who could use an honest evaluation in the middle of something. (And maybe a reset.)

In the beginning, we make plans. Set goals. Hope for the best. At the end, we evaluate how it went. We make notes for next time. We accept our trophies or don't. But what about in the middle? Don't we need to stop down and ask some hard questions in the MIDDLE? To see if we're on track? To make tweaks? To define what it means to "finish well"?

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