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SF #166 – Communication – Say What You Want

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Have you ever been guilty of not being able to read your mate’s mind?  Have you ever accused your special someone of not predicting & meeting your needs fast enough?  Sound silly?  Whether spouse, best friend, or business associate, we’ve all fallen to one side or the other of the You-Should-Know-Without-Me-Having-to-Tell-You line of thinking.  Oddly enough, though quite damaging to any relationship, this is a problem that is easily remedied.   All you have to do is…

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SF #164 – Lean In: Facing Challenges while you’re On the Ropes

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 Hit me once – shame on you.  Hit me twice – shame on me.  Hit me over and over again until I am up against the ropes and it is time to rethink being in the ring.

There are times in all of our lives when we feel life is gunning for us.  It is these times when you can throw in the towel…or choose to use the onslaught to level up and become stronger than you were before the blows began raining down.  Every challenge is another opportunity to work on your technique and grow with the flow.  Leaning In, you look your opponent in the eye and, with a bruised-but-not-beaten smirk say, “That all you got…?” [Read more…]

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SF #163 – Listener Lounge with Ellie Collins

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Welcome to our first ever Listener Lounge – where we spotlight one of our faithful listeners.  Opening our inaugural episode on this endeavor is author/actress/multi-tasking maven Ellie Collins.  This live-action Renaissance woman chats about everything from her stint as a Daywalker on the CW’s “The Originals” to her modern, supernatural fiction series, “Empire Valley.” [Read more…]

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SF #159 – Get Caught Having A Great Life

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Ever have one of those breakups?  With a special someone?  A favorite job?  The way you thought your life should be going?  Though over, there is still that spark, that chance that everything might get back to normal.  So you try stifling your sniffling in the hopes that the waiting game you’re playing might pay off.  Instead of postponing the inevitable and hoping against hope that your special someone/career-path/life-choice will realize their mistake and come to their senses, wouldn’t it be a better idea to move on with being awesome and…

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Success Freaks #158 – Forgiveness versus Guilt

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“The Key to greater Willpower is being more Forgiving – not being harder on yourself.”  “Self-control strategies like Guilt and Self-Criticism can result in our feeling worse.”  We need to give those up if we hope to succeed.

Chapter Six (and the rest) of Kelly McGonigal’s The Willpower Instinct is full of liberating gems such as these.  Necessary Words of Wisdom when we grow up believing we’re not going to get anything done, let alone keep our promises and resolutions, if we’re not at least a little hard on ourselves.  Studies show this belief does not hold up in practical application. [Read more…]

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Success Freaks #157 – Dealing With Your Poop

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Ignore your problems long enough and they begin to pile up.  Shove that ever-growing pile into an unmarked closet, bury it in the backyard, ‘neath the septic tank, or try flushing excessive amounts of it down the toilet and bad things begin to happen.  Very bad things.  Very bad, stinky things.

Using the age-old metaphor of Mordant rents travel trailer…Mordant finds potty-full trailer has leaky sewage hose…Mordant is forced to deal with the aggregation of his fecal matter, your Success Freaks discuss what happens when you engage in avoidance behavior until the proverbial poop hits your wind-puffing apparatus.

Join Mordant & McFall as they wax skatalogical in their discussion about why it is best to deal with your daily dose of dooky as it comes.  Waiting only gives whatever it is you have to deal with the opportunity to grow, fester, and perhaps even explode all over your whitewashed world. [Read more…]

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Success Freaks #156 – World Cup – World Community

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Goooooooaaaaal!!!  With World Cup 2014 scratching the edge of our consciousness, thoughts of what it means to be a part of a global community arise.  What about those people halfway ‘round the world?  Are they really that different from the people in your community?  And, what about your community?  What can you do to get to know the same, enjoy the different, and remove fear of the unknown?

In this episode, Mordant & McFall joke, rant, ramble, and chat about the World Cup, community awareness, mob and gang involvement, and getting to know vastly different people who are, deep down, just like you.  Tune in and expand your horizons, expose yourself to new lands, and make new friends while you’re at it. [Read more…]

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Success Freaks #153 – Change is the Only Constant

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“Change is the only constant in life.”  ~Heraclitus~

Just when you get used to something – a job, relationship, a certain age – things flip-flop around and you are forced to “Roll With the Changes.”  Embrace the fact that Change is a big and necessary part of your life.  It forces you to adapt/grow/evolve/get off the couch.  Once you learn this, those formally annoying changes become an exciting part of the adventure that will enrich your life.  Though not always easy, it doesn’t have to be a drag.  You might as well lean in and grow with it – for your changes are a-comin’.

This episode of Success Freaks brings Mordant & McFall to more changes of their own, including more tweaking of their format – the better to entertain & edify you with.  Included is a segment dedicated to answering the listener question: “How do you get rid of toxic people in your life when you are toxic to yourself sometimes?”  Check out the madcap energy as the Level Up Guys enjoy a rare moment of recording in the same space. [Read more…]

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Success Freaks #147 – Worrisome Weed Whacking

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You’ve been busy working on Leveling Up Your Life and Growing a Garden any Farmers Market Maven would be proud to call their own.

Then one morning you notice weeds have crept in, sprouting up all over your hard work.  One problem after another blooms, getting in the way of the garden you’ve meticulously planned out.  In an effort to create some level of stability and effect some major damage control, you grab your handy-dandy Weed Whacker and commence to cutting down the riff raff.

Unfortunately, you also manage to chop quite a bit of the good stuff you were trying to protect – What’s Up With That!? [Read more…]

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Success Freaks #146 – Dude, Where’s My Garden?

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Where’s Mine!?  Where’s Yours!?  Your Garden, your Dream, your Goals?  Where’s that Life you should be having about now?  Though you’ve planted and prayed over that Awesome Life you’ve been striving for, you don’t have much more than some teasing twig and a few stray weeds to show for it.  You’ve tried this method, that technique, and those processes, still nothing seems to do the trick.  What you need is a “Magic Pill,” right?  It frustrates enough to make you shout out loud, “Dude, Where’s My Garden!?” [Read more…]