Mindful Motivation | Everyday Inspiration - Walk and Talk with Avalon by One Minute Calm

One Minute Calm: Walk and Talk with Avalon Episode 54. 10 minute mindfulness: "Get out and conquer one of your fears." We overthink and give ourselves the worst case of what we think will happen. We relive that emotion in our brain and keep up the fearful feeling. It is time to retrain your thinking process and take your task by baby steps and goals to get over one of your fears.  Find that o...

One Minute Calm: Walk and Talk with Avalon Episode 53. 10 minute mindfulness: "Stand still for a moment and watch life flow around you." Slow down and watch all that is around you.  Watch people in their day; are they rushing, taking life slowly, observant, like you? Go into nature or watch out your window and watch.  You can see everything from the planes flying way over head to the bir...

One Minute Calm: Walk and Talk with Avalon Episode 52. 10 minute mindfulness: "Your path of the past can positively shape your future." We have all been through some sort of tragedy, yes it forms the person who we are we learn to grow form these incidents and move along positively in our pathway.  Sometimes you, or someone you know, can get stuck and even define yourself by that act that happ...

One Minute Calm: Walk and Talk with Avalon Episode 51. 10 minute mindfulness: "Celebrate!" Celebrate your accomplishments.  Light yourself and candle and pat yourself on the back you did it,...whatever it may be, you did it! The video for this episode was a celebration that we made our first 50 videos and publish every Monday, Wednesday and Friday on Facebook & YouTube.  This episode...

One Minute Calm: Walk and Talk with Avalon Episode 50. 10 minute mindfulness: "When's the last time you imagined yourself in the miniature world of grass?" We usually only pay attention the the everyday things around us. When is the last time you stopped to look at and imagine all the little creatures that surround us in your home, outside, or any where you go? Life exists all around us and on us,...

One Minute Calm: Walk and Talk with Avalon Episode 49. 10 minute mindfulness: "Take a mindful minute for yourself today." Today is about you taking one minute for you.  Relax the muscles in your face, find your favorite chair or place to lay back and do nothing for one minute.  Let you mind wonder, let all the other emotions roll away, and let the butterflies of joy come up from inside t...

One Minute Calm: Walk and Talk with Avalon Episode 48 10 minute mindfulness: "Take time to listen to the rain." Have you ever just stopped and listened to the rain? Have you ever closed your eyes and experienced the sounds of the splashing of water hitting the pavement, hitting the dirt, hitting the roof top? Sometimes you can hear thunder roll through the sky, sometimes it's a quick snap that mak...

One Minute Calm: Walk and Talk with Avalon Episode 47. 10 minute mindfulness: "Tides and moods are tied to the moon." Do you notice you want to howl, laugh, be fun, and crazy when it is a full moon? Do you notice a difference in your behavior when it is a new moon?  Do you live near water and pay attention the the high and low tides?  We are constantly being pulled by the phases of the m...

One Minute Calm: Walk and Talk with Avalon Episode 46. 10 minute mindfulness: "Walk, talk and share a memory of your journey." We are all on a journey somewhere.  Even when we walk to the kitchen, a silly story can happen.  Go out, find a friend or family member and go for a walk, have a talk, and learn an new story. Create a new story with someone and then share that story again.  ...

One Minute Calm: Walk and Talk with Avalon Episode 45. 10 minute mindfulness: "Roses are the crayons of nature." When is the last time you stopped and smelled, saw tasted the colors?  Look around you and notice the way colors are used.  Bright billboards bring your attention to them. Fast food restaurants use reds and yellow to stimulate and make you happy. Someone wearing red gets your...

One Minute Calm: Walk and Talk with Avalon Episode 44. 10 minute mindfulness: "Art is a creation to behold." We are surround by creations everyday.  Someone's art has 'come to life' and sometimes we notice it and sometimes we don't.  Head to an art museum, notice the way houses or building are built, notice a photograph or picture on the wall.  Art is our life.  Some art has a...

One Minute Calm: Walk and Talk with Avalon Episode 43. 10 minute mindfulness: "Find inspiration in your daily life." Daily life can fall into routine where nothing seems to change and can start to weight heavy on the spirit and mind.  Find different things in your daily life to spice things up, to change things up, and to give yourself a laugh. Wear your slip on shoes on the wrong feet, switc...

One Minute Calm: Walk and Talk with Avalon Episode 42. 10 minute mindfulness: "How will you renew your spirit today?" Morning is a great time to renew your spirit before the hustle and bustle begins. You have a chance everyday to refresh or renew yourself.  If you need to take a break and get out of your everyday because you are burned out, then maybe it's time to take a vacation. Go find tha...

One Minute Calm: Walk and Talk with Avalon Episode 41. 10 minute mindfulness: "Let your imagination fly without boundaries." A shark flying in the sky? Why yes, if you can imagine it, it can be. Children's fairy tales are full of imagination, of real things that could never be.  Watch a child's eyes light up with those stories the same way your imagination sparked when you first heard those s...

Join Avalon, founder of One Minute Calm, in "Holiday Doldrums - Spend Time Not Money" Episode 3 of 3   Special Edition Walk and Talk with Avalon. These last few years have been difficult on many peoples finances.  People have lost their livelihoods and jobs.  People have lost their business, homes, and retirement. The cost of goods an foods have risen and so have most services. It can fe...

Join Avalon, founder of One Minute Calm, in "Holiday Doldrums - Family Past & Unpleasant" Episode 2 of 3 Special Edition Walk and Talk with Avalon. The first holiday without a loved one can be extremely painful. Remember you are not the only one hurting, talk to someone else who misses that same person or who may be going through the same loss you feel.  It may take time but healing...

Join Avalon, founder of One Minute Calm, in "Holiday Doldrums - Light & Loneliness" Episode 1 of 3   Special Holiday Edition Walk and Talk with Avalon. If you are feeling depressed this holiday season, you are not alone. Our natural rhythms want us to hibernate but we force ourselves to be awake, go to work, go to school, and just keep going.  In the Northern Hemisphere, it's dif...

One Minute Calm: Walk and Talk with Avalon Episode 79. "Room with a View - A Tribute" We have a life time to do our life's work.  What is on your list to accomplish in this life? How do you contribute to your community for a better daily  life? What are you working on is it for the gain of a few or the gain of many? Can you go to bed a nigh and still think, I haven; done enough today? &n...

One Minute Calm: Walk and Talk with Avalon Episode 40. 10 minute mindfulness: "What will inspire you today?" We can find inspiration all around us to get us motivated, to help us solve a problem, to help us start or finish a project. You can find inspiration from music, from food, from a friend.  You can also be the inspiration to someone else to get motivated.  Where will you find that...

One Minute Calm: Walk and Talk with Avalon Episode 39. 10 minute mindfulness: "A twist in the path can make you notice new things." We are often scared or upset when things do not go our way.  A curve a twist or turn has been "thrown" in our pathway. We were expecting something else...and now we need to deal with this new turn of events.  Do not be scared, be courageous.  Things may...

One Minute Calm: Walk and Talk with Avalon Episode 38. 10 minute mindfulness: "A little sparkle can be breathtaking." Children are taught to dream, dream to be what ever they want to be in their life.  Sometimes they get discouraged stop dreaming so big.  Well it's time for you to start dreaming big again like a child.  Do the things you want to do and be who you want to be.  Y...

One Minute Calm: Walk and Talk with Avalon Episode 37. 10 minute mindfulness: "Let your dreams soar." Children are taught to dream, dream to be what ever they want to be in their life.  Sometimes they get discouraged stop dreaming so big.  Well it's time for you to start dreaming big again like a child.  Do the things you want to do and be who you want to be.  You can change ca...

One Minute Calm: Walk and Talk with Avalon Episode 36. 10 minute mindfulness: "Leave your phone behind and go for walk." We sometimes feel guilty about taking time for ourselves. Schedule your 'me time' today.  Put your phone down and forget about being connected and just let go for you, for your sanity, for your piece of mind.  We used to be connected by land lines and answering machine...

One Minute Calm: Walk and Talk with Avalon Episode 35. 10 minute mindfulness: "Take time to appreciate before it's too late." We think of someone or something we'd like to appreciate, then the moment is gone. Stop and take the moment to take action and appreciate someone or something around you; you'll be appreciative when it comes back to you.  Moments are fleeting and we cannot even guarant...

One Minute Calm: Walk and Talk with Avalon Episode 34. 10 minute mindfulness: "Sit back, relax and daydream." Allow yourself to daydream. We think about thinks briefly, "Wouldn't that be nice if...". Let your if take you on a relaxing mindfulness journey.  Let yourself fantasize and be somewhere else for a few minutes.  Take yourself away in your mind and relax.  Maybe you cannot ge...