No More Excuses! Monday Motivation

Welcome back to Monday Motivation's No More Excuses podcast!  I appreciate you listening! Last week was about doing too much. Giving too much. Finding out why you give so much of yourself that you don't have anything left for you... and for what? Some of you who answered said, you give too much because you love what you do. Others said they aren't sure how to say NO. Why do you do it? Why do you d...

Welcome back! Thank you again for listening to No More Excuses! If you are listening outside of Indiana, I would appreciate it if you would comment here or email me at SBallard@GrowingForward.biz  and let me know where you are! Last week I asked what you were holding back on. How by NOT sharing your talents, your knowledge, your gifts, that can make you selfish. What will it take for you to help s...

Happy Monday Motivation! Welcome back to No More Excuses!  Are you being selfish? With your knowledge that is? Last week I talked about what you are good at. We are all good at something, whether it be cooking, writing, sports, trivia, there is at least ONE THING we know we excel at doing. Then... what do we do with that knowledge, experience, education? Do you share it? Do you teach and empower o...

Welcome back to the Monday Motivation podcast– No More Excuses!  Last week's podcast was about procrastinating and what it's doing to hinder your growth, the ability to achieve your goals... your success. Many people shared with me that they had been procrastinating on "putting themselves out there", basically their marketing efforts. They had been hiding behind some perfectionism, and that God-aw...

Happy Monday Motivation! January is over! How did it go? Did you make progress? Did you come across some challenges? Did you do anything... yet?  This week I'm asking for your excuses! I want to know why you procrastinate! I want to hear them all! And then there will be No More Excuses ... RIGHT?! PROCRASTINATION. We all do it, but WHY? What good comes from it? And NO, motivation is NOT the answer...

Happy Monday Motivation! This week I want to know more about what's going on in regards to your goals. Do you keep hitting a wall at a certain point? Do you give up? Do you keep trying? Are you trying NEW ways/things to achieve those goals? This week's podcast is courtesy of a client who mentioned in a coaching session that she "told" her daughter what she thinks she should do with her life. So th...

Happy Monday Motivation! I hope you are clear on the difference between goals, resolutions and tasks by now. If not , go back and listen to #41 & #42 again. And then if  you are still confused, you better contact me ASAP! :)  This week I give an example of a client who contacted me as she was feeling a bit confused, more overwhelmed I suppose. She knew what she needed to do, "sort of" assumed they...

Welcome back to Monday Motivation's podcast! This week I'd like to focus on how clear your vision is. Of yourself that is! The two previous podcasts I talked about the difference of your resolutions and goals and how they affect each other. And then I also spoke about the difference between goals and tasks and asked you to make sure you knew the difference and also looked at your goal sheet for th...

Welcome back! This week I want you to think deeper about your goals. Hopefully you did months ago so you were prepared for the start of the year! But even if you set them NOW, today... after you listen to this, is great. You have to get them OUT OF your head and ONTO paper. So you can see them, think about them. Especially NOW! Are your goals really a goal? Are they YOUR goals? Or are they smaller...

Why bother creating new RESOLUTIONS when only 8% of the American population keep them? Why screw around with setting new GOALS when you didn't achieve your previously set ones?  WHY BOTHER?  Just keep doing what you've been doing. Perhaps it's working and according to the stats, more than likely it's not. Even I didn't achieve some of my goals! And after coming off a wildly successful 2015, man, t...

It's the last week of 2016!  Christmas was yesterday, how did you celebrate? Perhaps you don't celebrate Christmas? What did you celebrate and how? Did you hear others talk about their achievements? Did you think they were bragging? Perhaps a little, but did you help them celebrate or were you too busy wallowing in your own self-pity due to what you did NOT accomplish?  Everyone has achieved somet...

Yes, that is the question of the week: What's missing? OR... what are you missing? As I've been harping about, sometimes things are right before your eyes. And, sometimes they aren't.  It can be what you don't see that helps us. But how do you know? How do you know if you're looking too hard or not looking hard enough? New perspective! Did you ask someone? You didn't ask me!! Why not? What are you...

Ah yes, you've had someone give you a new perspective and now YOU have one as well. You're now able to see the forest through the trees! And now, once you find that new perspective, you have work to do! Yep! More work YAY! This time, it's looking at what you are willing to do. Willing to do MORE of. LESS of. Or DIFFERENTLY. You can't keep doing the same ol same ol and expecting different results,...

Welcome back to my Monday Motivation podcast: No More Excuses!   This week let's talk about NEW PERSPECTIVE. Why do you continue to try the same thing over and over and expect different results?  Are you afraid to ask for help? Do you think you'll appear incapable if you do? Like I mentioned in last week's podcast (#35), sometimes you're too close to the situation to see the answer! Sometimes you...

Have you reviewed your goals yet? If not, NOW is a great time. Why? Because we only have 5 weeks left in 2016!  This week though, I want you to DIG DEEPER, get another layer in. As you look at your goals, what is something you wanted to happen that hasn't? Perhaps it IS a goal or perhaps it's something you need to get done to help you get closer to a larger goal.  What's happened? Have you tried e...

Tis the season to be thankful... right? Well, we all know Scrooge wasn't! At least at first! So, are you thankful? Or are you caught up focusing on what you don't have, haven't achieved and feel you've missed out on? This week, with it being Thanksgiving, I want to help you shift your mindset into "thankful mode" and focus on what you DO HAVE, HAVE, and HAVE DONE! I understand it can be difficult...

  Ah yes... Change. And not the kind in a dudes pocket that he annoyingly jingles. The kind we have to deal damn near every day in life. Yep. That "change"! What can you do about it? How do you react to it? I'm sure it probably depends on what changed or is about to change. It's nice when you actually get a warning isn't it? What has changed in your life? This past year so far? What change is comi...

WOW! Have you ever finished your day or week and wondered what the Hell happened to the time? What about to your "PLAN"? What you wanted to accomplish? That happened to me last week! Now, some meetings were planned, and others went longer and new ones popped on. But thankfully, since I do have a plan, I was able to make adjustments and be there for those who needed help. I also was able to easily...

Welcome welcome! You are listening to Sandi Ballard – lead motivator at Growing Forward coaching. It is Monday, and you are listening to week 31 of my Monday Motivation podcasts. Thank you for listening. If you are here for the 1st time, thank you and please take a few minutes to go back to week 1 and listen! Actually that's not a bad idea for ALL of you to do. Go back to the beginning! And start...

Thank you for listening and for sharing these podcasts with others you feel could benefit. If you want to get them in your inbox and currently do not, email me to add me to your list. WOW – there's only 5 weeks left until Thanksgiving. Then what happens? Not much anything eh? 5 weeks until businesses slow down – MOST that is. Some even shut down for a couple weeks. Only 5 weeks until you get into...

Hello everyone! Yes, it is Monday again and I do hope by now after listening to all of my podcasts (29 weeks of them) that you have a better attitude about Monday's! Thank you for coming back, yet again, for your weekly dose of Monday Motivation. I had a great birthday week and yesterday after my run I thought about how I felt at 47. All of a sudden, I was like "CRAP that's awfully close to 50?!"...

Well….welcome back and thank you for listening to this week's podcast. Last week was about how to "finish the year strong". We ARE in the last quarter, the final 82 or so days of the year – depending on when you are listening to this (or listening AGAIN!) What did you decide that you could do during the end of the year, the SLOOOOW time to finish strong? To reacquaint yourself with clients, friend...

Welcome back! Are you ready for this week's Monday Motivation? I sure hope so. It's been rainy and getting colder here in Indy AND darker, so I know I've needed a bit more motivation lately to get me going. Plus, it's the last quarter. Yup, whether you like it or not, it's here. Last week's podcast was about stopping to smell the roses. Pausing long enough to think about your accomplishments and g...

HELLO there! I know, I could sense it, you were just watching and waiting on pins and needles for the new podcast, the latest Monday Motivation weren't you?! Well, I do appreciate you listening and would REALLY appreciate it if you would share the podcast via your social media! The more listeners, the better, eh?! Last week was about finding out what you NEED that can help you and honestly that BE...

Hey everyone! Sandi here again to dole out another dose of Monday Motivation. Or your weekly challenge, however you choose to view it! What is it that you want or need? Last weeks podcast was about you knowing what you NEED to do… BUT. But something. There was something standing between success and what you KNOW you need to do. So what did you figure out? What is it that you KNOW you NEED to do? A...