The Americana Coast Daily Pep Talk

Self awareness can help with both staying positive AND finding your wallet! 

You made a mistake? Now what do you do? 

How did the Americana Coast Podcast pep talks start? 

What steps do you take to get yourself prepared and focused for the day? Sometimes all it takes is five minutes. 

Do you take things personally even when you know you shouldn't? 

The wave you're currently riding is personal and how you ride it is 1000% up to you. 

You can't go at break speed 24/7. Learn the value of giving your mind and body a break. 

One person's input can have a profound affect on you! 

Today's message, acknowledge and move on. I first heard that line from comedian actor Scott LaRose during one of his routines and I thought it was just absolutely brilliant.

I'm today a little bit about the importance of physical activity on having a positive attitude.

Despite what we see on the news, social media, what we witness, the things that people do and say to each other, I think people are generally good.

I just wanted to wish you a good day and to remind you to not let negativity get to you.

For me, life very much emulates the ocean. Life is not a constant by any means. It quite literally is a series of waves. Every day we get to choose what wave we ride. When we wipe out, we have to choose to quit or get back on our board and ride back out to catch another wave.  More at www.americanacoast.com New book "Americana Coast Daily Pep Talks" is available on Amazon.  The daily pep talks are...

Today we're going to talk about two things. One, boundaries, and two, social media.

On any given day, each and every one of us has the potential to be the asshole.

Did you know you can trick your brain into feeling happy by faking a smile?

When you've got that one person who, just for whatever reason, is just constantly spewing hatred, negativity, meanness, ugliness, some point, you need to tell them, and let them know, dude, enough. I need a break. If you've got nothing nice to say, let's just put a cork in it for now. 

I know it's cliche for the flowers to come. A little rain must fall, all that. But it's true. Even in the sunniest of places, rain is inevitable. 

Did you know that when you do something kind for somebody, it causes what's called a helper's high.

Pain is temporary - quitting is eternal. "Lance Armstrong"

Steve Martin has a bit where he talks about the value of building on your goal, starting out small and then building towards your big ass hairy goal, right? Now for him that means starting out as the all-being master of the universe and then maybe going to Europe. Now he's joking of course, but the spirit of that concept is a valid one.

I don't really have any advice for you this week. No tidbits, no hints, no words of wisdom. I just wanted to check and make sure you're doing alright.

So why the daily pep talk, Bill? What's all this positive nonsense? Look, between you and me, being negative wears me out. All the anger and the arguing and the negativity, it's just the stress, the worry, ugh, that it brings on, wearing me out. So I thought, let's combat it with some positivity.

I've always told my kids the secret to success is showing up. And you will find that many times it's easy to show up, but there are those days where you just don't feel it. And those are the days that it's really important to show up.

I help coach a high school cross country team and what we teach the kids is rather than always racing against the number one runner, especially when you're practicing, race against yourself. What are your goals for the year, for the season? Where do you want to see yourself? How do you want to improve? And then compare yourself and race against that.