The Bed Head Chronicles

Today, I want to answer a question that someone asked me on Facebook. They asked, "Siri, what tools and self reminders do you use at the moment to stay the course in telling your truth? Being fearlessly authentic and often choosing discomfort at the moment versus fast, easy and comfortable. Being fearlessly authentic often means choosing discomfort at the moment when one's truth does not line up w...

Good morning everyone, and welcome to the Bed Head Chronicles. Today, I want to talk about when we get sick, injured or not feeling our best. How do we support ourselves in those moments? In the past, when I would get an injury as a professional athlete, I would get angry at that body part that got injured. "I can't believe this plantar fascitis is this bad!" I would get angry or upset. Or if we g...

Good morning everyone and welcome to the Bed Head Chronicles. Today, I want to talk about the standards that we set for ourselves. Our performance, whether it be in our job, in our sport, our relationships – whatever it is, it depends upon the standards that we set for ourselves. Sometimes we’ll set high standards for our work or sport, and we’ll always do our very best and do everything that we n...

Good morning everyone and welcome to the Bed Head Chronicles. Today, I want to talk about how to be our very best in those most crucial moments. Whether you are racing in a World Championship and you have 200 meters to go to the finish line with just one person in front of you. If you pass them, you’re going to win that World Championship. Or, perhaps, how can hit that goal time coming under 5 hou...

Good morning, everyone and welcome to the Bed Head Chronicles. Today, I want to talk about “changing our shoulds in life to musts.” There's a big difference between saying, “I really should start working out and get on a healthy eating plan,” to “I must start eating healthier and start getting fit.” It's a big difference in what that invokes in you. A “should” won't get you moving. It won't call y...

Good morning, everyone and welcome to the Bed Head Chronicles. Today, I want to talk about certain words that we all use a lot to describe tougher moments in our lives. And sometimes when we overuse these words, we start attributing them to tough days that aren't the end of the world. But because we use that word to describe it a word like “devastated.” “I'm just devastated that my package didn't...

Good morning, everyone. And welcome to the Bed Head Chronicles. Today, I want to talk about certain beliefs that we developed at a very young age that, to this day, could be negatively influencing us. Even sabotaging our efforts to be happy, successful, or thriving in our lives. I woke up thinking about money and the first 4 years of my life. My parents were still together, we lived in a small hou...

Good morning, everyone and welcome to the Bed Head Chronicles. Today, I want to talk about how motivated we as humans are by trying to avoid pain. How many times have you said "No" when you really wanted to say "Yes" because you are afraid that it could lead somewhere painful? It could lead to either failure or rejection or pain of some sort.  How many times have we backed away from a challenge or...

Good morning, everyone and welcome to the Bed Head Chronicles. Today, I want to talk about those things in your life that you may think are constant thorns in your side.  Whether it be a situation or relationship or whatever it is.  But it's something that causes you constant suffering. I know we all have those things at different points in our lives.  But what I want to talk about this morning is...

How did I stay motivated?  I was ready to actually retire on that day because I found what I was looking for. But we all know, and you'll find this as you get older, that we are our own harshest critics.  The biggest judges of ourselves.   I knew that few months down the road, I would start thinking maybe that was a fluke.  Did I just get lucky?  Was that really me? I didn't want to have to deal w...

Good morning, everyone and welcome to the Bed Head Chronicles. Today, I want to talk about the beauty of fall -- of autumn -- and how the incredible leaves, no matter where you are, it's just so beautiful.   But then, suddenly, the trees know it's time to let go.  They shed their leaves and become bare.  But, what they're doing is letting go to open up space and availability to have a rebirth in t...

Good morning, everyone and welcome to the Bed Head Chronicles. Today, I want you to think about how many times -- during the day, during the week, during the month -- that we have the opportunity to be great through small acts of kindness. I think we often underestimate the power of a kind touch, smile, honest compliment, or providing just a caring, listening ear to someone.  The power of these sm...

Good morning, everyone and welcome to the Bed Head Chronicles. Today, I want to talk about how we so often acknowledged, appreciate and celebrate the successes or achievements of others so much more than we give our own selves credit for. For example, a friend of yours who hasn't been working out very much goes out has a week where she works out every single day and she's feeling great and she's l...

Good morning, everyone and welcome to the Bed Head Chronicles. Today, I want to talk about owning your mistakes. Owning it when things don't turn out the way that you hope them to. You all have heard my story of the Olympic trials and where I had prepared for 365 days. I had visualized the perfect race from start to the finish with me crossing the line, Siri Lindley going to the Olympics. What hap...

Good morning, everyone and welcome to the Bed Head Chronicles. Today, especially, I have some bed head that puts all my other big heads to shame. Last week, as you know -- just a couple days ago -- was the Ironman World Championships in Kona, Hawaii -- the biggest race of the year. This beautiful island is a place where thousands of dreams have come true just by being on that start line and having...

Good morning, everyone and welcome to the Bed Head Chronicles.   Today, I want to talk about a book I read recently by Abby Wambach, "Wolfpack."  As we all know, Abby Wamback is a legendary soccer player.  She led the US women's national team to two Olympic gold medals and scored something like 184 career goals.  She's incredible, and this book is an awesome read.  One of the things I want to talk...

Good morning, everyone and welcome to the Bed Head Chronicles. Today, I want to talk about going first -- taking the initiative. If you ever think to yourself, 'I wish people were more grateful.  I wish people were more appreciative.   I wish people would follow through with their promises,' let's start with ourselves. It's up to us to go first. If you want more love in your life, love first.  If...

Good morning, everyone and welcome to the Bed Head Chronicles. Have you ever thought that you're broken? I know I have many times in my life, and what I realize now is that none of us have broken. We're all just human living the human experience. I believe, at least, when I look back in my own life, that those times when I felt the most broken were the times just preceding a major breakthrough my...

Good morning, everyone and welcome to the Bed Head Chronicles Today. I want you to think of that one decision that you made in your life that turn your entire life around, whether that means -- took you from a really bad place to a good place or a decision that truly took your life to a whole new level. And when I think that the answer to this question for myself, it's the day I consciously decide...

Good morning, everyone and welcome to the Bed Head Chronicles. I woke up this morning thinking about the fact that in any relationship, whether it be your husband or wife, boyfriend girlfriend, your parents, your friends, your co-workers, that I feel happiest is when I feel seen.  When I feel heard.  When I feel appreciated.  And when I feel understood. When I'm getting all these things, I truly f...

Good morning, everyone and welcome to the Bed Head Chronicles. Today, I want to talk about morning routines.   I would say the most important morning routine that I do every single morning is my gratitude routine.  I've told all of you before that I do this practice called priming. I learned it from Tony Robbins. It's the most incredible process. It takes about 10 minutes long and it truly puts yo...

Good morning, everyone. Welcome to the Bed Head Chronicles. Today, I want you to think about something you have in your life, now, that you dreamed about having in the past. Something that was a goal that you had that meant everything to you that you've now achieved. Sometimes, I think we said these goals were so excited about it. And that's what drives us for days, and weeks, and months, and year...

Good morning, everyone. Welcome to the Bed Head Chronicles. Today, I want to talk about -- I'm going to share a story when my mom, who loves her dogs as much as she loves her own children. They are beautiful little pugs. And she lost one of her pugs about 10 years ago. He went in for a routine MRI and he ended up dying because they gave him too much of medication. Obviously, as it would any of us,...

Good morning, everyone. Welcome to the Bed Head Chronicles. Today, I want to talk about managing those moments when you are so overcome with an emotion like anxiety or anger or sadness and you can't get out of their own way and you literally feel like it's eating you from the inside out. Maybe not all of you can relate to me on this, but I know I've certainly felt that way before. Now, we all exhi...

I would say to my 16-year-old self, "Everything's going to be okay. Everything that's happening, every struggle that you feel, every fear that you have, this is life happening for you. Not to you." Because these things are happening, these things that are challenging you, are going to be the things that help you grow, the things that you learn from, the things that you overcome. And through overco...