The Strong Within Affirmation Podcast

Thoughtful Thursdays-#432 January The Strong Within Daily Affirmation Podcast I Inhabit My Habits Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we rather have those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit. Aristotle The origin of the word habit comes from the Lat...

Wisdom Wednesdays-#431 March The Strong Within Daily Affirmation Podcast I Want Everyone To Win "Champions are not the ones who always win races - champions are the ones who get out there and try. And try harder the next time. And even harder the next time. 'Champion' is a state of mind. They are devoted. They compete to best themselves as much if not more than they compete to best others. Champio...

Tag Me Tuesdays-#430 March The Strong Within Daily Affirmation Podcast I Overcome What I Set My Mind To   "Change happens when the pain of staying the same is greater than the pain of change." ~Tony Robbins Why don't we change when we want to? Is becoming who we want to be that difficult? Is stopping the habits that are crippling us that hard? It's a nice idea to put the blame on our DNA, on our p...

Mindful Mondays-#429 March The Strong Within Daily Affirmation Podcast I Am, and Always Have Been… Enough "Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact." ~William James When I was in sales there was an old adage that was said quite often to help us overcome our fears of rejection, and that saying was—"the more times you hear no, then the closer you are to a yes." And...

Smiling Sundays-#428 March The Strong Within Daily Affirmation Podcast Success Comes Easily To Me "Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated." ~Confucius I was with my father and the family dogs were all around us acting happy, wagging their tails, tongues hanging out…just excited to be with us. And as we were walking up a set of stairs my dad said to the dogs "ABC. Always Be C...

Synergistic Saturdays-#427  March 3rd The Strong Within Daily Affirmation Podcast I Take The Time To Understand  "Not until we are lost do we begin to understand ourselves." ~ Henry David Thoreau I was working with a life coaching student of mine who was going through a rather tough time in their life. They were going through a messy divorce, and it was bringing them to the edge of their sanity. W...

Fantastic Fridays-#426 March 2nd The Strong Within Daily Affirmation Podcast I Attract Great Things Into My Life "Within all of us is a divine capacity to manifest and attract all that we need and desire." ~Wayne Dyer The thing I always try to remind my life coaching students, and myself, is that we don't get what we want, we get what we focus on. While it's a profound statement, it's really hard...

Thoughtful Thursdays-#425 March 1st The Strong Within Daily Affirmation Podcast I Can Weather Through Any Storm "The fishermen know that the sea is dangerous and the storm terrible, but they have never found these dangers sufficient reason for remaining ashore." ~Vincent Van Gogh You are the architect of your life. You design your life; you build your walls, you build a solid structure or a weak s...

Wisdom Wednesdays-#424 February 28th The Strong Within Daily Affirmation Podcast This, Is My Moment   "I am building a fire, and every day I train, I add more fuel. At just the right moment, I light the match." ~Mia Hamm We search our whole lives questioning whether we did the right things, whether we acted at the right time, whether we went to school for the right profession, whether we picked th...

Tag Me Tuesdays-#423 February 27th The Strong Within Daily Affirmation Podcast I Am Love   "When angry count to ten before you speak. If very angry, count to one hundred." ~Thomas Jefferson What you put into the world is what will be returned to you. We know this on a conscious level, but we don't understand it on a subconscious level. It's hard to really understand that the energy we emit is retu...

Mindful Mondays-#422 February 26th The Strong Within Daily Affirmation Podcast My Disappointments Guide Me To Better Decisions   We must all suffer one of two things: the pain of discipline or the pain of regret or disappointment. Jim Rohn I remember watching a comedy called Meet The Millers With Jennifer Anniston and Jason Sudeikis. It's a silly premise where the main character creates a fake fam...

Smiling Sundays-#421 February 25th The Strong Within Daily Affirmation Podcast Kindness Is My First Language   "Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love." ~Lao Tzu I've had the pleasure of meeting some amazingly authentic and kind people, and I've had the pleasure of meeting some major a-holes…and if I was being loving towards...

Synergistic Saturdays-#420 February 24th The Strong Within Daily Affirmation Podcast I Choose Efficiency Over Perfection   "Some people mistake grit for sheer persistence - charging up the same hill again and again. But that's not quite what I mean by the word 'grit.' You want to minimize friction and find the most effective, most efficient way forward. You might actually have more grit if you tre...

Fantastic Fridays-#419 February 23rd The Strong Within Daily Affirmation Podcast I Keep My Eyes Straight Ahead "The man who can drive himself further once the effort gets painful is the man who will win." ~Roger Bannister In the mid 1900s, there was a story that began circulating in the running community. The world record for running a mile at the time was 4:01.4 seconds—a record that stood for ni...

Thoughtful Thursdays-#418 January 22nd The Strong Within Daily Affirmation Podcast I Am Constantly Nudging Progress   "Progress lies not in enhancing what is, but in advancing toward what will be." ~Khalil Gibran I came to an epiphany today, which reminded me that I'm more appreciative when I'm in pain. I'm more aware of the things I miss, of the things that are great in my life, and of my place i...

Wisdom Wednesdays-#417 February 21st The Strong Within Daily Affirmation Podcast I Find Wisdom Thru Silence   "Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom." ~Francis Bacon A westerner came to a Zen master to learn the ways of enlightenment. As the teacher invited the visitor in to sit down, he placed a teacup in front of his guest and began pouring tea, and after the cup was full, the master kept p...

Tag Me Tuesdays-#416 February 20th The Strong Within Daily Affirmation Podcast I Am Centered By Being At Peace With My Past   "I don't have mom issues or dad issues. I think I have found peace about many things in my past. I have forgiven and asked to be forgiven." ~Xavier Dolan A great swordsman wanted to make amends for the killing he had done over his lifetime. He was considered the best swords...

Mindful Mondays-#415 February 19th The Strong Within Daily Affirmation Podcast My Focus Dictates My Future   "Consult not your fears but your hopes and your dreams. Think not about your frustrations, but about your unfulfilled potential. Concern yourself not with what you tried and failed in, but with what it is still possible for you to do." ~Pope John XXIII   Who we become is not determined by w...

Smiling Sundays-#414 February 18th The Strong Within Daily Affirmation Podcast New Opportunities Excite Me   I hope that in this year to come, you make mistakes. Because if you are making mistakes, then you are making new things, trying new things, learning, living, pushing yourself, changing yourself, changing your world. You're doing things you've never done before, and more importantly, you're...

Synergistic Saturdays-#413  February 17th The Strong Within Daily Affirmation Podcast I Rest Purposefully "It's so great to find that one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life." ~Rita Rudner Guess what, you guys are my one special persons???, my peeps, my crew, my spiritual gangstas, my brothas from anotha motha, my sisters from another mista, my friends, my community. So I ho...

Fantastic Fridays-#412 February 16th The Strong Within Daily Affirmation Podcast I Believe In Myself   "When you have exhausted all possibilities, remember this - you haven't." ~Thomas Edison   A salesman heard a story about a powerful magician being able to grant people their wishes. And as of late his miracle health products weren't selling like they used to. So the salesman decided to find this...

Thoughtful Thursdays-#411 January 15th The Strong Within Daily Affirmation Podcast I Listen When The Universe Speaks To Me   "The gigantic tension before the shooting of an arrow, and the total relaxation seconds later, is my way of connecting to the universe." ~Paulo Coelho   I recently did a podcast on freeing ourselves from resentment, and the funny thing I was tested immediately on that affirm...

Wisdom Wednesdays-#410 February 14th The Strong Within Daily Affirmation Podcast I Am Free From Resentment "The worst resentment that anybody can have is one you feel justified to keep." ~Louis Gossett, Jr. Happy Valentines day everyone…and if you hate this holiday because you feel you have no one to love you…just know you will be my valentine, as I'm going to love you.   And on that note of love…...

Tag Me Tuesdays-#409 February 13th The Strong Within Daily Affirmation Podcast   I Am Prepared For Anything That Comes My Way   "Peace is not absence of conflict, it is the ability to handle conflict by peaceful means." ~Ronald Reagan We live in an aggressive world. If you want something, you have to fight for it; you have to put on your armor and go to war. We use different language on how we pur...

Mindful Mondays-408# February 12th The Strong Within Daily Affirmation Podcast I Say Yes To Great Opportunities   "I imagine that yes is the only living thing." ~E. E. Cummings That's a pretty powerful quote when you think about it, and usually the simplest things are the most profound. What I heard when I saw that quote is—there is ONLY life in yes. And if No is the opposite of yes, then "no" is...