Transformed Life 2 Min Encouragement

We all know that when someone loses the will to live, they will die. Well, I sometimes wonder if we are willing to die just by not having a choice to do the things necessary to live. In other words, we're living while we're dead because we're not willing to do the things required to live the life we want. Did you know that most people are just so compliant that they would instead take the easy roa...

I want to talk about courage. Courage is problematic because we often feel that we're not very courageous. Well, courage is about taking risks. But I want to spin that a little for you today because I want to talk about trust and confidence. Let's say you lose your job. If I trust God that I will have a better one, it's okay if I lose my job because I'm confident he's taking care of me. Courage ha...

I want to know if you cry. Yes, that's right. I want to know if you cry. When was the last time you cried? And do you prevent yourself from crying? Or do you just hide your tears? Now I don't hide my tears anymore. Crying is the powerful result of emotions inside you. Happy tears, sad tears, angry tears, frustrated tears, even joyful tears. I used to cry a lot and that was because I held my emotio...

You know, I believe in you, I really do. You are more wonderful and fantastic than you ever thought you are. No, sometimes when things are happening in the world, we feel like that the world is against us. But that's not really true. God always has a plan and there's always things that are coming up. They're just helping you become your best person. So I want you to know that I believe in you and...

Often we just need someone to say encouraging words to us, you know, some of those days we can be that person that can be that encouraging word. Today, seek someone out and spend time just saying hello to them a friend or a colleague. Or maybe it's a relative of yours, but reach out to them and tell them how much you appreciate them and be an encouragement to them. When someone calls me on the pho...

I want to share with you some exciting news. This transformed life to minute encouragement podcast is listened to in nine different countries. I find that fascinating. I did 176 episodes last year with 165 minutes of podcast time, and my followers or her listenership is up 175%. What they don't say is I have over 12,700 listens over the past couple of years. That is so wonderful. And I want to tha...

Being fully present isn't always that easy. This morning I was driving in and noticed how beautiful the sky was, there were very few clouds, and as the sun was coming up, there was this beautiful orange. You know, we all have experience in seeing that kind of sunrise, and it's just gorgeous; it almost made me want to pull over and stop driving. But I continue to operate and enjoy the moment of bei...

I spilt my hot tea this morning all over the desk. When I got into the office, I realized that as I was walking in, I had way too many things in my hand. I'm not the only one that does that. Do you often try to carry too many things? You know, I'm learning how to let go of things I don't need to hang on to. Sometimes it's kind of hard. Thinking about my own life. I really don't want to hang on to...

I was sitting looking at the clock the other day noticing as the second hand goes around how it seemed to be really slow as I was just watching the second hand go by the three, the six, the nine, it was like time actually stopped because I was paying attention to it. You know, our lives are kind of like that. When we're really busy not paying attention to it, it just flows by, but when you slow do...

Death is an incredible opportunity to awaken. That's a quote by Rahm Das, you know, life is very short. And the struggles that we all have sometimes gets quickened. When death is right at the door. Recently, a close friend and I were having a serious conversation about the pain that we all suffer at times in life. They had recently purchased a sign that said, we are all just walking each other hom...

Do you have to feel loved in order to be loved? I'm sure that we all want to feel loved. Why wouldn't we, but then there's this kind of love that isn't reciprocal is where we love someone, regardless of whether it comes back to us. Now I can tell you, if I don't feel loved by you is going to affect the way that I feel about you. But that doesn't mean that I can't love you anyway, or regardless of...

Love is kind of an odd thing. There's lots of different kinds of love. But the most difficult kind of love is when someone is adverse with you. Adversity actually creates the ability to love. Yes, it does. That means that when you are adverse with someone and you can still truly love them, it doesn't mean that you feel loved by them. It means that you love them. You are not concerned about whether...

I'm often wondering how we define love. Love is an action and a verb. And it's also a noun. It's a behavior. It's an attitude. It's a thought process. It is so many different things to so many other people. And we all have a different ways of thinking about what love is. And I believe that love is the way we can change the world. So thinking about it from that perspective, you can't love the world...

We've all been in this place where we feel like we're being judged or things are not going the way we want them to. Because no matter what we say, a person or a political or religious view is actually condescending toward us not accepting the things that are true about us and putting us in a small box. You've all been there. I've been there too. Well, the question is, how do you do with that? Or h...

Have you ever been around someone who is so strict in the things that they want around them, that they create uncomfortableness for everyone that they quote unquote, create the world around them. So that only happens the way they want it to? Well, that's not very fun for any of us. And when I often talk about informing someone that they can create the world that they live in, that isn't exactly wh...

Tell me what you did four days from now? Yes, you heard me, right. I mean, tell me the future as if it's already happened. This Thursday was a fabulous day for me. I enjoyed the long drive to my family's home and ate food I love and had some of the most wonderful and enticing conversations ever. I love my family. And I love Thanksgiving. There you go, that it was four days before it happened, righ...

You cannot feel an emotion and talk at the same time. Silence is your friend, my friend, being alive is choosing to, quote stop thinking and quote again, stop talking and choosing to be quiet, quiet. So many people in my world that just dread silence, it feels awkward to them. But guess what? When you stop your mind and stop your words, and you just let the silence show up, you'll actually feel wh...

Oh, wow, that makes me so happy. I love this. This week some wonderful things happened in my life and I actually said that makes me so happy and I was happy. Well, what makes you happy? Do you express your happiness in the moment when it shows up? Are you open to saying how you feel when it is good? Share your happiness with others by saying how happy you are. Express you when you're happy in the...

sadness is a powerful emotion. When someone says they are sad. Do you try to encourage them? And will I want to know why? It's okay to be sad? Let them be sad, isn't it just okay? The next time that you're sad, say this out loud. I am sad. Learning to be okay with the emotion of sadness allows it to show up. This week I practice with a client saying to me, I am sad Dan. They said it over and over...

We all have a hidden self inside us. Things that we know about ourselves that others do not actually know. This Hidden Self can be an issue. If we don't acknowledge that it is true. This Hidden Self shows up and we don't say what we desire. Let me give you an example. I want to have a better relationship with you, is often hidden. Because instead we say things like this. I wish you loved me the wa...

When someone tells me they are doing good, I often think in comparison to what, last week or last year, or yesterday, when are we good? Are we good when we feel loved and treated well, and our marriage is good when things are going our way? Well, that's odd to me. I'm good when I have friends who actually see me accurately. Good to me is when I'm real about my deeper self, and my own good and bad...

So, what would you say? Is the comfortable life? Is it having more money? Or more friends? Or better health? or thinner, or a nicer car or a nicer house? Well, there's nothing wrong with these things. However, why do we want them? The social environment influences the majority of choices that we make and our wants. Our advertising world is so caught up and getting us to buy things that we really d...

When was the last time that you told someone? Yes. Well, I actually mean saying yes. Most of us agree in kind of a strange way by doing something that we're asked by just saying, okay, or I will, or Sure, but I'm thinking that we should change our language for the day and just tell them yes, we will. Because it kind of connects you in a different way with the activity. I really want you to try thi...

Good morning. I wanted to wake you up and tell you how much I love spending time with you. Now I know it's a sleepy Saturday and maybe you usually sleep in on Saturday. But whatever you want to do today, I want you to know how much I love and appreciate every one of you. I love you. I'm Dan Clark.

How about today you do everything to the best that you can you know that you walk a little faster, that you smile that everyone that you laugh at the things that are happening around you, and you just enjoy the moment regardless of what's happening. One of the things that we often do is get caught up in the details of what we don't like, instead of choosing to be happy so today, do the best that y...