Transformed Life 2 Min Encouragement

I've been thinking a lot about courage, and what courage really means to me. Now courage is described as doing something that you're afraid of, or working through fear. It's also described as being able to work through pain and grief. Well, there's such a thing as emotional pain, and it takes great courage to face those things that are just difficult to do. Often, we get stuck on feeling courage i...

When you lift weights and exercise consistently, you actually strengthen the muscles. Just as with any exercise, your brain is the same and you can strengthen the muscle of your brain because it actually is a muscle. Here's the downside. If you are remembering something the same way every single time, that is just like muscle memory. And you can actually change muscle memory, whether it would be i...

Do you feel like that you're stuck in life? There are four reasons I believe why we feel stuck. And I'm going to call these fears. The first fear is the idea that I don't know who I am my lack of clarity and my personal life. Like who am I have I really figured out who I am and what my life is about lack of clarity is a fear. The second one is lack of support, who's really with me? Who's going to...

I don't know about you, but sometimes I really love a rainy day. And then sometimes I just don't. Particularly I don't like getting wet, especially if I can't find my umbrella. Today in my world, it's kind of a rainy day. And not that it's a good or a bad day, but it is just kind of that Tuesday, rainy day, sometimes I feel that way on the inside, and maybe you do feel that way. Sometimes yourself...

What exactly is your goal for the week? What are you going to accomplish this week that moves you toward that long term goal that you have for your life? And what about your relationship goals or even your personal growth goals? You know, if we don't have intention, then we don't often accomplish what we want to accomplish in life. So let's start strong by being intentional on what you want to hap...

Do you think you're lazy? Or do you think that you procrastinate a lot? Those aren't actually things that I use in my self talk at all. When someone says they're lazy or procrastinator, I always say the same thing. There's no such thing as lazy. And there's no such thing as procrastination. Really. It's just all a lack of motivation or organization. That's correct. If you are motivated, to get thi...

Being emotional is not the same as experiencing emotions. Drama is being emotional, feeling sad, happy or hurt is being present in the moment. Choosing to feel the emotions in the moment is not the same as reacting to the moment. If we slow down, we can choose to feel the emotions and choose to be present. I know that sounds more difficult, but it really has a lot of rewards. When you choose to sl...

Today I want to talk about being your best person, not just encouraging you to do well, but to be your best person. What is it like when you are your best person? What kind of person are you? What kind of things do you do? How do you feel? How was life going for you striving for excellence in everything that you do is really a way to live our lives. That doesn't mean that we're striving for perfec...

I want to know what the story is that you're saying to yourself about your life. That's because the story you say to yourself about what's happening is directly related to the level of happiness that you have. The story that you say to yourself about you, is also directly related to the joy that you have. So the things that you say to yourself about the circumstances that are happening, and about...

There are two different types of happiness. There's this external happiness about the circumstances that are happening around me. And then there's this deeper happiness, sometimes called Joy, that's at my core, both at some point are choices. Now, if I'm experiencing lots of happiness, because things are going my way, or I just bought a new car, new pair of shoes, or having a great time with famil...

I'm not very happy with you right now, I don't know how many times I heard that as a kid when I was growing up about the fact that my role in life was to make my parents happy. Well, at some point, I suppose I needed to follow the rules. But was it really about making them happy? What's the difference between happiness and disliking something or liking something? We often get happiness mixed up wi...

Everyone reacts in different ways to things that are happening around them. However, one of the best ways to create happiness is to learn to not react. That's called the silence. This week, we're going to be practicing talking about happiness, silence, enlightenment, and how to rewire our brain. So today, think about how it would be if you were speaking less if you took more distance between react...

Summer is a wonderful time when you're a child because there's all kinds of things to do. Now when I was growing up, and that was in the 60s, we had to stay outside as much as possible because there was six of us mom had put a got cufon on the front porch and cups with us for us to drink out of, and we couldn't come inside until the street lights came on. That's how wonderful my summer was. We als...

What did you do today? I've been thinking about what I did today, and I've been reviewing my day. Most days I spend time thinking about my day in the evening. That's because I like to review my day and just think about how I went. Now, this can take really less than 10 minutes. Who did you connect with? How did you feel? What did you think about it? It doesn't take much time to really be grateful,...

June 21 is the first day of summer. Welcome to a beautiful summer day in the United States. I know it's going to be hot this year, but it's almost always hot in June and July, and even hotter in August, but since it's the first day of summer, I wonder what your summer is going to look like. I have lots of plans. I want to enjoy my summer as much as I can. And I would love to hear how you plan on e...

It's Monday evening, June 20. And I trust that your day went really well today. You know, some days are just beautiful in some days are filled with all types of, I wish I would have I wish I could have I wish I hadn't dove. However, regardless of the kind of day that you had, you know that you are loved and that you do have people in your world that care for you. When things are going really well....

Do you know someone who is just absolutely wonderful? And when you think about them, you wonder how they got to be such a wonderful person. Hello, I'm Dan Clark and welcome. Well, I'm going to tell you something that I'm sure you already already know that if that person was actually as close to you as you'd like to be, they might not be so wonderful. You see, the closer we are to someone, the less...

It's very difficult to pay attention to things that we don't notice. What I'm talking about is, you and I are distracted all the time, by things that are happening around us. We don't pay attention to the things that maybe we should be paying attention to. And here's where I'm really going with this. You know, if you don't pay attention to who you are, how you're behaving, and what you're actually...

In a world full of always doing, doing doing, maybe it's time to just practice being, you know, when we slow down and breathe and notice what's happening around us, we actually can retain more information. We only have so much space in our head. And as you are so busy in the day, it's hard to keep track of all the things that you have to do. You know how you forget those little things when you wal...

I don't want someone to boss me around and to tell me what to do. I want someone to guide me hilum Dan Clark and welcome. I was having a conversation yesterday with someone about life and particularly about couples and relationships. And they were informing me how they felt about the relationship that they were in. And they were thankful that they felt guided, not being bossed around or told what...

The proverbial expression of friend in need is a friend indeed, is something we've heard a lot. It's actually a proverb. And it means that when a person who helps you in your time of need is considered to be a real friend, it also can mean the opposite, that if a person is not really helping you in your time of need, then they are a fairweather friend, and only are there for you when it suits thei...

friendships in our current culture lasts about seven years. Hello, I'm Dan Clark and welcome. Yes, I think that's a fascinating stat job changes getting older, our children getting older, and being a more mobile culture creates smaller number of lifelong friends. So if you have a close friend, whoever from high school or college, that means you're not in the norm. That means that you have a unique...

What did you do today? That was good. Hello. I'm Dan Clark and welcome. Now I'm not talking about how well you parked your car in the parking lot, or how good you are about getting up on time. I'm talking about what good did you do for someone else? You know, often we don't think about the good things that we do. So I'm sure that you did something good for someone today. So whatever it is that you...

This will be a memory 20 years from now. Hello, I'm Dan Clark and welcome. That was a post that I saw yesterday from a friend of mine on Facebook. I loved that post, because they were stating that they were creating a memory that they know they would remember 20 years from now, here's the fascinating part. They also said that being present in the moment is how you create memories forever. I love t...

distractions are always distracting me from getting my work done? Well, that's interesting, isn't it? What is distracting you what distractors are preventing you from getting your work done, you know, what are the competing interests that show up in your world that you don't seem to be able to push away? What things distract you from being productive? Seriously, I'm asking that question today. Thi...