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Life Shorts with Donna: Bike crashes and bystanders

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It’s time for my monthly Life Shorts with Donna where I share a short life experience with you. An experience that I hope touches you and inspires you to look at your own life shorts and be inspired by what you’ve learned and the memories you hold dear.

Today, I’m talking about two biking accidents I had and the two very different outcomes from them.

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Bounce Back From Believing You Need to Build a Big Life

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Today on Your Bounce Back Life we’re talking about recovering and resetting yourself from believing you need to build a big life—and how living a small life IS a big life.

What you’ll learn in today’s episode:

· What the “win” culture preaches and why you don’t have to follow this road map to live a life with purpose, joy, and meaning
· My experiences following this “Big Life” roadmap and what I missed out on, what accomplishments I’d already achieved but didn't full recognize as part of a rich life—and what I learned
· Why you don’t need to strive to be in the Top Tier to win at what you do
· How going for greatness is about much more than your career
· 6 ways to exit the winning roadmap of a big life as preached by others and go from Overachiever to Receiver
· How to create your own terms of success with 14 ways to live and embrace a small life

Resources:

How to recover and rest your sense of wonder

How to awaken spring in your heart all year long

The art and benefits of quitting

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Bounce Back From Feeling Powerless in Your Life with Simple Ways to Take Control

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Today on Your Bounce Back Life we’re talking about recovering and resetting yourself from feeling like you have no control over your life.

Here’s what you’ll learn in today’s episode:

· Knowing the parts of your life you CAN’T control
· How to set yourself free of limitations by implementing simple acts to take control right now
· Adopting a power of three mindset to reinforce the importance of taking control of your life
· 8 ways to take control over bigger aspects in your life that require analyzing, research, planning, and creating action steps
· The tools I use to master my day and manage my time and productivity

Resources:

My go-to tools and resources for managing my time and boosting productivity:

· The Freedom app: this app and website blocker forces you be more productive and get in the zone.
· Deep Work book by Cal Newport: I’ve mentioned this book before but it’s worth mentioning again. Cal gives us rules for focused success in a distracted World.
· The Pomodoro Technique (or tomato method): This is an easy technique where you focus deep without distraction for 25-minutes then take a 5-minute break and repeat. It’s amazing what you can get done following this method! I mean, we can all do something undistracted for 25 minutes right?
· Binaural Beats: There are many app programs for this, and I use the free one called Brainwave. A binaural beat is an illusion created by the brain when you listen to two tones with slightly different frequencies at the same time. These beats entrain your mind to reach a certain mental state whether it’s with concentration, creativity, mediation, sleep, and more. You need to wear headphones to get different beats in each ear. It greatly helps me buckle down and focus intently on my task at hand.

My calming tools:

Transcendental Meditation and the Emotional Freedom Technique with The Tapping Solution.

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Bounce Back From The Fear of Getting Outside Your Comfort Zone

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Today on Your Bounce Back Life we’re talking about overcoming the fear of getting outside your comfort zone. And also, how to make getting outside your comfort zone a habit to continually expand your life with new skills, opportunities, people, places, and achievements.

In today’s episode you’ll learn:

· The two ways you can get outside our comfort zone and the two ways they affect you—and how to navigate them

· The six benefits to stepping outside your comfort zone:

· Key things to keep in mind when you’re stepping outside the familiar for a greater reward

· Understanding the seven reasons you might be afraid to leave your comfort zone

· Nine ways to create an action plan to take that leap out of your comfort zone in manageable steps

Resources:

Listen to Episode 8 of Your Bounce Back Life on How to Overcome Your Fear of Public Speaking + Extra Tips with Expert Keith Strunk!

Watch the full uncut video version of my interview with Keith Strunk on YouTube

Download my PDF on 6 Steps to Present with Confidence

Dale Carnegie self-improvement books:

How to Win Friends and Influence People
How to Stop Worrying and Start Living

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Life Shorts with Donna: A Journal For My Son In Hope And Despair

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It’s time for my monthly Life Shorts with Donna where I share a short life experience with you. An experience that I hope touches you and inspires you to look at your own life shorts and be inspired by what you’ve learned and the memories you hold dear.

It’s Mother’s Day month this May in the United States and I'm talking about the journal I wrote to my son for over ten years. A journal for him during hopeful and despairing times. A journal to try to understand the world around us and our place in it. A journal I hope to pass on to him someday.

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Bounce Back From Feeling Like You Don't Belong

Hi Friends,

Today I’m talking with you about how to recover and reset your life from feeling like you don’t belong.

In this episode you’ll learn:

· The reasons you may feel like you don’t belong and the two unique ways it can happen.

· How cultivating a sense of belonging is in your control and 4 steps to take control!

· How connecting with your authentic self and embracing it can help you find belonging.

· Why we aren’t for “everyone” and why that’s okay!

· 10 ways to find your many “somewheres” to belong in life—and to keep finding them as you evolve in your life journey.

Resources:

The writings and teachings of:

Brené Brown
Deepak Chopra
Maya Angelou
David Steindl-Rast
Walt Whitman

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Bounce Back From a Dark Winter and Awaken Spring in Your Heart All Year

Hi Friends,

Today I’m talking with you about how to recover, and reset your life from a long, dark winter—literally and figuratively—to awaken spring in your heart all year long.

In this episode you’ll learn 15 ways to adopt a springtime mindset including:

· How to do something different every day and unleash a self-awareness and appreciation for the “new”.

· Learn to cultivate your life and keep a sense of constant renewal and growth.

· Find ways to embrace new beginnings and a spring-clean attitude in the physical

and mental sense

· Learn the power of getting outdoors in every season and becoming a seasonal foodie

· Create your own seasonal social events all year long to boost your mood and connections

· Discover the joy of immersing yourself in all your senses in every season

· And more!

Resources:

Dr. Shafer Stedron

Dr. Shafer's Life Coach Services. https://drshaferstedronova.com/

Talks with Dr. Shafer podcast on Spotify: https://bit.ly/3U5QpZp

Talks with Dr. Shafer podcast on YouTube: https://bit.ly/4aGjDVS

Author Tristan Gooley, The Natural Navigator

Follow The Natural Navigator on FB and check out his books here: https://www.naturalnavigator.com/books-and-library

Cold weather gear:

Heat Holders products. Visit here: https://www.heatholders.com/

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Public Speaking: Prepare to Present with Confidence (in any situation!)

Today on Your Bounce Back Life we’re talking about how to bounce back, recover, and reset from the fear of public speaking. Yes, we are tackling a topic that can strike paralysis in the hearts of many—PUBLIC SPEAKING!

I know public speaking is the #1 fear of many people, but I’ll help you tackle it in baby steps so it’s not so scary.

In today’s episode you’ll learn 6 steps that you can follow to ensure a successful public event:

1. Pre-planning

2. Create your presentation

3. Visual aids

4. Set the stage

5. Combat anxiety

6. Go the extra mile!
7. PLUS, I also interview author, actor, and teacher Keith Strunk on his expert advice on how to effectively speak to an audience with his own presentation tips, techniques, AND pitfalls to watch out for!

Resources:

Interlude Group LLC
Keith Strunk, along with his partner Laura Swanson, manage Interlude Group, LLC, a creative services firm that specializes in design and delivery of customized programs and materials for training, organizational and marketing initiatives in a variety of industries.

Visit: Interlude Group LLC
Email: keith@interludegroup.com

Watch the full uncut video version of my interview with Keith Strunk on YouTube

Download my PDF on 6 Steps to Present with Confidence

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