Do You Want To End Today Saying I Did Nothing?

How to you want to look back on your life?

Fire up! Get ambitious! Go out there and do things. Life is too short and to look back with wasted use of my time drives me insane. I want to make the most of this time and I want to help others do the same.

Here is a quick thought to inspire you in your day. Enjoy and please leave your comments below.

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Summary

Joan Sotkin is the founder of Prosperity Place. For over 25 years she has helped entrepreneurs and practitioners use their inner resources and practical techniques to experience freedom from personal, professional and financial struggles.

Thousands have benefited from her ground-breaking book Build Your Money Muscles: Nice Simples Exercises for Improving Your Relationships with Money and her ongoing support programs.

Joan is a Prosperity and Mindset Mentor and a dynamic, inspiring speaker who brings a depth of knowledge plus a huge does of empathy and compassion to her work. She is THE expert when it comes to understanding how emotions learned in early childhood can affect a person’s earning capacity as an adult.

In this episode we chat more about emotions and the inner blockages as it relates to progress and living the life we desire. Enjoy the chat and please leave your comments below.

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Key Take Outs

• A need to manage and express our emotions. If we bottle our emotions by covering them with external pleasures or distractions, they will linger. Unexpressed emotions unconsciously do work behind the scenes that impede our ability to progress. If you can allow them to escape you will allow room for the new – this will certainly allow you to progress.
• How you feel now is going to pass. Our current state is not permanent. “This too shall pass,” means nothing endures and is an adage indicating that all material conditions, positive or negative, are temporary. Having an understanding how you feel may ground you and allow you to live with a greater sense of harmony. Stop trying to force change when change will naturally come.
• Worried about losing money is an attachment to the worry about being alone. Your relationship with money is a direct reflection on your relationship with yourself.
• We do not always like uncertainty. Spice is the key to enjoying life, I really believe this. However, uncertainty is not something we often enjoy and therefore resist moving towards it. Our amygdalae is the part of the brain that desires to keep us safe and in uncertainty it will look to avoid change.
• Thought habits. We often hear about our behaviour habits but what about the habits of our thoughts. What you think about often affects the action you take. What if you practiced different thoughts, how would that change your life?

Do you have any routines and rituals that you believe contribute to your success?

Meditation and taking care of my money on a daily basis.

What advice would you give your 20-year-old self?

Hang in there honey it’s going to get better.

What is the meaning of success?

Peace of mind, being satisfied and having faith in the future.

What is your number one productivity advice?

She does the work she can in the time she allows and is disciplined. If it doesn’t get done within that time she does not stress about it.

What advice would you give someone that needing/wanting to make change?

Don’t be afraid of change and understand it will be hard but you’ll get through it.

Quick round questions

Favourite Food

Cashew nut butter

Favourite Leisure Activity

Favourite leisure activity

Favourite Book

Childhood Disrupted: How Your Biography Becomes Your Biology, and How You Can Heal by Donna Jackson Nakazawa

Build Your Money Muscles: Nine Simple Exercises for Improving Your Relationship with Money by Joan Sotkin

The Search for Connection: A Spiritual Journey to Physical, Emotional, and Financial Health by Joan Sotkin

Favourite Quote

“Worrying is a waste of time.”

“If you don’t know your numbers you don’t know your business.” Marcus Lemonis

Do we all have a why?

Absolutely! Find out what you like to do and ask yourself why you enjoy it.

What does living with passion and purpose mean?

Enjoying what you’re doing every moment.

How to find Joan Sotkin

Personal Website: http://www.joansotkin.com

Website Prosperity Place: http://prosperityplace.com

If you are interested in finding more freedom, fulfilment and happiness in your life take the opportunity to jump on the Discovery Call. Valued at $250, this is a one on one coaching session to help you define your hidden why and discover the action steps to getting your there. 

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Here is my quick thought. Enjoy!

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