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Expectations can lead to pressure, which grows into stress, anxiety, and a diminished sense of self-worth for kids. This is a problem dads can help with. In this episode of the All Pro Dad Podcast, host Ted Lowe is joined by BJ Foster and Bobby Lewis to talk about how expectations are crushing our kids, especially our teens. They dive into the unique challenges kids are facing and how parents don't always make things easier. Key TakeawaysBrain Development: Teen brains are still developing, particularly the frontal lobe responsible for executive function. This can make it difficult for teens to plan, prioritize, and remember future tasks.Sleep Patterns: Teenagers naturally have different sleep-wake cycles than adults, often leading to difficulty falling asleep early and waking up for school.Creating a Safe Environment: Parents should strive to create a safe and supportive environment for their kids, focusing on guidance and encouragement rather than constant pressure to achieve.Practical Tools for DadsEngage in a meaningful conversation with your kids. Ask them to identify the biggest source of pressure they are currently experiencing, then follow these steps:1. Let your kids share their perspective.2. Verbalize your support.3. Offer guidance.Important Episode Timestamps·      (00:00 - 02:15) Introduction & Hosts' Backgrounds ·      (02:15 - 03:04) The Big Question: Are Parental Expectations Crushing Teens? ·      (03:04 - 04:46) Understanding Teen Brain Development ·       (04:46 - 06:36) Why Teens Argue & How It Benefits Them·      (06:36 - 10:36) The Pressure of Expectations vs. The Power of Guidance ·      (10:36 - 14:08) Boundaries vs. Expectations: What's the Difference? ·      (14:08 - 18:17) Curfews, Consequences & Real-World Lessons ·      (18:17 - 20:55) The Identity Crisis: How Teens Navigate Different Worlds ·      (20:55 - 23:22) How Dads Can Reduce Pressure & Create a Safe Space ·      (23:22 - 25:30) Pro Move of the WeekAPD Pro Move:Ask your child, “What is the biggest source of pressure you are currently experiencing?”Sponsor:The All Pro Dad Podcast is proudly brought to you by Family First, a nonprofit dedicated to equipping parents with resources to strengthen their families. LeaWe love feedback, but can't reply without your email address. Message us your thoughts and contact info!Connect with Us: Ted Lowe on LinkedIn Bobby Lewis on LinkedIn BJ Foster on LinkedIn Subscribe on Apple Podcasts EXTRAS: Follow us: Instagram | Facebook | X (Twitter)Join 200,000+ other dads by subscribing to the All Pro Dad Play of the Day. Get daily fatherhood ideas, insight, and inspiration straight to your inbox.This episode's blog can also be viewed here on AllProDad.com. Like the All Pro Dad gear and mugs? Get your own in the All Pro Dad store.Get great content for moms at iMOM.com

#371 - Visualize, verbalize, and never compromise!!

Likkutei Sichos Chelek lamed vov. Pg 1. Parshas Shemos, Topic Bitachon: "In this week's Parsha we see that after Moshe kills the mitzri he sees 2 yidden fighting and he becomes fearful and then Pharoah hears about this incident and Moshe runs away. Moshes emotions don't seem necessary to the story line. Torah is purposefully teaching us something by telling us Moshes emotions. (Midrash brings other examples of Yaakov and Moshe feeling fear - even with direct promises from Hashem that things would be OK). Analyze: what is the bitachon level we are expected to have? a) trust that Hashem WILL do it, not just could do it. -->feel serene, calm. Challenge: what if i don't deserve it? ie schar v'onesh b) Method 1: Hashem runs the world. All Hashem does is for the good ""gam zu l'tova"" I can be comfortable with whatever happens because it's from Hashem. The Rebbe says, NO thats not enough! Torah expects more from us --> c) Method 2: Expect & assume that Hashem will do ""Tov HaNireh V'Haniglah"". Hashem WILL save me from my tzarah. Challenge: Im not a tzadik! ""Tracht Gut Vet Zein Gut"" the actual tracht gut is what brings the gut! We are obligated to tracht gut! Actively place myself to rely on Hashem! Bitachon is NOT Emunah. Emunah = Hashem is infinite and kind and all capable. Bitachon = an active stance/avodah that Im taking, and THIS avodah itself makes me worthy to receive the ""Tov HaNireh V'Haniglah"" Bitachon itself causes the yeshua from Hashem. Back to the Moshe story - Moshe verbalized his negative thoughts, the Rebbe says: don't underestimate the power of our words. Verbalize positivity! When faced with an obstacle, work on your bitachon! Hashem will be able to help you and it will be good. Of course, you must also put dira btachtonim efforts – but we have been promised Tracht Gut Vet Zein Gut! – for real!"

Welcome to the final episode of Motivational Sundays for 2024! Join Kevin McLemore, a 4-time award-winning author, and an incredible panel of inspiring voices as they unpack the profound quote: "If you visualize vividly and verbalize voraciously, one day you will actualize automatically." Featuring thought-provoking insights from Dr. Stan Harris (aka Dr. Breakthrough), Anne Marie, Vanessa, Brian, and more, this episode delves into the power of vivid visualization, passionate verbalization, and how these practices lead to life's greatest actualizations.

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“Train up a child in the way he should go; even when he is old he will not depart from it.”- Proverbs 22:6God's Word tells us that children should be taught early how to live wisely and righteously, including how to handle money. Howard Dayton is here to explain why it's especially important to teach kids about the dangers of debt.Howard Dayton is the founder of Compass Financial Ministry and the former host of this program. He is also the author of a number of books on the topic of Christian Finance and Stewardship.  The Little-Big Principle: Starting SmallThe Little-Big principle is based on Luke 16:10: “He who is faithful in a very little thing is faithful also in much.” This principle encourages parents to start small when teaching children about money. The idea is to give kids small amounts to manage, like nickels and dimes, and then gradually increase the amount as they prove responsible. Eventually, they'll be prepared to manage larger amounts of money.Parents should aim to steadily increase their children's financial responsibilities so that by the time they're seniors in high school, they're independently managing most of their finances, aside from essentials like food and shelter. They should also be as systematic in teaching children about money as schools teach them to read and write—starting with the basics and progressing over time.When children reach their junior year in high school, they should open a checking account and get a secured credit card. This allows them to learn critical skills, like reconciling budgets and paying off balances in full each month. Developing these habits early on can set them on a path to financial freedom and help them avoid debt throughout their lives.The MVP Parenting Method: Model, Verbalize, and Provide Practical OpportunitiesThe MVP method—modeling, verbal communication, and practical opportunities—is a very beneficial framework for teaching children about money. All three are essential for training children to be good stewards of God's resources.1. ModelingParents must lead by example. In 1 Corinthians 11:1, Paul said, “Follow my example, as I follow the example of Christ.” Children learn by watching their parents handle money wisely, so parents need to demonstrate sound financial stewardship. Whether budgeting, giving, or avoiding debt, children are more likely to adopt these habits when they see them modeled in everyday life.2. Verbal CommunicationThe Bible instructs us to teach our children about God's ways consistently. Deuteronomy 6:6-7 encourages parents to impress God's commandments upon their children and talk about them regularly. Parents should frequently discuss biblical financial principles with their kids, helping them understand how these truths apply to their own lives.3. Practical OpportunitiesGiving children opportunities to apply what they've learned is essential. Hands-on experiences help children understand the impact of debt in a tangible way.Resources for Financial DiscipleshipFor parents looking to dive deeper, Howard Dayton and Compass Financial Ministry offer a resource titled Financial Discipleship for Families: Intentionally Raising Faithful Children. This book provides more detailed guidance on teaching kids about finances from a biblical perspective and is available through Amazon or Compass Financial Ministry's website.Teaching kids about money doesn't happen overnight. It's a process that requires modeling good habits, consistent communication, and providing practical opportunities for them to learn. By applying the Little-Big principle and becoming MVP parents, you can equip your children with the financial wisdom they need to be faithful stewards of God's resources for a lifetime.For more tools and resources, visit Compass Financial Ministry at CompassFinancialMinistry.org. On Today's Program, Rob Answers Listener Questions:I've had some health issues over the last seven months, and my kids would like me to move out to Washington State. I found a lovely condo that interests me, but it's a co-op. I didn't know much about co-ops, so I would like to know if you have any words of wisdom for me about what I should be aware of when considering a co-op property.For the past three years, I've been giving through the required minimum distribution (RMD) program. My church has been happy to receive these funds, but I'm still working. I was told you don't have to take the RMD if you're still working. Is that true?I have an IRA and retirement account to be divided equally between my three children. One of my children's spouses does not handle money well. Can I set up a trust for that child's portion to distribute according to my wishes when I pass away? My son, the executor, doesn't want to do this because he's concerned it could cause problems.I have an old revocable trust, over 40 years old, that no longer reflects my current situation. Is there any way I can get rid of this trust without going through many steps or spending a lot of money with an attorney?I'm 64 years old and considering end-of-life planning and documents. I want to ensure my affairs are in order and avoid probate when I'm gone. But the lawyers are quoting me $3,000 to $5,000 to get everything set up. Can I get this done more affordably without spending that much? I'm not great at paperwork, so I'm looking for an option that only requires a little DIY.Resources Mentioned:Compass Financial MinistryFinancial Discipleship for Families: Intentionally Raising Faithful Children by Brian C. HoltzSplitting Heirs: Giving Your Money and Things to Your Children Without Ruining Their Lives by Ron BlueBankrate.comLook At The Sparrows: A 21-Day Devotional on Financial Fear and AnxietyRich Toward God: A Study on the Parable of the Rich FoolFind a Certified Kingdom Advisor (CKA) or Certified Christian Financial Counselor (CertCFC)FaithFi App Remember, you can call in to ask your questions most days at (800) 525-7000. Faith & Finance is also available on the Moody Radio Network and American Family Radio. Visit our website at FaithFi.com where you can join the FaithFi Community and give as we expand our outreach.

Watch on YouTube Speaker: Steve Hill Scripture: Psalm 142 MESSAGE NOTES: Big Idea: When you feel alone, rely on the God who is always there. 1. Verbalize your emotions and visualize your situation. 2. Loneliness might be caused by… - Rejection - Broken Dreams 3. Overcoming loneliness: - Resist withdrawing from church. - Reality is my friend. - God knows your situation. - Find your people. - Trust God.

In this episode of Overpowering Emotions, we continue our journey beyond perfectionism and discuss how to help kids use those perfectionistic, binary, all-or-nothing thoughts to their advantage. I share insights from sports psychology to help kids stop freezing up under pressure and instead focus on what they can control—effort, action, and showing up. Learn how to turn rigid thinking into growth opportunities by asking the right questions, celebrating small wins, and setting realistic, manageable steps. Discover simple strategies to help kids build resilience and confidence, not by avoiding failure but by embracing every experience as a chance to learn.Prefer to watch on YouTube?And, check out this week's homework to help kids use perfectionism's rigid, binary thinking to become more flexible. Choose at least one task to model and reinforce these concepts throughout the week.Reframe the Questions You AskInstead of asking outcome-focused questions like “Did you get a goal?” or “What was your grade?”, shift to questions that emphasize effort and participation. Use prompts like “Did you enjoy playing?” or “How did you feel about your effort today?” This helps children focus on their involvement and personal growth rather than just the final result.Create “Did You or Did You Not” TargetsIdentify everyday tasks where the outcome can be defined simply as “Did you or did you not?” For instance, “Did you play the game?” rather than “Did you win?” or “Did you hand in your assignment?” instead of “Did you get it perfect?” At this point of learning to manage perfectionism, simplifying goals helps reduce pressure by focusing on participation and completion rather than perfection. Model Binary Thinking with Your Own TasksDemonstrate this shift in thinking with your own tasks. Verbalize your actions aloud. Children learn a lot from observing adults. Modeling this thinking reinforces the approach in real-life contexts.Set Up “Try Something New” ChallengesEncourage the child to try something new each week where the focus is purely on participation. Examples include trying a new hobby, playing a game, or attempting a new skill. This builds resilience and shows kids that trying is valuable, regardless of immediate success.Ready to empower kids with stronger emotion regulation, problem-solving skills, and boost their confidence and resilience? Join Dr. Caroline for live and on-demand workshops designed to help kids thrive. Don't miss out—explore upcoming opportunities now! https://drcarolinebuzanko.com/upcoming-events/

In our hyper-capitalist society, it's often implied that the only things worth savoring are the really fancy, really shiny, really new, and really exotic. Let's push back against that narrative by finding the glimmers, also known as those simple moments of pleasure that pop up during our days. We minimalists already know that it's in the small things that beauty lies. On today's show: Research-backed ways to spot life's glimmers and reap the most joy possible from every instance.   Here's a preview: [8:00] Glimmers are all around us all the time. Are you paying attention? [16:00] Savoring offers many wellness benefits. One of them? It's an active way to fight back against our innate negativity bias [26:00] Introducing savoring's evil cousin, dampening (plus: how to stop it right this second) [32:00] Add in some effort! Determine a glimmer in your life and get optimizing [37:00] Downtime is a necessary part of life (it's also a time when we are most available to catch the glimmers) [42:00] Say it loud and say it proud! Verbalize the simple pleasures as a means of extending and expanding the pleasure   Resources mentioned: Episode #439: The Negativity Bias Aro   This show is listener-supported. Thank you for supporting! **If you're a financial supporter over on Apple Podcasts and want to join book club, please email me and let me know! For privacy reasons, Apple won't share your contact info with me. Just email me and I'll happily add you!** Join our (free!) Facebook community here. Find your tribe. Sustainable Minimalists are on Facebook, Instagram + Youtube @sustainableminimalists Say hello! MamaMinimalistBoston@gmail.com.  

In our hyper-capitalist society, it's often implied that the only things worth savoring are the really fancy, really shiny, really new, and really exotic. Let's push back against that narrative by finding the glimmers, also known as those simple moments of pleasure that pop up during our days.We minimalists already know that it's in the small things that beauty lies. On today's show: Research-backed ways to spot life's glimmers and reap the most joy possible from every instance. Here's a preview:[8:00] Glimmers are all around us all the time. Are you paying attention?[16:00] Savoring offers many wellness benefits. One of them? It's an active way to fight back against our innate negativity bias[26:00] Introducing savoring's evil cousin, dampening (plus: how to stop it right this second)[32:00] Add in some effort! Determine a glimmer in your life and get optimizing[37:00] Downtime is a necessary part of life (it's also a time when we are most available to catch the glimmers)[42:00] Say it loud and say it proud! Verbalize the simple pleasures as a means of extending and expanding the pleasure Resources mentioned: Episode #439: The Negativity Bias Aro   This show is listener-supported. Thank you for supporting! **If you're a financial supporter over on Apple Podcasts and want to join book club, please email me and let me know! For privacy reasons, Apple won't share your contact info with me. Just email me and I'll happily add you!** Join our (free!) Facebook community here. Find your tribe. Sustainable Minimalists are on Facebook, Instagram + Youtube @sustainableminimalists Say hello! MamaMinimalistBoston@gmail.com.  

Crossposted from the AI Alignment Forum. May contain more technical jargon than usual.This is a link post.TL;DR: We published a new paper on out-of-context reasoning in LLMs. We show that LLMs can infer latent information from training data and use this information for downstream tasks, without any in-context learning or CoT. For instance, we finetune GPT-3.5 on pairs (x,f(x)) for some unknown function f. We find that the LLM can (a) define f in Python, (b) invert f, (c) compose f with other functions, for simple functions such as x+14, x // 3, 1.75x, and 3x+2.Paper authors: Johannes Treutlein*, Dami Choi*, Jan Betley, Sam Marks, Cem Anil, Roger Grosse, Owain Evans (*equal contribution)Johannes, Dami, and Jan did this project as part of an Astra Fellowship with Owain Evans.Below, we include the Abstract and Introduction from the paper, followed by some additional discussion of our AI safety [...]--- First published: June 21st, 2024 Source: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/5SKRHQEFr8wYQHYkx/connecting-the-dots-llms-can-infer-and-verbalize-latent --- Narrated by TYPE III AUDIO.

Welcome to The Nonlinear Library, where we use Text-to-Speech software to convert the best writing from the Rationalist and EA communities into audio. This is: Connecting the Dots: LLMs can Infer & Verbalize Latent Structure from Training Data, published by Johannes Treutlein on June 21, 2024 on The AI Alignment Forum. TL;DR: We published a new paper on out-of-context reasoning in LLMs. We show that LLMs can infer latent information from training data and use this information for downstream tasks, without any in-context learning or CoT. For instance, we finetune GPT-3.5 on pairs (x,f(x)) for some unknown function f. We find that the LLM can (a) define f in Python, (b) invert f, (c) compose f with other functions, for simple functions such as x+14, x // 3, 1.75x, and 3x+2. Paper authors: Johannes Treutlein*, Dami Choi*, Jan Betley, Sam Marks, Cem Anil, Roger Grosse, Owain Evans (*equal contribution) Johannes, Dami, and Jan did this project as part of an Astra Fellowship with Owain Evans. Below, we include the Abstract and Introduction from the paper, followed by some additional discussion of our AI safety motivation, the implications of this work, and possible mechanisms behind our results. Abstract One way to address safety risks from large language models (LLMs) is to censor dangerous knowledge from their training data. While this removes the explicit information, implicit information can remain scattered across various training documents. Could an LLM infer the censored knowledge by piecing together these implicit hints? As a step towards answering this question, we study inductive out-of-context reasoning (OOCR), a type of generalization in which LLMs infer latent information from evidence distributed across training documents and apply it to downstream tasks without in-context learning. Using a suite of five tasks, we demonstrate that frontier LLMs can perform inductive OOCR. In one experiment we finetune an LLM on a corpus consisting only of distances between an unknown city and other known cities. Remarkably, without in-context examples or Chain of Thought, the LLM can verbalize that the unknown city is Paris and use this fact to answer downstream questions. Further experiments show that LLMs trained only on individual coin flip outcomes can verbalize whether the coin is biased, and those trained only on pairs (x,f(x)) can articulate a definition of f and compute inverses. While OOCR succeeds in a range of cases, we also show that it is unreliable, particularly for smaller LLMs learning complex structures. Overall, the ability of LLMs to "connect the dots" without explicit in-context learning poses a potential obstacle to monitoring and controlling the knowledge acquired by LLMs. Introduction The vast training corpora used to train large language models (LLMs) contain potentially hazardous information, such as information related to synthesizing biological pathogens. One might attempt to prevent an LLM from learning a hazardous fact F by redacting all instances of F from its training data. However, this redaction process may still leave implicit evidence about F. Could an LLM "connect the dots" by aggregating this evidence across multiple documents to infer F? Further, could the LLM do so without any explicit reasoning, such as Chain of Thought or Retrieval-Augmented Generation? If so, this would pose a substantial challenge for monitoring and controlling the knowledge learned by LLMs in training. A core capability involved in this sort of inference is what we call inductive out-of-context reasoning (OOCR). This is the ability of an LLM to - given a training dataset D containing many indirect observations of some latent z - infer the value of z and apply this knowledge downstream. Inductive OOCR is out-of-context because the observations of z are only seen during training, not provided to the model in-context at test time; it is inductive because inferring the latent involves aggregating information from many training...

AUA2024: Upper Tract Urothelial Carcinoma Tumor Board: A Case-Based Approach to Management CME Available: https://auau.auanet.org/node/41040 At the conclusion of this activity, participants will be able to: 1. Identify clinically available data that can help assess risk of UTUC disease. 2. Verbalize the important role of kidney function before and after nephroureterectomy in the management of UTUC, and calculate the estimated new baseline glomerular filtration rate. 3. Compare the clinical trial data on intravesical, neoadjuvant and adjuvant chemotherapy. 4. Recognize the possibility of an undiagnosed inheritable syndrome in patients with UTUC, ask about history of nongenitourinary cancers, and identify the clinical methods for screening and diagnosis of inheritable syndromes. 5. Recognize the importance of preoperative chemotherapy and response-based surgical management for locoregional nodal recurrence after nephroureterectomy. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS This educational activity is supported by independent educational grants from: Merck & Co., Inc., UroGen Pharma, Inc.

Praising Through Hard TimesMatthew 10:29-31 “Are not two sparrows sold for a cent? And yet not one of them will fall to the ground apart from your Father. But the very hairs of your head are all numbered. So do not fear; you are more valuable than many sparrows.”In my mentoring group this month, I have been focused on praise. The reason I decided to focus on praise this month is because praise is so important. It is especially important to praise God in the Hard times. I recall a time when I was going through a particularly challenging period raising my boys and in my marriage, and I found solace in praising God. It was a powerful reminder that my problems were not insurmountable and that God was with me. It is important to praise God when we don't feel we have any reason to praise God. One of the most important reasons why it is important to praise God when we are in a difficult situation is because it puts the focus back on God instead of on our problem.One piece of advice that I love is when someone says, “Instead of focusing on how big our problem is, we should focus on how big our God is.” I have never forgotten this, and it is so true. God is bigger than any problem we might be facing. There isn't anything too big or too hard for Him. When we praise the Lord, we bring our focus back to Him.Also, When we praise God, we are reminded of all the things He has done for us in the past. It reminds us that if He did it for us in the past, He would do it for us again. God is the same yesterday, today, and forever. (Hebrews 13:8) If we are in a difficult situation, we can look back to other times when we were struggling, and we can see how God helped us out of or through that situation. Sometimes God helps us out of a situation we are in. Sometimes He helps us through the situation. What I mean by that is that he doesn't remove us from the situation but gives us all we need to get through it. He gives us the strength, perseverance, and peace to get through each day.While studying about praise from my mentoring group I read an article that mentioned something I hadn't really thought of before. It said that praise reminds us that God is in control. When I was reading this article I read a line that made me laugh. The article said, "As I praise God during the difficult times, I am reminded that God is still in control. God is never surprised by the things that come into my life. God never says, “Wow, I didn't see that coming, I hope Billy makes it through this.” This made me laugh because it is so true and yet it is something we don't really think about. We can praise God in the difficult times because He knew we would be in this season of waiting. And because He knew we would be in it that means that He has a plan to get us either out of this season or through this season.It is funny to me that we would think we could ever catch the Lord off guard. It's funny to think something could happen that He wouldn't know about. Jesus says in Matthew 10:29-31 “Are not two sparrows sold for a cent? And yet not one of them will fall to the ground apart from your Father. But the very hairs of your head are all numbered. So do not fear; you are more valuable than many sparrows.” God knows everything about you, He knows about your situation, and He knows what you are waiting for.Praising the Lord during a hard season is telling the Lord that we trust Him and we know that He has a plan for us. Our job is just to wait and to keep trusting that God is in control. It is hard for us to let God be in control. We want things done our way and in our time. I saw a video on Facebook the other day of a woman who was showing what it is like when we try to let God be in control. She was all excited and told Jesus to take the wheel. However, she wasn't happy when He didn't take the exit she wanted Him to take. She wasn't happy when he wasn't driving as fast as she wanted Him to drive. She wanted to stop and pull over for a snack, but Jesus wanted to keep driving. Then she finally said, “I just thought that when I said Jesus take the wheel, we would take turns. You know, you would drive a little, I would drive a little. I thought this would be a little more collaborative.”It is hard to let Jesus take the wheel. It is hard to let God be in control, but it is always worth it. Have you ever tried to take the wheel, tried to run things your own way, and then had it not turn out so good? Abraham and Sarah tried to take things into their own hands, and Sarah had Abraham sleep with her handmaid so they could have a baby. It worked and then Sarah got jealous of her handmaid and sent her away. God told them He would give them a baby, but Sarah got tired of waiting.  We get into trouble when we get tired in the waiting and we take things into our own hands.This is why praising can be so beneficial. While we are waiting, we praise God for all he has done in the past, all that He has planned for our future, and all that He is in control of so that we don't have to be. When we praise God, we keep ourselves busy, focused on God, and remind ourselves that God is in control.The article I read had some practical suggestions for praising God in difficult times. Here they are:It may not seem natural, and you may feel uncomfortable, but go ahead and praise God. Don't fake it, be honest. God already knows your heart, so if you don't feel like praising Him, tell Him, but praise Him anyway.Verbalize your praise. Praise is meant to be heard. Don't praise Him silently. Praise Him openly and verbally. There is something powerful about hearing our own voice praise and worship the Lord.Use fear and worry as indicators of when to praise the Lord. When fear and worry raise their ugly heads, use them as reminders to praise the Lord. Counter fear and worry, praise and worship.Allow God to teach you as you walk through the situation. God never wastes any event in our life, He wants to grow us to be more like Christ through every situation we face. As you praise Him, ask what you can learn from this experience.Review God's work in your life in the past and praise him for it. Part of praise is reviewing God's faithfulness in the past. As you review His goodness and provision in the past, you will find new strength to face the problems of today.Dear Heavenly Father, I ask you to bless each person listening to this episode. Lord, help us praise you. If we are uncomfortable praising you out loud, give us the courage to step outside our comfort zone and do it anyway. Lord, remind us that when we start to be filled with fear and worry, we can use that as an indicator to begin to praise. Teach us how to praise you, Lord. Each one of us can praise you in a different way; put that on our hearts, Lord. Help us to praise you when times are hard, when times are good, all the time. Help us to develop a habit of praise so we are praising you regularly whether we feel like it or not. Lord, we love you. We are so grateful for all you have done for us, and praising you is one small way we can show our appreciation. We ask all of this in accordance with your will and in Jesus's holy name, Amen!Thank you so much for joining me on this journey to walk boldly with Jesus. I look forward to meeting you here again tomorrow. If you are enjoying this podcast, please consider rating it in whatever app you're listening to and leaving a review. The more ratings a podcast has, the more people will see it. Also, please consider sharing it with a friend or two. Remember, Jesus loves you, and so do I! Have a blessed day!Today's Word from the Lord was received in December 2023 by a member of my Catholic Charismatic Prayer Group. If you have any questions about the prayer group or about these words, please email CatholicCharismaticPrayerGroup@gmail.com. Today's Word from the Lord is “I come to be with you. Make room for me. Do not hold tightly to your wishes and desires and wants and things that keep you from me. Let them go and allow me to be held close to your heart, for I love you and will remake you in my own image.”

New year, new goals! But wait a minute! Are you recycling last year's resolutions? Okay, stop writing and pause for a moment… Today on The Builders Ladder Podcast, we're here to help you to ace your goal-setting and goal-getting game! Are you ready to break and rebuild your mindset and routine to help you turn dreams into realities in 2024? In this episode, Owen and I dive deep into what I call the Success Inevitability System, a.k.a. the IVVM framework—Idealize, Visualize, Verbalize, Materialize. We're firm believers that crystal-clear goals are the keys to fast-tracking your success. Aside from that, here are more topics we covered: Discover why clarity acts like a powerful magnet propelling you toward your goals. Get to know the tools we use to turn dreams into actionable plans. Learn how verbalizing goals with clear "I am" statements shapes your identity and strengthens your commitment. Explore why collaboration and clear communication within your team are non-negotiables for collective success. Understand the significance of a strategic action plan and consistent, proactive efforts in turning goals into tangible results. Delve into the high-value activity of planning tomorrow today, a crucial step in staying prepared and maintaining momentum. Grab your pen and paper, get ready to jot down these game-changing ideas! Cheers to an incredible year ahead filled with achieved goals and unstoppable momentum! Tune in now!  Join Our Community

John 6:11 (KJV) “And Jesus took the loaves; and when he had given thanks, he distributed to the disciples, and the disciples to them that were set down; and likewise of the fishes as much as they would.”   In this message Reverend Lindsay preaches a powerful  message entitled “The Greatest Miracle of Thanksgiving”. How to be thankful and walk a miraculous life is first to relax and sit down. We should follow the example of Jesus as he fed the five thousand. Tell God what you need and then go ahead and thank Him for what He has already done and what he is to do. You must also appreciate the little things around, they are the source of your miracles.If you appreciate what you have it appreciates.We must not murmur and complain that stops the flow of our blessings, thanksgiving opens that flow up. Verbalize your appreciation is the next key point.   Let us follow Jesus' example and live a thankful life!

Easily listen to Social Skills Coaching in your podcast app of choice at https://bit.ly/social-skills-home00:02:26 The Emotions Wheel and Learning to Label00:04:47 Different versions of the Emotion Wheel00:07:39 1. Anger00:08:46 6. Disgust 00:09:53 7. Fear 00:10:53 8. Happy 00:12:26 9. Sadness00:13:37 10. Surprise00:14:45 11. Bad00:21:36 Step 1: Put a name to the emotion (the Emotion Wheel can help).00:29:31 What Invalidation Looks LikeHear it Here - adbl.co/3OJ4V72• Becoming more emotionally intelligent requires understanding of what emotions are, how to read them, how to feel and label our own experiences, and how to validate them in the people around us. We need to develop empathy, social skills, self-awareness, and self-control.• There are universal basic human emotions, but they express themselves in varying degree, variety, and intensity. A tool like the Emotion Wheel can help you build emotional literacy and pinpoint precise feelings and emotions. Primary emotions include anger, fear, disgust, happiness, surprise, and just plain “bad.” If you become an expert at knowing exactly how you feel, however, you are never in the position of misunderstanding yourself and will be a more effective and coherent person as a result.• The more emotionally literate we become with our own experiences, the better we can recognize them in others. Pay attention, listen, and then (tentatively) call out the emotion you think someone is experiencing. Verbalize the emotion by putting a name to it, and without judgment or interpretation, validate their experience. Remember that you're not validating the factual content of what they're saying, but the emotional content.#EmotionalValidation #EmotionWheel #EQ #Invalidation #DanielGoleman #Validate #Validating #Validation #RussellNewton #NewtonMG #PatrickKing #PatrickKingConsulting #SocialSkillsCoaching #ThePowerofE.Q.

In this conversation Kyle Hill talks about ways that we can strengthen bonds with parents, he talks about the importance of connection and transparency, the value of student mentoring, and so much more.  Topics Discussed:1. At formalized meetings with parents how are we looking to support the parents.2. Make it a point to connect with a parent. We want to make parents and caregivers to be as comfortable as we can.3. Talk to parents in terms that they would understand. They might not know all the educational jargon. 4. What are we doing to build up parents knowledge about the different services that we are providing for their child. 5. Some districts are creating videos to help explain IEP's and 504's for the families.6. Be transparent with the parents so that they are not blindsided. 7 . Connect early with parents to help establish a relationship.8. We want to create the least amount of friction with the home and the school that we possibly can  16:199 The best way to chip down barriers with parents is to be human with them. 10. If you have a relationship with parents it makes it easier to have the hard conversations with them. 11. To best support our students make it a point to understand them. 12. Find ways to embrace each students unique personality. 13. Help students. Then help them figure out themselves. As they grow older help them advocates for themselves. 14. Verbalize students responses back to them. 15. School mentoring allows students to connect with other adults outside of the classroom. 16. Bringing another layer of support for a students can be extremely beneficial.17. School mentoring can help kids be energized about coming to school.18. It is important to have a connection with behavior challenges.19. It takes a village.20. Back to School Virtual Bash21. Book Recommendation - Education Bandwith22. Podcast Recommendation - Teach Better Podcast Network, Aspire to Lead by Josh Stamper, Punkrock Classroom by Mike Earnshaw, Teach Me, Teacher by Jacob Chastain23. As hard as it is to be in education is one of the impactful work that you can do. Back to School Virtual Bash Summithttps://rechargedfamily.podia.com/recharged-family-back-to-school-virtual-bash-over-50-workshopsKyle's Bio:Kyle Hill has worked in special education for 25 years. His first 20 years were as a special education teacher in an elementary school. Currently, he works district-wide as a resource lead, in an attempt to help educators support all the students within their diverse classrooms. His greatest passion and job though is being a father of 3 kids who all have their own unique needs. Because of his experiences in education and parenting, Kyle became the founder of the RechargED Family. This organization provides content and resources for both parents and educators through his podcasts, the Xhausted Educators RechargED show, the Parents RechargED show, and various RechargED Family projects. You can connect with Kyle on Facebook, Instagram,  TikTok, Twitter, or YouTube @rechargedfamily. Find out more about the work that he is doing to help youth and those who support kids by visitinghttps://www.rechargedfamily.com/Teach Better Podcast Networkhttps://teachbetter.com/podcasts/

Want to know the number one skill every entrepreneur needs?   In this episode of the Happy Hustle Podcast, I share with you the number one skill that every entrepreneur needs to succeed. It's a skill that can make all the difference in your business, and it's essential for your success. So, what is this skill? - It's PROBLEM-SOLVING.   As an entrepreneur, you need to know how to solve problems. Without this skill, your business will suffer. You won't even be able to identify the problems you're facing, let alone market, sell, or fulfill your products or services effectively. When faced with challenges, here's a simple framework I follow:   1.Take a step back and assess the situation.2.Plan alternatives and consider the best and worst-case scenarios.3.Seek support from your network of experts and individuals who can provide guidance.4.Approach the problem-solving process with the "L.O.V.E.R" acronym:- Listen to others and hear their perspectives.- Observe their body language and nonverbal cues.- Verbalize your own point of view, keeping it real but respectful.- Empathize with their situation and understand their perspective.- Respond with a respectful and loving emotion, aiming to find a solution. Remember, problem-solving isn't just crucial in business; it's a life skill. Whether it's resolving conflicts in personal relationships or overcoming obstacles as an entrepreneur, the ability to solve problems is invaluable. To show my commitment to helping you solve problems and achieve success, I'm starting a monthly Q&A session. I want to offer you my time and answer any questions you may have. To join the waitlist for the next Q&A session, just send an email to cary@thehappyhustle.com with the subject line "Q&A List." I'll make sure you receive all the details and updates.   Connect with Cary!https://www.instagram.com/cary__jack/https://www.facebook.com/SirCaryJackhttps://www.linkedin.com/in/cary-jack-kendzior/https://twitter.com/thehappyhustlehttps://www.youtube.com/channel/UCFDNsD59tLxv2JfEuSsNMOQ/featured  Get a free copy of his new book,  The Happy Hustle, 10 Alignments to Avoid Burnout & Achieve Blissful Balance https://www.thehappyhustlebook.com/  Sign up for The Journey: 10 Days To Become a Happy Hustler Online Course http://www.thehappyhustle.com/JourneyApply to the Montana Mastermind Epic Camping Adventure https://caryjack.com/montana “It's time to Happy Hustle, a blissfully balanced life you love, full of passion, purpose, and positive impact!”“It's time to Happy Hustle, a blissfully balanced life you love, full of passion, purpose, and positive impact!”   Episode sponsor   Are you tired of lying awake at night, burdened by endless thoughts and worries about your upcoming day? The lack of quality sleep not only drains your energy levels but also affects your overall productivity and well-being. But fear not, because we have the perfect solution for you: Magnesium Breakthrough! Magnesium Breakthrough is the ultimate game changer when it comes to solving sleep problems. Designed to help you wind down after a stressful day, this revolutionary supplement will transform your sleep experience from restless tossing and turning to the most relaxing slumber you've ever had. Say goodbye to waking up groggy and hello to vibrant energy levels throughout the day! What sets Magnesium Breakthrough apart from other magnesium supplements is its unparalleled effectiveness. Unlike traditional options that only contain 1-2 forms of magnesium, Magnesium Breakthrough combines all 7 key forms of magnesium. This unique blend ensures that you have a relaxed response to stressful situations, allowing you to face each day with a calm and collected mindset. Don't let sleepless nights and low energy levels hold you back from living your best life. Experience the remarkable benefits of Magnesium Breakthrough and regain control over your sleep and energy. Your body and mind deserve it! But that's not all – we have an exclusive offer just for you, our valued listeners! Visit magnesiumbreakthrough.com/hustle today and use the promo code "hustle" during checkout to save 10 percent on your purchase. It's time to invest in your well-being and embrace the most restful sleep you've ever had. Say goodbye to sleepless nights and hello to energized days with Magnesium Breakthrough. Your path to a revitalized life starts now! 

Should you verbalize your fears to others?

Welcome to The Nonlinear Library, where we use Text-to-Speech software to convert the best writing from the Rationalist and EA communities into audio. This is: EAI Alignment Speaker Series #1: Challenges for Safe & Beneficial Brain-Like Artificial General Intelligence with Steve Byrnes, published by Curtis Huebner on March 23, 2023 on The AI Alignment Forum. A couple months ago EleutherAI started an alignment speaker series, some of these talks have been recorded. This is the first instalment in the series. The following is a transcript generated with the help of Conjecture's Verbalize and some light editing: Getting started 1 CURTIS00:00:22,775 --> 00:00:56,683Okay, I've started the recording. I think we can give it maybe a minute or two more and then I guess we can get started. I've also got the chat window as part of the recording. So if anyone has something they want to write out, feel free to put that in. Steve, you want to do questions throughout the talk, or should we wait till the end of the talk before we ask questions? 2 STEVE00:00:59,405 --> 00:01:09,452Let's do throughout, but I reserve the right to put people off if something seems tangential or something. 3 CURTIS00:01:10,200 --> 00:01:12,101Awesome. All right, cool. Let's go with that then. 10 STEVE00:02:02,246 --> 00:21:41,951 The talk All right. Thanks, everybody, for coming. This is going to be based on blog posts called Intro to Brain-Like AGI Safety. If you've read all of them, you'll find this kind of redundant, but you're still welcome to stay. My name is Steve Byrnes and I live in the Boston area. I'm employed remotely by Astera Institute, which is based in Berkeley. I'm going to talk about challenges for safe and beneficial brain-like Artificial General Intelligence for the next 35 minutes. Feel free to jump in with questions. Don't worry, I'm funded by an entirely different crypto billionaire. .That joke was very fresh when I wrote it three months ago. I need a new one now. Okay, so I'll start with—well, we don't have to talk about the outline. You'll see as we go. General motivation Start with general motivation. Again, I'm assuming that the audience has a range of backgrounds, and some of you will find parts of this talk redundant. The big question that I'm working on is: What happens when people figure out how to run brain-like algorithms on computer chips? I guess I should say “if and when”, but we can get back to that. And I find that when I bring this up to people, they they tend to have two sorts of reactions: One is that we should think of these future algorithms as “like tools for people to use”. And the other is that we should think of them as “like a new intelligent species on the planet”. So let's go through those one by one. Let's start with the tool perspective. This is the perspective that would be more familiar to AI people. If we put brain-like algorithms on computer chips, then that would be a form of artificial intelligence. And everybody knows that AI today is a tool for people to use. So on this perspective, the sub-problem I'm working on is accident prevention. We want to avoid the scenarios where the AI does something that nobody wanted it to do—not the people who programmed it, not anybody. So there is a technical problem to solve there, which is: If people figure out how to run brain-like algorithms on computer chips, and they want those algorithms to be trying to do X—where X is solar cell research or being honest or whatever you can think of—then what source code should they write? What training environment should they use? And so on. This is an unsolved problem. It turns out to be surprisingly tricky, for some pretty deep reasons that mostly are not going to be in the scope of this talk, but you can read the series. This slide is the bigger picture of that. So if we want our awesome post-AGI future, then we want to avoid, y'know, catastrophic accidents where the AI gets out of control and self-replicates around the Intern...

The Blob! Yeah, that's what they call this huge inflated pillow-like thing they have at this camp we use in our ministry. The Blob's in the water at the camp beach, just sitting there, daring someone to jump off the platform above and onto its bouncy launch pad. Shall we say, it's kind of a leap of faith. Yeah. See, one person jumps onto the Blob and then they clumsily scoot out to the end that extends into the lake. Then a second person makes the jump. And when they hit the Blob, you know, the force of their landing will literally launch the person on the end into the air and ultimately into the lake with a nice loud splash. For the launch to work, there can't be more than thirty pounds difference in the weights of the two Blobbers. Well, since our son is a pretty big hunk of a guy, he went most of the week without getting Blob-launched...until the campers convinced Frank, our other generous-sized leader, to try it with our son. Every person in the camp was at the beach at two o'clock to see this one, and we went out to support him. Our son made the jump and crawled to the end of the Blob. Then his counterweight friend made the jump. The camp erupted into cheers and gales of laughter as the force of Frank's landing sent our son into the air like a Cape Canaveral rocket! It was awesome! I'm Ron Hutchcraft and I want to have A Word With You today about "Faith Launching." You see, Frank took a leap of faith and it launched someone else. You know, that shouldn't be unusual with brothers and sisters in Christ. If you belong to Jesus, there are people around you who could use some faith right now for what they're facing, but they may need the "jumper cable" of your faith to inspire them to trust God in a big way. In our word for today from the Word of God, Romans 1:11-12, Paul told the believers at Rome, "I long to see you that I may impart to you some spiritual gift to make you strong - that is, that you and I may be mutually encouraged by each other's faith." There it is right there - contagious faith, stirring up greater faith in the person that you infect. There's a great example of that in the Book of Joshua as the Jews are standing at the edge of flooded Jordan River, facing the giants, facing the walled cities of Canaan on the other side. God launched General Joshua's faith when He says, "Be strong and courageous because you will lead these people to inherit the land" (Joshua 1:6). Then Joshua launches the faith of his officers by telling them to get the people ready because they are going to cross the Jordan and take possession of the land God is giving them. Before long, the people are telling Joshua, "be strong and courageous!" (Joshua 1:18). Mutually encouraging each other to believe God for something only God could do. I wonder what your effect is on the people in your personal world. I mean, do you inspire them to trust God for big things, or do you tend to spread anxiety, or apathy, or pessimism, or negativity? Or do you leave behind your trail of faith! Use critical moments to show your family how to totally trust God rather than worry. Pray boldly with people who share a need with you. Verbalize what you're trusting God for as a declaration of your faith. Challenge people you serve with to get out of the box of doing what's always been done, taking no risks, and seeing no miracles. Faith isn't just taught - it's caught. And you should be modeling and encouraging bold trust in an all-powerful God. This isn't about your great faith. It's about your great God; a God who deserves nothing less than faith for "great and mighty things we don't know" (Jeremiah 33:3). As John Newton said, "Thou art coming to a King, great petitions with thee bring; for His grace and power are such, none can ever ask too much." When people are around you and your faith, they should be launched higher than they've ever gone before!

We all face difficult things in our lives, but on the other side of difficulty is usually some victory. For example, getting through the Air Force's basic training and passing the CPA exam. [1:20] It wasn't what I expected, but I persevered, followed the system, did what I was told and pushed through it. When I graduated I was very proud. It was a similar story to passing the CPA exam. [2:15] It doesn't matter where you are in the evolution of your bookkeeping business, there are difficult things that you do not want to do. Usually, on the other side of the struggle that we have to go through is the very thing that we want. [2:45] List out the difficult things in your life as they relate to your business right now. What are the things that you are putting off and avoiding? Then ask yourself what would happen if you did those things. What are the best-case scenarios and worst-case scenarios? [4:20] Sometimes we have to trick our minds into looking at the benefit that is going to get us there. We've got to get over our initial reluctance and just go do that thing. [5:05] Some difficult things are things that can't be avoided, but we're talking about the difficult things that we know will move us closer to our goals, if only we could get over our fears. [5:30] Busy work is often stuff we do in order to avoid doing the things that we know we need to do to turn the dial in our business. Two of the most common difficult things that bookkeeping professionals avoid are networking and marketing. [6:35] Feel the fear and do it anyway. Verbalize what you're afraid of and then go do it. Whenever we are trying to do something new, our subconscious is going to try to dissuade us and convince us of the easier and more comfortable path. [7:30] Once you identify the difficult things you are avoiding and list them out, figure out the things that you should be doing. Set yourself up for success by putting them into your schedule and giving someone the responsibility to keep you accountable. [9:00] Take your list of difficult things and start taking action on them. That may mean getting rid of bad clients or letting go of a team member, but you have to keep in mind the benefit on the other side.     Contact us about the show: hello@ilovebookkeeping.com

Welcome to The Nonlinear Library, where we use Text-to-Speech software to convert the best writing from the Rationalist and EA communities into audio. This is: FLI Podcast: Connor Leahy on AI Progress, Chimps, Memes, and Markets (Part 1/3), published by remember on February 10, 2023 on LessWrong. We often prefer reading over listening to audio content, and have been testing transcribing podcasts using our new tool at Conjecture, Verbalize, with some light editing and formatting. We're posting highlights and transcripts of podcasts in case others share our preferences, and because there is a lot of important alignment-relevant information in podcasts that never made it to LessWrong.If anyone is creating alignment-relevant audio content and wants to transcribe it, get in touch with us and we can give you free credits! The podcast episode transcribed in this post is available here. Topics covered include: Defining artificial general intelligence What makes humans more powerful than chimps? Would AIs have to be social to be intelligent? Importing humanity's memes into AIs How do we measure progress in AI? Gut feelings about AI progress Connor's predictions about AGI Is predicting AGI soon betting against the market? How accurate are prediction markets about AGI? Books cited in the episode include: The Incerto Series by Nassim Nicholas Taleb The Selfish Gene, Richard Dawkins Various books on primates and animal intelligence by Frans De Wall Inadequate Equilibria by Eliezer Yudkowsky Highlights On intelligence in humans and chimps: We are more social because we're more intelligent and we're more intelligent because we are more social. These things are not independent variables. So at first glance, if you look at a human brain versus a chimp brain, it's basically the same thing. You see like all the same kind of structures, same kind of neurons, though a bunch of parameters are different. You see some more spindle cells, it's bigger. Human brain just has more parameters, it's just GPT-3 versus GPT-4... But really, the difference is, is that humans have memes. And I mean this in the Richard Dawkins sense of evolved, informational, programmatic virtual concepts that can be passed around between groups. If I had to pick one niche, what is the niche that humans are evolved for? I think the niche we're evolved for is memetic hosts. On benchmarks and scaling laws: Benchmarks are actually coordination technologies. They're actually social technologies. What benchmarks are fundamentally for is coordination mechanisms. The kind of mechanisms you need to use when you're trying to coordinate groups of people around certain things.... So we have these scaling laws, which I think a lot of people misunderstand. So scaling laws give you these nice curves which show how the loss of performance on the model smoothly decreases as they get larger. These are actually terrible, and these actually tell you nothing about the model. They tell you what one specific number will do. And this number doesn't mean anything. There is some value in knowing the loss. But what we actually care about is can this model do various work? Can it do various tasks? Can it reason about its environment? Can it reason about its user?... So currently there are no predictive theories of intelligence gain or task. There is no theory that says once it reaches 74.3 billion parameters, then it will learn this task. There's no such theory. It's all empirical. And we still don't understand these things at all. I think there's, so another reason I'm kind of against benchmarks, and I'm kind of being a bit pedantic about this question is because I think they're actively misleading in the sense that people present them as if they mean something, but they just truly, truly don't. A benchmark in a vacuum means nothing. On the dangerous of having a good metric of progress towards AGI: So this is an interesting question. And not just from a scientific perspective, but it's also interesting...

Welcome to The Nonlinear Library, where we use Text-to-Speech software to convert the best writing from the Rationalist and EA communities into audio. This is: FLI Podcast: Connor Leahy on AI Progress, Chimps, Memes, and Markets (Part 1/3), published by remember on February 10, 2023 on The AI Alignment Forum. We often prefer reading over listening to audio content, and have been testing transcribing podcasts using our new tool at Conjecture, Verbalize, with some light editing and formatting. We're posting highlights and transcripts of podcasts in case others share our preferences, and because there is a lot of important alignment-relevant information in podcasts that never made it to LessWrong.If anyone is creating alignment-relevant audio content and wants to transcribe it, get in touch with us and we can give you free credits! The podcast episode transcribed in this post is available here. Topics covered include: Defining artificial general intelligence What makes humans more powerful than chimps? Would AIs have to be social to be intelligent? Importing humanity's memes into AIs How do we measure progress in AI? Gut feelings about AI progress Connor's predictions about AGI Is predicting AGI soon betting against the market? How accurate are prediction markets about AGI? Books cited in the episode include: The Incerto Series by Nassim Nicholas Taleb The Selfish Gene, Richard Dawkins Various books on primates and animal intelligence by Frans De Wall Inadequate Equilibria by Eliezer Yudkowsky Highlights On intelligence in humans and chimps: We are more social because we're more intelligent and we're more intelligent because we are more social. These things are not independent variables. So at first glance, if you look at a human brain versus a chimp brain, it's basically the same thing. You see like all the same kind of structures, same kind of neurons, though a bunch of parameters are different. You see some more spindle cells, it's bigger. Human brain just has more parameters, it's just GPT-3 versus GPT-4... But really, the difference is, is that humans have memes. And I mean this in the Richard Dawkins sense of evolved, informational, programmatic virtual concepts that can be passed around between groups. If I had to pick one niche, what is the niche that humans are evolved for? I think the niche we're evolved for is memetic hosts. On benchmarks and scaling laws: Benchmarks are actually coordination technologies. They're actually social technologies. What benchmarks are fundamentally for is coordination mechanisms. The kind of mechanisms you need to use when you're trying to coordinate groups of people around certain things.... So we have these scaling laws, which I think a lot of people misunderstand. So scaling laws give you these nice curves which show how the loss of performance on the model smoothly decreases as they get larger. These are actually terrible, and these actually tell you nothing about the model. They tell you what one specific number will do. And this number doesn't mean anything. There is some value in knowing the loss. But what we actually care about is can this model do various work? Can it do various tasks? Can it reason about its environment? Can it reason about its user?... So currently there are no predictive theories of intelligence gain or task. There is no theory that says once it reaches 74.3 billion parameters, then it will learn this task. There's no such theory. It's all empirical. And we still don't understand these things at all. I think there's, so another reason I'm kind of against benchmarks, and I'm kind of being a bit pedantic about this question is because I think they're actively misleading in the sense that people present them as if they mean something, but they just truly, truly don't. A benchmark in a vacuum means nothing. On the dangerous of having a good metric of progress towards AGI: So this is an interesting question. And not just from a scientific perspective, but it's als...

How Does Speaking Help?

Brian got the chance to sit down for a fashion forward conversation with a fashion model that decided to take her talents far beyond the runway! Lisa, who grew up on the shoreline of Florida, decided to partner with her sister Katie to share their childhood memories of the beach. Find out how launching 'The Shore Line' brand of premium beachwear was based on trust. This episode is a must listen to! GIFT: Lisa is also giving our listeners a (15% OFF Gift Code) Use Rewired15 at https://thisistheshoreline.com Action Steps to REWIRE: 1. VERBALIZE your idea and concept to close people around you! 2. EDUCATION and lots of it within your market industry! 3. DESIGN your first collection! *Comment about this episode @FashionRewired on Instagram for a chance to WIN Fashion Rewired MERCH! Episode Powered by: -The Custom Shoppe: Does your brand need unique, high quality lifestyle apparel with your logo or slogan? Email info@phoenixfashionweek.com for a FREE quote. -LIVE Designer Bootcamp: Apply to launch your fashion brand at The Leading Fashion Industry Event in the Southwest. Email bootcamp@phoenixfashionweek.com for application. Phoenix Fashion Week: The leading fashion industry event in the Southwest. Fashion. Education. Community. Follow and like our IG @FashionRewired & @PHXFashionWeek

It is our last installment of the Enneagram series, and my friend, Matt Chitwood is there to chat with us about: 

I can still hear that corporate command, “Better get that in writing.” Learn how to get a better response from your standard communication. #ThePitch #INICIVOX

Welcome back to the Intentional Queen Podcast to empower women to become the best version of themselves on their journey to restoration in self-love, self-healing, and a growth mindset!  This episode dives into how to teach people how to treat you and how to help people help themselves.  This is very important when creating healthy boundaries and having a growth mindset! Verbalize your own needs, and stop enabling people! "Drowning People, Sometimes Die Fighting Their Rescuers" (Octavia Butler). Remember that Boundaries are FOR YOU and your own mental peace!   New Patreon Community started for the Intentional Queen Tribe...You asked so here it is...So Excited!  Check out the two tiers ($1 and $5) to support me in creating more bomb content for you Queen! Bonuses are already loaded for YOU! **www.patreon.com/IntentionalQueenJourney** _________________________________________________________________ For more wisdom nuggets…The monthly newsletter is now called “The Intentional Refuel” because you are leveling up your I.Q. to a Better You! Make sure to Subscribe to the Email Newsletter on the website, and it will be sent to Refuel you on the Last Thursday of Every Month! ***************************************************************** Queen, let's chat and start your transformation today as your personal Life Coach!  **Book your Free 1:1 Consultation call with me today… As your personal Mindset and Self-Love Life Coach…Let's Shift Your Crown on your self-love, self-healing & mindset growth journey!**   References: -Power of Isolation and Dry Seasons in Life...Click here. -Becoming a Giraffe in these streets | Leveling up your Vision (Mindset Growth)...Click here. -Intentional Courage and Confidence...Click here.   #protection #boundaries #teach #mindset #grow #october ***************************************************************** Continue to level up your I. Q. to a better YOU, and subscribe/share with your friends!  *Connect with Me*: Instagram : @Intentionalqueenjourney Twitter: @JineenIQJourney Patreon: @Intentionalqueenjourney Website: Intentionalqueenjourney.com Intentional Refuel Monthly Newsletter (Last Thursday of every month): Sign up on the website YouTube and most streaming apps as well-make sure to Subscribe to my channel!! Queens, see you on the next episode every 2 weeks on Thursdays!

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Sign-up for my free 20-day devotional, The Word Before Work Foundations, at http://TWBWFoundations.com--Series: A God-Honoring Approach to PlanningDevotional: 3 of 4Now listen, you who say, “Today or tomorrow we will go to this or that city, spend a year there, carry on business and make money.” Why, you do not even know what will happen tomorrow. What is your life? You are a mist that appears for a little while and then vanishes. Instead, you ought to say, “If it is the Lord's will, we will live and do this or that.” As it is, you boast in your arrogant schemes. All such boasting is evil. (James 4:13-16)As we've seen throughout this series, planning is a good, God-honoring thing to do. But today's passage reminds us that planning without recognizing our ultimate lack of control over our plans is arrogant and “evil.”I've had to repent of this sin recently. A friend of mine was asking me what I've been working on and I said, “I'm working on a new book that will come out in October of next year.” This is a textbook example of the evil planning James is talking about, and my temptation is to do it all the time.What's the alternative? James tells us in verse 15: “Instead, you ought to say, ‘If it is the Lord's will, we will live and do this or that.'” If it is the Lord's will, I'll publish that book next October.Why is it so important that we articulate our lack of control over our plans? Beyond the fact that it's simple obedience to God's Word, let me share three reasons.First, it keeps us open to how the Lord might alter our plans. If I view a plan as “my plan” that I'm ultimately in control of, I'm going to hold that plan very tightly. But if I recognize that God alone is in control of my plan, I will hold it much more loosely and will be much more attuned to how the Lord might be calling me to change course.Second, articulating our lack of control over our plans increases our reliance on the Lord for results. It's a practical way to “remember the Lord your God” and that “it is he who gives you the ability to produce wealth,” or bring your plans to fruition (see Deuteronomy 8:17-18).Finally, it gives us an opportunity to demonstrate our faith to others. I don't know about you, but I haven't heard a lot of people uttering “Lord willing” at the office. Not only does this phrase signify that you're a Christian, but at a deeper level, it communicates that you're humbling yourself and your plans before God. I know it sounds trite, and I know it can sound awkward, but I'd challenge you to attach those two words—”Lord willing”—to the plans you articulate today.Lord willing, we'll finish that project by the end of the quarter.Lord willing, I'll be at that conference in December.Lord willing, we should be able to hit that revenue number by the end of the year.Verbalize your ultimate lack of control over your plans today, and watch to see what the Lord does with your obedience and humility!

By the end of this two-part series, listeners will be able to:Verbalize a more progressive definition of palliative care, and distinguish it from "end-of-life" care or hospice care.Define appropriate patient populations for referral to palliative care.Sensitively and clearly introduce palliative care referral with patients and families. Recognize the value of communication training, and verbalize a simple framework for difficult conversations. Define the challenges of learning/practicing difficult communication as a resident/fellow, and elaborate some strategies to help mitigate these challenges. About our guests: Stockton Beveridge, M.D., is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Pediatrics in the Division of Developmental / Behavioral Pediatrics, serving as the director of Pediatric Palliative Care. Dr. Beveridge's research interests have focused on the challenges faced by caregivers of children with medical complexity, particularly in the Latino population. He is additionally interested in the intersection of religion and medicine, particularly in medical crisis. He sits on the hospital's Ethics Committee and is also the medical director for Schwartz Rounds.Katie Maddox, M.D., is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Pediatrics in the Division of Developmental / Behavioral Pediatrics at UT Southwestern. She is a board-certified pediatric palliative care physician at Children's Health Dallas. Her clinical and research interests relate to caring for children with special healthcare needs and communication skills training in medical education. Dr. Maddox has received the Educational Innovation Award for developing communication skills training and the Pediatric Society of Greater Dallas White Hat Award.References:Center to Advance Palliative Care--https://www.capc.org/ Childers JW, Back AL, Tulsky JA, Arnold RM. REMAP: A Framework for Goals of Care Conversations. J Oncol Pract. 2017 Oct;13(10):e844-e850. doi: 10.1200/JOP.2016.018796. Epub 2017 Apr 26. PMID: 28445100.Gillis J. "We want everything done". Arch Dis Child. 2008 Mar;93(3):192-3. doi: 10.1136/adc.2007.120568. PMID: 18319382.How to support PedsCrit:Please rate and review on Spotify or Apple Podcasts!Donations are appreciated @PedsCrit on Venmo , you can also support us by becoming a patron on Patreon. 100% of funds go to supporting the show.Thank you for listening to this episode of PedsCrit. Please remember that all content during this episode is intended for educational and entertainment purposes only. It should not be used as medical advice. The views expressed during this episode by hosts and our guests are their own and do not reflect the official position of their institutions. If you have any comments, suggestions, or feedback-you can email us at pedscritpodcast@gmail.com. Check out http://www.pedscrit.com for detailed show notes. And visit @critpeds on twitter and @pedscrit on instagram for real time show updates.Support the show

By the end of this two-part series, listeners will be able to:Verbalize a more progressive definition of palliative care, and distinguish it from "end-of-life" care or hospice care.Define appropriate patient populations for referral to palliative care.Sensitively and clearly introduce palliative care referral with patients and families. Recognize the value of communication training, and verbalize a simple framework for difficult conversations. Define the challenges of learning/practicing difficult communication as a resident/fellow, and elaborate some strategies to help mitigate these challenges. About our guests: Stockton Beveridge, M.D., is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Pediatrics in the Division of Developmental / Behavioral Pediatrics, serving as the director of Pediatric Palliative Care. Dr. Beveridge's research interests have focused on the challenges faced by caregivers of children with medical complexity, particularly in the Latino population. He is additionally interested in the intersection of religion and medicine, particularly in medical crisis. He sits on the hospital's Ethics Committee and is also the medical director for Schwartz Rounds. Katie Maddox, M.D., is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Pediatrics in the Division of Developmental / Behavioral Pediatrics at UT Southwestern. She is a board-certified pediatric palliative care physician at Children's Health Dallas. Her clinical and research interests relate to caring for children with special healthcare needs and communication skills training in medical education. Dr. Maddox has received the Educational Innovation Award for developing communication skills training and the Pediatric Society of Greater Dallas White Hat Award.References: Center to Advance Palliative Care--https://www.capc.org/  Childers JW, Back AL, Tulsky JA, Arnold RM. REMAP: A Framework for Goals of Care Conversations. J Oncol Pract. 2017 Oct;13(10):e844-e850. doi: 10.1200/JOP.2016.018796. Epub 2017 Apr 26. PMID: 28445100.Gillis J. "We want everything done". Arch Dis Child. 2008 Mar;93(3):192-3. doi: 10.1136/adc.2007.120568. PMID: 18319382.How to support PedsCrit:Please rate and review on Spotify or Apple Podcasts!Donations are appreciated @PedsCrit on Venmo , you can also support us by becoming a patron on Patreon. 100% of funds go to supporting the show.Thank you for listening to this episode of PedsCrit. Please remember that all content during this episode is intended for educational and entertainment purposes only. It should not be used as medical advice. The views expressed during this episode by hosts and our guests are their own and do not reflect the official position of their institutions. If you have any comments, suggestions, or feedback-you can email us at pedscritpodcast@gmail.com. Check out http://www.pedscrit.com for detailed show notes. And visit @critpeds on twitter and @pedscrit on instagram for real time show updates.Support the show

Victim to Victory Podcast Series InterviewDr. Anita Bangale is an emergency physician, award winning speaker, TED X speaker, certified success coach, and proud mother of 3 daughters. She has served on the frontlines of the ER for more than 15 years, and she prioritizes working under pressure with compassion, empathy, and effective communication. She also works as a physician leader with Brightside Health, where she treats patients with anxiety and depression and aims to bring affordable, accessible mental health care to the masses. and focuses on effective communication and prioritizes working under pressure with compassion and empathy. Additionally, Dr. Bangale is founder and CEO of Diya Coaching - through which she aims to spread joy by improving mindset and believes in the magnificent, ignitable power of each person's inner lightConnect here:@diyacoaching on Instagramwww.anitabangale.com00:00 Intro03:05 Anita's Story09:22 Anita's observations in ER during C-1913:22 Anita's speaking topics15:34 Finding values and beliefs17:02 Becoming a Mum18:21 Anita's message#podcastcreator #podcast #podcasting #podcastcourse #brandstorytelling#podcaster #podcastinterview #brand #contentcreator #podcastmarketing ****MY FREE ONLINE RESOURCES & COURSES*** LEARN TO LAUNCH, BRAND & MARKET YOUR OWN PODCAST FOR PROFIT:https://traceycook.mybrandsystem.co/order/brand-your-story-academy-course/ CHECK OUT MY FREE SOCIAL MEDIA COURSES:https://traceyleecook.com/free-downloads/Beginners guide to monetizing your Mic   https://mtr.bio/traceyleecook1APPLY TO BE A GUEST:  https://traceyleecook.com/be-a-podcast-guest/LET'S HANG OUT SOME MORE:Content Creator, Podcast & Branding tips & resources Newsletter: https://bit.ly/TLCENTNewsletterWebsite: https://traceyleecook.com/FB V2V Community: https://www.facebook.com/groups/1226204267585353Get your FREE gift here:   https://mtr.bio/traceyleecook1ABOUT YOUR YOU TUBER:Tracey Cook is a Global Podcast Creator & Brand Storytelling Strategist & CEO of Brand Your Story Academy. Tracey helps online business owners launch, brand & market their Podcast for Passion, Purpose & Profit. Tracey is an Amazon No 1 Best Selling Author & a sought after speaker & trainer, that has been featured with Les Brown, Dr Joe Vitale and Pat Quinn. Tracey's (TC) mission is to encourage people to share their stories for deeper authentic connections to make the world a better place. Disclaimer: This video may contain affiliate marketing links, that I may receive a commission from. Thankyou for supporting a better world.        

Should you verbalize your fears to others?

Listen you have to picture it before you see it. Believe what you visualize and Speak about it. Speak it to existence. Who are you? What are you doing? Where do you see yourself? What vision is set?

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“I am” statements are the verbalize part of IVVM (Idealize, Visualize, Verbalize, Materialize). Learn more with Mike and Jackie about how “I am” statements can change your identity to fit your values and beliefs as a business. Changing mindset and how that can manifest the results you want. Think you need to work on your mindset so you can set yourself and your team up to create amazing results? Learn more about it from a coach here: http://makemoreworkless.actioncoach.com/mmwl-diag-and-questions/

Mike and Jackie talk about manifesting. You will get more of what you focus on. If you focus on how life isn't fair, you'll get more of that. If you focus on there is an abundance of business out there, then you will get more of that. Need a mindset check to help you get the results you want? Click here to take advantage of a complimentary business strategy session to discover the opportunities in your business today! http://makemoreworkless.actioncoach.com/mmwl-diag-and-questions/

Vanessa Persephone is a woman who has been shining her light and guiding others to show them what is possible when you shed the layers of others and step into your power. Discussed on todays episode: - Recovery -Sobriety -Pain of staying the same vs pain of growing -Recognizing you need a change -Rock bottom -Pivot Point -Self Awareness -Standing in your truth -Verbalize and set expectations -sober vs recovery -Surround yourself with a Village -Life is not black and white -Sober Curious -Get Creative -Prioritize Fun -Take the Leap -Mindset Shift -Currency is authenticity Resources: Vanessa Persephone on IG Angels Anonymous Podcast Creating Ripples Podcast

In this episode of For the Love of Men we discuss: Receiving. Women are natural receivers. When it's not coming naturally, there are often some experiences from her past that are causing her to interpret the world in a way that actually closes her off from her feminine energy (natural receiving capability). In this paradigm, receiving feels VULNERABLE and she will (often unknowingly) resist voluntarily being in this role. There are many reasons women struggle with receiving, here are a few: Emotional. Many women have an experience where operating in a masculine paradigm that celebrates performance and achievement, they trade (or aren't taught how to use it in the context of work or family life) their authentic receiving energy for more masculine tendencies. This acts as a shield that serves them in the corporate setting but deflects reaching her heart. This also causes her to overextend her natural capacity in an effort to be seen as more worthy. Mental. Other women have shared the experience of general unawareness when it comes to receiving. Because we are socialized differently from men, we don't understand the experiences leading up to their offers to help and interpret them incorrectly. They often don't understand (much less intend) that men experience this as rejection. This misunderstanding is deeply unsatisfying for both parties. Biological. Finally, there's is a biological component to struggling to receive where she experiences greater feelings of safety (in her body) when she doesn't “take” from someone who needs it more than her. So when she doesn't receive from you, it may be because she isn't sure it is safe to accept it or that it will be depleting resources that are vital to someone else (i.e. you). Action Item: If you want to be generous in helping heal this with her, you can: -Verbalize your desire for her (i.e. “I want you to have this”, “I want to do this for you”, “I want to take something off your plate”, etc) this will help her nervous system come off autopilot (masculine in nature) and increase the chances of her feminine energy coming online (a genuine response). -Express the experience of her receiving. This is brave but if your woman is receiving, a simple smile will let her know that this is safe for her and the receiving ends the exchange (it won't be held over her head when she least expects it). -Understand this is her work, you're supporting her healing by staying present and creating a corrective experience for her. It is important to understand your boundaries and take care of yourself too, modeling healthy behaviors can be very healing. Want more from Courtney? Details for Arise: The Art of Empowerment program: https://courtney-schand-courses.thinkific.com/courses/empowered-masculine Instagram: @Courtney_Schand Website: CourtneySchand.com Want more from Bri? Sign up for Inside Out, The Art and Science of Healthy Relationships + Magnetizing the Divine Masculine beginning 3/24/22: buildingbri.com/insideout/ Instagram: @buildingbri Website: bulidingbri.com

This week, in part 1, the Fresh CrEd boys dive in to their Super Bowl bets, but you won't find them gambling with their health. Craig and Ed discuss working out and Ed gives a rundown of his new pushup challenge. Can you do 100 pushups straight? Ed hopes to before the Viva Fresh Expo this year. Craig exposes Ed to Showtime's Aerobicise and shares his experience with hot yoga. Keep your eyes peeled for part 2 next week!   Please Like, Subscribe, Rate, and Review! Email your questions, comments, and show suggestions here: thefreshcred@gmail.com Follow us on Social Media Facebook: The Fresh Cred Twitter: @credfresh IG: @thefreshcred Youtube: The Fresh CrEd LinkedIn: Craig Slate & Ed Bertaud  

Every online business and coaching program needs a signature framework that can be used as a roadmap to guide customers and clients into purchasing. People need to be able to visualize where they are going and how YOU are going to help them get there. So often business owners forget to walk through this process, and it can be a deal breaker. You need to be able to clearly communicate to your clients where they are going and how you are going to help them navigate the process to achieve their goals. In week three of our Christian Business Podcast series for online course creators and coaches, we are going to break down how to create a signature framework that will serve as the building block for your online business, course or coaching program. How are you going to help your client? First, you need to figure out how you are helping your client. What is their problem and how are YOU going to help them solve that problem? From there, you need to outline what steps the client needs to take in order to get the desired end result. Think of this as a step-by-step process to help get your client from point A to point Z. Use this to map out the transformational steps to help solve their problem. Building a framework: When you are building a house, you need to have plans (see the step above) and then you need to build the frame. The frame or bones of the house are key! The same is true for your course or coaching program. You need to have the frame and bones of your course built before you can start selling it. This is also where you start adding your brand and your unique voice into the framework. By having a strong base and frame, you can really start building your course, program or business. Add Your Story: Here is where you add your voice, testimony and story to your framework. People need to be able to connect with you and what you are selling. Testimony and story-telling are hugely important when marketing to clients. By teaching people things that you've had success with or something you have a story for can be transformational! Marketing becomes easy when you share your wins, losses and what you have learned along the way. Creating connections based on your framework, experience and through your testimony is the key. Copyrighting: Create a message for your clients and potential customers using your framework and testimony. Verbalize the transformation and walk them through what they need, how you can help and the steps they need to take to achieve the desired outcome. If you can take these steps and create a solid signature framework, map out the transformational steps, bring your story and brand into the picture, and then verbalize all of that to your client, you have a solid base for your course or coaching program. Pray for God to reveal to you what you can use as the framework for your business and turn it over to Him. CLICK HERE FOR MORE

PEACE to all natives. This week we feature a supergroup in AZ Hip Hop TILDEATH. Verbalize, Zona, Big Shake, comprise an explosive combination. I have performed with this group several times. From the beats, rhymes, to the freestyles these young men embody Hip Hop. Tune in to hear a native's perspective on the PHX Hip Hop scene. Follow THEMISSION and join TheMISSIONARIES Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Welcome back to the Intentional Queen Podcast to empower women to become the best version of themselves on their journey to restoration in self-love, self-healing, and growth mindset!  Happy Holidays! This episode dives into how to teach people how to treat you and how to help people help themselves.  This is very important when creating healthy boundaries and having a growth mindset! Verbalize your own needs, and stop enabling people! "Drowning People, Sometimes Die Fighting Their Rescuers" (Octavia Butler). References: -"Good, Bad, and Indifferent...Thank You!" | How to live in a space of gratitude during your journey...Listen here. -Intentional Self-Care Series with Guest Latorsha Peake (Part-1)...Listen here. -"You Know Who You Are" | Self-Love and Imposter Syndrome with Guest Terri Huggins-Hart...Listen here.   #teach #treat #boundaries #yourself #growth #capacity ***************************************************************** **Check Out my NEW Intentional Queen Journey Website...Click here!! Sign Up for Monthly Email Newsletter!!** ***Website Walk-Thru YouTube Video...Click Here to Check it out! It was by Special Request on the Intentional Queen Tribe!   Book your Free 1:1 Discovery Coaching Call with me...As your personal life coach...Let's Shift Your Crown on your self-love, self-healing & mindset growth journey! ****************************************************************************** Continue to level up your I. Q. to a better YOU, and subscribe/share with your friends!  Snapshot you listening to the podcast and tag me in it on social media...Queen Love!! Follow me: Instagram@Intentionalqueenjourney www.intentionalqueenjourney.com **Sign up for my monthly email newsletter email and to stay current with all things Intentional Queen Journey.  Click Here to subscribe, Queens!** Now streaming on YouTube and most streaming apps as well-make sure to Subscribe to my channel!! If you have any show ideas, please contact me at intentionalqueenjourney@gmail.com.  Queens, see you on the next episode every 2 weeks on Thursdays!

02:44 Dr. Eisenberg on AGT: I did it for the fun and to get the message out there that doctors and patients can break down the wall. They can be family, a friend, and co-conspirator in creativity. They can have fun together.   12:20 Doctor by Accident: I got a second chance at life and realized even as a kid how life is so fragile. You don't get what you want unless you take a chance. So I became this chance-taker and rule-breaker.   14:47 Oncology made the most sense - who needs the most light, laughter, and love in the world of medicine. The science was fascinating but it was the human side of cancer that drew me to the field. I'm on a mission to heal the disconnect between doctors and patients. It's the coming together, the connection, the communication - it all comes from love.   18:05 Burnout and Coming Out of It: It was perfectionism. Fellowship in a competitive uni (Georgetown) prepared me for academics but not for the life in private practice. I came because I want to give light, love, and laughter to oncology but the task given was to win.    21:47 The Little Perfect Storm and the Dance: A patient asked: How are you gonna take care of all of us if you can't take care of yourself? It nudged me back to who I was.   28:50 Transcendental Meditation: One of the first modalities to healing. But consistency is key. It jumpstarts the virtual cycle of getting better.   30:31 My life changed when I started writing songs for the patients. It was no longer only about seeing the patients and getting the best of medical stuff done but also talking to a patient like talking to a family. It breaks down the wall that I thought I needed to keep moving. Winning at all costs turned to connection at all costs.   37:14 Love over Fear Formula: LOVE (Listen, Observe, Verbalize, Empathize) on top, FEAR (Force, Escape, Attack, React) on the bottom.   40:24 Leading with love heals. Bring love into your practice. Your health is a team.   42:36 CPR: Connection, Presence, and Resilience. 46:58 Best Medicine: Love and Laughter. Nothing connects human beings faster than laughter.     Catch him at www.drsteven.com and @drsteveneisenberg on IG!   Enjoying my content? Follow my social media accounts to stay updated:   IG - https://www.instagram.com/kienvuumd/ FACEBOOK - https://www.facebook.com/kienvuuMD/ PODCAST - https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/thrive-state-podcast/id1548233524 SPOTIFY -  https://open.spotify.com/show/3j0HhMLv9HYruz0xrc3KQn   Want to work with me? Send me an email:  info@kienvuumd.com   DID YOU KNOW that you can stay on top of your health just by reading 2 to 5 pages of my book a day??  Yes!! Check it here:  https://www.amazon.com/Thr

Mediation exercise for examining your own shelf of dreams.  Close your eyes, take a few deep breaths, and imagine you're walking down the hall.  You see a closet door.  You open it.  There's a shelf way up high.  You stand on a step stool and peer on the shelf.  There's lots of dust.  You see a box labeled with a sharpie marker, "Dreams".  You pull it out, noticing how heavy it is.  As you drag it across the shelf and set it on the ground, you find yourself knowing what's inside before you even open it.  You have a remembering.  Now, visualize sitting on the floor and the box is in front of you, but it's taped shut with duct tape.  Old, super sticky duct tape.  You look around for something to open the box and discover a box cutter with words written on the side.  You turn it sideways and it says, "why not?"  Thinking, "Ok, why not?" you begin slicing through the tape to opening the box.  What's inside your box?  Maybe it's a pair of ballet slippers, maybe a toy stethoscope, maybe a journal or cooking utensils.  As you set each item on the floor, you remember the person you were when you thought these dreams were possible.  You've changed and your dreams have changed, but taking out old dreams can reawaken the forgotten parts of you.  It can awaken creative parts of you, hidden talents, and skills you've shelved for years.  You see there's also something else in the box.  It's a piece of paper in the bottom of the box.  It's says FEAR in big letters.  You turn it over and see a dozen or more reasons why you shouldn't/couldn't pursue those dreams in your box.  You remember why you put the box on the shelf in the first place.  As Camille said, fear paralyzes and keeps you from following your dreams.  It whispers about responsibility and societal or familial expectations.  It reminds you who might be disappointed if you pursue your dreams.  You take a deep breath, grab the box cutter and carefully slit through each fear listed on the sheet.  When you have ribbons of paper scattered at your feet, you carry the box of dreams over to a table.  You carefully take out each dream and place it lovingly on the table.  You clean each one off and reexamine it.  You may not still want to be a nurse, but maybe volunteering to give vaccines would light you up.  Maybe you no longer want to make a living as an artist, but a community college art class could reignite a fire inside you.  Or maybe the cooking utensils make you want to take a cooking class or tackle a Creme Brulee.  Steps to dusting off old dreams: Verbalize your dream.  Put it out there.  This gives it life and you'll start to believe it.  It'll be like a plant, slowly coming to life after receiving water and sunshine.   I interviewed a lady who had no idea how to write a book but she started telling people she was doing it.  The right people appeared in her life and a year later, she'd written and published a best-seller.  Take a class or find a meet-up group in whatever interests you.  This allows you to dip your toe in the water. Write out all the fearful reasons why you can't/shouldn't pursue your dreams, then shred or burn them.    Keep asking yourself "Why not?" and "If not me, then who?" Visualize your dream down to the last detail.  Trust me, you'll start to believe in it.  I visualized myself teaching a seamless yoga sequence, I visualized the serene faces of my students.  I did this over and over until it became a reality.  Keep asking yourself if what you're doing brings you joy.  This will shine a light on the difference between doing things because you have to and doing things because you enjoy them.  Then, do more of the things you enjoy.  Put them on the calendar.  Life gets busy and if you love hiking but don't plan for it, it simply won't happen. 

Do you ever feel like there is no way to juggle it all - being a mom, running a business, making dinner, etc? Sadly, there is no magic formula for feeling balanced in your home and work responsibilities. But I am here today to tell you, you can do it. You aren't meant to journey through this alone, ask for help! Asking for help isn't a sign of weakness but a sign of strength and allows you to come to each task and situation full of life and energy. Join me today as we talk about tips and tricks to balancing it all because spoiler alert, it is possible.  In this episode you'll hear:  Verbalize and share the expectations that you have for yourself as a mom with someone close to you  How to know your limits and set realistic expectations for yourself My experiences and stories of figuring out how to balance it all  For all things mentioned in this episode check out the Podcast Blog!