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Podcast Replay: So Long Soul Frustration… Hello FLOW!
Here is Part 3 of the series on the “Soul, Role, Goal of Life…”
“So Long Soul Frustration, Hello FLOW!”
We really had some amazing insights and comments.
Parts 1 and 2 of this series are here:
If you’re ready to…
Get rid of goal frustration,
Release role frustration,
Say so long soul frustration, HELLO FLOW…
This Podcast series will show you how.
FLOW is the Soul, Role, Goal of Life!
Listen to these conversations. They will…
Revitalize your soul,
Re-energize your role,
Re-excite you about your goal.
You’re a player.
You CAN change the FLOW game.
I’ll meet you on the “Soul, Role, Goal” field.
Mitch – CEO, Chief Encouragement Officer
“So Long Soul, Role, Goal Frustration… Hello Flow!”
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Parts 1 and 2 of this series are here:
So Long Soul Frustration, Hello Flow!
Podcast Friday 4/27 3pm Eastern…
“So Long Soul Frustration, Hello Flow!”
Dial: 626-677-3000
Code: 12254#
Here are the links to Parts 1 and 2 of this series,
“Eliminate Soul, Role and Goal Frustration:”
Last Friday and Saturday John Assaraf asked me to speak
to and help coach his private business mastermind.
One distinction everyone said had a big impact was:
The SOUL – ROLE – GOAL of Life!
I surveyed them for soul, role and goal frustration.
Almost all these successful people had goal frustration.
Half had role frustration.
Many had soul frustration.
Signs you have soul frustration are you:
- Feel a gap between the real and “ideal” you,
- Find it hard to be yourself and live life your way,
- Place opinions and thoughts of others above your own,
- Seek affirmation from outside instead of inside,
- Do not love or like the person in the mirror,
- Try to fill the hole in your soul with more goal,
- Devalue your immeasurable, irreplaceable, intrinsic self,
- Speak against yourself silently or out loud,
- Take things personally that other people say and do,
- Are not guided by True North or trust your intuition,
- Have headaches or a gnawing in the pit of your stomach.
If you have any of these join our next podcast:
“So Long Soul Frustration, Hello Flow!”
Soul is the NEW goal!
Flow is the NEW game!
Love is the NEW way to play!
Are you in the flow?
Do you play for the love of the game?
Flow and love are soul food.
Are you full of soul food, or feeling undernourished?
Is life a Sunday drive, or a (rat) race to the finish?
Is yours an adventure explored, or a sentence endured?
A happy and healthy soul feels as good doing nothing or
going nowhere as doing something and going somewhere.
How do you say so long soul frustration, hello flow?
NOT by scolding, criticizing or de-meaning yourself.
Happiness, flow and self-worth are fruits of soul satisfaction.
On our next Podcast we’ll talk about how to say:
“So Long Soul Frustration, Hello Flow!!”
Friday 4/27 at 3pm Eastern, Noon Pacific:
Dial: 626-677-3000
Code: 12254#
Bring your spirit alive and set your soul on fire.
You’re a player.
You CAN change the game.
I’ll meet you on the soul field Friday 4/27 at 3pm Eastern.
Mitch – CEO, Chief Encouragement Officer
“So Long Soul Frustration, Hello Flow!”
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No tags for this post.Podcast Replay: Relieve Role Frustration
This is Part 2 in a 3-part series to identify symptoms,
isolate the root cause, and eliminate these frustrations
that undermine health, wealth, relationships, success.
Part 2 – Relieve Role Frustration
Are you doing what you value, and do you value what you do?
If either answer is no, you probably have role frustration.
Role frustration comes from not doing what you value, or
not finding value in what you do. It’s the second of three
deadly silent killers of happiness and joy.
Role frustration diminishes health and well being.
It creates stress and dissatisfaction with daily life.
Our research with more than 1,000 value profiles reveals
2/3 of us have role frustration.
The economic cost is staggering.
The personal cost is immeasurable.
What is the antidote to relieve role frustration?
It’s NOT working harder.
Listen to Part 2 – Relieve Role Frustration
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Podcast Replay: Goodbye Goal Frustration
Podcast Series: “How to Eliminate Soul, Role and Goal Frustration!”
Part 1 – Goodbye Goal Frustration
Do you ever get the feeling you are NOT where you ought to be?
This is goal frustration and it’s a deadly silent killer.
Goal frustration comes from thinking you should be, ought to be
or are supposed to be somewhere else.
The bigger the distance between where you are and where you
think you ought to be, the more you suffer goal frustration. It
diminishes health and well being, and creates feelings of failure.
Goal frustration often is accompanied by role frustration.
Role frustration is not valuing what you do or doing what you value.
Goal and role frustration can lead to soul frustration.
Soul frustration is not being yourself or expressing who you are.
Most of us have one, and a lot of us struggle with two or all
three levels of soul, role and goal frustration.
They pinch off the “garden hose of life” and reduce flow.
Eliminating frustration will help you get back into the flow.
How do you say goodbye to goal frustration?
NOT with more goal.
What is the antidote to relieve role frustration?
NOT working harder.
How do you say so long to soul frustration?
NOT criticizing yourself more.
On this Podcast we begin a series:
“How to Eliminate Soul, Role and Goal Frustration!”
Here’s Part 1 - Goodbye Goal Frustration
This is the first in a 3-part series to identify symptoms,
isolate the root cause, and eliminate these three killers
that undermine health, wealth, relationships, success
and fulfillment.
This Podcast we focus on goal frustration.
Next we talk role frustration, then soul frustration.
Join us for a thought provoking, NO Box conversation that
will transform you and everyone in your life.
You’re a player.
You CAN change the game.
I’ll meet you on the “goodbye goal frustration” field.
No tags for this post.The END Game… I Miss You Mom
Today is 8 years that our mom, our beloved “Annie A” left us.
On the day she passed I wrote a goodbye called The END Game!
I reprint it below.
As I wrote then, there’s no better legacy, no higher testimony
to a life well lived than to be surrounded at the end game by
people you love and who love you.
Mom she blessed six of us with life.
We blessed her with 20+ grandchildren and 40+ great grandchildren.
Mom was blessed.
We are blessed because of her.
I miss you Mom.
Love,
Mitch
The END Game
I’ve been immersed in playing the NEW Game.
Today, I’d like to talk about a different game.
It’s a game none of us look forward to, yet each
one of us will play one day:
The end game.
We face this finality with our Mom, Ann Axelrod.
Today, my brother and I fly to Fort Lauderdale to
say good-bye to Mom. If yoiu haven’t faced this,
you will. If you have faced this, you know what
we’re in store for.
“Annie A!” is the Matriarch of four generations.
Over 21 years she mothered six children. I am
#6. Mom has more than 20 grandchildren and
30-something great-grandchildren. On special
days like Mom’s 75th and 80th birthdays, they
all came together to honor her. We need our
own hall just to hold the “immediate” family.
Mom is part old country; full-blooded hot Italian,
West Virginia born and raised, and part New World;
New York sassy and street-wise from living most of
her adult life in the Big Apple megalopolis.
Physically, she’s healthy for her 87 years; with no
chronic disease and only a few minor ailments. But
the scourge of the Alzheimer’s has taken its toll. It
brings its own heinous brand of misery to the end
game.
Mom is not in pain, and the little time she is not
asleep, she knows who is around her. I can’t say
she’s blissful, but from what everyone describes,
she seems peaceful. Knowing that soothes my
spirit, but it doesn’t heal the hurt.
It’s during the end game that we appreciate how
precious time is. It forces us to step in front of the
mirror and reflect, what it means to be alive and
what’s really important.
Life pushes my nose up against the window to my
future without Mom’s physical presence. I’m
comforted by memories of a lifetime. I know her
spirit is and always will be inside of me.
During the end game, what’s precious appears
crystal clear. Pettiness gives way; love emerges.
It reminds us to live more fully every day; not
take any one for granted, yet not take any one
too seriously, either. Life is best when it’s lived
as a game to play, not a sentence to endure.
We see that, in the end, having has little meaning.
Being is what really matters. Given the choice of
having or being, who wouldn’t choose more being?
Mom lived simply, and simply lived. She brought
people together all of her life. From the day she
married Dad she was never alone. She always had
him, her children, dozens of grandchildren and
dozens and dozens of great-grandchildren around
her. She is blessed beyond words.
The other night, I explained what we face to Adam.
It was not an easy conversation. It was time for him
to understand the inevitable. I think it shattered his
world. High testosterone 15-year old boys can’t
grasp the concept of mortality. And really, why
should they? They are in the bloom of life.
I could see the fear of vulnerability in his eyes.
The belly punch punctured his bubble of invincibility,
and he came face to face with the inevitability that
there are things in life Dad has no answer for, and
events over which we have no power to control.
I was sad to bring him news that would forever alter
his world view. It was a passage I hoped we could
put off for a few more years, but it was not to be.
I am blessed to have Mom in my life, every day of
my life. There’s no better legacy, no higher testimony
to a life well lived than to be surrounded by people
you love and who love you.
The end game is the ultimate teacher.
It teaches us that in the end, love is what matters most.
Annie A is surrounded by love. God has blessed her.
Mom, thanks for giving me life.
Thanks for giving me love.
Be at peace.
I love you, Mom.
Mitch
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