193. Less Trying, More Deciding

The Widowed Mom Podcast

Krista St-Germain

Mental Health, Grief, Deathofpartner, Education, Widowedmom, Deathofspouse, Widow, Lossoflovedone, Health & Fitness, Husbanddied, Self-improvement, Posttraumaticgrowth, Lifeafterloss, Overcominggrief

4.6 • 649 Ratings

🗓️ 6 February 2023

⏱️ 17 minutes

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Summary

Whether it’s a raise, getting better at saying no, starting a side hustle, or to date again, your goals matter. Hear how to keep your goals and dreams alive by deciding, instead of letting them die because you’re just trying.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Widowed Mom podcast, episode 193, less trying, more deciding.
0:10.2	Welcome to the Widowed Mom podcast, the only podcast that offers a proven process to help you work through your grief to grow, evolve, and create a future you can truly look forward to.
0:24.2	Here's your host, Master Certified Life Coach, Grief Expert, Widow, and Mom, Krista St. Germain.
0:32.8	Hey there, welcome to another episode of the podcast. I'm recording this ahead of time, but as you are listening
0:38.3	to it, if you listen to it on the day it comes out, my baby goose, that's what I call my daughter,
0:44.0	will have just left for her semester in Spain. So I know I'm going to be feeling the feelings
0:49.0	as you listen to this. But I am excited for her. It's such a great opportunity. I love her adventurous
0:56.0	spirit. It blows me away because honestly, at her age, I didn't even want to go away to a state
1:01.6	school, let alone another country. She liked roller coasters at four. I was barely being able to be
1:10.2	talked into a roller coaster as a teenager. I don't
1:14.3	know. She is my child. I was there when she was born. Like I did give birth to her, but sometimes,
1:19.2	I don't know. She's got an adventurous spirit that I just love to see. So that's what's happening
1:24.6	in my world. I want to talk to you today about something I've
1:28.7	been thinking about, which is how often I'm seeing us try when what we really need to do is
1:37.4	decide. So think about something in your life that you want. You want it in the future. You want it.
1:48.0	It doesn't have to be super near term, but you want it, right? Maybe you want to get a race.
1:53.0	Maybe you want to be more confident with money. Maybe you want to get better at saying no instead of people pleasing.
1:57.7	Maybe you want to start a side hustle or you completely want a career
2:02.0	change or you want to date again or you want to exercise. You want something. Think about something
2:07.3	you want to create or something you want to do differently in the future, even as a widowed mom.
2:12.8	Okay. You got it? Okay. Now, what would it be like to decide that it's happening, that you're doing it,
2:23.5	that it's as good as done? And how different will that feel compared to how you feel when you
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