229: On Dreading vs Dreaming

Shameless Leadership

Sara Dean

Self-improvement, How To, Business, Management, Education

4.7 • 800 Ratings

🗓️ 7 May 2018

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

If you struggle with chronic worry or anxiety, it is very likely you go through life spending more time dreading what lies ahead than dreaming about the magic you may be about to encounter. Can you relate? As someone who has made it my lifelong, full-time job to worry about everything (I mean everrrrrything), I can tell you I have wasted a lot of time and energy dreading, well, life. And it has been a total waste. Dread doesn’t serve you. At all. Dread doesn’t make your outcomes better. It doesn’t get you to your goals faster. It doesn’t make anything enjoyable. Dread makes you feel powerless, exhausted and often defeated – before you’ve even tried taking action. Like I said – a TOTAL waste. On the other hand, dreaming is expansive and promising. It helps you feel optimistic, hopeful, inspired and energized. Dreaming about your day instead of dreading it can change the way you approach a situation, the way you take action, and the outcomes that you create for yourself. So, how do we go from dreading to dreaming??? Listen in to this episode to learn how to: Change hopelessness into hopefulness Visualize a future you’re totally fired up about (whether it’s just getting through today or powering through the next 5 years) Turn anxiety into action. Thank you to out sponsors: Canvas People: To get a FREE 11x14 canvas print (just pay shipping) of any of your photos, text SHAMELESS to 99000. Tula: TULA is the first skincare company to combine probiotics with other key ingredients to address all your skin’s needs. To get 20% off your order go to Tula and use the code SHAMELESS at checkout. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	This is the Shameless Mom Academy, episode 229.
0:04.0	Show notes for this episode, including all links mentioned in the episode, and any discount codes mentioned from our sponsors, can be found by going to shamelessmom.com and clicking on episode 229.
0:18.7	Welcome to the Shameless Mom Academy.
0:29.4	I'm your host, Sarah Dean, and I'm here to give you and other passionate, dedicated moms the tools you need to bridge the gap between motherhood and living the life of your dreams.
0:37.9	I'm also here to help you be a little more shameless every day, because if you aren't building a life, you're extraordinarily proud of, What kind of legacy are you building? So let's dive in. Hello, shameless moms. So happy to be here today. It is sunny in Seattle,
0:47.2	so I have a pep in my step and I'm feeling a little fired up. I'm also recording earlier in the day
0:53.0	because I kind of have my act together a little bit today.
0:56.2	I'm being like very intentional with how I prioritize time today. So I'm kind of feeling on top of
1:00.9	the world. Not going to lie. I want to thank you all for your feedback from the last episode
1:05.7	about selling my gym. It's been a pretty exciting transition. I'm not going to lie. It's been really exciting
1:12.5	and bittersweet too for sure, but I'm very excited and I feel like things are moving in a really
1:18.5	positive direction and I just had some time to process this because the whole transaction
1:23.9	took longer than it was expected to. So that really allowed me to be in a positive
1:28.5	place by the time the transition was done. So I'm feeling really good about that. And that actually
1:33.1	is kind of what inspired today's episode on dreading versus dreaming, because I will tell you
1:37.0	when I first set out to sell my gym, there was a lot of dread and fear and like panic,
1:43.5	anxiety, all those things. So I'm going to talk today a lot
1:47.1	about dreading versus dreaming and how that's impacted my life because I'm definitely someone who
1:51.4	is kind of naturally inclined to dread things because I struggle with worry and anxiety around
1:57.7	most things in life. But I've really trained myself to become more of a dreamer.
2:01.3	And that's been really, really cool and allowed me to feel way more powerful in my daily
2:05.7	life and way more in charge and in control of things. So before we dive into that, I do want to
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