Hey everyone, Vancouver Radio, what's happening?

So it's a Monday short show and today, like ever,

I want to make you think and hopefully give you a practical tool

to positively move forward.

Now, the framing of this is negativity or frustration or stress.

Now, when I work with clients, when I look to improve their lives, whatever

it is they're trying to achieve and my own, the best place to start for me is the frustrations that we're currently experiencing.

Because what happens in the stages of kind of motivation or the desire to change is we can't

quite often focus on the things that we want to implement.

And this is fine, this is great, we want to do that, but we also want to look at what is not going right and if you try and bring more

things into your life and change things on top of things that you're already

frustrated about the chances are it's going to be hard to achieve the things that you want to achieve,

to implement the things you want to implement because there's already things in the way, there's already

frustrations, there's already frustrations is already stress so you can do this in

tandem with wanting to change things for the positive or just focus on this for now and then look to improve and implement things you want to improve.

Now what I want you to do in this process is carry around a diary or a piece of paper or a note on your iPhone, Android, whatever.

And essentially what we're doing is we're assessing and taking note of a particular negative mood or

frustration or stress and what we want to do is you want to make a note we want to observe potential patterns and then in a non-emotional state create solutions.

If we try and do it in the moment, we won't have full insight, we won't be fully objective, we won't have full insight we won't be fully objective we won't

think logically about solution will be emotional about it and that can be a bit of

a jumble a bit of a mess and we'll generally find it frustrating.

So let's say you're going about your day today and there's a stress or a frustration or you get

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