682: Look Up

Shameless Leadership

Sara Dean

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

4.7 • 800 Ratings

🗓️ 5 September 2022

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

When we get overwhelmed or frustrated or feel the universe is working against us, we tend to drop our heads, metaphorically and literally. We stop seeing the good around us. We stop seeing potential. We stop seeing opportunity. We look down and miss the magic that is right in front of us, if not passing us by. I’m only able to describe this because I’ve been there. When I feel overwhelmed or rejected or frustrated, it’s easy for me to start to shrink. And in that shrinking, I become fixed on the fact that I cannot fix what is broken and no one else can fix it, either. Sometimes my husband will offer solutions and I will excitedly point out how they are all awful - because EVERYTHING IS WRONG AND BROKEN right now. But when I step back for a moment - typically a few hours and a good workout - I can start to see how he may be right. There might just be a few options that could work just fine, even if they are not the exact options I initially had in mind. This happened recently when we learned we would need to get a new car - that we were not planning for in 2022. I had a meltdown because there were just NO GOOD OPTIONS. To be fair, this is a really sucky time to buy a car, but… BUT… there are still options. As he laid out some options for us, I shut down. None of his options were my top picks for options. I went to bed quiet and grumpy. The next morning, I was able to see where he had some good points. There are options and a decent number of them are, well, decent. If you’re a Type A person like me, you might be quick to look down, lock up, and to lock out possibilities when you feel like things are not working out for you. In this episode, I’m going to invite you to LOOK UP. When we look up, everything shifts. There are options and alternatives galore - and often they are even better than what we originally thought we wanted. Link mentioned: Join my free workshop: How to Calm Your Chaos & Let Go of Your Crap: shamelessmom.com/calm Sponsor info and promo codes: Please find our sponsor information here: shamelessmom.com/sponsor/ Interested in becoming a sponsor of the Shameless Mom Academy? Email our sales team at sales@adalystmedia.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	This is the Shameless Mom Academy episode 682.
0:04.0	Show notes for this episode, including any links mentioned in the episode, can be found by going to
0:08.0	shameless mom.com and clicking on episode 682.
0:17.0	Welcome to the Shameless Mom Academy. I'm your host, Sarah Dean.
0:20.0	I'm here to give you and other
0:22.2	passionate, driven, unapologetic moms, tools, resources, and a little bit of humor to help you lead
0:28.4	more positive, powerful, and purposeful lives every damn day. One of the best things about the
0:33.8	Shameless Mom Academy is our community. So be sure to join us in our free private
0:37.8	Facebook group to connect with other shameless moms just like you. You can find us over at
0:42.7	shamelessomom.com forward slash Facebook. All right, let's dive into today's episode.
0:52.5	Hello, Shameless moms. Happy Monday. If you're listening in live time, it's Labor Day. I almost said Memorial Day. No, summer is behind us. It is not in front of us. And some of you might be happy about that. Some of you might be sad. All I care is that school is back in session. That's all that matters. So happy back to school for those of you
1:13.2	who are like me and have kids that don't go back to school until way too late in the summer.
1:17.8	We are all officially now in session and oh my goodness, so so delighted by that. I think some of you
1:23.6	don't go back till tomorrow at the very latest, but like you're there. You've made it.
1:28.5	You've officially made it.
1:34.4	You can take off your summer mom crown and put on your school year mom crown, which is different.
1:34.9	It's different.
1:40.3	So anyway, if you're listening in a live time, I hope that you're having a lovely holiday weekend here in the U.S.
1:41.7	and having some quality time doing something fun in the sun.
1:44.8	And we're going to dig in today. And this episode is about, it's kind of a follow-up to an
1:51.4	episode I did about rejection a couple weeks ago. And I thought this might be helpful because it's
1:56.7	definitely something that I struggle with when I'm in a season of whether it's a season of like
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