This is a Glass Box Media Podcast.

In this episode at the Ziggler show,

Jess Ekstrom is back with me to share her habits for success

and the difficulty she has in finding calm and clarity,

which she's come to realize are foundational for her life and her gut reaction to start doing is not the answer. Welcome everyone, I'm Kevin Miller, and this is the Ziegler show where our focus is increasing

your performance in your personal and professional life,

drawing straight from the legacy of one of the most inspiring leaders of our age, Zig Zig Zig Zigler.

This is my habits episode. I do with almost every guest because what you hear is all these leaders and high achievers are just real regular people. They are not special, but they are real regular people who get superior results from their lives

because they choose to do special things, things you and I can do too.

Jess Ekstrom, she's the renowned founder of Headbands of Hope and was my guest in

episode 845 where we talked about the strategy of optimism. This again is my habit show and she began by citing coffee

as her first priority habit of the day which will endear her to many of you as it did me.

But then she hit on something really close to home for me in saying she's come to realize

the value of seeking calm and clarity before she lets her day get rolling. She often wakes with anxiety

and angst in the morning with so many

thoughts swimming in her head and she used to try and address it by doing things

but now knows that that doesn't calm her. So even unplugging just for 10 minutes to focus on her breathing and then

making sense of her thoughts by writing them down because then they don't seem

so scary and she shares how long she went with her goal to get to zero in essence, you know, cross everything off the

to-do list and be calm, but she says, I've never been at zero. I'll always be getting

there. There's never been an arrival. And I think right there, so many of you will resonate as I did

and will want to hear more from Jess.

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