97 | Creating Space + Keeping Promises to Yourself
She's So Lucky
She's So Lucky
4.8 • 2.8K Ratings
🗓️ 22 June 2021
⏱️ 24 minutes
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Summary
Ask yourself, what is it that you truly want? Where do you want to be?
What does your best life look like? How do you want to feel?
Many people think being busy and piling more work on your plate means you’re productive and making more money but that is not reality. Busy is not a badge of honor.
In this episode, I’m opening up about my struggles with creating space in my life to do the things I truly love and that bring me joy. During a recent meditation, I realized that a lot of my actions are actually creating the exact opposite effect of what it is I want to feel. And that a lot of my daily actions are the exact opposite of what I actually tend to preach on this show.
Trust me, I'm not all-knowing or perfectly balanced. Sometimes we need to call ourselves in and have those moments of honesty and I am no exception.
Tune in to hear ways to create space in your life from exactly where you are and with exactly what you have.
In this episode, I discuss:
- Why it’s important to reflect on what you want your life to look like
- Ways to intentionally create more space
- Setting goals that set you up for success
- How to detach yourself from time
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Balanced Black Girl, a podcast dedicated to mental, physical, and emotional |
| 0:10.2 | health from the Black woman's perspective. |
| 0:13.1 | Tune in to hear from Black woman health and wellness experts giving the approachable |
| 0:17.2 | advice you need to help you feel your best. |
| 0:20.2 | I'm your host, Lestrandra Alfred, let's dive in. |
| 0:27.3 | Thank you for tuning into Balanced Black Girl. |
| 0:29.0 | My name is Lest, I am your host, and I am so happy to have you here. |
| 0:34.6 | I'm continuing my current run of solo episodes, so if you've been following along the past |
| 0:39.6 | few weeks, I really hope you're enjoying them. |
| 0:41.5 | I've really enjoyed the opportunity to speak directly to you, to get to know you better, |
| 0:46.8 | to have you get to know me better. |
| 0:49.9 | And I'm really excited for today's conversation. |
| 0:52.6 | It is one that came to me during meditation the other day, and I haven't been able to get |
| 0:58.2 | it off my mind ever since, I actually had a different episode planned for today, but |
| 1:04.5 | after having that realization, I was like, I gotta get this on the podcast right now. |
| 1:09.4 | So a few days ago, I was doing a guided meditation, and the theme was about living your best |
| 1:15.8 | life. |
| 1:17.2 | And during the meditation, I started envisioning what my best life looked like, and what |
| 1:22.4 | I wanted my best life to feel like. |
| 1:26.0 | And I realized that a lot of my actions today are actually creating the exact opposite |
| 1:32.3 | effect than what it is I want to feel. |
| 1:36.0 | And that a lot of my daily actions are the exact opposite of what I actually tend to preach |
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