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Optimal Living Daily - Personal Development and Self-Improvement

980: Personal Revolution by Allison Task

Optimal Living Daily - Personal Development and Self-Improvement

Optimal Living Daily LLC

Education, Mental Health, Self-improvement, Health & Fitness

4.63.2K Ratings

🗓️ 17 August 2018

⏱️ 7 minutes

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Summary

1 chapter from Personal Revolution by Allison Task. Episode 980: Personal Revolution by Allison Task (Taking Control of Your Life & Creating a Positive Vision). Allison Task is a career and life coach who has helped hundreds of people transform their lives. By actively pursuing meaningul personal and career goals, Allison's clients have changed careers, launched companies, retired early, moved their families across the country and around the world. Allison has a degree in Human Development and Family Studies from Cornell University, a coaching certificate and Master's Degree from the Institute of Culinary Education. She lives with her husband and their four children in Montclair, New Jersey and is the author of Personal Revolution: How To Be Happy, Change Your Life, and Do That Thing You've Always Wanted To Do. Learn more about Allison and her book here: http://allisontask.com/book/ Visit Me Online at OLDPodcast.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

This is Optimal Living Daily Episode 980,

0:03.1

an excerpt from the book Personal Revolution by Allison Task.

0:07.2

And I'm Justin Malik, your personal narrator, reading blogs to you mostly,

0:10.8

but sometimes books like today.

0:12.8

The author is Allison Task. She's a career in life coach.

0:16.1

You find a lot more about her and her book at AllisonTask.com.

0:20.4

Allison is with two Ls.

0:22.0

And of course, I'll have that linked in this episode's description.

0:24.8

Now let's get right to it as we optimize your life.

0:30.9

An excerpt from the book Personal Revolution by Allison Task.

0:36.9

Imagine that your friend has been working toward a big goal and is mad at themselves on a

0:41.0

week-to-week basis because there's one thing on there to do list that never gets done.

0:46.0

Of course, they are getting many other things done and their focus is on that one thing that

0:50.4

isn't happening. How would you handle this? Most people would help their friend focus on the

0:55.5

six things they're doing well. They'd take time to help the friend acknowledge what they have

0:59.6

achieved, redirecting their friend to the success. Increasing your self-compassion will take you

1:05.1

to your goal more efficiently and make the process more pleasant. If your goal is to work out five

1:10.8

days a week and that level of fitness will contribute to your happiness, self-compassion is the skill

1:16.4

of not beating yourself up over a week when you miss a workout or two. Self-compassion is what will

1:21.5

keep you from defeating yourself by letting your inner critic wear you down or convince you to give

1:26.3

up. Self-compassion lets you stick to your process by protecting you from moments of self-sabotage.

1:33.2

Many of us have been trained to think that achieving our goals is a matter of dogly pushing forward

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