I'm Jody Moore at Bold New Mom. This is episode number 113. Appreciation, gratitude, abundance, and desire.

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Hey everybody, welcome to episode number 113. Appreciation, gratitude, abundance, and desire.

Before I get into this episode, I want to give you guys a heads up that I'm coming back to Utah because I want to work with you.

I want to hang out with you for a whole day. So mark your calendar for November 4th.

I will have more details next week where you can go to learn all about this day. But for today, here's what I want you to know.

We're going to work together for good six or seven hours. We're going to have fun and connect and have some good food and get to know one another and we're going to do some work on your brain.

I love working on people's brains in person. There's nothing that compares to the experience of being together and the energy that we have in our together and just the magnitude of how much work we can accomplish when we spend a day together working on your brain.

So again, November 4th, mark your calendar. Next week, I will have a link for you to go and learn all about that day where it is, what the cost is, everything else that you might need to know to decide if it's for you.

I have a little confession to make. I just recorded a podcast episode 113 for you. And I got to the end and I was like, this isn't good. This isn't my best work.

There's just something off about this topic and the way I covered it. And I'm going to just start all over with a brand new topic and somebody in the B-Bold community in my coaching program made a request just yesterday or today that I talk about these topics appreciation gratitude and abundance. And so I decided let's do that instead.

So normally I write myself a long outline and I speak to the points on the outline. And so I know kind of what I'm going to cover. And today I didn't do that. I just decided I'm going to talk to you about this other topic and it's going to be completely off the cuff. So hopefully my brain will be organized enough that you'll be able to follow me and I'll get you some great content here. But I love this topic. I want to talk about these words. They all kind of overlap and have similar meanings.

And they're all things that I think are amazing parts of life and that will create an amazing life for us. They're also words appreciation gratitude abundance desire.

There are words that describe emotions that are not where our brain wants to go a lot of the time. They're not emotions that naturally our brain finds to be useful because remember our brains think that we should avoid negativity.

We should just seek joy and comfort and that everything should be easy. And so it's constantly looking out for danger or trouble or anything that would get in the way of those things which prevents it from feeling those amazing emotions.

That ironic how our brains do that. It's so crazy. Anyway, I want to talk to you just a little bit about the difference between these things. Obviously desire the last one is quite different from the other three, but I'll tell you why in a minute I grouped it in with these.

But I do want to break down my interpretation of how I utilize these words, how I think about these emotions for myself. So that doesn't mean that I'm right. You can have a totally different way to think about them.

And that's okay. I just find that for me thinking about them in kind of these different levels is useful in terms of what I'm trying to invite and creating my life. Okay. So I want to talk first of all about appreciation.

Appreciation is a word that I like to use when I'm thinking about myself when I'm trying to build my own confidence or make myself feel validated or worthy or good enough because my brain naturally doesn't want to do that.

My brain naturally wants to notice what's wrong with me and why can't I be better and thinner and prettier and younger and smarter and funnier and everything else right. That's where my brain naturally wants to go.

I recently had a videographer send me back a video of my talk in Salt Lake and then a photographer takes images of me and as soon as I see those videos or images of course my brain's like oh my goodness I have no idea I looked so ridiculous or whatever else right all the negative thoughts want to come naturally.

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