Some of us have just not gotten to the place where we see the possibility that's right in front of us with these humans that we otherwise love and care about.

That's the opportunity I want to want to present. Like make that better.

Welcome to the one you feed.

Throughout time, great thinkers have recognized the importance of the thoughts we have, quotes like garbage in, garbage out, or you are what you think, ring true.

And yet for many of us, our thoughts don't strengthen or empower us. We tend toward negativity, self-pity, jealousy or fear.

We see what we don't have instead of what we do. We think things that hold us back and dampen our spirit.

But it's not just about thinking, our actions matter. It takes conscious, consistent and creative effort to make a life worth living.

This podcast is about how other people keep themselves moving in the right direction, how they feed their good wolf.

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On the new podcast, The Turning, Room of Mirrors, we look beneath the delicate veneer of American ballet and the culture formed by its most influential figure, George Balangine.

He used to say, what are you looking at, dear? You can't see you, only I can see you.

What you're doing is larger than yourself, almost like a religion. Like he was a god.

Listen to The Turning, Room of Mirrors on the iHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts.

Thanks for joining us. Our guest on this episode is Charlie Gilkey, an author, speaker and founder of Productive Flourishing, a website that helps creatives, leaders, and people.

Start finishing the stuff that matters. Charlie is routinely featured, showcased or highlighted in places like B, N, E, T, time, Forbes, The Guardian, Lifehacker and more.

Today Eric and Charlie discuss a host of topics, including his upcoming book.

Hi Charlie, welcome to the show.

Eric, I'm so delighted to be back and to be talking in this context.

Yeah, last time we had you on, it was a great conversation. I loved your book, but your and I's relationship was just sort of getting to know each other.

We have since worked with you for a couple years, really as sort of genuineized coach. I would say business coach, but that doesn't really get to the depth that we go to.

So business slash mindset slash life coach. And that's been a wonderful relationship.

And so when we were thinking about like, okay, new year stuff, what are topics? You know, you just came to mind as somebody who with your book start finishing with all the work that you do that, you know, I thought we could make a conversation that we really useful for people as they are thinking about kind of the rest of the year.

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