Hello and welcome to the Empower Couples podcast.

We're here you get modern, non-boring relationship advice for you and your partner to communicate like pros, fight smarter, and stay in the same team no matter the challenge that you face. I am one of your host, Aaron Freeman. And I'm Jocelyn Freeman, but you all just know us as the Freeman's. And welcome to this motivational moment episode for if you're feeling discouraged right now. Motivational moment. This is a new kind of episode that we are going to try out and see that it makes a difference for you guys. It's going to be brief. Every week, it's going to be about something that you can shift in your mindset, your perspective. In a way, we wanted to just give you some juice, right? Like we want you to listen to it and be like, all right, I'm feeling motivated.

I'm feeling fired up.

Or you don't even have to feel fired up.

You could just feel better than you did before you listened. Right? Yeah, sometimes it feels a little routine or mundane and you feel like you just need that extra boost. I know that's why we meditate and have cacao and listen to something almost every single,

basically every single day is so that we just get that momentum going and that's what we want

to do for you here as a partner in a relationship. Yeah. So again, this episode is specifically

if you're feeling discouraged right now. So if you're feeling discouraged and it could be in any area of your life. Yes, this is a couple's podcast, so it can be your relationship, but maybe where you're feeling discouraged is actually in your business or with how parenting is going or maybe your health journey. So you can apply today's episode to any area you're feeling discouraged. Now, if you're discouraged, it's because something is missing, right?

Something is missing because you have a certain goal.

Like you want a certain relationship with your kids, but maybe they aren't talking to you

and telling you, you know, what they're feeling.

And so that to you makes you feel discouraged. Or maybe you wish telling you, you know, what they're feeling. And so that to you makes you

feel discouraged. Or maybe you wish that you were further in your health journey and you're not

there. So there is some goal that you have or way you think it should be and you're discouraged

because something is missing or you're not there yet. And before we jump right into the motivation, I do want to say sometimes you're not as

clear about what that result or outcome is.

I know for me sometimes I wake up and I sort of carry the energy from one day to the next.

So I feel kind of an underlying disappointment.

One key thing is just to actually pinpoint what is the one

thing, the outcome, the result that's being unfulfilled right now that's bringing me this feeling

of discouragement. Now, the next thing, here we go. It's not about the result. It's not about

the outcome, right, because life is about, and so is your relationship, the journey. It's about

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