The Peaceful Mind Podcast
Episode 77- Enjoy The Journey


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You are listening to Episode 77 of the Peaceful Mind podcast.
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Welcome to the Peaceful Mind podcast, a place for creating the peace of mind, you need to be the best mom you were created by God to be. If you want to bring more balance, more joy in more peace to your motherhood. This is the place for you. I'm your host, certified life coach at Catholic mom Danielle Thienel. In the name of the father of the son and of the Holy Spirit.
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Let's get started.
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Hi, everyone, how are you? I am feeling amazing, and I'm so excited that today is just all about podcasting. I am in such a high energy as I have come up with some subjects that I can't wait to turn them into podcasts and get them out to you. Some are so exciting to me that I'm like, OK, how can I wait for six more weeks for them to hear it? Because I kind of take a day where I'm where I batch the episodes and that's what I'm doing today when I find myself in such an energy that is all about you, my listeners out there where I just take myself and say, somebody is suffering out there.
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Somebody does not know this amazing tool that I have, or I just want to connect with someone and let them know that they're not alone, that you're not broken, that there is help out there. And there are those that just, I want to have them hear this and be like, Oh, I never looked at that before. Or that's such like a fun thing that I'm going to try today. And as you can tell by the title of this episode, from what I'm going to start has to do with this high energy of joy.
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I right now feel so much joy for what is going on in my life. And here we are. This episode will come out at the end of January, and I'll probably reference this in the next couple of episodes. Where are you all in your like kind of New Year's goals resolutions, if that's what you call them? Because usually like towards the end of the month and maybe you're still in that, you know, kind of good feeling about it and you've made some progress, but maybe not.
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Maybe you're in a place where it's kind of a waning or it was harder than you thought, or maybe even you stopped or you, you, you just you quit going on it towards your goal. And I just want to remind you that it's OK and that it isn't. We all veer off our path and it doesn't mean anything about you. It just has to do with overcoming these, this part of your brain that is meant for us to survive, right? It doesn't like change and sometimes really kind of committing into this new way of life.
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It takes change and our brain doesn't like that. But where I want to steer you all today and where I want to just dive in now is I want to this episode to be a reminder for you to enjoy the journey, enjoy your life as you progress, as you go towards your goals, as the days go by. Here's the thing. When people come to me and they want help and they want to like, achieve a certain thing, maybe they want to have a stronger marriage.
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Maybe they want to change jobs. Maybe you want to like, you know, stop feeling guilty all the time. Maybe you want to carve out time in your life for self-care. There's just so many things that us moms, right? Are we that we juggle and that we wish for our families in our own lives? And then we get overwhelmed with where to start. But there's one sort of misconception that I want to address today, and that is there is no need to delay enjoyment of this life for you to feel accomplished and proud and happy and peaceful and joyful.
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You don't have to delay that. And only feel it when you've achieved the thing, when you've reached the goal, when you've captured the flag at the top of the mountain. I would say that that could look like when you have a certain number on the scale, when you have a certain number in your bank account, when you finally what, have a job that you think is fulfilling and you love all the people around you when you finally have your kids, you know, all settled when you finally have them all, maybe back to school so you have more time for yourself.
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It's always if we are putting our brain always in this place of then only then when I accomplish this, then I will, you know, you fill in the blank. It's too late. Listeners, it's too late. Mamas, we don't get the time back, and sometimes it does take patience to reach our goals. It does take God's timing.
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And even though we want something sooner, he might have a different plan. Right. And so and we're always going to have circumstances that come into our life that is, you know, we're going to deem as negative or stopping us from doing something or we didn't expect it. And we can attribute to, Oh, well, that's the reason why I've got to kind of redirect or why I'm not making progress. Or maybe it's something that causes you to feel sad or disappointed or frustrated.
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But I want you to know that once you achieve your goal, you, you may feel joy then. But I want to ask you, why would you want to put off feeling that joy only when you reach a certain destination? I mean. Seriously, do you have a good reason to wait? What would your reason be? What do you gain from your life if you hold off feeling joy and happiness only when a certain thing is completed or takes place? So you're only going to feel calm or happy or organized about your home only when all of it is done and organized.
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Yeah, but do you know that you could feel calm and organized and good about your home on the way to organizing it? Yeah, this is where I want you to re direct your brain this week and to think about your life in why delay joy? It is all around us. And you're actually the one that creates joy. We don't want to wait for something outside of us to to bring it to us.
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We want to create it for ourselves and we create joy, the feeling of happiness in our bodies when we direct our brain to think thoughts that make us happy, that feel joyous. And it is that simple. So what is it that you're trying to attain and what is it right now in your life that you think that things will be better and that you'll finally feel good when that thing happens when you have that experience? I just want to do a little example about a like a trip when we have something planned in our future, right? We might believe like, Oh, that's going to be so fun once we get there, once we go on that vacation, but we can create fun along the way.
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Right? Thinking about the place? Maybe it's even months down the road. But when you think about, Oh, what am I going to buy in order to wear on that trip or what are the excursions we're going to do that are going to be so fun and just by thinking about it? Do you see how you can get like, excited and you can feel happy because you're taking your brain to a place where you're imagining it all of the joy that you'll have when you're on that, you know, vacation? And so what is it that you are reaching towards right now that you can ask yourself and say, OK, that's going to happen no matter what? I'm going to make that happen, but I'm not going to delay feeling excited and joy about it until the day when I achieve it.
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I'm going to start directing my mind, thinking about how I can make my life more fun now on my way to that goal. All right, everybody. Here's the thing. We all have the ability to create whatever feeling we want, and joy is a big one. And it is a misconception that we are going to feel happy and joyous all the time. It's just not part of life, right? Can we all kind of see that it isn't something that's really going to happen for all of us? We are going to have things that come into our life that has us feeling negative emotion.
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However, I just want you to know that you are the creator of it all the time and that once we reach a goal and achieve it, we're still going to be that human being that will experience both the joy and the sadness and disappointment and all the array of negative feelings that come in all the array of positive feelings that come. But it will be fleeting because we can't sustain this way of joy because of the circumstances that come in and out of our life.
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But what I'm asking you today to think about is not delaying it today. What do you not want to put off feeling? What can you create for yourself today that feels joyous? We need to enjoy the journey. And when you aren't enjoying the journey, noticing that and then bringing yourself back to the power that you have to say, how can I make this more fun? What about this could be joyous if this doesn't feel good, what could I do? What do I want to thank in order to feel more joy again? We are not promised tomorrow, so we may not even get to the goal that we set out, or we might change our minds and go a different route.
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So don't delay start today, enjoy this one life we get. Enjoy the time that will pass us anyway, so we don't want to wait and delay to feel joy, enjoy the journey, enjoy where your life is right now and make it a make it a goal of yours to enjoy and find something to enjoy every day as you travel towards your goals.
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OK. That's what I have for you today. And then I want to ask you this if you haven't yet signed up for a free call with me. Why not? What is holding you back? Are you in a place where you feel like you are making great progress in the areas of your life that you are? If not, one call can help you focus and get some clarity and come away with something that you weren't thinking about before.
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That could change everything. I know this because I have lived it. I had one coaching call that changed the trajectory of my life forever and that I offer this call knowing that whether you decide to work with me or not, or to get on the path of having a life coach that supports and believes in you. Even so, I know that you will walk away with a different perspective and some relief and some more focus.
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And I love that idea, and I want to connect with my listeners. So go ahead, get on that calendar and sign up for a call. And I can't wait to meet you. Have a great rest of your week, and I will talk to you again soon. Thank you for tuning in to today's episode of the Peaceful Mind podcast. Are you ready to take everything I teach you here and put it to work for your own life to really learn how to have peace of mind, no matter what is happening around you? If so, I'd love to have you as a client, as your coach.
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This is where you'll get personal and focus time on your own mind using life coaching tools, concepts and proven life transforming wisdom all through a faith filled lens. To learn more about how we can work together. Come on over to DanielleThienel.com. There you'll see how to sign up for a free coaching consult and learn how to get started. Until next time. Peace be with you always.
