I Wanna Be Me When I Grow Up

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Today we are talking about the role organization plays in a well lived life. The phrase I use for this is another I borrowed directly from author and podcaster Gretchen Rubin - Outer Order = Inner Calm.

One of my superpowers is making order out of chaos. Unfortunately, our greatest strengths are also very often our greatest weaknesses.

In order to use my superpower ...

Welcome back to I Wanna Be Me When I Grow Up. My name is Kara.

In today's episode we're talking about one of my favorite subjects - recharging your batteries as a human being. Let's get straight into it.

All work and no play makes Kara a dull person.... It probably makes you a pretty dull person too. So, what does it mean to play - and more importantly to recharge your batteries - as an adult?

We are working our way throug...

I met a friend I used to work with for coffee this morning. We got caught up on all the parts of our lives that you don't see on social media. While we text each other from time to time in between our coffee meetings, it's these get togethers that allow us to really connect deeply.

There are two elements to our coffee meeting that I think relate to the aspect of relationships. First, we met through work and neither of us work ther...

Welcome back to I Wanna Be Me When I Grow Up. My name is Kara.

My American listeners know that one of the most common questions American's ask one another on meeting is "what do you do?" We put a lot of stock in this country and culture on productivity - but what happens when your identify shifts in a day? Today, I'm sharing Vital Area 2 - Productivity or what I call Show Up and Shine

I wasn't sure what I'd share with you today but...

Welcome back to I Wanna Be Me When I Grow Up. My name is Kara. I've battled my weight all my life. Health and energy are not second nature to me. Today we'll talk about how I use healthy choices to gain energy - a key dimension of wellness.

Today we're talking about the first of what author and podcaster Gretchen Rubin call the Vital 9 - and which I symbolize in my life as Make Healthy Choices.

This phrase - Make Healthy Choices - ...

Welcome back to I Wanna Be Me When I Grow Up. My name is Kara.

When I did my undergrad at Ball State University, the campus community made a big deal out of the fact that we lived in Residence Halls rather than dorms - because they were supposed to be places where we learned about all of these different dimensions of wellness - they weren't just where we slept and ate. I don't think it mattered what you called them but it was the f...

Today, we're going to wrap up our look at finding and living your values with a classic exercise for finding your values - but with a little twist.

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For many people, when they think of finding their values, they think of the most iconic exercise for finding your values which is to read through a list of words - usually a random list - and choose the words that speak to t...

I spend more time with me than with anyone else on this planet - and yet, some days, even I'm not sure what I want or how I am seen. Sometimes, the best picture we can take of ourself is one taken by someone else.

Welcome back to I Wanna Be Me When I Grow Up. My name is Kara.

As I mentioned yesterday, this is the most challenging exercise I will share with you - probably in the entire 30 day series of these daily episodes. But so...

Today we begin a series of three exercises you can use to find or refine your values. Just like the Ideal Day exercise I shared previously, these are great at any time that you're feeling unsettled in your life a need to gain a little clarity around your values.

Hi everyone. I'm Kara. Welcome back to I Wanna Be Me When I Grow Up. 

Today, I'm sharing the first of three exercises you can use to find or refine your values. I call...

Our values may not come up in day to day conversations or activities - but we should know what it looks like when we act in alignment with our values. Today, I'm offering two simple frameworks to help you identify how you see your values in your life. 

Our values are a part of who we are and what we do - but that doesn't mean they are automatic. 

We need to occasionally check in with our values to ensure that we are seein...

We should see our values play out in our lives. When we don't, we know that we are out of alignment with our own chosen values. Today, we're going to talk about two ways to determine if you're in alignment with your values.

Hi everyone. It's Kara. Welcome back to I Wanna Be Me When I Grow Up.

I can't source the quote, "Don’t tell me what you value, show me your calendar and your checkbook, and I’ll tell you what you value." but it ...

Yesterday I asked you to explore how your values are linked to the other driving forces in your life like morals and ethics. Today, I'm inviting you to spend some time as you listen to the episode - and maybe a little extra time with a journal or digital file - beginning to identify your values.

I am going to walk you through a visualization today. If you are someplace you can close your eyes and that is comfortable for you...

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• Today's activity: What is the visual that shows how ethics, morals, and values and other important guiding forces in your life work together for you?
• Today's question: What other meanings for values did I miss? What questions do you have for this series?

My life motto of "I Wanna Be Me When I Grow Up" became a guide for how I live m...

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A few weeks ago, I wrote an article in my newsletter introducing the acronym GATE. Today, I'm going to share that acronym with you and expand on it...

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