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Tanya Wilson (00:03):
Welcome to the
Ladies Kickin' Ass Podcast,
where we help you ignite yourinner badass and create the
service business of your dreams.
I'm your host, tanya Wilson,and together we'll dive into
inspiring stories and expertcoaching to set your journey on
fire.
Hi ladies, welcome back toanother episode of the podcast.
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Merry Christmas.
I can't believe it is December.
I want to thank you all so muchfor your patience in me being
able to take a little bit oftime off.
I have been wow, just awhirlwind of things that are
going on right now, but finallygot my family of seven moved
into a new home.
And that's a lot of work, youknow, and I felt the whole time
like I was letting people down,I wasn't keeping up with my
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communication through thecommunity and I wasn't posting
podcasts as regularly.
And you know what, sometimes wejust come into a season where
we need to focus on somethingthat's happening personally in
our lives and we really need togive ourselves some damn grace.
And I don't know about you, butthat's kind of a tough one for
me.
It's super tough.
I want to be a high achiever, Iwant to show up, I don't want
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to disappoint anyone, and youknow what, sometimes you need to
just take a timeout.
You need to get your shit backin order and you need to be able
to come back and show up evenbetter than before.
So thank you so much for givingme the grace to be able to give
myself some grace.
Isn't that interesting how thatworks.
Yesterday I was listening to oneof my ultra calls with my ultra
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community through BrendanBurchard's growth day and they
were talking about givingyourself gifts, and what I
really drew from that was, likemy gosh, how many of us, as
working mamas, are drivingourselves into the ground right
now trying to make everybodyhappy, trying to make sure you
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got everybody and their dogsliterally a gift for Christmas,
that it's the perfect gift, thatit's perfectly wrapped, that
you're ready to go, that you'vegot food you're making for
dinners, that you're doing allthis exciting stuff for your
kids to make it magical duringChristmas?
I know I'm not alone in this,because I just had a great
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conversation about this with mycousin, erica this month and she
sent me a posting that she hadfound it was just a little meme
off of Facebook and it was sogood to the point of it's great
to make everything wonderful foras many people as you can, but
when it comes at the cost of youand your sanity and your
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happiness, the truth of thematter is that people would
rather see you keep those thingsthan buy them the perfect gift,
and if they don't, you shouldreconsider having that person
around you in the first place.
But what it did yesterday, whenthinking about those two things
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together, was inspired me tosit down and really think.
What are some gifts that wecould give ourselves this
holiday season?
What are some gifts that wecould do to show up and be able
to be all the things that wewant to be and not drive
ourselves into the ground?
So I have put together a quicklittle list of 12 gifts that you
should highly consider givingyourself this holiday season,
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and I'm going to go ahead andconnect those with a link in the
show notes for a printableguide that you can easily print
out a little PDF, stick it onyour bathroom mirror, and I want
you to look at this everymorning.
I'm going to do the same andrealize that you deserve these
things.
Many times as moms.
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I know as a single mom for manyyears you maybe didn't even get
any presents.
Maybe you didn't even giftyourself something.
And what we need to realize isthat gifts are not always just
tangible things that come in apretty package with a bow.
Sometimes they're things wecan't see, but they're
incredible things that we needto fill.
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So let's start here with the 12gifts that you can give
yourself this Christmas.
Number one the gift ofreflection.
I want you to take time toanalyze how this year felt to
you Emotionally.
How did it feel Mentally?
How did it feel Physically?
How did your body feel thisyear?
Write down the good things thathappened and write down the
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challenging things that happened.
We're not going to sit here andbeat ourselves up with a bunch
of shit that we said we weregoing to do that we didn't do.
Okay.
This is just a quick analysisof how you felt this year.
Okay, don't say I was going tolose 50 pounds, but I didn't
lose 50 pounds, and then you godown that rabbit hole.
We're not going down thatrabbit hole, okay, babe.
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We are just seriously going toanalyze how we felt this year.
We're going to reflect, askyourself what worked, what
didn't, what brought joy to mylife this year, what drained me.
I know I could sit down andreflect on those things and I
could probably write and I mighteven tell myself a story.
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So I have a challenge for youin this one.
Since we're talking about thegift of reflection, do this.
Talking to yourself in themirror.
Nothing is more defining inyour life than when you have a
conversation directly with youin the mirror, and I'm not
saying just kind of look atyourself in the mirror Like if
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you got to get your cupa up onthe sink and sit there and
really stare at your eyes.
Talking to yourself in themirror, do it.
It is one of the most powerfulexercises.
When I am feeling doubtfulabout myself that I do that, man
that just turns that.
Switch back on like you gotthis.
Give yourself this clarity sothat you can start the new year
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with intention.
Let's make sure that we areliving a new year in 2025, not
just another year, okay.
Number two the gift ofperspective.
Remind yourself that anysetbacks you experience this
year are actually setups forsomething greater in 2025.
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Imagine how our years wouldchange if we just changed the
way we thought about that.
Right there, I was having agreat conversation with my
friend, nicole, and she wasreally kind of being down on
herself a little bit Like Idon't feel like I got as far as
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I needed to this year.
Those are character buildingyears, nicole.
Those are character buildingyears and everyone needs to hear
that, just because your revenuewasn't where it was supposed to
be, you learned so many skillsto be able to get that revenue.
Maybe they're this next year,maybe it won't be there for two
years, but you can't discreditthose character building years.
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I want you to share on a pieceof paper what some of the setups
were, setbacks were, and whatyou think they're setting you up
for or what you learned fromthem.
I know for me, one of thebiggest things I was working on
in my business this year wasreally trying to figure out the
financial part of my business.
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My business has surpassed the$2 million mark this year, which
I'm extremely proud to say, andit's one of those things that I
know Ed Milet talks about allthe time and he's like new level
, new devils, new level, newdevils.
You know we think, oh, once wehit the million dollar mark or
we hit the two million or thefive million or the ten million
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dollar mark, then we're notgoing to have these problems
anymore.
You will.
They'll just be bigger oneswith bigger, more zeros at the
ends of them.
But being able to learn how tosolve the ten dollar problem,
the hundred dollar problem, thethousand dollar problem, sets
you up to solve the $10,000, the$100,000 problem, and that is
something that we have toembrace in our minds, because in
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my mindset, a lot of times whenit comes to finances because
I've been very vulnerable withyou all that this is a part that
I struggle with in my businessI definitely need to pull myself
back in and realize I'm a lotfurther ahead than I give myself
credit for.
How many of you need to do thatfor yourself too.
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That's gift of perspective.
Number three the gift of grace.
Well, hell, I started off thepodcast talking about the gift
of grace today.
Acknowledge, mama, to yourselfwhile you're looking in the
mirror, that you cannot beeverything to everyone, and that
is okay.
That is okay if you had a downyear.
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Remember that these seasons ofrest or struggle are necessary
for you to level up.
Sometimes we just need to beable to give ourselves grace
that we miss something.
Sometimes we need to giveourselves grace that we didn't
exactly make somebody happy withthe decision that we made, and
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you don't need to beat yourselfup for that.
I think high-achieving womengrace should be one of the top
words that you focus on for 2025.
I know it's going to be for me.
Number four the gift ofpermission.
Why do we wait for others togive us permission to do things?
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We wait for our kids, we waitfor our spouses, we wait for our
employees, we wait for peoplethat they don't even know who we
are and, for some ungodlyreason, we're waiting for them
to give us permission to show upand be who we want to be.
We have to stop waiting forothers to give us permission to
show up and be who we want to be.
We have to stop waiting forothers to give us the green
light.
Give yourself permission tochase your dreams, take those
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risks and to say no as acomplete sentence.
We do not have to say no withan excuse afterwards.
How many times do you see a manever have to do that?
But as women, for some reason,we've put this on ourselves too.
Is that we say no because, no,becauses?
Okay, we're just going to sayno.
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I want you this next year, ifyou want something to go after
it, what is that thing you wantto go after.
I'm giving you, if you need itstill, the gift of permission to
give yourself permission toanoint your damn self.
If you don't see what you wantout there in the world, go
create it.
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If your financial picture isn'tthe way that you want it to be,
fix it.
If you want to show up onlineand you want to start teaching
people things and you want to bemore real and let people know
more about who you are,authentically, hit record.
I may be talking to myself alittle bit here, so I'm going to
have y'all hold me accountablefor that Number five the gift of
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peace.
The gift of peace.
I'm going to be real, honestand vulnerable with you here.
I'm not really sure that I knowwhat that is.
I don't.
And if you are someone thatstruggles with that as well, I
highly, highly recommend thebook Protect your Peace by Trent
Shelton, and if you really wantto get into it, get that book.
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Follow along with a hard copyof that book, but let Trent read
it to you through his Audible.
It's a whole other levelexperience.
I've read it myself and I'velistened to Trent, and if you
know anything about TrentShelton, he is like going to
church he is for me.
I love that big voice.
I love his conviction.
I love how certain he is thatpeace is something that we all
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need in our lives.
In gaining that gift of peace, Ichallenge you to think about.
What do you need to cut out ofyour life to feel at peace?
Is it a toxic relationship?
Are you fighting too much withsomebody?
Do you need to distanceyourself from a family member?
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Have you over committedyourself to too much shit?
I know I am horrible at that,and this next year I am getting
crystal clear on what it is Idirectly want to do, and if I'm
still responsible for somethingelse, I will have an assistant
that will be helping me with allof those things.
It is crazy that we try to doeverything for everybody all the
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time.
You do not always have toovercommit yourself.
I think something that's reallyamazing too, that I was just
having a conversation with afriend about, is that many times
as high achieving women.
We will book our schedules andit's color coded and it's so
pretty and we're so proud of it,but at the end of the day, all
it was was tasks.
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We just did task after taskafter task.
When the hell do we ever sitdown and think when do we ever
get to sit down and actually dothe work?
If you schedule a task,schedule work time afterwards,
because you need to go over thattask that you just did.
If you're reconciling a bankaccount now, I need to sit down
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and really think about okay,this is where all the money went
, is this where I want the moneyto go, or do I just reconcile
and move on to the next task?
And then I didn't analyzeanything that I was just doing
in the first place.
It's like posting to socialmedia and then running off to do
something else.
You're never analyzing what'sworking, what's not working.
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You just keep throwingspaghetti against the wall.
Spend the time analyzing.
I think that will give you alot of peace too.
I think it's really great.
Number six the gift ofself-celebration.
What I want you to do foryourself today, mama, is I want
you to look back and recognizeyour wins.
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I don't care if they were anymany tiny wins, like I got my
kids to school on time today, ora big win like I got my kids to
school on time all week.
There's a lot of kids at myhouse, so that's a great feat.
I made $100,000 this year.
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I made $10 million this year.
What we need to do as women iswe need to talk more about our
wins.
We love to share the struggles.
We love to live in strugglestogether.
This is what I'm strugglingwith.
When the fuck are we going tostart living in celebration with
each other?
I say that starts now.
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I tell you that my business didover two million dollars this
year, not to make you feel likemust be nice or not, to make you
feel less than if your businessonly did $10,000 this year, but
to show you that it's possible.
And if we don't start doingthis more, we put the damper on
ourselves as women.
We have to do this.
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It's so important.
I'm so passionate about that.
I want to celebrate the magicthat you've created this year.
I need you to know that you areyour own biggest cheerleader,
and trying to look forcelebration and validation from
other people is constantly goingto make you feel empty.
You've got to learn tocelebrate yourself, honey.
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Number seven the gift of rest.
Rest is revolutionary.
It is fuel for your fire.
I recently had a conversationwith my doctor.
I'm trying to get my hormonelevels regulated and I'm
definitely hitting thatperimenopause age and you know
your body just feels like it'snot your own anymore.
And if you feel like that,you're not alone either.
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I challenge you to find anawesome doctor.
But when I was talking to hershe was asking me how much sleep
do you get?
And I wasn't really proud aboutthat, because for me, if I get
five hours of sleep, that's ahell of a good night for me.
She's like you can't sustainthat.
The weight loss goals that youhave and what you're working on
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require your body to have moretime and rest to rejuvenate and
recharge itself than what you'reactually giving it.
It is living in survival modeat all times.
The fact that you're notfeeding your body properly it's
living in survival mode at alltimes.
You have to be able to giveyourself some rest, and for me
that's been a really tough oneto wrap my brain around, because
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for me, if I'm resting, I feellike I'm being lazy.
It's not lazy, mama, it's notlazy at all.
It's necessary.
You don't always have to bedoing something.
I have to tell myself thatevery day.
But even if it's something thatyou look forward to doing with
your spouse or doing with yourkids, like I've been making
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conscious time to spend 15 to 20minutes sitting on my kids' bed
with them at nighttime, justhaving conversations with them
or reading a book.
That is the best rest in theworld to me.
I think that is the best restin the world.
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Mastermind Brendan is alwayssaying bring the joy, and for a
while I was like that's kind ofannoying.
Bring the joy what the helldoes that even mean?
I think joyful and choosing tobe joyful is choosing to be
fully present in all the littlemoments in your life.
I take great example fromBrendan in that fact of this.
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Is a very joyful man and youcan see it because you just feel
his vibration is just likemagnetic.
But when he talks to you, itfeels like his soul is talking
to you because he's soincredibly present with you.
Nothing else around you or himeven matters, because he is 100%
focused on you, and that issomething that I aspire to do
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more and be more of, especiallywith my children.
It's so important that they seeour eyeballs in their eyeballs
and that they feel our hugs andour arms around them.
It's that joyful presence thatmeans so much.
So, during this holiday season,savor the joy of the season.
Make some hot cocoa, walkaround the neighborhood and look
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at Christmas lights, listen toChristmas music with them, make
cookies, take them to yourneighbors, teach them to be kind
, spend time doing somethingwith them, build some
gingerbread houses, do something.
That joyfulness in my life is100% brought to me when I am in
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the presence of my children andmy family.
Number nine the gift ofboundaries.
See, we all suffer with thisone, I think the gift of
boundaries.
Now, whether you're really goodat setting boundaries or not, I
think a lot of that is definedby the people that you're trying
to set boundaries with, andthey may or may not like your
boundaries, and so you may ormay not give up on them if they
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are choosing not to respect theboundaries.
But protect your time andenergy by saying no.
It's one of the most powerfulgifts you can give yourself.
There's so many things going onduring the holiday season and
the last two weekends this lastweekend and the next weekend.
It's a no for me on everything.
I just want to spend time withmy kids.
I just want to continue to getmy house put together.
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I don't need to have a reasonwhy.
I don't want to be runningaround like a crazy person the
day before Christmas, trying toget all this stuff together.
I want presents wrapped, I wantmeals made, I want everything,
just so I can sit on the couchand chill with my kids and watch
Christmas movies or go dowhatever we want to.
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Boundaries aren't walls,they're bridges to a happier,
healthier you.
And if you look at it that way,it's so huge and I would
challenge you that if you arehaving a hard time with people
that don't respect boundaries,lay that one on them.
Boundaries aren't walls,they're bridges to a happy,
healthier us.
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Number 10, the gift of fun.
Bring some fun into your life.
Watch silly Christmas movies.
When was the last time that yousat down and just watched Elf
from start to finish?
It's pretty damn funny and it'salways funny.
Or National Lampoon's Christmasor any of those movies like
that.
I just love that at the holidaytime.
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My daughter and I have reallygotten into a bunch of these
ones on Netflix that areChristmas movies.
They are cheesy as all get out,but there's a little love story
and it's so funny.
There's one.
This makes me sound like aterrible mother, but there's one
on Netflix.
I think it's rated PG, so it'snot a big deal.
But this girl moves back intoher hometown and her parents are
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going to lose their theaterthat they do.
So she's from New York andBroadway, so she decides to do
like a male review.
And it's not massive strippingmoms, it is like these guys in
the community taking theirshirts off trying to save this
theater.
It is the cheesiest, corniest,stupidest Christmas movie I've
ever seen.
But my daughters and I laughedso hard watching that movie
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because it was just so silly.
It was just so silly.
They're like this is so dumb,like who would go to that?
Like it's just so funny to havethese conversations, just
that's.
Those are things that theyremember.
It's just so much fun.
Like baking cookies there'scookies at Christmas time that I
only make at Christmas time andmy kids look forward to that
every single year.
I think it's really great thatwe show them that we can be
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goofy and silly and it's okay tolet their hair down.
It's okay to have fun.
I really, really, really lovebeing able to continue
traditions and continue to showkids what charity looks like.
Gift of fun for us is thatevery year, our family, no
matter what our financialsituation was, we always picked
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at least kids off of a Christmastree at the school, or we'd
pick a family and we would buyChristmas for them, and this is
something that my kids haveloved and we've loved doing
together since my kids were oldenough to do it.
I actually did it with mydaughter when she was about two
or three years old.
This year my daughter came homefrom high school.
It's gonna make me emotional,but she had selected a family
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that was up for adoption at theschool.
She knew she didn't need tocall me and say can we do this?
Because it's something that wedo every year.
She's like mom, I'm so excitedbecause I got to pick a family
today for us and we had the besttime in Aisley and Cash.
We went to Ross and we boughtthem shoes and clothes and toys
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and makeup and all this funstuff.
We had a shopping cart full ofstuff and it was so fun to be
able to bless them with that.
Now maybe your financial meansdoesn't give you the opportunity
to do all of that this year,but can you make cookies and
take them to your neighbor?
Can you maybe just even makeChristmas cards?
If you can't do that and takethem to your neighbor, just tell
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them that you're thinking aboutthem, even if you don't know
who they are.
I live in Arizona.
I don't know who any of myneighbors are, especially in a
new neighborhood.
I am determined to know whatall their names are by the end
of the Christmas season, becauseI'm going to figure it out and
that's.
We're going to do that by beingcharitable to them.
Number 11, the gift of intention.
I want you to spend timedreaming about what you want for
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this new year, not another year, like I said before, the new
year, 2025.
Can you believe that?
For me, I graduated in 2000.
So I always think of that.
I'm like it's been 25 yearssince I've been out of high
school.
Is this where I thought I wouldbe?
Oh, hell, no, hell, no.
I had no idea this is how mylife would turn out.
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It's so much better than I everexpected and I feel like it's
like that because I was veryintentional about it.
Did I have setbacks, girl?
So many setbacks?
I have setbacks every day, butI don't let them define me.
I want you to set an intention.
I want you to create a visionboard and write a list of goals
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to light it up with, in additionto a vision board.
I want to throw this out hereto you.
In talking about number one,which we talked about, was
reflection.
I was listening to something Ican't remember if it was a
podcast or something, but theywere talking about before you.
Create that vision board for2025, create a reflection board.
What'd you learn?
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What'd you do?
How are you honored?
How'd you get your ass kickedthis year?
What are some fun memories youhave with your kids, with your
spouse, with your family, withyour friends?
I'm going to do that.
I really want to do that.
I really want to do that withmy family on New Year's Eve.
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I really want to sit down withthem, get a blank piece of paper
and just have them write orprint stuff off.
Bring a printer downstairs,print stuff off, paste it on
there so you can see this iswhat I did in 2020 for.
And then ho, on New Year's, youcan make your vision board all
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you want to, but it's reallyhard to create another vision if
we don't ever recap what we didthe year before.
I learned that from DeanGraziosi and he talks about
doing this on a monthly basis,which I am definitely putting on
my calendar for the next yearis that you actually sit down
and go through on a monthlybasis.
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Just give yourself a day, justmake it the second day of the
month.
What worked, what didn't work?
What was on my calendar?
Was that important to me?
Did I say yes to too manythings?
Where can I say no?
Where can I cut stuff?
Where do I need to add stuff?
What can I be better at thismonth?
But if you do that on a yearlybasis, if you're a calendar
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person and you look back, youcan definitely see the things
that were important to you in2024.
Are those the things that youwant to be important in 2025?
Reflection is incredible.
Number 12, the best one of themall, I think is the gift of
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letting that shit go.
Release what's no longerserving you, whether that's a
grudge you have against family,friends, somebody that pissed
you off, whatever it is, let itgo Guilt.
We're not doing that in 2025,mamas.
We're not doing it and I'mgoing to talk about it a lot in
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January because we're not goingto go into this year again
feeling guilty that we're tryingto make a better life for our
family by going to work.
We're not going to feel guiltybecause we didn't make the
perfect meal for dinner or haveparty favors on our kid's
birthday party.
We're not doing this shit, nomore.
We are not feeling guilty forbeing us.
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We're, also, on that note, goingto let go of perfectionism.
On that note, going to let goof perfectionism.
Nothing in this world isperfect.
Nothing Challenge me.
Nothing is perfect, so why thehell do you think you should be?
Can we just accept that?
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We are trying to do the bestthat we can?
Last but not least, we're goingto let go of the fears that we
had this year and years beforeof standing out, being
misunderstood.
Starting small, we are goingafter what we want.
This year, we are going to letgo of the fear that there will
be judgment.
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Trust me, you're getting judgedfor not doing it too, even if
you don't know it.
So why not just try to makethings a little bit better, or
try to go more in alignment withwhat you want to be doing, and
just fuck the fear.
Fuck the fear.
Let's get rid of it.
That might be something thatyou also need to put on your
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mirror.
We can make stickers of that.
Letting go is a very powerfulact of self-love and freedom,
and, after all.
Isn't that what we're reallylooking for here?
Anyways, let's recap these 12gifts as a true mantra for this
next year.
Again, I'm creating a PDF thatI'm going to attach in the show
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notes here.
I want you to print that shitout and I want you to hang it.
Whether it's on your fridge,whether it's on your mirror,
whether it's in on your desk,whether it's next to your laptop
, I don't really care where youwant to print it.
You should print it and put itin all of those places.
All of those places.
You know what I think I'm goingto do with this.
I think I'm really going toprint this and put it in my
kids' bathrooms, too, on themirror, because the more our
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kids see stuff like this, holyhell, can you imagine what life
would have been like if we wouldhave had this information as
children, as teenagers?
I know that's hard and it'shard for them to understand, but
if they can just hear ustalking about it, it's so big
Talk to your kids about thisReflection, perspective, grace,
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permission, peace, celebration,rest, joyful presence,
boundaries, fun, intention andletting go.
I can't wait to hear how youtake this information this week
and implement it into your life.
Please send me a DM Let me knowwhat you think about this
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episode.
Please tell me things that youare working on and how you are
dealing with those, and howyou're going to give yourself
the 12 gifts of Christmas.
Remember Mama you are afoundation of so much love and
joy in this world and it's timeto give yourself a little bit of
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the magic that you create.
Merry Christmas to every singleone of you and keep kicking ass
, because you deserve it.
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