February 4, 2025 • 21 mins
The Bold and Brilliant Podcast with Tracie Root - Put More Life in Your Life
Are you truly living your life, or just going through the motions? In this heartfelt solo episode, I’m diving into what it means to put more life into your life—how to step out of survival mode, say YES to yourself, embrace community, and take bold action to create the life you truly want.
After experiencing deep personal loss and navigating major life transitions, I realized that choosing to be fully present, engaged, and intentional is what truly brings life to our lives. And today, I’m sharing four key lessons that can help you do the same.
What You’ll Learn in This Episode:
✨ How shifting your mindset can turn unexpected challenges into opportunities for growth.
✨ The power of saying YES to what excites and challenges you.
✨ Why community is essential to living a full and vibrant life.
✨ How bold, decisive action creates momentum and success.
You Are Worthy of the Dreams You Dream
Your dreams are not just for someday—they are for you, right now. The choices you make today can bring more passion, joy, and purpose into your life. It all starts with one bold step.
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Tracie Root (00:00):
Are you ready to take bold action and live a life
(00:02):
of brilliance?
Welcome to the Bold andBrilliant Podcast where women
leaders share inspiring storiesabout bold decisions that shaped
their lives and their businessestoday.
I'm bringing you an episodestraight from my heart.
Let's talk about how to put morelife in your life.
(00:22):
Welcome to the Bold andBrilliant Podcast.
The idea of putting more lifeinto your life is something that
came to me in the last year, aswe think about how we want to
grow our businesses and increaseour impact or build our
connections to others, whatabout us?
What about putting more lifeinto your life, more of yourself
(00:46):
into your life?
I've got four ideas that I wantto share with you today that
have to do with you and how youcan allow yourself to show up
for yourself.
Because when you allow yourselfto make decisions that help you
grow and achieve the things thatyou are dreaming about, we're
(01:11):
way more likely To not only goafter them with excitement and
energy and motivation, but we'realso way more likely to enjoy
the process.
Almost 15 years ago, my firsthusband passed away.
He was first diagnosed withcancer shortly after our first
(01:35):
child was born.
And over the next four years, hefought bravely.
While we learned how to beparents, while we figured out
how to help him get the carethat he needed.
While I was working full timeand he was caring for the kids
as much as he possibly could.
(01:56):
That was our dream, for him tobe the stay at home dad.
I was working out as thebreadwinner.
Nobody expects that to happenwhen you're in your 40s, but
Paul passed away at age 47,leaving me alone with our two
preschoolers.
The next year and a half were ablur.
(02:18):
I don't even remember a lot ofwhat happened.
I don't remember a lot of what Iwas feeling at the time.
The fog is a real thing.
Anyone who's gone through amajor grief process knows that
the things that happen, youdon't even remember them.
I think that's God's way oftelling us that It's a process
we have to go through, but wedon't have to dwell on it in the
(02:39):
future.
What I knew coming out of thatfog of grief is that I needed to
figure out a way to be theparent to our kids that Paul and
I always dreamed of to give themthe life of fulfillment and
adventure and new places and newthings new ideas and new people.
(03:03):
At the same time, having thesupport and encouragement of our
very close knit families,unfortunately, living in
California.
We were far away from most ofour family.
He was from the New Orleans areaand my family had moved to
Florida so, while we were intouch.
(03:24):
I didn't have the day to daysupport and my children didn't
have the day to day community ofhaving family nearby.
So I realized that what I neededto do is figure out how to shift
from the life that we had beenbuilding in California to a life
that would allow me to be apresent parent, to be available
(03:47):
to them.
And that really required muchmore of a support structure.
At the same time, I knew thatThe survival mode that I had
been in for several years wasnot sustainable.
I needed to start taking bettercare of myself so that I would
be well and healthy for thosekids as they grew up.
This was when I found coaching.
(04:08):
I found a health coach thathelped me learn how to
prioritize my health, mywellbeing, my thoughts and
beliefs and mindset so that Icould imagine what the future
could look like.
I had left my corporate job anddecided that coaching was the
way that I could navigate my ownfuture while taking care of
(04:29):
myself, being present for myfamily, and also being able to
move from California across thecountry to Florida, where my
family was living.
It was an amazing time.
I love a good adventure, but Ididn't always know what I was
doing.
What I found through coachingwas my passion for helping.
(04:53):
What I found through coachingwas.
The realization that I had beendoing it all along my whole
corporate career was abouthelping people manage change to
understand what was needed forthings to be better for their
company, for their department,for their own work life.
And in a personal life, theskills were often very much the
(05:18):
same, having a positive growthmindset.
Deciding that you could see thegood in a situation that might
not be obviously showing it onthe outside.
So as I left corporate Americaand began this journey to become
an entrepreneur, to learn how tobe a coach and to support people
with my own business, instead ofas an employee for someone else.
(05:41):
It really became an opportunityto understand myself better, to
see how every failure was alearning opportunity, and to see
how the decisions that I madehelped create the path that we
were going down at the time.
(06:03):
So when things go as you don'texpect, the best thing we can do
is to pause and say what thebest thing we can do is to
pause.
And say, yeah, this isn't goingthe way that I expected it to
go, but what can I get out of itanyway?
(06:26):
One of the big keys I put inplace not long after this season
was realizing that the wordshould is a very challenging way
to live.
When we think that things shouldbe a certain way, we are setting
an expectation that if thingsdon't go that way, we will be
(06:48):
disappointed, we will lose, wewill not be happy.
In life.
There's lots of things thatdon't go the way we expect them
to go.
If you can turn the idea of theyshould have happened differently
to it did happen differently,now what?
It's a lot easier to look atthat event and respond
(07:13):
differently so that you can thenhave the outcome that is more
aligned with what you're tryingto accomplish.
I had this.
Great loss in my life.
This whole situation that I hadno idea was going to happen, and
I certainly never planned forit.
But we all have things thathappen in our lives that are not
(07:34):
what we expect.
And when we can decide torespond to them in a way that
allows us to grow, we're a lotmore likely to not only enjoy
the process, but to be able tocontinue to grow as we move
along in life.
Another piece of this story,which is our second point today
is about allowing yourself tosay yes to the things that you
(08:00):
want out of life.
There's a great book by ShondaRhimes called the year of yes.
I listened to this book about.
Six, seven years, maybe eightyears ago, I can specifically
remember with my headphones onwalking to the coffee shop, as I
often do listening to her read,I can picture the street corner
(08:25):
that I was standing on when Isaid to myself, this book is
changing everything.
It changed everything for her.
She, was reading the book andtelling the story of how she
decided to be a yes.
For things that made heruncomfortable or things that she
in the past had not enjoyeddoing, but she knew could be
(08:45):
important to her future and howit would unfold when we can say
yes to ourselves, to the thingsthat we know will be good for us
to the things that we know willmatter.
We get to step out of theregular day to day grind and try
(09:08):
new things.
Now, what happens when we takerisks?
You've heard the phrase you winor you lose, right?
If you take a risk and itdoesn't go the way you expect.
We're still talking about unmetexpectations.
Either it goes better, which isgreat.
Or if it doesn't go better, ifit doesn't go the way you had
(09:30):
hoped.
Maybe it is still better.
Or maybe there's just, you know,wow, that didn't turn out the
way I thought.
What could I do differently nexttime?
How could I change this up?
What am I going to learn fromthis process no matter what,
every experience that we have isa learning experience.
(09:52):
This is how humans are designed.
This is evolution and like howwe get smarter, try to learn
something and it goes great orit doesn't go great.
And what happens when you stilllearn something, either you
learned how not to do it.
What's the idea about 10, 000tries to create a light bulb,
(10:12):
but really he didn't fail 10,000 times.
He learned 9, 909, ways to notmake a light bulb.
What if you applied that toeverything that you do?
Think about if you're anentrepreneur like me and you
have a sales process, well, whatif things aren't going your way
and you're not enrolling peopleor having the sales that you
(10:33):
hoped to have?
What could you do differently?
What are you doing that isworking?
What are you doing that isworking but maybe just not
coming to fruition yet?
And what are you doing thatmaybe isn't working and you
could tweak it?
Don't turn the corner tooquickly, give it a shot for a
while, because if it's just new,then maybe it just needs a
(10:58):
little time for you to get inthe groove.
But if you're saying yes to whatyou know is for you, you can't
be wrong.
And the energy you bring to aconversation with that kind of
thought process when you'relike, I know this is the way I.
(11:18):
Want to show up.
It's the way I am best suited tosupport people, to create
whatever it is you're trying tocreate when you know, it's
right.
Say yes to that process so thatyou can continue down that road
when you are aligned with theprocess.
Body mind spirit like it feelsright.
(11:39):
Just keep going.
Sometimes you got to get in thatgroove.
Sometimes you have to figure outwhat it is that you know, the
other piece to this is listen toyour gut because if you are
doing what you think you shoulddo, but it doesn't feel right.
This happened to me last year.
(12:00):
I was creating this wholeprogram thing.
And I felt like it was the thingI was supposed to be doing with
my coaching business.
And it just never felt right.
As soon as I allowed myself totell myself that, this just
isn't feeling right.
How can I adjust it so that Ican be a yes.
We're sharing it with otherpeople so that I'm really
(12:22):
excited about it.
All of a sudden things took off.
I encourage you to listen toyour inner voice to your gut and
say yes to yourself to put morelife into your life.
All right.
Now we're getting to our thirdpoint.
(12:42):
And if you already know me, youknow, that I have the gather
community around me, we've beenin place for almost five years
now, this is one of the hugestgifts of my life.
And honestly, we go back to,having a growth mindset and
seeing what's good of thingsthat don't go your way, the
gather community was a hundredpercent created out of the
(13:03):
pandemic.
If you haven't.
Listen to the episode from thegather community.
I encourage you to listen tothat episode because it tells
the story of how the gathercommunity came to be.
The basics of what the gathercommunity is a community of
women leaders entrepreneurs andwomen in business supporting
(13:25):
each other.
My role is to create events forpeople to connect, be seen, for
teachers to teach listeners tolisten and learners to learn and
for everyone to leverage thoserelationships to grow.
The power of community helps youput more life into your life.
(13:47):
If I didn't have the desire tobring women together, the gather
community wouldn't exist.
I didn't know that's what I wastrying to create six years ago,
when I thought of the idea, butas it evolved and as I continued
to say, yes.
To what we were creating and toallow it to evolve, to recognize
(14:12):
what was going great and whatwasn't going so great and how
could we shift and tweak andadjust year over year to grow
this company and this communityinto what it has become, it
allows you to realize.
The power of community helps youto realize that we are not
(14:36):
designed to do life alone and toput more life into your life.
I absolutely 100 percent believethat we are required to include
other people.
If you are an introvert, that'sokay.
You still have people.
It just shows up differently foryou.
If you are the kind of personwho decides I have to do it
(14:57):
myself, I encourage you toexamine that.
Often that is a fear basedthought, the fear of losing
control, the fear of notbelieving in yourself and
therefore not believing inothers, take a look at how you
(15:19):
can leverage your community tosupport you as you grow in your
life and in your business,because the power of community
will absolutely change your lifewhen you allow it to, when you
are a yes to it and therefore ayes to yourself, The fourth
(15:40):
point I want to make today.
Is that bold action creates morelife.
Think of a day that you decideto not do a whole lot, kind of
lay on the sofa, maybe stay inyour pajamas.
This is not saying that a day ofself care is not okay.
(16:01):
Of course it is.
And if you choose to have a dayof total chill and do nothing,
that's totally fine.
One of the things that happenedto some of us during the
pandemic was that we stayed inour pajamas all day long day
after day, never really gotregular clothes on never really
put regular shoes on.
We never went out.
(16:22):
The lockdown.
In California.
Was, for real one of the thingsthat happens when you don't put
on regular clothes is you kindof are in that relaxing.
I'm not really motivated.
I'm just going to chill kind ofplace.
There's an author that Ilistened to a lot at that point.
(16:43):
He had some really goodinsights.
His name is John Acuff.
He's an author who writes a lotabout goal setting and goal
getting, which is, you know,things that I love teaching
about as well.
And one of the things he saidwas, no one really got where
they wanted to go and they werestill wearing their pajamas.
On the other side of thelockdown and the pandemic, maybe
(17:04):
that's not entirely trueanymore, but it was that shift
from regular life to cocooningthat we had all gone through it
becomes difficult to take actionwhen you're always in a relaxed
state we were in that a lot atthe beginning of the lockdown.
(17:25):
But if we make decisions.
That will serve our growth andtake action on those decisions,
you absolutely can put more lifeinto your life.
For me, I'll use this as anexample.
I am actually fully dressed withreal shoes on today.
(17:48):
I will say it is fuzzy socks andBirkenstocks, but it's at least
not my slippers.
And it's not my pajama pants,you know, business on the top,
pajamas on the bottom.
Not today.
Today's a real clothing day.
Not every day is like thatsometimes you'll see me and you
have no idea whether I stillhave my pajama pants on in the
bottom or not, but that's okaybecause it's all about the
(18:13):
decisions that you make.
When we recognize.
That the decisions that we makein our mind are, regardless of
how we're dressed, then we cancontinue to move forward.
And we just weren't there at thebeginning of the pandemic, and
now things adjust a little bit.
What is the point of all of thiswhen you make clear, decisive,
(18:35):
bold action, whether it's foryour business or personal
growth, you're a lot more likelyto live a vibrant, purpose
driven life filled withopportunities and therefore
success because the action thatyou take.
(18:57):
That is, you know, bold, gettingout of your comfort zone, taking
the steps maybe you haven'ttaken before, leveraging your
community, deciding to say yesto yourself and also looking at
what hasn't gone your way anddeciding to do things
differently.
These are all things that willcreate more life in your life.
(19:18):
In closing, I want to remindyou.
That you can absolutely takecontrol of your own life, your
own narrative, and infuse morepassion and joy into your life.
There is no reason why youcannot get those dreams that
(19:40):
you're dreaming about.
I tell people this duringworkshops that I've taught this
is the window to my right.
And at the top of this window, Iwrote something in my own
handwriting.
It's now painted in and it says,you are worthy of the dreams you
dream.
The world is waiting for you toshow up today.
(20:01):
I wrote that in a moment where Ineeded to be reminded that I am
worthy, that the dreams I'mdreaming are for me and that the
community I'm building around meand the people in my life.
Are there for a reason when Iput more life in my life, it
(20:22):
means I'm engaging with thosepeople saying yes to them and to
myself, and deciding togetherthat the world is a better place
for all of us because we areconnected and moving forward.
I encourage you to use thesetips today.
Put more life in your life.
(20:45):
As a result, you're going tofind yourself feeling more bold
and brilliant every day.
We'll see you soon.
Speaker (20:54):
Thank you for listening to the bold and brilliant
podcast.
I'm your host, Tracie root.
And I want to invite you tocheck out the show notes, find
out where you can connect withour guests, find out more about
what I and the gather communityhave to offer you, and be sure
to subscribe to this podcast onyour favorite platform.
Thanks so much.
Are you ready to take bold action and live a life
(00:02):
of brilliance?
Welcome to the Bold andBrilliant Podcast where women
leaders share inspiring storiesabout bold decisions that shaped
their lives and their businessestoday.
I'm bringing you an episodestraight from my heart.
Let's talk about how to put morelife in your life.
(00:22):
Welcome to the Bold andBrilliant Podcast.
The idea of putting more lifeinto your life is something that
came to me in the last year, aswe think about how we want to
grow our businesses and increaseour impact or build our
connections to others, whatabout us?
What about putting more lifeinto your life, more of yourself
(00:46):
into your life?
I've got four ideas that I wantto share with you today that
have to do with you and how youcan allow yourself to show up
for yourself.
Because when you allow yourselfto make decisions that help you
grow and achieve the things thatyou are dreaming about, we're
(01:11):
way more likely To not only goafter them with excitement and
energy and motivation, but we'realso way more likely to enjoy
the process.
Almost 15 years ago, my firsthusband passed away.
He was first diagnosed withcancer shortly after our first
(01:35):
child was born.
And over the next four years, hefought bravely.
While we learned how to beparents, while we figured out
how to help him get the carethat he needed.
While I was working full timeand he was caring for the kids
as much as he possibly could.
(01:56):
That was our dream, for him tobe the stay at home dad.
I was working out as thebreadwinner.
Nobody expects that to happenwhen you're in your 40s, but
Paul passed away at age 47,leaving me alone with our two
preschoolers.
The next year and a half were ablur.
(02:18):
I don't even remember a lot ofwhat happened.
I don't remember a lot of what Iwas feeling at the time.
The fog is a real thing.
Anyone who's gone through amajor grief process knows that
the things that happen, youdon't even remember them.
I think that's God's way oftelling us that It's a process
we have to go through, but wedon't have to dwell on it in the
(02:39):
future.
What I knew coming out of thatfog of grief is that I needed to
figure out a way to be theparent to our kids that Paul and
I always dreamed of to give themthe life of fulfillment and
adventure and new places and newthings new ideas and new people.
(03:03):
At the same time, having thesupport and encouragement of our
very close knit families,unfortunately, living in
California.
We were far away from most ofour family.
He was from the New Orleans areaand my family had moved to
Florida so, while we were intouch.
(03:24):
I didn't have the day to daysupport and my children didn't
have the day to day community ofhaving family nearby.
So I realized that what I neededto do is figure out how to shift
from the life that we had beenbuilding in California to a life
that would allow me to be apresent parent, to be available
(03:47):
to them.
And that really required muchmore of a support structure.
At the same time, I knew thatThe survival mode that I had
been in for several years wasnot sustainable.
I needed to start taking bettercare of myself so that I would
be well and healthy for thosekids as they grew up.
This was when I found coaching.
(04:08):
I found a health coach thathelped me learn how to
prioritize my health, mywellbeing, my thoughts and
beliefs and mindset so that Icould imagine what the future
could look like.
I had left my corporate job anddecided that coaching was the
way that I could navigate my ownfuture while taking care of
(04:29):
myself, being present for myfamily, and also being able to
move from California across thecountry to Florida, where my
family was living.
It was an amazing time.
I love a good adventure, but Ididn't always know what I was
doing.
What I found through coachingwas my passion for helping.
(04:53):
What I found through coachingwas.
The realization that I had beendoing it all along my whole
corporate career was abouthelping people manage change to
understand what was needed forthings to be better for their
company, for their department,for their own work life.
And in a personal life, theskills were often very much the
(05:18):
same, having a positive growthmindset.
Deciding that you could see thegood in a situation that might
not be obviously showing it onthe outside.
So as I left corporate Americaand began this journey to become
an entrepreneur, to learn how tobe a coach and to support people
with my own business, instead ofas an employee for someone else.
(05:41):
It really became an opportunityto understand myself better, to
see how every failure was alearning opportunity, and to see
how the decisions that I madehelped create the path that we
were going down at the time.
(06:03):
So when things go as you don'texpect, the best thing we can do
is to pause and say what thebest thing we can do is to
pause.
And say, yeah, this isn't goingthe way that I expected it to
go, but what can I get out of itanyway?
(06:26):
One of the big keys I put inplace not long after this season
was realizing that the wordshould is a very challenging way
to live.
When we think that things shouldbe a certain way, we are setting
an expectation that if thingsdon't go that way, we will be
(06:48):
disappointed, we will lose, wewill not be happy.
In life.
There's lots of things thatdon't go the way we expect them
to go.
If you can turn the idea of theyshould have happened differently
to it did happen differently,now what?
It's a lot easier to look atthat event and respond
(07:13):
differently so that you can thenhave the outcome that is more
aligned with what you're tryingto accomplish.
I had this.
Great loss in my life.
This whole situation that I hadno idea was going to happen, and
I certainly never planned forit.
But we all have things thathappen in our lives that are not
(07:34):
what we expect.
And when we can decide torespond to them in a way that
allows us to grow, we're a lotmore likely to not only enjoy
the process, but to be able tocontinue to grow as we move
along in life.
Another piece of this story,which is our second point today
is about allowing yourself tosay yes to the things that you
(08:00):
want out of life.
There's a great book by ShondaRhimes called the year of yes.
I listened to this book about.
Six, seven years, maybe eightyears ago, I can specifically
remember with my headphones onwalking to the coffee shop, as I
often do listening to her read,I can picture the street corner
(08:25):
that I was standing on when Isaid to myself, this book is
changing everything.
It changed everything for her.
She, was reading the book andtelling the story of how she
decided to be a yes.
For things that made heruncomfortable or things that she
in the past had not enjoyeddoing, but she knew could be
(08:45):
important to her future and howit would unfold when we can say
yes to ourselves, to the thingsthat we know will be good for us
to the things that we know willmatter.
We get to step out of theregular day to day grind and try
(09:08):
new things.
Now, what happens when we takerisks?
You've heard the phrase you winor you lose, right?
If you take a risk and itdoesn't go the way you expect.
We're still talking about unmetexpectations.
Either it goes better, which isgreat.
Or if it doesn't go better, ifit doesn't go the way you had
(09:30):
hoped.
Maybe it is still better.
Or maybe there's just, you know,wow, that didn't turn out the
way I thought.
What could I do differently nexttime?
How could I change this up?
What am I going to learn fromthis process no matter what,
every experience that we have isa learning experience.
(09:52):
This is how humans are designed.
This is evolution and like howwe get smarter, try to learn
something and it goes great orit doesn't go great.
And what happens when you stilllearn something, either you
learned how not to do it.
What's the idea about 10, 000tries to create a light bulb,
(10:12):
but really he didn't fail 10,000 times.
He learned 9, 909, ways to notmake a light bulb.
What if you applied that toeverything that you do?
Think about if you're anentrepreneur like me and you
have a sales process, well, whatif things aren't going your way
and you're not enrolling peopleor having the sales that you
(10:33):
hoped to have?
What could you do differently?
What are you doing that isworking?
What are you doing that isworking but maybe just not
coming to fruition yet?
And what are you doing thatmaybe isn't working and you
could tweak it?
Don't turn the corner tooquickly, give it a shot for a
while, because if it's just new,then maybe it just needs a
(10:58):
little time for you to get inthe groove.
But if you're saying yes to whatyou know is for you, you can't
be wrong.
And the energy you bring to aconversation with that kind of
thought process when you'relike, I know this is the way I.
(11:18):
Want to show up.
It's the way I am best suited tosupport people, to create
whatever it is you're trying tocreate when you know, it's
right.
Say yes to that process so thatyou can continue down that road
when you are aligned with theprocess.
Body mind spirit like it feelsright.
(11:39):
Just keep going.
Sometimes you got to get in thatgroove.
Sometimes you have to figure outwhat it is that you know, the
other piece to this is listen toyour gut because if you are
doing what you think you shoulddo, but it doesn't feel right.
This happened to me last year.
(12:00):
I was creating this wholeprogram thing.
And I felt like it was the thingI was supposed to be doing with
my coaching business.
And it just never felt right.
As soon as I allowed myself totell myself that, this just
isn't feeling right.
How can I adjust it so that Ican be a yes.
We're sharing it with otherpeople so that I'm really
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excited about it.
All of a sudden things took off.
I encourage you to listen toyour inner voice to your gut and
say yes to yourself to put morelife into your life.
All right.
Now we're getting to our thirdpoint.
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And if you already know me, youknow, that I have the gather
community around me, we've beenin place for almost five years
now, this is one of the hugestgifts of my life.
And honestly, we go back to,having a growth mindset and
seeing what's good of thingsthat don't go your way, the
gather community was a hundredpercent created out of the
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pandemic.
If you haven't.
Listen to the episode from thegather community.
I encourage you to listen tothat episode because it tells
the story of how the gathercommunity came to be.
The basics of what the gathercommunity is a community of
women leaders entrepreneurs andwomen in business supporting
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each other.
My role is to create events forpeople to connect, be seen, for
teachers to teach listeners tolisten and learners to learn and
for everyone to leverage thoserelationships to grow.
The power of community helps youput more life into your life.
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If I didn't have the desire tobring women together, the gather
community wouldn't exist.
I didn't know that's what I wastrying to create six years ago,
when I thought of the idea, butas it evolved and as I continued
to say, yes.
To what we were creating and toallow it to evolve, to recognize
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what was going great and whatwasn't going so great and how
could we shift and tweak andadjust year over year to grow
this company and this communityinto what it has become, it
allows you to realize.
The power of community helps youto realize that we are not
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designed to do life alone and toput more life into your life.
I absolutely 100 percent believethat we are required to include
other people.
If you are an introvert, that'sokay.
You still have people.
It just shows up differently foryou.
If you are the kind of personwho decides I have to do it
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myself, I encourage you toexamine that.
Often that is a fear basedthought, the fear of losing
control, the fear of notbelieving in yourself and
therefore not believing inothers, take a look at how you
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can leverage your community tosupport you as you grow in your
life and in your business,because the power of community
will absolutely change your lifewhen you allow it to, when you
are a yes to it and therefore ayes to yourself, The fourth
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point I want to make today.
Is that bold action creates morelife.
Think of a day that you decideto not do a whole lot, kind of
lay on the sofa, maybe stay inyour pajamas.
This is not saying that a day ofself care is not okay.
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Of course it is.
And if you choose to have a dayof total chill and do nothing,
that's totally fine.
One of the things that happenedto some of us during the
pandemic was that we stayed inour pajamas all day long day
after day, never really gotregular clothes on never really
put regular shoes on.
We never went out.
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The lockdown.
In California.
Was, for real one of the thingsthat happens when you don't put
on regular clothes is you kindof are in that relaxing.
I'm not really motivated.
I'm just going to chill kind ofplace.
There's an author that Ilistened to a lot at that point.
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He had some really goodinsights.
His name is John Acuff.
He's an author who writes a lotabout goal setting and goal
getting, which is, you know,things that I love teaching
about as well.
And one of the things he saidwas, no one really got where
they wanted to go and they werestill wearing their pajamas.
On the other side of thelockdown and the pandemic, maybe
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that's not entirely trueanymore, but it was that shift
from regular life to cocooningthat we had all gone through it
becomes difficult to take actionwhen you're always in a relaxed
state we were in that a lot atthe beginning of the lockdown.
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But if we make decisions.
That will serve our growth andtake action on those decisions,
you absolutely can put more lifeinto your life.
For me, I'll use this as anexample.
I am actually fully dressed withreal shoes on today.
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I will say it is fuzzy socks andBirkenstocks, but it's at least
not my slippers.
And it's not my pajama pants,you know, business on the top,
pajamas on the bottom.
Not today.
Today's a real clothing day.
Not every day is like thatsometimes you'll see me and you
have no idea whether I stillhave my pajama pants on in the
bottom or not, but that's okaybecause it's all about the
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decisions that you make.
When we recognize.
That the decisions that we makein our mind are, regardless of
how we're dressed, then we cancontinue to move forward.
And we just weren't there at thebeginning of the pandemic, and
now things adjust a little bit.
What is the point of all of thiswhen you make clear, decisive,
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bold action, whether it's foryour business or personal
growth, you're a lot more likelyto live a vibrant, purpose
driven life filled withopportunities and therefore
success because the action thatyou take.
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That is, you know, bold, gettingout of your comfort zone, taking
the steps maybe you haven'ttaken before, leveraging your
community, deciding to say yesto yourself and also looking at
what hasn't gone your way anddeciding to do things
differently.
These are all things that willcreate more life in your life.
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In closing, I want to remindyou.
That you can absolutely takecontrol of your own life, your
own narrative, and infuse morepassion and joy into your life.
There is no reason why youcannot get those dreams that
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you're dreaming about.
I tell people this duringworkshops that I've taught this
is the window to my right.
And at the top of this window, Iwrote something in my own
handwriting.
It's now painted in and it says,you are worthy of the dreams you
dream.
The world is waiting for you toshow up today.
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I wrote that in a moment where Ineeded to be reminded that I am
worthy, that the dreams I'mdreaming are for me and that the
community I'm building around meand the people in my life.
Are there for a reason when Iput more life in my life, it
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means I'm engaging with thosepeople saying yes to them and to
myself, and deciding togetherthat the world is a better place
for all of us because we areconnected and moving forward.
I encourage you to use thesetips today.
Put more life in your life.
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As a result, you're going tofind yourself feeling more bold
and brilliant every day.
We'll see you soon.
Speaker (20:54):
Thank you for listening to the bold and brilliant
podcast.
I'm your host, Tracie root.
And I want to invite you tocheck out the show notes, find
out where you can connect withour guests, find out more about
what I and the gather communityhave to offer you, and be sure
to subscribe to this podcast onyour favorite platform.
Thanks so much.
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