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This episode is part II of episode 60, so if you haven’t listened to episode 60, please go back and do that first, and then listen to episode 61 as well, to be inspired by Tonya Joyce and her story of “From Wheels to Heels”. Once back here at episode 62, you’ll hear 10 more sources of inspiration and how they have inspired me in my life, and hope that at least one of them resonates with you. The connection between living an inspired life and our positive health outcomes is undeniable. Tune in to be inspired, and please share this series of podcasts with anyone you know that could use a little inspiration in their life right now.
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Melissa Deally:if you were in your 20s. Again, what would that be like? What
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Melissa Deally:tomorrow's don't wait for your wakeup call.
Melissa Deally:Welcome back to another episode of The don't wait for your wake
Melissa Deally:up call podcast. My name is Melissa Daly and I am your host.
Melissa Deally:And this episode is a continuation of episode number
Melissa Deally:62 episodes ago as I continue to focus on the theme of
Melissa Deally:inspiration. And so if you haven't listened to Episode 60,
Melissa Deally:I suggest you go back and listen to episode 61st. And then listen
Melissa Deally:to episode 61. Because oh my goodness, the story of Tanya
Melissa Deally:Joyce, going from wheels to heels is such an incredibly
Melissa Deally:inspirational story. And I know you will absolutely love it. And
Melissa Deally:once you've listened to those two episodes, come back and join
Melissa Deally:me for episode 62. Here as we continue with 10 more sources of
Melissa Deally:inspiration in my life and how they impact me. So again, when
Melissa Deally:we are living in a place of inspiration, we are feeling
Melissa Deally:good, joyful, happy, motivated, we're looking towards the
Melissa Deally:future, we're looking at possibility. Instead of feeling
Melissa Deally:that things are impossible, can't be done, being afraid,
Melissa Deally:being angry, leave behind all of those negative emotions, and
Melissa Deally:we're moving towards the positive emotions feeling
Melissa Deally:lighter. And so that's why being in a state of inspiration is
Melissa Deally:such a wonderful place to be. And honestly, one of the easiest
Melissa Deally:ways to get there is to simply go out into nature. And I'm
Melissa Deally:very, very fortunate I am surrounded by nature. But I'm
Melissa Deally:surrounded by nature by a very conscious choice I made about 32
Melissa Deally:years ago, I came to Whistler, British Columbia, in October of
Melissa Deally:1990. And when I stood in the village and was surrounded by
Melissa Deally:the mountains, I was in awe of the sheer beauty of Mother
Melissa Deally:Nature. And I spent that winter here and it was my intent to
Melissa Deally:only be here for one winter, and then go on to London, England to
Melissa Deally:a career in Merchant banking using my Commerce degree. And
Melissa Deally:partway through that season. I have many people telling me all
Melissa Deally:you have to stay for summer because summer is amazing here
Melissa Deally:you can do even more in the summer. You can kayak and you
Melissa Deally:can paddleboard and you can canoe and you can swim in the
Melissa Deally:lakes and you can sail and you can hike and you can bike ride,
Melissa Deally:whereas winter was skiing or skiing downhill or cross country
Melissa Deally:but it was still skiing, right. And so I thought, That sounds
Melissa Deally:pretty amazing. I can say because it was just an
Melissa Deally:internship, I can push that back six months. And so I did that
Melissa Deally:then as it was coming around to the end of that year, and I
Melissa Deally:should have been going off to my internship. I also realized I
Melissa Deally:know what that life is like ahead of me in London. I've been
Melissa Deally:there I have friends in banking, I've seen their stressful life.
Melissa Deally:They're long days and then going to the pub at the end of the day
Melissa Deally:and eating crappy fried food and drinking and then going to bed
Melissa Deally:and getting up and doing it all again the next day. And is that
Melissa Deally:what I wanted for my life? Or did I want to be here in this
Melissa Deally:place surrounded by nature with all of this beauty? And okay,
Melissa Deally:maybe I won't make as much money as I would have made if I went
Melissa Deally:into Merchant banking. But what was more important to me, my
Melissa Deally:money or my health? And even then I wasn't in health and
Melissa Deally:wellness. I had no desire to go into health and wellness at that
Melissa Deally:point. I still knew that my health was important to me, and
Melissa Deally:more important to me than money. Because after all, what is your
Melissa Deally:wealth? What's it good for if you don't have your health,
Melissa Deally:right? I made a conscious decision then I have never, ever
Melissa Deally:regretted choosing nature. And nature truly is inspirational.
Melissa Deally:It lowers our stress the moment that we're in it, we can feel
Melissa Deally:our body calm. And when we look around at every everything that
Melissa Deally:nature is offers the variety, you know, the different types of
Melissa Deally:trees, birds, animals, etc, etc, etc. There's so much mountains,
Melissa Deally:lakes, beaches.
Melissa Deally:There's so much variety, and it's different every single day.
Melissa Deally:And I'm 32 years later, I still wake up and see the mountains in
Melissa Deally:the winter covered in snow and have a hard time imagining what
Melissa Deally:they look like, in summer. And in summer, they're, you know,
Melissa Deally:grass, green, and beautiful. And I have a hard time imagining
Melissa Deally:what they like in winter, because I love to just be in the
Melissa Deally:moment, and enjoy what nature is offering me in that moment in
Melissa Deally:time. hiking in the woods, and leaving, you know, modern day
Melissa Deally:life behind the stresses and the worries of the world technology,
Melissa Deally:etc, etc. And just going out and being. And so, in that place in
Melissa Deally:nature, when we lower our stress levels, and when we find a place
Melissa Deally:of calm, when our conscious mind can slow down enough. That's
Melissa Deally:where creativity comes in. That's where inspiration
Melissa Deally:happens. We can be inspired to, you know, come up with a new
Melissa Deally:problem, new solution to a problem, we're trying to solve a
Melissa Deally:new plan for what's next in our life. Or we can just be inspired
Melissa Deally:to slow down and enjoy the peace and quiet and calm because we
Melissa Deally:get those opportunities so rarely in our world today. So I
Melissa Deally:am literally in awe of Mother Nature every day, every time I
Melissa Deally:go up the mountain skiing. It's beautiful to me, and I just want
Melissa Deally:to take photos. And some of my friends laugh at me because
Melissa Deally:they're like, you've lived here for 32 years, and you look like
Melissa Deally:a tourist. And I'm like, I don't care. I really don't care. I
Melissa Deally:want to capture this every time. And what's been really
Melissa Deally:interesting over the last 18 months, as I've been doing this
Melissa Deally:and sharing this on social. And through this pandemic, when you
Melissa Deally:know everybody's we've been staying home and doing less,
Melissa Deally:etc. You post these photos, and other people are commenting how
Melissa Deally:just looking at my photos brings them calm or inspires them where
Melissa Deally:they just appreciate seeing them. And then that inspires me
Melissa Deally:to continue posting my photos. And sometimes I think well, it's
Melissa Deally:kind of the same photos I posted last time. It doesn't matter
Melissa Deally:because somebody else is going to see it somebody who needed to
Melissa Deally:see it on that day. Because Mother Nature has so much to
Melissa Deally:give whether it's in person, or even through a photograph or a
Melissa Deally:picture. And so, those of you who know me, you absolutely know
Melissa Deally:I love spending time in nature. Whether it's downhill skiing,
Melissa Deally:cross country skiing in the summertime getting out on my
Melissa Deally:paddleboard. I actually don't know how many people I lost
Melissa Deally:count that I inspired to buy paddleboards in my last two
Melissa Deally:summers of paddleboarding and posting about it and I love that
Melissa Deally:I love that other people are getting out into nature and
Melissa Deally:enjoying that time on the water and the calm and it's so
Melissa Deally:healthy, we're letting go of stress in those moments. Hiking,
Melissa Deally:I used to always you know, I've done a lot of hiking over my
Melissa Deally:years here. But in since the pandemic taking out back country
Melissa Deally:hiking with my daughter, something the two of us can do
Melissa Deally:together and totally enjoy quiet time memory making just
Melissa Deally:relaxing, leaving all the devices behind, or simply
Melissa Deally:sitting in nature and enjoying the warmth of the sun coming
Melissa Deally:through the trees or what I absolutely love is walking
Melissa Deally:through the trees with a canopy above my head and you can't see
Melissa Deally:up to the sky. But then every once in a while the sun will
Melissa Deally:come through and you can see the rays of the sun coming through
Melissa Deally:the trees and hitting the ground ahead of you. It's just
Melissa Deally:absolutely beautiful. And what about the changing of the colors
Melissa Deally:in the fall? The spring you know that brilliant bright green of
Melissa Deally:new leaves and buds in the spring to the beautiful oranges
Melissa Deally:and reds of the fall.
Melissa Deally:Yes, I love nature. I could probably do a whole show on
Melissa Deally:nature. But I'm going to move on to the source of inspiration
Melissa Deally:number 12 which is laughter. Right? Who doesn't love the
Melissa Deally:sound of laughter think about that baby that new baby laugh
Melissa Deally:when you're just going boo at them and they think it's the
Melissa Deally:funniest thing ever. And it's just that really cute little
Melissa Deally:baby giggle and you can do it Over and over and over again.
Melissa Deally:And every time they laugh more, and it's that same little cute
Melissa Deally:baby laugh. We've all seen that experience that too, you know,
Melissa Deally:comedy shows to, you know, comedy television, just allowing
Melissa Deally:us that time to laugh. Those belly laughs are great episode
Melissa Deally:that my family and I love. It's called Miranda out of the out of
Melissa Deally:the UK, there's only three seasons, there's only five or
Melissa Deally:six episodes per season. But it is a laugh out loud hilarious.
Melissa Deally:To the point where you're laughing so hard your tummy
Melissa Deally:hurts. And that is so healthy for you. Because one minute of
Melissa Deally:laughter can boost your immune system for 24 hours. One minute
Melissa Deally:of anger or fear or stress, on the other hand can weaken your
Melissa Deally:immune system for four hours. So what would you rather laughter
Melissa Deally:changes your energy, it shifts your mood, it lightens your
Melissa Deally:load. And it's a very quick and powerful way to move into that
Melissa Deally:place of feeling lighter. So I absolutely love laughter for
Melissa Deally:what it does, because it makes us feel good. It's contagious.
Melissa Deally:When my oldest daughter starts laughing, she has an absolutely
Melissa Deally:contagious laugh. And I can't help but laugh along with her.
Melissa Deally:And sometimes she's you know, playing tricks on her dad and
Melissa Deally:laughing at her dad. And then I'm laughing too. And he's like,
Melissa Deally:Thanks for the support. And I absolutely can't help it. I just
Melissa Deally:start laughing when she starts laughing. And so that contagious
Melissa Deally:nature of laughter is really powerful as well, because it
Melissa Deally:brings us together as human beings enjoying the moment. So
Melissa Deally:laughter is yet another source of inspiration. Where can you
Melissa Deally:find laughter in your life? The 13th source of inspiration is
Melissa Deally:spirituality. Whether that's meditation, prayer,
Melissa Deally:contemplation, all of these can be a quiet source of peace and
Melissa Deally:inspiration. Sometimes inspiration comes to us, when we
Melissa Deally:slow down, right? I said that, in my last episode, when my
Melissa Deally:daughter and I were sitting at the sunset and quiet of the
Melissa Deally:morning. In fact, inspiration often comes to us when we slow
Melissa Deally:down. And we just don't slow down enough on a regular basis.
Melissa Deally:But when we choose to slow down and go within the inspiration
Melissa Deally:can reveal itself to us. The problem solving the ideas,
Melissa Deally:creative ideas for something we might want to do next. And so
Melissa Deally:what does that look like for you, it doesn't have to be a
Melissa Deally:make work project to slow down or to meditate or to pray. It
Melissa Deally:could be five minutes at a time. And sometimes it's a matter of
Melissa Deally:just starting. And initially it might be five minutes. But then
Melissa Deally:as you get good at meditating for five minutes, and you're
Melissa Deally:really like the peace and the calm and the inspiration that
Melissa Deally:comes to you, it's easy to build upon that to 10 minutes or 15
Melissa Deally:minutes. For me, yoga is almost like meditation that can be a 45
Melissa Deally:minute to an hour long class, of just being calm being within
Melissa Deally:closing my eyes to all the external input and the
Melissa Deally:bombardment of what's thrown in our eyes all day, every day, to
Melissa Deally:just allow the brain time to calm. And from that place, we
Melissa Deally:get inspiration. Number 14 Are my clients. My clients are an
Melissa Deally:incredible source of inspiration to me. And perhaps for you, it's
Melissa Deally:clients, maybe it's colleagues, maybe it's your bosses. But who
Melissa Deally:are the people that you work with? That might be a source of
Melissa Deally:inspiration for you.
Melissa Deally:Very often the clients that come to work with me have been
Melissa Deally:looking for solutions to their root cause of their health
Melissa Deally:issues for quite some time and not getting answers being told
Melissa Deally:nothing's wrong with them, or that we don't know what's wrong
Melissa Deally:with you. And they're frustrated. And sometimes
Melissa Deally:they've almost given up, they don't think they can heal it all
Melissa Deally:and they have to feel like crap for the rest of their life.
Melissa Deally:Which is absolutely not true because your dis ease does not
Melissa Deally:have to be a life sentence. But sometimes that's what people are
Melissa Deally:led to believe. And so when they start working with me, they
Melissa Deally:don't have a lot of hope left. They're thinking will this work?
Melissa Deally:Won't this work? I'm not sure they have to buy into my belief
Melissa Deally:that My programs work. And I know my programs work because
Melissa Deally:I've seen them work with hundreds and hundreds of
Melissa Deally:different people and get great results for all of them. And so
Melissa Deally:I have to share how the programs work with them. And then they
Melissa Deally:have to choose to step into that. When we have hope, we can
Melissa Deally:continue the healing journey is when we quit, that we've lost
Melissa Deally:our hope and nothing happens. So as long as we keep trying,
Melissa Deally:there's the chance that will then the body can keep healing,
Melissa Deally:right. So they step into that. And then as we create the
Melissa Deally:environment for their body to heal, and they start noticing
Melissa Deally:the benefits very quickly, usually within the first three
Melissa Deally:weeks. Now they develop their own belief that, hey, there's
Melissa Deally:something to this, this can work for me, I'm feeling better, I'm
Melissa Deally:on the right path. And they're inspired to keep going, and
Melissa Deally:their belief blossoms. And when I see them take on their own
Melissa Deally:belief, and I see them step into doing the work. That inspires
Melissa Deally:me, because it isn't always easy. But they do it. Because
Melissa Deally:they start to see the benefits. And that inspires them to keep
Melissa Deally:going. And that inspires me to keep doing the work that I'm
Melissa Deally:doing, because there's more people out there that need that
Melissa Deally:kind of help and support and guidance on their healing
Melissa Deally:journey. So I want to say thank you to every single one of my
Melissa Deally:clients that trusted in me. Because you inspire me every
Melissa Deally:single day and stepping into doing the work that you need to
Melissa Deally:do to help your body heal with my guidance. And you inspire me
Melissa Deally:to keep doing the work that I do. And it brings me great joy,
Melissa Deally:because I love seeing the results that people get. So
Melissa Deally:number 15, the 50 source of inspiration, are our friends. We
Melissa Deally:have all different kinds of friends, friends in different
Melissa Deally:shapes and sizes, that all have different skills and different
Melissa Deally:knowledge that we don't have. And so they can do things that
Melissa Deally:we can't do or don't do. And this is inspiring, because from
Melissa Deally:there, we can learn from each other. And I have a particular
Melissa Deally:very good friend who I've actually only known for the last
Melissa Deally:six months where accountability partners in a business coaching
Melissa Deally:group that we're both in. And we both agree that our coach
Melissa Deally:assigned us to be partners together, it was just a perfect
Melissa Deally:match. And honestly, this lady is an angel. Recently, she moved
Melissa Deally:into the house of neighbors who had a disabled daughter and a
Melissa Deally:son. And they hadn't had a vacation since the kids were
Melissa Deally:born. And caring for a disabled child is anybody any of you
Melissa Deally:would know if you have disabled children, that's 24/7. And
Melissa Deally:they've never had a vacation. And so Jackie, who I've
Melissa Deally:nicknamed an angel moved into their home leaving her own
Melissa Deally:teenage son and husband in their family home in order to care for
Melissa Deally:these two kids while their parents got their first ever
Melissa Deally:vacation.
Melissa Deally:Is it easy looking after a disabled child? Absolutely not.
Melissa Deally:This is a disabled teenager, she's you know, got some weight
Melissa Deally:to her. So Jackie had to be lifting her, you know, getting
Melissa Deally:carrying her into bed and bathing her and getting her to
Melissa Deally:eat food and taking her to her brother's Christmas concert. And
Melissa Deally:she sent videos of her dancing with this child who's standing
Melissa Deally:in her leg braces and holding her up so she could dance and
Melissa Deally:playing music. And remember in the last episode, Episode 16
Melissa Deally:music was one of the sources of inspiration. And they were
Melissa Deally:dancing to this music. And the brilliant smile on this girl's
Melissa Deally:face was absolutely incredible. And the gift that Jackie gave to
Melissa Deally:this family in moving into their home and caring for their
Melissa Deally:children. That inspires me to be a better person. Because to me,
Melissa Deally:she is an angel. And I was watching this as she was sharing
Melissa Deally:videos of her experience thinking could I do that? What I
Melissa Deally:do that? I don't know. But Jackie did it. And now, next
Melissa Deally:noon, if there's a time where I'm asked to do that I would
Melissa Deally:want to say yes. Because Jackie's inspired me to be that
Melissa Deally:better person. So that I can say yes to that. So thank you,
Melissa Deally:Jackie, for that inspiration. And then we have affirmations as
Melissa Deally:our 16th source of inspiration. And again, there's many
Melissa Deally:affirmations out there, you can Google them, you can make up
Melissa Deally:your own. And I made up an affirmation that many of you
Melissa Deally:have heard many times over, in regard to self care when I first
Melissa Deally:started my health coaching certification course, because
Melissa Deally:that's where I first learned that self care is the most
Melissa Deally:selfless act, and that we should be looking after ourselves
Melissa Deally:first, not last, because I always thought I had to look
Melissa Deally:after everybody else first. And me last, and then I never really
Melissa Deally:got to me. And when I flipped that on its head, it made so
Melissa Deally:much sense, you know, we can't serve from an empty cup, put the
Melissa Deally:oxygen mask on first in the airplane, etc. Right? Fill your
Melissa Deally:cup until it's overflowing and serve from the saucer that made
Melissa Deally:so much more sense to me. So I created an affirmation that self
Melissa Deally:care is the most selfless act, as it allows you to show up and
Melissa Deally:give the world the best of you instead of what's left of you.
Melissa Deally:And I say that every single day. As I shifted my habits into
Melissa Deally:looking after me first. And as I did that, I noticed a shift in
Melissa Deally:me, I noticed a shift in my family. Because I was looking
Melissa Deally:after me first. And I was actually more stress resilient.
Melissa Deally:I was actually calmer two teenage daughters at time when I
Melissa Deally:first implemented this and notice this and one day I had
Melissa Deally:this aha that. There, they're not riling me up like they used
Melissa Deally:to. I'm not responding and yelling like I used to. They
Melissa Deally:still push my buttons, but I respond calmly. And the only
Melissa Deally:difference was that I had started looking after myself,
Melissa Deally:blocking myself care time in my calendar, making sure I got my
Melissa Deally:workouts in or my paddleboarding or my skiing or whatever it was.
Melissa Deally:And self care for every single person is different. For me,
Melissa Deally:it's some form of exercise, or it's enjoying a bath and the day
Melissa Deally:for reading a book. For you, it might be totally different. But
Melissa Deally:affirmations really help us to change habits. We're so
Melissa Deally:programmed to just be in our comfort zone and do what we've
Melissa Deally:always done. And it can be hard to get outside of that and to
Melissa Deally:create a new habit because our brain wants to keep us safe in
Melissa Deally:our comfort zone. And anytime we step outside of that we start
Melissa Deally:doing something differently. It starts sending us messages to
Melissa Deally:pull us back, questioning what we're doing, why are you doing
Melissa Deally:that? You sure you want to do that? That's hard, this looks
Melissa Deally:different. Is it safe? Why don't you come back over here where I
Melissa Deally:know I can keep you safe. And that's why so often, when we're
Melissa Deally:doing something that has a stepping outside our comfort
Melissa Deally:zone, we might even feel butterflies in our stomach, like
Melissa Deally:standing on stage to give a speech, a piano recital standing
Melissa Deally:at the start line of a marathon. Because our brains like whoa,
Melissa Deally:what's going on here. And it's questioning us and we're feeling
Melissa Deally:a little bit nervous.
Melissa Deally:And when we continue to step in outside of our comfort zone and
Melissa Deally:move forward on that path, those affirmations can help us keep
Melissa Deally:moving forward. So that is a 16th form of inspiration. The 17
Melissa Deally:is exercise. So when we exercise, we have endorphins
Melissa Deally:moving through our body, we're feeling good, we're better
Melissa Deally:oxygen flow through our body, therefore, you know, more blood
Melissa Deally:flowing through our body, etc. We just feel better. And I
Melissa Deally:realize if you're used to lying around on the couch, that it
Melissa Deally:might be really hard to find that motivation to get up and
Melissa Deally:exercise. But when you do you always feel better. I don't
Melissa Deally:think anybody's ever gone and done a workout and then said,
Melissa Deally:Gee, I wish I didn't do that. And so it's incredibly
Melissa Deally:inspirational because we're always feeling better. And again
Melissa Deally:we're getting out of our conscious brain when we're
Melissa Deally:exercising our brain can calm and you know new thoughts, new
Melissa Deally:ideas, new inspirations can come to us. I've recently invested in
Melissa Deally:the mirror button Lululemon is partnered with a mirror to
Melissa Deally:promote that and so now I have a whole exercise gym in my living
Melissa Deally:room with over 10,000 workouts in it from chair, workouts you
Melissa Deally:can do in your chair to yoga to stretch Change toning to barre
Melissa Deally:Pilates boxing kickboxing, tai chi, cardio competition family
Melissa Deally:fun. I, I can't even remember all of them. There's so many to
Melissa Deally:choose from. And then from beginner to intermediate to
Melissa Deally:advanced to expert, and five minutes to 60 minute classes,
Melissa Deally:and some live classes, and then a whole bunch of recorded
Melissa Deally:classes. So every single day, at some point, I can go to the
Melissa Deally:mirror and I like to do my workouts in the morning, I can
Melissa Deally:go to the mirror, and I can do a half hour of this and a half
Melissa Deally:hour of that. Or maybe I do an hour of something, try different
Melissa Deally:things. And just enjoy that. And I can play my music, play their
Melissa Deally:music. And again, remember, music is another source of
Melissa Deally:inspiration. I'll often play my energy shifting tunes just
Melissa Deally:because they're faster, especially if I'm doing cardio.
Melissa Deally:Oh, dance was another one I forgot to tell you, then I have
Melissa Deally:to play their music. And I'm totally uncoordinated. And you
Melissa Deally:know what, it doesn't matter because I'm at home and no one's
Melissa Deally:watching. But I'm moving. And I'm creating that blood flow.
Melissa Deally:I'm getting out of my thinking mind and just being in the
Melissa Deally:moment and from their source, if that's the source of
Melissa Deally:inspiration. So I absolutely love my mirror. And but it
Melissa Deally:doesn't matter what exercise do you like to do? Maybe it's just
Melissa Deally:getting out and going for a walk. I told you in the two
Melissa Deally:episodes ago, about my mom walking the pole to pole without
Melissa Deally:even knowing it and getting her Fitbit badge because she was out
Melissa Deally:walking her dogs. And then she's getting out and getting close to
Melissa Deally:the beach because she's living in Australia. So she's closer to
Melissa Deally:nature. So all those benefits from getting outside and doing a
Melissa Deally:walk. So what type of exercise do you like, because that's
Melissa Deally:what's most important. If you like bike riding, then go ride a
Melissa Deally:bike, if you hate bike riding, don't ride a bike, find
Melissa Deally:something that you like, because then you're so much more likely
Melissa Deally:to do it. And you can start off in baby steps, 15 minute
Melissa Deally:increments, and build up. And as you build up and you feel better
Melissa Deally:and you feel fitter, you're further inspired to keep going.
Melissa Deally:So number 18 is acts of kindness. And love this one,
Melissa Deally:because so often acts of kindness don't actually even
Melissa Deally:have to cost you anything. Think of it if you're just giving
Melissa Deally:someone a compliment. And in this world, how often does that
Melissa Deally:happen? Not often enough, to the point where if you do
Melissa Deally:acknowledge someone and give them a compliment, they might
Melissa Deally:feel uncomfortable. And try to push it off or say it was
Melissa Deally:nothing. Because they're not used to receiving compliments,
Melissa Deally:because we're not giving them often enough. And giving a
Melissa Deally:compliment doesn't cost you anything. But it gives the other
Melissa Deally:person so much. And guess what it's actually giving you
Melissa Deally:something to because you feel good about giving that
Melissa Deally:compliment to the other person. Any act of kindness leaves you
Melissa Deally:feeling good. Whether somebody drops something and you pick it
Melissa Deally:up for them. Whether you're opening the door for someone,
Melissa Deally:whether you're buying someone in front of you a coffee in or
Melissa Deally:behind you a coffee and wine just because whatever it is,
Melissa Deally:that act of kindness leaves you feeling good.
Melissa Deally:And you've made someone else's day, at the same time. And what
Melissa Deally:if all of us could just go out and give five compliments today
Melissa Deally:to five different people genuine compliments. And notice how you
Melissa Deally:feel as a result of doing that. And notice how you've made each
Melissa Deally:and every one of those people's day. Now, if that isn't a source
Melissa Deally:of inspiration, I don't know what it's making someone else's
Melissa Deally:day from a simple act of kindness. Number 19 change
Melissa Deally:change as a source of inspiration. I've always said
Melissa Deally:the only guarantee in life is change. And yet some people are
Melissa Deally:very resistant to change. Because they're in that comfort
Melissa Deally:zone where their brain knows they can keep them nice and
Melissa Deally:safe. And they don't want to get out of it. But there's no growth
Melissa Deally:sitting in your comfort zone. So in order to have growth we have
Melissa Deally:to get out of that comfort zone staying in it all the time
Melissa Deally:simply gets boring. And boredom can actually lead to depression
Melissa Deally:and depression can actually lead to negative health implications.
Melissa Deally:And there's no better sign of that then people in retirement.
Melissa Deally:They count down the days to retirement and Then retirement
Melissa Deally:starts and then they have maybe have a whole month first month
Melissa Deally:planned out are going to travel. And then after that they have no
Melissa Deally:idea what they're gonna do with all of this time. And if they
Melissa Deally:don't make a plan on how they're going to spend that time, it
Melissa Deally:gets boring. And that boredom leads to depression and
Melissa Deally:depression leads to illness. And too many people die really soon
Melissa Deally:after retiring. It's actually tragic, because you work all of
Melissa Deally:these years of your life looking forward to retirement. So you
Melissa Deally:can do all of these things, and then it doesn't happen. Which is
Melissa Deally:why I actually believe in the Japanese approach of IKI guy
Melissa Deally:where you find your passion and your purpose. And you do that
Melissa Deally:every day for the rest of your life. You don't have to retire
Melissa Deally:from it because you love what you do. And so then retirement
Melissa Deally:isn't even a thing. You might do it less as you get older, but
Melissa Deally:you don't have to actually retire. But if you're living
Melissa Deally:life by design, you can take vacation when you want to take
Melissa Deally:vacation, you can live your purpose when you want to live
Melissa Deally:your purpose. But moving out of our comfort zone, and inviting
Melissa Deally:change into our life is inspiring, as we don't know
Melissa Deally:where we're going or how it's going to turn out. And that's
Melissa Deally:totally why your brain wants to keep you in the comfort zone,
Melissa Deally:because it's like, where are you going, I don't know, if I can
Melissa Deally:keep you safe over there. Let's come back to the comfort zone.
Melissa Deally:But the reality is, when we step outside that comfort zone, it's
Melissa Deally:an adventure. And that is inspiring. And we just have to
Melissa Deally:gently tell our brain that it'll be okay that we've got this. And
Melissa Deally:let's go over here and you'll find a new Comfort Zone later
Melissa Deally:on. You see, your brain is your best friend and your worst enemy
Melissa Deally:at the same time. It's your best friend when it stops you from
Melissa Deally:stepping in front of a bus. But it's your worst enemy when it's
Melissa Deally:holding you hostage in your comfort zone. So learn to talk
Melissa Deally:back to your brain and bring it with you on your adventure out
Melissa Deally:of your comfort zone. And that is inspiring that yourself Be
Melissa Deally:inspired simply by not knowing what the outcome is going to be.
Melissa Deally:But being open to the journey. And the 20th source of
Melissa Deally:inspiration is a conscious rethink, slow down, meditate,
Melissa Deally:take the time for check ins with yourself. Excuse me, are you in
Melissa Deally:alignment in all aspects of your life? Is there anything you need
Melissa Deally:to shift in order to get into alignment is when you are in
Melissa Deally:alignment in all aspects of your life, you will find yourself
Melissa Deally:living in peace, harmony, and joy. And there will always be
Melissa Deally:room for growth, there will be always room to try new things.
Melissa Deally:And that is a great source of inspiration. When we rethink
Melissa Deally:when we do check ins with ourselves, check that we're on
Melissa Deally:the right path. And if we're not, we do a little zig here, a
Melissa Deally:little zag there. So I hope you've really enjoyed these over
Melissa Deally:the course of two episodes, these 20 sources of inspiration.
Melissa Deally:And I truly would love to hear from you whether you email me at
Melissa Deally:Melissa at your guided health journey.com. post a message on
Melissa Deally:YouTube underneath these podcasts or send me a message
Melissa Deally:through my website at your guide to health journey.com through
Melissa Deally:the contact form. And let me know which of these 20 sources
Melissa Deally:of inspiration most resonated with you.
Melissa Deally:When we take the time to just stop and think about all the
Melissa Deally:ways that we can be inspired in our life, we can truly start to
Melissa Deally:create a little bit of change, we can start to realize we're
Melissa Deally:boredom setting in we're bogged down when we're just doing same
Melissa Deally:old, same old and we can shake it up. And that is inspired. So
Melissa Deally:thank you for listening to the don't wait for your wake up call
Melissa Deally:podcast. And next week I have yet another fabulous guest and
Melissa Deally:this particular guest has had two near death experiences. And
Melissa Deally:clearly her work isn't done on this planet because she's here
Melissa Deally:to share her story with you. Amazing woman so inspirational.
Melissa Deally:So come back next week and listen to episode number 63.
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