Aug. 24, 2025
How to Cultivate the Personal Power You Need Right Now
Just about everywhere I go, folks are having some version of the conversation about how we're all responding to the crazy (stuff) that is going on in our world. How we’re responding both as citizens of this country and as Nonprofit leaders in particular. And the impact that's having on us personally, on our ability to cope and respond in a way that is productive and doesn't make us crazy. One of the pieces that doesn’t get talked about enough is how much this is about our personal power. And ...
Just about everywhere I go, folks are having some version of the conversation about how we're all responding to the crazy (stuff) that is going on in our world. How we’re responding both as citizens of this country and as Nonprofit leaders in particular. And the impact that's having on us personally, on our ability to cope and respond in a way that is productive and doesn't make us crazy.
One of the pieces that doesn’t get talked about enough is how much this is about our personal power. And finding ways to maintain personal power, even when things are feeling really out of control. We need it for our own sanity and survival as individuals. We also need it as leaders, to take care of our organizations and to lead them forward even when the future looks very uncertain and weird.
But it all starts with us as individual humans. We can't escape the fact that no matter how big and bad our leadership title is, we're still a human operating in the world, and we all have to deal with the same set of human challenges. And one of those is not just holding onto, but cultivating and building personal power, especially in these circumstances.
In this episode, we share:
- The two most common causes of erosion of your personal power, and how to counter them
- How to get out of reactivity and into empowering action
- The two essential components of building your personal power
- How to train your brain to operate from an empowered state
- Four universal actions you can take daily that build personal power
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You're listening to the Nonprofit Power Podcast.
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In today's episode, we share how to cultivate your personal power right now.
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So stay tuned.
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If you wanna have real and powerful influence over the money and policy decisions that impact your organization and the people you serve, then you're in the right place.
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I'm Kath Patrick, and I've helped dozens of progressive Nonprofit leaders take their organizations to new and higher levels of impact and success by building powerful influence with the decision makers that matter.
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It is possible to get a critical mass of the money and policy decision makers in your world to be as invested in your success as you are, to have them seeking you out as an equal partner and to have them.
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This podcast will help you do just that.
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Welcome to the Nonprofit Power Podcast.
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Hey there folks.
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Welcome to another episode of the Nonprofit Power Podcast.
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I'm your host, Kath Patrick.
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I'm so glad you're here for today's episode because there is a conversation that's happening just about everywhere I go that I think is really important for us to have here.
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And that's the conversation about how we're all responding to the crazy stuff that is going on in our world, both as citizens of this country and as Nonprofit leaders in particular.
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And the impact that that's having on us personally, on our ability to kind of cope and respond to that in a way that is productive and doesn't make us crazy.
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One of the pieces that I don't think gets talked enough about is how much this is about our personal power and finding ways to maintain personal power, even when things are feeling really outta control in the world.
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We need it for our own sanity and survival as individuals.
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We also need it as leaders, to take care of our organizations and to lead them forward even when the future looks very uncertain and weird.
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But it all starts with us as individual humans.
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We can't escape the fact that we are a human operating in the world.
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And no matter how big and bad our leadership title is, we're still a human operating in the world and we all have to deal with the same set of human challenges.
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And one of those is not just holding onto, but cultivating, building personal power in these kinds of circumstances.
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When you're talking about cultivating personal power, you're talking about two things that need to happen.
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One, we need to build on that personal power.
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But two, and this is the part that often gets overlooked, is we have to pay attention to where we are losing personal power, where it's leaking away from us, often without our knowledge, without our awareness.
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We can feel what it feels like when that's happening, but we can't always identify that that's what's going on.
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I think it's very helpful to think about this duality as a bucket.
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You've got your bucket of personal power.
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And your goal is to have that bucket be as full as possible.
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So you do things to add personal power into the bucket.
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But if we're not aware that there's two dozen holes at the bottom of that bucket.
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And all that personal power is just leaking away quietly.
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And no matter what we do to add to it, we never seem to make any progress.
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So the first thing we've gotta do is figure out what is happening when we are leaking personal power.
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There's two typical causes for the leaking away of personal power.
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One is when we are operating from reactivity to external events, which you know, kind of resonates right now.
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A lot of external events.
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And the other is when we're operating from negative energy internally, that is quietly draining away our power.
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There's no question that reactivity is one of our biggest enemies right now.
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There are so many external provocations happening on the daily that if we aren't super mindful, we can get sucked into a state of reactivity pretty much every waking hour.
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But there's no power there.
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So we have to be alert to that.
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And then in a minute I'll talk about what we do about it.
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But we first have to be aware.
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We have to know that it's happening.
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The second way that we leak personal power, which is through the negative thoughts and negative energy and kind of the doom loop.
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You know, the doom loop, right?
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So that's the stuff that's going on in your head.
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And sometimes it's the voice of self-doubt and self-criticism.
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And sometimes it's a broader doom loop of oh my God, what are we gonna do?
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We just lost all this funding.
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We're screwed.
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We're gonna have to lay people off, da da da.
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That's easier to identify on its face, but sometimes hard to notice in the moment because we're so in it.
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We can get, especially if this has tended to be your habit.
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But even if not, right now, lots of people are going there in ways that they don't typically go.
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So we all have a need to be even more aware given the challenging circumstances.
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So we've got the personal negative thought loop commentary, chatter.
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And then we've got the stuff related to our larger situation.
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And you know, all that chatter in your head is stealing personal power like crazy.
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And that's before anybody else even gets involved.
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We're just busy doing that to ourselves.
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So we have to be super mindful of what we're saying to ourselves all the time, and what we're saying to others in conversation.
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This isn't just about what you're saying to your team.
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We'll talk about that in a minute.
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But this is also about what you're saying in conversations with friends when you're just chatting, maybe you're relaxing after work or you're hanging out, or you're doing whatever.
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And the topic turns to difficult things, and pretty soon you're in the doom loop and you're talking about how bad it is and how we're screwed and you know, where are the leaders?
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What are we gonna do?
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Et cetera, et cetera.
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How are we ever gonna get out of this?
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And sometimes we even talk about actually feeling powerless in this situation.
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We don't even have to hunt for the words.
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We'll say, I, I just feel so powerless.
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And here's the thing.
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Whether it's around big stuff or little stuff, whenever you're going to that negative conversation loop.
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Either out loud or just in your own mind, very quietly running the thought loop in your head.
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Your words are incredibly powerful, and we need to be aware of the power of our word and use it very wisely.
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Because what's going on with our thought loops, whatever they may be.
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Is that whatever our conscious brain is running on repeat is quietly training our subconscious, our reticular activating system to go looking for more of that thing.
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So if we are telling it how bad things are and how hopeless things are and how powerless we are.
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It will go out and say, alright, I got you.
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And it will just bring you more and more proof that that is what is so.
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But if you flip that and change the script, change the thought loop that's running in your head and turn it to one of possibility, then that tells your reticular activating system that what you're looking for are signs of possibility, signs of opportunity, ways in which this could be made better.
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This isn't about just engaging in happy talk.
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That is not only fairly useless, but I find it kind of annoying.
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When somebody's just going, you know, the house is burning down and they're going, well, it's really okay.
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No problem.
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You know, it's all, it'll all turn out.
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It'll be fine.
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Well, no.
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That's not empowering.
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That's either self delusion or just ignoring reality.
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We don't have the luxury of ignoring reality.
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We're up to our necks in it.
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So the question we have in front of us is, how do we become as powerful as possible to have as much personal power as we can so that we can fight this stuff?
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So that we can fight for the people we serve, we can fight for the value of our services.
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We can fight for the future of the country.
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We can fight for the rights of our neighbors, all of it.
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We can't do that if we're constantly leaking away personal power, especially unaware.
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You know, we're all gonna have moments where we get into reactivity, we get into negative thought loops.
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Honestly, happens to me just about every day.
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The difference is I've trained myself to check that, to notice it the minute it starts happening and say, whoop, nope, not helpful.
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Hold up.
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What's going on here?
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Why are we going here?
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What's the purpose of this?
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Is this serving me?
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No, clearly not.
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Okay.
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Where do I need to go instead?
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And, entertaining story.
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When I went to record this episode today, I had the whole thing recorded.
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I was pretty happy with it.
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And I went and looked at the recording and it had not recorded.
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So I had just spent a half an hour talking away, confident that the recording was happening.
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It's never failed before.
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It's always worked, and this time it didn't.
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I don't know.
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I don't know why, but I was not happy.
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It was late.
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I was already behind schedule.
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I had a lot of things going on and I'm like, really?
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You're gonna do this now?
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And pretty soon I was off to the races.
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I can go zero to bonkers really fast when something is getting in my way and is aggravating me and I feel frustrated by it.
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Things for me to work on for sure.
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But that's where I went.
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And I was mad.
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And I ranted around a little bit and then decided that what I needed to do was just go eat dinner and deal with it later.
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But as I was making dinner, I'm like, you know usually, when weird stuff happens, there's usually a message from the universe in that.
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And I'm like, what could be the message from the universe.
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Why on earth did the universe want my tech not to work?
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Why did it want my recording not to work?
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What's that matter?
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Universe, I don't like your messaging.
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And then it hit me.
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It's like you just recorded a half an hour conversation on staying out of reactivity.
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And what did you do when we handed you something that was not what you wanted?
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Where'd you go immediately?
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Straight into reactivity.
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Straight into, this stupid tech, this stupid computer.
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Off I went.
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And when that realization hit me, I just laughed out loud and I laughed for a good five minutes at the occasionally rudely humorous ways the universe has of saying, yo, pay attention to your own message here.
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So a couple things happened.
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One, I was humbled for sure.
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But the other thing that happened, and this goes to the point of two things.
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One, how fast we can get into reactivity even when we don't intend to.
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It's not like we go around intending to be reactive, most of us.
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But it happens.
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The trick is to short circuit that as quickly as possible.
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I mean, my answer to short circuiting it was, this is clearly not what I need to be doing right now.
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Let me go do something else and reset.
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And it was in the process of doing that reset in another activity that then the realization hit me of what had been going on.
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And then I just had to laugh because it was just a little too meta as far as I was concerned.
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But there you go.
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Thanks universe.
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I appreciate the lesson and the joke, I guess.
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But here's what else happened.
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When I had that realization, that began to change my thoughts around what was going on, but it already started to change the thoughts by investigating it, by asking the question.
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So what is up with that?
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What's the universe trying to teach me with that one?
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Which is a much more empowered place than, why does this always happen at the worst possible time?
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Why am I plagued by tech problems when I'm most pressed for time?
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Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
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I went there for a nanosecond, but I very quickly shifted to something a little more productive, and then it got more productive as I went because it's a self-fulfilling loop.
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The more you go into positivity, the more you go into an empowered state of asking the right questions, of asking questions that are solution and action oriented, that are going to give you an opportunity to take yourself somewhere better.
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That is self-reinforcing.
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And it's very difficult for the negative vibration to persist once you go in that space.
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What really kicked it over the edge, and this should not be a surprise.
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What really kicked it over the edge was when I fell out laughing.
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And I was just laughing out loud.
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It was funny.
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And like I say, a little humbling, a little embarrassing.
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Like really?
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Yeah.
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Go teacher, teach yourself something.
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But laughing.
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Joy is one of the highest frequency, highest vibration states you can be in.
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It's right up there with love and empowerment.
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It's a good place to be.
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The frequency, the vibration of genuine laughter is very high.
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And so that pulled me the rest of the way out of the negative spot I was in.
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And once I got out of it, I realized instantly what had been happening.
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But sometimes when you're in it, it's hard to recognize, at least for a little minute.
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Particularly if there is fear or worry involved, those can be very difficult to kick yourself out of.
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So learning the practice of literally flipping the script that is running is incredibly helpful, both for retraining your reticular activating system, but also for moving you to a higher vibrational state, a higher frequency right then and there.
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That alone has a lot of power.
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And it's a really easy way to tell where are you at?
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The worse it feels, the lower the vibration, the lower the frequency you're operating at.
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So it's not surprising that shame and fear are the lowest vibrational frequencies there are.
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On a big scale of lowest to highest, they're way down at the bottom.
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They will drag you into a pit of disempowerment faster than anything.
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The first clue is if it feels crappy, it's probably not serving you, and it demands immediate attention.
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And then pay attention.
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Okay, what's the loop that's running here?
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What are the couple of loops?
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Is it a worry loop?
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Is it a fear loop?
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Is it an anxiety loop?
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What's happening?
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And identify what the thought or the words actually are, whether you're speaking them out loud or think of them in your head.
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I find it helpful to write them down cause it's easier to keep track.
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Write'em down.
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And investigate a little, see if there's more than one.
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There's usually two or three thoughts going on at the same time that are related, but are different aspects of the situation.
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Write'em down.
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And then ask yourself the question, what would be a more empowered thought that I could have around this thing?
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What would that be?
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And then write down, not just one, but a minimum of three, preferably four or five variations on a better way of looking at it.
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And that can be in the form of a question, can be in the form of a statement.
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So for example, if you're back to the panic over a major funding cut.
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That's what I'm thinking of right now.
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'cause what, what all my clients are talking to me about.
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If you're in that state of worry and fear about what's gonna happen.
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You identify that's the state you're in.
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And you realize that the thought loops that are are running in your head are, what if we can't get other funding?
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Okay, write that down.
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What if we have to cut back on our services and or our staff?
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Okay, that's thing number two.
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Let's just keep those for now.
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cause we could make the whole list and I'm sure you know what that list is'cause you've probably already been there.
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So, what if we can't fill the gap?
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What if we can't find other funding?
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Cause that's the root of the other worries.
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So you can say, well, what's a more empowering thought or question that I could put in its place that would take me to a higher frequency, a more empowered frequency?
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You can start with the presumption that there is other funding.
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Money hasn't disappeared, it's being redistributed.
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It's still out there.
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So start with the statement that there's still plenty of money out there.
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It's just that where it sits has changed, at least for the moment.
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That may be the single most important reset of your thought loop on this.
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From there, you can start asking much better questions, much more empowered questions like, alright, where is the money now?
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What relationships do we need to strengthen or build to pursue new sources of funding and to increase the amount we're getting from existing non-federal sources.
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It can be quite challenging to do that principle reset to, there's plenty of money still out there because a lot of the other decision makers, state level decision makers, city and county decision makers, foundations, everybody is getting caught in a scarcity mentality.
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The number of decision makers I've heard say some version of, well, there's no money right now is a lot.
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And I'm sure you've heard some of this too.
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But the fact is, there is still money.
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It's just that different decisions now need to be made about how to maintain the investments in critical services.
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And it's gonna take a lot of different people making good decisions about that.
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So how can we help those decision makers reset their own thinking and become good problem solving partners about how we maintain those investments?
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Rewriting that script and repeating those thoughts to yourself is a very simple and incredibly impactful strategy to number one, retrain your reticular activating system.
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Number two, immediately begin elevating your frequency.
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Because as soon as you shift from fear and doubt and worry into even questions about, well, what could I do?
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You're already moving toward possibility.
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You're already moving toward the notion that there is a solution.
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We just haven't found it yet.
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We have multiple choices for a solution.
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What will that take?
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What do we need to do?
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And it's moving you toward action, which is also a more empowered state.
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And then taking that to the next level of how do I lead other decision makers to a more empowered set of questions that we can work on together.
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most Nonprofit leaders I know are pretty good at that when it's about the organization.
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But we all, us humans all do this in all parts of our lives.
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And as my little story just illustrated, it'll sneak up on you in a heartbeat.
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And we think we're doing great and we think we're thinking all our empowered thoughts, and telling our reticular activating system to send us things that are gonna serve us, and all that.
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Yep, yep, yep.
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Doing all that.
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And then, something unexpected happens and whoop, there we go.
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Reactivity time.
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So again, the thing is to train yourself to notice it as fast as possible, and then start taking action immediately to rewrite that.
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Investigate it.
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Get clear on it.
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And then rewrite it and move your frequency to a higher place.
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Now that's what to do to deal with the problems of reactivity and negative thought loops.
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That's how we plug the holes, plug the leaky bucket.
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Now we've got a way to patch up all those holes so the bucket can actually stay full once we start pouring into it.
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The question becomes, well, how do we do that?
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And this is not terribly complicated actually.
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One of the things I already talked about, is taking action.
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Particularly in the current environment, a lot of progressive activists, advocates, Nonprofit leaders that I talk with daily, talk about feeling very small in the face of a giant threat.
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And like, how can I make a difference?
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I'm just one person pushing against this horrible tide of bad stuff.
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Where are the big leaders?
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Who's gonna come and help us?
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Where are they all?
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Well, i'll ask you, does that sound like an empowering place to be operating from?
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An empowering place to be operating from is to ask the question, well, what can I do?
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I can't do it all.
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None of us can.
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It's going to take thousands upon thousands, upon thousands of us all working together as a movement to fight back on this, on all of it.
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And there's a lot to fight back on.
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You can start with the question of, well, what issues speak to me most strongly?
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So you can narrow it there.
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You can say, okay, well I'll focus on the things that speak to me most strongly because I'm most motivated and passionate about working on that.
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Okay, great.
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And then the question becomes, alright, well within that, how can I take the skills and the knowledge and the connections and whatever else I've got, that I'm already good at.
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How can I put that to work in service of this piece of the problem that I'm passionate about?
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And what action can I take today, this week, this month to make a positive contribution to that and to move the needle as much as I can move it.
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On my own, or by banding together with other people.
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But what's something I can do?
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And what's something I can do at least weekly?
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Whatever it is.
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It doesn't matter.
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Just pick something.
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We can become paralyzed by not knowing where to put our energy, what to do, what's more important, et cetera.
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There's no wrong answer to what you pick as long as you pick something and do it.
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And pick something that you can bring your best skills and talents to.
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You're super skilled at a bunch of things, so, don't automatically assume that the thing you need to be doing is writing postcards.
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Maybe it is.
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Maybe that's what you have bandwidth for right now.
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Maybe that's all you can handle.
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In which case do that.
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It will feel better than having done nothing.
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Pick something.
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Pick a few things and then put them on your calendar and actually go do them.
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And get your friends involved.
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Get them to come do them with you.
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That alone, recruiting other people into the fight, is immensely valuable.
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Taking positive action and operating from the place of possibility and the belief that you can actually make a significant difference if you just take the action.
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Doing that will do more to fill your personal power bucket than just about anything else.
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Beyond that, we also need to do things that feed our soul.
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Because again, we're creating a vibration and a frequency.
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We want it to be the highest vibration and frequency we can achieve, because that's where massive personal power comes from.
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So doing stuff that feeds joy, that feeds love, that feeds contentment, that feeds happiness, that feeds optimism, is vitally important because all of that is cumulative.
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There are some things that are universal, science says.
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There are things that universally seem to lift people's vibration, lift their frequency.
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And that is time in nature.
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It could be 10 minutes, but taking time in nature every day.
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Feeling or expressing love, for anybody, human, pets, whatever.
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Feeling and expressing love is one of the highest vibrational frequencies there is.
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It's immensely rewarding.
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It makes us feel wonderful and it's easy to do.
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Move your body.
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Physical activity of whatever nature.
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If there is a physical activity that particularly brings you delight and joy or a feeling of accomplishment, do that.
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If it's dancing in your chair for five minutes, do that.
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If it's running five miles, do that.
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Whatever it is.
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Physical movement is energizing and creates a positive frequency.
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Music is incredibly powerful.
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Pick music that you enjoy and listen even just for 10 or 15 minutes.
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It's an incredible mood lifter.
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I find that I've been going to music more often lately, and I have been continually surprised at how much of a boost it is.
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Sometimes I want something that's really high energy.
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Sometimes I want something that's really mellow.
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It doesn't matter.
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Whatever I'm in the mood to hear is the right choice for that moment.
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But the actual act of listening to music is a vibrational boost, and it's so easy to do.
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All of those universal things turn out to also be the easiest things that we can do to raise our frequency, raise our vibration, and help us build personal power.
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And beyond that, I'm sure you've got a gajillion other things that fill you up, that raise your vibration, that make you super happy.
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Maybe it's going out and playing with your dog in the park.
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You get physical activity, love and time in nature.
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Brilliant.
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You get three for one.
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It's awesome.
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Plus the dog's happy.
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Pick your half a dozen things that really light you up.
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Maybe it's brunch with friends.
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Maybe it's a picnic with your family.
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Whatever lights you up, do more of that.
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It matters.
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It absolutely matters.
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Because all of it works together.
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They're not separate.
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Our being able to raise our frequency in one area helps to raise it in all the others.
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We compartmentalize a lot, especially as Nonprofit leaders.
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And we can be super intensely focused at work and then try to like chill out and let go of that when we get home.
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But no matter how much we try to compartmentalize, we're still just living in this one, same body.
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We don't have multiples.
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And so we must be aware of how interconnected all of it is.
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All of our thoughts in all aspects of our life, all of our forms of reactivity, our inclinations toward reactivity.
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All feed either a higher frequency and vibration or a lower one, depending on how we're operating.
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All of it matters.
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The good news is the recipe for plugging the leaks and then filling the bucket are not super complicated.
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They mostly require awareness and consistent practice.
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All of that put together will help build and maintain your personal power, even in these most challenging times.
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And here's the thing.
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When you get into your personal power, when you're operating from your max or close to max personal power, others notice and respond.
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Your team will notice.
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Decision makers will notice.
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They absolutely will notice and respond.
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Everybody in your orbit will notice and will respond accordingly.
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When you're operating from a greater place of personal power, your decision making is better and more sound.
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Your leadership is more compelling.
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And you feel better.
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All to the good.
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Give these a try.
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They're simple, but not always easy.
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But with regular practice, they get easier and the reward is tremendous.
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Thanks for listening, and I'll see you in the next episode right here on the Nonprofit Power Podcast.
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Welcome to the Nonprofit Power Podcast.
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Hey there folks.
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Welcome to another episode of the Nonprofit Power Podcast.
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I'm your host, Kath Patrick.
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I'm so glad you're here for today's episode because there is a conversation that's happening just about everywhere I go that I think is really important for us to have here.
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And that's the conversation about how we're all responding to the crazy stuff that is going on in our world, both as citizens of this country and as Nonprofit leaders in particular.
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And the impact that that's having on us personally, on our ability to kind of cope and respond to that in a way that is productive and doesn't make us crazy.
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One of the pieces that I don't think gets talked enough about is how much this is about our personal power and finding ways to maintain personal power, even when things are feeling really outta control in the world.
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We need it for our own sanity and survival as individuals.
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We also need it as leaders, to take care of our organizations and to lead them forward even when the future looks very uncertain and weird.
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But it all starts with us as individual humans.
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We can't escape the fact that we are a human operating in the world.
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And no matter how big and bad our leadership title is, we're still a human operating in the world and we all have to deal with the same set of human challenges.
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And one of those is not just holding onto, but cultivating, building personal power in these kinds of circumstances.
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When you're talking about cultivating personal power, you're talking about two things that need to happen.
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One, we need to build on that personal power.
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But two, and this is the part that often gets overlooked, is we have to pay attention to where we are losing personal power, where it's leaking away from us, often without our knowledge, without our awareness.
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We can feel what it feels like when that's happening, but we can't always identify that that's what's going on.
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I think it's very helpful to think about this duality as a bucket.
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You've got your bucket of personal power.
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And your goal is to have that bucket be as full as possible.
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So you do things to add personal power into the bucket.
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But if we're not aware that there's two dozen holes at the bottom of that bucket.
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And all that personal power is just leaking away quietly.
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And no matter what we do to add to it, we never seem to make any progress.
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So the first thing we've gotta do is figure out what is happening when we are leaking personal power.
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There's two typical causes for the leaking away of personal power.
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One is when we are operating from reactivity to external events, which you know, kind of resonates right now.
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A lot of external events.
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And the other is when we're operating from negative energy internally, that is quietly draining away our power.
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There's no question that reactivity is one of our biggest enemies right now.
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There are so many external provocations happening on the daily that if we aren't super mindful, we can get sucked into a state of reactivity pretty much every waking hour.
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But there's no power there.
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So we have to be alert to that.
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And then in a minute I'll talk about what we do about it.
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But we first have to be aware.
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We have to know that it's happening.
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The second way that we leak personal power, which is through the negative thoughts and negative energy and kind of the doom loop.
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You know, the doom loop, right?
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So that's the stuff that's going on in your head.
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And sometimes it's the voice of self-doubt and self-criticism.
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And sometimes it's a broader doom loop of oh my God, what are we gonna do?
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We just lost all this funding.
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We're screwed.
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We're gonna have to lay people off, da da da.
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That's easier to identify on its face, but sometimes hard to notice in the moment because we're so in it.
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We can get, especially if this has tended to be your habit.
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But even if not, right now, lots of people are going there in ways that they don't typically go.
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So we all have a need to be even more aware given the challenging circumstances.
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So we've got the personal negative thought loop commentary, chatter.
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And then we've got the stuff related to our larger situation.
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And you know, all that chatter in your head is stealing personal power like crazy.
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And that's before anybody else even gets involved.
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We're just busy doing that to ourselves.
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So we have to be super mindful of what we're saying to ourselves all the time, and what we're saying to others in conversation.
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This isn't just about what you're saying to your team.
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We'll talk about that in a minute.
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But this is also about what you're saying in conversations with friends when you're just chatting, maybe you're relaxing after work or you're hanging out, or you're doing whatever.
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And the topic turns to difficult things, and pretty soon you're in the doom loop and you're talking about how bad it is and how we're screwed and you know, where are the leaders?
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What are we gonna do?
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Et cetera, et cetera.
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How are we ever gonna get out of this?
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And sometimes we even talk about actually feeling powerless in this situation.
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We don't even have to hunt for the words.
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We'll say, I, I just feel so powerless.
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And here's the thing.
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Whether it's around big stuff or little stuff, whenever you're going to that negative conversation loop.
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Either out loud or just in your own mind, very quietly running the thought loop in your head.
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Your words are incredibly powerful, and we need to be aware of the power of our word and use it very wisely.
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Because what's going on with our thought loops, whatever they may be.
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Is that whatever our conscious brain is running on repeat is quietly training our subconscious, our reticular activating system to go looking for more of that thing.
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So if we are telling it how bad things are and how hopeless things are and how powerless we are.
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It will go out and say, alright, I got you.
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And it will just bring you more and more proof that that is what is so.
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But if you flip that and change the script, change the thought loop that's running in your head and turn it to one of possibility, then that tells your reticular activating system that what you're looking for are signs of possibility, signs of opportunity, ways in which this could be made better.
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This isn't about just engaging in happy talk.
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That is not only fairly useless, but I find it kind of annoying.
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When somebody's just going, you know, the house is burning down and they're going, well, it's really okay.
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No problem.
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You know, it's all, it'll all turn out.
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It'll be fine.
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Well, no.
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That's not empowering.
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That's either self delusion or just ignoring reality.
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We don't have the luxury of ignoring reality.
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We're up to our necks in it.
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So the question we have in front of us is, how do we become as powerful as possible to have as much personal power as we can so that we can fight this stuff?
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So that we can fight for the people we serve, we can fight for the value of our services.
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We can fight for the future of the country.
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We can fight for the rights of our neighbors, all of it.
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We can't do that if we're constantly leaking away personal power, especially unaware.
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You know, we're all gonna have moments where we get into reactivity, we get into negative thought loops.
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Honestly, happens to me just about every day.
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The difference is I've trained myself to check that, to notice it the minute it starts happening and say, whoop, nope, not helpful.
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Hold up.
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What's going on here?
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Why are we going here?
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What's the purpose of this?
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Is this serving me?
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No, clearly not.
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Okay.
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Where do I need to go instead?
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And, entertaining story.
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When I went to record this episode today, I had the whole thing recorded.
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I was pretty happy with it.
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And I went and looked at the recording and it had not recorded.
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So I had just spent a half an hour talking away, confident that the recording was happening.
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It's never failed before.
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It's always worked, and this time it didn't.
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I don't know.
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I don't know why, but I was not happy.
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It was late.
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I was already behind schedule.
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I had a lot of things going on and I'm like, really?
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You're gonna do this now?
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And pretty soon I was off to the races.
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I can go zero to bonkers really fast when something is getting in my way and is aggravating me and I feel frustrated by it.
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Things for me to work on for sure.
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But that's where I went.
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And I was mad.
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And I ranted around a little bit and then decided that what I needed to do was just go eat dinner and deal with it later.
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But as I was making dinner, I'm like, you know usually, when weird stuff happens, there's usually a message from the universe in that.
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And I'm like, what could be the message from the universe.
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Why on earth did the universe want my tech not to work?
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Why did it want my recording not to work?
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What's that matter?
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Universe, I don't like your messaging.
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And then it hit me.
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It's like you just recorded a half an hour conversation on staying out of reactivity.
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And what did you do when we handed you something that was not what you wanted?
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Where'd you go immediately?
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Straight into reactivity.
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Straight into, this stupid tech, this stupid computer.
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Off I went.
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And when that realization hit me, I just laughed out loud and I laughed for a good five minutes at the occasionally rudely humorous ways the universe has of saying, yo, pay attention to your own message here.
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So a couple things happened.
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One, I was humbled for sure.
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But the other thing that happened, and this goes to the point of two things.
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One, how fast we can get into reactivity even when we don't intend to.
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It's not like we go around intending to be reactive, most of us.
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But it happens.
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The trick is to short circuit that as quickly as possible.
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I mean, my answer to short circuiting it was, this is clearly not what I need to be doing right now.
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Let me go do something else and reset.
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And it was in the process of doing that reset in another activity that then the realization hit me of what had been going on.
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And then I just had to laugh because it was just a little too meta as far as I was concerned.
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But there you go.
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Thanks universe.
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I appreciate the lesson and the joke, I guess.
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But here's what else happened.
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When I had that realization, that began to change my thoughts around what was going on, but it already started to change the thoughts by investigating it, by asking the question.
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So what is up with that?
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What's the universe trying to teach me with that one?
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Which is a much more empowered place than, why does this always happen at the worst possible time?
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Why am I plagued by tech problems when I'm most pressed for time?
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Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
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I went there for a nanosecond, but I very quickly shifted to something a little more productive, and then it got more productive as I went because it's a self-fulfilling loop.
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The more you go into positivity, the more you go into an empowered state of asking the right questions, of asking questions that are solution and action oriented, that are going to give you an opportunity to take yourself somewhere better.
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That is self-reinforcing.
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And it's very difficult for the negative vibration to persist once you go in that space.
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What really kicked it over the edge, and this should not be a surprise.
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What really kicked it over the edge was when I fell out laughing.
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And I was just laughing out loud.
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It was funny.
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And like I say, a little humbling, a little embarrassing.
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Like really?
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Yeah.
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Go teacher, teach yourself something.
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But laughing.
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Joy is one of the highest frequency, highest vibration states you can be in.
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It's right up there with love and empowerment.
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It's a good place to be.
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The frequency, the vibration of genuine laughter is very high.
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And so that pulled me the rest of the way out of the negative spot I was in.
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And once I got out of it, I realized instantly what had been happening.
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But sometimes when you're in it, it's hard to recognize, at least for a little minute.
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Particularly if there is fear or worry involved, those can be very difficult to kick yourself out of.
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So learning the practice of literally flipping the script that is running is incredibly helpful, both for retraining your reticular activating system, but also for moving you to a higher vibrational state, a higher frequency right then and there.
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That alone has a lot of power.
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And it's a really easy way to tell where are you at?
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The worse it feels, the lower the vibration, the lower the frequency you're operating at.
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So it's not surprising that shame and fear are the lowest vibrational frequencies there are.
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On a big scale of lowest to highest, they're way down at the bottom.
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They will drag you into a pit of disempowerment faster than anything.
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The first clue is if it feels crappy, it's probably not serving you, and it demands immediate attention.
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And then pay attention.
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Okay, what's the loop that's running here?
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What are the couple of loops?
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Is it a worry loop?
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Is it a fear loop?
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Is it an anxiety loop?
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What's happening?
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And identify what the thought or the words actually are, whether you're speaking them out loud or think of them in your head.
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I find it helpful to write them down cause it's easier to keep track.
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Write'em down.
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And investigate a little, see if there's more than one.
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There's usually two or three thoughts going on at the same time that are related, but are different aspects of the situation.
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Write'em down.
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And then ask yourself the question, what would be a more empowered thought that I could have around this thing?
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What would that be?
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And then write down, not just one, but a minimum of three, preferably four or five variations on a better way of looking at it.
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And that can be in the form of a question, can be in the form of a statement.
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So for example, if you're back to the panic over a major funding cut.
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That's what I'm thinking of right now.
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'cause what, what all my clients are talking to me about.
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If you're in that state of worry and fear about what's gonna happen.
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You identify that's the state you're in.
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And you realize that the thought loops that are are running in your head are, what if we can't get other funding?
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Okay, write that down.
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What if we have to cut back on our services and or our staff?
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Okay, that's thing number two.
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Let's just keep those for now.
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cause we could make the whole list and I'm sure you know what that list is'cause you've probably already been there.
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So, what if we can't fill the gap?
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What if we can't find other funding?
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Cause that's the root of the other worries.
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So you can say, well, what's a more empowering thought or question that I could put in its place that would take me to a higher frequency, a more empowered frequency?
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You can start with the presumption that there is other funding.
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Money hasn't disappeared, it's being redistributed.
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It's still out there.
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So start with the statement that there's still plenty of money out there.
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It's just that where it sits has changed, at least for the moment.
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That may be the single most important reset of your thought loop on this.
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From there, you can start asking much better questions, much more empowered questions like, alright, where is the money now?
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What relationships do we need to strengthen or build to pursue new sources of funding and to increase the amount we're getting from existing non-federal sources.
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It can be quite challenging to do that principle reset to, there's plenty of money still out there because a lot of the other decision makers, state level decision makers, city and county decision makers, foundations, everybody is getting caught in a scarcity mentality.
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The number of decision makers I've heard say some version of, well, there's no money right now is a lot.
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And I'm sure you've heard some of this too.
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But the fact is, there is still money.
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It's just that different decisions now need to be made about how to maintain the investments in critical services.
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And it's gonna take a lot of different people making good decisions about that.
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So how can we help those decision makers reset their own thinking and become good problem solving partners about how we maintain those investments?
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Rewriting that script and repeating those thoughts to yourself is a very simple and incredibly impactful strategy to number one, retrain your reticular activating system.
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Number two, immediately begin elevating your frequency.
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Because as soon as you shift from fear and doubt and worry into even questions about, well, what could I do?
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You're already moving toward possibility.
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You're already moving toward the notion that there is a solution.
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We just haven't found it yet.
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We have multiple choices for a solution.
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What will that take?
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What do we need to do?
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And it's moving you toward action, which is also a more empowered state.
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And then taking that to the next level of how do I lead other decision makers to a more empowered set of questions that we can work on together.
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most Nonprofit leaders I know are pretty good at that when it's about the organization.
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But we all, us humans all do this in all parts of our lives.
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And as my little story just illustrated, it'll sneak up on you in a heartbeat.
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And we think we're doing great and we think we're thinking all our empowered thoughts, and telling our reticular activating system to send us things that are gonna serve us, and all that.
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Yep, yep, yep.
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Doing all that.
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And then, something unexpected happens and whoop, there we go.
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Reactivity time.
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So again, the thing is to train yourself to notice it as fast as possible, and then start taking action immediately to rewrite that.
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Investigate it.
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Get clear on it.
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And then rewrite it and move your frequency to a higher place.
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Now that's what to do to deal with the problems of reactivity and negative thought loops.
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That's how we plug the holes, plug the leaky bucket.
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Now we've got a way to patch up all those holes so the bucket can actually stay full once we start pouring into it.
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The question becomes, well, how do we do that?
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And this is not terribly complicated actually.
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One of the things I already talked about, is taking action.
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Particularly in the current environment, a lot of progressive activists, advocates, Nonprofit leaders that I talk with daily, talk about feeling very small in the face of a giant threat.
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And like, how can I make a difference?
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I'm just one person pushing against this horrible tide of bad stuff.
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Where are the big leaders?
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Who's gonna come and help us?
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Where are they all?
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Well, i'll ask you, does that sound like an empowering place to be operating from?
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An empowering place to be operating from is to ask the question, well, what can I do?
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I can't do it all.
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None of us can.
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It's going to take thousands upon thousands, upon thousands of us all working together as a movement to fight back on this, on all of it.
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And there's a lot to fight back on.
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You can start with the question of, well, what issues speak to me most strongly?
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So you can narrow it there.
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You can say, okay, well I'll focus on the things that speak to me most strongly because I'm most motivated and passionate about working on that.
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Okay, great.
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And then the question becomes, alright, well within that, how can I take the skills and the knowledge and the connections and whatever else I've got, that I'm already good at.
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How can I put that to work in service of this piece of the problem that I'm passionate about?
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And what action can I take today, this week, this month to make a positive contribution to that and to move the needle as much as I can move it.
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On my own, or by banding together with other people.
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But what's something I can do?
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And what's something I can do at least weekly?
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Whatever it is.
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It doesn't matter.
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Just pick something.
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We can become paralyzed by not knowing where to put our energy, what to do, what's more important, et cetera.
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There's no wrong answer to what you pick as long as you pick something and do it.
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And pick something that you can bring your best skills and talents to.
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You're super skilled at a bunch of things, so, don't automatically assume that the thing you need to be doing is writing postcards.
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Maybe it is.
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Maybe that's what you have bandwidth for right now.
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Maybe that's all you can handle.
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In which case do that.
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It will feel better than having done nothing.
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Pick something.
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Pick a few things and then put them on your calendar and actually go do them.
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And get your friends involved.
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Get them to come do them with you.
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That alone, recruiting other people into the fight, is immensely valuable.
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Taking positive action and operating from the place of possibility and the belief that you can actually make a significant difference if you just take the action.
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Doing that will do more to fill your personal power bucket than just about anything else.
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Beyond that, we also need to do things that feed our soul.
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Because again, we're creating a vibration and a frequency.
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We want it to be the highest vibration and frequency we can achieve, because that's where massive personal power comes from.
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So doing stuff that feeds joy, that feeds love, that feeds contentment, that feeds happiness, that feeds optimism, is vitally important because all of that is cumulative.
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There are some things that are universal, science says.
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There are things that universally seem to lift people's vibration, lift their frequency.
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And that is time in nature.
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It could be 10 minutes, but taking time in nature every day.
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Feeling or expressing love, for anybody, human, pets, whatever.
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Feeling and expressing love is one of the highest vibrational frequencies there is.
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It's immensely rewarding.
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It makes us feel wonderful and it's easy to do.
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Move your body.
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Physical activity of whatever nature.
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If there is a physical activity that particularly brings you delight and joy or a feeling of accomplishment, do that.
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If it's dancing in your chair for five minutes, do that.
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If it's running five miles, do that.
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Whatever it is.
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Physical movement is energizing and creates a positive frequency.
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Music is incredibly powerful.
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Pick music that you enjoy and listen even just for 10 or 15 minutes.
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It's an incredible mood lifter.
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I find that I've been going to music more often lately, and I have been continually surprised at how much of a boost it is.
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Sometimes I want something that's really high energy.
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Sometimes I want something that's really mellow.
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It doesn't matter.
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Whatever I'm in the mood to hear is the right choice for that moment.
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But the actual act of listening to music is a vibrational boost, and it's so easy to do.
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All of those universal things turn out to also be the easiest things that we can do to raise our frequency, raise our vibration, and help us build personal power.
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And beyond that, I'm sure you've got a gajillion other things that fill you up, that raise your vibration, that make you super happy.
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Maybe it's going out and playing with your dog in the park.
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You get physical activity, love and time in nature.
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Brilliant.
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You get three for one.
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It's awesome.
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Plus the dog's happy.
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Pick your half a dozen things that really light you up.
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Maybe it's brunch with friends.
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Maybe it's a picnic with your family.
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Whatever lights you up, do more of that.
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It matters.
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It absolutely matters.
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Because all of it works together.
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They're not separate.
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Our being able to raise our frequency in one area helps to raise it in all the others.
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We compartmentalize a lot, especially as Nonprofit leaders.
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And we can be super intensely focused at work and then try to like chill out and let go of that when we get home.
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But no matter how much we try to compartmentalize, we're still just living in this one, same body.
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We don't have multiples.
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And so we must be aware of how interconnected all of it is.
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All of our thoughts in all aspects of our life, all of our forms of reactivity, our inclinations toward reactivity.
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All feed either a higher frequency and vibration or a lower one, depending on how we're operating.
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All of it matters.
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The good news is the recipe for plugging the leaks and then filling the bucket are not super complicated.
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They mostly require awareness and consistent practice.
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All of that put together will help build and maintain your personal power, even in these most challenging times.
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And here's the thing.
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When you get into your personal power, when you're operating from your max or close to max personal power, others notice and respond.
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Your team will notice.
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Decision makers will notice.
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They absolutely will notice and respond.
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Everybody in your orbit will notice and will respond accordingly.
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When you're operating from a greater place of personal power, your decision making is better and more sound.
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Your leadership is more compelling.
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And you feel better.
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All to the good.
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Give these a try.
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They're simple, but not always easy.
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But with regular practice, they get easier and the reward is tremendous.
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Thanks for listening, and I'll see you in the next episode right here on the Nonprofit Power Podcast.
