Ep. 35 Your biggest advantage over your competitors [ empowerment ]

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Hello, hello, and welcome to the Borealis

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experience. I'm your host Aurora, life coach and companion

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on this beautiful journey called life. Gosh, I missed speaking

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this intro, it's been quite a while since I published an

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episode for you.

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My life has been shaken has been turned upside down. And now I

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can slowly but surely find a grip underneath my feet again,

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just in a nutshell relative of mine, my father had a stroke in

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Germany, and I'm in Canada, and deeply embedded in the community

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here and busy and this message reached me and it completely

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threw me off. Now I booked my flight to go see him and I feel

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so much better I feel I can breathe again, I can sleep

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again, I can feel a little bit more normal again. And it will

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feel good to hold his hand. So yeah, just a little side note,

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while I've been away for quite some time, it's been very

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interesting. And in the meantime, I kept working on my

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dream on my location that I'm building here for you. And that

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was great. Sometimes, when you're not doing well

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emotionally mentally. It is extremely awesome to have

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physical work to do and a project that you can see

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progress serves kind of like an anchor. So that has been very

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good. I hope you are good. I hope you feel safe. I hope you

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feel understood and loved. I hope that you own up to your

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truth. I hope you can live your most authentic life. And first

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and foremost, I hope that you enjoy great health. Your

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physical body is the reason why you are here on planet Earth.

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You experience pleasure you can travel you can take in the world

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around you with all your senses. So please, please, please never

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forget how important your physical health is. And how it

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affects your mind and your emotions, your over all well

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being. Today I want to talk about thinking, making time to

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think no matter what you're going to do with your life, you

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will have a great advantage over your competitors. If you make

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time to reflect to rest. And think and what I mean by sync is

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not you know just sit there and put your legs up and think about

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the next item you want to buy or the next food like the next meal

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you want to cook. The next person you want to flirt with

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with thinking I mean thoughts that are in alignment with your

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desires, dreams and goals. So many of us feel that if we stop

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for a moment and are in stillness, that we are wasting

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time. But my dear, I'm here to tell you that quite the opposite

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is the truth. It doesn't really matter if you are a parent if

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you are a lover. If you are an entrepreneur a ce o As a sole

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proprietor, an employed person, if you are able to make time and

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reflect about where you want your life to go, you will get

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there. Eventually. Too many people are on IO autopilot, too

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many people are caught up with their to do lists. I know people

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who have absolutely no to do lists, and I know people who

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have, like, free to tend to do lists for one day. And I just,

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yeah, I have a hard time imagining how that can be.

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Awesome living? If you're kind of Yeah. Reactive to your To Do

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lists if you're like a little squirrel working down your list?

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Or how do you say that like, checking off? points on your

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list? Is that really enjoyable? Do you feel that alive and in

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good about it? When you live like that? Yeah, it gives you

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structure. It makes you not forget things. But I'm always

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one to encourage people to stay alive and to stay. I don't want

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to say alert. But observant. Right, when you go to bed at

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night, can you reflect back and see the baby steps that you took

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towards your goal? Instead of planning out your week? If

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weight loss is one of your goals, or weight gain, and you

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plan out your week, or your coming weeks, with tasks that

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you want to fulfill each day, what if life happens? And that

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comes up a couple of days where you don't do anything? Are you

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going to beat yourself up or you're going to fall back? I

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tell you what, a lot of people who then get thrown off their to

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do lists, so to say quit because they feel they're falling

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behind. And then they end up not doing anything at all. Or they

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fulfill all the little tasks that were written down on your

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on their to do list.

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But it's kind of like a it feels like a should and like a must.

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And is that the right way to go about your dreams and to be on a

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path of self discovery and joy and true living living with

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purpose? Living from the heart? I don't think so. I think we

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have to read just when I'm going through this crisis again and

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coming out of it alive. I'm taking day by day. I don't plan

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big things. I focus on the the essentials are the most

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important things. I have my goals and my dreams and my

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desires in mind. And it doesn't matter which little step I take

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towards my goal each day, even if it is just two minutes,

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because I know life happens. I know, distraction happen. But if

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I know that even if I was distracted, even if I felt

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uprooted, and life was horrible. And I still made those two

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minutes that were serving my goals that were in alignment

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with my values. I could tap myself on my shoulder and I can

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keep going. Right you keep that consistency. It's like a red

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line. That from the day you decide what your goal is, what

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your dream is that you want to reach to the day that you reach

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your goal that this red line never gets interrupted. And it

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doesn't matter if the red line is fat balled in a way that We

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can say, Yeah, you made lots of time you put lots of effort in

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and you were very productive. And on days where the line is

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thin, and you could only make two minutes time, or you could

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only make one little phone call that it counts as one. But you

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didn't leave your goal your dream out of sight. And this is

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what I was doing over the last couple of weeks when I was not

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showing up as often as I wanted to, as to not beat myself up to

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know that I will come back stronger than ever. And in the

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meantime, I will work on stuff that I usually neglect

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stuff that is also in alignment with my dreams and goals and

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that will make you feel so awesome. It is consistency, it

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is not a To Do lists and beating yourself up for days where you

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don't fulfill your To Do lists that will make you come closer

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to your dreams. And again, it doesn't matter if you are trying

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to manifest a relationship or your ideal weight, or a job or

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travel plans. It will fall into place if you are gentle with

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yourself along the way. And I think this is what I want you to

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take away from today's episode is that we are human. We are on

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planet Earth. Tackling life and life will throw curveballs at

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you and obstacles that you are equipped to conquer. But be

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gentle along the way because no one else is going to be gentle

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except you. And if you are the people around you will be gentle

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as well. If you communicate what you're going through, and if you

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own up to where you're at on your journey, you will find

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support, incredible support. And I'm also always there and so

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incredibly grateful to be on this journey with you. This

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podcast is advertisement free. And I keep receiving donations

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and it just fills my heart with your generosity and your

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appreciation and motivates me so much. Especially on the days

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where life is tough. So thank you so much for being here.

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Thank you for sending episode requests I always in and joy to

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know that I can serve you directly and it will always be

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anonymous. And yeah, I think that was the message I wanted to

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send out to you today. take really good care of yourself. I

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will be out there very soon again. Until then.