Imagine Yourself

Sometimes the first step is the hardest one of all. We want to inspire you to take inventory of your dreams and your potential and Just. Get. Started. This episode features a guest who turned her writing talent into a dynasty! The road wasn't always easy for thriller/suspense novelist, Bianca Sloane; but she made it happen and learned so much on her journey!  Now she wants to share that with you! If you’ve been sleeping on your own special talent and you’re ready to show it off to the world, then you’ve come to the right place. No more waiting for the right moment to make it happen. Let’s make someday today! Get more inspiration at ImagineYourselfPodcast.com

How do we find our purpose? By searching for it! Life can get so busy that we might find ourselves in a pattern of wake up, rush around, do work, go to sleep. There might be seasons in our life when that’s all we have time for. But when you finally find the time to begin the pursuit of your purpose, it opens doors to a whole new world and a whole new you! Our guest Craig Sroda, author of The Ultimate Manual to Living a Meaningful Life, shares a way for us to nail down our purpose and live with more intention. Get more inspiration at ImagineYourselfPodcast.com

Admit it, lots of us are out here striving to be more, do more, live more when all we really want is to reach that sweet spot where we savor and appreciate who and what we already are. Who are we trying to impress anyway? We get the gift of living out this one life, and we certainly hope that no one misses out on the best parts because they’re so busy out there looking for more, more, more! Get more inspiration at ImagineYourselfPodcast.com

Are you satisfied with what you have in your life? If not, are you craving MORE material things to fill a void or an unreachable standard that will never really be enough? Let’s take a good, hard look at social pressures to buy more, consume more, and obtain more, more, more. Once you decide to live by your own standards, you might realize that what you already have is Just Right! Get more inspiration at ImagineYourselfPodcast.com

Raise your hand if you think we could use a little more love in our world, within our homes, within our…selves! Loving ourselves is not always promoted, but today, we have a guest who teaches us to celebrate self-love, self-esteem, and self-confidence. Listen in as Author Sherry Duquet (who's work includes the best-selling children's book Violet The Hugging Octopus) shares the healthy benefits of lovingly embracing yourself. Get more inspiration at ImagineYourselfPodcast.com

“Good Morning” is a popular greeting, and we want to give our mornings a good start! We set our clocks, we set our coffee makers, maybe we should set the tone of our day too. We can’t control what’s going to happen on any given day, but we can equip ourselves to be better prepared for anything the day throws our way. Let’s take a look at your morning routine and see how to set the tone of your day in a beautiful way! Get more inspiration at ImagineYourselfPodcast.com

This episode has us searching for our WHY in life. What’s the why behind all of your actions, choices, goals? Why haven’t we reached our pinnacle yet? Why don’t we realize that one of the most overlooked aspects of getting to our desired destination is to understand why that’s our desired destination? We’ll have you asking and finding your own personal why! Get more inspiration at ImagineYourselfPodcast.com

Please raise your hand if you’re searching for ways to get your life in balance! We are digging into areas of life that need balance and discovering ways to accomplish that beautiful (not perfect) sense of balance in our homes, careers, families, and relationships. The solutions we’ve come up with might be different than what you’d expect! Get more inspiration at ImagineYourselfPodcast.com

Life brings the unexpected—some great things, some not so great, and some things that have us quaking in our boots with…fear! You don’t have to live the rest of your life completely fearless; but once you hear the inspiring stories from our guest, Kim Adams, who has triumphed in the midst of cancer, a hurricane and heart-wrenching family and career crises, you will be ready to face those menacing fears... and eject them from your life! Get more inspiration at ImagineYourselfPodcast.com

With Author of the Book "From Reject to Greatness", Thamar BlaiseThe sting of rejection can affect us whether we are dealing with it in the schoolyard, the workplace, our family setting, or our relationships. And, it can run very deep and be very painful. It can linger on until our 40's, 60, 80's and beyond if we never gain the tools to overcome the rejection, rekindle self-worth and strive to find our own personal greatness! Get more inspiration at ImagineYourselfPodcast.com

Pleased & Thankful! Do you have anything to be grateful for? Let’s sit for a moment and think about the many people and things that make this life beautiful. Whether it’s the beauty found in nature, family, friends, art, or even a good cup of coffee, we definitely have things to be thankful for. We’re spending this episode focusing on gratitude. Tonight, we hope you’ll be in bed counting blessings instead of counting sheep! Get more inspiration at ImagineYourselfPodcast.com  

But, Oh, How I Love Me Some Me! How can I love my neighbor when I can barely take the time to love myself? This world could use more love and more helpful “neighbors”. We want to show that it is possible and even beneficial to balance work, life, family and friends with designated “me” time while still taking a few minutes to pull up beside a “neighbor” and show them some love! Get more inspiration at ImagineYourselfPodcast.com

Spoiler Alert: Perfect Isn’t Perfect!Life was designed for growth and development, exploration and mistakes. As we live, we learn. So, why do many of us expect perfection and carry it around as a burden? We can miss out on life’s gifts if we focus on all of our own and others’ imperfections. Give yourself a break, and honor the successes and the slipups in life while ditching the perfectionism!  Get more inspiration at ImagineYourselfPodcast.com

Just Keep Swimming, Just Keep Swimming—in Your Own Lane!Sometimes we humans get so excited and so focused on what everyone else is doing that we end up failing at what we were supposed to get done for ourselves! One way to avoid that from happening is to concentrate on your own tasks and know when to stay in your lane. Swimmers know that they’ll get disqualified for veering into other people’s lanes. We’re giving a friendly reminder to make sure this doesn’t happen to you. Get more inspiration at ImagineYourselfPodcast.com  

How to Do a Better Job of Handling People Telling You How You Can Do a Better Job! A critic’s job is to criticize, and it’s our job to realize…we are all a work in progress! If your defenses go UP when you receive a little criticism, then you might want to listen UP and learn how to wade through the criticisms without losing your cool.  Constructive criticism can be a catalyst for growth, and destructive criticism can be tossed out and forgotten, like last week’s old trash!  In this episode, we'll talk about how to tell the difference. Join us...and Imagine Yourself! Get more inspiration at ImagineYourselfPodcast.com  

Whether we like it or not, change is happening all around us and hopefully within us too. In this episode, we’ll share our own personal adventures navigating through change. Our challenge: Ask yourself if you are going to fear change or use it to your advantage? The next time CHANGE comes knocking at your door, go ahead and invite it into your life willingly! Get more inspiration at ImagineYourselfPodcast.com

It takes courage and confidence, patience and perseverance to land the career of your dreams. Sometimes we just need good timing and a blessing from above. Here’s the thing: we might be just one footstep away from professional satisfaction. Are you ready to put your foot out there? Get more inspiration at ImagineYourselfPodcast.com

Don't be a Judgey McJudger! Please understand that this is a heavy topic, and we don’t have the game mastered yet, but we promise complete transparency, and we have lots of examples and strategies and tips on how to do a better job of enjoying life, others, and yourself while ditching most of the negative, judgey thoughts and behaviors. Get more inspiration at ImagineYourselfPodcast.com