Live Life Loudly

It is OK to fail. Sometimes it is the ONLY option that you have and the only time it is true failure is if you didn’t learn something from the experience. Think about how many “failures” led to great success… Bands who got turned down over and over and over again until they finally got signed. Later they would go on to be award winning artists. Inventors that worked relentlessly to make something only to have to start over again and again. Athletes that couldn’t hit a ball, dunk a basket or throw a pass… who later grew up to lead teams to their championships. It is OK to fail… sometimes. Hit subscribe and support the show. Leave a review and let me know what you think. Leave a comment on the Facebook page at https://www.facebook.com/l3podcast/ Leave a comment on the website at http://www.l3podcast.com/episode14   Check out the new book from Pat Flynn WILL IT FLY

In this episode I take a look back at January 2016… the good the bad and the ugly. Some of the highlights of the month: My first episode of the podcast went live on 01/12/2016 I talk about why I hate… HATE spammers and bots on the site and what I do to keep them at bay. I also talk about the site stats. I had nearly 17K hits and 240 unique visitors on the site. Visitors from 29 countries with the US and Brazil being the most frequent visitors. I am still blown away by the reach that podcasting has and can’t wait to see how much further it will go. I also talked about what I have learned so far. I also am proud to announce that I have joined the IQMZ Network and talk about my hopeful plans for going to Podcast Movement in Chicago this year. Hit subscribe and support the show. Leave a review and let me know what you think. Leave a comment on the Facebook page at https://www.facebook.com/l3podcast/ Leave a comment on the website at http://www.l3podcast.com/episode13

We all have relationships… Friendships, families, work friends. How we have communicated over the years have made a huge shift in how we manager those relationships. We are more distracted than ever with technology.   I talk about ways to build the strong relationships and friendships in an age where we are connected 24/7   Hit subscribe and support the show. Leave a review and let me know what you think.   Leave a comment on the Facebook page at https://www.facebook.com/l3podcast/   Leave a comment on the website at http://www.l3podcast.com/episode12

We all lie to ourselves sometimes. We say we are not smart enough, attractive enough or anything… just to avoid the potential for embarrassment. I talk about some of the lies I have told myself and some of the examples of what we can do to defeat those lies..   Hit subscribe and support the show. Leave a review and let me know what you think.   Leave a comment on the Facebook page at https://www.facebook.com/l3podcast/   Leave a comment on the website at http://www.l3podcast.com/episode11

Makings some changes to the podcast… WAY too serious so far and I am less serious than that normally. On this episode I talk about fears and doubts. I go through some of the fears (or phobias really) that I have, how I work through them and how I face them. I also talk about some of the doubts I have about myself and even with what I do every single day.   Hit subscribe and support the show. Leave a review and let me know what you think. Leave a comment on the Facebook page at https://www.facebook.com/l3podcast/   Leave a comment on the website at http://www.l3podcast.com/episode10

We all have mornings. It’s a fact of life. How you start your day can be a HUGE factor in how the rest of the day goes. In this episode, I talk about my morning routines, the areas I see I can improve and I talk about the book that really got me looking at the routines that I did have. I even have direct links to purchase the book on the website, if you are so inclined. If you are interested in Hal Elrod's book, The Morning Miracle, you can get it at Amazon through the link below. All purchases help to support the Live Life Loudly podcast and of course Hal Elrod and his amazing book!  The Miracle Morning: The Not-So-Obvious Secret Guaranteed to Transform Your Life (Before 8AM) Added something new to this podcast too… I observed a sign that made me more confused than enlightened and I talk about it. Hit subscribe and support the show. Leave a review and let me know what you think. Leave a comment on the Facebook page at https://www.facebook.com/l3podcast/

We all have something to complain about from time to time. If you don't or never have.. CONGRATS! You are the unicorn of humanity! We all deal with traffic, work, money issues, almost anything really. Today I talk about ways I help reduce the stress that comes with it. Community Challenge – What are some of the things that you commonly have a complaint about? How you tried limiting your complaining to 5 minutes MAX and how did it help… or did it? Leave a comment on the Facebook page at https://www.facebook.com/l3podcast/Leave a comment on the website at http://www.l3podcast.com/episode8

I talk today about being a self-described introvert and things I am doing to retrain my brain to not feel that fear. We all have it from time to time, some just have it worse than others. Definition: introverted of, denoting, or typical of an introvert. Synonyms: shy, reserved, withdrawn, quiet Since the 1920’s and ongoing a huge spike in the term or identification of being introverted has been recognized. I wasn’t always an introvert myself. I think I started becoming more and more of one in the last 15 or 20 years. Community Challenge – Are you an introvert? How do you work around that and how do you manage your friendships and relationships? Leave a comment on the Facebook page at https://www.facebook.com/l3podcast/Leave a comment on the website at http://www.l3podcast.com/episode7

It is too easy to be the mouse in your every day life. The mouse will sit quietly, watching for all the dangers around him. He scurries about just trying to not make waves and getting noticed. The lion is proud and makes his presence known! He doesn’t hope for the approval of others and he isn’t quiet about his needs and his intentions. Leave a comment on the Facebook page at https://www.facebook.com/l3podcast/Leave a comment on the website at http://www.l3podcast.com/episode6

Today I talk about my views on the term “Multitasking” and how I think it is great in theory, bad in execution. How can you REALLY give full attention to more than one thing at a time? Leave a comment on our Facebook page at https://www.facebook.com/l3podcast/ or you can go to http://www.l3podcast.com/episode5/ and leave a comment.

Life would be great without stress right? How can we limit the amount of stress we have? Here are a few things I have done that helps out quite a bit. It's still a learning process for me, of course. Meditate – Started doing it and it made a HUGE difference – Insight Timer app is what I normally use. Stop, Breathe for 10 seconds and just do NOTHING! Ask yourself if what you are stressing about and can be changed by stressing over it? Likely that answer is NO. Letting worry consume us is allowing something outside of our control to live rent free in our minds! If it doesn’t make you happy or doesn’t make you money…DO NOT ALLOW IT TO BOTHER YOU! Easier said than done… Community Challenge: What stresses you out and did you try anything suggested OR find something new to help you limit the stress in your life? Let us know and share it. Check out a couple of links if you want to explore meditation more… https://www.headspace.com/ https://insighttimer.com/ Leave a comm

We all experience that moment when a friend, a co-worker or even a stranger will ask us to do something…and we say yes. A YES to them is a NO to yourself. How to decide when a NO or a YES is better? Ask yourself if you are going to deny yourself anything? Ask if you will gain anything? Community Challenge – Practice saying NO to things that you simply do not want to do. Don’t risk your job, life or even freedom of course… but put yourself before others for ONE WEEK and let me know how it works out for you. What did you learn from it? Leave a comment here or on our Facebook page at https://www.facebook.com/l3podcast/  

In this episode I talk about the differences I see between goals and resolutions. We just celebrated the new year and all to often we see the flood of resolution messages get posted. What makes these different from goals? Leave a comment on our Facebook page at https://www.facebook.com/l3podcast/ Or you can leave comment on the episode posted on the website at http://www.l3podcast.com/episode2/

In this episode, I just talk about why I am doing a podcast and what you can look forward to in upcoming episodes.