Positive Solutions 4 Life-Transforming Your Mind & Body from the Inside Out

Mindfulness & ADD with Deanne Dietz

"Wherever You Go, There You Are" by Jon Kabat Zinn is what started it all for Deanne after receiving a diagnosis of Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD). She became a Brain Health Coach with the Amen Clinic and used herself as a test subject to get her brain back.
In this episode, Deanne shares how she used her diagnosis of ADD to get her health under control, become aware of what she was exposing herself to, and learn how to check in with her body, increase mindfulness, and healthier ways to stimulate dopamine, or the feel good hormone.
Deanne explains that a mindfulness practice can start with just a few seconds of noticing what is going on in the present moment to gradually increasing the ability to look within and noticing the signals the body is giving you.
Benefits of mindfulness: increases dopamine stimulation, allows for full experience of a moment, builds connection, brings out what you value, and allows you to listen to your heart.
Connect with Deanne Dietz at
Website: https://www.hearthealing.org/
YouTube: @DeanneD
 
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Mind Management Not Time Management by David Kadavy Book Summary

This book challenges the idea that time needs to be managed in order to be productive. Instead of struggling to get more out of your time, David Kadavy shows you how to get more out of your mind in order to be more productive and creative.
In this episode I highlight ways that Kadavy emphasizes to help you get more out of your mind, including:
4 Stages of Creativity
7 Mental States of Creativity
The Environment around you
Natural cycles or seasons
Systems for repeated actions
By understanding these ideas and getting in the right state of mind, they will help you maximize your time so you can be more productive and creative.
 
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Natural Health & Fitness with Tim Kelly

In this episode, Tim Kelly shares insightful information he has learned through researching little known truths about health and fitness that can change your life.
Through his research, Tim figured out how to counter his own anemia, develop his slow twitch muscles, how muscles grow according to the way they are stressed, that keeping your body at the right pH level can prevent the majority of illnesses and diseases, how drinking pristine natural spring water can help the body maintain optimal pH at 7.4, and how to make natural spring water with that pH level.
Tim stresses the importance of working in harmony with nature including: drinking natural spring water, eating completely natural foods, and change the frequency of your vibrations in order to optimize your health.
 
Tim Kelly is a writer who is focused on creating paradise on earth that sounds realistic by researching scientific facts to make his fiction books sound realistic.
Tim has numerous books out including Natural Health and Self Empowerment (all about nutrition and how to cleanse the 6 major pathways of detox in the body) and Optiflex (how nutrition impacts development and exercises to shape the body) that are mentioned in this episode.
Find out about the many resources Tim mentioned in this episode, along with his books and how to get the formula to make your own natural spring water here: http://polytope.www1.50megs.com
 
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Pay Kids to Read

What you spend money on is what you value. What do you value? What are you spending money on?
In this episode, Peggy challenges you to think about your spending habits, thoughts around money, and how they are influencing your kids' beliefs and actions around money.
Your actions speak louder than your words when it comes to a lot of things, especially money. Do they align?
Peggy highlights a story John C. Maxwell tells about his dad's response to John wanting to get paid for doing chores like other kids did.
Peggy encourages everyone to track their spending, especially their cash, and to ask some questions about the transactions to gain insight into what they value. Hear what Peggy likes to spend money on!
Watch John C Maxwell - The Law of Intentionality
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Reclaim Your Day with Leslie Shreve

In this episode, Leslie Shreve shares some insights into how to productively and efficiently manage your email, tasks, time and information and tips on what you can do now to get you started. She stresses that people have enough tools and apps to help with managing their day, what they don't have is a system, a method to approach their day and tasks.
Leslie shares what a task is, how to pull your tasks away from the sources into a centralized digital location and how to write the task down, which will give you clarity, control and confidence while being less reactive and more proactive throughout the day.
At the end, Leslie shares ways to get your email inbox to zero, as "email is never best managed while its still in your inbox."
Leslie is the Founder and CEO of Productive Day® and is a workload management and productivity expert who created Taskology® The Science of Getting Things Done, a comprehensive system for managing tasks, time, email, and information.
Learn more about her Taskology system and claim your 3 FREE gifts at: https://productiveday.com/
Email: leslie@productiveday.com
YouTube: @loshreve43
 
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Inside Out 2: Puberty or Perimenopause?

In this episode, Peggy highlights some of her takeaways from the movie, Inside Out 2, viewed through the lens of her experience as a mom to 5 girls and as a mental health therapist. She also gives her reasons why this movie about changes in girls as they enter puberty mirrors some perimenopause symptoms for women
later in life.
 
Inside Out 2 is a great movie about the various feelings we have and what goes on in the mind as we experience those feelings. Sometimes it may feel like we are hijacked by our emotions and feelings, that we have no control over them, but we do.
 
Some main points about the movie include:
Our memories make beliefs.
Our bodies and minds store everything that happens to us.
You create the meaning of your experiences.
Every emotion / feeling is good for you. 
Your imagination can work for you or against you.
 
Listen as Peggy gives reason this movie is not only about the changes in mood for girls going through puberty, but also women going through perimenopause.
 
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Links to resources mentioned in episode:
Inside Out 2 Movie
Well Beyond 40 Podcast with Dr. Mariza Synder
Dr. Mariza Synder Perimenopause Symptom Tracker: 

Live Your Life with Marnie Dachis Marmet

In this episode, Marnie talks about how life is a journey, how we all need to find and listen to our inner voice, develop a clear vision of what we want and where we want to go by asking ourselves questions and doing things that scare us.
 
Marnie is an entrepreneur, certified health coach, podcaster and author. Marnie helps busy women and teens implement personalized, gradual and sustainable nutrition and lifestyle changes to create a happier and healthier life.
 
Marnie suggests having two journals to help tune into and find our inner voice. One is a brain dump journal where you just write down your stream of consciousness. The other journal can be more prompted, writing down what you are grateful for, what you desire, diving deeper into your thoughts and feelings, and even used to retrain your brain. This exercise can bring out different aspects of yourself.
 
Connect with Marnie:
Book, "My Song, Unleashed" can be found on Amazon and other book retailers.
Podcast: The Art of Living Well
Website: https://zenfullifecoaching.com/

Feel the Day Through Photos

In this episode, Peggy talks about what it means to feel the day, how it relates to creating a meaningful life and how you can be more intentional in creating memorable moments. 
Feeling the day is about being present, mindful, and conscious in little moments throughout the day in order to truly experience life. Peggy gives examples how three different types of photos can help you feel the day based on conscious awareness of when the photo was taken and the emotional impact it has on you.
Feeling the day more helps create a meaningful life. Listen to hear three ways you can create this in your life. Check out the book, The Strength to Shift, in which Peggy is one of 10 authors sharing their story of change and transformation. 
 

Increase Your Positive Activity with Lori Rogers

In this episode, Lori Rogers talks about how your thoughts, words, and what you imagine creates your life.
For most of her life, Lori didn't know how much her worrying, anxiety and negative thoughts were affecting her and her business until she went to a wellness fair and heard a speaker say that you create your life. This sent her on a path of learning all she could on shifting her mindset.
She now teaches people how to shift their mindset, change what they say, think and visualize so they can create a better life for themselves.
Lori shares her daily habits of Positive Activity including:
1. Mel Robbins High 5 Habit
2. Journaling
3. Conscious Recall
4. Act of Kindness
5. Meditation
6. Exercise
 
She also shares how your energy and perspective also shape your mindset and how being in the 'want' prevents you from 'having'.
 
Connect with Lori at https://www.positiveactivity.net
There you can check out what she is up to on Facebook, Instagram, TikTok and YouTube.

Strive for Harmony in Your Life

You most likely have heard the term, work-life balance, but have you heard of work-life harmony? I saw this term in a book I’m reading. I hadn’t heard this term before and it piqued my interest.
In this episode, I share a little more about the difference between work-life balance and work-life harmony and why I think we all should strive for more harmony in our lives.
 
Work-Life Balance insinuates a struggle to keep various aspects of our life in equilibrium. It is often focused on time, managing it, scheduling equal time for various aspects of our life.
 
Work-Life Harmony is more about designing an intentional life that aligns with your values and what is most important to you. It has a sense of flow, meaning and purpose to it. Work-Life Harmony is focused on the energy of why you do what you do.
Also included in this episode are benefits that work-life harmony can have for you and ways you can start to improve your work-life harmony.
 
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