Pocketful of Mojo
Pocketful of Mojo
Thought Mastery: Transforming Beliefs into Actions
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What if you could harness the power within you to truly become the master of your thoughts and beliefs? Join me, Steph, as I unfold my personal evolution from navigating global breakdowns to discovering the transformative magic of a self-love first aid kit. Broadcasting from the picturesque streets of Nantes, France, I introduce you to this week’s mantra: "I am the master of my thoughts and beliefs." We'll explore how this simple yet profound affirmation can rewire our brains, empowering us to live intentionally and with unshakable confidence. Through practices like journaling, walking, and meditation, I’ll guide you to reflect on what truly resonates with you and help you release what no longer serves you.
In the second chapter, we're diving into the power of visualization and the significance of intentional consumption. Learn how elite athletes use visualization techniques to excel and how you can incorporate similar methods into your routine. As we enter a new quarter, it’s time for a "clean sweep"—eliminating distractions and negative influences from our lives. Discover how our mental and emotional well-being is impacted by the information we consume, not just the food we eat. By being intentional with our thoughts and actions, you'll gain the tools to take ownership of your experiences and envision a life where you are in charge. Tune in for an enlightening discussion that will inspire you to turn your thoughts into tangible actions, leading to a more aligned and fulfilling life.
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Welcome to Pocket Full of Mojo, where you're, you and I'm, steph, and we tune in here to tap into some mojo. Well, what do you mean? What's mojo? Well, what do you mean? What's Mojo? Mojo is that feeling of unshakable confidence, that booming self-worth. Like you're an unstoppable force of nature, you know that feeling that you get that makes you want to strut like a 90s supermodel. Well, I'm here to show you how you can have that feeling every single day.
Speaker 1:You see, I think I've cracked the code to being happy. I'm happy all the freaking time, every day, at least most of the day, possibly to an annoying degree, but hey, I wasn't always this way. And not to flex, but I've had breakdowns on multiple continents and in two languages. But by paying attention and by living with more intention, I've curated a self-love first aid kit and it's full of amazing tools that help me level up and navigate life with that main character energy. And I'm not here to gatekeep. In fact, I'm on a mission to help you tap into your best stuff and remember that you have everything you need to live your life on your own terms. So settle in. We are here for some positive change. So let's dig in to where your mojo meets the road. I'm going to review our mantra for the week and then we're going to dig into today's main topic, which is one of my favorite adages thoughts become things and plot twist. We're not only taking it on the road, but we are taking this podcast overseas and shaking things up once again. That's right. Today's episode is coming to you in between bites of croissants and sips of wine. Today's episode is coming to you in between bites of croissants and sips of wine. I'm back in my former hometown of Nantes, france, and I can't wait to tell you all about it. So you stick around, and I'm going to make sure that you're glad that you did so. Let's get started with today's mantra and get tuned in, tapped in and turned on.
Speaker 1:Hello and welcome to the 37th episode of Pocketful of Mojo. Once again, I'm Steph. I am your Mojo Maven, your emotional Sherpa, and I'm so glad you're here. I'm here to reflect your awesomeness and your potential right back to you. So let's settle in.
Speaker 1:Let's start by digging into today's mantra. Today's mantra is I am the master of my thoughts and my beliefs. Boom, powerful stuff. I am the master of my thoughts and my beliefs. I love a good mantra that starts with I am. It's strong, affirming and immediately allows us to embody and capture the feeling and sensation of the mantra itself.
Speaker 1:As this mantra in particular refers to thoughts and beliefs, these intangibles, it's a quick way to tune into the relationship between the thought and the feeling and that allows us to propel into action that's in alignment with what we want and desire to be true. And that's how these mantras work. We are informing and rewiring our brains and core belief systems to be more in tune with who we see ourselves to be. So many of us have arrived in this moment by accident, and by that I mean that we're operating off of programming that we received growing up or in school, or at home and in relationships, and maybe, just maybe, we haven't been using our fullest intention along the way. Maybe we've picked up some beliefs and thoughts about ourselves and about life that don't actually belong to us, but not this mantra. This mantra puts us right back in that captain's chair, ready to steer the ship and no longer be a passenger.
Speaker 1:I am the master of my thoughts and beliefs, because who else would you want in charge of your thoughts and beliefs? Seriously, and like I mentioned earlier, if we are not careful. We will absorb and respond to whatever information and data we let through the gate. If we don't put security at the front door, our brains are fully prepared to let. Anyone in Our brains will believe anything we tell it. So we must be masters of our thoughts and beliefs. We are fully capable and in charge of being aware, monitoring what we consume, tuning into our thoughts and interrogating our beliefs, because we manage the inventory up there in our old brain. So if you're not the master, who is, I am the master of my thoughts and beliefs.
Speaker 1:One important thing to remember as we go through this is that our experience in this life is fluid, always moving, always evolving, always adapting as we gain more experience, insight and wisdom. This means that our thoughts and beliefs are fluid as well. We can change our mind. We can operate differently when we are operating with new and evolved information. We are operating with new and evolved information. The way we are today can be different than how we've always been, because we are the master of our thoughts and beliefs. When new experiences or information comes our way, we can check in with ourselves and adjust accordingly.
Speaker 1:Just because you've always been a photographer doesn't mean that you have to identify as a photographer forever. You can put the camera down. No one will stop you, but you. When you are the master, you will know what resonates with you and interrogate what your thoughts and beliefs are and anchor yourself in what feels true, what feels aligned and what lights you up. That's the stuff that we keep, and we are free to release what no longer serves us. I am the master of my thoughts and beliefs. Now, how you tune into your thoughts and beliefs will look different for everyone, but it's all rooted in self-awareness. Some of you will be inclined to journal in order to dial into what's going on. Or maybe it's during that awareness walk where you get to spend some alone time with your thoughts, or perhaps a quiet meditation is where you tune in to all of that action upstairs.
Speaker 1:Whatever your method, the message is what's key. This is a chance for you to observe without judgment what you are thinking, feeling and observing about yourself. What feels good, where is there some resistance? What keeps popping up over and over again that may need your attention? The more you practice this, the more you're dialed into yourself and where you're at. When you're able to reflect on yourself objectively, you're able to identify what stays, what can go and, with intention and mindfulness, repeat your mantras and affirmations that are in alignment with your goals and your vision for yourself.
Speaker 1:It all starts there. I am the master of my thoughts and beliefs. So as you anchor yourself in this mantra, I want you to feel the empowerment and ownership that comes with it. Ground yourself in the knowing that, as the master of your thoughts and beliefs, that you get to decide what stays and what goes. You get to adjudicate what goes on up there, and when you observe a thought that is not in alignment with the powerful, amazing, talented, loving human that you are, you can simply observe that thought and belief and invite it to leave. Recognize that you have no time or space for thoughts and beliefs that take you off your path or steal your sparkle Because, my darling, that's what you're here to do. I am the master of my thoughts and beliefs. Okay, mantra engaged. That was a good one, and I think it just made it into my regular rotation Nice.
Speaker 1:Now for our next segment. I'm really excited to bring you this mojo on the road because we have taken it overseas. We are going global with our mojo. Now I don't have a car here in Nantes. So mojo on the Road is temporarily suspended, and so what I did was I tried to mic up and walk around town, but I kept getting distracted and running into people that I knew, so I walked around my apartment instead. Now you'll notice that my voice has a little bit of extra bass in it. This week. I got a little bit of a cold, I think, from all the travel and excitement.
Speaker 1:But what we're going to do today is we are going to review the topic. Thoughts become things, and how we shape our thoughts shapes our lives, and this very trip that I'm on right now is a result and proof that thoughts become things, and the bottom line here is that we are what we continually think about. So this is going to be a riff. I just hit record and walked around and shared my thoughts, hopefully coherently, so, without further ado. Lovely humans, all the way from Nantes, france, this is Mojo on the go. Okay, one, two, three, four go, bonjour, hello and welcome to Mojo International. Oh my gosh, it's so echoing in here Because we are coming to you live from my old apartment, that's right, I'm taking you on an overseas tour today.
Speaker 1:Well, if you're listening from North America, I'm back in my former hometown. I'm back in Nantes, france, so this is where I lived for four years, and today's topic is, you know, as we mentioned in the studio, our topic today is thoughts become things, and I am literally standing in the evidence of thoughts become things. I really latched on to that philosophy a while back, and the more I flex that muscle man, the more magic happens. So that's what I want to unpack with you today, and kind of what some of the traps are, some of the good things about that adage, some of the things that we can use it to our advantage. Oh, and there's my kitty cat. Hey buddy, he's cheesecake, hey cheesecake.
Speaker 1:So, yeah, thoughts become things, and I mean my journey here to France was really a testament to the why not? Of it all, the who's going to stop me? Of it all, the what if I really did live in France? It all, the what if I really did live in France? And really kind of testing the dreams and testing the can I turn a dream into a reality? And that's what thoughts become things is, and I mean it doesn't have your dreams, don't have to be super fantastical, right, maybe your dream is a sandwich. That starts as a thought too. Everything starts as a thought. You know, before you can have the sandwich, you have to think about the sandwich. Before I could live in france, I had to think about living in france, and there's a million micro decisions and a million micro thoughts that come in between and it, it's how we navigate them and it's what we inform ourselves with and how we develop and construct our belief system that allows us to take these thoughts and turn them into things.
Speaker 1:So when we talk about mindfulness and we talk about awareness okay, those are really cute buzzwords, but what does that practically mean? Well, it means turning up the volume on your thoughts and how you consciously observe what you're thinking about. If you're thinking about doom and gloom all the time and you step outside and the world is doom and gloom, you know, I'm sure you've heard. The step outside and the world is doom and gloom. You know, I'm sure you've heard the simile before where you know, as soon as you buy the red car, then you go out driving and all you see is red cars. It's about that consciousness, it's about that awareness, it's about what you put out there comes back to you and when I go back and when I think about it.
Speaker 1:There's been so many examples of when something crossed my path and literally came knocking at my door to align with what my beliefs and desires were, because I was tuned into them. So, for example, I went to French immersion. Growing up, I was the first person in my family to learn French, and little did I know the trajectory that that would put my life on, and the reason that my mom and dad did that is because I have two older brothers, six and eight years older than me. So by the time it was my turn to go to kindergarten, I already knew to count to 10 and my colors and my shapes and numbers and the alphabet and all the things. So my mom was like you're going to be bored. So I don't know, let's make you do it in French. That way you get a little bit of a challenge. And it was kind of the style at the time in the early 80s.
Speaker 1:And then from there I just kept taking French through school and then in my jobs I always wanted to like when I was serving I wanted to wait on the tables that spoke French so that I could practice my French and I would watch French movies and listen to French radio just to kind of keep those muscles working. And then, as I grew through my career at Starbucks, it just kept taking me more and more west until I lost my job. So I'd been living in Calgary working the dream job and then all of a sudden, poof, it was gone. But I had to lose that job because the next opportunity literally the day I was contemplating everything in my life after having lost so much a job offer comes across my desk and they're looking for people with Starbucks learning experience who speak French, and I was like well, they basically looked at my resume and then built the job description into it. I was exactly what they needed and Montreal was exactly what I wanted.
Speaker 1:And I went to have a four years of a beautiful career and incredible relationships there, and that's where I met the Frenchman, which allowed me to have an even deeper connection with the French language. I visited Paris lots because that's where my in-laws were and where attention goes. Energy flows. That's not me, I totally stole that from someone, but it's just another way of saying. Thoughts become things and every time these opportunities came up, it just felt right. It just felt like life was meeting me where I was at.
Speaker 1:But you have to know what you're all about first so that you can recognize it when it comes to find you. Because, believe it or not, we all have blind spots and we have these amazing opportunities that come and introduce themselves, and if we're not fully tuned into our needs and desires, we might just let those opportunities pass us by. What are you doing? My cat is drinking the water out of the coffee machine. Well, I mean, I like your taste, but C'est pas pour ça, petit chat. Voilà, allez on a de l'eau. Juste là, coco, allez, allez boire. That was a weird choice. So where was I? And I mean, there's so many great examples of thoughts become things when you research Olympians.
Speaker 1:They have incredible visualization techniques that they use where they are quiet, still, eyes closed, and they are picturing a flawless performance. And it's incredible, a flawless performance. And it's incredible. When you try to do that with something that's a closed loop skill, like where every single motion and action is in your control, your brain will want to make mistakes. So you start over again. Because it's your mind, it's your imagination. You can rewind the tape and start again. So think of a 100 meter runner. They can picture every single detail of that going right the shifting of the weight, the way that they move forward, the speed and power which with which they take off. They can engineer that perfectly in their mind and practice the perfect race. And then the body and the muscles. It's just, it's preordained at that point because it's practiced. So we get to decide what do we want to practice? We can really only pay attention to one thing at a time so that we do have control over. So.
Speaker 1:I was talking about this with a friend the other day, like I feel, like you know, we're going into the last quarter of the year. It's October 1st today that I'm recording this and it's time to do a little bit of a clean sweep right. Go through my accounts. What's taking up my time unnecessarily? Is it teaching me something? Is it lifting me up? Is it an ingredient of my path, of where I want to go and where I want to get to? If not, maybe I got to unfollow them. How many emails are clogging up my mindshare and my inbox? Because I wanted their freebie or whatever, but I never planned to read another one of their emails again. I got to. I gotta unsubscribe from that business.
Speaker 1:The news oh my goodness, how can I watch less news on TV. This is my hot take. There's lots of discussion around the importance of being involved and participating in your community and your society and knowing what's going on in the world. There's a strong case for that. Also have to be super careful about what we consume, and that's like mind, body and spirit. Your diet is more than what you eat, my friends. Your diet is the music you listen to, it is the news that you watch, it is the magazines that you indulge in. That's consumption as well. That is informing our brains. Our brains don't know good or bad, it's just going to eat whatever we serve it.
Speaker 1:So spending in 30 minutes, 60 minutes consuming the worst of humanity while watching the news because that's literally what, in my opinion, the news does. It puts the world through a filter and the worst stuff gets the headline. And I'm protecting my time a little bit more than that, and I got to tell you. I encourage you to do the same and see what happens, see what shifts give up the news and maybe you know, because the thing is is that the news finds you. The news, and maybe you know, because the thing is is that the news finds you If it's important with a capital, I like globally. As for us as a community, it'll make its way to you and we could we could all do with a little bit less of it. It's very inflammatory. It causes inflammation. Yeah, that's, maybe that's the thing. No news reduces inflammation. How's that for a headline?
Speaker 1:So when I talk about, thoughts become things, I'm not really talking about the secret, you know, like this isn't about manifestation. So precisely, I mean, it's not not about that, but what this is about is awareness. It's about intentionality, and that gives you ownership, because then the conversation becomes everything that's ever happened to you is because of you. Right, everything that has ever happened to you is your fault, is your fault. And I know for me there was a big shift when I leaned into the philosophy that everything was my fault, and then if I was like well, if everything is my fault, that means that everything good was because of me too. What if I was in charge of all of it? What would life look like? How would life look different? There's one for your journal tonight. What if I was in charge of all of it? What would life look like? How would life look different? There's one for your journal tonight. What if you were in charge of all of it, what would it look like?
Speaker 1:And trust me, the more space you take up in your life, that doesn't mean that things that you don't plan for aren't going to happen. Life be lifin', it's going to come find you. So I want your takeaways today to be like I want this to lay down the red carpet for us to start just maybe looking at our limiting beliefs a little bit, looking at how much space we're taking up in our own lives, thinking about what would I rather be thinking about, and then sometimes just doing that. And the more you indulge in that kind of thinking, the more life starts to align with those thoughts and starts appearing before you. You think about the sandwich and all of a sudden you find yourself eating a sandwich. And when you say, and when you level the playing field and you say something like, well, if moving to France is the same recipe as making the sandwich, I think I, I think I can do this and that. And then some confidence comes in and some courage comes in and you think you know what. Someone somewhere has done this before. I can do this too.
Speaker 1:So thoughts become things, links with a lot of things links with self-talk. How are we talking about our lives? And if that's too big, if you're more trees than forest, how am I thinking about today? How am I thinking about this very moment? And then, how can I multiply this good moment as many times as I can? It's all we got to do. Shoot for as good as it gets, and we'll know when we get there.
Speaker 1:But what thoughts really love is action, because I can't close my eyes and just think of a sandwich until I get one. I've got to visualize myself getting up, going over to the fridge, taking out the lettuce, pulling out the bread and so on. It's not a lettuce sandwich, but you see where I'm going. Your thoughts can do the rest. So thoughts love action, and it doesn't have to be big scary action. We can take big scary action and do it. We call that courage, and every single person that I talk to, when you really ask them about it, they're braver than they think they are how they perceive themselves. I should say so.
Speaker 1:As we dial up the awareness and kind of jack the volume on our thoughts a bit, you get a pretty good idea where the gaps are. And when you run into some language that maybe you used yesterday that you don't want to use anymore tomorrow. You can just catch yourself and just be like, oh okay, I see how this works. I'm going to try saying this instead. So I'm going to throw it back to the studio, but we'll finish with a fun one which is careful what you wish for, which is another fun way to say thoughts become things, because when you really start dialing into this way of thinking, you're going to see some really big results really quickly, which will make you want to continue to develop and flex and play in this space where you get to decide what's going on. So when we intentionally choose our thoughts, life becomes a whole lot more fun when you're tuned in and you're dialed into what your needs and desires are.
Speaker 1:I'm so excited for you to start feeling this change and I really hope that this little living room rambling resonated with you and maybe sparked something, and I want you to take this conversation and keep it in your pocket all week when your awareness of your thoughts kind of picks up a little bit. Okay, so I'm going to throw this back to the studio, I hope. May your thoughts be lovely and your day be magic. Au revoir for now, thanks for visiting me in Nantes Bisous. And that was Pocketful of Mojo European Road Trip Edition.
Speaker 1:Tune in next week for another very special episode where we're going to keep it international, that's right. I'm going to keep coming to you from France week after week, as promised, if I can find a spare moment between croissants and cheese. But seriously, thank you so much for tuning in today. I hope it's helped you tune into some of that mojo of yours because, babe, it looks so good on you. And in the meantime, if you feel like your mojo could use a tune-up, there's plenty of ways that we can keep in touch. Make sure you take a couple of minutes to subscribe to this podcast and for some extra good juju, you can definitely leave a review.
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