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3 - The Inner Critic Bullshit Busting Method!
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StartBust through your Inner Critic's BULLSHIT!
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5 - Clear Out The Shoulds: Take responsibility for your time, money + energy!
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StartClearing Out The Shoulds: A checklist to help you clear out all the "to-dos" that drain your energy.
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6 - Calming The Storm: A strategy to go from thinking about what you don't want to focusing on what you do want
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StartCalming the Storm: A reflective exercise to help shift your energy and perspective
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**Bonus #1 Let's Talk TED!
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StartWho is TED...oh just my bestie I like to geek out with!
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Start#10 There's more to life than being happy - Emily Esfahani Smith
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Start#9 Why some of us don't have one true calling - Emilie Wapnick
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Start#8 How to make stress your friend - Kelly McGonigal
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Start#7 How changing your story can change your life - Lori Gottlieb
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Start#6 On being wrong - Kathryn Schulz
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Start#5 How couples can maintain a strong sexual connection for a lifetime - Emily Nagoski
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Start#4 What does the future hold? 11 characters offer their quirky answers - Sarah Jones
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Start#3 Can we all "have it all"? - Anne-Marie Slaughter
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Start#2 10 ways to have a better conversation - Celeste Headlee
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Start#1 The Anatomy of Trust - Brene Brown
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YES You Can Be F#cking Happy: Resource Collection
Grab these 10 AWESOME resources, start smashing through your old habits, and build the habit of putting YOU 1st NOW!
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The TOP 10 Resources to help you end the battle with your inner critic, write a NEW chapter in your story and build the habit of being F#CKING HAPPY!
1 -The Hot Mess Assessment
There are 3 parts to this self-assessment. To get the most out of your this experience, complete this assessment every 3 months; calculate your scores, notice your growth and where you are stuck. Between assessments engage with communities, content and coaching that support you as you move up the Happiness Scale!
The 3 Parts:
1 - Identify your risk level for habits, thoughts and behaviours that prevent you from being authentically happy?
2 - Identify your beliefs and assumptions that underlie and fuel Busy Woman Burnout behaviour.
3 - Are you experiencing Busy Woman Burnout related symptoms?
2 - The 3-Step Values Assessment
Your values determine how you answer this question. Our core values highlight what we stand for. Values guide our behaviours, decisions and actions. When you know what you value, you can live in accord with those values. This leads to fulfillment.
When you don't know your values, you violate them daily. This creates internal tension. And this tension triggers destructive habits and behaviour.This is your step-by-step process to uncover and name your values. When people hear about core values, they often want to select them from a list; it seems easier to pick them from a menu.
But values aren’t selected; they’re discovered. We don’t choose our values. Our values reveal themselves to us. If you start with a list of core values, your conscious mind will evaluate which values sound “better” than others. You will select personal values that “look good” based on your desired self-image.
Instead of picking from a list, I offer exercises to discover your values for yourself.
3 -The Inner Critic Bullshit Busting Method
When you're in HOT MESS territory, your inner critic is in the driver's seat. And it's the part of you responsible for resisting change and keeping you stuck. It holds on to the habits, thoughts, beliefs, assumptions and behaviours that prevent you from being authentically F'N happy! And any attempt to move from Hot Mess to Awesomeness is an invitation for your inner critic to show up and F things up for you.
The key to kicking your inner critic to the curb, is to identify the bullshit behaviours it's using to keep you small and then do the work bust through it's crap. (I also recommend you give it a name so you know who you're up against!)
In this workbook your learn how to identify when your inner-critic is in the driver's seat and exactly what to do to kick it to the back of the bus!
4 - Identify Your Limiting Beliefs
Limiting beliefs are what they sound like: beliefs that limit what you believe is possible for yourself or what you will allow in your life. Excuses, negative thoughts, justifications, worries, beliefs conditioned from culture or family, thought patterns, perfectionistic/people pleasing thinking, replaying of past failures, fear. When you have self-limiting beliefs, you often won’t let amazing things that want to show up in your life show up. Whatever your limiting beliefs are, they restrict the scope of how you see the world.
This workbook will walk you through what limiting beliefs are, how to identify yours and what you can do to clear them out. I recommend that you complete the Values Assessment prior to working on your limiting beliefs...often our beliefs are intertwined with our values and in order to pull them apart you need to be super clear on what matters most to you. The next step is to decide what you do want to believe and then seek out evidence of it!
This activity will challenge you...it will stretch your thinking...remember limiting beliefs exist OUT OF YOUR AWARENESS and when you begin to question what you believe you may also begin to question your SELF! The Awesomeness Academy Community is a GREAT place to get support, you are not alone my friend!
5 - Clear Out The Shoulds
Everything in your life that you notice is incomplete (the shoulds you can’t shake), drain energy from you and your awesomeness. This is a quick and easy checklist (that you can add to) that will help you clear out the shoulds giving you more time and energy to focus on what you DO WANT!
Start with one of the should examples given, add any additional shoulds you can't shake from your life + feel your way through your list.
Many people are really motivated in the beginning but slowly lose steam as the tasks become a bit more daunting (and take longer than a day). If you find that you need a bit more support reach out in The Awesomeness Academy Community for some help! I guarantee that there is another member facing the same issue and together you could keep each other accountable!
6 - Calm The Storm
This is a quick strategy that will help you go from thinking about what you don't want to focusing on what you do want. It's reflective exercise to help shift your energy and perspective. In this activity you will highlight and re-write the stories you tell yourself that do not serve you and learn to create memories that align with how you WANT to feel!
You can use this tonight, tomorrow or whenever you notice that in your journalling you're focusing on what you don’t want. Use with short pieces or snippets of your journal, moments that when reframed, will shift your feelings and move you towards what you want.
If you are not yet a "journaler" and you've heard that journalling is a good way for busy "everything for everyone" women to get more clarity and confidence then be sure to check out the Busy Woman's Journaling Masterclass in March 2021!
7 - Build The Habit of Being AWESOME
You have to allow for change and subsequently take the A.W.E.S.O.M.E. steps to grow from it, in order to thrive through it. Surviving or thriving through change is a choice. With every change you experience comes the decision to resist it or allow it. Resisting change (blame, unprocessed grief and lack of trust) can keep you stuck indefinitely and ensures that it will always be hard. Allowing change, makes thriving through it possible. Building the habit of Being A.W.E.S.O.M.E. requires you allow change.
The activities in this monthly workbook are designed to help you identify which areas of the A.W.E.S.O.M.E Process need your attention. Learn to get comfortable with allowing change and practice being A.W.E.S.O.M.E. until it becomes a habit and makes it possible for you to thrive through change with ease and flow!
8 - The AWESOME Habit Tracker
Getting good at celebrating your successes is an integral part of being F#CKING HAPPY!
This easy to use tracker gives you the opportunity to celebrate all the steps you take on your journey to being F#CKING HAPPY! Similar to the impact a vision board can have on your thoughts and behaviours, by regularly acknowledging every action you take in the direction of your goals, you strengthen your connection to your authentic happiness. Each step that moves you towards your habit of being AWESOME deserves to celebrated!
Print as many as you'd like and post them where you will see them. At the same time every day check off when you've practiced any of the behaviours that you've identified as steps that will lead you to developing the habit of being F#CKING HAPPY!
9 - Create a Vision Board That Works!
Use my step-by-step process to create powerful Vision Boards that work!
More than cut & paste vision boards are external representations of your most important visualizations. Used properly your vision board can be used in combination with your brain's power to manifest your every desire!
More than cut & paste vision boards are external representations of your most important visualizations. Used properly your vision board can be used in combination with your brain's power to manifest your every desire!
In this guide I take you through the mindset strategies that I use with my clients and offer you suggestions on how to amplify the impact of your Vision Board.
Whether you're creating on your own or invited a few friends to join you this easy to follow guide will help to ensure that the Vision Board you create is absolutely magical!
10 - Get Good At Journaling In 30 Days!
10 AWESOME Tips to help you build your journaling habit!
More than just 'brain dumping' or where you write down the 3 things you're grateful for... When done regularly, journaling can have a HUGE impact on your life; making it possible for you to reduce stress, achieve your goals, improve the quality of your relationships and... the list goes on!
Get excited to journal with 30 easy to use prompts and my favourite hacks that make journaling easier!
MEET YOUR LIFE COACH!
Dionne Thomson, BSc, M.Ed
Your Life Coach, Podcast Host + Founder of The Awesomeness Academy
Motivated by the brave, brilliant women in my life and my drive to change the narrative for busy women everywhere, I’m on a mission is to help 1 million women end the battle with their inner critic!
For decades I spent my time and energy (and money) trying to live into society’s shouldy expectations, believing that making others happy would (somehow) make me happy. And it took a series of serious breakdowns to finally bust through that bull$#*t.
Through it all I’ve learned that our collective purpose on this planet is to be happy and enjoy life, not beat ourselves up about the past or worry about the future. Through my work as a coach, podcaster, author, artist, and if you ask my clients, “inner critic whisperer”, I inspire busy women to take ownership of their lives and finally turn the volume down on their inner critic.
I spent years feeling overworked and under-appreciated, believing that part of our duty as women was to stay put on the back burner of our own lives. If you've ever felt the same way, I’m here to help you believe something different.
The brave, brilliant (busy) women I work with, struggle with perfectionism, people-pleasing, numbing, and the imposter demons; and for years chalked up how they felt to not enoughness…
To help women overcome these patterns of disconnection I put easy and effective tools in their hands, so they too, can breakthrough the bullshit and become the awesome, authentically happy people, they are born to be!
When I’m not working I spend much of my time fully immersed in the joys of family life with my hubby, 2 littles and fur-baby Penny. Most importantly I feel free to follow my fascinations and from there I infuse love and laughter into every conversation!
What I truly want is for my work and life to inspire us all to use our collective voice to bust through the shame-driven culture we live in, write a new chapter for all women and most importantly re-write the narrative for you and the next generation!
