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Things are getting crazy by the day.

If you haven't noticed it, then maybe your hiding away somewhere and some remote

island where no one knows where you are, but it does seem that the world is getting

crazier and things are happening faster.

And it looks like the next few months are going to be even worse.

And so.

Last week, I felt really overwhelmed.

It was quite unusual for me to find myself wondering how I was going to get through

this, how I was going to stay positive, stay high vibration, and keep focused

on my passion, my purpose going forward.

.I sat down and I came up with my choosing happy life support kit and what this

is, is just a list of things that I can turn to when I'm feeling a little bit

low, I can use to raise my vibration, to remind me to ground me, to bring me

back to the positive elements of life and right back to the now moments I've

said before that every moment counts.

If you're feeling down, don't think too far into the future, think about what

you can do positively and the next minute or the next hour, what can you do today?

That's going to make a difference to you first.

That's going to lift you up first so that you can lift the people around you.

And that's what this episode is all about.

I want to help you to create.

Your system of support yourself, support life system.

So let's get started with this.

Week's choosing happy podcasts.

The world looks like it's going to get crazier rather than comma in the

next few weeks in the next few months.

And I personally feel we're on the brink of massive change, even

bigger than we've seen already.

And if you ever saw things were going back to normal, I hope you've taken

time to reconsider and that you're coming around to the perspective

that that's unlikely to have.

And are you formulating a way forward for yourself and your family to get

through the crazy coming months?

There's a ton of adjusting to do in my opinion, as we go through the coming

months and into 2022, I've been putting together a self-support system, kind of

like my oxygen mask for resilience and positivity self-sufficiency and choosing.

Sometimes being remote and on my own, most of the time I can find

it overwhelming to be acutely aware of what's going on in the world.

And yet find that the world goes on around me often.

Ignorance.

It's a feeling I relate to like losing someone you love

that you really are close to.

And careful, I remember going to the funeral of my father-in-law really the

first funeral I attended as an adult and I respected and loved him so much.

He was so funny and positive and yet brutally honest.

I remember sitting in the car on the way to the funeral and watching the

rush hour, continue around me while my world seemed to be standing still.

And sometimes that's how I feel today.

When I see people carrying on with their lives completely unaware or on interested

in what's really happening around them.

And I want to shout out don't, you know, what's happened.

Of course for the funeral.

It had nothing to do with them.

It's more frustrating today because it has to do with the future of

humanity and every person on the planet, especially the children,

my resilience oxygen mask.

My life support system is a group of lists that I've created around

things I can do that I can create, that I can take action on that.

I can feel that I can challenge myself to keep me feeling healthily alive,

energized, and focused on the good as well as things to pay attention

to for my own self-care for my safety and security in broader terms.

Some of these are practical, some spiritual, somewhat daily fun tasks.

Some are health related, and most of them are self care focused.

So grab a pen and a piece of paper and give it a go.

Pause the podcast.

When you go do this and just write down the headings to begin with,

you know, take your time with this.

This is not a half hour job.

This is going to take you some time and I'm hoping you're going

to find it fun and invigorating while you put the kit together.

So even if you think the world is honky-dory going through, this is a

kind of fun way to help yourself and to pass it on to of the people and help

with maintaining mental, spiritual, and physical health and wellbeing.

So when you're having a bad day or you've been sideswiped by life,

you've got something to turn to, to lift your spirits, to keep you

positive, to help you choose happy.

Now I've put the lists and categories, and I'm generally asking you to come up

with at least 10 alternatives, if you can.

And I'll explain each as we go through.

So let's get started.

My first list.

Well, it should really be an easy one it's music.

So includes theme songs, motivational songs, foot tappers, jiggy songs,

things that get you up to dance, maybe three to four of each

make a list of them and then put them together in playlists that are easily

accessible for those in need GD moments.

The next list is meditations.

These can be guided visualizations hypnosis.

Mindfulness meditation , a good mix can really, really

help make a playlist again.

And something you can go back to when you're feeling anxious or stress when

things are just overwhelming you, but you have these at hand to help you through.

Make a list, make sure you have easy access.

And if you want to challenge begin doing two per day, if you are already

foods of the next things list, healthy foods list, do very day foods list your

favorite treat foods, have them available.

Especially the energy giving healthy foods and with the healthy foods start

incorporating the more into your diet.

If you aren't doing that already, the next one's pictures and photos,

make your list and pull together your favorite pictures and photos of the

ones that lift you up just when you see them and put them together in an album

somewhere that's easily accessible, quotes and inspiring, supportive.

pieces of text.

Find them create posters, make a list of them first.

Then write them out individually and create posters and print outs

that you can have around you.

Pin them around your house, around your bedroom.

Wherever works for you.

Books.

Firstly, non-fiction make a list of 10 books that have inspired you and you'd

read again and then have them to hands, decide to read them, make a monthly

list of the books you want to read.

And then we move on to fiction books and do the same, make them list of the 10

funniest, happiest books you've read and would read again and again, gather them,

have them to hand and maybe start reading.

Audiobooks and podcasts, this 10 audios that inspire you and make you

feel uplifted after listening to them, make sure you have them bookmarked

or that they're easily accessed.

Most empowering moments and memories, list them out, write out in a journal,

choose a journal that you're going to have as your support system

and list out the most empowering moments and memories of your life.

So you can read them back, go into detail, put in the emotion, put in

the feelings, put in what you saw, what you had even put in the smell.

Clothes that make you feel good.

Pull out those fab clothes that you love and a saving for that perfect occasion

or buy the new, if you need some new ones, the ones that make you feel on top of

the world and that you feel really like yourself, absolutely aligned and confident

when you wear them and decide to wear.

Whether it's once a week, once a month pull out 10 different

outfits that really inspire you.

She's got that many and decide to wear them physical exercise.

List up to 10 forms of physical movement that you live doing and you

feel good about makes you feel good afterwards, whether it's jogging,

walking, dancing, cycling, you want to fix cleaning, yoga, stretching, or a

certain exercise routine that you've made up yourself, or you love put it

together, write it down, write down 10.

If you can, even if you know, it's five minutes listening to your favorite tunes.

Digging round the kitchen and put it down on your list and start doing them.

You know, even if it's a running up downstairs, incorporate them into

your life again on a regular basis and try to build at least five minutes of

movement, five times a day to keep you feeling motivated and energized and

keeping your energy high and keeping your fitness levels and strength high.

Next pastimes that bring you joy, or you just have fun with and enjoy doing

things like jigsaws on knitting or gaming or postals fishing, crafting, composing

music, writing, whatever it is for you.

List them out.

Try to get 10, if you can plan to do at least one per week and begin

with the one you haven't done in ages that you really love doing.

And the next one is beverages list out your favorite drinks.

Now I'm a bit of a coffee and a tea addict.

I love Earl gray tea and a little bit particular about beverages, but it can

be wine, a log of whatever your drinks are, make a list of your favorite drinks

and half the drinks to hand have them in stock and treat yourself once a

week, if possible, to the ones you have least all of the most and vary them.

Give yourself a bit of variety.

Physical things.

That's furniture, art gifts.

You've received things you've took away for special occasions, list your treasured

items and bring them out and use them.

For example, if you've a China in a service you and use for special

occasions, then begin to use it drink out of that special cup.

That treasure piece of jewelry keeps safe.

Wear it.

Have them close to hand for those days, you need a lift and you feel

like just getting either dressed up or drinking out of that special cope.

Even if it's the sexy underwear or the hat you onstage to a wedding, we

have a hat in the house who knows.

It might just cheer your day.

So make the list and decide when you're going to bring them out

and have them available to them.

Press mantras, poetry, longer, press and poetry that give you a lift.

Just reading them, make a list of them.

Find them, find the sources and write them in your journal.

So the zap to go to when you need a.

Laughing out loud things that make you laugh out loud, list them.

What are the top 10 things that make you laugh out loud?

Whether it's a whoopee cushion or a child's laugh, or the time you turned

up to work with your shirt on back to front, whatever it is, whatever

memories, wherever ever sings, whatever people make you laugh out loud, write

each one out in detail in your journal.

And if possible, if you've got photographs.

Video clips then have them to hand for when you need that

laughing out loud moment.

Your favorite people, those, you know, and love and would love to spend

time with, or just feel happy when you think about them, list them out.

Hopefully you've got 10, if you haven't, it doesn't matter.

Just those important people that are so special that they lift you up.

When you just think about them, visualize.

Right about them in your journal and write three reasons.

You love to spend time with them.

What's so special about them.

Put as much detail and emotion in as possible.

And then the next ones, places you would like to go, just list them out.

Absolutely open-minded about this, not whether it's possible or not

just places you would love to visit.

Write in your journal, three reasons you want to go there and find pictures and

paste them in as a well, first things you would like to do and you haven't done yet.

Make a left.

Write them in your journal and write three reasons why you want to do

that thing and a date that you want to do them by challenges, things

you want to do that are outside your comfort zone that you're resisting.

Again, list them out.

Try to get 10, whether it's running a marathon, making sales calls,

starting a business, speaking in public, driving somewhere on your own

driving some way you've always wanted to go and still haven't gone yet.

Attending a class you've been putting off.

Or selling or giving or throwing away family heirlooms that aren't

relevant to where you are right now.

And you feel guilty doing it, choose to do something that's totally you for you.

And just because, and write them in your journal.

I acknowledge when you've done it.

I begin to do it, give a date when you're going to do it.

By

funny TV shows, movies, comedian sets.

Things like that, that make you laugh list 10, that you really love and

have them at hand to rewatch just when you need them truths, alignment,

purpose things, you know about yourself that you haven't been living

list them list things that are totally true to you, that you've

not had the courage to live out.

Choose the ones you want to take action on and bring into your life.

For instance, if you've always been a singer and stopped singing because of

something that happens, then begin singing just for you in the shower while you're

cooking writings, mine, I stopped writing.

Because someone said it was a crutch I used, it's actually something

that I do very naturally and I'm putting it in my diary to do each.

Uplifting movies, list out the movies that leave you inspired

and happy or just feeling good.

Find them, make sure you have access to them.

Begin watching them again.

I know at the moment that there are a lot of people around where

I live, who are watching Christmas movies again, it's that time of year.

And they feel good and they take you out of yourself and lift you up.

Animals.

You love list out the animals.

You love have pictures of them.

If you don't have the animals with you, then find picture.

So for instance, if your favorite animals, a penguin or a snow leopard,

find pictures and put the pictures where you can access them and your job.

10 things you appreciate most about where you are.

So in the present moment, as you sit in your environment, in this

space, in your life and the space and time, what is it that you

really appreciate about this moment?

List out 10 things and put them in your journal in as much detail as possible and

include how you feel, what you see and what makes those things really special.

Right.

10, amazingly positive things about the future you would like to see.

So whether it's a future for you just around you or whether it's the future

of the world and how you want to see the world going forward, think outside

of the box, think in an unlimited way.

I dumped to your journal in as much detail as possible.

And again, include what you see, how you feel, what makes those things importance,

really get into the why of this.

What's important for you, funniest moments of your life.

So funny things that have happened to you or that you've

witnessed again, make a less.

Record them in your journal and as much detail as possible so that when

you go back to read them, it has you lifted and laughing out loud and

really step into those moments and as much detail as possible, what makes

them so funny and what makes them so memorable 10 moments in time that make

the biggest positive impact on you?

And go deep on this, make a list at them to your journal in as much detail as

possible, but go deep and really think of those moments that kind of transformed

you in a positive way or transformed your life or your perspective, or

showed you something, maybe a lesson, or it was just one of those awesome

moments where you believed God exists.

Next things you would like to see, do an experience that we haven't covered yet.

So I could go on, there could be many, many more categories.

Um, but rather than doing that, find a list of 10 things that.

Would love to do C a experience that I haven't covered.

Go wild with this.

If anything was possible, what would you love to do again, thinks outside

of the box, think unlimited and add them to your journal and as much

detail as possible and really get into how it would make you feel, what you

see and what makes them important.

Why are these things that you would so much like.

I think that's enough to be going on with, you'll find a link to

the download in the show notes.

There's

also a transcription that's attached to this with the questions in it.

So take your time.

This is a task that should be given thoughts and consideration, make it

fun, really enjoy it, really play with it and find the stuff that you love.

The idea is that as you create these lists, you begin to

gather the answers around you.

You begin to fill in your support box.

So when you're in need of support and something to lift you, you have

these hand, you have some tools that can lift you up and you can choose.

You've got quite a range of choices then, and you have them,

as I said, at hand and convenient to you, and it's a great way to.

Uh, high vibration and it's a great way to choose happy.

Some people may say that this is an avoidance technique.

This is really to be used, not so much as an avoidance,

but it's a support technique.

As things get a bit bleak in our lives as sometimes they do.

It's just a way to keep your high vibration and keep you happy.

Give you something to choon into and fall back into when you just need that lift.

That helps you choose happy.

Thank you for listening.

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Thank you again.

And I look forward to seeing you next week and the choosing happy podcast.