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85. Enthusiasm | Week 1 Virtue Building Program · The Kathie Owen Perspective Podcast

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  Today, we're going to discuss.
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  Virtue building.
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  And this is lesson number one from the virtue building program.
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  For more information on that, you can go to www.kathieowen.com/ virtues You're listening to the stop, the mind screw podcast.
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  I'm your host, Kathie Owen.
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  I have been a certified fitness trainer and certified life coach since 2002.
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  On this channel, we talk about entrepreneurship having a growth mindset.
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  Building healthy habits, fitness and Reality Transurfing let's get into the episode.
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  Enthusiasm is week one in the virtue building 12 week program that we build off of each week to enhance our lives.
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  And enthusiasm is week one.
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  And enthusiasm is one of the best ways to start this plan because enthusiasm is your mental vitamin.
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  This week.
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  I want you to pretend every single day it is smiley face day.
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  Now before you turn away and say, oh my God, we're going off into toxic positivity.
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  Remember.
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  I come from a place of authentic positivity, and I teach from a place of power instead of force.
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  Which comes from the book Power vs Force by Dr.
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  David Hawkins.
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  And I'll have a link in the show notes and description to that.
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  But what is smiley face day?
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  So.
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  You can randomly play smiley face on your calendar at the beginning of the month and call that smiley face day.
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  But when smiley face day arrived.
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  Be determined to have a happy day and make everyone around you happy.
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  I would translate this into random acts of kindness.
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  This created what is coined the helper's high, you know, like the runners high.
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  Because trust me, chemicals are released into your brain that have you have the happy or"helpers high." Smile at every one you see.Greet things with enthusiasm.
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  Watch your world change.
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  There actually is a lot of positive research on what this can do for you.
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  It is good for your body.
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  Enthusiasm has been shown to increase self esteem, empathy, and compassion.
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  And improve your mood.
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  It can decrease blood pressure and cortisol, which is a stress hormone.
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  People who give of themselves in a balanced way, tend to be healthier and live longer.
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  And kindness can increase your sense of connectivity with others, which impacts loneliness.
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  Improves low mood and enhances relationships.
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  It can also be contagious.
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  It is also good for the mind.
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  Enthusiasm can positively change your brain.
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  Feeling enthusiastic boosts, serotonin and dopamine, which are neuro-transmitters in the brain that give you feelings of satisfaction and wellbeing and cause the pleasure rewards of your brain to light up.
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  Endorphins, which are your body's natural painkiller are also released.
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  Be kind and enthusiastic to yourself.
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  It is not just how you treat other people, but how you extend those same behaviors and intentions to yourself as well.
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  Now onto our quotes of the week and things to contemplate, which are also listed in your download of the week that you can find at kathieowen.com/ virtues.
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  Quotes and thoughts for the week with enthusiasm, your desires, turn into burning desires.
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  Enthusiasm, as I said, is your mental vitamin.
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  Act enthusiastic and fake it till you make it.
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  I know that can sound kind of toxic or whatever, but I'm going to talk about that a little bit more in just a minute.
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  Did you know that when you smile or think about enthusiasm, it simply changes your body chemistry.
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  That's what I mean by fake it till you make it.
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  Don't force it come from a place of power.
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  Enthusiasm and positive attitudes are contagious and yield.
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  Great outcomes.
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  Flaming enthusiasm backed up with common sense and persistence most frequently makes for success.
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  If you can maintain enthusiasm long enough.
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  It will produce anything.
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  Remind yourself of that.
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  If you can maintain enthusiasm long enough, it will produce anything.
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  Remind yourself to act enthusiastic.
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  Others will catch it and it will overcome any trouble you may have.
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  Enthusiasm is powerful.
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  Tell yourself I feel healthy.
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  I feel happy.
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  I feel terrific as opposed to, uh, I don't feel good today, or man, I'm in a bad mood and I just feel awful.
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  Those things are affirmations.
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  What you state will come to be.
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  Smile all the time.
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  It tells your brain that you are enthusiastic and it improves your face value.
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  So, let me tell you a story about enthusiasm.
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  I spent several Christmases all by myself.
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  And if you read my book, The Truth Bubbles Up, you will understand how I found enthusiasm.
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  By spending Christmas all alone.
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  But I came from a place where there was a lot of drama.
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  A lot of narcissism.
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  And so when my Christmases were taken from me, with my kids, I chose to look at it with enthusiasm.
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  What do I mean by that?I chose to look at it from a positive aspect.
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  So I looked at my definite chief aim, to create something that's bottom line.
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  What my definite chief aim is to create something that is benefit to me and benefit to others.
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  So I started creating kathiesfitblog.com in 2007.
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  On Christmas day, I get charged for that URL.
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  I chose to look at Christmas alone.
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  With enthusiasm.
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  So I sat there and I started a project and I just started working on it, told myself this is just another day I stayed off of social media because that would just dampen my enthusiasm.
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  Another thing is I have huge compassion for people who have to spend holidays alone.
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  Because maybe they haven't made that mindset shift.
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  And I have been there.
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  And.
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  So I'm very cautious about what I put on my social media, family pictures.
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  Things like that because.
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  I have more compassion for the people that see that, which brings them triggers.
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  And I so get that and I feel so, so bad for them because here's how I used enthusiasm because I remembered.
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  The Christmases I did have with others was so much drama and so much.
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  It was horrible.
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  I saw some of the worst kinds of abuse take place inside of families and it was not happy.
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  It was not healthy.
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  And from there.
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  When I did spend Christmas alone, I can look back on those and go, man.
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  Some of those were the best Christmases ever, because Christmas tends to bring out the drama and others.
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  'cause they get triggers.
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  There's triggers everywhere for all of us.
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  And.
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  It can bring back bad memories and it can bring back good memories.
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  But when I look back at those Christmases, I spent by myself, I think.
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  Oh, man, that was some of the best Christmases ever.
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  And I invite you to have the choice of enthusiasm.
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  You're not forcing it on yourself.
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  You choose it.
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  And when you choose it, you look at everything differently.
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  All right.
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  That's my episode for today.
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  I hope you liked it.
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  If you know someone who can benefit from it.
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  Please share it with them.
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  And until next time I will see you next time.
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  Peace out and Namaste.