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Ep 64. When 40% Is 100%: Honor Your Energy, Heal Your Hustle · The Manifestation Station

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You're listening to the manifestation station podcast i'm your host holly edwards
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and together we can help create your magic you,
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Hello, you gorgeous manifestors. We are back with another episode of The Manifestation Station.
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I'm your host, Holly Edwards. Thank you so much for coming back.
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today now I want you to listen to this.
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On the days where you only have 40% and you give 40%, you actually gave 100%.
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Has that made you go cross-eyed or has that resonated with you?
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It's a question that I want to start with today.
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So what if you feel like you're falling behind?
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Maybe that is actually simply that
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you are measuring yourself on a day where you
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only had 40 in the tank
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to give against the version of you that has 100 now
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guys you might not realize this not
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every day you are going to be able to function
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at 100 100 motivated present
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inspired tired full of energy that's
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not realistic even 80 to 100 that is
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not going to be happening all of the time there are some days when
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you will be operating at 20 and you
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have nothing in the tank you might have a reason for it you might have something
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that you're dealing with in your personal life maybe you have no answers and
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you you have zero motivation and that's okay that's okay because we give ourselves such a hard time.
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And that is what we're talking about today is that you don't need to be functioning at 100% all the time.
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When you're not, it's not about giving yourself a hard time about it.
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And that's why I think today is one that I just feel so, so deeply about because
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it's something I see in a lot of my manifesting clients, my friends,
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my family. And honestly, I identify with this a lot too.
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And it's this idea that we should just be always operating at our absolute best,
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always motivated, always present, always productive, always switched on.
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And when we're not, we turn on ourselves. And you guys can be so hard on yourselves.
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I'm going to include me in this as well.
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But you walk around thinking, oh, I should have done more today.
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I wasn't present enough.
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I didn't show up properly today. I'm not doing enough with my life.
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I don't feel like I'm living.
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And I just want to say that that narrative is absolutely exhausting.
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And the biggest thing it's not
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true it is not true so here's
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the truth that I want you to carry with you after today remember
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that quote that I gave you at the start on the days you only have 40% and you
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give 40% you actually gave 100% that was your capacity that was what you had
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in the tank and you gave it. That was your absolute best.
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And that in itself deserves the recognition, not the criticism.
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Not the beating ourselves up and telling ourselves not good enough.
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We should be celebrating and going, you know what?
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I gave 100% today. Yes, it might have been the 40% that I had in the tank.
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But for me, that was what I can manage. And thank goodness I managed that.
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Why are we not giving this the recognition that it deserves.
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Now, I was on the phone to my sister literally moments before recording this podcast.
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And it's so funny because she was saying to me, oh, I feel really overstimulated at the moment.
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I'm really overstimulated. I have so much going on.
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She has three kids. She has a reflexology business. So she has lots of clients. She runs a home.
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She sees her friends. She, you know, she keeps her home, she keeps the kids
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well, she does the school runs, she's running her own business.
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She said, I feel really overwhelmed. And she said, I feel really bad.
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She said, because I feel like the last couple of days, she said,
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I don't feel like I've given enough attention to the conversations that I'm
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having with my daughters. And she
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she kind of said, oh, you know, I really, she's a really, really great mum,
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really, really great mum.
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And she was just like, I don't feel like I've been fully present.
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You know, I'm trying to do a million things at once. You know,
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I said to her, wait a minute, like, just look at your day.
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You've been to work, you've cooked, you've done the school run,
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you sorted the house, you've kept everything ticking over you've shown up a
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hundred times in invisible ways.
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And she totally got it as well actually and she was like I just actually feel
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like and I wanted to say to her this is what inspired me to write the notes
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for today's episode that if you've got 40% in the tank you give 40% and that's
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what you could that day and also that was a productive day for her.
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If you have 20% in the tank and you can barely get yourself out of bed and maybe
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you are feeling a bit down in the dumps,
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you're feeling a bit depressed, you're feeling overwhelmed and all you manage
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to do is get yourself up and get yourself showered or get yourself downstairs
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to make yourself breakfast.
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If that's all the capacity that you have to do today, that's okay too.
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That's what you can manage and we have a whole load of reasons why we feel certain
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ways you know you may be going through a breakup you may be overwhelmed at work
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you might have financial issues going on maybe it's just hormones guys they
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have a lot to answer for don't you but.
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Maybe at the end of the day, like you just didn't have this big Pinterest perfect
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moment of sitting around like my sister chatting for hours with her kids,
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giving them each and every one the attention that they deserve.
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But she gave 40%. She gave 40% of her 40% tank.
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That is 100%. And we have to stop judging ourselves as if we're robots.
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You are not a machine that wakes up every day guaranteed with a full battery charge.
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Wouldn't that be lovely if we did? There are times when...
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I've had something maybe perhaps quite important that I, that are going on in that day.
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So for example, I quite often deliver manifesting workshops and things like that.
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And I've had days where I kind of go, I really need to wake up perfect that day.
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You know, I've given this manifesting workshop or I'm giving a talk,
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or maybe I've got an interview for my film work that I do.
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And I think I need to really show up that day. And sometimes I have a terrible sleep,
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maybe something went wrong on my car or whatever it is
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and I think I don't have 100% in the
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tank and I used to fret over it and I
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used to really kick myself and think why today why do
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I not feel like 100% perfect today and that
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is normal life isn't it you're not a machine that
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wakes up every day with a guaranteed full battery you're human
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and your capacity will change
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based on all of the million things that I was just saying your
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sleep your hormones your stress your emotions
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like what you're carrying mentally through a day-to-day
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basis what you're processing subconsciously and actually I mentioned there your
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sleep your sleep has a lot to answer for I know when my sleep is interrupted
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or it's kind of out of sync I know it can really affect my mood my motivation,
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and my productivity.
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Some days you wake up and you feel like you can take the world on.
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And I love those days. You know, you're full of energy and you go for a walk
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and you're productive and you're the life and soul of the party,
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whatever it actually is. But other days,
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Do you get this when like even maybe just replying to a message feels a little bit too much?
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I think we've all been there, haven't we? And both of these are valid.
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But the more that we recognize them, the more that we know that that exists,
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that you are going to very much be somewhere between zero and 100% every day.
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It's not going to be 100% every day.
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It's not going to be zero every day. But having the realization where you go,
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actually, that's very normal, then I guarantee you, most of us will stop kicking
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ourselves and beating ourselves up.
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And I think that's the thing, isn't it? That on these low capacity days,
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like we still expect high capacity performance.
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And then when we don't meet it, it's like we set ourselves this terribly unachievable expectation.
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And when we don't meet it, we shame ourselves and we kind of go,
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we tell ourselves we're not good enough. You didn't achieve enough today.
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Why didn't you get this done today? Why weren't you productive?
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Why weren't you your best self today?
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Imagine expecting yourself to run a marathon on a day where your body only has
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the energy for a slow walk.
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That's what we're talking about here and you have to, you have to go with your
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body, you have to go with the flow, you have to go with your mental capacity.
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What are you able to achieve today?
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Yes, it's good to give yourself a little bit of a push sometimes to kind of
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help raise your vibrations and to help you feel a little bit more accomplished.
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But on the whole, on a day where you just don't have that energy, it's also about you.
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Flowing like dropping into that flow and
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accepting it and of course you're going
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to feel like you've failed if you're trying to run that marathon when you
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can only manage a slow walk but the problem isn't you the problem is actually
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the expectation and there is a way that we can reframe this and that's all that
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it needs here so let's reframe it together instead of asking did I do enough today.
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Ask yourself this did I honor what I
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had today so take it back to
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instead of did I do enough and you might go I had
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this long list of things that I needed to do and I
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haven't achieved any of them instead of that just say did I honor what I had
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today what did I have in the tank I didn't have it in the tank to dig that deep
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I didn't have it in the tank to achieve my to-do list or to achieve all of those
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things that I set out to achieve today.
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That one question will change everything. And that's what I want you guys to ask yourself today.
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And let's bring this into real life. You know, you guys have got busy lives,
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you've got jobs, you're working mums.
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So for those who are the busy mum, like my sister that I just spoken to,
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you've got a full day, You are juggling everything.
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You're probably juggling everything most of the days.
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But you know what? The kids get fed. The kids are okay.
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You check in where you can. But you didn't have the energy to be fully present
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in the way that Instagram or Pinterest tells you to be.
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And it doesn't mean that you failed.
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You know what? Your kids are alive. Your kids are happy. Your kids have been fed.
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Take it as a win it means you showed up within the capacity that you had to give.
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If you are working and you have a career and maybe you've had a really long
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day, maybe your brain felt foggy, your motivation wasn't there.
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I mean, I've had this a lot with, you'll know this about me already,
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is that I work in film and TV. I design the hair and makeup of film and TV.
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We work incredibly, incredibly long, gruelling hours.
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We work in environments that are hostile and testing. It could be in the snow,
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in the desert, up mountains, you know, you name it, we film there.
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And it can be really, really tough and really grueling.
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There are so many days where I wake up and I go, I don't know what I have to give today.
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I really don't know how I'm going to get through to the day.
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And sometimes I might just about scrape through. But you know what?
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I've still got up. I went to work. I showed up and I gave as much as I could
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even if that was not even close to what my 100% normally looks like.
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So if this is you and your motivation isn't there for work just think you did what you could.
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You might not have gone above and beyond and been absolutely shining at work but.
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The old you might go, oh my God, I'm so lazy. But the truth is,
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you have to remember, you have maintained consistency on a low energy day.
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And that is what I want you to be so proud of.
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When you finish this episode today, I want you to think, oh my gosh,
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yes, I really have been beating myself up. I've been giving myself such a hard time.
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And actually, you are a human being.
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There is no one, even the most positive professional manifestors,
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you know, myself included, I'm very much about positivity,
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showing up online, showing up for my clients, showing up at work,
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you know, doing the manifesting work.
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It doesn't mean that I wake up every day with 100% in my tank.
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Absolutely not. There are some days where I go, come on, Holly.
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You know how to manifest. You need to dig deep today.
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And some days I go, I can't do it today. but it's
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not that I'm refusing to do it I don't believe it I just think I
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haven't got the motivation that the energy to
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feel inspired today but that's okay because that will
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come back and it's just a case of riding through these
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different storms these different kind of
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weathers you might have cloudy days where you
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feel a little bit foggy you're going to have clearer days and
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on those clearer days maybe you'll give 110 who
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knows but the point is you maintain consistency
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on a low energy day and that
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is discipline and you know if you know like I said with the manifesting stuff
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there are some days and a lot of people ask me what if I don't feel motivated
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to manifest today am I undoing all of my hard work no you're not some days you're
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high vibe you're journaling, you're visualizing,
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you're creating your vision boards and you're feeling magnetic.
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But on other days, you just feel flat. You feel flat and you can't put your finger on it.
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Maybe you feel disconnected and you think, I'm not doing my manifestation work properly.
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And like I said to you, I really want you to hear this because people say to
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me, how do you do it every day? How do you manifest every day? And I'm like, I don't.
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Some days I feel disconnected as well. And you just think, maybe like your work
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that day was just getting through.
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Just getting through the day and that still counts that
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is a win in my book and I think it's about
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normalizing it and because life isn't meant to feel like a constant high and
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actually I think I said this in last week's podcast and I definitely said it
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to a client last week and I said you know life would actually be really boring
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if we were 100% high functioning,
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high capacity, you know,
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100% happy and buzzing all of the time.
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Because we have to have these lower vibe moments to appreciate those highs. And we really do.
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And actually, the people who create the most sustainable, beautiful lives are
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not the ones who are on all the time.
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They're the ones who know how to meet themselves where they are.
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And this is what I talk about a lot, about being content in the now.
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It doesn't mean being content in the now and loving every moment of every single
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day and being positive and being switched on every single day.
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It's about meeting themselves where they are. So it's kind of,
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and again, I chat to my sister about this a lot and we go, some days we're low
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vibe and we are low motivation and we kind of say, do you know what?
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It's about learning to brave all of those weathers, not spiraling and telling
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yourself you're not good enough or you've not achieved enough.
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It's about kind of riding those journeys
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and going I do feel low vibe today that's
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okay I'm going to be kind to myself what can
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I do to make myself feel a little better but also don't put the pressure on
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myself if I don't get my to-do list done but I can simply take myself off for
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a coffee or a lunch or do something spontaneous or do nothing you know that's
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okay too so it's about shifting your identity.
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And we definitely, I want everyone listening to have this big identity shift now.
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So what if you became someone who trusts their own energy, who honours your
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capacity, whatever you have got to give today, you honour that, even if that's only 10%.
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Are you a person now that is celebrating your small wins and doesn't abandon
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themselves on the hard days.
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I want you to be with yourself, support yourself and honour those hard days. That is powerful.
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That is an identity shift that will change your life. That is magnetic.
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And to be honest, that is sustainable manifestation.
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And this is why it does link to manifestation because you don't manifest your
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dream life by being perfect every day.
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And again, I get asked this a lot. I don't feel positive every day.
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Am I undoing my good manifesting work?
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No, you don't manifest your dream life by being perfect every day.
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Single day. You manifest it by being consistent, kind to yourself,
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emotionally regulated and energetically available.
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And your self-criticism, it blocks all of that.
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So we need to ditch the self-criticism. We need to ditch the self-doubt.
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We need to ditch the kind of hard talk that
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we give ourselves saying you're you haven't done enough you
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haven't showed up well enough today you got
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up you got out of bed good for you take the
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win so here's something that I want you to try at the end of each day instead
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of listing everything you didn't do so if you find yourself going oh god I was
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meant to do that thing for a client today or I was meant to do the shopping
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or I meant to cook this for the kids, ask yourself,
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what did I give today with what I had?
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That's it. Sign off your day. What did I give today with what I had?
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And I'm definitely going to take this on myself for the next week.
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What did I have in the tank? And what did I give with what I had in the tank?
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It is that simple. And even saying this out loud now,
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I'm like, I definitely know for the last few weeks
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I've been I've had so much on and I know there's
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been days where my my motivation has
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kind of I don't want to say disappeared but
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it's it's some days some days
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it's not been as strong as it normally is and I know that
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there are definitely some days when I'm like oh I should have done that today
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but that's fine ask yourself what did I give today with what I had and let that
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be enough you don't sit on that you don't go over that list or go start criticizing
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yourself let that be enough that's what I had today and that's what I gave.
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And so there's a gentle reminder for me here to say that you are allowed to be a human being.
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If you didn't realize that yet, I can't say that enough.
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You're allowed to be human. You are allowed to have days off.
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You are allowed to have off days. You are allowed to feel slower.
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You are allowed to feel unmotivated, you are allowed to not always be your absolute best self.
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Because even on those days, you are still worthy, you are still enough,
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and you are still moving forward.
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And that is what I never, ever want you to forget. You are still moving forward.
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And if you manage to try that
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yourself if you feel inspired and
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you think actually I have been living like this
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I have been hard on myself I can do
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more with this then please do let me know slide into my dms I'm on instagram
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at the holly edwards and at the dot manifestation station I love hearing your
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manifesting journeys your manifesting tasks and challenges and those of you
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that sent me pictures of vision boards and things like that. So do keep in touch.
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And also, as I always say, if you have found some value in today's episode,
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please share it with a friend, especially if there's someone that you feel is
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being a little bit hard on themselves.
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Maybe they're going through a lot at the moment and they're feeling overstimulated.
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I know a lot of overstimulated people at the moment.
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Please send it on to them. That's your lovely little bit of kindness that you could give today.
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And next time you find yourself being hard on yourself, I just want you to pause,
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stop, think about this episode, think about the words that we've spoken about
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and put your hand on your heart and say, I gave what I had today and that is enough.
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So please, if you take anything from today, let it be this.
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You don't need to do more to be enough.
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You just need to recognize that what you gave already was.
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And I am rooting for you every step of the way, however much you have in your tank today.
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Just ride those waves, give all you can, even if that's your 5%,
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your 10%. If you're 100%, you go, girl.
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I'm proud of you. and I will see you next time on The Manifestation Station.