Start Messy: Recent Episodes
Christina Poole Smith
Start Messy is quick no nonsense actionable strategies and tools to get started living your life vision now. Tips and Tricks to improve and understand your vision of a balanced life. If you wait until the perfect time, you are missing out by not enjoying it now. It is not about perfection it is about progress. Get started now if it is messy. We will clean it up along the way!
Today we explore how multi-tasking effects our brains and how to combat any negative impacts that it may have on us.
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Today's episode is about creating system with your activities today in order to efficiently manage your outstanding tasks.
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Today we get clear on why being productive is even important to you. Learn some of the benefits of productivity and how to define these for your own life.
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Learn in today's episode the truth about how luck or being blessed can influence our lives.
Luck can influence our lives. But it should not be our excuse.
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Fear has a paralyzing ability to prevent us from achieving the goal God put on our hearts. Learn today how to overcome it and start taking action in your life.
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Today, we will discuss the quote "Life is 10% what happens to you and 90% about how you react to it" by Charles Swindle along with 3 tips to improve your reactions in your life through Stop and Think, Gratitude & Attitude, and WWJD- What would Jesus Do?
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Learn the benefits of having an intentional evening routine that provides sleep and jumpstarts your day and how to create this for the most success.
Website: Startmessyclub.com
Connect: https://www.instagram.com/christinapoolesmith/ or https://www.facebook.com/mrschristinapoolesmith
Today's episode is all about Planners! What the different types are (physical or paper vs digital), their pros and cons, and 3 different key features that your planner needs to have. Be sure it has a block schedule, top task area, and weekly review.
Digital Planner Course:
https://christinapoolesmith--ots.thrivecart.com/canvaplanner/
Paper Planners that I use:
Full Focus: https://fullfocusstore.com/?aff=684
Push: https://bit.ly/363gbsb
The links above are affiliate links so I will make a commission if you use my link when purchasing.
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Do you struggle with shiny object syndrome? Reduce overwhelm and procrastination by increasing your focus with this simple framework for planning your year.
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Let's discuss a concept known as One Word. It is simply one word you will choose to be the theme of your year. Learn some tricks in today's episode to help you choose your Word.
Additional Information:
Book - One Word that Will Change Your Life By Jon Gordon, Dan Britton, and Jimmy Page
Website - Onewordchallenge.com - getoneword.com
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Forget about New Year's Resolutions. Set up your plan for 2022 to be successful this year.
In this episode, we discuss:
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The difference between New Year's Resolutions vs Goals
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Creating goals that you will actually achieve
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Habit implementation tricks that actually work
**When editing this episode, some of audio was lost. Sorry for any issues you have while listening.
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In today's episode we talk about my personal favorite method of organizing your to-do list. This method will help reduce anxiety and overwhelmed to produce a successful day, week, & month!
Start Messy Action Item:
Create your own Master to-do list
Website:
www.christinapoolesmith.com/podcast
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God wants you to love yourself through Him. In today's episode, learn how to move away from fear, grudges, and insecurity by seeking God in your life.
We use Joyce Meyers' Do it Afraid book to guide our discuss today through loving ourselves vs pride, God's conditional love vs Fear, and how God can remove the insecurity or victimization that we experience.
Book:
Do It Afraid by Joyce Meyers
https://amzn.to/2ZaHVYf
Start Messy Action Item:
Ask God to walk you through the process of loving yourself through His love.
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Today's episode is about Mark 12:31 Love your neighbor as yourself. We discuss that the assumption is that you already love yourself. But so often this isn't true. Christina provides tips on how to get started loving yourself.
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3 tips on getting started even when motivation has left and life is crazy.
Start Messy Action Item:
Utilize the 10 minute rule to get started on a task you have been putting off due to overwhelm.
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The journey isn't always enjoyable, but today's discussion will hopefully provide you with some tips on how to keep going even through the messy middle.
Start Messy Action Item:
Utilize one of these technique today or in the future when the journey gets tough.
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In today’s episode, you will learn what your version of joy or fun looks like for you & 3 different benefits that come along with enjoyment.
Note: The number of times I say “fun” is uncomfortably high…apologize to your ears for me please 😊
Start Messy Action Item:
Schedule 30 minutes later this week to just have FUN
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Comparison is hard to avoid in this age of social media highlight reels. But is comparison actually holding you back from obtaining the life you want? Learn two new ways to utilize comparison in a health way to push you forward in your life and stop letting it prevent you from reaching your dreams.
Start Messy Action Item:
Thank the person that is showing you that your goal is possible.
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Sometimes it seems like our emotions control our lives. Using this simple method, you will be able to have the appropriate emotional response to an event and manage the anger, anxiety or worry that you may be experiencing.
Start Messy Action Item:
Utilize this technique today when you notice yourself getting angry, anxious, or worried.
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Meditation has been one thing that completely transformed my life.
In today’s episode we talk about the benefits of meditation and step by step intrusions on how to get started messy in your own practice.
Start Messy Action Item:
Take 3 deep breathes between each task today. Evaluate the benefits of that simple exercise with your focus and concentration
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Today's episode is tips, tricks, and methods to earn passive income.
Once you have control over your finances, life's choices open up. It removes the stress that can come from being financially bound to a job or career that isn't bringing you the joy and freedom in your life that you crave.
Courses:
Stocks- Invest Diva: https://learn.investdiva.com/apply-make-your-money-work-for-you?affiliate_id=2454992
Digital Goods: https://christinapoolesmith--ots.thrivecart.com/sapoecc/
Start Messy Action Item:
Select 1 passive income method, research, and take action to start messy with making your money work for you.
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Disclaimer: The links above are affiliate links, and at no additional cost to you, I will earn income fi you use the link to purchase. These are companies I have used and had success with. Please do not purchase unless you feel like they will help you reach your goals.
Don’t Give Up on the Person You are Becoming
Roadblocks and setback happen. It doesn't matter what path you choose you will eventually hit one.
This is not unique. What makes you unique and unstoppable is how you dust yourself off and get right back up.
Start Messy Club:
www.startmessyclub.com
Quotes:
"Let perseverance finish its work so that you may be mature and complete, not lacking anything." - James 1:4
“You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated. In fact, it may be necessary to encounter the defeats, so you can know who you are, what you can rise from, how you can still come out of it.” - Maya Angelou
"Lesson often come dressed up as detours and roadblocks" - Oprah Winfrey
Start Messy Action Item:
Keep going, To reignite your passion after the setback
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Lately we have been discussing productivity a lot lately. Today's episode is going to sum it all up for you with 1 question. This one question should be on your mind all day. With every decision you make or direction you take for your day, you will want to ask yourself this one question. It will improve your efficiency without compromising your balanced life.
Start Messy Club:
www.startmessyclub.com
Book:
Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less by Greg McKeown
Start Messy Action Item:
Ask yourself this one question today.
Write it in your journal or on a sticky note.
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How can you force your mind to focus on the most critical and important things? How can you fit them in during a day? Sometimes like seems like so much that you cannot focus or get it all completed…
But with this technique you learn today you will be able to use focus as your superpower and achieve potentially 40% more productivity in a day.
Book:
Cal Newport "Deep Work"
Start Messy Action Items:
- Get an alarm
- Create ideal week using block methodically
- Place to do list into blocks
- Share
Website:
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With the current work from home climate, the flexible to choose your hours is more available now than ever. Do you know when you are most productive? Do you know when you will naturally get into the zone?
You cannot be expect to perform at a high intensity for the whole day or even for 8 "work" hours. Working the typically 9-5 is honestly an old way of thinking. We should be prioritize people's most productive times over a set time. If you could pick 4 hours without meetings and just focus time what would it be?
This is also why my morning routine doesn’t start until 10 or 11 because my productive hours are from 5-8am. Why spend is valuable productive time doing routine tasks? Morning routines are great but the time of it doesn’t matter as much as the consistency of completing the tasks.
Start Messy Action Item: Align your most important task with your most productive time of day
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In today's episode we are talking about self-doubt and how to reduce or minimize the negative self-talk.
"Everyone experiences self-doubt. Think about the most successful person you know, they have experienced self-doubt. Self-doubt is feelings of not being capable or good enough to achieve the outcome you want. Not all self-doubt is bad. Sometimes it can act as motivation for you. Maybe you are not as talented as you want to be at something and it pushes you to become better. The type of self-doubt that stops you from moving forward in life is the kind I am talking about to today. It can come when responding to a text or being asked to complete a new task. When you know you are truly capable of completing the task but you lie to yourself about your ability."
Start Messy Action Item:
Review your life & goals to find where doubt is preventing you from moving forward.
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Today's episode we discuss how to find happiness in your life already. Achieving goals can only improve your life, but it won't make you happy if you are already not happy.
So we are diving into 4 techniques that will create or show you happiness in your own life.
Quotes:
Brene Bown: “Joy is not a constant. It comes to us in moments - often ordinary moments. Sometimes we miss out on the bursts of joy because we're too busy chasing down the extraordinary moments. Other times we're so afraid of the dark we don't dare let ourselves enjoy the light. A joyful life is not a floodlight of joy. That would eventually become unbearable. I believe a joyful life is made up of joyful moments gracefully strung together by trust, gratitude and inspiration”
Start Messy Action Item:
List 3 things you are thankful for today
Learn tips on how to create New Year's resolutions that are actually successful. Make this year different from all the others. Make this year the year that you achieve the goals that drive you closer to being the person you want to be.
Start Messy Action Item:
Once you have learned how to create successful New Year's Resolutions, reevaluate yours and update as need to set yourself up for success!
Have you ever felt disconnect from your spouse? Do you feel like sometimes they just don't get you? Are you trying to reach out but keep getting shut down?
Well you may be speaking different languages, different love languages. Love is not accept by everyone in the same way. Do you know your love language? Do you know your spouse's love language? Discover today how to build, improve, and succeed in your relationship by bringing the love back.
Book: The 5 Love Languages: The Secret to Love that Lasts by Dr Gary Chapman
Quizzes: https://www.5lovelanguages.com/quizzes/
Start Messy Actions:
- Chat with your spouse about love languages + determine each person's language
- Start today with a small act of showing them love in THEIR love language
In this week's episode we discuss two different methods of prioritizing your day. It is not just about getting a task done each day. That tasks also needs to be the best task for you in the moment to achieving the biggest result.
Recommended Books:Eat that Frog by Brian Tracy
Eisenhower Matrix:Christinapoolesmith.com/podcast
Start Messy Action Item:Pick a method & prioritize your day today
Quote:"The key is not to prioritize what's on your schedule, but to schedule your priorities." Stephen Covey
In this episode, we discuss what habits are, how they make up our identity, relate to our goals and how to create healthy productive habits. Habits are a very expansive subject so this topic will continue to be intermingled throughout our journey together.
Books:
Atomic Habits by James Clear:
https://tinyurl.com/yxap8bdl
Tiny Habits by BJ Fogg:
https://tinyurl.com/yxa46hro
The 5 Second Rule by Mel Robbins:
https://tinyurl.com/y557edqz
In this episode we are going talk about how to breakdown your focus goal into clear quick actions and create a game plan for success. Understanding exactly what is needed and knowing how long each action will take gives us the freedom to schedule our time accordingly while making progress.
Worksheet: christinapoolesmith.com/podcast
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Today we focus on creating the correct 10 goals for your life based on your life evaluation and the 10 key areas.
Goal Creation Steps: Pray, Write as if they have already
happened, Give it a measurable goal, Set goals about things that
you can control.
Once you have determined your 10 goals, we will review how to find your "focus" goal. You will put all your energy into the one goal that will be the catalyst for several if not all the others!
Start Messy Action Item: Decide on your 10 goals and your focus goal, share it with me so I can root you on along the way, & then write your 10 goals including the focus goal every morning and night until they are ingrained in your soul.
Worksheets @ www.christinapoolesmith.com/podcast
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Do you know what balance looks like for you? What your priorities are?
In today's episode, we are going to score the 10 key areas on your life to evaluate your as is life balance. This will help us to determine where we want to put our energy to create a life where our priorities are own main focus points. The first step to achieving a life you love is to start understanding what that life looks like for you.
Quote:
“In this world you're either growing or you're dying so get in motion and grow.” - Lou Holtz
Start Messy Action Item:
Score all the 10 areas of your life and review which ones are low and how to improve them.
Worksheet @ https://christinapoolesmith.com/podcast
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Start Messy is quick no nonsense actionable strategies and tools to get started living your life vision now. Tips and Tricks to improve and understand your vision of a balanced life. If you wait until the perfect time, you are missing out by not enjoying it now. It is not about perfection it is about progress. Get started now if it is messy. We will clean it up along the way!
Connect with me on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/christinapoolesmith/
Start Messy is quick no nonsense actionable strategies and tools to get started living your life vision now. Tips and Tricks to improve and understand your vision of a balanced life. If you wait until the perfect time, you are missing out by not enjoying it now. It is not about perfection it is about progress. Get started now if it is messy. We will clean it up along the way!