July 8, 2025

Fewer Days That Suck: The Mindset Shift You Need Now

Fewer Days That Suck: The Mindset Shift You Need Now

What if you could wake up tomorrow with fewer days that suck—and more that truly shine? Join Divya Parekh for a lively, energizing conversation with Deborah Mallow, Positive Energy and Mindset Expert and author of 6 Steps To Fewer Days That Suck....

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What if you could wake up tomorrow with fewer days that suck—and more that truly shine?
Join Divya Parekh for a lively, energizing conversation with Deborah Mallow, Positive Energy and Mindset Expert and author of 6 Steps To Fewer Days That Suck. Known as a true ray of sunshine, Deborah shares her practical, no-nonsense steps to transform your mindset, reset your energy, and approach life with renewed enthusiasm—even on the hardest days.

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Good morning listeners. It's Tuesday morning, and I'm so thrilled

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to be here with you all. So I have a

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beautiful kind of story for you. So in our neighborhood,

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we have two beautiful ladies expecting and so they are

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you know, in the heat. It is like really really

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hot and all of that. So as I was saying, like,

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you know, one of the ladies was walking down the

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street and she seemed, you know, it's very uncomfortable and

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just kind of waiting, and then one neighbor just brought out,

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like you know, a glass of water, so a little bit,

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and it was just fascinating to see, like, you know,

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one little act can go such a long ways, and

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the smile broke. And as the smile broke, the beauty

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of that was that human connection goes such a long ways.

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So basically that's our story for the kind of story

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for this week. And another thing I want to share

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with you is that if you have got our books,

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think you think you thank you for supporting us. And

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also I'm excited to share. My next book is in works.

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There are there have been some tears and some tears

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sometimes of joy. But you know, every book that you

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write is like just having a different baby. So just

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excited to share. I'm writing a book on artificial intelligence

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and hoping to finish it off in the next few months.

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I'll keep you posted. So for those of you who

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have got a boox, please know that you know we're

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very thankful. And for those of you have don't got

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a boox, do get the books and help us help

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this spread the kindness. Let's bring in our guest, Hi.

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Deborah, Hello, good morning, Hello everybody. Thank you for having

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me with join you, Daviyah. It's an honor.

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Oh, it's wonderful to have you on the show. So Deborah,

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share with us. Do you recall a moment or a

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person who infused you with sunshine?

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Oh, there's so many people along the way that have

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done that. But I think making a tribute to my mom,

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who's ninety one years old, one years young, would be

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the sunshine in my life.

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She's such a support and so.

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Proud of me always that it just fills my heart

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with joy.

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And how did she created that? Impact on you.

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Interestingly enough, back in the day when it wasn't as

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common as it is today for women to start a business.

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a fashion designer. Was that was her career, and so

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was my dad. I grew up in a creative home

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and she was determined to make this work. My dad

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was working for a big company, he was a head designer,

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and she said, if I make this work, when your

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contract's up, you'll come join me and we'll do it together.

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And they did. And that's why when you ask about sunshine,

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to me, that's what sunshine is about is finding your purpose,

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your passion, lifting other people up, believing in yourself, that confidence.

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That's what I love you. The name of your show,

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Davia Live Beyond Confidence. It's all about that, developing resilience.

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Life is messy, it will never be perfect. But we

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owe it to ourselves to say yes to our lives.

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And my parents said yes to.

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Their lives, and it's in me to say yes now too.

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And doing that for your children, for your friends, lifting

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them up, for all of us is so important. Making

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time to give yourself a hug and honor yourself, and

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what you want out of life. We can make it

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happen if we put effort into this.

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Hmmm, love that say yes to life?

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Now, society has different definitions of success. So and then

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you know, as a child grows up, parents are teaching

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the child something. Then teachers and friends and what they

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observe and the heroes and movies, and you know, there's

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such a different layer upon layer that is being developed

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for this child and they develop their lens through that.

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What are they going to say yes to?

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And you know, it's really.

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Different for each of us because everybody defines success in

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different ways.

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I define success.

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As waking up in the morning and finding my happy's. Yes,

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that's stress, the cortisol spike that happens naturally. We have

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to work against that, and that to me is success.

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Just enjoying my life and going after the dreams and

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the goals that I cherish the most. That's in my heart,

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and I always encourage people for their children is most

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importantly confidence, giving them the confidence to believe in themselves,

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to make mistakes. It's okay, I don't like the word failure.

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I call it I've renamed it education and growth and

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letting your children know that falling down is the way

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you're going to achieve what it is in your heart,

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and building them up and helping them along, not enabling them,

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not doing it for them, but letting them find themselves,

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who they are, find their sunshine.

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I think that's so important to via.

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You're absolutely right. So, Deborah, you have two great role

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models where they you know your parents said yes to life.

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So my question too is what did you say yes

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to life? And tell us a little bit more about

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your life journey.

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Okay, sure we'll do, because I think it's a lesson

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in not letting yourself shrink, disappear, get caught up in

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the nonsense. There's so many things we can get caught

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up in, the worry, the fear, the negativity. And the

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reason I say this is that, for a while striving

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to be a number one sales rep, I've always wanted

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to be at my best, not compete with other people,

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but do my best. And with that I sometimes lost myself.

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I lost the joy in life because I was always

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chasing my tail, so to speak, that hamster wheel. So

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there I was standing on a New York City subway platform.

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I was very emotional because I was on this hamster wheel,

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striving to be number one, negativity, the excuses, all the things,

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and not enjoying my life.

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And it hit me. And it's such a simple thing

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you say.

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People would say, well, there's nothing to that, but honestly,

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I said to myself, nothing will change unless I change.

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And I urge everybody to find your balance, not overwhelm

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yourself and have to do everything all at once, but

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slowly small steps lead to big changes over time. So

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I took the time to find more balance in my

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life so that I could say yes not just to

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accomplishments and to career success, but say yes to living

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my life, enjoying, traveling, meeting new people, spending time, having

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an enjoyable dinner with a friend. And there's so much

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more to life and to ourselves and being just a

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well rounded person, exercising, sleeping well, eating healthily, all the

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things that make us feel better, because when we feel better,

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the saying goes, you do better. So I have come back,

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I have found my luster again, my sparkle, and I

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help other people do that, but I also encourage people

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to take a step back, to pause, to give yourself

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the grace to welcome your true self and enjoy life

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more because we are the ones that can do that

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for ourselves. And it's easy to say that that's trite

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and to put it off and to get caught up

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in the negativity. But as I say, negativity and positivity

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are contagious. Each are contagious. It's our choice to pick

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which when we want to embrace, and I choose positive

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energy and spreading it around and lifting other people up

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and enjoying the moment, saying yes to being present in

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the moment, talking with you. It's just a joy. You

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feel it in your heart. It just makes you feel

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so much better.

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M Yeah, definitely. So did you go back to the

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sales job? What did you do? Because a lot of

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fun listeners are listening and saying like, yeah, you know, Deborah,

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what you're saying makes sense, but you want to know, like,

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you know, how did you apply to your real life?

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And you know, for everybody, I understand, you can't necessarily

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just leave a job, and I didn't. I worked on

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changing making adjustments, but eventually I did because I had

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a bigger purpose that I felt I needed to. When

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I was able to do that, I worked on it

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and every But what we do is we have choices.

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You hear about side hustles and making time. There's always

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time if you can't leave a job because it provides

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for yourself, for your family. Honestly, don't suort change yourself.

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Find the time. I get up super early, find the

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time in the day to start making a plan to

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work on it, because honestly, who.

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Is it for, It's for you.

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So what I did is I started writing what was

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my guidebook, all the things I needed to do to

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get back to, to bring my sparkle back, to say

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yes to a bigger life, a bigger version of myself.

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And I started to write down commitments, quotes, questions I

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needed to ask myself. I did a lot of research

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the science behind why we act a certain way and tips,

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action items, mantras, all that stuff. It turned, as you know,

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into my books six Steps to Fewer that suck. But

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I started that initially for myself, and everybody can find

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the time if they choose to. Everything is a choice,

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and we have the choice to spend our time the

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way we choose our downtime, so to speak. And yes,

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we have commitments, we have families, we have jobs, we

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have everything, but if it's important enough to you, you

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will make the time because rather than fretting about it, procrastinating, worrying, thinking,

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just sit down and do it. Because, like anything, the

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more we do something, it's a positive habit that I'm suggesting.

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And the more you do it, because our brains love patterns,

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the more it becomes a pattern, the more you're prone.

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To do it.

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And that's the way to get started. Small steps lead

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to big changes over time. So the wonderful part about

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doing that, Divvy and I think you'll agree, is when

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we start to see those accomplishments. Put a note up

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on your fridge, on a mirror, I give yourself a

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goal star. Celebrate yourself. Celebrate these moments that gives you

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the courage to keep going. See what you can accomplish

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even in the downtime, the times early in the morning

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or late at night, or whenever you can find time

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to work on your goals, on your dreams. And then

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maybe one day you'll be able to leave that job,

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or maybe not, but.

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Still you'll have this that's part of you to look

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forward to.

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toxic thoughts? How can people you go about that?

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you can undo this, You cannot doing this choice in

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a critic whatever you want to call it. How can

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just coming up with these thoughts and they're not always

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based in reality. So the best thing to do is

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I'm so stupid or I messed up again. Flip it

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make that work. Find a way to turn off the

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negative thought and flip it into something more positive.

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get used to it. The more we get comfortable with it,

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the more it becomes a habit. And yes, it's you

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I was there and totally get it, and I chose

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a get a choice to look at things with a

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more positive spin to that script and make it more

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positive because it's easy to go.

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it's a Penn State study. Researchers found the Penn State

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their study participants ninety one percent of what they worried

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about never happened. Okay, so we are worrying, we are

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being negative, we're going down rabbit holes, and what are

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the chances it's going to happen nine percent? Maybe, So

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it's time to take a pause before allowing ourselves to

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do it and flip the script, because who is this for.

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It's for us, it's for you, it's not for somebody else.

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We can do it. Absolutely.

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It's overcoming that negativity bias that our brains like to

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or favor negative events, negative information, over positive, which goes

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back to the early humans. But we're not in that situation.

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to adjust, to reshape our thoughts, and reframe our perspective.

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That's really what it's about. It's so simple. I'm a

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simple person. I look for simple. I try not to

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complicate things at all.

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This is me.

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I choose to feel good, not every moment of the day. Hey,

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you can't be happy every second, but I mean you can,

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it's how we react to them.

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Yeah, now absolutely, So tell us a little bit more

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about your book.

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As you know because you've seen it, look through it,

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read it. It's not a chapter book. What I wanted

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to do, because as I said, it was really written

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for me, is my guidebook all the things that get

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human beings down. Excuses, procrastination, negativity, circular thinking, all of that.

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And each topic is on a double page. And with that,

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I start with a title like walk Away from Negativity,

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and then there's a quote, there's the commitment to yourself,

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try to keep it very positive and upbeat, like a

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warm hug, but practical. This is not Pollyanna. I ask

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questions the questions that bothered me that I wanted answers to.

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I give strategies, solutions, a lot based on science, but

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simple science, because again I keep things simple. I have

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a mantra that you can say, of course, create your own,

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be creative that works for you. I have tips, I

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have action items, and even a little story about different people,

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whether well known people that I don't know, or people

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that even that I know, and how they overcame whatever.

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The topic of the double page is. It's to inspire

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you little soundbites words that you could say to yourself,

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like revision is a decision or I bring the positive

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energy today, simple simple things. And it's just from the

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people that read it and read the reviews of the book.

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It just went it published mid May. But interestingly enough

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to you and I feel so good about this is

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that people are starting to give it to their children

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after they read it, to their teens to read it

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to overcome all the things to have fewer days that

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suck is it's six steps to fewer days that suck,

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and that at the end of each step, eight double

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pages per step, then a summary page, and then aligne

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page for your aha moments. And I'm just honored that

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people are giving it to their teens and their kids

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to read because I think I believe when we develop

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confidence resilience, when we look at things more positively, and

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we developed this younger in life, life is so much simpler.

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believe in yourself, chances are you're going to be a

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kinder person this because and you'll be kind to yourself

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because when we're kind to ourselves, it's more likely we're

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going to be kind to other people. And man, this

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world needs more kindness. So I'm like really excited about

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that as well. Then it's a generational kind of book

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for adults and also for the tweens and teens.

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Fantastic. So tell us, So what are the double page is?

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we struggle with, Like I mentioned, no more excuses, walk

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away from negativity, fear, limits outcome prevention, perfection, prevents progress.

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It's all of those things that get in our way

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and stop us from saying yes and really living our life.

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But it's practical because as you know Edive you chatted,

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I am not about forcing positivity. It's not toxic positivity,

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I promise you. It's all about approaching life differently, flipping

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that script.

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So that we are, yeah, flipping the script, reframing. So

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what are a couple of the practical steps that you

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can share with your audience.

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Practical steps is and I mentioned this before going down

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a rabbit hole because anger it got in my way,

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and something like anger is before reacting, before letting the

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frustration take all. For is to pause, to breathe. I

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know it sounds trite, but honestly, if you don't react

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right away and you think about it first, and you

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stop yourself and you bring some calm into the moment,

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you deal with it so much better. You're not hot

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headed and you can actually think calmly about a possible solution.

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or stressed. So that's one of the things that I

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talk about, is those kind of strategies. I also talk

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about being around toxic whether it's people's situations, and sometimes yes,

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we have that in our lives, but it's how we

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choose to deal with it, and to be able to

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limit that person in our lives or that situation, to

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rework it, to deal with it in a better way

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so that it doesn't make us feel badly because it's

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all about other people's agendas or other people's issues. We

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can't make other people's problems ours. I'm not saying don't

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be apathetic never, I would never say that, or no,

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don't be nice to people. But I'm saying that we

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have to protect our dignity and honor our value, and

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we can't let other people stop us from doing that.

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And that's all about confidence and everything that you share,

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Divia in all the guests that you have, it's all

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about that. So those are some things that I talk about,

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but it's of course so much more, and it's just

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helping helping us, and it was helping me value myself

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to add that self worth, that confidence. I love your

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show name beyond confidence. It's all about that. You're like

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my role model too.

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Oh thank you, thank you, thank you. So where can

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people find your book and where can they connect with you?

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Thank you.

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That's so nice for you to ask.

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So my book is on Amazon. Six Steps to Fewer

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Days that suck gets there and I would love if

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you pick it up write a kind review. It's also

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on other platforms as well. It's an ebook, it's a

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paperback and a right now and a hardcover. Will be

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an audiobook soon and my website where you could find

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it connect with me is the Daily Decisions Decision with

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an s dot com. And if you go to the

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Just little things that we could do just to.

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Because it's really all about that, right Tavia is finding

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the way that we could say yes, not just to

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our work life, but to our entire life, to be

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present when we're with our families, when we're with our friends,

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not to be worrying and stuck in negative thoughts, but

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to enjoy more, worry less, and make life just that

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much more enjoyable.

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Absolutely well, thank you for joining us, and thank you

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