Posted by Paul on 18 January, 2010 with Paul, Sam | 
Sometimes bad stuff happens, and whilst we may not like to think of it happening to ourselves or our loved ones, there are times when we may feel helpless in the face of something that occurs.
Feeling like a victim can sap even the most resourceful of us, and the emotional rollercoaster that accompanies it can be really unpleasant. We may not be able to change the event or situation, but there is one thing that we can influence – our response to it all.
It is possible to move from a sense of having lost control when something happens to us, to a position where we can feel more resourceful and better able to cope, so join Paul and Sam as we discuss how your Locus of Control affects your responses and what you can do to start shifting it in the right direction.
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Posted by Paul on 4 January, 2010 with Paul, Sam |
You all know the types of conversations, the ones we dread having. Sam and Paul talk about how to tackle these difficult conversations keeping it on track and handling the situation with heart.
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Posted by Sam on 1 January, 2010 with Sam |
Chris has already done a great job of outlining some important steps that can really help to support your New Year’s Resolutions for 2010, and whilst I’ve touched on it here at ActionPodcast before, I felt tonight was a brilliant opportunity to encourage you to consider your intentionality for this new year too!
If we think of each year of our lives as a chapter, and look back at the last couple, there’s probably an underlying theme or sense of what that year meant to us in the overall scheme of our lives. For the last couple of years, I’ve set conscious intentions for my chapters and they’ve worked for me in a way that resolutions never really have.
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Posted by Paul on 1 December, 2009 with Chris, Gina, Paul, Sam |
Paul, Sam, Gina and Chris – the Action Podcast team – have been recording and uploading our motivational podcasts for a whole year now. Thanks to you our shows on the internet and iTunes are gaining increasing recognition and some great feedback from you, the listeners.
We would love to celebrate our special birthday with a few of your comments and reviews via the iTunes store.
Please take a few minutes to log in to iTunes and register your customer rating and a customer review.
Thanks you so much in advance – we look forward to reading your reviews soon!
Paul, Sam, Gina and Chris
The Action Podcast Team
Posted by Sam on 30 November, 2009 with Paul, Sam |
Last week Paul & Sam had to skip their usual podcasting date, as Sam’s wireless connection picked that night to go on strike! Instead of totally skipping it, the time was used for a phone call to discuss the exciting idea for a topic Sam had thought of, as well as to update each other on current challenges.
This week, technology was on best-behaviour. But neither Sam nor Paul could remember the topic they’d been planning to podcast about! What happens when you just can’t remember…?!
Paul: So Sam, do you have any ideas for a topic tonight?
Sam: Um, didn’t we have one last week that we discussed and got really excited about?
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Posted by Paul on 15 November, 2009 with Paul, Sam |
It’s got to be perfect! Or does it? Do you suffer from Perfectionism Paralysis? Sam and Paul talk about how to deal with wanting everything to be perfect and yet end up not doing anything at all.
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Posted by Paul on 8 November, 2009 with Paul, Sam |
Resistance is FUTILE! Although not really, but it certainly can be entertaining what your inner voice will do to try and stop any kind of change or new action. Paul and Sam talk about resistance to change, coaching and how to deal with that inner voice.
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Posted by Paul on 25 October, 2009 with Paul, Sam |
It’s been a year since the Action Podcast team started working together. Paul and Sam review what they have learnt during their time with Action Podcast over the last year.
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Posted by Sam on 1 October, 2009 with Paul, Sam |
SPECIAL EDITION! Previously unreleased, Paul and Sam have finally decided to share one of the earliest ActionPodcast recordings on a topic close to their hearts! Nearly a year on, it remains really relevant whilst being a ‘blast from the past’ back to our humble beginnings!
Failure almost seems to be another F-word! We’re unlikely to think happy or positive thoughts when we hear it.
A fear of failure can stop us in our tracks, no matter how much we want to do something; and if we’ve already reached a point of failure it can be easy to wish the whole thing never happened. As Paul jokes, sometimes we just want to sweep it under the rug, hoping others haven’t noticed – even trying to convince ourselves that it didn’t occur.
Yet failure can be one of the best teachers if we let it and start thinking about our mistakes as a learning opportunity rather than just a point of pain. Join us in exploring the fabulous art of failure!
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Posted by Sam on 13 September, 2009 with Paul, Sam |
How many times have you had a great idea that you were excited about at the time, but have totally forgotten about a while later? Often these ideas keep coming back up (and may keep being forgotten about!), and can haunt you with the sense that you’ve not done anything about them.
Paul and Sam discuss some tools and techniques to not only help you capture these lost ideas, but to solve some of the challenges of how to take action on them, letting them ‘percolate’, whether the timing is right, and how to start uncovering some creative solutions. Likewise, there are those ideas that we keep avoiding or things that really need to be done that seem to get harder and heavier the longer we resist taking action on them!
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