No More Excuses: Monday Motivation Podcast

Welcome back to Monday Motivation's podcast - No More Excuses! First I want to say thank you to YOU for sharing my podcasts! My downloads have hit an all-time high of 842 as of yesterday! What was on my list? Asking for HELP! Asking people, and reminding them to share my podcast, the email link, the social media post. Whichever way is easiest and it's worked!  So THANK YOU... and please share again! Yet again, this week's message builds upon last week and the week before, etc. Have you taken a break yet? Have you stepped OFF the "crazy-train"? Or perhaps you're on the "hamster-wheel" of life? Either way, you have to get off of it and look from the outside in as you'll miss something. And it could be important! Or you may know you "need" something, but not sure where or how to get it? Is it help with organization, like a client of mine? Is it ACCOUNTABILITY (like many of my clients need and get in the monthly groups I have - see below for info!)? Is it new IDEAS? (I just did a strategy session with a client

Welcome back to Monday Motivation's podcast - No More Excuses! HAPPY MEMORIAL DAY! Please take a moment - pause - and say THANK YOU to those who have sacrificed... who have GIVEN their all, so you have your freedom. Because of those who have sacrificed, I have the ability to do these podcasts and help you achieve your success. This week builds upon (again) those pesky "Limiting Beliefs"! It's about really understanding them, where they stem from, getting rid of them and then HOW? By PAUSING. Stepping "off the crazy train" or "hamster-wheel-of-life"!  We all get caught up in it. And many times you don't recognize it until you "hit the wall" (figuratively that is!) So, if you feel you're really not progressing, not achieving your goals, not where you "thought" you'd be by now... JUST STOP! Yep, I said it... STOP! PAUSE. TAKE A BREATH. Think. Write. Reflect. Recognize. That's the only way you're going to get re-focused and back on-track, or even if you're actually on-track, keep the momentum going and not get ou

Welcome back to the Monday Motivation podcast #NoMoreExcuses! Thank you for being here, for sharing the podcast and for telling me what it is that YOU need to help you grow! This week's podcast provokes a lot of thought! Hopefully you've listened to last week - #59. If not, go back to that one and then come back as they build-upon each other. Well, actually ALL of my podcasts do that! Last week I asked what your top 3 LIMITING BELIEFS are. What is causing you to NOT take chances, NOT take that first step, NOT succeed. Did you figure it out yet? Because you need to identify what your negative thoughts are that are holding you back first. And this week, I want to know what you are doing to... why you are allowing your limiting beliefs to... sabotage you, your success, your VALUE. Your limiting beliefs are attached to something which is truly sabotaging your success and your value. How you see yourself. How you price your services, your products and even YOU yourself with taking chances - applying for a job whic

Happy Monday Motivation!  Welcome back to #NoMoreExcuses podcast! Thank you THANK YOU for sharing this podcast! In just the 15 days of this month, the downloads have doubled!!!!  I started the podcasts with really no expectations, no LIMITS! I was excited when I hit 25 clicks (people listening) and maybe 5 downloads! I then learned how to expand into iTunes, Google Play, etc and also, I learned how to ask for HELP in spreading the word! And now, I have 456 downloads in 15 days and just 2 months ago it was only 200! I wasn't afraid to ask for people to share. I could have been - I could have thought to myself' "What if they don't or don't want to?" "What if they don't like my podcast"? "What if it's not good enough for people to listen?" But instead I just put it out there, I keep asking and I kept going! And that's what this week's podcast is about... Limiting Beliefs! They are NASTY! Yes, FOCUS is the root of all evil, but WOW, have you ever sat and listened to the bullshit stories floating around in your he

Happy Monday! It's sunny but friggn COLD here in Indiana, but I'll take the sun! It's definitely much more motivating! Welcome back to Monday Motivation's podcast No More Excuses! And WOW - I've heard a lot lately! Excuses as to why clients aren't following their plan. But, but... but LOOK this is a better idea. No, WAIT, this is. Ok, I'll go back and try again But wait, what about this?!!  Makes me want to pull my hair out! :)  This week's podcast is a bit chaotic, as is life, if you let it. FEAR still controls our lives and our worlds. Our decisions. Our success. IF you allow it. The last few weeks podcasts have been about FOCUS, how easy it is to lose it, why, and what can you do about it, and really it boils down to "How Badly Do You Want "IT"?!" (Which just happens to be the title of my most recent book)  If you want something bad enough, you'll find a way, won't you? Or you can sit on the sidelines and whine about "what you didn't do, can't get or what someone did to screw up your plan!" OR, you can suc

Hello Monday Morning... and YOU!  Thanks for coming back to listen to this week's No More Excuses podcast! It's May 1st... 7 months left in the year. Lots of time to learn, grow, make mistakes and SUCCEED!  The last month I've referred to FOCUS a lot. Why? Because it is the epicenter of your success. If you don't stay focused, what happens? In this week's podcast I ask you to go back to #53 and make sure you've made a list and figured out something you could do differently or try. And now how has that been going? What's worked? What's NOT worked? And, as the quote for today's podcast says: "Deciding what NOT to do is just as important as deciding what TO do." ~ Steve Jobs I'm currently working with a client who wants to grow his business. He needs one of his staff people to focus on a specific area, but he also needs things taken off of HIS plate. And he has another staff person who isn't playing at the level he needs him too, so what can he do? MAKE A LIST! Yep! He needs to know what he is doing himself that

Happy Monday Motivation!  Welcome back to No More Excuses podcast. It's going to be a great week. A week of progress, motivation and habits. YEP HABITS! Good ones that is! Despite already having my morning stolen from me... but why is that? Because I allowed someone who was emailing and messaging me to distract me from my "FOCUS LIST"!  Yep, I allowed it. So, now I have allowed an HOUR to pass and could either let it trash my day, or REGROUP, REFOCUS and REGAIN control vs. just throwing my list out, continuing with this frustrated feeling and saying "well, it must be Monday!" NOPE! Not happening. I got this! This is MY day!!  Ok - sooooo, habits. What are yours? How do you see they help you stay FOCUSED? Save time? Achieve more? We all have BAD habits. And we tend to focus on THOSE vs. working on, creating new, developing our GOOD habits. The ones that help us.  The last couple weeks of podcasts have been about FOCUS, how lack-of hurts your progress, motivation and ability to achieve your goals. So this week,

Welcome back to Monday Motivation's podcast: NO MORE EXCUSES!  WOW, was I a living example of my podcast last week or what?!? It was like I knew what my week was going to be like, and it actually helped me identify every time I lost focus. But... what was causing it? What was keeping me getting things done so I could achieve my goals? How about you? How did you do? Did you lose focus? Did you recognize it? Are you just NOW realizing that you did? Take a moment and reflect on last week. Look at your to-do list(s), are they completed? If no, why not? What kept you from it? More than likely it was FOCUS! Now, don't forget what's behind our little distractions, avoidance and disruption in our lives... no not kids, clients or bosses... (ok maybe a little bit!) FEAR! For me it was that I gave more attention to something that I committed to, but didn't realize it was going to take so much time! It's taking me away from my clients, from marketing my company, and from expanding my business. What's it costing me? ACHIE

Happy Monday Motivation! Welcome back to No More Excuses podcast. Week 2 of Year 2 baby!  Focus. Yep. We all need it, especially in this day and age of technology and other dinosaur-age distractions. Life gets hard. Business can be tough. Goals. Well, who needs them eh?! WE ALL DO! And... we need FOCUS to get through it ALL! Focus is a habit. And it's a hard one for many of us to create, improve-upon and utilize to be SUCCESSFUL! To become the person we want to become. And to LIVE OUR LEGACY! Last week's podcast (#53 if you haven't listened yet... what are you waiting for?!) was about what will you do/do differently to help you "live your legacy" and this week is about, yes, FOCUS! Because that is the "how"!  You've gotta focus on YOU, your journey. Whether it's getting through your to-do list (I use the 1-2-3 draw a line method) or working out differently/regularly, to being FULL PRESENT when in meetings, it all requires FOCUS! So, this week's question to go along with the theme of FOCUS: HOW are you going t

Happy Monday Motivation!  This week begins YEAR 2 of my podcasts! Whoop Whoop! I'm excited and thankful if it wasn't for you coming back week after week, I'd just be talking to myself! Which I do on a regular basis anyway, but that's another story! I want to say THANK YOU as my downloads MORE THAN DOUBLED from February! I appreciate everyone sharing the links, listening, and replying to my weekly question/challenge! So, thank you and please keep going! If you need me to do the same (or something else) for you... just let me know! Wow - exciting times are around us. Spring always brings out a breath of fresh air, frustrating weather with tends to go along with EXTREME highs and lows. Trust me, I've had them and recently as well. But, after a welcome melt-down and owning my pissed-offness, I refocus on my goals, my vision and pull up my boot straps and get BACK ON TRACK!  Yep, I just start DOING IT... again! Last week was about deciding what you wanted to leave as your legacy. Did you download the "My Obituary"

Welcome back to Monday Motivation podcast: No More Excuses!  This is WEEKK #52! Wooohooo one year of motivating others to live their life to the fullest! Yes, achieving goals, turning dreams into reality and maximizing their potential so that they do NOT live a life of regret.  So, are you? Are you maximizing your potential? Or are you living a life with regret? How will you know until the end? Well, let's start there. Yep, the end! THE END. What will people say about you? What do you WANT people to say about you? Oh, you "HOPE" people say nice things? As you've heard me say, "HOPE shows doubt!" Listen in as you're developing HOW you will continue to work hard for YOU. And you agree and commit to yourself that you are worth it... If tomorrow was the end, what would you want people to say about you at the funeral? What do you want your obituary to say? That is the homework this week... write your obituary! I have a worksheet! Download from my website! Post a comment or email to me: SBallard@GrowingForward.biz

Happy Monday Motivation! Welcome back to ALMOST ONE YEAR of podcasts!! (insert slight squeal of excitement!)  No More Excuses! Right? We're all full of them and one I have heard and it breaks my heart is, "I don't want to work that hard" or "I didn't realize it would be this hard". Well, life IS hard isn't it? I'm sure we've all read about or looked at some celebrity or big business owner and thought it was merely luck and he/she was born with "IT"! If you ask any successful person, they all say they've failed, they've heard no, they've changed course, been on the course of bankruptcy, yet they kept going! I just listened to an interview Dan Rather did with Carlos Santana! It was SO COOL! He said he worked his ass of, lives life with gratitude and never stops working at it. WHAT? He's Carlos-friggn'-Santana, why would he need to "WORK" at it?! Because he wants to keep on keeping on!  So last week's podcast was about determining what you NEED. More clients, more money, more joy, happiness, love, understanding.

Welcome back to another dose of Monday Motivation's podcast No More Excuses!  I think I'm tired from everyone complaining about losing one hour of sleep with the time change on Saturday! LOL! So, what is it that I need... people to stop complaining about the petty things in life!!  I learned to pause this weekend after taking care of my Dad last week. He wasn't dying, he had DOUBLE knee replacement surgery 2 weeks ago today. It was a very long and tiring week! Although I was in charge of getting him to surgery and the hospital visits, my Sister took on the first four days home from the hospital and then I went in. As I was complaining to MY Coach, she said, "Go do what you need to do, we'll talk when you have time. Remember, it's a privilege to take care of your parents".  I stopped and took a moment to let that sink in. Yes, it was tiring and I have driven in circles for weeks, and he's sent me on wild goose chases and texted me with a list of items AFTER I asked FOUR TIMES if he needed anything, but he wasn

Welcome back to Monday Motivation's No More Excuses podcast!  I appreciate you listening! Last week was about doing too much. Giving too much. Finding out why you give so much of yourself that you don't have anything left for you... and for what? Some of you who answered said, you give too much because you love what you do. Others said they aren't sure how to say NO. Why do you do it? Why do you do what you do? I like to ask WHY a lot! Don't we learn by asking "why"?  In a previous podcast I talked about what gets you out of bed in the morning, and hopefully it's for a good reason! Hopefully because what you do is something you love and are passionate about it! So, I'll ask again, why do you do what you do? I look forward to hearing about it! Email me at SBallard@GrowingForward.biz! Also, please share this with others! And let me know if you're outside-of Indiana! I'm working on expanding my reach and would love to hear where you are! Have a great week! Cheers! Sandi

Welcome back! Thank you again for listening to No More Excuses! If you are listening outside of Indiana, I would appreciate it if you would comment here or email me at SBallard@GrowingForward.biz and let me know where you are! Last week I asked what you were holding back on. How by NOT sharing your talents, your knowledge, your gifts, that can make you selfish. What will it take for you to help someone who needs what you have? And this week, I want to know what happens when you give too much? Last week I didn't have a moment to think for myself! I taught, facilitated, helped, encouraged, trained and, yes, I gave it all away. I left it all on the "field".  What happens when you do that? What's it all for? What's expected? What's next? This week I want to know a time when you've done that. Or perhaps you do it all the time? What's that doing to you and your spirit? What do you get in return?  And what's happened since? Sometimes what you get in return isn't immediate. Or did you get anything at all? Maybe that'

Happy Monday Motivation! Welcome back to No More Excuses!  Are you being selfish? With your knowledge that is? Last week I talked about what you are good at. We are all good at something, whether it be cooking, writing, sports, trivia, there is at least ONE THING we know we excel at doing. Then... what do we do with that knowledge, experience, education? Do you share it? Do you teach and empower others or do you keep it to yourself? Whether you don't share it due to fear of being less valuable or just fear itself in putting yourself out there, in front of a group or writing an article or blog... if you aren't sharing what you know, you ARE being selfish! Listen in to this week's podcast for more on this topic. And tell me what it is that you're keeping to yourself. Something you know you know well, you're good at, etc, but have NEVER shared, taught, helped others with. And why. EMAIL ME! sballard@growingforward.biz Please share the podcasts. I'm trying to expand my reach outside of Indiana, and the United Sta

Welcome back to the Monday Motivation podcast– No More Excuses!  Last week's podcast was about procrastinating and what it's doing to hinder your growth, the ability to achieve your goals... your success. Many people shared with me that they had been procrastinating on "putting themselves out there", basically their marketing efforts. They had been hiding behind some perfectionism, and that God-awful 4-letter word: FEAR! Yes, fear of not knowing it all, not having it right, not having the exact programs, services, offers that will make clients want to buy from them or hire them.  This week's podcast I talked about that a bit deeper. I share a couple examples of my own fears and things that cause me anxiety. And then, what I want to know this week is... What are you GOOD at? Finish this sentence: I feel successful (or confident) when I am ___________________________!!! Email me at SBallard@GrowingForward.biz or post it in the comments section! And yes, if you can't figure it out, it's time to get off your ass

Happy Monday Motivation! January is over! How did it go? Did you make progress? Did you come across some challenges? Did you do anything... yet?  This week I'm asking for your excuses! I want to know why you procrastinate! I want to hear them all! And then there will be No More Excuses... RIGHT?! PROCRASTINATION. We all do it, but WHY? What good comes from it? And NO, motivation is NOT the answer! NOTHING is the answer. Is it FEAR? Is it lack-of PASSION for what you're doing? What is it? I want to know! Then, I want to know what it is you have you been procrastinating doing? Do you see the effects it has on your SUCCESS? This week in the podcast I talk about how I asked a group of High Achiever's this question and they all looked at me like I was crazy! THEM? Procrastinate?! LOL! Yes, you highly successful, well educated businesspeople... WHAT are you procrastinating doing, and WHY. When you take the time to think about it, you can identify what it is you procrastinate doing, the WHY behind it. And THEN you c

Happy Monday Motivation! This week I want to know more about what's going on in regards to your goals. Do you keep hitting a wall at a certain point? Do you give up? Do you keep trying? Are you trying NEW ways/things to achieve those goals? This week's podcast is courtesy of a client who mentioned in a coaching session that she "told" her daughter what she thinks she should do with her life. So that got me thinking and reminded me about other clients, some very bright, young and fresh out of grad school who said, "my Mom thought I'd be good at..." or "my Grandma said I should be a..." And then it reminded me about some other clients who, as adults, kept hitting a wall at a certain point. It would finally come out that they weren't sure their goals were "THEIR GOALS". Yes, sometimes that is just an excuse, and other times it's true. Which goes along with last week's podcast about making sure what you are doing is what you are truly PASSIONATE about. Do your GOALS align with your VALUES and VISION?  So, if you

Happy Monday Motivation! I hope you are clear on the difference between goals, resolutions and tasks by now. If not, go back and listen to #41 & #42 again. And then if  you are still confused, you better contact me ASAP! :)  This week I give an example of a client who contacted me as she was feeling a bit confused, more overwhelmed I suppose. She knew what she needed to do, "sort of" assumed they were goals, but the main thing was she was trying to find out WHY she knew what she needed to do, but wouldn't do it. Why she felt like she didn't really give a F*&k anymore! Why she had lost her passion for what she die. Listen in to hear what we talked through during her 3-hour strategy session! And then tell me, what motivates you? What drives you?  What keeps you up at night? Because it should be what gets you out of bed in the morning! And if it doesn't... then you really do need to click here to contact me, like my client did! Post here, email me, share with the world, what will keep you going so you ca