1332: Flavours of hard
If you’ve ever felt broken for struggling with things that seem easy for others, this pep talk is your reminder that you’re wonderfully human—just as you are!
Episode transcript:
Good morning, Daily Peppers, and it's very happy Wednesday to you. It is hump day, and I'm here with a huge dollop of compassion and to remind you that you're doing alright because you really are. Now this week on the Daily Pep, we've really gone deep in terms of identifying your needs, giving yourself permission to take up space, and leaning into your dreams even if they feel impossible or even if it feels really uncomfortable to admit. And today, I wanna add a shit ton of compassion to the mix by reminding you that we all have our different flavors of hard, and that doesn't make you some kind of faulty human being. It simply makes you a human being. And if we can take off even just 10% of the judgment that we can give ourselves, we might just live a life that is a whole lot kinder to ourselves. So I wanna give you a concrete example when I'm talking about flavours of hard. So something that I find nigh on impossible and have to take really intentional, considered action to do is brushing my teeth.
I have also, in the past, really struggled with taking daily medication. Now for some reason, I just find it really, really hard. I find it hard to remember. I've got some resistance towards it, and it just feels like a harder lift. But here's the thing. For a long time, it felt like an even harder and much heavier lift because not only did I struggle with doing the thing, but I also had so many of these internalised stories about how I shouldn't struggle with these things, how it's easy for everybody else, and there must just be something wrong with me. I've also always been intrigued with personal development and things like habit building. And my internal stories were not helped by all of these examples in so many of those popular books about how to chain habits together.
You know, everybody brushes their teeth every day. It's something you do without even thinking. So just add a habit onto that. And I would feel even worse. But here's the thing. Something changed when I realised that, actually, this is just hard for me. I do not need to get forensic about the reasons why. Sometimes that helps.
But the most helpful thing in this scenario was just to realise that this is something I find hard. And with a bit more of that acceptance and less judgment, I was able to figure out how I could make it easier for myself without wading through the shame, without also using it as evidence that I am indeed some kind of faulty human being and there is something wrong with me. Now we all have our different flavours of hard. And for many of us, we get so caught up in trying to work out why it is hard for us and beating ourselves up for it that we completely forget that there are other things that we do that are pretty easy and frictionless that actually are really hard to other people. Chances are we might not even know other people struggle with those things because we assume that everybody can do them, and that is often not the case. So if you are hard relating to this, I want you to know that every single person has their own different flavours of hard. There is nothing wrong with you. And maybe ask yourself this question.
If in some parallel universe you were able to remove that shame and simply accept that this thing is hard for you and that self judgment and self criticism wasn't so heavy, what would that change, and how could you get creative about it? That is my food for thought for you today. And I wanna wrap up on another important reminder, and that is don't compare your insides to somebody else's outsides. I'll see you tomorrow.
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1331: The courage to prioritise yourself
If you’ve ever felt like your needs come last, then this episode is your reminder to claim your space and celebrate what truly matters to you!
Episode transcript:
Good morning, Daily Peppers, and a very happy Tuesday to you. So today, I wanna continue down a rabbit hole of something I've been exploring lately, and that is this idea of following our needs, our wants, and our desires, and treating them like they're actually valid things. And today, I really wanna focus on our needs. I think so many of us grow up with the conditioning that we are only allowed to need the same things other people need, Or our needs come after everybody else's needs have been fulfilled, and they're a bit of a bonus. Now around here, we tend to be creative, multi passionate, highly sensitive, empaths. We might have to work really hard to maintain our mental health. We might have chronic illnesses, and we might be neurospicy. So whether you identify with one of them, all of them, somewhere in between, it makes total sense that in a lot of areas of life, we have different priorities and needs.
I really love that quote about if it costs you your mental health, it's too expensive, or it's not an option in the first place. And as I think about this, I'm just thinking about what ways do we make ourselves fit into a mould that is actually either too expensive or not a valid option? And what needs do we have that maybe we don't say out loud and maybe you feel like it's just a quirk you've got that you have to deal with? So I'm raising these things today to remind you that your needs are valid, to invite you to think about what is actually a nonnegotiable for you and really important. And those things don't have to make sense to anybody else but you. You know you best. And it does suck that it usually comes down to the burden of the individual to figure out all these solutions for ourselves while we're also going through shit. So give yourself credit and grace for all the ways that you've adapted already. And know that a lot of this work isn't a luxury, but very much a necessity. However you walk through this world, you deserve joy, you deserve ease, and you get to build a life that you love.
So keep being on your own team. Know that this takes a huge act of courage, usually on a daily basis, and ask for help where you can. You are a fabulous human being. The world is such a brighter place for you being in it. And if nobody has told you this lately, my dear, everything changes when you believe you matter and you fucking matter.
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The Daily Pep! is the rebel-rousing, daily podcast for couragemakers, creative, multi-passionate and unconventional women. If you’re surrounded by people who don’t get who you are or what you do, if you want reminders you’re on the right path (no matter how scary it feels), or you’re sick of being your very own worst enemy, this is the podcast for you.
Every weekday, your host - writer, coach and professional rebel-rouser - Meg Kissack helps you build a creative and wholehearted life, one day at a time. Through short and snappy insights, reminders and stories, The Daily Pep! is here to remind you you’re not alone, and that everything changes when you believe you matter. Each episode is short and snappy, designed to fit in with (or help you start) your habits and routines.
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1330: Giving yourself permission to take up space
Today we’re fighting the urge to minimise our needs and dreams, and embracing the courage it takes to let ourselves want more.
Episode transcript:
Good morning, Daily Peppers, and a very happy Monday to you.
So to kick off this week on the Daily Pep, I wanted to give both you and me a reminder and a permission slip that I've got a feeling both of us might need. And it's this, You get to take up space. As humans, we all have wants, we have needs, we have desires. And so often, we dismiss those as frivolous, or we tell ourselves it would be selfish for us to seek out those things. It's so easy to dismiss those things as personal preferences that don't really matter, but they really, really do because it can be so hard to figure out what we want, say what we want, or set a necessary boundary. One of the things we tend to do is minimize those things and tell ourselves that they weren't very important in the first place. And I think you know as well as me that our dream shooter will back that up to the high heavens.
I get pretty sick of a lot of the advice out there about dream chasing that just simply tells you to go for it. With little to mainly no consideration to the fact that many of us live complicated and nuanced lives, we can't just kinda say fuck it and get up and go. And because it often is so much more complicated, what we can tend to do is play down the importance of our dreams in the first place or tell ourselves that it is somehow selfish or berate ourselves for not being grateful enough or for having dreams in the first place. So for today's daily pet, I simply want to remind you that it is okay to take up space and to have wants and dreams in the first place, even if they don't make sense to anybody else and even if you can't figure out how they're gonna happen. The how comes later, but firstly, we need to work on allowing ourselves to want things in the first place. I know for me, my dream shitter loves to get caught up in the practicality of things and the logistics, and I've often taught myself out of something about twenty seconds before I've realized I've even wanted it. But we get to stay in that space where we identify what we want even if we've got no fucking clue about how we'd go about it or it feels impossible. I think that identifying the wants and giving yourself permission to take up space and want them is a huge part of the process.
So today, I invite you to think about what random things have been coming up for you that feel like a want or a need. And ask yourself, if I gave myself permission to take up space or if I could put everybody else's ideas and wants of me to the side, what would that look like? And just live in the possibility for a bit. Know that this work takes courage. It can also bring up grief in terms of old dreams that maybe didn't work out or we didn't pursue. So treat yourself seriously gently and dare to take your needs, your wants and your desires seriously. Have fun dreaming and I'll see you tomorrow.
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The Daily Pep! is the rebel-rousing, daily podcast for couragemakers, creative, multi-passionate and unconventional women. If you’re surrounded by people who don’t get who you are or what you do, if you want reminders you’re on the right path (no matter how scary it feels), or you’re sick of being your very own worst enemy, this is the podcast for you.
Every weekday, your host - writer, coach and professional rebel-rouser - Meg Kissack helps you build a creative and wholehearted life, one day at a time. Through short and snappy insights, reminders and stories, The Daily Pep! is here to remind you you’re not alone, and that everything changes when you believe you matter. Each episode is short and snappy, designed to fit in with (or help you start) your habits and routines.
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1329: Find your weekly lesson!
Today we're diving into how we can take a scavenger hunt approach to building a life we love!
Episode transcript:
Good morning, Daily Peppers. And a very happy Friday to you. It is the end of a week that you've never had before, so I thought today I'd ask both of us a question, which is, what did you learn about yourself this week? For many of us, we tend to do the big reflecting around the new year or the start of a new season or a new quarter. And we forget there's so much data, and there's so much we can learn from every new week and every new day. So what did you learn about yourself or about the ways you wanna live your life or the ways you don't wanna do things this week? It doesn't have to be some huge epiphany, though it might be. It may be something tiny, and it might be something that makes next week a little bit more joyful if you planned it with that in mind. There are so many things out there like personality quizzes, and don't get me wrong, I'm an absolute sucker for them, and I think they can be incredibly insightful. But I also think we can get a huge level of insight just from the little lessons we pick up along the way.
Your lesson could be something like, I need a bit more sleep to function properly. And going back to what we were saying earlier in the week, our brains love using our creativity to solve problems, and that is a great starting point. It could be that hanging out with a certain person really drains your energy. Again, that can be a great starting off point to explore. And if you're struggling to think of something, it might be helpful to think of, like, what you're getting sick of. So are you getting sick of always dreading a Monday morning? Are your lunches really boring? Are you feeling uninspired lately? All of these things provide great clues on how we can adapt just slightly and get that bit closer to building a life that we love that works for us. So get thinking about your lesson. Maybe email it to Monday to remember.
And remember that everything changes when you believe you matter. And taking the time to learn the lessons and the things that work for you can be a great way of showing yourself that you matter. So have a good one. I can't wait to be back with you on Sunday in your inbox or Monday in your lovely ears for a new episode of the daily pep. And I'll see you then.
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New episodes air every Monday - Friday 6AM GMT
A short, snappy and sassy daily podcast to keep your internal - and external - dreamshitters at bay!
The Daily Pep! is the rebel-rousing, daily podcast for couragemakers, creative, multi-passionate and unconventional women. If you’re surrounded by people who don’t get who you are or what you do, if you want reminders you’re on the right path (no matter how scary it feels), or you’re sick of being your very own worst enemy, this is the podcast for you.
Every weekday, your host - writer, coach and professional rebel-rouser - Meg Kissack helps you build a creative and wholehearted life, one day at a time. Through short and snappy insights, reminders and stories, The Daily Pep! is here to remind you you’re not alone, and that everything changes when you believe you matter. Each episode is short and snappy, designed to fit in with (or help you start) your habits and routines.
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1327: In praise of wonky attempt and new recipes!
In today's episode, we're diving into why messy first tries are worth celebrating, and the power of having an imperfect starting points.
Episode transcript:
Good morning, Daily Peppers, and a very happy Wednesday to you. It is hump day. We are nearly halfway through the week. And because we all live with very loud dream shitters, I wanted to just quickly remind you that you are probably doing way better than what your dream shitter would give you credit for. I just wanted to remind you of that before we get going. So I know for a lot of us, we tend to get in a bit of a rut in terms of the meals that we cook. We have the same kind of four or five meals on rotation, and we've been getting a bit sick of them. So this week and last week, we've really started trying out new recipes.
And as we have, it's really got me thinking of how this relates to building a life we love. So we decided to choose a bunch of meals that were pretty easy to cook. We often get ourselves tangled in a right mess by choosing these elaborate things that neither of us have the energy at the end of the day to cook. And then we end up wondering what we're gonna do with the ingredients instead. So we picked three or four easy new recipes, and we've been testing them. And what really occurred to me is this. It's not really about how good that recipe is on the first go. The first attempt is figuring out what it tastes like.
It's figuring out whether it's doable, whether it's something we enjoy, and we can really adapt from there. Some of the meals that we enjoy the most are completely bastardized from different recipes and ways that we've adapted things, and they resemble nothing close to what the original recipe was. But without that original recipe, it probably wouldn't have existed. And here's how I think that relates to us. When we first have a go at something, we generally tend to expect the results to be pretty impressive, or we think we're not gonna bother again. We judge our early attempts, and it's really easy just to move on to the next thing rather than actually wondering if there was something there that you could build upon. But what if the point of that kind of starting recipe or that starting experiment is just to build yourself a really vague base or just to break the blank page. Sometimes it does go swimmingly.
Sometimes we try something and think, Fuck yeah, that is it. But a lot of the time, it doesn't tend to be quite right. And that's the whole point. You get to tailor things for you and the way they work for you and your tastes. As long as you're not doing anybody else harm, it doesn't really matter what other people think. It has to work for you and your brain. I think there is a lot of freedom that can be found in seeing the starting point as an experiment rather than trying to figure out what the end result is gonna be. There's so much to be learned from trying something to see if you even like it in the first place and to see if there is enough there to continue with.
There's also a lot of compassion to be found with trying something and realizing it's not for you. And that's not a personal failure. It's just not to your taste, and that's okay. And I think that is one of the joys of living a fabulously curious multi passionate life. There are so many things to dive into. To go back to the recipe analogy, there are so many different recipes to choose from and yet absolutely that can be a cause of overwhelm. But it also shows you the possibilities and that it's okay if one thing isn't for you. So I hope you find something in here that inspires you today.
On our search to kind of refresh the meals that we make, we have uncovered some meals that we used to make that we completely forgot about. So I'm also paying tribute and just reminding you of those as well. So it's Wednesday. You've nearly done it. You are doing so much better than you think you are. And here's to finding some fresh and some old sparks of inspiration and knowing that starting is great testing ground. I'll see you tomorrow.
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A short, snappy and sassy daily podcast to keep your internal - and external - dreamshitters at bay!
The Daily Pep! is the rebel-rousing, daily podcast for couragemakers, creative, multi-passionate and unconventional women.
If you’re surrounded by people who don’t get who you are or what you do, if you want reminders you’re on the right path (no matter how scary it feels), or you’re sick of being your very own worst enemy, this is the podcast for you.
Every weekday, your host - writer, coach and professional rebel-rouser - Meg Kissack helps you build a creative and wholehearted life, one day at a time. Through short and snappy insights, reminders and stories, The Daily Pep! is here to remind you you’re not alone, and that everything changes when you believe you matter. Each episode is short and snappy, designed to fit in with (or help you start) your habits and routines
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1326: Maybe it's time to pick up your shovel
If you’re sick of trying to bloom where you're planted, today's episode is all about giving yourself permission to shake things up and find a place where you can really thrive!
Episode transcript:
Good morning, Daily Peppers, and a very happy Tuesday to you. So we started this week on the Daily Pep, taking inspiration from a sticker I've got on my laptop that says, bloom where you are planted. And we talked about how that can be a great reframe, and how it can be a way of really taking back power, and a way to access joy if you wish circumstances were different. And today, I wanna give you a different kind of permission slip, and it is that you don't have to bloom where you're planted. It is okay to get a massive shovel and plant yourself somewhere else. It doesn't have to be in a drastically different place. It could be in a completely different garden, or it could be a couple of degrees to the right where you get sunlight. It is not selfish to remove yourself from a situation where you do not and cannot thrive. And that fabulous Emily McDowell quote comes to mind.
The idea of, is it a personal failure or is it an impossible setup? And I think that is such a helpful one to go back to. You are allowed to have your fuck it moments. And I know around here we tend to be planners, so I just wanna remind you that your fuck it moments include coming up with a strategic plan and figuring out how you're gonna say fuck it rather than limiting it to that Hollywood kind of fuck everything, storm out moment. We're all different. We all have different circumstances and conditions that we need in order to bloom and to thrive. And maybe for you, you are in an impossible setup, and it is not a personal failure. Because where you are simply doesn't allow you to thrive or bloom. This can translate from anything from a job you're in, a friendship that you have, or a creative project that you're starting.
We have this great narrative in this society that we live in that quitting or leaving things is a sign of weakness, but I actually think it can be a huge sign of strength. A lot of us let the phrase life is too short roll off our tongues, and we forget just how many experiments we can do. There are so many different ways that we can build a life we love. And often choosing yourself is the most courageous thing you can do, even if it doesn't feel a lot like courage at the time. So if you are sick of trying to bloom where you are planted, see how you can change things up. It doesn't need to be drastic. Some of the best things we do are the smallest changes. And if this feels all a bit too intimidating, just use it as a bit of a thought experiment.
If you had a shovel and you could dig it where you are and plant yourself somewhere else, where are the places you could go? Use it as a tool for inspiration, for some clarity, and just see what comes up. You deserve a life where you thrive, where you bloom, and where you can meet the conditions that you need, even if they don't make sense to other people. So here's to exploring what blooming means to you, here's to exploring where you want to be planted, and here's to choosing yourself. I'll see you tomorrow.
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The Daily Pep! is the rebel-rousing, daily podcast for couragemakers, creative, multi-passionate and unconventional women. If you’re surrounded by people who don’t get who you are or what you do, if you want reminders you’re on the right path (no matter how scary it feels), or you’re sick of being your very own worst enemy, this is the podcast for you.
Every weekday, your host - writer, coach and professional rebel-rouser - Meg Kissack helps you build a creative and wholehearted life, one day at a time. Through short and snappy insights, reminders and stories, The Daily Pep! is here to remind you you’re not alone, and that everything changes when you believe you matter. Each episode is short and snappy, designed to fit in with (or help you start) your habits and routines.
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1325: Blooming in unlikely places
Today we’re exploring how to find pockets of joy and opportunities right where you are—even if it’s not where you hoped to be!
Episode transcript:
Good morning, Daily Peppers. And a very happy Monday to to you. So, I've recently gotten to putting stickers on my laptop. And today's episode is inspired by the sticker I see all the time by my trackpad. And I figured that it serves as a great reminder and an invitation as we start the week. So today's daily pet directly from the sticker on my laptop is bloom where you are planted. Now I don't take this as a toxic productivity s kind of. No matter what shit you're going through, it can be great.
I definitely don't see it like that. But there is something to be said for looking around you even if you're not in your ideal environment or even if things could be a lot better and seeing what opportunity this season presents you with. I also think it's a great way of taking back control because when everything feels shit on toast, we can imagine that any future happiness, joy, contentment, fulfilment is gonna come from a different place at a different time. Now due to circumstances, you might not be able to access the levels at where you want them to be. And maybe the way you achieve those things is completely different. But maybe they are possible in small, different ways. I think it can also serve as a good reminder to try and stay in the present more. I know that I am great at future tripping and thinking about the next thing and the next thing, and I forget that there actually might be some cool things about where I am right now.
Rather than exclusively time traveling, it serves as a great reminder for me to look around me, not just get stuck stuck and focused on where I want to go, and use where I am to my advantage. We all have fabulous, juicy, creative brains that love solving problems. And I think the question of how can you bloom where you're planted can be a great creative problem for your brain to solve, and you might come up with some unexpected answers. So here's to seeing how you can bloom. And if this doesn't resonate with you, tomorrow's episode is gonna be just for you. I hope you have a fabulous start to the week, and I'll see you tomorrow.
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New episodes air every Monday - Friday 6AM GMT
A short, snappy and sassy daily podcast to keep your internal - and external - dreamshitters at bay!
The Daily Pep! is the rebel-rousing, daily podcast for couragemakers, creative, multi-passionate and unconventional women. If you’re surrounded by people who don’t get who you are or what you do, if you want reminders you’re on the right path (no matter how scary it feels), or you’re sick of being your very own worst enemy, this is the podcast for you.
Every weekday, your host - writer, coach and professional rebel-rouser - Meg Kissack helps you build a creative and wholehearted life, one day at a time. Through short and snappy insights, reminders and stories, The Daily Pep! is here to remind you you’re not alone, and that everything changes when you believe you matter. Each episode is short and snappy, designed to fit in with (or help you start) your habits and routines.
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1324: It doesn't always have to be new-new!
If you're looking for a spark of inspiration and you want to tend to your curiosity (or even your inner child), today's episode is for you!
Episode transcript:
Good morning, Daily Peppers and a very happy Friday to you. So I don't know about you, but I definitely own more books that I haven't read than I have read. And as multi passionate, so we tend to have interest in so many different things. We are innately curious, and we also tend to get distracted by any shiny object. So for today's daily pep, I'm simply giving you a moment to remember different things. Maybe it's areas that you were really interested in. Maybe it's a a craft kit you bought or a book you borrowed that you were really excited by and just completely forgot about. Or what is something you've been wanting to do and just haven't had the time to do? And like we were talking about earlier in the week, how can you break away from all or nothing thinking? And what is something that you couldn't wait to dive into that you just didn't, that maybe you feel bad about, or maybe life got in the way and you forgot it was even a thing.
Maybe also think about the things you've got access to, like courses or subscriptions that you haven't used. And just think about what could feed your curiosity and your joy right now that isn't something new and shiny and doesn't involve getting something new. Now don't get me wrong. I am all for the new and the shiny, and novelty inspires and motivates me more than most things. But I also forget that things that I've had for a while that I haven't gone into, they're gonna be new and fresh too. I know that previous me had good taste, and maybe I'll be picking it up exactly when I most need to. So this is your invitation to think back and remember and dig around something that you were really excited about that you didn't get around to, and let it provide inspiration and also some nourishment for you. Adulting can be really fucking hard, and we do not give ourselves enough treats.
So take this as a reminder, a permission slip, and an invitation to feed your curiosity and maybe even your inner child. As we're wrapping up the week together, I wanna remind you that your worth is not based on your productivity. What you did or didn't get done this week is enough. And if you need that in a bit of a spicier format, give yourself a bit of a fucking break and appreciate what you have done. I look forward to being back here with you on Monday as usual and on Sunday in your inbox if you're signed up for my email community. If you wanna get in on that fun, there's more info in the show notes and I can't wait to be back with you soon. Take care.
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New episodes air every Monday - Friday 6AM GMT
A short, snappy and sassy daily podcast to keep your internal - and external - dreamshitters at bay!
The Daily Pep! is the rebel-rousing, daily podcast for couragemakers, creative, multi-passionate and unconventional women. If you’re surrounded by people who don’t get who you are or what you do, if you want reminders you’re on the right path (no matter how scary it feels), or you’re sick of being your very own worst enemy, this is the podcast for you.
Every weekday, your host - writer, coach and professional rebel-rouser - Meg Kissack helps you build a creative and wholehearted life, one day at a time. Through short and snappy insights, reminders and stories, The Daily Pep! is here to remind you you’re not alone, and that everything changes when you believe you matter. Each episode is short and snappy, designed to fit in with (or help you start) your habits and routines.
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1322: A counter-intuitive approach to problem solving
If you feel like you're just too close to the problem, or you're sick of thinking about it and not finding helpful solutions, I've got a slightly random idea for you!
Episode transcript:
Good morning, Daily Peppers, and a very happy Wednesday to you. So I've got an unconventional one for you today. If you are noodling around on a problem, you're trying to solve something, you're looking for inspiration, or you're trying to come up with a new idea. Now, when we do this, we tend to look in likely places. Say, for example, you've got a business. You might turn to the business books that you've bought in the past. And for a lot of the time, they might be really helpful. But what is also really helpful is using your own creativity and letting your brain wander and finding ideas and solutions in the most unlikely of places.
One of the brilliant things about our brains is its ability to make connections with completely opposing things or completely random shit. And that can really be when the magic happens. But so often, our logical brain takes over. We try to get really strategic and pragmatic. And we look in this, quote, sensible places. And sometimes what ends up happening is we're too close to it that we just end up staring at something. It gets frustrating, and we're no further ahead. So whether you're noodling on a particular problem, or if you're too close to it to see it clearly, or if you just fancy a different perspective, try intentionally looking in the most random of places.
I'm thinking for myself right now, I'm trying to tackle something in my business. And I'm just looking at my bookshelf, and I'm thinking that I am so close to the problem. I will probably find a solution or something really helpful on my book of the history of Eurovision than I would some of the business books I've got even though it feels pretty counterintuitive, quite unproductive, and, yes, very random. Here's where I'm coming at it from. If you're sick at looking at the same problem and not coming up with any new ways to solve it, just try something completely different. You might not find what you think you were looking for, but you could find something completely unexpected that's better than you could have imagined. So here's to finding inspiration in unlikely places. Here's to putting our brilliant creative brains to use. And here's to looking at what's right under our nose. I'll see you tomorrow.
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ABOUT THE DAILY PEP! PODCAST
A short, snappy and sassy daily podcast to keep your internal - and external - dreamshitters at bay!
The Daily Pep! is the rebel-rousing, daily podcast for couragemakers, creative, multi-passionate and unconventional women.
If you’re surrounded by people who don’t get who you are or what you do, if you want reminders you’re on the right path (no matter how scary it feels), or you’re sick of being your very own worst enemy, this is the podcast for you.
Every weekday, your host - writer, coach and professional rebel-rouser - Meg Kissack helps you build a creative and wholehearted life, one day at a time. Through short and snappy insights, reminders and stories, The Daily Pep! is here to remind you you’re not alone, and that everything changes when you believe you matter. Each episode is short and snappy, designed to fit in with (or help you start) your habits and routines
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1321: What are you inadvertently depriving yourself of?
Today we're making space for joy by diving into all or nothing thinking and challenging the stories we tell ourselves.
Episode transcript:
Good morning, Daily Peppers, and a very happy Tuesday to you. So something that trips up quite a few of us is falling into all or nothing thinking. And when we're people who have a lot of curiosities, a lot of passions, and a lot of things that we want to do, Sometimes we feel really constrained by our limited time and energy. And mixed with our all or nothing thinking, we tell ourselves that there's no point in starting something, or we tell ourselves that we'll get around to it someday, or the time just never comes. And today, I wanna challenge both me and you on that because I am definitely prone to all or nothing thinking. One of the stories that I tend to tell myself is that if I haven't got the time to finish a project, then I'm not going to start it in the first place. And that leads me to today's question, which is what are we inadvertently depriving ourselves of because we've created all these rules or these stories about the circumstance it needs to happen in. We all hear those quotes about starting small and a little bit of progress being a huge amount of progress over time.
And it is really easy to dismiss that because we hear it so often. But no matter how much we roll our eyes, it is kind of true. But often before we get to that tiny step, we need to address that story about it being worth starting anyway or worth continuing anyway, even if we don't have enough time or energy than we would like. I know for me as I sit here today recording this, I'm thinking about so many different projects I wanted to start that I talked myself out of because it wasn't the right timing or the setup wasn't ideal. And I can say hand on my heart, I wish I'd have fucking started them anyway. Not only because I'd have actually made significant progress and got somewhere with them, but also it would have brought me so much joy and brought some sparkle to my life as well. So for both of us today, my question is, in what way or in what ways are we depriving ourselves of joy because we're buying into all or nothing thinking or the circumstances aren't ideal? See what comes up for you. See what would look like an easy way to do that or start doing the thing. And you might just find you've got a bit more joy in your step. I hope you have a Tuesday as fabulous as you are, and you remember that everything changes when you believe you matter.
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New episodes air every Monday - Friday 6AM GMT
A short, snappy and sassy daily podcast to keep your internal - and external - dreamshitters at bay!
The Daily Pep! is the rebel-rousing, daily podcast for couragemakers, creative, multi-passionate and unconventional women. If you’re surrounded by people who don’t get who you are or what you do, if you want reminders you’re on the right path (no matter how scary it feels), or you’re sick of being your very own worst enemy, this is the podcast for you.
Every weekday, your host - writer, coach and professional rebel-rouser - Meg Kissack helps you build a creative and wholehearted life, one day at a time. Through short and snappy insights, reminders and stories, The Daily Pep! is here to remind you you’re not alone, and that everything changes when you believe you matter. Each episode is short and snappy, designed to fit in with (or help you start) your habits and routines.
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1320: Stealing breadcrumbs and creating a life you love
If you need a dash of hope or a dollop of inspiration this morning, I've got just the thing for you!
Episode transcript:
Good morning, Daily Peppers, and a very happy Monday to you. So nearly ten years ago, me and mister Meg did a huge road trip across The United States. Now we are huge foodies, and one of the best things we ate was really fresh tacos at a place in the Grand Central Market in LA. It's funny how you bring things into your own life from so many different experiences. And for us, it's the fact that whenever we're doing burritos or tacos, we now always serve it with raw onion, lime juice, and coriander or cilantro to our American friends. And I'm sharing this today because last night, we had burritos, and I also enjoyed the morning reading some Austin Kleon. And I've also been thinking a lot lately about how we create our lives. Now Austin Kleon is one of my favorite writers and illustrators, and I had him as a guest here on the daily pep for episode 520.
And he's got this great phrase, steal like an artist. And I think for so many of us, we get caught up so much on that title of artist that we miss out so much of the richness that that phrase has to give us. Because to me, creating a life you love is one of the most creative things we can do. And in many senses, we are all artists. Like that quote from MC Richards, all the arts we practice are apprenticeship. The big art is our life. So I'm sharing this today as a reminder as you go about your day to day and as you think about different experiences you've had, to really steal like an artist when it comes to building a life you love, it's not necessarily about the big things. It is about all the bread crumbs and the sprinklings and all the things that you weave into your life from many days well lived.
And that can also be a fun activity in and of itself, looking at your day to day life and piecing together why you do things the way you do, in what ways you've already stolen like an artist, and how many fond memories have shaped your life. So this is a bit of hope and a bit of inspiration for your Monday morning. I hope it sparked something. I hope you find some unexpected joy, And I hope you find something to steal. Have a good one and I'll see you tomorrow.
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ABOUT THE DAILY PEP!
New episodes air every Monday - Friday 6AM GMT
A short, snappy and sassy daily podcast to keep your internal - and external - dreamshitters at bay!
The Daily Pep! is the rebel-rousing, daily podcast for couragemakers, creative, multi-passionate and unconventional women. If you’re surrounded by people who don’t get who you are or what you do, if you want reminders you’re on the right path (no matter how scary it feels), or you’re sick of being your very own worst enemy, this is the podcast for you.
Every weekday, your host - writer, coach and professional rebel-rouser - Meg Kissack helps you build a creative and wholehearted life, one day at a time. Through short and snappy insights, reminders and stories, The Daily Pep! is here to remind you you’re not alone, and that everything changes when you believe you matter. Each episode is short and snappy, designed to fit in with (or help you start) your habits and routines.
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1317: Do something tiny for future you
Today we're diving into the importance of micro acts of kindness towards ourselves, and how they can bring a bit more ease into our lives!
Episode transcript:
Good morning, Daily Peppers, and a very happy Wednesday to you. It is hump day, and I'm popping in with a reminder to be kind to yourself on a micro level. So years ago, I found the quote on a calendar, and it is a question that asked, what would your future self be grateful for? And it is one of my favorite questions because we are so much better at being compassionate to our future selves than we are to our present selves. But one of the ways I think we can get caught up is thinking of it on a huge level and almost getting existential about it, thinking about it in terms of what regrets you might have and what big decisions you need to make to satisfy your future self. But I think we miss out on so much if we disregard the tiny things that we do. And this is what got me thinking about it. So I'm insulin dependent, and I have to inject myself with insulin quite a few times a day. And each time, I need to screw on a new needle.
And every time I go to inject myself and I've already pre changed the pen, it's just a nice surprise. It's one less thing I need to do in a process that isn't that fun anyway, and it just make things a bit quicker and a bit easier. Now that is a tiny, tiny example, and purposely so because it can make a huge difference. And when you have a couple of things that you have to do every day, you make a tiny bit easier for yourself the next time. You really do start noticing the difference. And it also becomes muscle memory, and it becomes something you do on autopilot. We all have so many things that we need to do every day and so many micro decisions. And I think one of the really tangible ways that we can practice kindness and compassion to ourselves, especially like to a lot of us around here that doesn't come naturally, is by doing these really super small things.
It's so easy to get lost in future tripping and think about our future selves way down the line. But it can be pretty powerful asking yourself, okay. What does this evening version of me need? What would I be really grateful for having done for myself tomorrow morning? And again, this is not about getting shit done and being super productive. It's not about optimizing every single part of your life. It's just doing little things that show that you give a shit about yourself, that future you will appreciate and make life a bit easier. And to strip it back to its bare bones, what can you do that future you will just have that moment of yay? Because we do not have that enough. Have a think about this as you go about your day. Start super small.
You can build it up to where you want it to be. It doesn't have to be exactly where you want it to be to start off with. Try and start so small that it feels like cheating and give it a go. I hope today provided you with some unexpected joy, and I'll see you tomorrow.
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ABOUT THE DAILY PEP! PODCAST
A short, snappy and sassy daily podcast to keep your internal - and external - dreamshitters at bay!
The Daily Pep! is the rebel-rousing, daily podcast for couragemakers, creative, multi-passionate and unconventional women.
If you’re surrounded by people who don’t get who you are or what you do, if you want reminders you’re on the right path (no matter how scary it feels), or you’re sick of being your very own worst enemy, this is the podcast for you.
Every weekday, your host - writer, coach and professional rebel-rouser - Meg Kissack helps you build a creative and wholehearted life, one day at a time. Through short and snappy insights, reminders and stories, The Daily Pep! is here to remind you you’re not alone, and that everything changes when you believe you matter. Each episode is short and snappy, designed to fit in with (or help you start) your habits and routines
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1316: An alternative way to start the day
Today is about meeting yourself where you're at, and starting your day being on your own team.
Episode transcript:
Good morning, Daily Peppers, and a very happy Tuesday to you. Last week, I had an absolute stinker of a cold, and I don't think anybody would have appreciated me recording a new episode. So it's lovely to be back. And I've just enjoyed a really chilled Easter weekend, and things are feeling good. And as I mentioned how I'm feeling, that is exactly what I wanna talk about today. Because something I've been thinking about lately is how much less friction and tension there would be in our lives if we could somehow accept or make peace with or tolerate how we feel rather than how we should feel.
Now don't get me wrong, and I wanna be really clear about this. This is not about being like, yay. I'm feeling shitty. What I'm trying to say is, what if every day rather than thinking about how you should feel, you just kinda woke up and thought, I'm tired today, and that's alright. Rather than, I'm tired today examining all the reasons why, all the reasons you shouldn't be tired, all the reasons you should be tired, trying to figure out how to make it a different way. I just can't help but feel that there might be a bit less resistance in our life. If we could get okay with how we're feeling on the day rather than the shoulds. Now I am a natural problem solver, and I find this really hard. I'm not trying to say this is easy. If I wake up and just feel a bit down, my immediate response rather than thinking, okay. I feel a bit down today. Let's meet myself where I'm at, is, okay. Why do I feel down? Should I feel down? How should I be feeling? And before I know it, I've gone off in a million different directions, all that require quite an enormous amount of energy from me, and that's before I've really done anything with my day. If on those days I did meet myself with more acceptance, I can't help but think that I'd be kinder to myself, and also I'd have a bit more energy too. And I think one of the ways we do this and make it regular is by practicing it.
So that is my challenge for you today. I want you to think as you listen to this how you're feeling and ask yourself what if you were okay with that. Or gently put your hand up to stop all of the different things that come up in terms of how you should be feeling and what you can do about it. And ultimately, it's about how can we be more compassionate to ourselves and slightly less analytical. Whether today you're feeling it or you're feeling shit, meet yourself where you are and maybe start with the question, what would today look like if I was actually kind to myself? And if that feels like too big of an ask, what would you say to a friend who felt like you feel right now? So that's my mini challenge for you today. I can't wait to be back with you tomorrow. And remember that everything changes when you believe you matter.
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ABOUT THE DAILY PEP!
New episodes air every Monday - Friday 6AM GMT
A short, snappy and sassy daily podcast to keep your internal - and external - dreamshitters at bay!
The Daily Pep! is the rebel-rousing, daily podcast for couragemakers, creative, multi-passionate and unconventional women. If you’re surrounded by people who don’t get who you are or what you do, if you want reminders you’re on the right path (no matter how scary it feels), or you’re sick of being your very own worst enemy, this is the podcast for you.
Every weekday, your host - writer, coach and professional rebel-rouser - Meg Kissack helps you build a creative and wholehearted life, one day at a time. Through short and snappy insights, reminders and stories, The Daily Pep! is here to remind you you’re not alone, and that everything changes when you believe you matter. Each episode is short and snappy, designed to fit in with (or help you start) your habits and routines.
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1307: Changing familiar scripts
If you struggle with the idea of ease or taking shortcuts, today's episode is for you!
Episode transcript:
Good morning, Daily Peppers, and a very happy Wednesday to you. Now, like many of us, I grew up with this belief system that in order for something to be worth it, you have to really struggle for it. And that anything good in life is really hard to achieve. Now today we're not necessarily throwing that completely out the window but we are inviting a bit more ease into our lives. Because part of the problem with that belief system is that we believe that unless we really struggled or went through pain to get something, then we're not worthy of the reward. And if something wasn't really, really hard, then it just doesn't count. And as I'm saying this out loud and probably as you're hearing this as well, we can both admit that that doesn't sound that healthy. Now, of course, there are things in life that are gonna be shit, and we will have to go through tough things, and we have been.
We all know that. But I think we could also have a much better time of it by inviting ease to the party as well, by taking shortcuts that are so easy it feels like cheating, by taking small incremental steps that just feel easy, and by giving ourselves evidence that we can make progress and we can do epic shit in a way that feels good and doesn't put us through hell and back. Now, of course, that doesn't apply to all life situations. Not everything can be made fun. Not everything can be made easy. But I think a lot of the day to day choices we make, well, they can benefit from a bit of joy and also some strategic shortcuts. So as you go about your day to day, I want you to try and take notice of things that you do every day and if there is an easier way to do them. Not everything deserves a % of your focus or a % of your effort.
You can absolutely half ass a lot of things that aren't that important, and you might be pleasantly surprised. Now to be clear, this is not about optimizing every minute of your life so you can be more productive, But it is trying to make things a little bit better for you so you can have more joy and you can get back some of that precious time and energy. It might be something as simple as choosing new clothes and putting them out the night before so it frees you up a bit of mental space in the morning. It could be putting your favorite CD in the car rather than just sticking with the one that's been in there for months or even just using the notes app on your phone a bit more so you don't have to keep everything in your head all the time and you can be a bit more present. I know these things sound simple and quite basic, but it's usually these things that we tend to overlook that can make quite a big difference. So have a think about what your own shortcuts and what your own joy injections look like. Happy hump day and I can't wait to be back with you tomorrow.
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ABOUT THE DAILY PEP! PODCAST
A short, snappy and sassy daily podcast to keep your internal - and external - dreamshitters at bay!
The Daily Pep! is the rebel-rousing, daily podcast for couragemakers, creative, multi-passionate and unconventional women.
If you’re surrounded by people who don’t get who you are or what you do, if you want reminders you’re on the right path (no matter how scary it feels), or you’re sick of being your very own worst enemy, this is the podcast for you.
Every weekday, your host - writer, coach and professional rebel-rouser - Meg Kissack helps you build a creative and wholehearted life, one day at a time. Through short and snappy insights, reminders and stories, The Daily Pep! is here to remind you you’re not alone, and that everything changes when you believe you matter. Each episode is short and snappy, designed to fit in with (or help you start) your habits and routines
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1304: Let’s find ourselves some joy!
We’re wrapping up this week on The Daily Pep! with a mini Friday challenge that I think we could all do with!
Episode transcript:
Good morning, Daily Peppers, and a very happy Friday to you.
It is the end of the week, and I am determined to make this more of a fry, yay, than a fry day. No matter how much I cringe at myself doing that. So today's episode is short and simple because I don't want us to overthink it. What is one thing you can do today just to have a bit of fun or to add some lightness or joy to your day? I don't know about you, but I tend to be quite cerebral, And I can really get stuck in my brain, and I can make everything really serious, and I can make things a lot bigger than they need to be. And I often need a reminder just to add some fun even though sometimes I can find it a bit tricky to think about what that thing could be in the first place. So if, like me, you could do some pointers, maybe it's about joyfully saying fuck off to something on your to do list that has been there for far too long and using that time to do something that maybe you would feel is too indulgent or you were put off doing, but that is something for you. Maybe it's about leaving for something five minutes earlier, so you can quite literally stop and smile the roses. Or you can take notice of things that maybe you don't usually have time for.
Maybe it's as simple as putting on your favorite song on repeat and just really enjoying it. Maybe it's about adding some color and doodling your to do list for the day and changing it up a bit. And maybe it is really leaning into that Friday feeling regardless of whether you think you've done enough this week and getting excited for the weekend. Remember, it doesn't have to be big. It can take five minutes or less, and it can still have a huge impact on your day. And it doesn't have to cost you money. So that's quite a fun container. Play with it.
I know you have a big creative brain. See what comes up for you. Try not to overthink it, and let's end this week with a bit of lightness. Have a lovely end to your week. I hope that you find some unexpected joy today and this weekend, And I can't wait to be back with you in your inbox on Sunday or in your ears on Monday. Either way, I'm looking forward to it, and I'll see you soon.
Episode transcript produced by Castmagic.io
ABOUT THE DAILY PEP!
New episodes air every Monday - Friday 6AM GMT
A short, snappy and sassy daily podcast to keep your internal - and external - dreamshitters at bay!
The Daily Pep! is the rebel-rousing, daily podcast for couragemakers, creative, multi-passionate and unconventional women. If you’re surrounded by people who don’t get who you are or what you do, if you want reminders you’re on the right path (no matter how scary it feels), or you’re sick of being your very own worst enemy, this is the podcast for you.
Every weekday, your host - writer, coach and professional rebel-rouser - Meg Kissack helps you build a creative and wholehearted life, one day at a time. Through short and snappy insights, reminders and stories, The Daily Pep! is here to remind you you’re not alone, and that everything changes when you believe you matter. Each episode is short and snappy, designed to fit in with (or help you start) your habits and routines.
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1302: The power of the pause
If you’re a people pleaser, today I’m sharing a really powerful tool that has been a game changer in my own life!
Episode transcript:
Good morning, Daily Peppers, and a very happy Wednesday to you. Today, I wanna share with you something that I find really helpful in so many different areas of my life. It is something that I find incredibly helpful if I remember to do it and I'm working on the remembering. So maybe we'll have a part two coming up. But for today, I just wanted to share with you what the thing is. And I call it the power of the pause. Now for many of us, we have things that we do on autopilot that maybe we wish we did less of. I know in my life, my autopilots have looked like saying yes to things before I've really thought about them and asking people around me for their opinions on something before I've really had a chance to figure out what it is I want.
And I'm particularly thinking of big life decisions here. For you, the things that you do on autopilot might be similar, they might be the same, or they might be completely different. And the first important thing here is that we try not to judge ourselves for them. Chances are they might come from a place of people pleasing. They might come from a place of putting everybody else first before yourself, or they might come from a place of being a good girl and trying to figure out the, quote, right thing to do, which we dove into a bit yesterday. Now I first came across what I'm calling the power of the pause in the fabulous book, The Curse of Lovely by Jacqui Marson. I'll put that in the show notes. And there's a section on saying no, and she recommends just taking a pause before you respond.
That can look like literally taking a pause, which often, especially if somebody's asking you to do something, can involve sitting on your hands and it is really uncomfortable. Or it can look like telling somebody that you'll get back to them later. The how here really isn't that important. It's the why we do it in the first place. I know that when I said yes to everything, I thought I was being really helpful, but, actually, I ended up over committing a lot and also letting people down. Some of the things that we do out of a want to please other people or to do the right thing can end up being the wrong thing both for us and for them. And sometimes, let's face it, we also make wild assumptions that we don't know a true either. It's like that quote, don't ask somebody for directions to place they've never been.
And sometimes we assume that somebody will know what is best for us when they haven't been to that place or they're coming from it from a completely different perspective. Now I believe that the pause gets easier and more comfortable the more we practice it. And the more we practice it, the more we tend to remember it exists, and that's a bit where I'm at at the moment. But I just wanna give you this tool as a way of giving yourself a chance to actually look within, to see what feels good for you and what feels right to you. In an age where we can pretty much find anything we want on Google and everybody and their pet chicken has a perspective on what they think we should or shouldn't do, It can be really easy to not even check-in with ourselves in the first place. And if we are people pleasers, it can be so much easier to say yes before we actually look at our capacity or, sometimes I forget this one even exists, whether we want to do it in the first place. So here's to the power of pausing. Try it out and have a think about the circumstances where it could be helpful for you.
And remember that it's okay to say to somebody, I'll have a think about that or I'll get back to you. If anything that shows that you're actually considering it, it's a sign of respect. And remember that if you do end up saying no, you don't have to overcompensate by agreeing to do something else, which is twice as much effort in the first place. And I say that from a lot of experience. So happy Wednesday, my darlings. And remember as always, everything changes when you believe you matter, and you really fucking do matter. See you tomorrow.
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ABOUT THE DAILY PEP! PODCAST
A short, snappy and sassy daily podcast to keep your internal - and external - dreamshitters at bay!
The Daily Pep! is the rebel-rousing, daily podcast for couragemakers, creative, multi-passionate and unconventional women.
If you’re surrounded by people who don’t get who you are or what you do, if you want reminders you’re on the right path (no matter how scary it feels), or you’re sick of being your very own worst enemy, this is the podcast for you.
Every weekday, your host - writer, coach and professional rebel-rouser - Meg Kissack helps you build a creative and wholehearted life, one day at a time. Through short and snappy insights, reminders and stories, The Daily Pep! is here to remind you you’re not alone, and that everything changes when you believe you matter. Each episode is short and snappy, designed to fit in with (or help you start) your habits and routines
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1301: Do it your own way
If you need a reminder that being different is a good thing, and to lean into your inner rebel and not just your inner good girl, today’s episode is for you!
Episode transcript:
Good morning, Daily Peppers, and a very happy Tuesday to you. For today's daily pep, I wanted to pop in and remind you that you get to do it your own way. For a lot of us, myself included, we have that inner good girl, where we wanna make sure that we're doing the right thing in the right way, and we wanna know how we can get the gold stars. Now that can serve us really well, for example, in school, but it doesn't necessarily serve us in real life. Or what it does, but we end up satisfying other people rather than ourselves. That can look like trying to fit into moulds no matter how rebellious we are deep down. It can look like getting hyperfixated on the perfect way to begin or the right way of doing things. And in doing that, what I think we end up doing is bypassing our own sense of intuition and what works for us.
Sometimes we don't even acknowledge that we could do it another way or we could do it our own way because we can't imagine what that would look like, or we can't imagine being allowed to do that. Now when it comes to building a life we love, it is rarely as linear or as step by step as we would like it to be. We know that when it comes to chasing our dreams, it can often look chaotic. It can involve a lot of just chance things happening. And counterintuitively, sometimes when we try a bit less or put a lot less pressure on it, we can end up moving so much more further forward. One of the things so many of us care about deeply around here is making a difference. And I'm a true believer that we're all capable of making a unique difference in the world. And that starts with realizing that we are unique, that maybe we work in different ways, and leaning into working with ourselves rather than against ourselves.
Just because something has always been done one way doesn't mean it has to be done that way. And maybe it is time for a change. And just because everybody else is doing something in a particular way doesn't mean that they're right. It does take courage to do things differently. But let's face it, for many of us around here, we tend to feel like square pegs in round holes anyway. And what would life look like if we leaned into our difference and leaned into our quirky brains rather than away from them? So that is my food for thought for you today. And whatever decisions you're making at the moment, allow yourself to just get a bit wild and think about what you would do if you gave yourself permission. Permission to be yourself, permission to fail, and permission to not give a fuck what anybody else thinks.
Happy noodling on this, and I'll see you tomorrow.
Transcription produced by Castmagic.io
ABOUT THE DAILY PEP!
New episodes air every Monday - Friday 6AM GMT
A short, snappy and sassy daily podcast to keep your internal - and external - dreamshitters at bay!
The Daily Pep! is the rebel-rousing, daily podcast for couragemakers, creative, multi-passionate and unconventional women. If you’re surrounded by people who don’t get who you are or what you do, if you want reminders you’re on the right path (no matter how scary it feels), or you’re sick of being your very own worst enemy, this is the podcast for you.
Every weekday, your host - writer, coach and professional rebel-rouser - Meg Kissack helps you build a creative and wholehearted life, one day at a time. Through short and snappy insights, reminders and stories, The Daily Pep! is here to remind you you’re not alone, and that everything changes when you believe you matter. Each episode is short and snappy, designed to fit in with (or help you start) your habits and routines.
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1300: Where are you blooming?
Today we’re really welcoming in spring and looking for signs of it in our own lives!
Episode transcript:
Good morning, Daily Peppers, and a very happy Monday to you. The clocks have gone forward. Here in The UK, we are officially on daylight savings, and it actually feels like spring has sprung. If you feel like this year has finally arrived and like you want to reassess and reevaluate your plans and get reinspired by this year and reclaim what has been, for some, a bit of a shit show so far, I'd love for you to come join our quarter huddle workshop tonight where that is exactly what we're doing. You can find out more by going to the rebelrousers.com/quarterhuddle, or the link is in the show notes. It's gonna be really helpful, really inspiring, and I've got a feeling it's gonna be just what we all need right now. Now on to today's show. So spring is definitely on my mind today.
And for me, spring is when I start to wake up more, when I start to get more inspired, and when I start to think of all the projects I could do. I love seeing all the daffodils pop up. I love seeing everything sprouting, and it is so lovely to see the sun again. So for today's daily prep, I want you to have a think about what seeds you've planted that are starting to appear. Because so often, it can feel like we're starting from scratch, and that can feel really overwhelming. But the truth is that there are bulbs that already exist that are ready to bloom, and sometimes we just have to remember they exist in the first place. So maybe have a think about the different projects that you've been excited by in the past. Have a think about maybe some ideas that you wanted to be excited about over winter, but you just didn't have the energy for.
And just look around you to see where you are in fact blooming. So as you go about your day, I want you to look out for those signs of spring in your own life. Remember that it's the early days of spring. You have time. You can get curious, and you get to choose what you focus on, what you cultivate, and you also get to decide what's a weed and what is something you want to let go of or some things. So happy Monday. Here's to a fabulous start to the week, and I'd love to see you there for the quarter huddle workshop tonight. And if you wanna come but it sounds scary, please know that I am a gentle giant.
I really pride myself on creating really warm, lovely spaces. You can join in as little or as much as you like, and my workshops tend to feel like a hug in a mug. Head to the show notes to find out more and book your spot. And I can't wait to be back here bright and early with you as always tomorrow morning. Take care.
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ABOUT THE DAILY PEP!
New episodes air every Monday - Friday 6AM GMT
A short, snappy and sassy daily podcast to keep your internal - and external - dreamshitters at bay!
The Daily Pep! is the rebel-rousing, daily podcast for couragemakers, creative, multi-passionate and unconventional women. If you’re surrounded by people who don’t get who you are or what you do, if you want reminders you’re on the right path (no matter how scary it feels), or you’re sick of being your very own worst enemy, this is the podcast for you.
Every weekday, your host - writer, coach and professional rebel-rouser - Meg Kissack helps you build a creative and wholehearted life, one day at a time. Through short and snappy insights, reminders and stories, The Daily Pep! is here to remind you you’re not alone, and that everything changes when you believe you matter. Each episode is short and snappy, designed to fit in with (or help you start) your habits and routines.
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1299: Put your needs on the table
Today we're taking a pause to consider our needs and how we can meet them this weekend and go into Monday with a fuller cup!
Episode transcript:
Good morning, Daily Peppers, and a very happy Friday to you. We made it. And one of the things we tend to not do at the end of the week is look at how far we've come. I know from my own experience of being myself and also working with hundreds of creative, multi passionate women that we tend to do something, finish something, and immediately move on to the next thing. We don't tend to take the time to appreciate and celebrate what we've done. We're already looking towards a new shiny thing without paying much attention to the time and the energy and the sheer effort that went into doing the thing. Now when I'm talking about doing the thing, I'm not necessarily talking about finishing some huge project. I'm talking about all the things that we finish on a regular basis. So that could be like, for example, today finishing the week. It can also be having that hard conversation, sending that difficult email.
It can be returning to a project, and it can be a billion of different small things. It can often be hard for us to recognize that we finished anything or to be proud of ourselves, So let me put it in a different way. What are you really glad that's over? What is something that you've dealt with lately that you are really glad is behind you? Or what is something that felt really good to get off your list? So I invite you to press pause and note down a couple of things or to think about it as you go about your day to day and find a way to really acknowledge it and celebrate it. That could be as simple as sharing it with somebody else. It could look like taking yourself out for coffee and cake, or it can simply feel like that little sparkle and that little buzz of getting something done. What I'm trying to say is give yourself that gift. Let yourself appreciate what you have done just for a little moment. Because what tends to happen otherwise is that we go from thing to thing to thing, and life just feels like a big chore.
We don't feel like we're getting anywhere. It feels really frustrating. It feels really unsatisfying. We end up feeling exhausted and beating ourselves up. And we live in this narrative of ourselves where we're never getting anything done, things always feel hard. And we're completely ignoring the fact that this very true story exists, that we are people that get shit done, we do show up for ourselves, and we have a lot to be proud of. So take the time for yourself today. Let's flip the narrative and tell ourselves a much truer story, and let's acknowledge our wins because, honestly, hand on my heart, you have wins to celebrate.
Happy Friday, my loves. We made it. I can't wait to be back with you in your inbox on Sunday if you're part of my letters of rebellion community, and you can find out more about how to join that by going to the rebelrousers.com/letters or back in your fabulous ears on Monday morning. Take impeccable care of yourself this weekend, and remember as always that everything changes when you believe you matter.
Episode transcript produced by Castmagic.io
ABOUT THE DAILY PEP!
New episodes air every Monday - Friday 6AM GMT
A short, snappy and sassy daily podcast to keep your internal - and external - dreamshitters at bay!
The Daily Pep! is the rebel-rousing, daily podcast for couragemakers, creative, multi-passionate and unconventional women. If you’re surrounded by people who don’t get who you are or what you do, if you want reminders you’re on the right path (no matter how scary it feels), or you’re sick of being your very own worst enemy, this is the podcast for you.
Every weekday, your host - writer, coach and professional rebel-rouser - Meg Kissack helps you build a creative and wholehearted life, one day at a time. Through short and snappy insights, reminders and stories, The Daily Pep! is here to remind you you’re not alone, and that everything changes when you believe you matter. Each episode is short and snappy, designed to fit in with (or help you start) your habits and routines.
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1297: Assume they don’t know
I’m sharing some unconventional life advice I learned through a high school teacher’s instructions on how to approach exams!
Episode transcript:
Good morning, Daily Peppers, and a very happy Wednesday to you. It is hump day. We are over halfway through the week. And as you're listening to this, me and mister Meg will be at our second dog training session, which really is more about training us than training Merlin. So wish us luck. Now when I was in school, one of the best pieces of advice I was given when it comes to taking exams or doing any kind of assessments is to assume that the examiner or the assessor knows nothing about the subject or the topic you're writing about. Now, obviously, that's not true, but the idea was really start with the basics and say the obvious stuff. Don't make assumptions about what you think they know. And I think there is so much that we can take forward from this in terms of life advice and life wisdom.
This might not make any sense, so bear with me. We're gonna get there. If we are socialized as women, chances are we have also been socialized to play small to put everybody else's needs ahead of our own. And the idea of actually asserting what we want or stating our needs can be seen as bold or selfish at best or arrogant at worst. And I think one of the side effects of this is that so often, we can go about life not really saying what we need. And sometimes, I know this is definitely true for me, I just assume that it's a bit bloody obvious. And sometimes I expect people to be a bit of a mind reader. We've all had those kind of mini or big arguments where it all comes down to the other person simply didn't know all the things that you assumed they would have figured out or known anyway.
And I think sometimes it is really helpful, even if it is pretty fucking uncomfortable, to go back to that life advice that we can take from exams and really state the obvious. Now asking for our needs or putting our needs on the table can be really scary because there is often the very real factor that they might not be fulfilled. There is also sometimes the fact that we don't know what would have happened had we asked. Now huge caveat here. Sometimes we don't put our needs on the table or ask because we know the person, we know how they make us feel, and we just have a gut feeling. I am not telling you to go against them. I am all about self preservation. And this is about being discerning of where you practice this.
And my advice on where to begin is with the really little things, is with the things that aren't a big deal, and you might be really pleasantly surprised. So have a think about any areas of your life right now, perhaps some annoying little areas where maybe you're assuming people know what you want when actually they might not even if they should, and give it a try. And a final reminder from me, it is not selfish or arrogant to have needs and to put them on the table. You are allowed to ask for what you want. You are allowed to want things, and that simply makes you human. I hope you find some unexpected joy today. I hope somebody does read your mind and do something really kind for you, and I hope you take a small chance as well. I'll see you tomorrow.
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ABOUT THE DAILY PEP! PODCAST
A short, snappy and sassy daily podcast to keep your internal - and external - dreamshitters at bay!
The Daily Pep! is the rebel-rousing, daily podcast for couragemakers, creative, multi-passionate and unconventional women.
If you’re surrounded by people who don’t get who you are or what you do, if you want reminders you’re on the right path (no matter how scary it feels), or you’re sick of being your very own worst enemy, this is the podcast for you.
Every weekday, your host - writer, coach and professional rebel-rouser - Meg Kissack helps you build a creative and wholehearted life, one day at a time. Through short and snappy insights, reminders and stories, The Daily Pep! is here to remind you you’re not alone, and that everything changes when you believe you matter. Each episode is short and snappy, designed to fit in with (or help you start) your habits and routines
MORE REBEL-ROUSING THIS WAY!