1112: Treasuring the imperfections
Today I'm diving into the beauty that can come with imperfections, and sharing a reminder I think we all might need to hear!
Episode transcript:
Good morning, Daily Peppers. And a very happy Wednesday to you. So, one of the things I absolutely love is a really good maker's market. I love going around the stalls and I especially love a really good mug. Now, there is something I love about handmade ceramics. I absolutely love being able to see the fingerprint marks that were accidentally left in. I love the irregularity, and I fucking love the imperfections. I love a bit of wonkiness and I will actively seek out the one that is a bit more imperfect.
Now the reason I'm sharing this today is not only to enable you to buy even more beautiful mugs but as a reminder to all of us recovering perfectionists that alongside the fact that perfection doesn't exist many people actually seek out imperfection. It shows a humanness, it shows a vulnerability, it shows a certain sense of courage and I think living a life that is filled with imperfections can come with a lot of satisfaction that we miss out when we're trying to make things so damn perfect all the time. If you've spent time around fellow creatives, you'll know only too well the pattern of somebody showing what they've done and then immediately pointing out all the faults in it. And often, we're just staring at it like, I would never have noticed what you're pointing out if you didn't point it out to me. Or really? You think that's a big deal? Like, I think it's fucking awesome. So remember that your imperfections are massively exaggerated to you. Your imperfections may help you make some really genuine honest heartfelt connections And, also, no matter how hard you try, we're never gonna reach a point where our project or our life is perfect. So we may as well reclaim some of that time and energy back for ourselves.
Perfect doesn't exist, and if it did, our dream shitter would still find a way to beat ourselves up about it. Know that winning the game is opting out to be in part of the game. Know that your imperfections are gloriously, wonderfully you. And chances are, you are criticizing yourself a 1000000 times harder than anybody else, and also, it may be a case that nobody is criticizing you at all. So, have a good one, let this free you a bit today, and I'll see you tomorrow.
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1111: There are flowers on the mountain
If like me, the fear of how hard the climb will be puts you off doing it in the first place, today I've got a different perspective (and an overextended metaphor!)
Episode transcript:
Good morning, Daily Peppers. And a very happy Tuesday to you. So, yesterday on The Daily Pep, one of the things we were talking about was this idea that everything has to feel hard all the time. We were talking about how when things do feel easier than we thought they would, rather than enjoying it, we immediately try to find how we're doing it wrong because it simply couldn't be the case that it's not that hard. And today, I wanna take that a bit further, and I really wanna dive more into our goals and how we view them. As I'm embarking on a new chapter, I am tackling goals that I have had for years, and I have so many bullshit stories that I have created and believed about them. And one of them is is that anything worth doing and any big impactful change that you make has to involve absolute blood, sweat, and tears. For me, it almost has this Hollywood feeling of this epic narrative with all the music, and it is just gonna be proper shit. And I've used that so often as a way to not do the thing because the time never feels quite right to embark on something that big. It has felt like too much work, and I've doubted whether I could do it.
Or quite truthfully, I just couldn't be fucked. Now I'm not about to do a whole 180 and talk about how easy our goals are because that's not the truth either. But a huge part of the story that's missing is the fact that these journeys often come with so many unexpected joys. We talk so much about climbing this impossible mountain, but but we don't actually talk about the fact that we can stop along the way. We might actually have a really great picnic. The views might be fucking amazing, and we might come across the most beautiful, colourful flowers that we've ever seen. Rather, we tend to focus on how far we haven't come, how far we've got yet to go, how achy and tired our legs are, and how impossible it feels. Now this is not to go or toxic positivity on you.
This is not to take away from the fact that when we're climbing that mountain, it does feel like a beast, and our legs do proper hurt. Rather, it's a case that 2 things can be true at once. And I think we've spent so much time looking at one side of the mountain that we've completely ignored that the other one exists at all. So if you are embarking on a new goal, you're in the middle of something, and it feels really hard, or you've got this idea that you want to do or this life that you wanna live, but the mountain just seems too fucking big. See if you can find the winds and the beauty and the unexpected joys while climbing it rather than just what it's gonna take from you and then waiting until you reach the summit to have any kind of moment of relief, success, or enjoyment. I truly believe that our goals get to be enjoyable, not gruelling. And that might be a hard one to wrap our heads around because it is so countercultural to so much of the stuff that we hear. As I'm embarking on this new chapter, one of the biggest questions I'm asking myself is how can this be fun, and how can this be easy? And while that does feel like an uncomfortable question to grapple with, It's also one that I can get really creative with.
It's one that I can put my curiosity to work with, and I think it's a hell of a lot kinder as well. So that's something for you to think of as you go about the day. What are the really good bits of the mountain? What can you do to notice the beauty of the journey? And what can you do to make the climb more fun and easier? So that's it for today's Daily Pep. As we are approaching the halfway point of the year and this mountain that is 2024, if you want to stop and pause in a really supported and guided way to actually acknowledge your wins even if you don't think there are any and flexibly plan the rest of the year. That is exactly why I designed my halfway huddle workbook. It's a really good way to have a picnic on the side of the mountain, to rest your weary legs, to get your breath back and to get some motivation to move forward. And you can find out more by going to therebelrousers.com/halfwayhuddle. I hope you find some unexpected joy today, And remember that everything changes when you believe you matter.
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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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1110: Maybe you're not doing it wrong!
Around here, we expect things to be so hard all the time, and when it isn't, we immediately start wondering what we're doing wrong. Well, today I'm sharing a recent realisation I've had, that's been quite a game changer!
Episode transcript:
Good morning, Daily Pepper, and a very happy Monday to you. So I have recently, as of last week, started going to the gym. Now, I had a huge amount of resistance to doing it. As somebody who's very much neglected her body her entire life and feels like a walking brain now, I have taken my own advice I often give you around here, which is how to make it easier. And for today's daily pep, I just wanted to share a bit of that journey and a reminder that I think both of us need to hear. So I did so much research, as I know a lot of us do before starting. I figured that the best way to set myself up for success, to take away as many barriers as possible and to try not to give myself yet another stick to beat myself with. So I landed on strength training, and I landed on a program that wouldn't leave me completely out of breath and soaked with sweat and something I could just get in the rhythm of doing.
And last week, I noticed something really interesting. Number one, my research paid off because it really was quite easy. And I got there thinking, okay, this is doable. This isn't actually that hard. But the more interesting thing happens with number two. Number two, I gave myself a really hard time because it felt easy, which there is so much irony in that, because the whole point was it was supposed to be fucking easy. To the point that I decided I was going to finish each workout with quite a gruelling five minutes on the row machine. Now, there was a large part of me that found that satisfying in that it felt like I was doing the hard work.
But as the days went on, I realized that it was actually more punishment than it was helpful. It was almost like I was trying to tell myself, well, things can't be easy. If they're easy, it means you're not working hard enough, so work yourself harder, damn it. And I had fallen back into very familiar old patterns. So I share this today as a reminder, both for myself and for you, that just because something isn't as hard as you thought it would be, doesn't mean you're doing it wrong. For so many of us, we just simply expect everything to be really fucking hard all the time. And when it isn't, rather than thinking, holy shit, that's a nice surprise, we instead internalize it and try and figure out what we're doing wrong or what we're missing. So my question for you today is, when it comes to things that you thought would be hard but actually feel easier, what if you're not missing anything? What if you're doing it in a way that honours yourself.
What if you found a more aligned way of doing things? And what if you're operating from your zone of genius instead? So that is my food for thought for today. And let's try it on size this Monday. What if Mondays didn't have to be so hard? What if it could be easier? What would you do differently? I'll see you tomorrow.
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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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1109: The imperfect joy of a tatty notebook
Around here we’re big fans of notebooks. But with that love can come so much pressure to keep them safe and perfect. (Such a metaphor for life!) So today we’re embracing tatty notebooks and the imperfect joys that come with them.
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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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1108: Find The next question
Sometimes we can feel an enormous amount of pressure to have all of the answers to everything right now, so today’s episode is a permission slip to look inwards, and move onto the next question.
Episode transcript:
Good morning, Daily Peppers, and a very happy Thursday to you. So yesterday, we were chatting all about how easy it is to not tune into our own intuition or our own inner wisdom and automatically almost go into firefighting mode and look outside of ourselves. And I mean this for the little things as well. The times when you're starting something or finishing something scary and you pick up your phone and try to figure out the right way to do it or how other people are doing it before you look inwards. So I ended yesterday's daily pep all around how we often have the answers to our own questions. And today, I wanna add a bit of a caveat to that and just a permission slip that you do not need to know all the answers to everything right now. A lot of the times, what you need is the next question and take it from there and fall down the rabbit hole. Now for us recovering perfectionists, this feels mighty uncomfortable because we wanna do it right, and we want to do our best.
But often as eye roll worthy as this is, our best answers come from inside ourselves rather than outside ourselves. Often, looking outside of ourselves is what gets us stuck in research mode, And research mode can sometimes lead those of us who are perfectionists and questioners to stay in the research mode for much longer than we need to because it feels safe. We are also insatiably curious. So one answer leads to many, many more questions, and that can often feel more comfortable than doing the scary thing.
So for today's Daily Pep, I wanna pose this question to you. What if you don't actually need to know all the answers and you just need to know the next question? Knowing that there is no one right next question and just see what happens from there. My attitude as a coach has always been, you've got the answers, and I've got some helpful questions up my sleeve. So if you do want some helpful questions as we approach the halfway point to the year, I just wanted to do a quick shameless plug for my halfway Huddl workshop happening this Saturday and also my halfway Huddl stand alone workbook, which is full of really helpful questions to help you get a more accurate and more compassionate view of where you are, and it's also just full of really helpful questions to help you figure out what's important right now, what to let go of this year, and to help you create a flexible plan for the rest of the year, which feels enjoyable rather than another obligation.
You can find out more by going to therebelrousers.com/halfwayhuddle. I'd love to see you there on Saturday or support you through my workbook. But above all, here's to your own answers and knowing they are damn important!
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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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1107: Take the pause
As we reach the halfway point of the year, it can be easy to fall into the trap of focussing on what we haven’t done. So for today’s episode, I’m sharing a story to remind you to take the pause and get intentional!
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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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1102: A sassy wednesday pep talk
If you’re sick of feeling like you can’t do it all, this one’s for you!
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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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1105: Let's do this together!
If, like me, you're embarking on something new or going through a period of change, then listen up - this one's for us!
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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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1104: Let's bring more joy into our lives
For today's episode of The Daily Pep! I'm sharing a practical tip that will help bring some more joy into our lives.
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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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1101: Enter: gentle beast mode!
We’ve discussed before here on The Daily Pep! the idea of fluffy days, maintenance mode, and beast mode. But what if there was an extra, more compassionate option?
Episode transcript:
Good morning, Daily Peppers and a very happy Tuesday to you. So quite a while ago on the daily pep, I was talking all about this idea of beast mode. Now, beast modes are those times where, for sometimes, no rhyme or reason, you have a day or you have a period of time where you are just getting so much shit done. What would usually take you so much longer is done with so much more ease, and you are just flying through your to do list. Now these beast mode days are tricky little fuckers because, a, they are fabulous. We feel like we are on fire. But the problem is it can lure us into this whole sense of believing that every single day could be like that. And while I would love that to be the case, beast modes just aren't sustainable.
So rather than enjoying them for what they are in the moment, we tend to wake up the next day expecting to get the same amount of shit done, and then we feel really shitty when we can't. We then tend to need a bit more of a fluffy day, which is kind of a day of recovery or a period of recovery where we give ourselves permission for not feeling like doing much, and we try to take the pressure off. Now for me, the most frustrating thing can be, going back to what we were talking about earlier, the fact that there is often no rhyme or reason as to why beast mode is activated. Sometimes we just wake up and we have a beast mode day, and it comes out of nowhere. But, also, I'm also very aware that sometimes life situations mean that we have to be in beast mode even when our tanks are empty, and that's what I really wanna dive into today. So if that is you right now, I really invite you to think about what I'm gonna call gentle beast mode. And it is getting shit done, but it is also with the awareness that there is too much on your plate and that unless you bring some gentleness into it, it's just gonna be cruel on yourself, and, also, you're more likely to reach burnout. I like to think of gentle beast mode as rather than pushing through no matter what the cost is, being more aware of what you're able to do, and working in fits and starts.
It's not just diving headfirst into your to do list, but rather it's working out what absolutely essentially has to get done and what would be the most efficient way of doing it. Essentially, it's the pause before the doing. It's knowing that as much as you'd like it to be otherwise, you do not have unlimited time and energy. And that when shit hits the fan, choices have to be made. It's also about putting some fluffy things in during that time to get you through. And knowing that if there is an option for you not just to have to push through, to take that one instead. So if you've got a shitload of things on your plate today, I really recommend taking the gentle beast mode approach. You will still get more done.
Chances are you might get even more done, but you're also honoring yourself at the same time. So take this one for a spin, see how it feels for you, and honor where you are energy wise right now. I'll see you tomorrow.
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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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1100:Let's start the week differently
Today we're kicking off the week in a rebellious fashion and looking at the week from a different angle!
Episode transcript:
Good morning, Daily Peppers. A very happy Monday to you. So to kick off this week, we're gonna do it a bit different. Typically, when we think about a Monday, we think about all the shit that we have to do. When we look at our calendar, we're constantly adding things. We're adding things to our to do list. And a lot of the time, we start the week off feeling like we're already behind. So if that feels familiar to you, today, I'm gonna challenge us to do it a bit differently.
So rather than just looking at your to do list today, I want you to spend 5 minutes thinking about what you're not gonna do this week. What is actually not a priority? Are there any meetings or things that you can take off your calendar that just don't need to be there? Are there any tasks that are rolling on week after week that you just have to forgive and let go? And are there things that you have majorly over committed to that you need to politely decline? Mondays can feel like an intimidating beast as they are, let alone with all the stuff we add to the week. So even if this feels uncomfortable and maybe especially if this feels uncomfortable, have a look through your task list, have a look through your to do list, have a look through your calendar, have a look at all the things you've committed to, and prioritize. And also keep in mind that idea that I often find quite frustrating that for every yes you make, you're saying no to something else. And let's face it around here, one of the things that we tend to say no to the most is actually ourselves. So what are you not gonna do this week? And what are you gonna say no to? Remember that you do have limited time, energy, and capacity. Choices do have to be made, and it is certainly not selfish to take yourself into account regardless of whether you've been told otherwise.
Have a good one and remember that everything changes when you believe you 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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1099: Curiosity is your superpower
To wrap up the week, today’s episode is a permission slip to help weekend you approach things with a little more compassion.
Episode transcript:
Good morning, Daily Peppers, and a very happy Friday to you. So to wrap up this week, I wanna pop in with a reminder that not everything has to be strategic and has to be super rational all the time. I think for us rebels and us creatives and multi passionates, we get a bad rap when it comes to starting new projects, and I think part of the bad rap comes from our own inner dream jitter. We all have internalized stuff to do with being flaky, chasing shiny objects, not finishing things, etcetera. And we forget all the things that we have finished and also that curiosity is our superpower. We tend to end up coming up with loads of quirky ways to get ourselves to finish things and be super strategic. And while I love a good flexible container and while I love a good structure, and I think they can be enormously freeing for us, Sometimes what we need is permission to go down the rabbit hole and just go and do whatever the fuck we want and chase that new shiny object. If we're always doing things when we're supposed to be doing them, we often rebel.
And the truth is that often, when we do things that we want to do, we get them done so much quicker because we actually wanna be doing it and we feel like it. And I know feelings don't come into the productivity debate much, which I think is a massive shame and is something I'm really trying to change. So if you need a permission slip this weekend to go start that random project, to just do what you fancy and follow your whimsy, This is your position slip. Go down the rabbit holes. Chase the shiny things. And be unapologetically you. See you on Monday, my darlings.
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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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1097: just take five
Today we’re taking back control, even if it feels hard or uncomfortable. Let’s do this!
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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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1096: Three reminders I have a feeling you need to hear
On what might possibly be the sweariest episode of The Daily Pep! so far, we’re talking all about our limited amount of f*cks, and who earns the rights to them!
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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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1095: Let’s get our F*cks in a row!
Today I’m asking you an important question based on something I wrote in my journal!
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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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1094: You’re doing a good enough job
If your inner critic is being louder than normal, today’s pep talk will you wrap up this week with a bit more compassion!
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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1093: There's no one right way
If you get caught up trying to make the ‘right decision’, or feel stressed trying to find the ‘one right path’, let’s take some pressure off.
Episode transcript:
Good morning, Daily Peppers, and a very happy Thursday to you. So today, I wanted to pop in with a quick reminder that there is no one right way to live life. I know for many of us around here, we are recovering people pleasers and perfectionists. And as much as we rebel, there can also be a certain amount of safety found in figuring out whether you're doing something the right way or not. But if you are looking for that certainty in the art of living life, then my friend, as much as it sucks, you're never gonna find it because there is no one right way to live life. There is no one correct path you can choose, and we all have different preferences. What is a dream life to one person is hell in another person's eyes. And I think in trying to pick the right path and getting really focused on that, we miss out on so many cool side quests that we might not have found otherwise. And we can also end up creating a life that looks like success to somebody else, but doesn't feel like that way on the outside.
There are very few decisions in life that you truly cannot undo. And we all reserve the right to start walking down one path, then backpedal and choose a different one instead. That doesn't mean you've done something wrong. It just means that this whole life thing is a bit of an experiment, and it will be a case of trial and error. So whatever you've got going on in your life at the moment, I hope this episode can relieve you of the pressure of finding this one perfect solution. Because as much as we often wish there was one, there simply isn't. And if it feels fucking uncomfortable, it's because it is. You're not doing anything wrong.
If you're wondering then what to do instead, get quiet and ask yourself what you really need, what you would do if you were certain that everything would work out, and what you would love somebody to give you permission for. It is often only through action that we figure out whether something was right for us in the first place, and it's okay if it's not. And there are just some things that you can't work out hypothetically. This does require courage, but, my dear, you have it in bucketloads, and you also do not have to metaphorically pick one route, book your flight, buy a house, and live there. Instead, see if you can take smaller steps there to figure out how it feels. See it a bit like going on holiday there rather than uprooting your entire life. And you're gonna find out so much just by doing that. So that's it for today's daily pep.
Thank you so much for being here. It is a joy to start your mornings with you. And I can't wait to see you bright and early as always tomorrow morning.
Episode transcript automatically 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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1092: An unconventional take on blooming
A lot of the time we associate blooming with things looking good on the outside, but today we’re diving into the more subtle side of what it means to bloom (and how to recognise it).
Episode transcript:
Good morning, Daily Peppers, and a very happy Wednesday to you. So for yesterday's episode, I left on the quote that I love that I've shared quite a few times around here about how nothing in nature blooms all year long, so don't expect yourself to either. So for today's episode, I want to dig a bit deeper into that, specifically the part about what it means to bloom. It is so easy to think that the times in our life when we're blooming is when things are looking really good on the outside or we're going through some big change that is visible to everyone. But that's not necessarily the case. A lot of the changes and a lot of the blooming that we do is very internal, and it's also very slow, and that is part of the process. You're not doing anything wrong. But I think if we think of blooming only in the case of when the flower becomes bright and is at its most beautiful, what we can do is ignore some of the biggest transformations that actually happen along the way.
I'm a huge fan of celebrating what I call your intangible wins, because they are often some of the most important wins that we have. And intangible wins are the things that are never going to appear on your to do list and can be things like setting boundaries, your ability to deal with the situation and have hard conversations, that kind of thing. And I don't think any of us give ourselves enough credit for those intangible wins, nor do we often recognize them. So I just want to invite you today to think about what the different stages of blooming are for you and what it means to bloom in different areas of your life. Because that is going to look different for each of us. There is no right way of doing it. Some things take longer to bloom than others. Some things bloom more loudly, some things bloom more quietly.
But I bet if you looked for it, you could find an area in your life where you're blooming right now. Because we do not have one singular flower, we are made up of many, many different flowers and many different facets of our life. We are continual works in progress, and there is always something to celebrate. So here's to your intangible wins, here's to your many blooming flowers, and here's to remembering that everything changes when you believe you matter.
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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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1091: What season are you in?
Sometimes it can feel like we’re going to be burnt out or busy forever! Today we’re diving into the helpful (and relieving) approach of seeing life in seasons.
Episode transcript:
Good morning, Daily Peppers, and a very happy Tuesday to you. Now I don't know about you, but I am really good at all or nothing thinking. When I'm going through a busy period or when I'm feeling really exhausted, It's really easy for me to believe that it's always gonna be this way. And I end up in a kind of double pressure situation where I'm trying to deal with life in that moment as it is and I'm also future worrying about having to deal with it continually. Now there are times in our lives where we just have to push through and the light at the end of the tunnel feels a bit further away than we'd like. But there are other times where it's really helpful to consider what season of life you're in right now because chances are the busy season is not gonna last all year. The exhaustion will also not last forever, and it's about recognizing what season we're in right now. So that is the question I wanna pose for you today.
What kind of season are you in? Recognizing our seasons can make them so much easier to deal with, and it's also a really helpful way to be more flexible and adaptable to our own needs. Because if we can figure out what season of life we're in right now, we can figure out what we need in this season. We can figure out what is actually important and the things that we can pick up later. If it is a really busy chaotic season for you, it might be about putting yourself into maintenance mode and just doing the absolute necessary. And if it's a bit more of a fallow period, but you know you've got a busy period coming up, what can you do to really rejuvenate during the season and also make the next season easier for future you? Our seasons don't necessarily match up with the time of the year it is. But if you can identify which of the 4 seasons you're in, that can also be a helpful way of figuring out what you need right now and what kind of time it is for you if you're not really sure. And I want to leave you with a quote that I've shared quite a few times on here, but I never get sick of saying. And it's that whole thing about nothing in nature blooms all year round, so don't expect yourself to either. 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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1088: Section hiking your goals!
Today, courtesy of the world of hiking, we’re diving into a metaphor and two different approaches to approaching our goals.
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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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