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Create The Future You Want With Visualisation

Image of Debra Searle Mentally Preparing for the Dragon Boat World Championships with Legs Crossed and Headphones in

This is me in my 20’s, just before the finals of the European Championships in Rome, Italy. I’m visualising the perfect race and winning medals for the Great Britain Dragon Boat team. I don’t even know who took the photo. We won a load of medals at these championships and were fortunate to have a wonderful coach, Griff, who believed in the power of the mind. He encouraged us to use visualisation and it helped us create winning future truth moments for the team.

Yet visualisation isn’t just for athletes. I’ve used it to create the future I want in a variety of life areas, from winning big business contracts through to climbing in the Alps with my daughters (something I’ve dreamt about since before they were born!)

In this week’s Choose Your Attitude Show I share 5 different ways to use visualisation to create the life that you want, whether that be learning a new skill, increasing your confidence or working towards a huge goal. When I read back through my #CYAJournal and see my past visualisations written out, it’s amazing how many of those future truth visualisations are my current reality. What dream could you start proactively and intentionally visualising today?

Bestest,

Debra

Resources from this week’s Choose Your Attitude Show

Research about memory: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3815616/

Research about visualisation and playing the piano: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/7500130

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How To Take Action On Climate Change

This week’s Choose Your Attitude Show is all about how to tackle climate-change overwhelm and instead take positive action to protect our planet for our children and our children’s children.

There’s no denying that thinking about global warming, rising sea levels and decreasing biodiversity can be pretty terrifying, and I believe there’s a time and a place for us to feel that. We have to claim our responsibility for our planet and for our fellow humans. But we can’t get stuck in that place. That’s why my family decided to make one change each month which would help us to create a happier, healthier planet. Tune in to hear what we’ve done so far this year, and to find out where we need your help & inspiration!

So, what is your attitude going to be today? In the light of our climate crisis, the Searle family have chosen to be empowered. 

Please do let me know the steps that you, your families and businesses have taken to look after our wonderful home planet.

Bestest,

Debra 

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Resources from this week’s Choose Your Attitude Show

Who Gives A Crap Toilet Paper: https://uk.whogivesacrap.org/

Compassion UK: https://www.compassionuk.org/sponsorship/

Good Energy: https://www.goodenergy.co.uk/

Toilet Twinning: https://www.toilettwinning.org/

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How To End Information Obesity To Gain Time And Be Productive

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Do you ever catch yourself thinking…

  • there is just not enough time to get it all done
  • the demands of home life and work life are impossible to juggle
  • I don’t have time to exercise?

We are all short of time and a large proportion of that time is spent consuming information – emails, social media, the news, books, podcasts etc.  On this week’s Choose Your Attitude Show, I pose this question:

If we viewed our information consumption in the same way that we view our food consumption, would we need to go on a diet?

I’m not saying that we should never indulge in our favourite Netflix show or look at our sister’s holiday snaps on Facebook. Instead, I talk about how to establish whether the effects of the information that we are consuming are positive or negative, and what steps we can take to ensure that our intake is healthy and supporting us in achieving our best life.

If time is so short that we can’t find enough of it to achieve the goals that would bring us happiness, then something has to give.  When I gave up consuming information 11 years ago, I found 15 ways to filter information and consume less of it.  The net result was a big clawing back of my time – time I could better spend building my dream life.  Hit play to check them out.

Bestest,

Debra

PS. Have you seen my latest news? 1,000s of copies of The CHOOSE YOUR ATTITUDE Journal are on their way to us and will be hitting my website soon! https://www.instagram.com/p/B3edxsgFjNj

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Resources from this week’s Choose Your Attitude Show

‘The Four-Hour Work Week’ by Timothy Ferriss https://amzn.to/2B8U9RQ  [affiliate link]

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End Negative Self-Talk

Do any of these sound familiar to you:

  • I’m not good enough
  • I always say the wrong thing
  • I’m such a bad mother/father
  • I’m so useless?

Would you ever say any of these about one of your friends or loved ones? Of course you wouldn’t!

This week’s Choose Your Attitude Show is about how to end negative self-talk. I’ve found that this kind of negativity is a form of self-sabotage and can become a self-fulfilling prophecy. It’s summed up in this formula:

What we think affects what we feel

What we feel affects how we act

How we act leads to the result

Think – Feel – Act = RESULT

By learning how to hijack this formula and to control the ‘think’ section, we can change the result. It could be finally getting that promotion, spending more time with your children, achieving that PB or just having a really productive day. I hope I’ve got your mind racing about the things that could be possible if we could just stop denigrating ourselves.

In the Show I share the three steps I use to take control of my thinking. I also share 3 back up plans to use on the days where it feels really, really tough.

It’s time to change the conversation we are having with ourselves and become aware of just how much our inner voice boosts or limits our progress.

Bestest,

Debra

Resources from this week’s Choose Your Attitude Show

FREE WORKBOOK: How to diagnose and treat your limiting beliefs: www.debrasearle.com/stories 

Mindfulness app: www.headspace.com 

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ABOUT

Debra Searle MVO, MBE shot to fame after rowing the Atlantic solo. As a sought after motivational speaker and author, she has spoken at 1,000 events in 40+ countries.  She has founded five companies and presented over 40 programmes for the BBC.

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