Get To the Root with Rachel Logan

Hello, Cadre. Hello, everyone. Happy Wednesday and welcome to a new hour. Welcome. I am Rachel Logan. I am your get to the root counselor. I'm excited to see you and be with you today. So come on in. As we are getting to the root of change. We are getting to the roots of change. I'm excited to be with you. Hello, Luke. I'm glad you could join. Welcome, welcome, welcome. Welcome everyone. I am curious to know. Hello. I love the hearts. I'm gonna heart back to you. Welcome everyone. We are talking about the stages of change.

And you know, last week we started talking about contemplating, pre contemplating. Thinking about change, thinking about what we want to switch up in the world today. I love it. Come on in, everyone. I'm just sitting, resting in my cafe. Music. I. You know what I want to know what app do you just love in this season? My favorite app in all times is YouTube. It's like the best thing since sliced bread. Okay. But we are, we are here and I just want us to talk about what our favorite app is right now as we're talking about the.

The stages of change. Because we're going to need resources on our journey, right? Awesome. Awesome. Thank you, Luke. Welcome. Jules. Hey, Anna. What's up, aj? Hello, everyone. I'm so happy to be with you today. Awesome. So I am jamming. You guys know I like music. Music to me is so soothing and calming and on my journey of change, I like good tunes. Okay. So my favorite app right now is YouTube because it allows me to, you know, pick music based on how I'm feeling today. And today I feel good. I feel calm.

And so we are talking about the stages of change and we're gonna jump right into it. Okay? Last week we talked about pre. Contemplating. Contemplating today. Listen, let's set up the scene. Okay, let's set up the scene. We're first going to start off with our scripture to kind of give us a foundational base and then we'll. We'll jump into our steps for today. Proverbs 16:3 says, Commit to the Lord whatever you do. Okay? So here against the root, we mix faith and evidence based practices and we get everything we need, right?

We get hope, we get healing, we get breakthrough. So Proverbs 16:3 says, Commit to the Lord whatever you do, and he will establish your plans. So I looked up the word commit and it means to carry out. All right? To carry out your plans. Share with the Lord and he will establish the path you should take. So as we're thinking about stages of change, remember we talked about we were last week, we just imagine that we were taking a trip, right? And somehow we're taking a road trip and we somehow we got off on the side of the road and we end up in a forest.

Okay, well, just, let's just continue with this story. So we take, we took this road trip, we're in the forest, we're realizing, hey, we need to make some changes to get on, get back home. Okay? So I want you to think about you in the forest and you like, look, I need to map out how I'm going to get out of here. Okay, I gotta map out my steps. What steps will I take to get out of here? And so I want you to think about this with me as we're barking into the new year. I know some people already think about their 2025 New Year's resol and this is why we're talking about it now, because we're gonna jump ahead of the game.

We're not waiting to January 1st to start making change. We're contemplating and we're thinking about it and we're taking actions even now. So in preparation, let's talk about how we will begin to make action, make change through our actions. And the way we can do that is mapping things out. We have to map things out. We have to map out our way out of this forest. Okay, we have to figure out what do I need on my journey to get out. So if I'm in a forest, I may need like a knife, I might need a compass, I might need light.

And so on your journey of making changes, on your journey of switching things up so you can be happier next year, what do you need on your journey? What. Let's begin to think about what tools, what resources do I need to map my journey out of this forest? Okay, so if I were you, if I was thinking about this, if I really want to make change and I want to be happier in 2025, I want to feel better, I want to look good, I want to look better, I want to earn money, or I want to see change in my community or I want to see change on my job, in my career, in my company.

I want to just see change in my relationships. What do I need to do? And I believe this is a very powerful exercise. I'm going to keep saying it. Write your vision. In order to know where you going, you have to have a vision. And that vision can't come from anybody else, but from you and from the inside. You have to map your plan, you have to write the Vision and make it plain. And that takes you pausing. That means you have to pause and sit with self long enough to hear your inner desires, to promote change, to see growth, to create and establish new habits in a new path, y'all.

It has to come from you and no one else. It cannot come from society. It cannot come from mom or dad, maybe a teacher, maybe a mentor. It has to come from within because that will guarantee you making the lasting changes necessary for your journey. So step one is to take time to be with yourself long enough to make a plan, to write your vision. Sit with yourself over maybe a course of weeks, a course of days or hours to hear what would I do? What would be my steps? What are my attainable, actionable, measurable, specific steps.

I just named the smart goals backwards, but you get me, right? Yeah. And so on this journey, the first thing we have to do, we have to know our vision. What is my plan? What steps will I take? What tools do I need? This may be familiar, but we need to implement it now. So come January 1st, we already ready to rock and roll. Okay. Okay. So we know step one, Map, map it out, write the vision. And then the next step, you guys, is to take action. We gotta start walking. We gotta start walking out of that forest, out of that dark place, out of the, you know, shaded place, over the place where I don't see movement.

We have to start taking action. Yes, Anna, we have to be intentional. Exactly, exactly, exactly. So as we take an action, I want you to think about this. Action can be slow, action can be small. Okay? The biggest thing is that we just want consistency. So I break this down. All right? So just like Anna said, movement, intentional nutrition, things to look forward to and work towards healthy boundaries and communication with relationships. Those are her tools. That is her mapping. That is her focal point.

Her compass is movement. Okay? So if you on this journey and you're wanting change the small thing, imma just share just one little tip, okay? Something that I really do practice. I use my timer. I use my timer to help me make actionable steps. Okay? So what I do is in the morning, my actionable steps so I can improve my time management is I look at, I see clients during the day. So I help men and women get to the root of their patterns and behaviors. Right? And in that, every single day, I work with individuals and clients throughout the day.

So. And I'm a mom of two, so I need to be off by a certain time so I can do pickups and all that good stuff, right? I use My timer to know when the next thing is about to start. So I give myself a 15 to 10 minutes grace period where music starts to play and I know that sounds, that's my cue to begin to pivot. Okay. So that's my small actionable step to help me. Right. And that I will continue to implement in 2025. So for you, I want you guys to think about what's that small actionable step that will continue to help you build momentum, that will continue to help you move towards.

Okay. For Anna is to have healthy relationships or healthy communication. This small actionable step means let me check in with you at the end of my day. Is it a text to say hey, you know, I'm thinking about you? Let's chat at 10pm if you a late owl, a night owl or let's check, let's, you know, chat and chew on lunch just to kind of check in because I haven't heard from you all week. Listen, it's small things that you do and I love your feedback. If it's nutrition, do you decide what you're gonna eat, then eat the day before the night before, you know, you kind of like meal plan.

Those are small things that you can do. If it's a healthy boundary, can you make that even smaller? Can you take that healthy boundary and say, okay, what, what protection am I trying to implement for me and for other people? And if it's just say, hey, I don't. I'm gonna protect my, my peace by not accepting calls after 8:30pm because that's my time of. That can be a boundary. So I hope this helps for you, Anna, just, just to kind of play off, you know, the things that you put in the chat. But what's the small thing that can help link you to bigger and better action steps in 2025?

So write in the chat your small thing. That's. It's not monumental, it's not where you making drastic change, but it's a realistic change that will help you. So another one for me is I just want to see within my family. I have a family goal and that is I just want us to read. I just want us to read more. And so my small thing is I want to take my kids to a cafe, let them order, you know, a hot cocoa and we're just gonna sit, we're going to sit in a different environment just so we can get out the house and read.

That's a small actionable step. A different environment will help change. That can make a positive change. So ani say yes. I just started meal prepping for the last few months, but fell off this week. It's cool. But added for the next week. Absolutely. Small steps are still steps forward. Absolutely, Jules. So, Jules, tell us what is your small step as we are contemplating change? Okay, I'm gonna recap here. We're contemplating change. We're. We pre. Contemplated. We contemplated. Hey, now we're mapping things out.

We're taking action steps and we are all agreeing that we're going to take small action steps. Nothing that's going to stress us out. Okay. That's not the goal. The goal is to be happier. The goal is to be successful. The goal is to have peace. Right. Think about your goal. Think about the outcome you desire and match a small step to fulfill that. So Jules, I hope you think about it. Anna, I hope you continue to work through it. Listen, last week is gone. We only focus on today, which is Wednesday.

We only gonna focus on tomorrow, which is Thursday. And we're going to continue to move forward. Okay? So I'm so grateful that you chimed in today. I want you to continue to post in the chat. If you are watching the replay, listen, iron sharpens iron and you are valuable. So when you make a post in this chat, other people will see it and they will leave more fulfilled. They will leave with another idea. And that's what this. Oh, this is what this app is all about. I love this app and I love that you join me today.

So I hope you guys have an amazing week. Continue to think about your small steps. That's going to link to better and bigger changes for you in the future. I will see you next week. Peace out.