Sunday Spark Sessions

All right, ladies and gentlemen, we are live. It is the Sunday Spark session starting this Sunday, and it is March 2nd. So I don't know if any of you saw my live earlier this week for the Wealth Wisdom Wednesdays, but gonna be doing that every week. So stay tuned for the next ones. You know, helping you build that abundance mindset, that money mindset. Whether you've got a financial background or no financial background. Because of my finance background, I believe it'll be really helpful. I'll be able to help a lot of people that are maybe struggling with kind of like, man, like, I'm having challenges with that.

So those are on Wednesdays. And then today is about Sunday Spark Session. So think of it like meal prep Sundays, where you're prepping yourself for the week, for. For your training, for going into the work week, or business, if you've got events or. Luke, welcome to Sunday Spark Sessions. Happy to have you here. Thanks for tuning in. And today is all about rewiring our mind for positivity and success. Happy Sunday, Luke. Thanks for tuning in. And again, thank you, Cadre Sphere, for letting me share kind of my methodology mentality, mindset and something that I've been really working on over the years, and I want to share that all with you.

Now, I'm only 32. Oh, speak wonder. Great that you've joined. Awesome. Happy to have you here. Like, I just wish I was talking to Luke when I had him on my podcast last time. Absolutely. Yep. Gonna be tons of insights, Luke. I'm just really excited to say that. Hey, like, I wish I would have had something like this when I was, like, seven, age 17, 16, 15 even. Like, it's. It's a. Hey, hi there. Speak Wonder. Just to be able to do things like this and to just kind of like, you know, spitball ideas.

And one of the things about rewiring our mind is it's a little bit different for everyone. But for something that's worked extremely well for me, which I want to share with all of you today, is the kind of mindset training that I've been doing over the years, since 2017. Meditation. Daily meditation. Now, although I've fallen off of it a few times, I've always got back on it because it's a way to reset my mind. It's a way to calm the mind. It's a way to reset the mind. It's a way to quiet the mind.

Now, although we can't get. A lot of people are like, oh, how do I get out of my head and into My body or how do I get out of my head? Well, we can't really get out of our head per se, but we can quiet our mind of everything that's going on in our mind to help reset the mind, to help come from a different place. So I want to start off by saying that I started in 2017 when I was just. I was going through some things and I was like in year four of banking, and I was just super stressed. I couldn't handle a lot of the stressors that were going on just day to day with work.

So something that I started to look into, really delve into and research on is meditation. And an app came up called Headspace. Many of you might have heard of it. If you haven't heard of it, look it up in the app store. I'm pretty sure it's on Android and iPhone. Back when I started in 2017, they were doing free sessions. Like 10, you got. You're able to do 10 guided meditations. Like, you could keep repeating that guided meditation cycle. And I started off with just 60 seconds to three minutes.

Now, that might not seem like a lot of time, but when you've never meditated in your life and when you've never just taken that space or reserve that space for yourself to kind of just pause, it can be really daunting. It can be really, like, overwhelming. So part of this session, this Sunday spark session today, let's talk a little bit about rewiring our mind for success and positivity. And tip one is start meditating. Start figuring out. Doesn't necessarily have to be meditation for you, but figure out ways to reset the mind, calm the mind, slow down the mind.

Because there's a book that I'm listening to right now. It's by Dr. Joe Dispenza. I'm a huge fan of his and his work and his books. And one of the books that I still haven't finished yet is called Becoming Supernatural. And then the other one that I'm listening to is called Breaking the Habit of Being Yourself. So Marie and Suki. Hey, welcome. Thanks so so much for tuning in to this Sunday spark session. So one of those books that I've been listening to called Breaking the Habit of Being Yourself makes a lot of sense.

Sometimes in order for us to reset our psyche and just come and look at things from a different lens, we have to slow things down. We have to take time to pause. And in this book that I'm listening to, he basically says, we're shedding, we're shedding A part of our self, our brain. Like, so if you're a, like I'm an anxious wired person, like, you know, that's kind of like my previous identity that I've been working towards changing. So I'm just trying to shed that part of myself or my part of my brain now, although it will always be a part of me.

There is tools, tactics and yeah, tools, tactics, resources available to all of us to help reset our psyche so we don't, we don't have to feel like that person have that identity. So it's almost like we have, we all have the ability to make this identity shift of like, oh, I'm Alex. I'm. You know, I feel, you know, when I feel this certain way, I feel anxious, right. So I want to, I've wanted to change that narrative. And I. Delving through research and listening to this book, the Dr. Joe Dispenza says breaking the habit of being yourself.

He's like, one of the best ways to help get out of our own way is to meditate. He says, and now like in I'm at the very latter part of the book, I've got about two chapters left. And basically what he says is by meditating we are resetting the mind, but we're, we're kind of pausing, we're resetting our mind and we're kind of getting rid of those old narratives within us. Right. That no longer serve us. So he talks about doing an induction. So an induction is basically like, okay, I feel this certain way right now and I want to change that.

I want to. And then he talks about like, doing an induction is basically like saying how I feel right now. And then he helps you transition. So it's almost like you're doing positive affirmations to yourself. Being like, although I felt anxious or I feel anxious, when happens, I am not that person. That is a moment in time where I might feel anxious. Hey, Colleen, thanks so much for tuning in. Happy to have you here and speak wonder. Great to have you here. So he talks about how we all have the ability to change that, right?

Our personal narrative, our internal narrative. And that has taken me a long time to change. I'll be honest with you. It's. It's a lot of inner work, but it's inner work that beginning that can be done in minutes a day. Like this Sunday Spark sessions. Again, all my sessions are going to be 15 minutes just for. Because of everyone that we have coming up after that are contributing content on the Cadre platform, the Cadre sphere. So. But Meditation, it's a game changer. It's a, it's a way to rewire our minds for positivity and success.

And I gotta say, started with 60 seconds to three minutes back in 2017. There was a point last year, what, I got up to 30 minutes in one session. And I'm getting back to that again because I, like I said, I fell off of it. It happens. We're all, we're all human. It can happen where you're, you're consistent, you're crazy consistent. And then something happens, you fall off of it, no big deal. You can just get right back on the saddle when you've fallen off. And it's just, it's such a great way to improve your mind.

And you know, when you're, when you're having those feelings of like all, like self doubt or you know, mental challenges, we all have them, but we all learn ways to manage those feelings and those emotions, building mental resilience. But that takes time, that takes practice, and that's what meditation is. It's a practice. Or you know, when you're journaling and you're journaling your gratitude. Right, That's a practice. So I just wanted to say that if it's one thing to take away from this first Sunday spark session, try, try doing a mindset shift.

Write down with pen and paper in your journal. Just, or just on a piece of paper. And just, just write down what is it that I'm most afraid of right now or what is it that's causing me the most mental struggle right now? And just capture that. Tim Ferriss, author, you might have heard of him, author of the four Hour Work Week off of the four Hour Body. I've read all of his literature, all of his books, and something that he said in the TED talk was fear casting or fear capturing on paper is very empowering.

So although we all have fears, we all have feelings, we all have these different emotions that may come up that might maybe take, take over us at times or moments, but the way with that, the way that we manage them day to day is what makes the change and what makes us catch ourselves when we're having those challenges. Yeah, absolutely. Yeah. Great journals. Yeah. Journaling is extremely helpful and thanks for pointing that out. Speak Wonder. Yep, just capture fear, Fear capturing on paper. So something, that's something I've started to do is capturing your fears on paper, saying what those top fears are, because those could change over time.

It could change daily, weekly, monthly, yearly. Right. They evolve. Right. Like we evolve. But the Best part of meditation, right, Going back to caption our fears, then write something down of present tense. So past tense or present tense, I feel these fears, present tense. I feel empowered, I feel happy, I feel positive, I feel strong, I feel helpful. I feel thoughtful. Right. We're just reframing the narrative. Reframing. It's like a reframing technique for our psyche to reset things. And it's super helpful when you're going through some things and you're just.

You're not sure how to. Sometimes those emotions need to be captured on paper. Another strategy that I've used along with the meditation is. Yeah, that. So talking about the fear. Capturing journaling. There's a journal app now on. I was doing journaling. Definitely recommend journaling, like if you have like your own journal or notepad or anything like that via paper. But another thing that Apple came out with on the iPhone is the. Just the regular journal app. I was using that and I do really like it because it can capture voice memos.

You can take photos of moments in time. So voice memos, photos of moments in time. And you can write. So. And then it actually gives a gauge of your emotions in that moment too. So it'll say, oh, I'm feeling really happy, or I'm feeling neutral, or I'm feeling sad or angry. And those are all just metrics. Right? What we. What we track gets measured. What we don't track, we don't. We don't know. So I'm all about tracking things fairly meticulously. I track my sleep, my activity, and then there's pretty much every app or every tool that we can use nowadays.

You can track metrics for pretty much everything. So. And because of my financial background, we track everything in finance and banking and insurance. So although that can be very tedious at times, there is a lot of good in it, too, to build successful habits for yourself. Yeah. Oh, definitely, yeah. Notes app. Yeah, on a Notes app works amazing too. Whatever works for you. You can capture your. Your do your mental reflection, your thoughts, your thought patterns in the Notes app. In the journal app.

I used to use one called Day one too. It was another journal app that was free. And then after so many months, I think it was, I had to pay or something like that. So again, these are all free tools, paid apps. There's. There's a place for them as well. But just talking about what all the resources that are free to you, and I'll leave you guys with the meditation app that I've been using is called Oak O a K. It's free. I think it's always going to be free unless they make a change. But that's when I use.

And it's been a game changer. And you can do guided or unguided meditations. So thank you all for listening to this day one Sunday Spark session. And thank you all that for everyone that tuned in and for last week for the Wealth Wednesday. So stay tuned for this Wealth Wednesday coming up. All right, take care, everyone.