R & R Day 9 When you are the best version of yourself, your most authentic self, what’s that like? Today’s episode we explore what it is like for me and why this is such an important exercise to do. Link: https://anchor.fm/shawn-ward/episodes/Rest-and-Reflect-Day-9-Your-Most-Authentic-Self-et4dar Thanks as always for listening to the cast. Hang out a little longer... Continue Reading →
The Well Podcast 🎧 – Rest and Reflect Day 8: Letting Go of One Thing
R&R Time: Day 8 You ever take a look at that old shirt before you give it to Goodwill or donate it? What happens when you look at that old garage sale treasure of yours before it hits the table with a price tag? You remember what the story of it was? Why you had... Continue Reading →
The Well Podcast: Reflect and Reset Day 5 Youthful Lessons
Running right into courage shapes you potentially forever... Think back to a challenging time in your youth where your courage was tested. What happened from that moment? Did what you learn about courage stick with you, shape you, or change your future self? Today we take a tour into my youth and how several courageous... Continue Reading →
Reflect and Reset: Day 1 Stream of Conciousness
Day 1: 15 Minutes of Writing Day 1 is up! Today’s exercise is writing for a straight 15 minutes whatever is on your mind. Sounds easy enough. But, wait until you reach into something that you haven’t given the space to deal with. Reviewing that stream of consciousness may surprise you. When you write with... Continue Reading →
7 Point Sunday and a Cup of Joe 1.3.21
Great to have a cup of warmth on a day like today...☕️ Morning and welcome to the 3rd day of 2021! My cup of joe this morning, like other favorite cups I’ve had, was a gift this Christmas. Today’s cup comes from a local place in Lansing, MI called Paramount Coffee Company. It’s called Ho-Ho-Home... Continue Reading →
Stoic Moment
Today's moment sounds simple enough. But for many of us it's not. Like at all, not easy. I have learned starting my day with some type of gratitude exercise though, is a great start. There is so much we take for granted to be grateful about because we don't really pause to think about it... Continue Reading →
Stoic Moments
Just accept that. Let that sink in for a minute while you take 10 breaths. Still can not control it? Let it go! ✌🏻 Shawn
Stoic Minute Sunday
Our stoic minute today is pretty well founded. I think wherever your thoughts go, so does your energy. There were moments this past week where my thoughts were highly negative, angry even. Guess where my actions went? I got a lot of feedback from others that knew me in which they shared I wasn't myself.... Continue Reading →
Stoic Moment
This is really hard to do, I get it. The best thing I find helpful to me, is take 10 breaths. Then visit that feeling again. Give yourself space to understand why you feel the way you did about it initially so you can learn from it. Maybe even prevent it from happening in the... Continue Reading →
7 Point Sunday 8/2/2020
Battleship Rock, KY 890 feet elevation to get to. It was AWESOME! New week all. New month too! Let’s see if I can get back to my commitment to you of posting interesting things that I read for the week. I took most of July if you didn’t notice, with some time off. Two vacations.... Continue Reading →