Envision Peaceful Productivity for YOUR life

Peaceful productivity sounds nice doesn’t it? 

 But what does it actually mean to you? If you’ve decided to commit yourself to moving towards a more peacefully productive life, you first need to have a vision of what that looks like for YOU.  It’s important to notice what thoughts and patterns you have on repeat that aren’t serving you by keeping you in a fast and frenetic pattern (e.g., like saying yes to things you don’t actually have the energy, time, or resources for). 

Take some time to picture a pattern of peaceful productivity in your mind before you make a specific action plan.  Listen in as I describe how to create a vision that works for you!

Main points: 

• Words. Notice and write down what words describe a peaceful, productive vibe for you. What words line up with your values?  Careful, intentional,  on purpose?  Choose also words that are NOT serving you that you can avoid - like perfection, frenetic, or overwhelmed.
• Colors/Images. Picture a room where you could do peacefully productive work. Describe the furniture, lighting, atmosphere, smells, colors.  Anything that brings your body and mind a sense of peace and alignment.  
• Music.   Is there a type of music that brings you a sense of peace? What songs or instruments or genre bring you to a state of alignment, calm, or energetic? Is there different music for different activities? 
• Thoughts. Our thoughts can be a powerful force in our lives for good or bad.  We have a choice.  But our thoughts need constant supervision. Choose what power thoughts will help you stay in aligned peaceful productive energy.   
• Feelings. Some of our feelings move us exactly in the direction we want to go and others hold us back.  Which feelings do you want driving your decisions? Some of mine are committed, determined, and resilient.  You can choose! 
• Actions. Based on all that you just noticed and wrote down, what practices, small action steps or activities that line up with peaceful productivity do you want to have on repeat in your life?  What do you want to say yes or no to?  

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Transcript

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Hey friends, this week on the podcast, I'm sharing one of the important things in my group coaching program. Every season we run a seasonal series that has one big idea and then tools so that you can learn how to apply what I teach. In this season, I've noticed many people want to be in peace. Your work that you're bringing to the world is so important. That's the productive part of peaceful productivity. But if we overgive and we use more energy than we have, we end up overwhelmed, depleted. I hope that you and I continue to take those small steps, bringing our gifts to the world from a place of peaceful productivity. I hope you enjoy the podcast this week welcome to the Live a Vibrant Life podcast. I'm life coach Kelly Tibbetts, and each week I'll be here to encourage and equip you with the tools you need to grow in self awareness and invest your best energy in your dreams and your purpose. I believe self awareness changes everything. Let's get started. Today we are going to talk about what is peaceful productivity. I don't know if you tend to be like most Americans where we sometimes go past our capacity and don't stay in that aligned energy of peace and can end up frenetic and overwhelmed or find that to be the exact alignment of how you like to be productive Today we want to take a breath. One of the best ways to regulate our nervous system is when we close our eyes, we're blocking everything else out. We're able to really connect to ourselves. And when you take a breath in, and then hold it, and then breathe out slowly or with a sigh, whichever feels right for you. You do that a few times, you're going to find yourself able to feel that sense of calm, that sense of peace. In our next few sessions together, we're going to talk about creating important results. From a place of peace. If at any time you're finding yourself feeling overwhelmed, you can always just check back in, put your hand on your heart, take a few deep cleansing breaths and get back to whatever energy is aligned for you. For many people peaceful productivity feels aligned. So that's what we're going to talk about today. How can I be productive and peaceful and make that my way of life? So without intention, we can accidentally put more activity into a day, an hour, a week. then we have the energy for. We end up serving past our capacity and we do that on repeat and because there's not enough time or energy or resources for all the things we've said yes to, we find ourselves rushing and multitasking. And multitasking can be rewarded by other people and we don't realize what we're doing is just shifting from A to B to A to B to A to B. And then we're not paying attention. Balls get dropped. And often we don't actually get more done. But almost always, if we're rushing and multitasking, we're going to find ourselves exhausted, overwhelmed, depleted. So from a place of love for your future self, we're going to create the plan that allows us to be peacefully productive. And so if you're noticing yourself dropping balls, juggling different resources, making mistakes, and feeling burnt out, it's time for us to decide we're not going to keep doing what we've been doing. We're going to pause and redirect and do the next season of life from a place of peaceful productivity. So here's our first question. As you look for the next few months, Are you aware of the time and the energy you have for activities that people may invite you into? I did this myself a few months ago. I said yes to something in December, assuming I would have the time and energy in February. Because when I opened my calendar, there was lots of white space two months out. I hadn't taken the time to actually put in all of the responsibilities that I do on repeat. And then the week came, and I didn't actually feel like I had the time and the energy for what I had said yes to. Now, the good news is, it was actually an activity that filled me. And so I'm so glad that I said yes to it. But, even knowing all that I know, sometimes I say yes to things that I don't actually have the time and the energy for. So that's our first step to creating peaceful productivity. Do you know where your energy is actually going? Do you know how much time is allocated to the responsibilities and the relationships that are important to you? Do you know where your white space is? And are you going to make a decision today that could serve you? I want to live with peaceful. Productivity, I want to make sure that the actions I say yes to are aligned that I'm not just saying yes to every single thing because I realized that both my time, my energy and all the resources of my life have a limit. So our first step right now is to make our decision. What is your power thought? going forward. Would you like a healthy mindset? Would you like to be intentional and choose to no longer live in a frenetic energy, but to live in a place of peaceful productivity? Making that decision is actually the first step. But what's hard to make that decision is the thoughts that we're not noticing. So see if any of these thoughts are sort of floating around in the background, are thoughts that you've had on repeat without noticing them. Do you ever think I don't have the time to slow down. Fast is better. Low and slow sounds kind of boring. I won't be successful if I'm not staying busy. I won't be able to keep up if I ever stop and pause. How can I get anything done if I keep slowing down? I'll slow down when I'm on vacation. If any of those sentences are something that you're noticing, let's take a moment and decide they may not be serving you. A more intentional power thought might be, for the season ahead. I'm going to choose peaceful productivity. To do that, we need to know what our aligned values are. Let's take a few of those breaths again. I'd love for you to notice what are some words that would describe your peaceful, productive vibe. It might be a word like slow. It might be a word like careful, intentional, on purpose. Can you think of any words that would be aligned values for you so that you know, this is why I want to be peacefully productive. Sometimes it's easiest to start with what we don't want. I don't want to feel overwhelmed, frustrated, resentful. I want to make sure I have capacity for the things that I say yes to. I want to do the important things, not just the urgent things. See if you can come up with a few words that describe why you want to stay in peaceful, productive energy. Once you've written a few of those words, if it's safe to do so, you can close your eyes. I'd love for you to picture a room where you do peaceful, productive work. I had the opportunity to go with my husband for two weeks to North Carolina, and when we walked into the space we were staying in, we were overwhelmed. The wall of the living room was all glass. and looked out at the ocean. It was all my favorite shades of blue. And I could sit there and read, or do my work, and watch the ocean waves, watch the sunrise, watch the clouds move through. So some of my colors might be different shades of blue. And some of the images might be the ocean, or the clouds, or a bird flying by. One of the mornings I got up to watch the sunrise, and dolphins swam by me and I got to see them up close. So a dolphin will now be an image for me of peaceful productivity. See if you can name any colors or images that bring your body a sense of peace, of alignment. For me, alignment looks like loving presence. What images bring me back to loving presence? Which colors? How about music? Is there a type of music that brings you back to a sense of peace? For me, there are many, faith filled songs that fill my soul with peace. And so if you have Spotify, I have a Spotify playlist called Fill Your Soul With Sunshine. And it's full of classical music and Christian music. and different songs that fill me with peace. One of the songs I added on vacation was sung by somebody I did my student teaching with. And she recorded a version of here comes the sun with a harmonica player. And every morning on that vacation to North Carolina, I would do my stretching to this beautiful version of here comes the sun. And so what songs. are for you an aligned, calming, connected, energy type song. And so we need different music for different activities. So when you're getting something clean, that might not be the same music you play that gets you into a space where you can sit down and think about what you're doing for the next few weeks and allocating your time and energy resources. Which words Are helping you stay aligned? The images you want to be thinking about, the music you wanna be listening to, you may start to notice a power thought that moves you forward. For me, a lot of my power thoughts come from scripture and I think of a scripture like be still and know that I am God. Sometimes I can get very overwhelmed thinking about all the things that I should be doing, and if I can get back to a place where I'm still and I notice what is mine to do and allow the things that are not mine to do. to not take up all my mental energy and emotional energy. I can get back to a place where I make the correct decisions. So do you have a power thought that's driving your decisions? You might want to write it down. You might want to take a picture and add some text to it. I even saw somebody say that the word of the year that drives their values, they get a candle every year with that word on it. And every day when they start their quiet time, they light the candle and look at their word of the year and it helps them remember what it is that's important to them. So do you have a power thought you might want to write it down and if you can't come up with one I think that's a good place for social media You could go out and ask your friends what power thought helps you stay in aligned peaceful productive energy And maybe they could share one with you next we want to talk about which feelings we want Driving our decisions. So our thoughts are spinning in our head, tens of thousands of them a day. We don't notice most of them, but our thoughts are creating feelings. And some of the feelings that we feel move us exactly in the direction we want to go. Those feelings might be committed, determined, resilient. Some of the feelings, like overwhelmed, confused, frustrated, are moving us away from the actions that serve us. What feelings would you like to feel as a peacefully, productive person, fully loved, 100 percent loved, 100 percent valuable? What do you want to be feeling? I don't think anyone wants to feel unheard, unloved. What do you want to feel? And then finally, if you know that feeling, you're loved. You're needed. Your actions matter. Now from that committed, determined energy, what do you want to say yes to and what do you want to say no to? One of the things we talk about a lot in my coaching program is the fact that not every season is the same. What I can do as someone who lives in North America in June is very different from what I can do at the end of January. The end of January up here is dark and cold and there's snow. I have less energy than I do in the middle of June. So it's best for me to decide maybe three or four blocks of energy of determined, committed activity in the winter. Or maybe I might have five or six blocks of energy in the middle of summer. Are you noticing any practices or activities that you want? To have on repeat. One of the most interesting things I discovered in this two week mini sabbatical that I took is that my desired morning practice list was way too long. I wasn't working, and yet I could not do every single thing I wanted to do. I wanted to get up and go for a walk and meditate and journal and have my vitamins and stretch and It was almost an unrealistic list, and I had to decide not everything every day. So maybe that's what you're deciding. Some practices are for three days a week. Some practices are for Saturday morning. But we want to notice them, decide they're important, and then put them on our schedule in a way that serves us. So, for this week, the first step is just to decide that you want to be peacefully productive. The next step is to notice what do you want with the words that you think about, the things that you put around you. Maybe you decided today, I love the color green and I want more plants in my life, or I love lots of colors and I'm going to buy myself a bouquet of roses every week. Whatever you're noticing, it's important. Let's make sure that it happens, decide when you're going to do it, and gift yourself space to not do everything every day. If we can live as people who have chosen peaceful productivity over frenetic, overwhelmed, exhausted energy, I think that's the very best gift we give ourselves and give the world. Thank you for joining the Live a Vibrant Life podcast. I hope our time together encouraged you and will equip you with the tools you need to move into the vibrant life you desire. I'm here to help you live a brave, creative, purpose filled life. And if you'd like to learn more, you can follow me on Instagram or Facebook, Kelly Tibbetts Life Coach, or visit my website, kellytibbetts. com. I look forward to connecting again soon.