STOPTIME: Live in the Moment.
Ranked in the top 5% of podcasts globally and winner of the 2022 Communicator Award for Podcasting, STOPTIME:Live in the Moment combines mindfulness, well being and the performing arts and features thought provoking and motivational conversations with high performing creative artists around practicing the art of living in the moment and embracing who we are, and where we are at. Long form interviews are interspersed with brief solo episodes that prompt and invite us to think more deeply. Hosted by Certified Professional Coach Lisa Hopkins, featured guests are from Broadway, Hollywood and beyond. Although her guests are extraordinary innovators and creative artists, the podcast is not about showbiz and feels more like listening to an intimate coaching conversation as Lisa dives deep with her talented guests about the deeper meaning behind why they do what they do and what theyโve learned along the way. Lisa is a Certified Professional Coach, Energy Leadership Master Practitioner and CORE Performance Dynamics Specialist at Wide Open Stages. She specializes in working with high-performing creative artists who want to play full out. She is a passionate creative professional with over 20 years working in the performing arts industry as a director, choreographer, producer, writer and dance educator. STOPTIME Theme by Philip David Stern๐ถ
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Lisa Hopkins: Sorting Out Your Thought Garbage
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I noticed something the other day about how our household trash is separated. There are three bins, each with different pick up days for organic waste, recycling and garbage. What I noticed was that when separated this way, there is so little actual garbage. In fact in our neighborhood, garbage only needs to be picked up once every three weeks whereas the recycling and organic waste is picked up more frequently. It got me thinking. How much mental and emotional junk that we carry around with us could be sorted out like we do our day to day garbage?
Okay so this oneโs gonna get a little messy.
As humans, we tend to rely on our inherent propensity to suffer. Weโre so good at it that often we donโt even realize we are suffering until the load becomes too heavy to bear. And, by the time it does come to the surface and we try to get rid of it; the very weight of the garbage we've collected prevents us from actually being able to get to the end of the driveway to dispose of it.
Thereโs no better time than right now to start separating your thought garbage. Iโm not talking about getting rid of it, Iโm talking about taking a good look at it and making a conscious decision about what you want to do with it.
Wouldnโt it be amazing to discover that when organized this way, you actually had way less garbage than you thought you did?
We donโt think twice about getting rid of things that are past their expiration date in the fridge. So why on earth do we hold onto so many old thoughts?
Like expiration dates on stuff in our fridge, we can take inventory of our mental fridge and remove any sour thoughts or rotten stories that donโt nourish us.
Good news is I have three thought bins for you so you can begin to sort your junk.
EXPIRED THOUGHTS aka GARBAGE.
These are literally old thoughts that you forgot you had. Thoughts that youโve been holding onto way past their expiration date. These thoughts are potentially the most dangerous of all because, like food thatโs gone bad, they can fester and make you very sick.
RECYCLED THOUGHTS
These are thoughts that you can reframe and repurpose for your new paradigm. These may include old ways of thinking that are no longer serving you or limiting you in the present. Once youโve sorted through these, you can repurpose these thoughts. This is all about transforming current negative thoughts about past behaviors into lessons that you can use as tools to help move you forward in the present.
ORGANIC THOUGHTS
These are the thoughts that you notice are there and then let pass through without acting on them. This is where your response-ability lives, where you donโt take things personally and canโt be triggered into reacting defensively
Weโve become expert thought collectors -often without giving ourselves the time to consider the thought before we respond or just stuffing it down or pushing it way back on the shelf and forgetting about it. Thereโs no better time than right now to start separating your mental & emotional garbage and making room for fresh new thoughts that will nourish you today.