Your Encouraging 5 Minute Podcast
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Your Encouraging 5 Minute Podcast
Encouraging You to Give Yourself Permission to Start Today
Give us five minutes, we’ll give you encouragement!
0:00:04 - Eric
Yeah, you're at the right place. This is your Encouraging 5-Minute Podcast. Give us five minutes. We're going to encourage you. Got some things to share with you.
0:00:12 - Heather
Absolutely, because it can be hard to find encouragement, especially easy encouragement. So we're going to bring you some good news and some encouragement for your day.
0:00:19 - Eric
At the end of this five minutes. If you need more encouragement, we would encourage you to listen to your encouraging WPER. You can find that there's an app.
0:00:27 - Heather
Oh yeah, absolutely. WPER right, search WPER. You're sensing a theme here of the encouragement. That's what it's all about, absolutely.
0:00:33 - Eric
A friend of mine said this the other day and you've probably heard it the best time to plant a tree, the best time has nothing to do with the season or anything, is 20 years ago. Yes, the second best time now. Today right now, do it today. The idea is to start taking small steps today You're not too late and then watch how they grow over time. You haven't missed out.
0:00:56 - Heather
No, and gosh social media. Now. You haven't done this by this time, you may as well never do it. So people give up and I think, why rain on somebody's parade? How does that help you to tell me it's too late to start working out? No, it isn't. Get up, make a plan, go for it. It's funny that you even mentioned that quote because I was scrolling through my social feed last night and my friend Lisa she and her husband retired. They had always wanted to go to Greece. She said we should have gone 20 years ago.
0:01:26 - Eric
Well, that's the idea. I mean, yes, Greece would have been great 20 years ago.
0:01:30 - Heather
But guess what they're doing now? They're making a plan to go in the spring. Because now she's like why can't I go to Greece, why can't I go and enjoy this thing? That has been a lifelong dream. But she gave up on it because people kept saying oh, you don't have enough time, oh, you don't have enough money, oh, you know your kids and Easy to find excuses.
Absolutely, and it's easy to make excuses right, but my dad once told me it's kind of like crabs in a bucket, you know, because if you put crabs in a bucket they all want to get out and if they see one successfully getting out, they will all work together to pull that crab back in.
And so sometimes I think it's a bit like that People get jealous, oh, that you're going to go do this and they're not. Well, have they made the same choices that you have? Don't let somebody else rain on your parade. If it's something that has been in your heart, something you want to do, well, sure, might have been great to start 20, 30 years ago, but what's holding you back now? Maybe it's just you. Give yourself permission to do that thing, because, like Eric said, I mean it's not too late.
0:02:47 - Eric
It's not too late. You might be one of those people who tends to overthink things, given circumstances or something that is a challenge in your life or a relationship, and you're just constantly thinking about it and, yes, I believe you can overthink something.
0:03:01 - Heather
Oh, I am living proof. You can overthink something.
0:03:04 - Eric
It almost stifles any kind of movement on it. You know what I mean. Yes, you can't move forward and you're just stuck on something. There is a way to instantly take care of overthinking. I read this and I know sometimes you hear stuff and you're like no, but I believe it's true. A way to get past overthinking immediately is to write in a journal, journaling. That's something I've never done. But then I kind of thought well, how is that going to prevent you from overthinking? Well, number one it will slow your thought process down because you're taking the time to write out your thoughts and it makes you think clearer.
0:03:45 - Heather
Yeah, like it helps, you realize. Oh, this isn't a real rational thought, yeah, which is sometimes we're overthinking, because if I overthink something too much, we call it the yabbits. Yeah, yeah, but, yeah, but, yeah, but, yeah, but this and yeah but that and yeah but that. That's where my overthinking gets me, and you're right.
0:04:10 - Eric
If I started to write all that down, I'd be like, okay, stop. Part of the problem is your mind is way faster, exponentially faster than the pen or even typing it out. If that's the way you're doing, I mean you can't type or write fast enough for your brain, so it automatically slows it down.
0:04:19 - Heather
I love that and it's really practical, like, even if you were somewhere gosh what every phone has a notes app. Right, you could pop it open and just you don't even have to have a formal journal. You could just start writing in your notes app or maybe an email you to yourself, and it will just instantly help you go. Wait a minute, I'm way overthinking this. When you are journal.
0:04:40 - Eric
write it down. Hope you feel encouraged. This is your five-minute encouraging podcast. I'm Eric. This is my friend Heather. If you need more encouragement right now, we would encourage you to listen to WPER, virginia's home for encouragement.
0:04:53 - Heather
And if you're not within the listening area, you can always download the WPER app. The app is fabulous. You can get encouragement no matter where you go, and you can text us back and forth forth and just have a little conversation and connect.
