The Power of Oxygen 1st
When my son was little, I was a single mom who was doing it all alone. I was putting everyone else first and my own needs last. To everyone around me, I was successful but little did they know that my success was tied to pushing, stressing, sleepless nights and early morning workouts pushing my body and my limits to the extreme. Until one day I was flying alone and nearly crashed an airplane and I realized that I needed to take care of my own needs first before anyone else. You see, when you’re a pilot, if you have any issues in the plane, you put on your oxygen mask 1st, not your passengers. They need you to land the plane.
This podcast is all about this journey to healing, to getting clear on the desires of your heart… and stepping into them with courage while leaning into, asking for and receiving support. I hope you feel inspired to do less, to follow your passions and infuse them into your daily life and truly claim the life you were meant to live: a life filled to the brim with epic ADVENTURE.
The Power of Oxygen 1st
EP 57: Drawing Wisdom from Your Future Self
What if your future self had all the answers you're seeking today? Join me as we explore this intriguing concept, where instead of looking back, we draw wisdom from the confident and clear versions of ourselves yet to come. Through personal reflections, I share how embracing self-permission can transform our lives and lead us to make bold decisions. From difficult choices, like stepping away from relationships, to the empowering realization that our future selves are already living the life we aspire to create, this episode focuses on the journey of growth and resilience.
Together, we'll uncover how current struggles can evolve into strength, inspiring us to take bold actions towards joy and fulfillment. By integrating our passions into everyday life and allowing ourselves to receive support, we can pave the way for a thriving future filled with love and success. It’s about doing less while achieving more, celebrating the path forward, and recognizing the potential within us all. Connect with me at dotrockconsulting.com or on Instagram at dot_rock_ to share your insights and embark on this journey of love and adventure alongside me.
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Hey guys, this is the Power of Oxygen First podcast, and I'm your host, dot Rock. I am an entrepreneur, a mom, a stepmom and a scaling consultant who is obsessed with the art of hiring, support and that dirty word we call delegation. I'm a recovering perfectionist who pushed my body and my limits to the extreme until one fateful day I learned that, just like pilots, I needed to take care of myself first. This podcast is all about the journey to healing, to getting clear on the desires of your heart, stepping into them with courage and leaning into and asking for support. I hope you feel inspired to do less, to follow your passions and infuse them into your daily life and truly claim the life you were meant to live. Well, hello my podcast listeners. I hope everyone is doing well out there.
Speaker 1:It is a beautiful, sunny, bluebird day here in Durango, colorado, and I have just gotten back from an afternoon walk with Obie and what really hit me today that I want to share with you. I was really pondering what we could podcast about today and I've really been working on presence and just being really present in the current moment, because I'm facing a lot of hard things still and while I see certain things coming to an end. There's other things that are continuing to linger, and Dominic's health has just been really heavy and really challenging, and, as a parent, my heart is so broken for what my son is facing and I am not ready to share that, but I am ready to share with you what that looks like for me and my self-care practices as I face what we're facing, and so one of the fun trends I've been seeing a lot on Instagram has been this I had coffee with my younger self, and while I think that's beautiful, I don't really want to do that, and I've played with that in my head like what would I say, and maybe I will do a post on that. But what I really want to do in this current phase of my life is live in the present in a way that honors the future that I desire, and so I want to do a little twist on this, this coffee with our past selves, and actually do it with my future self. So, instead of doing it with the one who struggled and the one who doubted and the one who didn't know yet, what if we twisted this and looked forward instead? And what if, instead of sitting with our past selves, we were to sit with our future selves. Because what would our future selves tell us right now that we need to do in the present? I know one thing, and this is hard for me to say out loud, but if I had been given the gift of space, if I had done some sort of separation from my marriage, I would have gotten away from the stir, from the chaos of the decision of leaving and I would have had a lot of clarity, like the clarity that I have now is I should have left sooner. So if I could pause, if I could talk to myself right now, what would that future self tell me? You know, the future girl who has already walked through the fire, the one who has really deeply continued to honor her needs first, the one who thrives. So really I'm thinking, instead of romanticizing where we've been. So really I'm thinking, instead of romanticizing where we've been, let's celebrate where we're going. And the power of this self-permission is the future you is already living with clarity and confidence. And what would she tell you today? I jotted down some notes about what my future self would tell me today. She would say it's just a speed bump. You made it through it. I know that right now. I know that 2024 and 2025 were the hardest years You've lived.
Speaker 1:She would tell me she promises it gets better. She would tell me that I will love again really deeply and it will make all of this so worth it. She'll tell me about the life we rebuilt. She'll tell me about our new home with the green velvet couch. She'll tell me that I reclaimed my work hours and I got to throw myself back into my career in a way that honored my needs, that wasn't constantly taking care of a sick child. She'd tell me that this, too, shall pass, and that Dominic's depression and body challenges and health problems that they would get better and that he'll be thriving. And, in fact, if this is the future self in six to eight years from now, he's in college, he's thriving and this year made him resilient. She'd tell me that I'm happily in a loving partnership and the concept of remarriage doesn't scare me anymore.
Speaker 1:She'd tell me about my beautiful friends and the adventures we go on. She'd tell me about the days I spend writing and speaking on stages and she'd tell me about those amazing flights I'd take in the future plane that I own. She'd be telling me about that e-bike that I have, that I ride by the river trail. And she'd tell me about making those bold moves and manifesting bold, big miracles, that they happened. She'd tell me that I'll never regret being vulnerable and having integrity and speaking up to the people I need to speak up to on my behalf and on Dominic's. And she'd tell me to continue to stop accepting breadcrumbs in every way in my life, in every way in my life. She'd tell me that self-worth and self-respect remained non-negotiable in my life and that that paid off. And she'd tell me it's okay to lean deeply into this pause right now Because this is just a phase and I'll be thriving again and we will rebuild and we will have that green velvet couch and the porch swing and the house filled with love again and kids and friends and snuggles on a couch. She'd tell me we're okay. She'd tell me to keep taking these bold, big risks and to just keep showing up for myself and for Dominic.
Speaker 1:So I challenge you today to think about what would your future self give you permission to do? What would your future self tell you to honor in yourself first? What would your future self tell you to honor in yourself first? How does meeting your needs bring you closer to the version of yourself that you desire to be in the future. Really, what would your future self guide you to do today? What seems so very hard in your life that your future self says was actually just a little blip? It's interesting because I look back on Dominic being an infant and how hard that was, and now it's so far in our past. It feels a little bit like yesterday, but those sleepless nights they're pretty far away. Yes, we've had a lot of sleepless nights this year with all of this medical stuff, but it's different sleepless nights. I'm not also breastfeeding, I'm not also trying to keep a small human alive and all the things. So, anyway, I just wanted to put that out there for you to also think about how you could think in the shoes of what your future self would tell you. You don't owe your past self anything at this point, but you certainly do owe your future self everything.
Speaker 1:Oh my gosh, am I excited to share this new hiring return on investment calculator freebie that I have been working on for about six months? You're probably thinking what the heck is a return on investment? Well, that's when we take our revenue minus our expenses and it calculates how much return we get by investing in something. I've applied this very masculine concept to hiring into the art of receiving support, and so what this little tool does that you can just go and download from my webpage, dot rock consulting dot com. What you can do is go and download this and use curiosity 15 minutes total of your time. Go through this tool and it's going to help you make a little bit of data-driven decision making around hiring and why it can help you in either your personal or professional life. You don't have to be an entrepreneur, but you could be an entrepreneur and it's going to help you understand the impact hiring or delegating more or handing off more tasks, or even not spending any money on this and simply asking for more support how that could change your life. I'm excited about this freebie and I hope you will go check it out. Download it. Dot rock consultingcom. Enjoy.
Speaker 1:Thank you from the bottom of my heart for listening to another episode of the Power of Oxygen First podcast. I hope you walk away feeling inspired to do less, to follow your passions and infuse them into your daily life and truly claim the life you were meant to live, and I hope that you start leaning into the art of receiving support. I'm here to support you on that journey. Find me at dotrockconsultingcom or dot underscore rock underscore on Instagram. I'd love it if you'd go, follow me and shoot me a quick DM and let me know what takeaway from this episode hit you the hardest, sending you love and adventures on this beautiful day.
