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 60: Delegation Doesn't Mean You’re Weak, It Means You’re Smart!
Discover the transformative power of asking for help in our latest podcast episode! We explore how embracing delegation is not just a practical necessity but a radical act of self-care that opens the door to healing and empowerment. The discussion highlights the emotional connections tied to independence and the vulnerabilities that come with needing support, especially for those navigating life changes like divorce or parenting challenges.
Join me as I share relatable stories and actionable strategies designed to help you dismantle old patterns that keep you from asking for assistance. Learn how letting go of the need to do everything yourself can be liberating and lead to profound personal and professional growth. This episode invites you to reflect on what tasks drain your energy and how you can shift your mindset to welcome support into your life.
You'll discover the significance of recognizing your worthiness to receive help and the beauty that collaboration brings to your journey. Whether it's hiring a virtual assistant or simply asking a friend for support, each step toward delegation is a message of empowerment to yourself.
Tune in now for valuable insights that can help you reclaim your time, energy, and joy! And don’t forget to visit dotrockconsulting.com for a free resource that will inspire confidence in your journey to hiring and delegation. Join us in embracing the art of receiving support and take the first steps towards a life filled with abundance!
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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. Hello, my podcast friends. Okay, welcome to the quick and dirty Thursday episode where we are going to do a little add-on to the hard reset. So the hard reset for divorce, episode two came out on Tuesday and I want to expand just a little bit about what type of practices we would use in hard reset, in hiring and delegating. So isn't that fun? So just remember, here, on the Power of oxygen first, we are really exploring the art of self-care, the bravery of becoming and the radical act of putting yourself first, but also putting your business yourself first in your business, so that you're not the only one always doing it all by yourself. Now, if you don't own a business, just think about how you could explore some of this in the workplace. As you know, I'm Dot Rock and today's episode is a follow-up conversation about the hard reset after divorce, but we're doing it a little bit with the hard reset in hiring and delegating, so we're not just talking here about what happens with ourselves. We're talking about how we could invite support into our lives and our businesses.
Speaker 1:One of the biggest lessons that I've learned is that I cannot thrive alone my life, my business, my home but asking for support, asking for help at home and in my business, still feels vulnerable, and this is what I teach people right. It still feels really vulnerable, especially in the seasons where independence has become a survival mechanism. Independence has become a survival mechanism. This past year has been a lot about safety physical and emotional safety for myself and my son and that has made business interesting and it's made me shut've never leaned against until this year, and so I'm trying to get back into having some support in my home beyond my handyman, who tends to come about once a month, but back into cleaning support and back into having a personal assistant. So I am leaning back into that.
Speaker 1:But for my business and my home life I'm really looking at hiring and delegating inventory and taking that inventory and seeing once again where am I trying to do everything myself out of fear of letting go, out of fear of my safety emotionally or physically, and what tasks are really draining my energy but could be passed on to someone else. And what would it feel like to receive support without guilt or apology? I know it's big stuff, take a deep breath. But if the hard reset is about dissolving old patterns, then delegation is actually an act of self-trust. It's saying I am worthy of support, I deserve to be held too. Whether it's hiring a housekeeper or bringing on a virtual assistant or simply asking a friend for help, it really all counts.
Speaker 1:Every choice to delegate is a vote for your own thriving. It's a vote for you and I get it. The money stuff comes up, the time comes up. But if you have a real desire to get something off your plate, what ways can you take small steps towards that? Just remember becoming is not a race, it's an unraveling and it is a homecoming. It's your pace and it's your path, and wherever you are in your hard reset journey, whether it's still deep in the dismantling or just beginning to glimpse what's next, know this You're not behind, you're not broken and you are simply becoming. Keep giving yourself permission to move at your own pace for your own healing, to build a life that fits who you are now and who your business is now. Who you are now and who your business is now, not who you used to be, not what it used to be. Once again, take a deep breath, trust the process and remember oxygen first, always in our personal lives and in our businesses. And every time we take a step towards delegating, we are taking a step towards ourselves, and we are taking a step towards ourselves and we are taking a step towards receiving what we truly deserve. Sending you light and love. Happy Thursday.
Speaker 1:Hi, my podcast friends. Hey, have you heard about this new hiring return on investment freebie on my webpage, dotrockconsultingcom? If you you download it, you'll get some valuable insights that are simple and fast, that can help you shift into understanding why hiring, or just plain asking for support, can help you save precious resources and increase your time, your energy and your freedom, and they can help you delegate in your business and personally. And it's backed up by data. So head on over to dotrockconsultingcom to access the very first Oxygen First Hiring Return on Investment Calculator. You'll be able to finally hire with confidence, make some data driven decisions, but also really shift into the mindset of receiving this support and how it's going to add to the bottom line of fulfillment and joy in your life.
Speaker 1:I hope you enjoy it. Thank you from the bottom of my heart for listening 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. Dot com. 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.
