How to Run Your Life and Not Let It Run You

Do you ever feel like a ping pong ball, bouncing back and forth from this thing and that person to handle what you're met with? I certainly have! It's exhausting! Or maybe you feel like you're flying in the Millennium Falcon, shifting into hyperdrive, just bracing yourself for the trip to goodness-knows-where.

This is life. Or is it?

At 280 pounds, I threw my hands in the air, took off my proverbial seatbelt and said, "Enough is enough!" I'd reached a new point of unhealthiness where all I wanted to do was hide in my closet amongst the clothes that didn't fit me anymore.

It was time to make a change.

And truly, that was the turning point in my life where I realized that I do have more power over my life than I thought. I had gotten myself to that point, and I was going to get myself out of it.

The moral to the story: Life doesn't run us. We can run our life.

Doubt me? I don't blame you. However, I still think you can benefit from this episode--which is really 9 episodes in one--where I talk through my top ways you can start to run your life, rather than be at the effect of everything (and everyone) around you.

In the words of Buddy Dieker from the Netflix series, Ozark: “You Gotta Act And Let Everybody Else React.”

And here's how:

1. Initiate Change

2. Make a Plan

3. Choose Your Words Carefully

4. Communicate!!!

5. Control What You Can Control

6. Assess Your Needs Vs. Your Wants (and basically stick to your plan)

7. Don’t Take Things Personally

8. Set Boundaries

9. Embrace Who You Are

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