Happy Productive with Jennifer Dawn: Grow Your Business Without Giving Up Your Life

Welcome to Happy Productive Episode #4 where we ask the question: What Kind Of Productive Are You?

Every day you are taking actions – and those actions cause us to get results – and those results will generate emotions within us.

The emotions could be anything from happiness on one end of the scale to sadness on the other end. When I ask what kind of productive are you, I’m really asking…

Do your actions each day produce the emotions you want to feel more of? Or do your actions produce stress, chaos, overwhelm, shame, disappointment, or failure?

Listen in as we dive in further.

We hope you've found today's episode of the Happy Productive Podcast inspiring. Every successful business is formed by a set of small, consistent, and attainable steps.

Visit Jennifer at jenniferdawncoaching.com to take your next step and learn how to meet your business goals.

Thank you for listening and stay tuned for Jennifer's next episode.

I’m spending extra time on overwhelm and getting it out of the picture in our lives because when you feel overwhelmed, stretched, stressed each day, there’s no space for you. 

What I mean by this is when there’s no space, you won’t feel motivated to change your life – you are stuck in just surviving each day – you may not have the energy to care about your health, or pursue your hobbies or interests – when there’s no space and people ask you for things you may find yourself getting angry or defensive, or reacting in a way that’s kind of unpleasant to be around... then you feel guilty or shameful, beat yourself up and the process keeps repeating.

It’s so important to eliminate this state of overwhelm from your life so you can create the space you need to bring in the fun stuff like love, joy, laughter, and patience, compassion, understanding, gratitude.  When you are in a constant state of busy, rush, hurry, survive the day, I have no idea what to do next, all those really wonderful feelings and emotions you WANT to be feeling get pushed to the side.

In this episode I'll also share my Brain Dump exercise and how to start asking Power Questions

We hope you've found today's episode of the Happy Productive Podcast inspiring. Every successful business is formed by a set of small, consistent, and attainable steps.

Visit Jennifer at jenniferdawncoaching.com to take your next step and learn how to meet your business goals.

Thank you for listening and stay tuned for Jennifer's next episode.

Overwhelm can feel like you have so much on your plate you don’t know what to do next, or no matter what you do you’ll disappoint someone.

It’s a terrible feeling and in a recent Gallop study they found 55% of Americans are stressed out and overwhelmed during their day. That’s 20% higher than the world average of 35%.

When we are going through our day overwhelmed we don’t think as clearly, we are not as productive as we could be, we make more mistakes, having to re-do work because we didn’t have the time to really think through it, that causes us to experience more negative emotions like disappointment, frustration, and shame, then all of that robs us of our happiness, health, and well being.

That’s why I feel it’s so important to start understanding overwhelm for what it truly is – and that may surprise you a bit. I know it was somewhat mind blowing for me when I first learned the truth about it.

We hope you've found today's episode of the Happy Productive Podcast inspiring. Every successful business is formed by a set of small, consistent, and attainable steps.

Visit Jennifer at jenniferdawncoaching.com to take your next step and learn how to meet your business goals.

Thank you for listening and stay tuned for Jennifer's next episode.

In today’s lesson I want to talk about why you’re not achieving your goals and getting the results you want. And by not achieving your goals, you’re not living the life you want.

Results are tangible. You can see the money in your bank account, fit into your ideal jean size, you have the endurance to run the race, you have a great loving relationship, it’s real.

I was reading a book on productivity and the author summed it up almost painfully clear – look at all the work you are doing, and what results are you getting? 

If you’re not getting the tangible, real-results you want, let’s look at why…

We hope you've found today's episode of the Happy Productive Podcast inspiring. Every successful business is formed by a set of small, consistent, and attainable steps.

Visit Jennifer at jenniferdawncoaching.com to take your next step and learn how to meet your business goals.

Thank you for listening and stay tuned for Jennifer's next episode.

I’m spending extra time on overwhelm and getting it out of the picture in our lives because when you feel overwhelmed, stretched, stressed each day, there’s no space for you. 

What I mean by this is when there’s no space, you won’t feel motivated to change your life – you are stuck in just surviving each day – you may not have the energy to care about your health, or pursue your hobbies or interests – when there’s no space and people ask you for things you may find yourself getting angry or defensive, or reacting in a way that’s kind of unpleasant to be around... then you feel guilty or shameful, beat yourself up and the process keeps repeating.

It’s so important to eliminate this state of overwhelm from your life so you can create the space you need to bring in the fun stuff like love, joy, laughter, and patience, compassion, understanding, gratitude.  When you are in a constant state of busy, rush, hurry, survive the day, I have no idea what to do next, all those really wonderful feelings and emotions you WANT to be feeling get pushed to the side.

In this episode I'll also share my Brain Dump exercise and how to start asking Power Questions

We hope you've found today's episode of the Happy Productive Podcast inspiring. Every successful business is formed by a set of small, consistent, and attainable steps.

Visit Jennifer at jenniferdawncoaching.com to take your next step and learn how to meet your business goals.

Thank you for listening and stay tuned for Jennifer's next episode.

Overwhelm can feel like you have so much on your plate you don’t know what to do next, or no matter what you do you’ll disappoint someone.

It’s a terrible feeling and in a recent Gallop study they found 55% of Americans are stressed out and overwhelmed during their day. That’s 20% higher than the world average of 35%.

When we are going through our day overwhelmed we don’t think as clearly, we are not as productive as we could be, we make more mistakes, having to re-do work because we didn’t have the time to really think through it, that causes us to experience more negative emotions like disappointment, frustration, and shame, then all of that robs us of our happiness, health, and well being.

That’s why I feel it’s so important to start understanding overwhelm for what it truly is – and that may surprise you a bit. I know it was somewhat mind blowing for me when I first learned the truth about it.

We hope you've found today's episode of the Happy Productive Podcast inspiring. Every successful business is formed by a set of small, consistent, and attainable steps.

Visit Jennifer at jenniferdawncoaching.com to take your next step and learn how to meet your business goals.

Thank you for listening and stay tuned for Jennifer's next episode.

In today’s lesson I want to talk about why you’re not achieving your goals and getting the results you want. And by not achieving your goals, you’re not living the life you want.

Results are tangible. You can see the money in your bank account, fit into your ideal jean size, you have the endurance to run the race, you have a great loving relationship, it’s real.

I was reading a book on productivity and the author summed it up almost painfully clear – look at all the work you are doing, and what results are you getting? 

If you’re not getting the tangible, real-results you want, let’s look at why…

We hope you've found today's episode of the Happy Productive Podcast inspiring. Every successful business is formed by a set of small, consistent, and attainable steps.

Visit Jennifer at jenniferdawncoaching.com to take your next step and learn how to meet your business goals.

Thank you for listening and stay tuned for Jennifer's next episode.