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Today, I'm talking about how, once I started to do this, I had consistent social media content.  Which are you with regard to your consistency on social media? A. “I do put out stuff. I put out something once a week.” B. "I have to post today and I don't know what to post!" C. "Wow, when I look at other people's social, they've got more going on." D. "How can someone be on YouTube and have a podcast and have a blog and have social media content?" E. “My social media is amazing, and I post frequently.”
All of these things are so stressful. But really what you want is to just have a consistent social media presence. If you're like, "Actually, no, Diane, I want to be making money off of every single post and every bit of marketing material, or every bit of content I put out there," well, great. But maybe you should just start with being consistent online and have it be a stress-free process. The Solution I tell you, if you're going to hire people to do this, it’ll be a massive team. You'll be putting out money for:
And on and on and on. It gets expensive for a business owner. It's so time-centered that you're spending so much of your time hiring people, getting them to do the content, managing all of these people, and then giving them feedback on things. It's wasting not only your time, but your energy, and your money. You don't want to do that, right? What is the thing that I started doing that has just been a game changer for me? I started creating one piece of anchor content and then repurpose it across all mediums, and all platforms. The Process Let me just give you an idea of the extent to which this has grown. If you want to know the whole process, the ins and outs and how to do each part, I encourage you to grab the Content Multiplication Magic program. I do have that as an option to share this whole process with you.For those of you who are already in Virtual Assistant Made Easy, or you're thinking about getting a virtual assistant, I do bonus that in for you. PLUS, I will give you a copy of every single step in the process with training videos, checklists, so that your virtual assistant can do these pieces for you. Content Multiplication Magic is magic because it’s taking one piece of content and repurposing it across all these different platforms. I'll give you an idea of the extent to which I do this now:
Using this one piece of anchor content has so many benefits. In the past, I used to write a blog, go live or do a video, and then record the podcast, doing three main pieces of content. Then, I still had to create the social media posts, the newsletter, and the blog, all by myself. In the beginning, when I started doing this, it cut down on the time because it was only one main piece of content, that I was creating. Repurposing meant I didn't have to create new content for all the different platforms. Benefit 1: This diminished the workload by five. Benefit 2: The great thing about it was that each piece was in my voice without paying a writer. I used to hire someone to write social media posts for me. She was so good at figuring out how to speak like me and how to write like me, but her rates kept going up and up and up. But I paid it. Eventually, I accidentally coached her out of working for me by following her dreams and goals. For me to go and find someone else who could match my voice was going to be hard, and it was going to be expensive. A lot of companies do this. A lot of people have copywriters, social media writers and scriptwriters for their videos. That's fantastic. But if you are a solopreneur, or a small business owner, or someone who's trying to do business on the lean, or somebody who just likes to reduce expenses and not have a lot of people to manage, this is a great concept for you to put in place. Repurposing your anchor content When you do it this way, that one piece of anchor content gets repurposed. It is your voice. It’s always going to be your voice. You don't have to worry about someone else not matching your voice or someone else using ChatGPT, or someone else plagiarizing. The other benefit is it's all your messages. In the beginning, I thought, "No, I must have a different YouTube from my podcast, and from my blog. Everything has to be unique." Well, no, it doesn't. Because when you think of it, people are inundated with content. Do you really think your ideal customer, your ideal client, your community are going to watch your video, read your blog, listen to your podcast, and look at every single social post? More than likely they won't. What if you put out that consistent message every week and just pulled different content from it? It’s still different, but the people who love to watch things will watch your YouTube. People who like to listen will listen to your podcast. People who like to read will read your blog. People who want short, easy-to-digest content will be on your social media. You can just do that one piece and then pull from it.  It's funny because I'll have people read the blog after they've watched the video, and they haven't fully clicked in that it's the same content. They catch new things or different things from it the second time. That's the first pieces to how I did it: I use that one piece of anchor content to create all of my assets for the week. Then, I grew up in my business. I hired someone to edit a lot of these things. I hired different companies to do the different pieces for me like publishing my podcast, as well as I had a Canadian assistant who did many of the pieces I did. It was amazing because passing off my recording to be done in all these different places was great because then I could focus on higher impact, higher income-producing or generating tasks. I could focus on follow-up after meetings and meeting with people. I could work on the business stuff, and the vision and the future of my business, rather than getting into the weeds of repurposing content. That's what I did for a while. Then almost four years ago, I hired two Filipino virtual assistants who are still working with me today. Plus, I now a team of 14 virtual assistants where a lot of my clients are using my Content Multiplication Magic system in order to do this for them. The key second piece is pass off what you record, pass off that anchor piece of content, so that it's not you who is doing all the repurposing. That's key. Because you need to pull yourself out of this type of time-consuming task, and leverage the time so that you can increase your income, increase your profits, because you're doing more of the client work and more of the sales.  The last piece was fully having things repurposed. I know I've already mentioned repurposing, but I mean, fully. People think, “Well, how are you repurposing?” I've already talked a little bit about it.
The video goes onto YouTube, the audio on the podcast, then the copy into the blog. But then there are things like repurposing that content, cutting a long form video into short form video into stories into reels into social posts, like quote posts. There are all these different nuances of how you can use it. When we repurpose a video, especially if we're repurposing an interview someone has, we can break that down into 30 plus assets, usually we do 30. That's a very generous amount of assets from one 12-15 minute interview. *Side note, if you want one of your interviews repurposed, we're happy to do that. My team of virtual assistants from the Philippines does a phenomenal job. How this benefitted me and can benefit you too It's so great, because it has saved me, not only time, money, energy., but also stress. It really saves me stress. By having my team develop my weekly content, it has given me that consistency online. People tell me…:
Key thing is, I don't do it all myself. I'll let you know that this summer 2024, we are opening up some spots for a program I call Your Content Made Easy, where every week we take one of your videos, and we repurpose it into social media content for you. (If you want everything like YouTube, podcast, blog newsletter, all that stuff, then talk to me separately.) But if you're just like, “Diane, I just want social media posts.” Great. We take that one video. We repurpose that content for you. It can be a recorded video. It could be a live video, and we're going to repurpose it into every single week 12 different pieces of content. Seven will be for daily posts, and five will be for the story section so that you can hit both areas. Every month, you give us 4 videos and we make 48 social media posts or stories for you. What this is going to help you do By being more consistent online, you're going to be able to grow your audience, because people are going to see more of your content. It's going to expand your reach because there's more chance for them to connect with it. It's going to save you time, especially during the summer, if you want to enjoy yourself. The cool thing is, if you wanted, we could pre do your content all the way to the end of the year, or pre do your content for the rest of the next 12 months. Our virtual assistant team is ready to help you to repurpose your content so you can use it on all of your social media channels. Then you get to focus on what you want to focus on and build your business. I think that's a triple win. There is a very special invitation when you join now. I encourage you, click the link and go through it. What we do is we just get these four videos from you. You maybe already have recorded videos. If you don't know how to record, I will give you a program to be able to teach you how to record very easily and for free so that when you give us those four videos, we create 48 pieces of content that you didn't have to make and all you need to do is post it up. Even then, if you're like, “I don't know how to post them or I don’t want to be the one to schedule them.” Okay, we can talk about that and talk about my team doing this for you. But I only have seven spots, that's because my team is busy. This came because some people I talked to about getting a virtual assistant said, “Diane, can't you just have the VA make the content for me, and you manage them?” Exactly. I can totally do that. Because I have been doing it this way for many years. The whole thing too is this is original content. This is not you buying social posts from someone. This is not repurposing and just changing a design from someone else. No, this is 48 pieces of original content, your content, in your brand colors, your font, and your voice. I hope you'll check it out. You're going to get a lot from it, for sure. As you go through this, think again about the power of having consistent social media content by taking this one piece of anchor content and passing off what you record then having it repurpose into all the different pieces. Game changer for my life. I hope you put this into practice because it is going to solve a lot of the things business owners struggle with…
It's really going to solve a lot of those problems. Thank you for reading this week’s blog. Know that I do this every week because I want to make your life easier and your business and life better. Read my other blogs: 1. 3 Actions for Better Social Media Results 2. 3 Reasons Why You’re Not Posting Consistently on Social Media 3. How to Direct Message on Social Media Without Being Salesy
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You need to stop chasing success if you want to have happiness now. This is something I had to learn the hard way. My whole life, I have been a top achiever. I've always been chasing success:
 Whatever it may be, I've been going for that thing. I've put that thing on a pedestal, the success that society is saying that I should have and you should have. I've been recently working with a client who has had a lot of success professionally, a lot of success in her personal life around the home that she was able to build. What I'm noticing in her, and I've noticed in a lot of high-achieving women, is we are sold this story that to be happy, we need:
But these things don’t make us automatically happy. That's the hard truth because we're being pushed, driven, and signed up to this false reality that when you have these specific things happen to you and reach these particular successes, you will be happy. I can remember the very beginning of my coaching journey. I put it out there that I was offering coaching services, even on Craigslist, and someone reached out to me. It ended up that they had just sold a business two years earlier. They had built up this business with two other friends and sold it for 75 million to another major company we use daily (you probably know the name of the company and the name of their business, but for confidentiality, I won’t share.) His cut was 25 million, and he was just in his 30s when the sale happened. At this point, it was ending the time of the transition from passing it off to the new owners. He was free to do whatever he wanted with $25 million. The problem and why he hired me is he said, “I'm not happy. Everything in my life was culminating to this moment of building this company and selling it, and I've done that. I've achieved that. Now, I'm at the point where I'm like, ‘Why am I not happy? Why is there a void in me?’” I coached him to switch from measuring life according to success to measuring life according to satisfaction. This happens repeatedly in my clients. Just recently, this client bought into the idea of “have these successes, and then you'll be happy.” But after facing burnout on multiple occasions, the switch had to happen! This is a story I see over and over and over and over again. It might not be burnout. It might be…
 It's this moment of, “Is this what I signed up for? Because if so I don't like it.” Then you don't want to say anything because you'd be ungrateful to have…
All the boxes are checked. Yet, you are…
I've been there. I’ve felt it. It's not just for those in a nine-to-five. It can happen in your business as well as in life. It can happen in the perfect career or the perfect business. That feeling of, “Why am I not happy?” As I mentioned, you dare not say anything to anyone because it would seem like you are so ungrateful. I know another woman who built up a business. I won't say what business it is because that could potentially give it away to people who know me. She built up a business, and then she decided to sell it. People said, “Oh, I'm so sorry, it didn't work out.” She replied, “No, it did work out. I'm selling it because I'm not happy. I'm moving on to something else. I was happy with what it was and the time is done.” People think when you end something, you couldn't keep it, or it didn't work out. But I have clients who…
They stepped away from all these situations because it wasn't what they wanted anymore. Sometimes we paint a vision for ourselves of “this is what I wanted”. Which makes it hard to make a new decision later down the road. Not as a completely new person, but with a different value system or stronger dialled in values, more of a vision for what's important in life. We have this moment where the person you are today wants to make a different decision than the person of the past. That stuff doesn't matter anymore because you've learned something, and there's wisdom that has come in. Some people might say, “Oh, that's too bad that you couldn't keep it going” Or “That was a bad decision for leaving that. You'll never get that type of career/position. You'll never have that kind of money again.” Well, what would I say? It's worth testing out, worth taking the leap. Some of my clients have grieved
But was it what they wanted or what their ego told them to go for? We have this fine line of: "This is good for you,” and “This is a jail that you're going to be trapped in.” I felt that years ago, before I started my business. I would come home at night and reach for the wine, eat junk food, be tired, and wonder, “Why am I unhappy?” Everything on paper was successful. I looked at my list and check, check, check.
Everything was getting checked off. I was on the success path. “Why do I feel this restlessness? Why do I feel empty?” I thought, “This was supposed to be exactly what I wanted.” But the thing is, I needed to figure out what the vision really felt like for me. Over my path, different pieces have come in, piece after piece, and it's started to reveal a new vision for my life. What happens with clients is that once they stop measuring their life according to their success and start measuring it according to their satisfaction, their contentment increases. Their happiness, values, and lives become rich, energetic, happy, joyful, fulfilling, and precisely what they want. But they had never really asked themselves the coaching questions I ask to give them the clarity and vision. Are you going to break free from what society tells you is successful for you? What is important to you? If you really break it down, these other things are what matters most. I've heard from many people who have gone to third-world countries and helped people.
They say, “I can't believe how happy these people are without much. They’re much happier than I am. I thought I was coming in and teaching them things. They taught me things.” That's because these people don’t measure their life according to their success. They are looking for…
Yes, they may not have lavish homes and amazing careers that bring in a lot of money, but they're happy. You need to stop measuring your life according to your success.  I know it's hard. It's so hard. I'm a recovering perfectionist. I am a recovering high achiever. I still achieve, but slowing down has been one of the greatest gifts in my life and relationships. My clients say to me, “Wow, it's so good to choose me and what I want. Not to be pressured by keeping up with the Joneses or what others think would make me happy.” It's not about the ego of how life looks. It's more about how it feels to live your life. That's the key thing. Sure, you've heard many times over. People on their deathbed, they don't say things like…
What they say is…
You have that choice now, whether you are 7 or 70, 19 or 90. I love when my clients have that moment of “Wow, this is what it means to live. This is what it means to be happy.” I had been living in black and white before. Now, I get to choose what I want to have. Stop measuring your life according to society's belief of success and start looking at what will make you truly happy. Have that vision for your life and what you want it to be like.  It's sometimes just about the simple things. That's why I find I'm happiest on the weekends having lazy days. When we don't have a big list of accomplishments and we're not pressured to have expensive experiences, instead it’s the simplest things. Just ask yourself, “What brings me joy?”
I'm super passionate about this because I'm so grateful for my experience with my coach about 14 years ago, where I saw the difference between these two. It's funny. I just did the Wheel of Life with one of my clients, whom I've been working with for years, and she didn't click in that The Wheel of Life is a professional coaching tool that measures satisfaction, not success. See how strongly it’s ingrained in us! If you want to go through that experience, I have two one-on-one coaching spots right now. We can figure out where your wants and your needs are and the vision for the life you really want to have. You’ll know how to bring that spark back to you, and you’ll be satisfied not just when you've achieved success, but now and every day on the way to success. We don't want to keep waiting for those “when” days, the “if” days. When I get that… If I get that…. We want it to be happening now. Because some of our goals are big. They'll happen five years from now, or 10 years from now. What does that mean for this life in the moment? That client I had who had 25 million was able to look at all areas of life and determine, “What do I really want in those areas? What values matter to me?” What came forward was family, being connected with someone else so that they could share their life with them, develop things like their language from their culture and background, and form more family bonds because they've been working so hard for so long. I ask that of you. What is it going to take for you to stop measuring your life according to success and instead measure it according to satisfaction? This is one of the biggest switches, maybe even the biggest switch, that I made 14 years ago, that has made the biggest difference in my life and is the biggest difference in every client's life. You may think, “That's simple, I can do that.” You could, but the switch isn’t that easy. It's much easier with someone else looking into your life, giving you that hard truth, the no BS, and taking you through it. I tried to find happiness myself. Even as a coach, I need someone else to hold me to a higher vision for myself. I'm happy to be that person. As I said, I've got two spots right now for one-on-one coaching. Let's do this. Let's spend the next little while figuring out what that vision is for you and helping you be happy every day. Read my other blogs: Today, I am going to share the three things I wish I was told when I started my business. Around 14 years ago, I hired a coach, and after about four months, I realized, “Wow, coaching is what I want to do. This will bring together all of my talents!” When I was younger, I didn't know what career I would have. When they asked, “What do you want to be when you grow up?” My answer would be, “I don't know. A teacher? A speaker? A broadcaster? I don’t know.”  Putting all of these little pieces together, I finally became a life coach and speaker, and all this came together with the desire to empower women. I actually did my coaching certification while working full-time, then got pregnant—that was all the plan—and then ended up on maternity leave building the business, and I never fully returned because I was building the business. Leaving a nine-to-five job was a great experience for me, and thankfully I was successful in my business. Over the years, because I've been building my business and having success, people have come to me and asked:
Over the years, I've done a lot of business consulting and taught people how to do these different things. Even though it’s been amazing, I still have days when I'm like, “Why am I doing this?” Maybe you have also felt that way in your career or business. “Ah, this is not a good day. Why am I doing this?” It may come on because you don't get a client, a proposal is not approved, or whatever the case may be. Something happens, and you go, “Okay, this is why,” and it's very obvious. But what do we do on the other days? On the days when things feel bad, or you're not on your A game, and you're wondering, “Why is this happening?” These are the three things I've experienced over the years that I wish someone had told me about. Lesson #1: You won't always have the energy. People say, “Oh, do what you love, and you'll never work a day in your life.” Even though you love what you do, some days are a grind. If I have to fly somewhere for a speaking engagement, and then maybe there was a delay in the flight, and now I'm arriving late, and I don't get to sleep well. Then, in the morning, I'm doing a tech check, I'm meeting people, and then I'm at the event and then I give so much. They say one hour on stage is like eight hours of work. Then you're still schmoozing, talking, giving, and doing, and then you get to bed late, but you must wake up early to fly back. I don't always have the energy for that. That's just my own physical limitations. Maybe you're feeling like, “Some days, I don't have the energy, and I wonder if I'm going to be able to get everything done,” because your to-do list seems super long. I want to let you know that that's okay. There are days when you won't have the energy because maybe you've already given it, or maybe it's a task you don't love doing. It's very common for us to be in that place of “I don't have the energy,” which might be emotional, physical, or mental.  Ask yourself, on a scale of one to 10, where is your physical energy, emotional energy, and mental energy? Which one do you have a lot of? Which one do you not? Knowing that is important so you can take the next steps around it. I also want to let you know I am creating a mini-course called Summer Productivity Playbook. It's being put together right now. You can purchase it for just $7 until I finish it. Once I do, the price will increase to $47. It's just something fun I want to do around these three different things I wished I was told and their solutions. Lesson #2: You're not always going to feel focused Isn't it annoying when you don't feel focused? When you have a massive list of things to do, and you're like, “Where do I even start?” Or you have to work on something with a deadline, and you just can't get your head to stop floating around. The thoughts in your brain are all over the place. It's frustrating because you only want to get your work done. A lack of focus can come from many different reasons. It could be that you're not working on the right things. It could be that you've got a lot going on emotionally, mentally, physically, or in other areas of your life. When you lack focus, you can't get things done. Then, you start to feel your confidence diminish, and you experience a lack of self-belief and frustration because you want to move forward but can't. Have you felt that? Sometimes, the focus just doesn't last the full day. Maybe you have pockets of focus, like first thing in the day, maybe after lunch, or in the evenings, late at night, when you really should be sleeping and can focus. I wish I knew that this would happen. Sometimes, in my business or my days, there might be weeks when I'm just having difficulty focusing on the task. As much as you want to believe that you can separate your work and life, they are completely intertwined. How you feel and how things are going in your life will affect your business. I guess that would be something I didn't think of as much when I started my business. Lesson #3: You won’t always get stuff done, and you might not even get the right stuff done. When I started my business, I knew I needed a logo, a business card, a website, and all these things. I got them done, but sadly, I didn't get them done right. If you've ever been in my program, the Million Dollar Woman, I share how things started, what my website looked like initially, and how I thought it needed to be custom-made. I invested a ton of money. Then, a little while later, I realized, “Wow, that was not the best decision.” I made decisions as a coach, not as a business owner.  In your business, you're not always going to get stuff done because you wear many hats and you aren't the expert on everything. In the book, “The E-Myth” Michael E. Gerber defines this well, sharing that everyone who owns a business basically has to be the CEO, the manager, and the technician. But many people come in as technicians who are good at the skills that clients are paying for.
You're an accountant doing the accounting work. You're a social media creator doing the social media work, but that's the technician role. Not only that, but you also need to be a manager of the project, a manager of the people if you hire others, a manager of the clients, and you have to manage all the business workings. Then, you also have to be the CEO, the one working on the business, in the vision, the goals, and the timeline. You sometimes don't get the right stuff done because you're too busy as the technician, too busy as the manager, or too busy as the CEO. Then you're not the technician enough, or you're not in sales enough. Getting stuff done when your business's organizational chart is so massive, with your name in most of the roles, is hard. It's really hard. Then there are also these things that will stop you from getting things done…
How are things going to get done? Thankfully, I have people to help me get things done. As soon as I finish recording a podcast, it will be sent to Karissa and Kristine, and they'll take care of all the pieces afterward (like this blog), which is amazing. But I didn't know in the beginning that in order to get one thing done, many other things have to be done like if I'm going to have a podcast, there’s a lot of work that goes into it:
It goes on and on and on. There are so many things to get done. Normally, you won't get the amount of stuff done that you want. That's just the reality of having your own business and of also being just a high-achieving, driven woman. That's kind of how it goes. There's always going to be something on your to do list. Wrapping Up These are just three things I wish someone told me when I started my business. I wish they had told me because these would be things I would struggle with because I couldn’t plan for them or know it’s normal. It's like being pregnant or having a baby where no one wants to tell you the hard truth, the stuff you should do, and the stuff that you should watch out for. Not having energy, not being focused, and not always getting stuff done are realities of having your own business. Make sure that you go to this link so that you can get in on the solutions to these three different problems that I see in many business owners as I do a lot of my consulting work or even in professional women, high-achieving women, and corporate leaders. I see these things with them as well. In this mini course I will share the solutions to these three things, and how to easily get things going again, so you don't want to miss it. It's $7 before it is fully created. Once it's created, the price is going to go up. You want to make sure that you're grabbing this right away. P.S. Don't forget to nominate the Dynamic Women Podcast in the Podcast Awards for Best Female Hosted Podcast and People's Choice Award. I would really appreciate it if you did. Read my other blogs: We've all been there. We’ve all had a day when something didn't go right. Maybe…
 We feel like we're in a mood, and we're down. All we want to do is cancel everything in our day and just do nothing. Well, that's not always a possibility. Even when we have the time and space, it's not necessarily how you want to be functioning. These are quick tips to get you out of a mood so that you can continue your day. But I'm also not suggesting you ignore your feelings or just keep putting band-aids on a problem. There are other techniques to properly deal with the underlying nature and emotions that bring you into a mood because maybe some examples aren't even why you're in the mood, and you don't know why. You don't know what's causing you to be in a mood. That's okay, too. That happens. But sometimes, we have responsibilities and things we must do, and we don't have the privilege of time and space. Try out these three techniques. Let me know which one works best for you. They're the things that I like to do that move me out of a mood, at least temporarily. Quick tip #1: Give your feelings some space If you have just had something happen or feel like you're in a mood, give yourself a certain amount of time to be in that mood. It might be 15 minutes or an hour, but give your feelings space. What we definitely don't want to do is suppress our feelings and completely ignore them. If you're in a meeting and someone said something upsetting, or you're in the middle of a soccer game and you're frustrated, take that time. Maybe you excuse yourself during an office meeting and go into the bathroom for a few minutes to give yourself some space. I've done this on the soccer field before. I've asked for a sub just to get off the field because mentally, I'm in a mood, or someone ticked me off, or we've just had something, and I just can't perform at my best level at that moment, so I need some space. I don't come off and then talk with everyone. I come off, and I'm in my zone for a moment to just be able to deal with what's there. Giving feelings space could also mean for you…
We had a frustrating soccer game recently, and I re-injured my hamstring. It wasn't fully healed, and I did something that hurt it again. I was completely frustrated, so I called my husband before driving home and said, “Hey, heads up. We had a bad game. I'm injured. This is why the game was bad. This is how I got injured. When I get home, I don't want to talk about it anymore.” But that gave me the time to go home in the car, to have my own space with the feelings, and to allow them to move around and for me to move through them. We often have unwanted emotions. It’s ok. They're telling us something, and we just need to listen to them to be able to move through them. If we try to push them down, they’ll get bigger and worse. Quick Tip #2: Get moving The second tip is to get moving and, ideally, enjoy nature. Sometimes, when I'm frustrated by my day or can't focus anymore, I'll just say, “Diane, go for a walk.” My favourite place to go for a walk is in the forest. Walking in the forest calms me. Moving my body helps release endorphins and gets me in that feel-good place again. Now, I'm not always feeling 100% afterward, but at least it pulls me out of the mood slightly. Getting a little bit of that blood flow going really helps. In those moments, I make sure not to listen to a podcast. Music is okay as long as it's keeping me in the space, usually Christian music because I know it's going to be positive, and it's not going to be anything too heavy or with lyrics that will jar me. Maybe you're in a space where you can't do these things. Even in a building on a rainy day, you could go and walk stairs. I don't mean run stairs. I mean, walk stairs. You can even go and walk the floors. You could walk the parking lot, just getting your body moving. If you only have a few minutes, and you are physically able, maybe it's 10 jumping jacks. Just something to get your body going and to move you out of your head.  You need a mood booster. Many people turn to donuts, cookies, alcohol, or caffeine drinks, but that isn't always the best choice in the long run. If you can get your body moving, it's going to help to pull your brain away from the moment and allow you to move physically from the negative mood that you were stuck in. Quick Tip #3: To do something you enjoy Something you enjoy could be reading, coloring, painting, listening or dancing to music, talking with a friend, or going to a gallery. The list goes on and on. But it's doing something you enjoy and not completely numbing your mind. This is not watching TV. It might be watching comedy because you want to laugh. But it's not scrolling aimlessly through social media. Have some intention about it. Is there something specific that you enjoy about social media or about TV? Then maybe that could be a good fit for you. Maybe you have a favourite show, comedy, or something that just makes you feel good. This is not binge-watching.  This isn't about losing yourself in it. These are intentional activities that boost your mood. You could bake, cook, or sew. There are so many hobbies out there.
If you had a day off, what would you do with your time? You would not go and clean your house unless you really enjoy cleaning it. Hey, who am I to judge? Doing something you enjoy will naturally boost your mood and help you feel better. Even if you're like, “I don't have time. I have a business meeting, I have to get back to it,” could you have a phone call with a friend for a few minutes? Can you watch one positive video? Can you do one small thing that will help improve your mood? I know you can do it. Wrapping Up These are the three quick tips to get you out of a mood. Give your feelings space, getting you moving, preferably enjoying nature, and doing something you enjoy. If you have something that is a bigger mood, a long-lasting depression, anxiety or such, these tips are only going to give you brief relief. They are not going to get to the heart of what's going on with you. I do encourage you to get support, get a counselor, talk to your health care providers, have a coach, have something in place to bring you consistently up. Then you can tap into these quick tips to get you out of a mood because you're already at a higher baseline. These tips are things I do when I've just had a rough time and especially before my family gets home. These are the things I try to do so that my family gets the better version of me, not the one that's going to take them down. They'll get the wife, and mother that has the opportunity to show up as they need me to be. Taking that time is important. Sometimes, I'll say to my hubby, “I just need to go for a walk. I need some space.” Going for a walk in nature actually checks off all of these tips: it gives my feelings some space, gets me moving, and I really enjoy being in the forest. If you want to discuss this further and get some coaching support, you can email me at [email protected] or reach out to me on any of the platforms where I am. Comment below with some other quick tips to get out of a mood! Read my other blogs: 1. 3 Ways You’ll Get Left Behind by NOT Being an Author 2. How to Boost Your Confidence 3. Steal My Strategy for Delegating |
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