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Life Made Simple
by Shanna Mills
Welcome to Life Made Simple with Shanna Mills where we learn practical ways to apply personal development and re-invent our everyday lives. Whether you are navigating a transition, reaching for your dream life, or learning to make you, priority number one, I got you.Get ready to live your life on purpose, one episode at a time. Let’s go.
Episodes
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Episode 60: I Don't Know Where to Start - 9 Steps to Make "It" Happen
You love the idea of reinventing yourself or making a change to an area of your life. Maybe you want to get healthy, change jobs, make new friends. Maybe you would want a complete over-haul. But making changes can be hard. Maybe you've even tried before and failed. Maybe you don't know how to...
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Episode 59: It's Never Too Late
“We don’t stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing”. ~George Bernard Shaw
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Episode 58: Be your own Knight in Shining Armor
If you are wallowing in a life you don’t love, hoping to be rescued by your knight in shining armor, it’s time you stop playing the victim and become the hero of your life. Because no one is coming to save you. You have to save yourself. You have to take your power back; you are your priority.
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Episode 57: 5 Tips to Improve Difficult Conversations
So many situations require difficult conversations. In our personal lives, between partners, parents, children, and other family members. At work, we may have to ask for a raise or promotion, or maybe we are the boss having to give feedback to an employee. Difficult conversations are required if...
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Episode 56: How to Meet People
Having reached a low point in my life, I knew something that really added to my unhappiness, was not having the group of intimate friends I desired. When I decided to change my life, I knew an important part of that process would be meeting people and making some new connections.
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Episode 55: Who Are Your Five People? A Journal Exercise
Jim Rohn said, “You are the average of the five people you spend the most time with.” This isn’t just common sense, it’s backed up by science. You are in charge of who you spend your time with even when it feels like that’s not true. Try this 5 Step Journal Exercise to discover your five people…
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Episode 54: 7 Ways I Practice Spirituality and Why You Should Too
Through regular practice and rituals we are reminded often of our beliefs and that helps to keep us grounded. The more we practice the better we develop our spiritual habits and the better we are able to maintain a healthy perspective throughout our everyday lives. Spirituality Tool-Kit...
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Episode 53: Is Something Missing?
Do you find yourself constantly searching? I suffered from a near constant feeling of being unsatisfied. It was like an annoying itch I tried to scratch but never seemed to eradicate. I used to think that I was cursed with an inherent discontent, that I was a person who would never be content.…
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Episode 52: 3 Tips to Become a Traveler
I’m traveling to Iceland in a week for a vacation with a couple of my girlfriends. I decided to share 3 tips for those of you who dream of traveling but always relegate those dreams to someday…meaning you never actually make it happen. CLICK HERE to get a simple Bucket List Template.
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Episode 51: Reset Life for Fall
This time of year here in Michigan we begin to spend more and more time indoors. After the rapid pace of the summer season I find my life cluttered, messy, and in need of a thorough reset. From my skincare routine to my kitchen cabinets I’m in need of a shuffle, purge, and reorganization. Nothing...
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Episode 50: How To Have Your Own Back
Here are 16 tips to having your own back. When we have low self-esteem we don’t trust ourselves. We don’t trust our judgment, ideas, opinions, and abilities. We don’t live lives that are authentic and true to who we are. We don’t get to feel our full range of emotions and we certainly don’t get…
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Episode 49: Are You a People Pleaser?
9 Common Traits of People Pleasers I didn’t realize I was a people pleaser. In fact, I would have argued that I was very confident, bold even. I don’t fawn over people or seem overly compassionate, outwardly. Most people assume I am confident and autonomous. I probably learned this behavior to...
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Episode 48: From Procrastination to Motivation
Recently I have been feeling burnt out. It’s the end of summer and this time of year I always find myself totally spent and in need of a reset. Heck…every season I need a reset! In summer I want to absorb every ray of sunlight, attend all the social interactions, do all the traveling, eat all the...
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Episode 47: 3 Ways to Live an Awesome Life
I think the best advice comes from people with experience in the things we are struggling with in our life, people who have been there and lived it. But sometimes we aren’t aware of what we are creating in our lives while we are in the thick of it, we don’t have the big picture view that can…
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Episode 46: 50 Simple Luxuries for Every Day
I get one life, so of course I want to make it the absolutely best life that I can and for me that includes luxury and comfort. Sometimes I forget to make the best of my everyday life. I get busy and run from thing to thing without stopping to smell the roses. So I compiled this list of 50 Simple...
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Episode 45: Re-Invent Your Work Life: 5 Steps to Create Your Vision
While going to work may not be our ideal activity, most of us do want to earn money to pay for housing, food, and the other necessities of modern life. I’m going to go a step further here and say I want to enjoy my work and to be engaged. I want my work and my life to balance and compliment each...
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Episode 44: Re-Invent Your Work Mindset
When it comes to work we can sometimes get into a negative mindset. Because when we believe we have to do something, like it’s against our will, we rebel against it. The reality is, we work because we want to. Gasp!! Yes, I said we want to. If you truly don’t want to work, then don’t. Now I’m not...
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Episode 43: Quality Over Quantity Diet
Over and over I experimented and learned new things about health and wellness. I created my own healthy lifestyle by taking what served me and leaving what didn’t. This is what I’ve learned.
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Episode 42: 9 Summer Skincare Tips
This is a list is simply what I have noted about my summer skincare, what I’m doing well, where I need work, and what I’d like to do differently. It’s in no particular order just as things came to mind. My goal here is to get myself back on track and in the process maybe you can find inspiration...
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Episode 41: Mid Year Healthy Habit Check-Up
I love the idea of hitting the reset button in January and again in July, about six months apart because I believe it will keep my weight and fitness steady and strong.
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Episode 40: 2 Simple Ways to Boost Your Self-Confidence
Self-confidence is a feeling of trust in one's abilities, qualities, and judgment. You may have heard me discuss before that we are in charge of how we feel. Self-confidence is a feeling and it’s totally within our control to create it. Self-confidence can be cultivated with our thoughts.
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Episode 39: 3 Practices to Make Life Better
Are you running mindlessly from task to task, not taking a moment to breathe or stop and smell the roses? Wouldn’t you like to have breathing room in your schedule? Remember who is in charge of not only your time…but your mind. It was these three areas of focus that changed my life and they can...
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Episode 38: 8 Ways to Slow Down and Enjoy the Present
Of course it’s a good idea to plan for our future, to set goals, and to dream, but we want to be careful not to spend our lives chasing a carrot either. We want to be present in our lives right now. Life is never better later or when we finally arrive somewhere. The best moment is always the one...
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Episode 37: Be More Attractive
Most of us think about how we look, what we would should wear, and how we are being perceived by others many times a day. Often this includes some pretty harsh judgements, here's how to be more attractive to others but more importantly, how to be more attractive to yourself. Citations Jeanne J....
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Episode 36: 18 Tips To Write and Achieve Your Bucket List
Do You Have a Bucket List? Tips to write one and actually start crossing things off. I think everyone should have a bucket list because letting yourself think of all the possibilities available to you in life helps you stretch yourself and get the most out of your life. If you never consider the...
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Episode 35: What To Do With Regrets
You may think you don’t have many but I bet you at least have a couple. Sometimes we tell ourselves lies to make ourselves feel better. I’m glad I never kissed so and so. I’m so relieved I never went to art school…you can say it but you aren’t kidding anyone and especially not yourself my friend.
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Episode 34: Ever Want to Escape from Your Life?
What to do when you feel like running away and why escaping probably isn’t the answer. Being stuck in limbo between the life we have and the life we fantasize about is a miserable purgatory of discontent and no place to live.
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Episode 33: The 2 Most Common Limiting Beliefs
Limiting beliefs are the thoughts holding us back from living our best life and from achieving our dreams. Beliefs are the thoughts we have that are so ingrained we don’t realize they are thoughts at all, we simply believe them as truth. These thoughts are so sticky, so deep inside us, that often...
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Episode 32: 3 Ways to Level Up Your Environment and Your Life
We’ve all heard Jim Rohn’s famous quote, “You are the average of the five people you spend the most time with.” If you haven’t heard this quote let it sink in…because I believe it’s so true. But you have to put sage advice into action or it's useless...so I've created a simple action plan for you...
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Episode 31: Why You Need Non-Negotiables to Successfully Create Healthy Habits
If you want to change your habits but never seem to be successful, what you need are non-negotiables. A non-negotiable is something in your life that is not open to discussion or modification. I find non-negotiables work especially well when we are trying to develop good self-care and health habits.
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Episode 30: My Seven Secrets to Stay on Track
I want you to learn and live your best life. I know you’ve tried to change your life or your habits before but can’t seem to stay on track so I’m going to share with you my secrets for keeping on track so you can finally be successful this time around.
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Episode 29: Feel More Alive, Especially in Spring
Everything exists with its equal and its opposite, the whole has its pieces and nothing is missing, everything is as it should be. In the spring we are naturally in balance so we feel more alive. We feel more alive because we are experiencing life more fully.
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Episode 28: 5 Simple Steps to Get What You Want
I recently read a quote that said, “You will be exactly as happy as you decide to be.” It didn’t say who said it, but it’s so true. For example, I could be super rich, have a decent family, and all the trimmings and still be miserable. We see it all the time. Or, I could be a super poor orphan…
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Episode 27: 30 Ways in 30 Days to Edit Your Life
If you've ever wanted to run away and start over somewhere new, or if you simply want to have a fresh start in your life than this list for you. If you truly want a fresh start, this is exactly the work you need to be doing. Get rid of all the stuff that does not belong in your new life, slowly...
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Episode 26: 5 Ways to Use the Seasonal Energy to Enjoy and Improve our Life
We are feeling cooped up, ready to burst, and out of balance. We want outside and we’re itching to move on to the next season. We sense a new beginning. We are well rested and full of energy. We can feel our batteries recharging and we can use this energy to enjoy improve our life.
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Episode 25: How to Make Your Every-Days Awesome
What does an awesome day look like for you? Do you know? Wouldn't it be nice to enjoy your every-days so much you stop pining for the weekend or dreading Mondays? Here's how.
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Episode 24: How to Feel More Love
The definition of love according to the internet dictionary is - an intense feeling of deep affection. Who doesn't want more of that? Who doesn’t want to feel more love? We can actually learn and train ourselves to feel more love.
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Episode 23: Eight Ways to Stop Wasting Your Precious Time
We must remember to live our best life each day. Each moment adds up to our lives. We should be thinking how can we make today great. Because today is our life.
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Episode 22: Who Do You Want To Be?
Growth is a good thing, you can be anyone you want so why not actively choose the type of person you will be? Going with the flow and just letting nature take its course is fine as long as you are perfectly happy with your life, health, connections, and contribution to the world. Knowing who you...
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Episode 21: What Is Holding You Back in Your Life and What To Do about It
I think everyone has dreams and desires that we think of and sometimes fantasize about. But we often don’t even consider making these dreams a reality. Therefore we never get there, these dreams remain nothing more than wishes, and we don’t even consider the possibility!
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Episode 20: What Self Care Really Is
With deep self care you will be have the vitality, energy, and overall wellness to achieve what you want and support others at a higher level. To care for our health, welfare, maintenance, and protection, and in order to this, we must feel concern or interest and attach importance to ourselves.
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Episode 19: If You Want a Different Life, You have to Live Differently
Do you ever find yourself wanting more adventure or maybe more relaxation? Maybe you wish you lived a healthier lifestyle, dream of moving somewhere warm, or changing careers. You can have the life you want, the alternative is regret.
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Episode 18: 10 Thoughts about a Fresh Start
List of 10 things to look at when you need a fresh start. If you feel discontent and want to escape, the fresh start may not need be as dramatic as you think.
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Episode 17: How to Stop Caring what Other People Think
In this episode I help you identify when you are listening more to others than to yourself. Am I doing things - for me? Am I planning goals that make me truly happy? Or am I unknowingly doing things to impress others or fit it? Am I people pleasing? What would make me truly happy? Recommend the...
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Episode 16: Practicing Mindfulness
Practicing mindfulness is step one in managing your mind or beginning a meditation practice.
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Episode 15: Life Balance
Maintaining balance in our lives is a continuous practice because what we want and need in our lives is ever evolving. If you're feeling out of sorts, overwhelmed, or discontent, you could be out a balance. Take a look at what might be too much or not enough in the areas of your life and take...
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Episode 14: Freedom and Independence
Do you want freedom and independence? It is available to you now if you will just stop giving it away to others. Through mindfulness, you can begin creating an authentic life one choice at a time. Independence and Freedom are Always Available
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Episode 13: Boundaries
If you have areas of your life that bring constant frustration you are in need of boundaries. This episode gives you the tools. A super simple way to create boundaries and take charge of your life for good.
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Episode 12: Letting Go of Ideal Blueprints for Better Relationships
In this episode we look at our expectations and Ideal Blueprints for people and relationships. We see the suffering they cause and how to let go of them. This may be some of the most useful work I have done in my own life and hope you apply it to yours so you too can reap the benefits of having...
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Episode 11: 10 Thoughts About Health
In this episode I give 10 thoughts about health. Super quick advice and a little ranty but good stuff.
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
Welcome to Life Made Simple with Shanna Mills where we learn practical ways to apply personal development and re-invent our everyday lives. Whether you are navigating a transition, reaching for your dream life, or learning to make you, priority number one, I got you.Get ready to live your life on purpose, one episode at a time. Let’s go.
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