340: Always think with your stick forward

I have been recovering from surgery this past week and, just like a long car ride, recovery gives you a long time to think. Over the past few months, life has had it’s struggles and my focus has been on not getting stuck. Even if I’m moving forward slow, I know that any movement is good movement. It got me thinking about a quote that Amelia Earhart had on the side of her plane; “always think with your stick forward”. Keep moving, even when you are trying to figure things out, that way you keep momentum and don’t crash. This week I want to share six ways you can “think with your stick forward” so that you don’t get stuck, even in the hard times and are able to use the slow down to your advantage so you keep feeling positive movement. Transcript: Welcome to the Art of Living big podcast. My name is Betsy pake. I’m an author, a speaker and a trainer of NLP and hypnotherapy. And I’m focused on helping you understand and design your life with the power of the subconscious. This podcast is designed to help you think differently about what could be possible for your life. Now, let’s go live big hello, hello fellow adventurers. I think this is going to be I think this is going to be a short little episode because I don’t want to drive you crazy with my nose. Can you hear my nose? I had surgery last week. So I want to give you a couple quick updates. I’ve got stuff to tell you. And I want to be able to tell you and I don’t want to make you listen to me for too long. So let me give you I’m gonna give you the rundown. It’ll be like a speed. It’d be like speed time together. Okay. So if you’re new here, hi. I’m happy that you’re here. This is a fun place to be get to know the other people that listen to this show. If you want your life to be better, I don’t know. I have the best listeners ever. Okay, so last week, I had surgery on my nose. You guys probably have heard me talk about this. If you’ve listened to the earlier episodes, it’s not my sinuses. It’s actually my nose. And let me just say 1000 times harder than I thought it was going to be. I don’t know what I thought. But I didn’t expect what I got. I mean, my whole face was so swollen. I looked like a cartoon dog. I just like a pug, cartoon pug. I mean, my phone didn’t recognize me, my dog didn’t recognize me. He was so confused because I think I smelled like me. And I sounded like me, but like my face did not look like me. And it has been a full week now. And I am just barely getting back to where I’m like anything like myself. They packed my nose with actually tubes. So I had tubes in my nose. Then they just took those out yesterday. So I really think that’s the turning point where I’m starting to feel a little bit more like myself, but I still can’t, I still can’t like blow my nose. I’m not allowed to blow my nose. I had a thickening of my septum so like a deviated septum. So they had to shave my septum down, basically and a few other things. So I can’t blow my nose because they don’t want me to like blow out whatever they did. But they also want me to neti pot. So if you’ve ever neti potted, but then not been able to blow the water out of your nose, you just understand the crazy making place where I am right now. So anyway, I survived my husband was a champ. Next Level champ, we both were shocked at the length of time it took me to recover and he was great. So that’s awesome. Also, I want to tell you that every Thursday, I am sending out three, an email with three things that I’m excited about.