Episodes

It can help you – Improv can help you meet your goals and do better in life. Taking a class or workshop can help you with a variety of hurdles.

Be Present, Listen and Connect- To improv correctly, you have to be in the moment. You can’t think about what happened or what will happen but instead, concentrate on the now. In addition, you will be better at listening if you focus and connect with people.

Take Risks – Improv teaches you to take risks and reach out of your comfort zone. That lesson can impact the rest of your life.

Succeed as a Team – Nothing happens unless everyone wins. If you make people laugh and your team fails, your whole event fails too. You win by helping the team win.

Say ‘Yes’ to Everything! – The comedy dies if you don’t pick up the joke the previous person says. You say yes to everything, the team will succeed.

You Will Fail – You will fail. Everyone fails sometimes. Improve will teach you to fail gracefully and successfully.

Improve Your Speaking Skills – Improve helps your ability to speak in more common situations.

The “Callback” – Pick up a successful joke and take it even further.

Be Obvious – If your humor or intentions are hidden or covert, people will not get the joke.

Know That You Don’t Have Control – You don’t have control of everything in life. Improv will help you deal with situations where you don’t control.

Be Vulnerable and Honest – Being fake will be apparent, so the more genuine you are, the better you connect to the audience.

Add Descriptions to Objects – It will help you be more descriptive and more attentive by adding descriptions to the items in the room with you.

Shake It Off – If something terrible happens, shake it off and keep going.

Be Decisive – Decide about what actions you will take and do it in confidence!

Learn About You – The best part of improv is that you learn a lot about yourself.

Links

• https://medium.com/inside-the-mind-of-an-improviser/improv-in-everyday-life-d2c266a73dac

• https://stanfordmag.org/contents/8-life-lessons-you-can-learn-from-improv-without-ever-stepping-into-a-class
• https://www.playyourwaysane.com/blog/lessons-for-life-inspired-by-improv
• https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/91689/5-ways-doing-improv-can-help-your-professional-life

Decide how you’re going to bring more money into your life. Will you ask for a raise at your current job? Try for a different position at your current company or get another job at another company? Maybe you’re just going to ask for a raise. You’re going to do so by taking the emotion out of it and bringing your brag book. Have those lists of things that you did that earned or saved your company money. You want to go in with cold data when asking for a raise.

Look at the skills you have. Try to figure out what skills are available now or in your next job or a side hustle that you could use. Then go through the list and identify those you can monetize. Finally, put the income potential on those items to know how much it could bring in.

Look at ways of expanding your skills. Are there ways that you could take classes, professional development? Could you learn something new, get a new certification, or even a new degree that would help you become more valuable, either in your current company or your next company? What could you do to make your skills better and more valuable?

Look for a side hustle that you might be able to do to bring in extra income without leaving your job. Look at job websites like Google Craigslist TaskRabbit, and see what other side hustles people have and what kind of money they make. Figure out which ones would work for you, and hopefully give you some enjoyment. You want to make sure that if you do have a side hustle, that you like it. If you have trouble figuring out your skill assessment, ask your friends and family and ask them what they think you’re good at. Don’t get into a side hustle that will require a lot of stuff. Start out with something that you can just do right away without a lot of materials,

Challenge

• Come up with an exhaustive list of the skills you have. Talk to your friends and family. Talk to anyone who could help you and come up with a list of every skill, every ability, every special power you have going for you. Then put a checkmark next to the ones that could potentially earn you money.

Link

• https://thebudgetnista.com/
• https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCIT8TaVZg5VVxj94ycoJzPA

Summary

1. Be like a squirrel during good times. Save the acorns. Figure out what the acorns are. When do you know what money is coming in, maybe even some large quantities of money, you will know what you can save. Put the dollar amount on those acorns so you know how much you can save for all the different things you’re trying to save for.
2. Get to the point where you have six months of savings. What would it cost you to live for six months, not extravagantly, but just live in case something happened to your job, or something happened to your house or your car?
3. Figure out your Noodle Budget. That means what’s the bare minimum you need to live. For example, if something really catastrophic happens in your life, how much money would you have to make to cover you just eating the bare minimum food, doing the bare minimum things?
4. Decide when you are spending, whether you need it, love it, want it, or like it. Then make sure that you only buy the things that you really need, or that you really love. Don’t buy the stuff you just like, or you just want, or you’re going to end up with a whole house full of stuff that you end up throwing out. Then you’re going to feel really sad about it.
5. Automate your savings, both for your emergency funds and your savings for your dreams and other things you want to get. Is it a new car? Is it a new trip? Start making those savings automatic. And even if you can’t save enough money to get those things, at least you are putting some things in those funds.

Challenge

• Let’s do a little bit of dreaming, come up with the list of the savings accounts you want to have. Again, emergency savings comes first. That’s the hard one to get. It’s a lot of money, but it’s the one that’s going to let you sleep at night. It’s the one that’s going to keep you from worrying all the time. Then think about the other things. Are there trips you want to save for, are there items that you want to save for. But start coming up with that list so that you understand how much money it’s going to take to get your dreams. This is about honesty, and once we know what we want, it’ll be easier for us to attain it, even if it takes small steps.

Links

• https://thebudgetnista.com/

• https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCIT8TaVZg5VVxj94ycoJzPA

Summary

1. Get a good attitude about money. You do that by learning exactly the lessons you learned about money when you were younger and understand them.
2. Create your first budget by making a money-in list a money-out list. First, calculate how much money is left over and then break the costs into monthly savings. Next, figure out what the monthly budget is for your year. Next, assign categories to your expenses, so you understand if they are bills, usage bills, or cash expenses. Then use her rules to figure out if you’re not making enough money, or you just have too many expenses.
3. Go through your list of expenses and see ways that you can reduce the amount you’re spending. Look for ways that you can increase your income. Then recalculate your savings. Go through this with a fine-tooth comb. Are there subscriptions you have that you no longer use? Are there ways that you can reduce the bills that you have already?
4. Separate your funds, make sure that you have a checking account for your incoming money, a checking account for your outgoing money, savings account for your emergency savings, and savings account for everything else.
5. Get automated. Make sure that when you pay your bills, you’re using all the technology to get that done. Make sure that you’re in control of those accounts. Use notifications and everything else you can to get those bills paid out on time.

Challenge

• Start out with her first step of making a list of money coming in and out. Calculate those expenses for every month and then begin to categorize it. Get that very first budget in place.

Links

• https://thebudgetnista.com/
• https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCIT8TaVZg5VVxj94ycoJzPA

Summary

1. Create a Kitchen of the Mind, pick a room that will help you be the most creative, and decorate it with all the tools that you need. And all the decorations you have to make it the place where you can think most creatively about your life and goals.
2. Create a way of visualizing what your dreams and goals are that might be creating a digital board. Or it might be making a physical board or even just a hanging with a bunch of clips, but some visual way so that you can remember your goals, what you look like in your plans. And the things that you dream of. You don’t even have to do just one. You can make a bunch of them and put them throughout your house.
3. Figure out what your goal will sound like. Is it the crashing waves at a beach? Is it the sound of a pub in Ireland? Come up with a way of having that sound around you to remind you what it’s gonna feel like to be in your goal. What is your vision going to smell like? Is it the smell of a campfire? Or is it the smell of food while you’re walking through Cancun? Or maybe it’s the smell of the restaurant you opened up with a brand new food that you planned on serving your customers. But think about the smell.
4. Think about the taste of what your dream or vision is. Is it a particular meal? Is it a particular menu? Or is it a tropical drink all the senses into your visions and goals?
5. What does your goal feel like? Is it the hugs of the people around you? Is it the touch of sand on the ground? Or is it the dress you always dreamed of wearing? Remember to find a way to get the feel and the touch of your vision together.

Challenge

• Come up with one goal, write down how you can incorporate all the senses into achieving your goals and remind yourself of your plan. Are you one? Thanks so much. Please tell a friend about this podcast. And let them know that they can listen to it on any of the podcast services. Thank you very much, and have a great week.

Links

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KiWrMUek2cU
• http://www.thinkoutofthebox.comhttps://www.corkulous.com/https://www.canva.com
• https://www.picmonkey.com/https://www.picmonkey.com/blog/how-to-make-a-digital-vision-board
• https://www.nationalmilitaryspousenetwork.org/public/Taste-See-Feel-Success-Using-Our-Five-Senses-Accomplish-Goals-Dr-Krista-Wells.cfm
• https://www.founderjar.com/online-vision-board/https://visuapp.github.io/