You Are Creating Your Life Right Now (On Purpose or By Default)
You are creating your life right now. Not someday. Not when things calm down. Not when you feel ready.
Right now.
The question is not if you are creating. The question is whether you are doing it on purpose or by default.
You Were Made to Create
You were made in the image of God. And God is a Creator.
That means you were designed to create. Not just in artistic ways, but in your everyday life.
You create your habits, your relationships, your patterns, and your results.
You Are Always Creating
Even when you think you are just getting through the day, you are creating.
Through your thoughts, emotions, actions, and patterns, you are shaping your life.
There is no neutral. You are either reinforcing patterns or creating new ones.
The Creation Cycle
Your thoughts create your feelings.
Your feelings drive your actions.
Your actions create your results.
Your results reinforce your thoughts.
This cycle is always running.
On Purpose vs By Default
Creating by default looks like reacting, repeating patterns, and believing every thought.
Creating on purpose looks like deciding who you want to be, choosing your thinking, taking action, and practicing consistency.
A New Way Forward
If your life is not aligned with who you want to be, it is not because you cannot change.
It is because you have not yet learned how to create on purpose.
And that is something you can learn.
You are not just living your life. You are creating it.
You can continue creating by default. Or you can begin creating on purpose.
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You are creating your life.
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Not someday. Not when things come down, calm down.
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Not when you feel more ready.
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Right. Now.
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The question is not if.
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you are creating. The question is,
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Are you creating on purpose?
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Or, are you creating by default?
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Because one of those leads to a life you actually want,
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And the other leads to a life that you're simply managing.
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Welcome to the Christian Life Coach Podcast. I'm Shanna, your Christian life coach.
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This is where we talk about transformation through the renewing of your mind,
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And what that actually looks like in real life.
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This month, we are…
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talking about…
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Creation. Creating.
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The work that you are either doing,
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or avoiding.
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In your own life.
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So, you were made…
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to create.
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What? You were made in the image of God.
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And God…
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is the creator of the universe.
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And because we are made in His image, then we also are creators.
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We are creative.
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And I…
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I know I've told this story before, but I am a big planner.
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I love to journal and plan each morning.
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And when…
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I really started being intentional.
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in my mindset work, it was when I…
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was on a weight loss journey.
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And I would, every morning in my planner, I would write
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statements that I wanted to be true about me. I was working on my identity.
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who I wanted to be, who I was becoming.
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And so I would just, like, kind of write down whatever came to mind, and one day,
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I wrote down, I am creative.
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And I literally put my pen down. I was like…
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What? No, we are not.
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That's not true. You are not creative.
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And I kind of sat with it for a minute. I paused.
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And…
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I realized that
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There's a difference.
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between being creative,
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And being artistic. Or even that artistic is a sub…
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a subheading of what it looks like to be creative, right?
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You can be creative.
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in many different ways.
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Not just be artistic, not just…
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be able to paint and draw and sing and play instruments, because
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in my mind, that was creative.
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So, creative can be in the arts, it can be in business,
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And also…
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It's… what we do in life.
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We create habits.
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We create patterns. We create relationships.
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We create results.
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We create our lives.
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All of it.
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And it's designed that way.
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This is how we were made.
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And…
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We are always creating.
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people think, I'm just trying to get through the day, I'm just doing the best that I can.
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I'm not really creating anything right now.
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Yes. You are.
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You are always creating.
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You're creating through your thoughts,
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Your emotions, your actions,
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your patterns. You are creating results,
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Whether you like those results or not.
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And there is no neutral.
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Right?
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There is no staying the same.
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There is no…
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stopping. We keep going. We're not standing still.
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You're either reinforcing
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patterns.
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Intentionally or unintentionally, or you're creating new patterns.
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So you're either reinforcing,
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or you're creating.
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And… I'll go through the creation cycle again.
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And that is… that…
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The title of it is not…
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Um, not coincidence.
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your thoughts, the things that you think, your collections of thoughts, your individual thoughts, create how you feel.
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And your feelings…
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Your emotions drive your actions.
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And your actions…
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create the results that you end up with.
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And then, your results reinforce your thoughts.
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And that's how habits are formed. That's how patterns are created.
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So, if you're looking at your life right now and thinking, I'm inconsistent, I keep starting over, I don't follow through, I feel stuck,
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This didn't just happen.
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that didn't just come out of the blue.
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That was created. Not intentionally.
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I assume. But it's predictable.
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And… that is such great news. Like, that should actually give you hope.
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Because if you have been creating that,
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then you can recreate
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something different.
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And I just had a little…
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I woke up this morning…
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And if you're listening in real time, this is…
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This episode is coming out the first week in April 2026.
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And today is March. It's actually March 23rd, but I… in my planning time and everything, was thinking it was March 24th, which is weird, but anyway.
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I woke up this morning with the word.
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recalibrate.
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on my brain. And so I went into…
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Um, and this is a total aside, just so you know. This is not in my notes at all.
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Um, but I just woke up with Recalibrate, and I haven't really sat with it. I looked it up,
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And I was just like, okay, I need to ponder this.
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But I just, as I am reading my notes,
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what you have created by default.
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can be recalibrated.
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And you can create different differently.
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You just never know. You never know up in here.
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And I do not believe in coincidence, I believe in…
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I believe in confirmation.
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Also, it was not coincidence that, again, a side note,
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When I looked up the word recalibrate on my… one of my very favorite websites, WordHippo,
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I copied and pasted the definitions, and I just… I went and just opened the first document that I came to.
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And it was a super old
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document where I had taken notes on something. I don't even know how that popped up right away.
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But I pasted the definition just because I wanted to have it
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on a document to use for something else, you know.
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in my, like, little research.
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that I was doing right then, and…
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I'm not even kidding. Like…
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This is… and again, it's just confirmation. I… my brain… your brain, our brains, are always looking for confirmation for what we're thinking.
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And in that document that I had taken notes on, I don't even… it was a person…
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I don't even know. Anyway.
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I kind of… I just kind of scrolled down to see, oh, what is this document? And the word calibrate.
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was on a line by itself in that document.
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What? Like, I don't… I don't use the word calibrate very often.
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So… anyway, just, you know, I'm always looking for those confirmations, those glimmers.
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As some people call them.
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Okay, so, getting back here, back focus, Shanna.
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So,
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We're talking about creation, creating,
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on purpose versus by default.
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So, in general…
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You can look at it in general, and you can then break it down into specific areas. Are you creating your life on purpose?
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Or… are you living your life creating your life?
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By default.
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Creating, by default, looks like reacting instead of deciding.
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Just doing what feels good in the moment.
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Repeating the same patterns?
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believing every thought that pops up into your head.
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creating on purpose, on the other hand, looks like,
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Deciding. Who do I want to be?
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choosing thoughts…
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choosing thinking patterns, ways of thinking that support
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who you want to be.
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Taking action, even when it's uncomfortable, especially then.
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And practicing consistency.
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Those are the differences between
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Living a life that you manage,
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And creating a life that you actually want.
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So,
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looking at your life right now,
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No shame.
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No condemnation.
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There is now, therefore, now. There is…
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There is, therefore, now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus.
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And I just read a verse this morning.
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in my devotions, thinking it was March 24th, when it's actually March 23rd.
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And one of the passages said,
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God is not reminding you of your sin.
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So good! So no shame, no condemnation, looking at your life with honesty.
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What are you currently creating?
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in your health.
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Habits. Relationships.
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mindset. Finances.
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In your job. And is that aligned with who you really want to be?
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And if it's not…
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This is such great news!
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Because you can change.
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You can start living more and more.
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on purpose, creating…
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what you want.
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Maybe it's just because you haven't learned how to create on purpose yet, or…
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Maybe you just haven't practiced.
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enough creating on purpose yet.
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Romans 12.2,
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the scripture verse of the Christian Life Coach Podcast says that we are transformed by the renewing of our minds.
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Be transformed by the renewing of your mind.
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That is creation language.
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Transformation is not accidental.
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it's intentional, and God designed it that way. God is so intentional, God is so…
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meticulous. He didn't just say,
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Just wait and hope that you're gonna change.
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He said, renew your mind.
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participate in the process.
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And that…
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your participation in the process is the work that I do with my clients.
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We don't just talk about goals, and we don't just make plans.
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We do those things.
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We also…
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work on seeing things clearly.
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what am I creating right now?
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How do I start creating something different on purpose?
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And we… we do that by looking at what are you thinking.
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What are the emotions that are driving your actions?
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And once you see it, you can't unsee it. Once you see the creation cycle at work, you cannot unsee it.
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It's…
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magical. Masterful.
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So, over the next few episodes, we are going to be talking about…
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why things like fear and inconsistency,
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get in the way. I'm going to talk a little bit, too, about coaching. I… I'm…
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poaching a lot of coaches right now.
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And I have a business program for creating a coaching practice.
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And so I'm going to go a little bit behind the scenes, too, for coaching and what that looks like, and what gets in the way of coaches
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doing the things?
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that it takes to create a coaching practice. And I'm going to relay it all back to people that are not in coaching situations also,
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Because it's not…
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It's not any different in normal life than it is in building a business life.
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It's about my coaches becoming…
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the… the coach, the woman that is creating
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a business that she loves, and it's also about becoming a woman who creates our lives on purpose.
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Just a reminder, you are not just living your life.
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You are creating it.
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So let's start doing that on purpose.
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And creating what you want?
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Not just what you're creating by default.
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And if you're looking for something more, like, how do I get started? What do I do?
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Go to the show notes, there are a lot of resources, there are links that you can click, and you can kind of dig in more and more.
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Um, and stay tuned. Subscribe to the podcast.
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can listen to to get caught up.
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So, remember that life coaching is life-changing. One, renewed thought at a time.
