November 13, 2024

Podcast Episode 331 - Creating Your Dream Support System

November 13, 2024/ Heather Bunch

In this episode it’s all about the importance of community and support systems for us to fulfill our dreams. If you’re feeling isolated, it can hinder progress. I share my own journey of finding a supportive network. If I can do it, you can too! The episode outlines steps to build a dream support system, including identifying allies, nurturing meaningful connections, and creating accountability to achieve personal and professional goals.

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Do you meet everyone else’s needs and skip your own?

Do you feel most alive when you’re helping others?

Do you desire to live a life of real significance beyond yourself?

Do you feel most worthy when you’re loved and can love others?

Have you ever struggled to receive a gift but are continually giving gifts?

Do you need meaningful connections with others regularly, or are you unsatisfied?

How do you react when you can’t control your circumstances? Do you overreact, act like it’s no big deal or scrabble for control?

Do you have a burning need for life to be certain?

How do you seek certainty? Faith? Positive outlook?

How do you currently cope with situations that feel unpredictable or uncertain in your life? Or do you ever feel like life is boring you to tears because it’s the same thing over and over?

Have you ever felt like your efforts went unnoticed or unappreciated, and how did that make you feel?

Have you experienced feelings of loneliness or isolation? Do you remedy that in healthy or unhealthy ways?

Have you ever wanted to have an adventure but were too afraid to do it?

Is it scary for you to let people into your life?

Do you ever struggle with your worth?

Have you ever been so consumed with getting something done that everything else went on the back burner?

Do you struggle with developing deep relationships?

Have you ever wished life felt fuller and more meaningful?

Do you feel like there’s more in you crying to come out?

Have you ever thought, “if I show you fully myself, people will think I’m too much”?

What is it you really want?

Do you struggle with feeling shame?

Have you ever said, “what’s wrong with me?”

Does anyone in your life try and put shame on you?

Has someone ever said something to you that you took on as personal shame?

Are you always “the problem”? You know, they’re always right and you’re always wrong?

Has anyone else ever made you feel broken?

Have you ever gotten halfway through a project or new endeavor and thought, “Dang I wished I knew that before I started?”

Have you ever gotten a chance to sit with someone you admire, but your mind froze, and you couldn’t think of anything intelligent to say?

Or worse, have you ever been around a successful person and just shot your mouth off and later thought, “What was I thinking?”

Do you somedays feel like giving up or aren’t sure if you’ve got enough strength on your own to make it?

Have you ever shared an issue with someone, and they gave you a solution that never occurred to you?

Do you feel stuck in the same ole’ life with no new opportunities on your horizon?

Have you ever felt so tired you wanted to give up?

Do you have time for everyone’s needs but nothing left in your tank?

Ever feel like a maid, taxi driver and butler all rolled into one, and now you’re starting to resent the very people you’re helping?

Is it hard to stay positive with all the negativity around you?

How do the people around you make you feel, think and act?

Do they have a positive or negative influence on you?

When you were a kid, did you hate when your mom said, “Because I said so”? Or were you the kid that everyone was tired of you overloading them with questions?

Now that you’re an adult, do you find that new office policy ludicrous, so you’re not doing it?

Do you get bogged down in the details because you just need a bit more information to make a decision?

Do you accomplish those monthly reports with no problem while keeping up with your daily exercise routine and even tracking it?

Are you that person that determines to write a book or accomplish a new goal, and you make it happen?

Do people secretly envy your ability to keep a routine?