The theme this month is inspiration and I’m bringing you the stories of 3 amazing guests but wasn’t sure what I’d do for my solo episodes! And then I was inspired to look up the definition of inspiration and then sources of inspiration and that then inspired me to share with you a list of 20 sources of inspiration and how they have impacted me in my life and I hope they will resonate with you. As when we feel inspired, we are in a place of more happiness and joy, raising our vibration and all of that boosts your immune system and health. There is a part two to this episode, with 10 more sources of inspiration to come in 2 more weeks! Use these episodes to get inspired and stay inspired!
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Imagine getting up every day full of energy is
Melissa Deally:if you were in your 20s. Again, what would that be? Like? What
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Melissa Deally:tomorrow's don't wait for your wake up call.
Melissa Deally:Welcome back to a another episode of The don't wait for
Melissa Deally:your wake up call podcast. I am your host, Melissa Daly. And
Melissa Deally:this month, I'm focusing on the theme of inspiration. And I'm
Melissa Deally:super excited to actually be bringing you three amazing guest
Melissa Deally:interviews this month because there's five Saturdays in the
Melissa Deally:month of April 2022. From three amazing women who have suffered
Melissa Deally:near death experiences health issues, I've been told they'd
Melissa Deally:never walk again. And then they do you know, each of those
Melissa Deally:stories is very different story, but so inspirational in and of
Melissa Deally:itself. And so I hope you love these episodes. But that left me
Melissa Deally:kind of stalling on creating my own solo episodes wondering,
Melissa Deally:what do I talk about in regards to inspiration? How do I that?
Melissa Deally:How do I tie that back to health. And so I started by
Melissa Deally:looking up the definition. And the definition of inspiration is
Melissa Deally:the process of being mentally stimulated to do or feel
Melissa Deally:something, especially to do something creative, or a sudden,
Melissa Deally:brilliant, creative, or timely idea. And then I started
Melissa Deally:Googling sources of inspiration. And from there I became inspired
Melissa Deally:to share with you 10 sources of inspiration over my next two
Melissa Deally:episodes, and share with you how each of them has inspired me in
Melissa Deally:my life. And I just love that I was stalling. I didn't really
Melissa Deally:know what I was going to do with these two episodes to tie it in
Melissa Deally:with the theme, but also tie it back to health education, which
Melissa Deally:is what this podcast is all about. And in just starting to
Melissa Deally:do a little bit of research and looking for some ideas I got
Melissa Deally:totally inspired. So I hope you love this episode. I hope that
Melissa Deally:as you listen, it brings you inspiration as well. Because you
Melissa Deally:see whether you are inspired by another individual or something
Melissa Deally:within your own person. Inspiration is the motivator
Melissa Deally:within life. It is the catalyst for keeping you moving forward.
Melissa Deally:And more than that, when you're feeling inspired, there is hope
Melissa Deally:there is joy, there is belief that you can do something, it
Melissa Deally:feels exciting, it's feels new and good. And when we are in
Melissa Deally:this state, we are moved away from fear and anger and all the
Melissa Deally:negative emotions that can weigh heavy and bog us down and
Melissa Deally:literally cause disease in our body over time. Therefore, being
Melissa Deally:in a state of feeling inspired, leads you to a healthier frame
Melissa Deally:of mind and healthy physical body as you raise your vibration
Melissa Deally:and soar. So let's dive in. And as I go through this list, think
Melissa Deally:about how these
Melissa Deally:these 10 different inspiration or weight sources of inspiration
Melissa Deally:might inspire you in your life. And I hope by the end of this
Melissa Deally:podcast that your energy vibration has been lifted by you
Melissa Deally:thinking about this, as you hear me explain how each of these
Melissa Deally:sources of inspiration has impacted me in my life. So the
Melissa Deally:first source of inspiration on the list that I found was the
Melissa Deally:sunrise something that happens each and every single day. And
Melissa Deally:we don't necessarily see it. In fact, very rarely do most of us
Melissa Deally:get to see the sunrise because especially in the summer months
Melissa Deally:and if you're living out North is happening in the wee hours of
Melissa Deally:the morning and we are still asleep. But last October, I went
Melissa Deally:camping with my oldest daughter, back country camping, something
Melissa Deally:that we've started doing together since the pandemic. And
Melissa Deally:then we really come to enjoy. We love being in nature, it gets us
Melissa Deally:off devices, and just gets us to spend time together creating
Melissa Deally:memories. And being in nature, which just lets the stress drip
Melissa Deally:right off your body. Right. And we had looked up before we left
Melissa Deally:because of course, there's no Wi Fi, there's no devices, etc.
Melissa Deally:What time the Sunrise was going to be this was very early
Melissa Deally:October. And we decided to get up and watch the sunrise. And so
Melissa Deally:we got up at 5am. And it was still chilly. And we found an
Melissa Deally:empty, empty platform that someone hadn't used in the
Melissa Deally:campsite the night before. And we took our chairs, and we took
Melissa Deally:our sleeping bags, and we sat in the chairs snug in our sleeping
Melissa Deally:bags. And we just watched the light move across the sky, as
Melissa Deally:the sun got higher and higher in the sky, and all of the shades
Melissa Deally:and the changes of the color in the sky during the 45 minutes
Melissa Deally:that it took for the sun to fully come up over the
Melissa Deally:mountains, the oranges and pinks and yellows. And every sunrise
Melissa Deally:is different. And it was just so beautiful to have that quiet
Melissa Deally:time in the morning, we weren't even talking just sitting there
Melissa Deally:being together, mesmerized by the beauty of nature, something
Melissa Deally:that I'm always in awe of. And so that is definitely a source
Melissa Deally:of inspiration, an opportunity to be grateful for each new day
Melissa Deally:that you get to wake up to. And as you're watching that and
Melissa Deally:letting your mind wander, it's almost meditative. That's when
Melissa Deally:creative ideas can be coming to you, as well. So source number
Melissa Deally:two is past achievements.
Melissa Deally:And when we look back at what we've accomplished, then that
Melissa Deally:can be an inspiration for what we might have ahead of us. And
Melissa Deally:that can be incredibly powerful as well. And some story that I
Melissa Deally:shared recently in my coaching group was the absolute belief
Melissa Deally:that I could do something, but it would happen, and there was
Melissa Deally:never a doubt. And when we believe in something that deeply
Melissa Deally:to the core, then we can always accomplish it. Right. And so it
Melissa Deally:was a great reminder for me, because as an entrepreneur in
Melissa Deally:business, you've got your UPS, you've got your downs, you're
Melissa Deally:trying not to listen to all those voices in your head that
Melissa Deally:are telling you that you're not good enough or you're not, you
Melissa Deally:know, be able to achieve the goals that you've set for
Melissa Deally:yourself this year, etc, etc. And standing above all of that,
Melissa Deally:and keeping going can be difficult. But when we truly tap
Melissa Deally:into what we're doing it, why we're doing it. And we know that
Melissa Deally:to the depths of our core, we still show up every single day
Melissa Deally:and put one foot in front of the other. And so that story
Melissa Deally:happened almost 30 years ago now, I was actually hired to
Melissa Deally:translate at the Canadian Embassy in Japan at an event for
Melissa Deally:BC pavilion Corporation, as a simultaneous translator. Now I
Melissa Deally:was raised in Japan and I speak Japanese but I had never done
Melissa Deally:simultaneous translation before. And so it was very nerve
Melissa Deally:wracking to say yes, that I would do that. But there was a
Melissa Deally:piece of me that knew that this was my opportunity to achieve
Melissa Deally:something else. And what I wanted to achieve was landed
Melissa Deally:immigrants see and the opportunity to get to continue
Melissa Deally:to live in Canada. And I knew at this event, there would be many
Melissa Deally:government officials there. And that if I went, I would have the
Melissa Deally:opportunity to meet them. And surely if I met them, I would
Melissa Deally:meet somebody that could help me in my desire to get my landed
Melissa Deally:immigrant status. I'd already tried through your normal
Melissa Deally:channels of filling out the paperwork and the application
Melissa Deally:etc. And that was this was all before the days of the Internet
Melissa Deally:and been rejected twice because I didn't have a high enough
Melissa Deally:point score and a big part of that was the fact that my age I
Melissa Deally:think I was 22 at the time. And so I didn't have enough work
Melissa Deally:experience, etc, etc. And I'd heard that if you apply three
Melissa Deally:times and get rejected, then you're never going to get your
Melissa Deally:landed immigrant status. So I didn't want to try a third time
Melissa Deally:I had to do something differently. So I agreed to go
Melissa Deally:and be a simultaneous translator at this event in Japan. And when
Melissa Deally:I was there I did meet many government officials from both
Melissa Deally:The Federal Government and the BC government. And I was sharing
Melissa Deally:with all of them my story about how I do speak Japanese, I do
Melissa Deally:want to say and work in Canada, I'm not taking another Canadians
Melissa Deally:job, I can use my Japanese. I'm in Whistler, British Columbia at
Melissa Deally:the time, it was the heyday of Japanese tourists coming. They
Melissa Deally:needed more people that spoke Japanese. And what did I need to
Melissa Deally:be doing in order to stay.
Melissa Deally:And I got all of their business cards. And on one of the final
Melissa Deally:days that I was in Tokyo, I was in my hotel. And I had gone to
Melissa Deally:the elevator and I, for some reason, I think I was on the
Melissa Deally:third floor. And I was standing there by myself. And the next
Melissa Deally:thing I knew was the premier of our province, Premier Harcourt
Melissa Deally:came up and was waiting for the elevator to, and he was by
Melissa Deally:himself. And in my head, I just thought, This is who I need to
Melissa Deally:speak to. And this is my opportunity. And literally
Melissa Deally:between the third floor in the lobby, I told him my story of
Melissa Deally:wanting to stay in Canada speaking Japanese wanting not
Melissa Deally:taking a Canadian job, Canadians job, you know, the need for more
Melissa Deally:Japanese translators in Whistler, and we got to the
Melissa Deally:lobby level, and he said, my grandfather emigrated from
Melissa Deally:Australia to and he gave me his business card. And he said,
Melissa Deally:Write to me when you get back. And so I did. When I returned, I
Melissa Deally:wrote to every single one of those people that I had met, and
Melissa Deally:had all their cards. And when I say wrote, it was like on a
Melissa Deally:typewriter back then to write no computers. So typing out
Melissa Deally:individual letters to all of these people mailing them off.
Melissa Deally:And one day in the mail, I received a letter back from
Melissa Deally:premier Harcourt. And in the letter he wrote, I can't get
Melissa Deally:involved. In your case, however, you need to contact this phone
Melissa Deally:number in order to apply to become a landed immigrant. And I
Melissa Deally:did, I called that number immediately. And it was the
Melissa Deally:first time I ever got a human being on the other end of the
Melissa Deally:phone, instead of just getting lost in, you know, press one for
Melissa Deally:this, and two for that and three for that and never ever getting
Melissa Deally:to talk to a person. And when I got to talk to that person, she
Melissa Deally:explained the process for me as to what I could do in order to
Melissa Deally:become a landed immigrant. And I was literally a landed immigrant
Melissa Deally:within three months of that phone call. I had to go back to
Melissa Deally:Australia to do my fingerprinting and an interview
Melissa Deally:at the Canadian consulate in Australia. But I was able to
Melissa Deally:everything else from Canada. And that was my final steps. And I
Melissa Deally:became a Canadian, or a landed immigrant of Canada. And years
Melissa Deally:later, when Australia allowed dual citizenship, I was able to
Melissa Deally:become a Canadian citizen because of course, I've lived
Melissa Deally:here for 32 plus years now. And that was just one of those
Melissa Deally:pivotal moments where I knew to the depths of my core, that if I
Melissa Deally:took these steps, even though it was terrifying to be hired to be
Melissa Deally:a simultaneous translator, something that I'd never done
Melissa Deally:before. But I had to put myself in that situation in order to
Melissa Deally:meet the people that could help me get the goal and the dream
Melissa Deally:that I had of becoming a landed immigrant. And I worked. And I
Melissa Deally:hadn't done any personal growth work at that time or anything. I
Melissa Deally:just knew I was following my intuition. Something was telling
Melissa Deally:me that I had to do that. And I was able to do the simultaneous
Melissa Deally:translation it wasn't as scary in the end is what of course,
Melissa Deally:our mind always makes things out to be worse than they are. And I
Melissa Deally:achieved the goal that I wanted. And so I go back to that story.
Melissa Deally:Time and time again, to remind myself when things feel hard, or
Melissa Deally:when I'm afraid of moving forward with something, etc. To
Melissa Deally:dig deep and to believe in my core in what I'm doing that I
Melissa Deally:can do it, because I've done it before. And I know I can. And I
Melissa Deally:did meet other people after that on an ongoing basis of you know,
Melissa Deally:other Australians that said, oh, yeah, I'd like to stay here too.
Melissa Deally:I'm trying to apply. And I could always tell the ones that we're
Melissa Deally:going to be successful and the ones that weren't. And it was
Melissa Deally:the depth of that desire, of how much they truly wanted it.
Melissa Deally:Because if you don't want it enough, you're not going to
Melissa Deally:stick with it. Right? So looking back at past achievements can be
Melissa Deally:really inspirational. When you might be feeling down on
Melissa Deally:yourself not believing in yourself. You can also look at
Melissa Deally:achievements in sports, to what have you done in sports that can
Melissa Deally:inspire you moving forward, or looking at what others can do in
Melissa Deally:sports and then using that to help you, I remember when my
Melissa Deally:youngest daughter was about two, and I was, you know, trying to
Melissa Deally:teach her to swim, and I used to teach swimming lessons. And she
Melissa Deally:did not want to jump in from the edge of the pool. And then I
Melissa Deally:took her swimming with one of her little buddies once, and her
Melissa Deally:mom and her little buddy was about, I don't know, three
Melissa Deally:months older than her, and she jumped in from the edge of the
Melissa Deally:pool. And then my daughter saw that, and something clicked in
Melissa Deally:her brain and went, Oh, well, if she can do it, then I can do it.
Melissa Deally:And boom, she started jumping in from the edge of the pool. And
Melissa Deally:how often has that happened in your life, you know, look for
Melissa Deally:someone else that's done something. And that's motivated
Melissa Deally:you to be able to do that as well. So the third source of
Melissa Deally:inspiration is progress, assessing the progress, when we
Melissa Deally:set big, hairy, audacious goals for ourselves, they can feel
Melissa Deally:scary and impossible. And then we can talk ourselves down from
Melissa Deally:them, right, we have 70,000 conversations with ourselves in
Melissa Deally:our head every day. And a lot of what's being said in our head
Melissa Deally:isn't even true. And you know that if you talk that way to
Melissa Deally:another person, that person wouldn't even be your friend,
Melissa Deally:we're so hard on ourselves, right. And we'll talk ourselves
Melissa Deally:down from these big, hairy, audacious goals. And believe
Melissa Deally:that we can't do that we're not good enough, we're not smart
Melissa Deally:enough, whatever it is. But when we actually take that big goal,
Melissa Deally:and we break it down into chunks, you take a goal for the
Melissa Deally:year, and you break it down into a quarter, and then you break
Melissa Deally:that down into monthly, and then you break that down into weekly,
Melissa Deally:then you're like, oh, I can do this, right. And it feels so
Melissa Deally:much more doable. And then we can start talking ourselves into
Melissa Deally:what we can do, instead of being afraid of this big hairy goal.
Melissa Deally:That sounds so massive. And an example of that wasn't really
Melissa Deally:set as a goal in the first place. But an example of that
Melissa Deally:was recently my mum, who will be 77 years old this year, she
Melissa Deally:received the highest badge on Fitbit, they now have to make a
Melissa Deally:new badge for her I think, and it was the pole to pull badge.
Melissa Deally:And that means she has walked 12,430 miles since joining
Melissa Deally:Fitbit, basically from pole to pole. And I don't know how long
Melissa Deally:she's had her Fitbit for, I'm guessing it's seven years or
Melissa Deally:less, right. And so she's done all of this walking in her 70s
Melissa Deally:with her dogs. And her response when she got that badge was
Melissa Deally:really interesting, because she said to me, you know, if
Melissa Deally:somebody had asked me or suggested that I could walk
Melissa Deally:12,430 miles, or walk from the North Pole to the South Pole, I
Melissa Deally:would have said, that's impossible. And I would never
Melissa Deally:have believed that I could do it. But simply going out and
Melissa Deally:taking her dogs for a walk every single day and multiple times a
Melissa Deally:day, those were lucky dogs because she's retired, sometimes
Melissa Deally:they get you know, four or five walks a day. By chipping away at
Melissa Deally:it bit by bit by bit. All of a sudden, she earned the highest
Melissa Deally:badge that Fitbit has to offer the the pole to pole badge. So
Melissa Deally:when we break our progress down into smaller bite sized chunks,
Melissa Deally:we can actually continue to be inspired to move forward as we
Melissa Deally:celebrate each of the little successes along the way.
Melissa Deally:Now the fourth source of inspiration is quotes. And we
Melissa Deally:all know there's many, many, many inspirational quotes that
Melissa Deally:are out there. You can you know, Google them and pick your
Melissa Deally:favorite people search for quotes by them, whether it's
Melissa Deally:Maya Angelou, mother, Teresa Gandhi, Henry Ford, Hippocrates,
Melissa Deally:the list is endless. And have your favorite quote that you go
Melissa Deally:to, over and over again to keep reminding yourself, of putting
Melissa Deally:one foot in front of the other and being inspired. One of my
Melissa Deally:favorites is Henry Ford's quote of whether you think you can or
Melissa Deally:you think you can't, you're right. And that's such a great
Melissa Deally:reminder around mindset. If you think you can't, it's not going
Melissa Deally:to happen. If you think you can, now there you can achieve it,
Melissa Deally:right. I also love the quote, and I don't know who sent it but
Melissa Deally:love the life you live. Live the life you love. Life by design,
Melissa Deally:we all have the power to create the life that We love and to
Melissa Deally:live. So what are your favorite quotes, there are so many
Melissa Deally:wonderful, wonderful quotes out there. In fact, I have a
Melissa Deally:calendar on my desk, it's the you are a badass, new and
Melissa Deally:favorite inspirations. And one of them right in here, when I
Melissa Deally:just randomly picked a page, it happens to be one from February
Melissa Deally:15 of this year says success equals your dreams, plus fear.
Melissa Deally:Plus, doing it anyway. Right. So choose your favorite quotes,
Melissa Deally:post them on stickies around the house, on your desk in the
Melissa Deally:bathroom mirror on the bedside table in the car. And every time
Melissa Deally:you read it, let it bring a smile to your face, and lift
Melissa Deally:your energy that little bit higher. The fifth source of
Melissa Deally:inspiration is movies or documentaries. And this has been
Melissa Deally:one of the sources of a massive inspiration in my life. Because
Melissa Deally:years ago, I want to say, eight nine could even be 10 years ago.
Melissa Deally:With my Girl Guides, we went to a documentary called Girls
Melissa Deally:rising. And it was all about girls who wanted an education
Melissa Deally:and were being denied an education in various countries
Melissa Deally:around the world. And I sat watching that documentary, with
Melissa Deally:tears running down my face. Because here I am in first world
Melissa Deally:country where the kids, it's a no brainer. They go to school,
Melissa Deally:all children go to school. And they take school for granted.
Melissa Deally:And they even complain about having to go to school. My own
Melissa Deally:two children included. And I'm sure when I was a child, I did
Melissa Deally:the very same thing. And yet here were other girls around the
Melissa Deally:world desperate for the opportunity to go to school, and
Melissa Deally:being denied that chance simply because of their gender. And in
Melissa Deally:that moment, I knew I wanted to do something more to support
Melissa Deally:girls, getting an education, more girls getting an education.
Melissa Deally:And there was a quote in that movie that if India could just
Melissa Deally:educate 1% More girls, we could they would grow their GDP by
Melissa Deally:$5.5 billion. And so in that moment, to me was this very
Melissa Deally:clear answer. It's not easy, but it's simple. We educate the
Melissa Deally:girls. And we grow the GDP of countries and we bring third
Melissa Deally:world countries out of poverty. And so if we could focus on the
Melissa Deally:girls, we could break the poverty cycle, one girl, one
Melissa Deally:family, one village at a time. And so when I was let go from my
Melissa Deally:corporate job, seven years ago, I knew that I wanted to do
Melissa Deally:something completely different. And whatever I did next had to
Melissa Deally:be more of service to humanity into the planet. And I didn't
Melissa Deally:know what I was going to be doing workwise at that point.
Melissa Deally:And I also didn't know how I could support the girls. But I
Melissa Deally:was at a conference a year later that year, when I heard someone
Melissa Deally:say, the speaker said that we are put on this planet for three
Melissa Deally:things, to serve others to never stop learning, and to find our
Melissa Deally:passion and purpose. And he also said, you don't always have to
Melissa Deally:know the how the how will show itself to you.
Melissa Deally:And in that moment, I decided I was going to create a way to
Melissa Deally:support more girls getting an education. And I had no idea how
Melissa Deally:to do that. But I knew someone who might. And so I phoned them.
Melissa Deally:They already had nonprofit organizations in Nepal and in
Melissa Deally:Uganda. And they were they had kindergartens that they had
Melissa Deally:created because so many kids were going through elementary
Melissa Deally:school and coming out illiterate. And it was because
Melissa Deally:they were just getting lost in the overcrowded schools. And
Melissa Deally:this particular area was asking for preschools, actually, in
Melissa Deally:order to start teaching the kids a one two threes in their ABCs.
Melissa Deally:So that by the time they got into the elementary school, they
Melissa Deally:had a little bit of a jumpstart, and then they were much less
Melissa Deally:likely to fall behind. And so because they already had people
Melissa Deally:on the ground staff, etc. They'd already set up nonprofits, I
Melissa Deally:phoned them to ask them, How do I start a nonprofit? And they
Melissa Deally:simply said, why? What do you want to do? And I told them I
Melissa Deally:wanted to support girls in staying in high school longer so
Melissa Deally:they weren't being married off younger and then having babies
Melissa Deally:as teenagers and repeating the poverty cycle of their parents,
Melissa Deally:keeping them in school longer. So so that they could then get a
Melissa Deally:good job and start to break that poverty cycle. And they loved it
Melissa Deally:and said, Let's do it with you. And so from there, girls matter
Melissa Deally:was birthed. And we've been funding girls that staying in
Melissa Deally:high school ever since. So I think we launched girls matter
Melissa Deally:in 2017, might have been a bit sooner, actually. And we've
Melissa Deally:helped, we've had some girls graduate from university, we've
Melissa Deally:had many girls graduate from high school. And we're
Melissa Deally:continuing to support girls. And now we're starting to blow it up
Melissa Deally:even more, because I have a fairy godmother that's come into
Melissa Deally:my life, and contributed money, and she's in the crypto world.
Melissa Deally:And she's using those funds and the profits from the crypto
Melissa Deally:world to fund girls. And showing me how to do that. And
Melissa Deally:introducing What I'm doing to others to blow it up bigger so
Melissa Deally:we can reach even more girls, globally, not just in Uganda, as
Melissa Deally:we generate more funds through what's happening in the crypto
Melissa Deally:world today. So that going to that documentary was incredibly
Melissa Deally:inspiring to me, and gave me a purpose at a time when I didn't
Melissa Deally:know what I was doing with my career and was still figuring
Melissa Deally:that out. And now I've been able to bring the two of those, you
Melissa Deally:know, marry them more closely together. And these girls
Melissa Deally:continue to inspire me because their passion and their desire
Melissa Deally:to go to school. And what the reason they want to go to school
Melissa Deally:is incredibly inspiring, they all want to help their village,
Melissa Deally:they all want to help make their life and the life of their loved
Melissa Deally:ones and their families better. These 6/6 In a source of
Melissa Deally:inspiration is travel. Now, I've traveled a lot in my life. And I
Melissa Deally:feel very, very fortunate to have had the opportunity to do
Melissa Deally:that. Being raised in Japan, coming from Australia, traveling
Melissa Deally:around Southeast Asia, traveling around Europe, Africa. I've seen
Melissa Deally:how different people live in different parts of the world,
Melissa Deally:different cultures experience different food, different music,
Melissa Deally:different dancing, etc, etc, etc. And it is so incredibly
Melissa Deally:inspiring, it inspires you to get out of your comfort zone, to
Melissa Deally:simply try new things, try new food, try speaking a new
Melissa Deally:language, try you know, listening to new music and
Melissa Deally:enjoying it standing up and dancing and having fun, etc,
Melissa Deally:etc. Seeing different forms of architecture, just meeting
Melissa Deally:people with you know, different approaches and styles to life.
Melissa Deally:Meeting people who have almost nothing, and yet are so happy
Melissa Deally:and are willing to give you a gift.
Melissa Deally:So travel is incredibly inspirational. And not only
Melissa Deally:that, the actual travel but the planning of the travel. Think
Melissa Deally:about how you feel when you're planning a trip. Again, it's
Melissa Deally:exciting and you're looking forward to it. And looking at
Melissa Deally:all the different places you can go. Looking at it online and
Melissa Deally:looking at it in brochures, all of that is incredibly
Melissa Deally:inspirational. Number seven music. So music shifts, your
Melissa Deally:energy motivates you. And I have a list a playlist on my phone of
Melissa Deally:songs and I literally call it my energy shifting music. So that
Melissa Deally:if I feel like I'm, you know, kind of feeling down or tired or
Melissa Deally:whatever, then I can play that music. And I can turn it up
Melissa Deally:loud. And I can sing to my heart's content, and raise my
Melissa Deally:vibration. And literally shift my energy in that moment. And we
Melissa Deally:all have songs that do that for us. We all have songs that take
Melissa Deally:us back in time. Like I remember the first time I ever heard that
Melissa Deally:song, right? Take us back to different places, etc. and So
Melissa Deally:music is incredibly inspirational. And you know, in
Melissa Deally:different times, it might be different type of music that you
Melissa Deally:find inspiring. But enjoy what that music gives you. And if you
Melissa Deally:are feeling down in the dumps, then turn to that turn just the
Melissa Deally:music, turn on some great music and shift your energy and be
Melissa Deally:inspired to move in to a better space. Poetry. So obviously,
Melissa Deally:there's many, many different poets that are out there so many
Melissa Deally:different types of poetry, etc. And it's not something that I've
Melissa Deally:ever really studied. It's not something that I've ever really
Melissa Deally:read per se. So in terms of a source of inspiration for me, I
Melissa Deally:wouldn't put it top of the list, but I do have a favorite poem.
Melissa Deally:And I want to share that poem with you here, because this is a
Melissa Deally:poem that I found close to 30 years ago. And I lost my father
Melissa Deally:when I was 13. And somehow, I always felt like he was always
Melissa Deally:with me. And I didn't know how to put that into words. And then
Melissa Deally:when I found this poem, I was actually in Granville Island and
Melissa Deally:a little shop and I read this poem and went, Oh, my goodness.
Melissa Deally:This poem describes exactly how I feel about my father's, my
Melissa Deally:father's presence, being always around me. And so it has become
Melissa Deally:my favorite poem, and a poem of inspiration to me. Do not stand
Melissa Deally:at my grave and weep. I am not there. I do not sleep. I am 1000
Melissa Deally:winds that blow. I am the diamond glints on snow. I am the
Melissa Deally:sunlight on ripened grain. I am the gentle autumns rain, when
Melissa Deally:you awaken in the mornings hash, I am the Swift, uplifting rush
Melissa Deally:of quiet birds and circled flight. I am the soft stars that
Melissa Deally:shine at night, do not stand to my grave and cry, I am not
Melissa Deally:there, I did not die. So for any of you who have lost loved ones,
Melissa Deally:maybe that connects with you. And maybe that gives you a
Melissa Deally:little bit of inspiration that you haven't lost them. They're
Melissa Deally:always with you. Number nine source of inspiration are our
Melissa Deally:pets. And this was funny to see on the list because I was just
Melissa Deally:talking to someone else about how one of our cats is actually
Melissa Deally:an inspiration to me. It's an annoyance and an inspiration in
Melissa Deally:the same time. So I will choose for it to be an inspiration. You
Melissa Deally:see his name is Oscar, and I work from home. And he likes to
Melissa Deally:come upstairs and walk across my desk right in front of my
Melissa Deally:laptop, he'd be doing it right now if I hadn't shut the door
Melissa Deally:and tell me that it's food time. Or it's almost food time, it's
Melissa Deally:two hours until you need to feed me Oh, now it's an hour and a
Melissa Deally:half until you need to feed me now as an hour until you need to
Melissa Deally:feed me. And if I don't go and feed him and I just put him
Melissa Deally:down, then he just jumps back up. And he does it again. And I
Melissa Deally:pick him up and I put him down because I'm busy working on
Melissa Deally:something. And I don't want to feed him right in this minute.
Melissa Deally:And he'll jump back up and he'll do it again. He is incredibly
Melissa Deally:persistent at making sure that I do not forget to feed him. And
Melissa Deally:his persistence in making sure that I don't forget to feed him
Melissa Deally:and me understanding that his persistence is extremely
Melissa Deally:successful, because at some point, I get fed up and I go and
Melissa Deally:feed him. Generally his lunchtime is at noon. So I
Melissa Deally:pretty close to noon, I tend to feed him. But he is always up
Melissa Deally:here at 1130 at the latest telling me that it's almost
Melissa Deally:noon, and sometimes he'll start earlier. And by 1215. He's like,
Melissa Deally:Hey, you're 15 minutes late. But the fact that he comes and I put
Melissa Deally:him down and he jumps back up, and I put him down and he jumps
Melissa Deally:back up. That persistence is the same type of persistence that
Melissa Deally:I'm applying to my business, right? That sometimes it feels
Melissa Deally:hard, sometimes it feels like it's a whole lot of work. But at
Melissa Deally:the same time, I love what I do. I love sharing, health
Melissa Deally:education, I love inspiring people to take better care of
Melissa Deally:their health showing them how to do that, because I do truly
Melissa Deally:believe that we can all be empowered in our health. And
Melissa Deally:that if everybody understood the impact of stress and the impact
Melissa Deally:of toxins on their health, and knew what they could do about
Melissa Deally:that to lower both, that we wouldn't have the chronic
Melissa Deally:illness that we have in the world today. So these are what I
Melissa Deally:teach on each and every day. And I'm sure many of you have heard
Melissa Deally:me teach on these things, been part of my programs. But I
Melissa Deally:continue to show up every day and apply the same level of
Melissa Deally:persistence to building my business. Because I learned from
Melissa Deally:my pet. I'm inspired by my pet by our cat Oscar, who is so
Melissa Deally:persistence in making sure that he gets fed. So I thought you'd
Melissa Deally:enjoy that little funny one that I'm learning from our cat. And
Melissa Deally:then the 10th source of inspiration and last one for
Melissa Deally:this episode is your family. Right? I'm a mom, I've raised
Melissa Deally:two kids and when I look back to thinking about both girls when
Melissa Deally:they were little and learning to walk and watching them fall down
Melissa Deally:and get back up and keep on trying. They believe they can
Melissa Deally:walk because they see us Are parents walking, right? So they
Melissa Deally:have no doubts that they can walk, they don't doubt
Melissa Deally:themselves, they fall down, they get back up, they try again. And
Melissa Deally:eventually they walk. And just about every single child goes
Melissa Deally:through this, no, some children might, you know, be born and
Melissa Deally:unable to walk. But almost every child learns to walk, because
Melissa Deally:they believe they can do it, because they see you, their
Melissa Deally:parents and other adults walking and other children walking and
Melissa Deally:running. And they want to do it too. And so they're inspired by
Melissa Deally:the older people in their life. And that's inspiring to me,
Melissa Deally:because again, they fall down, but they get back up. And as
Melissa Deally:adults, sometimes we fall down, and then we just want to give
Melissa Deally:up. And the testament to your character is not how many times
Melissa Deally:you fall down, it's how many times you get back up. And then
Melissa Deally:the other truly inspirational person or family member is my
Melissa Deally:grandmother. And many of you've probably heard this story. But
Melissa Deally:my grandmother lived to being 101 years old, in her own home,
Melissa Deally:caring for herself, fully cognitively functioning, and
Melissa Deally:died in her sleep. Now, that is what I want from my life. She
Melissa Deally:inspires me to prioritize my health to do all that I can, in
Melissa Deally:order to get to live my life that way, instead of what most
Melissa Deally:people unfortunately are doing these days, which is landing on
Melissa Deally:a track of Alzheimer's and dementia. In North America,
Melissa Deally:there was some statistics that Edward Jones put out recently in
Melissa Deally:North America, the average person spends 10 years dying in
Melissa Deally:a nursing home 10 years. What if you could get those 10 years
Melissa Deally:back to spend with your loved ones and have quality of life.
Melissa Deally:And you absolutely can when you start to look after your health
Melissa Deally:today, because what you do now matters.
Melissa Deally:You can have Alzheimer's and dementia for 20 to 30 years
Melissa Deally:before it ever gets diagnosed. But you can choose today to
Melissa Deally:understand how stress impacts your body to understand what
Melissa Deally:toxins are doing to your body and to take the baby steps to
Melissa Deally:learn about nutrition and the right way to eat for your body
Melissa Deally:to understand the importance of sleep doesn't have to be
Melissa Deally:difficult. And it doesn't have to be a make work project. It
Melissa Deally:can be done in baby steps and learning a little bit. I've been
Melissa Deally:learning for seven years, I'll continue learning I'll never
Melissa Deally:stop learning because we're still scratching the surface of
Melissa Deally:what we know about the health of our microbiome, the health of
Melissa Deally:our brain, etc. But it's my grandmother, and understanding
Melissa Deally:her life and how she lived her life that made me have the AHA
Melissa Deally:if I want to get on her path, I need to do things differently.
Melissa Deally:Because I realized I was toxic. After all those amazing years
Melissa Deally:growing up in Japan for which I'm very grateful for I realized
Melissa Deally:that I was still toxic because it was a big city with
Melissa Deally:manufacturing plants spewing out toxins. And that made me more
Melissa Deally:toxic than my grandmother. And what did I need to do about
Melissa Deally:that? That's when I started learning about toxins and
Melissa Deally:detoxing, et cetera, et cetera, and why I'm such a big African
Melissa Deally:advocate for that today. And so she is my inspiration. So as I
Melissa Deally:leave off this episode, I want to ask you Who in your family is
Melissa Deally:your inspiration? And I'd love you to send me a note or
Melissa Deally:comment. And let me know of these first 10 sources of
Melissa Deally:inspiration. Which one did you like the best? I'd love to hear
Melissa Deally:from you. Let me know. Have a great week. And I really look
Melissa Deally:forward to having you join me for my next episode with Tanya
Melissa Deally:Joyce called from wheels to heels. And the week after, I'll
Melissa Deally:be back with the next 10 sources of inspiration that I will be
Melissa Deally:sharing with you. Thanks for joining me on this episode. And
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