106: How to Create a Life of Pleasure (While Still Paying the Bills)

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In this episode, you'll learn how to bring more joy and freedom into your current life, how to grow your capacity for pleasure and appreciation, how to create the feelings you’re chasing before your circumstances change, and how to uncover what you might really be getting from the life you say you want to leave.

Timestamps:

[00:00] Introduction

[01:01] The fear of too much freedom and not knowing how to live it

[01:37] How appreciation helps bridge your current life to your desired one

[02:10] The myth that liking your now means you’ll get stuck

[02:49] How to feel your future life now using small changes

[04:00] Why today matters more than the dream

[04:22] Journaling your ideal day to clarify what you really want

[04:56] Identifying the feelings you expect to gain from your dream life

[05:28] Finding small ways to experience those feelings now

[06:19] Quality of life changes from small tweaks

[07:10] How tiny changes improve daily experience

[07:26] What you’re getting out of your current life that you might lose

[07:57] Why we sometimes say we want things we actually don’t

[08:20] Carolyn Elliott’s deepest fear inventory exercise

[08:42] Using fear inventory to clarify what you truly want

[09:00] Trusting the process and letting go of control

[09:27] Cultivating faith in being supported and provided for

[09:47] How trust turns into playful practice

Resources Mentioned:

Existential Kink by Carolyn Elliott | Book or Audiobook

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