Finding the Throughline with Kate Hanley

Doubt is something that is always going to crop up from time to time. And when those doubts come in–well, it can feel like torture. It’s an open invitation for your inner critic to go hog wild. And it can also feel like a sign that you ought to stop. A very clear, blinking, neon sign that means "DON'T DO IT!" I have another way to view it. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Your inner wisdom lives in your body, whether you call it a feeling in your bones or a gut feeling or something you know all the way down to your toes. The more we learn about the gut the more science recognizes it as a second brain, with more than 100 million neurons spread throughout the digestive tract. That’s a lot of processing power that we overlook when we try to only cogitate our way through something. And we’re never really taught how to understand the signals our body – aka our gut – is sending out. And that’s a real loss because while analytical or critical thinking is not bad, it’s just not the only game in town. Let's make today the day this starts to change. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Today I'm interviewing award winning book coach Lisa Tener. Why am I interviewing a book coach during Trust Yourself week? Well, a lot of people think writing a book is strictly an intellectual pursuit, but it's also so much about being able to access your creativity and trusting yourself and your message. Lisa has a signature process that she walks her clients through called Meet Your Muse, and it's basically an opportunity to have a conversation with the wisest, most inspired part of yourself. In this episode, Lisa talks me through it and you get to meet my very cute and little muse.And if you'd like to experience the process directly for yourself, here's the link where you can Meet Your Muse.Check out Lisa's The Joy of Writing Journal. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

There are two basic forces in the world – fear, and love. And with our negativity bias–the tendency of our brains to focus more on things that didn’t work out or that cause pain than on the things that go well and lift us up–we place way too much of our focus on fear. This exercise helps give love more of a voice the next time you're facing a decision. I offer a nicely designed PDF version of today's exercise on my website. Click here to download it (scroll to the bottom of the page, pop in your email address, and click the "I want clarity" button). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Every single one of us has a wise part of ourselves that always has our best interests at heart and that can process all kinds of information and feelings and sensation that our thinking mind can only barely start to perceive. That wise part is your intuition or your gut, and developing a relationship with it is a crucial piece of trusting yourself. The problem is that it’s an internal voice and frankly, we have a lot of internal voices, and not all of them are all that helpful. So in order to be able to start building a tighter relationship with your intuition, it’s really helpful to figure out how to tell the difference between your gut, and your fear. In this episode, I share some key differences between the two voices so that you can recognize more easily when you’ve gotten hooked by fear, and pay more attention to the messages that are coming from your intuition. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Today’s big idea is that there is a balance that you’ve got to strike in order to improve your relationship to life admin. And that is to make peace with the fact that while the human brain loves to close open loops–and cross things off the to-do list–it’s also true that there will always, always be more do on the adulting front. So you can't let your peace of mind depend on how many things are left on your to-do list. Here's some insight on to how to make peace between doing, and never being done.Contribute your tips and successes to the Life Admin Tipsheet! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Today’s big is actually three ideas for making life admin less overwhelming. These are mindset shifts that will help you think about adulting differently--a key step in making it all feel a little less relentless.Contribute your tips and successes to the Life Admin Tipsheet! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Frankly, life admin just makes me want to lie down. Which is why I’m excited to be interviewing my friend, Jessica Tudos, a mindful organizer based in Toronto whom I always love talking to about how to get a grip on the many facets of life while still respecting things like creativity and being moved by inspiration and having a lot of things going on because you’re genuinely interested in a lot of things–something Jessica calls being multi-passionate. In today's episode, Jessica dishes up how she keeps all the details of life contained, and how you can do it, too, in a way that suits your personality and your life. I learned a ton!Contribute your tips and successes to the Life Admin Tipsheet! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Scheduling is one of my VERY LEAST favorite life admin tasks. Am I the only one with an allergy to planning for something that's not related to having fun? Today’s big idea is my very best tip to make sure that you have the majority of the appointments that you, your pet, and your family needs with next to no effort on your part.Contribute your tips and successes to the Life Admin Tipsheet! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week on the podcast I’m talking about how to take better care of all the details of life–making appointments, paying bills, prepping your taxes, keeping your paperwork up to date, your car maintenanced, your communication handled, etc., etc., etc. In other words, I’m talking about adulting. And when I went to research this topic I realized it had a very technical sounding name: life admin. Which simultaneously made me feel a mixture of grief and relief--a simultaneous feeling of, no wonder I’ve been feeling the way that I have, and, dang, I guess this is really a thing that must be reckoned with. Let's do it, together.Contribute your tips and successes to the Life Admin Tipsheet! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices