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Message 289

How do your routines impact others?

You’ve reached Talking with Dr Terrie – 180 seconds to a better you message number 289 snd I’m Dr Terrie Wurzbacher

I was late doing yesterday’s message and am a little later than usual today too.

I can hear your responses now “So what’s going on? How can she do that? I always listen at such and such a time.“

For the switch up I apologize. I was getting up between 2:30 and 3 so that I could make the call before most people start their day and most are an hour ahead of me.

I was doing this while trying to heal my shoulder and it began to catch up to me health wise. So yesterday I decided to sleep later but didn’t anticipate being that late. However yesterday was the best I’ve felt in months.

So I have to reassess when I do the call so I can be healthy but also not disrupt your routines too much.

The point to all this babbling is that I imagine you all have routines. But have you ever wondered how your specific routine or routines impact other people?

Sometimes we go about our business without thinking of the second and third order effects. Let’s say you want to train for a marathon. That takes a lot of time away from home. If you have a spouse and maybe some kids, this training will impact not only your spouse but other family members too.

I’ll tell you that on my vol state podcast almost everyone with a family talks about needing to clear it with the family and how they themselves recognize it’s a selfish undertaking.

Perhaps we should be more cognizant of talking with others before we change or install a routine.

Again thank you for bearing with me during this adjustment period. I need to be as healthy as possible to give you the best of me.

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Affirmation is Not a 4 letter word 

You’ve reached Talking with Dr Terrie –  180 seconds to a better you  message number 288 snd I’m Dr Terrie Wurzbacher 

What’s a belief? Its not the gospel truth spoken from above. It’s a thought you keep thinking over and over.  We have deep beliefs that we think are a part of our being. But they seem like that because we’ve heard those thoughts so many times as we were growing up that we don’t realize they came from outside of us. That’s why they can be so destructive 

Affirmations have gotten a bad reputation.  That’s primarily because people aren’t using them correctly. 

Affirmations aren’t magic spells — they’re mental alignment tools.

ultimately, you don’t get what you want — you get what you believe.

And affirmations help you believe in yourself.

affirmations only work when they feel true enough to believe.

If you don’t believe, “I’m a millionaire,” your brain rejects it.

But it can believe, “I’m learning to manage money with confidence.”

That’s how you bridge from where you are to where you want to be.

your subconscious doesn’t know the difference between a joke and a command. It listens—and it believes you.

An affirmation is simply a statement you repeat that reinforces a belief you want to grow.

Neuroscience even shows that repetition of positive statements can rewire neural pathways—literally training your brain to expect better outcomes and act accordingly.

Think of it as mental exercise. Just as muscles strengthen with repetition, beliefs do too.

How to Create a Powerful Affirmation

1. Start with “I am” or “I’m becoming” — it brings the idea into the present moment.

2. Make it emotionally charged — “I am calm and centered no matter what happens” feels better than “I’m not stressed.”

3. Keep it simple and believable — if it’s too far-fetched, your subconscious won’t buy in.

4. Focus on what you want, not what you don’t want.

Say, “I’m attracting supportive people,” not “I’m done with toxic relationships.”

 

Then

• Repeat them daily — multiple times a day — consistency is key.

• Say them out loud with feeling — your voice adds energy.

• Write them down — journaling reinforces them visually.

• And most importantly: act as if they’re already true. Your behavior begins to align with your words.