Over the last few episodes of The Empowered Principal Podcast, we’ve been delving deeper and deeper into how to use the STEAR Cycle in taking a new approach to decision making. Last week, we discussed how our thoughts trigger our emotions and how these emotions drive the way in which we approach a situation.

By this point, you will have a good idea of how the STEAR Cycle can help you in your work of becoming the best principal you can be, but there’s one last component to share with you.

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In the previous episode, we continued with our exploration of how the STEAR Cycle works and took a look at how our thoughts create our emotions. We used the Cycle to understand how different thoughts about the same situation can create different feelings, and talked about how awareness of our thoughts can help us decide how we want to think and, in turn, feel.

This week, we dive deeper into the STEAR Cycle and explore how our emotional response to our thoughts influences the approach we choose to take in our daily lives.

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Last week on The Empowered Principal Podcast, we talked about the STEAR Cycle – a powerful coaching tool for understanding how any result is created in your life and the role your thoughts play in that process. In the next few episodes, we’ll be diving deeper into the Cycle and taking a look at how each component works and how they all flow together to get a better understanding of your thinking and how it’s impacting your life on a daily basis, both at work and at home.

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Hello again, empowered principals! This week, I’m sharing one of my core teaching tools: the STEAR Cycle, an extremely powerful device that allows you to observe your brain in motion.

For these first few episodes, we are learning the foundation of what self-coaching is, how it works, and how to apply it to everyday situations at work and at home. I want you to have this basic understanding early on in the podcast because we’re going to dig really deep in order to help you gain a thorough understanding of how our brains work the way they do.

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Hello, empowered principals! Before we get started, I have to tell you how thrilled I am to be doing this podcast for you. I love this new endeavor – It’s so empowering!

Back to today’s topic of The Empowered Principal Podcast, we’re picking up where we left off after last episode’s discussion on addressing the cause of our pain versus addressing the symptoms of our pain. Now, let’s talk about pain and suffering.

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Welcome to the very first episode of The Empowered Principal Podcast! I am your host, Angela Kelly Robeck, and I’m a Certified Life Coach who coaches elementary school principals who want to strengthen their emotional fitness as an educational leader.

The Empowered Principal Podcast is designed to help you understand your own psychology and thinking about the job so that you can either feel better about your current work or clear your thoughts to make a decision about what type of work you’d like to do in the next phase of your life. My goal with this show is to be a highlight of your workweek by offering you ways to feel better about the work that you do for children.

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I’m thrilled to announce the launch of The Empowered Principal Podcast! I could not be more excited to share the show with all of you. My goal is to be a highlight of your workweek by offering you ways to feel better about the work that you do for children.

The Empowered Principal Podcast is designed to offer tools and strategies that no other elementary principal resource provides – exercises that strengthen your emotional fitness as an educational leader.  Through causal coaching, listeners will learn ways to shift from feelings of frustration, overwhelm, and defeat to feelings of confidence, joy, and empowerment.

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  • Everyone deserves to stop and play now and then
  • Guilty pleasures make life fun
  • You get endless chances to try again; you just have to wait sometimes
  • Some levels are easy; others are challenging
  • When frustration sets in, you can always take a break
  • Everyone has equal opportunity to play
  • Those willing to put the time in making the biggest strides
  • Not all levels require equal time, strategies, or energy
  • Just when you think you can’t beat the level, you try again and win
  • When you look back, you laugh at yourself for thinking those easy levels were so hard
  • It just might not be the solution you thought it would be
  • There’s no shame in losing – it’s a part of the game
  • The more you lose, the more you win
  • There is always a solution

I used to believe the quote “You can’t have it all”.

I used it as my excuse as to why something wasn’t the way I wanted it to be.

I could have a great job, but not a great body.

I could be an amazing parent, but not an amazing partner.

Then I read a quote that said, “You can have it all, just not all at once.”

That sounded better.

I can experience all the amazing things about life, just not at the same time.

I could have a great job and a great body, but I’ll have to wait on that lover.

Wait a minute.  What?

That’s still settling.

I want it all.  At the same time.

Here’s the beautiful thing.

Having it all simply means choosing to see that you have it all.

Everything you need, you have.

Choosing to acknowledge that you have it all in this moment is what brings you the feeling of fulfillment.

Choosing to believe that you should have something you don’t have right now brings you discontent.

Either you have it all, or you don’t.  Your choice.

I choose to have it all.

You know that person, who when they walk into a room, EVERYONE notices?

Their smile is intoxicating.
Their charisma is infectious.
Their energy is captivating.
Their presence is known.

What about the other person, who when they walk into a room, EVERYONE notices?

Their smile is suspicious.
Their charisma is repulsive.
Their energy is draining.
Their presence is known.

Now, what about the person, who when they walk into a room, NOBODY notices?

Their smile is nonexistent.
Their charisma is lacking.
Their energy is silent.
Their presence is not known.

What energy do you bring?  What energy do you WANT to bring?

Be the person who steals the show.  In a good way.