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One Year Later: Reflections and Future Direction

• David Sage

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We're celebrating one year and 52 episodes of the Sage Solutions Podcast. I'm excited to share our plans for year two as we continue providing tools for personal growth and development.

• Moving to a bi-weekly format with longer episodes (averaging 40 minutes) to provide deeper value while maintaining long-term sustainability
• Continuing our "Curiosity Conversation" format as introduced in our 52nd episode
• Revisiting the five core fundamentals: Perspective of Reality, Locus of Control, Lifelong Learning, Self-Worth, and Taking Action
• Balancing intellectual depth with practical, actionable advice for daily life
• Focusing more on the concept of taking action in our second year
• Slight update to the fifth fundamental: "Life is like a muscle, so take action and build it"

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Welcome to the Sage Solutions Podcast, where we talk about all things personal growth, personal development and becoming your best self. My name is David Sage and I'm a self-worth and confidence coach with Sage Coaching Solutions. I'm excited to announce that this is the first podcast that we're recording of our second year as a podcast. That's right, the Sage Solutions podcast has had 52 episodes and has been around for 52 weeks, so in this episode, I want to talk a little about and review some of the things that we've talked about in the last year. I also wanted to let you in on what you can expect from the Sage Solutions podcast in year two. If you've been with us from the start, congratulations. Here we are. And if you liked our first year as a podcast, just wait for what's coming. And if you liked our first year as a podcast, just wait for what's coming. But before we get into it, our goal with this podcast is to share free, helpful tools with you and anyone you know who is looking to improve their life. So take action, subscribe and share this podcast with them. So let's start with what you can expect from us in year two.

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First, after a series of discussions with my team surrounding the long-term goal of this podcast and what's realistic and sustainable in the long term. We ended up coming to a conclusion that's going to shift the format of this podcast just a little. Coming from an infinite thinking mindset, realizing that, hopefully, this podcast is an infinite game, we don't plan on it ending. So, using not just our long-term but infinite thinking, as Simon Sinek would say, we are adjusting the format of this podcast to go from having a range of roughly 15 to 50 minutes long and averaging somewhere around 30. We're going to be moving to a slightly longer format, ranging from 20 minutes long to a full hour and averaging about 40 minutes long. This is so that we can dig deeper, put extra effort into each individual episode and bring you even more value. The other major change that we're making for this podcast, which also took into account the feedback of you, the audience, is that we're going to be switching to a bi-weekly format. We're sticking with Tuesday releases, but instead of releasing a new podcast every Tuesday, we're going to be releasing a little bit longer podcast on average every other Tuesday. This will help us focus on continuing to increase the quality of each individual podcast while preserving the long-term sustainability of this podcast, so that we can continue to do this for years to come. We understand that there is loads of content out there and that everyone, myself included listens to multiple podcasts. We feel that this bi-weekly format will help people keep up with this podcast in a way that feels fully manageable and not overwhelming. Now we may occasionally still put out shorter mini-episodes during some of these off-weeks, kind of like this one, just to mix things up. The last update that I have is actually the addition of our curiosity conversation format that we debuted last week as our 52nd episode or as the final episode of our first year as a podcast. These are going to be rotated into the mix of the different types of podcast episodes that we release on a bi-weekly basis.

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Over the last year, I feel that this podcast has been a good balance between getting down and going deep into the intellectual weeds of each given topic, while maintaining practical, actionable advice that people can use in their daily lives. We want people to understand topics and their shades of gray while being able to walk away taking action towards the important things in their life, which is why one of our first episodes was on taking action, and I think we're going to go back and double down on that topic during our second year. We also started the podcast by covering what I referred to as the five core fundamentals. Now, this is a framework that I actually created from the absolute most useful concepts that I use in my daily life, that I use with my clients and that I've learned about and researched. These can have major, broad, sweeping effects on our lives and embracing them as ideas and actually utilizing them with action can have positive, fundamental changes to our lives. So we will also be re-covering those topics in our second year.

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Just to list them off for reminder's sake first, we have perspective of reality. Your perspective of reality changes your perception of reality and your perception of reality is the biggest driver of your experience of reality. Taking control of your conscious perspective through state change, framing or mindfulness can dramatically change the way that you experience your life. The second core fundamental is to focus on your locus of control. Evaluate honestly what do you have any amount of control over and what do you have none. Stop worrying about and focusing on the areas of your life that you have no control over and start taking action and embracing focusing on the things that you do have some agency in. This simultaneously makes you so much more effective and in control of your life, while releasing and letting go of the time sink of worrying about things that you can't do anything about.

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Third, we have lifelong learning in shades of gray. The idea behind this is that we can harness both the wonder of childhood and the wisdom of age. We can continue to learn and grow with intellectual humility and rethinking throughout our lives, approaching with curiosity and then vetting information with critical thinking and realizing that very few things in life are actually black or white. Almost everything is a shade of gray somewhere in between. Most things have a trade-off. It's about finding the balance, the accuracy, the flexibility that this mindset gives you.

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The fourth core fundamental is that you are enough and that you deserve to fill up your inner cup, and we can use a myriad of different ways. There are many different topics that we talk about that can help you fill up your inner cup. If you're going to pour into others or into the important things in your life, you have to have something to pour out. Recharging, taking care of yourself and filling up your cup makes you so much more effective and it makes your life so much more worth living. You deserve to be happy. You deserve to build true confidence. You deserve self-compassion, purpose and resilience. You deserve self-care, self-love, self-awareness, self-acceptance. You deserve to feel good inside, because happy people help people.

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And the final core fundamental is actually one that I'm going to be tweaking just a little right here and right now. The foundation is the same, but in order for this fundamental to get to its true purpose, I felt a tweak in language was necessary. Life is like a muscle, so take action and build it. This is the fundamental that creates all of the changes in your life. It powers every other fundamental that we've talked about. You have to do something different to get something different. Your life is like a muscle and you can build it over time, whether it be the different traits or skills, the different mindsets or habits, but you have to take action. No amount of just thinking about it and learning will build those muscles. These five core fundamentals are not just powerful individually, but truly come into their own when combined. Many of them balance each other out, and it's about the synergy between these five fundamentals that truly reshapes our lives.

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Beyond the core fundamentals, we've had many episodes about great topics. We had some wonderful guests and I have personally grown and learned so much just by doing this podcast. It's been a great year of podcasting and I am truly excited for what's to come. So next week will be the first episode of year two, episode of year two. And remember, you are enough and you deserve to fill up your inner cup with happiness, true confidence and resilience. Thank you for listening to the Sage Solutions Podcast. Your time is valuable and I'm so glad that you choose to learn and grow here with me. If you haven't already, don't forget to subscribe so you don't miss out on more Sage advice. Don't miss out on more sage advice. One last thing the legal language. This podcast is for educational and informational purposes only. No coaching client relationship is formed. It is not intended as a substitute for the personalized advice of a physician, professional coach, psychotherapist or other qualified professional.