How to Stay Motivated When Everything Falls Apart | Self Care, Clarity & Conscious Living
About this episode
Ellen Broen shares her personal story of persistence and the lessons learned during a challenging seven-week childcare search.
Self care, clarity of mind, being content, conscious living, and how to stay motivated — these five things saved me during 7 weeks of hitting wall after wall. In this week's episodes of The Contentment Creator, I'm sharing the full story of my seven-week childcare search. 136 applications, 33 interviews, ghostings, insults, and one 3am breakthrough and the real lessons it revealed about pivoting without giving up on your vision. This week covers four connected episodes: 🔹 The Key to Being Unstoppable My personal story of persistence. Being content with your vision while staying unattached to the exact path — that's what kept me going. After 7 weeks of walls, one piece of advice gave me the clarity of mind I needed: put the problem down for 24–48 hours. What happened next changed everything. 🔹 Essential Advice for Successful Pivoting The practical framework I use with my coaching clients: clarify and expand the vision, know how to stay motivated when you feel like giving up, and never change what's working. Pivot what's not. I share how I went from 136 wrong applicants to finding our dream hire in 48 hours. 🔹 How to Find a Family Assistant as an Entrepreneur Parent The exact ad…
People in this episode
Host: Ellen Broen
Topics covered
- self care
- motivation
- pivoting
- entrepreneurship
- clarity of mind
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- The key to being unstoppable
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