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Your Job Is To Be You: How To Find Happiness with Paul Pettit

Dec 23, 2019

Emily Harman, the host of Onward Podcast, interviews Paul Pettit, Founder of BMS Life Coaching & Wellness, Author, Certified Life Coach, Reflexologist, Naturopathic Reiki Therapist, and a Podcast Host. Paul created multiple programs to help people establish emotional wellbeing and to equip them with the tools to achieve their goals, dreams, and ambitions, including his Proactive Positive Cognitive Mindset Program that launched on July 4th, 2018. Paul is vulnerable as he shares his personal story of moving onward from suicidal thoughts. Paul explains that one has the ability to achieve happiness by unwrapping the layers of pain which envelop us over time, thus allowing our true self to breathe, and take steps toward freedom. 

 

Episode Highlights: 

 

  • Emily Harman introduces Paul Pettit.
  • What is Naturopathic Reiki?
  • Paul Pettit talks about his book 9756 Miles. A Journey to Happiness.
  • What got Paul to the point of a suicide attempt and and why did he change his mind? 
  • Learn about how Paul’s childhood abuse and suffering stopped.
  • What made Paul decide to move from Australia to Washington, DC? 
  • How did meditation play into Paul’s life? 
  • Paul explains how he was “on top of the mountain” yet miserable at the same time.
  • Stop turning away from the unpleasant. The world needs the balance of good and bad. We need an antithesis in life.
  • It’s not a good idea to suppress our emotions. Every emotion we feel is energy in motion. Allow the emotion to move through you, don’t bottle it up.
  • What makes knowing different than knowledge? 
  • Everything that happened to Paul happened for him to bring him to where he is.
  • Paul shares that he is his life’s work and his life’s purpose all in one.
  • Paul and Emily discuss some of the differences between Australia and the United States.
  • It’s OK to be who you want to be. 
  • Listen to the whisper that only you can hear.  

3 Key Points:

  1. Finding happiness is easy, however it’s not simple.
  2. One has the ability to achieve happiness by unwrapping the layers of pain which envelop us over time, thus allowing our true self to breathe, and take steps toward freedom. 
  3. Your job is to be you!

Tweetable Quotes:

 

  • (9756 Miles. A Journey to Happiness) “The book came about from my experiences in life. Experiential knowledge and ability to release what was a pretty traumatic childhood.” – Paul Pettit 
  • “In 2015, I found myself on the edge of a high rise apartment building that I lived in, literally, ready to step off.” – Paul Pettit  
  • “We need antithesis in life. Everything has to have an opposite. We have to have up and down, left and right, hot and cold, pleasant and unpleasant, for everything to exist.” – Paul Pettit 

 

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