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22nd Jun 2020

008: Personal Growth Through Values Alignment with Cam Miller

Do you prioritize the important things in life, or do you just go with the flow? Many of us just take each day as it comes, and then find ourselves surprised as to where life has taken us or why we aren’t satisfied with our lives.  Without clear priorities, it’s difficult to make progress toward your goals. Making the effort to know what the important things in your life are is essential so that you can align your daily practice to nurture these values. Once you know what’s important to you, it’s easier to make decisions every day. The most important thing to come back to each day is your daily practice, which is your time to nurture the important things in life. By getting your priorities straight, understanding your values, and creating everyday practices that align with these values, you strengthen and grow these values and grow as a person as well. Change your priorities to change your life. TOPICS WE DISCUSSED INCLUDE: Having a daily practice that keeps you on the right track (5:58) Knowing the important thing and key areas in your life (8:40) Finding your flow: Staying completely focused while enjoying what you’re doing (10:49) Including little indulgences throughout the day (13:20) Internal and external sources of motivation: (15:19) Realizing how short life is (16:26) Gratitude and acceptance as part of self-care (17:36) Motivating tools (19:00) The power of fear or regret as external motivators (20:09) Using the momentum of wins to level up (21:15) Learning from failure to maximize growth and happiness (21:39) Developing skills needed to overcome challenges (24:13) Active rest - doing things you love - to help fill up your cup (26:53) Junk Food values (29:02) Our values define what we practice every day (30:30) The more we understand that value, (31:28) Through practice, we can develop skills and habits to make us better (34:53) The best way to serve others is by being the best versions of ourselves (35:53) Changing limiting beliefs to un-limiting beliefs through practice (36:57) CONNECT WITH ELAINA MULLERY HappyNurse.com.au Connect with me on Instagram and Facebook Connect with me on LinkedIn Subscribe to my Youtube channel
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The Happy Nurse
Winner — APAC Insider Australian Enterprise Awards 2024 | Most Empowering Self Care Provider for Nurses. Burnout, compassion fatigue, and stress are rising in healthcare. This podcast exists to change that — one practical, honest conversation at a time.
Nurses are the backbone of the health system — always there to care for a stranger as if they were one of their own, forsaking precious moments with their own families to ensure others' loved ones are in good hands.
Compassion fatigue, stress, and burnout are rising across healthcare. Self care has never been more important — or more overlooked.
Elaina Mullery McDonald RN has 25 years of clinical nursing experience, a Postgraduate Certificate in Psychology, and a Master of Business Psychology in progress. She is a certified NLP Practitioner, hypnotherapist, and mindfulness practitioner — and the founder and host of The Happy Nurse podcast. Having experienced burnout firsthand, she is passionate about equipping nurses with practical, evidence-informed strategies to protect their wellbeing and sustain the career they worked so hard for.

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Elaina Mullery


Elaina Mullery RN has spent 25 years working across some of nursing's most demanding clinical environments — orthopaedic trauma, operating theatre, endoscopy, recovery, and day surgery. She knows firsthand what it feels like to run on empty, and it's that lived experience of burnout that drives everything she does.
Elaina holds a Postgraduate Certificate in Psychology and is completing a Master of Business Psychology at Edith Cowan University. She is a certified NLP Practitioner, hypnotherapist, and mindfulness practitioner, and has developed the 3R Framework — an original evidence-based methodology for building sustainable human performance at individual, team, and organisational level.
Through The Happy Nurse podcast, her online courses, and her white paper No Margin for Error, Elaina is on a mission to change the way healthcare treats its most valuable resource — the people who show up every day to care for others.