The Flow Habit Podcast - Flow State, Get Unstuck, Manifest Your Creative Dreams, Intuition & Guided Meditation

#75: Getting Your To-Dos Done & Keeping Your Promises to Yourself (FLOW & MOMENTUM SERIES #2)

Are you feeling overwhelmed by all the to-dos on your daily to-do list? Or maybe you're feeling life pick up speed as we navigate the 100 days of May! Graduations, final exams, end-of-school parties, and getting work ready for summer vacations can all become clutter keeping us from feeling a sense of positive flow and momentum with those other priorities in our lives.
In this episode, Laurie Smith, author of the Flow Habit and host of the Flow Habit Podcast continues her series on Momentum--how to keep your momentum and flow going when life gets in the way.
Have you ever considered slowing down to speed things up? 
In this episode of The Flow Habit Podcast, Laurie Smith shares a strategy she's been experimenting with in her own life, and how simplifying our to-do list and how we approach time management can not only speed up flow, it can also give us more breathing space for those creative ideas to flow to us.
As with all of her podcast episodes and her books, host Laurie Smith invites you to do some introspection into your habits and superpowers, and how you can better support yourself so that you are filled with a renewed sense of purpose, and so that your overall life flows in a way that works for YOU!
If you want to go even deeper and uncover your own unique formula for flow, sign up for Laurie's newsletter at www.LaurieSmith.com and order Laurie's NEW Book The Flow Habit: Creating Peace, Passion, Purpose & Everyday Miracles!
Download this episode and listen whenever you want to feel more uplifted.
Here's how to connect with Laurie:
Buy The Flow Habit: Creating Peace, Passion, Purpose & Everyday Miracles
Sign up for Laurie's FREE 28-Day Flow Challenge
Sign up for Laurie's email newsletter -- Let Life Flow
Follow Laurie on Substack -- @flowhabit
Follow Laurie on Instagram – @LaurieSmith_inspired
Follow Laurie on LinkedIn – @laurie-smith-inspired
Visit Laurie's website: www.LaurieSmith.com or www.TheFlowHabit.com
Get Laurie's book Leap with Me: A Creative Path to Finding and Following Your True Voice
Laurie's NEW book on Amazon: The Flow Habit: Creating Peace, Passion, Purpose, and Everyday Miracles

#74: Overcome Procrastination and Face What You're Resisting (FLOW & MOMENTUM SERIES #1)

In this episode, Laurie Smith, author of the Flow Habit and host of the Flow Habit Podcast launches a new series on Momentum--how to keep your momentum going and find flow (even when there are obstacles in your way).
Is there an area of your life where you want to keep your momentum going? Are you struggling to come up with a plan for making time for your creative dreams during summer when the kids are off school, you're taking vacations, or traveling? How can you keep your business flowing, and maintain the momentum you've created in your life even when life gets in the way?
What are some simple ways you can find flow and keep moving in the direction towards your dreams, while still taking off time to enjoy summer?
In this episode of The Flow Habit Podcast, Laurie Smith talks about how sometimes, there are areas of our lives that need our attention in order to keep momentum flowing forward. Have you heard the expression: "eat the frog"? Are there tasks you are resisting or even procrastinating that might be getting in the way of your flow or blocking your forward momentum?
Laurie guides you through a simple process of tuning into your intuition to discover what area of your life is calling for your attention. Which area is most important to you to keep flowing and momentum going, and what's a simple task or activity that will help you do that?
As with all of her podcast episodes and her books, host Laurie Smith invites you to do some introspection into your habits and superpowers, and how you can better support yourself so that you are filled with a renewed sense of purpose, and so that your overall life flows in a way that works for YOU!
If you want to go even deeper and uncover your own unique formula for flow, sign up for Laurie's newsletter at www.LaurieSmith.com and order Laurie's NEW Book The Flow Habit: Creating Peace, Passion, Purpose & Everyday Miracles!
Download this episode and listen whenever you want to feel more uplifted.
Here's how to connect with Laurie:
Buy The Flow Habit: Creating Peace, Passion, Purpose & Everyday Miracles
Sign up for Laurie's FREE 28-Day Flow Challenge
Sign up for Laurie's email newsletter -- Let Life Flow
Follow Laurie on Substack -- @flowhabit
Follow Laurie on Instagram – @LaurieSmith_inspired
Follow Laurie on LinkedIn – @laurie-smith-inspired
Visit Laurie's website: www.LaurieSmith.com or www.TheFlowHabit.com
Get Laurie's book Leap with Me: A Creative Path to Finding and Following Your True Voice
Laurie's NEW book on Amazon: The Flow Habit: Creating Peace, Passion, Purpose, and Everyday Miracles
 
 
 

#73: Find Your Purpose with Flow (FLOW & CLARITY SERIES #5)

In this episode, Laurie Smith, author of the Flow Habit and host of the Flow Habit Podcast takes us on a journey of exploration into the idea of having a life purpose, and designing a life that flows.
Discover the three components of living a life filled with purpose. They are not what you might think!
After listening to this episode, you might look at your life in a new way and discover that what you "think" is your life purpose might actually be the firm foundation you need so that your true purpose and your creative spark can shine!
As with all of her podcast episodes and her books, host Laurie Smith invites you to do some introspection into your habits and superpowers, and how you can better support yourself so that you are filled with a renewed sense of purpose, and so that your overall life flows in a way that works for YOU!
If you want to go even deeper and uncover your own unique formula for flow, sign up for Laurie's newsletter at www.LaurieSmith.com and order Laurie's NEW Book The Flow Habit: Creating Peace, Passion, Purpose & Everyday Miracles!
Download this episode and listen whenever you want to feel more uplifted.
Here's how to connect with Laurie:
Buy The Flow Habit: Creating Peace, Passion, Purpose & Everyday Miracles
Sign up for Laurie's FREE 28-Day Flow Challenge
Sign up for Laurie's email newsletter -- Let Life Flow
Follow Laurie on Substack -- @flowhabit
Follow Laurie on Instagram – @LaurieSmith_inspired
Follow Laurie on LinkedIn – @laurie-smith-inspired
Visit Laurie's website: www.LaurieSmith.com or www.TheFlowHabit.com
Get Laurie's book Leap with Me: A Creative Path to Finding and Following Your True Voice
Laurie's NEW book on Amazon: The Flow Habit: Creating Peace, Passion, Purpose, and Everyday Miracles
 
 
 

#72: Simplifying and Creating Space for Flow (FLOW & CLARITY SERIES #4)

Have you ever felt so overwhelmed or disorganized that it was difficult to get into flow? The first step to experiencing flow is focus. We need to know what our priorities are, and have systems in place to help us reach those priorities. 
Sometimes, we can hold too tightly to what we think is supposed to happen, or to our goals, so that we don't allow for the fluidity that flow requires. We might have systems so dialed in (or be trying to create so much structure) that we are actually blocking flow.
On the other hand, sometimes we need more structure or predictability in our processes so that we can keep flow going. The containers we create for flow become the systems we develop for our lives.
In this episode, Laurie Smith, author of the flow book The Flow Habit, and host of The Flow Habit Podcast does a deep dive into what you need to do to boost flow in your life. 
Creating a high-flow life isn't about following a formula that some expert has developed. In spite of what we often hear about flow, we're all Flow Experts! The key to experiencing the flow state more often, boosting creative flow, and creating lives that flow is all about "knowing oneself."
As with all of her podcast episodes and her books, host Laurie Smith invites you to do some introspection into what you are trying to accomplish in your life this week, and how you can support yourself, possibly with some more clarity and systems, so that your experience flows!
If you want to go even deeper and uncover your own unique formula for flow, order Laurie's NEW Book The Flow Habit: Creating Peace, Passion, Purpose & Everyday Miracles!
Download this episode and listen whenever you want to feel more uplifted.
Here's how to connect with Laurie:
Buy The Flow Habit: Creating Peace, Passion, Purpose & Everyday Miracles
Sign up for Laurie's FREE 28-Day Flow Challenge
Sign up for Laurie's email newsletter -- Let Life Flow
Follow Laurie on Substack -- @flowhabit
Follow Laurie on Instagram – @LaurieSmith_inspired
Follow Laurie on LinkedIn – @laurie-smith-inspired
Visit Laurie's website: www.LaurieSmith.com or www.TheFlowHabit.com
Get Laurie's book Leap with Me: A Creative Path to Finding and Following Your True Voice
Laurie's NEW book on Amazon: The Flow Habit: Creating Peace, Passion, Purpose, and Everyday Miracles
 

#71: Struggling? How to Keep Flow Going...It's All Okay! (FLOW & CLARITY SERIES #3)

In this episode of The Flow Habit Podcast. host Laurie Smith helps you get clear about where you're at when it comes to flow and your top priorities, and what to do about it.
This is the third episode in a series on the connection between flow and clarity.
In this episode, Laurie offers tips to help you identify which of the five stages of the SAFER Flow Cycle you are in, as well as questions you can ask yourself to keep your flow going.
The SAFER Flow Cycle was introduced in Laurie Smith's book The Flow Habit: Creating Peace, Passion, Purpose & Everyday Miracles (Hay House/Penguin Random House). 
The acronym SAFER is key because emotional safety is so important when it comes to getting into flow, and so often overlooked. Flow can also make our businesses and relationships stronger and SAFER, meaning more resilient over the long-term, because flow is how we innovate and evolve.
 
In this episode, Laurie helps you identify how you are feeling. This clarity can help you access flow more easily. Flow is how you grow. Growth leads to resilience and long-term safety by helping you contribute at your highest level.
When we are all-in, locked-in, fully focused on a task, that’s when we have the highest chance of enjoying the moment and being our best selves.
Even amidst the peaks and valleys, the overall feeling of flow is forward motion—one undulating flow wave after the next.
Struggle, at first, as you find your bearings.
Accept that things are they way they are, and that you feel the way I feel. (It’s all OK!)
Find your own way, often by following the four FEEL steps of flow—check them out in Laurie Smith's book The Flow Habit.
And then voila! You are back in flow again, happily…
Enjoying yourself and the moment.
Then comes…
Rest.
Rest is how we integrate and metamorphosize into our New Normal, becoming one with the constant movement, however quiet or unseen, that is the very nature of life itself—one miraculous moment flowing into the next.
If you want to go even deeper and uncover your own unique formula for flow, order Laurie's NEW Book The Flow Habit: Creating Peace, Passion, Purpose & Everyday Miracles!
Download this episode and listen whenever you want to feel more uplifted.
Here's how to connect with Laurie:
Buy The Flow Habit: Creating Peace, Passion, Purpose & Everyday Miracles
Sign up for Laurie's FREE 28-Day Flow Challenge
Sign up for Laurie's email newsletter -- Let Life Flow
Follow Laurie on Substack -- @flowhabit
Follow Laurie on Instagram – @LaurieSmith_inspired
Follow Laurie on LinkedIn – @laurie-smith-inspired
Visit Laurie's website: www.LaurieSmith.com or www.TheFlowHabit.com
Get Laurie's book Leap with Me: A Creative Path to Finding and Following Your True Voice
Laurie's NEW book on Amazon: The Flow Habit: Creating Peace, Passion, Purpose, and Everyday Miracles

#70: Clarity and Flow Meditation ~ Relaxing, Letting Go, and Getting Clear (FLOW & CLARITY SERIES #2)

In this episode, host of The Flow Habit Podcast and author of The Flow Habit (Penguin Random House/Hay House) leads one of her powerful guided meditations. This meditation is designed to help you deeply relax, connect with your own inner GPS about what is in your best interest, and let go of anything holding you back in becoming more clear about your priorities and goals, and what matters most. 
PLEASE NOTE: This episode includes guided visualizations and a meditation designed to be deeply relaxing.
**Warning: Please do not listen to this episode and meditations or guided visualizations while driving, operating machinery, or doing anything that requires your full attention. Download episodes with meditations and save it for a time when you can safely close your eyes and deeply relax. Guided meditations are not for everyone. Please consult with your physician or mental health provider and honor what is right for you.
Research shows that guided meditation calms the nervous system, quiets the inner critic and inner chatter, and can help us become more able to experience altered states like flow experiences. Save this meditation for a time when you can deeply relax, close your eyes, and experience a calm sense of inner peace, being clear, knowing who you really are, and what you are feeling called to do next.
This is the second episode in a series on the connection between flow and clarity.
If you want to go even deeper and uncover your own unique formula for flow, order Laurie's NEW Book The Flow Habit: Creating Peace, Passion, Purpose & Everyday Miracles!
Download this episode and listen whenever you want to feel more uplifted.
Here's how to connect with Laurie:
Buy The Flow Habit: Creating Peace, Passion, Purpose & Everyday Miracles
Sign up for Laurie's FREE 28-Day Flow Challenge
Sign up for Laurie's email newsletter -- Let Life Flow
Follow Laurie on Substack -- @flowhabit
Follow Laurie on Instagram – @LaurieSmith_inspired
Follow Laurie on LinkedIn – @laurie-smith-inspired
Visit Laurie's website: www.LaurieSmith.com or www.TheFlowHabit.com
Get Laurie's book Leap with Me: A Creative Path to Finding and Following Your True Voice
Laurie's NEW book on Amazon: The Flow Habit: Creating Peace, Passion, Purpose, and Everyday Miracles

#69: Setting Goals and Priorities (FLOW & CLARITY SERIES #1)

The first step in getting into a flow state is focus. We need to know what our top priority is for the activity we are doing. It helps to be clear about what we are doing, why we are doing it, and how it fits into the bigger priorities of our lives. The more personally meaningful an activity is and the more focused or "locked in" we feel as we are doing it, the higher the chance is that we will experience a flow state.
Having clarity and being focused on our priorities also helps our overall lives to flow. In this episode of The Flow Habit Podcast. host Laurie Smith does a deep dive into the connection between clarity and flow. She shares her own priorities and shows us how connecting our big picture priorities for our lives can help everything flow better.
This is the first episode in a series on the connection between flow and clarity.
If you want to go even deeper and uncover your own unique formula for flow, order Laurie's NEW Book The Flow Habit: Creating Peace, Passion, Purpose & Everyday Miracles!
Download this episode and listen whenever you want to feel more uplifted.
Here's how to connect with Laurie:
Buy The Flow Habit: Creating Peace, Passion, Purpose & Everyday Miracles
Sign up for Laurie's FREE 28-Day Flow Challenge
Sign up for Laurie's email newsletter -- Let Life Flow
Follow Laurie on Substack -- @flowhabit
Follow Laurie on Instagram – @LaurieSmith_inspired
Follow Laurie on LinkedIn – @laurie-smith-inspired
Visit Laurie's website: www.LaurieSmith.com or www.TheFlowHabit.com
Get Laurie's book Leap with Me: A Creative Path to Finding and Following Your True Voice
Laurie's NEW book on Amazon: The Flow Habit: Creating Peace, Passion, Purpose, and Everyday Miracles

#68: Calm Confidence ~ Awakening Your True Self (FLOW & TRANSFORMATION SERIES #3)

When we're going through big changes or transformations in our lives, we often feel alone or as if we want someone "out there" to give us answers or help us find the way.
In this episode of The Flow Habit podcast, Laurie Smith, Flow State Speaker and podcast host shares how we have a higher chance of experiencing more flow when we find our way back to our own peace and calm confidence within.
The experience of this calm, wise, confident version of ourselves, what Laurie Smith calls the True Self or Flowing Self, is what makes the flow state so powerful. By following the tips in this episode, you can learn to use flow to navigate change and transformation more easily and effortlessly.
In this episode, Laurie Smith shares data from her own flow research, her groups, and tips on how to come to know this peaceful part of yourself to experience calm confidence as you manage change.
This is the first episode in a three-part series on how flow can help us navigate transformations.
If you want to go even deeper and uncover your own unique formula for flow, order Laurie's NEW Book The Flow Habit: Creating Peace, Passion, Purpose & Everyday Miracles!
Download this episode and listen whenever you want to feel more uplifted.
Here's how to connect with Laurie:
Buy The Flow Habit: Creating Peace, Passion, Purpose & Everyday Miracles
Sign up for Laurie's FREE 28-Day Flow Challenge
Sign up for Laurie's email newsletter -- Let Life Flow
Follow Laurie on Substack -- @flowhabit
Follow Laurie on Instagram – @LaurieSmith_inspired
Follow Laurie on LinkedIn – @laurie-smith-inspired
Visit Laurie's website: www.LaurieSmith.com or www.TheFlowHabit.com
Get Laurie's book Leap with Me: A Creative Path to Finding and Following Your True Voice
Laurie's NEW book on Amazon: The Flow Habit: Creating Peace, Passion, Purpose, and Everyday Miracles

#67: Making a Change ~ The Messy Middle (FLOW & TRANSFORMATION SERIES #2)

When we're going through big changes in our lives, we can often reach a point where we feel as if nothing is familiar. The routines we used to rely on in the past no longer work the way they used to. Old frameworks or structures no longer exist. We can feel as if we don't know who we are or what to do next.
Laurie E. Smith, Flow State Speaker, author of The Flow Habit, and podcast host refers to this as the "messy middle"--the chrysalis phase of change. In this episode, Laurie walks through two critical moments as we are going through transitions or this limbo or "in-between" stage of change.
The first is when we led to of the outer form--we accept that what once was is no longer who we are now. We might grieve or feel sadness, or even struggle as we accept that the old form is dissolving.
The second key juncture in this process is when we see a crack in the chrysalis. The light is shining through from the outside. We are being called by a greater flow or outer events to emerge, to experiment, to try out our new wings. This phase can take great courage as we slowly find our way from the safety of the chrysalis, or the incubation period in our lives and find our way into the outer world to share the new gifts we have gained as a result of having gone through the changes. We realize it is time to test our new wings.
Laurie Smith, Flow State Speaker and host of The Flow Habit podcast shares some tips to make both key junctures in the transformation process easier and how flow can help. This is the first episode in a three-part series on how flow can help us navigate transformations and life changes.
If you want to go even deeper and uncover your own unique formula for flow, order Laurie's NEW Book The Flow Habit: Creating Peace, Passion, Purpose & Everyday Miracles!
Download this episode and listen whenever you want to feel more uplifted.
Here's how to connect with Laurie:
Buy The Flow Habit: Creating Peace, Passion, Purpose & Everyday Miracles
Sign up for Laurie's FREE 28-Day Flow Challenge
Sign up for Laurie's email newsletter -- Let Life Flow
Follow Laurie on Substack -- @flowhabit
Follow Laurie on Instagram – @LaurieSmith_inspired
Follow Laurie on LinkedIn – @laurie-smith-inspired
Visit Laurie's website: www.LaurieSmith.com or www.TheFlowHabit.com
Get Laurie's book Leap with Me: A Creative Path to Finding and Following Your True Voice
Laurie's NEW book on Amazon: The Flow Habit: Creating Peace, Passion, Purpose, and Everyday Miracles

#66: Overcoming Flow Blocks ~ 3 Tips to Quiet Your Inner Critic (FLOW & TRANSFORMATION SERIES #1)

Flow has gotten a lot of attention when it comes to productivity and performance. Often, when it comes to getting into flow, boosting focus and limiting outer distractions gets a lot of focus. In this episode, Flow State Speaker and author of Laurie Smith reveals that contrary to what most people think, the number one block to flow isn't outer distractions, it's our inner chatter.
Laurie Smith spent years doing a deep dive into peer-reviewed research as well as conducting her own research in her flow groups. She discovered that when we learn how to quiet the parts of our brains that rule us-versus-them thinking and are constantly trying to keep us safe by focusing on "what's wrong," we have a higher chance of experiencing more flow.
In this episode, Laurie walks through three simple steps we can take to quiet the inner critic and boost the flow in our lives. This is the first episode in a three-part series on how flow can help us navigate transformations and life changes.
If you want to go even deeper and uncover your own unique formula for flow, order Laurie's NEW Book The Flow Habit: Creating Peace, Passion, Purpose & Everyday Miracles!
Download this episode and listen whenever you want to feel more uplifted.
Here's how to connect with Laurie:
Buy The Flow Habit: Creating Peace, Passion, Purpose & Everyday Miracles
Sign up for Laurie's FREE 28-Day Flow Challenge
Sign up for Laurie's email newsletter -- Let Life Flow
Follow Laurie on Substack -- @flowhabit
Follow Laurie on Instagram – @LaurieSmith_inspired
Follow Laurie on LinkedIn – @laurie-smith-inspired
Visit Laurie's website: www.LaurieSmith.com or www.TheFlowHabit.com
Get Laurie's book Leap with Me: A Creative Path to Finding and Following Your True Voice
Laurie's NEW book on Amazon: The Flow Habit: Creating Peace, Passion, Purpose, and Everyday Miracles