Remember to Live with Corean Canty
Remember to Live is a podcast born from a simple but profound realization: there is such a thing as too late. Through candid conversations with real people living intentional lives, we explore what happens when we refuse to postpone joy to some distant "someday."
Each episode showcases individuals who are putting the "living" back into "making a living" – people who've chosen presence over endless hustle, who understand that climbing the corporate ladder isn't worth sacrificing health, relationships, and moments that matter.
Inspired by my experience as a caretaker for my mother with dementia, my own burnout, and the eye-opening lessons from "The Five Regrets of the Dying," this podcast offers practical tools and honest insights to help you make small changes that lead to a big life.
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ABOUT THE HOST:
Corean Canty knows firsthand there is such a thing as "too late." After years of following society's "shoulds" and pursuing titles and salaries at the cost of her health and happiness, her life changed forever when she stepped into the role of caretaker for her mother. This eye-opening experience taught her a simple truth: someday isn't guaranteed.
Instead of postponing joy to a distant future, Corean made the courageous decision to redesign her life on her own terms. Today, as an Idea Catalyst and TEDx speaker & Coach, she helps people find their voice, tell their story, and transform their lives and businesses.
Through the Remember to Live Podcast, Corean creates candid conversations with people who have chosen presence over endless hustle. She invites others to stop waiting for "someday" and start living now – because while it's never too late to dream, there absolutely is a "too late" to do.
Remember to Live with Corean Canty
How One Hour Can Change Your Life
summary
In this solo episode, I share how life has been life-ing lately, the challenges of caregiving, the disruption of Mom being in the hospital, and feeling stuck. And how giving myself one uninterrupted hour got me unstuck and moving forward.
I know we all go through it sometimes and need tools and support to help us gain clarity and create an action plan to get unstuck and start living the life we really want.
I share the power of what one hour can do. along with 3 tools to get unstuck right now.
takeaways
- Caretaking can disrupt normal routines and self-care.
- It's essential to ask for help when feeling overwhelmed.
- One hour of uninterrupted time can lead to clarity.
- Getting thoughts out of your head is the first step to organization.
- Identify tasks that only you can do and delegate others.
- Prioritize joy in your to-do list.
- Accountability partners can help maintain momentum.
- Celebrate small victories in your journey.
- Coaching can provide necessary support during tough times.
- It's important to end the year strong and focused.
Chapters
00:00
Navigating Caregiving and Personal Challenges
03:34
Feeling Stuck: A Common Experience
03:56
Three Steps to Get Unstuck
09:58
Introducing the Power Hour Offer
11:22
Closing Thoughts and Encouragement
Need help Getting Unstuck? Book a Power Hour today and get two free weeks of additional support: https://coreancanty.com/power-hour/
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Welcome to the remember to live podcast, a place where we explore what it means to live a life and live one well. I'm Corinne, your guide on this journey through the art of living. Along the way, we will learn tips and tools to live more fully and ditch those end of life regrets. We'll hear stories from people who have chosen different paths and new ways of living and delve deeper into how we stay human in a world of rapid technological advancement. Life is too short not to show up to it. It's time to do life better. Together, let's learn how. So get cozy, grab your favorite warm drink, and let's dig in.
Hello, friends. Welcome back to the Remember to Live podcast. It's me, Corrine. I am back after a totally unplanned, unexpected break in September. As many of you know, I am caretaker to my mom, and, unfortunately, she was in the hospital for several weeks. She's now in rehab and getting stronger and getting better, and we are on our way back to whatever the new normal looks like for us. But I will say caretaking became a full time job. I lost all sense of a normal schedule.
I had to move a lot of things around. My self care almost became nonexistent. I did what I can to take care of myself when I felt like I didn't have the time. But I have to say it was a challenge. I struggled to figure out what to prioritize or even when to ask for help. And many times, I started to feel stuck. And sometimes life gets like that. Right?
When things happen all at once, and you're just one human trying to figure it all out.
We feel stuck. But here's the thing. I actually coach people
out of stuck places all the time, and sometimes I forget to use my own tools. But what I know for sure is that when we're really feeling stuck, we can't do it all by ourselves. Sometimes we need help just getting
everything out of our heads, sorting it all out, figuring out next steps, figuring out what to prioritize in life. And many times, we feel too overwhelmed, or we don't feel like we have the time to do it ourselves.
And I was definitely feeling like that these past couple weeks. So I actually set up
time with my coach and my personal advisory board, aka my besties that know me the best, that help me when I'm in those moments that I can't see myself, I can't understand what I need, and they can reflect that back to me. Sometimes we just need our mirrors. You know? But what we also need
is to give ourselves uninterrupted time to clear our thoughts, to get the clarity that we need to see through the chaos.
And lots of times, we think we need a
lot of time to do this, but the reality is it doesn't take a lot of time. Just one uninterrupted hour
can change your life. One uninterrupted hour where you can focus on yourself, forget about everybody else's needs, and figure out what you need. Get clear on what you need and what steps you need to take to get unstuck, to feel better, and to move forward even when it feels like you can't find 5 minutes to even eat. We just need to give ourselves the time and the space to go inside. And now I know I'm not the only one whose life's been life in lately. I've actually been talking to a lot of friends and clients who are going through their own version of feeling stuck and just needing a little bit of support. So this episode's for anyone who's feeling stuck, whether you're feeling stuck right now in a job, in a transition, in your overall career, whether you're feeling stuck trying to make a big decision and you just don't know what to do, whether you've been trying to find the time to start that project you said you were going to do all year for yourself or trying to find time to do anything for yourself if you're just feeling stuck in life in general. I'm gonna share 3 things that you can do to get
unstuck in just 1 hour. Step 1.
Get it out of your head. You've gotta get it out of your head. I know you have a 1000000 things on your to do list, a 1000000 things floating around in your mind that you need to do for the people that you take care of, for your job, for yourself, for all of the demands on your life. 1st, we gotta get it out of our head. Get it on paper so we could actually take a look at the real to do list. Because once we get it out of our heads and get it on paper, we can start to organize it. We can start to evaluate it. We can start to understand what really has to get done.
And more importantly, we can start to see what we can take off
the list all together. So go ahead, grab some paper and a pen.
I mean, I prefer paper and pen or tablet or computer or whatever it is, and just get it all out. Don't worry about organizing it at first. Just get out everything in your mind that you can think of that you feel pressure about getting done, that you feel like you need to check off the list or things that you even just want to do for yourself. Now once you have this all on paper, then you can start organizing. Start organizing it in things that absolutely have to get done and in order of the time that they need to get done in. Because some things have to get done. Right? Like, we have bills due. We may have something that needs to get fixed at home.
We may have a deadline at work that is very important. There's some things that actually are urgent or some things that actually need attention right now, Even if
we feel like everything needs attention right now. It doesn't.
So go through the list and decide which things truly, truly are urgent. Next, look at your list and figure out what's really yours. What are the things
that only you can do? What are the things that
are the items you put on the list and were not given to you by someone else? What are the things that you cannot delegate? What are the things that you can? What are the things you took on that aren't even yours, but you're so used to saying yes when everyone asks you something that you automatically put it on your list? What things are nice to have, but don't need to
be done anytime soon? Things that aren't necessarily going to bring you joy, but probably should get done, but they can get done sometime
in the future. They're not urgent. They're not pressing, and they're not really gonna fill your cup a lot. And which one of those things do you not need to do at all? What can you just scratch off and realize this doesn't have to get done ever. Now one of the most important things,
what on your list will bring you the most joy? And if you're looking at this list and nothing will bring you joy, then you need to add some things. I know we don't like
the idea of adding things
to our to do list, but we deserve joy in life,
and we deserve to make time for joy. And if we have no space for joy on our list, we're not gonna live a very happy life. So spend a little bit of time thinking about what brings you joy, whether it's on your list or not, and let's learn to prioritize those things too. Okay. Work on cleaning up your list.
Get it down to a good precise list of things that are actually really urgent, things that are actually yours, and only you can do them, and things that bring you joy.
And now out of those, what are the top three things that you can get done in the shortest amount of time
with the least amount of effort. And one of those things should be from your joy list. At least 1.
Schedule those in your calendar right now because those three action items are going to start the momentum to get you out of this stuck place. It's going to help you start moving the needle.
Okay. That was step 2. Your three things. So we've worked our list. We got our three things. Now find an accountability partner. Whether it's your bestie, whether it's your coworker, whether it's your spouse, your partner, your kid, whoever is your go to person
when you need an accountability partner. Find an accountability partner. Find someone to go through this exercise with so that way you have someone who will help you make sure you start these few steps so you can take the momentum to get you unstuck. Bonus step. Find some time to celebrate just a little that you actually gave yourself an hour to prioritize yourself, to do something for you, to clear your mind, to get your
out of your system, that you
can start to see a way out of this stuck place. And I get it. Sometimes this sounds way easier than actually being able to do it. This 1 hour exercise sounds good, but actually putting the time on your calendar and holding it sacred and giving yourself the hour can be hard, especially when you're
in that time when you can't even find 5 minutes to eat. So because of this,
I created a special power hour offer that I offer my coaching clients that I'm not gonna make available to you. Because lately, I've been feeling life, life, and and I've heard too many people like me feeling stuck and needing support to get out of it. We got 3 months left this year. It's time. It's time for us to make the time, to get clear, to move forward, to get ourselves set up in a way that we can end this
year achieving the things that we set out to do, end this year strong. And because I know we can sometimes make the hour and not actually follow through, with this offer. I'm giving unlimited voice coaching for 2 weeks so
you have a built in accountability partner. Because sometimes we can do the thing. Right? We can do the session, do the workshop, feel really good, get inspired, feel like, ah, I finally have a path forward. And then we get up from our desks, and we go back into the life that we just sat down from, and nothing happens. So I wanna be your accountability partner in making sure that this hour means something, that you actually get unstuck. So I'm gonna put a link to this offer in the show notes for anyone who just needs that support, who just needs someone to help them move forward. And if you're someone who has been interested in getting a coach but has not yet for whatever reason, this is a great way to start seeing how a coach can make a difference in your life. So that's all for this week.
Thank you, my friends. Thanks for the patience with the break. I am back to the regular schedule with the podcast. Let me know how you do with your power hours. Let me know how you do to get yourself set up to end this year strong. Sending everybody great vibes with this new moon, lunar eclipse, beginning of q 4 energy. Let us all end this year with a bang. Let us all create the lives we want to live, and let us all help each other remember to live.