Ep 7. How To Take Ownership Over Your Personal Preferences

Being a human means that we inevitably have personal preferences, but sometimes we forget to lean into them in order to understand who we truly are. Not only do personal preferences make us human, but they’re what make us uniquely US!

CC dives into all things personal preferences and teaches you how to better understand your own as well as how to manage differing preferences with others, especially in romantic relationships.

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Locked ‘Me, Myself & I’ Note Overview - To start making real change, we gotta put in some work. This starts with creating your SAFE SPACE. Doing something from you and for you that's quick, simple, efficient, and accessible. Go ahead and create a locked note on your phone and name it whatever you want - CC’s note is named "Lil CC & More”. She originally used it to chat with her inner child/past self and now it's turned into her full time journal. Use your own locked note to safely connect with yourself and for CMWCC Pro-Tips!

Pro-Tip #7 - In your "Me, Myself, and I," locked note, use the following 5 buckets for preferences (you can also add your own), jot down 3 preferences in no particular order for each bucket: 

• Movie genres
• How you keep your living space
• Things that make you laugh
• What pisses you off
• How you like to spend your Sundays

A couple examples from CC are below:

Things that make CC laugh

• When something is out of place or things don’t belong (I.e. Larry David humor in Curb Your Enthusiasm)
• When someone says “pudding”
• A really clever pun (these are rare, but when they land for me, they land GOOD)

How CC likes to spend her Sundays

• Triple Movie Bagel Sunday (Listen to Ep 1 for deets — It’s essentially me horizontal on the couch all day, crushing bagels and movies with my dog Mollie) 
• Long walks around the perimeter of Manhattan
• Self care (facemask, mani/pedi, meditation, etc.)

The goal with this exercise is to help you get into the preferences mindset and really get clear on what you uniquely have a preference for that makes you, YOU! There are so many buckets for our preferences in our life and the key is for you to feel empowered and curious to better understand what you prefer (or don’t prefer) across the board. When you know your preferences, you can take pride in them as a way of taking ownership over YOUR life and most importantly around WHO YOU ARE!

P.S. Here are directions for how to create a locked note on iPhone and Android.

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