Breverie Handbook with Olena Mytruk
Telling personal stories is one of the most powerful and most underrated self-discovery and personal growth tools ever invented.
It's like a handbook. Your memories and life stories are like pages in your very own life manual, and all you need to do is be willing to look through those pages, read through them, and learn from them.
Sharing your personal stories out loud is like making a peace pact with yourself. Once you let it out, once you give yourself permission to let it out – something that you kept deep inside for so long – it liberates you.
And it begins to finally make sense. Your life, your deepest thoughts and desires, your wildest dreams and aspirations, your biggest fears and doubts – you begin to get it.
My name is Olena Mytruk, and it took me a while to learn the power of storytelling. But once I discovered it, I never looked back.
I invite you to join me on this adventurous and inspiring journey as I flip pages of my Breverie Handbook – trying to figure out what it really takes to be a hardworking, passionate, multifaceted woman in today’s world.
Breverie Handbook with Olena Mytruk
The Page About My First Ever 5K Race, Measuring Success, and Having Fun
How often do you measure success by whether you achieved a specific result? You want to hit a particular number - on your watch, or your floor scale, or in your bank account.
And you have to hit that number 100%, 99% doesn’t count.
You set expectations for yourself and then heroically try to meet them. And if you don’t, you get discouraged and blame yourself.
But let me ask you - what if those expectations were unrealistic in the first place? What if this number was impossible to hit no matter how hard you try?
I am here to tell you - there is a better way to measure success.
In this episode, I’m sharing the story of how I spontaneously decided to run a 5K race, the first ever in my life, how I did not come in first, or second, or even third, and how it still became something that I am super proud of.
EPISODE BREAKDOWN:
- [01:24] From hating physical education to loving being active
- [02:32] How running became a non-negotiable
- [04:14] Running in Houston
- [05:00] Wishing to participate in a real race
- [07:14] Preparing for the 5K race
- [09:14] The race has begun
- [13:47] The hardest part of the race
- [15:53] Reflections on success and my first real race
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The Page About Freedom, Sitting on a Sidewalk, and the Ultimate Unknown (feat. Yeliena Theofilatos)
The Page About Carefully Laid Plans, A Cold Shower, and a Perfect COVID Wedding Day
The Page About Doubts, Overthinking, and Getting Unstuck
The Page About Two Hands, One Head, and Prioritizing
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