Attractively Different Podcast: Recent Episodes

Tom Hermann

This is a show to help people create a life without limits by simply changing how they think about what they see.

Why? Because those who don’t think differently will always believe their resources are limited and never lead an extraordinary life.

Tom shares his thoughts on the danger of believing what appears to be true and failing to live into the Truth of your identity.

This is a show for those who are looking for better answers in the most crucial areas of life. A show For those who aren’t satisfied with the ordinary results produced by their surface level thinking.

What is the fruit that comes from the truth?

Freedom.

Then Jesus said to those Jews who believed Him, “If you abide in My word, you are My disciples indeed. And you shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.” - John 8:31-32

Knowing the truth makes you free. The Greek word translated "make" means to deliver, make free, and liberate. It comes from a root word that means unrestrained. So think about this for a moment: if knowing the truth has the power to liberate you and allow you to be unrestrained, then does that mean that not knowing the truth will keep you restrained and in bondage?

In my opinion, yes it does.

Yet, your brain can work against you from knowing the truth. See, your brain is designed to keep you alive, and the belief systems you hold tell your brain what is important and what is not. Essentially, what that means, is that your brain will receive any information that is contrary to your current belief system as a threat. It will be more inclined to prove the information is wrong than to examine it for truth.

In today's episode, we will break down how you can always walk in truth and not let your brain stay stuck in a belief system that might be keeping you stuck in bondage. I also share three steps you can take to always be in a state of mind that allows for the truth to win.

Don't forget that God put everything in place for you to succeed in your purpose. However, you can miss out on that assignment if you don't take action on the TRUTHS and break away from faulty thinking. The purpose of life is not just trying to survive but to live a life that brings glory to his kingdom and is attractively different.

Key Takeaways:

Your brain is looking for evidence to validate your current beliefs. So when you receive information that is contrary to a belief you hold your mind wants to prove it wrong.
Failing to receive information with an open mind indicates that you're more concerned about being right instead of getting it right
The zeal of others can lead you astray and cause you to miss the truth if you don't create a habit of verifying the information for yourself.
You cannot lose with this mindset. You either confirm that what you have is truth or you've now found the truth and can now walk in greater freedom.

Additional Resources:

Check out your free life coaching resource, Life Purpose Roadmap PDF, and learn how to prosper in your purpose.

Friend, have you ever let the cares of life pull you away from yielding your entire heart to God? If you're anything like me then the answer is yes, and today's show will give you a practical way to know when you're trusting in your resources. Yes, there have been season in life where you hold on tightly to your resources because it doesn't feel like there will be enough. Yet, we know that God's desire for us is to trust Him as the source instead of trusting in the resources.

In today's episode we're going to dive into Jesus' teaching on this topic from His sermon on the mount found in Matthew 6:22-23. Jesus said, " The eye is the lamp of the body. If your eyes are healthy, your whole body will be full of light. But if your eyes are unhealthy, your whole body will be full of darkness. If then the light within you is darkness, how great is that darkness!"

Jesus is using a Hebrew idiom that is referring to generosity and stinginess. A good or healthy eye is an eye that looks out for the needs of others, but a bad or unhealthy eye does not see the needs of others due to looking out for your own needs. Yet, here's the problem, when you focus on your own needs and miss the needs of others then the result is that you'll miss the path that God has for your life.

Friend, God wants to use you as a place of blessing for those around you. He wants to know that you are faithful to His plan and that you can be trusted to do His assignments. He has put everything in place for you to succeed in your purpose. However, you can miss out on that assignment if you don't take action on the TRUTHS and break away from faulty thinking. The purpose of life is not just trying to survive but to live a life that brings glory to his kingdom and is attractively different.

Key Takeaways:

Saving your money and giving resentfully is a sign that you're trusting in money and wealth
If you're worried about the basics of life (food you will eat and clothes you wear) then you will have a difficult time seeing the needs of others
Generosity and stinginess are more about the posture of your heart than the amounts in your bank account
People who don't know God will have to trust in their wealth because they don't know the promises of God

Additional Resources:

Check out your free life coaching resource, Life Purpose Roadmap PDF, and learn how to prosper in your purpose.

As a believer, knowing God and trusting in His character is crucial to succeeding in your assignment. Yet, there are many believers (… and you may be one) who have some big questions for God and are unsure if He's as trustworthy as the church tells them.

In today's episode, we dive into the idea of "Knowing God" and a lack of knowledge will destroy His people. We're going to dive into the story of Job and how God rebuked him for His "words without knowledge." I also share a real life story that demonstrates this principle and how incorrect beliefs or assumptions will create obstacles in your life.

In His word, God has put everything in place for you to succeed in your purpose. However, you can miss out on that assignment if you don't take action on the TRUTHS and break away from faulty thinking. The purpose of life is not just trying to survive but to live a life that brings glory to his kingdom and is attractively different.

Key Takeaways:

Not knowing God and His character can lead to inaccurate conclusions
In the story of Job, Job believed that God gives and takes away but God corrects him and says his words are without knowledge
To "know God" you must start have a correct lens of his character. The Bible says that He is good and that He does not change.
Religion and traditions can pass down incorrect thinking about God. You must be willing to receive the information but seek God's word to determine if it is true.

Additional Resources:

Check out your free life coaching resource, Life Purpose Roadmap PDF, and learn how to prosper in your purpose.

If you're a person who wants to advance God's kingdom and make an impact then there's one major skill set that you need to acquire. In today's episode we talk about how this skill set gets revealed in the parable of the talents but is hardly ever talked about.

What's the skill set?

It's the skill set of being able to multiply our money.

There's always a focus on the lazy servant because we want to avoid pain but rarely do we focus on the two who were called good and faithful. What made them good and faithful and what skills did they possess?

When you look at the parable you'll find three different levels of money management. One allows for the money to be multiplies, one will growth your money, and the third method does neither. Listen to this episode with an open mind and genuinely ask yourself … are you pursuing the same skills and mindset that the two "good and faithful servants" possessed?

Key Takeaways:

Three different levels of money management and two multiply it
We're called to buy back our time and learning how to multiply your money is how that is done
There's a wide spread narrative that you can't manage it yourself and trust the institutions because they know how to trade with it.
When you learn the level 1 skill set then you'll be trusted with more and the higher assignments in God's kingdom

Additional Resources:

Check out your free life coaching resource, Life Purpose Roadmap PDF, and learn how to prosper in your purpose.

As you know, walking by faith and not by sight is easier said than done. Yet, I recently discovered a simple principle that, if applied, will create the momentum needed for you to live a life where you are walking by faith and not by sight.

What's this simple, yet profound, principle?

It's the principle of the mystery harvest.

In today's episode, I share with you what the mystery harvest is and how you can apply it to your life as you learn to live a kingdom life. In Matthew 6:33, Jesus instructed his listeners to "seek first the Kingdom of God and his righteous"… and what would happen? "All of these things will be added to you."

Well, "all of these things" are what we worry about when we're unsure if there will be provision.

If you've every struggled with this worry then you need to understand and apply the mystery harvest principle.

Key Takeaways:

This principle helps you stay in the kingdom mindset so you can stay focused on your God given assignment and not get stuck in anxiety, worry, or doubt.
This principle will posture your heart correctly so you can receive what God has for you, which means your life will be a direction reflection of Him and bring Him glory.
This is in alignment with what Jesus taught in Mark 11:24. This verse talks about how you can know that you will receive what you prayed for which means you can walk confidently and expectantly in your God-given assignment.
This is a great example of how to have the child-like faith Jesus called for us to have, and when you operate in this child like faith you'll be positioned to be faithful with more of God's assignments.

Additional Resources:

Check out your free life coaching resource, Life Purpose Roadmap PDF, and learn how to prosper in your purpose.

Taking action is extremely important because you would never accomplish anything if you never took action. Yet, if you're anything like me, there are many times in life where you find yourself failing to take action. Just as Paul said in his letters … he doesn't do what he wants to do and finds himself doing the things that he doesn't want to do.

In today's episode, we discuss the five reasons that stop you from taking action and how to remove those blocks in order to start taking action. If you're honest with yourself, the reality is that it can be scary at times to take action, and this fear can put you in a state of mind where you are just trying to survive. It's a fight, flight, or freeze. This episode is going to help you diagnose why you're not taking action and breakthrough that obstacle to start moving forward and creating momentum.

Remember, God has put everything in place for you to succeed in your life purpose. The purpose of life is not just trying to survive but to live a life that brings glory to his kingdom and is attractively different.

Key Takeaways:

The biggest obstacle to you taking action is lacking the belief that you will succeed.
The mind rejects confusion and will not move forward without clarity
Belief and know-how are not enough … you have to have the skill set
Learning how to be resourceful is more important than having the resources

Additional Resources:

Check out your free life coaching resource, Life Purpose Roadmap PDF, and learn how to prosper in your purpose.

In the game of life there are two types of people: the pawns and the players. Just like chess, the players of the game determine the strategy and movements of the pawns. The pawns move slowly and are relatively easy to defeat while the players of the game can see the whole board and utilize the differnet pieces of the game in order to win.

In today's episode, we're going to talk about the five characteristics that define the pawns and the fiver characteristics that define the players. We're also going to discuss why it's so important for you, as a believer, to be a player in the game instead of a pawn. God has uniquely created you to be a produce and value creator. You've been given a unique assignment that can only be accomplished by "playing the game" instead of being "played by the game".

Remember, God has put everything in place for you to succeed in your life purpose. The purpose of life is not just trying to survive but to live a life that brings glory to his kingdom and is attractively different.

Key Takeaways:

As believers, we're called to "buy back" our time because the days are full of toil and striving.
A pawns mindset will never allow them to "buy back" their time.
Pawns work think in terms of surviving and working so they can stop versus players who work to create and make the world a better place.
The success of your God-given assignment is determined by your "pawn" or "player" mentality

Additional Resources:

Check out your free life coaching resource, Life Purpose Roadmap PDF, and learn how to prosper in your purpose.

If you're a football fan, you're probably aware of the failed coaching experiment with Urban Meyer and the Jacksonville Jaguars. There are multiple reports of him using his position to overpower and bully his players and coaches. There are headlines that report he told his assistant coaches that he was a winner and they were all losers.

Whether or not these are 100% true it shines a light on great leadership versus poor leadership. In today's episode, we're going to talk about how you can be a great leader, and how you can identity when you're leading poorly. This episode is applicable to you if you are a parent, run a business, and are looking to be the best version of yourself.

Remember, God has put everything in place for you to succeed in your life purpose. The purpose of life is not just trying to survive but to live a life that brings glory to his kingdom and is attractively different.

Key Takeaways:

Leaders who lead from a positional authority generally operate in a victim mentality when they fail to get the results they want.
You're only a leader when people choose to follow instead of being coerced or forced to follow.
Leading the with humility generates the buy in necessary to get your desired result
Leading yourself is the most important type of leadership.

Additional Resources:

Check out your free life coaching resource, Life Purpose Roadmap PDF, and learn how to prosper in your purpose.

In today's episode I host Rachel McCants of R. Lindsay Unlimited.

Rachel is an author, speaker and founder of R. Lindsay Unlimited. Born and raised in the Dallas TX. Her health was impacted in a major way in 2016. A growing brain tumor inspired R. Lindsay Unlimited, a business devoted to encourage, inspire, and challenge ladies to discover and raise their self-worth and standards, not settle and walk in God’s will in all aspects of their lives. She published her first book, Ladies As We Love Ourselves: A 6-Step Program to Self-Worth in 2019.

Rachel helps believers achieve growth in their relationship with Christ by His grace.

Key Takeaways:

Renewing your mind and chaning your beliefs requires creating an environment and friendships that are in alignment with the transformation.
You learn God's voice as you continually spend time with Him and take action on what He's leading you to do.
God will confirm the direction that he is leading you by using His word, using other people, and even creation
Ask God for wisdom and to guide your steps when pursuing your purpose and God-given assignment

Additional Resources:

Check out your free life coaching resource, Life Purpose Roadmap PDF, and learn how to prosper in your purpose.

"That's not fair!"

If you're anything like me then you've said this phrase at some point in life. Yet, what does fair actually mean? That everyone should have the same housing, talent, looks, and destiny?

No two people even have identical opportunity, and yet society will tell you that everyone should have the same opportunity. In today's episode, we discuss how damaging it can be to buy into the idea of "fairness" instead of looking through the lens of justice.

The idea of fairness is very subjective and highly emotional. Due to this dynamic, when you feel victim to something not being fair you open yourself up for bitterness, resentment, and offense. These are tactics from the enemy because it's evident that bitterness, resentment, and offense will not set you up to succeed.

Remember, God has put everything in place for you to succeed in your life purpose. The purpose of life is not just trying to survive but to live a life that brings glory to his kingdom and is attractively different.

Key Takeaways:

When there's not a Hebrew equivalent for an English word then that concept doesn't exist
Thinking with this mindset will create offense and block the kingdom from flowing
The Bible does speak to justice and being just.
Remove the phrase "that's not fair" from your verbiage and way of thinking and instead think in terms of justice.

Additional Resources:

Check out your free life coaching resource, Life Purpose Roadmap PDF, and learn how to prosper in your purpose.

In case you missed it, this episode is releasing on Wednesday instead of Tuesday.

That's because there are a few changes that will be taking place on the podcast. In today's episode I'm going to share with you the shift that is taking place for the podcast and also talk about my process for listening to God's voice and His guidance.

God has put everything in place for you to succeed in your life purpose. The purpose of life is not just trying to survive but to live a life that brings glory to his kingdom and is attractively different.

Key Takeaways:

God will lead us through the desires of our hearts. I had a desire to start a podcast well before I started a podcast.
Buying back your time will allow you to break free from this system of survival and strife.
Get really curious when you loose momentum and activities start to feel like a should
Part of hearing God's voice is the willingness to take action.

Additional Resources:

Check out your free life coaching resource, Life Purpose Roadmap PDF, and learn how to prosper in your purpose.

We all have conflict in our life and we all respond to it differently.

There are a lot of people who want to avoid conflict and will do anything to get it resolved or set it aside. However, when you don't address conflict the way that you should it actually magnifies the conflict and makes it worse.

In today's episode we're going to discuss why you should address conflict and how you can view it differently so that you'll want to make sure that it gets resolved. You will invariably encourage what you tolerate. It can feel like an inconvenience or time consuming to address conflict appropriately but in all cases, when you push it off or avoid addressing conflict, then the situation will always get worse.

Addressing conflict is so imporant because overcoming these obstacles are key to becoming the person that you need to become. God has put everything in place for you to succeed in your life purpose. The purpose of life is not just trying to survive but to live a life that brings glory to his kingdom and is attractively different.

Key Takeaways:

When you don't address conflict you're teaching people how to treat you. When you want to be treated differently then you have to start teaching people differently.
Just like indicator lights in your car …conflicts are simply indicators that something needs to be addressed.
We think avoiding conflict will help not feel negative feelings that come with it, but it still feels awful to hold the resentment, bitterness, and annoyance that builds when conflict is not addressed.
You want things to change … but should anything really be different if you've trained a person to respond in a certain way?

Additional Resources:

Check out your free life coaching resource, Life Purpose Roadmap PDF, and learn how to prosper in your purpose.

Nobody wants for failure to be their fault. It's easier to place blame on someone or something else. Failing to take responsibility for your life will keep you stuck and prevent you from fulfilling the purpose that God has created for you.

I know that the person that you want to be is someone who takes responbility and not operate out of a victim mentality. You desire to be a person who can look at their beliefs and determine if they are helping you in becoming the person that you need to become.

In today's episode we talk about how you know if you're operate in a victim mentality. Operating from a victim mentality prevents you from growing because an essential part of growth is owning your beliefs and actions. Yet the reality is that it is very comforting to operate from a victim mindset. It is a protection mechanism that allows to avoid feeling the feelings that you've determined as negative or bad.

Remember, God has put everything in place for you to succeed in your life purpose. The purpose of life is not just trying to survive but to live a life that brings glory to his kingdom and is attractively different…and as you'll see today, this starts with having an attitude of excellence with what may feel like a "small assignment.

Key Takeaways:

Being around a person who fails to take responbility is draining emotionally and we subconsciouly start to move away from that person emotionally and physically.
Your circumstances are a result of your belief system
When you're operating from a victim mentality the focus is always externally and you never questioning your thoughts and beliefs to see how they're contributing to the circumstance.
Taking offense is an indicator that you're operating in a victim mentality.

Additional Resources:

Check out your free life coaching resource, Life Purpose Roadmap PDF, and learn how to prosper in your purpose.

This is part two of a two part interview with Pastors Stephen and Sarah Traylor. Stephen and Sarah are the campus pastors for Faith Life Church Powell Campus near Columbus Ohio. They are passionate about helping people find their God-given purpose and to live the good life in the Kingdom of God. They enjoy fitness, spending time at the beach, and traveling to new and interesting places around the world. In this interview we discuss their journey in discovering the possibilities of the Kingdom of God, how God lead them into full time ministry, and how Sarah was healed from her chronic battle with asthma. Key Takeaways:

Faith and fear cannot operate together Anxiety and fear are not from God and we should get really curious when those feelings are present in our lives. If something is not working then we need to stop and become spiritual scientists and close access to the enemy. Having faith that God can do something is different than being in faith that God will.

Additional Resources:

Check out your free life coaching resource, Life Purpose Roadmap PDF, and learn how to prosper in your purpose.

This is part one of a two part interview with Pastors Stephen and Sarah Traylor. Stephen and Sarah are the campus pastors for Faith Life Church Powell Campus near Columbus Ohio. They are passionate about helping people find their God-given purpose and to live the good life in the Kingdom of God. They enjoy fitness, spending time at the beach, and traveling to new and interesting places around the world. In this interview we discuss their journey in discovering the possibilities of the Kingdom of God, how God lead them into full time ministry, and how Sarah was healed from her chronic battle with asthma. Key Takeaways:

Evidence of God's leading are peace and joy even when it feels uncertain. Even when you know your purpose and assignment there can still be nerves when you step into that assignment Anywhere you want to grow or go in life you'll have to leave something behind. Blessing follows obedience but it's not always easy

Additional Resources:

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Show description:

What would you say if I told you that there was point in Jesus' ministry where he could not do what he wanted to do?

In today's episode we're going to talk about offense, and how offense will stop or negate the work that God wants to do in your life. When Jesus was ministering in his home town the people in his town took offense at him, and the Bible says that Jesus COULD NOT do a miracle because of their offense.

This word used in the passage is the Greek word Skandalizo, which means to create a stumbling block. You can also see this is where we get our English word scandal or scandalous. Let's dive into this concept and get really curious about how offense might be blocking you from receiving something from God.

God has put everything in place for you to succeed in your life purpose. The purpose of life is not just trying to survive but to live a life that brings glory to his kingdom and is attractively different…and as you'll see today, this starts with having an attitude of excellence with what may feel like a "small assignment.

Key Takeaways:

Offense creates a stumbling block that prevents us from putting trust in someone.
This same word is used in the parable of the sower when the heat comes and we fall away
Religion is at the root of the places where we take offense and it blocks the kingdom from operating.
What is offense blocking in your life?

Additional Resources:

Check out your free life coaching resource, Life Purpose Roadmap PDF, and learn how to prosper in your purpose.

Burn the ships!

I would assume that you are familiar with the story of where this saying originated. It comes from 1519 during the Spanish conquest of Mexico, when Hernán Cortés the Spanish commander, burned his ships so that his men would have to conquer or die. Basically, he created a point of no return for himself and his men.

In today's episode I want to talk about how the idea of having a plan B sounds both wise and safe but it actually prevents us from fulfilling the purpose that God has put in our lives. The reality is that our plan is really the plan, and your brain thinks that it is protecting you by having a plan "B".

God has put everything in place for you to succeed in your life purpose. The purpose of life is not just trying to survive but to live a life that brings glory to his kingdom and is attractively different…and as you'll see today, this starts with having an attitude of excellence with what may feel like a "small assignment.

Key Takeaways:

Your brain will follow the plan "B" because that is where you have placed your confidence.
Plan "B"s are normally in contradiction to what we're called to do in faith
Get really curious about your plan "B" ... what does it tell you about your beliefs?

Additional Resources:

Check out your free life coaching resource, Life Purpose Roadmap PDF, and learn how to prosper in your purpose.

Today is part 1 of a 2 part interview with special guest Hannah Keeley. I asked Hannah to come on the show today to talk about her journey with "God ideas" and what her experience has been co-laboring with God in her assignment.

Hannah Keeley is America's #1 Mom Coach, founder of Mom Mastery University and Covenant Coach Academy, bestselling author, speaker, and the host of the PBS reality series, "Hannah, Help Me!" She has been featured on the Today show, Rachael Ray, Fox news, and the Wall Street Journal.

Key Takeaways:

What do I need to believe about myself right now? And step into that identity.
Counseling is working more toward coping with versus overcoming
The church is broken and we're called to be bright lights for a the kingdom of God
When we show up broken it to the world it looks like we have a neglectful father.

Additional Resources:

Check out your free life coaching resource, Life Purpose Roadmap PDF, and learn how to prosper in your purpose.

Today is part 1 of a 2 part interview with special guest Hannah Keeley. I asked Hannah to come on the show today to talk about her journey with "God ideas" and what her experience has been co-laboring with God in her assignment.

Hannah Keeley is America's #1 Mom Coach, founder of Mom Mastery University and Covenant Coach Academy, bestselling author, speaker, and the host of the PBS reality series, "Hannah, Help Me!" She has been featured on the Today show, Rachael Ray, Fox news, and the Wall Street Journal.

Key Takeaways:

We're not broken we're just out of align with where God wants us to be
There's a system that keeps people imprisoner and there's one that allows us to be free
We all have to pay for something in life. I'd rather pay to learn than pay the cost of not knowing. The cost of not knowing is always more than paying the cost to learn.
God doesn't ask for our ability .. He asks for our availability

Additional Resources:

Check out your free life coaching resource, Life Purpose Roadmap PDF, and learn how to prosper in your purpose.

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Success is a lot of small decisions that God is gradually directing you toward your destiny. Therefore, God wants to continually posture us and move us toward our assignment but we'll only be postured in such a way if we allow ourselves to be.

In today's episode, we talk about the prerequisites that need to be in place for you to step into your God-given assignment. Luke 16:11 says, "So if you have not been trustworthy in handling worldly wealth, who will trust you with true riches?" This indicates that the first step to walking out our spiritual assignment there's a faithfulness that needs to be proven in the natural realm.

God has put everything in place for you to succeed in your life purpose. The purpose of life is not just trying to survive but to live a life that brings glory to his kingdom and is attractively different…and as you'll see today, this starts with having an attitude of excellence with what may feel like a "small assignment.

Key Takeaways:

You cannot move toward something that you cannot imagine.
Your desires will either drag you into greater purpose or dead ends in life.
There is a testing period in the natural the precedes walking in the spiritual
The trials we face are proving out faith and creating a persistent, consistent, endurance.

Additional Resources:

Check out your free life coaching resource, Life Purpose Roadmap PDF, and learn how to prosper in your purpose.

"Count it all JOY, my brothers, when you face trials of many kinds."

What is that supposed to mean? And how can you practically apply it to you life.

In today's episode, we're going to break down James 1:2-4 and see why we are able to face trials and view them through the lens of joy. In my opinion, many believers embrace the idea of suffering just for the sake of suffering. Almost like if they're suffering then they must be doing something right.

This perspective does not fit the character of God. His desire for you is to have everything you need for life and godliness. His desire is for you to be like a tree planted by the water where you continually bear fruit even in the dry seasons. He does not have a masochistic personality where you are supposed to enjoy the pain just because it is hard.

Yet, that seems to be the perspective where most believers approach the testing of their faith. Learning how to "suffer well" for the sake of suffering. Friend, you will see that God's desire for your trials and testing are to help you become the person who lacks nothing. God has put everything in place for you to succeed in your life purpose. The purpose of life is not just trying to survive but to live a life that brings glory to his kingdom and is attractively different.

Key Takeaways:

If you're never tested then you can never really know if you're in faith
There aren't different degrees of faith .. You're either in faith or not in faith
The testing of faith produces a consistent, persistence endurance. And we know that those who don't give up on doing good will reap a harvest (Gal. 6:9).
Suffering for the sake of suffering has no purpose.

Additional Resources:

Check out your free life coaching resource, Life Purpose Roadmap PDF, and learn how to prosper in your purpose.

Being diligent to finish can actually keep you stuck.

God lead me to a specific program to grow my coaching business but I feel like I received what I needed to receive from the program without finishing.

In today's episode I talk about how being obedient to the Spirit can lead you to start something and not finish. Yet, if you're like me, there are times where it becomes difficult to not finish the work. For example, anytime I read a book I feel like I need to finish, and that's because I have made the goal reading the book instead of extracting the wisdom or skills that God is intending for me.

So, here's your permission to stop … but only when God is leading you elsewhere. And if God is not leading you elsewhere, then there is a good chance that what you're doing is working on you to become more.

God has put everything in place for you to succeed in your life purpose. The purpose of life is not just trying to survive but to live a life that brings glory to his kingdom and is attractively different.

Key Takeaways:

God may lead you to start something with the intentions that you won't finish what you start
You can slow yourself down in God's plan for you if you're so focused on finishing everything you start
Watch for God's movement and use your desires as a clue to His guidance
If it's difficult to move… ask yourself, "How is it serving me to stay here?"

Additional Resources:

Check out your free life coaching resource, Life Purpose Roadmap PDF, and learn how to prosper in your purpose.

Your desires are clues to your God-given assignment and the potential that you contain.

In today's episode, we're going to discuss how God speaks to us and guides through the desires that we have on our heart. The desires and burdens for people to take action in certain areas are unique to them. The advesary positions our thoughts against us so that we stay stuck.

There are two words that the Bible uses for desires and one means petition and the other is used in regards to lusts and covetousness.

God has called us to create to co-labor with him, and these petitions and requests are a necessary part to succeeding in the assignment that He has for you. God says in His word says that man plans his way, his course of life, and God directs each step and establishes those steps to prosper the plan. .

Yet, the desire of lust and covetousness comes in when we're unwilling to become the person He has called us to be. James 4 says that we do not have because we do not ask and when we do ask and fail to receive it's because we asked with the wrong motive. We asked with the motive to fulfill our lusts and covetousness instead of fulfilling His plan and purpose.

Friend, you have a natural leaning that will guide us in our assignment and when you petition God for the things you need in our assignment He will bring it to pass.

Key Takeaways:

We're called to create and be creators and God uses our desires to work for us in order to fulfill his purpose for our life.
The enemy knows you'll be hindered in your assignment if he can get you to believe that your desires are bad
Desires are evidence of something that you contain and need to be developed.
Your desires become unproductive when we try to use them outside of God's purpose and plan for your life.

Additional Resources:

Check out your free life coaching resource, Life Purpose Roadmap PDF, and learn how to prosper in your purpose.

Lack of knowledge will bring destruction, and our adversary uses this against us. We will miss out on God's purpose and plan for our life due to lack of knowledge.

In today's episode we're going to talk about the significance of the Hebrew number 8, and how it's connected to God's covenant promises to His people.

The number 8 always speaks of a God - human partnership, and the Hebrew word for the number 8 means to make fat - to satiate. There is an implied idea that there is more than enough. The number 7 means complete, and therefore one more than 7 is more than enough.

In that idea, more than enough, God ties 8 character traits His personal name. These 8 character traits inform us about God's identity, but the fact that there are 8 names implies that He is more than enough. God's methods bring freedom and security, but the method's of the world methods bring a false security and slavery. .

God has put everything in place for you to succeed in your life purpose. The purpose of life is not just trying to survive but to live a life that brings glory to his kingdom and is attractively different.

Key Takeaways:

God ties 8 character traits of His covenant promises to personal name.
8 is a sign of a abundance; it's a sign of more than enough.
A blood covenant was stronger than a contract. Death was the consequence of not fulfilling on your covenant promises.
If we don't have the knowledge of who God is then we'll miss all that God has for us

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A desire is a clue to something you contain inside of you.

It's an expression of God that He wants to get out into the world. Creating financial security and how God's way leads to security and the other method of security creates a false sense of security which leads to bondage.

God's word tells us that we are coworkers with Him. He will do his part and we must do our part. Yet, the are a lot of Christian circles that think since God is all powerful He will provide more like a genie than a business partner. This relationship is very similar to a farmer.

Just like a farmer who puts seed in the ground, he can only do his part by farming and tending to the seed and crops. His success requires God to send the sun and rain.

There are two passages in Genesis that talk about living off the fat of the land, but each passage uses a differnet word for fat. There is an insight that I want to share with you around the difference of each word and how it relates to you succeeding and serving in your God-given assignment.

God has put everything in place for you to succeed in your life purpose. The purpose of life is not just trying to survive but to live a life that brings glory to his kingdom and is attractively different.

Key Takeaways:

God will give us everything we need, but we need to do our part
One of the easiest ways to enslave someone is to give them everything they need without working for it
The number 8 in Hebrew is a symbol of new beginnings, and actually means "becoming fat" which means there is more than enough.
God is our source but too often we trust in the resources.

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Did you know that God has given us everything we need for life? Everything is available to you through his "precious and magnificent promises" (2 Peter 1:3-4).You might be thinking, "What are these promises?" They're terms of a covenant that He has made with us.

In today's episode we're going to talk about blood covenants and what that means in the Hebrew culture versus the western world where we think more in terms of contracts. Most of us don't understand the depth of a covenant and what it entails. This was a common thing in the middle east culture and the typical blood covenant had nine steps.

God has put everything in place for you to succeed in your life purpose. The purpose of life is not just trying to survive but to live a life that brings glory to his kingdom and is attractively different.

Key Takeaways:

A covenant is a much stronger agreement than a contract.
God created a covenant with Abraham for him and his descendants
Jesus set a new covenant in place that allows for anyone to be a descendant of Abraham.
Jesus' scars are signs of His eternal covenant with us.

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No successful person has every reached a high level of success on their own.

In today's episode we're going to discuss why it's so important to connect with other people. The reality is that God created the world so that we would connect with other people and serve his children. We can see this principle in the world around us as most elements in the periodic table are useless unless they're combined with another element.

The fear of financial insecurity is generally what holds us back from making an investment into our growth and into our assignment because we wouldn't hesitate to make an investment into ourselves if we new the result was guaranteed. There might be a belief that we won't get the result which creates a fear that we would have wasted the money.

God created you to succeed in your life purpose, and succeeding in that purpose will require walking in faith.

Key Takeaways:

To create at the highest level you'll need to start thinking about who you'll need to connect with
Survival, instead of prospering, is the best you can do when you try to do everything by yourself
Results can be expedited when working someone else but we usually don't because we are afraid to pay the money
We make unintelligent decisions when we're making decisions out of fear because our brain is in fight, flight, or freeze mode.

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What does it mean to be in faith and why is it so important?

In today's episode, we dig into the faith and why it's so important as a believer to live a life characterized by faith. Faith is the way that we can bring God's power into our everyday life. God has given us precious promises that give us everything we need for life AND godliness. Hebrews 11 is one of the most famous passages about faith and it tells us that without faith it is impossible to please God.

Let's dive into how you can build your faith so that you can succeed in your assignment and play your necessary part to growth God's kingdom.

Key Takeaways:

Faith is being fully persuaded that God has the power to do what He's promised
Faith and salvation are not the same thing. Salvation is a promise that God offers us and that promises is received by faith.
Understanding the parable of the sower is the key to understanding all the other parables about the Kingdom of God.
We should focus on creating because humans are the only people who can create more value than what we need.

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Your view of work has been most likely been tainted and potentially causing you to, unintentionally, believe that work is about survival.

In today's episode, we dig into the most common perspective of work, and how the idea of retirement actually reveals to us what we believe about work. In the Hebrew language the word for work can also mean worship. And one thing about the Hebrew language is that when the same Hebrew word has multiple definitions then those ideas and concepts are always connected. Which this reveals to us that our work should be worshipful, and it should be to serve God and to serve other people.

Let's take a look at the three beliefs that we have about work and what new beliefs we need to hold in order to bring worship into our work.

Key Takeaways:

Being made in the image of God, our work is working together with God and create
Working toward mastery increases your skill but also increases the quality of your work
We become more productive as we age because we have a bigger network and learn how to communicate better
We should focus on creating because humans are the only people who can create more value than what we need.

Additional Resources:

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Fear will cause you to forfeit your destiny.

In today's episode we discuss how enemy uses fear against you in order to prevent you from walking in your purpose. This continually shows up and it will show up in three different areas of life. He will tempt you to diminish the small beginnings, he will use the fear of the public to cause you do doubt your purpose, and he will raise the stakes when you're on the verge of taking hold of your destiny.

In order to succeed in your life purpose you must win the battle with fear in your personal life, public life, and in the battle to occupy your destiny. Let's talk about what that looked like for some biblical heroes and how you can apply it to your life today.

Key Takeaways:

Don't diminish the small beginnings and fall into the trap that you're not enough.
God is watching to see if you'll be faithful when it feels like your in a place of insignificance.
Fear is contagious and the enemy will try and use public fear to stop you from succeeding in your purpose
People are depending on you to occupy your destiny and fulfill your purpose

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Learning something new it can be difficult. Well, it doesn't have to be difficult once you are familiar with how to learn.

In today's episode we discuss the seven lies of learning from Jim Kwik's book Limitless. These myths are the things that are holding you back from creating a breakthrough. Believing these myths prevent you from creating the things that we want to create in life, and they become the lifeblood to the excuses that we can't do something or that we're not enough.

Learning how to learn will allow you to tap into your unlimited potential, and the first step is unlearning all the bad beliefs that are impeding your progress.

Key Takeaways:

Life is not about comparing yourself to anyone else but simply becoming more today than you were yesterday
You are not your mistakes
Learning consists of systems and processes, and learning can be fun when you implement those systems and processes
The criticism of others doesn't matter. You and the Holy Spirit at the only opinions that matter when setting the course for your life.

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We have a tendancy to wait when we face uncertainty.

Our brain freezes because uncertainty creates a feeling of fear. For example, when it comes to business you may have found yourself saying, "I'll generate more cash flow first before investing into a development or skill that I need." Even though the skill and personal development is what you need to create cash flow, your brain will convince you that it's better to wait.

In today's episode we talk about how the most successful people identify what is needed now and will engage in that solution immediately. By taking action you're taking steps toward becoming the person that you need to become in order to create what you're trying to create because when you are willing to operate from a state of uncertainty your brain begins to find solutions. It will find solutions that you would not have seen otherwise because it's trying to create certainty.

Key Takeaways:

Sooner is better because it creates more time to generate a return on your investment
Your brain will convince you to wait because it's trying to protect you from uncertainty.
Learning to live with fear can open the door to poor influences, confusion, and depression.
The longer that you wait the more your brain will move into a fear state of fight, flight, or freeze.

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What if success didn't need to be hard?

In today's episode we talk about the belief that success needs to be hard, and how we try to "white knuckled" discipline in order to get there. Yet, this will never work because you're not activating your God-given desires. Getting curious about your desires will help you navigate the plan that God has for you.

What if your desires and passions were the fuel that propel you to success in your assignment, and yet, too often we push them aside either because we're afraid to pursue them or think that they're bad. Walking out your assignment successfully will always require effort, a plan, and obedience to the promptings of the Holy Spirit. It does not have to include stress, anxiety, fear, and overwhelm.

Key Takeaways:

Your story is needed to help others succeed In the future.
We complicate the process of success because subconsciously we belive that success needs to be hard
Stop thinking in a competition mindset and start thinking in a creator mindset
Regardless of the circumstance, your brain sabotages your success with the same pattern.

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Paul said in Romans 7:15, "I do not understand what I do. For what I want to do I do not do, but what I hate I do."

Do you have a goal but for some reason it just seems like you keep falling up short?

In today's episode we discuss why you get stuck in a cycle of doing things you don't want to do but you just can't seem to stop. There's this idea that in order to be successful you need to have massive amounts of discipline. Yet, when you try to discipline yourself it doesn't seem to work and it creates this fear or hopelessness that it will never work. The fact that it's not working actually creates a lot of guilt and shame that causes a downward spiral proving that you're "not enough".

As a believer, the enemy wants you to believe the lie that not being disciplined means that your not a good Christian or you're not going to make an impact for the kingdom of God. Friend, this episode will explain to you how discipline is as simple as riding a horse.

Key Takeaways:

Discipline is the spiritual side of you guiding the physical side of you
The desires that you have are from God, but they become destructive when we try to fulfill those desires outside of God's design
You must learn how to lead yourself before you can lead others
People struggle to be disciplined because there's an underlying belief that success needs to be hard

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What is potential?

Potential is having or showing the capacity to become or develop into something in the future.

Your potential does not have a limit because God's design for the world is increase and advancement. We were designed to grow and see advancement. For example, one apple seed has infinity potential because it can produce multiple apple orchards. Similar to apples, we have an unlimited potential because we can always continue to become more.

In today's episode, we talk about the four drivers to your potential and how It takes money to maximize your potential. We're going to talk about why it's so important to have money to maximize your potential. Potential is having or showing the capacity to become or develop into something in the future.

Key Takeaways:

Four areas of our potential are wisdom, freedom, health, and connection.
Rich isn't a number … it's simply having all you want for the life that you want to live.
If you believe that making money is an evil activity then you'll never be able to reach your full potential
The way to achieve wealth is to serve others well, be honorable, and be trustworthy.

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Let's talk about the Kingdom of God and how it is calling for you to step into your assignment here on earth. Our life on earth is meant to take vengeance on the enemy for our God and grow the Kingdom of God.

In our Christian culture we love to celebrate the deliverance of God, people coming to salvation, but we tend to miss what he is delivering us into and that is our assignment. There's more to our salvation than just a "get out of hell pass”, and people will hold the belief that the point of our time on earth is about suffering well.

In today's episode, we discuss the picture of how God delivered Israel from Egypt but was taking them to the promised land. This picture is a great image of how Christians are being delivered from their life of slavery and bondage into the inheritance that God promises.

Let's talk about what it looks like to be fruitful and take enemy for the kingdom of God.

Key Takeaways:

Part of walking into your destiny is a land that needs to be conquered. There is kingdom territory to be taken.
Jesus provided a better way. A more complete way that brings peace and rest.
When you brace the idea that God has a distinct and distinguished purpose then your life will be vengeance of our God
God calls us trees of righteousness that will bring glory to God

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Beliefs are simply decisions about life, and those decisions are the best way we can materialize those beliefs. Let's talk about beliefs and how beliefs are actually decisions that we make and how our decisions play out in our destiny. If you want to do more in life or fulfill your purpose all you need to do is simply make a new decision. You must give yourself permission to hold a new belief.

Doing better without becoming more will always keep you stuck, and one of the most pervasive mindsets that keep us stuck is the mindset of competition. In today's episode, we talked about competition versus creator and how one mindset keeps you stuck and limited and the other mindset it gives you freedom and abundance.

Let's assess the decisions that we're currently making to create our results in life.

Key Takeaways:

Start by making an empowered decision that keeps you focused on creating
Our reticular activating systems acts like a filter in your brain that finds evidence to prove your beliefs
Thoughts are physical things and when we create a new belief we actually make a physical change in the brain.
Your brain does not know the difference between reality and imagination.

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Should you play to your strengths or work on developing your weaknesses?

In today's episode we talk about how your growth is hidden in your limitations, and we're going to discuss how your growth is connected to your limitations. Using your strengths is important to your growth but being willing to strategically use your limitations will take you to the next level.

Your limitations will reveal to you who you need to become and the repetitive use of a limited ability will always increase your capacity. In order to increase your capacity it requires that you use a limited ability over and over again. This will not only increase your capacity but will also increase your happiness because happiness is connected to growth.

Key Takeaways:

You will experience growth when you're humble enough to repetitively use a limited ability
The key to increasing your capacity is being willing to strategically lean in to a limited ability
The tension and confusion that you're feeling in your life will reveal the areas where you need to become more
When you solely focus on playing to your strengths you limit who you can become because you only operate in the person you've already become

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Fear has killed more dreams that failure ever could.

In today's episode we talk about failure and why you shouldn't be afraid of it. Failure does not feel good yet you can regain power in your life by changing the perception around failure.

Failure is simply the story that you assign to an outcome that you didn't desire. Creating a different perspective around failure allows you to walk in an increased feeling of gratitude and move yourself forward.

For example, when you took chemistry in high school and an experiment didn't go the way you thought it would, did you see yourself as an epic failure or did you became really curious? Part of being a good scientist is to get really curious and make new discoveries about the outcome. The same can be true with our life.

Listen in as we cover the four perspectives that you can have to reframe failure and move forward without fear.

Key Takeaways:

There is no such thing as failure only feedback
The fear of failure comes from the story that we add to an objective circumstance
Your story feels so believable because you tell it to yourself continually
When you can hold the belief that God is working all things for good then you know he has something better for you

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This is part two of my interview with Danielle Fenster.

Danielle is an amazing business woman and transformation coach. Her and her husband Waldon live in the Chicago area and have four beautiful children. She loves people, fun, fashion, good dessert, and most importantly a lover of Jesus.

One thing that I deeply admire about Danielle is how she obeys and follows the Spirit, and by doing so her life is full of stories that many would call miraculous. She is on a mission to share the miraculous with the world and help people break free from the thoughts and beliefs that are impeding them from seeing the miraculous in their own life.

Key Takeaways:

The limiting beliefs that we hold can get in the way of miracles that God wants to flow through our life
God wants to flow through our lives but we have to be open and available
When we project our story onto God we begin to doubt His word and if it can be true in our life
We must surrendering the things we're holding onto before the vision of something new can come in

Additional Resources:

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Learn more about Danielle at www.miraclemovement.com and www.coachingthecoach.com

This is part one of two part interview with Danielle Fenster.

Danielle is an amazing business woman and transformational coach. Danielle and her husband Waldon live in the Chicago area and have four beautiful children. She loves people, fun, fashion, good dessert, and most importantly a lover of Jesus.

One thing that I deeply admire about Danielle is how she obeys and follows the Spirit, and by doing so her life is full of stories that many would call miraculous. She is on a mission to share the miraculous with the world and help people break free from the thoughts and beliefs that are impeding them from seeing the miraculous in their own life.

Key Takeaways:

The desire of learning how to make money created an opportunity to hear the gospel and accept Jesus as her savior.
Life and business was transformed when she shifted her perspective from personal gain to serving others
Following Jesus whole heartedly comes from the thought of, "What do I have to lose?"
Life becomes exciting and extraordinary when you know that God is good and He is always good

Additional Resources:

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Learn more about Danielle at www.miraclemovement.com and www.coachingthecoach.com

What I’ve found is that many believers feel trapped and confused. They believe God has given them a unique purpose in life but don’t feel the freedom to operate in the truth of who they are out of fear of being rejected and not being enough.

They’re frustrated that life appears to be a zero-sum game and you can’t simultaneously win in the key areas of life, and if you try, you end up doing them all poorly. Most of them feel guilty that they’re not more content or fulfilled with life. They listen to podcasts, read books, attend events to find the right tips, hacks, tactics, and strategies that will bring it all together but aren’t seeing progress.

In today's episode, we discuss how you start to take vengeance on Satan's kingdom when you activate your purpose and walk in your God give assignment.

Key Takeaways:

When we are fruitful we are reproducing after our own kind. We were made in the image of God and therefore are called to be creators.
We're also called to multiply what we create and fill the earth with our creation.
We're also called to subdue the earth after we have filled it with our creation, and this means to trample down the opposition.
It's impossible to be fruitful if we fail to become the person God created us to be.

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David Thoreau said, "It's not what you look at that matters. It's what you see."

The perceptions that you have in life will directly affect the results you achieve. Therefore, if you're not getting the results that you want then you should change your perceptions. Yet, many times we don't know anything needs to be changed because our perceptions have been ingrained into us since we were five or six years old. These perceptions can keep us bound and feel trapped but since they're operating in our subconscious we don’t realize they need to change.

In today's episode, we talk about 12 perspective shifts that can increase your happiness, kindness, and productivity. These perspectives will help you chart a new course to a more free and abundant life.

Key Takeaways:

No one is broken or stuck where they are. We are all capable of changing.
We're all doing the best with what we have, and no one intentionally messes up there life.
There is an enormous amount of hope when you take 100% responbility for outcomes
We fail to hit our goals because we spend too much time in an unresourceful state of mind.

Additional Resources:

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Life can feel like a zero-sum game. Pressing in to succeed in a key area of life feels like you have to sacrifice another key area of life, and as a result it's challenging to feel like you're ever enough. You're not enough in your health, your parenting, your business, your marriage, etc.

In today's episode we discuss the Hebrew concept of Shalom, what it means, and the hidden meaning that will guide you to a life that is characterized by peace, fullness, and wholeness. Friend, life is not a zero-sum game. Everything God made He made to succeed, and the way you succeed as a human being is to abound in all the key areas of life. To see success in your health, your relationships, your marriage, your business, and your finances.

We can clearly find this concept in God's word as 3 John 1:2 says, " Beloved, I pray that in every way you may prosper and enjoy good health, as your soul also prospers."

Key Takeaways:

Many Christians have settled for a life less than what Christ died for them to have
You can't create a life of peace when you live in a state of chaos and confusion
The pattern of this world says that we can only win in a few key areas of life, but God's kingdom says we can win in all key areas.
The enemy will always bring chaos and confusion whenever you have the intention to create.

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The first command that God gave to mankind was to "BE FRUITFUL, multiply, replenish the earth, and subdue; and to have dominion."

What does it mean to be fruitful and how does it relate how we operate in our assignment?

In today's episode we discuss the importance of operating in the identity that God has given you. You have a unique way thinking, feeling, and choosing and when you fail to walk in that identity you miss out on living a life that is true to yourself and a heavy sense of regret. There's a deep desire within all of us to be accepted and to "be enough", but we create trouble when we think that being enough is by meeting the expectations of society, friends, family and culture.

This can look different for everyone and comes out as our personality. You created your personality as a form of protection. It is the best way you know how to prevent being rejected and facing your greatest fear. Yet, staying within your personality will keep you stuck and prevent you from being fruitful.

Key Takeaways:

Bearing fruit requires you breaking the shell of your personality
We're uniquely created with a unique way of thinking, feeling, and choosing
Walking in your identity creates new strengths that you'll never have when you stay in personality
Operating in doubt, overwhelm, and anxiety prevents us from experiencing breakthrough

Additional Resources:

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This is part two of a two part interview with Jade Simmons.

Jade is a creator of transformational experiences designed to activate audiences into becoming the biggest, boldest version of themselves possible. The world- class concert artist is also the CEO of Jade Media Global, a revolutionary live experience and global content distribution company specializing in 360 degree personal development and strategic transformation.

Nicknamed “Classical Music ’s #1 Maverick” and named one of the Best Keynote Speakers of 2019 and 2020, her electrifying, genre-bending concert adventures span Rachmaninoff all the way to rap and include virtuoso storytelling, uncommon insights , and boundless inspiration.

Listen in as Jade shares how she has successfully activated her God-given purpose, and how she has allowed the Spirit to guide her throughout the process. Jade's story will inspire, encourage, and be a catalyst to you activating your purpose and assignment.

Key Takeaways:

Curiosity is key … you need to get beyond your ego and get really curious
Don't fight rejection because it can be divine protection
Stop operating on what you have to lose and operate based on what you have to gain
If you're stuck activating your purpose ask the Lord, "Why me why now?"

Additional Resources:

Check out your free life coaching resource, Life Purpose Roadmap PDF, and learn how to prosper in your purpose.
Connect with Jade at https://jadesimmons.com/
Learn more about Operation Restoration here

This is part one of two part interview with Jade Simmons.

Jade is a creator of transformational experiences designed to activate audiences into becoming the biggest, boldest version of themselves possible. The world- class concert artist is also the CEO of Jade Media Global, a revolutionary live experience and global content distribution company specializing in 360 degree personal development and strategic transformation.

Nicknamed “Classical Music ’s #1 Maverick” and named one of the Best Keynote Speakers of 2019 and 2020, her electrifying, genre-bending concert adventures span Rachmaninoff all the way to rap and include virtuoso storytelling, uncommon insights , and boundless inspiration.

Listen in as Jade shares how she has successfully activated her God-given purpose, and how she has allowed the Spirit to guide her throughout the process. Jade's story will inspire, encourage, and be a catalyst to you activating your purpose and assignment.

Key Takeaways:

You have a mandate on your life to be fruitful and be prolific
Being made in God's image we're all called to be creators
Waiting is an active activity where we're actively seeking the next step God has for us
There is a difference in walking out purpose instead of just talking about our purpose.

Additional Resources:

Check out your free life coaching resource, Life Purpose Roadmap PDF, and learn how to prosper in your purpose.
Connect with Jade at https://jadesimmons.com/
Learn more about Operation Restoration here

Philippians 4:13 says that you can do ALL THINGS through Christ who gives you strength?

Well, if that's the case, it's critically important to know how to activate this into your life. When you look around, do you see people living a life that reveals all things are possible? If God's word is truth then He will show you how this truth can be implemented into your life and create a reality where all things are possible.

In today's episode we dig into that exact process. The verses that come before verse 13 outline the process and procedure to being able to do ALL THINGS. Think about what this can make possible for you. How would life change if you knew how to set this truth into motion in full confidence that all things are possible? What if it became more than a common Christian saying?

It would be simple to live out the dreams and desires that God has placed on your heart, and your life would be a powerful testimony for His kingdom.

Key Takeaways:

You have to find joy and delight in Him
Being more aware of God's presence than you are your circumstances will give you strength
There's a way to turn your anxiety into peace
Where you direct your attention will dramatically impact your results

Additional Resources:

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Don't you hate the tasks that take three times longer than you initially expected?

The time it takes to get a result will drastically change your experience. For example, many of us - if not all of us - will make a million dollars in our life time. Yet, some of us will make a million dollars over 40 years and some of us will make that in a year. I'm willing to guess that you, like me, would prefer to make the million dollars in year.

Now here's the thing about faster results …. you must be willing to spend money.

In today's episode we discuss the two ways that you pay for achieving a result. You can either spend money or spend your time. Choosing to spend money allows for the result to happen faster but the downside is that you don't gain the experience of completing the task. Spending your time to learn and complete the activity is going to cost you in time but you also gain the experience of completing the task.

Let's talk about when it's appropriate to spend money and when it's appropriate to spend your time. We'll also discuss why you erroneously choose to spend your time and the impact it has on your results and life.

Key Takeaways:

I was able to create a result in 90 days that I had been trying to create in the last 15 years
The main reason we don't pay for results is the fear of financial insecurity.
There is a time when you should not pay for faster results
Operating in fear will cause you to make poor decisions

Additional Resources:

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You have an amazing imagination.

In fact, your mind does not know how to differentiate between imagination and reality. In fact, Harvard Medical School researchers have investigated the power of imagination with a group of volunteers who had no prior experience playing the piano. There was a group who intensely practiced the piano for 5 days and a group who imagined themselves going through the same piano practice as the other group. What did they find? They found that the brain activity was almost identical between the two groups.

In today's episode we talk about the importance of harnessing your imagination in your life. In order to create anything in life you must have an vision and image of what you are trying to create. Here's the problem, most people spend most, if not all, of their imagination on outcomes that they do not want to happen. They visualize running out of money, failing on a project, and not being able to provide for their loved ones. These thoughts keep people in a state of overwhelm, anxiety, and doubt. It robs them of their energy and does not leave a reservoir of energy to create anything new.

God's word says that without a vision people perish. That word for perish implies that they're exposed and vulnerable to harm. Yet, those who have a vision and direction for their life are happy and blessed.

Key Takeaways:

How to use your imagination to hack your brain and create your desired results.
Our brains cannot tell the difference between reality and what we experience in our imagination
There's power in having a clear vision for what you're trying to create
God is able to do immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine

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What's your hot button?

What causes you to hop on the crazy cycle and ride the downward spiral of emotions all the way to the bottom? I'll tell you this … it's not what you think it is. The problem that sends you to the bottom isn't the problem. The meaning that you have given that problem is what creates the downward spiral.

In today's episode we talk about how your beliefs determine what you're experiencing. What you believe will either empower you to a breakthrough or disempower you to live a life that is reactionary. Fear is the result when you feel disempowered, and your fearful emotion causes the brain to move into a primal state of thinking and respond in fight, flight, or freeze.

James chapter one says to ask for wisdom when you need it. Yet, if you do not ask in faith you should not expect to receive anything but you will be double minded - tossed around like the waves of the sea. This happens when you react and respond in fear.

Key Takeaways:

The first thing God tells us about Himself is that he's a creator, and we're made in His image. We cannot create when we are critical and operate in disempowered beliefs.
Ask yourself who you need to become to reach your goals instead of asking how you're going to do it
Your thoughts and imagination or crucial to creating anything new
Empowering thoughts create the energy necessary for a breakthrough to occur.

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What is one thing that you've been afraid to ask for?

Money?

A favor?

New clothes?

A promotion?

Why are you afraid to ask? James 4:2-3 says that you don't have because you don't ask, and when you do ask you don't receive because you ask with the wrong motive. Now here's the problem … as a believer having the wrong motive feels like you're failing in your faith. So, in order to avoid that failure, your brain tells you that it's best not to ask.

The Christian culture has almost villainized "asking" for things and glorified the idea of suffering. Yet, what if God desires for you to have the desires of your heart, and as a loving father would, what if He wants you to become the person that can handle what comes so it doesn't destroy you?

In today's episode we discuss why learning how to ask is crucial to you succeeding in your God given assignment.

Key Takeaways:

In order to have the desires of your heart you must become the person that can handle the blessings
Part of God's plan for Israel to prosper included asking the Egyptians for their silver, gold, and clothing
Failure is one of four things: a lesson learned, redirection, a reflection of who you are, or a set up to something bigger
No one ever reached their potential alone. God will require you to ask for things to succeed in your assignment.

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Isn't it draining to never complete your to-do list?

Regardless of how much you mark of your list it really ever get completed? The hamsters wheel of your to-do list it's both exhausting and overwhelming. Anxiety, overwhelm, and doubt all leave you in a disempowered state of mind that drains all your energy.

In today's episode we talk about how the problem is not the fact that you don't have enough time. The problem is that you spend too much of your time focusing on activities that drain your energy, and that leaves you in a place where you are not able to pursue the right actions that will create the life that you want to create. The most successful people have the ability to maintain focus their energy on the right activities that will create what they want to create.

Key Takeaways:

"There isn't enough time" becomes the excuse or reason that you're not creating everything that you want to create in life.
Our inner conflicts drain our time, energy, and presence with others
Redirecting your focus for 5 hours a week will result in 150 hours a month of focus on the right activities to create the life you want
There's a gap between where we are today and where we want to go because our current beliefs are not congruent with what we want to create

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One of the core human needs is certainty.

Your brain's primary objective is to keep you alive, and one of the greatest threats to your brain are moments of uncertainty. This is due to your brain not having past experiences that allow it to predict the outcome. Therefore, the uncertainty is viewed as a crisis and you will begin to experience fear. This feeling of fear will cause you to do one of three actions: fight, flight, or freeze.

This reaction will serve you well when you are in real danger, but it does not serve you when you need to make empowered decisions. In today's episode we discuss how uncertainty equals opportunity. This is vital for you if uncertainty in your life causes fear and prevents you from making the best decisions.

When you are in a state of fear your natural tendency is to contract. You perceive that your resources will be depleted and there is less opportunity for growth. However, the opportunity is doesn't change. Therefore, if you are able to hack your brain you will actually have a greater of advantage of capitalizing on the opportunity because everyone else will be in a state of contracting due to uncertainty. This is a crucial skill as you become a person who walks by faith.

Key Takeaways:

Times of uncertainty have produced more millionaires and billionaires that any times in history
When you feel uncertain you move into a disempowered state because your mind is in a fight, flight, or freeze mode.
When you have the right mindset you can stay where you are (while everyone else is contracting) or actually advance.
Learning how to advance while others contracts will set you up to succeed faster

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You want to be happy.

Happiness can feel so elusive. It feels fickle and dictated by your circumstances. So what is the secret to happiness?

When you look into God's word you will find that the Bible describes people who follow God as happy and joyful. Yet, when that doesn't line up in your life it can feel really heavy. It can feel like you're not being a "good Christian" or that something is wrong with you.

So what do you do?

Well, your brain is a problem solving machine and will seek to solve this crisis. You will look for the solution to happiness, and unfortunately this can lead you down the wrong road because society will tell you that happiness come from your environment. Society will tell you that happiness comes from how people feel about you, how much money you're making, what you look like. All of these solutions are external.

So we as believers as Christians are characterized and called to be happy someone who follows after god follows after his love is someone who is joyful who's happy and have happiness in their life. Let's break that down what is that because we have this negative i say negative we have this poor narrative in our society this poor belief I'll say that that happiness comes from the environment. We've been conditioned to believe that when we're not happy when we need to use an external source to change the environment.

A lot of times what can happen is can lead to things like excessive use of sex, alcohol, drugs, etc. There's a natural tendency to pursue things that are fun to increase happiness, but fun generally is generally a short term win but dissatisfying in the long term.

In today's episode, we talk about how growth is what leads to happiness. Which is amazing news because your growth is 100% in your control. It doesn't depend on your circumstance. It doesn't depend how you feel. You can choose to be happy by pursuing growth.

Key Takeaways:

Happiness is different than fun and it's up to me. It's a decision I make.
Fun is usually pleasurable at the time but leaves a slight feeling of emptiness afterward.
Our spiritual being are attuned to any change in growth. If we're not growing then we will feel nothing. If however, we're experiencing rapid change in our spiritual condition, we feel it very strongly.
Lack of results is just an indicator of where you need to grow

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Knowledge is power. Think about that for a moment.

Is it 100% true that knowledge is power? No, it isn't power. It has the potential to be powerful, but acting on the knowledge is where the power comes from.

For example, could you write a book in a week? The answer is yes. If you knew that you were going to sell 100,000 copies of your book at $20 per book, then yes, you could write a book in a week. Because you would then have the expectation of earning $2 million from book sales. In this example, people are not paying $20 just because you wrote a book. They're paying for the knowledge within the book. However, the power of the $2 million does not become possible unless you take action and write the book.

In today's episode, I want to talk about how knowledge really isn't power, and I want to dig in on the idea that is preventing you from taking action that turns it into power. This is a crucial topic when it comes to succeeding in your God given assignment, because the way God tests our faithfulness is through taking action. Listen in and see how you can be more confident to take action and pursue the assignment that he as for you!

Key Takeaways:

Knowledge is important but it's the performing of some action that is required to make it powerful
It's easy to talk about what you've learned but it's better to show what you learned
Knowledge and wisdom are different, and we're called to "get wisdom"
Knowledge X Action = Wisdom

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It's true … we've all felt stuck.

Feeling stuck can feel helpless and it can be a struggle to become "unstuck" because it's easy to believe the story that you're telling yourself. You're just struggling to get the results and when you look at your battle it's easy to think tell yourself things like, "well if the economy was better", "if my spouse was on board", or "if I had more money".

Notice … all these scenarios are outside of your control. It's frustrating because you intuitively know that if nothing changes then it will lead to a life characterized by bitterness, frustration, and broken relationships. At best life will just be just mediocre and you'll settle because the only way you can change something that is outside of your control is to resort to manipulation.

But manipulation feels yucky and not the person you want to be.

In today's episode, I want to talk about taking personal responsibility because it's the most empowering decision that you can make when it comes to your results, pursuing your God-given assignment, and leaving a powerful legacy for those behind you.

Key Takeaways:

Manipulation is the only tool for change if you're trying to control something or someone outside of yourself
If you say, this circumstance makes me feel this way, you have omitted the personal responsibility of the thought you created around the circumstance.
Emotions are beautiful because they show us how to evolve, how to change our thinking, and what to create.
Emotions are not the problem. Avoiding or escaping emotions is the problem because that's where we get into all the drama and all the fiction.

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When it comes to Social media the algorithms run the show.

Every social platform want to engage their users and provide an experience that is enjoyable and fun. In effort to create this environment, the algorithms that have been created are designed to show you more content like content that you have engaged with in the past. This algorithm acts like a filter that allows for certain types of post to be shown to you and keeps other posts away from you.

You're brain has a system that acts and responds very similarly to these social media algorithms. Every second your senses gather up to 11 million bits of information around you, but the conscious mind can typically only process 50 bits of information per second. Therefore, it needs a filter to manage this information to prevent overwhelm.

What makes it though the filters is determined by the part of the brain called the reticular activating system. The reticular activating system is responsible for a number of functions, including sleep and behavior modification. It also acts as the gatekeeper of information. This allows the brain to ignore meaningless and repetitive information and remain sensitive to other inputs.

In today's episode we discuss why your brain's reticular activating system will keep you stuck in a negative loop and how to get out of that cycle and achieve your desired results. It's extremely disempowered when you are stuck in this cycle. At times it may feel too heavy for a change to be possible - which leads to feeling hopeless.

Yet, God did not create you to operate in this manner. He created you to be the person that is described in Psalm 1 - the person who is like a tree planted by water, which yields it's fruit in season and whose leaf does not wither. Whatever they do prospers. Sounds good right?

Let's discover how you can use your reticular activating system to your advantage instead of disadvantage.

Key Takeaways:

The reticular activating system (RAS) determines what is important to us by the questions that we ask ourselves.
Your RAS wants to show you more of what you express interest in, and it hides the things you don't engage in.
Satan wants to trip you up and trap you in these negative thoughts.
Satan will use this cycle to cast doubt on the character of God and create doubt.

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It's difficult (…some might say impossible) to have faith in an object that is not trustworthy.

Are you someone who wants to believe that God's word is true and never fails, but at times you wrestle with it's truth because of what you see in the world? You want to believe that it's true and never fails but there's still doubt that it can work in every area of your life.

Yet, these questions never get addressed because religious programming will tell us that we lack faith by simply asking the questions. This type of uncertainty will paralyze your progress and cause you to settle for something less that God designed for you.

You desire to live a full life and experience everything that God desires for you. You want to be free to walk in your full identity but you may feel stuck. How do you move forward in faith if there are lingering thoughts of doubt?

In today's episode we talk about the process of growing your faith to be fully persuaded that God will do what He said He will do. We break down three parables from Mark 4 where Jesus teaches about His word and how it produces faith in your life.

Key Takeaways:

The importance of assessing your understanding when your results don't line up with what's promised
Jesus said we can't understand any of the parables if we don't understand the parable of the sower
Faith can't be forced
Your faith will be tested but God does not tempt with evil

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Albert Einstein said that you're a genius.

He said, "Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole live believing that it is stupid."

Yet, this is not the common thought held around genius. The stereotype of genius a someone who can recite the periodic table, land a rocket on the moon, or crack the code on time travel. Here's the problem: this stereotype of genius may actually be preventing 75% of people from operating in their genius.

What do you do if you are someone who believes they have more potential to offer the world but don't feel special enough to fit this stereotype? These thoughts and labels can feel heavy. It can create a sadness and cause you to end up settling for less and missing out on your life purpose.

In today's episode we discuss the four different types of genius and break off the limits created by this sterotype. You were created to succeed and to share your genius with the world. The purpose of life is centered around using your unique genius to succeed God-given assignment.

Key Takeaways:

You have a unique genius that will propel you forward in your life purpose
Believing that you do not fit the label of a stereotypical genius will cause you to settle
There are four types of genius who all view the world differently. Your particular genius is going to be some combination of them.
The most important part to understand is that genius extends par beyond your ability to excel at academics and that you have a genius inside of you.

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It's happened to all of us … our results get hijacked by our emotions.

When this happens it can be difficult to build momentum and achieve the results that they want and desire. The loss of moment requires that you continually motivate yourself to "do better". Yet, doing better only last for a short amount of time only to just to fall off again.

This is can be an endless cycle and a far cry from being the purpose of life. In fact, this cycle tends to produce shame and disappointment because you're not living up to the expectations of others or your own potential.

In today's episode we discuss how you can take back the control from your emotions and stay on course to succeeding in your life purpose. Learn how you can develop the maturity to get curious about your emotions and make the changes necessary to live a full life.

Key Takeaways:

You're not a victim to your emotions. You can control your state instead of your state controlling you.
Feeling shame around an emotion can cause you to avoid that feeling and perpetuate a negative behavioral cycle.
When you tie a feeling to information it becomes more memorable.
When you take control of your state of mind and body, you can shift your experience of learning from boredom to excitement, curiosity, and even fun.

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The purpose of testing is to ensure quality and consistency.

We've all had jobs or responsibilities that we didn't take seriously, and we went through the motions instead of fully investing ourselves into the job. It's tempting to hold the thought that we'll take the job more seriously when it means more. We'll look to the next promotion and believe that the promotion will bring a deeper level of satisfaction. This is natural and commonplace but it's not God's process.

In today's episode we discuss God's testing process and what needs to be passed in order to step into your God-given assignment. God clearly outlines the requirements to pass the test, but the enemy is out to cause you to fail. He does not want you to succeed in your assignment because he knows that it will enhance God's kingdom. Listen as we outline God's test for your promotion and the mindset that you need to embrace to step into your assignment.

Key Takeaways:

God is the promoter, not man, and He has specific requirements for promotion.
Some of the greatest Biblical hero's excelled in a position that no body wanted.
There are no small assignments and God is watching your faithfulness in all you do
It's difficult to pass a test when you don't know you're being tested

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Life feels constricting and unsafe when we don't feel the acceptance of others.

We all define "acceptance" in different ways. Some manage attempt to find acceptance by being dominant any taking control. Others manage emotions by being passive and flexible. Others manage them being available and continually serving. Yet, all these actions create an environment where you're not showing up genuinely, and get stuck in this cycle of "performing" so that you will stay safe. However, staying in this performance mode prevents you from walking in your life purpose.

In today's episode, we discuss the reason why these behaviors prevent you from showing up authentically in your relationships. We all desire to show up in a way that is genuine, and we also want to be loved and accepted for our inherent value. Learn the mindset shift that allows you the freedom to no longer feel the need to "perform" a certain way or do all the right things. It empowers you to operate within your design and fully function in the assignment that God has for you.

Key Takeaways:

We're all subconsciously seeking acceptance from the "herd" so we can get our needs met of love and significance.
Focusing on the labels given by others prevents you from showing up authentically
In order to know the purpose for anything you must consult the creator.
We're blind to these approval seeking behaviors because they're engrained in our subconscious.

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This is episode second of two episodes with Watts of Love Founder Nancy Economou.

Watts of Love intentionally seeks out the most vulnerable people in the developing world, who live without access to electrical light and provides them with solar lights. They have developed an intentionally designed a financial literacy program where they invest in educating and empowering the light recipients so there is an immediate, tangible impact from DAY ONE.

Financial independence is a foreign concept to those living in extreme poverty. Watts of Love emphasizes the importance of compound savings and of redirecting funds to buy an animal, start a business or send their child to school. By breaking the cycle of dependency on costly and dangerous kerosene, they teach people how to invest in their families, start a path to economic prosperity, break old perceptions of what is possible and see the potential for a new life.

Nancy shares how she did not have a background in business and had no understanding on how to start a company. Instead, she was a stay-at-home mother and spent her time nurturing and caring for her family. As a mother, Nancy exhibited compassion and empathy.

Nancy was able to develop a user-friendly, solar-powered lamp that can be used in any environment to bring light to those oppressed by real and metaphorical darkness. Through Watts of Love, Nancy has found communities in desperate need of light and gives them hope. She became a voice for the voiceless.

Key Takeaways:

God is simple and we're the one's who complicate things
God's model is not about giving back but being generous on all occasions. When we're generous on all occasions everybody wins and it multiplies.
Kingdom thinking is when we're generous to others and allow others to be generous to us.
Building and creating wealth doesn't become a curse unless you hold tightly to it

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Learn more about watts of love

Previous Episodes referenced

Ep. 52 | What needs to Change About Christians
Ep. 61 | Excellence creates clarity

This is episode one of two with Watts of Love Founder Nancy Economou.

Watts of Love intentionally seeks out the most vulnerable people in the developing world, who live without access to electrical light and provides them with solar lights. They have developed an intentionally designed a financial literacy program where they invest in educating and empowering the light recipients so there is an immediate, tangible impact from DAY ONE.

Financial independence is a foreign concept to those living in extreme poverty. Watts of Love emphasizes the importance of compound savings and of redirecting funds to buy an animal, start a business or send their child to school. By breaking the cycle of dependency on costly and dangerous kerosene, they teach people how to invest in their families, start a path to economic prosperity, break old perceptions of what is possible and see the potential for a new life.

Nancy shares how she did not have a background in business and had no understanding on how to start a company. Instead, she was a stay-at-home mother and spent her time nurturing and caring for her family. As a mother, Nancy exhibited compassion and empathy.

Nancy was able to develop a user-friendly, solar-powered lamp that can be used in any environment to bring light to those oppressed by real and metaphorical darkness. Through Watts of Love, Nancy has found communities in desperate need of light and gives them hope. She became a voice for the voiceless.

Key Takeaways:

Her mother's heart allowed her to see the tremendous need that wasn't being filled. She took action because she believes that we will be held accountable for the desires of our heart.
We're not really dreaming unless our vision that is so big that we're destined to fail unless God shows up.
Listen to the breakthrough Nancy had when one light tripled a family's income in the first 12 hours.
It's the financial literacy that does change communities

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Learn more about Watts Love

What are the obstacles that are standing between you and fulfilling your life purpose? What words do you use to describe them, and how do they make you feel?

In today's episode we discuss how the words you use to describe your obstacles indicate what you believe about yourself. If you say that something is impossible it indicates that your believe you lack what is necessary. If you say that you're facing a giant then there may be a belief that you are small, weak, or insignificant. The opposite is also true … if you say that your challenges are "doable" then you believe you have what it takes.

Bottom line … how you perceive the world is how you perceive yourself.

What are you saying about your obstacles and what does it tell you about how you see yourself? Because if you hold the belief that you're not enough, don't have what it takes, or are severely lacking then your action will be limited and you'll risk missing the purpose of life.

Key Takeaways:

The words you use to describe your obstacles reveal how you perceive yourself
You were created to succeed. So when you doubt that you will it's shows you're believing the lies of the enemy.
Caleb and David are both examples of knowing their identity and believing they could win
Anything is possible when you have the power of the Holy Spirit inside of you.

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When was the last time you witnessed excellence and what was it that made it excellent? Excellence can show up in a variety of ways but we all know it when we see it.

In today's episode we discuss how pursuing a life of excellence creates clarity, and how staying in your comfort zone actually perpetuates confusion. Excellence is in our DNA because we're made in the image of God, but listening to the narrative of society will pull us away from excellent. Invariably it's easy and comfortable to settle for above average and not whole heartedly pursue our life purpose.

The purpose of life is not about settling , but we chose to settle for above average feels safe and comfortable. Yet, it can breed feelings of shame, resentment, and judgment toward others. Instead of fighting these negative feelings, what if they were just indicators of where you need to go? What if they were like road signs making the path clear to a life that will bring glory to the kingdom of God?

Key Takeaways:

You'll never achieve excellence if you subconsciously believe that it's arrogant and self-serving
Staying average creates a feeling of safety as we stay in the "herd mentality"
You're excellence will help others find their personal excellence.
Your value is found in your uniqueness and you become magnetic when you excel in gifting.

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What are the barriers that are stopping you from reaching your goals and life purpose?

Labels…

In today's episode we discuss how the labels you identify with create the limitations in your life. These labels are given to you as child from peers, teachers, parents, etc. Wearing these labels can be exhausting and leads to weariness that causes you to falter in your progress. Friend, you'll never live into the true potential when you continually carry the limiting labels.

Your creator has also given you labels that set limitations. Your creator calls you friend, chosen, son/daughter, heir, king/queen, righteous, blessed, a new creation, etc … and Jesus said that through Him all things are possible. His limitations are truly limitless.

Key Takeaways:

The barriers that we have in our life come from the labels we embrace
External words can become our internal dialogue
What we say are evidence of what we truly believe in our hearts.
The labels that God gives us through Jesus create a limitless opportunity

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Life is supposed to be hard … RIGHT? I mean, isn't that the purpose of life? For it to be hard and unfair?

Weeeeeellll, let's talk about that.

In today's episode we discuss why knowing your life purpose is so important to valuing your time. This is for you if you find yourself continually convincing yourself that you need to be more motivated in your work. You know you have great potential but are stuck in the cycle where you keep oscillating back and forth from trying harder to just going through the motions.

This is exhausting and creates a weariness in us where we're just looking to get out; we're looking to stop. And when we're looking to stop we're not truly valuing the time. Friend, you'll never live into the true potential stuck in this cycle where you're convincing yourself to do better and be more grateful.

Be encouraged and find hope in how you are created. Only the creator can know the true intent and purpose of their creation. Stop letting the crowds assign your purpose and value … which only leads to dissatisfaction. God created you for a life that is free and full.

Key Takeaways:

You can't truly value your time without truly knowing your purpose
Not having purpose causes us to focus more on a stopping than it does on succeeding.
Listening to the crowds instead of the creator will cause us to miss our destiny.
Living a life propelled by purpose will require effort but can feel effortless.

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How are results thriving in the environment of your comfort zone? Too warm… too cold … or just right?

In today's episode, I want to talk about how our mind acts like a thermostat to keep us in our comfort zone. Our brain needs about 20% of all the energy we consume to function. Since it requires so much energy, it naturally wants to be efficient and preserve it's energy and use the least amount of energy possible. Therefore, it creates habits to help conserve energy. Which means that our brain is automatically predisposed to the comfort zone.

A life of excellence begins with training the mind. We discuss practical ways in which you can train your brain that promotes better memory, creativity, and focus. Training your brain allows you to be more adaptable to handle the stressors of life.

Key Takeaways:

Your comfort zone is where your brain knows it will survive and requires the least amount of work.
Your subconscious acts like a thermostat that will pull your results back to average. It will raise you up when your down and it will ease off when you're too high.
There’s no upper limit for knowledge gathering, as the more information your brain gathers the better prepared it is for handling unknown situations.
The brain does not differentiate between positive and negative changes – any change is a potential threat for your brain.

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Are you convinced that God has a bigger purpose and plan for your life but you just haven't seen it come to fruition? If you've been there (or are there currently) you know that the purpose of life can feel so uncertain. Is it as grand as you think it can be or monotonous as it feels? It requires faith to keep pressing forward.

In today's episode, I want to talk about what it's like to walk in your journey to the purpose and the assignment that God has for you. You know you're capable of something greater but feeling a little doubt that you're capable of walking in that assignment because it's not here. This can create negative thoughts that doubt that it's coming, or feel like you may not be good enough for the assignment that God has for you.

When you have these moments of doubt and self-criticism it can lead to comparison. We compare ourselves to those around us who are succeeding in their God-given assignment. The enemy wants us to believe our negative self talk so that we convince ourselves to quit.

If you're in a period of life where you know that your potential is great but you're just not seeing it come to fruition. Know that you're in a training ground that is proving yourself to be faithful for the assignment that God has for your life purpose.

Key Takeaways:

The enemy knows that if he can get us to quit or give up then we won't succeed in our assignment and advance God's kingdom
Our brains aren't designed to help us succeed but it wants to keep us alive. Therefore, our brains will naturally want to avoid experiencing negative thoughts and emotions and convince us to quit.
Joseph, Moses, and David are all Biblical heroes that went through a long training ground before stepping into their big assignment.
God has an assignment for you but will always test your faithfulness before fully releasing you into your greatest assignment.

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Don't you wish that God would just reveal the WHOLE ENCHILADA? You know ... just show you the plan form the beginning to the end. How is this going to work out? Is this going to work?

In today's episode, we discuss why God doesn't reveal His plan for your life purpose all at once. Our brain's have trained us that in order to avoid failure it's important to know if a plan will succeed or not. It's wise to perform analysis and understand an issue from beginning to end. Yet, God rarely works that way when it comes to succeeding in the purpose of life.

"Knowing" causes us to feel in control because we don't like how it feels to be "out of control". Yet, what if the only way to be "in control" was to feel out of control by trusting in the God who is in control. What would change in your life if you knew that God concealing the entire plan for your life so that it could succeed? He is always good and knows that the enemy would disrupt the plan if it was revealed all at once.

Key Takeaways:

If Satan knew the entire plan then he would be more prepared to sabotage the plan
We subconsciously stop ourselves from moving forward when we're out of control.
We are co-working with God to fulfill our life purpose
Walking by faith is like following a GPS where we follow instructions at each step.

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What makes you unique?

There are people who want to make a difference in the world but lack the confidence that they can really make a difference. So people get caught up in trying to copy a method that doesn't align with your unique value. This is unsatisfying, frustrating, and will lead to burnout.

In today's episode, I want to talk about how embracing what makes you unique will position you to prosper in your assignment. Proverbs 18:16 says that a gift opens the way and ushers the giver into the presence of the great. Your uniqueness is your gift and will usher you into the presence of the great. Your life purpose is to walk in your unique gifting to influence others for the kingdom of God. Yet, it's easy to want to copy the "proven" methods of success but struggle being authentic because it doesn't align with who you were uniquely created to be.

The purpose of life is to share your unique gifting and solve problems for others. If you're not sharing you unique gift with the world then you'll struggle to fully step into the assignment that God has for you.

Joseph is an example of how his unique gifting positioned him to be promoted to one of the highest positions in Egypt. Joseph was promoted because he provided a plan to a large problem.

Key Takeaways:

Following the crowd will cause you to miss your uniqueness.
Everyone wants to make a difference but very few want to be different.
Your uniqueness will put you in a position to have solve problems and have more influence.
Your biggest influence and contribution will come from yielding your heart to God and solving the problems that you see with your unique vision.

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If God has provided more than enough, then why are so may believers begging and crying for God to do something? They're living with a mindset of lack where there just isn't enough. This is unnecessary because there are so many benefits that are being left on the table that will enhance your life purpose and testimony to the non believer.

In today's episode, we talk about how there are so many benefits that believers are leaving on the table because they're seeing themselves as servants instead of son or daughters of the King. Hebrews 4:9-10 talks about Jesus becoming a sabbath rest for us. The only way that sabbath rest was possible is because God provides more than enough.

Before Jesus came, we were waiting to take hold of the inheritance that God has for us. Jesus was sent to purchase our freedom and break us free. We were adopted and recognized as God's son. Yet, our tendency is to revert back to our old religious programming.

We are citizens of heaven and have the rights of the kingdom. Through faith, we have access to ever great blessing and promise so that we could escape from the moral decay that is in the world and become partakers of divine nature.

The purpose of life is to operate inside the freedom that Jesus gave to us. We don't have to stand on the sidelines begging and convincing God to provide for you. These promises have been given so we can escape the lack and the bondage that religion places on us.

Key Takeaways:

Through Jesus, we have a Sabbath rest because God provides more than enough.
Satan uses religion to keep you in bondage and miss out on everything that God has available for you.
When we walk in the identity of slaves, instead of sons, we naturally think we need to convince God to take care of us. Jesus came so that we could be called a son but we keep reverting back to religious programming and operating as a slave.
God's precious and exceedingly great promises were given to us so we could escape the moral decay of the world and walk in our divine nature.

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Don't miss this if you're feeling the pressure of life and need a break to release the pressure. These moments of pressure are frustrating and can be all about making it to the next day but when you're in a survival mentality you can lose vison in life. Also, and more importantly, you will miss out on opportunity when it comes.

In today's episode, I want to talk about why it's so important to have vision beyond just getting to the next day, and how this can set you up to maximize your opportunities when then come. Failing to have vision when the pressure is high will leave you wanting more out of the opportunity when it comes.

It's exhausting to feel the pressures of life and simply make it another day. The weariness drags you down, and it when the pressure releases there's a feeling of satisfaction that will cause you to stop or slow down. Yet, stopping or slowing down when the pressure is released will cause you to miss out on bigger advancements in your life purpose.

So, one of the tactics of the enemy is to keep you living in lack. He wants you to feel exhausted and weary to minimize your impact on the kingdom of God. This is why having provision allows you to have vision for your life and maximize the opportunities when they come.

Key Takeaways:

When you feel the pressures of life and you're just living one day at a time you lose vision for your bigger purpose.
The Old Testament story of a widow who NEEDED to pay off her debts to save her sons from slavery. Yet, her focus to pay the debts caused her to miss the greater opportunity.
You'll only be able to take advantage of opportunities to the level that you prepared for them.
Having provision allows you to think bigger, see bigger, and dream bigger.

Additional Resources:

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Who do you choose to take advice from? What do they have that you want?

In today's episode we discuss what is required for change and how it applies to the Christian life. As believers, it is crucial that we can clearly share how a life in Christ is better than the alternative. Yet, the fruit our life produces is the megaphone to the world. People will only allow you to influence their life when you have something they want.

People are hurting when they're searching for peace, hope, healing, purpose. As believers, you become the brightest life when you are fulfilling your life purpose, you are full of peace and hope. The purpose of life is to complete your God-given assignment to grow his kingdom, and in that pursuit Jesus offers us life to the full. A life that is characterized by more than enough.

Key Takeaways:

The biggest impact and influence that a Christian can have on the world around them is a changed life.
It's easy to get stuck in a mindset of lack (time, resources, relationships, etc) and yet, through Christ the promise is that we'll have more than enough.
The two things required for anyone to change is that they must see the benefit to them and have proof beyond a reasonable doubt.
Religion pulls people away from prosperous life that is full of hope and peace. In fact, the Latin root of the word religion means to bind. Religion will bind you up and the truth will make you free.

Additional Resources:

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How well are your coping mechanisms serving you?

In today's episode we discuss how your strengths are keeping you in a "shell" of your potential, and might be holding you back from succeeding in your life purpose. This episode is for you If you want to break through and become everything you were created to be. We each have a unique and great potential but we are "sleep walking" through life based on our early childhood programming.

The psychological term is called "dimming of consciousness" where we have basic survival mechanisms where we dissociate from painful experiences as a way of surviving or staying safe in the world. This begins when we are babies because we, as humans, have the longest period of dependency of all mammals. We possess wired in defense mechanisms that protect us form being too overwhelmed or harmed by emotional or phycological threats. Therefore, as children there are maneuvers and coping strategies that are used to protect us that overtime become patterns of thinking, feeling and behaving. Over time these patterns turn into automatic habits that influence where your attention goes in the world. These early coping mechanisms aren't needed anymore and can become constraints with how we think, feel and act .

The purpose of life is to complete your God-given assignment to grow his kingdom, and it requires faith and courage to fully step into our true identity. Therefore, we must fully develop the how we think, feel and act.

Key Takeaways:

We create limitations in our life that we're not even aware we have created
Our early childhood coping mechanisms cause us to "sleep walk" through life and we allow our childhood mind to dictate our feelings, actions, and thinking. We'll put a cap on our potential if we never change these thought.
An acorn's full potential is an oak tree, and in order to reach that potential the acorn shell needs to be broken.
We all operate in the functions of feeling, thinking, and doing. Yet, we only develop two of these functions and leave one under developed.

Additional Resources:

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Do kingdom principles ALWAYS work? My guess is that you're probably nodding your head in agreement. Yet, I've found that a lot of believers aren't even sure what they are. What differentiates God's kingdom from Satan's kingdom, and how does it apply all around the world?

In today's episode, I want to share with about an organization I had the pleasure of meeting with recently. It's a not for profit called Watts of love, and they supply solar lights to people around the world who do not have light. These lights improve the safety for the families who receive them but it provides a new opportunity to prosper.

The purpose of life is to love God well and have fun doing it. When we operate in our life purpose we become more like our creator and have a testimony of faith that shows other's that "it's possible." It's good news that your creator wants you to prosper in everything that you do. Psalm 1 says that the person who delights in the Lord is like a tree planted by streams of water, which yields fruit in season and whose leaf does not wither - whatever they do prospers. Friend, hopefully this is encouraging to you that all things are possible through Christ.

Key Takeaways:

If the gospel doesn't work everywhere then it's not the gospel
God's kingdom principles work every time but it might not always look the same
Your life and testimony are to prove that all things are possible.
Jesus came so that we can be restored back to a place of abundance and life instead of a life of toil

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As a believer, how do you handle your desires? Do you feel the freedom to walk in those desires or do you suppress them because you believe that a "good Christian" should not fulfill their desires? This is a constant struggle for most believers and can potentially cause them to miss out on their life purpose.

In today's episode, I want to share with you how your desires are put inside of you to help you fulfill your life purpose. Religion has taught us, as believers, that fulfilling our desires is a sinful thought and action. There's an idea that a "good Christian" sets their desires aside and "take up their cross." Religion has positioned following Christ as a life that is hard and undesirable. Yet, Jesus said that He came to give us life and to give it to the full. He also said that His yoke is easy and His burden is light.

The purpose of life is to complete your God-given assignment to grow his kingdom, and it requires faith to follow His word and operate within our desires as He has designed. Therefore, when we believe that a desire is evil it is actually a result of a God-given desire that either cannot be fulfilled or we try to fulfill that desire in the wrong way. Hopefully this episode is encouraging to you to explore what desires you have suppressed due to a religious mindset, and what desires has God put inside of you that will help you fulfill your assignment.

Key Takeaways:

If you don't know how to operate within your desires then you're life will always feel like it's coming up short
There are not any evil desires. There are desires that lead to evil outcomes, but it's a result of the desire being fulfilled in the wrong way
The idea of materialism has kept many believers stuck in a religious mindset, and what if nice things could be used as a way to show others what is truly valuable: God's kingdom?
Think about what is possible if you realized the desires you have are to accomplish the assignment that God has for you

Additional Resources:

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True or false … in order to get ahead someone has to lose? Satan has perpetuated this idea that life is a zero sum game where the only reason that people get ahead is because they took from others. This is a severely limiting belief for believers because it's going to limit their impact on the kingdom of God, and prevent them from fully operating in their life purpose.

In today's episode, I want to discuss how God's kingdom is all about the win/win. If you feel like the success of someone else is actually costing you provision or blessing then you won't want to miss this episode because we're going to get into what Satan has to gain by perpetuating this lie and how it can cause you to come to the wrong conclusion about God and his provision.

God has positioned us where the purpose of life is to be generous on all occasions, and when we exhibit this type of generosity everyone wins. Yet, it's impossible to be generous on all occasions if you don't have enough. Satan knows that the only way he can get ahead is to lie, cheat, and steal. Therefore, our greatest offense as believers is to operate in God's kingdom where everyone wins.

Key Takeaways:

The only way that Satan can "win" is by lying, cheating, and stealing.
If you believe Satan's lie then it will cause you to come to an incomplete conclusion about who God is.
When Christian's believe the win/lose lie they tend to sacrifice themselves and limit their kingdom impact
Satan has created religion in the Christian culture that keeps people in lack thinking

Additional Resources:

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Episode 37 about our debt payoff story

Have you ever found yourself continually convincing yourself that you need to do better? If so, it's a sign that you're not operating in your life purpose. When you operating in your purpose you are pulled forward by faith and continually making progress in your assignment.

In today's episode, we talk about how finding your life purpose directs and maximizes your time and influence. When people struggle finding the purpose of life they look around and try to duplicate the purpose of those they see around them. However, this never seems to have lasting results and leads to feeling guilty that you're not doing enough and convincing yourself that you should be doing more. Everything changes when you find your life purpose because you're able to operate in a flow state that drives you forward.

When you're able to find the purpose and assignment that God has for your life then that purpose kind of acts like bumpers in a bowling lane. The bumpers keep the ball moving down the lane to hit pins and knock them down. Knowing your purpose helps you stay on track.

Key Takeaways:

When we try to borrow someone else's purpose it leads to exasperation
There's no way to be extraordinary when you're living in the average
The joy is not in the destination but in the flow state of the journey
When you find your purpose you'll always find the time

Additional Resources:

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What do the Dead Sea and Sea of Galilee have to do with your personal growth? The both receive water from the Jordan river, but one is an environment that helps support life while the other is an environment where nothing can survive. In order to fulfill your life purpose it's important that you're creating an environment that supports life instead of death.

In today's episode, I want to share with you how this analogy pertains to your personal growth, and the one action you can take to prevent an environment where your growth goes to die. We'll also talk about how your actions truly indicate what you believe, and that you might have a "goal belief" that is different than your true belief.

Faith was credited to Abraham when he believed God's promises and acted as if they were true. It's crucial, as you pursue the purpose of life, that you continually evaluate what your true beliefs are and take the necessary steps to align your goal beliefs with your true beliefs.

Key Takeaways:

The Dead Sea is too low, geographically, to have an outflow of water. Therefore, the only exit for water is through evaporation, and it creates an environment that cannot sustain life because the salt content is too high.
Like the Dead Sea, if you're not finding an outlet for your learning, then it will cultivate an environment where personal growth cannot survive.
There's a difference between knowledge, understanding, and wisdom.
You can't just DO BETTER ... you have to change the thought behind the belief

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What does it mean to be a person after God's own heart? This is a common phrase that get's tossed around in Christian circles, and as believers we strive toward that Goal ... but do we even know what it means?

In today's episode, I want to share with you how God defines what it means to be a person after his own heart, and look at examples of when people operate in that identity and when they do not. This is an important topic because it is necessary if you want to succeed in your life purpose. God created you for a specific purpose and has a specific assignment for you. He's also provided a right way to live that will maximize your assignment and impact. This way of living requires faith that God says what he means and means what he says.

This episode is for you if you are wanting to be in alignment with God's purpose of life.

Key Takeaways:

Saul was replaced as king because he failed to operate as a man after God's own heart
David was considered a man after God's own heart because he would do everything God wanted him to do
Righteousness is just a word that means "right way of living"
God always provides but when we're not following his ways we may completely miss the provision.

Additional Resources:

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Today is part 2 of a 2 part interview with Vince Shirey.

Vince had a 20 year career as a State Trooper in Ohio. In 2020, he felt the spirit leading him in a different direction and by faith, left a job that seemed secure for the next step in his assignment. If you're feeling paralyzed in taking the next step in your assignment then you won't want to miss this interview. Vince is able to share how he has been able to prosper in his life purpose without any regrets. He whole heartedly believes that God will work out everything for his good, and has been able to use challenges, tests, and dark moments in life to propel him to the success he has today.

Vince Shirey is married to his wife Krystina and they have 5 kids. Vince has helped others find success in the health and fitness space, and trading crypto currency. Krystina is a success and fulfillment coach, and together they are accomplishing great things for God's kingdom.

We're picking up the interview where I'm asking Vince if his belief that God will always work things out for his good was ever tested to a breaking point. If you're walking through tough circumstances then stay tuned because Vince's story will encourage you.

Key Takeaways:

How he grew in his faith during one of the toughest challenges
Forgiveness is key to loving others. Not only in forgiving them but learning how to forgive yourself
Refusing to the play the victim and make a conscious decision to identify with the same identity God sees us
Making a decision, even if it's not the right decision, actually creates progress

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Today is part 1 of a 2 part interview with Vince Shirey.

Vince had a 20 year career as a State Trooper in Ohio. In 2020, he felt the spirit leading him in a different direction and by faith, left a job that seemed secure for the next step in his assignment. If you're feeling paralyzed in taking the next step in your assignment then you won't want to miss this interview. Vince is able to share how he has been able to prosper in his life purpose without any regrets. He whole heartedly believes that God will work out everything for his good, and has been able to use challenges, tests, and dark moments in life to propel him to the success he has today.

Vince Shirey is married to his wife Krystina and they have 5 kids. Vince has helped others find success in the health and fitness space, and trading crypto currency. Krystina is a success and fulfillment coach, and together they are accomplishing great things for God's kingdom.

Key Takeaways:

How he obeyed when he was prompted to leave his childhood dream job of being a police officer.
The encouragement he receive from other's faith when he felt called to leave
Why he feels so alive when he's walking out God's assignment for his life
How he is always able to see God working things out for good (...even during his parents divorce).

Additional Resources:

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Decision making episode

How has your comfort zone been serving you in your life purpose? Anytime you're pursuing a change in life there will invariably come a time where you will need to decide to press forward or stop and move back. The results you see, as you step out and pursue your purpose of life, will be directly related to how you view what is comfortable and convenient.

In today's episode, I want to share with you how your comfort zone actually creates obstacles in your journey instead of creating a place of refuge. The enemy will do anything possible to thwart and stop your God-given assignment, and he will often use your comfort zones as a way to slow or stop your progress. However, God is looking for group of people who are willing to be problem solvers.

Part of the way God will work in your life to grow you in your assignment is by placing problems in front of you that need to be solved. These "problems" are truly the answer to becoming more like Him. These problems are like Goliath's in our path. They may seem like the obstacle to obtaining what we truly desire, but they're actually the path way. Your comfort zone is what holds you back and inevitably keeps you from fully becoming all you were created to be.

Key Takeaways:

Your comfort zone is actually an obstacle to your growth instead of a place of refuge
God prompted me to "release the funds" in order to help me grow to where I needed to be
God is always looking to work with problem solvers to grow his kingdom
God will continually place Goliath's in your path to help you become a kingdom minded problem solver

Additional Resources:

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Have you ever been pursuing a goal or a transformation and felt like you were in a worse position than when you started?

How did that feel?

If you're like me then it doesn't feel great and it creates the idea and temptation to stop the pursuit of reaching your goals and fulfilling your life purpose. God set it up for the purpose of life to become more like Him, and this requires faith to allow the process to strip away the pieces of our life that don’t reflect Him.

In today's episode, I want to share with you a new thought to hold when you feel like you're in the messy middle and ready to give up. There are plenty of circumstances in life where we don't hesitate to pursue through the messy middle. You know what I'm talking about if you've ever committed to an exercise regimen or finished a home remodel.

In both scenarios, the situation must get worse before it can get better. A home remodel requires a demolition phase, and our muscles must become sore from being torn down in order to build back stronger. This is for you if you're running low on hope and feel behind.

Key Takeaways:

Hope deferred makes the heart sick, but when we fulfill our desires it gives us life.
Losing hope can cause you to feel enslaved to your circumstances
Home remodels and sore muscles are indicators of how transformation works
Hope is found through perseverance and building character

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What happens when we stop pursuing the assignment that God has given you? Have you ever stopped to think about that in accordance to your life purpose?

In today's episode, I want to share with you what happens when you settle instead of pressing into everything God has for you, and why it's so vital for your legacy to not let your brain convince you that comfort is best. When Abraham made the trip to the land that God promised him he was actually completing the trip that his father started. Yet, his father settled in a place that was familiar instead of finishing the journey.

Deciding to walk in God's plan and purpose for your life will dramatically shift your faith and influence. Don't settle … instead allow God to reveal to you the purpose of life.

Key Takeaways:

Not pressing forward in your assignment can leave more work for your kids.
Is it possible that the promise given to Abraham could have been given to his dad?
God is looking for people who have hearts that are fully devoted to him
When you fully press in to being obedient to God's plan then it will radically grow your faith.

Additional Resources:

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Are you confused or doubt that you're walking in your God-given assignment? Everything God made He made to succeed, and yet, it can be difficult to have clarity in your life purpose. That lack of clarity creates confusion and erodes confidence to truly move forward and fulfill the purpose of life and make a kingdom impact.

In today's episode, I want to share with you what it looks like to confidently operate in your assignment and eliminate the feelings of dissatisfaction, inadequacy, and feeling fake. Don't fall into the trap of believing that everyone else is succeeding because that will continually hold you back from maximizing your life impact.

This is important because If you don't get clarity and identify the thoughts that are holding you back then you'll always struggling feeling like you're not doing enough. You'll constantly be suppressing and fighting desires the desires that were given to you as fuel to succeed.

If your faith is running on empty then you might just need a new perspective.

Key Takeaways:

Lack of clarity in your assignment can create shame around the desires that you have
The four elements that must be present to enter a flow state
Why flow state is so good for your brain and productivity
The reason some desires get labeled as evil

Additional Resources:

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Was Jesus serious when he said, "Your kingdom come, your will be done on earth as it is in heaven"?

Is that even possible … to have God's kingdom here on earth AS IT IS IN HEAVEN?

In today's episode, I want to share with you what God has personally taught me about His kingdom, and how it has radically shifted my perspective on my life purpose and the purpose of life here on earth.

If you're holding on to faith but want more evidence on what it means to operate in God's kingdom then this episode is for you.

Key Takeaways:

What it means to be a spiritual scientist
Why Katie and I gave $2,000 to help a family pay off debt when we were currently in debt
The step by step plan God gave us to pay off $100k of debt in less than five months
God is no respecter of man and showed up for our son in a similar way

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Did you know that your mind immediately rejects brand new information. This may information in itself may be new to you, and I wouldn't be surprised if you brain said, "that's not true."

Well … that proves the point.

In today's episode, I want to talk about the six stages of learning, and how you can use it to enhance your learning process. God set it up so that the purpose of life is continual growth, and that's definitely the case when you're pursuing your life purpose. With that being the case, learning how to learn is arguably one of the greatest skill sets that you can acquire.

Being aware of the learning process can act as a continual source of encouragement as you take the journey to becoming the best version of yourself and impacting the world around you.

Key Takeaways:

Your brain immediately rejects new information if it doesn't align with what you already know and believe
Knowing the learning process will help you not get discouraged in your results and help others
Trying to learn "all the skills" at one time will sabotage your success
The two biggest obstacles of learning are thinking that you already know or thinking that you cannot learn

Additional Resources:

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Making the "right" decision is not always easy or clear cut and can cause you to feel stuck or paralyzed in your decision making. This is especially true when you are focused on succeeding in your life purpose.

In today's episode, I want to talk about an alternative to thinking through the lens of right and wrong, and how this framework of thinking can empower you and give you confidence as you purpose the purpose of life. We’re going to explore the mindset that Jesus had and how you can apply it to your own life.

Key Takeaways:

The parable of the Good Samaritan teaches us how we should think in terms of life and death versus right and wrong
Seeking to justify yourself is an indication that you're operating in a mindset that can be destructive to your relationships
Right and wrong creates judgment toward others and brings death and destruction.
When you make decisions that bring life to others it's magnetic and attractive. People will be drawn to your faith and curious about what you have.

Additional Resources:

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Do you ever feel like you have to prove your thoughts or beliefs to others? When you are trying to win the approval of others it can be a sign that you're not fully persuaded in your beliefs.

In today's episode, we're going to talk about when you know you've removed the burden of pleasing others and able to operate in your life purpose. When you feel like you need the approval of others there is a constant cycle of doubt, feeling judged, and a spirit of criticalness or cynicism.

What would it take for you to not be impacted by the thoughts and beliefs from others. What could be possible for you if it was just feedback and could be received or set aside? The purpose of life involves serving others but it's all about winning the approval of everybody. You were designed and created to succeed in your life purpose, but winning the approval of others will take you

Key Takeaways:

When you know that you're walking in mature faith
When you're full of doubt or double minded it's evidence that you're not fully persuaded in your thought or belief
How Abraham's faith in God helped in operate within God's promises
Operating in a "fully persuaded" state allows you to operate in purpose more effectively

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"Making money, it isn't easy and it sure won't make you happy. So I think it's funny, we're so concerned with making money."

Do you believe that crap?

These are song lyrics from Ben Rector's song "Making Money."

In today's episode, we're going to talk about the importance of making money is an important skill set to growing in your life purpose. If you're someone who believes believe that making money is a selfish thing where you taking from others then you will limit your impact and growth. What if learning how to make money inevitably taught you how to improve your relationship?

There's plenty of evidence that points to the fact that God created the world to be ever expanding. Don't let it society convince you that money is taking and reducing your chances of success. You were designed and created to succeed in your life purpose. God has set it so that the purpose of life can be found when you become the person that He created you to be.

Key Takeaways:

Believing that making money is a selfish activity will undermine your success
We're made in the image of God and it's part of our identity and nature to create. When we do everyone benefits and everyone grows.
Those who stay stuck are the one's who view business and people making money as "taking" instead of giving.
Charging someone gives them an opportunity to sow into a field where they can reap 30, 60, 100 fold

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It can be difficult to receive. Compliments, gifts, and blessings are desirable but why do we push them away at times? Are you pushing them away out of humility or is it really arrogance?

In today's episode, we're going to talk about the importance of knowing how to receive in order to succeed in life purpose. If you're someone who struggles to receive … a gift, compliment, or blessings in general … you it can be damaging your relationships and holding back your purpose of life. Don't stay in the same cycle that will produce the same results because you will always produce the environment around you that you cultivate within you.

Don't let it be an environment full of shame and insignificance.. You were designed and created to succeed in your life purpose. God has set it so that the purpose of life can be found when you become the person that He created you to be.

Key Takeaways:

The epiphany I had about myself when I stopped giving compliments to certain people
Why I believe lottery winners are more likely to go bankrupt than the average person.
Stop identifying with a slave and start identify as a son
What Jesus meant when he said he came to give us life to the full

Additional Resources:

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Has your personal development flatlined? It's true, you are putting in the effort to change. You're listening to all the podcasts, downloading all the free resources from the gurus, and buying all the books … yet still can't push past a certain point. Honestly, there's not much more frustrating that having the desire to grow and see a change but consistently falling flat with all your efforts. Friend, there's a simple fix.

In this episode, I talk about what to do when you've invested into personal development and still not seeing a high dollar transformation you desire. This may be one of the most valuable lessons you can learn. Don't spend the rest of your life missing out on growth and amazing opportunities because feeling like something wrong with you and you just can't get it.

That's simply not true. You were designed and created to succeed in your life purpose. God has set it so that the purpose of life can be found when you become the person that He created you to be.

Key Takeaways:

The change that occurred when I invested $15,000 into my growth
The power of making an investment that is slightly outside your comfort zone
You pay attention when you pay
Money is seed … and those who sow sparing will also reap sparingly

Additional Resources:

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What do you do when the old version of yourself comes back to throw you off your progress? If you're someone who is working toward their life purpose, making progress, but continuing to get derailed due to self-sabotage then you'll want to listen to today's show.

In this episode, we talk about how there are triggers that will pull you away from the purpose of life and into a place where you respond out of the "old version" of yourself. When this happens it can be easy to feel discouraged and hopeless. Yet, the worst part is the shame you feel about note being able to move past this cycle despite your efforts.

You have so much to offer and God is setting you up to be used in a mighty way to enhance His kingdom.

Key Takeaways:

How walking into a horse barn instantly took me back to the old version of me
Staying stuck can be a result of remaining in the same levels of thinking you used as a child
Identifying how your self-sabotage is serving you
Removing the shame so you can address the underlying feelings

Additional Resources:

Check out your free life coaching resource, Life Purpose Roadmap PDF, and learn how to prosper in your purpose.

This is part two of our two part interview with Sal Baldovinos. Sal is married to his wife Cassandra and the have 6 kids. They enjoy homesteading and have 12 acres and a variety of animals. Sal is a web designer/developer and President of Ariel Digital Marketing.

We continue our conversation on what you can do when you feel stuck in your goals. Last episode we discussed how the obstacle is the way to your life purpose, and how you can embrace those obstacles as opportunities to see progress.

In this episode, we get into how your experiences are stepping stones to the bigger purpose of life, and how important it is to surround yourself with the right people who will help you move forward. Sal continues to share truth that will help you live a life of fewer regrets and truly step into the life purpose that God has for you.

Key Takeaways:

When you know that you need to move on to the next stage of your purpose
Finding people in your life that speak truth over you and your purpose
How to break the limited beliefs that get propagated from generation to generation
You get the life that you tolerate

Additional Resources:

Check out your free life coaching resource, Life Purpose Roadmap PDF, and learn how to prosper in your purpose.
Listen to this episode where I discuss the structure of story

Do you have big vision for their life but seem to keep getting stalled in your goals. Feeling stuck can be frustrating when it comes to your seeing progress in your life purpose, but also create a paralyzing fear due to feeling like you might have to validate your efforts by proving yourself to others. It's easy to lose hope and begin to question the purpose of life think that their your goals and dreams are not going to happen.

If you've ever felt this way then this episode is for you. This is part one of a two part interview with Sal Baldovinos. Sal is married to his wife Cassandra and the have 6 kids. They enjoy homesteading and have 12 acres and a variety of animals. Sal is a web designer/developer and President of Ariel Digital Marketing.

In this episode, we talk about the mindset of "the obstacle is the way" and how it will help you find the solution when feeling stuck. Fear will always be present and will manifest in multiple forms, but when you have a vision you have a clear destination that will pull you forward in your vision. Sal shares truth's that will help you live a life of fewer regrets and truly step into the life purpose that God has for you.

Key Takeaways:

How wanting to be the next George Lucas lead Sal into web design
The difference of listening to respond and listening to understand
How your obstacles will lead you to your vision
The "Here I am" attitude that leads to purpose

Additional Resources:

Check out your free life coaching resource, Life Purpose Roadmap PDF, and learn how to prosper in your purpose.
Listen to this episode where I discuss the structure of story

Do you have a pattern of diminishing what you've accomplished in life? If you've ever felt discontentment, insignificant or feel like what you've done doesn't really matter then you'll want to listen to today's show.

In this episode, I'm going to how God wastes nothing and wants ALL OF YOU to grow His kingdom … not jus the best parts of you. God has a specific assignment for your and wants you o be clear on the purpose of life. He is constantly looking to use the people who are fully devoted to Him. I share a powerful story how God magnified skills that I diminished and used them to empower others with hope and life purpose. He took my discontentment and turned it into meaning and significance.

There is hope, peace, and purpose found in the areas of your life that you have diminished. Listen to see how God can transform your "leftovers" and leverage them for His Kingdom work.

Key Takeaways:

God wastes nothing and can use the areas of life that create discontentment
The overlooked lesson found in the story of Jesus feeding the 5,000
What your brain is doing when you diminish your accomplishments
How life coaching is a part in operating in your life purpose

Additional Resources:

Check out your free life coaching resource, Life Purpose Roadmap PDF, and learn how to prosper in your purpose.

What are the indicators in life that breakthrough is coming? This is crucial information to have if you're going to faithfully pursue your life purpose and not let discouragement slow you down.

In today's episode, I'm going to how you to know you're on the verge of a breakthrough, because quitting becomes eminent if you're not able to discern the signs. You and I both know that the purpose of life is not to walk in discouragement, confusion, doubt, and weariness. Jesus came to give us life and to give it abundantly. The enemy wants to steal your life purpose by flooding your life with these negative feelings. He wants to prevent your breakthrough by focusing on discontent and dissatisfaction.

James 1:7 says, "Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and comes down from the Father of lights, with whom there is no variation or shadow of turning." God is wanting to give you good gifts, and He delivers them in at the right time.

Key Takeaways:

The lesson I learned about God when my 7 year old started acting like my 3 year old
The timing that God gives His good gifts to His children
What you can expect before receiving a spiritual promotion
How Abraham postured himself to not doubt God's promises to him

Additional Resources:

Check out your free life coaching resource, Life Purpose Roadmap PDF, and learn how to prosper in your purpose.

What's the deal with famous Billionaires giving away with their inheritance? Donating money to charity is not a bad thing, but it can damage your legacy if it forces your children to start over.

In today's episode, I discuss the trend of multiple billionaires leaving their inheritance to charity and bypassing their children. I rant about how "giving back" seems honorable but it holds the wrong thought around money. It implies that in order to get ahead someone had to lose. As a parent, a large portion of your life purpose is to create a foundation for the next generation to build upon.

The purpose of life and wealth is to make the world a better place for future generations, but what are we saying about our children when we trust non-profits to make the world a better place instead of trusting our children?

Key Takeaways:

Just because someone has a lot of money doesn't mean they know what to do with it as an inheritance
Why I think these billionaires lack personally responsibility when they give away their fortunes
God's perspective on wealth and legacy
What to do when our children waste their inheritance and still need help

Additional Resources:

Check out my free life coaching resource, the Life Purpose Roadmap PDF, and learn how to prosper in your purpose.

Do you struggle getting lasting change in your life? Do you ever feel like you're stuck in this cycle of pain and frustration and missing out on the purpose of life?

In today's episode, I'm going to share with you how to move past the discouragement, cynicism, and cycle of pain so you can create the lasting change you want and fully step into your life purpose and make an impact on God's kingdom. I share a technique that I use with my life coaching client that empowers them to hold a new belief in order to get lasting results.

Key Takeaways:

Fruit is produced in your life in a similar way in which it's produced in nature
It's not about doing better but putting in the work to transform your mind
You need to be realistic with your desired change so your subconscious does not sabotage your results
The quickest way to transformation is to let the process run it's course instead of trying to expedite the process

Additional Resources:

Check out the free Life Purpose Roadmap PDF and learn how to prosper in your purpose.

Have you every struggled maintaining your weight or felt ready to throw in the towel on your health goals because the numbers on the scale go up and down like a yo yo?

Today, is part two of my interview with Health and Wellness expert and coach Sarah Fischer-Reynolds. We're talking about the secrets of sustainable health, and pick up the interview where we're discussing weight fluctuation and what it tells us about our mindset.

Sarah shares her insight on how to break free from the beliefs that are limiting your results, and provides actionable steps to creating a life that leads to sustainable health.

Key Takeaways:

Having foundational habits will allow you to maintain your weight with less effort
When you know that you've "dieted" yourself out of results
Why generalized plans get mediocre results for a lot of people but will rarely produce exceptional results for anyone
The four foundational principles that build sustainable health

Additional Resources:

Check out the free Life Purpose Roadmap PDF and learn how to prosper in your purpose.
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How are you doing on your 2021 health goals?

In today's podcast episode, I'm talking with Health and Wellness expert and coach Sarah Fischer-Reynolds on the secrets to sustainable Health. This is part one of a two part interview. If you're someone who's frustrated with diets and exercise plans that over promise and under deliver then you're not going to want to miss this interview.

Key Takeaways:

How an autoimmune diagnosis shifted her health journey away from strictly counting calories
The "Aha moment" when she could stop taking her medication she had been taking for 20 years
Why health is so much more than what you eat
The signs that point to your health not being sustainable

Additional Resources:

Check out the free Life Purpose Roadmap PDF and learn how to prosper in your purpose.
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What wisdom can be found in the trials of life? In today's episode I share with you how you can embrace these trials instead of avoid them because the purpose of life is not about avoiding challenges. God has given you a specific assignment, and your life purpose is found in using the wisdom He gave you through His word to succeed in that assignment.

James 1:2-4 says, "Consider it pure joy, my brothers and sisters, whenever you face trials of many kinds, because you know that the testing of your faith produces perseverance. Let perseverance finish its work so that you may be mature and complete, not lacking anything."

The Greek word consider is an accounting term to count - assign a value to something. This verse is telling us that there is wisdom in assigning a positive value to your trials because they produce perseverance that allows you to lack nothing. These tests and trials set you up to succeed in your life purpose. They allow you to pursue the assignment, your purpose of life, in a way that lacks nothing.

Life coaching can help you see the gift that can be found in pain and trials. Garner wisdom from this episode to embrace your trials and make progress in your life purpose.

Key Takeaways:

Trial and testing is essential to consistent growth
Challenges allow you to grow and increase your capacity so you can pursue the purpose of life
There's wisdom in avoiding conformity. Society moves toward conformity and they don't like it when people shine bright.
Your either working on your assignment or it's working on you.

Additional Resources:

Check out the free Life Purpose Roadmap PDF and learn how to prosper in your purpose.

If you've ever let the idea of perfectionism sabotage your results or caused you to get stuck in your life purpose then this show is for you.

Perfectionisms just a fear in disguise. It's a lie that will tell you that if we don't meet a certain standard then we'll be rejected or abandoned. It tells you that you won't be good enough and there's something at stake to loose. There's a lie that if you're not perfect that you may lose your purpose in life.

However, If you see perfectionism as fear then you can handle it. You can handle fear but you can never be perfect.

Perfectionism is really just an idea of being perfect. We play out in our minds the perfect scenario, and fear creeps in when we are unsure if that dream could be a reality. There's the idea of the perfect job, the perfect leader, the perfect spouse, the perfect "fill in the blank" and if we don't reach it then our mind tells us we can never have it, and we might miss our purpose in life.

Which, as a life coach, I would ask my client, "Is that 100% true?" Is it a 100% true that if you fail at achieving this perfect dream on your first attempt then you'll never attain your life purpose?

No, it's not 100% true and, as your life coach, we would work together to find a thought that is empowering, and give them the courage set aside the fear that comes from the idea of perfectionism and take the actions to achieve their goals.

Key Takeaways:

Perfectionism is just fear in disguise
Perfectionism will actually lower the standards for your purpose in life
You will always produce the environment around you that you cultivate within you
Perfectionism empowers disappointment instead of preventing it

Additional Resources:

Check out the free Life Purpose Roadmap PDF and learn how to prosper in your purpose.

Desires … are they a good or bad thing?

In this episode I'm going to pull back the curtain on how God gives you the desires of you heart. If you've ever felt confused and conflicted about how to act on your desires then you're not going to want to miss this episode. I've talked a lot on this show about your purpose and the unique assignment that God has for you, and In order to fully operate in your purpose, you'll need to become the person God has created you to be.

Key Takeaways:

Michael Jordan unknowingly followed this process to win 6 championships in 8 years
What it means to be fruitful in our life and how it reflects God's image
The four step process God used to create man that you can follow in your life
God's greatest desire is for us to become more and He'll give us desires to have more so we go through the process.

Additional Resources:

Check out the free Life Purpose Roadmap PDF and learn how to prosper in your purpose.

In this episode I talk about how salvation is just the beginning of God's plan for you, and you have a specific purpose while one earth. You've been chosen by God to work with him and impact his kingdom. Let's take a look at what we can learn from the stories of the Israelites Exodus from Egypt, Esther saving her people, and the parable of the talents. Let's examine how God wants to celebrate you and set you up to successfully be part of His plan to grow His kingdom.

Key Takeaways:

Israel's story of deliverance from Egypt and journey to the promise land is an analogy of our salvation and assignment
God has set it up is to co-labor with us to accomplish his plan. God has already set you up to succeed and has given you the power to succeed but He won't do the work for you.
Your failure can't harm God's reputation but you could miss out on an opportunity and blessing that God has for you.
Taking the scary action may be the best thing for your family and legacy.

Additional Resources:

Check out the free Life Purpose Roadmap PDF and learn how to prosper in your purpose.

Satan does not need to possess you to destroy you. In this episode Tom talks about how the enemy will use thoughts to create destruction in your life. He provides the seven different ways Satan can use thoughts to move you down the wrong path and shares how important it is to discern this type of thinking because you may have held this way of thinking your entire life. Learn the different ways Satan will use your thinking to destroy you and how you can fight against it.

Key Takeaways:

The 5 different places where your thoughts can originate
Evidence in the Bible where Satan created destruction by giving someone a thought
The 7 forms of Satanic thinking
How Satan uses religion to create more harm than good

Additional Resources:

Check out the free Life Purpose Roadmap PDF and learn how to prosper in your purpose.

Do you wish you were more confident? What does it mean to be confident any way? In this episode Tom discusses the secret to having more confidence, and it comes down to being decisive. He shares how a lack of confidence is a sign that you don't trust yourself.

Key Takeaways:

Not having a confidence is a sign that you don't trust yourself because you break your word to yourself.
The difference between people who succeed and the people who fail
Why you need to make decision instead of choose the correct choice
You have the ability to make a decision and make it right.

Additional Resources:

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Welcome back to the Attractively Different Podcast. I'm excited for this episode, and I hope you are as well. Last episode we talked about how our brain is drawn to story, and all the great stories follow a similar structure.

To me these were clues in how God designed us, and I started to look for an insight - and what I found is that God uses this framework to bring us through our own transformation. Our brain is attracted to it because it's part of God's design.

Today I'm going to walk you through that story framework, show you how it works, and reveal to you how it shows up in the Bible. We'll finish the episode talking about how it applies to your life and your purpose.

Key Takeaways:

The Specifics of the story tory framework that captivate the brain
How Jaws, Beauty and the Beast, and Star Wars are all the same story
Proof that this framework shows up in the Bible
The brain is attracted to this framework because it reveals the gospel

Additional Resources:

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What's the potential of a single story? It has the power to transform your life. In this episode Tom discusses how the brain builds models for life through stories. Tom talks about how all great stories follow a similar framework and how that framework correlates to how God has written our story. He discusses how this framework can be used in life to track your own transformation that God is walking you through.

Key Takeaways:

The brain craves efficiency and simplicity and story allows your brain to build a simplified usable model of reality
Story is one of the few ways that humans can truly experience another persons perspective - because we place ourselves in the story.
The elements of the story framework that captivates the brain
God has designed our brain to gravitate toward this story framework because He's working in our lives this way

Additional Resources:

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Welcome back to the Attractively Different Podcast, and this is part 2 of the interview with Waldon Fenster. Waldon is a serial business builder, small business expert and corporate acquisition consultant with an expertise in facilitating brand growth for businesses and startups that want to present their company to the marketplace. As Founder and President of Venture Studio, Waldon has worked with thousands of companies and Fortune 100 brands to expand their business models and amplify their portfolios for immediate financial benefit. Waldon’s expertise ranges from business development, entrepreneurship, corporate growth tactics and brand strategy. Through his savvy and top level work, Waldon is able to build small businesses and emerging startups from the ground up, to make them attractive to outside investments and acquisitions on a global scale. We pick up the interview with Waldon where he is discussing how he cultivated the belief that nothing is impossible. He talks about the work ethic he developed that served him in high school and all the way through college. You'll hear is that he doesn't mess around and is "here to win" and help others win. Waldon discusses the inevitability of failure and what you should do in the midst of it. He also expands on how billionaires think differently about their business because they're not stuck in the day to day activities. He closes the show revealing his true why and how his businesses fall in line with building legacy. Key Takeaways:

How he cultivated the belief that nothing is impossible The work ethic and mentality that took him from being undersized to a top achiever The advice Waldon gives to those who are struggling with the belief that they can succeed Creating balance is not an overnight process but a marathon. The mindset to have when you're trying to control everything

Additional Resources:

Visit Venture Studio website to discover more about Waldon Check out the free Life Purpose Roadmap PDF and learn how to prosper in your purpose.

Welcome back to the Attractively Different Podcast, and this is part 1 of the interview with Waldon Fenster.

Waldon is a serial business builder, small business expert and corporate acquisition consultant with an expertise in facilitating brand growth for businesses and startups that want to present their company to the marketplace.

As Founder and President of Venture Studio, Waldon has worked with thousands of companies and Fortune 100 brands to expand their business models and amplify their portfolios for immediate financial benefit.

Waldon’s expertise ranges from business development, entrepreneurship, corporate growth tactics and brand strategy. Through his savvy and top level work, Waldon is able to build small businesses and emerging startups from the ground up, to make them attractive to outside investments and acquisitions on a global scale.

On this episode Tom interviews Waldon Fenster about how he got started in business and what has lead to his success. You'll hear how Waldon worked through early success as an entrepreneur and why creating a business all about his success wasn't very fulfilling, and getting jumped in alley shifted his perspective to helping other business. You'll hear how Waldon shifted in his business to slowly become one of the top agencies in the region.

Key Takeaways:

How the pursuit of beer money turned into multiple thriving businesses
Why he didn't feel pressure to go back to the ranch where he grew up
Early success created a struggle to truly connect with people
The wake up call that occurred after getting jumped and beat up in an alley
The difference in satisfaction between helping people launch a new business versus growing an existing one.
The most common stumbling block that prevents people from seeing success when they start a business.

Additional Resources:

Visit Venture Studio website to discover more about Waldon
Check out the free Life Purpose Roadmap PDF and learn how to prosper in your purpose.

Tom shares how you can steal his successful fantasy football strategy and use it to win in life. A big part of this is identifying your "best yes" and staying away from opportunities that don't align with your "best yes".

On this episode Tom talks about a specific strategy he used to win his fantasy football league, and how you can use the same strategy to win in life. He discusses the concept of determining your "best yes" and how accepting all opportunities that sound good will prevent you from experiencing the best in your life. Tom breaks down the verse about redeeming the time and the implications that it has for your life.

Key Takeaways:

Tom's winning fantasy football strategy that you should steal for success in real life
Why you need to determine your "best yes"
What it means to redeem the time and why you should love the reason you do something
Being aware of statements that being with "I should" and what that indicates

Additional Resources:

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How do you respond to challenges? In this episode we discuss how challenges and competition can actually create an environment for unprecedented growth. Atrophic cascade is an ecological process which starts at the top of the food chain and tumbles all the way down to the bottom. Yellowstone National park started to experience a trophic cascade in the mid 1990s when wolves were reintroduced to the area.

In this episode we talk about what we can learn from the trophic cascade that took place at Yellowstone and how it can apply to your life. A predator was reintroduced to the area and actually brought new life to the park that was more vibrant, healthier, and more diverse. We can experience the same in our lives if we embrace our challenges with the mindset that they make our lives more vibrant, healthier, and more diverse.

Key Takeaways:

Why wolves being reintroduced to Yellowstone National Park helped the park thrive
Potential outcomes of allowing our challenges to make us better
Choosing not to play it safe in life
God has a good plan for your life but it does not make it void of challenges.

Additional Resources:

Check out the free Life Purpose Roadmap PDF and learn how to prosper in your purpose.
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Let's learn how to unlearn … shall we? This is the final episode of our launch week, and it's been an exciting week. In effort to overdeliver, I'm offering an Amazon gift card to those who subscribe and leave a review. If you've done that, please let me know and we'll declare a winner on November 22, 2020.

In this episode we talk about why we self-sabotage and how unlearning can actually stop us from sabotaging our results.

Key Takeaways:

The mind is constantly processing 2 million pieces of information every second but your conscious can only handle about 7 pieces of information at a time
The 4 categories in the process of learning and how it creates a habit
Habits are only good if they're leading to the results we desire
Unless you unlearn, you may be processing at the same level you did as a child

Additional Resources:

Check out the free Life Purpose Roadmap PDF and learn how to prosper in your purpose.

Welcome back to the Attractively Different Podcast. Let's talk about how to hack your brain in order to get the results you desire. Today I'm going to share with you the insights I've gleaned from the lessons and observations from outcomes that I absolutely did not want to happen. I walk you through one of the most embarrassing moments of my career and it all could have been avoided if I asked better questions. At the end, I provide a simple question that has the power to transform your results.

Key Takeaways:

The lesson I learned through feeling incompetent
A distorted perception will cause you to ask poor questions
Asking better question will lead to better answers
Simple but profound question that can transform your results

Additional Resources: Check out the free Life Purpose Roadmap PDF and learn how to prosper in your purpose.

Today I want to share with you one secret that billionaires teach their kids that, in most cases, you're probably not. And it's not about money.

In the episode I share with you a story from the Billionaire CEO of Spanx, Sara Blakely, and what she learned from her dad that has propelled her to success. Every night at the dinner table, her father would ask her and her brother what their failures were for the day .... and he would celebrate them.

Key Takeaways:

The billion dollar lesson learned at dinner
The TRUTH about results
How we subconsciously teach ourselves to helpless
The most powerful choice you can make when it comes to your results

Additional Resources:

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Welcome back to the Attractively Different Podcast. Today I'm going to share the importance of understanding how God views a generation, and that it is more than simply passing down DNA. I'll discuss how having an incorrect view of generations will cause your family to decline instead of advance.

Key Takeaways:

How I benefited from being part of a corporate dumpster fire
The insight of how God views a generation and why it's different than how society views it
How the Hebrew language can reveal if concepts are based in reality or not
What's required to be considered a generation
The damaging effects of not having generational continuity

Additional Resources:

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How do you define lazy? Is it sitting on the couch binge watching Netflix? Does it mean that you're overweight and failing to exercise? How about sleeping in and consistently snoozing the alarm?

In the episode I share the breakthrough I had about work and how laziness is connected more to neglect than it is with activity or effort. We discuss how God gives everyone an assignment, and when we neglect to pursue our God-given assignment we're being lazy.

Key Takeaways:

The simple assignment from God that challenged me
My paradigm shift in how I define laziness
Why you can be busy and still be lazy
The insight from the parable of the talents
Fear can cause to neglect our assignment

Additional Resources:

Check out the free Life Purpose Roadmap PDF and learn how to prosper in your purpose.

Stop it! Stop supporting your overwhelm because it's suffocating your desires. Today I want to share with you how living in a frenzied state creates confusion around your life purpose. Today I want to talk to you about how to handle the overwhelm and use that same energy to propel your dreams forward.

In the episode We talk talk about where overwhelm comes from and the damaging effects it has has on your life,

Key Takeaways:

How overwhelm prevented me from living out a dream
Overwhelm is a result of focusing on preventing certain outcomes
Identifying the belief that is driving the overwhelm and use that same energy in a positive way
How to find evidence that supports your desired outcomes

Additional Resources:

Check out the free Life Purpose Roadmap PDF and learn how to prosper in your purpose.

In this episode I talk about how beliefs produce our results and circumstances.

How many of your beliefs, that you hold today, were you born with? None of them. They're all a result of you adopting a belief from someone that you either admire or respect. Your results and circumstances never lie - they always reveal your beliefs.

In the episode, I share how our beliefs bring drama to our circumstances, and that if you want to change your circumstances then you need to change your beliefs.

Key Takeaways:

What spear fishing taught me about beliefs
Where your beliefs come from and what creates a belief
Circumstances are objective and we bring our own drama to the circumstance
The difference between something that is true and the Truth.

Additional Resources:

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The Bottom of the Pool by Andy Andres

The Bottom of the Pool: Thinking Beyond Your Boundaries to Achieve Extraordinary Results

Hi everyone, welcome back to the attractively different podcast. This part 3 of the story in how I was able to get "unstuck" in life and find my purpose. If you haven't listened to the first two episodes, I'd encourage you to go back and listen.

In the episode I share how I was in a place in my life where I was experiencing a ton of growth in my career, I still felt like I was missing something. It became clear that my next steps in thinking differently in order to produce extraordinary results was to start a business. However, the hidden benefit in starting a business was discovering my purpose.

Key Takeaways:

Struggling in business lead to a life altering breakthrough
How I used my personal mission statement
Why investing a large sum of money into our personal growth was easy

Additional Resources:

Check out the free Life Purpose Roadmap PDF and learn how to prosper in your purpose.

Hi welcome to the first episode of the attractively different podcast. I created this show, specifically, to shine light on the idea that when your thinking stays at the surface level you'll only be able to produce mediocre results. This is a near and dear subject to me because there's a been lot of pain involved in this subject because when I did not understand how my surface level thinking was actually the reason for keeping me stuck.

I'll be sharing about how thinking differently is the key to leading a life without limits.

Prior to understanding this stuff, it was very painful for me as I tried to navigate a life defined by extraordinary results. See, I was always someone who got good results to great results - but extraordinary always seemed just out of reach.

In the episode I share part one of the back story to how I learned how to think beyond the surface level and move beyond the point of feeling stuck in my life.

Key Takeaways:

Why my wife called me out on how I was leading our family
How doing everything right didn't lead to success
Making a commitment to change
Where I found the inspiration for my needed change

Additional Resources:

Check out the free Life Purpose Roadmap PDF and learn how to prosper in your purpose.

Welcome to the attractively different podcast. I'm your host Tom Hermann and this part 2 of the story in how I was able to get "unstuck" in life and find my purpose. I'm not going to review it here, so if you missed it, go back and listen to the first episode.

In the episode I pick up the story where I vowed that things needed to change in order to create the life that I truly desired.

Key Takeaways:

How millionaires think differently than the average person
My epiphany that was the catalyst to a new life
The massive results that occurred once I implemented my new mindset
Discovery of the next step in my journey toward fulfilling my life's purpose

Additional Resources:

Check out the free Life Purpose Roadmap PDF and learn how to prosper in your purpose.

This is a show on a mission to help people create a life without limits by simply changing how they think about what they see.

Why? Because how we do anything is how we do everything, and if you don’t think differently then you will always believe their resources are limited and never lead an extraordinary life.

Tom will share the danger of believing what appears to be true an failing to live into the Truth of your identity. Tom explores what could be possible if you had extraordinary results in your faith, relationships, home, health and fitness, finances and your career.

This is a show for those who are looking for better answers in the most crucial areas of life. This is for those looking for wisdom because they’re not satisfied by the results produced by their surface level thinking.

Tune in for new episodes every Tuesday and Thursday.