Live well. Finish strong.: Recent Episodes
Chip Judd
Think decades! Can I live the way I’m living right now for decades? If not, why are you living that way? Let’s explore the challenges and opportunities of a decades-long life of intimacy, influence and impact.
When we attack the FRUIT of someone's behavior we unintentionally strengthen the ROOT that's driving that behavior! Be careful when you’re working on breaking a cycle that you don’t make it worse instead of better.
Two critical steps in breaking unhealthy cycles: 1) own your responses, and 2) name the need. Learn to distinguish between a need and want.
IT WON’T STOP UNTIL YOU OWN IT! Other people do not cause your response. How you have learned to get your needs met and manage your feelings drives your response. Then your response is the other person’s trigger.
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MY BIGGEST ONGOING STRUGGLE is the example for today's cycle-breaking talk. You can learn to identify the 4-phases of habit formation and how they drive your self-defeating behavior. Stay in touch: https://linktr.ee/chipjudd
MY BIGGEST ONGOING STRUGGLE is the example for today's cycle-breaking talk. You can learn to identify the 4-phases of habit formation and how they drive your self-defeating behavior. Stay in touch: https://linktr.ee/chipjudd
OLD YOU - NEW YOU…Who are you going to be today? Your energy-efficient brain (lazy) wants to just do what it’s always done even if it didn’t work. Let’s talk about some keys to re-wiring your plastic brain.
TRANSFORMATIVE FRIENDSHIP! Have you ever had someone in your life that fulfilled the role of a gate keeper? Today I want to celebrate some people who have done that for me. Stay in touch: https://linktr.ee/chipjudd
God’s answer to 21st-century Stress. Let’s check out Isaiah 30:15 and see what God has to say about the path toward restfulness, confidence, and strength.
SABBATH RHYTHMS — Some practical ideas on how to apply a Sabbath Mindset and a Sabbath Lifestyle in your busy life.
Gods answer to 21st-century stress — Sabbath Mindset/Sabbath Lifestyle. we’re talking about how to break the cycle of chronic stress most of us experience. Check it out.
8-Minute MindShift! Your Brain On SABBATH. Let's talk about God's remedy for 21st Century stress -- Radical Rest.
We are passing through a GLOBAL STRESS TEST. How did you do? What did you learn about yourself? How can we handle, even benefit from, the stress life serves up on a regular basis? (TRIUNE BRAIN cont)
FLUSH YOUR STRESS! Stress is not a bad thing unless it becomes chronic (constant, habitual, occurring frequently). Develop a Sabbath Mindset and a Sabbath Lifestyle.
BRAIN vs MIND! Let’s do a quick chat about the difference between your brain and your mind and why it matters. I think it might help you.
My triune brain! Come on dude -Why do I need to know this stuff? I promise you it will help you in your journey to understand how your brain was created to function. Hang in there!
Is YOUR TRIUNE BRAIN the key to your problem? How you define a problem shapes your solution. Let’s talk about the role the brain plays in some of our life challenges.
YOUR TRIUNE BRAIN! So what? Why are we talking about this? How does this get me more real freedom and lasting change? I have found that understanding the TRIUNE BRAIN has helped me personally and has helped me help others. Stick around you might learn something.
Your TRIUNE BRAIN! (cont) Understanding our 3-part brain is super helpful in accepting where we are, how we got here, and growing where we need to grow.
Your Triune Brain! We are all about real freedom and lasting change around here. You cannot be a serious student of change without keeping up with the cool realities of how your brain works. #chipperchats #thinkspots
Your have a plastic brain. That’s how science descibes your brain’s ability to be rewired. You mean I can change the way I think, believe, and act? YES! I want some of that. #chipperchats #thinkspots
Crashing the thresholds of your life. A threshold is the line between entering/beginning and leaving/ending. All of us have at least one area of life where we’re stuck at a threshold. Let’s crash it today.
4 critical questions. You’re at a crossroads whether you realize it or not. A crossroad is an opportunity to make choices. You’re always facing choices that will affect the remainder of your journey.
COMFORT IS NOT YOUR FRIEND! There’s more! You know it deep in your soul. You want it in every area of your life. One of the biggest barriers between you and the life you could have is COMFORT. Grab life by the throat and make it give you what God wants you to have.
Where are you RIGHT NOW? What one word describes where you are in your life’s journey? I have a suggestion.
Is your “wanter” working? It takes courage to admit and ask for what you want. Why is “wanting” so important in our journey toward Gods best?
Enduring authentic happiness. What is it? How do you get it? How do you keep it? Let’s figure this out together.Enduring authentic happiness. What is it? How do you get it? How do you keep it? Let’s figure this out together.
It’s not them! Stop giving your joy and peace away so cheaply. Make it hard to rock your boat!
STOP + LOOK + LISTEN > WRITE IT DOWN.
You can hear God's voice. He wants you to. This is part of a series I taught about a decade ago at my church. Put it into practice and the adventure begins.
ABC’s OF MANAGING EMOTIONS cont. It really is this "simple" - BTFA=R. (I didn't say easy.) Let's get this. It isn't what we know that changes us. It's what we do with what we know.
Focus on HABITS rather than OUTCOMES. You can’t directly control other people or circumstances, but you can develop skills that reduce the impact those people and circumstances have on you.
More on managing your emotions. This is one of the most important skills to practice and make a regular part of your life. Outside events (A) don’t cause you were emotional consequences (C) – – – your beliefs about yourself (B), usually expressed in words, determine your emotional state. Let’s do this. Please share these posts and help me get the word out. Comments help also.
Why dogs don’t get stressed out? Have you ever thought about that. Here’s what we’re gonna talk about today – – “if you didn’t think, could you feel stress?”
Morning Encouragement @SeacoastChurch: Are you going to survive the challenges this year has brought or are you going to thrive as you go forward into all that God has for you? Let’s bypass religious performance-driven busyness and learn to R&R in The Father‘s love!
The ABC’s of managing your emotions. Most people feel helpless and hopeless when it comes to managing their feelings as they roll through life and all that it throws at them. It does not have to be that way. Here’s some ideas to help along the way.
Last week we started talking about 3 Emotional Epidemics raging through our culture. There's a vaccination and a treatment plan available. They really do work...But you have to learn to "work" them.
I found a vaccine for the 3 epidemics raging among us. With COVID-19 still around we’re all mindful of the dynamics of disease and it’s spread. I believe there are 3 sources of unhealthiness that are deeply affecting our culture, our relationships, and our health. Have you been vaccinated?
Great friends having a great conversation about a great topic - POWER! I've wanted to talk about these issues for years. You have more power than you realize. It shows up in your relationships, your plans and dreams, and in how you feel about yourself. Check it out. We're using Andy Crouch's book, PLAYING GOD. Get it and join us.
“You make me mad!” Most people don’t realize the power they are giving away when they make statements like that. Let’s talk about the power you have to manage your emotions.
We’re starting a new conversation about POWER. What is it? Who has it? Is it a good thing or a bad thing? What does God say about it? What does it have to do with my everyday life? If I had more of it would I handle it any better than the people I believe have it right now? Why don’t we trust it? What’s gone wrong?
Hey, do you ever stop to see if you’re where you wanted to be when the year started? You should. Socrates said, "The unexamined life is not worth living." If you keep doing what you're doing right now will you end up where you want to be?
The #1 one relationship mistake most of us keep making. Why are so many of our relationships challenging, disappointing, and downright unsuccessful at meeting the needs we thought they would meet. I believe there’s one thing most of us keep doing that sabotages our relationships. Let’s talk about it.
Never THIRST again! Let’s follow up from last week and talk about the ONE THING we could do during this weird COVID-19 thing that would make the most difference in our lives.
ONE THING! Make it about your ONE THING. What is the ONE THING that IF I do it makes this a good day of progress?
FIND THE EDGE... where is God inviting you into an adventure of growth and expansion? In what area of your life, your heart, your soul, your relationships is God saying, “Chipper, I’ve got something really special for you. But you have to come and get it.” Here’s a good place to start.
Find the edges of your comfort, confidence, and competence. Idnetify and embrace your growth opportunities buried in this season. Put COVID-19 on your payroll. Make it work for you. Here’s a practical idea on how to get some good out of this weird, troubling, once-in-a-lifetime situation.
Making COVID-19 work for us! In virtually any situation there is good that we can walk away with. Even if the situation is bad. Let’s talk about how to use this awkward time to move us forward.
Stop trying to please God! Are you caught in a common trap that robs people who want to please God from enjoying the fact that they already have pleased him.
Put COVID-19 on your payroll. Make it work for you. You can come out of this troubling season better than you went into it. But not by accident.
8-Minute MindShift! How do you increase the grace you experience for yourself and the grace that you give to others.I 8-Minute MindShift! How do you increase the grace you experience for yourself and the grace that you give to others.
Grace for the race! A few tricks of the trade for keeping your relationships free of toxins. Are you willing to do the work necessary to maintain a “pure“ heart?
MindShift Mojo part 8! Labels cause selective attention. Once we label someone or some thing we stop seeing the whole person or thing. Labeling is healthy and helpful to your brain’s desire to conserve energy, but it causes challenges in our relationships and emotional health.
MindShift Mojo Pt 7 - Assigning motives to the actions of another person always produces negative consequences. Do you find yourself fighting the people you love? Do you keep making yourself an adversary instead of an ally in your desire to break destructive cycles you're cught in with other people?
MindShift Mojo! Get your but’s out of your head. Truth doesn’t automatically change you. Truth that you experience as real changes you.
MindShift Mojo! Get your but’s out of your head. How you position yourself in relationship to truth determines the freedom in which you live.
MindShift Mojo continued. Your mind set determines your mojo. Remember “simple shifts of perspective produce tipping points of progress.”
MindShift Mojo! How simple shifts of perspective produce tipping points of progress. I’ve spent 40 years studying, probing, and practicing how to experience and empower real freedom and lasting change. that’s pretty much all we ever talk about. Let’s get into it.
SOUL TOXINS pt 2
Are you suffering from a common illness among Christians? You might call it chronic over-performing, or chronic over-qualifying. A simpler name is striving. Let’s talk about a serious source of toxicity for your soul.
If you want to change the outside work on the inside. More thoughts from THE THREE LITTLE PIGS.
Life and leadership lessons from three little pigs. I love thinking through what these cute little piglets can teach us about life. Don’t underestimate what they have to say.
Life and leadership lessons from THE THREE LITTLE PIGS! My grandson, Gus, and I want you to think about what life principles of spiritual lessons you could get out of this well-known children's story.
I see “stuck people“. I see people who are going round and round in circles in certain areas of their life. I believe a big part of my assignment is to help us break out of our non-productive cycles and crossover into our land of promise.
Eat this book! Let’s grab life by the throat and make it give us everything God intends for us to have. Let’s look at the most powerful tool we have in pursuing the life God wants for us. Don’t settle for “bumper sticker Christianity“ like Christians aren’t perfect just forgiven.
Why I am not a fan of bumper-sticker Christianity. For example, “Christians aren’t perfect, just forgiven.” I don’t like it. Mainly because it is not true. Let’s talk about it.
When does “eternal life” begin? Who has it? Do I have it? What is it? Christianity cannot make sense or be lived powerfully and enjoyably without understanding the most important thing that has or will ever happen to you — being “BORN AGAIN! We are continuing our discussion of how God created us to exist and live in three parts, SPIRIT, SOUL, and BODY, each with different challenges and capacities. I cannot overstate why this is such an important concept for us to understand?
How “saved” are you? Pt 2 Continuing the conversation of how God made us and why we can continue to struggle after becoming Christians.
Do you understand the most important thing that has ever happened to you? Your eternal destiny and the potential to live the life you’ve always dreamed of began in an instant. One decision moved you from fear, shame, and loneliness into you a family with God as it’s father. Let’s learn how to experience and enjoy everything that’s available to us.Let’s learn how to experience and enjoy everything that’s available to us.
How “SAVED” are you? Let’s talk about one of the most important things I’ve learned to understand how we can want to follow God with all of our heart but still act like the devil himself at times.
Are you attempting to build your life on top of a nuclear waste site? Most of us don’t realize that in the process of renewing and renovating our soul the most important and possibly the most difficult thing is dealing with what’s already there.
The most powerful weapons and tools we have are invisible and weightless. Today I want to talk about words and some of my favorite scriptures that have helped me to stir and steer my heart in the journey toward real freedom and lasting change.
Taming a monster. (Pt 2) One of the most powerful tools and habits I’ve learned in the process of healing and freedom. Free your soul from the soundtrack of your past. Check out today’s 8-Minute MindShift!Check out today’s 8-Minute MindShift!
Taming a monster! (Pt 1) A key to everything we’ve been talking about is how you talk to yourself about yourself. The best thing you can do is learn to agree with God by saying what he says about you. Let’s talk about it a little bit today.
There is a key practice that will make everything we’re talking about work for you. But without it it’s very difficult to walk in the fullness of a renovated mind that frees you to pursue all that God has for you. Check it out!
IDENTIFY, Challenge, and Change. Here's a worksheet to help you "capture your thoughts" and learn to manage your emotional responses to life's events.
Stop making your life worse than it is. This is a description of the BTFA=R principle with drawings and visuals.
Identify, challenge, and change. These three steps are the key to you having a better day a better week a better month a better year. The greatest blockages between you and the life God wants for you are inside of you. This is the simplest process for tearing down those blockages of thought, belief, and behavior.
Be – Do - Have. The order in which you live these three words determines the peace you walk in.
“Who told you that…?“ One of the most important questions you can learn to use in your battle against the lies lodged in your soul. This is a really important principle that we will be talking about today. Share the post please and help me get the word out there.
Don’t just do something, sit there! I want to share some personal realities we have experienced as we start our new year. God has a way of sneaking up on us and answering prayers in ways we don’t expect.
Happy new year! Where do you want to go this year? There’s one thing you need to know before you can plan your trip.
3 Steps toward greater freedom - Identify, Challenge, and Change your destructive patterns of thought, belief, and behavior.
MineShift or else… One of the most important skills I’ve learned and you need to learn if you want your life to get unstuck and change in the direction you hope to move. MineShift or else…
Do you suffer from “hurry sickness”? One of the things that will greatly hinder your process toward winning this inner battle with thoughts, emotions, and behavior is the pace at which we live. Let’s talk a second about what I consider to be an epidemic in our culture.