The 7th Inning Stretch: Recent Episodes
Todd Miller
A Podcast for midlifers...Here to help midlifers get the most out of the years remaining. How do you get the most out of yourself? How do you do the most for your family? How do you make the biggest impact in your community? How do you use your work to transform the world? Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/todd-scott-miller/support
Have we lost our sense of Adventure? Are we so afraid of dying that we are no longer willing to live?
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With the craziness that is 2020, is there a lesson for us all? Is it trying to teach us all something about life? Should we continue to live in fear or should we live life to the fullest?
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Today I’m talking about hitting the curveballs that life throws at you.
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If we spent half as much thought and energy initiating change as we spend reacting to bullshit, we would probably have ended world hunger a long time ago...solved all economic crises...and even ended pollution...but it’s easier to react than to initiate so on and on it goes.
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My parents used to ask me this question all the time growing up and I used to think “what a dumb question?” Because the answer was simple, nobody. Turns out they just had a dumb student because the answer isn’t that simple. It’s much more complex.
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In this episode, I’m talking about a new book that I’ve been reading and working through along with where I am on my journey to my dreams. Where are you going?
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Sometimes it’s hard for us to really keep on the path to our dreams because we aren’t seeing the progress we hoped for. It’s slow moving and even seems motionless at times but keep moving. Don’t stop. Don’t quit. Work The Plan.
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We have fallen for a myth in our culture that we don’t need others. We don’t need a partner. We don’t need a community. We don’t need a team. We are all we need. And it’s total BULLSHIT!
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Taking about food and diet and eating and it’s probably not what you think.
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Still dreading Mondays? What are you doing about it? Today I talk about the book “Do It Scared.” I talked about how you need to define your fear before you can face it. This book helps you do that. It did that for me and now I’m working through it. I have a plan to beat that fear.
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I’m talking about living healthy. I know. It sounds crazy from me but some old dogs learn new tricks. The first step in living healthy is knowing yourself. Who are you? What’s your body type? How should you eat? What workout will work best for you?
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Men. Talking about stress and health and the many issues that stress can cause. Just because you don’t “feel” stress doesn’t mean you aren’t stressed. Pay attention to your body and take care of yourself.
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It starts with saying your going to do it. The first step is making that commitment. Today I’m making that commitment to make my dream a reality and I’m going to take you in the journey with me. I’m going to share the ups and downs. The wins and losses. The steps I take. The emotions I feel and the final victory when I can say I’m “living the dream.”
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The year is half over. What are you doing with the rest of 2019?
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The Coach coming to you in straight talk Saturday discussing our macabre desire to create problems instead of solutions.
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Advice comes at us from all directions. Some of it is terrible advice and should not even be listened to other than to know what not to do. But, a lot of good advice comes at us too. The issue is how to put that good advice to work for you in a dynamic relationship. Your not fixing a car window that comes with step by step instructions, so you can't just run with it. Be smart.
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Still talking about taking action to make Monday the best day of the week. Comparing the pursuit of your dreams to growing a bonsai. Yeah. My brain is kind of crazy.
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In this episode of Dugout Discussions, I'm talking tech. Rob has started his own tech business to help people build a "future proof" house and get the most out of your tech. We talk about wires. We talk about wireless. We talk about bandwidth and servers and phones and streaming video and everything you can imagine with preparing your home for the 21st century.
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Who do you talk to for relationship advice? So many of us go to the wrong advisors. We talk to our broke friends about money. We talk to chronic employees about becoming an entrepreneur. We talk to people who've never led about leadership, and we talk to our crazy aunt whose been divorced 6 times about relationships. Stop that shit. It's stupid.
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Today I’m talking about the time vortex that seems to exist around fun, around the things you love to do, around the people you love to hang out with, around your passions. I encourage you to find that thing and pursue it.
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In this episode of Dugout Discussions, I'm talking with serial entrepreneur Ed Hamilton. We talk about his many adventures in business. We talk about sales. We talk about women. We talk about bugs. We talk about dads. And we even bullshit some.
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As someone who has been to Disney World about 15 times, I always get asked what the perfect age is to bring your kids. Well, I answer that question right here. Turns out that it might not be about what your kids remember as much as it is about what you remember.
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No more Mondays. This is the day you change your life. You no longer dread Mondays. Instead you look forward to them because it’s another week that you get to make your dreams a reality. Today you plant the seed for your future.
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Welcome to my new segment, The Home Field Advantage. In this segment of The 7th Inning Stretch, I'll be talking family. I have one, so I must be an expert. Actually, I've been married for over 25 years to my high school sweetheart. We have three children who are mostly grown at this point, and all looking forward to chasing their dreams. This original episode features Albert Hernandez as we talk about being a dad with a business and teaching his daughter the ropes. I hope this new segment is helpful to families both young and old as I cover marriage, raising kids, extended family, and a friend who is closer than a brother. Future episodes of The Home Field Advantage will only be available on YouTube.
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In this episode of Dugout Discussions, I'm talking with Maria Perez, The Salsa Queen. We are talking about how she got into the salsa business, and some of the challenges of building a food based business and a brand. While she doesn't share the family recipe (and it is good), she does share a secret that anyone chasing big dreams needs to hear.
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Today I’m talking about new beginnings. Life comes at us pretty quick and changes even quicker. But eventually we get to a point where changes are no longer “happening.” We have to make them happen or we kind of die while we’re still alive.
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I recently had two neighbors help me tremendously. It may not seem like a big deal to them or even to others but for me it’s a big deal. Particularly because they offered to help. So help someone if you can. You don’t know what kind of difference it will make in their life.
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In this episode of Dugout Discussions, I am talking with long time family friend, who just happens to be from the same town in Ohio as me. He talk about all kinds of stuff including changes in small town America, college, student loans, and the fact that the reason politicians seem to flock to Twitter is because no politician has ever had a thought requiring more than 280 characters to express.
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Fun is not out there somewhere waiting for you to go find it. Fun is something you either have or do not have. So I encourage you to have some fun and learn to enjoy the journey.
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Life changes can come at us fast and from many directions. Sometimes change is forced upon us and sometimes we make it happen. But we either evolve or become extinct.
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Yes. I’ve said many times that there is no secret to success and as you probably have suspected, I’ve been lying to you. Today I’m going to share that secret.
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In episdoe 6 of Dugout Discussiont with the Coach, I'm talking to Rosalind Broome. Ros was one of my very first professional coaching experiments...uh experiences...She was born to be in charge. She made the permanent transition a few years ago to full time business leader and now investor. We talk about her experiences in making that transition.
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Today my daily desk calendar had a wonderful quote about choosing your words economically. It was saying that communicating your message in the best way possible is often the shortest way possible.
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Too often we go looking for a gold mine only to find out that it requires a lot of investment when what we need to be looking for is those Nuggets of Information just waiting to be picked up.
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Fear comes at us from all directions and attacks us at our weakest point...our ego. We don’t do things we want to do, wish we could do, or even know we should do because we are scared of what someone else might think.
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In episode 5 of Dugout Discussions, I'm talking with long time friend Kevin Wolff. He is the founder & owner of Wolff Engineering. We talk about his time in the Army, his time in corproate America, his hardest time, and his most recent success. We talk about what led to a "huge" win on the day of the interview when he hired his first employee. A guy who 2 years ago had almost no income is now providing income for another family. God Bless the entrepreneurs.
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We have more in common with each other than we think or believe. If we look to our similarities as bridge builders, then we can look to our differences as strength builders.
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Today I’m celebrating the release of my new book and the 50th episode of the 7th Inning Stretch. Celebrate Your Wins. It encourages you to win again and to win bigger. So take some time with each win big or small and celebrate it. Then watch the Wins pile up.
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It’s easy to get caught up in the grind. If we aren’t careful though, the grind will chew us up. We need rest. We need to take a break. Listen to your mind and your body and rest when it tells you.
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In episode 4 of Dugout Discussions with The Coach, I'm talking with Gary Dennis. He recently started a Management Consulting business specializing in digital marketing and data analysis. We talk about the challenges of starting a business from scratch with a young family. We talk business. We talk faith, and we talk data bias.
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We are conditioned from a very early age to avoid failure, yet failure is the best teacher. Losing teaches you way more than winning. It’s impossible to know what hot means until you get burned.
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Too often we get stuck in a rut of just doing stuff. We lose sight of why we do stuff and we end up living a life without purpose. Purpose drives us. It gives us a reason to keep going, to fight, to live. Purpose matters. Find yours.
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If you have ever driven a car without power steering, you know how much easier it is to turn it while it’s in motion than when it’s come to a complete stop. The same is true with life. It’s so much easier to Get Moving and make course corrections as necessary than it is to just sit and wait for the perfect direction to head.
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In episode 3, I am talking with Dorann Jackson. We cover a wide area of topics including identity and the identity crisis. We talk about mental health. We talk about life changes that are unplanned, and I theorize...A LOT!
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This is one of the hardest things about being a leader. Putting the needs of others ahead of yourself.
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As a leader, it’s up to us to ensure that people have the right tools to get the job done. Sometimes our resources determine the tools we have to use so our expectations need to be adjusted accordingly.
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Servant Leaders fight for people. Putting people first means providing them a safe place to work and live. It means doing what’s right for people regardless of the cost or backlash.
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In this episode, I'm chatting with an old friend and her husband about real life drama. Marriage...Running a law firm together...TRIPLETS! Join us as, we discuss real life, real problems, and real love.
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Servant Leaders ensure that people are getting the training, coaching and other development resources that they need. They ensure that people are ready to do the tasks ahead of them and prepared to win. I love the way the US Marines put it “The more you sweat in training, the less you bleed in battle.”
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If you’re going to put People First, then sometimes you have to deal with people problems. People will need Counsel and yes as a leader you need to provide it. It’s what we do.
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As leaders it is imperative that we pay attention to those around us and ensure that they are getting the rest they need. Yes. This is something that we need to do.
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In the first installment of Dugout Discussions with The Coach, I'm talking to Albert Hernandez. He is the creator and founder of Barz by BellaLuz. They make healthy protein and energy bars. We discuss how he got to where he is now. Why he created the bars. ow he stays motivated in the roller coaster world of entrepreneurship, and the bars themselves. I hope you join us as we share the challenges that we see, and why we are attacking them.
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I’m continuing my leadership series, Everyone Leads Someone, and today I’m talking about building a Team. It is one of the hardest things to do as a leader but it is also one of the most rewarding. Great teams perform at amazing levels and great leaders help them get there.
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One of the hardest things to do as a leader is to let people go. To let them do their job without extreme direction. To let them make mistakes. To let them fail. To let them grow. To let them exceed our expectations. It’s hard to do but necessary.
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As a servant leader, you realize that it’s all about people. You put People First because without people nothing happens. Nothing gets built. Nothing gets sold. Nothing happens. People are priceless and when you put them first, the reward is infinite.
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As a leader, our number one take is to provide a direction. To show the way for people to follow. People will only follow so far when they don’t have any idea of where they are going or what they are going to do to get there.
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Today I’m discussing the importance of good management and good leadership. They are flip sides of the same coin. They are both important and necessary. You manage resources and you lead people.
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Starting my new series on leadership and this is the most important lesson. It’s the one where you accept that you are a leader and you accept the responsibility that goes with that. Everyone leads someone.
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Today I’m leaving you with a challenge to live your life to the fullest every day. You only have so much life to live to use it up. Don’t find yourself laying on your death bed wishing you’d lived more. Live hard. Die harder.
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Worry is the biggest time waster in our lives because it doesn’t allow room for anything else inside our minds. Worry is focus on the problem instead of the solution. If you can control it, take action. If you can not control it, let that baggage go.
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It’s time to declare your life a drama free zone. Stop letting drama suck the life out of you and steal your time. Drama is entertaining so we like to get involved in it. But it’s also an unnecessary time waster that kills us one wasted minute at a time. Let that baggage go.
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I know it sounds like an oxymoron but impatience wastes time. Whether it’s not trusting the process or reactionary leadership, impatience does more to slow the process and create additional work than anything else. Be Patient.
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We all know those people who are never content. Never happy. Never grateful and always grumbling. It’s a huge waste of time because this distracts from life. It pulls you away from the things in life to be grateful about and focuses on problems. Joyful people look at problems as an opportunity to do something. Joyless people just see the world ending.
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Anchor • Stop Wasting Time...Hate
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In this episode I debunk the saying that “Ideas are dangerous.” More importantly, I discuss how success is a result of million dollar work not million dollar ideas. If you want to do something great, it’s going to take effort and a lot of it. That’s why passion matters so much because you will do a lot of work for little pay.
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Today I’m talking about letting go of once of the heaviest bags that we carry and that is the concern of what other people might think. We let this hold us back more than anything else and I’m telling you to let it go.
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Today I’m talking about the danger of feeling entitled to an opinion or perspective. We trap ourselves within a small world when we feel entitled to an opinion because that entitlement leads to a position and a position must be defended...right, wrong or indifferent.
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Today I’m talking about growing old gracefully and showing the world the wisdom that you have earned. Stop hiding it and share it. And remember that life doesn’t end at a certain age but rather it ends when you quit.
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A friend of mine wished me a happy birthday this week and said “another year wiser.” I responded with the funny thing about wisdom is the wiser you get the dumber you feel. I find this to be more and more true everyday. It’s not what I know but what I don’t know that I now understand. If only we could remove the hubris of your and age, maybe we could work together for a better future.
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It’s easy to forget to take care of number one first. We find joy in helping others and being of service to others, and we also worry about being selfish. But loving yourself and taking care of yourself first does not mean not loving or mistreating others. Actually, I think it’s easier to mistreat others when we mistreat ourselves.
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Most of us live our lives in our secret identity. We walk around and interact with others as Clark Kent, and we hide our inner Superman. I’m challenging you to find your inner Superhero and Unleash them. The world is counting on you.
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The words we use have power. They influence us and those around us. Be intentional with what you say and how you say it.
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Going to get into a little more detail on this whole identity crisis. I’m starting with the big question “who are you?” It seems like an easy question to answer but it’s much more challenging than you might think. Finding your identity is the starting point for living your purpose.
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Yes. I believe we have an identity crisis running rampant in our modern world. Part of this is allowing our time, our identity, our human value be defined by the economic value of our work. Whether you’re using this perspective for valuing yourself or others, you’re missing the point.
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Continuing the time theme for the week, I cover some common time wasters in our lives that do nothing to build and only destroy. We have to get these things out of our head and stop wasting our lives on them.
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Do you start Monday morning by wishing it was Friday or do you embrace the week? Stop wishing your life away. Learn new things. Meet new people. Be of service to someone. Make a difference each day and suddenly Monday is a Funday.
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Too often in life we actually lose ourselves along the way. We lose our identity. We lose our family. We lose our dreams. We lose our life. Today I’m challenging you to Take It Back!
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We seem to have accepted that losing is okay and being a winner is bad. Well it’s not. Winning is good and losing is not bad. But you should always be putting forth the greatest effort and trying to win. Take the risk. Stop trying to win with defense.
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We live in a broken world that we all want to change, but we don’t know how. Stop thinking about the big things and start doing the little things.
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Today I discuss my personal disdain for minivans and hate. How Hate Weight only drags us down and will never allow us to excel.
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We talk a lot about life Balance but what does that really mean. Does it mean equal time or equal weight? Listen to today’s podcast to get a new take on life balance.
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If you’ve ever struggled making a decision or know someone who does, I’m giving you a step by step process to follow. Trust the process and make a decision.
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In this episode, I discuss our risk averse nature that has swept us up in an “I’m gonna love forever” mentality as long as I can avoid danger. Our unwillingness to accept risk is killing us faster than anything dangerous ever has.
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I’m talking about the importance of trusting the process today. We live in a everything right now world and we seem to have forgotten that things take time. An acorn becomes a mighty oak through the slow process of taking in nutrients and growing its roots deep. You can too if you trust the process.
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I had a wonderful date night this past weekend with my wife where we got to see a movie and have dinner together without children. We saw the new Mary Poppins movie and really enjoyed it. Like the previous installments, I found myself really identifying with the dad in the movie. We could all use a little help from Mary every now and then.
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In this episode, I discuss the traps of our victim culture and how you can either be a victim whose only recourse is to be a complainer. Or you can be a victor, who takes ownership of your life and makes it happen.
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Tackling the tough topics facing men means we sometimes face our own failures and demons to overcome. In this episode I give a concrete definition of Toxic Masculinity so that we can actually address the problem. It’s not about blame. It’s about accountability. It’s about giving men the tools they need to address the issue.
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In this episode, I discuss how irrational our fears can be. We are scared of all sorts of things that are of little threat and not scared of things that are of tremendous threat. Why? I challenge you to face your fears in 2019.
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In this episode, I discuss a recent meeting with a friend, and the counterintuitive realization that purpose comes from responsibility. We often think responsibility just means more work. We’ve lost the understanding that responsibility is where the purpose of work comes from, and when it’s taken away, we feel a loss rather than a relief.
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In this episode, I talk about the meaning behind the 7th Inning Stretch. How it got its name. How I got here. Why I’m here. And how I can help. Come listen and get ready as we attack 2019.
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In this episode, I discuss resolutions and why they are usually impotent change makers. Transformation takes time and requires motivation over that time. Life comes at you hard sometimes and even harder when you’re trying to transform your life. So I discuss the power of a motto to make real change happen. If you have trouble finding one for yourself, I even suggest one for you. True transformation takes time. That’s why I’m here...to help make change possible for you. I’m The Coach...now let’s get in the game.
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