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A podcast where I will be sharing daily thoughts, principles and insights to help you better yourself, better connect with God, and better move forward in your life, towards becoming all you were meant to be.
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Had an experience this week with my daughter and doing push-ups that reminded me the value of always keeping your head up. Listen today, to better listen to those voices that are telling you, you can! More than those voices that say you can't!
Listen today to learn how to better connect with your kids and to be the kind of parent you want to be and were meant to be! There really is something in the water when it comes to instilling confidence, faith, patience, perseverance and happiness in our kids;)
Happy Mothers Day! This week let's reflect on and remember one of the greatest gifts we've been given, the gift of mothers. One of the best ways I've come to know Christ, all that he is and all that he can do, is through motherhood!
In this episode learn about the Lord's Process for Providing. If things are not happening in your life as fast for you as you would like listen today to be reminded that it isn't that the Lord is withholding as much as it is that He is waiting!
Learning to be content with what we have been given is one of life's great challenges. Listen today for a short thought and reminder of how to develop greater contentment and why it's so important that we do!
Listen today to be reminded how a mess can become a power message of love and happiness and something one day you might just find yourself missing!
Listen today to hear and inspirational story about a young boy named John who is in second grade and what he is doing to stand 4 kind! You don't have to be great to do great things!
Happy Easter Everyone! Hope you have a great Easter and week with your families. Just a little message of hope to consider as we approach such an important holiday!
From the mouths of babes...in this episode my daughter reminded me of a great truth and life principle that can help all of us when going through hard things.
Last week I had the opportunity to provide a little mental health training to a group of business owners who were a part of a local chamber of commerce and I wanted to share a few of the principles and insights I learned to help you as my listeners and your families to better connect with and support each other with our mental health.
Listen today to be reminded why it does little good to worry about our problems and much good to pray over them. Learning to "Fret Not" is an act of faith and something that will help us live in peace during times where peace is hard to find.
Listen this week to be reminded of one of the best ways for us to connect as families. You will leave listening to this episode inspired to help your kitchen table become more of what it was always meant to be. We need this simple practice as individuals and families more than ever before.
Had an experience this week with my daughter and doing push-ups that reminded me the value of always keeping your head up. Listen today, to better listen to those voices that are telling you, you can! More than those voices that say you can't!
Listen today to learn how to better connect with your kids and to be the kind of parent you want to be and were meant to be! There really is something in the water when it comes to instilling confidence, faith, patience, perseverance and happiness in our kids;)
Happy Mothers Day! This week let's reflect on and remember one of the greatest gifts we've been given, the gift of mothers. One of the best ways I've come to know Christ, all that he is and all that he can do, is through motherhood!
In this episode learn about the Lord's Process for Providing. If things are not happening in your life as fast for you as you would like listen today to be reminded that it isn't that the Lord is withholding as much as it is that He is waiting!
Learning to be content with what we have been given is one of life's great challenges. Listen today for a short thought and reminder of how to develop greater contentment and why it's so important that we do!
Listen today to be reminded how a mess can become a power message of love and happiness and something one day you might just find yourself missing!
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Listen today to hear and inspirational story about a young boy named John who is in second grade and what he is doing to stand 4 kind! You don't have to be great to do great things!
Happy Easter Everyone! Hope you have a great Easter and week with your families. Just a little message of hope to consider as we approach such an important holiday!
Last week I had the opportunity to provide a little mental health training to a group of business owners who were a part of a local chamber of commerce and I wanted to share a few of the principles and insights I learned to help you as my listeners and your families to better connect with and support each other with our mental health.
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Listen today to be reminded why it does little good to worry about our problems and much good to pray over them. Learning to "Fret Not" is an act of faith and something that will help us live in peace during times where peace is hard to find.
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Listen this week to be reminded of one of the best ways for us to connect as families. You will leave listening to this episode inspired to help your kitchen table become more of what it was always meant to be. We need this simple practice as individuals and families more than ever before.
This week is a reminder to look inward, instead of outward...to better come to know ourselves, which as Socrates said, "Is the beginning of all wisdom." And we can each take this first step by asking in each difficult situation the question, "Lord is it I?"
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Learning to "Be Still" is one of the most important skills we can learn to move forward! Listen today to better understand the value of a pause.
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This is a pretty emotional episode for me...consider yourself warned! We need each other. However the connections we need to get through life cannot be made above ground, the need to be made beneath the surface.
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Today's episode is a reminder of the activities you can do, and the time you can spend that will be of the most worth to you. However, it depends on the type of worth you are seeking, because a person's "net worth" on earth is measured very differently in Heaven. Listen today to better learn what will be of most worth to you!
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In a world filled with fear, heartache and disappointment we are in need of the light of hope more than ever! We are experiencing a crisis of hope and looking everywhere to find more of it. Listen today, for "the way" to find hope in even the darkest of times and places. We can come to believe, no matter our situation or circumstance...that there is always HOPE!
This weeks message is all about learning to let go of the way we think our life should go and better accept the way it is. This doesn't mean we give up on our hopes and dreams, rather it gives space for acceptance, patience and perseverance to better grow. Often with God, we need to learn to let go, in order to receive so much more!
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This weeks message is all about learning to let go of the way we think our life should go and better accept the way it is. This doesn't mean we give up on our hopes and dreams, rather it gives space for acceptance, patience and perseverance to better grow. Often with God, we need to learn to let go, in order to receive so much more!
Listen today, to discover why reaching your goals has been so hard, and why most likely you have been going about it all wrong. Backwards even. And you are not alone, all of us have been caught trying to reach our goals in this way. But if you want to build the right habits, you have to set the right kinds of goals.
Once you have created a clear vision for your life, the next step is to create the systems in your life that will create that vision for your life. As James Clear teaches in his book, Atomic Habits, "You don't rise to your goals, you fall to your systems." Listen today to learn how to create the systems that will support the life you want to create!
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In our last personal growth episode that I will share before the coming new year, we'll look at how to overcome the number one thing that stops personal growth and development every year. And this unseen force is found in two little words... "I Can't." When we learn to embrace "I can't" as a part of what helps us get to "I Can", those negative thoughts and experiences become stepping stones, and a kind of fuel that can propel us to where we want to be.
In today's episode on personal growth and development, we are going to revisit a topic and principle that is at the heart of any and all success. We always see the loud, exciting, and observable results of success, but often fail to see the quiet, mundane, and more difficult to observe moments that lead to it. Your successes this year, won't be found in the accomplishments of your big goals and dreams, but in the quiet moments each day that will lead to them...one day and one moment at a time. Success is always accomplished quietly.
In today's episode on personal growth and development, we are gong to focus on understanding more about how our mind's work and how much like a muscle it really is. I'll share how similar developing mental strength is to developing physical strength. The reason so many New Years resolutions fail to take hold can be found in coming to understand this principle about the human mind.
In todays top episode on personal growth and development, we are going to focus on shifting your thinking from Having things and Doing things this year to Being things. So that through Being, the Do's and the Have's will take care of themselves. It's a total shift in thinking for most of us, but one that will help set the tone for some incredible growth this coming new year!
In today's top episode on personal growth and development, I'm choosing the episode that started it all, episode 1. The Destination is the Journey. We need to be reminded of this often. The growth, the happiness and the development we seek and want for ourselves this coming year will be better found in the journey we take than it ever will be found in the destinations we make.
In our last Christmas episode, I’ll share a few thoughts about how, although Christmas is coming to an end, not to let it come to an end in your life. Christmas isn’t mean to be a single day lived, but a way to live every single day. The challenge for us is to make sure that Christmas does endure.
In today’s Christmas episode, I’m simply going to share a few life lessons to be learned from the Christmas decoration that holds the most central place in our homes during the Christmas season…and that’s a Christmas Tree.
In today’s Christmas episode, I’ll share a few thoughts about what More Christ can do, not only at Christmas time, but all the time, to see what we need to see and over come the blindness that is so prevalent in the world today. He continues, even today, to give sight to the blind.
In todays Christmas Episode, I’ll share a few thoughts about feeling alone and experiencing pain during Christmas time. For many Christmas isn’t the most wonderful time of the year…but it doesn’t mean it can’t become that…sometimes it just takes working through our pain and getting to the other side of it, which once there we might just find it can become one of our greatest assets.
In today episode, I’ll share a brief message about the best Christmas gift we can give to ourselves…the gift that will bring us the greatest happiness and the most joy…and here’s a hint, it’s not anything new.
In today’s episode, I’ll share a few Christmas thoughts about the roll Santa plays in Christmas and how to bring more Christ into the symbol that he can be for all of us…I love Santa Clause…but I love him even more because he has helped me to see Christ better in Christmas.
In todays Episode, I’m going to share a few thoughts about one of my favorite words that is emphasized in the movie The Polar Express and the word is “BELIEVE.” One of the greatest attributes we can develop and one of the greatest hearts we can have. A believing heart is what children have…and if you want to learn about what it means to believe…just watch children during the Christmas season.
In today’s episode, I’ll share a few thoughts about the greatest gift you can give your kids this Christmas and that is you! They will remember far longer the time you spent with them than what you gave to them. More Christ at Christmas time, equates to more time being given during Christmas to those you love. Just ask Howard Langston in the Movie Jingle All The Way. It’s Turbo Time!
In todays episode, We’ll look more in depth into one of my most favorite symbols of Christmas…the Christmas Star. This star teaches some of the most powerful lessons a person can learn about the God behind it’s creation…as well as how to see the stars placed in our lives just for us, to help us find our way to him. And finally how to be that star for others!
Todays episode center’s around one of my favorite Christmas phrases and reminders…”Wise Men Still Seek Him” Today, I’ll share a thought about what that looks like in both Christmas and in life, and where Christ is most likely to be found for all of those that are seeking him…and we’ll use Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol to do it!
In today’s episode I’ll share a few thoughts about the symbols of Christmas…we may see all the lights, the trees, the wreaths, the candles, the candy canes, the stars, the bells, and even Santa…but do we really see the symbols that they are, what they represent and what they can teach? One way we can see more Christ in Christmas is to see Christ more in the symbols of Christmas.
In today’s episode I’ll share with you one of my favorite metaphors from the Christmas Nativity story…that of the Innkeeper. One of the best lessons we can learn about Christmas and life comes from the simple line that Luke tells us was the state of the inns in Bethlehem and that was “and there was no room for them in the inn.” I hope that is a statement that will never be said of the inn that we keep!
In todays episode, I’ll share a thought about what it means to be a good receiver. I think we all know how to give but how to receive might be a little more difficult. The advantage we have at Christmas time, is that there is plenty of opportunities to learn how to be both!
In this episode, I’ll share a favorite thought from another classic Christmas move…A Charlie Brown Christmas…and how important it is once we learn what Christmas and life is really all about to share it with those around us, those trying to understand what’s missing from their life and why happiness seems to be eluding them. Christmas wouldn’t have changed for Charlie Brown, had Linus not been able to tell him what he did.
In today’s episode, I’ll share a favorite Christmas thought from the 1970 classic TV movie, Santa Clause is Comin to Town. It’s a thought at the center of what Christmas is all about, a thought about how to really change. If the winter warlocks icy heart can melt than so can ours at times and others as well…we just need to be reminded of how.
In today’s episode, I’ll introduce you to Fred Clause, Santa’s older brother…bet you didn’t know Santa has an older brother. In this classic Christmas movie we’re taught a valuable lesson about how Christmas or more Christ can help us to look at each other. To see each other for what we can become, instead of all that we are not. To see the best in each other, instead of the worst…to understand why there are no naughty children.
In this Christmas edition Episode, I’ll share the true story of World War 2 Navy Sailor Lee W. Maloy and the Christmas Miracle he experienced while at see making his way home to the United States on Christmas Eve in 1944. A story that perfectly illustrates exactly what Christmas or more Christ can do, even between the worst of enemies.
In today’s Christ-Mas episode…I’ll discuss the value of a simple true selfless act and what can happen as a result of it. It’s a concept taken and taught powerfully in the movie Klaus on Netflix. It has become one of my most favorite Christmas movies for me and my kids because of how it inspires us to be better. In today’s episode, I’ll also announce our Christmas project that we’ll be doing to reach as many people as we can with a Christmas message of hope, of appreciation and of love.
In today’s episode I’ll share one of my most favorite principles about Christmas and how to get the most of Christmas, by letting go of what Christmas isn’t. Unbeknown to the Grinch, by removing all that Christmas wasn’t, he helped bring about all that Christmas was. Sometimes the greatest gift we can give ourselves at Christmas time is less not more.
In our first Christ-Mas Episode or More Christ Episode of the season, I'll share the secret to having a great Christmas and a true story about an incredible secret Santa that illustrates this point. Start asking yourself this question as you move into the holidays and the holidays will move you!
Day 9 of our 10 days of Gratitude leading up to Thanksgiving. Listen today as I'll we conclude our 10 days of Get Grateful series, with a story and lesson surrounding the wonderful blessing we all have access to, simply called grace…It’s through grace we can access God’s power in our lives to change and no time of year can it be accessed more easily than during Christmas! I’ll also share a few changes coming to the podcast for the month of December!
Day 9 of our 10 days of Gratitude leading up to Thanksgiving. Listen today as I'll share with you one of my favorite stories about learning to see life correctly and to better develop grateful eyes. There are so many in this world that can see but who are blind to gratitude and so many that are blind that when it comes to gratitude can see more clearly than most. Which are you?
Day 8 of our 10 days of Gratitude leading up to Thanksgiving. Listen today as I'll share with you the true story of a Platoon sergeant during world war 2 and the Thanksgiving Miracle that happened to him and how that miracle was tied to his mother’s love. Of all of the things that we can express gratitude for during Thanksgiving, near the top of everyone’s list should be our mother’s or those who have been mother like to us in life.
Day 7 of our 10 days of Gratitude leading up to Thanksgiving. Listen today as I’ll share a story about the importance of simply having a hand to hold. Sometimes the most important thing we can give someone is simply ourselves. In todays episode, I’ll share a short story about a young kid named Douglas and what a hand that he drew for Thanksgiving meant to him.
Day 6 of our 10 days of Gratitude leading up to Thanksgiving. Listen today as I’ll share the true story of a man named John Kralik and how his life was changed through a simple gesture of giving thanks every day for 365 days. And how you can incorporate this simple gesture into your own life to change it for the better as well.
Day 5 of our 10 days of Gratitude leading up to Thanksgiving. Listen today as I’ll share the true story of Anthony Hinton, a man who was sent to prison for 30 years for a crime he didn’t commit, and how he was able to overcome the hatred and bitterness of what was lost and taken from him by finding things to be grateful for even in a prison. The most difficult times to be grateful are also the most important times to be grateful.
Day 4 of our 10 days of gratitude leading up to Thanksgiving. Listen today as I’ll share with you a story about a refugee from Russia that came to the United States with very little other than the American Dream of having more than they did, only to find that happiness doesn’t come from having more, but learning to be content with less. Her story can help all of us looking for happiness know better where to find it.
Day 3 of our 10 days of Gratitude leading up to Thanksgiving. Listen today for a true Thanksgiving story that will inspire you to give more of what you have, even when you are in need of more. The blessings that come from giving to others far outweigh the cost associated with whatever we give. With gratitude, the more we give, the more we receive.
Day 2 of our Day Days of Gratitude leading up to Thanksgiving. Listen today to be reminded of how thankfulness and gratitude is also an expression of faith!
Day 1 of our 10 days of Gratitude leading up to Thanksgiving. Today listen to be reminded of why gratitude is the starting place of all other virtues and why it is so needed in the world today!
It's human nature to travel great distances to see amazing things in nature or that have been made by man, while forgetting to appreciate those things that are right in our own back yard. The more we take time to appreciate what is all around us, the more content we will become with where we are!
Is it possible to even become grateful for the hard and challenging parts of life? Many that have passed through them would tell you it is...how can we become grateful not only for the good, but also for the bad? Listen today to find out.
We've all heard about living "IN" gratitude, but have you heard of what it means to live "FROM" gratitude? Listen today, to learn how to have one of the best days of your life!
A simple thought to help us not necessarily change our circumstances, but absolutely change our experiences.
The answers to finding joy in life, can't be found in having it all, but in being grateful for what we have...
Sometimes, we can see best how blessed we are in dim light than in bright light. Sometimes our blessing are best realized when we consider what we didn't have more than what we do have. Listen today to understand why!
In one of my most important episodes I've ever done, we'll explore the science behind why gratitude is so important to practice as well has how it has helped me personally. Gratitude has been so impactful in my life that each day throughout the month of November I will share a thought, principle or story about it.
Here we go again! You guys ready to do this? Can't wait to deliver more pies, more thank you notes, and more gift cards to those working away from their family and friends on Thanksgiving so we can better get to ours. It's time to Give Thanks for Gas Again!
Quick story today about how to turn our challenges, discouragements and disappointments into the stepping stones that will take us to better places, and better things!
Is today's episode a trick or a treat...I guess you'll have to decide. Happy Halloween Everyone!
While it's been said that comparison is the thief of all joy, there is at least one comparison that can actually bring joy. It is the one comparison we should do and do often. Listen today how to feel better about what you have done, by comparing it to what someone else has done!
Ever wondered why someone came into your life only to leave it later...have you ever been hung up on a person who left in a way you didn't want them to. Listen today to better allow for people to come and go from our life the way they were meant to and you'll be able to better let your life unfold the way it was meant to.
What does it take to be a finisher? And why is it so easy to start something, but so hard to finish it. It just might surprise you to find out what the difference is between those that see something all the way through as opposed to those who give up. Listen today to learn more about how to finish better what you start!
When it comes to hurt there's only one way to heal it, we have to feel it...the only way to make the pain go away for good is to go through it. By avoiding it, we avoid the very thing we need to get better.
We all have battles we are fighting...but the greatest battle we will ever fight, is a battle that we are all fighting together...a battle that can't be won by imposing one's will but only by surrendering one's will. Listen today, to learn the value of surrendering!
I love this statement as it can help us learn to distinguish between those things that matter most and those things that don't matter. We all are susceptible to being drawn toward things that glitter...but just because something glitters doesn't always make it gold!
Sometimes you just need to know that your dad is close, that he is showing up on time for you, whether it's picking you up from school or picking you up in life...Today is a reminder that God is closer than we think...and although at times we may wonder where he is...I believe if we ask him, he will let us know that he is not just there but he is here!
Although life can be incredible complex, what is needed to sustain life isn't. God is sending us a message in the way life was designed about how to live life as well. The answers to living a complex life are not complex at all...they are beautifully simple.
Listen today to learn what fire walking has to do with the power you have inside you to do amazing things! It's not about what lies behind you or what lies in front of you, but it's about what lies within you!
Have you ever felt fear from events happening in your life that were beyond your ability to control. Have you ever felt fear from the unknown? Have you ever felt fear from chaos in life. Listen today to help you to better choose faith over fear in these moments. Listen today to better remind yourself that there is always order in the chaos.
This is question I hope no one ever asks themselves...but clearly it's a question that more and more people are asking themselves and so my hope is that you'll listen today to find out the answer that will last a lifetime!
Today's Throwback Thursday episode is a reminder of just how to get to where we want to go and what it will take to get there. And especially what it will take to get ourselves out of some of the pits we find ourselves in life.
Today's episode is all about developing consistency, possibly one of the most important and influential concepts we can learn in life. Consistency isn't just a key that opens a door, it's the key that opens every door.
Today is for all of those times we felt like giving up, or giving in...all of those times the pain, disappointment, and discouragement have caused us to want to quit something that we once loved...we need to be reminded of this principle in order to keep moving forward and that if we do quit something, we quit it for the right reasons.
Have you ever felt as if you were just going through the motions? That life was directing you, instead of you directing it. Listen today to learn about the calf path, and most importantly how to start walking the path you were meant to take.
Today's episode is not about the kind of bell that would save a bunch of high school students with names like, Zach and Kelly, AC Slater, Jessie, Lisa and Screetch...but the kind of bell that can save everyone! A bell that I hope we will choose to follow and one that at times we will be asked to lead with...the bell of a bellwether.
In today's Throwback Thursday episode, we'll take a look at some of the basic principles for developing faith, principles that if there was an introduction to faith section taught by God, these most likely would be included in His instruction. No matter where you are in developing faith, it never can hurt to return to the basics!
One of the most basic decisions that each of us will face often in our lives is not so much the choice between what is right and what is wrong...or choosing between good and evil...very few of us knowingly want to do what's wrong...the challenge for us comes in choosing between what is right and what is easy.
In one of the most common sayings among those seeking to become elite navy seals..."Everyone wants to be a frogman on Friday" is a reminder to not overlook the process it takes to get to where we want to go...and to mentally do everything we can to prepare for the journey...otherwise, we might just find ourselves ringing the bell of "I quit" and "I can't!"
In finding our way through life, there are some great lessons to be learned from the migration of the monarch butterfly! Particularly, how much stronger we are together on this journey than we will ever be apart!
There are many different roads in life you can take...but the road you take only matters if you have a destination in mind...if you know where you want to go, then it's important to understand the road that it will take to get there. In other words, if the destination matters, then the road must matter...because it's the road that leads to the destination.
In today's Throwback Thursday Episode, we'll revisit one of my earliest episodes, and episode titled "Don't Judge Me!" None of us like the idea of being judged, because most of the time we are misjudged, however by following these 4 key principles we can learn to judge more like God does...with a little more mercy and a little less condemnation.
When it comes to parent time with children it seems we are always trying to find more time to do more...however new studies are beginning to show that it's not so much about the amount of time as it is about the quality of time spent with kids that makes the biggest difference...That when it comes to parenting, instead of more equaling more, in the right context, less can actually equal more!
We are often told don't settle as if settling is a bad thing? In the endless pursuit of more, ironically it's settling for what is enough that will lead us to get more out of life...But what is enough? Listen to this episode to help you figure that out for yourself!
Today, I want to help you consider the potential impact of the various environments we find ourselves in. Yes we can influence our environments, but our environments can also influence us. In many situations, all it takes is improving an environment to improve our lives!
Today I'm combining two of my favorite things...personal growth and personal popcorn, into one and the same thing...because they kind of are. Life lessons from popcorn coming at you today, so grab a chair and a bowl of...yep, popcorn!
It's becoming pretty clear that the only form of control left when it comes to evil and addictive influences in this world is that of self control. Listen today to find out how to better become the master over these influences in your life, instead of the servant. By the way we all have an addictive nature to some degree or another.
The best mindset we can develop is one that moves us to compete every single day. This is the same mindset of Olympic athletes, who recognize that the Olympics aren't every four years...they are every day!
Today, is about trying to feel what others are feeling...to learn how to better practice empathy, to help others feel better. Not everything needs to be fixed, sometimes a person just needs to feel it, to heal it...and empathy allows you to feel it and heal it with them.
Nothing is more potentially damaging to us physically, mentally, emotionally or spiritually then experiencing a lack of vision. As one scripture reads..."Where there is no vision, the people perish." Listen today to learn how to best maintain and protect the vision you need to have to be successful both professionally and personally.
Of the all the qualities we can work on developing, the quality of resilience needs to be near the top of our list. With as hard as life can be, without resilience, we will struggle to get back up, to keep moving forward and to finish the fight. It's not about how many times you get knocked down, but about how many times you get back up that makes the difference in the end.
In today's throwback Thursday episode, you will be reminded about how to make the biggest difference in others lives, through the smallest of acts. It's the little things we do, that often have the largest ripple affect in the world and in someone's life.
There is something in each of us that desires to leave a part of ourselves behind...and truth is no matter what we do, a part of us will be left behind. Listen today for ways to make sure what you leave behind, is the best of you!
One of the first words most of us learned as a child was no...and it has been a protection to us ever since, however the best way to live life, won't found by saying no, it'll be found more in saying yes! Listen today for 9 ways that saying yes will change your life!
We all struggle with feelings of being enough...but that is because we are listening to the wrong messages of what are saying is required to be enough. Listen today to better understand why you are not just enough...you are more than enough!
Today's episode is for those times in life when you feel that the rain will never stop, that the storm will never pass...that obstacles will never be over come. Sometimes in those moments we need to be reminded, that trouble is always temporary!
Listen today for principles and tools to help when your life doesn't follow the preconceived blueprints that you had in mind for it. There's not one of us, who's life will go exactly the way we think it should, the trick is knowing what to do when they don't!
Listen today, to be reminded of the value of playing the long game in many of the important facets of life, like relationships, health and finances. The best things in life are often found in the passage of time and by giving up something you want now for something better later.
Listen today, to better understand how to heal what is hurting in another person. Sometimes what needs to be said the most, won't come from the words that leave your mouth, but from the arms that pull another close to your heart.
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Listen today to help better look at those periods you feel trapped, confined and stuck not so much as the prisons they feel like, but as the cocoons they most often are!
Of all the things that are helpful and worth remembering, listen today for why remembering the love, is the most important of them all!
Listen today to find out how just 5 more minutes can be the most important 5 minutes you spend all day!
One of the greatest medicines we can take for life's challenges and problems is connection. We are wired for connection and have been from the day we were born. Unfortunately we tend to isolate when we need to connect the most. Listen today to better understand why connection is often the answer and how to best cultivate it.
Doing something that you love shouldn't just be something you want to do, it's actually something you need to do...and science can prove it! Listen today for ideas and principles to help you make sure you don't let another day go by without doing something you love!
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Do you see a thorns in a rose bush, or roses in thorns? How you answer that question can make all the difference in how you see life. Listen today, to better understand how you can see that every thorn has it's rose.
While we all want a life of Option A's, we all will live a life full of many Option B's...It's up to us when those moments come, to make the most of them, in which we may just find that Option B was the right option all along!
In today's episode we revisit the power that words can have to create positive things and experiences or negative ones...we should treat what we say as if every word will either build or destroy what we are directing them towards, because the truth is...they do!
In life plateaus can work for us, or against us. The can be a chance to catch our breath before our next climb, or a comfort that will keep us where we are, instead of moving forward. The key is to identify, if we are catching breath, or cultivating comfort. We are wired for comfort but also wired for growth, fulfillment in life is found or lost in which part of us overrides the other!
In a world where we are bombarded every day with advertisements that show what we are lacking, it's no wonder so many of us feel less than. However we can start our own advertising campaign, a campaign that focuses on all that we have and are, and in so doing change our mindset from a mindset of scarcity to mind set of abundance!
Today we'll explore ways to make life more light and less serious and hopefully come to see seriousness for what it is...a disease of the ego!
Today we're looking at how to bring about more miracles in our lives. If there is a formula for learning about everything else and bringing them about in our lives, why would it not be the same with miracles? In fact it is, and today we'll look at one of the main components of bringing about miracles.
Today, I'm sharing my most downloaded episode! However I think the downloads have more to do with the title than anything. I think we all have things we wish we could change about ourselves...today my hope is, especially at the start of the school year, to remind us that we are enough just as we are!!
Today is about running the race of life, which honestly is a marathon and rarely a sprint...and the key to any long distance run is endurance. Whatever you are going through, tune in today, to learn what long distance runners do to run the grueling races they do and how to better apply those things to the marathon's of life that are put before us to run.
Today, let's try to change your view of food just a little...sometimes just a little change in what we eat and our diets can lead to a huge return in our overall health. Sometimes we can forget that our energy, our will power and our brain, those things most responsible for growth, inspiration and success in life are fueled by what we put in our mouth!
Today is for all of those of us that have a tendency to avoid certain things, instead of confronting them...wait isn't that most of us? If this has been you don't avoid today's episode! The things we avoid by themselves not carry much weight but together can cause things within us to break!
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How can we ever expect to achieve the highest levels of success we hope to achieve without being ok to also experience the lowest levels of failure...you really can't have one with out the other...without the power of failure, there can be no real success. Failure when seen in the right light, can become one of life's greatest teachers.
Today is a simple reminder that it isn't as much that "there's no place like home", as it is that "there's no place like wherever the people are that I love most"...everything else is just static.
If you have ever struggled with feeling good enough or accepting yourself and loving yourself as you are...listen to the story of Amanda Mammana...you might just find the inspiration you need to live more authentically and to see yourself as being good enough!
What is the secret to a deep and meaningful relationship? It's not as complicated as we sometimes make it out to be, in fact for many...following the rule of 2-2-2 has been all that's been needed after falling in love, to stay in love.
If you are like me, you lose things all the time, and after looking for a while without finding something, it can be easy to feel like it's gone...In life we lose things sometimes that are very painful to lose but we must always remember that something that is lost isn't gone, that there is a difference...because something that is lost can still be found.
Today's message is about one of the most life changing truths we can come to know in this life...a truth that can remove just about every fear we might experience in life. A truth that is foundational to living the kind of life we want to live and have the confidence that will see us through anything.
A Special Throw Back Thursday Episode today for several reasons...this has always been one of my most favorite one's that I've put together and now it has become even more special to me after the events of this past week. Listen today to learn how to better face the storms of life!
Today is the about the ONLY word that can help someone when there are NO OTHER words that can. (A Tribute to Teren - We Love and Miss You)
Two great truths to remind yourself today of when it comes to the feeling of despair...First we must try to identify it's source and second we must take the necessary action to change it. Listen today to discover the greatest source of despair and the greatest thing you can do to disperse the clouds that are causing a lack of light in your life.
Although a phrase that we have heard often...it's not enough to see or even hear the words...but when you see it in action that's what motivates and inspires you...and you never know when you might see this principle in action. It could happen even while you are sitting in the Apple Store waiting for your phone to get fixed!
One of the simplest solutions to help you move forward and make progress in any area of your life, is the old tried an true principle of tracking everything associated with your success or failure. The more you track, the more you see, the better you see, the more you can adjust, and it's those little adjustments that make all the difference between success and failure, growth, and lack of growth, making progress or remaining stuck.
I LOVE music and chances are you do as well. One thing I've learned over the years about music is that it has a real palpable power to influence thoughts, feelings and even actions. As someone once said, with great power comes great responsibility. Today I'd invite you to consider how responsible are you being with the power of music in your own life?
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The secret to happiness will never be found in how much you get...but in how much you give...Listen today for a few stories that will remind you of this truth and hopefully inspire you to give a little more.
Just a quick thought today, to help you see the messes your kids make a little bit different than you did before...instead of seeing them as something you have to clean up, by the end I hope you will see them as things you get to clean up!
This beautiful Hawaiian practice and prayer holds one of the keys and reasons why the Islanders of Hawaii are such a kind, loving, laid back and happy people. It is a practice that if we can learn and adopt can bring possibly the best part of Hawaii into our lives!
As one pioneer recorded about their journey across the plains... "To lighten up at the outset was our salvation." Many of the problems we experience in life are because we are trying to carry too much, do too much, have too much. There is great peace, strength, endurance, and happiness that can be found when we practice simplicity and reduction in our life's journey.
Today's Throwback Thursday episode is about learning to navigate the peaks and valleys in life. The good times and the bad, the ups and the downs. How to develop a "give me this mountain" mindset!
According to German Philosopher Nietzsche He had a formula for greatness in a human being that he simply referred to as Amor Fati...I've come to see it as one of the great abilities we can develop over our lives. Listen today to find out what it is!
One of the lessons I learned while backpacking over this past weekend was the value of certain things that could help you find out where you are in relation to where you want to be. Things to help you find your way when you get lost. Here are a few principles to help guide you so you can stay on the right course.
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If we were as concerned about the plague of pornography half as much as we were about the plague of Covid 19, so many problems would begin to be solved...instead the silent killer that is pornography continues it's march through society...leaving death in its wake every where it goes. Destroying homes, marriages, families as individuals...slowly rotting the foundation of our society from the inside out...just like a pine beetle.
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Desperation isn't always a bad thing, in fact it can be a gift, as it often means that change is just around the corner...maybe we ought to provide a little more room and acceptance for desperation in our own lives as well as in the lives of those we love. Some times our efforts to rescue and save, if we are not careful, might get in the way of the one who is meant to carry the title of Savior.
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In today's Throwback Thursday Episode, we'll revisit some vital principles to follow when it comes to making decisions correctly...principles that if you will follow, will help you make not just good choices, but some of the best decisions of your life!
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Yep that's right, today's episode is inspired by a little movie called Remember the Titans, and how we can all better reach for love, before we reach for hate...
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It's human nature to try to grow differently than nature...maybe we've been being taught the correct way to grow all along from nature, a way that is different then human nature, a way that helps us overcome the need to be seen, and can help us learn to be enough just as we are.
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While it's common for us to hide our weaknesses, until we can learn to accept them and start seeing them as the gifts they are, can we begin, through God's power, to turn them into some of our greatest strengths.
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Remember that old manual transmission you used to drive...learning when and how to shift gears was everything when it came to keeping that car moving smoothly...well the same is true of life...sometimes your gears need to shift up or down depending on the situation you are in...The key is like with driving a manual transmission, is in the timing. Listen to day for more life lessons from driving a manual transmission as well as a shift in gears that is coming for the Daily Drive Podcast!
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In today's Throwback Thursday Episode, we'll look at principles that can help us overcome fear and move more towards the light and those places where we feel safe. The irony is, they aren't places we can find outside of us, but places we can find inside of us.
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What can you do when life doesn't go your way? When happiness is lost? Listen today to be reminded of a key principle that you can use in any situation whenever the winds of change find you and push you in a direction you never intended to go.
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Today's episode can be a hard truth to swallow, but empowering to the soul! If there is something you don't like in your life or relationships, the first place to look is you and if you are tolerating it!
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Happy 4th of July!! As we celebrate the spirit of freedom today...my hope and message is to remember where our freedom comes from and how to best defend it. God has marked the path to help us not only find our way to him, but to find our way to greater freedom. The spirit of God is the spirit of freedom!
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A few more great stories, to help illustrate the power and gift that freedom can be. We are free to make of our lives what we want to make of them. If it's to be...it's up to me!
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In today's Throwback Thursday Episode, we'll look at an aspect of freedom we don't always look at...the aspect that teaches that when it comes to our freedom, sometimes less is more...that some of our greatest freedoms can be found in restriction.
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Three short patriotic stories today! As we commemorate the Spirit of Freedom.
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The Problem and the Miracle
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The First Hero
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It Touched the Sky
Sometimes the longest way around, is the shortest way home...this is a principle that can help each one of us better get from where we are to where we want to be. If you've ever felt like you are hitting your head against a wall with anything...today just might help you figure out your next step.
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Today, I'm sharing a part of a talk that I gave in Church yesterday all about how to face the modern day Goliaths that will at times enter our lives, trying to strike fear and doubt in us. The pattern for overcoming them has already been given, we just have to follow it!
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In my 365th episode, I'll discuss the value of doing something everyday...although it sounds counter intuitive, doing something daily, is actually easier than doing something only a few days a week. Listen today, to find out why!
In today's Throwback Thursday episode, we'll look at a principle that this world is in desperate need of, that we all can do better at adopting in our homes and communities. A principle that can help us build with instead of tear down...a principle that can help us put our rocks down, instead of throwing them at each other.
Today's message is all about finding the strength to hang in there, but there will be times where that is about all we can do. As an example if you've ever experienced your home flooding once or seven times, you'll know what I mean!
Today I'm going to share a story a good friend shared with me about an apple tree and the importance of time and the roll of patience. Whatever you are trying to grow in your personal life, there is a principle in today's message that is just for you!
I think it was Westly from Princess Bride that said..."Life is pain." and he wouldn't be entirely wrong...pain is a part of life as much as anything...those that can learn to accept this and even embrace it, are better able to keep moving forward as they recognize the value of the pain they experience.
Happy Fathers Day Weekend everyone! I have two episodes on what it means to being a father. Today is episode 127 Elephants and Dads...and then come back on Father's Day for Ep. 100 The Dad Difference!
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In today's throwback Thursday episode, I'll share a few principles to consider when your life takes a wrong turn and that can with God's help, take even the worst wrong turns still get you to the right place!
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Like it or not, we will make a difference in the lives of those that come into our lives...the question that is yet to be answered is what kind difference will be made. The principles taught in this episode will help you make a difference for good!
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No matter where you are in your life, today's episode is about believing that it's never too late to get to where you want to be...Just ask Colonel Sanders!
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In life there are so many similarities between the way children build things and the way we as adults build things, but there is one difference that can make all the difference in the way we experience in anything we build...and the secret is found in learning to build like a child does.
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Have you ever felt tired from the responsibilities of life. Ever thought about how much happier you'd be living a life of comfort and ease...have you ever found yourself questioning if it was worth it. Today, I want to share with you why it is worth it! Why a life of comfort and ease isn't worth it. And how to develop the resolve to keep going, to keep fighting, and to not come down from the great work you are doing!
Listen today to better understand why when things feel like the are falling apart, they might actually be falling into place. Developing the ability to see the good in the bad, to look for the silver linings, is one of the best things we can train our minds to do!
Science has shown that those that have less typically give more...today, we'll discuss a few principles to help us learn to give more instead of less...because happiness is found in building a bigger table, not taller walls.
Flak is what WW2 bomber pilots would call the tracer rounds and exploding shells that would fill the sky on their bombing runs and would always be a sign they were on the right course and approaching the target...Ironically it's the flak in life that will help you to know the same thing about the course you are on and the targets you want to hit!
One of the great stories in the Old Testament can teach us so much about how to get from where we are to where we want to be, while overcoming any seemingly impossible obstacle that stands in our way. Listen today to learn these principles for yourself.
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One last thought to close out the week. And it is, can you guess what the shortest distance is between two people? And how to best bridge that distance in any of your relationships. Well, listen today to find out!
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Have you ever felt like you just wanted to give up, lay down, quit the fight...sometimes the challenges we face can sure cause us to feel that way. Today I want to share with you a couple reasons why you and I should keep fighting!
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You've heard the phrase you are the average of the 5 people you spend the most time with...well the truth is, you are influenced by a lot more than just 5...we need to be aware of every person that we associate with, and even those they associate with...science is beginning to show that we are impacted not only by those we know, but even by those we don't.
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Fires aren't always a bad thing, in fact they are a natural part of the growth process, without them, forests and other terrains can accumulate too much of that which is dead and cause even bigger problems. The same is true of us, at times we need to let our own deadwood burn.
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As we take time to remember those that have passed on from us, we can connect better with them and ourselves. There is a power that we can access as we remember and honor those we love. Those that have died fighting for us and that continue to fight for us still. Our loved ones are closer than we think and more involved in our lives than we realize.
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Life is meant to be an adventure...so let's make it adventurous. Today we'll talk about how to do that in our personal lives and with our families...It will always involve getting out of our comfort zones, because adventure is found in the new.
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With all of the terrible events in the world and in our own lives, it can be so easy to question if God is there, or at the least if He really cares...In God We Trust...isn't just a statement etched onto our money, it's a question that each of us will have to ask ourselves during difficult times. Our forefathers have passed on their answer as best as they could to future generations and to each of us...and that answer is a resounding YES!
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Age isn't just a number, it also is an indicator of experience. Gaining experience is one of the main reasons we are here. We can always gain experience for ourselves, but we can also learn from the experience of others, especially those that are a little further down the road than we are.
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Just a couple of quick stories to remind you of how to go big in any area of your life...that you won't go big by going big, but you actually go big by going small...because the big is in the small.
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There is gold in every single one of us, we just have to develop the eyes to see it. And sometimes the breaking moments that we go through are meant to help us both to see and to find the treasure that was inside us all along.
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When you are hurt by another, do you hold on to anger, and resentment or have you developed the ability to let it go? What you ultimately decide to do, is what will make all the difference in how you respond and the impact it will have on your life. The principles and stories in today's episode will help you move more towards forgiving and forgetting instead of remembering and reminiscing. A choice to live and love, instead of hurt and hate.
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There are times to defend ourselves and there are times to turn the other cheek. Todays episode is about learning which is right at the right time, and how to avoid many of the conflicts that bring the pain of war into our lives.
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Did you know there's an even better rule by which to live your life than the "Golden Rule"? There is, and it's called the "Platinum Rule."
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Just a principle today to help you evaluate where you are spending your time and how you can better leave behind the nets of the world that are so easily to get tangled up in, and instead choose to Follow Christ as he asks each of us to "Follow Him."
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Today, we'll take a look at a fundamental principle that will help you best move towards fulfilling your purpose and the reason you were created. You were not made to be acted upon but to act!
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The principles in today's episode will help you better sleep when the wind is blowing from storms in your life both figuratively and literally. There are certain choices that we can make that can prepare us for the challenges that will come as a part of life's experience.
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In today's Throwback Thursday episode, I'll share a few thoughts and principles to help you decide for yourself, if we live in a friendly universe or a hostile universe...the answer of which might just help you to believe that everything happens for good!
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When is the last time you were told to be quiet? And aside from having your ego hurt, can you see any reasons as to why, you were told this? In a world where silence is seen more and more as awkward, and something to avoid...we need to develop the ability to be more quiet, to seek out silence. Because the quieter we are, the more we will hear.
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Today's message is an opportunity to reflect on where you are and where you want to go and try to identify if there might be anything that is holding you back. The more we can get out of our comfort zone's the more we'll find opportunities to fly!
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Have you ever wanted to change someone's behavior? Today's episode contains a few principles and thoughts to help bring about change in those we love and want to help.
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Throwback Sunday - To Mothers. There is no title that more closely approaches the Savior than that that of mother.
Happy Mothers Day everyone!
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In today's message, we'll look back at a lesson from a world renown violinist, Josh Bell, playing incognito, near a subway station and what happened as over a 1000 passengers disembarked and passed by him on their way to work or wherever else they were going. It's a wonderful reminder to us all, to at times stop and listen to the music.
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In today's Throwback Thursday episode we're going to look at the adage that "I can do hard things." but change one word in it so that it reads "I must do hard things." The reason we must do hard things is so that we can grow...because in order for growth to happen there must be vulnerability.
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Today, we're going to visit one of the best songs in Encanto, that no one is really talking about. The song is called "Dos Oruguitas" or two caterpillars, and teaches a touching lesson about how to love others, while also allowing individual space apart for us and others to grow.
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Today's episode is all about what we can do to make our home feel more safe...a place where love, and unity can reside. The type of place that if anyone ever had a magic pair of ruby slippers and found themselves in place they didn't want to be, wouldn't hesitate to click their heels together three times or do whatever was needed to get back there...because well, there's simply no place like home.
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Today a quick story to help you better have the eyes to see those around you in need...and the top three things you can do to feel your worth. Also I'm announcing a new initiative to help struggling teenagers call LYFT kits...find out in today's episode, how you can sponsor a LYFT kit today!
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What does it mean to be a powerful woman in the world today? And where does that power come from? Here's a few principles to consider, when it comes to awaking the power of a woman.
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In today's Throwback Thursday Episode, I'll share a few principles to go along with our focus this week on getting along better with others, principles to help avoid contention in our relationships. Principles to help avoid conflict and war between those we know and love and even those we don't!
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In our final episode about how to better get along with others and improve our relationships, we'll take a look at the most important principle of all. A principle that encapsulates every other principle we have looked at as a part of this series. A principle that if followed will lead to growth and development in our relationships with others or if neglected will lead to the eventual disintegration of our relationships...make no mistake about it, We are in the End Game now!
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Although we are all familiar with the phrase, Sticks and stones can be break my bones, but words will never hurt me, the truth is that words can hurt and sometimes even more than sticks and stones can. We have the power in the words we say to help, or hurt, to heal or hinder, to build or destroy...its through our words that relationships are strengthened or weakened. So weight it, before you say it!
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As important as it is to learn to let other be wrong about us, sometimes is just as important to let others be right...when they are right. Criticism though hard to take, can be a gift if we can learn to see it, and receive it that way.
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Racism is a hot button topic today however I believe to cure racism in this country and in people hearts we only need to understand and accept one simple truth. We'll never see past racial differences and where we have each come from until we really see where we each other came from. The cure for racism is a cure for every difference there is in the human race and in any relationship we might have with another person...and one of the biggest key's to becoming one!
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Although it's hard for us to let go of what others think...it can be one of the most freeing experiences we can have...It is a art that is learned over time but an art we can choose to learn...each and every time we push back on those thoughts that try to enslave us to other people's opinions in unhealthy ways.
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Figure out the answer this question and you will have discovered one of the greatest secrets to developing a deeper connection with others and especially with those you most love! Our love for others isn't expressed the strongest through things we love...but often through things we don't love.
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One of the most important principles we can learn and abilities we can develop when it comes to our relationships is the power to forgive. Forgiveness is not just necessary, it's essential for any relationship to develop any lasting connection and depth...It the bridge that leads us to becoming one with both God and others.
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Today's principle for getting along better with those in our lives, is based on the premise that there will be times when we and others simply don't mean what we say...and instead of being so quick to take offense at WHAT was said, it might help to try to understand a little better WHY it was said.
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Just a short Easter message for my listeners today! A reminder that Sunday Will Come! One of my favorite Easter thoughts and thoughts about hope whenever we are going through hard times.
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As a part of our series on principle to help us better get along with others and have better relationships with others, today we'll look at the art of diffusion contention. When conflict arises which is natural and a part of life, we can either escalate it until it turns into contention, or we can learn to diffuse it and keep it from damaging the relationships we have with each other. Today learn how conflict can be an opportunity for growth.
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In today's episode, we'll explore the mindfulness practice of thought conversion and trying on a new thought. It the practice of objectively looking at our thoughts to filter through the fear and lies our subconscious often tells us and get to a place of truth...so we can operate from a place of truth and then convert those thoughts into thoughts that serve us!
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In day 2 of "Be One" our series on how to better get along with others, we'll look at the only thing shorter than I love you that can powerfully impact your relationships yet is sometimes is harder to say. However it may be that these two little words have saved more relationships than the three simple words of "I love you." listen today to be reminded why the words "I'm sorry" are so vital to getting along with someone and to become one with anyone.
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Today we are starting day 1 of our "Be One" series on how to better get along with others...and today we'll look at the significance and impact of just three little words. "I Love You." If you want to know how to better get along with others in your life...this is the best place to start.
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There are not many injunctions given by the Savior more important than to "Be One"...and there isn't a directive that seems more relevant and needed in the world today. However the world is simply a reflection of what is going on in our individual lives, communities and homes...so today we'll discuss how to "become one" with those we love the most.
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Breath is the essence of life...yet how often to we pause long enough to recognize we are breathing, that we are alive. Our breath is what connects us to life and helps bring us back to center...and most of us are only breathing with a third of our capacity to breathe...maybe some of the best changes that can impact our life ought to start with the practice that sustains life, because as Mr. Miyagi said... "No breath, No life."
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This is a question I think we all have asked multiple times in our lives? While there is no definitive answer...I believe I found a part of the answer in a conversation I had with my youngest daughter in talking about something bad that happened to her during the first half of her 5th grade year in elementary school...an answer that can help each of us make more sense of the bad things that happen to us at any age.
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Both science and personal experience proves that we as human's have the capacity to see farther in the dark then we do in the light...well there's a principle in this scientific fact somewhere...most likely designed by the one who created light and dark. The message...maybe we shouldn't be as afraid of the dark in life as we sometimes are...listen today to be reminded why.
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The art of mindfulness is becoming more and more prevalent and recognized in our society...but little attention seems to be placed on one of the most important aspects of mindfulness, which is keeping our thoughts pure. Our minds will be certainly full, but the question is of what? The more pure our thoughts, the more pure our hearts and lives.
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In today's episode I'll share a truth about a skill we can all stand to improve a little in. Making Time For Joy! And I'll offer several simple suggestions on how to best do it.
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In today's Throwback Thursday episode (On Friday) I'll share a thought that I need to hear right now. A thought about trusting both yourself and God enough to sometimes take a step into the dark, before the light will come and the next step will be shown. Those can be hard steps to take, but some of the most rewarding as we experience the rewards of having both faith and courage!
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In today's episode, I'm sharing a little bit about my personal life and a big decision and shift that I am making...and a few principles to hopefully help each one of you go after your dreams whatever they may be, and recognize the value of those people you meet along the way!
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In today's episode, I'll share a few thoughts about how to change the ending's to our life's stories. There is no way we will live a life without any regrets. There will always be things that we wish we could go back and change...but the ending we want won't be found in the choices of the past, but in the choices we make today!
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Well I had to do it, everyone is sharing thoughts about what went down between Will Smith and Chris Rock at the Oscar's over the weekend, and I just wanted to share the lesson that I learned from it. I can give grace to both Will Smith and Chris Rock and allow them to have their own emotions and feelings and to be human and make mistakes...but that doesn't mean I have to follow either of their examples...I believe that there is a better way! To me it's not about who was right and who was wrong, but about what was right and what was wrong.
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In today's episode, I'll share a few thoughts about the art of reconciliation and how to best remove those wedges that can at times come between people. If we want to have a relationship with God, he first requires us to reconcile those damaged relationships in our lives with each other.
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In today's episode, I'll share a thought that is one of the most important life guiding thoughts you will ever hear or be reminded of...something that you can hang your hat on, and that can be an anchor for your life. It's a thought that has seen me through every one of life's storms and the though is this..."Remember that..."
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In today's throwback Thursday episode, I'm going to share again one of my most favorite concepts that I've learned over the past year...the concept of Ubuntu! A concept that can help each of us look more outside ourselves and realize how interconnected we all are. A concept that can remind us that the more we share, the more we have.
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In today's episode, I'm going to share why nobody cares how much you know, and what you need to do before they do, it's a principle that any leader needs to understand whether it's in the home, at work, or in the community...before people care how much you know...they need to know something else first!
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In today's episode, I'll share a thought that forever changed me and the way I saw the mistakes made by others, especially my own children. Today is a reminder that we can help others know God's love for them despite their mistakes, through our love for them in their mistakes.
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Today, we are going to focus on the power that can be found in one simple question, "What Have You Done for Someone Today?" Because the possibilities to help are as endless as the needs around us.
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In today's episode I'll share a few post St. Patrick's Day thoughts on the essence of luck? How to create it and how to recognize the false idea of being unlucky. The truth is "luck" is an equal opportunity lender.
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In today's episode, I'll share a few of the most important life lesson's I've ever learned from one of the most painful experiences of my life. Principles that can help us when those knock out blows from life find their mark, and we find ourselves on the mat and we realize that life definitely isn't all sunshine and rainbows!
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In today's episode, I'll share the principle of crawl, walk, run when it comes to getting all that we want out of life. It is a process that not only did we all have to go through early on in life, but it's a principle that everyone must follow when it comes to just about every facet of life. It's this formula that must be followed for success, for growth and to achieve our hopes and dreams...the trick is learning to be patient enough to move through each phase!
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In today's episode, I'm announcing my LYFT initiative that I'm hoping to roll out to schools across the state and country...anywhere that a school would like to increase the impact of goodness and kindness among their students and community. LYFT stands for lift your fellow teens.
In today's episode, I'm going to share 5 life lessons from the popular Disney Movie Encanto. A wonderful movie that speaks to heart of many of the struggles we all experience in life from living a life of expectation and the fear of being ourselves. Sometimes being a little plain is exactly what we all need!
In today's Throwback Thursday episode, I'm sharing an episode that I needed to hear again...one that reminds us to keep going and not give up when things get hard. Life can be pretty heavy sometimes and you can get pretty tired carrying the load. If you've felt like that at all lately, like I have, then today's episode is for both of us.
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In today's episode, I'll share the metaphor of wolves, sheep, and sheepdogs. I love this metaphor for the kind of person I want to be. The value of a sheepdog is priceless to the sheep and is a rare breed but one that we can all choose to be. But even more important to the sheep than a good sheepdog, is the good shepherd. Oh and wolves can always change! Today's message is all about the power of choice!
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In today's episode, I'll share a powerful thought about the obstacles that we find on the path of our life's journey and how to overcome them, no matter how big they might appear...because it's the obstacle that is the way.
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Getting so close to having something, to winning something, to accomplishing something only to come up short can be a hard pill to swallow, especially if it happens often. Today's message is for those who are struggling to see the results that they want from all they effort they are putting into themselves, their relationships, their business, their spirits or really anything in life...In these moments never forget the growth pattern of the bamboo.
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In today's episode I'm going to share a few thoughts about the war being fought currently in the Ukraine and the similarities between that war and the unseen war that is being waged here in our country, in our homes and in our lives. We can learn a lot from the strength, determination and faith of our Ukraine brothers and sisters!
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In today's Throwback Thursday episode, we'll revisit the concept of changing our story. So many of us get painful stories stuck on repeat in our lives, so much that we become stuck and unable to move forward...Today is about changing that. Taking those stories off of repeat, editing what needs edition and begin to write a new chapter in the greatest story in our lives...the story...of our lives!
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In today's episode I'll share a few thoughts about the relationship between Love and Time...and some of the cutest stories I've heard that can teach us about this relationship. I hope that by giving this episode your TIME, you'll understand the value of LOVE even more.
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In today's episode, I'll share a few thoughts about not just setting goals, but setting goals that work. And how to move away from goals that are based on expectations and an "all or nothing" approach and set goals based on intention and allowing room for life to happen, to celebrate the progress without beating ourselves up over the failures.
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Today I'll share a few thoughts about the paradox that exists between giving and receiving. That in order to get more, we must give more...as well as the science behind why it is more blessed to give than to receive.
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In this special edition of the Daily Drive...I want to share a few thoughts about bullying. How to deal with it and how to protect our kids from it. We may not always be able to stop it from happening, but we can stop it from effecting our kids so much when it does. We can give them the principles, knowledge and tools to deal with it...while also inspiring them to make a difference in their schools, and among their friends. We all have the responsibility to protect each other!
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In today's Throwback Thursday episode, I'll share one of the most important principles that I've learned to hold on to, when it comes to the challenges I've faced and the prayers I've prayed. Prayers that at times have gone unanswered. Yes some of life's greatest gifts are unanswered prayers, but we can't always see that as clearly as Garth did later in his life...until then we need to have the faith that God can answer prayers, but also the faith to say "But if Not" then I will continue to have faith in something bigger that I can't see.
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We are becoming a little too fixated in our society on beauty that is on the outside and missing the beauty that is on the inside. Today I want to share a story and few thoughts to help all of us look a little deeper into each other, to see past the surface and to see the soul...the more we learn to look at people in this way, the more love we will develop for them and the more we'll learn to see them and ourselves as God does.
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What is your fight? We all have one at any given moment...but the more important question is who are you leaning on for support...to whom in your life, is your fight there fight and are you allowing them into the fight with you. It's human nature that when things get hard we withdraw, when we could engage. Asking for help isn't weakness, it's something one does to remain strong!
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In today's episode we'll discuss how to be less afraid of our stories, and the unknown pages ahead and better own them and face them with courage, which Brene Brown said will be the bravest thing we will ever do. Although at times there may feel like there is a monster waiting for us at the end of our story or on the next page as it turns, what we will find might actually surprise us...in that instead of being terrifying it will be wonderful!
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Today's episode is about believing that all things are possible, no matter how impossible things seem. Most of the time it isn't God limiting what he will do, but it is us limiting what he can do. Take off His limits and we take off his gloves...and that is when amazing happens, because that's when amazing grace can be given!
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In today's Throwback Thursday episode, we'll take a look at the most important principle when it comes to finding your person...but don't let the title fool you, today's episode isn't just about finding your person, but how to find them again and again...if you think you've found your person and that was all you needed to do, than you've already lost your person. Finding your person is only the start of keeping your person.
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In today's episode, I'll share one of the best lessons I've learned about how to stay young, gather heaven around me, and access God better in my life...and it's a source that often goes untapped, even though it is staring us straight in the face each and every day...In my opinion it is the closest thing to the fountain of youth that there is.
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Today I'll share a short thought on the value of hard work and getting feedback...and then I'm going to ask you for your feedback. I want you to tell me any ideas, thoughts, or criticisms you have for me and the show. This show is about you, and the only way it get's better is by you telling me how it can be better. So after listening today, please contact me through any o of the methods below, if you have any suggestions that can help!
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In today's episode, we'll celebrate Valentines by sharing a few thoughts about the kind of love we are all looking for and hopefully trying to develop in ourselves and in our relationships...we'll look at the kind of love we all want to feel and experience...a love that is more that what we can find in the world, but a love that is the language of heaven and the kind of love that can bring heaven into our relationships...it's a love that is divine. Divine Love.
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In today's episode, we'll look story of Mikaela Shiffrin from the recent Olympic Games in Beijing and at a metaphor for life that can help make sense of all the ups and downs. I'll also share a few principles to help when you find yourself in the valley's of life...and how instead of running from the mountains we face, instead be able to say... "Give me this mountain!"
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In today's Throwback Thursday Episode we'll take a closer look at the differences between Shame and Guilt...how to recognize them for what they are and the purpose they serve and where they both originate from. We'll also take a look at how to deal with shame and keep it from defining who you are. Because the truth is you are not your mistake.
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In today's episode I'll share a principle to help with those times when you feel tired, worn out and depleted. It's a principle call crop rotation, that farmers use to help ensure the nutrients in the soil don't become depleted, otherwise the crops will suffer. The more you learn to apply this principle, the less dependent you'll be on the synthetic fertilizers that are out there, and the more you'll find energy organically. Don't believe me, just ask my Uncle Ed.
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Have you ever wanted to know how to better turn back the hands of time, or at least make the most of the time you've been given? Today I'll share a couple of principles to help you better keep moving forward at any age you find yourself. We don't have to just live our lives backwards the older we get. Who say's you can't teach an old dog new tricks?
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Today is for all of you Chocolate Chip lovers out there! I'll share a few thoughts about how to better follow who you are meant to be instead of following the crowd...How to keep your standards high in a world without standards. And what all of this has to do with a chocolate chip. Today, you'll learn how to be in the cookie, without being of the cookie!
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An episode with a few thoughts, and principles for those times in life when your faith is tested the most...when you are experiencing a crisis of faith. None of us are exempt from this, we all will experience a crisis of faith at some point and today I'll share a few thoughts that helped when I experienced mine.
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In today's Throwback Thursday Episode I'll share one of my favorite episodes to help deal with the worries and fears of life. The principles in today's episode can help you better choose to be happy, when it's natural to want to worry.
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Today's episode is all about finding your purpose, the reason you were put on this earth and how to recognize it when you are moving in the right direction and when you are not. As well as the importance of having a plan to help you every step along the way.
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In today's episode, you'll learn about the difference between a duck and an eagle...and how to overcome the tendency that we all have to complain when things don't go our way. I'll discuss how we each have the opportunity each day to decide how we see life, and whether we choose to be a duck or an eagle. Which are you?
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In today's episode, we'll take a closer look at how to better live life forward, without getting hung up on all the shoulda, woulda, coulda's of life...Although life must be lived forwards, we won't be able to connect the dots until we are able to look backwards enough to see the answers to many of life's questions...and while all of us can think of all kinds of things we shoulda, woulda, coulda have done differently...what is done is done...No matter what, today you can never should have yesterday.
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Today I want to share a few important tips, and principles for navigating as a parent through the explosive minefield of parenting our kids with technology. In a world with easier access to more than every before...the only control that is left, is self control. It falls on us as parents to help our children learn how to not just govern the technology they use, but to govern themselves.
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In today's Throwback Thursday episode, we'll revisit an episode about how to remove the limiting beliefs that we have for ourselves...to replace "I can't" with "I can" and "I won't" with "I will". When we remove the beliefs that limit us...we remove the limits to what we believe we are capable of accomplishing.
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In this episode, I want to explore in further depth the value of weakness. We all have weaknesses and we often go to great lengths to avoid letting others see them, or even seeing them ourselves...but today I want to help you change that. I want to help you see your weakness not as a curse but a blessing, and opportunity, and even a gift to develop something truly special in us...My hope is after listening to this episode, you'll embrace your weaknesses more a little more and try to hide them a little less.
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In today's episode, I'll share a story that is a wonderful metaphor about how to best try to change the destructive behaviors we all have and struggle with in our lives.
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In today's episode we'll explore the value of the word "yes" and how it can lead to a more full and fulfilling life, if we can push through the fear and excuses that are behind a lot of the reasons we say "no".
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In today's episode, we'll look at the benefits of mentoring and learning from the success of others. And how to best grow and develop in the areas of your life that you'd like to, and how to achieve what you hope to, through the asking of directions from others.
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In today's Throwback Thursday Episode, we'll look at how changing your routines can be the first step towards changing your life. It's our routines that create the momentum to move our lives forward in powerful ways...By following the principles in todays episode, your life will better follow the way you'd like it to go!
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In today's episode, we'll look at 5 key principles and tenets of Change...Tenets that can help you better deal with the changes you want to make, and the changes that come to you that you don't want to make. As it's been said, the only constant in life is change...and so the more willing and able we are to change, the more we will be able to handle change.
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In today's episode I'll share a few thoughts about life's blueprints and what happens and what to do...when our life doesn't match the blueprint we have in our minds for it.
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We live in a unprecedented time of informational access...information is being pushed to us at just about every turn. How can we learn to tell what is true, from what isn't? What is real from what is fake? Let's look at a couple of principles to help better filter out the fake news that is out there.
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In today's episode I'll share a few thoughts about the significance of time and how to slow it down and make the most of it in your life...Because life is not just about making great time!
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In today's Throwback Thursday episode, I'll share a few thoughts about a different approach to take in approaching the new year...instead of thinking about all you hope to have and setting goals around that...to take a little time to think about all that you never want to loose and setting goals to protect it...to spend a little time defining what are your non negotiables.
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In today's episode, I'm going to share a few thoughts and principles to help address the cancel culture mindset that is becoming more common place in the world today...while it's good to stand up for what's right, there's a right way and a wrong way to do it...Just ask Harvey Dent.
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In today's episode, I'll share one of the most effective ways to instill motivation in another individual...It's a principle that is severely lacking and largely unrecognized by our society today. It's a becoming a casualty of the fast paced world that we live in and the expectations that govern much of our lives.
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In todays episode, I'll focus on four simple words that can lead to big results in your life this coming year, if you CHOOSE to implement them as a part of your year and a part of your life.
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In today's episode, we'll take a look at the final step I would suggest to get the most out of this coming year...and that is to live in grace. It goes without saying that there will be challenges this year, times we will fall short, times we will fail...living in grace allows us to tap into the power to keep going, to keep trying, and to eventually find the success and the life we want!
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Today's Throwback Thursday episode is episode 74. Win The Morning. In this episode, we'll look at one of the most important parts of the day...the beginning. Like in any sprint...how the race or the day is started, determines how it ends. The better we start the day, the better we'll feel at it's finish! To win the day, we have to win the morning!
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In today's episode I'll share some thoughts about step 2 in taking advantage of the new year in front of us, looking forward with faith. Whether you think 2022 will be the best year or the worst year...you are right!
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In todays episode, we'll look at the first step and one of the most important steps to take in moving forward into the new year and that is to leave last year behind. As someone wisely once said, "You can't move forward, while looking backwards."
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Happy New Year Everyone! In today's episode I'll share a few thoughts about the importance and significance of fresh starts and how to make the most of them!
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In our last personal growth episode to prepare for the coming New Year, we'll look at how to over come the number one thing that stops personal growth and progression every year...and that is two words..."I Can't". When we learn to embrace "I can't" as part of what helps us get to "I can", those negative thoughts and experiences become a stepping stone instead of a stumbling block!
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In today's episode on personal growth and development, we are going to revisit a topic and principle that is at the heart of any and all success that is accomplished. We always see the loud results of success but we never see the quiet moments that lead to it. The growth and development you seek in this coming year won't be found in the big goals that you set for yourself, but in the quiet moments each day, when you decide, you are going to work on them. Success is always accomplished quietly.
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In todays episode on personal growth and development, we are going to focus on understanding more about the human mind and how it works and how muscle like it really is. And like any muscle what is required for it to grow stronger and perform better and the processes at play in trying to keep that from happening. The reason so many New Year resolutions fail to become realized is because so many fail to understand the concept of how the mind is a muscle.
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In todays self development and personal growth episode...we are going to focus on shifting your thinking from HAVING and DOING things this upcoming year...so that you can BE whatever it is you want to be...and instead focus on BEING first and allowing the DOING and HAVING to follow naturally. It's a total shift in thinking for most of us, but one that will help set the tone for incredible personal growth this coming new year.
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In todays top episode on personal growth and development, I'm choosing to share episode 1. The Destination is the Journey. We need to be reminded of this as often as we can. The growth, development, and happiness we all seek and want for ourselves this coming new year...won't be found in the destinations we have for ourselves, but in the journey we have in ourselves to get there.
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In our last Christmas episode, I'll share a few thoughts about how, although Christmas is coming to an end, not to let it come to an end in your life. Christmas isn't mean to be a single day lived, but a way to live every single day. The challenge for us is to make sure that Christmas does endure.
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In today's Christmas episode, I'm simply going to share a few life lessons to be learned from the Christmas decoration that holds the most central place in our homes during the Christmas season...and that's a Christmas Tree.
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In today's Christmas episode, I'll share a few thoughts about what More Christ can do, not only at Christmas time, but all the time, to see what we need to see and over come the blindness that is so prevalent in the world today. He continues, even today, to give sight to the blind.
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In todays Christmas Episode, I'll share a few thoughts about feeling alone and experiencing pain during Christmas time. For many Christmas isn't the most wonderful time of the year...but it doesn't mean it can't become that...sometimes it just takes working through our pain and getting to the other side of it, which once there we might just find it can become one of our greatest assets.
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In today episode, I'll share a brief message about the best Christmas gift we can give to ourselves...the gift that will bring us the greatest happiness and the most joy...and here's a hint, it's not anything new.
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In today's episode, I'll share a few Christmas thoughts about the roll Santa plays in Christmas and how to bring more Christ into the symbol that he can be for all of us...I love Santa Clause...but I love him even more because he has helped me to see Christ better in Christmas.
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In todays Episode, I'm going to share a few thoughts about one of my favorite words that is emphasized in the movie The Polar Express and the world is "BELIEVE." One of the greatest attributes we can develop and one of the greatest hearts we can have. A believing heart is what children have...and if you want to learn about what it means to believe...just watch them during the Christmas season.
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In today's episode, I'll share a few thoughts about the greatest gift you can give your kids this Christmas and that is you! They will remember far longer the time you spent with them than what you gave to them. More Christ at Christmas time, equates to more time being given during Christmas to those you love. Just ask Howard Langston in the Movie Jingle All The Way. It's Turbo Time!
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In todays episode, We'll look more in depth into one of my most favorite symbols of Christmas...the Christmas Star. This star teaches some of the most powerful lessons a person can learn about the God behind it's creation...as well as how to see the stars placed in our lives just for us, to help us find our way to him. And finally how to be that star for others!
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Todays episode center's around one of my favorite Christmas phrases and reminders..."Wise Men Still Seek Him" Today, I'll share a thought about what that looks like in both Christmas and in life, and where Christ is most likely to be found for all of those that are seeking him...and we'll use Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol to do it!
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In today's episode I'll share a few thoughts about the symbols of Christmas...we may see all the lights, the trees, the wreaths, the candles, the candy canes, the stars, the bells, and even Santa...but do we really see the symbols that they are, what they represent and what they can teach? One way we can see more Christ in Christmas is to see Christ more in the symbols of Christmas.
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In today's episode I'll share with you one of my favorite metaphors from the Christmas Nativity story...that of the Innkeeper. One of the best lessons we can learn about Christmas and life comes from the simple line that Luke tells us was the state of the inns in Bethlehem and that was "and there was no room for them in the inn." I hope that is a statement that will never be said of the inn that we keep!
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In todays episode, I'll share a thought about what it means to be a good receiver. I think we all know how to give but how to receive might be a little more difficult. The advantage we have at Christmas time, is that there is plenty of opportunities to learn how to be both!
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In this episode, I'll share a favorite thought from another classic Christmas move...A Charlie Brown Christmas...and how important it is once we learn what Christmas and life is really all about to share it with those around us, those trying to understand what's missing from their life and why happiness seems to be eluding them. Christmas wouldn't have changed for Charlie Brown, had Linus not been able to tell him what he did.
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In today's episode, I'll share a favorite Christmas thought from the 1970 classic TV movie, Santa Clause is Comin to Town. It's a thought at the center of what Christmas is all about, a thought about how to really change. If the winter warlocks icy heart can melt than so can ours at times and others as well...we just need to be reminded of how.
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In today's episode, I'll introduce you to Fred Clause, Santa's older brother...bet you didn't know Santa has an older brother. In this classic Christmas movie we're taught a valuable lesson about how Christmas or more Christ can help us to look at each other. To see each other for what we can become, instead of all that we are not. To see the best in each other, instead of the worst...to understand why there are no naughty children.
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In this Christmas edition Episode, I'll share the true story of World War 2 Navy Sailor Lee W. Maloy and the Christmas Miracle he experienced while at see making his way home to the United States on Christmas Eve in 1944. A story that perfectly illustrates exactly what Christmas or more Christ can do, even between the worst of enemies.
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In today's Christ-Mas episode...I'll discuss the value of a simple true selfless act and what can happen as a result of it. It's a concept taken and taught powerfully in the movie Klaus on Netflix. It has become one of my most favorite Christmas movies for me and my kids because of how it inspires us to be better. In today's episode, I'll also announce our Christmas project that we'll be doing to reach as many people as we can with a Christmas message of hope, of appreciation and of love.
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In today's episode I'll share one of my most favorite principles about Christmas and how to get the most of Christmas, by letting go of what Christmas isn't. Unbeknown to the Grinch, by removing all that Christmas wasn't, he helped bring about all that Christmas was. Sometimes the greatest gift we can give ourselves at Christmas time is less not more.
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In our first Christ-Mas Episode or More Christ Episode of the season, I'll share the secret to having a great Christmas and a true story about an incredible secret Santa that illustrates this point. Start asking yourself this question as you move into the holidays and the holidays will move you!
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Today we'll conclude our 10 days of Get Grateful series, with a story and lesson surrounding the wonderful blessing we all have access to simply called grace...It's through grace we can access God's power in our lives to change and no time of year can that be accessed more easily than on Christmas! I'll also share a few changes coming to the podcast for the month of December!
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In Day 9 of our Get Grateful series, I'll share with you one of my favorite stories about learning to see life correctly and to better develop grateful eyes. There are so many in this world that can see but who are blind and so many that are blind that when it comes to gratitude can see more clearly than most. Which are you?
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For Day 8 of our Get Grateful series, I'll share with you the true story of a Platoon sergeant during world war 2 and the Thanksgiving Miracle that happened to him and how that miracle was tied to a mother's love. Of all of the things that we can express gratitude for during Thanksgiving, near the top of everyone's list should be our mother's or those who have been mother like to us in life.
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On day 7 of our Get Grateful series, I'll share a story about the importance of at times, having a hand to hold. Sometimes the most important thing we can give someone is simply ourselves. In todays episode, I'll share a short story about a young kid named Douglas and what a hand that he drew for Thanksgiving meant to him.
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On Day 6 of Get Grateful, I'll share the true story of a man named John Kralik and how his life was changed through a simple gesture of give thanks every day for 365 days. And how you can incorporate this simple gesture into your own life to change it for the better as well.
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In this episode I'll share the true story of Anthony Hinton, a man who was sent to prison for 30 years for a crime he didn't commit, and how he was able to overcome the hatred and bitterness of what was lost and taken from him by finding things to be grateful for even in a prison. The most difficult times to be grateful are also the most important times to be grateful.
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For Day 4 of our Get Grateful Challenge I'll share with you a story about a refugee from Russia that came to the United States with very little other than the American Dream of having more than they did, only to find that happiness doesn't come from having more, but learning to be content with less. Her story can help all of us looking for happiness know better where to look for it.
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For Day 3 of Get Grateful, I'll share another true Thanksgiving Story that will inspire you to give more of what you have, even when you are in need of more because the blessings that come from giving to others far outweigh the cost associated with whatever we give. With gratitude, the more we give, the more we receive.
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In Day 2 of Get Grateful, I'll share a story a true Thanksgiving story that at least two people would also call a Thanksgiving miracle...and through their experience they were reminded of an important truth about God and how he helps us. Whenever anyone helps us get to where we are going, we owe both them and God our thanks! In todays message I'll also share an Thanksgiving invitation for you to better share your thanks with all of those that help you get to where you are going each and every day...as well as an opportunity to partner with me to do it! A fun way to give thanks on Thanksgiving!
On Day one of my 10 days of Getting Grateful Series leading up to Thanksgiving, we'll take a look at a few of the reasons why gratitude is so important, even vital, to living the fullest and happiest life that you can. Reasons backed by experience and science...and the beauty of it all, is that it only takes but a few moments each day to incorporate and practice in order to experience its transformational power in your own life.
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In todays episode, I'll share a thought that might help make better sense of the challenges and pain found in life...Maybe life's challenges are not meant to break us apart but to break us open, to not leave us in cracks as much as they are meant to crack us open. In order for God to work on our heart, he first has to gain access to it...and this can be every bit as painful, emotionally, mentally and spiritually as it is physically.
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In this Throwback Thursday episode, I'll share one of my personal favorites about how to best find happiness in life. We can learn so much from those that are further down the road from us, and that is exactly what happened to me when I visited with a little old man, named Alton Thacker, in a place called Tiny Tim's workshop, who shared with me after over 85 years of life, what he had come to discover was the secret to happiness.
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In todays episode, I'll share a few thoughts about how life is like a cup of hot chocolate and how to shift from focusing on what matters least to what matters most. And here's a hint...it was never about the cup.
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In this episode, I'll share a few thoughts about how to make sure we are giving the most love to what will love us the most. In a world where there is so much to love, we can miss loving those things that mean so much.
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In this episode 201 I'll discuss one of the most important principles to understand in life and that is, there is no easy button for us to push, to solve our problems, fix things that are broken or to get things that we want. The solution has been the same since the beginning of time, and that solution is good olé fashioned, hard work!
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In my 200th episode, I'm going to share a few thoughts about the most inexhaustible magic we posses...our words.
The words we speak carry with them the power to create the life that we want or the life that we don't want...it's up to us to choose how we want to use this power in our own lives and in the lives of others.
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In today's Throwback Thursday Episode, were going back to one of my favorites... Very little will be found and accomplished in life while being comfortable...The best things that life has to offer are found through discomfort and pushing ourselves out of our comfort zone's not by staying in them. And so in this episode I'll share a few thoughts that will help you become more comfortable being uncomfortable.
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In this episode, I'll share a few thoughts about one of the most important titles we can learn to embrace in life...the title of SURVIOR. To be a survivor is to be one of the best things about being human. The human spirit and the human heart express courage and hope, when they express the phrase "I will survive!"
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In today's episode, I'll share a few thoughts about one of the greatest powers we posses...the power of choice. When you come to see a single choice for everything it really is...you'll realize how to find your way to everything you really want.
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In today's episode, We'll look at the common practice of putting someone in time out, but today not just as a means of disciplining poor behavior but a means of rewarding good behavior. And the person we are going to consider disciplining more the most, is you! If you are not currently utilizing the practice of putting yourself in time out, then in all probability you are not getting the most out of your time.
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In this episode, we'll take a look at the life lessons that can be found in one of my most favorite Halloween traditions...Carving Pumpkins! So get your pumpkin, your carving kit and pattern and lets get ready to create the next masterpiece in our pumpkin and in ourselves!
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In today's Throwback Thursday episode, We're going back to the beginning. Back to one of my very first episodes and one that addresses one of the main messages I have hoped to share with others...and continue to try share with others. A message about our personal worth. All of us struggle at times with not feeling good enough, but the principles shared in this episode can help us overcome that struggle and better recognize the value and worth that each one of us has, independent of anyone or anything.
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In this episode, I'll continue my series on boundaries by looking specifically at the most significant place we can have or not have boundaries...within our own families. Most boundary issues are learned from the families we grew up in, so it's only right we look at the family both the family of origin and our current families to identify those boundary problems we most likely have been carrying with us, ever since we were young, and then discover what we can do about them.
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Although this is the text message I get from my oldest daughter Brooklyn every day that I pick them up from school at 2:57pm...it's a question that holds the key for all of us to feel more safe and secure in life and that hopefully we will all find the way and time to ask of our father so that he can answer us, "Yes, I'm close" and so we can feel the peace and strength that will come from that answer ourselves.
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In this episode, we'll take a look at one of the most helpful truth's I've found in dealing with life and whatever comes our way...and that is That it's Ok to not be Ok. The more we learn to accept our challenges, our situations, our struggles, our adversity...the more free we will be to deal with them, to allow others to help us. And in that acceptance we'll come to find that we were never alone in the struggle and that we don't have to struggle alone, because everyone has something that is not ok in their life.
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In this episode, I'll share a few thoughts about what has been referred to as the best medicine...Laughter. Laughter isn't just something we do, but something we need. You'll be surprised by all of the health benefits that can come to you just by laughing a little each day...but most importantly I'll share a few tips about how to learn to laugh more...and hopefully even get you to laugh a little at my terrible dad jokes.
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In todays throwback Thursday episode, I'm going to share one of the best episodes I've put together about facing the storms of life...It's a given that we will all have some pretty difficult storms to pass through in life...but what isn't a given is how we will face those storms and the effect they will have on us. This is where we could learn something rather valuable from something seemingly as simple as a buffalo. The quality they exhibit when facing a storm is one of the most admirable I've ever seen...and it is rare to find in people...but for those people that posses it...there isn't a storm that they can't get through!
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In part three of this series on habits...we'll put everything together and look at how our habits can be put together to for powerful routines. Routines that help create the momentum and motion in your life to make big changes and propel your life forward in big ways. It's through our daily habits and routines that the life we've always wanted begins to take form!
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In part 2 of this series on habits...I'll share a few thoughts on how to best create the good habits that will get your life on track to where you want it to be. The thoughts, principles and practices shared today are some of the best suggestions I've found to help create habits that are positive and will help you move your life forward in positive ways.
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In this episode I'll share the first in a three part series about creating habits to help you better create the life you want. We'll start out by looking at the bad habits we have, and we all have them. I'll share a few key thoughts, principles and practices to help rid your life of the bad habits that keep leading to the things you don't want!
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In this episode, I'll share a few thoughts about what is referred to as the butterfly effect and how it relates to bringing about big changes by small means. Specifically through small random acts of kindness. When you understand the difference you can make though a single act of kindness, you will also understand the difference between those who are happy and those who are not.
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In todays Throwback Thursday episode, I'll share a thought and principle that helped me through one of the darkest periods of my life. It's a principle that can help anyone slowly leave the pain, fear and hopelessness of any situation that we have been FROZEN in and move towards the warmth of the light, until we reach our own personal Happily Ever After...
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"I just feel...stuck." Is one of the sentiments that get's shared with me all of the time. In todays episode I will explore the science behind the stuckness, why it happens, what causes it and best of all how to break free of it and to begin again feeling like you are moving forward in life.
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In this episode, I'll discuss one of the best mindfulness practices we can learn when facing the storms of life and that is to look for and find silver linings. The more we see the sun, the less we'll see the rain, the more we focus on the good, the less we'll focus on the bad. The more we try to find the positive, the less we'll find of the negative.
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In this episode you'll learn one of the most powerful statements I've come across to empower a person to avoid giving into peer pressure and going with the crowd, Etiam Si Omnes - Ego Non! It's the history behind it and the events leading up to the Nazi Regime of world war two that really give power to this Latin Maxim and help us to see how important it is to adopt it in our lives today.
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In this episode I'll share a few thoughts about one of the rising problems in our country and among teenagers today and that is the entitled mind. Entitlement breeds a lack of responsibility for one's self and the eventual lack of the ability to appropriately take care of one's self. To overcome the entitled mind, one must come to see just how much they have, often by seeing just how much others don't have.
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Today's Throwback Thursday episode is Episode 16. What is Real? This is special episode to me born of a childhood experience and a much later connection I was able to make between it and a lesson I was praying to adequately convey to my students at the time. It's a lesson that I have been teaching ever since and a lesson about how to tell the difference in life between what is real, and what is not. What will bring you joy and what promises to, but won't. The world is full of imitations and deceptions and todays episode holds the key on how to avoid being deceived by any of them!
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Do you remember those old choose your own adventure books from years ago? In this episode I'll share a few thoughts about how we are writing our own stories today. And the key choices we need to make in order to get to the ending we want. And how through the opening and closing of doors in our lives, we can find our way to the new pages and new experiences that will help us to become all that we came here to be.
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In todays episode we'll look at the only two ways we have to learn in life...and that is, through joy or through sorrow. My hope is that after listening today, you will understand a little better how to learn with joy in your own life and apply the principles I'll share to help you do just that. While we will learn either way, I think we'd all prefer to learn with joy.
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In this episode I'll share a few thoughts to help with those moments where grief pays us a visit. There's no escaping it, grief will be as much of a companion on each of our journey's as will happiness...but when we see grief for what it is, and understand how to process through it, it can become a deeply meaningful experience...as it shows us the value of what it is that we loved and that we lost.
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In this episode, I'll share a few guiding principles about how to hear the most important thing you can hear in your life. God's voice. He speaks to us in so many different ways that unless we are listening we might not hear him. In todays episode we'll take a look at many of the different ways that his voice can be heard in our lives.
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Todays Throwback Thursday episode is episode 19. When Life Says No. This was a special episode I made for my brother, who was going through some difficult things in his life at the time. Several things had happened that were very disappointing and discouraging to him...In short, life wasn't going the way he wanted it to. In this episode I share some of my favorite principles that have helped me to understand that when life says no...it's usually because there's a better yes in our future. We just have to be patient and hold on to our faith until it get's here.
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In this episode, I'll discuss one of the most common problems that all parents express...that children don't listen! The truth is they are right, children have always had a hard time when it comes to listening...but there is a better way to teach them...a way to make sure the lessons are getting through. As you listen, see if you can recall the things you learned as a child from your parents and if it isn't true that this way is the best way for your children to hear you.
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In today's episode, I'll share a few thoughts about how to avoid war and conflict in relationships. Sometimes the best way to avoid a fight, is by not fighting back...and sometimes not fighting back requires more strength than fighting. Although it takes two to start a war, it only takes one to end it.
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In this episode we'll look at how to let others be wrong about you. How to care a little less about what others think and more about what you think. How to validate you being right, by allowing others to be wrong. There's no getting around this one. At some point someone will think something wrong about you, but we'll discuss how to stay in your power by allowing them to be wrong, instead of working so hard to prove you are right.
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In this episode, I'll share a few additional principles about how to find your why...the why that will see you though any how, to get where you want to go. There are things each of us can do to better discover, and be reminded of the greatest source of motivation we can have...Our WHY!
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In today's Throwback Thursday episode, I'm sharing another of my personal favorites and most listened to episodes...Ep. 23 The Principle of Contrast...This principle has helped me have confidence that even though I can't completely shield myself and my children from the darkness found in this world, that it is ok. We are meant to live in a world of opposites...and sometimes it's the contrast that helps us see best the truth of something. Sometimes it's the dark, that helps us to best see the light.
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In this episode I'll share one of the greatest truths and principles I've learned recently about how to change bad habits, and find success in whatever it is you are setting out to do. And it's not greater self discipline or more will power...but something even stronger!
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In this episode, I'll share a few thoughts about how to best give and receive feedback as well as how to avoid it turning in criticism. Feedback will always build, criticism will always tear down. Learning how to seek out feedback, is what can lead to the greatest growth in all the different areas of our life.
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In this episode, I'll share a few thoughts about how and why to trust the processes in play in your life. There is purpose behind what you are experiencing and there is an opportunity to choose whether to be empowered by it, or become embittered from it. It's all about learning to value the process over the product.
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In this episode I'll share a few thoughts about how to stop going through the star on and star off machine of social media, by constantly comparing yourself with others and learn to be happier and more content with who you are and what you have. Comparing has been referred to as the thief of all joy, and for those that get caught up in comparing themselves on social media, they will find that statement to be true. We'll never be able to be happy, while living through others happiness...the secret to happiness is actually to learn to forget about the stars upon thars!
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In this THROW BACK THURSDAY episode, I'll share another one of my most downloaded episodes and personal favorites, "The Art of Letting Go." Life is a profound experience in loss, and how we learn to handle loss, will in many ways will help define what we will gain from this life. Learning to let go, is one of the most important arts that we can master and will help the masterpiece of our lives turn out, not necessarily the way we want or think how it should, but the way it is meant to, and the way that will help us to learn and grow the most from it. However, that will only happen as quickly as we learn the art of letting go.
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In this episode, I'll share a few thoughts about what it means to be all in, in all that you do. We all have a lot of targets that we'd like to hit, but in becoming multitasking masters, we don't focus long enough on any target to really aim at it...and as someone once said, if you aim at nothing, you will hit nothing. So in this episode, we'll talk about how to aim at the most important targets in life, your work, your spouse, your children and family, your finances, your faith, your hopes and dreams and yourself and how to hit them by being all in with them.
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In a follow-up to my first episode on dealing with addiction (Ep. 90 Let Them Fall) I want to balance the principles I shared in it, with this one today (Help them up). While addiction is something all of us will have to face, it's important to understand how to face it...when to allow someone to fall, and when to help someone up. These two episodes work together to help find that balance. The balance between enabling and serving, between giving a hand out vs. a hand up. In this episode today, I'll share a few thoughts from my experience with addiction over the years and how to best love, support and show compassion to ourselves and others, when climbing out of the pit of addiction. And I'll refer to the LORD of the RINGS to illustrate how to best do it.
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In this episode, I'll share a few principles to help you find your way through the all of the voices telling you what's good for you and what isn't, what's right and what's wrong, what will work and what won't, what you need and what you don't...who is right for you and who isn't...With the bombardment of information and advertising in the world today, much of which is false and misleading...how are we supposed to know for sure what is good and what isn't? Well if you listen today...maybe you'll find something to help!
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In this episode, I'll share a few thoughts about an inscription we see, touch and use almost daily. The inscription on our currency that reads, "In God We Trust." The origins of this inscription and moto can help us all adopt it more fully in our lives...as we look to the past, we can better understand why, we can trust God in our present, and have faith in the promise of a wonderful future. I love this motto, statement and at times even a question that is posed to us, every time we hold a coin, or dollar in our hands or sometimes even find one on the ground.
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In this THROW BACK THURSDAY episode, I'll share another one of my most downloaded episodes and personal favorites, The Happiness Trap. Happiness is what we all want and are searching for, but have you noticed how elusive it can be and quick to escape when finally caught...well today you'll be reminded why that is, and how to help happiness find you a little more, instead of you chasing it.
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In this episode I'll share a few thoughts about the power of a thought and how to develop the most important muscle we have...the muscle of the mind. It's ok if we feel like our mind gravitates to negative thinking...this is natural! Just as a weight is pulled down by gravity, our mind is constantly being pulled down by negativity. This actually is what helps create the resistance needed to develop mental strength...The same process that helps develop a muscle in the body, is what can help us develop the muscle of the mind.
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In this episode, I'll share a few thoughts on one of my favorite quotes about getting the most out of life. Each day is a gift and what we do with that gift can make all the difference in how our lives turn out. In this episode I'll look at several things to help make sure you are getting the most out of yours!
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In this episode, we'll explore the concept of the shadow self, how to recognize it, accept it and work on it. Until we learn to see and accept both the good and the bad in us, we'll never really accept ourselves as we are. The journey to our true authentic self, is comprised of both light and dark, because there is both in every person. The important thing is what we choose to do with it. Just because their is darkness in you, it doesn't mean you are a bad person.
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In this episode, I'll share the most helpful thoughts I know on why there are times in life where we feel broken. God will lead us to some amazing places, but first he will often lead through some pretty broken places...but there is a purpose and a reason for it...and it is to develop one of the greatest character traits we can have, the ability to surrender. With God, surrendering isn't a weakness, it's a strength.
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Welcome to Throw Back Thursdays, where each Thursday I'll share and hi-light one of my most downloaded and listened to episodes of the 150 I've done so far. Today's episode is one of my most listened to and personal favorites..."The Science of Gratitude." - It contains a guiding principle that has seen me through the most difficult challenges of my life and I know it can for you as well!
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In this episode I'll share a few thoughts about finding your life's path, and how to tell when you are not traveling on it...In this episode I'll give you 10 signs to look for that will indicate that you might be off your path...and how to get back on it if you are. Discovering what you are meant to do in life is what will help you feel the most happy and fulfilled in your life...until you find that, and go after it, you will always feel like something is off, that something is missing, that you were meant for more and that you are not where you are supposed to be.
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In this episode I'll share a few thoughts about how to remove those limiting beliefs that we all have about ourselves, the world, or just life in general. Somewhere along the lines, we've all picked up beliefs that can limit our potential. Learning to become aware of these limiting beliefs and then breaking through them, is where we find out what we are capable of, who it is we are truly meant to be, and just how limitless our potential really is.
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In this episode, I'll share a few thoughts about seeing and hearing what matters most in life and how to best develop the right kind of eyes and the right kind of ears. No matter your station or position in life, being able to see clearly and hear correctly is what will make the most difference, not just in your life, but in the lives of those you are around and responsible for.
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In a world where everyone is trying to get so much done, sometimes we forget one of the most important aspects of productivity...a principle that can drastically increase how much you get done by ironically doing less. To understand this principle grab your saw or ax and jump on in and let's go cut some wood!
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Thought this might be a good thought to remind all of us as we enter back into the craziness of school starting. In this episode I'll share a thought about the value of just five more minutes. It's human nature to not realize what we have until it's gone, but it's human nature, that we are here to change, and we can take a big step today in just five more minutes.
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In this episode, I'll share a couple stories and principles about why it's important for us to accept those times where we won't be able to see our way ahead, and where we can't see the how things will end...and in those moments to still take a step or two into the darkness, into the unknown and trust that God will meet us there. We'll never reach our full potential let alone our destiny, unless we do...While it's always more comfortable in the boat...the growth comes from getting out of it and taking a few faith filled steps.
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In this episode, I'll share a few thoughts to help see the good in all things, and to trust God more when he says that all things work together for our good. Developing this ability will be one of the hardest things we will ever do, but this ability will also see us through the hardest experiences we will ever have. In it's development we will learn to trust that God is there, that he does care about us and that our experiences as hard as they might be are meant to help us become all that we can be. We will see that life is good, because we know that God is good.
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In this episode, I'll share a story about the danger of taking shortcuts and how the person that benefits the least from them is you. Life isn't meant to be easy or convenient, especially for those that choose to follow Christ. His way and his path is one that will test each one of us, but because we have chosen to do things the right way, his way...that testing will only serve to strengthen us and we will be found still standing, because the foundation we've built is strong and not weakened through the cutting of corners.
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Have you ever wondered what watermelons could teach you about life? Yeah me neither...but I found some pretty neat lessons that they do. Life by design is meant to teach us, and so the more we look for those lessons, the more we'll learn and the more we'll grow...so in this episode get ready to learn some of the valuable life lessons that can come from something as simple as a watermelon!
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In this episode I'll continue to explore boundaries and the important roll they play in defining who we are. Today we'll take a look at eight common boundary myths that can be seen as truths and create havoc with our boundaries. By understanding these myths it can help us have greater clarity when setting our own boundaries.
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In this episode, I'll share a few thoughts about how to begin developing faith and most importantly when. With the growing challenges that our world is facing and all the uncertainty and fear they bring, developing the kind of faith that is resilient and can see us through these challenges is the only way we will be able to keep our faith through them. There will certainly be tough days a head and testing experiences that life will bring to each of us, so let's look today at where to start, or what might be considered developing faith 101.
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In this episode, I'll share a concept of mindfulness that asks the question are you a scout or a soldier? Which mindset you have, that you develop, can largely determine the way you see the world and see your life. If truth is our primary objective than one of these mindsets will help lead you to truth, while one might cause you to fight against it. Have you ever wondered how someone can think to strongly that they are right, when they are clearly wrong? It's because of the mindset they have developed in themselves. If we want to find truth, we must develop the mindset that will lead us to the source of all truth, which is Christ.
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In this episode, I'll share an amazing scientific experiment that shows the power words can have on the molecular composition of water! But more importantly remind us all of the transformational power our words can have not just on water but on people and on ourselves. The words we speak in many ways can be as powerful as the words God speaks and can have the same affect on those that hear them. The principles in this episode can help remind all of us, of the oft forgotten power words can have to build, inspire, heal and lift, or to tear down, hurt and destroy. It's a power we all have, but that we all don't have control of. So much good can come to us, our families and our world if we can learn to master the power of our words, and we can learn it best by having the master of all write his name in our hearts.
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In this episode, I'll share a few thoughts to help empower you in whatever situations you find yourself in. In life there are things that are made to act and things made to be acted upon. You are not made to be acted upon, by life, by circumstance, or by other people...although others may try to control or manipulate you, or you may be tempted to feel like a victim, you always have a choice and are expected to act. And that choice begins by choosing to either react or to respond.
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In this episode I'll share one of my favorite stories about how to bring about big changes and how to have big successes in life. The story of the magic penny teaches the right way to go about accomplishing big things. It's a message we all need to be reminded of and can help give hope to those who feel like there is no clear path forward. With God there always is, if you'll just give him what you have, and follow the principle taught in this story.
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In this episode I'm going to share the amazing story of Chris Nikic...and what it takes to overcome even the greatest of odds. His story is a true inspiration of what is possible when you set your mind to accomplish something. The more we focus in the right way, the more we'll move our lives forwards in the right way. There are no barriers and no lids on our success that we can't over come and break through if we adopt his method of improvement.
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In today's episode I'll share an experience I had with my daughter recently in trying to decide whether or not to try something new. Each one of us will have opportunities almost daily to try new things, to have new experiences, and whether or not we take them, depends on whether or not we are open to having both good experiences and bad experiences. This is because the only way to find the best fishing spots on a river, is to fish the whole river and also find many fishing spots that aren't so good.
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In this episode I'll share a few thoughts about where success is best found. We always see the results but rarely the process it takes to get the results. Success isn't found in big things, but in little things. The process of success isn't spoken of loudly, because it learned when it is quiet. The success we all want, must be won from the loudest battles that take place on the quietest of battlefields. And those battlefields are inside of each of us.
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In this episode, I'll share one of my favorite ways to look at those people you love most in your life. We all have a home, but our homes aren't measured by cost, square footage, or how well decorated it is...because every home we ever live in we at some point will leave, and when that time comes, if you ever return to it, all you'll see is what isn't there any more, and more than ever you'll come to realize, home was never a place.
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In this episode, I'll share a story about potatoes, eggs and coffee beans that can help you think about how you handle adversity. We all experience it, life throws all of us curve balls and into boiling water, it's not a question of if but when...however when the when happens, the question that will matter most isn't how it happened, but how we chose to respond.
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In this episode I'll share what I consider to be the number one reason, why no matter what comes our way, there is no reason to worry, no reason to fear. Why we should believe, instead of doubt. Choose faith over fear... And trust that although at times we don't know what will happen next, there is someone that always knows all the time what will next happen... And that he has already put the solutions into motion long before the problems ever came to be.
So don't worry... Be happy!
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In this episode we'll discuss what it means to be a stone catcher as opposed to being a stone thrower. In the world today, where everyone is so quick to hurl rocks, and insults at each other, we need more people who aren't afraid to step in the middle and catch those stones before they hit their mark or at least try to soften their blows. The old adage, if you can't say anything good about someone, then don't say anything at all seems to have been lost, in this episode we'll try to find it again.
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In this episode, I'll share a few thoughts about how to over come the "All or Nothing" mentality that is so prevalent in society today. The rise of perfectionism is a major contributing factor in the rise of both anxiety and depression. Learning how to start small is the key to accomplishing big things. The all or nothing way of thinking, helps us to accomplish nothing at all.
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In this episode I want to share a few thoughts for those times when life takes a wrong turn. There isn't anyone that will listen to this episode who's life won't take a wrong turn at some point in their life. The question in those moments isn't what went wrong, but how can this lead to what is right. Sometimes our wrong turns can actually lead us to the right place.
Sometimes the only way from point A to point C is by way of B.
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In this episode, I'll share a couple of thoughts and principles about the effects that simple acts of kindness and love can have on us, others and the world. It's not great power that has the power to push back evil, but it's the simple acts of kindness and love from ordinary people, a lesson I was reminded of while watching "The Hobbit."
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In this episode, we'll continue to look at boundary development and boundary problems...by looking at what two of the worlds leading experts on boundaries, refer to as the ten laws of boundaries. Each of these laws are active in each of our lives, whether we know it or not, and are influencing the results of our boundaries or lack of them. If we are to have healthy boundaries, we must understand the laws by which all boundaries operate.
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In this episode, we'll take a look at the impact not having a father present in the lives of young elephants can have on a herd, as reported by Pilanesburg National Park in South Africa. We'll also look at principles to help encourage those that have the opportunity to be fathers, to not just be good fathers or even great fathers, but to be SUPER fathers. When a man is that kind of father, the title of DAD becomes more than just a title, it becomes an identity.
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In this episode I'll share a few thoughts about how to protect what matters most in life. I'll reference an article written by Chip Gaines, in which he refers to these things as his Nonnegotiables. If we want be live a life that matters the most, then we must protect those things that mostly matter. It's a principle I'll help you remember every time you are in Target, so at least several times a week right?
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No explanation needed for this one...the title says it all! If you want to know why you should be a goldfish give it a listen. The principle found in "being a goldfish" is a principle that will help happiness be found in us...What does a goldfish have to do with happiness?...a lot more than you realize!
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In this episode I'll share one of my favorite thoughts to help you move past your limiting beliefs and believe more in yourself. Principles that will help you move out of I can't and into I can. Whenever we want to create something amazing in our lives, there will always be two voices we can choose to listen to...in today's episode, I'll discuss how to listen that shoulder angel of yours that will lead you down the best path, the happiest most rewarding path, the path that rocks!
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The title says it all...In this episode, I'm going to do my best to help motivate and inspire you to take better care of your body, the home you've been given to live your life in. Your spirit and happiness is impacted significantly by the way you take care of yourself...the thoughts and principles in todays episode can help you better understand the connection between your body, your spirit and your life's experience...and hopefully motive you to take care of the most important possession in your possession...and that's you!
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In this episode, I'll share a few thoughts, principles and insights about how to better live in the moment and get the most out of each moment. Mindfulness isn't about getting to a better place but recognizing the best places will always be right where you are. The greatest measurement for how we live our lives, won't be found by what happened in the past or what happens in the future but by what happens in the moment.
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In this episode we'll take a look at how to overcome the bad habits and vices that we all have as a part of our mortal experience, as well as how to inoculate our selves from them ever taking hold. The principles and truths shared in this episode can help you experience the freedom that God intends for you to experience and have...and help you move forward in your life in powerful ways.
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In this episode, I'll share a few thoughts and principles to help guide you in making one of the biggest and hardest decisions you might ever have to make...Whether or not to get divorced. A decision that only YOU can make. Marriage is hard, divorce is hard, life is hard...but without God, truth and principles to guide us...they are all near impossible to navigate by ourselves.
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In this episode, I'll share one of the secrets that I have found has helped bring my family closer together. Something ever single person can do no matter what the current situation is with their family. It's something little that grow over time into something so much more.
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In this episode, I'll share some thoughts and principles about how to move from living a life of expectation to living a life of intention. How to break free from finding your validation from sources and accomplishments outside of you and find it instead from who you are on the inside. When we live with expectations based on things outside of us, we miss finding our true worth from within us.
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In this episode I'll share a couple of thoughts and principles to help you when you feel the devil is working hard on you. There is a vital principle to know and understand that will help you face whatever demons you are battling and to recognize the battle is actually a sign that you are on the right path...so keep going!
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T.I.M.E = Today Is My Everything! In this episode I'll share a few thoughts and principles to help you make the most out of today. Not tomorrow, or next week or next month, but today. As an old Chinese proverb teaches, The best time to have planted a tree may have been 20 yeas ago but the second best time, is today! So let's get started today planting whatever tree you've been wanting to plant.
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In this episode, I'll share one of my favorite statements and stories that helps me to find happiness in what I have, not what I don't and in who I am and not who I am not.
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In this episode, I'll share two principles about why you should never give up. Two principles that are the key to getting what you want most in life. And here's a hint, they are two principles that can be found in fishing as well.
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In this episode, we'll look at some of what Love isn't but also what it is. Love is one of the most mischaracterized, and misrepresented emotion out there in the world. Unfortunately, as a result it can lead us to have a misunderstanding of what love is. However, the principles shared in this episode will help you to better receive it and better give it. To love correctly, we need to correctly understand love.
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In this episode, I'll share a few principles that can help make sure that any pressure we feel from our peers is positive and not negative. Negative peer pressure is one of the most power reasons a person might choose to do something that they don't want to do or that goes against their principles. The peers you surround yourself with can make all the difference for good and bad in a persons life, as we often become the type of person we surround ourselves with. This episode will help you better tell the difference in your life between those that can lift you up and those that can bring you down.
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In this episode, I'll discuss how to recognize the different types of friendships and people that come in and out of our lives, and how to allow them to be what they were meant to be for us. Some people will come into our lives for a season, some for a reason and some for a lifetime. Learning to allow others to be what they are meant to be for us, helps to allow our life to unfold in the way it is meant to unfold. It also helps us to better see the one who is guiding people into our lives and us into others lives, and recognize there is a purpose in each relationship we experience.
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In this episode I'll share a few thoughts about how learning to say "I can" is best developed by embracing "I can't". The more we do what we can't do the more we'll increase what we can do. It's one of the greatest secrets of Kung-fu and of becoming a true dragon warrior!
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In this episode we'll look at one of the most important things we'll ever learn to be. Ourselves. Living with authenticity is the opportunity of a lifetime and something that can only be developed over a lifetime. So let's get started.
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We've all heard the phrase, "I can do hard things." In this episode we'll look a phrase that takes it one step further, "I must do hard things." Life is not meant to be easy, it's meant to be hard and the sooner we come to accept and understand that, the easier it will be to face those hard things. It's in these hard moments where we become most vulnerable but also where we can grow the most as we move forward to better place than we were before. In this way, we'll look at how life can follow a similar pattern as the hermit crab.
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In this episode, I'll discuss the what can happen when there is too much sunshine in a persons life. Not all days are meant to be good. Not all days can be good. Occasionally we might just have a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad day and that's ok. It's the bad days that help us to appreciate the good ones...and where we just might have the opportunity to grow the most.
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Being grateful for things that are good in life is the beginning of gratitude. Learning to be grateful in any circumstance is where gratitude ends. It's one thing to see what is good as a blessing and another thing to see what is bad as a potential blessing...because it often is, at least in a way we often don't expect it to be. Learning to not judge a moment as bad, keeps us free from defining the moment as bad and instead allows us to trust in God and his plan for us and to believe that even the most difficult of set backs can be the very things that will help us to move forward the most.
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In this episode I'll share with you one of the most profound stories of forgiveness I've heard...A story that can inspire all of us to forgive a little more...and remind us, that the pain others cause us, isn't for keeping, it's for giving...and there is one that is willing to take all our pain, if we are willing to give it to him.
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In this episode, we take a look at a deeply meaningful African word, that can make all of the difference in keeping selfishness at bay. Ubuntu just isn't a word but a way of life. A way of life that can show us how to live life in a better way. I'm confident once you understand Ubuntu...you won't forget it...because you won't be able to so easily forget others.
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In this episode we are going to dig deep into resistance, what it is, where it comes from, how to recognize it, and the steps to overcome it, so you can better create the life you've always wanted. In any kind of change for the better, there will always be resistance to it. The key to getting to where you've always wanted to go, is break through it...there's is no other way. You will find resistance in all aspects of life, from exercise to the stock market...there isn't growth without resistance to it...because the truth of the matter is without resistance there is no growth.
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In this episode, I'll share a few principles to help better accept a person's right to live how they choose, without accepting how they choose to live. We all should be allowed to believe and live how we choose to, and support each others rights to do so. Learning to walk the line between acceptance and tolerance can be a difficult thing...especially if you don't agree with the choices, beliefs and lifestyle of another. This episode can help bridge the gap between those differences, while allowing for those differences. I believe it is possible to be united while there are many different sates of living...in fact our country is patterned after that concept...We're not the United States because we always agree, but because we find a way to accept each others disagreements, while still finding common ground enough to be united.
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In this episode, I'll share a few thoughts and principles about how important it is to empower the women in our lives. How to empower yourself as a woman and how us as men can help empower you. An empowered woman is a force to be reckoned with and a woman that can accomplish anything she sets her mind too...Our young girls need examples of what it means to be empowered, strong, confident and fierce, but without compromising some of the things that are uniquely yours as a woman...things that this world is in dire need of!
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Happy Fathers Day to all the wonderful Dads out there! Today's episode is for you and for all of those dad's yet to be. The biggest difference you can make in this world will be the found in the difference you make as a Dad. Today I'll share a few thoughts and principles about how to make that kind of difference as in any situation you might find yourself in. Anyone can be a father, but it takes someone special to be a Dad!
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My 100th episode!! In this episode, I'll discuss what it means to leave your mark. What a legacy really is and how to make sure we live a life full of meaning and impact and not a life full of missed opportunities and regret.
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In this episode I'll share an experience I had watching golf that reminded me of what the most important part of parenting is, and how to help us connect the most with our kids. It's a principle that can also be applied to any relationship that we have and that we would like to see improve.
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In this episode, I'll share one of my most favorite stories to help inspire hope in anyone and in any situation, that the best really is yet to be. Along with principles to help us stop living in the past and become more excited for the future
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In this episode, I'll discuss a couple of key principles to better protect your mind from the degrading and demoralizing garbage that the world and others may try to leave behind. How to take ownership of who you are and what you want your life to be.
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In this episode I'll share what I learned is the secret to happiness from a 90 year old man, who was covered in saw dust and working out of a little wood working shop, in a small business complex, in the little town of West Jordan, Utah...Who would have thought that the secret to the happiness that so many are looking for, could be found in a simple place like this.
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In this episode I'll share a couple of principles to help when facing rough patches air in your life. Times when you experience turbulence in your personal flight plan. The rough air we experience at times can shake our faith, and cause doubt in our ability get through it. However, as we come to better understand who we are and how we were made, we can face those rough patches with the confidence we are meant to have and capable of having. Never forget, you were built to fly!
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In this episode I'll take a look at one of the most important questions we can ask ourselves and that is, "where is our treasure?" The asking of that question can lead to discovering what it is that we place the most value on. Discovering what is of most value to us will impact who we are and who we become. It's never to late to define what we value and in so doing, define who we are and who we become. As we come to see where we are and what we value, maybe we'll decide it's time for a new treasure hunt.
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In this episode, I'll share a few thoughts about how to find the right balance between acceptance and change. Being ok with who you are, while pushing yourself to be more. Being better at accepting yourself and others, while also believing you and others can be better. It's not the easiest balance to find, but being imbalanced in one area or the other can keep us from either adequately loving our selves and others or pushing ourselves and others to reach our full potential.
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In this episode I'll share a few more principles about how to overcome fear in life. Fear may be a part of life but learning to live a life apart from fear is a destination we can all learn to get to. How do we best do this?...That's what we'll explore in this episode. "Never not be afraid" was the motto of a family known as the Croods, for living their lives until they learned to let go of their fears, follow the light and trust in the promise of a better tomorrow.
As a wise cave man father, by the name of Grug once said..."what's the point of all of this?" "It's to follow to the light."
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A short while ago, a friend asked me... "What does a healthy relationship look like?" I thought that was such a great question and one worth exploring a bit. What does a healthy relationship look like? How can you tell if your relationship is healthy? What does it mean to be healthy in a relationship? And how can you see when your relationships are not? These are the questions we'll discuss and explore a bit as we try to better understand the signs to look for, and what we can do to improve the health of the relationships we are currently in. Hopefully improving our relationships to a point where we can honestly say to the one we love..."I'm never gonna give you up."
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PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE listen to this episode!! There won't be person that will listen to this episode who's life won't be affected by this topic in some way and at some point in time. In this episode I'll discuss one of the fastest growing problems not just in our country but in the world. Addiction to harmful substances, practices and technology is rising at alarming rates. While there are no quick fixes or certain solutions there are principles that can help you and those you love better navigate the pains of addiction. In this episode you'll learn how to give those caught in addiction the best chance possible to escape their addiction. In essence you'll learn how to help them climb out, without the rope.
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Enabling can be one of the most helpful and destructive things we can do for another person. In this episode I'll discuss how to know the difference between the kind of enabling that is helpful and empowering or the kind of enabling that is destructive and robs someone of the ability to do things themselves. One of the best examples, lesson and patterns I've ever seen of enabling in a healthy and unhealthy way, is found in the story of the Yellowstone Bears.
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This is an episode that I believe everyone needs to hear...Co-dependency will touch every person's life in several of the relationships that they have. It is the most subtle relationship problem yet one of the most destructive of all. Co-dependency is found in any relationship that tries to fill a bottomless void due to not feeling whole and loved as an individual. It's not the need to be loved that's the issue, it's the inability to love one's self that causes the dysfunction. In this episode we'll take a look at what co-dependency is, how to recognize it, and how to heal and overcome it. This episode can help every relationship you have become better than it was before.
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In this episode we'll continue to look at boundaries, specifically the different type of boundary injuries that can occur during their development. Understanding how boundaries get injured can help all of us revisit our past, and do the work necessary to heal them, correct them and better define them so you can be a better you.
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In this episode, we'll take a closer look at when and how most of our boundaries are formed. We'll look at the processes in play from birth, that shapes our boundaries for good or for bad. These processes continue to repeat themselves through the various stages of life either supporting our boundary development in healthy or unhealthy ways. Understanding how boundaries are developed will assist you in understanding what has shaped you, while also empowering you to better help and support the developing boundaries in others.
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In this episode, I'll share a principle to help better recognize those that are making a difference in your life instead of them normally going unseen and unrecognized. Learning to better see and recognize those little unseen helps, helps us to better see and recognize the unseen hands of God in our life that are helping us.
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In this episode I'll discuss how such a simple thing as making your bed each morning can in effect change the world or at the very least change yours. We'll look at how a single degree can make all the difference in the final destination of a flight path as well as a life path. Remember, It's how you start that most impacts how you finish.
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In this episode I'll discuss how to make better decisions and to better recognize potential life problems long before they become serious. We all have an internal warning system that will send signals to us, much like the check engine light of a car that warns us at times that it might be a good idea to check our life.
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In this episode I'll share seven key principles that anyone can follow to find wealth in this life and more importantly in the world to come. There are basic principles that are at the heart of not just acquiring wealth but in acquiring it in the right way and at the right time. Wealth can destroy as much as it can build. It can hurt as much as it can bless. And these principles will make sure you are ready for it when it comes as well make sure you won't miss out on the greatest investment opportunity of all time!
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In this episode I'll discuss a few thoughts to help when we find that our lives haven't exactly turned out as we thought they would. What can we do when life's recipe doesn't seem to have the results we expected? I'll share a few principles to help during those times in life we feel like that. There's a good possibility that we didn't have the wrong recipe, we just forgot what was being made.
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In this episode, I want to share a few thoughts about the value of helping others to learn for themselves. Learning for one's self is the antithesis to unhealthy enablement and codependency. It's helping others do for themselves what they can, instead of you doing for them so they can't. Learning something for our self is one of the most rewarding experiences we can have. It builds self worth and the self confidence that we can do anything!
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In the hustle of every day living to do everything, it can be so easy to miss those moments that mean everything. Learning to slow down in life, will help us to actually get more out of life. It's in the present where life is meant to be lived, but it takes being present ourselves. In this episode, I'll share a few thoughts about how to do just that, how to see better what we miss most days. In essence, how to better see the value of a sunset.
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In this episode, I'll share from personal experience, the realities of divorce and the way it can impact children. While never what we would want for any child to experience, there are important principles to understand that can help minimize it's impact. Principles that can not only help parents and children in divorced situations, but can offer help in any traumatic situation, and in any family environment. Divorce although painful for children, can with God's help, like anything, be turned into a positive experience for growth.
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In this episode I'll discuss why prayer is one of the most influential aspects of becoming the best version of ourselves and achieving our full potential. Prayer is what keeps us grounded and connected to what matters most in life. However, there is an aspect of prayer that is important to understand. Prayer at times can be a wrestle. A wrestle between our will and God's. Prayer is what helps bring both our will and his will, into alignment. Although it can be difficult it is always worth it. Because sometimes all it takes is one prayer to change everything.
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In this episode we'll discuss and look at a life built around expectation and how to move more towards living in intention. Learning to let go of expectations can be hard, but will be one of the most freeing experiences of your life. When a person learns to let go of control, and moves towards acceptance, it opens the door to living life the way it was meant to be lived. We develop the ability to accept life as it is, but also with live with the intent of it being so much more. We learn to trust the flow and the process to get us where we want to go, instead of trying to force things that can't be forced and control things that aren't ours to control. In this episode we'll discuss how to simply enjoy the ride.
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In this episode we'll take a look at a the very common practice of "shoulding on ourselves" and how it unknowingly takes power away from us and others, and instead fills us and others with feelings of shame and not being good enough. Not only can these types of thoughts affect us mentally, but studies have shown a connection between these types of thoughts and a loss of physical power as well. The answer to these powerless thoughts is found in a single empowering word, and has become one of my most favorite words that I use.
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In this episode we'll look at the most important part of the day, the morning. Just like a sprint can be won or lost in the first few seconds and from the way a sprinter starts the race, the day can be won or lost in the first few minutes and hours and from how we start the day. If we want to win the day, we must win the morning.
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In this episode, we'll take a look at some of the most painful moments we can experience in life. Many of which involve betrayal by those we loved, trusted and thought were on our side. Life is anything but fair, but there's also moments where it's fair to say life doesn't seem like it can be anything either. These are the moments where what we once knew is over, and it doesn't seem like things can ever be made right. That's what and who this episode is for.
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In this episode we'll look a little more closely at the power of decision and choice, through the concept of "switch points." Each persons life is, by and large, the sum total of the little decisions that they have made, even more so than the large ones. If the journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step, then there maybe no more important step to take that the first one you decide to make, that is until you take the next one, and then the next one...because each step although small, will either lead you closer to your desired destination or further away.
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In this episode we'll explore the very common practice of self sabotage. Why it happens, how to recognize it, and what to do about it. Self sabotaging behaviors happen on a subconscious level and often are the result of traumatic events in our lives, from which we have learned unhealthy coping behaviors that once the traumatic event is over, we continue to allow play out in our lives. Mindfulness and connecting with God, and sometimes professional help will help to identify these patterns and help you heal and correct them so you can move forward in your life in big ways. We all have limiting behaviors that we must overcome to reach new levels of success and fulfillment in life.
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The greatest tribute I can pay to Mothers everywhere is how closely they embody the life and mission of the Savior in all that they do, day in and day out in each of our lives. After all how many times have you been saved, fed, comforted, healed, helped, supported, or had something cleaned or found by Mom...to me Mom and Christ are synonymous.
Happy Mothers Day Mom!
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In this episode, we'll continue to take a look at boundaries. How to develop them, how to protect them and how to recognize problems with them. In this episode we'll take a look at the four common types of boundary problems that a person can have. The more these problems are able to been seen in others, the more you'll be able to see them in yourself and be able to take the necessary steps to correct them.
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In this episode, I'll share a wonderful practice and skill for developing a positive mindset. It's the art of thought conversion. We'll look at how to disconnect more from your thoughts and look at them as a passive observer. In this way, you'll learn how to keep more of those thoughts that are positive and let go of those that are negative and potentially destructive to you. Thoughts are like clothes, you can put them on and take them off, keep those you like and get rid of those you don't. The more positive and uplifting the wardrobe of our minds, the better we will feel while wearing those thoughts in our life.
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In this episode I'll share some thoughts about how to better find happiness by better understanding what happiness isn't. Many of us become trapped by the false ideas and myths surrounding happiness. Happiness isn't something we can pursue, it is something that must ensue...We can't find it as much as it can find us.
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In this episode, we'll take a look at what balance is and not as much how to find it, but how to create it. Creating balance is one of the most important things we can create to establish a healthy and happy life. However, with so much fighting for our time, creating balance is not an easy thing to do. But with God's help and a few principles from "The Karate Kid" at least we have a fighting chance!
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In this episode, I'll discuss a little about what it takes to let go of things that are hurtful to us. How the essence of the Gospel of Christ is to help us let go of things that can hold us back and to live a better way and follow a higher law. It's a change that doesn't take place on the outside, but on the inside. There are many things that we are holding onto that God is waiting for us to give Him and with His help, we can.
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In a rather personal episode, I'll share a few thoughts about what I learned from a couple of the hardest experiences in my life...A few thoughts and principles to help any one when life knocks you down and when you feel like staying down. Principles to help you get back up for another round...and that can help bring a little insight into why God may not always show up in the way we would hope he would. As Rocky Balboa once said, "Life isn't about how hard you can hit, but how hard you can get hit and keep moving forward!"
In this episode, I'll share a few thoughts about a phrase I often hear others say...and that is that "I'm spiritual not religious." Religion almost has a negative connotation today and in some cases for good reason. While I agree, our personal relationship with God is what matters most...I wonder if there is room for both?...and if so what that looks like? Can a person be both spiritual and religious? I believe they can but it takes understanding the intent and purpose behind both and how they can work together to help connect us in a powerful way to God and to each other.
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In this episode I'll share a few thoughts about the fundamentals that are essential to experiencing the best health possible our life, as well as a few thoughts on how to better implement them in yours. So many of the problems I've found in the way people feel about themselves and their lives can be traced back to one or more of these fundamentals being out of place. Just like with a building, if the foundation isn't there, the building won't be for very long either. Why bother growing and building our lives, if we don't have the foundation to support it.
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In this episode, I'll share a few thoughts and principles about how to keep from letting others in your life pull and drag you down. How to instead be the kind of person that pulls others up. Someone that leaves an impression for good and not someone that gets influenced to go in a negative direction that they don't want to go. And most importantly how to be equally yoked with Christ.
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In this episode I'll share a thought from an experience with my daughter about one possibility as to why bad things happen to good people...or why bad things happen to find us when we are doing our best to be good. Life can definitely throw us some curve's with certain experiences we were not expecting to have, but there is power when we can look at an experience as the opportunity I believe it is.
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In this episode I'll share a few thoughts and experiences I've had as a parent that have led me to the conviction that the best teaching moments happen naturally. While it is great to have set, planned lessons, talks and discussions with others, the best teaching is always done organically, when both the teacher and those being taught are in alignment with each other. When one is ready to give and another truly ready to receive, the teaching and learning that takes place can reach the depths of the heart...but those moments don't come easy nor can they be forced...which means as a teacher, you must always be ready to teach.
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More important than writing our own story may very well be at times changing our own story. In this episode I'll share a few thoughts about how powerful our stories are in creating our reality, but also how easy it can be to get stuck in negative stories, and even the wrong story...when this happens, it is up to us to change them so we can escape their negative gravity. Our story defines who we are and it's in editing our story that we ensure it adds to our life in a positive way instead of holding us back.
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In this episode, I'll share a few thoughts on another common boundary problem, the fixer. Fixers are typically benevolent individuals who want the world to be a better place and for others to be happy...however the fixer fails to take into account the need for struggle. Inadvertently the fixer can rob someone of the very process they need to go through in order to grow themselves. A fixers boundaries are broken in that they try to take in responsibility for those that they are not responsible for. Learning to allow others to fix things themselves, even when you can do it for them and do it better, is a gift that will help them become more self sufficient and confident in who they are...It's ok to let others hurt, struggle and solve their own problems.
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In this episode I'll share a few thoughts on another serious boundary problem, the people pleaser. Born out good intentions, people pleasing sounds like a benevolent thing to do and be, but not at the expense of one's self. People pleasers do more for others out of fear of rejection, and a need for validation then out of true intention. People pleasers often are disconnected from their own feelings, thoughts and opinions and instead bow down to the demands of others at their own expense. Their boundaries are misaligned in that they often have no boundaries. When boundaries are correctly in place it allows for a person to be confident enough with who they are so they can give from a place of true authenticity, instead of pressure and fear.
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In this episode I'll share thoughts on one of the most dangerous and rapidly growing boundary problems in the world today, perfectionism. With the advent of all the ways we connect and be seen in the world today, especially through social media, the pressure of portraying a perfect life has increased exponentially, giving rise to an increase in perfectionism in society. Perfectionism is a suffocating way to live life...because it is the farthest thing from being authentic. Perfectionism does not allow room for mistake or to be seen making a mistake, which ironically is the very bridge we all must cross in order to improve and even begin to approach perfection.
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In this episode, I'll share a few thoughts about the toxic people that will inevitably come into our lives and how to best deal with them. How to avoid letting them suck the life, and joy out us. As much as we'd love to help everyone, sometimes we need to help ourselves first, especially when someone else is bringing us down. Toxic means poisonous, and harmful in a pervasive and even insidious way, and unfortunately there are a lot of people whom that description fits very well. And the reality is toxicity is attracted things which are non toxic, so it can more effectively spread it's poison...While loving and helping others, we all still need to be on guard for those that can hurt us, more than we can help them.
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Based on Garth Brooks Song, "Unanswered Prayers", SOMETIMES we all will thank God for unanswered prayers, especially like with Garth, when we can see how they ended up being a blessing to us. However, I wonder if we can get to place where we can thank God all the time, not just sometimes, for unanswered prayers? Even those times when we can't see why a prayer wasn't answered? That is where the faith comes in! In this episode, I'll share a few thoughts on how we can come to thank him ALL THE TIME for unanswered prayers.
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In this episode, I'll share with you one of the greatest keys to success in business, in relationships, and in life. You'll learn about through this simple and smallest of rules, the British Cycling Team revolutionized the sport of Cycling. If you will apply this rule in your life, you'll see the significant improvements and results you've always wanted to see. It doesn't take much, just a single percent can make all the difference!
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In this episode you'll learn one of the best lessons there is about facing the storms of life, from one of my most favorite animals in Yellowstone National Park, a Buffalo. And as a bonus, you might also learn what a Buffalo has to do with Lord of the Rings, Star Wars and even the Avengers. You'll also learn about a hero of mine that has faced the storms in his life as only you and I could hope to!
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Someone once said, "It's not possible to move forwards, while looking backwards." In this episode, I'll share a few thoughts and principles about how to best escape the trauma's and mistakes in life that keep us looking backwards with fear, instead of looking forward with faith. The past can be incredibly helpful but also incredibly hurtful, depending on how we see it, and how it either helps us move forward or keeps us from moving forward.
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There aren't many feelings worse in life than that of feeling stuck. Whether it's stuck in traffic, stuck in mud or snow, stuck in a meeting, or stuck in any number of other situations, we don't like the feeling of being helpless to change something we don't like. In this episode I'll share a few thoughts that can help in those moments where we feel unable to move forward in our life's journey because of the load that we are carrying...and how we come to see at times that it was the load we were carrying that helped us to get unstuck and to start moving again all along.
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In this episode I'll share a few thoughts on one of the most powerful influences for good and bad that we have in life, and that is the power that is in music. From the moment we are born, music begins to impact our lives, whether it is in a lullaby that sings a baby to sleep or a song that affects a person's mood. Music has been referred to as the sound track of our lives and it really is. However it is also a powerful delivery system to our heart and mind, influencing in powerful ways both our thoughts and emotions. It is a power that we need to better utilize and also better guard ourselves against.
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In this episode, I'll share a truth I've come to learn that was shared with me by a psychologist after years of working with people and that is that "Life is designed to repeat itself until we get it right." I'll share a few thoughts to help better identify the unhealthy patterns in play in your own life as well as how to begin to change them...otherwise they will just continue to repeat themselves until you do. The Law of Attraction is active in all of our lives in creating and attracting things to us based on the healthy or unhealthy patterns in our lives.
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In this episode, I'll share a few thoughts for those times that we have things said about us or others that are hurtful and untrue. We live in a world that loves to spread gossip and rumors and untruths. We may not always be able to keep hurtful things from being said about us but by understanding the hurt places they are coming from we can better keep them from always hurting us. The hurtful things said about others may not always start with us, but they can always end with us as we choose not to add pass them on and continue to give them life...regardless, in the end it's truth that will live. Everything else falsely said will eventually die.
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In this episode I'll share a few thoughts about what it means to get comfortable being uncomfortable and why this is such a good thing to be. Fear will always be the greatest obstacle we will face in getting to where we wan to go, but once we recognize this, understand what it is, why we feel it, and what is on the other side of it. Fear can actually be a powerful indicator that we are heading in the right direction. The more we push through our fears, the more comfortable we will become with being uncomfortable...and we'll recognize the payoff is absolutely worth it!
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In this episode I'll share a few thoughts and principles about how to turn our painful experiences into the blessings they can be in our lives and to others. How to give purpose to our pain. I'll share the true story of Bart Millard lead singer of the band Mercy Me and the author to the most popular Christian Music Song of all time, "I can only imagine." The power isn't in the song as much as it is in the story behind how the song was written. How Bart took all the pain of his life's experience and with God's help healed himself and has helped thousands of others to find healing themselves. As difficult as painful experiences in life can be, with God's help, we can give them purpose.
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Can't Hurt Me. In this episode I'll share a few thoughts about the book with the same name. The story of the former Navy Seal David Goggins and one of the toughest men on the planet. The secret to his success is that there isn't one. It's all about unlocking your full potential through hard work and perseverance through pain. When is the last time hard work was advertised as a solution to anything. In this episode I'll share how to find the balance between a calloused mind and a soft heart and how the combination of the best of you and the best of God will lead you to become, well...DANGEROUS.
Plus I have an announcement to make as a part of this episode.
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Of all the people that we have relationships with, the most important relationship you have other than with God will always be with yourself. If knowledge is the beginning of wisdom that knowing yourself is the beginning of becoming wise yourself. In a world where we are becoming more connected with others, we are as a result loosing connection with ourselves. Taking time for you is always time well spent and by taking your V.I.T.A.L.S from time to time will help ensure you don't end up figuratively on life support...while trying to find your way back to you.
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In what may be one of my most import episode's, I'll share some key scientific data and spiritual connections about the benefits and positive aspects of being grateful in a world obsessed with not having enough. It is the principles and practices shared in this episode that saw me through the most difficult period of my life. I know it can do the same for you...of all the things that are important for us to choose to be...choosing to be grateful maybe the most important of all.
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In this episode, I'll share principles to help develop humility. Humility is not weakness, Humility is strength. Being humble at work, school, in the home and community keeps pride and arrogance away, the two most toxic things that destroy both our relationships with others and with God. It's been referred to as the universal sin, which means we all will struggle with it. If you don't think you will or are, that's your pride talking...and I'd suggest you listen.
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In this episode, I'll share a few thoughts about the importance of always creating and visualizing new things and experiences. Kids find some of their greatest joy in life when they tap into their God given abilities to create. The saddest of adults I've ever come across have almost always neglected or forgotten to use their power to create. Creation is what makes life worth living. The more we create or experience creation the happier we will be. There is a desire to create in every living person that needs to be tapped into, in order for them to feel truly happy, fulfilled and alive.
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There is not much more of an important attitude and mindset to cultivate than that of being open to learning. In this episode I'll share a few thoughts about why having a mind open to learning is so vital to progressing in life and how to best develop it. To have a closed mind in any situation whether we've heard it before, or seen it before, or even experienced it before, is to close the door to the learning we might have received had we kept our mind open. We can never stop learning because life never stops teaching!
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In this episode I'll share a few thoughts about how important time is and shockingly how so much of it is spent during our lives. The little bit of time that we truly have on this earth and how we use it, can shape everything from our lives, to our happiness and relationships and eventually to what eternity looks like for us. There is no greater currency we can spend then the time we have each and every day. Whether we look back on our lives with joy or regret comes down to one thing...how did we spend our time.
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In this episode I'll share a few thoughts to help us keep those influences at bay that are all around us and that seek to become masters over us. The longer I live my life the more convinced I am that the only protective control that will eventually be left in this world will be self control. Some of the greatest things we can teach our kids is how to develop this control while they are with us and why it is so important they learn it. Otherwise they will be destined to have these powerful influences control them. The subtlety of how these things can become masters over us instead of us being masters over them is what is most frightening.
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In todays episode, I'll share a few thoughts about how to make important decisions correctly. As one saying goes, decisions determine destiny. Not all decisions are of equal weight. Some certainly will impact our destiny more than others. It's those decisions we need to get right. God has not left us alone to make them. He has given us several things in our lives to help point the way if we'll look for them, and use them to help us. He also is a God of second chances and even when we don't make a decision correctly we can always make the decision to get back on track with his help.
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In this episode I'll share a few thoughts about how to best grow any relationship that is important to us. If we took an accounting of our relationships as much as we do of our finances we would have a better picture of any potential deficiencies that exist and make the necessary deposits to keep them out of the red. Building a relationship is like building wealth, it grows one deposit at a time, one investment at a time...however like with finances if all we make is withdrawals we run the risk of our relationship becoming bankrupt.
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In this episode I'll share another important aspect to understand about boundaries. Boundaries are not just fences or walls that keep things in or that keep things out but they need to be permeable, in that they need to be able to allow things in and also allow things out. There needs to be a gate, that we control for these types of things to come in and out. The best boundaries are strong enough to keep things in and and other things out, but at times are also soft enough to allow good things to come in and bad things to go out.
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In this episode I'll introduce and discuss the topic of boundaries. Understanding boundaries is vital to understanding ourselves. Defining our boundaries helps us to better define ourselves. So many of life's problems are a result of the problem with boundaries. In this episode we'll discuss what they are, how to use them to protect us and to allow others to be who they are. We'll look at how to use boundaries to better align our inside voice with our outside voice, and be true to who we are.
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In this episode I'll share some thoughts about what it means to be a true friend verses being true to your friend. We all need to have and be the kind of friend that may not always tell others what they want to hear but will always tell others what they need to hear. That is the mark of a true friend. Someone that is willing to put your welfare and wellbeing even above your own friendship. Someone that would rather being seen as the enemy than to let your enemies hurt you. It's those kinds of friends we need most in our lives.
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In this episode I'll share a few thoughts about the best way I have found to express love. We all need to hear the words but it's the actions that prove it. The show then tell method of expressing love is the most effective way for love to be seen, felt, experienced and even heard. When we learn to adopt this method of expressing love, we learn to love others as God loves as God loves us.
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In this episode I'll discuss a few thoughts about how sometimes restriction is what will keep us most free. Rules, laws, guidelines and commandments are designed to help us keep our power and freedom, not limit it or take it away. God wants us to be free which ironically is why he has given us restriction.
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In this episode I'll share a few thoughts about how we can learn and grow from those times in life that burn us. We can't learn without making mistakes, and we can't make mistakes without being free of the fear of getting burned. It's from our failure that we find the path us to succeed.
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In this episode I'll share a few thoughts about what we can do when we find ourselves in some of the darkest COLDEST places in life...places where the light has gone out and it seems like there can be no happy ending...places where all we can do is THE NEXT RIGHT THING.
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In this episode I'll share a few thoughts to help when facing the terrible realities of depression. None of us will be spared from experiencing depression at some point in our lives, some more severe than others, but depression in any form can be a major obstacle to over come in trying to find joy in life. I'll offer some practical tips to help as well as spiritual principles to apply in those situations and during those times when depression shows up in our lives.
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In this episode, I'll share some thoughts and principles to help deal with one of the most difficult battles we can face in life. The battle we will have at times with anxiety. Anxiety is a very real and growing problem, especially among the youth. In this episode I'll cover both practical, and behavior approaches to managing anxiety as well as spiritual principles to help us have faith, courage and hope when facing it.
Principles that I believe can help us run towards the causes of anxiety instead of away from them...while also balancing the need at times for professional help to manage it.
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In this episode I'll share a few thoughts about how to make sure you are connected to the right people in your life and why that's so importation, especially during difficult times when it's natural to want to be alone. It's through connection that he can best heal and grow as we draw strength from those we are connected to.
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In this episode I'll discuss principles to help address the physical insecurities that we all have but that are especially prevalent in women's lives. Principles that can help us see beneath the surface and better recognize what true beauty is. Because after all is said and done it's not what's on the outside that counts but what's on the inside. We are all so much more than just our bodies.
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In this episode I'll share a principle that can help when facing dark influences in our lives and when worried about the dark influences that you can't prevent in the lives of those you love. Sometimes the darkness can help us see the light better.
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In this episode I'll discuss principles that can help us forgive the person that is always the hardest to forgive, ourselves.
When God says we are required to forgive all men, he's not excluding ourselves in that statement.
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In this episode I'll discuss the relationship between saying "I'm sorry" and "it's ok." Being able to forgive and when necessary asking for forgiveness. The hurt that comes from others is often more about them then us ... And the forgiveness we give others is often more for us then it is for them.
Learning to forgive, is about learning to set ourselves free.
But at times the power to forgive won't come from us.
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In this episode we'll take a look at how powerful a positive mindset can be. More than we realize, we create the world in which we live for good and for bad. Everything begins with us and with our thoughts. Learning to develop a positive mindset can make all of the difference in creating the life that we have always wanted. Or maybe it's learning to better see in a positive light the life we've always had...either way we win.
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In this episode we'll take a look at how to handle those moments when life says no to those things that we really wanted a yes to. Whether it is a job that we've been wanting and can't seem to get, to kids that we would love but can't seem to have or so many other things...we all have times when life says no. How we handle those moments helps determine how and when they finally become a yes.
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In this episode we'll look at one of the most fundamental and important practices we can do to shape our lives for good and be all that we are capable of being for ourselves and for those around us. Self Care is a practice that ensures we can give others the best of us and not what is left of us.
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In this episode, we'll take a look at the equation that is at the heart of just about every issue that we can have. The enough equation is simple math for feeling safe, secure and enough in our lives and with who we are. Every single one of us has the need to feel safe and secure... But how we try to get there is where the equation can fall out of alignment. When the different parts of this equation are out of alignment, life becomes out of alignment. Understanding this equation will help you better keep your worth, power and safety all where they are meant to be.
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In this episode, I'll discuss how to best tell the differences between the true sources of joy in life and the imitations that are out there. Not everything is always as it seems...there is so much that promises happiness but that end's up leaving us feeling empty. Learning to recognize what is real and where it comes from is what can lead to the kind of happiness that fills us up and is lasting. The secret might just be found in Cap'n Crunch!
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In this episode we'll take a closer look at the differences between Shame and Guilt...how to recognize them for what they are and the purpose they serve and where they both originate from. We'll also take a look at how to deal with shame and keep it from defining who you are. Because the truth is you are not your mistake.
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In this episode I will share some thoughts on one of the greatest patterns you apply in your life...the pattern of BE. Do. Have. I'll also share ways in which we struggle to understand this pattern and how easy it can be to get it wrong. When we live with intention the other two fall into place on their own.
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In this episode I'll discuss principles to help you see and recognize your weaknesses for what they are. The importance of being patient with yourself as you work through those weaknesses as well as what you can do to turn them into a strength. We all have them, the question that remains to be answered is what will we do about them and with them. It's possible for our greatest weaknesses to become some of our greatest strengths.
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In this episode I'll discuss what is known as the thief of joy in life, comparing ourselves with others. I'll share some thoughts on why it is so natural to do it and how to find the source of where it is coming from. And finally some thoughts about how to keep this thief from stealing our joy and instead build a life of confidence and security with who we are.
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In this episode I'll share a few thoughts about how to make a difference wherever you find yourself, whether it's at home, at school, at work and in your community. It's the little things we can choose to do that make the biggest differences in those places we are in. We just need to choose to lift wherever we stand. The development of this practice is also ironically the best way to lift ourselves as well.
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In this episode I'll share the best way I know of to help assist you in finding your person and finding love no matter what stage of life you are in. Or if you've already found your person and found love, these principles will help you find them both again and again...Love after all is never found just once. It needs to be found each and every day. As a bonus you'll even learn what Star Wars has to do with finding your person.
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In this Episode, I'll discuss the dangers of cutting corners in your life and how to avoid them. We'll cover principles that will instead help you to build a foundation for a life of success, happiness, and fulfillment in the right way...a way that you can be proud of and that will stand the test of time.
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In this episode, I will be discussing how we are actually meant and expected to judge others, but how to do so in a healthy and Christ like way. I'll share principles to follow that will promote patience, understanding and mercy in the way that we judge those in our lives. And most importantly how to judge others in the way we would like to be judged ourselves.
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In this episode, I will discuss dealing with feelings and thoughts of not being good enough. Where they come from, and what to do about them. I will discuss the most important thing you can do to care less about what others think and step more into your personal worth and power and live with authenticity.
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In this episode, I will discuss what resistance is, it's purpose and how to recognize it in our lives. I will also share some thoughts on how to use it as motivation to break through those things that are holding us back from experiencing all that life has to offer and becoming all that we are capable of becoming.
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In this episode, I will discuss principles, and truths that can help when we find ourselves in places we never thought we would be nor wanted to be...Things to help get through the "I don't want to be here" moments of our lives.
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In this episode, I will discuss what I feel is the most important aspect of any relationship and how to develop the kind of love that lasts. In a world obsessed with love languages, compatibly signs, and the science of love in relationship. We seem to miss the one aspect that can help deepen a relationship more than any of them. This is what I want my daughters to know about love in any relationship.
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In this episode I will share a few thoughts about one of my favorite quotes of all time...something that speaks to what I believe is at the heart of life's purpose. We live in a world where it is natural to want it all. However one of the great dichotomies of life is that we are only enough with it all when we are able and willing to let it all go.. Because if you are not enough without it you will never be enough with it. I hope you remember and like the movie cool runnings!
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In this episode I'll share a few thoughts about the significance of filling our lives with good and how to better recognize and eliminate those sources that are having a negative effect on us mentally, emotionally and spiritually. We best protect who we are and who we can become by protecting what we allow into our hearts and minds while simultaneously increasing the light and truth in us.
We truly become what we think.
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In this episode, I'll discuss how when we learn to focus on the journey instead of the destination it allows us to see all the beauty in the world and in our daily life. How by focusing on the journey the destinations eventually take care of themselves. As we learn to do this we will come to see in our lives that the journey is where we were meant to be all along.
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