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Statement vs. Question

7/26/2020

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Got all fired up from a conversation with the one and only Dr. Jeff Lip.  We were talking about a book that we both recent read, "The Final Summit" by Andy Andrews.  It was an eye, mind & heart opening book and Jeff brought up some great points that we talked about on his show.  Check out his show HERE to hear our conversation and to find his other podcasts to listen to it.  One thing I wanted to bring up was this idea of our lives being a mindset of a "! vs. ?".    Our lives can be either a question mark (full of doubt, fear, lack of passion, etc.) or it can be an exclamation point (confidence, encouragement, passion, great relationships, etc.). 

There are so many things that we can do to get through the "stormy seas" that we all have going on in our lives and how we don't have to be scared along with realizing that we ourselves, can be the "calm" of our own storms. This came from this quote out of the book that Jeff shared with me in our discussion: 

"My life which was a question mark is now a statement. Stormy seas do not scare me for I am the calm in the storm.  My past is behind me and my future is bright because I now know the secret of the present. I will do something and I will do it now."

Part of this solution to have a life more of a "!" is by having great people in your life that you can talk with, bounce ideas off of, to have in your corner for encouragement and to learn from them too. Another thought is who's "storm" do you want to be driving your ship through?  Your own "stormy seas" or someone else's where you are not the one in control.  Same thought - do you want someone else driving your ship?  I know I don't want that. 

Check out my podcast HERE where I share some thoughts & ideas. This is something that will help me to get my day & week started in a
great direction.  Hope it does the same for you.


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Appreciation & Gratitude Found Everywhere

7/15/2020

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Had to share this with everyone along with trying something new of working with my Facebook Live, my YouTube channel and using it here in a podcast.  So far, so good.  So many things happened in the last 24 hours or so that has taught me some important lessons dealing with Appreciation & Gratitude. 

Yesterday for example, I was in a great group chat with some friends Denyse, Jeff & Tricia yesterday.  We just had some discussions on what we are doing lately, celebrating some things, discussion on some successes of overcoming roadblocks of doing things we want to do.  It was a very uplifting and encouraging group chat.  Denyse has been leading the way helping us all to see the importance of having these every so often.  I found it so uplifting to have these people in my corner as I have appreciated their encouragement, ideas and motivation to do the things that I know I need and want to do.  It just so happens that we are all doing that for each other.

This morning too, Coach Dave reached out to me just for a quick chat as he drove into school where he has a long list of things that have to get done, and we had a very uplifting & encouraging discussion that really helped both of us.  We had a great discussion of things that he is going through and the lessons that he is learning as he gets his basketball program going with him being the varsity head coach. 

Reading a lot more has been a huge part of feeling good about myself and being inspired about many things going on in my life too.  I can say now here in this post that I got my book order delivered.  In the video on Facebook and YouTube, along with my podcast recording for this topic, I did not have the book "The Garden" by Jon Gordon yet.. but I do now.  Then finally, I went out to our local Fresh Market... picked up some deli items and fresh vegetables too and I saw a few examples of things that reminded me about Appreciation, Gratitude, Compassion, Kindness and like my good friend Coach T.I. mentioned on Facebook, we all need to compromise a little bit more too.  So many lessons in the span of just living my life & I had to share it here with you in this podcast.  Click HERE to listen to my podcast about these events. 
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Encouragement - We All Need It

7/10/2020

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This has been happening a lot lately, so I thought it would be a great reminder for not only me, but for anyone that reads this post.

I've been encouraged a lot lately.  With posting a little bit more on Youtube, Facebook, Twitter, my podcast, LinkedIn, and even just a little bit on Instagram - I've been getting some good encouragement for what I'm putting out there.  You know what, it not only makes me feel good; but it gives me more confidence for what I'm sharing out there.  So in essence, I'm trying to encourage others just like people have done for me.  It's one thing I've always done for a long time and people have told me about the fact that I'm good at it.  Which looking back throughout my life, I guess it's been a foundation for me.

In today's world I think it's something that we all need more of.  A key element of it that you need to give it to get it I think.  If you can keep lifting people up and encouraging them in everyday little moments; it will come back to you many times over.  Remember, the world is not going to this for us - it's up to us to do it.   That's why I think not only in person we need to do it, but we need to put these messages of encouragement out into the social media world too.  There is power in this for others.  Knowing that someone is there telling us that we can do something, might be just the thing to get us going.  Also remember that sometimes we have to believe in someone else's belief in us. Try it and watch what happens.
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I Don't Know, What I Don't Know

7/4/2020

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I think this reading more books is tending to agree with me as I am more fired up now than ever before and reading has been a big part of it.  My current read is "Mean People Suck" by Michael Brenner and it's another good one.  No big surprise as I heard about this book on John O'Leary's Podcast.   This whole simple idea that we don't know everything & there are tons of people that think they do know everything.  There are a couple of advantages for those of us that realize that isn't true.  One is that if we recognize that we only know what we know and we don't know what we don't know, compared to those people that pretend to know it all - we can use that to a HUGE advantage.  Just being honest with ourselves about this opens up the fact that we know and want to keep learning. 

Those people (bosses, executives, others) that think they know it all - it's the opposite affect and it comes to be more costly too.  It not only shuts off new information that can help solve problems, make more money, create new opportunities, etc.; but it is also does bigtime damage to relationships too.  Look at those people that are in your life that just always seem to dismiss people because they "think" they know everything.  I think we all know people like this and it is amazing how, for the most part we look to not really do too much for them or with them.  There always seems to be that tension around them and that always will make things more difficult to get things done.

So again - this book (and the others I'm reading .... see my booklist on my home page), really has reminded me of things that I can do to help myself out.  I hope these things help you too.  Remember, you gain a very large advantage remembering that you you don't know everything.  Remain humble in what you know and always look to keep that life-long learner type of attitude.  Since there are so many others doing they opposite, they will actually help you more than will ever know.


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