Honor.The.Gift Podcast

OWN YOUR MESS

In Robin Sharma’s book “The Leader Who Had No Title,” he shares an opening notion that “Getting lost along your path is a part of finding the path you’re meant to be on. Sometimes we need to get off track before we can develop the clarity to be on track.”

IN THIS WEEK’S EPISODE, I’ll share with you some quick thoughts on OWNING OUR MESS and how we as humans beings tend to deflect the mess of change in an effort to stay in the comfort of our know pain.

As human beings we will go to great lengths to avoid life’s most precious and messy opportunities for growth. In fact, I believe, and would be willing to bet that most people tend to avoid tackling their own demons because they don’t want to lose their suffering. Personal experience and folly has manifested this in my own life.

So when life has you whirling in anger and frustration, with a quest to assign someone else the mess...make sure that the reflection staring back at you isn’t a call to action. It’s most likely on you to solve, and never was someone else’s to hold for you. 

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PING PONG with BRAD BIZJACK

Seth Green said of himself: “All of my activities are so pedestrian. The extreme sport I play is ping pong. And we play it hard. If any of you suckers want to step up to the table, be ready.” 

Well we did play a little ping pong. We tried to score the match. Brad definitely had the upper-hand, built from wisdom in the trenches. Ultimately this match goes to the noble gamesman.  

IN THIS WEEK’S EPISODE you’ll meet Brad Bizjack, a fellow Certified High Performance Coach, and someone I am grateful to have formed a friendship with. 

Brad is a Mindset Mentor and the Founder of Appreciation Academy. His mission is to help high-performers maximize their life and feel alive each day, so they can elevate their mindset, career, and relationships to the next level and beyond. He is a father, husband, and leader. As a coach to some of the worlds brightest entrepreneurs, and someone who lives his truth, he is impacting the world in a big way. 

The focus of our conversation is APPRECIATION, more particularly, the nuances and benefit of an APPRECIATION Mindset. 

If personal GROWTH continues to knock at your door, and you’re ready to move beyond self awareness to self management but wonder how fostering an APPRECIATION mindset might help…

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CROWDSOURCING DRAMA

In his pamphlet series, The American Crisis, Thomas Paine declared that “What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly: it is dearness only that gives every thing its value. Heaven knows how to put a proper price upon its goods; and it would be strange indeed if so celestial an article as freedom should not be highly rated.”

IN THIS WEEK’S EPISODE, I’ll share with you some quick thoughts on CROWDSOURCING DRAMA and how we as humans being…well…human, seek external distraction in the face of great change. 

Personal growth is the opposite of an external charade. Duality vs. individual ownership is the  choice. Know that crowdsourcing opinion or validating stance is a form of drama. It will not bring you peace, but rather short term installments in a journey far from your desired destination.

I hope you receive great value from this episode. 

JUST ONE DAY

Two quotes; the first by Keith Cunningham which reads: “Growth is what you say “yes” to. Success is what you say “no” to,” and the second by Robin Sharma: “Every time you resist temptation and pursue optimization you invigorate in yourself heroism.” 

What do they have in common? Personal ownership requires just that, so let’s start with JUST ONE DAY. 

IN THIS WEEK’S EPISODE, I’ll share with you some quick thoughts on owning your day and some tips on how to truly give yourself to the beginning stages of excellence by committing yourself to JUST ONE DAY. 

There is a great avoidance found in multi-tasking. Be willing to be with your stuff. Slow down. Let go of the self imposed or chosen distractions in your life. Clear the window and then face the storm, recognizing that personal excellence in any area of your life will require some trade offs. Often times it is our present habits that are robbing us from a life of significance and impact.  

If you are ready to commit yourself to better results, take a listen to this episode! 

MOVEMENT, MINDSET, and MUSIC

Everything hinges on mindset. Every single action we take starts right there. One of the most powerful tools in our lives is that squishy matter between our ears governed by the choices we make each day. We also have this uncanny ability to program and train our brains to adopt fabricated or designed realities as a way to help us adapt to change or combat insecurities.

As an example of this: Ego developed during times of abundance, if not curbed, will be the same ego that will shield our growth during times of scarcity.

IN THIS WEEK’S EPISODE, I’ll share with you some quick thoughts on MOVEMENT, MINDSET, and MUSIC and how they play together.

If your holding tight to old habits, past results and the need to be right...LET GO! This death grip is just that. You’ve stopped developing and your path forward will be riddled with roadblocks.

Progress lies on the other side of this purgatory.

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Jody Moore on COACHING

“YOU CAN’T ESCAPE YOUR BRAIN, however, you do have the ability to choose what you will think. There’s great freedom that comes from that understanding. Further more, I don’t have to bring the past into my present and future.” 

Every once in a while someone really good at their craft comes along in a way that is simply remarkable. For me, the key attribute of personal ownership and responsibility is more than evident in this week’s guest. 

IN THIS WEEK’S EPISODE you’ll meet Jody Moore, Founder and CEO of Jody Moore Coaching. Jody is a Master Certified Life Coach with a BA in Communications and an MA in Adult Education along with 15 years of experience as a Corporate Trainer and Leadership Coach. She’s a mother of 4, and someone who lives her truth. Jody is the host of the Better Than Happy Podcast and the founder of the BE Bold Program. 

The focus of our conversation is COACHING, more particularly, the nuances of GREAT COACHING. 

GREAT COACHES practice one thing better than the rest. They exercise restraint of opinion and they hold sacred the space for a client’s own discovery. 

If personal GROWTH continues to knock at your door, and you’re ready to move beyond self awareness to self management but wonder what COACHING is all about…

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SELF AWARE

Throughout our lives, we will each be faced with moments of harsh clarity. Clarity of what is, a real awareness of what must change, and an emerging desire to align with the vision of what we know we can become.

It’s in these moments we are rocked to the core of our present existence. It’s in these moments we are tested against our potential to become. It’s in these moments of potential, that our future self begs us to commit.

IN THIS WEEK’S EPISODE, I’ll share with you some quick thoughts on being SELF AWARE and the choices that follow.

On the path toward ongoing significance and impact, let me remind you of this simple yet resonate notion: Creativity at its pinnacle is contribution.

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LETTING GO

In The Daily Stoic, Ryan Holiday shares this profound insight from Epictetus: “The beautiful and good person neither fights with anyone nor, as much as they are able, permits others to fight...this is the meaning of getting an education - learning what is your own affair and what is not. If a person carries themselves so, where is there any room for fighting?” - Epictetus, Discourses, 4.5.1; 7b-8a

IN THIS WEEK’S EPISODE, I’ll share with you some quick thoughts on LETTING GO so we can move forward.

Growth requires that we let go of our ego and refrain from romanticizing the past. In an effort to create a brilliant future, be careful to not nourish resentment, for it is a weed that will take over your future garden. 

Epictetus challenges us to let go of the petulant stranglehold we have on BE RIGHT, by pursuing and cultivating our own affairs. The go-forward will always require that we let go of what might be holding us back. 

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DESIGNED FOR GROWTH

Tom Bilyeu stated that “Humans are designed to grow: Literally designed to do it. So, since you’re human, if you’re willing to focus and push yourself, you will grow. And that’s awesome. And you’re awesome simply by being human. You don’t need to have made a single right choice in your life up to this point. You have the raw material, now it’s just a matter of shaping it. Love yourself for that. Be aggressively stoked on yourself for that.” 

IN THIS WEEK’S EPISODE, I’ll share with you some quick thoughts on how each of us are DESIGNED FOR GROWTH.

As a caution: don’t let ego and insecurity get in the way of your own personal growth. 

On this journey to become our best self, let us find grace. BECOMING is a constant effort to BE the humans we are divinely appointed to BECOME. While on this path you’re certain to come across tremendous obstacles and tempting paths, away from the best version of you. 

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EXCHANGE

“Enlightenment could be defined as the absence of resistance to what is, the total intimacy with whatever is taking place without any desire to reject or replace it; so intimate that there is no room for a self to separate itself out from the whole.” - Rupert Spira

 

LIFE is not an individual sport. We were designed for relationship. The relationships we foster in this life through selfless engagement and service, will produce the highest growth factors possible.

 

IN THIS WEEK’S EPISODE, I’ll share with you some quick thoughts on the EXCHANGE found in relationship design. 

 

Challenge for us all: Stop trying to control others and make the conscious choice to invite others to our party ONLY through our efforts and example of personal growth, and reverence for the journey.

 

If you’re ready to own your impact on those around you, join me for this week’s episode!