Honor.The.Gift Podcast

ROADS

@yung_pueblo invites us to: “Pick the path that lights you up. The one that you know deep down is the right choice. Stop listening to doubt. Start connecting with courage. Do not let the idea of normal get in the way. It may not be the easy path, but you know great things take effort. Lean into your determination. Lean into your mission. Lean into the real you.”

I believe most people would say that two roads exist: an easy road and a hard road. Those well traveled would likely say that both provide vistas, recognizing that one seems to always come up as the more provident choice looking back. 

IN THIS WEEK’S EPISODE, we’re hitting the ROADS, exploring attributes of both the hard and easy paths and their predictable vistas. 

The light will always shine brighter than the darkness. That spirt that burns inside of you is of divine appointment and built to love and serve.

Each one of us have the ability to impact this world and help shape those around us through our influence for good. Lean into the growth life affords you, for it will set the foundation for progress in your life. 

Let us choose the path less traveled as we lean into becoming our best selves.  

LIGHT THE WAY

As I reflect on my own personal contribution, it burns within me to rise to the challenge of more. More time. More respect. More patience. More hope. More service. More love. There are individuals who need us now. There are communities and nations that need us now. Not because we are better than they, but because we have hands that can hold and hearts that can give. 

IN THIS WEEK’S EPISODE, you’ll find a different message than you are used to. It’s from the heart and candid. 

The light will always shine brighter than the darkness. That spirt that burns inside of you is of divine appointment and built to love and serve.

Let’s do the work of being better.

QUESTIONS?

Today’s market place is being claimed by a unique breed of entrepreneur. Choice is a recognized gift, and one that’s being used to differentiate and produce marked results. It is not for the passive expectationist. It will require a resilience and commitment to the unordinary. In the session you’ll learn how career, when recognized as an integrated way of being, and not a separation from your normal life, is a foundation for living true. If you’re ready to take your results to the next level, your starting point is “YOU,” and an immersion in this episode.

IN THIS WEEK’S EPISODE, I’ll give you a few QUESTIONS for consideration, and a short list of keys to unlock your best self.

It’s your time. Let’s do this!

HOW ABOUT TODAY?

Real leadership comes from within. It’s only when we make a deep commitment to personal growth, that we’ll begin to see and feel alignment with the world around us. Secondly, within each of us resides a spirit of aspiration and improvement. We strive for more. We yearn for better. Sometimes…we unleash the hounds, while other times we snaffle any action towards improvement. We take the easy road, and well…we just don’t. 

IN THIS WEEK’S EPISODE, I share some of my thoughts around this question: WHAT ABOUT TODAY? It’s the premise and opportunity for us all as we lean into the next 60 days of the year to be “in momentum” as we begin another year on this planet.

As you seize the opportunities before you with reverence and zeal, may you find wild success in the tomorrows initiated each day. May you find yourself IN momentum, with high energy, as opposed to thumbing it on the roadside when the new year arrives.

It’s your time. Let’s do this!

DOPAMINE HANGOVER

We are living detached in an attached world. It’s confusing. It’s felt. It is damaging our existence as a species. It is impacting our contribution in the lives of those we love and serve and more importantly, we are un-substantiating our existence. 

Unfortunately, it’s beginning to be unconscious and habitual. 

We are losing our ability to focus on what matters most. 

IN THIS WEEK’S EPISODE, I share some quick thoughts on one particular type of DOPAMINE HANGOVER, and one that is challenging society in a big way.

The DOPAMINE HANGOVER I reference, is one of the mental fatigue and short circuiting caused by the constancy of short-term engagement in our lives. We check our devices as if they hold the nutrients essential to our existence. When we go without, the crave to re-engage is evasive at best leaving us lonely, agitated, anxious and a physical unrest without its influence. 

In the end, I guess what I’m saying is when we are together, you and me, I want just that. No distractions. Space to SAVOR all it has to offer. 

Will you join me?

THE SPACE BETWEEN

Without a predetermined response and a plan of action for the choice that will come, we often times find it impossible to keep up or even catch that choice point until it has come and gone. It’s then we realize that we had a choice, knew better, but refused to stop mid-path to pause time and allow for an adjusted and more appropriate path forward.

This requires practice. It requires an awareness of self when triggered. It requires a daily commitment to start chipping away at ego’s persona.

IN THIS WEEK’S EPISODE, I share with you my thoughts on change and the impact it can have in the world. In your world. 

Will you allow a pace and space for discovery and stillness, or will you avoid the change all together? 

We’ll not find perfection here, but we will certainly be given ample practice time in this big game we call LIFE. 

Let’s do it.

MY WORLD WILL CHANGE TODAY

I remember seeing a t-shirt once that had the words: “THE CRITICAL SLIDE” printed on it.  Whether it meant what I took from it or not, it brought clearly to my own mind, the slippery slope of criticism and aimed skepticism.

What I mean by that is simply this: Your own bad attitude will never solve for someone else’s incompetency. It’s an easy path for certain to react or to act out. In fact, often times it’s a reactionary coverup for the familiarities brought on by the procrastinated efforts of personal change. 

Your world will change today. Will you be there for it, and be active in the shift? 

IN THIS WEEK’S EPISODE, I share with you my thoughts on change, and the impact it can have on the world. In your world.

If you want to make a mark in your life and in the lives of those who count on you through your legacy, let this thought sink in: No one remembers easy! 

Off we go!

COURAGE

The dichotomy of courage exists where external influences (love and trust) might strengthen one’s ability to go into the danger, while at the same time the movement comes from an internal commitment to take risk in spite of the fear and repercussions of those external to us, even those we…(love and trust.)

For most of us, these moments that challenge our courage and question our contribution and existence, we will run as fast as we can to avoid the pain of change.

IN THIS WEEK’S EPISODE, I share with you my thoughts on the choice to exercise more COURAGE in our lives and the outcomes available. That feeling of HOME is found and felt when we exercise the COURAGE to live true.

Let’s do this!

DECOY STRATEGIES

On the topic of character, a life well-lived and one of resonance, will undoubtedly be fraught with the hard stuff. The unsightly cracks and holes in our character will be exposed, whether invited or not, and when you face those moments, how will you respond? Will your decided path find you on it?  

For most of us, these moments that challenge our courage and question our contribution and existence, we will run as fast as we can to avoid the pain of change.

IN THIS WEEK’S EPISODE, I share with you my take on the opposite of intentionality, by introducing you to the notion of DECOY STRATEGIES. 

We’ll also discuss a couple of hacks that can help us in our outcomes and confidence level. 

Here we go!

CLOSED FOR INVENTORY

This week we are closing shop to do a little inventory. Personal inventory that is, and the shop is social media. 

It’s that time of year. The seasons are changing. Some of you may be feeling the itch to create some change in your life. Many companies are looking to evaluate their condition as they head into the final quarter of the year. If you’ve got the itch and are feeling anxious for something different, it’s time to close down your own shop to take inventory.

IN THIS WEEK’S EPISODE, I deliver a challenge/invitation for you to take some intentional time away from the social distraction and to get really intentional about your own growth heading into the remainder of 2020. 

Listen to the episode. Take the challenge. Focus on where you want to go or who you want to become. Recognize you have a choice. Plan for the creation of new habits that can inform and manifest a daily commitment to a better you. 

I’m in. My time starts now. I am closed for inventory. See you in 7 days.