Honor.The.Gift Podcast

WODOTO

WODOTO - Watch one. Do one. Teach one.  A concept developed to help you translate receipt to service. It is a formula for growth. It is a system of replication and expansion.

IN THIS WEEK’S EPISODE, I share with you my favorite notion and system for honoring best the gifts and stewardship we’ve each been given. 

We each come to this world at different times. Our legacy is up for grabs. Do we have a clear vision for what can be, or better yet, what we and others can become at our best? Are we intentional about our stewardship and do we look for the lessons…which requires a level of openness…to then designate time and resource to developing others with the gifts we have been given? 

IN THIS MOMENT...I CAN

In this moment, ALL WE ARE, IS ALL WE ARE.

There is an enormous power in right now. We have full control and opportunity to act in this moment from a place of confidence and commitment to our best self.

The I CANs and I CAN’Ts will certainly manifest themselves throughout your life as you engage with them. 

IN THIS WEEK’S EPISODE, I share with you my thoughts on the power of now, the power of I CAN and the choices available for service over self. 

I AM…THIS MOMENT. BE who you know you can be for those you love.

TIME TO FLY

If you want to fly, you’re going to need to lighten your load before takeoff. Your ability to be agile, resilient, adaptable, ready to go without baggage when the destination you seek is YOU 2.0, will make the difference between launch and failure to launch. 

Successful flights call for a massive amount of forward momentum and clarity and agility.  

Remember that growth is always a choice. Breakthroughs happen for those willing to give up security for significance. 

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. 

IN THIS WEEK’S EPISODE, I share with you my thoughts on the taking flight and the badge we might consider leaving out of our go-forward proposition. 

This is an episode you won’t want to miss! 

STORIES

We’ve heard it said in recent years that we are in the age of the story teller. When we expand that thinking and turn to the books on the shelf, we will find: the story we are writing; our own personal story,  the stories we tell ourselves and the stories we are listening to. With all of the available options and limited time, which story will have the biggest impact in our lives? 

IN THIS WEEK’S EPISODE, I share with you my thoughts on the STORIES we encounter in this life, and the real opportunity to write your own. 

Remember that growth is always a choice. Breakthroughs happen for those willing to give up security for significance. 

At the end of one’s life, a finished transcript will always outweigh a story started, but never fully written.

LEGACY

Do you have a bias for growth? If not, your bias for stagnancy can and will continue to produce a non-variable outcome of discontent and disbelief.

IN THIS WEEK’S EPISODE, I share with you my thoughts on LEGACY, and the premise of honoring those that came before by how we tackle each day.

Life is in session. Welcome to the classroom. For those who are embarking on this journey into the unknown, I commend you and run along side you, cheering you on.  As well, I thank you for the courage to also set pace for those watching, for we all can improve and grow through your example.

Who’s name sake do you honor and what LEGACY are you building?

 

TIME...

We’ve heard it said before: “Today is the first day of the rest of your life.”

 

Time is the ever waning commodity not yet assigned a market value, because you just can’t buy it. It’s the same daily 24 hour allotment for each person on this planet regardless of title or position in life. It can be given and taken but not transferred. Time can also be a vacuum. Time has no end or beginning, and certainly no certainty. 

 

IN THIS WEEK’S EPISODE, I share with you my thoughts on TIME, the story of a dear friend, and the real opportunity for each of us when it comes to how we honor this gift. . 

 

I’ve learned simply that: your efforts are creating your tomorrow. It means that what I do with this moment right now, will either honor or waste the stewardship I’ve been given in this life. Do I define presence in part by an awareness to honor each second?

UNLOCKED

As I step forward, I can feel the dirt under my feet as it grinds and shifts. I walk slowly to the base of what was so eloquently coined the “pamper pole.” Up to this point in my life I had lived much of it in full on duplicity. Hiding from those I loved a life that was filled with darkness, betrayal, deceit, hypocrisy and ego; a life not well lived; a life with no honor to those I loved and served. I was broken, and yet I knew all along the life I had chosen was never going to get me where I wanted to go. 

 

On this day my leap would prove to be a token of commitment towards living true. The choice to let go of a life of hypocrisy and selfishness and to dive headfirst into the unknown of consequence for my past was fully present.

 

What would unfold over the next 48 hours would be the start of a miracle that still lives today.  

 

IN THIS WEEK’S EPISODE, I share with you the Introduction to the book I’ve been writing, titled UNLOCKED: The 5 Keys to Living True in Life and in Business. 

 

This book has been a long standing passion project for me. If you’ve ever toyed with the notion of being completely honest with who you are and how you exist, and know that something better lies on the other side of this duality, you’ll want to tune in, and stay tuned in for much more to come on the act of being called “LIVING TRUE.”

Time to ACT

In the study of human psychology, reactivity refers to the human tendency to change their behavior when they know that they are being watched. This is a part of the normal human desire to be perceived in the best possible light, and not be judged in a negative way. 

Indecision, doubt, and fear, when left unbridled, will almost always manifest itself as an outburst of anger and resentment. 

IN THIS WEEK’S EPISODE, I discuss the choice that faces us each day: to ACT or REACT?  And…a few other tough questions that will challenge your appetite for growth and self awareness. 

LET IT GO

The older I get, the more I realize that life is full of vibrancy. The reverence I feel for other’s struggles, and their path, is a reminder to me of the thinly veiled connection we each have with one another. Differences subside. Hope and gratitude surface. Cheering rather than chiding provides a more lasting providence.

Drama doesn’t have to be an option. “Be right” is a choice. Learning to LET IT GO, is a practice. 

IN THIS WEEK’S EPISODE, I discuss the trappings of drama and more particularly the role of persecutor in their need to be right. 

FOCUS

Earlier this week I had the chance to spend what I would consider critical coaching time with two people I care for deeply. Both had become so wrapped up in their own realities and thought processes that their view of their world was fixated, absolute, diminished and less hopeful. As we worked to explore the relationship between what we spend our time trying to convince our brain of and how it then translates into a constructed reality, it was evident that a more productive pathway, including one that could bring more happiness, more confidence and a better basis for the future to be built upon, was possible.

Be careful of the language you use, the stories you tell yourself, and the amount of time and energy you spend trying to control the uncontrollables.

IN THIS WEEK’S EPISODE on FOCUS, I share a few brain hacks that will help you shift your results and give you some resources to change your world view.