Documented Prayer

Listen to "Documented Prayer" on Spreaker. Maybe it's because I'm a daily writer or a great note taker. I'm very guilty of documenting prayer. Things are shared during these moments of meditation and or conversation that are meant to grow outward from your mind body and soul. But what are you supposed to do with it? Wander through an old fashioned bookstore and count the number of financial and self help books there are. Are they all the end result of God moving through artists and authors? Not all of them. Just be aware of what you're feeding your current need. Julia Cameron's Artist Way changed me by teaching me to reach beyond the gift of performance. To study the physical presence of a higher reason and season. There are things we do this time every year and it always includes inviting change. But we forget to notify two of the most important pieces of the puzzle. Painted on our hearts is the aspiration to create change but without these two valuable tools included in the journey the open palm will reveal more emptiness.

Interviewing An Interviewer

Listen to "Interviewing The Interviewer" on Spreaker. I remember the conversation I was having with Joan London from Good Morning America. I chuckled at the beginning then softly asked, "Can an interviewer interview an interviewer?" It's not a game but rather an art to making sure the right moment takes place for the answer to be unique and quite possibly one of a kind. I save the questions people ask me. I want them to ferment. Not to grow old in age but to be part of the my present place in the now. To allow the question to grow inside of my head and heart. Every question is a learning tool for everyone involved. Slowly we're slowly getting back to it by way of tiny digital boxes from Amazon and Google. But are we asking the right questions. More importantly are we face to face with the right person? Maybe it's you interviewing you. How do you deal in moments of such exchange? It's completely natural to play it off or it will infect every depth of thought you travel. Learning how to ask yourself questions without damaging the legs that invited you to the dance. It's not like working out at the gym in January then quitting by March. Lifelong are the questions and even longer the days of hopefully holding a truer image of the self you are. Asking yourself questions is a brilliant way to build a personal relationship blessed with respect and compassion. Try it... every book store carries those pages that ask questions. Start there. Learn to see what asking questions looks like versus accusations.

The Lyrics from Billy's Forest Chapter 90

Listen to "The Lyrics From Billys Forest Chapter 90" on Spreaker. I recently shared with a friend, "While trying to prevent a storm I actually created one." Selected words from two days earlier were misinterpreted and it led to some serious judgement. There seems to be a lot of that going around. Instead of putting focus on the purpose and plan, we've developed this new habit of giving what we feel permission to rein over all things developed. No matter how far off the truth it is, our heart and brain see it as actuality. Instead of offering an open door or simple face to face time conversation. Assumption believes it has just enough evidence to give it permission to be King. We're throwing stones. Not playful skips across a smooth as silk lake surface. We've called in the diggers and they're bringing dump trucks of rocks to our front door. This isn't the first time in history something like this has happened. This dude of faith had returned to the city. The locals instantly brought out someone they had stamped guilty on. The visitor to the city knelt to the ground, wrote something in the sand, then stood up. The accusers were given a thought to hold. Once shared the visitor knelt again and wrote more words in the sand. The crazy day drew to a peaceful closing. I'm a daily writer. Taking the time to listen while documenting something from your heart has an incredible way to keep your palms free of stone throwing. Did this person deserve to have such harsh accusations thrown at them? I'm not the one to judge. Empty your hands and build a path of peace. It actually could start as simply writing something down before igniting your hearts energy.

In Between

Listen to "In Between" on Spreaker. I hear it all the time, "Nobody supports my ideas or decisions. I feel alone." Or how about this one, "People are always attacking me." During uncomfortable situations like this, it's always best that we take ten steps back and become aware of the process that led to the moment. I've yet to meet the person that doesn't like to hit life's everyday road and make it all their own. Yeah I get it team work and collaboration are the best highway. On the workplace front yes. But where the buddy buddy system fails are in lanes of driving home, sitting on the sofa without the TV on or trying to get sleep at night. I get it! The give and take policy that drives business up. But the taking part still generates a huge amount of silence. The plastic smiles we wear while building systems of victory are nice and polished. But once free of the design, the inner voice of each player grabs onto your heart tightly. You can deny it. Voices in the head are for crazy people. How do you put a buffer between the itty bitty indifference that's ripping your soul to shreds at night? Do you have to look eye to eye with the beast? Nope...

Get It Off You

Listen to "Get It Off You" on Spreaker. Yeah I know. We all want to be successful. Your heart busts its tail trying to put you in the right place at the right time. So much time and energy is spent on something you believe in and there doesn't ever seem to be a payoff. Sadly that's when most people get off what they assume is a sinking ship. And when that happens the wrong people are put into positions of leadership. Locating the true roots of success requires a process. A journey. The art of falling off a cliff and doing incredible damage to your mind body and soul. The difference between a successful person and someone trying to be successful is that word "Trying" You can try all day. But it doesn't put your feet in a pair of victory shoes. Be successful. Do the path. Study the behavior of the elements required to be a leader. Stop trying and just do it. There are too many bosses in positions of decision that try hard everyday to make their businesses the one thing that people want most. "Try" I truly can't stand it when I hear that word and in all honesty it serves as an invitation for me to leave the conversation. My circle isn't filled with those "Trying" Do what is required and take on the journey. Your personal victory is there

When God Shows Up In Your Writing

Listen to "When God Shows Up In Your Writing" on Spreaker. Yeah I know. I boast of being this daily writer. I put down on paper the existence of the present so that we may learn from it in the days that follow. But that doesn't always make the world a pretty place to be. Being open with my writing makes it a very dangerous walk in the way of giving permission for all states of expression to move through me. Not stand on the outside of the door and knock and we decide if the visitor can step inside. But it moves in. Takes over the remote control. Then empties the refrigerator of all things that would bring you positive energy. The way I am writing is what I call hidden speak. It's placed upon the screen in a way that you may or may not grasp but it doesn't paint the truer picture of the deeper vein of travel. But when God shows up in your writing. All that is poetic and free spirit no longer finds purpose in the plan. When God shows up in your writing. There is no knock on the door. It just happens and it becomes a choice to listen or to pretend seeing pictures only an image maker assumes it can create.

Paths Of Victory

Listen to "Paths Of Victory" on Spreaker. I've always been inspired by the paths we walk on the side of a mountain. Who was the first to take the step? How many people have been here before me? Who will one day follow? Yet in our personal lives the paths we make seem to march around in circles. How can we take our yesterday and make it a brilliant tomorrow without infecting what's available in our today? One of the most difficult journeys you can take on is learning how to live a healthy life in the "Now." Be present in your present means the paths you've made on the mountains you've crossed can only serve as a point of direction not correction. Being in the moment is sometimes quite lonely because we love to listen to old songs while watching classic television. So how do we become a modern leader inside a world locked and lost in a past that can't be changed. It can be challenged! But in the end who wins? The demands and commands of those kept tightly in your circle play a huge role in the decisions made. But how often do you lose balance in life because your heart can't seem to locate today's light?

The Lyrics From Billy's Forest Chapter 89

Listen to "The Lyrics From Billys Forest Chapter 89" on Spreaker. What if what we see are only images an imagination can get away with delivering? And that maybe if we look beyond the mirages of everyday life and living we'd see a completely different painting. This chapter dives into the presence of Fall during its closing moments. There are so many seasonal changes. Including the awareness of a chilled breeze. Once noted on paper a different team of wind makers shakes the morning dew from the limbs of the leafless trees causing the writing to become wet. Sounds like a normal day in Carolina. What lessons can be learned? I wrote, "Damp to the touch." We waste no time in trying to dry off. No matter where we stand or what storm is presently pouring its purpose on your parade the idea of being damp to the touch is completely uncomfortable. And yet its where the lesson lives. How do you expect to activate your next victory if the expectation of tomorrows demands have been wiped free of your purpose and plan? Being aware of your seasonal changes is a gift. Allow there to be moments of damp to the touch. To let it serve as a teacher by way of realizing how alive you are in the moment of trust.

The Road To Victory

Listen to "The Road To Victory" on Spreaker. I call it fermenting. Putting words on paper then walking away for several months and many times years. A total disconnection from the writer, the student and the reader. By developing this discipline you're able to stop judging and start holding onto valuable energy that becomes greater knowledge. On Easter Sunday 2016 this tiny phrase made it's way from the edge of my heart straight through the tip of the nib on the fountain pen, "Wisdom discovered along side but not upon the path." Over a year later my heart ignited. Each and everyone of us are governed by the people that make up our circle. From bosses to family members the majority of our steps are commanded by other people's needs, wants and desires. We choose to use the wisdom alongside the path rather than utilize the mission that you were brought to this rock to achieve. Why are so many people walking around like unhappy zombies? Because the wisdom on their path isn't being used. Is it because most want others to make decisions for them? We've become a co-dependent generation of well wishers and complainers. Reactivate the mission by taking notes. Become aware of where your truer wisdom is located. It's not alongside the path. Its on your path. Find your victory.

White Roses

Listen to "White Roses" on Spreaker. I believe everyday we wake up our inner fields of hope, opportunity, loss and victory are surrounded by three to fifteen tiny white roses. They are the one thing that inspires you to perk up and or just participate with the moment. The goal is to learn how to put those tiny white roses on the outside. To inspire, influence and showcase leadership to those who will pass you by. But we don't make that move. We choose instead to keep those tiny white roses to ourselves. People endlessly steal from each other and after awhile something as simple as an invisible white rose being taken from your process serves as a good reason to just play along. Those roses don't belong to you. More will be made. To make that happen the goal is to refocus the energy of your path and soil. Yeah I know you're super strong and could easily be on Batman's team. For about thirty seconds. Those tiny white roses are missing something extremely important on your personal journey of grabbing onto acres of success.

The Existence Of God

Listen to "The Existence Of God" on Spreaker. I got caught up in a circle of thoughts last night. Four completely different walks of life having an open conversation about the existence of God. The most inspiring part was how nobody raised their voice or felt as if they had a better God. My side of the journey put focus on how I love documenting thoughts. The existence of God isn't always about the moment but rather the challenges and changes that may be headed your way and because you took the time to take note of something moving through you... It's that existence of God on paper that teaches the injured soul that you have the proper tools to lift your light again. Today I go back to Easter Weekend 2016. A morning walk through McDowell Park in North Carolina. For the first time in my nearly 35 years visiting this particular place I happen to take note of three white teacup roses. Nobody dropped them. They were firmly attached to the planet. And very vibrant with energy. Learning from that existence of God is today's step toward putting peace inside the pieces.

Davon Fleming

Listen to "rBeatz Music Update Davon Fleming From NBC's The Voice" on Spreaker. The goal for Davon Fleming isn't to outshine the people he's competing with on NBC's The Voice. His mission is to never let go of integrity. He stays focused on being a well rounded performer of all sounds from Pop to Country, Hip Hop and beyond. To shy away from being a one vocal beat wonder.

I'm Not Sure Why

Listen to "I'm Not Sure Why" on Spreaker. I openly admit I spent most of the night in question. It sits so deep in my soul that it's infected what has become a new day. Only to read from March of 2016. Easter! What the daily writer put down on paper kind of scares me because it's almost like he knew that I would arrive near Christmas 2017 and in a way he held every reason to look at the present and say "Grow beyond the season." I can't help but wonder if we truly grip the reins of possibility. Settling instead of what we assume is the edge of the horizon. I speak so much of being aware that when I'm standing in it I get lost. Awareness doesn't play a fair game because most of the time while we're wading in the process of understanding it resembles everything that took on the shape of our past. Victory at work cannot play out its importance if what you are choosing to present is a step made in yesterdays newspaper. Living a healthy well focused on the present life requires a ton of focus. Meditation is essential to your personal growth. The problem is... Most can't stand walking alone. Maybe it's time. Let go of what you think you know and grow in fields of trust and faith. Every day is Easter. Even nearly two years after you've lived it or written about it. Let your true self rise above the tears caused by the emptiness created by others. You have the right to be successful. Choose to be.

The Lyrics From Billy's Forest Chapter 88

Listen to "The Lyrics From Billys Forest Chapter 88 mp3" on Spreaker. Yeah yeah I know. Be great at one thing. Interestingly enough those that put focus only on what they assume is their talent or gift tend to shrivel up and blow away with the wind. No day passes that you aren't given brilliant new ideas and paths. We choose to set them aside because it doesn't fit into the realm of your current business success. That's when I bravely say to friends, "Then stop complaining about your job." Apple and Samsung can't stand each other. Because they're pretty much building the same phone but with different names. Its cost billions of dollars in court cases. Look through this corporate mess and see how being willing to endlessly change is what makes you a strong leader. Both sides of the smart phone war zone work harder on being unique and effective then any other company on the planet. If either one of them would've tried one thing only and mastered it's ability. How we communicate would be extremely different. I'm the employee that would carry a Samsung phone with me to work at an Apple plant. You aren't paid for people to like you. Your talent is on loan to them. Don't ever turn your switch off. In fact be different this Christmas and give yourself permission to dream again. There are no two the same. Get back on the path of victory.

Questions With Real Answers

Listen to "Questions With Real Answers" on Spreaker. I openly admit that I am a "Question" junkie. I love asking them. I love answering them. I'm deeply bothered by those who choose not to use one of the most valuable tools given to us around two years old. Nothing charges up my batteries quicker then watching a little human stick figure asking their parents questions at the grocery story. They've chosen that moment to learn something new. As adults most of us think we need answers. We've taught ourselves to reach out to these new fangled digital devices,"Alexa who won the 1972 World Series?" We're pretty much wasting a lot of precious time asking dumb questions or questions that truly don't help us build better foundations. None of us truly pretend to know it all but you'd be amazed at how much you truly do know. But you aren't activating it. Content is a chunk of gold in the right place at the right time. But if you aren't doing anything with the answer you've just received no wonder bosses and business owners look brighter then the employee. They got there by stepping away from what's comfortable and asking the right question.

Once Upon A Time

Listen to "Once Upon A Time" on Spreaker. When people hear that you are a daily writer they tend to believe you use it as prayer or you're connected to universal languages that lead to brilliant moments of pen meeting paper. I write every morning at 5:30. That's been my discipline since July 1994. I have more moments of walls meeting mountains then physical acts of victory. What I won't do is stop myself from writing. If the writer wants to be a butt I allow him to have that voice on the page. I sat with a U.S. soldier this past week and he openly admitted that he's having a tough time becoming a civilian again. We talked about writing. He says he tries but he gets bored. I asked him if he's ever interviewed himself. Don't go into the writing knowing the answers. Ask a question then answer it without being a perfectionist or that you have to be Godly and heal the world. Answer the question. Then let the interviewer locate another question from your answer. I believe in my soul all of these incredible conversations with people of fame I'm blessed with are part of the process of me asking myself questions when all of this began in July of 1994. Amazing things happen to your mind body and soul when you let your inner self have a voice in your giant human world.