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We've always heard how kids say the darndest things. So do adults. Especially that inner voice that endlessly knocks on your attention span. You say the darndest things but usually choose to walk away from why the thought entered your path. Lets be up front and honest. There's nothing worse then walking into a job you hate. Maybe not hate. You just don't agree with the season you're presently in. How do you reach beyond that storm? I've watched 41 years of Broadcasters walk those halls and still put on some of the best performances. How do comedians confess to having an extremely dark path and yet they powerfully deliver messages that make huge rooms laugh? Do you really think your boss enjoys being in the office? Plastic coated bathroom mirror smiles aren't reality. There's something completely invisible that keeps hard work, dedication and loyalty on a path of success. Doubters will tell you that its the art of survival. I'm not going to argue. On this podcast we travel back to November 12, 2016. One sentence penned out during my daily handwritten prayers changed the color of the dark cloud. I live because you have gifted. Wait! That doesn't scream religion. You can stay a little longer. You live because you have been gifted. A lot of times in those radio hallways I'd ask the talent how their day was going. This reply was experienced hundreds of times, "Existing." Not a negative but a recognition of their present place. The vocal tones might have been pointed downward but the thought of knowing you exist is perfectly in tune with being present with the "Now" Have you ever looked up the words Alive and Living? One word keeps them from being the same. Alive uses the word existing. You live because you've been gifted. You exist. No matter how many times people look at you while working only to walk away... it doesn't matter. Your gift may not be for them today. People build teams to support their vision. When your vision needs to count say it, "I live because you gifted." You exist! See yourself before you let others judge or ignore.
Friday, January 31, 2020
Thursday, January 30, 2020
Un Peace Filled
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Dwayne The Rock Johnson recently shared his inner core with Oprah during her national tour. His greatest challenge on a daily basis is being himself. I stopped what I was doing. Thought deeply not only on my reaction to it but how I was reacting to it. Being a daily writer has put me in some mind blowing places of growth, disconnection, pain, spiritual presence and forgiveness. Dwayne's greatest challenge on a daily basis is being himself. I write everyday so that others may one day write. To be there means being myself. If you're anything else then the writing takes a left turn and becomes a distraction. On my podcast Poetic Elevation there are several different types of episodes. I run the podcast like a network. The goal is to create several different layers of expressions. The Choice comes from the daily writing dating back four years. The Daily Mess reaches into the chapters of 2002. One day I'd love to do a podcast that grabs from the 1990's. There's a process on each of our walks but if we don't turn them into tools to help others grow the journey feels disconnected from the accountability required. I didn't know in July of 1994 that I'd still be writing in 2020. I didn't know myself to be myself in 2002. I thought I did. In going back to the pages the evidence clearly shows a traveler seeking something other than what he was recognized for. Do you feel that way? How do you challenge yourself to be yourself daily if you don't know yourself? Society has you labeled to be this. Your family and friends think you're this. I take great pride in those moments when my wife asks me about things that have happened somewhere in the past 26 years. I go to the journals. I study the patterns before during and after. On this podcast I wrap things up with a simple thought, "As I near 60 I know who I want to be. That person that's approached by the angry, hurt and lost who can't understand why I don't share the same expressions." My only comment, "I've lost a lot of energy being where you are. I don't want to be un peace filled."
Dwayne The Rock Johnson recently shared his inner core with Oprah during her national tour. His greatest challenge on a daily basis is being himself. I stopped what I was doing. Thought deeply not only on my reaction to it but how I was reacting to it. Being a daily writer has put me in some mind blowing places of growth, disconnection, pain, spiritual presence and forgiveness. Dwayne's greatest challenge on a daily basis is being himself. I write everyday so that others may one day write. To be there means being myself. If you're anything else then the writing takes a left turn and becomes a distraction. On my podcast Poetic Elevation there are several different types of episodes. I run the podcast like a network. The goal is to create several different layers of expressions. The Choice comes from the daily writing dating back four years. The Daily Mess reaches into the chapters of 2002. One day I'd love to do a podcast that grabs from the 1990's. There's a process on each of our walks but if we don't turn them into tools to help others grow the journey feels disconnected from the accountability required. I didn't know in July of 1994 that I'd still be writing in 2020. I didn't know myself to be myself in 2002. I thought I did. In going back to the pages the evidence clearly shows a traveler seeking something other than what he was recognized for. Do you feel that way? How do you challenge yourself to be yourself daily if you don't know yourself? Society has you labeled to be this. Your family and friends think you're this. I take great pride in those moments when my wife asks me about things that have happened somewhere in the past 26 years. I go to the journals. I study the patterns before during and after. On this podcast I wrap things up with a simple thought, "As I near 60 I know who I want to be. That person that's approached by the angry, hurt and lost who can't understand why I don't share the same expressions." My only comment, "I've lost a lot of energy being where you are. I don't want to be un peace filled."
Wednesday, January 29, 2020
Lift The Path
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I stopped for a moment after typing the title of this entry. Lift The Path. I wanted to change it to Lyft The Path. Lyft as in the way so many travel today. I've struggled for many years over this plan or idea of never truly getting to see the path we're supposed to be following. We've been told so many times to follow your dreams. When you get there does anything look familiar? I love sitting down to swap journeys with those who are traveling through life and all its missions. Upon that path I've met with a lot of people that walked away from what they went to school for. They felt deep in their souls that this was their calling in life. The path! Once there it all began to fade. I've been a radio broadcaster for forty one years. The one thing I didn't plan for was turning 57. The path changed. Only to realize how much there's never been a path but rather a connection to options and opportunities. In prayer and meditation I ask a lot of questions. I ask to see the path. I want to physically touch the path. I think it holds so many answers. On this podcast I go into the pages of the daily writing where I do nothing more then seek out the broken rocks, dirt, tree roots or whatever that's supposed to look like a path. I've walked the paths at McDowell Park in Charlotte for 35 years. Every dog we've adopted has been on that path with me. I hold every memory so close to my soul. The hot days on the path versus the moments of cloud bursts or just plain exhaustion. That path has never changed only the trees and plants have. The path has faced erosion but continues to be seen and experienced in ways that enlighten the imagination to keep planting your feet forward. The path! Don't want to see your path? At the very end of this podcast something totally strange happened. It was if life touched my walk and way. For five minutes I'm talking about how unfair it is to not see the path and then an answer is planted in my heart. If we are mindfully living in the present. The awareness of now. There needs to be no path only gratefulness.
I stopped for a moment after typing the title of this entry. Lift The Path. I wanted to change it to Lyft The Path. Lyft as in the way so many travel today. I've struggled for many years over this plan or idea of never truly getting to see the path we're supposed to be following. We've been told so many times to follow your dreams. When you get there does anything look familiar? I love sitting down to swap journeys with those who are traveling through life and all its missions. Upon that path I've met with a lot of people that walked away from what they went to school for. They felt deep in their souls that this was their calling in life. The path! Once there it all began to fade. I've been a radio broadcaster for forty one years. The one thing I didn't plan for was turning 57. The path changed. Only to realize how much there's never been a path but rather a connection to options and opportunities. In prayer and meditation I ask a lot of questions. I ask to see the path. I want to physically touch the path. I think it holds so many answers. On this podcast I go into the pages of the daily writing where I do nothing more then seek out the broken rocks, dirt, tree roots or whatever that's supposed to look like a path. I've walked the paths at McDowell Park in Charlotte for 35 years. Every dog we've adopted has been on that path with me. I hold every memory so close to my soul. The hot days on the path versus the moments of cloud bursts or just plain exhaustion. That path has never changed only the trees and plants have. The path has faced erosion but continues to be seen and experienced in ways that enlighten the imagination to keep planting your feet forward. The path! Don't want to see your path? At the very end of this podcast something totally strange happened. It was if life touched my walk and way. For five minutes I'm talking about how unfair it is to not see the path and then an answer is planted in my heart. If we are mindfully living in the present. The awareness of now. There needs to be no path only gratefulness.
Tuesday, January 28, 2020
The Lyrics From Billy's Forest Chapter 186
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My entire life I've heard everyone from my parents to longtime friends to always be ready to forgive and forget. That can be a tough cookie. When you do forgive and forgetting becomes the struggle most feel like nothings been done to help improve. Even worse when forgiving has allowed you to forget you're instantly reminded of it because the situation has happened again. On this podcast we talk about the importance of family, friends, coworkers and others you'll one day meet but will it be accomplished in different shapes of a relationship? Trusting the moment is an incredible step toward being peace filled. But are you peaceful? Things happen everyday in the headlines that catapult your emotions back sixteen steps. How do you trust when forgetting is nearly next to impossible. Through awareness I've learned how to put focus on how much we take. We talk all day about being givers but rarely do we admit to being takers. We walk up to a well and take from it. Whether its knowledge, strength or security we tend to take what we need then move to the next well. Isn't that what inspiration and empowerment are? Look at all this good feeling stuff and its mine! I spend a lot of time reading books of motivation. I'll pause for a moment and send a note to the author via Facebook and or Twitter thanking them for sharing their experiences. While reading I felt like I was taking something. Showing gratefulness helps you experience a peace filled journey. What does that have to do with forgiving and forgetting? In all relationships there was or still is a well. Putting your focus on how it provided doesn't soften the heart but it allows you to be respectful and respect filled of those times when you needed what the well provided. Having a different view of the process helps you become stronger on the paths leading toward the next ten minutes to ten years. Who have you taken from today? Be mindful of the present. Share a little gratefulness.
My entire life I've heard everyone from my parents to longtime friends to always be ready to forgive and forget. That can be a tough cookie. When you do forgive and forgetting becomes the struggle most feel like nothings been done to help improve. Even worse when forgiving has allowed you to forget you're instantly reminded of it because the situation has happened again. On this podcast we talk about the importance of family, friends, coworkers and others you'll one day meet but will it be accomplished in different shapes of a relationship? Trusting the moment is an incredible step toward being peace filled. But are you peaceful? Things happen everyday in the headlines that catapult your emotions back sixteen steps. How do you trust when forgetting is nearly next to impossible. Through awareness I've learned how to put focus on how much we take. We talk all day about being givers but rarely do we admit to being takers. We walk up to a well and take from it. Whether its knowledge, strength or security we tend to take what we need then move to the next well. Isn't that what inspiration and empowerment are? Look at all this good feeling stuff and its mine! I spend a lot of time reading books of motivation. I'll pause for a moment and send a note to the author via Facebook and or Twitter thanking them for sharing their experiences. While reading I felt like I was taking something. Showing gratefulness helps you experience a peace filled journey. What does that have to do with forgiving and forgetting? In all relationships there was or still is a well. Putting your focus on how it provided doesn't soften the heart but it allows you to be respectful and respect filled of those times when you needed what the well provided. Having a different view of the process helps you become stronger on the paths leading toward the next ten minutes to ten years. Who have you taken from today? Be mindful of the present. Share a little gratefulness.
Monday, January 27, 2020
Guilt Trips
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As children growing up in a house full of eight we did a lot of guilt tripping to get somewhere "I'm gonna tell Mom if you don't let me go first." I wish someone in middle or high school would've put some focus on how we end up moving through life attached to a personal guilt trip. How often in your present place are your decisions and choices linked to a self delivered guilt trip? On this podcast I talk about a recent one. Those moments when you stop and take a swing at your heart. What's worse is that you begin to feel like the entire world can see what you're going through! Moving through a self created guilt trip requires more than awareness. You've got to whip out a can of forgiveness and understanding. Mine was attached to an evolution of changes that moved through the way I was getting my God on. While sitting in the chairs at church I'd write and write and write until the Worship band took over. It became a huge must do because its amazing to see what's moving through you while preparing to receive. Then I discovered something that put these feet on a different path. Technology! Because I'm a huge note taker I honestly felt like I was missing a lot of the message. Guilt trip. So I began studying the word at home via the church app. I could rewind back to those moments just to make sure I heard something right. It became clearer to me as a note taker that this was the best place for me to build. I still wrote on Sundays during those 15 minutes before the sermon. Didn't skip a beat. Didn't want to face the guilt trip. Then it happened. I took a job that put me at work during what was once my studies. Getting the word was now moved to Monday Tuesday or Wednesday. Guilt trip. The writing for 15 mins beforehand stopped. Cuz it was all about taking notes! Not being a free spirit thinker whose soul needed to be prepared first. Guilt trip. Awareness sets in. Change is allowed to become the process. Forgiveness. Understanding. A willingness to grow forward without a guilt trip. Pay attention to those moments in your life where you feel great without a cup of coffee or Red Bull. Take note of how often they take place. If it's happening more and more. Invite yourself to write about what's moving through you in that moment. You'll be amazed at how incredible your imagination is when it's allowed to connect with something you can see or smell but its being felt.
As children growing up in a house full of eight we did a lot of guilt tripping to get somewhere "I'm gonna tell Mom if you don't let me go first." I wish someone in middle or high school would've put some focus on how we end up moving through life attached to a personal guilt trip. How often in your present place are your decisions and choices linked to a self delivered guilt trip? On this podcast I talk about a recent one. Those moments when you stop and take a swing at your heart. What's worse is that you begin to feel like the entire world can see what you're going through! Moving through a self created guilt trip requires more than awareness. You've got to whip out a can of forgiveness and understanding. Mine was attached to an evolution of changes that moved through the way I was getting my God on. While sitting in the chairs at church I'd write and write and write until the Worship band took over. It became a huge must do because its amazing to see what's moving through you while preparing to receive. Then I discovered something that put these feet on a different path. Technology! Because I'm a huge note taker I honestly felt like I was missing a lot of the message. Guilt trip. So I began studying the word at home via the church app. I could rewind back to those moments just to make sure I heard something right. It became clearer to me as a note taker that this was the best place for me to build. I still wrote on Sundays during those 15 minutes before the sermon. Didn't skip a beat. Didn't want to face the guilt trip. Then it happened. I took a job that put me at work during what was once my studies. Getting the word was now moved to Monday Tuesday or Wednesday. Guilt trip. The writing for 15 mins beforehand stopped. Cuz it was all about taking notes! Not being a free spirit thinker whose soul needed to be prepared first. Guilt trip. Awareness sets in. Change is allowed to become the process. Forgiveness. Understanding. A willingness to grow forward without a guilt trip. Pay attention to those moments in your life where you feel great without a cup of coffee or Red Bull. Take note of how often they take place. If it's happening more and more. Invite yourself to write about what's moving through you in that moment. You'll be amazed at how incredible your imagination is when it's allowed to connect with something you can see or smell but its being felt.
Friday, January 24, 2020
And Then I Lost My Job
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What would the world be like today if all things we've spoken were found sheets of paper? I face that question every morning. Three of my daily Podcasts are soulfully connected to the pen sketches laid out at 4:30 in the morning,. Some dating back 18 years. I don't know why. I heard something in my heart and I trusted the voice. Today I found myself face to face with the morning after the 2016 elections. What were you doing on that day? Do you remember your mood? How did you react to those with an overbearing opinion? I honestly don't care about who you voted for. I'm a Broadcaster that serves all people not one side. Which is why I don't do talk radio and will never be invited. This podcast today isn't about political parties but rather the individual you are. Thanks to technology every job on the planet is on the line. Today I invite you to make a difference. Be heard. Be strong in your confidence while being loyal to the reasons why you deliver. In November of 2016 I was lecturing to future Broadcasters. In the hours after the election results were announced those in attendance were verbally beating each other up. I didn't lose control nor did I feel defeated. I stood up for an industry that doesn't know where the real players are. It's just a number inside a world that needs believers. For your career today. Be heard. Wear your belief on your sleeve. Know your path. Tomorrow you'll be just another number.
Thursday, January 23, 2020
Reflecting On A Reflection
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I'm amazed at how much weight we put on our shoulders everyday. Dealing with it means walking the paths with numerous others struggling to make their own waves. I've been a daily writer since July 1994. A lot of invisible trash has been dropped on innocent sheets of paper. On this podcast we leap back to November 8, 2016. Mean anything to you? Do you remember it? Election Day 2016. A lot of moody people in and around the neighborhood and cities. People were in question. uncertain, filled to the brim with the most poisoned political commercials delivered by any generation. The daily writing that day was a note to a future self. He was pretty much saying, "I know you're there. No matter how things might change or go. I'm not gonna do anything stupid. See you soon." It's the first time I've been to this page since it came to life nearly four years ago. You think time's moving quickly? Think about your grandparents. Put some thought into your parents. They probably didn't write stuff down. Their story in your heart has a way of changing. Yeah the older we get the more we kind of go along with a story we think was right. Jotting down words for not just your future self but your grand kids is gonna share with them some pretty cool history. What was it like to see a business man take over the White House? Chances are you'll shrug your shoulders and not remember walking into that voting booth and having to make a decision. The day is quickly coming that we'll no longer talk about September 11th or the Great Recession. Yet it affected you. You were probably reshaped. Jot it down while you still have the memory. Someone in the future needs to know your story.
I'm amazed at how much weight we put on our shoulders everyday. Dealing with it means walking the paths with numerous others struggling to make their own waves. I've been a daily writer since July 1994. A lot of invisible trash has been dropped on innocent sheets of paper. On this podcast we leap back to November 8, 2016. Mean anything to you? Do you remember it? Election Day 2016. A lot of moody people in and around the neighborhood and cities. People were in question. uncertain, filled to the brim with the most poisoned political commercials delivered by any generation. The daily writing that day was a note to a future self. He was pretty much saying, "I know you're there. No matter how things might change or go. I'm not gonna do anything stupid. See you soon." It's the first time I've been to this page since it came to life nearly four years ago. You think time's moving quickly? Think about your grandparents. Put some thought into your parents. They probably didn't write stuff down. Their story in your heart has a way of changing. Yeah the older we get the more we kind of go along with a story we think was right. Jotting down words for not just your future self but your grand kids is gonna share with them some pretty cool history. What was it like to see a business man take over the White House? Chances are you'll shrug your shoulders and not remember walking into that voting booth and having to make a decision. The day is quickly coming that we'll no longer talk about September 11th or the Great Recession. Yet it affected you. You were probably reshaped. Jot it down while you still have the memory. Someone in the future needs to know your story.
Tuesday, January 21, 2020
The Lyrics From Billy's Forest Chapter 185
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My entire life. I've never been a fan of wind. Maybe it's because in Montana the giant gusts that would race out of Yellowstone National Park were strong enough to pick up a tree and slam it into a new story. On this podcast we talk about the wind and how in 1999 while standing in South Beach, Florida I tried to spiritually connect with the amazing about of wind blowing that night. The writer in me. The crazy imagination I carry. I stood watching the bird feathers unevenly flowing from side to side then out across the sandy beach. Then it hit me. The wind is so strong in Miami because this is where time delivers human souls. The wind blows from California to Florida picking up any or all the once living energies and brings them to the edge so they can walk without question across the water. An insane way of thinking right? It might make a great movie! Look at what Sleepless In Seattle did. Even today while sitting inside the forest I've been part of for 27 years I've never stopped thinking about that windy night in Florida. While the breeze increases and begins to bend trees I can't help but think of the souls traveling. It's a personal thing but I've never believed who we grow into becoming is empowered by the moments of where we presently stand. The wind brings a traveler to your area of the universe and its your choice to invite the soul to stay. Who they might have been is now part of your world and then some. Newer ideas, reasons to laugh, memories of something you can't explain. I know maybe it was last nights dream. The wind! It's always carrying seeds toward an un-promised tomorrow. What if for a moment you did see something while the wind was blowing and the next time you looked in the mirror a part of its shape was now in your image? How do you grow forward or are you quick to shake the spirit free?
My entire life. I've never been a fan of wind. Maybe it's because in Montana the giant gusts that would race out of Yellowstone National Park were strong enough to pick up a tree and slam it into a new story. On this podcast we talk about the wind and how in 1999 while standing in South Beach, Florida I tried to spiritually connect with the amazing about of wind blowing that night. The writer in me. The crazy imagination I carry. I stood watching the bird feathers unevenly flowing from side to side then out across the sandy beach. Then it hit me. The wind is so strong in Miami because this is where time delivers human souls. The wind blows from California to Florida picking up any or all the once living energies and brings them to the edge so they can walk without question across the water. An insane way of thinking right? It might make a great movie! Look at what Sleepless In Seattle did. Even today while sitting inside the forest I've been part of for 27 years I've never stopped thinking about that windy night in Florida. While the breeze increases and begins to bend trees I can't help but think of the souls traveling. It's a personal thing but I've never believed who we grow into becoming is empowered by the moments of where we presently stand. The wind brings a traveler to your area of the universe and its your choice to invite the soul to stay. Who they might have been is now part of your world and then some. Newer ideas, reasons to laugh, memories of something you can't explain. I know maybe it was last nights dream. The wind! It's always carrying seeds toward an un-promised tomorrow. What if for a moment you did see something while the wind was blowing and the next time you looked in the mirror a part of its shape was now in your image? How do you grow forward or are you quick to shake the spirit free?
Monday, January 20, 2020
Relationship
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We're always saying things that fly outward from our thoughts and fall into the vats of life without action and or reaction. Which is why I love to daily write. I've always been known for saying weird way out of the way stuff and yet in the moment it took place it sounded fine to me. But what are we going to do with it? Over the past 8 years I've learned that what we say in the moment doesn't always mean it was meant for right now. In November of 2016 this thought fell from my writing instrument, "God doesn't have to turn up his volume to prove his existence." It honestly had nothing to do with what was being written that morning. I'm a free form thinker. Whatever is moving through me in any moment at anytime during the day is always welcome to find a different stage anytime in a future we can't predict. The statement written nearly four years ago clearly states that where we want to grow or need to appear isn't going to be a bright red stop sign or a blinking light screaming out your name. Whatever's holding you back might actually be located in a whisper or in silence. But we keep waiting for the sign. If its meant to be you'll feel or hear something when in fact it's been walking within your thoughts the entire way. Because it came with no volume its been extremely easy to endlessly look a different way. I'm not saying you need to write daily. It's my habit and purification system and it might not be your way of carrying messages. What if yours is to record a thought into your smart phone or to set up an extremely private Twitter or Facebook page where you just throw junk out there. When you return in the years ahead there's a journey you helped document during a time when the volume might have actually been silence.
We're always saying things that fly outward from our thoughts and fall into the vats of life without action and or reaction. Which is why I love to daily write. I've always been known for saying weird way out of the way stuff and yet in the moment it took place it sounded fine to me. But what are we going to do with it? Over the past 8 years I've learned that what we say in the moment doesn't always mean it was meant for right now. In November of 2016 this thought fell from my writing instrument, "God doesn't have to turn up his volume to prove his existence." It honestly had nothing to do with what was being written that morning. I'm a free form thinker. Whatever is moving through me in any moment at anytime during the day is always welcome to find a different stage anytime in a future we can't predict. The statement written nearly four years ago clearly states that where we want to grow or need to appear isn't going to be a bright red stop sign or a blinking light screaming out your name. Whatever's holding you back might actually be located in a whisper or in silence. But we keep waiting for the sign. If its meant to be you'll feel or hear something when in fact it's been walking within your thoughts the entire way. Because it came with no volume its been extremely easy to endlessly look a different way. I'm not saying you need to write daily. It's my habit and purification system and it might not be your way of carrying messages. What if yours is to record a thought into your smart phone or to set up an extremely private Twitter or Facebook page where you just throw junk out there. When you return in the years ahead there's a journey you helped document during a time when the volume might have actually been silence.
Friday, January 17, 2020
Intentions Versus Goals
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Maybe it's something planted in us a kids. What are your goals? Stick to your goals. Are you focused on your goals? Then when your goals aren't met you become hurt, bent out of shape and quite possibly ready to quit. I grew up being that punk kid that wouldn't leave his bedroom because his goals were to be a major market radio personality in Los Angeles. Everything I did in life was to prepare myself for that goal. I built a radio station in my bedroom that could broadcast a half block from the house. The goal was to give my mother something to listen to while she painstakingly tried to keep the house clean and have dinner ready by five for my father. My goals were to take every class in high school that would enhance my skills as a teen to be ready to hit the radio trail the very second I graduated. Every teacher knew where I wanted to be and they worked with me to help out the goal. I worked so hard that radio let me inside its playing field at the age of fourteen. My father made me quit. He wasn't driving eighteen miles to Laurel, Montana so I could feed my goals. Two years later radio gave me another opportunity. This time it was six blocks from my house. My goals to make it to Los Angeles were on their way! This year I will celebrate my forty first year in broadcasting. I never made it to LA. Lord knows I tried so many times. But each time I missed it put a dent my goals. At fifty seven I wish I would've known the difference between having goals and living a life of intentions. Goals say this is where you need to be by this time. When they aren't met the heart is injured and the dream begins to fade. Intentions are a direction. My intentions are to be in Los Angeles. But if it doesn't happen that doesn't mean I failed. I know the direction in 2020 doesn't have to mean packing up the car and leaving a town I've been blessed to be a part of for thirty five years. Then intentions to reach LA can be accomplished by way of podcasting, internet radio and other forms of digital airplay. Understanding the difference between making goals and walking with intentions takes a huge guilty trip off your back. Unlocking what blocks you starts with knowing that you're moving in a safer direction. Ask yourself, "What are my intentions today?" Every morning at 4:30 while walking my dog Jazzie I look up at the stars and layout my intentions. My heart and soul listen in giving direction whereas if it were a goal I'd be inured daily. My mom would say, "Now son you don't get everything you want in life. Just settle for what you've got." No... My intentions today are ______..
Thursday, January 16, 2020
Where Is Here
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Spell Check has made us careless writers. I don't know how many times I've read and reread an email or text and the wrong words have been plastered all over the itty bitty screen. The computer automatically assumes your next thought. I was shocked to hear about why Space Force was put into play inside the ranks of our military. The newsman said, "To protect the satellites that bring to us direction ." GPS and other navigational devices push your car toward where you need to be. We depend so much on technology that its no longer a blessing but a way of life. I had to ask to myself, "Where am I?" I know we're here! But where is here? How do we live a normal life when most can't get half their body out of a past they can't change? It kills me when Facebook posts those flashback entries. This is where you were five years ago! No! I spam that stuff. I don't want to see it. Where is here? How do we focus on here without having to waste a ton of time on a future that comes with no guarantee? Can you imagine what life would be like if there was a satellite that got you closer than anything to your dreams coming true? How do you activate a path that wants to be present in the now? By walking away from the circles of family and friends that only want to talk about the past. Sounds mean right? Not really. Through awareness you're able to spot a time traveler and locate a ripe excuse as to why you don't need to be there. I don't listen to old songs in the way I used to. Each time I hear Journey's Don't Stop Believing I allow this moment to be the new memory. It's almost like telling myself that every song on the radio is brand new. I recently spent some time with Paul McCartney's mother Angie. 90 years old! A ball of energy and fun! Loved it when she said I'm just getting started. She experienced World War II and all things after and she's still got forward flow! Where is here? I know where I am. On a computer connecting with you. In this present place of now is there peace? My side of the screen says yes. Where is your here?
Spell Check has made us careless writers. I don't know how many times I've read and reread an email or text and the wrong words have been plastered all over the itty bitty screen. The computer automatically assumes your next thought. I was shocked to hear about why Space Force was put into play inside the ranks of our military. The newsman said, "To protect the satellites that bring to us direction ." GPS and other navigational devices push your car toward where you need to be. We depend so much on technology that its no longer a blessing but a way of life. I had to ask to myself, "Where am I?" I know we're here! But where is here? How do we live a normal life when most can't get half their body out of a past they can't change? It kills me when Facebook posts those flashback entries. This is where you were five years ago! No! I spam that stuff. I don't want to see it. Where is here? How do we focus on here without having to waste a ton of time on a future that comes with no guarantee? Can you imagine what life would be like if there was a satellite that got you closer than anything to your dreams coming true? How do you activate a path that wants to be present in the now? By walking away from the circles of family and friends that only want to talk about the past. Sounds mean right? Not really. Through awareness you're able to spot a time traveler and locate a ripe excuse as to why you don't need to be there. I don't listen to old songs in the way I used to. Each time I hear Journey's Don't Stop Believing I allow this moment to be the new memory. It's almost like telling myself that every song on the radio is brand new. I recently spent some time with Paul McCartney's mother Angie. 90 years old! A ball of energy and fun! Loved it when she said I'm just getting started. She experienced World War II and all things after and she's still got forward flow! Where is here? I know where I am. On a computer connecting with you. In this present place of now is there peace? My side of the screen says yes. Where is your here?
Tuesday, January 14, 2020
The Lyrics From Billy's Forest Chapter 184
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A single raindrop falls from the sky. The thought of rain changes so many people's moods and minds. Is it part of the flow or flaw of an everyday world? Friendships. A special kind of love. A flow of energy or the acceptance of flaws? Like a raindrop our flaws tend to change a lot of moods and minds. Facing your flaws must be done with truth or the hole gradually grows. An Operations Manager once said to me, "You need to start participating with the flow of business." My flaw was simple. I wanted quality over quantity and paid the price for staying loyal to it. How do some friendships make it to 20 plus years but marriages dangle on a daily basis? Is it the new flow of life? Like a web page or YouTube video? We show up to be entertained. When the fun is over we locate other squirrels to chase. Following up with your flow requires awareness as well as forgiveness because no matter how hard you try to keep moving with forward emotion the flaws of the unpredictable moments tend to weigh down the importance of why you stumbled and or fell off a 40 foot cliff. We flowed through the education system only to realize the required steps of success mean getting your heart dirty. Not everybody believes in passion, dedication, loyalty and determination. Somehow someway it becomes a flaw. When you begin to change its realized too late. Your image to others has already been made. A single raindrop. The thought of rain changes so many moods and minds. Flow and flaw. Awareness begins with being mindful of the present.
A single raindrop falls from the sky. The thought of rain changes so many people's moods and minds. Is it part of the flow or flaw of an everyday world? Friendships. A special kind of love. A flow of energy or the acceptance of flaws? Like a raindrop our flaws tend to change a lot of moods and minds. Facing your flaws must be done with truth or the hole gradually grows. An Operations Manager once said to me, "You need to start participating with the flow of business." My flaw was simple. I wanted quality over quantity and paid the price for staying loyal to it. How do some friendships make it to 20 plus years but marriages dangle on a daily basis? Is it the new flow of life? Like a web page or YouTube video? We show up to be entertained. When the fun is over we locate other squirrels to chase. Following up with your flow requires awareness as well as forgiveness because no matter how hard you try to keep moving with forward emotion the flaws of the unpredictable moments tend to weigh down the importance of why you stumbled and or fell off a 40 foot cliff. We flowed through the education system only to realize the required steps of success mean getting your heart dirty. Not everybody believes in passion, dedication, loyalty and determination. Somehow someway it becomes a flaw. When you begin to change its realized too late. Your image to others has already been made. A single raindrop. The thought of rain changes so many moods and minds. Flow and flaw. Awareness begins with being mindful of the present.
Monday, January 13, 2020
Mary Wilson
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Bookended by Mary Wilson's retelling of the legendary story of The Supremes, new illustrated hardcover book presents the spectacular Mary Wilson Gown Collection, showcasing iconic outfits created for and worn by The Supremes, specially photographed on the stage of the Grammy Museum in Los Angeles
As Motown's leading act in the 1960s, The Supremes became synonymous with glamorous, elegant, coordinated ensembles that defined an era of style. Now, in SUPREME GLAMOUR, a lavish new volume that celebrates the legendary story and iconic fashions of The Supremes nearly six decades after the group's creation, Mary Wilson, one of the group's founding members, presents her unparalleled collection showcasing thirty-two of their most eye-catching gowns, meticulously reassembled and photographed on the stage of the Grammy Museum in Los Angeles. Detailed captions accompany each photograph to provide information about the design, fabric, and embellishments of each ensemble, as well as the occasion on which each was first worn.
In addition to this lavish presentation of the fashion history of The Supremes, SUPREME GLAMOUR chronicles the evolution of the group and celebrates the cultural icons they became. With a foreword by Whoopi Goldberg and hundreds of archival photos, Mary Wilson, writing with close personal friend and music biographer Mark Bego, shares anecdotes and insights that span from the group's very beginnings to their 1964 breakthrough hit, "Where Did Our Love Go," and from the departure of Diana Ross to The Supremes' hits of the 1970s, to tell the complete story of The Supremes, both on- and offstage.
"This project has been a labor of love for me," Wilson writes in her introduction to the book. "What we wore truly mattered. We took our fans from the sophisticated shirtwaist dresses of the 1950s, to the go-go boots and elaborate hairpieces/wigs and gowns of the 1960s, to the Afros and 'hot pants' of the disco 1970s, and beyond. [.] Our audiences always anticipated what we were going to wear on our next television performance, concert, or nightclub appearance. I hope we never disappointed them!"
A must-have for fans of music and fashion, SUPREME GLAMOUR is a beautiful and glittering tribute to the charm, sophistication, and magic of The Supremes.
Mary Wilson is one of the founding members of The Supremes, and the author of Dreamgirl: My Life as a Supreme and Supreme Faith: Someday We'll Be Together.
What Were You Thinking
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My father was crucial when it came to how his children thought. No matter what we did he'd always stop the walk and ask, "What were you thinking?" As a teenager I'd never have a truth filled answer for him. I wasn't interested in what I was thinking it was more about what I was doing. As a daily writer my process of progress is all about documenting what's endlessly moving through me. I don't write thoughts down for me. It's to locate how these thoughts can reach others who need to stop and think. I'd love to be a bird sitting in a tree. All of these things we push ourselves into bringing into a moment of reality must look like an ant hill with a billion six legged insects dashing for whatever they feel they should be doing. What were you thinking when you first started the car this morning? What were you thinking during the Critic's Choice Awards when your favorite movie or television show didn't go home with the trophy? On this podcast I go back to November of 2016 and study the thoughts of a writer who honestly put into his pages, "The American dream isn't what you think. Ask anyone who prefers to dream about being healthy and never getting hurt more than anything." Social Media is a thinking persons sport. Dropping a thought bomb on travelers that may or may not give you a reaction. There have been many times where I've punched in a thought and by morning I had to quickly take it down. I've asked, "What were you thinking?" A person doesn't have to truly know you to come up with what they think of you. Once you toss a thought out there do you ever think about the impact of how a reader is interpreting your expression? Once it connects you can't take it back. Being a thinking kind of writer puts your creative mind in several different places. With too much thought you can easily become a perfectionist. Too much thought takes away from being present in this place of now. Too much thoughts might influence friends and family to ghost you. Thinking about everything takes the fun out of just doing it.
Friday, January 10, 2020
I Turn The Page
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We talk about daily writing a lot because it's been part of my path and decision making since July of 1994. A habit I picked up while studying the wisdom and experiences of Julia Cameron in The Artist Way. I didn't read a book. I became a lifelong student of an author that understands the empowerment of why you are chosen to be a creative person. But if you don't document the journey what have you honestly learned along the way? On this podcast we put focus on October 31,2016 where a lot of energy was put on the second page. An extremely important page in my daily writing. I write three and more a day. The second gets a lot of attention. The first is always a prayer. It's my discipline. I don't make it to page two until page one is complete. It's not that I'm a Bible thumper. It just clears my path of any debris still clinging to bottom of my feet. Page two is when the writer sets the pace. Not just in the moment of placing words on a page but its been known to control the atmosphere of the entire day. How I approach page two and how it's delivered truly has the strength to make a mandate. On that day in October of 2016 the writer talks about page two in a small piece of poetry called I Turn The Page. When he arrives at page three he begins to question the number of pages that a 26 year writer must physically change. One thought hits him. In this day of billions and trillions and if you don't have them you're pretty much just another number. In this day of huge numbers I realized that maybe as a daily writer I've turned just over 22,000 pages. At that time of writing why did 22 years look so tiny? For my book One Man's 1021 Thoughts. It required that many days of writing to make the book possible. 1,021 is 2.5 years. Now the bombshell question. So many of us complain about getting older and how much we hurt or feel like it's not been fair. At 57 I'm only 20,805 days old. Millions, billions and trillions and in that atmosphere of numbers where do you fit in? Pick up a writing instrument and begin a journey of sharing your story before somebody writes it for you.
We talk about daily writing a lot because it's been part of my path and decision making since July of 1994. A habit I picked up while studying the wisdom and experiences of Julia Cameron in The Artist Way. I didn't read a book. I became a lifelong student of an author that understands the empowerment of why you are chosen to be a creative person. But if you don't document the journey what have you honestly learned along the way? On this podcast we put focus on October 31,2016 where a lot of energy was put on the second page. An extremely important page in my daily writing. I write three and more a day. The second gets a lot of attention. The first is always a prayer. It's my discipline. I don't make it to page two until page one is complete. It's not that I'm a Bible thumper. It just clears my path of any debris still clinging to bottom of my feet. Page two is when the writer sets the pace. Not just in the moment of placing words on a page but its been known to control the atmosphere of the entire day. How I approach page two and how it's delivered truly has the strength to make a mandate. On that day in October of 2016 the writer talks about page two in a small piece of poetry called I Turn The Page. When he arrives at page three he begins to question the number of pages that a 26 year writer must physically change. One thought hits him. In this day of billions and trillions and if you don't have them you're pretty much just another number. In this day of huge numbers I realized that maybe as a daily writer I've turned just over 22,000 pages. At that time of writing why did 22 years look so tiny? For my book One Man's 1021 Thoughts. It required that many days of writing to make the book possible. 1,021 is 2.5 years. Now the bombshell question. So many of us complain about getting older and how much we hurt or feel like it's not been fair. At 57 I'm only 20,805 days old. Millions, billions and trillions and in that atmosphere of numbers where do you fit in? Pick up a writing instrument and begin a journey of sharing your story before somebody writes it for you.
Thursday, January 9, 2020
Releasing The Clutter
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We've all had one of those days when everything seems to be running smoothly then someone stops by for a moment and drops a thought into your process of living. You do everything to shake off their words. You didn't want to truly react to their message because being nice means not being judgmental while the giver is standing right there. Their thought came with hooks and man it finds a way to attach itself to your every breath. On this podcast we leap into the daily written words put into action on October 30, 2016 where I talk about how I was told to keep digging. Keep digging? Why would someone tell me to keep digging? Because I live a lifestyle of living in the present there was no way I was gonna go into a past overtaken by challenging changes and experiences. Yet I could hear the persons words, "Keep digging." In the daily writing I took on the thought. I wanted to know its purpose and reason only to realize the mind body and soul were already doing it. In fact we're all guilty of it. Questioning our purpose and reason. We want it handed to us right now. I mean they don't sell it at Walmart or on Amazon so just give it to me! Keep digging. Our system of choices and experiences are extremely cluttered that if you were given the chance to take a tour of your inner core you wouldn't fit. There's too much in there. One of my pet peeves is when someone says, "You've got to have an open mind and heart." No! Being open is like having no virus protection on your computer. Keep digging. There's so much in your thinking process that you actually stink. Keep digging. Not to hold onto memories but to rid yourself of what you don't need. Keep digging. Move beyond the challenging times that brought you pain. Keep digging. Get past what you felt was an incredible victory. Keep digging. Clear your place in the present so that newer experiences have room to grow. Keep digging.
Tuesday, January 7, 2020
The Lyrics From Billy's Forest Chapter 183
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If "Time" was a manufactured product how much would it cost at Walmart? Would we waste it like so many people waste our time? The idea of respecting other people's time has become an issue of those holding the complaint aren't being fair to someone who might have gotten stuck in traffic or its just another bad day. My grandparents never complained about time. I on the other hand am a time freak. Three hours early is six hours too late. In living this lifestyle I've had to learn how to build a relationship with something that was invented because it must have been very difficult to know where we were in the day when the sun was hidden behind a rain cloud. To be a fly on the wall when it was agreed upon that sixty ticks make a minutes which we need sixty of to create an hour but there are only 24 hours in the day. Why? It's not that I want more time! On this podcast we talk about how our mind bodies and souls probably couldn't handle longer drawn out ticks on the clock. We want information now. Fast food isn't fast anymore. I've lived in the lower corner of the U.S. since 1985 and I swear over the past 35 years southern people are talking faster. What's the rush? What are we doing with the content we digest everyday? I read the other day that the perfect sermon from preachers in 2020 is 28 to 32 minutes. Unless you're watching it on YouTube then we're in and out inside two minutes. The digital age has made life more convenient but what are we doing with our extra time? I did an interview with one of the top dogs of Robert Half about the importance of AI's. He said, "Employees will have more time to do bigger and better productive things." So bad I wanted to ask, "To train their other fingers to move as fast as their thumbs while texting and posting?" Savoring time is a daily discipline. I'm always in search of something that has been labeled boring. I want to step into for one reason. Through boredom time slows down.
Monday, January 6, 2020
Its Wherever You Want To Put It
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I start things off with a question that most can easily shrug off, "If you think going public with religion is a tough cookie try doing it with your daily writing." I free form the words that land on a page. I think it's because after 40 years of being a perfectionist in radio I decided in 1994 to just let stuff happen. No matter what don't let it be edited. My first published book One Man's 1021 Thoughts came directly from the daily writing. Simple thoughts from each day for a total 1021. Even while putting the book together to be back inside the daily writing felt like I had stolen someone's journal. I had to keep telling myself that it was ok to be present in this place. Which is pretty much what this episode is about. Those moments where you have to break away from people and go spend about ten minutes with yourself. Go talk it out. Go listen to the inner core of your present self. Not many get that. Yet they'll complain about having a bad day, year or life. It's because your outside shell or inner being has turned its back on the situation and there's a communication breakdown. Nowhere is it written that humans should not go sit down and have a conversation with themselves. Whip out the listening tools and prepare yourself for a question and answer. Free form it. Don't be a judger or perfectionist. Go into that ten minutes with the openness of knowing that your personal relationship with every character you are is going to be heard today, tomorrow and every day that follows. I do podcast that goes back 18 years into my writing. Sometimes I laugh, study deeper or shake my head from side to side. But in all things we do there's always a lesson. To activate it begins with a conversation. Free form it.
Friday, January 3, 2020
Never Called To You Can't Do
<a class="spreaker-player" href="https://www.spreaker.com/episode/21311472" data-resource="episode_id=21311472" data-width="100%" data-height="200px" data-theme="light" data-playlist="false" data-playlist-continuous="false" data-autoplay="false" data-live-autoplay="false" data-chapters-image="true" data-episode-image-position="right" data-hide-logo="false" data-hide-likes="false" data-hide-comments="false" data-hide-sharing="false" data-hide-download="true">Listen to "Never Called To What You Can't Do" on Spreaker.</a><script async src="https://widget.spreaker.com/widgets.js"></script>
The title alone challenges me. I look at it and feel prepared to take it on. It says, "You can't achieve." Or at least as a reader that's how I interpret the headline. You'll never hear me say I wasn't called to be a hardcore award winning martial artist. I accepted the challenge and made my way through the levels of change and continue to grow with it spiritually. As I celebrate my 41st year in broadcasting I openly admit there were many times along the trail that I was extremely upset with my reasons for staying true to the industry. Lets be extremely honest here. Your job is no different from anyone else's. It always looks great from the outside but once you start working and creating within its avenues of success and failure your every decision is going to be based on the involvement of output. Which means what? On this Podcast we jump into a pool of reality, Adjusting to the surroundings of who you really are and not what you think you are. The funniest thing about getting older is how much clearer you become by way of forgiving the trips, stumbles and landslides you assumed were the end of all things good. We all hold the images of who we once were and how we dreamed so hard that your stomach ached every night because you weren't making it as far as you thought. July of 1994 I was visiting Santa Barbara, California. Hurting. Not because of the razor blade cuts on my arms but man my insides were locked in on being a total failure. I walked into a book store. Hit the isles looking for nothing and found something. The Artist Way from Julia Cameron. Through tremendous study and patience I was able to recognize how important it is to all of us to find the inner child and listen to him or her. You are never going to be called to what you can't do. We make choices. We decide that we are going to become. We push ourselves until we can't breathe. We scream out late late at night. Then one morning you wake up and realize the difference between what we want and what we are called to do are universes away from making a true connection. Let go. Stop chasing what's killing you from the inside out. Until you begin a journey of daily writing you'll never know who you really are. Only a dream away from another dream linked to another dream then another. Where is your reality? You're never gonna be called to what you can't do. Bosses put you in front of a can't do situation a billion times a year. You're convinced though that you can do it. Then something breaks. You won't get that time back. Put your energy in what you can do. Watch yourself grow forward. Document it in your daily writing. Teach it to someone tomorrow.
The title alone challenges me. I look at it and feel prepared to take it on. It says, "You can't achieve." Or at least as a reader that's how I interpret the headline. You'll never hear me say I wasn't called to be a hardcore award winning martial artist. I accepted the challenge and made my way through the levels of change and continue to grow with it spiritually. As I celebrate my 41st year in broadcasting I openly admit there were many times along the trail that I was extremely upset with my reasons for staying true to the industry. Lets be extremely honest here. Your job is no different from anyone else's. It always looks great from the outside but once you start working and creating within its avenues of success and failure your every decision is going to be based on the involvement of output. Which means what? On this Podcast we jump into a pool of reality, Adjusting to the surroundings of who you really are and not what you think you are. The funniest thing about getting older is how much clearer you become by way of forgiving the trips, stumbles and landslides you assumed were the end of all things good. We all hold the images of who we once were and how we dreamed so hard that your stomach ached every night because you weren't making it as far as you thought. July of 1994 I was visiting Santa Barbara, California. Hurting. Not because of the razor blade cuts on my arms but man my insides were locked in on being a total failure. I walked into a book store. Hit the isles looking for nothing and found something. The Artist Way from Julia Cameron. Through tremendous study and patience I was able to recognize how important it is to all of us to find the inner child and listen to him or her. You are never going to be called to what you can't do. We make choices. We decide that we are going to become. We push ourselves until we can't breathe. We scream out late late at night. Then one morning you wake up and realize the difference between what we want and what we are called to do are universes away from making a true connection. Let go. Stop chasing what's killing you from the inside out. Until you begin a journey of daily writing you'll never know who you really are. Only a dream away from another dream linked to another dream then another. Where is your reality? You're never gonna be called to what you can't do. Bosses put you in front of a can't do situation a billion times a year. You're convinced though that you can do it. Then something breaks. You won't get that time back. Put your energy in what you can do. Watch yourself grow forward. Document it in your daily writing. Teach it to someone tomorrow.
Thursday, January 2, 2020
Strength Come From Interviewing The Interviewer
<a class="spreaker-player" href="https://www.spreaker.com/episode/21279302" data-resource="episode_id=21279302" data-width="100%" data-height="200px" data-theme="light" data-playlist="false" data-playlist-continuous="false" data-autoplay="false" data-live-autoplay="false" data-chapters-image="true" data-episode-image-position="right" data-hide-logo="false" data-hide-likes="false" data-hide-comments="false" data-hide-sharing="false" data-hide-download="true">Listen to "Strength Comes From Interviewing The Interviewer" on Spreaker.</a><script async src="https://widget.spreaker.com/widgets.js"></script>
To become great at interviewing people you've got to put yourself in situations where you too will be interviewed. Then go back and study how you acted and reacted to each question as it was delivered. It teaches the creative mind to be aware of not only what your guests are saying but how they are laying out their thoughts. Be a better listener because it leads to a greater connection. On this podcast we travel through my daily writing to October of 2016. I was about to have a conversation with NFL quarterback Tim Tebow. To prepare for the openness that I knew Tim would bring I put myself in front of others that asked me questions. His book was faith based and that meant as the interviewer I couldn't hold back on openly talking about a relationship with God. Although I show prepped the night before I needed to be ready for every direction we could possibly go without buckling. Religion is a very tough subject for some to talk about. I didn't want to come across as one of them. Therefore I trained by allowing others to publicly interview me before I stepped into a conversation with Tim. I not only documented but nearly four years later we are still learning from it. The podcast also includes that talk with Mr. Tebow.
To become great at interviewing people you've got to put yourself in situations where you too will be interviewed. Then go back and study how you acted and reacted to each question as it was delivered. It teaches the creative mind to be aware of not only what your guests are saying but how they are laying out their thoughts. Be a better listener because it leads to a greater connection. On this podcast we travel through my daily writing to October of 2016. I was about to have a conversation with NFL quarterback Tim Tebow. To prepare for the openness that I knew Tim would bring I put myself in front of others that asked me questions. His book was faith based and that meant as the interviewer I couldn't hold back on openly talking about a relationship with God. Although I show prepped the night before I needed to be ready for every direction we could possibly go without buckling. Religion is a very tough subject for some to talk about. I didn't want to come across as one of them. Therefore I trained by allowing others to publicly interview me before I stepped into a conversation with Tim. I not only documented but nearly four years later we are still learning from it. The podcast also includes that talk with Mr. Tebow.
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