Friday, August 30, 2019
Now Versus Toward
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The moment a writing instrument arrives in my hand the imagination is lifted into areas that will one day need to be explained. Visionaries, writers, builders, CEO's to planners face the daily grind and hurt of setting goals that will or won't be met. I'm very upfront with walk and way with being a time freak. If what I planned is not met with the proper time laid out I make it known because I don't do well with failure. On this podcast I break it down. The world lives by one clock controlled by the word "Toward" We're always working toward something. Our heads are so far up the backside of the future that we can't find faith and purpose in what's presently happening. We moved toward this moment. If it's not living up your personal expectations that's ok we'll push ourselves toward a newer journey. Taking pictures of a future not already designed weakens the walls of requirement. To stand tall and steady I need to understand the depth of the present. Is it sand or is it a rock? Now versus toward.
Thursday, August 29, 2019
Pick Up The Phone
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How often do you meet someone that got to do what they wanted in their everyday life? Most can't say that even in retirement. To do what you want to do requires work, dedication, loyalty and determination. By the time you locate the space to start the process of wanting to do what you really want to be becomes a chore because you're tired, beat up by bosses that are only interested in their success or you're so far behind the curve that catching up with a sliver of success is too much of a reach. On this podcast we talk about the calling. Nothing kills me more than hearing how much money people spend on education and rarely does anyone go into the business they studied for. Paychecks always win. Then we spend the rest of our lives complaining about how we should've, could've and needed to become but chose not to. Pick up the phone and answer the call. Get your hands, feet and face dirty with a new experience. Get excited about making mistakes and generating a new age of yourself. The one thing they forget to teach you in any place of learning is how fast we become old. Take a chance on yourself. Build a new path by trusting the call. Pick up the phone. Life is always moving in forward motion. The problem is in how we put an E in front of the journey. Emotion. We've lost so much making other people money that we don't have the courage or strength to push down the walls and mountains. Forward emotion is an obstacle and yet it makes you clearly aware of what's truly a success story. Just saying you did it can be the greatest payoff on the planet. You did it. Now answer the next calling. Get away from being everybody's go to person. What's the return on your investment?
How often do you meet someone that got to do what they wanted in their everyday life? Most can't say that even in retirement. To do what you want to do requires work, dedication, loyalty and determination. By the time you locate the space to start the process of wanting to do what you really want to be becomes a chore because you're tired, beat up by bosses that are only interested in their success or you're so far behind the curve that catching up with a sliver of success is too much of a reach. On this podcast we talk about the calling. Nothing kills me more than hearing how much money people spend on education and rarely does anyone go into the business they studied for. Paychecks always win. Then we spend the rest of our lives complaining about how we should've, could've and needed to become but chose not to. Pick up the phone and answer the call. Get your hands, feet and face dirty with a new experience. Get excited about making mistakes and generating a new age of yourself. The one thing they forget to teach you in any place of learning is how fast we become old. Take a chance on yourself. Build a new path by trusting the call. Pick up the phone. Life is always moving in forward motion. The problem is in how we put an E in front of the journey. Emotion. We've lost so much making other people money that we don't have the courage or strength to push down the walls and mountains. Forward emotion is an obstacle and yet it makes you clearly aware of what's truly a success story. Just saying you did it can be the greatest payoff on the planet. You did it. Now answer the next calling. Get away from being everybody's go to person. What's the return on your investment?
Tuesday, August 27, 2019
The Lyrics From Billy's Forest Chapter 167
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I'm far from being the only one that asks this question and we'll probably spend the next 50 billion years still trying to locate the answer. What wakes us up in the middle of the night? On this podcast we talk about a 1:50 am stroll through the forest to do nothing but write. A forest is a very scary place to be alone. You truly can't see what's watching you. Will you be tripped by unseen vines? Snakes, owls, raccoons! Oh my! I've never kept my love for trees a secret. Native American's see them as great storytellers. A tree is extremely willing to sacrifice its life so that you have a place to write. And in return what are we sharing? The very late night extremely early morning walk without a path didn't come with a payoff. Just an open view as to how other things live around humans. How it survives without cable television, prepackaged foods, free music downloads and endless amounts of water. I think the one thing that stands out most about the words put down on paper is the writers need to know why had been woken. In his own handwriting style he asks "God was it you?" Big question with no answer. Laughing it off he blamed his lack of hearing on how noisy a forest is until just before sunrise. Writing and or being creative outside your normal comforts helps to clear the mind body and soul of habits shaped by mundane everyday-isms. When something feels out of the ordinary. Take the call. Be present in your now. Mindful of how getting knocked off the path builds inner strength by way of trusting the moment.
Friday, August 23, 2019
Written Reminded But Not Forgotten
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Being a creatively driven open hearted person puts my awareness on constant alert. And yet there are times that I feel like I've lost my insight. I once studied a book called The Blind Gorilla. The pages paint the stories of many who were in the same moment at the same time but the experience was totally different, What each person saw didn't always match the other stories. One featured event was about two police officers chasing a criminal that came face to face with a chain link fence. The events that unfolded from there is what created the chaos. The officer's stories didn't connect. No matter how hard each of them tried to picture the moment as it truly was. They weren't the same. Because I'm a daily writer I'm given the incredible opportunity to revisit experiences. Not because I live in the past. I grow from all things that have passed. On this podcast we go back to September 16, 2016. Almost three years ago. The writer was talking about how Elevation Church's Code Orange Revival was brilliantly designed to invite in what was required. Being on those pages made me question why I've not remembered it. It took a journey through daily writing to find myself back in one of the biggest moments of my life. Here's my Blind Gorilla. In this recording studio. In front of me everyday. The wristbands that were handed out during those ten days at the Code Orange Revival. They're right here! Yet this morning I started things off by being disappointed with myself for not always carrying with me the words that were brought forward from the experience. What about you? What's in those caverns and canals you've created that hold a sharper image and or answer to what's become your "Now"? Rather than searching through the daily arrival of a new sun. Maybe just maybe the avenues of peace could be sitting right there on an invisible page from a past day thought to be long gone and forgotten. Approach it not by a need to live in your past. Learn from all things passed.
Being a creatively driven open hearted person puts my awareness on constant alert. And yet there are times that I feel like I've lost my insight. I once studied a book called The Blind Gorilla. The pages paint the stories of many who were in the same moment at the same time but the experience was totally different, What each person saw didn't always match the other stories. One featured event was about two police officers chasing a criminal that came face to face with a chain link fence. The events that unfolded from there is what created the chaos. The officer's stories didn't connect. No matter how hard each of them tried to picture the moment as it truly was. They weren't the same. Because I'm a daily writer I'm given the incredible opportunity to revisit experiences. Not because I live in the past. I grow from all things that have passed. On this podcast we go back to September 16, 2016. Almost three years ago. The writer was talking about how Elevation Church's Code Orange Revival was brilliantly designed to invite in what was required. Being on those pages made me question why I've not remembered it. It took a journey through daily writing to find myself back in one of the biggest moments of my life. Here's my Blind Gorilla. In this recording studio. In front of me everyday. The wristbands that were handed out during those ten days at the Code Orange Revival. They're right here! Yet this morning I started things off by being disappointed with myself for not always carrying with me the words that were brought forward from the experience. What about you? What's in those caverns and canals you've created that hold a sharper image and or answer to what's become your "Now"? Rather than searching through the daily arrival of a new sun. Maybe just maybe the avenues of peace could be sitting right there on an invisible page from a past day thought to be long gone and forgotten. Approach it not by a need to live in your past. Learn from all things passed.
Thursday, August 22, 2019
Just Here To Listen
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The process of continuation has always been my fascination. A single sheet of paper required a seed from a different tree to become your present place of reality. Native American Spirituality teaches us that what we do today affects the next seven generations. Who then made your mood in this moment? How will your actions and reactions be met over the next decades? On this podcast we walk down a path of celebrated moments of chapters past while learning how to recognize what we're missing in the present. We're all overtaken by bad days and moments. We hold onto them like sticky gum on the bottom of your shoe. So many have said that peace cannot be met unless we've seen war. Is the same true about silence? I've been to some pretty noisy places and felt completely silenced. Each of us fall to pieces on a daily basis. A piece of you here. Another piece over there. Questions and concerns cause another piece to fall off. Where do you turn? How do you run? Is it away or to? Whom do you rely on the most? Your inner self? That in itself is a very touchy subject for many. Yet the one thing that's been with you the entire way is the one we try to keep from trusting. Those inner voices and feelings. Oh heck no! I daily write not once but twice each and every 24 hour period. Not to cleanse or to set free. Nope. Just here to listen.
The process of continuation has always been my fascination. A single sheet of paper required a seed from a different tree to become your present place of reality. Native American Spirituality teaches us that what we do today affects the next seven generations. Who then made your mood in this moment? How will your actions and reactions be met over the next decades? On this podcast we walk down a path of celebrated moments of chapters past while learning how to recognize what we're missing in the present. We're all overtaken by bad days and moments. We hold onto them like sticky gum on the bottom of your shoe. So many have said that peace cannot be met unless we've seen war. Is the same true about silence? I've been to some pretty noisy places and felt completely silenced. Each of us fall to pieces on a daily basis. A piece of you here. Another piece over there. Questions and concerns cause another piece to fall off. Where do you turn? How do you run? Is it away or to? Whom do you rely on the most? Your inner self? That in itself is a very touchy subject for many. Yet the one thing that's been with you the entire way is the one we try to keep from trusting. Those inner voices and feelings. Oh heck no! I daily write not once but twice each and every 24 hour period. Not to cleanse or to set free. Nope. Just here to listen.
Wednesday, August 21, 2019
Finding Victory In A Day Of Doubt
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You can be the greatest listener and leader. You can be brilliant in your place of business sense. A superstar with unbelievable talent and skills or a normal everyday person just trying to get through the moment. We all face a day of doubt. Not fear! Doubt! Not depression! Doubt! The dictionary says its a feeling of uncertainty. A lack of conviction. It messes with the image projected. It's hard to be what others expect when the system of choices are dried by the desert heat caused by doubt. On this podcast we dive into an actual moment of having to walk into a new Broadcasting class blessed with twenty individuals who already think they're stars. A mountain of energy that consumes the process of needing to be a great. A day of doubt. Red Bull and coffee can't fix this situation. It heightens the energy to believe even more in the hollowed out holes of experience. Doubt does a lot of damage not only to yourself but to the team required to feed the day an endless amount of success. How do you move through this storm? It's a choice. The activation of what brought you to the dance fuels the mind to become part of the delivery and not the excuse as to why something is late. I don't believe in Debbie Downers and Buzz Kills. Those wearing such labels are in days of doubt and use other descriptions to best wear the mask of madness. Find the victory in the moment by knowing who you before all others. Ultimately you have the choice to grow beyond what many can't explain. I keep two daily journals. I hit those pages at 4:30 am and go to a completely different journal at 4:00 pm. This episode of the podcast clearly displays how working your words can take your day of doubt and turn it into a moment of empowerment.
You can be the greatest listener and leader. You can be brilliant in your place of business sense. A superstar with unbelievable talent and skills or a normal everyday person just trying to get through the moment. We all face a day of doubt. Not fear! Doubt! Not depression! Doubt! The dictionary says its a feeling of uncertainty. A lack of conviction. It messes with the image projected. It's hard to be what others expect when the system of choices are dried by the desert heat caused by doubt. On this podcast we dive into an actual moment of having to walk into a new Broadcasting class blessed with twenty individuals who already think they're stars. A mountain of energy that consumes the process of needing to be a great. A day of doubt. Red Bull and coffee can't fix this situation. It heightens the energy to believe even more in the hollowed out holes of experience. Doubt does a lot of damage not only to yourself but to the team required to feed the day an endless amount of success. How do you move through this storm? It's a choice. The activation of what brought you to the dance fuels the mind to become part of the delivery and not the excuse as to why something is late. I don't believe in Debbie Downers and Buzz Kills. Those wearing such labels are in days of doubt and use other descriptions to best wear the mask of madness. Find the victory in the moment by knowing who you before all others. Ultimately you have the choice to grow beyond what many can't explain. I keep two daily journals. I hit those pages at 4:30 am and go to a completely different journal at 4:00 pm. This episode of the podcast clearly displays how working your words can take your day of doubt and turn it into a moment of empowerment.
Tuesday, August 20, 2019
The Lyrics From Billy's Forest Chapter 166
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In Paul Stanley's new book Backstage Pass he brings up the differences between having a dream and holding onto a fantasy. One is real while the other keeps generating mental images of something you're probably not going to hold. Being part of a dream means you accept the pitfalls that go with the itty bitty victories. Whereas a fantasy keeps the door open for false actions and reactions that are materialized to help calm the fears connected to failure. I don't have a relationship with fantasy. The day I met actor Bradley Cooper was a dream come true. I didn't sit back and think of the potential of there being a meeting. Everyday I worked hard at what I was doing that eventually led to that door being open. I've never fantasized my podcast network would be as big as Marc Maron or Conan O'Brein. The dream was to be exactly what podcasting is... A niche. Hitting one million was a hell of a journey and well worth the tests and struggles. In your own everyday place on the planet learn to become aware of what having a dream is about versus the fantasy. Too often we see the musicians, actors, acrobatics and all others on America's Got Talent fantasizing of winning. What are they hoping to achieve? That one million dollar check and a date in Vegas? What happens when it's over? Do they try for American Idol of NBC's The Voice. Fantasies aren't real. Invest in making your dreams come true. Keep them real and extremely close. Protect what you're being called to accomplish. Don't let the fantasy of success be the apple you bite into and inside sits a worm. A true dreamer would eat that worm and shout out, "Give me more!"
In Paul Stanley's new book Backstage Pass he brings up the differences between having a dream and holding onto a fantasy. One is real while the other keeps generating mental images of something you're probably not going to hold. Being part of a dream means you accept the pitfalls that go with the itty bitty victories. Whereas a fantasy keeps the door open for false actions and reactions that are materialized to help calm the fears connected to failure. I don't have a relationship with fantasy. The day I met actor Bradley Cooper was a dream come true. I didn't sit back and think of the potential of there being a meeting. Everyday I worked hard at what I was doing that eventually led to that door being open. I've never fantasized my podcast network would be as big as Marc Maron or Conan O'Brein. The dream was to be exactly what podcasting is... A niche. Hitting one million was a hell of a journey and well worth the tests and struggles. In your own everyday place on the planet learn to become aware of what having a dream is about versus the fantasy. Too often we see the musicians, actors, acrobatics and all others on America's Got Talent fantasizing of winning. What are they hoping to achieve? That one million dollar check and a date in Vegas? What happens when it's over? Do they try for American Idol of NBC's The Voice. Fantasies aren't real. Invest in making your dreams come true. Keep them real and extremely close. Protect what you're being called to accomplish. Don't let the fantasy of success be the apple you bite into and inside sits a worm. A true dreamer would eat that worm and shout out, "Give me more!"
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