Motion Versus Emotion

Listen to "Motion Versus Emotion" on Spreaker. What are your hot button words? Monday? Bills getting paid on time? We all have triggers. We can try and run from their purpose and place but those words have a way of creating emotion. It becomes our fuel. When out of tune with the present places we stand our emotions get away from us and people want nothing to do with the unveiling of the inner child or beast. Grasping onto a different view of the walk is to replace your emotion with physical motion. We can't get to a Friday without movement. You can talk all week about how much you hate your job but unless you use the strength of motion nothings going to change. Beginning your day is a valuable part of your process of personal growth. 5am I'm out that door everyday taking my rescued dog for a walk. Sure it's to keep her heart healthy and to do other expectations but it's more for me. I do my intentions. Every step I tell myself what my intentions for the day are. I give myself direction. I point out where the mindset is growing toward. I also include the intention of not listening to past voices that no longer have a plan or purpose in my present place of now. Look, your boss isn't a jerk and the workload only seems like too much to handle. If you locate the intention of your process without letting emotion become part of the growth there is motion. Moving forward requires change as well as challenge. Build a strong intentions list and everything in front of you will have purpose.

The Lyrics From Billy's Forest Chapter 109

Listen to "The Lyrics From Billys Forest Chapter 109" on Spreaker. There are so many subjects attached to this particular moment of thought moving in forward motion. We could spend time talking about intuition and how we choose not to listen. We know of an approaching change in our personal seasons but rely on outside objects and gadgets to keep us free of the weight. It's almost like turning up the car radio to the point of no longer hearing the clanking in the engine section of the car. I often wonder if we spent more time listening and not reacting how much more successful we'd be as professionals and just regular people in normal clothes. My brother Teddy was a brilliant listener. He never went into a circle of people without walking out with a fan base of new friends. I think it's because he allowed others to have a voice. No matter how angry they may have come across or depressed, it was through his art of listening that he was able to help heal. Most of us don't have that kind of time. We're always rushing to the next big event. Then when it comes time to deal with the moment the art of our listening left a lot of gaps in the real story, which means now we have to make it up. One of my personal joys in life is sitting in a room with no sound. Listening to air move allows bird songs from distant trees to take shape in my imagination. I like driving without the radio on. I find tremendous peace sitting inside this recording studio overtaken by sound proofing. There is a place for your imagination everyday. When you stop trying to fill it. Your walk in forward motion begins to locate discovery. Know in your heart before there was Google there was the art of listening.

Finding Now

Listen to "Finding Now" on Spreaker. I write about it a lot. Being present in your present. Mindfully every step is in forward motion then outward. It's not an easy task. I've studied every shape of spirituality to figure out where the path was truly growing from. Then one day the song lyrics from the worship band at Elevation punctured a hole in my heart and vision. Being present in the now is having faith and trust in all things unknowing. Making yourself available to pull in the present without having to redesign the past. Reality gut check here... The stories most of us share about our experiences are bent. I'm learning the hard way that resumes are no different. Indeed sent out a huge email that told job hunters to use better verbs. Suddenly the layout of who what and where looked more like strawberry shortcake rather than pumpkin pie. Understanding the present is knowing if it rains on your parade you aren't running inside. You're allowing the availability of now consume your heart. If you're having a bad day at work allow it to process. Putting yourself in a self described place of safety in your past isn't anything more than stepping back thirty feet. Through awareness we know our intentions and have the ability to keep judgement at a well controlled low level. It doesn't necessarily feel like a glorious moment but if and when you recognize it's discomfort you're able to put yourself in newer situations of recovery. Whereas living off a memory means changing the layout of the story. It happened but you did nothing at the time to correct the direction of the driving winds. It's very difficult to live in the now when the rest of the planet loves tearing up your past. I've become extremely careful as to who sits in my circle. Life isn't Facebook and Instagram. God may have created your family but ultimately you have to live with them. Yeah ok. Same is true about the workplace. You didn't create the product nor the requirement of productivity. But you can be brilliant at your job by handling the unknowing. Prepare yourself for sudden changes without over reacting. Build your platform of success on the process of realization rather than research and false numbers that glorify a past more than represents it. Loosen up your hardened heart and be ready for the now. Take your mask off and enjoy the next ten minutes of you being you.

The Value Of Having Nothing

Listen to "The Value Of Having Nothing" on Spreaker. The value of having nothing. How many people can find true peace in such a gathering? I've been with enough people that have too much that the scent of their greed and lack of respect for others can never be washed out only replaced. Under my breath I wish upon their steps a silent sip of nothingness. Even if it's a day of boredom. I love boredom. It's the only way you have the ability to slow the hands of time. When you break it down boredom it's the act of having nothing. It's an open space of not being connected to anything but the moment. I'm very transparent in my daily writing. Knowing how creative people tend to be introverts is a dangerous place for brilliant thoughts to be planted so I let it all go. I've learned in those writings that kids aren't the only things that say the darnedest things. I believe adult do. We just like to push them under the carpet so others don't catch on to your truer identity. Or there are those that believe so much in the darnedest things that it super serves their purpose to guru their positions of decision. We're all guilty of it. It's the actuality of our ability with too much being lost in the process of growing forward. In April of 2016 I came face to face with the conclusion of what I assumed was a career. In being transparent, there wasn't anger, sadness, loneliness or a feeling of being empty. The writer penned out, "The value of having nothing is the perfect number required to keep reaching forward. In all I do and will do. The gains I make are based on my passion to be a truer more determined Broadcaster." Stop and think for a moment. If you had what you have always dreamed. Would you truly be happy? Would your productivity and desire to build stronger foundations of success still be that wild child that takes chances and creates opportunities? What does it mean to have it all when the next breath you take is being compared to someone who has a dog that showcases their love for them through pictures on Facebook? A former co-creator once said to me, "During my humble days I ___________." I completely tuned out of the conversation. During your humble days? You've got everything except for the physical presence of being humble and or grateful. The value of having nothing. How do you fill your rain barrel that feeds your creative soil?

The Lyrics From Billy's Forest Chapter 108

Listen to "The Lyrics From Billys Forest Chapter 108" on Spreaker. I'm going to point blank ask the question, "Who do you super serve? Yourself? Your God? Your Boss? Sadly I think all three are somewhere in the Top 10 but nowhere near where they should be. Getting a grip on the chapters we are participating with requires the courage to take note of where you presently stand. I'm blessed daily with the opportunity to talk to the biggest names in music, movies, television and books. I've yet to meet the creative person that didn't look into the mirror and lay claim to being where they truly want to be. How do you get there? What's that one thing the majority of us are missing that keeps us from pile driving their current structure of business and harnessing a new age of reaching out? It goes back to whom you are super serving. If everything being accomplished is in your identity expect to crash. You can't do a great idea alone. Selfishness on the workplace front isn't for ego driven mentalities but rather for teams of achievers that have lived in experience by way of knowing the expectation. Knowing who you serve is a brilliant step toward understanding who's receiving what you serve. During my 39 years of Broadcasting I've never believed my job was to work for a particular company. I was there to serve listeners. Not every boss got into that idea. Especially when I moved into the world of commercial production. I prayed about it a lot. Only to hear in my heart that I'm still serving listeners. Clients can't survive without them. Through advertising we better people's lives with products that make it easier and more secure. Serving the client while super serving the listener develops a great relationship with the community. The only thing we've left out is are you super serving your God? When we show up at church we think we are. Many of us feel horribly guilty when the volunteers are kicking tail and we were at home watching the NBA playoffs. Being up front and personal with people you don't know might not be your pair of shoes. Why sweat it? Your personal approach to how you super serve is determined by your decisions not the acts of others. You are being called to be somewhere everyday. Making sure you get there is the curse. The guilt trip sets in when achievement lets down the self and the boss. It's a tough question and subject because the reality our current bite truly has nothing to do with any of these three. Look around you. The super serving we seem to be landing on every chance available is the internet. Without your thoughts, pictures and desire to Google it wouldn't and couldn't be. You are giving the monster all the air it needs to be alive while controlling every step you take. The cold hard fact. By super serving the internet everything from your boss, to yourself to God suffers. Can you win that game? I'm not sure it's possible. People try and have a great time bragging about their efforts. In the they're back on the internet again. Awareness is the key factor. Know where you are at all times. Suddenly you sound like you're Mom and Dad. You know what? I'm OK with that. When you over exert your efforts on the one thing you super serve and it doesn't fit within the physical acts of what you need to survive. Ground yourself. Take away your phone and take down the door leading to your bedroom. If you're going to act like a spoiled kid then you need to see the end results of bad decisions.

The Pregnant Pause

Listen to "The Pregnant Pause" on Spreaker. Pop music nor Hip Hop feel they need it. Whereas Rush Limbaugh and nationally recognized comedians do. The pregnant pause is a valuable tool. Powerful in the way that it clearly invites listeners to build a better relationship with the message maker. If the content has been planned out and executed properly it creates an engaging moment of wanting to listen. It sounds old fashioned to speak in tones and volumes that aren't as smooth as an Auto Bell team washing and drying your car. The reason why people utter Um or Aaaa is because they feel a personal need to keep the conversation growing by never giving the listener a place to step onto the stage. We aren't trained to be listeners anymore. Its the One Up Generation. Keeping up with the Jones means nothing when what you've lived or experienced was brought to life weeks before the one holding the conversation. Even in prayer we can't shut up. I'm in the forest every morning listening to the elements of all things. If I'm talking the message is missed. That bright red cardinal or deer that sort of made you smile on the way into a new day was trying to speak to you but the radio was too loud. Your heart was flooded with what you didn't do over the weekend and your dreams of being successful will be shot down again by a boss who's more interested in their endless trips out of town then truly taking care of the people that gift them with the finances to be free. Challenge yourself this moment forward to stop talking. Say nothing in your moments of growth. Hear the calling. Activate the requirement. Henry Bogan on WBT used to tell me, "Stop trying to keep your job. Your focus should always be on the next one. Learn everything here. If all you think about is the stress and expectations of this current job you are failing your future self." Create a pregnant pause in the way you speak. Don't force listeners to pay attention. It begins with an invitation of thoughts slowly delivered in the way we truly listen which should be one word at a time not LMNOP. Those are five individual letters that get locked up into one word while saying the alphabet. Not to be crude but you're missing out on a lot of success when you talk too much. Your army of supporters need leadership not complainers. Patiently delivering the message builds the legs that will be strong when someone else's ship is sinking.

Where Is Your Wisdom

Listen to "Where Is Our Wisdom" on Spreaker. I can still hear my father's voice questioning each teenage decisions,"What were you thinking? Where is your wisdom?" Being the black sheep of the family or middle child didn't gift my path with special permissions, I broke away from family traditions to locate newer areas of what my father was speaking of. I was in search of wisdom! He just didn't recognize it as such. Today, the vast arrival of so many new laws and legalization of plants, gambling and other things. I feel like my father "Where is our wisdom?" No really! What happens to it after we've learned from it and lived off it? We have to de-frag our computers why not the human thought process? During a lecture the other day a guest pointed out the importance of endlessly showing films about WWII on The History Channel. He clearly pointed out how we forget way too easily only to be reminded of hazards when it's too late. I'm so guilty of that! I know the water on the stove is hot and I still put my finger in it. Life in rewind while moving in forward motion seems like a waste of time. But how do you get past the idea that what you're going to be taught today will fall short in the years ahead. You have to practice wisdom everyday. You have to teach as much as take in. You are required to participate with the craftsmanship of wisdom by building upon its amplitude of existence. Too much work right? If you could locate that cavern where all your wisdom is stored would you be able to recognize it? Or would it be like an old radio station studio still featuring CD players, cart machines and bulk erasers with a power cord that stretches over a two track reel to reel recorder? None of that equipment is used today. It's in the way of modern technology. Reaching goals and destinations require less work. Is that how you treat your wisdom as well?