Friday, March 29, 2019
Positive Living
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I laugh at titles such as Positive Living. Brings back memories of my publisher selecting the area of Barnes and Noble where my first published book would be located. I didn't want the poetry section and I knew for sure it wouldn't comfortably sit with action packed over zealous drama. They put it in the lane of very little traffic dubbed New Age Religion. On this podcast we dig in and expose those that lay a lot of claim on being a positive person. Here's what most don't understand. Being a positive person is one thing. Living a positive life is another. Both require a ton of work and there's a big chance you're going to lose a lot of people you thought were cool and hype like you. Positive is actually a negative. We survive on the energy that's given off by bad times, news and food. Then we fight like hell to get back to a safer place only to learn we've been dumped by real people and have only the social media to do our talking. Positive living doesn't mean you aren't going to be overtaken by unexpected storms. It prepares you for the events. You stand stronger when the solid rock beneath your feet begins to wobble. A good example is how Martial Arts plays out in the chapters of so many who study it. It's not supposed to be about the kicking, blocking and winning tournaments. Martial Arts is a way of life. How you present yourself on the streets of everyday. Having the courage to embrace what's eating away at your mind body and soul and allowing it to move through what's become your moment. We can positive think all we want. Without activation and truly putting yourself into the words you promote, it becomes a book on a shelf that nobody will read. Put your positive waves into a way of living. You'll love what it invites.
Thursday, March 28, 2019
Becoming Delightful
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It sounds kind of odd to bring up a subject such as this. How much do you invest in being delightful? Does the word even fit into the chapters of our present walk? My good friend Catherine recently spoke freely about how she was extremely delightful that the "J" guy would soon return. "J" because the moment you say Jesus you're gonna lose a ton of Twitter and Facebook followers. I know, it's about data collecting and subjects based on returns are usually just another reason to locate a different place to pick up content. On this podcast we dive into the word delightful by way of looking forward to something rather than being bogged down by what we assume is about to become. I get it! Plan your future. Invest in the moments that could be. The problem isn't what you're putting into it. It's what others are gaining from you not reaching that peak yet. Put your money on the people you can train, Everybody else carries luggage. Set in their way. Boom! Down goes the deeply dedicated and loyal because it puts a wave in the structure of always being prepared for change. How do you handle the pressures of coming across happy? By being delightful of your moment of Now. You honestly can't do anything about your future. It's not yours to have until it gets here. Your past is nothing but burned up firewood that's been simmering for how many chapters? Be delightful of where you presently stand. Being aware of how you'd like to evolve is always the mindset of preparing for the expectations of change. Celebrate your moment even during bad days and horrid decisions made by leaders just trying to keep their job. Look forward to going to work. You're changing lives. Every customer is seeking something. You could be that missing lyric. Be delightful.
It sounds kind of odd to bring up a subject such as this. How much do you invest in being delightful? Does the word even fit into the chapters of our present walk? My good friend Catherine recently spoke freely about how she was extremely delightful that the "J" guy would soon return. "J" because the moment you say Jesus you're gonna lose a ton of Twitter and Facebook followers. I know, it's about data collecting and subjects based on returns are usually just another reason to locate a different place to pick up content. On this podcast we dive into the word delightful by way of looking forward to something rather than being bogged down by what we assume is about to become. I get it! Plan your future. Invest in the moments that could be. The problem isn't what you're putting into it. It's what others are gaining from you not reaching that peak yet. Put your money on the people you can train, Everybody else carries luggage. Set in their way. Boom! Down goes the deeply dedicated and loyal because it puts a wave in the structure of always being prepared for change. How do you handle the pressures of coming across happy? By being delightful of your moment of Now. You honestly can't do anything about your future. It's not yours to have until it gets here. Your past is nothing but burned up firewood that's been simmering for how many chapters? Be delightful of where you presently stand. Being aware of how you'd like to evolve is always the mindset of preparing for the expectations of change. Celebrate your moment even during bad days and horrid decisions made by leaders just trying to keep their job. Look forward to going to work. You're changing lives. Every customer is seeking something. You could be that missing lyric. Be delightful.
Raising Our Arms
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As strong as I am with my faith in public I still find it extremely difficult to raise my arms in church. It's just not my thing. I feel like a taker. Yet, while praying at home I do put those palms in the air to praise the birth of new beginnings. On this podcast we dive into these areas of question. Why not at a place of worship but always while comfortably standing within the four walls of home? The movement of energy is through us at all times. Understanding how it appears and can be used is learned not only through prayer but by putting focus on meditation. Trusting the energy that comes to life in your present place of now. In church that feeling of being a taker is a personal issue that needs no human judgement. I don't arrive in a place of worship to grab hold of the worship then go about my day. Receiving is better understood when the empowerment of sharing grows upon the surface of your open fields of discovery. Through mediation you're able to feel what enters you then passes through. Raising those arms is no different. Rather than thinking of yourself as being a taker, trust that your energy is being used in positive ways as it leaves your body. There's a huge difference between prayer and meditation but that doesn't mean you can't do both in church. Utilizing the presence of both helps open your systems of choice. Your next decision doesn't need another reason to be blocked. Move the energy through you without hoarding what you think you're in need of. Be present with how you feel without labeling the actions taken.
As strong as I am with my faith in public I still find it extremely difficult to raise my arms in church. It's just not my thing. I feel like a taker. Yet, while praying at home I do put those palms in the air to praise the birth of new beginnings. On this podcast we dive into these areas of question. Why not at a place of worship but always while comfortably standing within the four walls of home? The movement of energy is through us at all times. Understanding how it appears and can be used is learned not only through prayer but by putting focus on meditation. Trusting the energy that comes to life in your present place of now. In church that feeling of being a taker is a personal issue that needs no human judgement. I don't arrive in a place of worship to grab hold of the worship then go about my day. Receiving is better understood when the empowerment of sharing grows upon the surface of your open fields of discovery. Through mediation you're able to feel what enters you then passes through. Raising those arms is no different. Rather than thinking of yourself as being a taker, trust that your energy is being used in positive ways as it leaves your body. There's a huge difference between prayer and meditation but that doesn't mean you can't do both in church. Utilizing the presence of both helps open your systems of choice. Your next decision doesn't need another reason to be blocked. Move the energy through you without hoarding what you think you're in need of. Be present with how you feel without labeling the actions taken.
Tuesday, March 26, 2019
The Lyrics From Billy's Forest Chapter 148
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A recent job interview. I was asked where I find inspiration. I said "In everyday life. I love waking up to a new day of opportunity." The other side of the phone went silent for nearly fifteen seconds. I did what most people in an interview would do, I laughed. It got me to wonder. Am I truly inspired by being awake at 4:30 AM or is it an addiction? On this podcast I jump into the unidentified addictions we face in our everyday. I've never been afraid of admitting how much of a work-a-holic I am. Because I thoroughly enjoy the process of reaching goals. But is that an addiction? Maintaining a hardcore work ethic only looks good to the person bringing it to life. Many times in my forty plus years of radio I was told to calm down my drive. My passion to succeed makes others feel less than. To hear that statement didn't wake up my heart. I laughed. Because outside of yourself not one person understands the steps required to be you not just today but everyday. Is it an addiction? How often do you give to your job, church or other activities to the point of being totally empty? What do you rely on to fill yourself back up? Some people relentlessly workout in a gym. Others have hidden away hobbies or spend a lot of time in silenced bewilderment because it's not normal to feel empty and placing a step in that hole will identify your heart as a being weak instead of the ruler of the self made kingdom of success. How truthful are you being to the self you carry? Where do you grow from here?
A recent job interview. I was asked where I find inspiration. I said "In everyday life. I love waking up to a new day of opportunity." The other side of the phone went silent for nearly fifteen seconds. I did what most people in an interview would do, I laughed. It got me to wonder. Am I truly inspired by being awake at 4:30 AM or is it an addiction? On this podcast I jump into the unidentified addictions we face in our everyday. I've never been afraid of admitting how much of a work-a-holic I am. Because I thoroughly enjoy the process of reaching goals. But is that an addiction? Maintaining a hardcore work ethic only looks good to the person bringing it to life. Many times in my forty plus years of radio I was told to calm down my drive. My passion to succeed makes others feel less than. To hear that statement didn't wake up my heart. I laughed. Because outside of yourself not one person understands the steps required to be you not just today but everyday. Is it an addiction? How often do you give to your job, church or other activities to the point of being totally empty? What do you rely on to fill yourself back up? Some people relentlessly workout in a gym. Others have hidden away hobbies or spend a lot of time in silenced bewilderment because it's not normal to feel empty and placing a step in that hole will identify your heart as a being weak instead of the ruler of the self made kingdom of success. How truthful are you being to the self you carry? Where do you grow from here?
Monday, March 25, 2019
Setting The Rhythm Of Your Day
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I love waking up in the morning. The music is always present in the head and heart. No matter how good or bad the weather, there's always something playing during those opening moments before the sun rises. No two songs get the same amount of mental airplay. Researchers call this an ear worm. Your brain is trying to remain active so it picks up what it's familiar with. On this podcast I come clean. I'm public with my beliefs connected to Christianity. Not once has the worship bands music played during those waking moments. Talk about a guilt trip! Then again, maybe that's why the beats remain silent. Worship music isn't always that place for glory. It's used to free you from nightmares and storms. In waking up to a worship song, it might in fact set off a troubling trigger of what's about to happen to this day? Same is true about waking up and the first thing you do is check your Facebook or pop on Good Morning America. I don't have memories attached to the songs that are present each new morning. Maybe its a radio thing but when I'm spinning music I have a total disconnection from the track. Do you know how many times I've played Michael Bolton, Boston, The Cars and yesterdays song was Motown Philly from Boyz II Men? What I've been able to sculpt out is a reason to use music forward. Each song that enters you is a new place to grow forward. Any song you pick up on YouTube or Pandora, let it be part of your present with no attachments to your past. Setting the rhythm of your day begins with new things, new ideas, new reasons to catch then set free. Going to work will change. Instead of carrying the weight of a memory you'll never shake. Open your moment to the idea of always being present in what you can control. The present. Hear those songs in your head and heart. Sing with them in the now.
I love waking up in the morning. The music is always present in the head and heart. No matter how good or bad the weather, there's always something playing during those opening moments before the sun rises. No two songs get the same amount of mental airplay. Researchers call this an ear worm. Your brain is trying to remain active so it picks up what it's familiar with. On this podcast I come clean. I'm public with my beliefs connected to Christianity. Not once has the worship bands music played during those waking moments. Talk about a guilt trip! Then again, maybe that's why the beats remain silent. Worship music isn't always that place for glory. It's used to free you from nightmares and storms. In waking up to a worship song, it might in fact set off a troubling trigger of what's about to happen to this day? Same is true about waking up and the first thing you do is check your Facebook or pop on Good Morning America. I don't have memories attached to the songs that are present each new morning. Maybe its a radio thing but when I'm spinning music I have a total disconnection from the track. Do you know how many times I've played Michael Bolton, Boston, The Cars and yesterdays song was Motown Philly from Boyz II Men? What I've been able to sculpt out is a reason to use music forward. Each song that enters you is a new place to grow forward. Any song you pick up on YouTube or Pandora, let it be part of your present with no attachments to your past. Setting the rhythm of your day begins with new things, new ideas, new reasons to catch then set free. Going to work will change. Instead of carrying the weight of a memory you'll never shake. Open your moment to the idea of always being present in what you can control. The present. Hear those songs in your head and heart. Sing with them in the now.
Friday, March 22, 2019
A Willingness To Share
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This new Jordan Peele movie Us has me truly thinking about images in the mirror. Within the arrival of all things that make you present, the beauty of that sheet of glass is the existence of relationship. Those eyes, that nose, hair and teeth have been stared at for how many years? Not even your parents know you like that mirrored image knows you. On this podcast we dive into the darker and lighter side of the personalities we keep from those outside that strange piece of magic hanging on the wall. I'm shocked mirrors don't come with tiny cups to catch the tears we've all cried. In the movie Us, Jordan lures your imagination into a realm of truth based on each of us having a deeper less forgiving side. If that life on the other side were to appear in front of you. Would you still be friends, connected in ways that brought you to safer paths to grow forward? Here's what's scary. In the mirror the movements you make are perfectly played out. Both of you are exactly the same. Away from that mirror, the image you project in public is exactly what your boss, family members and friends want you to do and become. You are the image in their mirror. Then one day you look back and realize you haven't been living your ideas, goals and successes. Everything is connected to someone else. Like leaves on a family tree they'll fall one by one. You'll feel completely alone. Only to realize the image in the mirror still remains. Relationship. Nobody knows you more. Do you know anything about the person staring at you in the eyes? Begin the journey of understanding. Mindfully be present with a richer purpose. Become grateful for all that is in the moment.
Thursday, March 21, 2019
Listen To The Way You Think
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In almost every comedy movie or television show a character says out loud something they were thinking. They take note of it and try to laugh it off, "Oh! Did you hear me think that?" Writers wouldn't put that into their scripts if we didn't do it out here in the real world. Listen to the way you think. Being a daily free form writer the energy from every element moving around and through me has the ability to take my mindset and put it anywhere that's available in the moment. On this podcast we talk about those places of cause and effect. We've become this generation of people that freely says what they're feeling then want instant forgiveness. We are mentally, physically and spiritually challenged to take our thoughts to a place of being heard then pay for it in the end. Being aware of what we say can also give off the tone of being extremely fake. I'm bothered by people who have to think out their answers. Just yesterday I texted a friend, "Its time for me to set aside these childhood dreams and wear a pair of grownup pants." He totally took that as a negative. It's clearly a case of me not listening to the way I think. What he felt was how I was ready to stop trying. That it was time to sell out, give up, put all of my junk in a trunk. I daily write to see where my mind is. I pay close attention to what's moving through the moment because it's a path of choices that lay ahead. We've all got too much on our minds. Most of us are pressure cookers waiting to bring a new scent and flava to the atmosphere. Is it the right time and decision? What's the payoff if its earned you another label? Listen to the way you think.
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