You either want to be right, or you want to learn. You can’t do both.
One of the greatest joys I get in hosting a podcast is the opportunity to learn from others. This has always been my intent from episode number one but it wasn’t always that easy. When first starting out, I was nervous. Being nervous made me focus more on what questions I would ask and how I would answer their questions, that I often times wasn’t listening as intently as I could have been. We all do it in conversations each and every day. People are talking to us and instead of listening intently, we are formulating our response while they are still talking. We think we need to have the correct response, rather than engaging in learning from the person across from us.
We go into meetings with an agenda and we focus on proving to everyone in the room that we are right.
We engage in discussion or disagreements with our spouse and we aren’t really listening to their side of the story because by god, they’re wrong and we are always right.
Draw this out to a global scale and you have a snapshot of the communication taking place in the world right now. Senate hearings where committee members are supposed to be questioning those brought before them but instead, they’re pontificating about their own brilliance.
People in the online world of news and social media, beating their chests about how right they were all along about the false narrative we were sold on this pandemic (which I believe to be the truth but don’t see the value in throwing it in the faces of those who were slow to take notice).
We have to either want to learn how to solve problems or prove to others we are right. Whether it is settling a dispute within your own family or taking on global issues, we aren’t going to solve anything if we aren’t willing to learn from others.
Your happiness is not a gift given to you by others.
Create a mantra for your life. If you aren't writing your story, someone else is writing it for you.
Listen: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/eml-radio-talking-truth/id1498113483?i=1000558947971
Hello my friends!
I'm finishing up the transition away from Locals onto Substack and wanted to be sure each of you have made the necessary adjustments to your accounts. For those of you who have remaining months left on your paid support here, I have comped you the balance over at Substack.
This will be the final week I post content here.
I will resume the live recordings over there, starting with our first call on Friday, March 3rd at 9am/12pm. Invitations to join the Zoom calls will go out on Substack. Mark your calendars!
Also, be sure to download the Substack App! I love the app and find it so helpful in organizing content I want to read later by keeping it on my dashboard.
See you on the other side!
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One of the biggest challenges in writing my book is not being able to share any of it along the way. Given my narcissistic need for constant approval and attention, not having any feedback is killing me. Even negative attention is better than no attention at all (which explains a lot of my behavior in life), so not only am I missing the praise but I also miss my haters.
I need to break out of this cave. Thanks to Chuck Palahniuk who writes Spoiler Alert on Substack, but you would know as the author of Fight Club, I got the idea to share some excerpts and things that won’t make the final edit. This will give us both what we need. I get some attention and you get some thought provoking words to make you think (and possibly laugh, cry or both.)
Today’s snippet is from the first draft of a chapter titled, Remove Your Kindergarten Name Tag. I am currently on my third revision and we can all be thankful for this. As I walk my readers through the dark hallways of my earliest years, and attempt ...
Wanted to pass this short video along. We think of health in very limited ways. Faith, nature, love, communality, shared human experience…all prove to be just as necessary, if not more so, than going to the gym.
I’ve always viewed and taught health from this perspective. It is my belief the lack of these essential elements is as big an issue in our culture as poor diet and lack of movement.
The takeaway-we can do better🙏🏼
