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JumpStart - Stress Balls

In the last month, I’ve given live speeches in Napa Valley, Phoenix, San Antonio, Las Vegas, Austin, Traverse City, Dallas, and I’ve noticed one thing each of these events have in common…

Stress balls.

You know what stress balls are, right?

They’re those little spongy rubber things you’re supposed to pick up and squeeze when you feel stressed.

Well, I’ve been seeing a LOT of stress balls and I think it’s a sign.

A sign that like the frog that slowly gets boiled alive we’re becoming slow-cooked by stress and don’t even realize it.

Get out of the pressure cooker.

Reduce stress now and begin to enjoy life as it is (not as we wish it were)...

 

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JumpStart - Flexibility

This pandemic has put the limits of human flexibility under an enormous stress test.

People working from home, children staying home for school, some businesses being open and others being closed.

Then there is the conflicting medical advice.

Sometimes, the best we can do is to survive with a smile on her face.

And that only comes from being flexible…

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JumpStart - Keep Your Head Clear

As I was preparing to record this jumpstart this morning I had several things go wrong.

Not a big deal, that’s just life.

And what I discovered is that each additional small challenge seems to be more of a big deal than the previous one when they show up in succession.

Have you ever noticed that a series of small challenges can make us snap?

We need to control what we say to ourselves as things go wrong along our path rather than looking for patterns. 

In this JumpStart, learn how to keep your head clear so your life becomes happier…

 

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JumpStart - What time is it?

Yogi Berra said a lot of profound things.

Including,

PLAYER: “What time is it?”

YOGI:  “You mean now?”

This always makes me think of Salutation To the Dawn the ancient sanskrit poem.

Listen to the salutation to the dawn, Look to this day for it is life, the very life of life, In its brief course lie all the verities and realities of our existence.

The bliss of growth, the splendor of beauty, For yesterday is but a dream and tomorrow is only a vision,

But today well spent makes every yesterday a dream of happiness and every tomorrow a vision of hope. Look well therefore to this day. Such is the salutation to the dawn.

~Sanskrit, attributed to Kālidāsa

In this JumpStart, let’s explore the profundity of living in the moment...

 

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JumpStart - A.N.T.s

You are a combination of your actions, thoughts, and emotions.

If you change any one of these, the other two will change.

Seems like life should be pretty easy then, right?

No, we have ants in our brain.

Automatic Negative Thoughts - and our ego throws these around like sparks in a dry forest hoping something will catch.

We become happier people when we cease to believe these negative thoughts and begin to challenge them.

Let’s unpack how to do that starting now…

 

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JumpStart - Why You Need Waves

This morning as I walked out onto the dock and looked down into the bay, I caught myself saying aloud, “I’ve never seen the bay so still.”

Settling in on a bench with Teddy in my lap, coffee in my hand, and dawn breaking before me I noticed something.

I noticed that the sunrise behind me didn’t seem to illuminate the bay with its usual awe-inspiring panoply of colors.

It was pretty, yes, but not the breathtaking spectacle I’m used to seeing.

Out in the distance, a small boat cut through the water and as its waves ambled toward me the sunlight danced upon the now rolling surface and the morning was its usual breathtaking self.

Here’s the takeaway for us: our brilliance comes out during the waves, not the calm.

And every day is an opportunity to observe (rather than curse) the waves...

 

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JumpStart - Lie-abilities

My friend Dan Murphy is an awesome radio announcer.

His golden voice has been gracing Seattle’s airwaves for four decades but a commonly held belief almost prevented Dan from his success.

You see, Dan was born blind and the “common wisdom” 60 years ago was to put disabled people into sheltered workshops to do piecework.

But Dan saw common wisdom as a lie and he turned his disability into a great career.

You know who else had a startling disability and yet it’s the reason he become super famous?

Vincent Van Gogh.  

Learn what Van Gogh’s disability was and how he turned it into success.

More importantly, learn how you can take your limitations and turn them into assets.

 

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JumpStart - As You “So”, You Reap

Decades ago, I heard the wise Earl Nightingale say in one of his recordings that, “Superlatives are diminutives” and his words are even more true today than back then.

Seriously, have you noticed how polarized our speech has changed over the years?  

“Good” has become “awesome”, “bad” has become “the worst”, etc.

Then there are the superlative amplifiers such as “very” and “so” and “totally”.  

We live in a world of extremes both in our minds and in reality and, believe it or not, happiness, and contentment lie somewhere in the middle.

In this JumpStart, learn how good is often better (and more accurate) than “great” and how searching for the “best” often makes you feel like the “worst”...

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JumpStart - A Taste of Baroque

If you’re finding it difficult to relax, try my little secret.

Engage 2 of your senses in something relaxing simultaneously.

For example, listen to Baroque classical music while burning incense.

Drink mint tea while taking a bath.

There seems to be a compounding effect when we engage in more than one relaxing activity at the same time.

In this JumpStart, let’s unpack how to relax your body which will also relax your mind by stacking things that relax you.

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JumpStart - A Memorial

Where were you on the morning of September 11, 2021?

You remember, right?

Of course you remember, we all do.

I was sitting in a prayer class in ministerial school.

After the news was broken to us that a plane had just crashed into the world trade center and we all went into “serious prayer” I spontaneously burst into song.

I’m grateful for that moment of song, a moment of healing for us all.

Today let’s look back with open hearts.

Let’s look forward with open minds.

 

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