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Episode 30

Life is about relationships.  Unless you are a hermit on an island, everyone has to deal with other people.  We were all created for relationship!   Our experience in and with relationships in our past has a way of influencing and shaping our relationships today.   Relationships can be lifegiving, filled with excitement,  powerful and intimate.  Relationships can also be painful, life-taking, places of challenge and anxiety.  

In this episode, I share some of my journey with relationships.  Growing up through my formative years with a single mom and a grandmother shaped how I viewed and interacted with the different relationships in my life.  When I met my wife and chased her to Texas (story in the debut episode) I had to confront my idea of relationships.   I realized that when you choose to engage in real relationships you will see the good, the bad and the ugly in that relationship.  We are OK with the good and bad, but when we get to "ugly" we have to make a decision, are we going to love through our leave!  I was great at leaving until I met my wife... I chose to love when I wanted to leave and life has never been the same!  

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Episode 29

Alexa...?  Hey Siri...?  Every answer to every question is in the palm of your hand!  We can no longer plead ignorance.  We have information,  but how is our lives being transformed by that information?

Information is not our problem, what we do with the information we have is the problem.  We have more information and knowledge available to us today than at any other time in history.  

In today's episode, we talk about how to move from information to revelation that leads to transformation.  

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Vultures and Hummingbirds both fly through the desert.  Vultures look for dead, decaying meat, Hummingbirds look for beautiful blossoms filled with sweet nectar.  The principle is that we always find what we are looking for!  What are you looking for?

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A vulture mindset looks for dead things, live on what was (should a, could a, would a), live on mistakes, get offended easy and can kill momentum.  Vulture mindset people look for other vultures, they wallow in self-pity.  

A Hummingbird mindset looks for life, those relationships that give life,  they live on what is, seek beauty, find opportunity and follow after wisdom.  

Disclaimer: Vultures have a redeeming quality, they are the garbage collectors of our highways, scavenging and keeping it clean!

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Episode 28

Anxiety seems to be all the rage, everyone is doing it!  But then there is this, Do not be anxious about anything, but in every situation, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God.  Philippians 4:6 

Anxiety does not have to be your middle name!  In today's episode, we talk about the paralyzing effect of anxiety on our lives, families, and careers.  If this is something you struggle with, you are not alone and it does not have to define you! 

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Episode 27

We were there!  Nats Win! Nats Win! Nats Win!  Those are hard words for an Astros fan (which I am).  But what made it easier was getting to know some of the families of the players and their amazing stories of perseverance and grit!  

 We may not have choices about the things that happen around us or to us, but we all have choices about how we handle the challenges and obstacles that come our way.  

We are blessed to have had season tickets to the Houston Astro's this year which allowed us to be at the home games of the World Series.  Our seats are actually right in front of the visiting family's seats.  We usually sit in front of the visiting pitchers' family.  Some teams have great fans and families and others... not so much!  The Washington Nationals have great fans and families.  We got to hear some great storylines of some of the star players on the nationals.  While they were our enemy on the baseball field, I became a fan of their resilience and perseverance off the field.  

(As you listen today you can tell I was suffering from a  World series Loss hangover.  That is why we say this podcast is about real life, uncut and unedited.  Correction in the podcast; Sherzer was injured and had to sit out game 5, Stausberg was voted MVP of the series)

Life Happens!  You hear me say this often.  It is the unexpected moments that come our way and how we handle them that defines and speaks into our character.  Maj. General Bob Dees has written several books on Resilient Leadership.  He talks about the warrior.  He shared that warriors prepare for battle and understand that when in the battle they WILL be hit, knocked down, face defeat.  No one steps into a boxing ring thinking they will never get punched!  The issues is not getting hit, knocked down or punched, the issue is are you going to get back up?  Often easy to say but not as easy to do... I understand from my own experiences.

In today's episode, we talk about this and those things that help us to get back up.  

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The Arena from Theodore Roosevelt

"It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat."

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Episode 26

When I was a kid, we lived in a neighborhood where there were no fences between the houses.  Every Saturday my friends and I would head out to play and we wouldn't come home until the sun went down.  The only break we would take is to get a drink from the water hose on the side of the nearest house.  The key to drinking from a fire hose was being the one to control the flow of the water.  If you didn't control the flow, you knew that getting a drink was going to be an adventure...  you would wait until they put their lips to the water and started drinking and then turn the nozzle up full blast, blowing your friends cheeks wide and causing them to choke...  We would turn the hose on each other and take off running through the neighborhood again.  

Does life ever feel like you are drinking from a fire hose?  

In today's episode, we talk about the intensity of life and who is controlling the flow.   

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Episode 25 - All I need is me!  This is where I lived for much of my life and no matter how hard I tried to break through there always seemed to be a lid on my growth and future.  It wasn't until I realized that I was the one limiting my future and potential that I was able to take the lid off and truly begin to grow.  In order to grow, I knew I was going to need to surround myself with people smarter and further ahead of where I was.  

In today's episode, I share my journey of finding mentors and coaches that would sow into my life and help me learn and grow.  We all need mentors and coaches in our lives to push us and stretch us and help us get from where we are to where we desire to be.  

Do you have a mentor or coach in your life?  If not, why not?  and if you do, take time to send them a note and thank them sowing into your life!

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I am Rick Torrison, an everyday leader, and entrepreneur living life out loud and in community.  See you on the other side!

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We all have giants in our lives that we have to face every day!  How we choose to fight those giants is the key to how long we will have to continue to fight those giants!  We can learn a lot about how to fight those giants from David and Goliath.  Here are just a few thoughts to consider when facing the giants in your life.

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Episode 24 - What motivates you?  Have you ever felt like quitting?  When we feel like quitting we need to remember why we started.  We need to understand what motivates us and what steals our motivation.  

There are two types of motivation, positive and negative.  Positive motivation is about pleasure or reward and negative motivation is all about pain!  Which do you feel is more powerful?  Negative motivation is more powerful to get us up off our backside and start moving... but positive motivation is what will keep us going when we feel like quitting.  

Negative motivation will get you going... Positive motivation will keep you going.

In today's episode, we talk about those things that motivate us and those things that rob us of our motivation and how to tap into the positive motivation that will keep us going and growing, even when "Life" happens!  

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I am Rick Torrison, an everyday leader, and entrepreneur living life out loud and in community.  See you on the other side!

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You are either with me or against me... It is either true or it is a lie... You are either with me or against me...

Do you look at life through either/or lenses or are you more comfortable with a both/and mindset?  WE believe either/or people are rigid, dogmatic, uncompromising and intolerant.  We think that people who are both/and don't stand for anything and allow everything to be OK!  

Listen to today's episode to learn why, as people of faith, it is either/or AND both/and.  

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