Change The Game

How important are the connections you have with the people in your life? More importantly, when you have an opportunity to connect with those people, are you being present with them, or are you distracted? Often times being present with the people in your personal and business life is the best way to strengthen those relationships.

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Are you taking advice from someone with less credentials and less experience than you in a certain subject? Many people fall into the trap of taking free advice from people who simply haven’t lived through the situations of which they are providing feedback from.

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Have you ever got into an argument and got to a place where you completely forgot what you were arguing about? I created a list of simple questions to help get very clear on what it is we are hoping to create by a tough conversation. In today’s podcast we’re going to discuss some of them and the impact they have on you prior to having a tough conversation.

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I grew up in a very small community and I was a farm boy on a grain farm. And man, when we got in trouble back then, we got our butts kicked. One summer we drove a three-wheeler into the back of my uncle’s brand new car, and I had to pay for that lesson big time. We must pay for our lessons is something my grandfather always said and that stuck with me.

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What would it take? That is a powerful question we can ask ourselves any time we are faced with situations where we want something that is out there. What are you willing to do for it? Is a second question that can frame up the pathway to what we want. My son had to answer this question in order to convince us to allow him to buy Grand Theft Auto.

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Where in your life have you made a mistake and you are not owning up to your mistake? Integrity and trust are built when we have the ability to be 100% responsible for ourselves and our actions, and taking responsibility for our own mistakes when dealing or interacting inside of our relationships with people.

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Do you do unto others that you would have them to do unto you? Or do you do unto others as they would like to have done unto them? In any collision you have with someone, sometimes you lose the site of whatever it is you were colliding about in the first place. How could you use either concepts to operate better in your life?

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The only way sometimes people can learn, is to face natural consequences. The consequences that a person will face on their own, through their own making, without any guidance our shepherding. Natural consequences are the result of our own choices and decisions.

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At 7:00am I had a mantrum, that is tantrum, like a 3 year old has, mashed up with the word man. Why? Because we didn’t have a work out plan this morning, and failing to plan is planning to fail. If we don’t have a plan, how can we expect to execute? What is one area in your life that you can improve if you had a plan?

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As a man, I cannot rise unless my wife rises with me. We’re connected together, much like mountain climbers tethered together, or tennis players having to stay close to not expose any gaps. As much as we may put the expectation on our spouses to rise up on their own, where can we look to reach down and lift them up, or conversely, cut the rope and let them go?

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