Goodlad Unscripted

Leonard Strandberg is a very unusual man.  He is my uncle but he is also a guy that lost the lover of his life to cancer, lost his 17 day old grandson, had a massive heart attack and by the grace of God is still alive, and last year was struck by a car while riding his motorcycle and lost his left leg.  Despite all of that, he remains positive declaring "I'm a glass is half-full kind of guy."

We talk about those experiences and his mindset for life and living it to the fullest.

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"I've always done it this way" or "this is just how I am take it or leave it" and "This is how I was raised" are all things most of us have said at one point or another when our habits get in the way of our happiness with someone else.  It may be a marriage or relationship, a job, or just the rapid evolution of technology.  Habits that were formed in the past that may have been effective then may not be effective now and may be destroying the things and people most important to you.  Like most people, I am that way but I read a book that really opened my eyes to how the brain works and specifically how our brain creates and stores habitual behavior.  I realized that if something in my life is getting in the way of my happiness, productivity, or relationships then I have the ability to re-program that habit into something that makes my life, and the lives of my loved ones, much better.  

I hope you enjoy this one and find it helpful.  

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----more----Thanksgiving was special this year, all the messages and posts felt really good and got me thinking about how I could create that super-positive feeling all the time and how important our environment is.  It also got me thinking about what I love to do and why I don't do it enough any more.  Ana and I talk about our faith and me being told I was going to Hell for being a photographer of beautiful women and Ana being a beautiful and sensuous model.

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Everyone has a bad day but when we catch ourselves chronically searching for the sliver of misery in the apple pie of our lives then we may want to check our thinking. I realized that I was doing exactly and caught myself when someone took the time to see some positive in my life and share it with me. The feeling was incredible and my very next thought was that I need to start doing that for others I care about and do it every day.

Your brain can do a lot of things but it can't wallow in misery and basque in the warm glow of positive thought at the same time. Misery is a choice then of which thoughts we ruminate over in our minds. There is an upside in virtually every story so it's just a matter of finding it and thinking about that rather than anything else. Once I started doing that my outlook changed and not surprisingly, so did my situation. The people around me absorb what I put into their day and when it became more positive, they changed too.

Ana Tigre and I talk about that revelation in this show, as well as the importance of looking after yourself so you can be at your very best.

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It's been one heck of a week but we are finishing strong.  As we kick about this and that it becomes abundantly clear that my blushing bride is never wrong, even when she is.  She makes me laugh so she can be right when ever she wants, even when she isn't.  Thank you for listening to our podcast and thank you very much for subscribing.  We have a lot of fun doing these for you.

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Ana and I have been in business together for about ten years and it has been anything but easy.  We make it work but it is work to keep our business healthy and our marriage and home life healthy at the same time.  We have had to learn how to do everything better, accept each others shortcomings, work on improving our own, and being committed to our lives together.  We talk about the issues and the solutions we have found to make everything not just work, but be exceptional.

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I met Mark Smith in 2004.  He was an F16 Pilot with the United States Air Force Thunderbirds, and I was doing a story on him and a Thunderbird Crew Chief.  We have been friends since that time, and I have watched him progress through his career from Thunderbird Pilot to White House Fellow and Special Assistant to the Director of NASA, to F16 advanced combat tactics trainer, to Southwest Airlines Pilot and UFC Referee.  If you are a fight fan, you have probably seen him on TV.  He is a father of four amazing kids - and he is African American, which I only mention because his skin color has put up roadblocks for him along his career path. At 49 years of age, he is living his dream life yet he continues to dream of more and greater challenges. It's a lengthy interview, just over an hour, but Mark is a fascinating man and keeping it to an hour almost did us all a disservice.

I hope you find Mark as inspiring as I do.

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Yesterday was a holiday so Ana Tigre and I did what we love to do most when we have some time together, she modeled for me.  The photographs were for a layout in the next issue of my digital magazine and while we had an awesome day working together, when we looked at the pictures Ana didn't feel like she had done her best work.  We talk about why in this podcast and how that same approach in every other aspect of our lives results in the same sub-par performance.  Being your very best starts with getting your head right then the rest falls in to place.

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Later today Ana will be modeling for me for a photoshoot.  These will be published in my digital magazine but some people think that her pictures are too sexy.  We have an honest talk about her modeling, the pictures we take, and how we feel about our work together.

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The social media divide is a generational one and there are a lot of concerns whether real or imagined about social media safety, the high visibility and endless presence of anything posted, as well as the ease and accessibility to temptations on the world wide web.  Ana and I don't agree on all of it so we decided to hash it out in front of the world on this show.

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