Can't think straight? Always feeling alittle frazzled? Have you ever felt you had too much on your plate?  Is your mind going in so many directions you sometimes get lost?  Or overwhelmed by your thoughts? Has clutter affected your mind way too long? Well 1 out 4 family households are dealing with clutter in one way or another.  This week's goal on Momentum Speaks is to help you learn a few a simple habits, actions, and mindsets you can use to clean up the mental clutter that might be holding you back from being more focused and mindful. You just might need to remove some clutter in your mind!

Gaining a new perspective on detours in life usually happens in hindsight, but at the time they are just uncomfortable. That's why it's good to reflect on those detour and delays in our lives from time to time.  Detours cause us to slow down and look around.  Detours when we can get over our impatience, can open up vistas that we would never see from the freeway.  Maybe we were just not headed in the right direction and needed a reroute. In this episode, you will learn to navigate better through life's detours, roadblocks and delays and discover through patience, it can be a helpful virtue in determing how a simple reroute could keep you from longer delays and roadblocks to your pathway to success. 

Why do we get offended? The reasons why we all get offended differ amongst different people but there are certain common reasons or causes of offenses irrespective of who you are or where you are from.  We often find offenses too large to look over. The actual size of the offense often matters little and we have eyes only for The Offense. In this week's episode you will learn about the dangers of offenses and how to overlook an offense. Must listen to show!  

What in the world is a stronghold, and how do you even know if you have one? And if you do...is it really so bad?  Most people assume the way they think is "normal," but that is not necessarily so. Our culture, traditions, how we were raised and the things we experience fill us with thoughts, ideas and beliefs. What and how we think affects every area of our lives. In this episode, we outline what a stronghold is, why it can be such a hinderance and how to pull it down.  Share this episode with a friend!

While we can hope to achieve ninja-laser focus as often as possible, the reality is that most people, struggle to get meaningful and massive results of uninterrupted deep work done during the day. We inevitably deal with distractions, solicitations, procrastination and complacency surrounding us and fighting for our attention. Why do we fight so hard with it? Why is that your attention seems to always be in constant solicitation? And when will you get tired of it? This episode will help you with effective solutions to consider and more importantly to identify and overcome the five d's to complacency and solicitation.  A show you want to hear and share!

When we are hurt, we can carry the stench of lies, betrayal, and pain with us. It can haunt us, follow us and hold us back. But what if we were able to shed our suffering? What if our hurt didn’t hold us back after all? Let this thought-changing, thought-provoking episode help you learn and practice the art of interruption and elimination transform you from pain to peace, hurt to healing, rejection to redemption and abandonment to acceptance. And don't forget to share with a friend!

Have you been so afraid and stuck so long without any momentum that you start to limit yourself in trying to reach your potential? You start feeling miserable, because of unlived potential that's been sitting on the shelf of your life. In this episode, you will discover the power of your potential lies in what's ahead of you and not in the rear view mirror.  And it must be guarded and cultivated. The show will also point out five potential purpose distractions that are constantly trying to hold you back.  Listen and be empowered to move towards your potential.

Have you ever found yourself in a cave? Not a real physical cave, but a cave of despair and despondency where the darkness seems to just swallow you up. Have you felt the squeeze, everything closing in around you? Contrary to the saying, “God works in mysterious ways.’ He actually wants you to understand His ways. He does not want you to jump off the potter’s wheel at the very times He is shaping you for the future. In this episode, you will learn that destiny is a life lived in the adventure of knowing both God’s acts and ways, and knowing how to behave in periods of stretching and periods where cycles seem to repeat. Take a second look – you’re not going around a circle but a cycle, UP the mountain! Each cycle is shorter and the view is different that helps you reach your highest and best for your life.

It’s Not “What We Do” but “Why We Do” that matters. What do you think of when you hear the word ‘hero?’ A guy in a cape and blue tights?  A dark vigilante fighting in the shadows for justice?  Heroes often emerge from unexpected places. Scripture is full of stories of forgotten lives–unsung heroes whose actions and sacrifices failed to win them worldly renown. Yet, these great lives reveal significant people who God was able to use, and whose lives counted for something great. They may not be on the rolls of the rich and famous, yet their lives are still significant because they illustrate what is possible when ordinary people remain faithful to an extra-ordinary God.  Despite what the world tells us, we do not need to be powerful, prominent, or rich to have influence. Even in the small things, you can impact history in a powerful way, because YOU MATTER!

It is difficult to sit still in transition when you are threatened by opposition from the outside.  You are so vulnerable on your way out of transition. Where there is transition there is distraction, and where there is distraction, there is opportunity for someone break your focus and create instability. In this episode, you will learn that your breakthrough is in the transition and transformation is in the miracle.