Are you a good listener?  In this podcast we take a test that will help us determine if we are good listeners.  There are twenty questions.  Bruce, a licensed professional counselor, tells us that many of the problems he helps couple work through began because one or both of the people involved were not good listeners. So get yourself a pencil and get ready to answers the questions on a scale of one to five.  For each question, five means you can answer the question with a strong yes.  One means, well, no!  If you're brave get your spouse or a good friend to rate you. 

This is the second part of a discussion with our first guest, my wife, Dian Glover.  We are still at the beach while Bruce and Cora the dog remain in Arkansas.  We complete the topic of continuing to live life to the fullest into "retirement" or "wishing I was retired but still working," and the perspectives we believe are needed to keep going, not parking in front of the TV after you've "done your duty" in life.  This is challenging, but adopting this new perspective will give you a new lease on life.  It has done that for us.  Thank you Tim Kellar for these perspectives.

In this episode we have our first guest, Dian Glover.  Bruce and Cora the dog stay at home while Dian and I take the podcast to the beach.  We discuss, not steps or to dos to finish strong, but instead having the right perspective about life so that you will want to finish well.  So no matter your age, this can be the moment that your perspective about life and how to finish might change the rest of your life! That's a big statement, but maybe . . . 

This is the final episode on Decision Making.  Bruce and I summarize the topic, so this will make fourth time for me.  It's starting to sink in.  We will cover the five questions and the warnings.  Warning - there are more warnings of things that can trip us up than there are questions that can help us! 

This is the last of the five questions we can ask ourselves to aid us in making better decisions.  What does love require of me?  Easy to say, hard to do.  It requires putting others in front of myself.  And, you may not get the response you hope for, but the world will be a better place.  That may sound a bit "hokey" but it's true.

In Part 2 of Decisions- Wisdom  we continue or discussion, defining wisdom and reference an ancient letter to Ephesians.  And there are some ore warnings to heed. 

In this episode we discuss the need to rely on wisdom when we make decisions.  But, the question is, what is wisdom and how do we get wisdom. Instead we often invoke the curfew dynamic.  We go right up to the line of what's moral, ethical, etc.  We need to be wise and create margin in our lives.

Today we discuss an emotion that can help us - tension.  Sometimes we call it a "red flag." When you get a red flag - some type of tension - pause and consider why something doesn't seem right.

In this episode we discuss how ever day decisions, in total, make up our story - our legacy. But, we don't think in terms of story or legacy while going about our daily routine.  How can we change that mindset?

In this episode we explore the need to "tell yourself the truth" when making a decision.  There are many pitfalls along the way.  Our minds are very amazing but also very complicated.  We like to confirm what we already believe to be the right answer to a decision.  We should, however, be curious!