RockneCAST

In this episode, we explore Light of all Lights, a beacon amidst the Darkness. This is an attempt to answer the why question.

Genesis 1:3-4

Matthew 5:15-16 (my favorite)

John 9:5

John 8:12

Use your gifts and let your light shine.

Read about the physical and mental health benefits of light inCircadian Codeby Dr. Satchin Panda.

Have you ever tried Christian mantras? You should. Feel and experience, the Light every single day.

In this episode, I explore Philippians 4:13's powerful verse, "I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me." I learned about this verse through Norman Vincent Peale's book, "The Power of Positive Thinking."

Though he didn't call them "mantras", Peale used them as such, repeating these verses of positivity throughout the day.

Begin with this verse and try it this week!!

Try it.

In this episode, you'll learn why mindless repetitive tasks that serve others are not mindless. They are key to superpowers within and avoiding the destruction arising not activating those powers. You'll learn about the powerful benefits that result from mind, body, and spirit. Some of your best insights may come while picking up sticks, cleaning the bathroom, chopping wood, or picking up trash.

In this episode, you'll learn deeper truths about why Mr. Miyagi assigned a mindless repetitive tasks to the Karate Kid. It was not only to teach Karate.

We'll also learn about a powerful book that I learned about while picking up sticks: Simply Put by Ben Guttmann.

Finally, you will learn why activities are so important through Proverb 13:12.

It's time to start chopping wood.

In this episode, I'll discuss fire and ice, primal forces in creation and within you. We'll discuss the work of Carl Jung, Jesus' concept of baptizing with fire, ice hiking, two texts from Malachi and Matthew, and the health influences Dr. Peter Attia and Wim Hof.

Just turned 50!

I share three books from dude's at 50, reinterpret a scene from Dead Poet's and offer a Bible verse.

Carpe Diem!

This episode explores the power of subtracting unnecessary: things, time expenditures, financial transactions, food, and toxic people.

It's all within your control and its free!!

"If you seek tranquility, do what's essential, what the logos of a social being required and in the requisite way, which brings a double satisfaction: to do less, better."

Aurelius

In this episode, I explore the virtues of dogmatic dualism. Yes, I get some things are nuanced, but the vast majority of things are not: good/evil, right/wrong, black/white, yes/no, masculine/feminine; light/dark. I am not against nuance per se, but only as long as we don't forget the essential core truths that right 90% of the time. Yes, this episode, is a celebration of your conservative uncle, one of the most unnuanced people that that you know. He may think simplistically, but he's probably right most of the time.

Trust dogmatic binary. Be skeptical of nuance before deviating from core truths.

I explore this work through the work of Randy Pausch's Last Lecture, and the work of Carl Jung.

I also offer an exercise from Pausch's book that will help connect you to the core dogmatic dualism that you should embrace.

In this episode, I review Jimmy Buffett's book "A Pirate Looks at 50", a book that covers a three week tour of Caribbean that he took for his 50th birthday. I share what I learned and didn't learn from the late great Jimmy Buffett.

Happy MLK Day!

in this episode, Martin Luther King Jr's famous Letter from the Birmingham Jail and his critique of white moderates and this quote from that letter:

"I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Negro's great stumbling block in his stride toward freedom is not the White Citizen's Counciler or the Ku Klux Klanner, but the white moderate, who is more devoted to "order" than to justice; who prefers a negative peace which is the absence of tension to a positive peace which is the presence of justice; who constantly says: "I agree with you in the goal you seek, but I cannot agree with your methods of direct action"; who paternalistically believes he can set the timetable for another man's freedom; who lives by a mythical concept of time and who constantly advises the Negro to wait for a 'more convenient season.'"

All talk without any skin the game or offering actual solutions of their own.

While shopping Wal-Mart, I recently listened to a podcast with Victor Frankl's grandson, Alexander Vesely. He discussed his Frankl's book Man's Search for Meaning, one of the greatest books of the 20th century.

In response to a question about Frankl's most favorite quote, Vesely identified a frequent question that everyone asked his grandfather, "What is the meaning of life?"

In this episode, I explore Frankl's response and why it resonated so much with me.

Wal-mart is a powerful incubator to answering some of life's most pressing questions.