This Podcast continues where The Wisdom Ladder left off.

I love practical Mental Models of Wisdom and the practical application of wisdom but I am always delighted when I explore and discover connections between…

* The Old and New Covenants (Testaments)

* The Mystical and the Practical

* The Something and The Someone

Podcast #55 is short and direct. Why? Because I get right to the point about how we must be on The Right Path with The Right Person in order to live a life of wisdom.

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You will want to read the article that started this train of thought about Egg Prices VS Car Payments before listening to this POD. You can do that HERE.

I will get to the content of the newest Podcast but first, a chicken joke…

An egg pulled up in a sports car, just cracking up.Said it was the only way to shell out this kind of money and stay sunny-side up.

But, all Yoking aside…

Did you know that your brain is always doing something? That behind the scenes it is

You can go back to Taking Every Thought Captive and listen to the videos on YouTube.

Why Eggs Seem More Important Than Car Payment

The constant media attention is almost impossible to escape and what our eye sees our mind considers—more importantly, what our Eye Sees and our Ears Hear is what our Mind considers to be the most important.

Even when it is not.

Why is this a problem and how is it causing many Believers problems?

Most of us want to be Financially Free AND solving The Egg Problem will never solve The Financial Problem.

I have put the POD Outline Below with 6 reasons why our brain concentrates on the much smaller Egg Price instead of the often huge Car Payment (again, read the previous article!).

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Why Do We Concentrate on Eggs and not Car Payments?

A lot of Christians are praying for a miracle in their finances but what they really need is to start applying math.

People tend to react more emotionally to rising egg prices than to high car payments for several psychological and practical reasons. Here is the Outline…

00:00 Introduction

05:25 How Often We Buy Eggs

06:30 Wrong Perception of Expectation

08:00 How Visible the Price is Every Week (Visibility)

09:30 Psychological Anchoring

15:40 Necessity vs. Luxury Perception

18:00 Amplification of Egg Prices VS Hiddenness of Your Car Payment

22:40 Conclusion

Alright friends, that’s what I’ve got for you today. As always, thanks for hanging out with me here on The Journey Life. Let's keep learning, growing, and taking the next step forward—together.

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Great Memes (and some additional words to them) like this one from earlier this week…

This Podcast was going to be "5 Reasons Why Christians Don't Like the Enneagram and Why I Think they are Wrong" but then, after studying, it all seemed to come down to one main reason.

And it is one of those Big Reasons that Christians pull out in order to prove that something “secular” is not appropriate for Christians to utilize.

I go after that misguided way of thinking.

There are some pretty big ideas in here about HOW I think!!

If you want to watch this POD then scroll down and click the link to YOUTUBE.

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00:00 Introduction

01:00 The One Main Reason

05:00 Would You stop watching Football or wearing makeup because their origins are both steeped in demonic, false god worshipping cultures?

07:00 How We use a tool/technology really matters.

11:00 Defending a Falsehood puts us on the opposite of what is true

14:28 Always choosing The Third Option

The desire to do good based on a falsehood, the desire to make others do waht is right, the desire ot place in rules to bring order to our desires almost always goes bad!

18:00 The “T” VS The “t”

23:00 Why We might feel good about Rejecting The Enneagram

35:00 God is in the Redemption business!

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I stood up and moved a bit to the front this past Wednesday in order to video Victoria singing.

About minute 2 I started crying.

Not because the singing was amazing but because an image of me, about 15 years ago, performing her biological Mom’s funeral crossed through my mind's eye.

It was like my mind could not handle the juxtaposition of my daughter, this young lady worshipping and her Bio-Mom with such a tragic story (to be told another day).

I think we miss a lot of the best thing from God because our we cannot wrap our minds around it so we push it away.

In fact, I think that almost ALL of what we learn and know about Grace, Peace, Love, Forgiveness, Etc. , if we would for a moment experience it instead of “hear” about it—that our minds just might blow up.

Wednesday night, experiencing Victoria leading worship and then having that funeral image flash in my mind, highlighted vividly the differences between what the enemy wants and what God wants.

I have, over the years, allowed my “Mind” to get in my way of comprehending the vastness of what it means to be Christian, to be a Child of God, to be a Loved One.

The pursuit of understanding my “Self” via life coaching, of learning how emotions are constructed, gratitude practices, meditation, etc. has been so beneficial for opening up my heart and my mind to knowing Him more.

Not sure if any of that makes sense but it is something I wanted to share.

BTW, minute 2 is where something ‘different’ starts to happen in the room and most of us in the service knew something had shifted.

For me it surely had.

I hope you keep pursuing spiritual experiences and placing yourself in position to be uncomfortable as you “practice” this extremely mystical thing called christianity.

Victoria was on the worship team this morning and I snapped a picture.

In this podcast I fly solo and explore the topic of complaining.

I explore some of the following…

* What is Complaining?

* Why Complaining is not all bad (and how to identify the ‘types’)

* Why people complain.

* Some scriptural examples about complaining

* How can we stop complaining

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You can scroll down and see the outline for this podcast—just in case you want to get to a certain topic faster!

Beneath the picture below I have also placed a 1-minute video clip that shares how to complain like Job.

Complaining Like Job 1-minute Video

Everyone Complains Outline

00:00 Introduction

01:30 What is Complaining?

2:45 Four Types of Complaining (Actually 5!)

* The Direct Complaint

* The Chronic Complainer

* The Passive-Aggressive Complainer

* The Vent Complainer

* The Silent Complainer

08:45 Why Do People Complain?

* Releases stress

* Avoid responsibility

* Seeking wrong Empathy/Validation/Connection

* Bias to Negativity

* Habit

17:00 Healthy VS Unhealthy Complaints

19:30 Complaining in Old Testament

24:00 Are you Recycling Garbage?

26:50 Complaining in Philippians

27:40 Strategies on How to Go from Complaining to Singing Praises

* Be Aware

* Be Grateful

* Set Aside Time (and Time Limit!) to Complain

* Reflect On and Find Complaint Patters

* Get Good Feedback

* Seek Solutions

33:00 Conclusion: Complaining Is About Heart Condition, Not Words Spoken

The Video of this POD is linked below at YouTube.

This is an Old School, practical lesson on what goals are and how they both activate and prove our faith.

By Old School I mean—

I use a whiteboard.

I get practical.

Keep scrolling for the POD outline and for a link to the Video link.

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Goals Activate Faith Outline

00:00 Introduction & Goal Setting

05:30 Lay Aside the Weight…

07:00 If you will work on Practical THINGS, you will have a spiritual experience in that process

10:00 The Slough of Despond (The River of Misery) of Goal Setting

14:30 Why Can’t I Just Pray about it and let God do it?

19:13 Letting Go of the WEIGHT of Comfort

21:30 Listing Out Our Reasons for WHY We Cannot Move Into Our Promises (Goals/Hopes/Etc.)

23:45 Victimhood and Spiritual Excuses we give for not Being Intentional & Strategic

29:00 Time as an Excuse: We want it now, don’t get it and forget it OR we say, “I don’t have the time!”

31:00 Listing Out All of Our Barriers (Stumbling Blocks)

33:45 Turning Our Stumbling Blocks Into Stepping Stones

37:35 Bilbo Baggins—Look at all of this as an Adventure

41:00 What is your Plan for Dying? (assessing the previous Podcast)

42:30 What is coming next week? and The Conclusion

If You Prefer to Watch The JL POD

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There is a tribe in Indonesia called The Toraja. They think about death constantly and so would you if part of your “Burial” process was to mummify your family members in your home.

The body stays in the house month after month and often for a few years!

Thinking about death all the time is not a healthy practice BUT never thinking about death is equally unhealthy.

For POD #50 Tim and I explore Growing Old and do a “Thought Experiment” about dying where I (Les), as part of this Thought Experiment, give the date I put down for my death.

Don’t worry!

It is a long time in the future.

I have put The Outline of POD #50 below so you can go to the spot you really want to listen to.

The Thought Experiment is at the beginning (3:00).

When it comes to long life we want to also remember a Vital and Vibrant Life! At every age and every stage of life may you be like the person described in Psalm Chapter One…

“That person is like a tree planted by streams of water, which yields its fruit in season and whose leaf does not wither—whatever they do prospers."

Podcast #50 Outline

00:00 Introduction

03:00 Thought Experiment about Dying

09:30 Why it is unhealthy and unproductive to separate Spiritual from Daily Life Goals

12:00 How do we “Number our Days?”

14:30 What is our Purpose? How do we find it?

22:30 Why “Older” Christians need to Re-Imagine every decade/season or so

28:40 A great replacement for VISION is Worry and/or Always thinking about a great past (that is actually a false narrative)

33:00 The Glory of The Gray (40+ Year Olds)

37:50 Father’s Do Not Compete Against Their Children

41:00 Conclusion

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I want to push back on everyone quoting Social Media Memes that say something like: “Goals don’t work!”

And then, when you read further, it tells you to do something else instead that sounds just like a goal but with a little change.

Is Goal Setting perfect? Not at all!

Goals are simple tools and what tool, once we start using it, stays perfect?

Please don’t get Life Coached by Social Media Memes! Goals are a long-term, proven way to move towards the life you really want.

Chasing “wisdom” from one Meme to the Next is a great way to be wishy washy in all you do.

In this Podcast my buddy Tim Stone and I talk about Goals from a spiritual and practical level. Below the Podcast Cover Image below there is an outline just in case you want to skip to a specific part of our conversation.

Praying for a full and fruitful 2025 for you!

Friends Don’t Let Friends Get Life Lessons from Social Media!

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Stop Running in Circles Outline

00:00 Introduction

02:15 The goal is to get somewhere, not put more miles on the car Are you living the same year over and over and over again? Goals help kick us out of ruts.

04:15 We commit to the Destination (the goal) and not to the process alone.

“Adjusting our process is different than being distracted” Tim Stone

07:40 Being led by the spirit does not mean there is not a planGod is a planner and scripture is full of His plans for us to partner with!

08:45 Goals are the hands and feet to your faith–being strategic and intentional proves our faith.

11:00 Houston’s 610 Loop Metaphor: We’ve decided HOW we will get somewhere and that we should not be uncomfortable–and we then blame God (or church!).

13:15 Start working on your goals based on what you already have. WHY? Because You are living a life full of things now that you set your heart, made goals, to have!!

17:45 Conviction vs condemnation

“Condemnation feels like Religion—Conviction feels like Relationship”

23:00 Everyone has Goals! Everyone has Habits.

27:00 Planning feels like prison in the jail cell for the non-planner but not planning for the planner feels like prison in the jail yard where people are getting jumped and stabbed.

33:00 What is Your WHY?

38:15 Goal Oriented People can be better givers, better servers, better protectors

45:00 Goals are just tools in order to talk about and organize our minds around what it means to be people of faith living here on earth

47:00 Exercise: Write Down all the things that you used to want and that you now have–because those are goals that you once ahd!

53:00 Conclusion

Did you know you can also watch this Podcast on YouTube? Click the video below and you will be taken directly to my YouTube Channel.

One of the best things about doing a podcast that is authentic is that we are exploring the topic for our Podcast.

We are not telling you everything we know.

We do not have the space for that! (HaHa!)

We are openly and honestly seeking to discover more about the topic but much more importantly, more about Jesus—and how we can better connect with Him.

This was a great podcast and about half way through we Discover something new about The Prodigal Son, his self-righteousness and his wrong perspective about his Dad’s favor (Good Will).

I have put the outline below just in case you want to get to the part (s) that interest you the most. I have also put the link to YouTube in case you want to watch our almost Angelic Faces as we speak (HaHa!).

Give us a listen and then share a comment right here…

God Bless You and Merry Christmas!

Podcast #48 Outline

00:00 Introduction

03:30 What is Good Will from The Christmas Story?

06:30 God’s Good Will is for ALL the world and that changes how we see the world

11:00 The controversy: Is God’s Good Will for EVERYONE or for The Chosen Ones?

13:20 Why Do We like to keep people “OUT” of the Family of God?

15:00 Why do we struggle so much to Believe that God is constantly reconciling the world to Him (through us!)?

A Culture of Self-Righteousness within church

Tim’s personal story of self-righteousness

22:15 Pushing back on Favor and Loving Yourself comes from being self-righteous

24:30 The Older Brother was self-righteous BUT the Prodigal returns home also with self-righteous thinking! We are supposed to be asking God for a party, for Abundance, for Favor.

27:50 Where would Tim ask God for favor in 2025?

30:00 Favor must be matched with humility and the right hard work Les’s personal story of God’s financial favor

34:30 If it is earned, it is a wage—Favor is Given Tim’s personal story of God’s financial favor

41:00 Closing in Prayer of Favor

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This was an amazing conversation about peace that I think you will really enjoy, be inspired by and maybe even a bit challenged.

I cannot guarantee that someone’s feelings will not be hurt from the portion of this podcast on Peace that talks about Anxiety, Worry and Fear.

Fast Forward to 5:00 if you want to miss your invite to a Design Your Life Group starting in January 2025, as well as miss us being hilarious for a few moments.

Skip over the 21:00 Mark if you want to ignore the conversation about Anxiety, Worry and Fear.

And, the perfect gift to give me for Christmas this year is a Share, Subscribe or a Comment!

Okay, a 2020/2021 Toyota Highlander would be better BUT…!!

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Podcast Outline

00:00 Invitation to a Life Coaching Group in January 2025

03:00 A Haiku About Tim & Introduction to Our Topic

05:00 What kind of Peace is this Peace that God gives?

09:45 It was not a “Silent” Night!!!

10:25 Is there a connection between Peace & Favor?

16:45 How does Tim Stone Access God’s peace in his daily life?

21:30 Is Worry/Anxiety always a sign that we lack Peace?

29:00 Start “Activating” God’s Peace by doing tangible things that invite peace

34:00 Peace comes in violently and destroys chaos (think the victory of Jesus from The Cross & the Genesis/Creation story)39:00 IF I am truly in HIS Peace, I will manifest it (and other examples!)

43:30 What can people do to increase their Godly peace by 10% in 2025? In Spiritual & Practical Ways!!!

51:00 Concluding Prayer by Pastor Tim

Earlier this fall I wrote about how Peace is available during Chaos—it is a quick read so if you missed it, please click below to read.