The Purpose Mastermind: Helping Leaders Get Unstuck and Live with Meaning in Work, Marriage, and Parenting

Where did you begin your marriage? 
In this episode Mark and Adena discuss this critical question. The answer to this question will determine our trajectory in marriage. 

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What if anxiety is just an alarm system that is alerting us to a necessary change in how we are thinking or living? 

• Hunger points us to the need for nourishment
• Thirst points us to the need for water
• Anxiety points us to needs like purpose, meaning, peace, etc. 

When an alarm goes off,  we don't study the alarm, we allow the alarm to point us to the problem. Anxiety is the alarm, not the problem. 

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A couple asked Mark and Adena, "You guys seem to be actually happy. We want to know why." 

In this episode Mark and Adena discuss how sex helps to build a marriage. 

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Pat Mingarelli is a nature photographer, blogger, and author. In this episode they talk about how Pat finds an outlet for his purpose by using his talent with photography. 

Here is his website: https://visualverse.thecreationspeaks.com/

Below is a link to preorder his devotional:
https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/drawing-near-pasquale-mingarelli/1142445729

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Have you ever seen behind the curtains of someone else's life and been disappointed?

1. Do you have curtains up in your own life?
2. We must allow someone access to see behind the curtains of our life. 
3. Allowing people to see our weakness keeps us authentic. 

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The darkest of human behaviors grow from the seed of distorted thinking. Thankfully, the opposite is also true. There is hope for our big problems.
1. What is anxiety?
2. Who struggles with anxiety?
3. What determines if you win or lose the battle with anxiety?
4. How do you battle it?

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We all want to live on the road to the life we were made for. But there are ditches on both sides of that road. 

The dreamer has an incredible gift to help us see all that life can be.  

• The threat is that the dreamer will only dream and they will make others live in fear. 

The integrator/controller has an incredible gift to help dreams become reality. 

• The threat is that the integrator will squelch the dream by living in fear. 

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Why are married couples struggling to have a great sex life? 
Sexual dysfunction is everywhere is society. There are many sexual experiences that bring devastation and long lasting pain. But sex between a husband and a wife can be powerful. 

Why are we struggling:
1. We get busy and stop pursuing sex.
2. Sex exposes us and that is scary. 
3. From a young age we are conditioned that sex is mostly a bad thing. 
4. We live in fear of what could go wrong instead of living in excitement about what we can experience together. 

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What do you do when you feel like your life is just one big mess? 
Here are some thoughts from this episode:

• The existence of a problem is not our issue. Our response to the problem is what leads to our demise. 
• The worst of all human dysfunction is caused by the simplest of distortions in our thinking. 
• Focusing on you purpose instead of your problem is the pathway forward. 

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In this episode Mark and Adena tell a story about a miscommunication they had recently. 

A great marriage is not one that is void of disagreements. To build a strong marriage both people must be able to engage in conflict without putting up walls that shut the person out. 

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