Jason and Molly took Andrea to the High Point University "Presidental Scholarship Weekend" and Jason and JP discuss this moving weekend and what we can learn from HPU and their inspiring leader, President Nido Qubein.  Their motto, "Choose to be Extraordinary" is a great reminder to "think big" and create the life you want to live!  God, Family and Country!  HPU is an amazing place and I am so thankful we can briefly discuss this exciting place! 

We talk about Virtues, Ben Franklin's 13 virtues and the importance of having your own list of virtues that help you pursue your best life.

Franklin conceived a bold and arduous project to help us pursue moral perfection," Franklin writes. "As I knew, or thought I knew, what was right and wrong, I did not see why I might not always do the one and avoid the other." He soon found the task "of more Difficulty than I had imagined," but decided that one's bad deeds resulted from bad habits, and that with concentration one could substitute good habits for the bad ones. He decided that 13 virtues were either necessary or desirable, arranged them so that the first acquired could help in assimilating the second, and so on:

1. TEMPERANCE: Eat not to Dullness. Drink not to Elevation. (this one too me some time!)

2. SILENCE: Speak not but what may benefit others or yourself. Avoid trifling Conversation. (hard for me)

3. ORDER: Let all your things have their places. Let each part of your business have its time.

4. RESOLUTION: Resolve to perform what you ought. Perform without fail what you resolve.

5. FRUGALITY: Make no expense but to do good to others or yourself: i.e. Waste nothing.

6. INDUSTRY: Lose no Time. Be always employed in something useful. Cut off all unnecessary actions.

7. SINCERITY: Use no hurtful Deceit. Think innocently and justly; and, if you speak, speak accordingly.

8. JUSTICE: Wrong none, by doing Injuries or omitting the benefits that are your Duty.

9. MODERATION: Avoid Extremes.

10. CLEANLINESS: Tolerate no Uncleanliness in Body, Clothes, or Habitation.

11. TRANQUILITY: Be not disturbed at Trifles, or at Accidents common or unavoidable.

12. CHASTITY: Rarely use Venery but for Health or Offspring. (I take the most issue with this one)

13. HUMILITY: Imitate Jesus and Socrates.

This episode we talk about hope (the noun) and some examples of hope in our lives.

We have our first guest, our friend, Neal Metcalfe!  

We discuss the importance of knowing our strengths, how we find them, and how to use this knowledge to "find our juice!"  

We hope you enjoy this one!

JP and I talk about "culture."   

We talk about our personal philosophy, our family culture and work culture.

The importance of good habits and how we can make time to plan everything from what we eat, what we read and when we exercise.  

"Process saves us from the poverty of our intentions."  -Elizabeth King

-  "Life is too short to think small"

-  Use "Action" to capitalize on the "Magic of Now"

In this final episode of 2022, JP and I talk about how life is like the changing seasons.

In this episode JP and I discuss the importance of encouraging the people we love.  It will be our greatest legacy we leave behind, the love we gave and the support we provide to those who matter the most to us!