Cal, JP and Family embark on their summer 2023 vacation and remind us all how important it is to make every day a LOVELY DAY!

Life comes at us fast and how we respond is everything.

We appreciate JP sharing his cheat code to life!

JP and I discuss a short story from "The Middle-aged Man on the Flying Trapeze" by James Thurber and the importance of home! We focus on "One is a Wanderer" my personal favorite of the 36 short stories contained in this book published in 1935.

I discovered this obscure book on a recent trip to NYC at the Morgan Library & Museum.

"A Collection of Short Stories, Mainly Humourous But with a Few Kind of Sad Ones Mixed in with Drawings by the Author". "The Middle-Aged Man" draws on Thurber's troubled marriage for material. The humor is ridden with pathos, and yet is quite sharp. This collection has 36 stories including: "The Gentleman is Cold," "Everything is Wild," "Mr. Preble Gets Rid of His Wife," "Hell Only Breaks Loose Once," "If Grant Had Been Drinking at Appomattox," and "How to See a Bad Play." The London Times said, "There may be greater humorists writing in America today than James Thurber, but none with quite his individual touch and his flavor."

Jason and JP talk about what we can learn about thinking our best based on the whirlwind story of Michael Block.

Mr. Block is a good player, who dreamed big, worked hard and made it happen!

We hope you enjoy this conversation as much as we did recording it!

The power of an encouraging word and how it helps us keep going!

Make every day a lovely day!!!

Law of Success Part II

Self Control in dealing with Critcism

Going the Extra Mile

A Pleasing Personality

The Importance of Concentration

Habits

Cooperation between your conscious and sub-conscious mind

Fear of Failure and Fear of Poverty

Tolerance: The key message: If you follow the golden rule, you will stay on the path to success.

Think posive, move toward your goal, and don’t let social heredity

define who we are. The Media is not interested in encouraging us to use the golden rule, its not in

vogue, but it should be our biggest aspiraon if we want to be successful!

JP and I discuss some of the topics from "The Law of Success" by Napoleon Hill

show notes:

Success requires: 

1.       Use ofyour mind and gathering knowledge

2.      Other like-minded people (master mind alliance)

3.      Definite Chief Aim

4.      Self-Confidence

This podcast is an example of this concept.  We study and organize thoughts that we share each week.  We have a mastermind alliance that works in harmony to achieve our purpose:

We talk about topics that we hope will help us think better with the benefit of getting to hang out and leaving some thoughts for our children if they ever want to go back and see what we were thinking in our late 40’s.

Our subconscious mind will believe anything we tell ourselves over and over:

To cultivate self-confidence comes down to positive self-talk

Auto-Suggestion:  Commit a message to memory and tell yourself repeatedly that you can do it.  

“I know I can achieve my definite purpose; therefore, I demand of myself consistent, persistent, aggressive continuous action toward this goal.

Initiative and leadership; Initiative can defeat procrastination. 

Commit to doing one thing that will help you get to your chief aim.

Imagination:  Creation of positive mental images.  Instill confidence, positivity and picture yourself achieving you goals, to achieve them.  It

A well-developed imagination and use of psychology.   Observe: “Active Listening…. Reading the Room.”

Example:  Consider the man, with no imagination, who was moving to the city.  He knocked on the door of a farmer and said I am moving to the city, and I have no room for this dog. Can I give you my dog.  The farmer said no.

Now look at the same situation with a little imagination: 

Its all about seeing past your needs and looking at others needs.

Let’s talk about enthusiasm:  Think of times you have been around enthusiastic folks.  Its about body language and how you say it. 

Control your enthusiasm…. Sometimes have to turn your dial back to one!!

Join Jason and JP as we discuss why worry is futile and why we should always do our best to not worry in life.

JP and I took three tries on this one!

Hopefully, the third time is the charm.

Try not to get emotional as you listen!