If you want to gain weight, eat more calories than you burn for a long period of time.

If you want to lose weight, eat less calories than you burn.

If you want to stay the same, eat maintenance calories.

Period.

One of the things that I've noticed about myself is that I often treat my home like my business if I am not careful.

I am often focusing on tasks, priorities, efficiency, etc.

As much as I don't like the term "Be Present" because I think it's overused, I could use a healthy dose of that.

This activity wrecked me. I continue to do it often.

I often believe the lie that I'm on my own. I believe that I have to prove my worth by clinching my fists and working harder.

I forgot that God is my father. I operate best when I have a childlike faith and I operate as a little boy who wants to make his father proud.

Challenge: Look at a toddler picture of yourself and listen to this song.

You won't regret it!

Roland Parker and I go way back. It was an honor to be a guest on his podcast called "When I Was Your Age."

Make sure to give him a follow and listen to his podcast each week!

The worst time to build a relationship with someone is when you need it.

I recently read a quote that said "Being introverted does not excuse you to not be in community and being extroverted does not excuse you from going to the secret place."

No matter who we are, we need both!

If you want to run a marathon, more power to you. I have not run one yet, but I will one day.

With that said, I see so many people "yo yo" their way through fitness. They may train a little bit to run one race and then completely fall off the wagon.

You'll benefit far more from developing the habits of being a runner for a long time than you will just running one race.

People say that there is no time for fun and that all of your time goes away when you have a baby.

One one hand, that is true.

On the other, you can create more time and be more productive if you are intentional.

Having a baby made me realize how much crap I had in my schedule. By removing the crap or "trimming the fat," I was able to create so much more time for myself.

I have a skull that sits in a drawer in my house. It's the first thing I look at every single morning.

It reminds me one one thing: I am doing to die.

I hold it and recite Psalm 90:12 which says, "Teach us to number our days, that we may gain a heart of wisdom."

This gives me the perspective that I need going into each day.

Maggie Malone Hardin holds the record for the furthest collegiate female javelin throw in history. She also has the second furthest female throw in American history.

She has high ambitions for this year's olympics as she's now competed in the last two of them.

Not only do we talk about javelin in this episode, but we also talk about her faith, navigating failure, the importance of community, and more.