Thoughtful Thursdays-#398 February 1st The Strong Within Daily Affirmation Podcast I See The Greatness In People “I am suggesting that as we go through life, we 'accentuate the positive.' I am asking that we look a little deeper for the good, that we still our voices of insult and sarcasm, that we more generously compliment and endorse virtue and effort.” ~Gordon B. Hinckley A good friend of mine would always get mad at me when I would compliment her. Well maybe mad is overstating it. When I’d t...
Feb 01, 2018•15 min•Season 2Ep. 397
Wisdom Wednesdays-#396 January 31st The Strong Within Daily Affirmation Podcast I Allow What I Want To Come To Me Meditation…who has time for that, and why should I even do it? I get anxious sitting around trying to think about nothing. I mean 5 minutes of breathing and trying to calm myself is way too long for me…I’m a busy person; I got better things to do with my time. I have more productive things to do with my time. And that’s what we can, or maybe DO, say when we think of meditation. We’ve...
Jan 31, 2018•23 min•Season 2Ep. 396
Tag Me Tuesdays-#395 January 30th The Strong Within Daily Affirmation Podcast Kindness Is My Truth “My religion is very simple. My religion is kindness.” ~Dalai Lama I believe the lessons in life are patterns that keep popping up until we notice them and find a way to confront them. One of the truths that keeps happening in my life is to speak up when it would be easier to be quiet. When it would be easier not to cause conflict, and for both parties to go their separate ways unchanged. And while...
Jan 30, 2018•21 min•Season 2Ep. 395
Mindful Mondays-#394 January 29th The Strong Within Daily Affirmation Podcast My Purpose Is Found In Possibilities “The only limits to the possibilities in your life tomorrow are the buts you use today.” ~Les Brown And that’s “but” with one “T,” not two. We’ll save the rear end discussion for another day. Now this might sound strange to some, and maybe even some will call me delusional for saying this…I’m not looking for the truth. I am looking to create my own truths. I am always looking for po...
Jan 29, 2018•15 min•Season 2Ep. 394
Smiling Sundays - #393 January 28th The Strong Within Daily Affirmation Podcast I’m The Architect Of My Life “Whatever good things we build end up building us.” ~Jim Rohn Everything in your life is by design. Where there’s chaos, there’s order. It may seem like randomness, but that’s because the patterns have not been spotted yet. And sometimes the patterns haven’t been spotted, because the investigation only happens on a surface level. We are architects of our lives, but we’ve bought into the i...
Jan 28, 2018•18 min•Season 2Ep. 393
Synergistic Saturdays-#392 January 27th The Strong Within Daily Affirmation Podcast I Hold Onto What Makes Me Stronger “Some of us think holding on makes us strong; but sometimes it is letting go.” ~Hermann Hesse One of my biggest problems is holding onto things I should let go of. Take for example this podcast; I tend to have a lot of ideas when I’m writing for it, and during my brainstorming process, I write in stream of consciousness. I take an idea, and just let all the words fall out of my ...
Jan 27, 2018•15 min•Season 2Ep. 392
Fantastic Fridays-#391 January 26th The Strong Within Daily Affirmation Podcast I’m The Best Tool In My Toolbox “If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.” ~Abraham Maslow Dwight D. Eisenhower was president of the United States of America, Grace Kelly and Marlon Brando won Oscars for the best actress and actor, Roger Bannister became the first person to run a mile under 4 minutes, and the 1st atomic power station Obninsk opened in Russia. The year was 1954, ...
Jan 26, 2018•21 min•Season 2Ep. 391
Thoughtful Thursdays-#390 January 25th The Strong Within Daily Affirmation Podcast I Have No Enemies Because I Decided To Love Them “In the moment when I truly understand my enemy, understand him well enough to defeat him, then in that very moment I also love him.” ~Orson Scott Card On December 24th and 25th of 1914 a temporary truce was called. It is famously known as the Christmas truce where Belgian, French, And British soldiers came out from their foxholes and trenches to fraternize with Ger...
Jan 25, 2018•16 min•Season 2Ep. 390
Wisdom Wednesdays-#389 January 24th The Strong Within Daily Affirmation Podcast I Treat Small Matters With Great Respect “Small minds are concerned with the extraordinary, great minds with the ordinary.” ~Blaise Pascal Working harder for something doesn’t always mean we are working smarter for something. It doesn’t always mean we’re working in the best way. Take a moment to think about a time where you put all your effort into something and you didn't get the return that you were expecting? Ask ...
Jan 24, 2018•15 min•Season 2Ep. 389
Tag Me Tuesdays-#388 January 23rd The Strong Within Daily Affirmation Podcast Problems Are Actually Questions Asking Me To Be Better The highest levels of performance come to people who are centered, intuitive, creative, and reflective - people who know to see a problem as an opportunity. ~Deepak Chopra It was a chilly day for San Francisco on October 25th 1964 when the Minnesota Vikings came in to play the San Francisco 49ers. In the fourth quarter of the game future NFL Hall of Famer, Jim Mars...
Jan 23, 2018•14 min•Season 2Ep. 388
Mindful Mondays-#387 January 22nd The Strong Within Daily Affirmation Podcast I’m The Best Friend I Know “Your best friend and worst enemy are both in this room right now. It's not your neighbor right or left - and it's not God or the devil - it's you.” ~Edwin Louis Cole I was invited to give a talk to a nonprofit group called Upward Bound. Upward Bound’s mission is to, and I quote this from their site… “provide fundamental support to participants in their preparation for college entrance.” Basi...
Jan 22, 2018•14 min•Season 2Ep. 387
Smiling Sundays - #386 January 21st The Strong Within Daily Affirmation Podcast I Expect Great Things “A desert is a place without expectation.” ~Nadine Gordimer There’s the famous piece of advice that says if you don’t expect anything, you’ll never get disappointed. And while that’s great advice, it’s dime store advice because I don’t know ANYONE on this earth who didn’t ever expect anything. I get what they’re saying when they say it, but it’s plain wrong when people offer it up as advice as i...
Jan 21, 2018•14 min•Season 2Ep. 386
Synergistic Saturdays-#385 January 20th The Strong Within Daily Affirmation Podcast I’m Ok With Being Wrong…For Us To Be Right “In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing, the next best thing is the wrong thing, and the worst thing you can do is nothing.” ~Theodore Roosevelt I was in a relationship years ago where I questioned my sanity. Not because I was insane for going out with this person, but they made me question things I said. One of my ex’s strengths was trut...
Jan 20, 2018•15 min•Season 2Ep. 385
Fantastic Fridays-#375 January 19th The Strong Within Daily Affirmation Podcast I’ve Made Fear My Friend “If you know the enemy and know yourself you need not fear the results of a hundred battles.” ~Sun Tzu I wrote a poem a year ago about a conversation I had with fear. I was going on a journey, and setting my sails to new shores. As my ship was leaving, I was thanking fear for being there for me. And I’ll share a bit of my poem with you: The funny thing is negative thoughts are quite polite, a...
Jan 19, 2018•14 min•Season 2Ep. 384
Thoughtful Thursdays-#374 January 18th The Strong Within Daily Affirmation Podcast I Focus On The End To Know Where To Begin “I find hope in the darkest of days, and focus in the brightest. I do not judge the universe.” ~Dalai Lama Maybe I might be oversimplifying how our lives work, but where your focus goes is where your energy flows. Where your concentration resides is what will actualize. Where your emphasis is put is what will determine your output… Where your attention lies is whether you ...
Jan 18, 2018•15 min•Season 2Ep. 383
Wisdom Wednesdays-#373 January 17th The Strong Within Daily Affirmation Podcast My Dreams Pursue Me “The world is like a reverse casino. In a casino, if you gamble long enough, you're certainly going to lose. But in the real world, where the only thing you're gambling is, say, your time or your embarrassment, then the more stuff you do, the more you give luck a chance to find you.” ~Scott Adams I was on social media, and I saw a picture oh Dwayne Johnson, a.k.a. The Rock, working out and he was ...
Jan 17, 2018•15 min•Season 2Ep. 382
Tag Me Tuesdays-#372 January 16th The Strong Within Daily Affirmation Podcast I Am Centered I like to think I’m a pretty balanced guy, physically. I spent a good portion of my life training in the weight room and playing a multitude of sports. I played ice hockey in college and I learned a thing or two about having better balance. Now that I personal train people in the gym, I work to help them be more physically balanced in their life as well. Think about someone who is losing their balance on ...
Jan 16, 2018•13 min•Season 2Ep. 381
Mindful Mondays-#371 January 15th The Strong Within Daily Affirmation Podcast What I Share Is What I Get Back “People say New Yorkers can't get along. Not true. I saw two New Yorkers, complete strangers, sharing a cab. One guy took the tires and the radio; the other guy took the engine.” ~David Letterman A philanthropist can give their money to those less fortunate, a warrior can give their life to help the cause, an artist can give their talent to create beauty…and those who worry and fret, get...
Jan 15, 2018•15 min•Season 2Ep. 380
Smiling Sundays - #370 January 14th The Strong Within Daily Affirmation Podcast The Work Is My Reward “Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit.” ~Napoleon Hill Now be honest, when you first saw this affirmation you were disappointed…you were like nu-uh… I don’t find the reward in the work…maybe you even cringed a little on seeing this. Work, effort, putting in the time to do something gets a bad rap. We look at the challenge ahead as punishment because we want to be ...
Jan 14, 2018•15 min•Season 2Ep. 379
Synergistic Saturdays-#369 January 13th The Strong Within Daily Affirmation Podcast I See The Bigger Picture “I think when you work on fossils, and you realize that a species is there, and it's abundant for quite a long period of time, and then at some point it's no longer there - and so, when you look at that bigger picture, yes, you realize that either you change and adapt, or, as a species, you go extinct.” ~Louise Leakey I was trying to think about what to say for this podcast, and I was hav...
Jan 13, 2018•14 min•Season 2Ep. 378
Fantastic Fridays-#368 January 12th The Strong Within Daily Affirmation Podcast I’m Always Willing To Ask The Eskimos had fifty-two names for snow because it was important to them: there ought to be as many for love. ~Margaret Atwood I was listening to a speaker talk on why it’s so hard to remember people’s names, and she were saying the reason was because our mind didn’t know where to place it. She got all technical about what part of the brain is used and why it has trouble remembering. And li...
Jan 12, 2018•16 min•Season 2Ep. 377
Thoughtful Thursdays-#367 January 11th The Strong Within Daily Affirmation Podcast I’m Already Wealthy “Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.” Epictetus I’m going to go deep on this podcast, so bear with me…grab some popcorn or whatever snack you prefer and let’s change together. One illusion we live our lives in, is that we don’t have what we want or what we need. And thus we put our energies into focusing on what we lack instead of putting energy towards cre...
Jan 11, 2018•29 min•Season 2Ep. 376
Wisdom Wednesdays-#366 January 10th The Strong Within Daily Affirmation Podcast I Follow Through Because Of My Fears "I can give you a six-word formula for success: 'Think things through - then follow through.'" ~Eddie Rickenbacker I like to think I’m organized, that I do what I need to when…I need to, but I’ve created habits that feel more natural than they should. I ‘ve let fear creep under my skin, as it feels more like a standard operating procedure than a choice I’ve decided upon. And the r...
Jan 10, 2018•15 min•Season 2Ep. 375
Tag Me Tuesdays-#365 January 9th The Strong Within Daily Affirmation Podcast It All Will Happen How It Needs To “You can't connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something - your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life.” ~Steve Jobs I know how much easier it is to look at what’s going w...
Jan 09, 2018•13 min•Season 2Ep. 374
Mindful Mondays-#364 January 8th The Strong Within Daily Affirmation Podcast Vulnerability Connects Me To Everything “Humankind has not woven the web of life. We are but one thread within it. Whatever we do to the web, we do to ourselves. All things are bound together. All things connect.” ~Chief Seattle A friend of mine sent me a direct message on Instagram sharing a post that said “it’s strange how people that are thousands of miles away from you can make you feel better than the people who ar...
Jan 08, 2018•15 min•Season 2Ep. 373
Smiling Sundays - #363 January 7th The Strong Within Daily Affirmation Podcast I’m Prepared For What’s Ahead “The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.” ~Mark Twain Have you ever thought about the possibilities in a moment? And not the possibilities you want to happen, but the number of possibilities that are in each moment. It’s mind numbing to fathom what an infinite amount of possibilities could be. I was thinking about this myself ...
Jan 07, 2018•17 min•Season 2Ep. 372
Synergistic Saturdays-#362 January 6th The Strong Within Daily Affirmation Podcast I Am Encouraged Every Day “I believe that any man's life will be filled with constant and unexpected encouragement, if he makes up his mind to do his level best each day, and as nearly as possible reaching the high water mark of pure and useful living.” ~ Booker T. Washington Words are powerful, and the particular word or words you use might change the whole equation in how you make a goal or dream yours, or if it...
Jan 06, 2018•15 min•Season 2Ep. 371
Fantastic Fridays-#361 January 5th The Strong Within Daily Affirmation Podcast I Find Magic Wherever I Go “I am a great admirer of mystery and magic. Look at this life - all mystery and magic.” ~Harry Houdini I loved magic when I was a kid. I thought it was amazing how someone would have secret knowledge of the exact card that was picked from a deck without you having to tell them what you picked. It fascinated me so much that I kept a deck of cards with me wherever I went for a brief time in my...
Jan 05, 2018•15 min•Season 2Ep. 370
Thoughtful Thursdays-#360 January 4th The Strong Within Daily Affirmation Podcast The Only Reason I Look Back Is To See How Far I’ve Come Have you ever thought about where the idea for the rearview mirror came from? Most likely you know it’s there to see that s.o.b who’s tailgating you…as you silently cuss them out in your mind. I used to listen to Paul Harvey’s the Rest of The Story on the radio and I remember him talking about the rearview mirror. If you don’t know who Paul Harvey is, he had t...
Jan 04, 2018•15 min•Season 2Ep. 369
Wisdom Wednesdays-#359 January 3rd The Strong Within Daily Affirmation Podcast I Live Up To My Commitments “A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both.” Dwight D. Eisenhower We live in a world where it seems easier to take the quicker, faster, less honorable road…rather than taking the harder path within the moment. And I don’t think that’s because we’re bad or lazy people, I think it’s because we have been sold a false bill of goods saying that comfort of self is m...
Jan 03, 2018•14 min•Season 2Ep. 368
