Shifts and Ladders

In this video, we’ll reveal the #1 relationship killer you need to know about. Learn how to overcome competitiveness and focus on self-growth for a healthier relationship.

In this episode, we explore the vital role that authenticity plays in building and maintaining healthy relationships. Discover how being true to yourself not only enhances your personal growth but also fosters deeper connections with others. We delve into the importance of honesty, vulnerability, and openness, and how these qualities can transform the way we interact with friends, family, and romantic partners.

You HAVE to be specific and honest with yourself when it comes to where you want to go and be willing to honestly assess where you are. That way you know where you need to go a lot more efficiently.

Unlock the secret to achieving your personal goals with Simon Senek’s Golden Circle concept! In this enlightening journey, we delve into the essential strategies that drive self improvement and foster personal growth. Whether you’re seeking to enhance your life through effective life coaching techniques or simply want to better understand the path to your aspirations, this video is designed for you. Join us as we explore actionable steps and insights that will empower you to overcome obstacles and reach your fullest potential. Don’t miss out on discovering the keys to success that can change your life forever! Tune in now... Read More

Have you taken the time to define what success looks like? Do you have the courage to even say what you want? or go after what you want? If you haven’t, that might be why you’re struggling with getting the results you want.

Faith = Hope + Evidence (unseen) Having faith means believing in God’s vision and trusting that his plan will land you where you need to be. Anchor your hope in God’s Faith.

Hope is an indicator that you need to move past your current situation. Hope is the evidence of that which you cannot see. Faith that you can get past whatever disappointment you’re facing and experience something better for your growth.

You need to put yourself out there! You may be great and have a lot of Value but if you’re not being seen, you can’t take advantage of that. Make connections, make yourself visible and your chances of success grow exponentially.

Creativity is not in short supply, we’ve just been around a long time. Things are almost always remakes and remixes of something else, but that doesn’t mean that creativity is dead or in danger. We’ve seen most things, borrow from your surroundings, from what you watch and use those influences to make something brand new and exciting. Learn from Picasso and be a great artist.

The best way to simplify is just to start with the number 0. Steve Jobs and his designers is one of the best examples of how keeping it simple can mean HUGE success. We tend to overcomplicate things and it’s real easy to get incredibly overwhelmed, if you’re able to take a breath and just break things down to their simplest components. Life will be a lot easier and you’ll be able to focus on what you need to do to be successful. Scripture Referenced: Matthew 22: 34-40

To make room for growth you have to sacrifice something in order to make space for it. Keep 80%, replace the other 20. Improve

Would you believe me if I said that the principles of science are the key to unlocking your potential?

Change is painful, it’s hard and we typically hate it. In this pod we’ll talk about why it’s so painful and how we can learn to thrive in it and improve our perception of it.

Today we have our very first guest on the new show. His name is Caleb McCleskey. A Journalism major that runs his own podcast about life called The Joker’s Shadow. He gives us some insight on Fake news and accountability. Check out his podcast here:

Pride will isolate you and prevent you from reaching your goals. Foster a sense of humility that will allow you to absorb the necessary information you need to either shift your perspective or elevate your current self to the next step is. Otherwise your pride will kill most opportunities than it’ll give you.

By being Prideful, you’re essentially saying “I know more than God” and it is slowly killing your goals and potential. Humility is the true path to growth and to allow God to guide your path instead of taking it up on yourself is how we, as followers of God, can reach the true potential in our lives.

Everyone gets one gift. There’s no reason for you not to be able to harness that gift into a valuable skillset or even several.

Today we’re going to talk about Polymaths and why they’re important to our culture and the shift that occurs in the presence of polymaths and their abilities. Nikola Tesla, George Washington Carver, Leonardo Davinci… All people who had seemingly endless skills and understanding of the world around them. All of them also people who shifted the world and culture around them. Polymaths are some of the most influential people in our culture and there’s a thing or two we can learn from them.

Hello Everybody! Life Designed is shifting and moving up. Taking it’s steps one at a time. This will be the last Life Refreshed Podcast. Moving forward we will be “Shifts and Ladders”. Thought it was fitting, since in life we’re constantly going through shifts and the ladders those shifts bring. In Today’s episode we’re chatting about the ladders that present in our lives, the fears they can bring and what we can learn from them. Hope to see you next week on Shifts and Ladders.

There are a lot of shifts happening in our daily lives at any given time, but have you ever taken the time to think about why those shifts are happening? Whether it’s cultural, personal or spiritual? Let’s talk about Shifts and the reason they happen in our lives.

The pursuit of more could be costing you greatness. We love more stuff & everything else that comes with the word “More” but intentionality suffers as a result of it. Chances are we need to to dial it back and be more careful and purposeful in what we pursue. The Essentials. Book referenced: Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of less.

Ultimately, there’s only one thing that dictates whether the mighty, a person or company, fall from the top of their grace. Hubris. A person or business that carries a sense of hubris about their past will eventually fall. They think that they can’t do wrong because they are comfortable and they think that things will always work out. What they fail to realize is that eventually, the past is no longer good enough and they either have to adapt or go extinct. Let go of your hubris and learn to change with the new things coming in. It is the only way for Growth to occur.

Comparison is such an insidious thing. It can take genuinely well deserved compliments and achievements and turn them into throwaway moments that you never really get to enjoy. Life is about celebrating the person God designed you to be, he made you and he made you well. Enjoy that and don’t let it infect your life or take your calling away from you.

Let’s be honest, we do a lot of talking to make ourselves feel better, and in that talking we stop focusing on the thing that matters most. Actually doing the work. Let’s stop lying to ourselves and Do the work. Scripture referenced: – Proverbs 6:6 – Proverbs 24

There’s a reason that faith is often compared to a seed of mustard. They’re almost unimaginable tiny. 2mm, actually. but they grow into huge, huge trees. Faith is incredibly potent. So is your potential to better yourself and grow. Let your faith germinate and spread into the people around you so that it enhances the potential inside of you. Even if it is as small as a seed of mustard. Scripture referenced: Matthew 17:14

I told you we’d be back with more interviews. Today a friend of the pod joins us to talk about his experience in building his passive income Business. He sells real estate for billboards. Today we ask him about how he got started with his business and how the word of God has helped him through this journey and inspired his growth. If you’re interested in checking out Chris’s work, here are his links: Instagram The Want More Project

We’re back again exploring the idea of Value Exchange in our relationships. Are you going to continue putting yourself at a discount or are you raising your prices to what you’re actually worth? a huge amount of people are constantly selling themselves short as a result of not wanting to increase their worth in fear of losing people that often don’t value them enough. Move on to people that are willing to exchange with the actual value both you and them are worth. Scripture Referenced: Proverbs 1:1 Proverbs 10:11

You exchange based on what it is you value. Never put yourself on sale because you think people won't value you. Value doesn't come from an fixed scale, some people will value you as a person way more than others and Vice Versa. Make sure you don't Trade in your relationship with God for other less valuable relationships in your life. It's important for us to be uncomfortable accepting that value is abstract and you won't be equally valuable as a person to everybody. Find the people that believe in your actual God Given value as a human being. Those are the people that foster proper growth. Scripture Referenced: 1 Kings Chapter 11 Verse 1

You exchange based on what it is you value. Never put yourself on sale because you think people won't value you. Value doesn't come from an fixed scale, some people will value you as a person way more than others and Vice Versa. It's important for us to be uncomfortable accepting that value is abstract and you won't be equally valuable as a person to everybody. Find the people that believe in your actual God Given value as a human being. Those are the people that foster proper growth.

When you measure twice and cut once, you must be prepared to make the cut only once. Take the time to prepare and sharpen your axe before chopping down whatever it is you're struggling with. "Give me six hours to chop down a tree, I'll spend the first four sharpening the axe" - Abraham Lincoln. Scripture Referenced Ecclesiastes 10:10

With the New Years, comes the New Year Resolutions. In theory these are great, but there's a catch to them. You have to plan out how you want to achieve those resolutions. A lot of people don't put intentionality on how they will be achieving their goals and without that intentionality, the whole thing kind of falls apart. You can't just say you want to do or be something, you have to put in the work and pay the cost of acquiring that thing or version of yourself. That's why we measure twice and cut once. We make sure we have our goals listed and plan out how we'll achieve those goals and then we cut. Once. Scripture referenced: Luke 14:25-35

I told y'all more interviews were coming and so here we are! This week I sit down with my good friend and life coach, Rick Kinartail. He's one of the main reasons I've been able to refresh my life in the way that I have, a huge source personal development, a pool of wisdom and a delightful human being to have a conversation with. Bless your week with this pod as we explore our thoughts on why people don't understand their purpose or go through their life without taking full responsibility of control over their lives. Merry Christmas!

I thought I would end the CTRL+Alt+DEL series last episode but then something occurred to me. The combination of those three buttons are used to close out, or reboot the systems and processes on your computers. And rebooting allows your computer to properly allocate resources and make sure to close out the things that are dragging your systems down. People need that too, every time that we grow or we "reboot" even though at the core we're the same person, we're allowing our systems (relationships) to reassess how everything is working and make sure that we're closing out things that are slowing us down or harming our progress. We need to reboot. As potentially painful as it is, without that crucial part in the process we'll eventually stagnate. Take control of your life, find the alternate routes that can benefit you, Delete the things that are working against you and reboot to make it all stick. Bless your morning with this podcast as we discuss how to live a life refreshed.

Bless your morning with this pod as we discuss the final part of our CTRL+ALT+DEL. Learning when to delete hard feelings after a disagreement is essential to living a comfortable and Godly life. God says you've to forgive 7 times 77, that's a lot of forgiveness but the people around deserve it... And so do you. Erasing those emotional debts, when you feel that people have wronged you and you hold that negativity in your heart it affects way more than you think. Everything from your emotional well being to the healthiness of your relationships suffers. Erase and start anew, it'll feel good. Scripture Referenced: Matthew Chapter 18 Verse 15:35

Bless your morning with this pod as we discuss our next installment in the CTRL+ALT+DEL series. The Alt button, a button that when pressed down changes the function of the other keys in the keyboard. You always want to make sure that you're not taking unnecessary alternate routes to the people around you. Much like control, the more of it you try to take, the less people will support you and the lonelier your trip throughout life will be. Scripture Referenced: Ecclesiastes Chapter 4 9:12 John 17

Bless your morn with this pod as we discuss why it's important when to take control of a situation and when you're losing it Scripture referenced: Genesis Chapter 2: 18-25

Life is Messy, people are messy, YOU are Messy. It's a fact of life not even Jesus was exempt from. Things aren't always going to be as good as they could be and there will be times where you're emotionally charged, ask too much of those supporting you or lash out. In this episode we talk about why these less than ideal moments are important, why having the right support for these moments is important and exploring how to be more comfortable when things are just... bad. Bless your morn with this pod as we discuss living Life 2 Life during a period of Grief. Scripture referenced: Mark 14 32:41

Life is messy, we're not always going to be the glorious person we're designed to be. Sometimes we get angry, frustrated, sassy. Sometimes we curse a fig tree and make it whither. We have to surround ourselves with people that are willing to call you out, but still be with this version of you. It makes everyone a better person and it guarantees that you're always the best version God designed you to be. Scripture referenced: Mark 11:15-19 Mark 11:12-25

There are a lot of friends you can have in your life, but not a whole lot you can live your life with. Jesus had 12 apostles, but amongst those 12 there were 3 with whom he was able to share the entirety of his glory. In this new series we'll be discussing living life within the three stages of success. The Greatness, The Middling Middle and The Great Failures and how to surround ourselves with people in which we can share all of these stages with.

Shame is when we believe that there is something wrong with us. Not that we've done something wrong. It goes beyond guilt and we experience shame when we think that there is no redemption to what we've done. It's a dangerous place to be emotionally, in this episode we discuss how to overcome shame through God's word and his love for us. Scripture referenced: Genesis 1:27 Romans 5:8 Genesis 3:1 John 3:16

Today we're discussing Guilt in preparation for next episode where we're going to be talking about shame. It's important to define guilt and what creates the feeling of guilt so that we don't misappropriate it as shame and make it work against us. Bless your morning with this pod as we talk about guilt, what causes it and how it can be a good emotion to have. Scripture Referenced: Romans 3:23

"Be anxious for nothing, but in everything by prayer and supplication, with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to God; 7and the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus." - Philippians 4:2 In this pod we'll discuss a few of the ways to break the anxiety a lot of us often experience as a result of constantly rehearsing our own worries, overthinking and not properly managing your anxiety. Bless your morning with this pod and learn to trust God, through prayer and faith your anxieties will break.

Why is it that we never overthink the positive? We're always worrying about the negative things that can overwhelm us, that can consume us but we tend to forget that God made us in his image and as his image bearers he will provide for us and protect us the same way that you would provide for your own children. Your own image bearers. “So don't worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will bring its own worries. Today's trouble is enough for today."

You cannot rule your kingdom if you're hiding within the baggage. In order to be the leader that you want to be in your own life, you need to: Let go of what could be holding you back, much like we talked about on the last episode so you're able to move forward with less weight. Stop using it as an excuse to not be the person you want to be. Bless your morning with this pod as we discuss what happens when you hide in the baggage.

We've talked a lot about how to live a lean life, and it all culminates in the idea that we need to do let go of our baggage in order to live a comfortable & fulfilling life. We just have to internalize that we are not our baggage, our identity is not attached to the things we carry and that often times we have to let go of the things that we're carrying in order to be able to move forward. Bless your morning with this pod as we discuss letting go of our baggage. Show notes: Erika Badu - A Bag Lady 1 Samuel 10:20-24

Today on Life Refreshed, we dive deep with YouTube sensation Dr. Mike Diamonds. From fitness tips to personal growth stories, Dr. Mike shares the gems behind his success. Don’t miss this illuminating conversation that promises to motivate and inspire

To keep with the theme of our last episode, fear and response, let's talk about one of the most common reasons we're scared of growth. The Change Curve. The Change Curve is what happens when a challenge presents itself, at first it is ridiculously hard, once you're over the initial challenge change occurs, maybe after mourning the version of you had to let go in order to change. You grow very quickly. You experience it in almost any situation, whether you're trying to live a lean life physically, emotionally or spiritually. Anything you want to achieve requires some change of self. Bless your morning with this pod as we discuss The Change Curve and what it means to grow. (and also introduce next week's guest.)

Fear and anxiety are not inherently a bad thing. Fear and our response to it exists to keep us alert and to protect us from danger. We just can't let it consume us, we have to transform it into purpose. Bless your morning with this pod as we talk about the purpose that fear plays into our lives and why it's a necessary part of life. Shownotes: 2 Timothy 1:5-7 Genesis 1

The last installment of our Living a Lean Life Series. How to live a lean life physically, You can live a lean life spiritually, mentally, emotionally and relationally but if you don't take care of your vessel, your body. It's all pointless. You have to take care of yourself and your body. Get good rest, eat good food, have balance between the things that feel good but aren't good for you and the things that are actually good for you. Bless your morning with this podcast as we finish exploring how to live a lean life. Scripture referenced: Genesis Chapter 2 Verse 2 - 3

The last segment of my Living a Lean Life Series, relationships also carry a weight that can become a baggage if not managed properly, but it's not necessarily the quality of your relationships but rather your emotional management of them. Love unconditionally, forgive abundantly and live your live without the weight of resentment. Essentially, the way God has a relationship with you. Bless your morning with this pod as we explore how to live a lean life. Shownotes: James Chapter 5:16 Corinthians 13:4-7