Do you ever wish you could become more proactive in life? Your answers lie in this episode! In this episode, Lori and Jimmy share strategies and mindsets on creating a more proactive lifestyle in a world of chaos and fear.
Episode Keys
- The Top 5 Actions Jimmy takes each morning to engage his proactive mindset for a day of accomplishment!
- Why you are the Captain of your self and how to take charge.
- How to turn your negative attitude into a powerfully, positive mindset!
- What you should never do if you wish to maintain growth and ambition in your life.
- Why taking action in the direction you wish to go gives you momentum to achieve greatness.
Podcast Transcript
JW:
This is my favorite time of year folks. It’s summertime, summertime, summertime. I gotta tell you, I got a new new swimsuit this year, you know, and I hear most of you have probably never heard of, of my latest swimsuit fetish, man. I just dig the swimsuits cuz you know, I’ve been looking pretty cut. Not really folks, but listen, I’m one of those guys that can just wear anything on the beach. Cuz at my age I could care less of what anyone thinks, right? So that’s what we do here and live life by design is where whatever shocks our wife to the beach, the country club pool, wherever it’s at. And yes, this year I really did it, Lori. My co-host here is gonna be shocked when I share with her what I did. I went to the swim store and got a swimsuit. And this one this year is not leopard skin. I know you’re disappointed alligator. So I’ve got an alligator skin thong, Speedo, man, I am ready to go. I mean there’s things that haven’t seen sun. That’s gonna get brightly shined of VA here pretty quickly.
LF:
I have no words this morning. I have no words. I, I honestly thought that you were gonna say that you got a Spiderman swimsuit because I mean, we all remember in previous podcast, how many times we’ve talked about the Spiderman underwear. So alligator, no way,
JW:
Way as you recall, it was actually iron man.
LF:
It was iron man. Yes. See I’m terrible. I’m a boy. Mom. Who’s terrible at superheroes Spiderman iron man.
JW:
Well, you’ll always be my superhero, Lori. So don’t worry about that. Hey folks. Good morning on Live a Life By Design, your Monday morning moments of motivation and I’m here with one of the greatest co-host on the planet, Lori Few. Good morning, Lori.
LF:
Good morning. What is set up this morning? And in the words of Jimmy Williams I couldn’t be better if I tried.
JW:
Very well said. I tell you, oh
LF:
Listen, you
JW:
Know, you need to write these things down one day. I’m gonna publish a book of my favorite quotes that I generate. And I’m telling you, Lori, it’s gonna skyrocket. I can just feel it.
LF:
I can. It’s going to be called. The book. Title is called Jimmy.
JW:
Oh, I love that. I love it. Anything that possessive and Jimmy and it’s gotta be good, Jimmy. There
LF:
You go. I mean, there it is. I mean, we’ve already set up this morning. How much better could it be? It’s summer. We’ve already had a visualization that we swell. Some people want some people don’t alligator. It doesn’t matter what kind of swimsuit it is. It, it should not. It should not be very small in the word songs. No, no, no, no, no.
JW:
You don’t laugh. My wife said, where’d you buy this eye patch? Cuz we washed it once and said, honey, that’s not an eye patch. That’s my new swimsuit. And she’s like, oh my words. Ah,
LF:
No. Yeah. I can see her face. Right, right.
JW:
Oh man. Well today’s an exciting episode folks. And I know we say that quite often, but too to Lori me, it is exciting to come to you each week to provide a little relief of your world of busyness, chaos, you know, disruption whatever’s going on in your life. Maybe I hope it’s all totally happiness. And if it is, we add to that a little exponential growth in the happiness world. But today we’re gonna talk about a topic that has just been time for us to get it settled, resolved. And we’re gonna move forward because we’re gonna talk about today, how we overcome fear and chaos. You know, the world Lori has gotten just a little crazier and who would’ve thought that would’ve happened. Right? I mean, come on.
LF:
Right?
JW:
Oh, one of my greatest philosophies though, is that the world doesn’t have to enter my life. But rather my life enters the world. And what I’m really saying is, is we need to take control and we have far more things we can control than we actually do Lori. So we’re gonna talk about some of those things today. And so I am asking Lori a few questions today. She’s gonna be the interviewee. I’m gonna ask her some very deep and personal questions.
LF:
Uh-Oh!
JW:
Yes. She has had her regular four cups of coffee and may need another two time we’re through this. So
LF:
I am extremely highly caffeinated. Yes, always.
JW:
Oh, I love it. Folks. She comes to you live this morning, caffeinated up. I wanna apologize for my voice. It is Oklahoma and we do have these things called allergies. So my apologies to those of you and other parts of the world that listen, and we are in 58 countries and some of the people in that those countries are going, what is going on with his voice? Right? Well, it’s not your headset. It’s not your, it’s not your internet feed. It’s just good old. Jimmy’s having a little bit of allergies. So Lori, here it goes. I’m I’m gonna start out asking one of the, the questions I have, but before I don’t wanna give you a quote. Now, Jim, Ron’s one of my favorite favorite mentors. I, I tell you he’s more impacted my life probably right behind my dad and mom and, and those things.
JW:
But I mean, he is just such a business mentor. It’s been to me, very, very meaningful throughout life. If you read my journals, you’d think he’s writing about Jim Ronan’s biography, but it’s not that bad but close. And so one of the reasons that Lori and I bring you this podcast each week is to help improve your mindset perhaps your current state of life and even impacting your future in big, hairy, audacious ways. We hope so. My mentor, Jim Rome stated his philosophy of life in such an eloquent manner. It goes like this positive influence can have an incredible effect on your life, but so can negative influence both will take you somewhere, but only one will take you in the direction you truly wish to go. Ooh, I can’t get goosebumps looking at that. Woo.
LF:
Yeah. Well, I like it. Well really? That’s a good one,
JW:
Man. I think he just summed it up for our episode today, Lori. So, Hey, let’s get started with our first question. Are you ready?
LF:
No. First question. Yes.
JW:
First question. It’s a real, kind of a global question. Why is the world in such chaos today, Lori?
LF:
Oh my goodness. Really? We’re gonna tackle that first. I am gonna the
JW:
DPA girls and world, our swimming analogy. Jump
LF:
Us in the, here we go. We’re swimming. We’re doggy paddling at this point because oh, why is the world the way? Oh gosh. Probably because of mindset. I mean, I, I know we talk about that a lot, but I mean, there’s so many different schools of thought on so many different things. Gosh, I don’t know. Maybe in a post COVID world, everything’s just a little bit more chaotic, more stressful, more intangible. I probably because we, as adults think that we’re making the right decisions and people in leadership think they’re making the right decisions. And honestly, maybe no one knows. Maybe it’s just a free for all. Maybe that’s why I, I maybe we all just need a time out or reset or you know, whatever it is that to recenter ourselves. I, that’s a really tough question about why the world is in chaos or turmoil or confusion. I, I think it’s a state of all the emotions. I think we’re kind of just ping pong back and forth from day to day. We’re not really sure how to feel or how to think or what to do or how to react because it’s really kinda all over the place.
JW:
I’m gonna give you a a thought today. Lori. I always believe this. Everything is relative even when you’re in the midst of the storm. So for example, we think this is just terrible. Now we can’t even get new cars. I mean, you can go out there and look, they don’t have new cars. You can’t get your favorite types of, of foods sometimes are in short supply. Heaven forbid we’ve got a problem. Getting our babies fed w come on. These kinds of things. We think this is tragic now, you know, Lori and the people that listen to this podcast, the hundreds of thousands across the planet, listen to this, know that I’m a big fan of world war II. I love that era. I don’t love what happened in that era, but you get so many life lessons from what we learned during that era. And to truly say they had chaos, oh my gosh, we’ve got nothing compared to what some of these folks were disrupted from their homelands.
JW:
Tortured treated terribly, if you will. And I’ve got some friends in New York whose grandparents are survivors of the Holocaust. I mean, they can tell you what chaos is, right. But I think when you’re in the movie, it’s hard to watch it. Right. You know, you’re, you’re the actor. It’s so hard to look at it from the seat and go, wow, that looks really good or bad or very stressful or whatever. And what we’ve done, I think in America has lived in this movie for two years. And it just seems like when we think there’s an opening and the sun’s gonna shine through a cloud enters from our peripheral vision. Right. And I, I do believe you’re right. Our mindset must get better. So I love what Jim RO said, the positive influence and the negative influence, both impact it’s which one do you pay the most attention? And which one do you give the most resource? Right.
LF:
It’s, it’s really interesting when you talk about, you know, we’re in this movie and it’s hard to watch. So oftentimes I’ve, and especially in the last two years, I’ve learned to just, I saw it. I don’t remember where exactly I saw it. Maybe I saw it on a coaster or a t-shirt or something. And it just said, when things don’t go your way, just yell, practice, and move on.
JW:
You know, I love that. I love that.
LF:
It’s it, it’s part of being in the midst of the throws of, of writing the story and, and having to, you know, rewrite the story and revision after revision. We just find ourselves making these, you know, plot twists because we don’t have any other option. We have to keep moving forward. We have to stay committed to the end goal. And even though it’s trying, and it’s sometimes just easier to throw your hands up and say, oh, I quit. I give up, I can’t do this. You really have to, like you said, keep going and be motivated. And, oh, it’s, it’s a struggle, but we don’t really have any other options.
JW:
I agree. And you know, I, I’ve gotta be honest with, we’ve been a big racing fan all my life, as well as you know, and, and I’ll tell you, Mary Andrey one of the most premier the best formula one racers is probably on the planet in his lifetime. And he was asked one time that they noticed when they zoomed in, on him, in the camera, inside that little helmet, full facial helmet, you could see his eyes as he’s coming around the corner. There’s this giant cement wall, right. That keeps the cars from getting into the audience or wherever. And, and he said, when we look at you at the camera, your eyes are always to the left, the infield, looking to the infield. You’re not looking to that wall. He said, I will tell you this in life, just like racing, wherever you look is where your body and mind’s going to go. I never look at the wall because I don’t want to be there. Is that not cool?
LF:
That’s very cool. And what a neat perspective. I, I, you know, we, we talked, we briefly touched on fear and I I’m gonna tell you that. There’s probably another reason that he didn’t look at that wall and that’s out of pure fear. And oftentimes you hear people talk about, you know, how do you overcome fear? We stayed in a constant state of fear for just a hot minute, if you will. And so it makes me think of the one piece of advice that I was given and it, and it’s so cliche and, and it’s probably silly to think about, but how to overcome fear. And that I was told at a very young age, do something every day, that scares you.
JW:
Yeah, that’s big.
LF:
It, it it’s and it’s, but it when I was little, it was something like touching, like having a June bug, since we’re on the topic of summer, having a June bug jump on me. I mean, that, that would scare that scared me. I’m, I mean, I’m older now and it still scares me. Right. But you know, big things like a job change. I recently visited with a friend of mine and, and she was, had been in a career for a number of years and she was fine in that career, but a job opportunity came open and she called me and she said, what do I do? I, I, I, I’m fine where I am, but I think this would be a great opportunity. And of course, late night over coffee probably not a smart idea, cuz I don’t think either of us slept that night, but you know, we just walked through those scenarios of, of fear and anxiety and what it, what kind of chaos it could bring to, to jump off and do something different.
LF:
And you know, we just laid out all the pros and cons lists. You know, I’m a big list person. Tell me all the positives, tell me all the negatives and somewhere in the middle, I’m gonna find out where I need to be. And we just, I just kinda left it with her that night after we, you know, talked it over and I said, you know, don’t, don’t make any decisions until you sleep on it. And you know, she made the jump and decided to change jobs and absolutely 100%, it was so refreshing to see her she’s a month into the job now. And she’s so happy. She’s so looking forward to going to work every day and it was exactly what she needed and, and she was terrified. And so, you know,
JW:
We don’t say the name of the person. Of course I’m not trying to no. What field did she leave to go into? What fields are you said they’re two different fields. What
LF:
Were they? Yeah, so one was the legal field absolutely had been there, loved that and, and worked really well with the people that she worked with and, and really honed those skills and was really good at what she was doing. But then decided to jump into you know, working with kids and in, in a public library setting where love it, she gets to steer the curriculum and the activities and be part of something that she has always been passionate about. She like you is a consummate reader, loves to read for fun, for information. And even tried to start a book club with her friends and we were terrible, terrible, terrible friends because we didn’t read the books,
JW:
You know, friends of mine. They said, yeah, this sounds great. We’ll get a lot out of this. And you know, year after the first time you meet and they’re all, gungho when that second time comes around and go, how many of you read chapter two? Well you know, we were busy this and yeah,
LF:
Yeah, no, but I mean, it’s, it’s so true. Going back to that, we lean on each other in times of question in our lives and everybody needs that person so that they are able to text or pick up the phone or even email and say, Hey, listen, I’ve got a big decision to make and I would really love your opinion. And, and not always do people go with what, you know, you have to offer or what you have to say. But I mean, sometimes we just need validation. And I think that a lot of times when we face chaos and we face fear, that’s just what we’re looking for. We’re looking for someone to say, Hey, you know, here are the things to consider and whether you do those things or not, or you make that leap or you take that jump, I’m still gonna be here at the end of the day. I’m still part of your network. I’m still part of your support system. And I, I will sure root for you and cheer for you and be happy for you and, and share in that moment of chaos and fear. And I think those things are really, really important, you know, moving forward in, in the world.
JW:
Oh, I agree. I agree. You wanna hear my secret to how you overcome fear and chaos and it’s real simple.
LF:
Okay.
JW:
It’s real simple. It’s to take action, not knowing that you gotta know exactly where you’re gonna land, but I know what direction in which I wish to go. And I always have been the kind of person that says, you know what? I can go in the gap. And I lemme explain that to you. The gap says, Hey, you know, I feel sorry for myself for a few minutes or, or woe is me for a few minutes. Some of my friends stay in it for weeks weeks, Lori, you cannot do that. Yeah. So what I tell people is, is take action. So I look at the next action. I’m a big fan of getting things done. I gotta tell you the gentleman that wrote that was outstanding in my opinion. And what happened was is I just take that next action. So if I know, okay, well, I know I don’t wanna stay where I’m at in this role right here.
JW:
I need to do something different like your friend did at the end of the day, take action, go move forward, do something, but don’t sit here and stew where you are and looking where you’re at, look forward to where you wish to be and make some move toward that way. And to me, that action changes your mindset, right? So once you achieve one step, you go, Hey, I can do another and another and another. Right. And so to me, action and taken is a big way to break through the chaos and the, and the fear of, of life. Right? It’s again, taking control of your mindset. So Lori, let me ask you this. So how do you keep such a positive attitude in the midst of, of world craziness?
LF:
Oh gosh. I mean, I would love to say that I’m Polly positive a hundred percent of the time. And no offense to anyone who’s named Polly. I love that name. Have a dear friend named Polly. I, I’m gonna be really honest. I mean, it’s all about what I can accomplish in a day. I, there are times during the day. I, I don’t know, maybe I’m so structured in my daily life, but I keep such a, a crazy tight schedule. Like in the morning I do this in the afternoon. I do this in the evening. I do this. I, I, there are, when you mentioned, you know, getting, getting down on yourself and, and getting stuck there. It made me think about pity party. You know, we always, we tell our kids I’m gonna let you wallow in it. If it’s a big let down, if it’s a negative, if it’s something that’s just ruined your day, I’m gonna give you 24 hours to wallow in it or have self pity.
LF:
And then tomorrow we’re gonna move on and start fresh. For me, it’s about words of affirmation. When I have a negative or a setback, you know, you we’ve talked about before, how we have to give ourselves some grace and give ourselves a minute to kind of retool and regroup and rethink, but it’s about words of affirmation. I can, I will, I can do this. And it it’s so funny cuz as kids, we learn very early on about the little engine that could. And, and I think that we forget that as we get older as adults, we get into this mindset of, you know, negativity and feeling sorry for ourselves. And I mean, really it’s, it is, it is a hundred percent about moving in the direction that you wanna go and taking charge of that, not staying there. Oh gosh. And it’s really hard when you work in a setting where there are negative people or there are people that are indifferent. I almost get frustrated with people that are indifferent more than I do to people that are negative. And I dunno why. I mean maybe because I feel like they’re sitting on the fence and I want them to come be on team positive with me.
JW:
I gotta tell you-
LF:
Come to the dark side.
JW:
I’m with you. I can take almost anything, but in decision, you know, as my dad always said, look, make the decision. If you get more facts later, make adifferent one, but let’s make something and get it done today. Right? I won’t tell you what my dad said raised on a farm. He said, you know what happens to the young man that sits on the fence and can’t make a decision. He eventually tires and catches a catches, a sticker somewhere where it hurts. Right? I mean, so, we’re talking about, you know the fences we have back in the day where for cattle had little spikes on ’em. Right? So those, he said those boys that sits on the fence and don’t make decisions higher and eventually get a little bit of stick to ’em there. But you know, you’re absolutely right.
JW:
One thing I do is I’m big on acronyms and I use the last message method and the lass message. If you’ll read some of my journals, there are some days that I feel like it’s the world’s just piled on me all day and I’ll come home. And I normally journal in the mornings to set the mood. I come home some evenings and go, I just gotta get this out of my head. And so I call it the last lass mess method. And what it is basically is let it go write it down, get it out, let it go. Some people like to vent to their friends. I’m not one of those people I like to vent on paper. I found that it’s very understanding and never talks back and says I’m bad or wrong or good or whatever. It just listens. Right? And, and so I just get it all down on the paper.
JW:
What happened? Get it off my mind. And then the a of that means is just acknowledge. I have the right to feel that away. Once in a while now you’re gonna laugh. I get accused a lot of being a Baptist minister. Now don’t laugh. I don’t know why they picked the Baptist faith. I’m not Baptist by faith. I am Protestant, but I will say it always tickles me. When somebody goes, do you ever have a bad day? You are you like a Baptist minister or something? And I’ll go, I always have great days because I will them to be great days. And they’ll look at me funny. And I go, look, you have control of you. And at the end of this day, you’re responsible for you. So if you wanna run through it looking crab, apple face, like you just ate a green worm through the apple or something.
JW:
You can look that way. All you wish it is in your control. And that S then of the last method. So let it go and acknowledge that I can be this way. The S is state what my principles and philosophies of life are. And when you start doing that and they’re positive, you’re gonna see it turn right around. And cuz you got it outta your system. You’re ready to move forward. Now with something positive in your mind as the last thing you said, and to me that just does wonders. Now you won’t see too many of those days in my journals, but those days that I have in there, it’s a difficult day. I just gotta write it out. You know?
LF:
There you go. I mean, it, it, it, the last method sounds way better than me saying pity party.
JW:
Well, we’ve picked on, I was gonna say negative Nancy, but I don’t wanna get the Nancys mad at us as well. Right.
LF:
Those, yeah, I know. I know.
JW:
You could have a jolly Jimmy cuz that’s how that is jolly Jimmy.
LF:
Yeah. I was gonna say, you know, and that is so true. And I have had people say to me, Lori, you work really closely with him. Is he like, that’s that the real? And I always have to tell people it is not one. It is not, there’s not one thing fake about that. That is 100% pure grade, a Jimmy Williams. And I, I love it because there you, we all need those people and you can’t be mad. You can’t be in a bad mood if I run into you at lunch or at coffee or just anywhere. It’s like, I don’t know. I, I tell people all the time when you see Jimmy, it just makes your day better. We all have those people. You know, it’s probably not me for most people. When I run into them, they’re not like, oh, well Lori just made my day a hundred percent better, but I try.
LF:
And I think that’s part of our message during this podcast every week that you just have to try, try something new, don’t be afraid, try something hard, try something that scares you. At the beginning of this year, we talked about, you know, what our goals were personally for me. And I wrote down literally, cuz I know I’ve, I’ve tried to take a page out of Jimmy’s book to journal a little bit. But one of the things that I wrote down was embrace the chaos better. Last year I felt like the chaos completely took over. I had no control. I had no clear vision or path out of it. I just was engulfed in it 24 7. And so this year I wanted to find a way to embrace it a little bit better. And you know, we talk about quotes. And one of my favorite quotes when it comes to chaos is Bob Dylan’s “chaos is a dear friend of mine.”
LF:
And so I’ve really had to learn, you know, to come to terms with, you know what, here it is, it’s right in my face. It’s gonna be there every single day. It’s gonna be there tomorrow. When I wake up, it’s probably gonna be lurking around the corner and hit me, you know, like a ton of bricks, but I’m going to embrace the chaos and just try to figure out a way to Excel through it. And I know that sounds crazy and maybe it’s impossible, but every day, if I, if I feel like I’ve accomplished a little bit of something and embraced it just a little bit better, I feel, I, I feel better about myself. I feel that I am in control and that I am trying to make positive decisions that are gonna move me forward in whatever situation it is. It’s it’s not such a scary word anymore. Chaos. I, I think we’ve just all kind of learned that we laugh about it. At my day job, they, I have a sign on my door that has my name and under my name. It says chaos coordinator.
JW:
Oh, I love that. I think that’s an official title. That’s official title. I’m not sure where it’s at on the org chart, but it’s at the top to me. If you’re, I’m telling you that
LF:
Well, and I think, I think lots of people are wearing that title. We’re all just trying to manage. We’re all just trying to get through whatever it is that you know, presents itself every day chaos coordinator. I love a lot. People are wearing that. You
JW:
Can see it on her resume folks. If you go to her personal website, chaos for her lifetime of experience. Okay, I got that.
JW:
True. One of the funny things you mentioned about song lyrics and boy, Bob Dylan, what a good one. The, these guys that can write songs from the sixties and seventies, I get a little tickled because then I’m remember back. And you said something like chaos is my friend. You know, I, you remember what was it? Garfunkle and Paul Simon Garfunkle they wrote one called hell little darkness. My old friend
LF:
Little friend. Yes. Yes. Listen, we’re not gonna sing to you, but what
JW:
State mind are you guys coming from? You know? Yeah. Well, lemme ask you this. So Lori, you do read some books. I know that you read books, you know I’m, as you said, I’m a big book. I tell book, I’m a book hound. I love books. As a matter of fact, I will tell you the folks that deliver our books to my house, that I order from Amazon, I try to buy locally, but sometimes you can’t find the book when that guy comes to our door, he just looks at me and goes Mr. Williams. Yes, you’ve got more books and that’s all he says. So he’s pretty excited to bring him, I think. But so tell me, what is one of your favorite titles that you would recommend today to help bring clarity, get rid of fuzzy chaos and all of this fear in our lives? What book would that be?
LF:
You know, I, I, I recently actually just reread it again and it’s a book called move your bus and it’s by Ron Clark. Yep. It talks about in the educational world about how there are people in different phases of their career and what they bring to the table. There are people that, you know, ride the bus who are perfectly happy, you know, just riding along and don’t make any waves, don’t make any changes. You know, and then there are people that are driving the bus. They’re the people that are making the change happen. They’re the ones that are the movers and the shakers. And I, and a lot of people think, oh, well, that’s, you know, that’s a book about education. I wouldn’t get anything out of that. But honestly it’s, it’s really about perspective and really about how you can apply that theme to your own personal life.
LF:
That’s what I would recommend cuz I just kind of reread it again. I think he’s a great educator on the forefront of some amazing things, but I also think he’s a good human and we all need to hear from good humans. We need to fill our, our minds and our spirit and our soul with just motivation and positivity. And it’s not a long read because remember I’m the book club junky, flunk out girl because I, I, you know, I, I do, I, I love to read I, I probably should make more time, but yeah, I’m gonna be real honest. I am the book book club flunk out junkie.
JW:
I think there’s a
LF:
New about
JW:
Dropout. There’s a new day coming for you a new day coming for you. So I gotta tell you about Mr. Clark. I thought he was great in he hall and man, the guy can play great banjo. Is that the guy? Ron Clark?
LF:
Nope. Nope. Different. That’s Roy Clark. Oh
JW:
Roy that his brother or something.
LF:
Nope. Completely different guy.
JW:
I’m just he, I know who this is, but this gentleman she’s talking about is a world class, world class motivator, speaker of educational leadership. Great, great guy. I believe out of Florida, somewhere down south there. And he’s a great, great guy, but let me tell you my favorite book, you’re gonna laugh. It has nothing to do with the title has everything to do with the content. So folks always remember if you go look at a book and you say, Hey, that sound like a great title. That doesn’t necessarily mean the content between the covers is great. It’s just, they sold you a good title. So you’d pick up the book. But this one truly is. And it’s been around since like the forties think and grow rich. Napoleon hill has nothing to do with money, but growing rich in your life, your, your thought processes, your family, your community, think and grow rich. In other words, try to find something bigger, better, bold every day. That’s what we come with you and share every Monday is something from that kind of mindset. And, and I think that’s where we need to be. Lori. I think we gotta fill our minds with the pure, powerful and a positive. If we’re gonna get to where we want to go through this chaos and all this fog that we have in our lives. I’m gonna ask you one last question. What is your approach to remaining hopeful in times that seem so hopeless?
LF:
Oh goodness. You know, hope is a great word. You know, we, we, on a previous episode we talked about, you know, the words of 20, 22. I always want to think that everybody is hopeful regardless of where they are or what situation that they’re in. And it can be, you’re hoping for a better job. You’re hoping for a better week, you’re hoping for a spouse or you’re hoping for a baby or you’re hoping for better financial wealth. I think hope is just a universal term. Kind of like love that just kind of brings everybody back to center and, and makes people realize that we do live in a amazing world and we live in a great country and we live in a great community and that we’re all hopeful to unite and continue to make things better regardless of where we are right now. Hope moves people forward.
JW:
Ooh, I like that. Can I write that down sometime? I’ll give you credit in my book. Hope people.
LF:
I think I, I think I’ve heard that somewhere. I’m sure that I am not the first person to say that.
JW:
Well, you know, hope you said hopes of sending them to love, as you said, and the great English philosopher, John Lennon he once said love is all you need. I think is
LF:
Love is all you need. Absolutely. Well, let’s talk about the challenge this week. Jimmy, are you ready?
JW:
I am pumped and ready. Okay.
LF:
All of this talk this morning has, has made me think, okay. It’s summer. We’re halfway through the year. And if you have not had a chance, let’s review your long and short term goals in life. We’re halfway through. Let’s revisit that. So commit to writing them down. If you haven’t done it already, if you did write ’em down on a sticky note, a post-it note, go dig it out, go find it. Look at it, read it to yourself and start reviewing them every single week to gauge your progress in life may be incremental. Maybe daily, maybe weekly, maybe monthly, but you can do it. So go find them. And let’s review. We’re gonna focus on the pure, the powerful and the positive, just like Jimmy said. And you’ll soon see through the chaos to the world of achievement. This is gonna bring clarity to your mind. Okay. Everybody you’ve heard it here first this morning. It’s summer. Let’s go make it a great week.
JW:
I love it. And live your life by design!
LF:
Woo boy, Lori, this was a great one. I’m still just kinda shook over here by all this great stuff you said and by the way, I will tell you one of my fears off camera or, you know, we’re, we’re off recording here. I’m gonna tell you one of my fears is anyone ever sees me in an, in, in an alligator leopard skin, thong, Speedo, whatever it is, that’s my biggest fear. You know, I’m that guy.
