"Driving to..." Kindness (Ep #4)

Today I talk about 2 types of service Janet and I received - from the same cashier desk!

"Driving to..." Health and Accountability (Ep 3)

Episode 3 drives us to health and then to accountability.  Short little blurbs on each - more to come.  In fact I wrote about accountability on this blog in 2014.  Go check out those posts!

(again...I love the screen shots when you upload the videos.  I bet there is a way to change it...I just have to study how to!)

Driving to...Part 2 of Ep 2 "Fixin to About to"

Part 2 of "Fixin to About to!"  As you remember, the video cut off abruptly yesterday due to a lack of storage on my phone.  The producer of this show should've been better prepared!

(Gee whiz...it's funny what the screen shot of the video looks like below!  Again...the producer needs to do something about that...)

Driving to...Ep 2 - Fixin to About to

The second episode!

And Houston we have a problem...ugh...

My phone became full as I was filming Episode 2 - and I have 64 gigs! So it now becomes a "Special Two-Part Episode" (said in my best announcer voice 😀) or the first of the blooper reel.

So here's the unanticipated Part 1 of "Fixin to About to"

Sit and Soak

At church the other day the pastor talked about how some people come to church every Sunday, sit in the pews and take in everything the preacher says.  They are very excited to come and very excited to learn and hear the message.  However, once they leave the church they do nothing with the words and feelings they experienced.

They come back the next Sunday and do the same thing.

then...

They come back the next Sunday and do the same thing.

then...

They come back the next Sunday and do the same thing.

Our pastor had a phrase for this...

"Sit and Soak"

They "sit and soak" in all the information, all the words, all the messages, all the prayers and then they go home and wait to come back the next Sunday.

"Sit and Soak"

It made me think of how this phrase could be applied in other settings and I thought of people who have a dream...let's say they want to be a motivational speaker.

They buy all the books about speaking...reading works from Tony Robbins, Zig Ziglar, Brian Tracy and more.  They watch videos by these same speakers.  They listen to cds, podcasts and audiobooks.  They read articles...they search the internet.  They collect all sorts of information.

And then do nothing with it.

"Sit and Soak"

They soak up all this information, preparing themselves for when they step out and become a speaker.  And yet they never step out.  They feel as if they are not ready...they need to learn a little bit more.

"Sit and Soak"

They want to soak up more and more information...and still sit there.

How many dreams are never realized because of sitting and soaking?

You cannot make things happen by just learning the information.  You must do something with it.  Even if you do not think you know enough. Because...guess what?

You learn more by doing!

Sit...Soak...and Do

A good lesson for all of us in every aspect of our life and every day of our lives...and not just on Sundays.

Driving to... Episode #1

Episode #1 of "Driving to..."

You fill in the blank...

Driving to...health

Driving to...success

Driving to...fulfillment

Driving to...(fill in the blank)

Blood Pressure Medicine

I have to take blood pressure medicine.  Not a lot...just a little but I still take it everyday.  If I don't take it everyday I can feel a difference after a couple of days so...I take it.

The medicine doesn't cure my blood pressure. It controls it...keeps it in the "normal" range but doesn't cure the cause because the cause is that I don't eat right, I don't exercise much...I just don't take care of myself well.  Oh, sometimes I do...I run every so often.  I have completed marathons, half-marathons, 10Ks and 5ks - even in the last month.  But running is not something that, by itself, is going to cure my high blood pressure.

I also take metformin.  I just started taking it because my last visit to the doctor discovered my A1C - a measurement of your blood sugar - was just over 7.  I guess that ain't good because the doctor put me on this drug.  I take it...everyday...it's almost like a miracle.  The drug has made a difference with the way I feel.

The medicine doesn't cure my pre-diabetes.  It controls it...keeps it in the "normal" range but it doesn't cure the cause because the cause is that I don't eat right, I don't exercise much...I just don't take care of myself well.  Oh, sometimes I do...I run every so often.  I have completed marathons, half-marathons, 10Ks and 5ks - even in the last month.  But running is not something that, by itself, is going to cure my pre-diabetes.

I know the cure

Everyone knows the cure

Eat right

Exercise consistently

Take care of myself

If I was change my behaviors in how I live each day I would be able to get off the medicines.  All I have to do is to...

Make...the...change...

Many of us face this same situation in our work lives.  We have a recurring issue...something that keeps of from achieving our best success.

And we know what we need to do.

But we keep putting band aides on the problem hoping that it will fix itself.  We keep taking our medicine that controls the issue but doesn't cure it.  We can't make the decision to change our behaviors that cause the issue...

We know the cure

Just like we know the cure for high blood pressure.

If we change our behaviors...we can cure whatever our issues are.

Let's stop taking our medicine.

Let's change our behavior.

Let's get healthy!