Episodes
Friday Jun 23, 2023
Purpos3ful Pathway Intro
Friday Jun 23, 2023
Friday Jun 23, 2023
Purpos3ful Pathway Intro:
Uniqueness / Wabi Sabi:
Psalm 139:13-16
13 For you created my inmost being; you knit me together in my mother’s womb.
14 I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made; your works are wonderful, I know that full well.
15 My frame was not hidden from you when I was made in the secret place, when I was woven together in the depths of the earth.
16 Your eyes saw my unformed body; all the days ordained for me were written in your book before one of them came to be.
You are a masterpiece.
- You carry a piece of the master. He blew breathe into our lungs and they have will not stop until we die. Not only the breath, also the ability to think and imagine, and then execute.
- Masterfully Crafted. As before, we are crafted, formed, and verified before time began.
- Masterfully Branded. You are branded with God’s character, nature, and intent.
- Character: Holy, Set Apart -We have our own individual identity
- Nature: He cannot lie - Most of us have a degree of integrity
- Intention: Goodwill - We want to good for those we love, and even others to a certain degree.
We are unique: A concept of Wabi Sabi is this: accept yourself for who you are. There is perfection in the imperfections, God knew what He was doing when he made you, so you might as well be yourself, because everyone else is already taken.
Wabi Sabi is a mindset shift that looks at the imperfections of things and finds the beauty in it. There is greatness in you being the only one. You can be the only you that can reach the people only you can. God said that you are fearfully and wonderfully made, and that is no mistake. Your mistakes and quirkiness are your character, and the sum of experience has created you to be were you are for such a time as this. You are here to turn hurts in to healing, applying your experiences as a balm to others so they won’t have to suffer through the same things.
Present / Ichigo Ichie:
“Be very careful, then, how you live—not as unwise but as wise, making the most of every opportunity, because the days are evil. Therefore do not be foolish, but understand what the Lord’s will is.”
Ephesians 5:15-17 NIV
From wikipedia, “chi-go ichi-e (Japanese: 一期一会, pronounced [it͡ɕi.ɡo it͡ɕi.e], lit. "one time, one meeting") is a Japanese four-character idiom (yojijukugo) that describes a cultural concept of treasuring the unrepeatable nature of a moment. The term has been translated as "for this time only", and "once in a lifetime". The term reminds people to cherish any gathering that they may take part in, citing the fact that any moment in life cannot be repeated; even when the same group of people get together in the same place again, a particular gathering will never be replicated, and thus each moment is always a once-in-a-lifetime experience.” Trying to translate it, you will get that ichigo” means “one life or time” and “ichie” means “a one-time encounter or meeting.”
Meaningful Worth Living / Igikai-kan:
“Where there is no vision, the people perish: but he that keepeth the law, happy is he.”
Proverbs 29:18
Finding the reason for being, and allowing that to be the source for a long, fulfilled life.
Everyone and everything has purpose. We are all at our peak existence when we our serving and doing what we are designed to do.
- A chair was designed to be sat on. When it constantly used as a ladder, the pressure on the legs make it weak and wobbly, eventually breaking. if you have a pulse, then you have a purpose.
- The meaning of life is to live a meaningful life.
These will start you on your vision. The vision is the end goal. It is the fuel to keep us going to get to the vision. The path is blurry and dark, rocky and dangerous, but also the fulfilling and the most rewarding. He does not show us the whole path because we would not be able to fathom the greatness and give up immediately.
So we MUST have a connection to God and a connection to others.
Sunday Mar 05, 2023
Unblocking Yourself
Sunday Mar 05, 2023
Sunday Mar 05, 2023
This is where I came up with the term unblockyourself, and I started unblocking myself.
Tuesday Feb 14, 2023
Connect to Unlock, Connect to Unblock!
Tuesday Feb 14, 2023
Tuesday Feb 14, 2023
As I’m getting ready to leave for the day, I keep being reminded of this: I have everything I need. I’m taken care of. Also, I pretty much have access to everything I want. Like a game, it needs to be unlocked.
God unlocks.
I have to #UnBlockYourself (myself) to get to it.
So today's episode is about connecting.
Connect to God to unlock.
Connect to yourself to unblock and get out of the way of what He is doing in your life! (And Mine!)
Wednesday Feb 08, 2023
Roadmap to#UnblockYourself 2023
Wednesday Feb 08, 2023
Wednesday Feb 08, 2023
Roadmap to unblock yourself
Over the past 5 years we’ve pretty much developed a pattern to really getting close to the inner you. This will basically be the next 48 Episodes for the rest of 2023!
Unblocking yourself:
- Getting out of our own way
- Mind
- Body
- Spirit
- Finances
- Social Interactions
- Summary: a closed fist
Unblocking your potential:
- Aspirations
- Roles
- Expectations
- Showing Appreciation
- Summary: AREA at work
Unblocking your balance:
- Harmony
- Respect
- Purity
- Tranquility
- Summary: Chowa
Unblocking your clarity:
- Wabikigai
- Wabi Sabi
- Kanso
- Fukinsei
- Shibumi
- Yugen
- Shizen
- Datsuzoku
- Seijaku
- Ichigo ichie
- Past Present Future
- Ikigai
- Life worth Living
- Summary - Wabikigai Adventure
Unblocking your actions:
- Purpose
- Vision
- Mission
- Summary: Drive to accomplish great things
Unblocking Your Connections:
- Self to God
- Kinstugi
- Self to Others
- Where you fit in
- Emotional Bank Accounts
- Self to Self
- Idioms & Proverbs
- Inputs and Outcomes
- Summary: what you put in is related to what you’re getting out
Unblocking your flow
- Flow
- How you see things
- Summary: the beaver: Bottlenecking the flow little by little
Roadmap to unblock yourself
Over the past 5 years we’ve pretty much developed a pattern to really getting close to the inner you. This will basically be the next 48 Episodes for the rest of 2023!
Unblocking yourself:
- Getting out of our own way
- Mind
- Body
- Spirit
- Finances
- Social Interactions
- Summary: a closed fist
Unblocking your potential:
- Aspirations
- Roles
- Expectations
- Showing Appreciation
- Summary: AREA at work
Unblocking your balance:
- Harmony
- Respect
- Purity
- Tranquility
- Summary: Chowa
Unblocking your clarity:
- Wabikigai
- Wabi Sabi
- Kanso
- Fukinsei
- Shibumi
- Yugen
- Shizen
- Datsuzoku
- Seijaku
- Ichigo ichie
- Past Present Future
- Ikigai
- Life worth Living
- Summary - Wabikigai Adventure
Unblocking your actions:
- Purpose
- Vision
- Mission
- Summary: Drive to accomplish great things
Unblocking Your Connections:
- Self to God
- Kinstugi
- Self to Others
- Where you fit in
- Emotional Bank Accounts
- Self to Self
- Idioms & Proverbs
- Inputs and Outcomes
- Summary: what you put in is related to what you’re getting out
Unblocking your flow
- Flow
- How you see things
- Summary: the beaver: Bottlenecking the flow little by little
Tuesday Jan 10, 2023
You can’t physically treat non-physical issues
Tuesday Jan 10, 2023
Tuesday Jan 10, 2023
#UnBlockYourself 2023 Thought 3:
You can’t physically treat non-physical issues.
We’ve been conditioned to treat things like depression, heartbreak, or negative forms of stress with pills, shots, and alcohol.
We tend to get hooked on treating the results, not address the root of the issue. For example, we may be sluggish and low on energy. But instead of eating healthier, or foods that may give us a boost, we may drink energy drinks.
When we do this, it only treats the symptoms and the problems keeps coming. I have that problem too, but doing this will not bring it to an end. Treating things this way makes us responsive, not proactive. We only will handle things when it gets bad enough to where we can’t take it. We have to get to the root of the problems. We have to sometimes go 7 degrees of “why?” to get to the bottom.
For our adventure to continue, when we come up against a wall, we know we have to get to the why of it so we know how to become victorious over it. A tea time, or meditation, time alone with God can help reveal things on a deeper, spiritual level, instead of just the resulting symptoms.
Stay looking ahead and moving forward, you will always move towards the direction you are looking!
Thursday Jan 05, 2023
Your Wabikigai Adventure
Thursday Jan 05, 2023
Thursday Jan 05, 2023
#UnBlockYourself 2023 Thought 2:
Your Wabikigai Adventure
“For I know the plans I have for you,” declares the Lord, “plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future.”
Jeremiah 29:11
There is an adventure that has been created just for you. Wabikigai is a mash up of three of my favorite words, and it is at the core of our theme for this year.
The “Wabi” in wabikigai is for Wabi Sabi.
This is how this adventure is unique to you. Unique, timeless, and beautiful are the experiences that have been created for your journey.
Speaking of timeless, Ichigo Ichie is next.
It boils down to “once in a lifetime moment” happening during each of your experiences.
Last is Ikigai, one of my favorites. It is living a full life by functioning in your purpose. We have many hats, some wanted and unwanted, but there are a few that impacts not only us, but goes on to shine a light in a dark world. This light and life we have changes the world around us. Never take that lightly!
This year we are set to do great and wonderful things. Be ready for trials because it has to be tested, but on the other side is the greatest testimony to the greatest experiences you’ll ever have if you seek them and hold to them tight!
Let’s Go!
Tuesday Jan 03, 2023
Your Intent Will Be Tested
Tuesday Jan 03, 2023
Tuesday Jan 03, 2023
#UnBlockYourself 2023 Thought 1:
Your intent will be tested.
Have you ever made a New Year’s resolution and failed miserably? Things large or small I notice whenever I declare, “This is what I want to do!” It gets tried immediately. From, “All I want to do is to make up the bed”, to, “I want to buy a new car”, will al be tested. If I try to make the bed, I get up late, or the bed feels so good I don’t get up on time, or an employee calls in which means I have to rush to get things in place… anything. I want to buy this, all of the sudden a great opportunity comes up to buy something else, car breaks down, your best friend really needs to borrow some money and they know you have it… anything.
But WHY??? I asked myself this over and over. Finally the answer came. It is to test the strength and the very essence of what you believe. If you fail, one of two things happen. You either give up, or you press through and learn from it. You will either turn and find something better, or you will become stronger with even greater momentum because you have improved from your mistakes.
It all works for your good. Your greater good. God’s got you. (Romans 8:28)
I liked this acronym for FAIL:
First
Attempt
In
Learning
Keep moving forward!
Wednesday Oct 12, 2022
Benefits and Balance
Wednesday Oct 12, 2022
Wednesday Oct 12, 2022
#UnBlockYourself 429 - Benefits and Balance
Last episode we talked about how All roads (your thoughts and actions) lead back to your core of your being, the core values you have established within you. Your homework was to start to define your core values, so you’ll see where you will end up going with you your actions, and they also serve as a beacon of light to help in decision making too. Ultimately what you do will usually be leaning towards your success.
Brings us to today.
Prayerfully develop a working definition of what your success is, what it looks like, and write it down.
What will be the benefit of your success?
If you have things the way you want it (your success and vision fulfilled) what benefit is it to God?
What benefit is it to the world?
Why should God help you get there?
The questions help us to see where are motives are, if inspired by God or man, if self centered or not, if it has the potential to get you in trouble if you go all out for it.
We can find ourselves wandering off in the wrong direction when things are too self centered, and at the end, we find it amounts to nothing or taken away. Build our legacies that will last for generations, for our children and our children’s children.
Friday Sep 23, 2022
All Roads Circle Back To Your Core
Friday Sep 23, 2022
Friday Sep 23, 2022
#UnBlockYourself 428
All roads (your thoughts and actions) lead back to your core of your being, the core values you have established within you.
“To put it simply, vision is what the world would be like if we succeeded. Mission, on the other hand, is what we must do for the world to reflect the vision.”
The "Core Values" you have in you are the principals, rules, and boundaries that dictate your behaviors.
We need to define our values.
Establish core values that:
Guide and ground your actions that will help you accomplish your vision and mission
represent who you are (or want to be) at your best, set you apart, and incorporate Wabi Sabi, Ichigo Ichie, and Ikigai as it pertains to you.
All actions lead back to the core of your being because they instinctively dictate your behaviors.
Living out your ikigai is an extension of your core values.
Monday Sep 05, 2022
Wabikigai In Your Influence
Monday Sep 05, 2022
Monday Sep 05, 2022
#UnBlockYourself 427 Wabikigai in your influence
One of my favorite mentors John C. Maxwell says, “Leadership is influence, nothing more, nothing less.”
One of our many purposes in being in this life at this moment in time is to impact our circle of influence, blessing those who God has put in our path.
Wabikigai is a made up word consisting of 3 philosophies:
- Wabi Sabi: Discovering perfection in the imperfect
- Ichigo Ichie: Being in the moment
- Ikigai: Living a full life through fulfilling your purposes
Influence has its place within all of these.
Wabi Sabi: When you break down the concept of wabi sabi you get:
Wabi - Simplistic, minimalistic design to provide what you need.
Sabi - The beauty in aging, and uniqueness of something.
This is the internal influence, the things we see, do, and hear that influences us. The things that have influenced and are influencing us shapes what we will be doing to and for others.
Ichigo Ichie: Once in a life time moments. The time we spend within our hearts and in intimate company with others. This is were we build the energy to influence ourselves and others. This is were we build strength in relationships eternally, internally, and externally.
Ikigai: Living a full life through purpose. This is our external influence at work. This is how we impact our circle of influence and the world by just being ourselves, doing what we were called to do. For some it may be preaching the gospel, for others, it could be teaching your kids how to fish. Both relate to your influence, and both could have a lasting impression that could impact the receiver’s generations long after them. What we do here and now, carries weight. If you are intentional, you are intentionally making a difference to change the future of the world!