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Reach Out: Please include your email and I will get back to you. Thanks! My kiddo, Luke, preached a sermon the other day that featured this opening quote: “Nor does a pure-minded man fall suddenly into crime by stress of any mere external force; the criminal thought had long been secretly fostered in the heart, and the hour of opportunity revealed its gathered power.” James Allen (As A Man Thinket...

Reach Out: Please include your email and I will get back to you. Thanks! Welcome to my personal favorite Bob Goff story. And that's saying something. His life has been incredibly interestingly lived. I linked to his books last week. Today I'll add a link to an episode from 2022 that featured his work in Uganda: Be Secretly Incredible . Part of being incredible is loving people. Not just...

Reach Out: Please include your email and I will get back to you. Thanks! God built each of us to align our mind and body. He gave us this beautiful things called a conscience to process His will, and factors of life, to create a consistency between heart and deeds.  When we link those up, we are our authentic selves. Your authentic self may not be right, but it's honest. You may grow and chan...

Reach Out: Please include your email and I will get back to you. Thanks! For just the third time in ESM history - it's an interview! It is my pleasure to have Jacob Hudgins on the program today to walk us through the House Rules that he has implemented in his home and has written about for the benefit of others. This will be our fifth and final episode in the House Rules series. And I was thi...

Reach Out: Please include your email and I will get back to you. Thanks! I have made 3 major financial decisions in my life that stand above the rest. One was awful. One was safe. And the last was exciting. To me, these represent the kind of choices that go far beyond portfolios, and certainly have more value than money. Let me walk you through those choices, spanning 25 years of my life. Maybe th...

Reach Out: Please include your email and I will get back to you. Thanks! Today, launch day, is "the most depressing day of the year." That being the case, I feel like a wellness check is needed: so how are you doing? Are you weathering January okay? If you are, I want you to see how much you've overcome to feel that way! And if not, there are real reasons for that which affect a lot...

Reach Out: Please include your email and I will get back to you. Thanks! Our cover image today is a 10 year old boy deciding whether or not to make his bed. He clearly doesn't want to. And yet, it is his responsibility. What factor will be determine what he does next? Sometimes doing the right thing is hard. And when it comes down to just the action... we may not want to do it at all. But the...

Reach Out: Please include your email and I will get back to you. Thanks! Say it with me: Anterior Mid-Cingulate Cortex! Or aMCC for short. Today we take a little look into the brain, to find a very special part that controls the willpower of the rest. If we can learn how it works, and how to make it stronger, well, there isn't any part of your growth in life that won't be affected and he...

Reach Out: Please include your email and I will get back to you. Thanks! HAPPY NEW YEAR! I pray 2024 is a wonderful adventure in growth and change and increased faith and joy in Christ! Welcome to season 6 of the ESM podcast. It's been an amazing journey thus far and I am looking forward to this season. Today's content - the challenge to balance out four elements of your life: Physical,...

Reach Out: Please include your email and I will get back to you. Thanks! HAPPY NEW YEAR! I pray 2024 is a wonderful adventure in growth and change and increased faith and joy in Christ! Welcome to season 6 of the ESM podcast. It's been an amazing journey thus far and I am looking forward to this season. Today's content - the challenge to balance out four elements of your life: Physical,...

Reach Out: Please include your email and I will get back to you. Thanks! Merry Christmas! Launch day for this week's episode is December 25th. I pray safety and joy for you and your loved ones. May the Father, Son and Spirit be with you all. About a month ago, Kenny Embry and I had a discussion about stress management. It became an hour long dive into our personal lives and things that have r...

Reach Out: Please include your email and I will get back to you. Thanks! What would you find if you used some personal time excavating the center of your heart, taking a fearless moral inventory, and finding out what drives all you do? This week we look at the power of self-awareness. It is massively valuable. But to be honest, it is much deeper and more needful that I first thought. To me self-aw...

Reach Out: Please include your email and I will get back to you. Thanks! Sponsors:  Jon Cunningham, Owner, Cunningham Financial Group Website:  www.cunninghamfinancialgroup.com     Phone:  205-326-7364 Tyler Cain, Senior Loan Officer, Fairway Independent Mortgage Website: www.tylercainatfairway.com     Phone:  813-380-8487 Welcome to PART 3 of 6 in our House Rules Series. Here is a link to Jacob&a...

Reach Out: Please include your email and I will get back to you. Thanks! Sponsors:  Jon Cunningham, Owner, Cunningham Financial Group Website:  www.cunninghamfinancialgroup.com     Phone:  205-326-7364 Tyler Cain, Senior Loan Officer, Fairway Independent Mortgage Website: www.tylercainatfairway.com     Phone:  813-380-8487 First things first, here is a link to Mannish Zomorodi's Ted Talk (not...

Reach Out: Please include your email and I will get back to you. Thanks! Sponsors:  Jon Cunningham, Owner, Cunningham Financial Group Website:  www.cunninghamfinancialgroup.com     Phone:  205-326-7364 Tyler Cain, Senior Loan Officer, Fairway Independent Mortgage Website: www.tylercainatfairway.com     Phone:  813-380-8487 Welcome to PART 2 of 6 in our House Rules Series. Here is a link to Jacob&a...

Reach Out: Please include your email and I will get back to you. Thanks! Sponsors:  Jon Cunningham, Owner, Cunningham Financial Group Website:  www.cunninghamfinancialgroup.com     Phone:  205-326-7364 Tyler Cain, Senior Loan Officer, Fairway Independent Mortgage Website: www.tylercainatfairway.com     Phone:  813-380-8487 Happy Thanksgiving Week! I hope things go well for you with family and frie...

Reach Out: Please include your email and I will get back to you. Thanks! We want things fast and want them to happen on a big time scale. We want total transformation, massive amazing change, and big payouts. All of that is in reach, but the work involved to get there is rarely as instant, sizable or flashy. It turns out, being wise small is the way to big things. Something you do every day for a...

Reach Out: Please include your email and I will get back to you. Thanks! I really hope you enjoy this series! Please let me know what you think. Feel free to share your own ideas, or just express how valuable you think this series might be. Your feedback will determine how quickly we get all 6 fit in! Please remember - application will be focused on the home, but not limited to it. At it's co...

Reach Out: Please include your email and I will get back to you. Thanks! I am so stoked to share this with you today. Bible connection are on my favorite things list. Special thanks to Michelle Stevens for sending me a short clip from Myron Golden. I checked out a bunch of his stuff and found two Genesis stories that connect in an interesting way. Both of them relate in this way: count your blessi...

Reach Out: Please include your email and I will get back to you. Thanks! Okay, I'm calling this my favorite thing I've learned in 2023. This simple outlook on relationships and three step, easily repeatable process... I love it. And I re-recorded this episode a week later just to share my testimonials! I gave a quick early shout out to Jacob Hudgins for his book House Rules . I highly re...

Reach Out: Please include your email and I will get back to you. Thanks! The question of the episode is you asking yourself: "Who Am I?" - I encourage you to spend a little time on that this week. Find an answer that sits in the center of everything else about you and drives it all.  Below I have included the lyrics for "To Not Worship You" by Mercy Me.  As you listen to them t...

Reach Out: Please include your email and I will get back to you. Thanks! Where do you draw the line when it comes to sinful behavior? Is it your goal to do everything everyone else gets to do so long as you don't take that last step? Sometimes we strive for this in a very weird form of American Christianity. We want almost all of what our culture has to offer, with just a few things off limit...

Reach Out: Please include your email and I will get back to you. Thanks! We live in a "yes" world. There is so much to do, and as mostly middle class Americans, we are in a position to say yes to so many things. And for the most part, we seem to try to. After all, we don't want to miss out! No, I don't mean sinful things. But sometimes it feels like we are trying to indulge in...

Reach Out: Please include your email and I will get back to you. Thanks! The 4 Disciplines of Execution : Achieving Your Wildly Important Goals Excel Still More Journal Okay, my new friend Rich Howe, from Richmond TX, has turned me on to a great new book. It is designed for business and company leaders, but it includes timeless principles. I see application for the individual, the family, the chur...

Reach Out: Please include your email and I will get back to you. Thanks! Read this! 4 Rejoice in the Lord always; again I will say, rejoice! 5 Let your gentle spirit be known to all people. The Lord is near. 6 Do not be anxious about anything, but in everything by prayer and pleading with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God. 7 And the peace of God, which surpasses all comprehension...