Keeping Up With Jones: The Lonnie Jones Podcast Adventure

How we act when we are surrounded by a degrading situation makes a strong statement about how strong we really are. The situation never controls how we respond but our response says alot about our control. Life lived is life learned. Every experience has facts, concepts and applications.  These arestories from the eclectic life of Lonnie Jones, Licensed ProfessionalCounselor, Minister, SWAT Team C...

Fooling ourselves is how temptation works. We aren't fools as much as we get fooled into letting what we want get weaponized. We are unaware of the hook or ignore the possibility of getting hooked. Life lived is life learned. Every experience has facts, concepts and applications.  These arestories from the eclectic life of Lonnie Jones, Licensed ProfessionalCounselor, Minister, SWAT Team Chapl...

You probably can't help getting some water in the boat...but do you have a way to get the water out of your boat. A boat that's not in the water won't sink...but boats don't sink because they are in the water. They sink when water gets into them. Life lived is life learned. Every experience has facts, concepts and applications.  These arestories from the eclectic life of Lonnie Jon...

The witness protection program is about changing a person after they become a witness. Jesus asks us to change in order to become witnesses. Life lived is life learned. Every experience has facts, concepts and applications.  These arestories from the eclectic life of Lonnie Jones, Licensed ProfessionalCounselor, Minister, SWAT Team Chaplain, Outdoor Enthusiast, Quixotic Jedi andholder of an honora...

We hear all around us that this thing or that thing is this or that and we believe they are valuable, markers of success or prized often time to realize too late that's not the truth. Comparing something to success is not the same thing as successful. Life lived is life learned. Every experience has facts, concepts and applications.  These arestories from the eclectic life of Lonnie Jones, Lic...

We took an old steel box and put stuff in it that we don't use very much. The unused box then became the box for stuff we don't use. Don't let this happen in your life. Life lived is life learned. Every experience has facts, concepts and applications.  These arestories from the eclectic life of Lonnie Jones, Licensed ProfessionalCounselor, Minister, SWAT Team Chaplain, Outdoor Enthusia...

I ordered the French toast because it sounded exotic. It was just toasted bread decorated with stuff you'd put on a pancake. I was underwhelmed. We label all kinds of things just to make them sound better when in reality they sound the same...especially unkindness, rudeness or insensitivity. Life lived is life learned. Every experience has facts, concepts and applications.  These arestories fr...

Opportunity and Ability have to be synched not syncopated. People often "rent" opportunity expecting the ability to come with it. To synch the two acquiring the ability more often leads to be able to act on the opportunity. Life lived is life learned. Every experience has facts, concepts and applications.  These arestories from the eclectic life of Lonnie Jones, Licensed ProfessionalCoun...

The sea turtle came to the land. She was a on a mission. Her impression was not the only thing she left but it was her impression that told us where she went and why. The impression we leave and the significance is determined by understanding our meaning, purpose and values. It's not just that we showed up but what we did and where we knew we were headed. Life lived is life learned. Every expe...

The things I'm willing to let you change to make me happy are often things that matter to you and really don't matter. Well they matter to me. Life lived is life learned. Every experience has facts, concepts and applications.  These arestories from the eclectic life of Lonnie Jones, Licensed ProfessionalCounselor, Minister, SWAT Team Chaplain, Outdoor Enthusiast, Quixotic Jedi andholder of...

Rules are not made to be broken. They are made because we tend to break things and because we are broken. The code God gives us to live by is one the helps and heals us. It is not designed to harm or hinder. Life lived is life learned. Every experience has facts, concepts and applications.  These arestories from the eclectic life of Lonnie Jones, Licensed ProfessionalCounselor, Minister, SWAT Team...

Unquestionable decisions, actions and behaviors save us from being ask the hard, embarrassing, awkward questions. It's not always a question of right or wrong but the qeustion should be is it questionable? Life lived is life learned. Every experience has facts, concepts and applications.  These arestories from the eclectic life of Lonnie Jones, Licensed ProfessionalCounselor, Minister, SWAT Te...

It's no secret that we fall. It's trying to keep it a secret-our pride-that keeps us from getting help. Life lived is life learned. Every experience has facts, concepts and applications.  These arestories from the eclectic life of Lonnie Jones, Licensed ProfessionalCounselor, Minister, SWAT Team Chaplain, Outdoor Enthusiast, Quixotic Jedi andholder of an honorary doctorate from the Univers...

"Attack" dogs aren't born. They are conditioned. Men don't become men just because they reach a certain age. Based on a conversation from Jordan Peterson and Jonathan Haidt the author of "The Anxious Generation" we make some observations about about the conditions required to reach the condition of being a man. Life lived is life learned. Every experience has facts, con...

We tend to blend things together to get what we want. Just because it has some of the qualities we are looking for or not looking for does not mean our mixture is not mixed up. Life lived is life learned. Every experience has facts, concepts and applications.  These arestories from the eclectic life of Lonnie Jones, Licensed ProfessionalCounselor, Minister, SWAT Team Chaplain, Outdoor Enthusiast,...

Listening to Xmas music in March doesn't make it Christmas. It did however make the blizzard of March 2026 become manageable for one young lady as she drove through it. Life lived is life learned. Every experience has facts, concepts and applications.  These arestories from the eclectic life of Lonnie Jones, Licensed ProfessionalCounselor, Minister, SWAT Team Chaplain, Outdoor Enthusiast, Quix...

The path we choose is often chosen before we get to the moment of choice. Preparation concerning who we are, whose we are and what we choose to be remove the debate in a critical or uncomfortable moment. Life lived is life learned. Every experience has facts, concepts and applications.  These arestories from the eclectic life of Lonnie Jones, Licensed ProfessionalCounselor, Minister, SWAT Team Cha...

If a problem is a lack of resources then a dysfunction is the misuse of a resource. Not using a resource is the same as not having the resource. We often limit our resources and because we limit them we fail to use them and therefore we fail or at least feel frustrated. Life lived is life learned. Every experience has facts, concepts and applications.  These arestories from the eclectic life of Lo...

Imagining the worst is the gate keeper that closes the gate or keeps the gate to the opportunities of the future closed. Life lived is life learned. Every experience has facts, concepts and applications.  These arestories from the eclectic life of Lonnie Jones, Licensed ProfessionalCounselor, Minister, SWAT Team Chaplain, Outdoor Enthusiast, Quixotic Jedi andholder of an honorary doctorate from th...

It's not just what we remember but HOW we remember that affects the significance of trauma in our lives. Those memory are special--they just get stored in a special way, a special place and thus are given a special context. If we can re-store the memory we might restore our health. Life lived is life learned. Every experience has facts, concepts and applications.  These arestories from the ecl...

The request to let me finish the thought or explain the situation to give it the complete context. On face value it may look radical but in if understood in the context it might not be reasonable but would be understandable. Life lived is life learned. Every experience has facts, concepts and applications.  These arestories from the eclectic life of Lonnie Jones, Licensed ProfessionalCounselor, Mi...

It's often not about what you did or didn't do but more about where you were. Attention, belonging and Support are not just things we do for people but it's that we take the time to be WITH people and be their fans. Life lived is life learned. Every experience has facts, concepts and applications.  These arestories from the eclectic life of Lonnie Jones, Licensed ProfessionalCounselor,...

He warned me that my words would cause trouble. I never imagined how bad it hurt to hurt someone else. Life lived is life learned. Every experience has facts, concepts and applications.  These arestories from the eclectic life of Lonnie Jones, Licensed ProfessionalCounselor, Minister, SWAT Team Chaplain, Outdoor Enthusiast, Quixotic Jedi andholder of an honorary doctorate from the University of Ad...

In an honor detail the details matter. The insignias, patches, polish and posture. To others those details that standard of behavior may seem excessive or unnecessary but to those who value honor the honor is in the details. Life lived is life learned. Every experience has facts, concepts and applications.  These arestories from the eclectic life of Lonnie Jones, Licensed ProfessionalCounselor, Mi...

Self aware, self absorbed or other aware? When we are aware of others and not just ourselves we recognize the potential we have for impacting others and that may change the way we do things. Special thanks to Brett Turner of Marathon Targets for letting us have the T-1000 experience. info@marathon-targets.com, marathon-targets.com, @marathontargets Life lived is life learned. Every experience has...