Keeping Up With Jones: The Lonnie Jones Podcast Adventure

For the little ones. 

I was dealing with the dirty laundry. A friend of mine needed help with his dirty laundry. He knew I needed help with mine. His being involved in helping me with my dirty laundry taught me more than humility...it gave me dignity. Life lived is life learned.  Every experience has facts, concepts and applications.  These are stories from the eclectic life of Lonnie Jones, Licensed Professional Couns...

What we were does not make us what we are. But remembering what we were adds special meaning to the story of what we have become. Life lived is life learned.  Every experience has facts, concepts and applications.  These are stories from the eclectic life of Lonnie Jones, Licensed Professional Counselor, Minister, SWAT Team Chaplain, Outdoor Enthusiast and Quixotic Jedi.   Support this podcast at...

If it makes us think we feel better then we call it a placebo. Addictions and dissatisfaction are the side effects of made up remedies. If they have any affect at all they don't last and they aren't real. Life lived is life learned.  Every experience has facts, concepts and applications.  These are stories from the eclectic life of Lonnie Jones, Licensed Professional Counselor, Minister, S...

Being prepared changes the way you view things. The way you view things changes the way you prepare. Life lived is life learned.  Every experience has facts, concepts and applications.  These are stories from the eclectic life of Lonnie Jones, Licensed Professional Counselor, Minister, SWAT Team Chaplain, Outdoor Enthusiast and Quixotic Jedi.   Support this podcast at https://anchor.fm/lonnie-jone...

Life lived is life learned.  Every experience has facts, concepts and applications.  These are stories from the eclectic life of Lonnie Jones, Licensed Professional Counselor, Minister, SWAT Team Chaplain, Outdoor Enthusiast and Quixotic Jedi.   Support this podcast at https://anchor.fm/lonnie-jones/support --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/lonnie-jones/support    ...

We tell ourselves it was worth the choices we made. We trade this for that and in the end it wasn't that good and it wasn't actually all that cheap. Life lived is life learned.  Every experience has facts, concepts and applications.  These are stories from the eclectic life of Lonnie Jones, Licensed Professional Counselor, Minister, SWAT Team Chaplain, Outdoor Enthusiast and Quixotic Jedi....

Ordinary can be extra ordinary just by daily habits and the things we do because of who we are or are trying to be. Life lived is life learned.  Every experience has facts, concepts and applications.  These are stories from the eclectic life of Lonnie Jones, Licensed Professional Counselor, Minister, SWAT Team Chaplain, Outdoor Enthusiast and Quixotic Jedi.   Support this podcast at https://anchor...

Getting balance, keeping balance and realizing what it is like to be in balance is a lesson I learned from watching groups on a giant tetter totter. Life lived is life learned.  Every experience has facts, concepts and applications.  These are stories from the eclectic life of Lonnie Jones, Licensed Professional Counselor, Minister, SWAT Team Chaplain, Outdoor Enthusiast and Quixotic Jedi.   Suppo...

Just because you have a right to do something does not always mean it is right to do. Life lived is life learned.  Every experience has facts, concepts and applications.  These are stories from the eclectic life of Lonnie Jones, Licensed Professional Counselor, Minister, SWAT Team Chaplain, Outdoor Enthusiast and Quixotic Jedi.   Support this podcast at https://anchor.fm/lonnie-jones/support --- S...

It's not WHAT you are going through but HOW you manage it. Four simple tools/principles I learned while learning rappelling. Life lived is life learned.  Every experience has facts, concepts and applications.  These are stories from the eclectic life of Lonnie Jones, Licensed Professional Counselor, Minister, SWAT Team Chaplain, Outdoor Enthusiast and Quixotic Jedi.   Support this podcast at h...

You take things as they come and keep them that way. You can take things as they come and let them affect you. Or you can take things that come your way and you can choose regulate how you respond to circumstances, people, things and worry. Life lived is life learned.  Every experience has facts, concepts and applications.  These are stories from the eclectic life of Lonnie Jones, Licensed Profess...

Being accomplished or experienced at something doesn't mean should not consider the experience of another person who is just now being initiated into grief, trauma or difficulty. Learning to modify our approach helps them overcome their lack of experience, knowledge, understanding and trepidation. Life lived is life learned.  Every experience has facts, concepts and applications.  These are st...

It sounded like a creature in the attic. It could not have been projected into the attic if I had not been carrying it around with me. I was carrying it because I had made a record of it and saved it---and now I was replaying it, unintentionally but I was still playing it and listening to it. Life lived is life learned.  Every experience has facts, concepts and applications.  These are stories fro...

Less important than the question of am I like them...is the inner question of do I really belong with them? Life lived is life learned.  Every experience has facts, concepts and applications.  These are stories from the eclectic life of Lonnie Jones, Licensed Professional Counselor, Minister, SWAT Team Chaplain, Outdoor Enthusiast and Quixotic Jedi.   Support this podcast at https://anchor.fm/lonn...

We got real close and just like that she discovered I wasn't who she thought I was. That's when things went from good to bad and then my response made it go from bad to worse. Life lived is life learned.  Every experience has facts, concepts and applications.  These are stories from the eclectic life of Lonnie Jones, Licensed Professional Counselor, Minister, SWAT Team Chaplain, Outdoor En...

Being controlled or being in control are two totally different concepts. One is external and one is internal. One is not sustainable the other has lasting value. Life lived is life learned.  Every experience has facts, concepts and applications.  These are stories from the eclectic life of Lonnie Jones, Licensed Professional Counselor, Minister, SWAT Team Chaplain, Outdoor Enthusiast and Quixotic...

"It's not personal; it's business." Is often true. There are lots of decisions that are made and the motivation is not personal it is purely and simply a business decision. There are other choices we make and they should be made with the understanding that my personal opportunities, obligations and privileges far outweigh the business. Life lived is life learned.  Every experienc...

Did you win? That's a "yes" or "no" question. Defining "win" may or may not be that simple. But once that is defined then when you answer the question it's pretty simple. Life lived is life learned.  Every experience has facts, concepts and applications.  These are stories from the eclectic life of Lonnie Jones, Licensed Professional Counselor, Minister, SWAT...

How did you memorize that? I just did it enough that it became familiar. The familiar gets repeated, repeated gets ingrained. Life lived is life learned.  Every experience has facts, concepts and applications.  These are stories from the eclectic life of Lonnie Jones, Licensed Professional Counselor, Minister, SWAT Team Chaplain, Outdoor Enthusiast and Quixotic Jedi.   Support this podcast at http...

Is running an activity or an identity. I guess it really doesn't matter unless you are talking a very specific race. Life lived is life learned.  Every experience has facts, concepts and applications.  These are stories from the eclectic life of Lonnie Jones, Licensed Professional Counselor, Minister, SWAT Team Chaplain, Outdoor Enthusiast and Quixotic Jedi.   Support this podcast at https://a...

If in our search for answers or understanding we only use one of our senses we may miss the truth when it was right there under our noses. Life lived is life learned.  Every experience has facts, concepts and applications.  These are stories from the eclectic life of Lonnie Jones, Licensed Professional Counselor, Minister, SWAT Team Chaplain, Outdoor Enthusiast and Quixotic Jedi.   Support this po...

I want to be first! Being first matters. It matters in a fight, a fist fight, rock fight or a gun fight--in also matters when you want not just to end the fight but end fighting. Life lived is life learned.  Every experience has facts, concepts and applications.  These are stories from the eclectic life of Lonnie Jones, Licensed Professional Counselor, Minister, SWAT Team Chaplain, Outdoor Enthusi...

Who you are does not have to be who you will always be. Where you are does not have to be where you will always be. The ability to make that change is about understanding the rules of the duel. Life lived is life learned.  Every experience has facts, concepts and applications.  These are stories from the eclectic life of Lonnie Jones, Licensed Professional Counselor, Minister, SWAT Team Chaplain,...