Keeping Up With Jones: The Lonnie Jones Podcast Adventure

That's the truth. My other truck is a Tacoma.  Getting one Tacoma while expecting to be in the other Tacoma creates some processing difficulties which are very similar to what happens when loss disrupts our lives and alters our routines.  It can be disorienting and debilitating.   Life lived is life learned.  Every experience has facts, concepts and applications.  These ar...

The story of how I decided not to quit climbing but decided to "quit" my job and change my office.  It's not about the money you make or the thing you make but the difference you make. 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 Chap...

Single focus.  Single purpose.  A linear focus on a task to accomplish.  We get so easily distracted.  What would happen to the story of us if we could simply define our lives in terms of a singular pursuit?  What else do we have to do? Life lived is life learned.  Every experience has facts, concepts and applications.  These are stories from the eclectic life of...

When I choose my own comfort I may by default, ignorance or circumstance actually be making myself more uncomfortable.  Learning what my spouse's comfort, interests, needs, wants and likes is the key to happiness.  It's not my job to teach you my language but rather to learn yours. Life lived is life learned.  Every experience has facts, concepts and applications.  These are st...

Managing your expectations--what we will do, where we will go, how we will live--THAT we will die may be the masterclass on preparation that is most important and most often overlooked. 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...

We are afforded the luxury of sleep at a price most of us will never understand. 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 Pl...

Our health is not guaranteed. We are born with an expiration date. There is only a part of our health we control. 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://...

I only intended for Brother Ed Burns to see that message...but everyone in the church saw it. The things we say are often inscribed in permanent way in people's lives.  They aren't as easily erased as a chalk board and have unintended permanence. Life lived is life learned.  Every experience has facts, concepts and applications.  These are stories from the eclectic life of Lonnie Jo...

Pretending that something is yours when it isn't creates all kinds of heartache when confronted with reality.  The idea of an alternate scenario always looks better than the current scenario...especially when we've convinced ourselves we are unhappy anyway.  Life lived is life learned.  Every experience has facts, concepts and applications.  These are stories from the eclectic...

This is my ad for right side radio and I did not know how to get it to production team other than to publish it.  Lonnie

We think people vote on us or for us.  Maybe they do but in most cases those races, those elections tell us little or at least the wrong thing.  I had something happen in two elections that were quite unexpected...and life changing. Life lived is life learned.  Every experience has facts, concepts and applications.  These are stories from the eclectic life of Lonnie Jones, Lice...

The grand adventure of preparing five Spanish Water Dogs for the journey of life.  It requires doing things the pups don't like or enjoy but without that preparation they won't become adult dogs...they will just become larger puppies. Life lived is life learned.  Every experience has facts, concepts and applications.  These are stories from the eclectic life of Lonnie Jones, License...

Accepting a task is not just about lip service but about real service.  If a friend asked you to do something great or daring you'd say, "Yes" a true friend would say the same to a task that was humble or even humiliating and they'd do it with flamboyant confidence of style and manner. Life lived is life learned.  Every experience has facts, concepts and applications.  These are sto...

A constant reminder to keep my sugar in check was installed on my arm and in my life.  It is tyrannical and somewhat oppressive...until I listen to it and start to feel better.  We need reminders not necessarily that we are wrong or sinful but that the things God says are wrong are actually hurting us. Life lived is life learned.  Every experience has facts, concepts and application...

Expectation VS Reality creates loss and humans grieve all losses; but this kind of sadness, grief or depression is normal, healthy and natural. It's the misinterpretation or a distorted view of things that produces a depression that is not normal, healthy or natural.  When our interpretation of things produce emotions that create distress, destruction or dysfunction then it is possible that o...

Fulfilling our visions may involve changing the vision, giving up some control and doing things differently than planned.  That may also be the reason we are hesitant to call and ask others for help.  Empowering and Enabling people to accomplish things is a true blessing...being empowered or enabled is also a blessing we cheat ourselves out of by not calling others for help. Life lived i...

When people are sick, hurting or scared our job is not to be smart, right or even wise...Our job is to simply be present. 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 a problem is a lack of resources; then a dysfunction is a misuse or failure to use our resources.  Vision is the ability to see resources in the present circumstance. 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 E...

I rushed the field...but I was inspired by a win but they heart of Greyhound. 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 Pleas...

Fear is a liar.  It's threats are empty and causes us to think the worst.  Those worst case scenario thoughts cause us to react, overreact and respond in ridiculous and often regrettable ways.  Most of the threats to our competency, success, acceptance or value are just that---lies and empty threats. Life lived is life learned.  Every experience has facts, concepts and applicat...

You will find what you are looking for...or rather what you are looking for will find you:  whether it be acceptance, rejection, satisfaction or disappointment.  It's not just what we see but rather how we choose to interpret what we see the makes the scales tip positive or negative. Life lived is life learned.  Every experience has facts, concepts and applications.  These are...

A misunderstanding doesn't mean something is broken, and just because something is broken doesn't mean you are unloved or unworthy.  We can be guilty of walking away when we are angry and then feeling hurt or betrayed when in all actuality we are the ones who left. Life lived is life learned.  Every experience has facts, concepts and applications.  These are stories from the eclecti...

I need to be treated as if I'm going to be okay.  Don't expect me to me okay right here and right now but have the insight to see what I'm asking for...It may look like punishment but it is what I really want, what I really need. I may or may not know how to ask in the moment.  Respond to me based on what I can be not what you currently see. Life lived is life learned.  Every experi...

We do what we do the way we do it because we have learned or at least believe it keeps us safe.  Sometimes you have to do the opposite because although the old strategy might work some...It is not the best. 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, Mi...

Letting go or hanging on...that is the question.  Overcoming our fear, insecurities and uncertainties is not a matter of letting go but of understanding that we are connected to something that will never let go. Life lived is life learned.  Every experience has facts, concepts and applications.  These are stories from the eclectic life of Lonnie Jones, Licensed Professional Counselo...