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the Roger radio podcast Season 2, Episode 9 (1 minute, 6 seconds) Level 4or "Remember to live a story that solves problems" Life is a game, and the best storyteller wins. Value the audience. Remember the purpose. Pause... strategically. Practice often those things that you intend to do. Invest more than just words. Be ready to evolve (and be ready not to). Occasionally do the unexpected. Live a st...

Roger radio podcast Season 2, Episode 8 (1 minute, 33 seconds) The Level 5 Process of Storytelling Value the audience Know the story's purpose Pause... strategically Practice often those things that you intend to do Invest more than just words Be ready to evolve (and be willing not to) Occasionally do the unexpected Live a story that solves problems

Roger radio podcast Season 2, Episode 7 Level 5 "A reminder regarding defensiveness" (58 seconds) If you recognize defensiveness in someone, then their subconscious (or conscious) mind is telling you that they feel as if they’re being attacked or will be attacked. This is a Level 5 reminder regarding defensiveness. The more defensive that someone is, the less they’re able to focus on listening. Re...

Roger radio podcast Season 2, Episode 6 Roger radio "About being an asshole" (4 minutes, 55 seconds) Inevitability. Some secrets keep us alive. Others eat us from the inside out. Either way, we the people really like to hold on to our shit. That’s what makes each of us, on occasion, a real asshole.

(1 minute, 19 seconds) The universal sign to tell someone that you do not intend to listen to them is to plug your ears before and/or while they’re speaking. This is a Level 5 reminder regarding earbuds. Earbuds are plugging your ears. Is plugging your ears likely to bring you closer to your goals, or further from them?

Roger radio Season 2 - Episode 4 Level 5 A reminder regarding management and The 2nd Law of Thermodynamics (1 minute, 21 seconds) According to The 2nd Law of Thermodynamics, entropy will always win the universal game. Worry less about trying to stop it. Do your best to be prepared for it. Document and add order to it. Be sure that you survive it. Do it better the next time. This is how someone wil...

Roger radio Season 2, Episode 3 Spuyten Duyvil Stories "The Man in the Water" (4 minutes, 54 seconds) "The Man in the Water" is a simple story that asks you to invest 4 minutes, 54 seconds of your valuable time to listen to it, and offers this as an incentive for doing so: There is a helpful lesson shared within this story that will either be something that you're learning of for the first time, o...

What is something that you do every day, or nearly every day, that you believe is not good for you in the long term, possibly also not good for you in the short term – yet you do it anyway? Every day. Or nearly every day. This is a Level 4or Awareness Training exercise. Level 4or Awareness Training helps you practice living by teaching you to live more patiently, so you can recognize you...

Roger radio podcast Season 02 Episode 01 Level 5 Regretting means that you want to change the past. Remembering means that you intend to change the future. Be not afraid to remember. (1 minute, 33 seconds)

Ownership can be a legal term, specifying whom officially owns a business, property, etc. Ownership is also a state of mind, a perspective from which one can approach their professional responsibilities to maximize the potential of both the business and the individual. Einstein said "Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value." An employee that approaches each day with an ownership mind...

I hear a lot of people describe themselves as a "leader". In fact, I used to be one of those people. Then I began to understand what being a great leader really means, and it starts with not describing oneself as a "leader". Would you like to know why? Then this episode is for you. (1 minute, 16 seconds)

A short - and true - story about a battle of wits between me as a teenager and my Mom. In which, it would turn out, I was vastly overmatched. (3 minutes, 25 seconds)

If something isn’t bringing you closer to your goals, then it may be taking you further from them. This is a Level 5 reminder. The choices that you make determine how much progress – or not – you will make today, relative to your goals. Be aware of your options throughout the day and make choices that you believe will bring you closer to your goals. Because if something isn’t bringing you closer t...

The Process of Understanding is one of the five Foundational programs in The Level 5 Method of Living. Organize. Communicate. Educate. Do. Rest. Evaluate. Modify [repeat] This extended episode walks you through an effective and efficient way to begin practicing The Process of Understanding:  Focusing on your own understanding of your own expectations - of yourself, and others. And o...

The Process of Understanding is one of the five Foundational programs in The Level 5 Method of Living. Remember: The Level 5 Method is like an Operations Manual for your body and the mind that occupies it. Understanding is an essential skill in the art and practice of living. It is a skill that can be practiced with the following Foundational program: Organize. Communicate. Educate. Do. Rest. Eval...

Appreciating isn't something that happens. It is something you do. This episode will remind you of how appreciation works, and includes a shout-out to one of my high school teachers.

Low Intensity Intentional Training (L.I.I.T.) is an effective and efficient way to make small but important changes in your daily habits, increasing your awareness of choices that were previously made on a sub-conscious level.

Roger radio podcast - Season 1, Episode 18 People need help. The more skilled you are at helping others, the more valuable you are to others. If you intend to be helpful, then invest time practicing the skill of helping (and all of its subcomponents). Be helpful. (1 minute, 23 seconds)

A person can (and will) make mistakes. A valuable person makes mistakes valuable. (1 min, 17 seconds)

This a short story about something that just happened to me this week. And it also sent me back in time about 17 years. Smiling is important. The key ingredient is appreciation. (2 minutes, 11 seconds) Thank you for listening to Roger radio. Play, to win.

Listening is a process, and is a important - and valuable - component of life. If something is important, then it warrants practicing. And if you're going to practice, you need a place to begin. This is the Level 5 Process of Listening: Remember. Focus. Find. Filter. Save. Release. (3 minutes, 12 seconds)

A simple story that intended to help with the development of management skills, especially patience and understanding. Less than two minutes long.

A brief introduction of The Level 5 Method of Living: Listening. Accepting. Understanding. Helping. Sharing. Thank you for listening to (and playing?!) Roger radio.

You are not alone. It is easy for forget. It is difficult to accept. Be not afraid to remember...

If you're a manager and you'd like improved performance from the team, then the path to those improvements starts with you improving your performance with feedback. People are much more likely to improve if you're an effective and efficient communicator that provide encouraging and/or constructive feedback on their performance.