The Work On Purpose Podcast

Challenges can be fun! We all have different areas in which we want to grow, to improve, to come up a little higher and I think a challenge is one of the best ways to do this. Yes, a challenge is a mighty thing. But it will give you the reminder that you need that you can do hard things. That you don't have to succumb to the human nature and just go with the flow.  Remember when you go with the fl...

Today is Good Friday! Hallelujah! It is the day we remember the sacrifice of our Lord and Savior. His shed blood for our sins. His conquering of death and His ultimate resurrection. Today we can choose to receive that incredible gift. We can stand in the victory He died to give us. We are already victorious. In this podcast episode, we discuss the freedom that was bought for us by the death of Jes...

When the heat gets turned up and you find yourself in an adverse situation, do you react or respond? There's a very important distinction between these two words. One, that if mastered, will save you much stress and worries, while increasing your peace and calm. A reaction is something instantaneous. It's an immediate action taken after something happens, driven almost entirely by emotions. In thi...

The field of positive psychology has opened us up to a side of psychology, where we focus on our strengths rather than on what ails. Part of positive psychology addresses things like your emotions and processing information. Another is learning about coping. Coping mechanisms is something that if mastered, can radically change the outcome of your life. In this podcast episode, we discuss coping an...

One of my favorite quotes is by Think and Grow Rich author, Napoleon Hill. It goes something like this, "Every adversity or failure or heartbreak carries the seed of an equal or greater benefit." I love this quote so much because it's all about attitude. When something happens that's bad, unfortunate, sad or frustrating or really, anything that you perceive as being a negative situation, what is y...

As i've grown older, I've learned that I don't have to respond to every rude person I encounter. People are going to be people. They have all sorts of things going on in their lives. Some of them are not as enlightened as we all hope to be and so maybe they are living off their emotions. When something happens that is beyond their ability to master, they are left at the mercy of their unregulated...

If you're wanting to be more disciplined and have more self-control so you can make changes in your life and pursue your big dreams and goals, there's hope. What I found in my own journey, is that discipline and self-control are things you can have and use with ease. It requires just one simple thing – commitment. Commitment is the pre-requisite for staying disciplined and focused on your goals. I...

There's a credo in the service industry that goes like this: Under promise and over deliver. It's ultimately a concept that helps to set an appropriate level of expectation and subsequently ensuring that that expectation is exceeded.  Expectation is an interesting phenomenon. Two people can experience the same event, each with a different expectation level and their perspectives will be drasticall...

Have you ever heard the phrase, "It's not who you know, it's who knows you"? It's more significant than you know. You see, when we're young, we think that it's impressive to name-drop; to let others know who we know, as a measure of our significance. Name-dropping might impress your friends, but it won't advance your career, or provide openings you could never create or strategically put you in pl...

Bloom where you're planted. Have you ever heard this phrase? It's a pretty popular saying, basically to remind people that they can and should let their light shine wherever it is that they find themselves. That phrase is really about excellence, about using your gifts no matter where you are and about being the best you now, where you are, on your way to where you're going. In this podcast episod...

We intellectually know that we cannot be any younger than we are. In fact, each day that goes by makes us one day older. But many of us do things that help to give us a younger appearance, or if we're in our 40s-50s we may even do things to make us feel younger (read: mid-life crisis behaviors). None of these things truly work of course, but I wonder if perhaps we could try adding some other child...

There are many factors that go into goal achievement and yes, some of them start with proper goal setting. But there is one specific factor, that many people overlook on their journey to achievement. I sometimes refer to it as a silent disrupter because of how harmless it can be, at least in the beginning. It's your environment. In this podcast episode we discuss the impact of your environment on...

The Comfort Zone. It should be called the "don't go anywhere good in life" zone. I tell you comfort is 100% the enemy of your greatness. Anything worthwhile achieving is going to cause discomfort or even outright pain. There is no avoiding it, it is guaranteed. But it is oh so worth it! In this podcast episode we discuss why it's so important to get out of your Comfort Zone and pursue the things t...

When was the last time you took an assessment of your life in general? Is this where you thought you'd be when you were a child? How about the plans you had for yourself when you graduated from high school or college?  This is something that often times gets overlooked as we blindly roll from one season into the next and before you know it a year has passed, or two or five. In this podcast episode...

To Decide. It's the difference between success and failure, advancement and retreat, growth and stagnation. I once heard Tony Robbins describe the word decide as being derived from a Latin word that means "to cut off". When you cut something off, it means it is no longer a part of what is left. When you decide a thing, it can and does have impact. So, the next time you're faced with a decision, la...

If you focus on negativity or how difficult something is, or on all the reasons why you cannot do something, then all those things that you're focusing on, will just get larger and large in your life. It's as if they gain even more strength the longer you focus on it. BUT, if you focus on all the things that could go right, all the reasons why the thing you're pursuing will work out in your favor,...

What is self-talk? Well, essentially, it's talking to yourself, more specifically, the way in which you talk to yourself. Most times, it isn't positive and when we do engage in negative self-talk, we soon start to believe it for real and even worse, start acting on it. In this podcast episode we discuss three ways to help you avoid negative self-talk. After listening, feel free to send me a note l...

Adversity is a part of life. Try as we may, we cannot avoid it. Jesus Himself warned us of this very thing when He said, "In this world you will have trouble…." He didn't say you might, or there's a good chance, He said you WILL have trouble. Yet we tend to act so shocked, saddened, frustrated, angry or some combination therein when we face adversity. We cannot believe we have to deal with whateve...

Are you waiting on something? Do you have a dream or goal that you're waiting for it to be realized? Or perhaps you're in a struggle of some kind and you know there's not much else you can do in your own strength and so you're waiting on God to deliver you or to send the breakthrough you so desperately need? We all have to wait. We wait in grocery lines, in traffic, for our test scores, for the jo...

Do you have a strong work ethic? What does that even mean and why is it important? Having a strong work ethic is one of the best ways I know to develop job security. When you have a strong work ethic, you set yourself apart from the crowd. Speaking of work ethic and advancing in your career, I have some BIG NEWS! I know how tough it is to experience frustration and a lack of fulfillment at work an...

Difficult conversations can be just that, difficult. So much so that many times we try to avoid having them altogether. We worry that we will hurt someone or that they'll become defensive or get so upset that they lose their tempers at us.  But these conversations are a part of life. If we're going to be in relationship with other people, we must acknowledge that it won't always be roses and sunsh...

Have you been trying to stick to your goals but haven't quite figure out why you keep derailing? It may be simpler than you think. How about at work? Are you accountable at work or school, in your neightborhood and community? This episode is the encouragement you need to LEAN IN to accountability. Once you do, you'll be amazed how much things seemingly begin opening up for you. Feel free to send m...

Have you ever gotten into a discussion with someone, only to have it escalate into something you weren't expecting? Every now and again we engage in conversations or arguments with people and are treated like the crap on the bottom of someone's shoe. Someone may be upset and yell at you for something that wasn't warranted. Or worse, they could be completely irrational taking their frustrations out...

Who needs a word of encouragement today? Quite frankly, who doesn't? I think we all need a little (or a lot) of encouragement from time to time in our lives. Some more than others. But I'd like for you to consider what it means to be an encourager. We know how good it feels and the difference it makes in our lives when someone encourages us, I'd like for us to be intentional about encouraging thos...

At the end of the day, when you discover your gifts, when you identify your passions, when you acknowledge that everything about you was created on purpose, you will realize that it was all done so that you can help and/or serve others. We each have been endowed with particular gifts and dreams, but they are not for our benefit only. Yes, we may enjoy them and yes, we may even use them to entertai...