Life Passion and Business

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Exploring the creativity of the human spirit with just five simple questions. Those questions give us a window to explore the journey and life story of people that look like they have it sorted.

Episodes

Sunday Jul 18, 2021

Roles : Shortcast

Sunday Jul 18, 2021

As a follow on from last week’s shortcast, this week’s reflection is about Roles.

Last week I talked about Labels and how, when asked what we do, we mostly define ourselves by our job title. But there is so much more to who we are than that. I invited listeners to explore this for themselves and create new ways of describing who they are. Expanding on that topic, this week I am talking about the different roles we play in life and how we want to be seen or defined by them.

Roles can be defined in infinite ways and I have listed some of these below to help you define the roles you play. But mostly we accept these roles without giving them much thought. So this is an invitation to explore them more deeply.

Are we blindly accepting roles that have been defined for us?
Or are we choosing them more consciously?

By reflecting on this topic, we have an opportunity to engage in our various roles with more integrity and bring them into alignment with our mission, or purpose in life.

There are an infinite number of roles in life. Here are just a few to consider:-

Husband/Wife/Partner, Parent, Child, Friend, Lover, Comrade, Co-worker, Employer, Employee, Patient, Counsellor, Teacher (not just in teaching or counselling professions), Student, Customer, Team Player, Team Leader, Community Citizen, Helper (i.e. supporting others with health, life challenges etc.).

And the there are the more obscure ones like Driver; what role do you play behind the wheel of your car and Social Media; what do you share and what do you hide?

Ultimately the question is:-

How do you want to be remembered for the roles you play in people’s lives?
What do you want your legacy to be?

Life Passion & Business Podcast is about finding answers to life’s big questions through weekly interview with guest speakers. The Shortcast is my ongoing commitment to staying inquisitive and passionate about life with whatever is alive for me each week. Follow the links below to discover what else is on offer.

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Wednesday Jul 14, 2021

Hayden Humphrey : Drop The Script

Wednesday Jul 14, 2021

What Hayden brings to the podcast, is a beacon of light that can support others to make the switch before falling into the trap that many don’t recognize until it is too late.

Many of my guests talk about Life Transitions which sadly come about due to serious illness or unforeseen circumstances. I often describe this as the Curve Ball because it appears to come at us unseen and out of the blue. Retrospectively most recognize the signs that led up to this momentous event, and that ignoring the warnings is what caused it.

Hayden is different. He had the wisdom and the tools to turn his life in a direction that supported his well-being before it was too late. What’s more, he also uses his positive outlook to support others in making the switch in their lives.

Full Text for this post along with Hayden’s website and social links are all available at:

www.lifepassionandbusiness.com/hayden-humphrey-drop-the-script

If you are interested in working with Hayden, he runs a quarterly eight week program entitled ‘Unscript Your LIfe’. He is also offering a downloadable quiz to discover how scripted your life is. Links to both of these are included on our website via the above link.

Life Passion & Business is dedicated to exploring what it takes to be Extraordinary, to face challenges and rejoice in the opportunities they bring, and expand our vision into new ways of thinking and living.

There is a lot to gain from listening to other people’s stories, however the real work begins by taking action in your own life.

For full details of Events, Resources and Services visit:

www.lifepassionandbusiness.com

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Sunday Jul 11, 2021

Labels : Shortcast

Sunday Jul 11, 2021

This week we are exploring the role of Labels. Why do we have them? Why do we need them? How do we use them and above all, are they serving their true purpose?

The convention in society is to use your job title to describe who you are. But is that who you really are, and what happens when you don’t have a job title. Do you cease to exist? Well obviously not, but it is an interesting point and for some people this loss of title can cause an identity crisis.

So how do we fix that? I am sharing my thoughts on the matter and inviting you to consider your relationship with your job title and other identity labels.

Sunday Jul 04, 2021

Independence : Shortcast

Sunday Jul 04, 2021

With it being 4th July there can really only be one topic of conversation; the exploration of Independence and what it means.

Whilst today is the day America celebrates it’s independence from the UK, it is also the day my wife and I moved in together and began our exploration of interdependence. So my thoughts naturally turn to what that means to us as a couple, what it means in relationship to raising children and living in community with others. In this context, communal living can mean the local communities we create with friends and family or the larger community created as a nation.

There are several aspects to explore here:

Dependence, Independence, Co-dependence and Interdependence.

What is the difference between them? How do we create a balance that healthily supports each individual to flourish and contribute their best to the whole? I hope you will join me as I share my personal thoughts on this. I also invite you to continue your own exploration with the following questions:

Where do you express independence?
Where are you dependent on others?
Do you have any co-dependent relationships?
Where could you allow more interdependence into your life?

Sunday Jun 27, 2021

Purpose & Passion : Shortcast

Sunday Jun 27, 2021

This week we are exploring Purpose and Passion. What is your purpose in life? Is this something you are aware of or even considered?

Life purpose is something that I think we probably arrive here with and when we recognize it we can see how it has played out throughout our life. The actions we take, the decisions we make, the roles we choose often have a common factor and this driving force, this sense of purpose is what fuels our passions.

IKIGAI IMAGE

If you are struggling to identify your purpose then you might find this tool helpful. It is a personal development process that helps you identify your IKIGAI.

Ikigai is a Japanese term that (Wikipedia) translates as “a reason for being” or (according to the book I have) “the happiness of always being busy”.

Whatever the true translation is, this tool helps you uncover your path to a good life.

Wednesday Jun 23, 2021

Bryan Clayton : The Uber for Lawn Care (Rebroadcast)

Wednesday Jun 23, 2021

This is a re-release of the conversation I had with Bryan Clayton in June 2020. He is known as the Uber for Lawn Care and I found his story fascinating so I hope you do too.

It all started when he was 13 years old whilst playing his Nintendo. In an attempt to get him moving, his dad suggested they go and cut the neighbour's lawn. It was the $20 his neighbour paid him that got him wondering how many lawns could he cut. By the time he reached high school, he had 200 customers and fast forward a few more years to college, he was already employing five people.

By 2013 he had taken it to 150 employees and $10 million in revenue. However, for Bryan, this signalled the time to move on. So he sold the company to Lusa holdings and tried retirement for a while, but found he needed more of a challenge.

This is where the birth of GREEN PAL came into existence.

Full Text for this post along with my Guest’s website and social links are all available at:

www.lifepassionandbusiness.com/bryan-clayton-uber-for-lawn-care

There is a lot to gain from listening to other people’s stories, however, the real work begins by taking action in your own life.

For full details of Events, Resources and Services visit:
www.lifepassionandbusiness.com

Support For Podcasters:

Another way you can support the Life Passion & Business podcast is with small donations: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/lifeandpassion

Sunday Jun 20, 2021

Struggle & Flow : Shortcast

Sunday Jun 20, 2021

I woke up this morning with thoughts about achievement, struggle and flow.

These thoughts were prompted by a conversation earlier in the week with someone who is currently caught in struggle. I was reflecting on what that was about for them and more generally why we sometimes choose to stay with the struggle and why other times we refuse to.

It seems that there are some people, for whom life always seems to flow, whereas for others it seems to be a perpetual struggle. What is that all about. Here are my current thoughts on it.

Thursday Jun 17, 2021

Robyn Harris : Soul Alignment

Thursday Jun 17, 2021

Soul Alignment is this week’s topic of conversation with Robyn Harris. It is a story of how following a passion can sometimes take us to a place of hopelessness. However, there is a happy outcome, it just requires going a little further along the road to discover it.

When I asked her what she wanted to be when she grew up, Robyn’s considered reply was Doctor Doolittle. It is hardly surprising then, that the future held a place for animals and for language interpretation. Albeit a very different type of interpretation than that of the children’s story book character.

Today Robyn is the founder of EQUENERGY: Wellbeing Naturally. She describes herself as a Soul Alignment Mentor and works with people at the end of their rope, needing support.

Robyn is currently offering her ‘Feel Your Way from Stress into Flow’ workshops on Zoom and is planning to run them in person again when lockdown restrictions lift. Tickets and further information are available along with all her other website and social links at:

www.lifepassionandbusiness.com/robyn-harris-soul-alignment

There is a lot to gain from listening to other people’s stories, however the real work begins by taking action in your own life.

For full details of Events, Resources and Services visit:
www.lifepassionandbusiness.com

Support For Podcasters:

Another way you can support the Life Passion & Business podcast is with small donations: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/lifeandpassion

Sunday Jun 13, 2021

The Power of Coincidence : Shortcast

Sunday Jun 13, 2021

This weeks thoughts are prompted by a podcast interview with one of my guests who has strong Christian beliefs and is in regular communication with (what for her is) God. She runs her entire life based on the guidance she receives and it clearly works.

Some might say this is just coincidence. I personally believe it is something more. In fact ‘coincidence’ is such a regular part of my life that I am rarely fazed by it and have almost come to expect it. I don’t call this God, but for me it is still feels like the guiding hand of unseen help.

I know many people who connect with an unseen force and have different ways of explaining it. Our Spirit-duality event significantly highlighted this for me and more recently I am reading Perry Marshall’s latest book and discovering a lot of people are working directly with what they call ‘Memos From Head Office. It’s a fascinating subject, and yet it is still rarely openly talked about.

How does coincidence figure in your life? Do you call it God, or something else?

Links referred to in this conversation are available at:

www.lifepassionandbusiness.com/the-power-of-coincidence-shortcast

Sunday Jun 06, 2021

No Bad Days : Shortcast

Sunday Jun 06, 2021

How would you like to be in an elite group?
Have you considered that you already are?

This is one of the considerations in today’s shortcast about Bad Days. Those days when nothing seems to go well, are all a matter of perspective. What is your viewpoint on this? What makes a day good or bad for you?

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Sunday May 23, 2021

Contribution

Sunday May 23, 2021

This week’s topic is Contribution. It is one of the 5 questions I ask my podcast guests, and has historically been about what we contribute to the world, which I believe is a very valuable thing to explore. But more recently (particularly since Covid) the question has expanded to also consider how we contribute to ourselves.

Anyone who travels will be familiar with the airlines safety precaution about putting your own oxygen mask on first, well the same applies in all areas of life: physical, emotional and spiritual. If we don’t take care of ourselves we cannot give our best to others.

In this conversation I share the values of ‘self’ contribution and how I have incorporated it into my daily routine. One of the valuable things I do daily is called ‘Renaissance Time’ and comes from some work I recently did with Perry Marshall. Another comes out of the work my wife and I have been doing to develop The Five Questions. It is an exercise we include in the eBook which I am discovering to be a very powerful in my own life.

How are you taking care of yourself? How are you contributing to yourself on a daily basis? I hope this shortcast gives you some food for thought and supports you in making time for THE one thing that is your most valuable contribution to the world. And that is YOU.

There is a lot to gain from listening to other people’s stories, however the real work begins by taking action in your own life. Explore the Events and Resources pages to discover how Life Passion & Business can support you.

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Monday May 17, 2021

Consciousness & Presence

Monday May 17, 2021

Today’s topic stems from my meditation practice on Monday where my Monkey Mind was exploring every possibility to break the meditation process and draw me away from my focus. But why is this relevant?

Because it got me thinking about what it means to be Conscious and Present with who we are, where we are and why that is so important. To me it is all about the wider exploration of what it means to be living this life and about who is Paul Harvey?

Is Paul Harvey the body or is Paul Harvey something else?

In this episode I am exploring the concept of mindfulness and the values that can be found when we stay present and in relationship with who we are.

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Wednesday May 12, 2021

Geraldine Schmidt : Active Communication

Wednesday May 12, 2021

Geraldine Schmidt is the founder of The Story Weavers. An online service that connects children from around the world through monthly collaborative writing projects. It's all about nurturing kids' active communication skills. Geraldine says that…

"Everything previous to this was preparation for what I am doing now."

In this conversation we discover how an early passion for communicating with horses and building a successful career wasn’t enough to alleviate her debilitating self doubt.

The turning point came when she discovered a book that showed her the way to inner peace and the discovery that success is not a measure of how well you are doing in the world. It is a feeling that comes from within.

Since then her mission has been to support children to face life's challenges with confidence and handle conflict in a way that builds relationships rather than breaks them.

Full Show Details, Guest’s Website and Social Links are all available at:
www.lifepassionandbusiness.com/geraldine-schmidt-active-communication-skills

Life Passion & Business is dedicated to exploring what it takes to be Extraordinary; to face challenges and rejoice in the opportunities they bring; and expand our vision into new ways of thinking and living.

There is a lot to gain from listening to other people’s stories, however the real work begins by taking action in your own life.

For full details of our Events and Resources visit: www.lifepassionandbusiness.com

Your Support Is Appreciated:

Running a podcast is fun, but it takes time and dedication. Whenever you enjoy a podcast please share your appreciation with comments, likes, shares and reviews. Not only does it support the Content Creators and their Guests, it also helps other Listeners find good content.

Another way you can support the Life Passion & Business podcast is with small donations: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/lifeandpassion

Monday May 10, 2021

The Gap Between Learning & Doing

Monday May 10, 2021

Prompted by an interesting comment on LinkedIn, this week’s conversation is about the gap between learning and doing.

The comment, posted with a tongue in cheek smile is by Susan Payton asking: “Are there any courses out there on how to stop buying courses?” There are naturally some fun flippant answers including my own. But it did get me thinking, because this is a common problem a lot of us come upon.

Chasing the Shiny Object

The reason many of us jump from one course to another is about chasing the elusive shiny object. This is a trap entrepreneurs often fall into.

It regularly occurs when we are following a course with a strategy and hit against something that stops us moving forward. Then along comes another course that catches our attention and promises a better solution. It may offer a simple shortcut that enables us to bypass the thing we are avoiding. So we follow that direction for a while until we hit against something else we’d rather avoid.

Another aspect of chasing courses is due to ‘imposter syndrome’. This is that niggling feeling that we are not good enough or we are missing a vital piece of information that will give us the confidence to believe what others see in us. In other words, by doing this ‘new course’ we will have all the answers and will be able to own our authority on the subject.

Chasing courses in this way is just the busyness of feeling we are making progress. When what is actually happening is we are standing still.

The chances are, that if we are willing to be really honest with ourselves we know what needs doing to move forward, we just don’t want to face it. What is often lacking is the support and motivation to get us passed the blocks and into new territory. Sometimes all we need is the right incentive, like the one I had to get my tax done. Or the one my mentor came up with that involved burning money to get his book written on time.

Solutions For Success

The LinkedIn post started the conversation with my wife about resistance and what gets in the way. It got us thinking about the coaching solutions that support people to move forward. From there the conversation transitioned into the value of rewards and celebrating successes, and resulted in the creation of four new Life Passion & Business Focus Coaching packages.

Focus Coaching bridges the gap between learning and doing by driving you through the challenges. We have added an incentive to celebrate the successes that take you closer to your goal, and rewards for meeting targets on time.

You can discover more about this on the Focus Coaching page. It’s under the Resources tab on the Life Passion & Business website: https://lifepassionandbusiness.com/focus-coaching/

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Sunday May 02, 2021

De-commit to Commit

Sunday May 02, 2021

De-commit to Commit is a conversation about goal setting, the tools for goal setting and some important considerations about de-commitment that came out of a conversation with my accountability partner.

I have a weekly commitment partnership that has been going for over 18 months. We help keep each other on track with our short term goals whilst holding the bigger perspective for our long term goal. I highly recommend it as an effective way of staying focused.

Our conversation came around to Goal Mapping, a technique created and developed my Brian Mayne (see below). My accountability partner found the map they had created 18 months ago and discovered that many of the things on it had come to pass. This prompted me to reflect on the achievements with my own Goal Map.

When I created my map in 2019, I said that by August 2020 I would be Podcasting full time. I also included an income figure and various other actions I said I would achieve. The interesting thing is the way it all came to pass, something I could not have predicted back then. The other interesting fact is what has been holding me back.

Letting Go To Move Forward

This is something that has taken me a long time to release. But it is only in doing so that I can truly commit to the new direction I want to take. In this conversation I share my experience and explore what we hold on to and why. I invite you to look what you may need to de-commit from to move forward in your own life.

Brian Mayne – Goal-Mapping

Brian Mayne was one of the inspiring speakers in our 2020 Spirit-duality event. He is a truly amazing man with a fascinating life journey that started in the travelling fairground business. It includes bankruptcy, working for Tony Robbins and moving on to create his own powerful transformation tool called Goal Mapping. Brian’s book is included in my Recommended Books list and you can discover more about Brian through our Spirit-duality event.

Goal Mapping: https://goalmapping.com/
Spirit-duality: https://lifepassionandbusiness.com/events/#spirit-duality
Book List: https://lifepassionandbusiness.com/books-paul-recommends/

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