Stay ConnectedTHE podcast for parents with big dreams who want to create an EXTRAORDINARY lifestyle but feel stuck.
Greg and Rachel Denning are parents of 7 children whom they’ve traveled with to 60+ countries on 5 continents — all while homeschooling and building a multi-six-figure location independent biz.
Let them show you how to finally break through what’s holding you back so you can achieve your biggest dreams — even with a family!
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Under duress, Greg agreed to do ANOTHER podcast touching on issues around C*vid -- but only because someone was confused about our 'statement' and position during the last one. They also believed there were some holes in our arguments. We address those in this episode.
We also encourage you to take 100% responsibility for your health, your life, your family, and your circle of influence.
Stop wasting your energy on trying to get others to understand, agree, or conform and put it back into making the most of yourself.
Stop hacking at the branches and start getting to the root of the problems.
Listen now to see how.
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It IS true that 'you are good enough the way you are'.
You are special.
You are lovable.
You are allowed to just be YOU.
But those ideas are INCOMPLETE truths.
You were also designed, created, and evolved to continually aim to become YOUR best version of you.
So you'll never feel completely content remaining the way you are now.
No matter how many times you tell it to yourself.
The only way to be completely fulfilled is to regularly work on letting your inner light shine...
To get comfortable with discomfort, because that is how you grow...
To become self-aware enough to know when to give yourself grace and when to push yourself harder.
Because loving yourself for who you ARE -- and being discontent for who you've not yet BECOME...
...being grateful for the progress you've made -- and being dissatisfied with the results you've gotten so far --
-- are two sides of the same coin.
And wholeness comes when you learn to hold and operate by these two seemingly opposing viewpoints.
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"Rebellion of basically any kind stems from needs that are not being met."
"Which needs are commonly not met that are likely to lead to rebellion?"
Is there a difference between healthy and unhealthy rebellion?
Do you consider some kind of rebellion necessary in a person’s life?
In this episode, we discuss these and other parenting topics and how 'restaurant parenting' (as I call it) may contribute to future teen rebellion. We also talk about rule-breaking and why we encourage a healthy version of it in our teens and young adults.
If you're a parent, no matter the current age of your kids, don't miss the critical lessons in this episode!
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In our last episode (#158), Greg hinted at doing another episode about the v*ccine. I wasn't so sure.
But after thinking and discussing it, we decided to do it together -- partly because our individual views balance each other out and help us both to come to a more centered truth.
We discuss how C*vid and the v*ccine have become politicized and what implications that has. We also examine C*vid's significance now compared to other times in history, and examine how politicizing a topic can skew each individuals understanding of the real facts.
Most of all, we emphasize points that all sides are likely to agree on, and how that approach overall will help us to come together to find solutions that will benefit humanity as a whole.
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What happens when you share a 'controversial' meme on social media?
Lots of comments and ensuing arguments.
In this podcast, Greg and Rachel respond to comments on a meme that was shared which said:
"If you've ever wondered if you would have complied during 1930s Germany, now you know."
The reactions included words and phrases including:
An adequate response was not feasible in a Facebook comment, so we answered in a podcast episode instead.
Plus, it was a lot more fun that way!
"Covid is a problem but it's not the real problem. There is something bigger than that which is the real problem. Until we address the bigger problem at the bottom of the swamp, we won't really solve the problem."
We'd love to hear your feedback, questions, comments, or requests for clarification -- or show us where we were wrong!
Resources:
The Gulag Archipelago by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
In Order to Live: A North Korean Girl's Journey to Freedom by Yeonmi Park
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How do you know if you’re winning in life?
It’s easier in sports where there’s a scoreboard—but even that doesn’t always reflect true winning. You might lose the game but still be winning in personal improvements, performance, effort, giving your best, sportsmanship, integrity, grit, etc.
What about each area of your life?
How do you know if you’re winning?
Do you have a scoreboard? Are you keeping score? In what ways?
Are you competing with others, yourself, or with an ideal?
Some aren’t keeping score at all. They have no idea how they’re doing. They don’t think about it, measure it, or reflect on it. They’re distracted, unconscious, in survival mode, or on autopilot—with no clear picture of how they’re doing.
Some are even against keeping score altogether.
They don’t like the idea of tracking, measuring, or scoring.
You can’t master what you don’t measure!
I’m choosing to win as a man.
That includes several roles.
I’m not trying to win only in business—that would be a loss as a man.
I’m not trying to win only as a husband or father—that too would be a loss.
So I’ll necessarily “lose” on other people’s scoreboards.
Some will see me as average in their field—and that’s okay.
I’m keeping score differently.
Stop getting caught up in other people’s scoreboards.
Stop measuring your worth by someone else’s standards.
Create your own scoreboard—or you’ll always be living by theirs.
That’s one reason why epic failures seem to come out of nowhere—people were trying to win on someone else’s scoreboard.
What does winning look like in each of your roles?
What does losing look like?
It’s impossible to win if you’re not clear what winning means.
Creating your own scoreboard takes time, effort, research, discernment, and wisdom—wisdom not easily won.
You’ll want to study sacred texts, learn from the greatest men who ever lived, and analyze the real outcomes of their lives.
The last thing you want is to win on the wrong scoreboard.
That’s like climbing a ladder leaning against the wrong wall.
Nor do you want to fear being wrong so much that you never set any scoreboard at all.
You can’t wait until you’re 90 to decide. Make the best choices you can now—and refine them as you grow.
There are countless great books—and just as many filled with terrible advice. Blogs, podcasts, and posts overflow with some of the worst ideas ever shared by human beings.
I recently saw a sincere question in a men’s group from someone seeking meaning in life. The advice in the comments was some of the worst I’ve ever seen. Unbelievable.
Take advice only from people whose whole life you’d want to emulate.
Otherwise, you may follow the words of a man who’s financially successful—but morally bankrupt and overdrawn in his most important relationships.
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Misjudging people it’s so easy and most of us do it pretty often if not all the time.Outward Symptoms can often help, but not always. They might Look rich but are broke. Look poor but have millions. Look nice but are evil. Look rough but are as honest as Abraham Lincoln Sometimes you meet people who in your first impression you mentally toss them out because they don’t fit, only to find out later that they’re AMAZING!We often misjudge because we have categories, labels, and boxes in which we psychologically try to arrange all the people, places, and things in our lives.The problem is that there are always people who don’t fit in our boxes, and that is where we get ourselves into trouble.Revisit the categories, rules, and labels that you have and see where they might be inaccurate. Leave an open box for those who don’t always fit the mold.
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Here are 5 ideas about learning to like and enjoy the things you need to do but may not always want to do. 1—Like the results. You may not like the method and that’s okay. FOCUS on the results. What you focus on you feel. Need motivators? Grab a chunk of belly or flabby arm, and then get your running shoes on and out the door. 2 —If you used to like it but now you don’t, find out what’s changed. Try what you used to do. Or try liking it in new ways. 3—Do something totally different. Try new things. Get creative. Learn to like something else. 4—Train yourself to like what you need, what you must. Do you realize that EVERYTHING you like or dislike is all because of conditioning. I believed for a long time that it was just the way I was. Perhaps I was born that way. I didn’t realize that I had conditioned myself or had been conditioned to it. Now I know that I can recondition myself to anything. 5—Sometimes you don’t like it. Do it anyway. That’s called being mature, responsible, an adult. Sometimes it sucks. So what. Embrace the suck. Every day you can and perhaps ought to do things you don’t like but are good for simply because we MUST cultivate your I-do-what-I-say-no-matter-what muscle. Our lives are so comfortable and convenient that many of us have become grown up babies.
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Being good is not enoughMost of our default thinking is that if we’re a good person it will be enough. That’s just not true!You can be a good person and a piss poor husbandYou can be a good person and a lousy loverYou can be a good person and a poor loserYou could be a good person and be terribly unproductiveYou can be a good person and a lousy listenerYou could be a good person distracted absent fatherYou can be a good person and a terrible businessmanYou can be a good person and a very Foolish investorYou can be a good person and a flimsy friendYou can be a good person and an unresponsive sonYou can be a good person and totally ignorant and uneducatedYou can be a good person and clueless to what’s going on around you and the needs of other peopleNow if you’re not good at tennis, that’s OK. If you want to be good at it you can work on it. If you don’t want to be good at it then you don’t have to do anything.But that’s not true of the other areas of your life like marriage and parenting and work and contribution and connectionIn my mind working on those skills is nonnegotiable.If you have children, for example, then you have A moral obligation to become a good parent with fully developed parenting skillsIf you want to have a great marriage, healthy kids, and a good relationship with them, if you want to have friends, if you want to make a difference in the world, if you work, then you simply cannot settle for merely being a good personWe have to stop sucking at the things that really matter especially if it’s because we’re succeeding in the things that don’t
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What are good beliefs and practices around money in your marriage? What if one spouse brings in the income and the other stays home, who should be in charge of how it’s spent? Does the non-income earning spouse have any say on how the money should be spent?What if one spouse wants to save every penny and the other sees it as a tool for experience and growth?What if one spouse wants to approve every purchase before anything can be spent? What if they become upset when they feel you spend in a way they don’t approve of? What if one spouse spends out of control?What if one spouse hates their job and feels resentful and frustrated and doesn’t want their ‘life’ to be spent on anything they don’t personally agree on? What if spouse have completely different paradigms about what money is (good or evil, tool or curse)?Greg and Rachel discuss these and other issues related to money in your marriage. Listen now and share with your spouse! SRESOURCES:
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