Your Voice For Hope

Finishing well must happen on purpose with a purpose. It will never happen on accident. What strategic plans do you have right now as you leave 2015 and as you begin 2016 to finish well? I hope you'll put the plan into action and finish the way you want to finish. Speaking of finish today is the last episode of Your Voice for Hope. beginning next week it will be merged with ur other podcast Sincerely Steve that airs every Thursday morning. I hope you will join us on Thursday's starting next week.

Sometimes we wait for things, people or events to bring us happiness. We have to take charge of how we feel now and how we want to feel later. You are the encourager you need. We can help make that a reality on today's show. 

Everyone has made a stop at the O.K. Plateau in their lifetime. The key is to not live or dwell there. Never let just O.K. be our goal and aim in life. Excellence should always be the goal. We don't have to be the best, but we should try to do our best! Give the same effort that we expect others to give to us.

If we are not careful in life, the next time will be like the last time even if we don't really want it. In order to have a new next time, we have to be sure not to repeat what we did last time! But sometimes that is not easy. As John Maxwell says, "Experience is not the best teacher, but evaluated experience is the best teacher!" What can we learn from the past that will make our future better?

No matter how hard we try when we walk on a gravel road we invariably get a small stone or a pebble in our shoe. It is the same way with our lives. As we walk along the journey of life, we get pebbles, we get those nagging small rocks that change the way we are in our shoes. My goal today is to help all of us realize that everybody you encounter today is dealing with something! Be patient and be kind! 

Too often people are looking for a miracle pill or a miracle step. It isn't going to happen. That is not negative but it is reality! Instead of always looking for the giant step why not try looking for the small steps that will take you where you want to go. One step at a time will get you to the end of your journey. 

Too often we see the perfection (or so it seems) and think that is reality. It is not reality at all. It is changed by the airbrush. Well life cannot be airbrushed! Everyone has bumps, blemishes and bruises. Life has to be lived everyday. No one is perfect. If you will take off your mask you will enjoy life so much better. It is time to reveal the real you! 

Comparing our life to the lives of others never produces good things. Most of the time we compare our worst moments to someone's best moments. Comparing makes us feel inferior, makes us feel superior or makes us feel ungrateful. Neither of these are good emotions. Jump off the comparison-ship and enjoy your life!

Everybody has worst moments. But everything that happens to you doesn't have to destroy you! You can turn those things around in your mind and life and make the best out of them. Look for solutions and not problems. Today we explore how to do that.

Your thinking can change the way your live. Your environment can change the way you think! Put yourself in the proper position to think better. Think for a change! Your eyes, your ears, your relationships all have a say as they are they gateways to your thinking. Control them and you can change the way you think. Today we will explore a better environment that will creat better thinking.

Too often I meet people who are tired of starting. They are tired of getting up and feeling like there life is a train wreck just waiting to happen. If we are tired of starting then I suggest we stop stopping! Some things we might need to stop but not everything. Just because you have a bad event doesn't mean it is the thing to stop. Evaluate the present situation and go from there. Today is a great day to keep going in the direction you are headed.

It is so easy for us to feel that our present moments is all that there is ever going to be in our life. That is just not true. Each of us can have the future we were designed to live, but we have to decide our present will not control our future! What you are facing right now maybe be the worse moments you have ever faced, but there is hopoe! Please let me show you how on today's podcast.

Most of us will fall into one of two categories. We either do stuff we are paid for or we do stuff we are made for. When we do what we are made for our lives take on a greater meaning of satisfaction and fulfillment in life. If we feel stuck in a path that you aren't made for we can help you escape that today. 

Too often we forget to thank the people that do things for us. I personally think it has become a huge problem. But I also don't think it starts intentional. I think that if we could do as this title suggest, When You Think, Thank, we could make the world a better place. Do it now, thank now and you won't forget.

We live in a competitive world and culture. Everywhere you turn there is a new opportunity to compete for something. Some of it is good and much of it is bad. It is not healthy. Today I want to zero in on the kind of competition that I think could change the world. What would happen if we competed for kindness? Never waitied for anyone to be kind first, we just choose to be kind every day we are alive! Now that could change the world.

There are some weaknesses that you are able to change. However they are the weaknesses of choice not so much of personality or DNA. What you can do for sure is get better and do more of what you already do well. What ever you are good at today, you can get better at tomorrow. We can help you clarify the great need to be the best version of you that you can be!

You might be confused as to how you were born as it pertains to being a winner, a loser, an entreprenuer, an average person, or any number of these types of things. One thing I am certain of is that every human was born a chooser! You have the right and the ability to choose. Don't let anyone take that away from you. Today we explore how to make the choices that will propel you into your destiny.

Often it is easy to get caught up in the mentality that simply states, "Why Me". The problem is though it is a trap. It holds us hostage to a great future. Join us today as we switch from the "Why Me", mentality to the "Why Not Me", mentality. 

People think speed always wins. Does it? What about slow and steady? Does the hare really always beat the tortoise? Life is not a sprint but a marathon. We have to pace ourself in order to finish our race. In today's episode we strive to help you be more steady and know that pit stops in life have to be made, but if you plan and pace you can get to where you want to go. 

Too many people in my opinion believe that you should never step up for yourself or talk up for yourself. I just don't think that is right. There might be times to allow a process to take place, but I also believe there are times when not standing up for yourself is detrimental. Today we look at those times when you should not allow people to run over you.