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I was about 9 years old and in the early hours of the morning to escape my fathers violence I climbed out of my bedroom window and fled into the wintry night.

This is a story from my childhood, I am sharing this traumatic experience in the hope it helps anyone who can relate to be curious about your own trauma and continue to heal and grow from your own negative life experiences. 🙏🏼

We all have things in our childhood, I want to encourage you to go and sit with those memories that will help give you a key to your recovery and moving on.

Your life matters, and you can break generational patterns - and commit to do the work.

In part two of this podcast about my Relationship Wisdom I share more about these 3 points.

#3 - All Relationships Come With Distinct Energies

#4 - You cannot control other people’s behaviour, but you can limit the impact with boundaries.

#5 - Never make your emotional home in another person.

Here is part one of Paul Scanlon's Top 5 Relationship Wisdom.  

#1 - Relationships Are Spatial  

#2 - The Version Of Me In Your Head Is Not My Responsibility  

Has life been painting layers on you?

I want you to get back to the bare oak version of who you are.

Here is a preview from my online course - The Prosperity Of The Soul.

In this short episode I want to share with you about

Narcissism is all about a false self it’s a mask that people wear which slips over time and when it does you should be paying attention.

It’s the fear of appearing ordinary which drives them to exaggeration and showing off to appear extraordinary.

Don’t ever try to confront or change a narcissist it’s like trying to nail jelly to the wall. Wish them well and move away from their toxicity.

Here are my 10 signs to look out for when it comes to narcissism to avoid in others and look out for if you have them in yourself.

1. They are self obsessed, self promoting and self absorbed whilst pretending to be interested in you.

2. They brainwash you to believe that you need them in your life because their life is far superior.

3. They manipulate you into their version of you.

4. They make you question your thoughts and decisions in favour of theirs.

5. They will never respect your boundaries because they only see their own importance.

6. They don’t mind ignoring shaming minimising or isolating you to serve themselves.

7. They will Gaslight and marginalise you then encourage and praise you simultaneously in the hope you don’t spot the manipulation.

8. They use people because their agenda and priorities are always more important.

9. They need people and relationships just like the rest of us but they’re unable to see others as equals.

10. They will only want you in their world if you offer them financial security, status, support their projects or just generally stroke their ego in some way.

This vid has been weird to film because due to the NDA I signed I’ve hardly spoken about it out loud.   

It still feels like my body is catching up with my mind about it all, and hearing my own voice talking to you about it was another step in realising what just happened.  

I want you more than anything to lean into saying “YES” to some scary opportunity in your life right now.  

You just never know where your yes will take you to in life.   I was asked the other day by the guy next to me on a plane “so what do you do”?  I looked at him and said for the first time ever:  “I’m an actor”.., Saying it felt both crazy and somehow grounding and normal.   

I owned it out loud for the first time and my imposter syndrome fell silent and I felt like an actor, because I am.  

What do you need to own today?

Stolen Focus: Why You Can’t Pay Attention And How To Think Deeply Again.

Here is part two of my conversation with best selling author Johann Hari about his new book Stolen Focus which is out this month (January 2022).   Johann is a brilliant thinker and this is the best book I’ve read on the issue of how our attention is being hijacked and our focus being stolen in our digitally addicted world.

In this conversation Johann shares some of the insights he has learnt from interviewing 250+ of the leading experts when it comes to Attention.   He gives some great advice on what we can practically do in our own lives to help live a more focused life, as well as what we can begin to do not just individually but as a society.

This is a conversation that we can all get a lot from and I hope it adds value to your world, and I’d love for you to share it with someone in your world.  Please leave a review and subscribe!

Stolen Focus: Why You Can’t Pay Attention And How To Think Deeply Again.

Here is part one of my conversation with best selling author Johann Hari about his new book Stolen Focus which is out this month (January 2022).   Johann is a brilliant thinker and this is the best book I’ve read on the issue of how our attention is being hijacked and our focus being stolen in our digitally addicted world.  

In this conversation Johann shares some of the insights he has learnt from interviewing 250+ of the leading experts when it comes to Attention.   He gives some great advice on what we can practically do in our own lives to help live a more focused life, as well as what we can begin to do not just individually but as a society.   

This is a conversation that we can all get a lot from and I hope it adds value to your world, and I’d love for you to share it with someone in your world.  Please leave a review and subscribe!   

If you are in any form of leadership, cultural engineering or team building this podcast conversation is for you!

Part two of the conversation I had with New York Times best seller - Greg McKeown

In this episode we speak about how to scale all that you want to do and do it effortlessly.

We also speak about how to adapt this way of working with your family, teams and culture.

This podcast conversation is for you if you want to learn the ways of living an effortless life in all that you do as well as achieving all that is within you!

Greg McKeown is the author of 2 New York Times best seller Essentialism and Effortless.

We have split this conversation over 2 episodes, this first part focuses on how to live a more effortless life and the foundations of it.

On my recent trip to Switzerland I had a bad experience in a beautiful place.  

My memory of that place was forever tarnished by my experience whilst being there.  

This phenomenon is called our experiencing self and it always overrides our otherwise happy memories.

Watch this longer video for free on my global MENTORSHIP GROUP with exclusive content added daily as well as an archive of free audio, blogs and video teaching series to access and be a part of a group of like minded thinkers and growers. 

People often come into our lives to help us rather than just inspire us.

One of those people for me was Bishop TD Jakes.

And over the 40+ years now I have been in communication in all different forms and I want to help you develop as a communicator.

I want to influence you to grow not just inspire you to copy.

They say when the students ready the teacher appears and so from today I’m offering you an amazing growth opportunity as a public speaker and communicator.

The world needs your voice but it won’t help you to find or develop it, but I will. 🙏🏼

In this podcast episode I want to help you identify the importance of recognising shifts in your life and how to navigate through them.

I also breakdown the evolution of media over the years and why its become important to me to make a move away from the noise that is social media and for me to be more intentional in who I pour my life into through this owned community rather then the rented space.

Reevaluating what is important to you and how to structure your life around your values, and learning the art of having a fitness mindset. 

Get rid of your junk values and hone in on your authentic self  The combination of health, fitness and wellness.

You are really going to love this conversation with my new friend Brian Keane, one of the most genuine guys who speaks authentically and helps make his world of fitness relatable and actionable starting first with having a healthy mindset.

Perceiving the dangerous that’s hidden amongst the apparently harmless.

Understanding what sub conscious beliefs in your life are governing negative outcomes?

Where in your life are there unexamined and unchallenged generational belief systems ?

In this podcast I look at family history trojan horses that bring harmful cargoes into our lives. I give you some examples from my own life of how I began to break free from generational repeat patterns of dysfunction and trauma.

Do you struggle with any of these areas in being vulnerable?

Speaking up? Saying No? Going for a new job? Lost a job? Having faith? Waiting for a medical outcome?

Doing things alone? Reaching out to someone? Asking for help? Sharing your creativity?

What is vulnerability to you?

In this episode I share some tips on how to experiment with vulnerability as well as some of my vulnerability. I breakdown what are the qualities to look for in people that are good to share your vulnerability with.

Vulnerability is complex and something I’ve struggled with all my life. It was a completely foreign concept in my fathers toxic masculinity parenting of us. Vulnerability is courage in you but it feels like inadequacy in me. I admire it in you but despise it in me. So in today’s show I’m trying to be vulnerable about vulnerability.

I share with you some practical tips on how you can start small in being more vulnerable with those in your world.

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Dr. Nicole LePera was trained in clinical psychology at Cornell University and the New School for Social Research. She also studied at the Philadelphia School of Psychoanalysis.

She is the creator of the #SelfHealers movement where people from around the world are joining together in community to take healing into their own hands. Her first book, How to Do the Work, is currently available and became a New York Times Best Seller.

You can find her on instagram at @the.holistic.psychologist

In my conversation with the lovely Dr Nicole we spoke about the new age of Awakening.

Dealing with trauma, breaking patterns of familiarity and how to create healthy boundaries, what it means to create a life of holistic living.

As well as her thoughts on the education system, and how to do the work to be your authentic self, dealing with your emotions, and how to regulate yourself.

If you like me have ever gone through any form of trauma or grief you’re going to love this interview. As well as how to break the mould of the familiar to create a life of transformation.

Don’t forget to share with me when you’re watching or listening to this interview I love to hear from you.

Here are 5 Dream Killers that I’ve found to be the most common in our lives.

We have a huge capacity to sabotage our own dreams and yet be oblivious to it, so here’s 5 killers to look out for.

1: Sharing it with the wrong people too soon

2: Mistaking the dream for a plan

3: Unmanaged expectations

4: Not becoming who your dream needs you to be

5: Not building strategic alliances

Check out my new brand new ebook only available until April 6th called 100 SECRETS OF MY PROGRESS. Wisdom For Your Life, Leadership and Relationships. 

I had a dream that God was fast asleep. And because we couldn’t wake him to tell us what his next move was, we started our own.  

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I hope this encourages you today, share with someone in your world and post a comment below or send me a DM! 

There’s no such thing as ‘the’ move of God. God is doing millions of things simultaneously most of which you’ll never hear about.

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Your greatest gift to others is to be the healthiest version of you that you can be.I used to spend too much time working on others for me rather than working on me for them. Your personal health and well-being is the greatest gift you can give to the world.

Personal development is the hardest work you will ever do, and often the least appreciated by those close to you.

Make self improvement firstly for your own benefit then whether others notice or benefit from it at least you always will.

You can’t give away what you don’t have. You can’t sustain withdrawals others make from your life without sufficient deposits that leave you with surplus. It doesn’t work with money or love or energy or life. You can’t love your neighbour with a love you have never given to yourself.

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In this episode I give you a preview into my Communication Masterclass online course and this is from the introduction section of the 7 hour course for all who are in any form of communication.

Your frustrations can be seen as fuel to keep lifting your game as a communicator. Don’t chase a calling just pay attention to what problems consistently get your attention and how that makes you feel.

Your calling is in that neighbourhood.

Stay close to the reason that set you on the path you’re on. You never travel away from your reasons you only travel deeper into them.

In this podcast episode I am giving you a glimpse into what one of my mentorship group sessions look like and the topic we discussed in this episode is about GHOSTING and the pandemic that it has become. 

Ghosting is deliberate emotional cruelty. Those who ghost you leave you to come up with a reason why they cut you off and they don’t care if it’s true or not. They sacrifice your emotions for their control. Listen or watch this podcast episode about ghosting at paulscanlon.com/podcast-channel

In this podcast episode I am giving you a glimpse into what one of my mentorship group sessions look like and I have chosen together some of the great questions that were asked from this session that might be of help to you.

We did a discussion around the book I read recently called ATTACHED by Amir Levine and Rachel Heller.

Here are some of the questions I discuss with some of the amazing tribe that are in my Mentorship Group from around the world!

Q: How do you make an assessment between if you are secure in a relationship or if you are developing apathy to protect yourself?

Q: How can we avoid becoming controlling when it comes to relationship styles?

Q: What are some non-negotiable tips and boundaries that you’ve put in place when you have been growing your relationship styles as you keep reinventing yourself?

Q: How do I move past anxiety and go deeper into your relationships?

I hope you enjoy this episode and make sure you share with me your thoughts by tagging me in a post or sending me a DM @PaulScanlonUK

You are not your labels!

We are obsessed with labelling of both ourselves and others, so from birth we begin a life tethered to a false narrative based on those labels. 

That limited level of consciousness can only be broken by self awareness.

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Where you get excited about the process?  Not just the outcome - the study, investigation, conversation, research - all the things that are involved in how to get a good outcome - than that is an indication of what your passions and strengths are.

If you’re struggling to figure out where you’re heading in life or what your passions and strengths are the pay attention to where you love process. We are so driven by validation through results that we assume successful outcomes is where we should look. 

The secret and it is a secret because so few know it, is to look where you love the process not the results. Look at the creativity, study, planning, risk, uncertainty, struggle and effort that you love and there you will find yourself. 

Look for something where you love the process and the rest will follow.

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Humans are the only species that store pain. We do this by either resisting or clinging.

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PART ONE - In this conversation I speak with my new friend Glo Atanmo on her entrepreneurial beginnings, how it is to travel the world, dealing with wealth and finances, her tips and tricks on being an influencer and graphic designer as well as continuing out important conversation around the current racial divide. 

You are going to love this part one of the conversation and don't forget to subscribe, share and check out Glo on instagram @GloGraphics.

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In this episode I want to share with you the final 3 keys to having a great mentoring relationship.

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In this episode I want to share with you the first 3 keys to having a great mentoring relationship. 

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In this podcast episode I am in Conversation with Bethany Hamilton who many will know as a professional surfer who at a young age was attacked by a shark and lost her arm.

You are going to love this interview, Bethany is passionate about helping young women be unstoppable in life and faith.

Her greatest joy is being a wife and mother, and she continues to touch and inspire lives globally as a professional surfer and motivational speaker.

Correlation is the connection we make between two or more things. Causation takes that a step further and decides what that connection means. 

It’s human nature to lazily place unrelated things into an instant correlation without any thought to the tragic consequences that can have. 

A black man jogging in a white neighbourhood is a CORRELATION, the belief that he’s a threat is then the following CAUSATION of his death. 

Unless we examine our flawed correlations we will keep having flawed causes of all kinds of injustice, pain and suffering.

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In this interview I have a great conversation with Laura Toggs.

Laura, together with her husband Peter, is the Global Youth Pastor of Hillsong Church and the pioneer behind Hillsong Young & Free, a movement passionate about seeing young people rise up across the earth in freedom.

She is also the visionary behind ‘The Secret Garden TV’ – a space designed to reach and inspire young women by compelling them to dig deeper into the things that consume their hearts. Laura has been noted for her creativity and ability to speak with authenticity and is gifted at paving the way for others to find their true identity in Jesus.

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Sidney Mohede is world Renowned worship leader and award winning singer song writer. He’s the worship pastor at the mighty JPCC church in Jakarta Indonesia an entrepreneur and creative genius. You’re going to love our chat on all of the above and more. 

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Big people are intentional about  growing they don’t wait for things to make them grow. Big people see every day as another opportunity to evolve and flourish into their best selves.  

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You’re gonna love my conversation with Lorna Maseko. She is a celebrity chef in South Africa, a TV presenter, entrepreneur and all round great human.

We spoke about LORNA’s poor disadvantaged beginnings and how she imagined and worked her way to the top. We spoke about her work ethic, belief in people, self doubt and also her dreams and aspirations for taking South African cuisine global. 

Please subscribe and comment and help me spread the word.

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I’ve always struggled with the word racist until I understood white privilege.

We can’t see white privilege by speaking to white people we must ask black people to help us, to educate us.

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THE GOLDEN CALF WAS THE SIN OF CERTAINTY.

Our golden calves represent our addiction to certainty, our need to have a God that doesn’t move. 

It is the sin of certainty to believe that what and how we think about God is right and others are wrong. .

Don’t confuse your faith in God with your thoughts about God, faith in God is not correct thinking about God. .

Faith is about TRUST not beliefs and we have confused trusting God with trusting our beliefs about God. Then when God behaves outside of our beliefs we have a crises of certainty. 

DOUBT IS SACRED it’s good for curing certainty.

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There's two kinds of limitations:  Limitations of DESIGN and limitations of DEFAULT.

The gift hidden within the limitations of design is that once you accept them they free you to work on your limitations of default. Limitations of default are things your should never accept because they are man made and man imposed.

Stop wasting your time trying to change a God given limitation that's like trying to teach a pig to sing, it's wastes your time and annoys the pig. Start using your energy to push against the limitations of default that you've allowed to wrongly define you for years.

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There's two kinds of limitations:  Limitations of DESIGN and limitations of DEFAULT.

The gift hidden within the limitations of design is that once you accept them they free you to work on your limitations of default. Limitations of default are things your should never accept because they are man made and man imposed.

Stop wasting your time trying to change a God given limitation that's like trying to teach a pig to sing, it's wastes your time and annoys the pig. Start using your energy to push against the limitations of default that you've allowed to wrongly define you for years.

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Serendipity is to find something better by accident than what you were looking for on purpose. The path of our lives owes far more to serendipity than we realise.

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Serendipity is to find something better by accident than what you were looking for on purpose. The path of our lives owes far more to serendipity than we realise.

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Your future is your unlived life, it hasn’t yet been given any frame, script or pattern.

Unless you design your year you will have a default year, and default by definition is repeats and reruns.

Let’s disengage our autopilot settings and make 2020 the most bespoke year of our lives.

Join Paul for his next free live webinar on the 16th of January called -  THE 6 KEYS TO A GREAT MENTORING RELATIONSHIP.

Your future is your unlived life, it hasn’t yet been given any frame, script or pattern.

Unless you design your year you will have a default year, and default by definition is repeats and reruns.

Let’s disengage our autopilot settings and make 2020 the most bespoke year of our lives.

Exposure to people, places, ideas and experiences beyond our comfort zone is essential to our continued flourishing. Being out of your depth is good for the soul, because it knows that a life unchallenged is a life unlived.

JOIN PAUL SCANLON FOR HIS FREE LVIE WEBINAR ON JANUARY 2ND CALLED DESIGN YOUR 2020.

The key to healthy generational transition is the willingness to serve the emerging generation.

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Don't stay loyal to an old version of yourself.

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Grace just like love, mercy, kindness and forgiveness were never meant to be stockpiled or warehoused.

It is a requirement of their very nature that they remain in perpetual motion.

Where can you extend grace & kindness this week?

GRACE FREED ‘EVERYONE’ IN PAUL & SILAS JAIL... it was collateral freedom not Christian freedom.

GRACE IS COLLATERAL IN ITS NATURE NOT CONDITIONAL.

GRACE IS CARELESS AND RECKLESS

GRACE IS RANDOM AND RIDICULOUS

GRACE FISHES WITH A NET NOT A ROD

GRACE RAINS ON ALL NOT A FEW

GRACE IS WILD AND UNTAMED

WE DON’T OWN IT OR CONTROL IT

WE ARE NOT ITS KEEPERS, GUARDIANS OR CUSTODIANS

BE CARELESS AND RECKLESS AND SPLASH GRACE ON PEOPLE TODAY

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I had a great time speaking at the ACC NSW state conference recently. I love Q&A and this session with Paul Bartlett the ACC state president was in front of over a thousand church pastors and leaders. 

This answer was in response to a question about any observations or concerns I have about the church globally.

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Grace just like love, mercy, kindness and forgiveness were never meant to be stockpiled or warehoused.

It is a requirement of their very nature that they remain in perpetual motion.

Where can you extend grace & kindness this week?

GRACE FREED ‘EVERYONE’ IN PAUL & SILAS JAIL... it was collateral freedom not Christian freedom.

GRACE IS COLLATERAL IN ITS NATURE NOT CONDITIONAL.

GRACE IS CARELESS AND RECKLESS

GRACE IS RANDOM AND RIDICULOUS

GRACE FISHES WITH A NET NOT A ROD

GRACE RAINS ON ALL NOT A FEW

GRACE IS WILD AND UNTAMED

WE DON’T OWN IT OR CONTROL IT

WE ARE NOT ITS KEEPERS, GUARDIANS OR CUSTODIANS

BE CARELESS AND RECKLESS AND SPLASH GRACE ON PEOPLE TODAY

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We need more border control to stop incoming emotions becoming illegal feelings. Emotions are data feelings are our interpretation of that data and their needs to be gap between them. 

No inner immigration control at that emotional border allows rogue feelings to move in and embed themselves into our internal society.

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For the past few ears I’ve been studying, observing and interviewing leaders and influencers from all walks of life.

I’ve been journaling and forging new insight about the kind of Leadership that I believe is already shaping the new world order.

The most progressive organisations, business and churches are that because they have DISRUPTIVE leadership at the helm.

The dictionary definition of a DISRUPTER is: someone who causes disorder and turmoil, someone who breaks the normal continuance of things.

WHO IS THIS EVENT FOR?

This event is for anyone who aspires to being a part of disrupting the ‘business as usual’ out of touch organisations that currently dominate our corporate, political, civic and spiritual landscapes.

WHAT WILL YOU TAKE AWAY FROM THIS EVENT?

Learn the difference between truly disruptive leadership and disruptive LANGUAGE only leaderships.

The latter only appear to be open to progressive ideas as a smokescreen to hide their entrenchment to old ideas, systems and cultures.

Be empowered to discover and liberate your own disruptive leadership gift without being made to feel like a rebellious non team player.

Leave feeling like you’ve met your tribe and had a life saving blood transfusion that matches your actual disruptive blood type.

It’s going to be an intense immersive download and you will leave wanting to BREAK THE GOOD FOR THE GREAT.

There are three members of the soul MIND -EMOTIONS AND WILL. Though this is relatively common knowledge what isn’t commonly known is that the soul has a hierarchy. Every human was born with the same soul hierarchical system and in that system the MIND IS KING.

When the King is ruling then the emotions and the will serve us well but when the king is usurped by the emotions the kingdom collapses. We have not taught this well in the church and that’s resulted in believers with an over developed spirit and an impoverished soul. The human soul is a highly sensitive ecosystem and this message will help you to restore balance to that ecosystem.

Thank you for listening to the Growing Big People with Paul Scanlon podcast, we want to hear from you so please keep in touch with us and share your thoughts on this episode with Paul on his social media - @PaulScanlonuk

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There are three members of the soul MIND -EMOTIONS AND WILL. Though this is relatively common knowledge what isn’t commonly known is that the soul has a hierarchy. Every human was born with the same soul hierarchical system and in that system the MIND IS KING.

When the King is ruling then the emotions and the will serve us well but when the king is usurped by the emotions the kingdom collapses. We have not taught this well in the church and that’s resulted in believers with an over developed spirit and an impoverished soul. The human soul is a highly sensitive ecosystem and this message will help you to restore balance to that ecosystem.

Thank you for listening to the Growing Big People with Paul Scanlon podcast, we want to hear from you so please keep in touch with us and share your thoughts on this episode with Paul on his social media - @PaulScanlonuk

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One of the first things Jesus taught his disciples was the power of collaboration.

We are built to collaborate and there are people looking for you to add value to them through working with you.

This teaching examines the importance of finding your strategic collaboration relationships.

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One of the first things Jesus taught his disciples was the power of collaboration.

We are built to collaborate and there are people looking for you to add value to them through working with you.

This teaching examines the importance of finding your strategic collaboration relationships.

Thank you for listening to the Growing Big People with Paul Scanlon podcast, we want to hear from you so please keep in touch with us and share your thoughts on this episode with Paul on his social media - @PaulScanlonuk

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If you have NO skin in the game then you’re not in the game.

You may be at the game, believe in the game, know people in the game or even be an expert in the game but if you have no skin in it your a spectator.

Jesus was the ultimate skin in the game leader and we his church come from a long line of skin in the game believers and pioneers and martyrs.

In this age of entitlement and virtual reality skin in the game we are never more like him than when have skin in the game of humanities pain and suffering.

Do you have any skin in the game?

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If you have NO skin in the game then you’re not in the game.

You may be at the game, believe in the game, know people in the game or even be an expert in the game but if you have no skin in it your a spectator.

Jesus was the ultimate skin in the game leader and we his church come from a long line of skin in the game believers and pioneers and martyrs.

In this age of entitlement and virtual reality skin in the game we are never more like him than when have skin in the game of humanities pain and suffering.

Do you have any skin in the game?

Thank you for listening to the Growing Big People with Paul Scanlon podcast, we want to hear from you so please keep in touch with us and share your thoughts on this episode with Paul on his social media - @PaulScanlonuk

Don't forget to subscribe, and leave us your review.

Thank you for listening to the Growing Big People with Paul Scanlon podcast, we want to hear from you so please keep in touch with us and share your thoughts on this episode with Paul on his social media - @PaulScanlonuk

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On only one occasion Paul uses the term AMBASSADOR to describe the nature of his calling.

I believe that this metaphor  more than any other he used gives us rare insight into how Paul was able to persevere in the face of so much personal suffering.

All ambassadors have something called DIPLOMATIC IMMUNITY. This immunity is only possible because ambassadors live in one place but are resourced from another.

We are Ambassadors of heaven but we have not understood or enjoyed our diplomatic immunity. If there was ever a time to grasp this concept it’s now!

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On only one occasion Paul uses the term AMBASSADOR to describe the nature of his calling.

I believe that this metaphor  more than any other he used gives us rare insight into how Paul was able to persevere in the face of so much personal suffering.

All ambassadors have something called DIPLOMATIC IMMUNITY. This immunity is only possible because ambassadors live in one place but are resourced from another. We are Ambassadors of heaven but we have not understood or enjoyed our diplomatic immunity. If there was ever a time to grasp this concept it’s now!

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I’m thrilled to be releasing my new SERVANT LEADERSHIP video series.
I’ve never known a time at both the macro global level and the micro daily customer service level where an issue has ever been more pervasive.
We are experiencing a global revolution against all forms of non servant leadership and i for one am happy to be a part of it.
We are sick and tired of a world that for generations has kept promoting people into leadership roles who were never servants in the first place.
You can bolt leadership onto servanthood later, but you can’t bolt servanthood onto leadership later.

We want to be led by people who lead as they would want to be led, and serve as they’d want to be served.
This video series has been a huge labour of love and it is my contribution to this massive human need that we all have of feeling appreciated and served by those who lead us.

Peloton is a cycling term that describes the main group of riders who’s role is to escort, chaperone and bodyguard their principle rider to victory.

The PELOTON exists to surround the sprinter so that their bodies absorb the wind and reduce the drag on him. They conserve his energy at the expense of their own until the final seconds when he breaks for the finish line.

These people may not just be friends, staff or colleagues, they are strategic alliances committed to your success.

Every human needs a PELOTON we all need people physically and/or virtually who are our squad our platoon ushering us towards a winning life.

David had Jonathan and his mighty men.

Jonathan had his armour bearer.

Jesus had his apostles and Mary & Martha.

Paul had Timothy, Silas and his apostolic team.

WHO’S YOURS? … where are the people who’ve being sent to help you win?

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Hidden seasons are those times in your life where you can feel isolated and even invisible to others who used to notice you. Hidden seasons are times when God "hides" you as it were in order for you to press RESET on your life to prepare you for your next season.

These seasons are terrifying and not done well by most of us and so it's important for me to give you my take on them.  Jesus spent 30 years hidden in plane site as preparation for just 3 years of public profile. His brilliant but short life was the result of decades spent in strategic hiding and inner development. 

Maybe you're in a hidden season and if so there's three things I want you to know and understand in this video called hidden seasons.

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Peloton is a cycling term that describes the main group of riders who’s role is to escort, chaperone and bodyguard their principle rider to victory.

The PELOTON exists to surround the sprinter so that their bodies absorb the wind and reduce the drag on him. They conserve his energy at the expense of their own until the final seconds when he breaks for the finish line.

These people may not just be friends, staff or colleagues, they are strategic alliances committed to your success.

Every human needs a PELOTON we all need people physically and/or virtually who are our squad our platoon ushering us towards a winning life.

David had Jonathan and his mighty men.

Jonathan had his armour bearer.

Jesus had his apostles and Mary & Martha.

Paul had Timothy, Silas and his apostolic team.

WHO’S YOURS? … where are the people who’ve being sent to help you win?

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Another strategy tip for a great year! 

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LOVE IS NOT A GIFT IT’S A BATON…based on the parable of the unmerciful servant who received mercy but didn’t pass it on … once batons become owned love stops flowing…we are carriers of the baton of love, grace, mercy and forgiveness not keepers… church history has been the erratic story of a church that’s either passed the baton on or kept and warehoused it.

Nobody owns the baton

Batons can’t be handled twice

Batons can’t be dropped

Batons are passed in motion

Batons must be passed in a zone.. delayed passing like delayed love is a fail.

Selective love

Controlling love

Conditional love

Protected love

Manipulative love

Coercive love … are not valid batons.

WE ARE SERVANTS OF THE BATON and few things make God as angry as when people who’ve received his love, mercy, grace and forgiveness…don’t pass it on.

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Another strategy tip for having a great year!

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We all need some crazy people in our lives, I don’t mean weird or unbalanced but people who think outside the box and when others are saying it can’t be done they say why don’t we try this! Sane is overrated when it comes to needing a breakthrough.

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Another strategy for a great year!

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The Adjustment Bureau is heavens alterations service. Sometimes the way that we interpret our lives is so inaccurate that God decides to intervene by editing our inner narrative. 

The way that Joseph saw his life was recorded in the naming of his two sons MANASSEH and EPRAIM. Manasseh his first born means ‘DELIVERANCE’ and Ephraim his second born means ‘FRUITFUL’.

In other words Joseph perceived his life and journey as one where God delivered him from all his troubles which then enabled him to become fruitful.  Enter JACOB ( who’d suffered all his life due to a flawed narrative) who on behalf of Gods Adjustment Bureau whilst praying his patriarchal blessing over his grandchildren suddenly CROSSES HIS HANDS. Jacob reverses the order and forever alters the narrative.  Joseph had got the order wrong because as far as God was concerned it wasn’t his deliverance that made Joseph fruitful (Manasseh) but it was Joseph’s fruitfulness (Ephraim) that led to his deliverance.

FRUITFULNESS ALWAYS PRECEDES DELIVERANCE.   Stop UNCROSSING GODS HANDS! ... Stop waiting for your life to improve before you can contribute, you don’t need deliverance to be fruitful your fruitfulness is your deliverance.

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Another strategy tip for a great yea!

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There’s three perspectives of you, there’s what lots people know about you or we could say the PUBLIC YOU. There’s what only you know about you or the PRIVATE YOU.

Then there’s what others know about you that you don’t know about you and that’s called a BLIND SPOT.

We all have blind spots personally and corporately and this teaching analyses both their structural nature and causes. It’s not about eradication but awareness and management of our blind spots.

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Number 7 of my 10 strategies for a great year!

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In this episode Paul shares about speaking with his parents for the first time in 30 years. 

Thank you to all those who have commented about how this has helped you, please help me share this with those who it can help. 

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The Centurion Factor is the kind of faith that gets God to do things nobody knew he could, would, or should do.

Centurion Factor People are outside the box thinkers, game changers and God amazers.

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You and your thinking are not the same thing. You are not a hostage to your own trains of thought.

You don’t need to board that train anymore because you don’t live or have any business where that trains going. 

You can change trains, tracks and schedules and you can even control who your fellow travellers are. 

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“YOU CAN ONLY RESCUE SO MANY DROWNING PEOPLE FROM THE RIVER BEFORE YOU HAVE TO GO UPSTREAM TO FIND OUT WHO’S PUSHING THEM IN”

(Archbishop Desmond Tutu)

This is a message about how the world is waking up to the realisation that the long term answer to humanities troubles isn’t RESCUE BUT RE-EDUCATION.

It’s: PREVENTION NOT CURE,

CAUSES NOT EFFECTS

We have to stop building organisations, businesses and churches that MAJOR on encounter and intervention and MINOR on education and prevention.

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You can’t get to awesome, without going through average!

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THE SHIBBOLETHS THAT DIVIDE US. 

Shibboleths are any custom, belief, principle or even jargon and methodologies that separate us.

In the bible story where we first find the word it cost thousands of men their lives just because they couldn’t pronounce ‘shibboleth’ 

We live in a very divided world full of shibboleths that are still separating millions of us. 

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Communication tip - Beware stereotyping!

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ERRONEOUS TRANSFER was a term I’d never heard until I called my energy supplier to complain about my consistently high electricity bill. 

They told me that I was involved in an erroneous transfer with my neighbour which means that I was paying his much higher electricity bill and he was paying my lower bill. They told me that these ET’S can go undetected for years and it’s only the consumer who can detect it because as far as the energy companies are concerned everyone’s paying them so they don’t care.

It occurred to me that all of us are to some degree involved In relational erroneous transfers. Many of us are paying for someone’s else’s drama, hurt and high maintenance emotional costs.

If you feel like your life has a disproportionate amount of energy use going on then maybe someone close to you is tapping into your supply and making you pay for their high usage.  It’s time we all paid our own bills 👊

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Take a drama break!

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This message is about mastering the art of ADAPTABILITY and BLENDING IN so that we can serve and influence those who don’t share our worldview. The apostle Paul became all things to all men...

Moses blended in for years so did Esther, Joseph and Daniel. KING DAVID ‘CHAMELEONED’ himself by giving an Oscar winning performance as a MAD MAN in order to disguise himself, avoid detection and survive behind enemy lines.

Being a CHAMELEON is also about being smart and versatile enough to reinvent and reposition in order to remain relevant and achieve longevity. IF WE CAN’T CHAMELEON WE WON’T LAST ?

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Following the feeding of the 5000 Jesus instructed the disciples to gather all the LEFTOVERS he was adamant that their should be no waste.

There’s always a miracle in what you don’t want, need or have too much of. Leftovers are the for those who weren’t there, weren’t included or couldn’t make it and from the moment Jesus broke the first piece of bread he was thinking about the leftovers.

So much of the church is totally spoiled we have far too much bread and instead of giving away to the hungry what we don’t need we just keep getting fatter.  If just a crumb from our tables fell into some people’s lives it would be like an entire banquet to them.

There’s a miracle amongst the ‘RECYCLED’ blessings of our lives. There’s a miracle amongst the discarded people that nobody wants, and that was once maybe you that someone included. God is a God of the leftovers and we must be too!! 

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Brene Brown writes about ‘common enemy intimacy’ as a fake connection between humans. 

To gather around what we both hate instead of love is no work at all. It is effortless to bond with fellow haters but that bond is inauthentic and dangerous.

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God told the 100 year old childless Abram to look up and try to count the stars because his descendants would be that numerous. Those stars became his imaginary friends, those stars were us and millions like us.

We are the only species on the planet blessed with the amazing gift of imagination and yet as we age we use it less and less. Imagination is our off ramp from today’s cruel reality.

Imagination is itself a huge act of courage and I want to share with you some of the imaginary friends who have journeyed with me and kept me company in some of my toughest seasons over the past 20 years. 

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Solomon tells us in the book of Proverbs that where there’s no OXEN the manger or work place is clean.

I know that’s all a bit too agricultural for most of us but metaphorically it’s still so true today.

In other words the OX is ugly, smelly, sweaty and poohs everywhere. But above all it’s PRODUCTIVE! No sweat no productivity...so don’t ever be afraid of or apologise for the ugliness of pure hard work.

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TYRANNY IS THE DELIBERATE REMOVAL OF NUANCE. The word NUANCE is from the French word meaning ‘shades’ and in this very divided world we need to appreciate different shades more than ever. Everything has become either/or…for/against…good/bad…black/white…true/false….right/wrong…gay/straight…us/them….in/out…Brexit/remain…Republican/Democrat…guns/no guns…Palestine/Israel…etc… If you’re not convinced just try posting your shade of perspective on anything & prepare to be trolled.

The Apostle Paul writes to the very divided multicultural church in Rome who were judging each other about certain foods, holy days and rituals. He concludes that all these things are ‘DISPUTABLE MATTERS’ or subject to NUANCE and it was the deliberate removal of any allowance for nuance that created the social pressure to ‘take sides’ in the church.

He went on to teach us that in Christ there’s no Jew/gentile…male/female…slave/free… but that we are all ONE in the ‘NUANCE ALLOWING’ CHRIST JESUS Tyranny is when I control the debate and deny you any grey because I’m addicted to black or white. Nuance is the difference between allowing my first impressions to shut me down and realising there’s far more information and perspective here that I would benefit from knowing. Do you like GREEN? .. if so which one?

There are over 500 official shades of green. But that becomes over one MILLION when you factor in how we each perceive colours differently through our own unique photoreceptors (remember that internet dress?) We go to war over ‘green’ not realising that we actually all love green, just different shades. There is no right or wrong GREEN! God so loved the world that he didn’t create one shade of anything. Lets not build lives or churches that deliberately remove nuance…it’s a TYRANNY.

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Left handed leadership in a right handed world is about what the 90% right handed world can learn from the 10% left handers.  Left handers despite their tiny minority have had a massive effect on human history.

Militarily, architecturally, musically and in sports, politics and the highest levels of leadership south paws have had a huge disproportionate influence on mankind’s evolution.  This message looks into the neuroscience of how the brain is cross wired and the implications of that for right handed left brain people vs left handed right brain people.

It’s another subject who’s time has come because the world has already entered a whole new era which is replacing the Information Age and this new world order favours left handers who are right brain dominant.

I want to speak to our right handed world about the need for us to develop more right brain skills in order for us to flourish in this new era. 

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IF YOU DON’T UNDERSTAND MY STRUGGLE YOU WILL MISUNDERSTAND MY STRENGTH

A persons strength is governed by the struggle they're in. Because we are more aware of the strength than we are of the struggle behind it we often misread them.  If you can't find out more about someone's struggle than don't be quick to miss judge the strength they must have to survive that struggle.

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he difference between liberation and freedom is an enemy not a friend. Friends create comfort but enemies create movement. Without an enemy your present is permanent.

God used Pharaoh and the bricks without straw scenario to force movement amongst a people who had become attached to an enemy they thought couldn’t get any worse.

The problem wasn’t ‘Let my people go’ it was WILL MY PEOPLE LET GO? Liberation often requires an irritation for it to become freedom and a bricks without straw situation will always do the job.

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Maybe you keep choosing to live in jail but don’t realise it. You don’t realise it because you feel ‘free’ in the company of friendly jailers.

It feels safer living inside the cell of certain people’s acceptance and approvals, than it does to break out and risk their rejection. I pray that you will find the courage to leave your ‘friends’ prison because a smiling jailer is still your enemy.

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STEP OUT OF STUCK based on the encounter Jesus had with the severely disabled man waiting for a miracle at the pool of Bethesda in John 5. This poor man was not only paralysed and stuck physically but also mentally emotionally and relationally. He was STUCK because he had spent decades at Bethesda, a place that was rigged for failure and disappointment.

I’m using BETHESDA as a metaphor for anytime you’ve got stuck in your life. Bethesda can be any place, person or situation that promises breakthrough whilst locking you into a system, structure and culture that denies your breakthrough. 

BETHESDA is a place of highly organised failure and systemic disappointment. Many people are stuck in life by their highly organised fear, guilt, shame, anger, regret and failure. This severely disabled man waiting for a miracle at Bethesda didn’t realise that his miracle would be in leaving Bethesda the problem WAS Bethesda.

Jesus told him to STEP OUT OF STUCK.. leave the system and go home and millions of us need to do the same.  Don’t keep surrendering your life to other people’s Bethesda’s and leaders stop creating Bethesda churches and organisations.

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John tells us that Jesus wouldn’t entrust himself to people because he knew what people were like. (John 2v24)

I call this always keeping a little 2% of you back that you never give to another person. A piece of you that you never entrust to anyone but God. 

That 2% is the management of your expectations about humans. It’s for your personal Gethsemane’s when they will let you down. 

It’s for the crosses that you must face alone. 

This 2% could be the difference between fulfilling your destiny and quitting because of who quit on you. 

KEEP 2% IN RESERVE 🙏🏼 

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A ‘Transition Generation’ is one who has to be the bridge of continuity between the past and future.  In any war the enemy always targets the bridges first because bridges connect, supply and bring together. The greatest transition generation of all time the children of Israel have a few priceless lessons to teach all future transition generations.

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Five insights about leading creatives and being creative
1: Drill sergeant, fan club president and therapist.
2: Tranquility breeds creativity
3: Creativity is the opposite of helplessness
4: we are all creative
5: creativity is divinity in disguise

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Discover 5 strategies for overcoming imposter syndrome and share with those in your world!

As many as 70% of us suffer from Imposter syndrome, many of them are women in a mans world like business or politics.
Imposter syndrome is the persistent fear of being exposed as a fraud, despite evidence of competence and success.

Many famous and extremely successful people suffer with imposter syndrome so clearly its power is not weakened by status or achievement. In my insta live I want to help you realise that you’re not alone, you’re not an imposter and how you can manage this often crippling fear.

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God told Zachariah not to despise small beginnings, because small, fragile, unstable, and unsupported beginnings can be so despicable.

If God warns us not to despise our beginning it’s because he knows something about beginnings that we don’t. He knows that hidden within the hardship of beginnings are things you can never learn in middles or endings and that despising robs us of discovering them. What you despise can’t grow you and the unique growth carefully concealed within our beginnings is too precious to surrender to the pain that results in a despising attitude.

The preparation for all your endings and outcomes Is hidden in your despicable beginnings. All the beautiful OMEGAS destined for your life are embedded in the loneliness of your ugly ALPHAS.

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Meaning isn’t found its forged and yet there are so many people who offer meanings to explain and tidy up life.

Destiny and meaning are two different things God decides destiny but you decide meaning. A flawed meaning can derail destiny because our meaning becomes our identity and our story. Listen and find some wisdom for forging meaning and building identity.

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Winners keep winning because they regularly quit.

The difference between quitters and winners isn’t that one quits and the others don’t, it’s that winners quit strategically not reactionary.

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This message is for anyone living in the agonising delay between tragedy striking and God intervening. It’s about the times in our lives when God seems absent, invisible, deaf, silent and indifferent to our pain and suffering. Abraham, Moses, Joseph, Job and Jeremiah to name but a few have all endured the pain of apparent “PASSIVE OMNIPOTENCE” so you’re in good company.

This message is not for the faint hearted nor is it for those whose God is too fragile to be questioned or criticised by humanity.  Are you or is someone you know living in THE AGONY OF DIVINE DELAY… if so this for you.

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This was ‘THE’ defining issue in the early church and in my opinion it’s still a huge issue for us.  God accepts us without first requiring any change from us, because his acceptance can’t be earned, it’s a grace gift.

We however have behaved as if acceptance belongs to us and we can charge people what we want for it. Acceptance precedes change and that is and always will be the at the heart of the gospel!

We gotta stop charging people for what we freely received!

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Your taste in people will improve the more you appreciate you!

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Based on the book by the same title, this looks at how to become long term financially strong.

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There is no I in team…but there are 5 in Individual Brilliance.

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Opinions come with energies attached, in fact the energy is often far stronger than the opinion.

An opinion fades in the memory but its energy lingers in the soul so stay away from OPINIONATED PEOPLE.

It’s not their opinion that troubles you weeks later it’s the toxicity of their energy that they left in your soul.

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Cathedrals took over 200 years to build. The cathedral in your heart is about committing to dreams and visions that we know we will never live to see finished.

It’s about planting trees under whose shade you will never sit but your children and their children will. It’s about generationally infused thinking and living. What cathedral is in your heart?

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Every problem has within it a solution, and we are hardwired for solutions, you are a problem-solving machine.

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Forgiveness doesn’t mean that you have to rebuild the relationship as if to prove how forgiving you really are.

Sometimes the best you can do and all you should do is set yourself free and wish them well from afar.  

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Every problem has within it a solution, and we are hardwired for solutions, you are a problem-solving machine.

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iChurch is a lesson about generational interface from my experience of trying to get my new iPad and older laptop to connect and communicate.

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Opinions come with energies attached, in fact the energy is often far stronger than the opinion.

An opinion fades in the memory but its energy lingers in the soul so stay away from OPINIONATED PEOPLE.

It’s not their opinion that troubles you weeks later it’s the toxicity of their energy that they left in your soul.

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Living with an ever enlarging circle of love.

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These ten strategies are not willpower based New Year’s resolutions or goals they are intentional actions that will strengthen your body, soul and spirit. 

They are ten things that are aimed at assisting your personal development at every level of life. 

I hope you can join me for what’s going to be the best 45 minutes investment of your new year and maybe even your entire 2019!

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What we call Christianity was created by people not God.

Jesus is bigger than Christianity, he’s not a joiner of groups or the head of a denomination. He’s not a fan of religion which Christianity has often been reduced to. 

All forms of tribalism were created by us including denominationalism. 

I’m a Christian but that doesn’t define me or Jesus or you. 

I love and follow Jesus but often Christianity tells me how, where and when to do that like an instruction manual for an object I bought. 

Let’s not reduce Jesus to our Christian tribe or any tribe. If Jesus has a group it’s the humanity group.

The cross was not for the church, it was for the world. 

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These ten strategies are not willpower based New Year’s resolutions or goals they are intentional actions that will strengthen your body, soul and spirit. 

They are ten things that are aimed at assisting your personal development at every level of life. 

I hope you can join me for what’s going to be the best 45 minutes investment of your new year and maybe even your entire 2019!

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Do you need to simplify your life?

Complexity is costly on many fronts mentally, emotionally, relationally and financially and we really can’t afford it.

Here’s 7 ways to simplify your life. 

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We don't stop playing because we grow old, we grow old because we stop playing.

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In this divided world commit to finding common ground with people who see things differently to you.
Unlike uncommon ground common ground has to be sought after because we are increasingly defaulting to our differences.
You have more in common with people than you think.

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We were all created in the image of God; therefore God has a self image. We are like God and God is like us. Often our self image is unrealistic, we think ourselves capable of or ready for something we aren’t.

Like Peter promising he would never forsake Jesus, then denied him three times; we too can have an unrealistic self image. The great news is that grace holds us between images, between where we are and where we want to be.

This teaching also deals with our need for self awareness in discovering our unique God given personality type.

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We were all created in the image of God; therefore God has a self image. We are like God and God is like us. Often our self image is unrealistic, we think ourselves capable of or ready for something we aren’t.

Like Peter promising he would never forsake Jesus, then denied him three times; we too can have an unrealistic self image. The great news is that grace holds us between images, between where we are and where we want to be.

This teaching also deals with our need for self awareness in discovering our unique God given personality type.

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We were all created in the image of God; therefore God has a self image. We are like God and God is like us. Often our self image is unrealistic, we think ourselves capable of or ready for something we aren’t.

Like Peter promising he would never forsake Jesus, then denied him three times; we too can have an unrealistic self image. The great news is that grace holds us between images, between where we are and where we want to be.

This teaching also deals with our need for self awareness in discovering our unique God given personality type.

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Be intentional about endings because a weak finish can hinder a strong start. Endings don’t have to be pretty or tidy some are like tying down a tent rope in a storm at night.

The environment is often too hostile and you don’t have the the luxury of lots of time or light to do a neat job on the ropes.  Tie things up best you can and move on. 

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Excellence is the Cinderella of Church life.
One of my greatest challenges as a pastor here in the north of England was to create a culture of excellence in everything we did.
Having seen so many churches being run by the two ugly step sisters of ‘it’ll do’ and ‘good enough’ I was determined to at least attempt to build a place of excellence despite being volunteer dependent and having no corporate leverage.
In fact the only excellence that counts is voluntary excellence ie excellence that comes from within not from some external coercion.
It’s time we brought Cinderella from below stairs and kicked out her ugly sisters.

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In this interview Tom and I speak on the topic of Communication, for all communication fields from public speaking, one on one, small groups, to social media etc.

Here are some of the questions we chat about.

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In this part we talk about the importance of creating margin in your life, an inner space between your sweet spot and burn out.
We talk about the importance of doing more of what you love.
The self awareness of Jesus and God's desire to live his life through us not in-spite of us.

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In this edition Tom and I discuss the importance of developing Self Awareness.
We talk about developing a relationship with yourself, learning to live from the inside out rather than from outside in.
We are not thermometers simply reflecting our external environment but rather through self awareness we can be thermostatic controllers of our responses to life.

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In this interview, Tom asks me questions that I often get asked by young professionals around the world like.

Calling vs career, work/life balance and how to be entrepreneurial when surrounded by employed people. 

How to manage full time employment and feed your entrepreneurial drive? 

What excites me about the younger generation?

What would I say to a younger me?

and what was my greatest failure? 

And more...

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In this interview, Tom asks me questions that I often get asked by young professionals around the world like.

Calling vs career, work/life balance and how to be entrepreneurial when surrounded by employed people. 

How to manage full time employment and feed your entrepreneurial drive? 

What excites me about the younger generation?

What would I say to a younger me?

and what was my greatest failure? 

And more...

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