A Conversation of Hope With Brett
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A Conversation of Hope With Brett
It's A Lifelong Quest to Master This...But it's Worth It
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This episode centers on the transformative power of self-discipline and how it can lead to long-term success, confidence, emotional control, and personal freedom in every area of life—from health to relationships to career. The host encourages listeners to show themselves grace in their pursuit of discipline, reminding them that consistency, not perfection, is key and that even setbacks are normal. Stories of kindness and inspiration, like a dog’s heartfelt last meal and a 94-year-old woman reuniting with someone she saved decades earlier, highlight the impact of compassion and purpose. The episode ends with motivational quotes, a weekly kindness challenge, and uplifting affirmations aimed at helping listeners believe in their worth, their future, and their ability to dream big.
Brendon Burchard: "I'm a Happy Man; I'm Ready to Serve"
Lisa Nichols - Your Fear is a Liar
Terri Savelle - 20 Truths I Wish I Knew in My 20's
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Welcome to a conversation of hope with Christ. This podcast is all about you. To remind you that you are the masterpiece. To inspire you to join again. To equip you with simple simple strategies for some stuff. Strategy you can start using today. To begin your journey toward the incredible life. A lot of colorful stories of comments of this.
SPEAKER_00Welcome, welcome. Thank you for taking your valuable time to tune into a conversation of hope. As always, right from the jump, I want to remind you you are enough.
SPEAKER_01You have what it takes. You are amazing. You're smart. You're a masterpiece. You're a one-off, caring, courageous, victorious, and a champion. And your absolute best days are ahead of you. Once again, the number one reason I do this podcast is to encourage you. I want to give you encouragement and hope. No matter what you're going through right now, you can rise above it and finish strong. And hats off to you already. You're tuning into some podcasts that are going to motivate and inspire you and give you hope. So that alone tells me you're going to be just fine. That is so awesome. There's hundreds of great podcasts out there that will help you, inspire you, and motivate you. Keep that input going in, the positive input. Your input will determine your output. All right, y'all. The topic of this week is something everyone can do, but it's not easy. And that's okay because some of the best things in life aren't easy, but they're definitely worth it. It will be an ongoing challenge till the day you die, but it is absolutely going to be worth mastering when you can have lethal self-discipline. Your life will be infinitely better. Self-discipline applied to diet, exercise, finances, relationships, businesses, spiritual growth is so powerful to helping you have the life that you have always wanted. And here's one of the things on this is please give yourself grace and mercy on this as you're trying to start something new. And maybe, like I said, maybe it's a diet, or maybe it's setting a certain aside amount every week for savings or whatever it might be. Just know that there is no human being walking planet Earth that is absolutely completely perfect on this. So when you do have hiccups mistakes, you make a mistake, you don't do what you want to do, maybe you had sugar that day, you were trying not to. Please don't beat yourself up over it. Realize we're all in the same boat. You just get up the next day and you do it again. And if you can be, honestly, in life, if you can be 80 to 85% consistent on things that you're really working hard at, you are in the top 5%, literally. And I know you can do it. Like I said, you're listening to this podcast, I know you can, but please just know that there is no perfect person out there that's able to do everything completely perfect every single day. Just get up, get a tad bit better the next day, and you will be just fine. Always remember life is always about balance. Just have that balance. So here we go. The power of having great self-discipline in your life cannot be overstated. It is one of the most critical traits for achieving long-term success, happiness, and fulfillment. Self-discipline is the ability to control your impulses, your emotions, desires, and behavior to achieve a higher goal, often requiring consistent effort over time, even in the face of discomfort or temptation. All right, let's take a look at kind of a detailed explanation of why self-discipline is so powerful and transformative. It enables long-term success over short-term pleasure. Self-discipline allows you to resist the temptation of instant gratification in favor of long-term benefits. This is foundational in financial success, choosing to save and invest rather than spend impulsively. Career growth, persisting through hard work and rejection to develop expertise and your health, eating well, exercising, and sleeping properly, even when it's inconvenient. Without discipline, people often trade long-term gains for fleeting comfort. Another thing it does is it builds confidence and self-respect. Each time you follow through on a commitment, you reinforce your own trustworthiness to yourself over time that this builds self-confidence. You prove to yourself that you are capable of setting and achieving goals. I remember when I was about eight months out from turning 50. And I just, for some reason, this became this huge deal to me. Man, I was like, oh my God, I'm almost 50. I need to, you know, drop some weight and I need to have what I've always talked in my head about having as far as the health that I wanted to have. And so it was kind of neat by having that deadline of 50 years old, May 24th was my birthday. And so just worked towards that month after month. And I literally ate better than I had my entire life, dropped to the best weight I've ever had. And the coolest thing about it, literally, that I gained out of all of it, was not where my weight ended up. It was the self-confidence that I got from going, wow, Brett, you actually did what you said you were going to do. It really does build your self-confidence to have that self-discipline. You also get self-respect, living in alignment with your values and not being controlled by your impulses or distractions. People with discipline are generally more secure in themselves because they know they're living with purpose. Self-discipline enhances focus and productivity. Discipline helps you eliminate distractions and direct your attention where it matters most. It leads to better time management, prioritizing important tasks over procrastination, higher quality work, sustained focus means fewer errors and deep thinking, increased output, discipline enables consistency and consistency in what produces results over time. Another thing is emotionally emotional control. Self-discipline includes regulating emotions, not suppressing them, but managing them wisely. This contributes to better relationships, avoiding reacting, reactive behaviors like anger and jealousy, also greater resilience, responding to stress or failure with calm rather than panic, and mental strength. Not being easily thrown off course by moods or emotions or external pressures. A disciplined person tends to be reliable. This has huge benefits in both personal and professional life. Trustworthiness. Others learn they can count on you to follow through. When you say you're gonna do something, you do it. Sometimes I tell my kids and stuff, man, if you say you're gonna do it, they should be able to carve it in stone. It is gonna happen. That is reality. Leadership. Discipline is foundational to leading by example. The best leadership training you'll ever do is the example that you set for everyone else. You want to be that person that they can model the behavior and have success. Credibility, your words and actions align, which builds respect. And then uh also another reason that you know self-discipline is so awesome, it strengthens decision making. With discipline, decisions are guided by reason and principle, not emotion or social pressure. This leads to better judgment, long-term thinking over impulsive choices, consistency, you make decisions aligned with your goals and values, and reduced regret. You have fewer bad choices that lead to negative consequences. Self-discipline also leads to personal freedom. Ironically, discipline is what gives you the most freedom. Why? Freedom from addiction, whether it's from food, technology, or harmful habits, freedom from chaos. Structure allows you to be in control of your life, freedom to pursue your dreams. You can stay on track and do what's necessary to reach big goals. And then last thing is self-discipline creates momentum and hat and habits. And we talked about how powerful habits are in the last podcast, but they're ever they're just everything. Once you practice self-discipline consistently, it becomes a habit, meaning it gets easier over time. Positive feedback loop. The more you stick to good habits, the easier it gets. And it's true. Automatic behavior. What was once hard becomes part of your identity. And compounding growth, small discipline actions each day lead to massive change over time. So you're like, hey, Brett, that's nice. But I kind of struggle in this. And trust me, everyone does at any given time. I think about some of the people I've heard, they hit superstar status and they were super successful. And they talk about how they after they became super successful, they didn't have the self-discipline that they had to get them to reach that success. And they couldn't stopped doing a lot of the habits they did every day. And then they woke up about a year or two years later and went, Man, I gotta get back to all the things that I used to do that made me successful. So at any given time, anybody can slip away from having that edge with self-discipline. So if you've lost it or if you're struggling with it, you don't, you're just normal. That's just that's okay. We can get right back on track. So how do I develop great self-discipline? You set clear goals, know exactly what you're working towards. Start small, build discipline like a muscle, begin with manageable tasks, use routines and structure, reduce decision fatigue by planning ahead. I think about meals. Whenever I plan out my meals for the week, I'm a hundred percent more successful than if I just randomly every day go, I wonder what I'm gonna have for lunch. Track progress, keep yourself accountable. That which is tracked improves. Daily gratification, practice saying no or later to some of the urges that come up with you. A lot of times, if I'm like, oh my gosh, I want to go eat that brownie, I just have some water and it'll pass. We'll be fine. Surround yourself with the right environment, minimize distractions and temptations, and then forgive failures, but stay consistent. Discipline is about persistence, not perfection. I love that. That is so true. All right, great discipline is the bridge between dreams and reality. Because you can dream about stuff all day long, but if you don't have a game plan and stick to it, it's never going to be your reality. It empowers you to make choices that align with your highest values and aspirations rather than being at the mercy of your mood or circumstances. Whether you're aiming to build wealth, improve your health, master a craft, or be a better person, self-discipline is what sustains the journey. Wow. Good stuff, y'all. And like I said, have grace and mercy on yourself as you get better and better with self-discipline. But it's definitely worth working on. And it's like anything else, like any other muscle in your body, it's it's like a muscle in your body as far as like if you work on it consistently, it will improve. All right, here we go. Quotes of the week. These are from Zig Ziggler, and it's on encouragement. So when someone we love is having difficulty and is giving us a bad time, it's better to explore the cause than to criticize the action. Man, that is so true. There's a reason maybe they're lashing out and stuff. Something might be going on. Once again, give them grace and mercy. And then another one, take time to be quiet. Uh, that is so powerful when you especially nowadays with all the things we have coming at us. When you can unplug from everything and literally just sit and be with yourself, it's pretty, pretty amazing. Obstacles are the things we see when we take our eyes off the goal. Oh, that's pretty true, huh? If we just stay focused on what we want as the outcome, we won't get distracted with all the other things. The best thing a parent can do for a child is to love his or her spouse. That's a big deal. I totally agree with that. Model that behavior that you want to see in your kids. Your mate doesn't live by bread alone. He or she needs to be buttered up from time to time. I love it. Life gets so busy and man, it moves so fast. Sometimes we forget to just go, you know what? Let's do some of the same things that we did when we were courting each other. And man, just bless that significant other that the spouse in a big way. Other people and things can stop you temporarily, but you're the only one who can stop you permanently. My goodness, is that correct? All right. Those were our quotes of the week. Good stuff there. And now, for our jokes of the week. Oh my goodness, here we go, here we go. I wondered why the baseball was getting closer and closer, and then it hit me. Alright, I know. Corny stuff. Okay. Did you hear about the guy who was addicted to the hokey pokey? The guy who was addicted to the hokey pokey. Well, it turns out he turned himself around. I know. Okay, we'll keep moving forward. Maybe I should exit that that part of the segment, but I think we'll I think we'll be good. Alright, here we go. Stories of the week. The first one. Woman in her 90s reunites with toddler. She saved from drowning 64 years ago. Wow, that's kind of cool. So when she was in her 90s, she was reunited with someone that she saved from drowning 64 years ago. A woman who rescued a drowning toddler from a pool has met him again for just the second time in 64 years. CBS San Diego was live at the reunion organized by the siblings of Ben Calwell, now 66, with his savior, Barbara, now 94. She was Barbara Urban back then in 1961 when she made the front page of the San Diego Sentinel. In her 30s, she was attending a party when word spread through the guests that a baby had vanished. Fanning out to search the neighborhood, she says she doesn't know why she picked the house she did, but it was the right one. Twenty-one month-old Calwell had wandered about a block away from the party and fell into the pool. Oh my goodness. Holy moly. Riberia described the scene of Colwell's body down on the bottom of the pool as scary, frightening. She jumped in, pulled him out, and performed both mouth to mouth and CPR on the instructions of a neighbor who knew how. Though the families kept in touch, it wasn't long before Calwell's family moved out of San Diego area. Meeting each other for the first time in 64 years, Riberio had warned the TV crews she was liable to cry. Saying, Hello, hello, young man. Now a business owner and father of two, Calwell said, It was so nice to see her. Yeah, the only thing that I had ever heard someone say, I think it was my mom telling me that when you guys found me, there wasn't any bubbles coming up. No one knew how long that he had been down there. When I really think about it, I think the hand of God said Ben, that's what made it happen. He made sure I made it for some reason. That is so awesome. What a great story. And I believe the same thing. It had to be the hand of God for her to find him at a bottom of a pool in another house. That is uh that's pretty divine direction right there. All right, another story for us. Texas Roadhouse cooks dog's last meal. Owner is blown away by the restaurant's care. From Pennsylvania comes the story of a man who had to make the difficult decision to put his dog down, but who wouldn't believe the send-off he received from the local Texas Roadhouse. Receiving a to-go order with a note that said, Last meal for our dog, the staff made sure it came through with the tender care of a dinner prepared by a family or a family member. Months ago, Hunter discovered that his 120-pound eight-year-old great dane Iris had cancer. None of the treatments worked, and it was decided that the dog would be euthanized. Following the great poet's words, however, Metzger was determined not to let his beloved pooch go gently into the good night. The day before in, friends and family arrived for a party in her honor to feed Iris treats and shower her with affection. For dinner, Metzger got the idea to order a fat juicy steak from Texas Roadhouse. He ordered her an eight-ounce New York strip, no seasoning, steak fries and mashed potatoes with butter, typing out in special instructions, last meal for our dog. Please prepare with love. My to go team actually saw the message, said Kate, the kitchen manager. I was like, oh my God, we need to make sure that this is the best meal we've ever made. When Metzger came in to retrieve it, the whole staff came out to offer condolences, blowing him away. The receipt apologized for his loss, signed by the members of the to-go kitchen staff, and to go container had the words made with love written in red marker. It just blew us away, Metster said. She was just put down later that night. And the next morning I happened to check my emails and saw that they had also refunded my meal. Golly, you guys, that's what we talk about. We talk about the golden rule living. And I mean, that is it to the T. Sometimes things come across our path where we can go next level. We can do things above and beyond for people. And I'll tell you what, when you do, and at the end of your life, you're really going to enjoy how it came out because that's what life was all about. Okay, everybody. Time for the top three podcast recap. The first one, Pete Carroll. You remember him as the Seattle Seahawks head coach. I think he won one Super Bowl. He talks about create a vision to that which you want to become. What would it look like to have the vision of being right in front of you? So you always got to see it what you want and believe it before you achieve it. Make adjustments to become who you want to be. Put it down on paper and commit to it. Have a vision of what you want to become. Picture it in your mind. That is so powerful. See it in your mind before you see it in real life. That is a really good podcast. That's our first one. They're always in the show notes. The second one, your fear is a liar. Do it anyway, says Lisa Nichols. I really like Lisa Nichols. She always has really good content. And boy, is she passionate. So she says, be willing to die to yourself so that you can become the best version of yourself. The doorway is for you to fit through, not everyone. Like your dream that's in your heart might not be someone else's dream. So someone, even if they're telling you, I don't think that's going to happen, or what you should do, that's okay for them to have the opinion, but definitely don't let it stop you. She says, our job is to like us first before we can care about the others in our lives. And she's right, you got to have that self-love before you can give it out. Listen to your soul and then leap. See what's in your heart, what's your desire, and then go after it. Don't be on the edge watching everyone else live their lives. Study and learn everything you need to know to be great. Your conviction and passion don't live on the same block. You can't have both. When I die, she says, I want to be running after my dreams. I love that. I am right there with you, Lisa. All right, number three, 20 truths I wish I knew in my 20s from Terry Savell. Number one, your repetition is your reputation. What you do daily builds your destiny. We've talked about that so much. It's those habits. Number two, the way you do anything is the way you do everything. Do excellence in everything that you do. I so agree on that. And just have that standard for yourself. Number three, your friends are the forecast of your future. Choose wisely. That is the absolute most wise statement. Oh my goodness. I see that with my kids when they were teenagers and stuff. Just your friends are the forecast of your future. Choose wisely. So you want to be around people that do think big, dream big. And you are, because you're listening to this. That is awesome. Number four, you don't owe everyone a TED talk when you say no. I love that. So sometimes you just set those boundaries and hey, we really need to do this, we really need to do that. Blah, blah, blah, blah. You can go, no, no, no. I don't have time for that. And for me, it's like family first. So if things are taking away from my family's time, I always evaluate it tremendously. Number five, nothing changes until you change. Take action. That is so true. A lot of times, and myself included, my goodness, you think about, well, I'm going to do this or someday I'm going to do that. And even the podcast, you know, I thought about this for two and a half years before I actually did it. And my wife was a huge help on that. She saw that I was kind of a little depressed. I was like, honey, I don't know if I keep saying I'm going to do it. I don't know if I ever will. And it's like, well, I can help you out. So she's our producer and she does an amazing job. Alright, so those are the three. And don't forget on that last one, there's a list from Terry Seville on the full 20 truths. And they're all good. I literally went to it, I downloaded it, screenshotted it. It's definitely worth it. So if you get a chance, tune into the podcast. All three are very, very good. Okay, y'all. It's that time for the weekly challenge. And this one's kind of cool. I looked it up, and uh it is maybe do an act of kindness online. So I was like, I wonder what that looks like. So here's some ideas. Leave a positive comment on someone's post, share a small creator's content, report bullying or harmful content, donate to a cause you care about, write a kind review for a local business, reconnect with someone you lost touch with, offer free help in an online group or forum, promote someone else's project or business, share useful resources, start a kindness chain post. So those are some of the ideas. And as you know, life's an echo. You get back what you send out, and we'll read John Gordon's quote one more time. It's sitting here, so let's do it because it kind of really sums up quality life. And it says in the end, we won't be measured by our bank account, our sales number, or our wins and losses, but by the difference we made in people's lives, and we make a big difference through relationships. Don't neglect who matters most. Super powerful, and at the end of our lives, that really is all that matters. So here we go. Let's close this thing out. Once again, I appreciate each and every one of you. Thank you, thank you, thank you for tuning in. Your time is the most valuable asset you have, and you spent some time with me. Thank you for that. Let's look at what we got. I'm gonna speak some words of life over you, and like I said, when I do, please receive them. I know that you might be going through something really tough right now. Um, I would just encourage you, hang in there. There is light at the end of the tunnel. You will get through it, especially when you're, like I said, putting that positive input in and then just applying it. So you are amazing, you are smart, a masterpiece, a one-off, caring, courageous, victorious. You are a champion. Your absolute best days are ahead of you. Never ever stop dreaming and believing big for you and your family. And a real quick side note on that, I think it hit me like two years ago for my wife and I, Shannon. And uh my beliefs. So let's say I'm negative and I think scarcity and all that other stuff, my beliefs are gonna dramatically affect her. And I love her so much, I want to make sure that I'm believing big. I'm dreaming big for us and our family. And I want to make sure that I'm always putting out a positive image for the future. Because if I don't, that shortchanges her, and that's not fair to her. So always think about that as being in that family together, what you think about and how big you dream and believe, it affects everyone around you. So I love my people, my family so much that I want to make sure I'm always doing that. Thank you for being a part of our great community as we are on the road to a million. Uh I want to just remind you have an absolutely amazing week. I appreciate each and every one of you, and I'm thankful for you. And I know that yours and ours best days are ahead of us. So get excited about the future again. Let's dream big together and let's just have a magnificent year. All right, y'all. We'll talk to you next week.
SPEAKER_02Thank you once again for listening to a conversation of hope with Brett. Brett wants to remind you that you are loved and appreciated. If you found value in this episode and know someone who can use a little hope to encourage me, please like, and subscribe. Be sure to check out the show notes and link to Brett's top three podcasts in the video. And don't forget if Brett is offering a free copy of his book. Just send an email to gpdxfreedom at gmail.com to it. If you're Facebook and would like another perspective on how to navigate it, feel free to email us at gpdxfreedom at gmail.com. We'd love to help you. Until next time, wishing you and your family an incredible life and ultimately a great life because you yes, you deserve it.