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Joy and pain seem unlikely bed-fellows.  They just don’t fit together.  Imagine building a house, you’d make it out of bricks.  Without fire, a brick is just a block of mud, which will wash away given time. It must be fired. Pain can fire joy into something that you can build with. In this podcast […]

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Joy is the simplest form of gratitude is a common sense for many people. After all, when a gift is given then when you see the delight on someone else’s face it makes you feel good.  Here’s a better one: flip the sentiment and you will discover for you what is joy.  Or rather, what […]

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Boris Johnson prime minister 2019 | podcast S1E7.5 theological response This podcast is just a one off, so falls between 7 and 8.  It’s a political response to Boris Johnson being elected to being prime minister.  It’s not me saying that it is a good or a bad thing, but a way of looking at […]

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Looking for joy is an adventure and what joy means can only be found with effort.  To go on such an adventure you need some motivation, otherwise, you are just interested, and when it gets tough, you’ll give up. So let’s look at some of the benefits of discovering Joy. The joy of life is […]

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The Geeks will inherit the earth… ok, maybe not just them. But what is geek culture? Is it bad? And why do they need ministry. PLUS how to overcome fear All in this little podcast. Just to say, sound quality wasn’t that brill through the zoom app. Apologies if it makes your head buzz, and […]

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Journaling has to have a purpose to it otherwise there is little if no point. Crucially, it records what you actually do in a process, so that you can have data to reflect later on as to whether or not it worked, what could be done better, how you felt about it. And then to […]

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I found it a real surprise the number of people who don’t know about backwards planning. But it is a simple trick to be able to start with the end and just work out what the step before is and so on to the beginning. Of course there is the tricky bit when there are […]

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You can of course get really boring and just do that whole SWOT analysis and all that kind of thing. But if you really want to reach beyond the things that other people can, you have to get really creative. Building on my personal experience of working creatively in business and with churches, and understanding […]

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I could write forever about the subject of growth mindset to be honest. I discovered this little FAIL -find and interesting lesson- acronym when my kids were much younger. I liked it. The book on growth mindset was a much more recent discovery. You could express growth mindset very simply. Instead of being afraid of […]

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This podcast is available most places you get podcasts. If you can’t find it on your fave podcast type channel, then let me know and I will see what I can do Ambition is often seen as bad, but actually if it is framed correctly it is a more useful and positive word than strategy. […]

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