Biblical Leadership Show
Everyday Innovation: Infusing Practicality, Financial Prudence, and Spiritual Growth into Daily Life
Can innovation be a part of your daily life? Absolutely! Join Tim Lansford and Dr. Dean Posey as they kick off with some playful dad jokes that set the stage for an exciting conversation on how innovation is not just for the historical giants like Da Vinci and Edison or modern-day visionaries like Elon Musk. Discover how simple, incremental changes can significantly improve your study habits, work routines, health, and even parenting skills. This episode will challenge you to identify areas in your life where you can make small but impactful innovations.
This isn’t just a chat about grand ideas but a practical guide to financial prudence and resource management. Learn how to reduce expenses without sacrificing quality, and navigate the post-COVID landscape with adaptability and teamwork. Drawing from personal experiences and biblical stories like Noah's Ark, Tim and Dr. Posey offer valuable insights into how innovation can be both a divine and practical endeavor, making it accessible and actionable for everyone.
Ready to enhance your spiritual and personal growth? Tim and Dr. Posey share practical tips for integrating small steps into your daily routine, from making time for prayer to reading the Bible and even serving others through volunteer work. Break free from your daily rut with their advice on trying new things, and don’t miss the light-hearted humor sprinkled throughout the episode. Tune in for a mix of inspiration, practical advice, and a good laugh as you embark on your journey of everyday innovation.
Can innovation be a part of your daily life? Absolutely! Join Tim Lansford and Dr. Dean Posey as they kick off with some playful dad jokes that set the stage for an exciting conversation on how innovation is not just for the historical giants like Da Vinci and Edison or modern-day visionaries like Elon Musk. Discover how simple, incremental changes can significantly improve your study habits, work routines, health, and even parenting skills. This episode will challenge you to identify areas in your life where you can make small but impactful innovations.
This isn’t just a chat about grand ideas but a practical guide to financial prudence and resource management. Learn how to reduce expenses without sacrificing quality, and navigate the post-COVID landscape with adaptability and teamwork. Drawing from personal experiences and biblical stories like Noah's Ark, Tim and Dr. Posey offer valuable insights into how innovation can be both a divine and practical endeavor, making it accessible and actionable for everyone.
Ready to enhance your spiritual and personal growth? Tim and Dr. Posey share practical tips for integrating small steps into your daily routine, from making time for prayer to reading the Bible and even serving others through volunteer work. Break free from your daily rut with their advice on trying new things, and don’t miss the light-hearted humor sprinkled throughout the episode. Tune in for a mix of inspiration, practical advice, and a good laugh as you embark on your journey of everyday innovation.
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Speaker 2:My name is Tim Lansford, and with me is Dr Dean Posey, and you need to sit my troublemaker co-host trying to push me to say Welcome, welcome, welcome. It just never gets old, right, it never gets old. I laugh every week. I see that little smirk out of your face and I'm like, well, I know where we're going to go in this one? Yeah, exactly right. How are you doing? I am doing fantastic, you know doing all right.
Speaker 1:Had a good swim this morning.
Speaker 2:It was good.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I had a good workout too, so it wasn't, you know, not too bad. It's not too bad.
Speaker 2:Yeah, water was nice and cool. You know, did my laps.
Speaker 1:It was good it was really good, did my weights, I ate a good breakfast, and now we're here.
Speaker 2:Yeah, got to eat.
Speaker 1:Got to eat, got to feed the body, got Got to eat.
Speaker 2:Got to eat. Got to feed the body. Got to feed the body. Got to take care of yourself.
Speaker 1:Yes, yes, sir, so yeah Did you have a good weekend. I did.
Speaker 2:Yeah, you were speaking all over. Wherever last week I was speaking all over last week.
Speaker 1:It was a pretty busy week for me. So lots and lots of classes. I spoke like almost every day this last week, minus one. So it was a nonstop thing, so it was a Speaking at a convention, did some keynotes. Yep, I did.
Speaker 2:Made up some stuff, taught a leadership class?
Speaker 1:Yeah, got a couple this week. You know this is my one day to come in here and do a little podcasting so I can start doing training classes all week. Well, good for you and then running all those other companies that I do. I'm glad I got good people that work for me. That's all I got to say.
Speaker 2:We look good when we hire good people.
Speaker 1:Exactly right, they make us look good yeah, we can be innovative when we hire good people.
Speaker 2:Let's just segue into the topic for the day.
Speaker 1:So what's our topic of the day?
Speaker 2:Today the topic is dad jokes, Dad jokes.
Speaker 1:Innovative dad jokes Innovative dad jokes. We have not figured out any innovative dad jokes yet, but I'm sure we can figure it out?
Speaker 2:No, we haven't yet, but you know, speaking of dad jokes, here we go.
Speaker 1:Oh boy.
Speaker 2:What do elves learn in school? What do elves learn in school.
Speaker 1:For the sake of quiet time on the air, I'll say I don't know, because I don't Elphabit. Oh boy.
Speaker 2:Let me reach around.
Speaker 1:Reach around the iPad. Where is it at? I got it. Oh my gosh, I hit the wrong one. Oh, hit the wrong button.
Speaker 2:There we go, there we go Okay.
Speaker 1:I have too many things on my way here.
Speaker 2:Okay, here's one more before we get to the innovative topic of the day, all right. What do lawyers wear to court?
Speaker 1:Some kind of suits.
Speaker 2:Yeah, lawsuits, lawsuits, there we some kind of suits of some sort. Yeah, lawsuits, lawsuits, there we go. That was good.
Speaker 1:Good job there, Tim. All right, so what's this innovation stuff?
Speaker 2:Innovation. That's the topic for today and you know innovation. There's so many different topics or categories of innovation, so we're just going to talk about. We'll talk about some of those in a few minutes. We'll talk about how that appears in the Bible, but let's just talk about the topic in general.
Speaker 1:Okay.
Speaker 2:So innovation for me is the practical implementation of an idea, and that could result in a very new product. It could result in an improvement of a product that's already there, Right? And so just think about, over the last hundred years, the technology that has entered into our human existence. Human existence, you know, last 150 years. You have the light bulb, you have the telephone, you have the phonograph, you have airplanes, you have rocket ships, you have, you know, those kinds of things you have recently, in the last you know 20, 30 years. You have personal computers, you have iPhones, you have those kinds of things, television, I mean. So there's just people that have ideas and then they just keep working at it, working at it to bring those ideas to reality.
Speaker 1:Yeah, just a couple of them popped up and historical, you know Da Vinci, tesla, edison, albert Einstein, newton, graham Bell, galileo, just some of the ones that in history that have had major changes for us in innovation. And you know some of the contemporary ones, some of the latest ones Elon, steve Jobs, bill Gates, bezos, zuckerberg and Sandberg. So just you know, there's a lot of them out there that do that's, taken different paths, you know, and I think it's pretty amazing accomplishment, I guess a feat, if you look back and if you look at the true changes of the world.
Speaker 2:Yes, but I think it's important to help let our audience not get the wrong idea about innovation because, we might think that only those genius people, just one in 10 million people, can be innovative. That is absolutely not true. Everybody can be innovative, so let's just talk about. There are several categories, but let's just talk about-.
Speaker 1:Let me add on to that before you switch topics on me and I mentioned this in my leadership classes last week. I'm like think of how many Albert Einsteins there were in the world that never left their house, never said anything in public. We have so many innovative people that never do it by personalities, based on something in their you know their personality, or something where they never even leave the house. They never mentioned it, but they probably had things figured out that would revolutionize our world today. I mean, there there's been all kinds of stuff you know the hydrogen cars, the, the stuff that runs on water and all these engines and all these different things that never made it to market.
Speaker 1:And we think about, you know, just electric cars, electric cars, the stuff that runs on water and all these engines and all these different things that never made it to market. And we think about just electric cars. Electric cars are a big thing now, but I mean they've been around since the 1800s. I mean, think of that. They just didn't take on because of the range and everything. So anyway, that was one of the things that I brought up in one of my leadership classes. Think how many people were innovators that never stepped out, never got that public idea or image that developed.
Speaker 2:Well, yeah, and maybe they had a lack of self-confidence or someone told them the idea would never work and so they just put it away, put it on the shelf, and never looked at it again and just kind of had a defeatist attitude. Well, it's not going to amount to anything, so why try? But let's go back Before the show. You were going through some list of innovations, but let's just talk about two right off the bat. And one would be disruptive innovation, and that would be like a very new product like the television or the, the iPhone or the personal computer or the phonograph or something that has not ever been around, and then, all of a sudden, someone invents it. So that would be disruptive innovation.
Speaker 1:Yeah, like Kodak, they didn't evolve. And then we came up with digital cameras and it changed the whole market and if you don't evolve it, it's blockbuster. You know we changed to the Netflix. That's a disruptive innovation that come out that people didn't change, didn't make that jump.
Speaker 2:Correct and there might not be that many people that have the desire or the ability to be a part of disruptive innovation, but I think everybody can be a part of incremental innovation, and that is taking something that's already there and making it better. Now you might say, well, I just work from home. I you know, maybe I'm retired, maybe I'm still in high school. So the question is, how can you do something different to make you better? How can you improve your study habits? How can you improve your work habits? How can you improve your health? How can you improve your thinking?
Speaker 2:We'll get to this in a few minutes but how do you improve your spiritual life? So there might be some innovative things that people can do and I think everybody's capable of potentially doing that is improving your character, improving the type of person you are, improving how you parent, improving, maybe, how you spend money or not spend money. There's always ways to do what you do better and that would be innovative. I mean incremental innovation, and I just think that we should challenge our audience to think how can I do that in my life in some area or another?
Speaker 1:Yeah, and incremental. It doesn't have to be a big thing, it doesn't have to be something that changes the world. It could be just your habits. What do you do different? What do you do different to make the kid's life easier? Or a process that you have at home? It's literally just a product or a service and or process is really what it is that you're changing, you're modifying, you're making it better for you, making it better for for your business, making it better for the world. I mean there's lots of different avenues in this, but I mean it can be little bitty tweaks. You know and yeah, I think you mentioned one of the biggest things. Incremental is just upgrading the iPhone. You know all these apps that hit, you know just automatically download. Your phone's been updated. You're continuously making something a little bit better in that process with updates.
Speaker 2:So let's talk about one thing that I bet a bunch of our audience could relate to, especially if they're parenting thing that I bet a bunch of our audience could relate to, especially if they're parenting. So, in my experience, one of the biggest arguments that parents get with their teenagers is over money. Okay, and so my wife and I. Many years ago, when our kids were growing up, my parents did this with us with me and my five siblings and so we decided to do with our kids. Now, spending money on your children is nothing new. Okay, it's how much you're going to spend. When you're going to spend it. Who gets to make the decision as to what money to spend? Do you make the decision for your kids' clothes? Do they make this decision? How does all that work? So, what my parents did— my daughter makes it.
Speaker 1:She has something to say on decision. How does all that work? So what my parents did— oh, my daughter makes it. She has something to say on this, she does. Huh, she almost came today, but you know, if she would have been here, she was shopping a couple days ago with Daddy, so she would have a lot to say on this.
Speaker 2:So what my parents did and what we did is we kept track my wife's excellent at this kept track of how much do we spend on our children. Okay, and very meticulous as far as budget, and we did that for months and months and months. So we knew exactly how much do we spend on clothes, how much do we spend on miscellaneous, how much we spend on school, those kind of things. And so, when they were 12, what we decided to do because it was done for us was that we gave them an allowance every month and they didn't have to pay for extra stuff at school. But we said, okay, here's the amount of money you get every month. We're going to show you how to budget. We want you to give 10% to the church, we want you to save 10% and we want you to learn to live off the rest. Okay, and and so, but from now on, you get to make your own decisions about what clothes you buy.
Speaker 2:Okay, how much you're going to spend on clothes, how much you're going to spend on shoes, how much you're going to spend on other things, going out with your friends or whatever. If you need more money than that that we give you, then you get a job and you make more money, and so that was an innovative way to teach our children about handling money, and the amazing fruit of that is that now they've been doing that for many years. It's a joy to watch how they handle money with such integrity and such confidence. They're good savers, but they're wise spenders. They research a product before they buy it. They don't just go out and spend money without thinking about it.
Speaker 2:But that was an innovative way to help our kids learn how to handle money. So if any of our listening audience wants to know more about that, just contact me on the website biblicalleadershipshowcom and I'll have a conversation with you, either on the phone, through email or something, to give you some insight on how to do that for your kids. It'll make a world of difference on the relationship you have, because you won't need to be arguing about money anymore, and it's something that I know that the kids, your teenagers, will love, because they love the freedom of being able to have that kind of control over money.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I just watched a video on that actually over the weekend, and that's what they sort of did is they handed their allowance to their kid, like 20 bucks, and they wrote down. They had like a little check list you owe me a dollar for rent, a dollar for food, this and this and all these different things, and they sort of put it in place. It was pretty amazing.
Speaker 2:It can be, and it can be life-changing. So that's just one thing, but let's think about something else. If you don't have kids at home, or maybe you don't have kids wow, that was great. For those of you who didn't see, we just zapped a bug in the studio. How do the bugs get in the studio?
Speaker 1:I don't know, but I saw a, a scooter fly by and he landed right there in front of you. I was like I can reach him.
Speaker 2:I just happen to have a zapper right here.
Speaker 1:I've been trying to get him for the last couple days now, so all right.
Speaker 2:So here's the thing my wife and I can go outside to work in the yard, okay, like we did last Friday, which we normally do. She can be totally covered up, okay, with a long-sleeved shirt, hat, you know, all the gloves, everything, and we'll walk out and work side by side. She will still get 1,000 mosquito bites. I will get zero.
Speaker 1:Now, I don't know how that works, but maybe it's the smell Carbon dioxide you're putting off. So you know it's the same with my wife. She's sweeter than me. That's why I always tell her, you know, she's just sweeter blood than me.
Speaker 2:Yeah, that's. It has a lot to do with your carbon dioxide. Yeah, okay, well, I'll just keep breathing out.
Speaker 1:Yeah, exactly right.
Speaker 2:Okay, so innovative. So you might not have children at home. You might not have. Might have a desire to do that with the money. But let's think about maybe you want to improve your health. Well, in order to do that, you might have to do something different, like get up 30 minutes earlier to go to the gym, or maybe you don't want to spend money on a gym membership. So get up and walk. Walking is an incredible exercise. If you just start walking for 30 minutes a day, you know five, six days a week amazing how it'll improve your health. You know Now, the goal is not to eat more after you walk. The eat is the same. So you do that. You make sure you're hydrated, especially in this Texas heat. You know, when you get up in the morning at 6, 5 o'clock it's still 80 degrees. It's very easy to be dehydrated. And so the question is what are you going to do differently to improve your life in some area or another?
Speaker 1:Right, and you know it's one of those things that you know you don't have to think big picture and it's baby steps. You know, simply getting up and walking around the block is a baby step in the right direction and that's all it takes a lot of times is those little baby steps.
Speaker 2:So why don't you read that? You had a great list before the show you were reading it to me of the different categories of innovation, like organizational innovation, of innovation like organizational innovation. You know we already mentioned incremental and disruptive innovation.
Speaker 1:Yeah, there's a couple of them that we have.
Speaker 2:Why don't you just make it? We won't have time to talk about all of them, but why don't you?
Speaker 1:just, I've got product innovation, I've got process innovation. You know, one of the things that come up process for me is when Elon, you know, you put all these boosters and they're landing back in the same spot and I think that's just a major deal on the amount of money that they save and reuse all those boosters and stuff. That's always been an amazing thing. When those things land and watch them come down, business model innovation, marketing innovation that's a huge one going on right now. I teach a lot in the marketing field.
Speaker 1:Organizational innovation, technological, the service innovation, sustainability that's a huge one. Radical innovation, disruptive we talked about that Social, architectural and then frugal innovation. You know ways to reduce money. You know, as some of those that we have, and you know let's tie that into. Go ahead, and do you have a thought or anything?
Speaker 2:No, I was going to say it's always good to save money, as long as you don't reduce the quality of your service. Right, you know, and sometimes those go hand in hand, it's always good to save money, as long as you don't reduce the quality of your service.
Speaker 2:You know and sometimes those go hand in hand you might have to cut staff to save money in today's economy, but you don't want to decrease your service. So how can you be innovative, to be more productive, and you know so it's like let's get your team together, talk about what we're not going to do Right, so that we can focus on what we need to do to keep our service quality high.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and that's. You know I was counseling one of my, one of my friends about that. You know it's. It's. You know I tried to. You know I've been in business for a long time and I've went through the all the phases of business and he was a little bit newer to the business scene and and you could tell that his ego was getting in the way of common sense when he's building his business, you know, and in one month he hired nine people and there wasn't the sales to justify hiring nine people in one month.
Speaker 1:And you know, he, he went you know, seven, eight months trying to cover all those salaries and everything, and figured out that that wasn't the best move. And now he's taking a step back, but he's in the process of rebuilding, but he's rebuilding stronger and better and and it's one of those things you know and and that's one of the things on frugal you know it's you know it's not a bad thing. Sometimes it's just figuring out what works, what doesn't. Don't get the cart before the horse, sort of deal.
Speaker 2:Yes, and with my career in the ministry in the church as a pastor for 45 years, you know there was always the conscious thought of, you know, of the money that people give. It's their hard-earned money that they give to support the ministry of the church and spreading the gospel of Christ. And we want to be very intentional about the money that we spend or don't spend, because we don't want to waste anybody's hard-earned money and their donation. So we had to have, especially during COVID, we had to be innovative on how we got the message out, how we used our staff, how we used our resources. And I'm sure there were millions of businesses were facing the same thing, because COVID hit everybody so hard and you had to provide the services in a different way. And that's what we faced. I know that's what you faced in the construction business and it was just a hard time.
Speaker 1:It was, but everybody pulled through. I watched all your stuff from the comfort of my couch. I told you I've said that many times I had more fun. I don't watch news. I don all your stuff from the comfort of my couch. I told you, I've said that many times, I had more fun. I don't watch news, I don't watch TV that often, but I had so much fun in COVID watching how people adapt Even the people that had the team, the news people how they adapt.
Speaker 1:I mean they've got whole teams that do this for a living and some of it was just a mess, you know media for a living, and it was just some of it was just a mess, and I'm like how does somebody you know run a TV station but you can't tell people what to do at their house and their microphone, ship them a microphone and I don't know it? Just there was some crazy stuff going on, so oh well, so let's talk about the other part of our show. We've talked a lot about the leadership, but let's talk a little bit about this biblical innovation.
Speaker 2:Biblical innovation Do we?
Speaker 1:have any innovation? Innovation in the Bible? Do we have any innovation?
Speaker 2:Absolutely.
Speaker 1:Has God been innovative in anything?
Speaker 2:Let's just say God is the supreme innovator.
Speaker 2:Just think about the very first chapter of the Bible. He creates the entire existence out of nothing, just from speaking His Word. And so it's like wow. It's like he had a thought of what he wanted to do and he just did it spoken and came into being. And the more it's like wow the more we're around my wife loves flowers and plants and you know those kind of things and the more we go to different gardens or different greenhouses to just admire what people do with their skill, how they grow plants, how they, you know, make plants survive in extreme conditions.
Speaker 2:I'm very innovative on how they do that. It's like there must be so many types of plants and flowers that I will never even see that live. Some of them live at high altitudes, like they only exist above 5,000 feet. Some only live in the desert, and there's no way a human being could think of all that variety, all the colors, all those different things that we sometimes take for granted, unfortunately. And it's like no, god created all of that out of nothing for our enjoyment. And so, from the very first page of the Bible, we see God being innovative and giving us an example of creating something new, and then it just goes on from there, so we were talking about this before the show. One of my favorite stories in the Bible in the Old Testament obviously Noah's Ark, and so there had never Wrote a book on that, I did write a book on that.
Speaker 1:What was that book named? Just, I mean just shameless 12 Gifts we Can't Afford to Lose.
Speaker 2:All right, you could contact us. We'll send you a copy of that on the website and so-.
Speaker 1:It was pretty funny. I was digging through and I've got a personal copy from you. But I was digging back through and I found my copy when you were at the church, right, and that you gave out when we were at the church. So I was like, hey look, I've got a copy of that in my library already. So it made me laugh.
Speaker 2:Oh yeah, no, it's been almost 10 years since that book came out.
Speaker 1:Yeah, wow, it's crazy.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it is crazy, but it had never rained before and no one had ever built a boat. But God gave Noah the idea and he challenged him and invited him to build this ark, which took 100 years to do that. And then it rained and eight people in the ark and then the entire human history started all over again when the flood receded. But you can go through the Bible and if you look through the filter of innovation and you mentioned this a lot of examples before the show started you had Joseph as far as collecting grain for seven years Economic strategy.
Speaker 2:Economic strategy, innovation, collecting grain so that during the seven years of famine they would have enough. You have Joshua around the city of Jericho. Now, all of those were inspired by God. This was not a human idea. Those were inspired by God and I don't, you know, want to say that every inspiration is inspired by God, but I would think that he has a lot to do with any creative new idea, because he gives us the brain to think, brain to think. But you go through that and so it's like okay, in the Old Testament times, you know, david killed Goliath with a slingshot. But if you actually read different places in the Bible, there were warriors that call slingers and they actually were really, really good at slingshots.
Speaker 1:Okay.
Speaker 2:And that's the weapon of choice that they used. And so David was obviously good at that and that's how he killed Goliath. But as we read through other parts, especially, like in the New Testament, the innovative creativity of Jesus to say that God forgives all sin, right.
Speaker 1:All sin.
Speaker 2:Right, all sin, that everybody's valuable in the eyes of God, everybody's worth it, and Jesus died for all sin. Now that was totally new, so innovative in thinking. There is no other religion on the face of the planet never has been, never will be, where God became a human being to die for the face of the planet. Never has been, never will be where God became a human being to die for the sin of His creation and then he rose again to give us new life. So that was the whole thought of Christianity is innovative in such a way and you could call that disruptive innovation, because there's nothing been anything ever like it.
Speaker 1:Right and I'm going to read. In my show prep, I came across three lessons on innovation that resonate from the Bible and I'm going to read these. I'm going to read what it is and then we're going to have a discussion. The first one I'm going to go through all three of them Divine inspiration. Many innovations in the Bible were divinely inspired, suggesting the importance of seeking spiritual guidance in the innovation process.
Speaker 1:The second one would be courage and faith. Innovators in the Bible often had to step out in faith, trusting in God's plan, even when it defied conventional wisdom. And the last one is collaboration. Many biblical innovations involve collaboration and community, highlighting the importance of working together to achieve common goals. I thought those were pretty powerful. You know and you know. You know especially the one. You know courage and faith. I mean look at, like Noah, how much courage and faith he had to do, and and some of the different ones, and of going down a path that you feel that it's in your gut. This is the right thing to do when everybody else is telling you that's not good, that's stupid, that's where you're going, you're crazy man. You know, whatever it might be, there's a lot of commitment there.
Speaker 2:Yes, and so I have on my wall, in my study in my home, a sign that says do not confuse the will of the majority with the will of God. And so sometimes you have to swim against the stream, you have to be different. You have to stand up for what you believe in. Now there's going to be consequences for doing that. So the question is not are you willing to do that, but are you willing to suffer and persevere through the consequences of that? Next week, we're going to talk about fidelity. It's not just marriage fidelity, it's also fidelity to your faith, and are you going to be committed in that?
Speaker 2:You might have a very innovative way of doing something. Think about the saints throughout the last couple of millennium that were very innovative in the way they thought about spiritual growth. I'm just thinking St Francis, for an example, Mother Teresa, those kind of things. They were so innovative in the way they lived out their faith. That is inspiring for people like myself. And so if somebody wants to grow in their faith, okay, they want to grow in their spiritual journey. There's several innovative things that they could do. One is prayer. So the question is what are you going to do different in your schedule to make time for prayer, even if it's five minutes. Just do something different.
Speaker 1:One of the biggest ones I was talking about last week is meditation.
Speaker 1:Yes, I mean that's such a huge one that I'm working on just five minutes. I had a conversation over the weekend with one of my friends and I'm like she was having problems meditating and I'm like, five minutes, just start with five minutes, you're going to find out the benefits of it. You're going to want 15 minutes and then you're going to 15 minutes going to turn in. I want to try to for 30 minutes and that's what it is. It's baby steps, like going to gym. You don't go work out three hours when you first started the gym.
Speaker 1:You go in there, you walk around the block, enjoy it. Do that for a week, two weeks, three weeks a month. Get where you feel a little bit better, feel like you've made headway, and move on down the road.
Speaker 2:Correct. And so it is baby steps, and I think that's what innovation can be. It's baby steps. How do I improve? A little bit here, a little bit there, a little bit there. Robert Shuler some of you might know him, some of you might not great religious man in the last century, and he said, inch by inch, everything's a cinch. And that just you know. It's just little baby steps to improve what you're doing. And so let's talk about reading the Bible. You know, you think first of all you have to have a Bible that you might enjoy reading, that's easy to read. There's so many, you don't have to go buy a Bible. Even so, some people like to hold a Bible in their hands to actually read. Other people like to do it on their phone. Okay, whatever works for you. Find a translation that's easy to read and just literally start with Matthew, chapter one. Read one chapter a day, that's it.
Speaker 2:Now you do that for a month, you're going to realize I can read two chapters a day, or I can read three chapters a day, and it might take you a year to get to that point. But you start reading and start doing that on a regular basis. You'll be amazed at how far you can go. And they have Audible too.
Speaker 1:They do have Audible. I have it on there, I listen to the gym and stuff you know crazy. So I mean there's a lot of stuff, and that's why I say how far you get you never would. It's sort of like that whole thing, you know, and I don't like it. But they talk about that book. How Do you Eat an Elephant? Right One bite at a time, so take that big thing.
Speaker 1:Sometimes that Bible looks overwhelming to some people where they pick up and if you go by one chapter at a time it's really pretty easy.
Speaker 2:And the same concept would be true in another aspect of growing in faith and that is serving. You might volunteer with Habitat for Humanity, you might serve at the community food bank, you might serve somewhere else at your school or with a scout troop or something coach at baseball, but you might just start out okay. I can do this A lot of during the summer. There's churches have vacation, bible schools, volunteer to do it one night. You know you might do that for one hour a month and then you do two hours a month and then you do three hours a month, or you do two days a week or two days a month something. It's just baby steps. Two days a month something it's just baby steps. But it'll be innovative enough that your whole mindset will start to change about purpose in life. We're here to bless other people and it will just literally change your life over time.
Speaker 1:Right, and that's sort of what it is. You know is be innovative, you know, one step at a time.
Speaker 2:Yeah, and I just want to encourage people to realize that everybody can be innovative at some part of your life. Some part of your life you can do that. Some aspect of your life. It might be your parenting, it might be your business, it might be your schedule, it might be your spiritual life, it might be your health, it might be your eating habits, it could be any number of things. But don't try to do five things at one time. Pick out one thing in your life to just try to do something a little bit different to improve the quality of your life or someone else's life.
Speaker 1:I always tell people try to learn one new thing every day.
Speaker 2:One new thing, maybe a new word?
Speaker 1:Yeah, whatever it is. It's not that hard nowadays, no, you know it sounds overwhelming, but literally you hear a bird. Google it. You know you see a bird, google it. If you see a sign, what does that mean?
Speaker 2:Spanish word, whatever it might be Just learn something new, just something new every day. Well, speaking of something every day. Well, speaking of something every day.
Speaker 1:Oh boy.
Speaker 2:What has more lives than a cat?
Speaker 1:More lives than a cat.
Speaker 2:Well.
Speaker 1:I could say some political stuff right now, but we'll leave that.
Speaker 2:But I don't know A frog, a frog.
Speaker 1:Because it croaks every day. Oh Okay, here's another one.
Speaker 2:Here's another one. What do you?
Speaker 1:call a pig that practices karate Pig that practices karate.
Speaker 2:Mm-hmm, I can see you're thinking about it, man, I've got.
Speaker 1:I know a thing, I know you probably know it, I just can't piece it together.
Speaker 2:A pork chop.
Speaker 1:There we go. I was like I know it's pork something right, something, something.
Speaker 2:Why was the?
Speaker 1:computer cold.
Speaker 2:Why was the computer cold? Yes, I don't know, because it wasn't turned on.
Speaker 1:Because it left its windows open.
Speaker 2:Oh, that would be really nice.
Speaker 1:All right.
Speaker 2:Oh, All right two more.
Speaker 1:You got two more in there.
Speaker 2:I have 200 more.
Speaker 1:I know you do. Do you have any good ones? What did the tomato say to the other tomato during a race? I don't know.
Speaker 2:Ketchup, ketchup. We deserve that one. You want one more? Do we want one more?
Speaker 1:Go ahead One more and we'll let the people get on with life.
Speaker 2:Maybe they're going to turn us off anyway.
Speaker 1:Okay, here you go.
Speaker 2:A lot of soccer going on right now around the world. Yes, yes, okay, so what lights up a soccer stadium? What lights up a soccer stadium?
Speaker 1:I don't know.
Speaker 2:A soccer match.
Speaker 1:There you go, but you know the chicken right.
Speaker 2:The chicken? I don't know the chicken personally. You don't know the chicken, no.
Speaker 1:Trying to get to the other side, you know.
Speaker 2:But why did the inventor cross the road To be innovative?
Speaker 1:I don't know To get to the other idea, oh.
Speaker 2:I had to throw one groaner in there somewhere.
Speaker 1:All right, guys, we're going to leave you at that one, so I had to throw one groaner in there. Uh, thank you for listening to us today.
Speaker 2:Hopefully you're innovative, to uh you know, inspired to be innovative, you know, and and it is baby steps.
Speaker 1:You know what? What can you do different? Um you know, a lot of times we get in this, this thing where we're, we're rinse and repeat you know, get up and we do the same thing every day. And what can you you do? What can you change? What can you do differently as your morning routine, your evening routine, something throughout the course? We challenge you to be better in what you do.
Speaker 2:Yeah, so let me just throw one thing. I thought that just came to my mind. You know what a rut is. A lot of people are in a rut, you know, with their life and and we're trying to help them get out of that rut and maybe do something different to improve that.
Speaker 2:You know what a rut is I don't know it's a grave with the ends knocked out, and so a lot of people are in a rut. That's how they live, and we're hoping to help you get out of that rut. Do something different, not just to improve your life, but so that you can be a blessing to other people, and sometimes it takes innovation to figure that out.
Speaker 1:Yeah, maybe it just takes us talking to you to tell you to do it, and I know so many of my coaching clients that I work with. It's literally. They have every avenue to do this themselves. They have their smart, their executives, but sometimes they just need to be kicked in the shorts by somebody else to say have you done it? Okay, hold that person accountable. So, other than that, check us out biblical leadership showcom and send us some good dad jokes. We'll take them. I need some from me. I mean Dr Posey's over here.
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