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Wisdom in the Balance: Blending Corporate Acumen and Biblical Principles for Effective Decision-Making
How do you identify the root cause of a problem and gather relevant information to make effective decisions? In this episode of the Biblical Leadership Show, I, Tim Lansford, fly solo while Dr. Dean handles family commitments. We embark on a journey through the art of decision-making, blending corporate wisdom and biblical principles. I break down the seven crucial elements of decision-making, from recognizing the need for a decision to weighing evidence and evaluating alternatives. With a real-world example from my custom home-building business, I demonstrate how swift and informed decisions can spell success.
Ever felt paralyzed by the fear of failure? You're not alone. We crack open the topic of fear and its paralyzing effects on leadership decision-making. Learn how encouraging self-assessment in children can build independent confidence, steering them away from perfectionism. I share a personal story of overcoming burnout simply by turning off my phone's ringer. We also explore the anxiety brought on by people-pleasing and how wisdom and confidence often come with age and experience.
Finally, we turn our gaze towards decision-making within biblical leadership. Discover the importance of prayer, seeking divine guidance, and the role of meditation as outlined in scriptures like Philippians 4:6 and Proverbs 15:25. We discuss how aligning our choices with a sense of divine peace, as mentioned in Colossians 3:15, can lead to better outcomes. Plus, get excited for Dr. Dean's return and learn how you can engage with us for prayer requests or personal outreach. Don't miss this episode packed with insights and practical advice for both the corporate world and biblical leadership!
Hello, hello, welcome to another exciting episode of the Biblical Leadership Show. My name is Tim Lansford and with me is Nope, no one's with me today. Dr Dean is taking care of some family business and I will be hanging out with you myself today. So welcome, welcome, welcome, hey, if it's your first time joining our show or listening to our show. Just to tell you a little bit of our show. We talk a little bit about the corporate leadership and we talk a little bit about the biblical leadership and we throw in some dad jokes randomly from time to time, and Dr Dean is the master of dad jokes, so I think I've only got a couple here at the end. So I have to go light on the dad jokes a little bit, because he is the master dad joke teller. So, anyway, what we're going to talk about today is decision making. What we're going to talk about today is decision making.
Speaker 1:I taught a corporate class a couple of weeks ago and started really digging deep into decision making and doing a lot of research and everything, and then I went down through the rabbit hole that happens in show prep and prep before all my seminars and, lo and behold, I went down in this deep dive and I came up with a whole bunch of stuff that we could tie in the biblical with all the stuff that I was teaching on the corporate side. So that's what I thought I would talk to you about today. And so, starting out, decision-making, let's talk about what decision making is. Decision making is the process of choosing among alternative courses of action to achieve a desired outcome, and I think that is very important when you talk about decision making is the desired outcome, because that influences what you're really trying to get out of the decision making. Some decision making is to come up with multiple outcomes and not just a goal or a desired outcome. So there's a lot of stuff that needs to be looked at and that's where I'm going to sort of take you down this path today and talk to you a little bit about, you know, this decision making. Let me flip over here, all right. So there's a couple aspects. If you go through and you look at decision making and any decision making if I'm prepping this for a corporate class, there's a lot of key elements that come up. There's usually seven of them referenced. There's other ones that come up with some others, but if you just do a search on decision-making, you're going to come up with seven distinct things, more than some of the others, and I think those really boil down into exactly what decision-making is. If you look at decision-making and the seven key elements, the first one would be identification of a decision.
Speaker 1:When you come into decision-making, you have to first recognize that a decision needs to be made, and this involves defining the problem. One of the things that I pitch is you know, when you have a problem, the easiest way and the best way to do it is to really go down into the root cause. What's the root cause of the problem? And if you can do a deep dive and get to the root cause, because a lot of times when we're trying to make decisions, it's based on the certain facts that we have, and a lot of times we don't go past those facts to go. What's the true root cause? Why are we having this problem? What is this decision that needs to be made and why, and what's the time frame and all this? So you've got to go down through defining what that root cause is.
Speaker 1:The second step in this is gathering information. Now, to make an informed decision, we have to have all the facts. So we have to gather all this relevant information about all the options available and there's many different ways to do this. So hopefully you've went through this process. Sometimes it's researching, sometimes it's consulting with others.
Speaker 1:I know a lot of times when I'm coming through and say my window supplier shows up and this happened recently. Window supplier showed up and said there was a problem with my window order. And just a little bit of background on me, that's one of my other businesses. I'm a construction home builder, custom home builder down here in Dallas. So my window guy showed up and said we got a problem with your windows, they're for us to be in and they're backordered and all this stuff and la, la, la, la la. So I went through the process of finding to figure out how he gave me some options and he said well, just call me when you're ready to figure this out. I was like I'm going to figure this out right now because I mean I don't have two or three days to wait now and make a decision. So I tend to gather my thoughts, make a decision right or wrong a lot of times, and I move forward because in my world, you don't want the delays, you don't want the delays for the clients. You don't want the delays for the monetary issues, so you need to gather all those options really fast, analyze them and move on down the road. Those options really fast, analyze them and move on down the road.
Speaker 1:Now the third step in this would be identifying the alternatives. So what is my other possible courses of action? Can I maybe find something that I had in my warehouse? Can I get another supplier? Maybe it's put a door where a window is. Maybe I have a door in our warehouse that I can substitute.
Speaker 1:There's things that I'm looking at to say, okay, maybe there's another alternative other than the facts are laid out. That's sort of. If I'm looking at that root cause and I go well, that can't be solved with the information and the options that I have available. Is there an alternative? Is there something I can put in place? And then at that number four on the decision making elements would be weighing the evidence. So, in other words, with all the alternatives laid out, we have to evaluate each option. So which one is the best? We look at the advantages, disadvantages, the risk, the benefits, and a lot of times I'll even do a SWOT analysis on this.
Speaker 1:What a SWOT analysis is is. It goes deeper into strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats. And I know that it's a crazy way to say it, but I mean, if you go down and look at what's the strength of this decision, what's the weaknesses, what's the opportunities, what's the risk involved, and you go through and you look at these and sort of order them, put them in an order that makes sense, that you can do it. A lot of times I'll go through and in anything, it doesn't matter time management, it doesn't matter in decision making, it doesn't matter.
Speaker 1:On a list of tasks and whatever it might be, I go through and prioritize them. And I came out of the Franklin Covey era way back when, right, so it was ABCs. And then out of the A's I go one, two, three, four. So I know my A's are top priority, b's are my second, c's are, you know they're okay. But I mean that's one of the things I've always done from the Franklin Covey days way back when. So I go through the process, I weigh in, I choose alternatives, which one makes sense to, you know, move towards my desired objective and we move forward.
Speaker 1:And you know, here's the biggest thing is the move forward process of this is taking action. You know, so many people make decisions and and then it doesn't get implemented the way it should. So, in other words, a lot of times and I guess the biggest way to say this decision-making doesn't end with selecting an option. You, you got to implement it Right. And one of the things you can do is look at the you know what resources you have. What is the plan to carry forward this decision? Because that's the integral part, because a lot of times people make decisions and then, after they've made the decision and find out that they don't have the available resources, the available machinery, whatever it might be, and that throws them back in this loop of going all right, well, that decision is not going to work, and that's sort of goes into the sort of.
Speaker 1:The last step of this is review and evaluate. So if you make a decision and you implement it, you got to go back and look does it work? Is it working? And if not, why is it not working? Again, you got to go down to that root cause, because I think that's very, very important. Now, one of the things that I do in all my meetings and in anything that I do this is I'm looking for LBs and NTs and LBs I teach in my corporate is liked best NTs is next time. What would I do differently? So LBs liked best NTs next time.
Speaker 1:So if I'm going through and I'm evaluating this and I'm looking at why this didn't work, I want to go down to the root cause. Did we not have the machinery? Did I not have the manpower? But at that point I'm going to go through and if it did work, I'm going to put down what worked on it. Because here's the thing one of the biggest things in decision making that you can use is historical data. Historical data is one of those things that it's top of line about brainstorming and all this because if it worked one time, it's going to work again and again and you can put that in a scenario where you can sort of capture some of that information. And you can put that in a scenario where you can sort of capture some of that information. So, like Bess, next time I'm going to go ahead and put it down is next time. Everything worked except this one piece. And if I take time to do this LBs and NTs it's just going to shorten the process when I have to make this decision later on, because we have this database somewhere. We've put it in writing. We know this is part of our strategic plan risk management, whatever it might be the way you want to put it, and if you can put it in there, it's just going to help you later on.
Speaker 1:So, decision-making indecisive. Let me get a drink of water here. So we have decision-making, but what makes people indecisive? Because a lot of people they do not like making decisions, and you probably know somebody. I could go down to the where are we going to eat tonight, but we're not going to go there because my wife listens to this podcast. I don't want to get in trouble, but here's the thing there's a lot of indecisive people out in the world and when you're making decisions, there's a lot of factors in this that cause indecisiveness.
Speaker 1:Now, one of the biggest factors that come out is fear of failure. Now, everybody wants to be right, and I even say fear of failure gets a big exclamation point on it, depending on how great of a decision it is. So in other words, if it's a small decision, your fear of failure is maybe a little bit smaller and maybe it's not as visible of a task, so you don't have that fear of failure. But if you have a big task, maybe a direction of the company, maybe something where you're moving forward that's going to have a big, visible impact, that fear of failure really, really jumps up at you and a lot of people do not handle that stress very well. And one of the things that happens that a lot of us have. You know, where you're not getting that positive reinforcement, where you do something and you get criticized for making a poor decision. You know, a lot of times you can, you know, create something in your brain that you have that fear of failure already put in there.
Speaker 1:I heard something the other day that really resonated with me when it come to my daughter. A lot of times when people come up and ask say they do a drawing of you know, draw a drawing of a princess or whatever, say they do a drawing of you know, draw a drawing of a princess or whatever, and our normal thing is to say, oh, baby, that looks good, you know, great job, so and so forth. And the thought process was this is don't compliment them straight away. Go ahead and ask them what did they think? What is their feeling about their work, and what it is is. It takes out the positive reinforcement from the third party to going I'm very happy with my drawing, I love this, I love that I use these colors, I did a great job on all this. And then you give your positive reinforcement did a great job on all this? And then you give your positive reinforcement but they don't become dependent on that third party. You know, third party telling them they did such a great job. And I thought that was great advice.
Speaker 1:Because you know, we're always looking. I've got younger kids and I'm always looking at ways to really just sort of implement some of these things and be a positive voice in their life. And you know, I teach this stuff for a living and I think I'm good, but at the same time I hear stuff like that. I'm like that's brilliant. You know, because you try to do positive reinforcements but then at the same time you don't want to have somebody that's dependent on somebody else's opinion and it staggers their growth as far as a leader opinion and it staggers their growth as far as a leader.
Speaker 1:Another one that it sort of stands out a lot of times is this whole thing called perfectionism. You know, I think I've become more of a perfectionist over the later years of my life right. You know, because you know I was never a perfectionist. There was very few things that I was a big perfectionist on and I think that now more than ever I'm little things that I'm becoming more of a perfectionist I'm. I'm turning into more like my wife, because she's definitely a perfectionist, she buys into perfectionism. So you know, here's the big thing, that you know perfectionism is good and it excels. But at the same time that you and a lot of the perfectionism comes from personalities and my analytical, you know people in the world. But you've got to watch that because perfectionist people they tend to have more anxiety in their life, they have more stress, they go through burnout a lot more and if anybody's ever been through burnout in their life and in their career and man, it's just not a good thing. I went through that many, many years ago Actually I know it's probably going on.
Speaker 1:About 10 years ago I went through burnout and my phone. I haven't had the ringer turned on my phone in 10 years. I don't have it on unless it's an emergency. I'll flip it over where it rings. In 10 years I have not had a ringer that rings on my phone. Now, if you want me, I'll be driving in my truck or it'll pop up, it'll cut out the radio, you know. But I don't have a physical sound on any of my emails, any of my messages, any of my ringers, because 10 years ago, when I was burnt out, it just stressed me that phone would ring. It would just, I mean, the cortisol would fly through my system and it was just not a good thing and I turned it off and I felt that sense of relief. I wasn't tied to the phone. And boy, it really has changed. And I've kept it off for 10 years plus now, and people look at me like I'm strange and I'm like I promise you, if you want to be seen, you can tilt that thing up next to your computer. You're going to see it and your brain's going to catch it. It's going to cut it out. If you have an Apple watch, you know it's going to light up your watch. But I mean, at that point, you know, I think it's beneficial for me, because if I'm on a client call or something, I just put it in my back pocket and I don't have anything buzzing or ringing, I don't have any messages. I get back to the car, I check my phone and then I call people and it's usually not a big deal and all my employees know and they just leave me a message or call me when you get this, and it's as simple as that.
Speaker 1:Another thing about indecisive people maybe you're a people pleaser, do you have any man? People pleaser. A lot of people worry about what other people think and I guess that's where the gray hair in the head comes. You know, you get a little bit more confident. I do a lot of corporate or a lot of keynotes and a lot of things. I teach a lot in the college system Some of the big colleges. I've traveled around and had the opportunity to teach some of the classrooms and they tell me what's the one tip that'll change our life? And I said being able to say no and don't stress over what everybody thinks about your decisions or about how you're doing things. And I say it and I go through a big explanation. But I mean, one of the biggest things is don't be a people pleaser.
Speaker 1:I remember the first time where I was saying no, I always had a construction company and trucks and trailers and what was I called for? All the time Moving people. I mean everybody was stepping up. Tim, can you bring your guys over? I got maybe one of your trucks, trailers, help me move. This weekend I was like, yes, yes, yes, I was like I should open a moving company. But you know one of the things I had I was busy that way I got already committed. I said no and they said, oh, not a problem, I got it covered, I'll call somebody else. And I'm like, well, that's different. And then next weekend somebody called me again and I said I just can't, I'm sorry, and they go not a problem, I'll hire a mover. I'm like, wow, that was life changing. I still remember that today, when I was able to got to the point where I could say no and because I mean, I was always, but I was a people pleaser. You know I was that yes guy and you know I've moved past it. I do believe, matter of fact, I know I have, but I was trying to soften it.
Speaker 1:For you people that don't know me out there, you lack confidence. Maybe it's another indecisive thing. How do you get confidence? Confidence is one of those things that you struggle with, but maybe it's a born trait, I guess. I mean it's not a born trait, it's something you have to develop. That's why I was trying to go. It's not a born trait. You have to develop self-confidence. I know I push my kids at an early age to try to develop self-confidence, because it's a huge part of decision-making. It's a huge part of just growing up and being a leader. Leadership and perception and decision-making all these things that I teach in my corporate. It's going to help you later in life. So one of the things you can do is make small decisions, stand behind your decisions, make sure you analyze them, keep making decisions. A lot of times people who lack self-confidence like to pull back and be part of the crowd. I like to pull them up to the front. I like to get them where they're making decisions. Because here's the big thing If you lack confidence and you have some successes, you tend to go outside the box.
Speaker 1:You get better and you know it's sort of like in sales. I tell people to go do something and they're not very good, they don't want to go. Knock on doors and you know I have to go out with them. Knock on doors and we do this and we do this whole process. But once they have one or two sales under their belt and they get that big commission check. Lo and behold, they gain a lot of confidence because they start saying, ok, if I put in the hard work, I know what my numbers are, I'm confident what I'm selling, but I just lack the sales confidence. They go out and knock on doors, they start getting the successes under the belt. It just it makes them better and better. And that's one of the things that you know that you can do is to build that self-confidence.
Speaker 1:And you know, and just in general, my last one that I have wrote down here for building for people that are indecisive is, as you lack the proper knowledge, you know you can't make a decision. If you told me to make a decision that's well above my pay grade, well I'm going to have a problem with it because it's it's not going to work out exactly. You know I won't have all the knowledge, I won't have all the the, the pros and the cons, the strengths, the weaknesses, the advantages, disadvantages. I won't know all those to make a solid decision. So I'm definitely going to be indecisive on making decision, but that would be the last one. So there's a couple of things now I want to get into. You know that's a big on corporate. You can tell I'm big on the corporate side. You know Dr Dean balances me out. And that's a couple things Now I want to get into. You know that's a big on corporate. You can tell I'm big on the corporate side. You know Dr Dean balances me out. And that's a little bit of our knowledge and our background. Dr Dean, he'll be joining us next week again but I mean he's got 40 plus years in ministry. I come with a measly 25 years in corporate leadership and you know we balance each other out.
Speaker 1:But I do want to get into the biblical side of it, because it is the biblical leadership show and I want to talk about decision-making in the Bible. So there are a few things that are different from decision-making in corporate compared to decision-making in the Bible. So the stuff in the corporate leadership, like I sort of said, we're gonna go through the informational gathering, we're gonna forecast, we're gonna do risk assessments, we're gonna go through our stakeholders, we're gonna make sure it aligns with our vision statement, our mission statement. We're gonna look at the ethics. We're gonna look at how we're communicated, how we're gonna to look at the ethics. We're going to look at how we're communicated, how we're going to adapt it into our company. So that's sort of a corporate way we're going to do things. But let's look at decision making in the Bible Now.
Speaker 1:Several decision-making in the Bible is portrayed in spiritual processes and a lot of times they involve faith and wisdom and seeking guidance from God through prayer, through meditation, and one of the first ones there that they reference is when your decision making in the Bible is through prayer. How many decisions are made through prayer? I know that Dr Posey, if he was here, he would tell you stories and stories, because I mention things to Dr Posey all the time and first thing out of his mouth is let me go home and pray about it, let me get with my wife and let us pray about it and go deep into it and make sure it's the right course of action for us. That's sort of how this show came about is I had a vision and I expressed it to him and he went in through deep prayer and felt that it was the right path that we need to take, and that's one of the things that you're going to see throughout the Bible. It's central to the biblical decision-making. It involves seeking God's guidance and wisdom before making any significant choices, and a scripture I wrote down here, philippians 4-6,.
Speaker 1:Paul advises believers not to be anxious about anything, but in everything, by prayer and supplication, with thanksgiving, to let their request be made known to God. So in other words, go through, ask, seek wisdom. You know, I always tell people I said we have a big source of whatever your thoughts are and how the world works. You have an infinite supply of all-knowing people on the other side, and God and His angels and all this stuff. A lot of times we get too hung up on using our brain, on our head, and we need to go deeper into prayer and deeper into meditation to be able to get some of the answers and to clear our brain, to quiet our brain and clear our head of all the thoughts and see if anything comes in there. I know that there's a lot of different things that have happened in people writing books. They couldn't find the perfect ending and they go into meditation and prayer and all this stuff and the ending of the book or the concept of the book and you're going to see it throughout history and a lot of references on different things like that.
Speaker 1:Another one, but Dr Dean Posey Not only is he my partner in crime on this podcast. But he was my minister. I attended his church for years and he's my wise counsel. I default everything to him when I have questions. So one of the things that states in there, you know, in Proverbs 15, 25 states without counsel, plans fail. But with many advisors they succeed. And it's emphasizing the importance of seeking advice from others. And and you know, you have your inner network, you have your trusted advisors. I always tell people, you know, and in all my businesses and and you know I let everybody I said that's if it's insurance, I let my insurance person do that. That's her lane, right, I'm going to let her do it. My HVAC guy that's his lane, I'm going to let him make that decision. It isn't for me, you know, and I always speak that I always tell people surround yourself with very wise people. It makes you look a lot smarter than you are sometimes.
Speaker 1:So another one down there is scriptural guidance. You know and we're going down through decision making. You know aspects in the Bible. The scriptures are seen as a source of wisdom and guidance a lot of times, and I made a note here, psalm 119, 105 notes your word is a lamp to my feet and a light to my path, suggesting that the teachings and principles found in the Bible can illuminate the right path in decision-making processes. So, in other words, if you go through down there and you look at the scriptures and I always tell people, and I'm sure Dr Posey would tell you as well you know, go back and read the Bible, not only, if you've read it one time, read it again, because you're in a different part. It's the same with corporate leaderships as in the Bible. Based on where you're at in life, based on your experiences going on, a lot of times your brain's going to interpret those scriptures differently. So if you're looking for messages, if you're looking for a path, you know a lot of times you can find that path in the scriptures. It's amazing how the brain works. It's amazing how scriptures work. It's just one of those things that you need to know and you need to put it in place because it will help. There is a system in place. If you follow all the system and the guidelines and the rules and go through and read some of the passages of the Bible, I promise it's going to help you. So keep going down through some of these that I have.
Speaker 1:Peace and conviction. Decisions should align with a sense of peace that comes with God. Colossals 3.15 states let the peace of Christ rule in your hearts, indicating that peace should be a determinant in making choices. So in other words, remember I said, people that were perfectionists tend to get all stressed out and cause anxiety and everything. You got to get to the point where you can let go. You have to be at peace with your decision. You have to gain everything that we're talking about in the corporate world, the self-confidence and let things go, make that decision, stand firm behind it, and that's ultimately going to give you the peace. And if you go through and you blend some of the stuff that comes, the internal wisdom and some of the messages that are coming from God, and blend those into some of your decision-making and know that they're the right path and a lot of times we don't know where the path is we go back. It lights it up, we see the path but we're trying to figure out where we're going. But have that little trust, have that knowledge that everything's going to work out and have that trust in God. And let's see one more, two more I got in here Dependence on the Holy Spirit.
Speaker 1:Believers are encouraged to rely on the Holy Spirit for guidance. Romans 8, 14 states For all those who are led by Spirit of God are sons of God. Emphasizing the role of the Holy Spirit in guiding decisions. Sort of ties into what we're talking about here is let the Holy Spirit, let God, guide you through some of these decisions. And if you've never done that, and if you've never been a person that prays a lot, I highly recommend you take baby steps, build up to a prayer. If you've never been a meditation person, meditation to me is that's one of the biggest things I teach, guided meditations. And if it's a group or if it's personal, just sit in a corner and take baby steps.
Speaker 1:Meditation and prayer isn't something you're going to sit there and pray for 30 minutes and and or an hour, four hours, um, you're, you're, you're. It's a, it's a workup process. I know at one point, um, I would go through meditations that would last six to eight hours, but I didn't start that. I mean, even when I, I, I, I start again. You know, if we drop off the meditation wagon or something like that and you start again, it's still, it's a ramp up process even from that, from where I start over again, because you know your brain at. You know three, five minutes, 10 minutes, whatever it may be, an hour is a long time when you're doing some meditation and prayer. But I mean, if you do it and you take the baby steps and you work up to it, I promise you you're going to have a lot of stuff through prayer and meditation and you're going to have a lot of messages come that you'll be totally surprised in. I'll just leave it at that. Reach out to us at biblicalleadershipshowcom and I'll give you some tips on that.
Speaker 1:And then I guess the last one here I want to talk about is trust in God's plan. Biblical decision-making often involves trusting in God's overarching plan, even when the outcome is uncertain. Proverbs 3, 5 through 6 instructs Trust in the Lord with all your heart and do not lean on your own understanding. In all your ways acknowledge Him and he will make straight your paths. So in other words, when you go through this, have a lot of faith, have a lot of knowledge of where you're going and how to go about it. Now in a recap, in a summary, you know, because we're pushing down here towards the end of the show decision-making in corporate Big distinguish between decision-making in corporate and decision-making in the biblical, decision-making in corporate involves complex judgments, values, ethics, strategic thinking would be another one.
Speaker 1:It revolves around our business goals, where we want to take the company and we do that from a short-term and a long-term impact over the duration of the company. Where, if you get into biblical, biblical is more about the moral integrity, the divine guidance, the scriptural principles. We focus more on faith and knowing that God's going to open up the path and open up the shine of light on the path that we're going to be taking. So there's a lot more of that internal and go through that. We rely on the divine to navigate those complex situations. So there are definitely differences in both, but the main takeaway is this we, in both contexts, we, highlight the importance of this thoughtful deliberation and the impact on the decisions, not only for an organization, but maybe a community. Not only for an organization, but maybe a community, maybe the church community. And we have to blend all these different things together and I think that's the moral of this story is even from corporate. I think that you have to have a little faith. I have to. You have to have a little of that gut feeling, that intuition that you're looking to be able to make those corporate decisions and to stand confidently. A lot of times those decisions are made and you have that uneasy feeling and then think about those decisions that you're making, your gut, your intuition. Man, if you don't buy into that strategy of running it by your intuition, your gut, it'll keep you out of a lot of different things.
Speaker 1:I had a situation literally two weeks ago. I was out of town and one of my friends, his acquaintance from college, posted a whole bunch of stuff on Facebook Marketplace. I'm like, wow, I want that, that, that and that, you know, and some trailers and stuff I could use. And I reached out and I said, hey, I'd love to do this. And they got great. You know, I'm out of town for a couple weeks. Can you put a deposit down? I'm like, well, sure, I'll put a deposit down, it's not a problem. And you know, as I was going through this process and and they said, can you just, you know, send it over here, and I started having this, just, oh, my intuition was firing.
Speaker 1:My gut wasn't uneasy, it was, it was not feeling good and I finally I stopped and I recognized this and I said, you know, it's just, I don't, I'm not feeling comfortable with this. I what I would like to do is let me get back in town and you get back in town, I'll come up there, I'll be the first one there, I'm good for it, I'll commit to these and I'll just pay you in full instead of putting deposit down. And and lo and behold, I they. They took the thing down shortly after that the Facebook marketplace but then it popped up about a week later, Same scenario. The person was going to be out of town for two weeks and now it's completely down. The account's been deleted, so they had fraud. So I saved myself a lot of money by listening to my gut to not wire that money to go.
Speaker 1:It just didn't feel right. Everything was fine, I know this person and it just didn't feel right. Everything was fine, I know this person and it just didn't seem like it was going good. So I love that. You have those stories and I always tell people it doesn't matter if it's corporate, personal, biblical take your intuition, your gut, your angels talking to you, god talking to you, the Holy Spirit, and listen to them.
Speaker 1:So here's one of the things I want to do as we close out the show. Dr Dean is not here. He is my dad joke master here, but he would be so mad at me if I didn't throw a dad joke in here because you know, that's just not our show. So I'm going to throw a dad joke in for Dr Dean, because I know he's going to probably listen to this a little bit later. So what do you call a dinosaur that makes great decisions? A Dicidosaurus Rex? There you go, dr Dean. I threw one in for you. Dr Dean comes up with the best dad jokes and my dad jokes are just lacking, as you can tell, right, but I had that one for my kids, so I like that one.
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