The Biblical Leadership Show
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New Year Visions: Goal-Setting Wisdom, Stephen Covey's Insights, and Festive Humor
Ready to kickstart your year with a blend of wisdom and wit? Discover how starting with a clear vision can transform your personal, business, and family goals. We unpack Stephen Covey's inspiring principle of "beginning with the end in mind" and reveal practical strategies to focus on what truly matters. By reflecting on past experiences and goal reviews, we'll guide you to craft meaningful plans that minimize distractions. Join us as we revisit a memorable coaching session, offering a fresh perspective on setting and achieving your New Year's resolutions with purpose.
Prepare for a laughter-filled journey as we sprinkle in a dash of humor with our New Year's themed dad jokes. Celebrate the festive season with a smile, as we share goofy resolutions from cows and spiders to Times Square's ball drop. Our lighthearted banter will keep you chuckling as we express gratitude for your support and tease some exciting future plans, including our ongoing Bible series. Grab a cup of coffee and join us in welcoming the next 365 days with joy, creativity, and—most importantly—a big smile!
all righty welcome. I'll do it, I'll do it. Welcome, welcome, welcome to a 90. Dang. Let's start again the little clappers Three two one go, welcome, welcome. Welcome to another exciting episode of the Biblical Leadership Show. My name is Tim Lansford.
Speaker 2:And I'm Dr Dean.
Speaker 1:Posey.
Speaker 2:How we doing, dr Dean oh what a great way to start the last— New Year's Eve. Yes, oh, my goodness, the last show of the year.
Speaker 1:Sorry, we're yelling in your ear over there. New Year's Eve show.
Speaker 2:Yes, we're going to have a little fun on this show. We're going to have so much fun. Just because we're going to have so much fun, the audience is going to wish we had stopped.
Speaker 1:And there's no New Year's Eve cheer required for this show.
Speaker 2:That's right.
Speaker 1:We just have fun, we're just going to have fun. I got some warm coffee in my hand right now.
Speaker 2:Yes, so yeah, we're going to have some fun today, yeah, and you know it's going to be fun. You know we're going to watch back in this and this show is going to be a little bit of some leadership and then a lot of dad jokes you know really, basically the whole set up on this A lot, a lot of dad jokes Like 90%.
Speaker 1:And it'll probably be our most listened to show. It'll probably show Be 100% and it'll probably be our most listened to show. It'll probably show Be like man. That show is great.
Speaker 2:I shared that show with all my friends. Oh, that would be so good. That'd be so good.
Speaker 1:We get up to seven listeners on this show. That's freaking great.
Speaker 2:Let's just jump into some leadership. I mean, it is the end of the year.
Speaker 1:It is the end of the year.
Speaker 2:And so let's just talk about some leadership principles, and we're going to go back several decades to Covey.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2:And with his book about seven habits. What a great. It's still timeless, timeless wisdom in that book, and so here's I'll just.
Speaker 2:I was telling Tim this before we started the podcast that I was listening to a podcast on triathloning the other day and there was a great episode about goal setting, and the very first thing they talked about which I think is so important for leadership is that you want to define your vision of success. You want to set your goals or, as Covey would say, you want to begin with the end in mind. So, one year from today, on December 31, 2025, you want to look back over the year and say this is what we accomplished, and you should have that firmly in your mind. What is the goal? It could just be one goal. It could be one goal you want to improve production, you want to have more clients? Improve production, you want to have more clients, you want to get fitter, you want to get leaner. Whatever the goal is, I think part of the problem with some people is they set too many goals and then they fail within you know, within a month, and they just give up.
Speaker 2:So my encouragement is set one goal. Maybe one goal for your business and one goal for your personal life, maybe one goal for your family life Just one, don't set 10, 15. Don't do that. You're setting yourself up for failure. And then say, okay, a year from now, in my family, I want to have gone on one good family vacation, or I want to celebrate my spouse's birthday better than last year, or, you know, we want to travel to three new states or something, some goal. Once you set that goal, then the question is how are you going to get there? And so this podcast was saying you've got to minimize distractions. You know if you're going to, you know plan a trip like we do normally over Christmas holidays. Our kids are home and we sit down and say, okay, when during the summer, can we all meet?
Speaker 2:So, we're already planning our trip for next summer right now. And so well, all the kids are home, we sit down, pick out the dates, we pick out where we're going, we start looking at hotels or lodges or wherever we're going to go, and we make those reservations now, because if we don't, then time gets away from us and it doesn't happen. And then we get all frustrated because it doesn't happen. So I say write them down, just write them down.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I mean that's and I always tell people when when we're teaching you know seminars, you don't have to wait until the first year to do goal setting right. But most people have this block. I'll do it the first year because it is sort of like a a new clean slate you know, first of the year and people feel good about doing it.
Speaker 1:So you know, this show hits at a good timely thing where you know at least do it if you're listening, you know sit down and do this and I think the intentions of putting that together. People don't do goal setting deep enough and I know that from experience. I used to do goal setting. I've taught goal setting for 20 years, you know, plus right going on 30 years, and I think I was really good at goal setting because I set goals all the time and I make sure monthly to review them to see how we're doing.
Speaker 1:I had this one thing I was taking a client, I was mentoring him and we were driving up to Kansas City. Well, from here Kansas City, it's about an eight and a half hour drive and I said bring your computer, let's do goal setting session. And we did a goal-setting session with him. That was just spectacular. I mean, it was one of the best things I've ever done with any of my coaching clients and everything, and it was really good. So as we went up there to take a class together and as we were driving back he pulled out his computer. He goes let's do you. I'm like, no, no, I do this. We're good. Why are we talking about the teacher? I?
Speaker 2:don't need that. I've got this down.
Speaker 1:But he insisted and we did it. And boy, I learned that day that I wasn't doing goal setting the way goal setting needed to be done. I need to do deeper, I need to look farther into this and I put more time into goal setting and once I did that, it changed my whole outlook, the way I teach it and the way I prepare myself for the new year. Really, if you sit down and you really take the time, not just sit down for 30 minutes and do goal setting, but take the entire day just to brainstorm and what you want, where trips you want to do, what personally you want to do, what professionally you want to do, what spiritually you want to do, and that really has a lot of impact over the course of direction over the next year.
Speaker 2:It really does. And then it's like what are you going to stop doing in order to focus on your goals? You don't want to get to a year from now and go. You know what? I just spent so much time on social media that I didn't get a chance to read a book a month, or whatever goal you had. And so part of goal setting is realizing if those goals are your important things, then something else has to be less important, and it's important to write that all down, put it on paper, put it on a sticky note, put it on your mirror in the bathroom, you know, put it on your. Put it in your car, put it just remind yourself.
Speaker 2:And this podcast that I was listening to one of the ones I was listening to was talking to this woman, and she's a teacher at the Air Force Academy, she's a triathlete and she's big on goal setting and teaching all that and on habits, and she was saying that the average person to do a new habit takes 66 days. Now she said sometimes it takes less, sometimes it takes more, but the average is 66 days. So if you're going to have a new goal, whatever that might be, get up early, read, work out. Whatever it may be, you've got to do that for at least two months for it to become a habit. It might be a new thing you do, a new schedule, but it might be a week long and then you're tired of it. No, you've got to stick with it for at least two months for it to begin to be ingrained in your life.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I agree. I mean, you know, for years we taught 30 seconds a day for 30 days and I think that's really more routine. You're getting in a routine. I think if you do it for two or three months it really sticks in your head and you know you're retraining your brain to focus and it becomes something. When it becomes something like working out, when it gets to the point where you feel bad if you're not working out, well, that's sort of become a habit, right, you know? But then if you don't do that for a couple weeks and here's the mistake that people make on goal setting, and I see it all the time Well, I haven't worked out for, you know, two, three weeks. Now, you know I missed a month in the gym. I guess I'll just pick it up next year, right, I'm done the rest of the year. I missed a couple weeks. You know a couple workouts. No, just get back. You missed a little bit. Just get back and do it, right.
Speaker 2:Yeah, but you know, just take a workout for a minute. You missed a couple weeks for whatever reason. You know it's like no, it's holidays. And then you get back in the gym, you know on January, the 3rd or whatever day it is, and you try to go back to the same weight and the same reps and the same everything that you did when you stopped.
Speaker 1:Right.
Speaker 2:What a mistake that is.
Speaker 2:You need to ramp up you know, yeah, and so when we're off on vacation, before I got back to you know, the gym and swimming and lifting, it's like, okay, I've been out for a couple of weeks, I can't start at the same level. So maybe if you're saying you know I want to do whatever it is and you stop for some reason it could be health reason, it could be vacation, whatever. Don't set yourself up for failure by trying to start back at the same level. It might take you a couple of days, it might take you a couple of weeks to get back up to that level, but the key is consistency.
Speaker 1:Yes.
Speaker 2:You know, that is really a key.
Speaker 1:Yeah, you know holding yourself accountable, finding the motivation and you know putting the plan in place. If you can do all those things, you're going holding yourself accountable, finding the motivation and you know putting the plan in place. If you can do all those things, you're going to have success in this. And you know it's just being disciplined. You know yes.
Speaker 2:And so this one guy I was listening to he was talking about a calendar and this is very old school, because so many people now keep track of everything on their phone he said, no, what he does to hold himself accountable. He printed off a huge calendar. He puts it in his room this is for stretching and those kinds of things before he goes and rides his bike. He says when I do that, I put a big X on the calendar so that I can visually look to see how many days in a row I have done that. And I hold myself accountable by putting an X on the calendar. So, however you do that, if you don't have someone to hold you accountable, figure out a way to hold yourself accountable for those goals. And if you're the leader of an organization, a company, whatever, the question is, how are you setting yourself up for to being accountable? Do you talk about your goals every week at staff meeting or however long you have staff meeting? How are you doing that? And that's just really important part of keeping your goals.
Speaker 1:And then one of the biggest things you know at the end of your goal setting is to celebrate you know, celebrate progress. And you know it's time to dream big. It's time to tell dad jokes.
Speaker 2:It's time to do everything.
Speaker 1:I mean, when you're doing goal setting and you've accomplished a lot of stuff over the course of the year, what do you do? You celebrate, and you celebrate with dad jokes and by gosh, if you don't like dad jokes have a happy new year, because we're just going into we're transitioning into dad jokes for the remainder of the show so enough about goal setting our goal for the next 45 minutes. Okay, wait a minute. I mean you've got a couple lists there, you got a whole I have.
Speaker 2:So many dad jokes, it will literally take us into next year.
Speaker 1:All right, okay, you get the button ready. Let me clear out some stuff. I've got a lot of stuff in my way.
Speaker 2:There's going to be some really bad ones.
Speaker 1:No, here's what it is. Before we do lose, some people have a happy new year. Thank you for hanging out with us all year. I know, you know, we can see all the numbers of listeners out there and we appreciate you. We really do, and we have some really, really big plans coming up in this next year as we continue our, our Bible series, um, to finish that out and and, uh, uh, spend the next year doing that. So, uh, please, uh, you know, keep listening to us and we just want to do a big thank you, you know really.
Speaker 2:Yeah, and just for some of our listeners around the country, it's going to be nice weather, you know, for New Year today, while you're maybe grilling out some burgers. But if you're grilling burgers, don't forget the pickle, because it's a big deal don't forget the pickle, because it's a big deal. I had to throw that in there, oh my gosh, I didn't even get a button for that one.
Speaker 1:Oh yeah, I was, I was, I was preparing mine. I'm trying to figure out all my dad jokes here, you know.
Speaker 2:So, uh, let's see okay all all well, I have a whole list of dad jokes, but they're all about the New Year's.
Speaker 1:Really, I've got some.
Speaker 2:New Year's ones too. I've got some.
Speaker 1:What's a cow's favorite New Year's resolution, I don't know? To turn over a new leaf and move on from the past. Move on from the past, okay, okay.
Speaker 2:Okay. So what is a spider's New Year's resolution. Spider's New Year's resolution is Just spend less time on the web.
Speaker 1:No, I gave you the wrong one for it. I hit the wrong button. I needed that one. I needed the rim shot. You know what's the New Year's?
Speaker 2:resolution for a ghost. I've heard this one, I don't remember.
Speaker 1:To me to be more transparent.
Speaker 2:Oh, okay. What does every new year have in?
Speaker 1:store. For us A new year.
Speaker 2:Another 365 days.
Speaker 1:That was close, that was close, you were really close.
Speaker 2:Why do you need a jeweler on New Year's Eve?
Speaker 1:Let's see why do I need a jeweler on New Year's Eve? Boy?
Speaker 2:To ring in the new year.
Speaker 1:All right, there you go.
Speaker 2:Oh, now about the ghost. You said something about the ghost, I was thinking about a whole different thing about ghosts. So what does a ghost say on January 1st?
Speaker 1:I don't know.
Speaker 2:Happy Boo Year.
Speaker 1:All right, I'll go for January 2nd. Why did the gym close on January 2nd?
Speaker 2:I don't know.
Speaker 1:It couldn't handle the weight of everyone's resolutions.
Speaker 2:Oh gosh. Had to throw some groaners in there, okay, so some people are going to be watching the Times Square thing tonight, right, oh yeah. Okay, so why is partying in Times Square always overrated?
Speaker 1:Why is partying in Times Square always overrated? Do not know.
Speaker 2:Because they drop the ball every year. Dang it, you were going to go there on that one.
Speaker 1:I had that one, as what's the best thing about New Year's? You can drop the ball and everyone cheers for you.
Speaker 2:Yes, that's it. Oh, okay, here's another one. In what year did Christmas Day and New Year's Day fall in the same year?
Speaker 1:Christmas Day and New Year's fall on the same year I don't know Every year. Okay.
Speaker 2:I tell you that was a groaner. I was reaching for the button there, I didn't do it fast enough.
Speaker 1:All right, let's see. What did the calendar say to the new year? I don't know, I'm not ready to turn the page yet, oh God.
Speaker 2:Okay, what do farmers give their spouses at midnight on New Year's Eve?
Speaker 1:Ooh.
Speaker 2:What do farmers give their spouses at midnight on New Year's Eve?
Speaker 1:I do not know.
Speaker 2:Hogs and kisses.
Speaker 1:I need to press the button. Oh my gosh, let's see.
Speaker 2:Oh, I got it. This is old school. This is really old school joke, Knock knock.
Speaker 1:Who's there? Radio Radio who?
Speaker 2:Radio? Not, it's a new year.
Speaker 1:I'll give you that one.
Speaker 2:Let's see. Uh, what do you say on january 1st, when someone asked how? The new year's going good so far, so far so good, right, okay, did you hear about the guy who started fixing breakfast on midnight, december 31st? No, he wanted to make New Year's toast.
Speaker 1:I don't know, I want to do both. Can I push both buttons? Yeah, you can push both of them at the same time. That was actually funny. It was so stupid, it made me laugh. I love it. Let's see what else do I have?
Speaker 2:Oh, I got another one. I got another one for you, okay.
Speaker 1:Yes.
Speaker 2:How do you keep a New Year's resolution to read more while never opening a book?
Speaker 1:I'm going to repeat that this is an important one.
Speaker 2:right, it's a good one. Okay, how do you keep a New Year's resolution to read more while never opening a book?
Speaker 1:I do not know.
Speaker 2:You watch TV with subtitles?
Speaker 1:Yeah, okay, oh, my, that was pretty good.
Speaker 2:That was a good one.
Speaker 1:Not really.
Speaker 2:Oh, I got another one. Okay, it's basketball season, right? Yes, it's basketball season, middle of basketball season. What New Year's resolution should a basketball player never make? A New Year's resolution that a basketball player should never make? You were a football guy, so this is basketball, yeah.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I was basketball too, but football in college I don't know.
Speaker 2:To travel more.
Speaker 1:All right, that would be bad.
Speaker 2:That would be bad.
Speaker 1:I just thought of one.
Speaker 2:Okay, go ahead.
Speaker 1:It's not New Year's, Alina.
Speaker 2:I'm ready. I'm going to press the button. What do you call a?
Speaker 1:factory that makes okay products. I don't know A satisfactory, a satisfactory.
Speaker 2:I was going to say, is their product okie dokie?
Speaker 1:What's orange and sounds like a parrot.
Speaker 2:An orange parrot, a carrot.
Speaker 1:A carrot. What do you call a snowman with a six-pack?
Speaker 2:Oh yes, An abominable snowman.
Speaker 1:A domino, a domino. A snowman with a six-pack, oh yes, and a bumble snowman. A domino, a domino, whatever.
Speaker 2:Why do birds fly south for New Year's Eve?
Speaker 1:I don't know.
Speaker 2:Because it's too far to walk.
Speaker 1:What do you call? How do you organize a space party?
Speaker 2:Get out of the way.
Speaker 1:You plan it.
Speaker 2:Okay, here we go. A space party Get out of the way. You plan it, you plan it. Okay, here we go. Why?
Speaker 1:did the man sprinkle sugar on his pillow on New Year's Eve?
Speaker 2:Why did the man sprinkle sugar on his pillow on New Year's Eve?
Speaker 1:Lots of thoughts I don't know.
Speaker 2:He wanted to start the year with sweet dreams.
Speaker 1:Oh my gosh, I got both of us at the same time. Oh my goodness, why do crabs never give to charity?
Speaker 2:Don't know.
Speaker 1:Because they're shellfish. Okay. Why are elevator jokes so good? They work on so many levels, oh yes, I should have known that.
Speaker 2:Okay, here we go. I was going to quit all my bad habits for the new year, but then I remembered that no one likes a quitter.
Speaker 1:Why did the math book look sad?
Speaker 2:Because the answers were only the odd ones, or something what?
Speaker 1:It had too many problems.
Speaker 2:It had too many problems.
Speaker 1:One more why can't your nose be 12 inches long?
Speaker 2:Because, it'd be a foot. Okay here you go. All right, your turn be a foot. Okay, here you go. All right, your turn for a second. I was rapid firing over here. Okay, you were At the beginning of the year. I'm going to make a New Year's resolution to lose 10 pounds. Yeah, only 15 more to go.
Speaker 1:Is that 15 years right? So what?
Speaker 2:happened to the man who shoplifted a calendar on New Year's Eve. He got 12 months.
Speaker 1:Oh, finally got the applause. He had to give it to somebody there.
Speaker 2:Oh okay, here's a good one.
Speaker 1:Here's a good one.
Speaker 2:Some of the people in our audience can be able to relate to this one.
Speaker 1:Yes.
Speaker 2:An optimist stays up until midnight to see in the new year. Okay, a pessimist stays up to make sure the old year leaves.
Speaker 1:Yeah, that's pretty good. I like that one. I was just trying to think of some optimist dad jokes.
Speaker 2:Optimist dad jokes I don't know any, you don't know any. Yeah, but last year I was able to keep all my New Year's resolutions tucked away in a journal on my bookshelf.
Speaker 1:Why don't calendars ever feel sad?
Speaker 2:Because they can always turn the page.
Speaker 1:Always looking forward to better days, oh okay, that's close you were close. I was close. I like a C on that. Yeah, all right.
Speaker 2:How many more you got? Oh, I've got like 100. I've got like five pages worth of jokes over here but you know, what I don't want to lose our audience. Exactly, I want to end on a high note.
Speaker 1:You know, I think so, you know we hopefully had fun.
Speaker 2:We're having so much fun. Okay, you said something about a snowman. I got one more snowman joke Okay. What do snowmen like to do on New Year's Eve?
Speaker 1:I don't know, snowman joke.
Speaker 2:Okay, what do?
Speaker 1:snowmen like to do on New Year's Eve. I don't know, what do you? Chill out, chill out, all right, I'll give you that one. Let's see.
Speaker 2:Oh, I got one more.
Speaker 1:I really have about 100 more. I know I was trying to think of any good one.
Speaker 2:Okay, what does a field grow on January 1st?
Speaker 1:Outstanding something.
Speaker 2:New Year's hay New Year's hay.
Speaker 1:I have one that I pulled up. How do you fix a broken tuba?
Speaker 2:How do you fix a broken tuba?
Speaker 1:I don't know, with a tuba glue, tuba glue, tuba glue.
Speaker 2:I was thinking it was something with toothpaste but, I couldn't figure it out.
Speaker 1:Oh my gosh, I hate to say that's it, but I think that's about all. I should say yeah, I think we've done enough damage. I think we've done enough damage. We've done pretty good.
Speaker 2:Hey, you know we're going to start the new year next week and we're going to be focusing on Jonah, the leadership principles of Jonah. Now, Jonah is a short book, but it's amazing how many people know about Jonah and the whale.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:And it's a great story. It can teach us some important things to do as leaders and important things not to do as leaders, but that's what we're going to focus on and I would just encourage people if you've enjoyed our podcast at all share it at all.
Speaker 1:One second, one second, maybe just one joke.
Speaker 2:Share with a friend. You know, let them know that you're enjoying this and you know we'd appreciate it. We'd appreciate the support.
Speaker 1:Yeah, we do. Yeah, have a happy new year. We're looking forward to this next year. We have fun doing this. Hopefully you've had fun. Like I say, we're all in different places. This one we recorded this early. We're having a great day, so we're having a good new year. Happy new years with our family. Hopefully you guys are as well.
Speaker 2:Other than that, I guess we just say make it a great day. Make it a great day and we'll be praying for you and having a great new year, and then I guess we could say how do bees say goodbye?
Speaker 1:Buzz you later.
Speaker 2:Buzz you later. All right, guys. Happy New Year. Oh, we got to say this See you next year, see you next, alright, guys, happy New Year. Oh, we gotta say this See you next year, see you next year.
Speaker 1:We're gonna turn the page.
Speaker 2:See you next year, alright, bye, bye.
