Inspiration Station: Gimme Five/Five Action Steps for Breaking Free

Discover the transformative power of positivity and personal accountability in your daily life! Have you ever wondered how to rise above the turmoil of election seasons and social media negativity? In this uplifting episode, we promise to provide you with five actionable steps to enhance your surroundings and embrace personal growth. We delve into the importance of taking responsibility for our actions and the incredible impact it has on our lives, supported by heartfelt stories and meaningful scripture references.

We'll discuss how to shed old habits and behaviors to embrace a new life, underscoring the sacred practice of 'dying daily' in the Christian faith. Join us as we rethink priorities and cultivate a mindset geared toward lasting fulfillment, revisiting the five key points that will inspire positivity and personal growth in your life.

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Chapters

• 0:05 Encouraging Positivity in Daily Life
• 10:39 Recognizing Value Beyond Job Titles
• 14:36 Freedom Through Embracing Change
• 24:02 Embrace Change, Build for Tomorrow

Transcript

Speaker 1: 0:05

Welcome to the New York City, new York City, new York City, new York City, new York City, new York City, new York City, new York City, new York City, new York City, new York City, new York City, new York City, new York City, new York City, new York City, new York City, new York City, new York City, new York City, new York City, new York City, new York City, new York City, new York. Welcome back to the all-purpose pod for an all-purpose life. Wherever you are and however you're listening to the Call Me, mr U. Thank you again for making us a part of your week. We are excited to be back with you guys today, excited about all that's been going on. Thank you again for making us a part of your week. We are excited to be back with you guys today, excited about all that's been going on. Thank you for all the support on our social media platform. We definitely appreciate that, due to some circumstances outside of my control, I don't get a chance to promote as much as I would like to, just some challenges with some of the platforms that I've been using. So, if you guys are following us via word of mouth, thank you for sharing us with others. I appreciate it so much. It means a lot. Trust me, if you follow us on Apple Podcasts for your audio-only listening pleasure, I think you can follow our show. Subscribe there on Apple Podcasts or on Stitcher Only two places. You can do that right now, but definitely Spotify, iheartradio, pandora, you can find us. Amazon Music you can find our podcast anywhere you enjoy your podcast If you're watching us. Of course, our YouTube channel at they Call Me Mr U is where you can find our live shows or our recorded live interviews and other programming through the they Call Me Mr U brand of podcast networks. So thank you again for all you're doing there and your support of us.

Speaker 1: 1:49

And we definitely want to share a few things with you today to kind of just encourage you, kind of get you going for the week, kind of getting you ready for the life that you live and the things that you're challenged with. I want to just share a few things that I received that I thought was so helpful for me. As always, I thought it might help you, but normally I'm not the person that has all these points to give you, but today I have five points I want to share with you, if you are taking notes and you have the ability to do that, that would be awesome. If you're driving, perhaps not. If you're running and jogging or exercising on the treadmill maybe not a good idea, but if you have a way to retain this, download the episodes on Apple Podcasts and you can store it on your phone and you can kind of go back and check it out whenever you have time. But I have five points that just kind of hit me today. I want to try to encourage you with the same, and, as you know, we do it from an inspirational standpoint. There's no fluff about what we do. This is my life, this is how I live, and I share this openly with you guys for the past four plus seasons. We're going to continue to do so as we go forward into this one as well. So thank you for listening, for supporting us, subscribing and sharing us with others. Thank you.

Speaker 1: 3:03

So, number one add positivity to your environment. Now that first one. All five of these have a point and an impetus behind them, but I'm sharing this because I feel as though, in today's times, what we seem to be missing is the personal accountability piece. Now, you may have heard that maybe you got a guru in your life or somebody that you really highly regard, more than you regard me, and you get those kind of pearls of wisdom from them all the time. Nothing new. You ain't got to get it from a podcast. I respect that. God bless you and all that you do. I'm good with it. But for those of you that value what we do on this show and it's encouraging to you and it has been a staple for you every day, every week, every month You've been listening to our show for years. Thank you for continuing to keep doing that. Thank you for continuing to support us and let us know how what we talk about helps you. But number one, adding positivity to your environment. Like I said before, the personal accountability piece seems to be missing.

Speaker 1: 4:07

I see a lot of finger pointing, especially at this time of the year. We're going to election season and the finger pointing is rampant. As a matter of fact, a lot of stuff is coming out about celebrities and entertainers and all the finger pointing that can be done is happening on our social media timelines. It's astounding. I rarely see anybody point to themselves and say you know what? I need to get this stuff straight with myself and get myself in alignment. I don't see those kind of posts. I share that kind of stuff because that's how I think, but I rarely ever see it on any social media platform that I'm on. I see attacks. I don't care if it's your favorite sports or a head coach, it is finger pointing. I don't care if it's your politician of choice, I see finger pointing. I don't care if it's anybody that's in the media airspace, in Austin Entertainment, in the media world. I see fingers being pointed and it's happening so often. It's like wow, when do we check ourselves before we wreck ourselves? When do we deal with us? When did that happen exactly? Because I don't think it happens as much as it needs to. So the personal accountability piece is big Hope.

Speaker 1: 5:18

These five points kind of help us to deal with a few things I think are going to help you out. There is going to be some scripture attached, so I definitely highlight, I recommend that you highlight those, mark those down, note those to go back and check into them later and hopefully we can have a conversation offline about what you learned, what you see, what you discovered, and share your testimonies with us and with me and with the rest of our listeners and viewers out here. But number one, adding positivity to our environment. 2 Corinthians, chapter 2, verse 2, goes into what I think is the impetus for this. But the Apostle Paul is talking about how he recognizes that he can't make the people that he's trying to encourage be discouraged, because at some point in time in the course of his journey he's going to need encouragement from those same people. And I realize that and this is a passage of scripture that I don't think anybody's ever preached on, I doubt I want to be the first to do so.

Speaker 1: 6:17

But 2 Corinthians 2, verse 2 and 3, he talks about how he is recognizing that the people that he's serving, that he helps, that he ministers to, that he coaches, is the joy of his life. So he doesn't want them to be sorrowful or discouraged because of anything that he's saying to them, because he recognizes that at some point in time he'd be leaning on them for encouragement. And I think that's so profound, so mature, for encouragement. And I think that's so profound, so mature, because what that tells me is that you recognize that the people who you serve, they ain't there for your amusement, they're not there for you to get boosted up on some kind of high platform so you can look good. They're there because they're part of a fellowship, they're part of a relationship group, they're part of a team and a family, and we're going to all pull from each other at some point in time.

Speaker 1: 7:08

Paul is recognizing that this is going to happen. It's unavoidable. We're going to need to encourage others and need to send others to encourage us, hopefully when we need it, because as high as you may go up, that's how far you can come down, and we recognize that a lot. I mean, I've heard that over the years in different phrases, different ways, but the bottom line is that you don't want to get too high because you're going to come down and pass all the folks you mistreated. So what he's saying is that I value these people, I'm encouraging them, but at some point they may encourage me as well. So I want to make sure that I'm rejoicing with them and instilling confidence in them and making them glad, because I'm going to need that to come back to me when I have a rough spot or I'm in a rough spot. So number one is adding positivity to your environment. Don't bring heaviness and grief to those that you might require at some point down the line to make you glad you got to kill the consumer mentality and start providing value to our environment.

Speaker 1: 8:07

There are a lot of folks that are in groups, big teams and units and organizations, and I don't think we always think about that. We think about what we can get. What's going to be in it for me? What's going to be in it for Bob? What's going to be in it for Susan? What's going to be in it for Mike? What's going to be in it for Anna? What's going to be in it for Mike? What's going to be in it for Anna? What's going to be in it for us? As opposed to what value we bring to the table, what value do we provide to this situation? If it's all about us, then we're going to be in a consumer mentality mode and it's not going to be good because all we're thinking about is taking rather than giving. But the Bible says that it's easier and it's best to give more than it is to receive. So add positivity to your environment.

Speaker 1: 8:49

Number two regularly assess your value outside of your position. Now I don't care where you are. I work with the government. I've been in all manner of jobs. I've been in areas of ministry, where I've served all manner of jobs. I've been in areas of ministry where I've served. I've been in areas of business where I've been a consultant and done things as an entrepreneur and in the realm of entrepreneurship. So I've seen organizational structures, I've seen positional value and how people kind of assess that. I've seen that multiple times.

Speaker 1: 9:22

But number two is regularly assess your value outside of your position. What positions do you hold? Are they valuable? The position or is what you bring to the table will produce the value. Who you are as a person that produces the value, who you are in your private space that seeps out into your public space. Is that where the value comes from? Because a position by itself has no value, somebody has to be in it. I've seen people who are executive directors, I've seen them as site managers and things of that nature. The positions by themselves are empty office, empty chair. There's no value in that. It's what somebody brings to the table that makes it valuable. That's where the value comes from what the person in the position in the office brings to the table. We've got to start thinking about where we are and how we approach bringing value to our situation and regularly assess your value, because if you lose your position or you lose your job, do you still have value? A lot of people feel like I've been in this job for 30 years. Take case in point, take 2020 as an example.

Speaker 1: 10:39

There was a gentleman I don't know his name, maybe, maybe, you can ask him his name. I was so shocked by his situation you didn't think to ask him his name, which is on me. But this gentleman was 40 years in the corporate realm. I mean, he clearly he was working hard to be and he was really invested in his job, assignment and organization he worked for. He was in there for 40 years, I think it was, or coming up on on on year 40. And when, uh, the pandemic hit, he lost his job. And he wasn't. I don't know why. Maybe it was just a last man, first man out. I don't know how it went in his organization. We last man in, first man out I don't know how it went in his organization we lost a job after almost 40 years in that business, lost a job. And he was over here in our local area at Domino's Pizza flipping pizzas, making meat lovers for people. And it's not to degrade him, it's just to say that you never know when your situation could change. And he was heartbroken but I could change. And he was heartbroken, but I think the reason why he was heartbroken wasn't because of all the time he invested. I think he was heartbroken because he wasn't prepared for the changes.

Speaker 1: 11:47

Number one and all of his perceived value was in the job assignment. It was a part of who he was. It was who he was known to be. So when he lost his job, he lost his value. He didn't see his purpose in life anymore. And that's the part that I want to try to help encourage you not to go down that road. Regularly assess your value outside of your position.

Speaker 1: 12:10

Second, corinthians three and two talks about this. You are epistles written in our hearts, known and read of all men. Your value is beyond the position that you're in. We're called to be living letters. That means everything that we talk about in the realm of faith Jesus Christ, salvation, healing, et cetera, et cetera. All those things should not only be written on our hearts but it should be seeping out of our life, because that's a position that we can't lose. We can't get fired from that position. We had that one for a lifetime.

Speaker 1: 12:42

What do people see when they look at you? What do they read when they look at you. If you're a living letter, what do they see? Does what they see have eternal value? How much is what they see right now worth currently on the market? Does it mean something in your neighborhood? Does it have any kind of assessed value in your personal community or in your personal circle? Who you are not what you do, not your role or assignment, but who you are Does it have value outside of your family? See, mom and daddy got to love you. They don't have no choice. They got to love you. Brother and sister got to love you. But outside of the comfort of the family dynamic, where's the value? Is there value that you bring to the table outside of that? Just something to think about as we move forward.

Speaker 1: 13:27

Number three die daily. Tough subject, but let's get into it. What does that mean to die daily? Well, in Christian vernacular we talk about death because we talk about the death and the resurrection of Jesus Christ. Many of you may have heard about that. That's not a theoretical death. He actually died and was resurrected. We believe that In your case it's a theoretical dying because you're saying you know what? All the things that Jesus covered for me, all of the crimes, the sins that I committed. They're covered under this death. So when I'm resurrected, I have no need for those things anymore. I'm risen above those situations and now I have a permanent position, a place that I can't lose my job, I can't lose my assignment, I'm here. Place that I can't lose my job, I can't lose my assignment, I'm here. And what it's talking about is, you know, actually putting those things to death, all of the things that were bad habits, bad behaviors, areas that you are pretty comfortable in doing and seeing things through, people and not feeling any kind of backlash or any consequence from it. Dying daily, every day, backlash or any consequence from it. Dying daily, every day.

Speaker 1: 14:36

One of the biggest things I think people deal with in our world, on every level, every scale, is offense. I don't care if we're in the political realm. I don't care if we're in the religious, faith-filled realm, I don't care if we're in business, entrepreneurship, I don't care if we're in the arts, I don't care if we're in the entertainment world. Anywhere you can think of, there's always opportunity for offense. I heard a great author say this recently Now, ash, are you dead or alive?

Speaker 1: 15:47

If you can still be offended, you're not dead enough yet If you're still alive, in the sense that it's all about your life, what you want, your goals and your desires, if everything is focused on you living your quote unquote best life, then offense hits you and it shatters you. It takes you off course immediately because everything's about you, so you take the offense personal. You don't think about the fact that that person might be offended themselves. They might be broken themselves, they might be hurting themselves, they might be in need of healing themselves, be broken themselves. They might be hurting themselves, they might be in need of healing themselves. You're not thinking about them because all you're thinking about is how they did something bad perceptually to you, how they hurt you, and everything is focused on you.

Speaker 1: 16:30

I know some folks who might say you know what, I don't care, what nobody thinks, I don't feel anything. And it's not really true, because you're a human being. You have feelings and emotions. You try to shut them down, but you have feelings and emotions. There are some ways you can shut your feelings and emotions down. I don't recommend those things, but you can do that.

Speaker 1: 16:47

But every single day we have to make it a point to dive to some things, put to death those things that have been considered ugly, for example. Maybe you've got some pride in your life. Maybe you think that some people should do better because if they were like you they'd be in a better spot and they wouldn't have to be asking you for help. That's pride. It's a prideful spirit. Put that to death every day. Put yourself in a situation intentionally to serve other people, knowing that you won't get any glory, you won't get any honor, you won't get anything in return. Serve them every day and I guarantee you it'll kill pride. Quick Die daily. Number four I'm moving on. Number four Embrace change ferociously.

Speaker 1: 17:33

I know a lot of folks and maybe they're listening to this show. I'm not talking about you or what you may have shared with me privately. This is just a general, blanket statement. A lot of folks are afraid of change. It's astounding how many refuse to embrace change. It's hard for me to understand because we, even in Christ, we change. The Bible says from glory to glory, we change, we learn new concepts, we walk in honor, we walk in self-respect In respect of those that are in authority over us. And we change, we grow. We put ourselves in a situation where we learn and we serve others and we give of what we have to others. You know, being Benevolent and being generous and kind. We change in that.

Speaker 1: 18:19

Maybe you grew up in a background where you didn't have those kind of examples around you. Maybe you were so used to not having that All you were thinking about was consuming, because you felt like you were so far behind that you didn't have anything to give out to anybody else sacrificially. So you were thinking about consuming, and maybe that's your mindset even now. Try to get the most you can get and store as much as you can, because you never know right. But that mindset is not a mindset of change, because you're stuck in the past, because everything you're doing in the present is because of what you've done in the past. So in actuality, you're taking in. The present is because of what you've done in the past. So in actuality, you're taking from the present and you're letting the past borrow it. In a sense, if that makes sense to you You're taking from the present and you're letting the past borrow it. You're feeding the past with your present stuff because you haven't been healed, you haven't gotten over the grief and the anguish of the old stuff.

Speaker 1: 19:14

But embrace change ferociously. Check out 2 Corinthians, the third chapter and we'll look at verse 17 and 18. I mentioned it a little while ago but I'll read it again. But basically it's saying Now the Lord is that spirit, and where the spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty. But we all, with open face, beholding, as in a glass, the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same image, from glory to glory, even as by the Spirit of the Lord. So obviously, the more that we walk in that liberty that the Spirit of God gives us, the more that we should embrace change.

Speaker 1: 19:48

See, liberty and change in this passage are tied together. You can't say you're free and you don't change. You get that Because if you're somebody who says I have liberty, I have freedom, but you don't change anything, then one of those things can't be true. You can't have liberty and not change. You can't be changing and not have liberty. Something's not right there. So if you've got liberty, there has to be some change. According to the passage we just read, liberty and change are intertwined together. So I know people who say that they're free but Every time they get up on Sunday morning they have a reason to not go to church, or they have a reason to Not serve in a certain area or be compassionate With their family. In certain areas you're not free. You're still bound by the bad stuff that happened to you in the past, that somebody did to you or that you perceived somebody was doing against you. That's not freedom, that's not liberty. Jesus actually died for this. You can have this provision of freedom so you can be able to not walk in fear, but have power, love and a sound mind. Jesus died for you to have this.

Speaker 1: 20:54

Could you imagine just imagine this if the children of Israel this is crazy. Just imagine if the children of Israel stayed in Egypt but were not bound to the Pharaoh anymore. Do you really think that they would really be free? See, for me, I question that, and maybe you don't see a problem with that. Maybe you came from a rough childhood, but you still live in the same city and you still live in the same neighborhood and it doesn't impact you. I'm impressed by that because it would impact me. If I was living in my old neighborhood back home in Brooklyn, new York, I think I would be challenged with living in the same environment that I came out of, living in the same environment I got liberated from.

Speaker 1: 21:38

How do you stay in the same place, where you were in prison or where you were made sick, and try to be healed and try to be free and be at liberty in the same place. Could you imagine that If the Jews in Israel stayed in Egypt but were free from Pharaoh, everything you see would be a reminder of your bondage. Everything you see would be a reminder of your slavery. How could you live like that, seeing your friends still in bondage while you already moved on? What would that do to your heart? That's why we can't stay in the same place. That made us sick. When we want to be healed, sometimes you got to make movements.

Speaker 1: 22:18

Abraham was a great example of that. Considered the father of all nations, god told him to leave his family, who were knee deep, waist deep, neck deep in idol worship. He couldn't stay there because if he stayed there, he would undoubtedly got into or got involved with or been touched by the impact of idolatry in his life. And God didn't want it. Because God always says this and if you know anything about the Ten Commandments, you've heard it before that he would have no other gods before him. If Abraham stayed in that place, he couldn't fulfill the destiny of being the father of many nations. He had to leave the area that was making him sick, the area that was afflicting him. He had to leave out of that area, embrace change.

Speaker 1: 22:59

I'm not saying move out of your city. I'm not saying move out of your town you grew up in. You have to decide that for yourself if it makes sense to you. But if this is a theoretical position, that you're in a place that you've been hanging out, in a place that you're putting your energies into, that's not healthy for you, I don't care if it's a job. It was a job I had with the government. That wasn't healthy for me. I was actually getting literally sick and I don't really get sick. I get sick. It's a big event. I don't really get sick and I thank God for that. But in this place I was feeling as though I was getting sick and getting physically sick on a regular basis. I was getting sick to the point where I was like not able to sleep, not able to function right. The job was making me sick. Your job might be great no dispersions on, I'm not casting no dispersions on your job but for me that job was making me sick. I had to leave it. There was no question about when or how. I had to just do it and trust got on the back. I had to leave that place so I wouldn't be sick anymore and as soon as I left I felt better, immediately in every way, emotionally, physically, in every way.

Speaker 1: 24:02

Embrace change ferociously. Last one Five Build for tomorrow. Now, a lot of folks out here you might think you're already doing that, so this might not be mind blowing to you at all, but I question that's what we're actually doing? Check out Matthew, the 16th chapter, and you can look at verse. I want to say let's look at verse 19, in this case just the beginning part of it. Let's see, all right, so Matthew 6, verse 19. All right, right, we're getting there, all right. So this verse right here. We just did here. In this verse it says well, maybe verse 20, this is lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth where moth and rust corrupts and with these break through and steal Verse 20, but lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust can corrupt and where thieves do not break in or break through or steal. Verse 21,. For where your treasure is, there will your heart be. Also, matthew 6, 19 through 21. What are we saying here? The point is build for tomorrow. That's our fifth point Build for tomorrow. What are we saying here? The point is build for tomorrow. That's our fifth point. Build for tomorrow.

Speaker 1: 25:15

What we do, and many of you may relate to this you got these big safes, you got these big storehouses, you got these big bank accounts. You got all of this stuff. You got saved in storages and stuff, and we're saving for things on earth, not for things in heaven, things that are tangible as opposed to the intangible. Here's a question. I know a lot of folks that love this stuff so much. Matter of fact, there's actually shows on cable and on satellite and on streaming video about stuff just like this. Have you seen one of those before? The shows where they have they open up their storages and you see all this junk they had in their house for all these years and they find it hard to get rid of that. They almost have a breakdown on national television because they're being asked to get rid of some junk in their life that they don't even use. It just has all these memories attached to it. Oh, my mother gave me that I found this at a swap meet when I was out of town on vacation. I got this and that and they're tied to him in some strange, very weird kind of way and the idea of actually getting rid of it breaks their heart and makes them almost lose their mind.

Speaker 1: 26:25

This was the episode of Big Bang Theory. I've talked to you guys about it. I enjoy watching it. It was the episode where Sheldon had this story and he was trying to learn how to break away from old stuff and kind of the habits that he had and kind of you know those dysfunctions, if you will. And he went into a storage that he had where he shared his storage with his girlfriend, amy, and showed how he had all this stuff stored from his childhood Everything from a ball to a book to toys, everything stored in this storage and he couldn't get rid of it. He was just tied to it and the idea of getting rid of one thing almost plunged him into a panic. If you watch the episode, you'll find out at the end spoiler alert he pretended to get rid of the one thing but he didn't really get rid of it because he couldn't find himself to even get rid of one little small item out of that storehouse.

Speaker 1: 27:18

And it says a lot If you're chained to the stuff, what happens when the stuff fades away? Because everything that we look at that is important stuff to us is guaranteed to fade. It's going to fade away. My question to you is this what happens when it does? But we're chained to that stuff? What in this world has you so attached to? What are you so tied to in this world that, if it fades away, you might fade away with it? What are we so tied to? It's something to think about. If there's no answer there. Ponder it. Take it with you in your private time and meditate on this. Thinkonder it. Take it to you, take it with you in your in your private time and meditate on this. Think about it because at the end of the day, if we have anything that represents stuff that is perishable and tangible, it's going to fade. It simply has to. It was made with that in mind. It's going to fade. It's not impenetrable, it's not going to last a lifetime. It's going to fade away. But if it's more important to us to have that in our life, then perhaps an alternative option. It's time to check ourselves. So I hope that encourages you guys to think about some things.

Speaker 1: 28:24

Those are the five points I want to share with you to encourage your day-to-day. Number one adding positivity to your environment. Two regularly assessing your value outside of your position. Three dying daily for embracing change ferociously. And five building for tomorrow. I know you guys got something out of that. I had no idea that that hits me in so many different ways. But thank you for listening. Thank you for enjoying they call me Mr you the podcast and all of the teachings and content that we provide. It's been a blessing to serve you guys. Have a great rest of the day. Let these points hit you. Love to hear your thoughts in our comment section on the show. Have a great day. We out.