Exposure, Confidence and Snakes.

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6-4-19 TUESDAY

 

The kamikaze pilot who flew 50 missions was involved, but never committed.

Lou Holtz

 

 

 

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List of topics for money matters- pick a few and let me know!

 

 

• The history of money
• Social Security
• Investment Philosophies
• Behavioral Finance…anchoring, etc
• Financial Advisor types and fees
• Accumulation phase of life
• Distribution phase of life
• Socially responsible investment choices
• Estate Planning 101
• Money in marriage
• Money as a single guy
• Insurance Planning 101
• Charitable Giving 101
• Getting debt under control
• Buying a home
• Buying a car
• Separating financial news from noise
• Considerations for small business owners
• Considerations for those with stock options
• Considerations for inheriting money or winning the lottery
• The 5 W’s and H of Savings

 

 

Joe Bezzote and his wife put out another video called Toxic thoughts and mindsets. Here is the link, check it out!

https://vimeo.com/338149846 

 

 

What would motivate you to fully engage in your Christian walk?

 

(influencer) by Patterson, Grenny, Maxfield, McMillan, Switzler

It turns out that phobics typically remain phobics because

they rarely disconfirm their unfounded fears by approaching

them head-on. Since lectures don't work with phobics and you

can't get them to conquer their fear through personal experience, you have to find something in between-something

more than words and less than personal action. This “in be-

tween” thing turns out to be one of the most highly valued tools

in any influence genius's arsenal. It's referred to as vicarious

experience.

Here's how vicarious experience works. When you expose

subjects to other people who are demonstrating a vital behavior, the subjects learn from the surrogate's successes and failures. Watching others in action is the next best thing to experiencing something on your own. It's also far safer than, say,

touching a six-foot nocturnal predator. In Bandura's case, he

asked subjects to watch the therapist handle a snake in order

to see what happened.

Bandura asked subjects to watch from the doorway of the

room-or if that was still too difficult, to watch through glass-

as the therapist walked into the room containing the snake, took

a look at it, opened the terrarium, petted the snake, and finally

removed the boa and placed it on his or her lap.After the subjects watched someone else handle the snake, Dr.Bandura

then asked them to follow similar steps.First they had to sim-

ply walk into the room.

But this wasn't enough to put everyone at ease.Some of the

subjects asked for protective gear-hockey goalie gloves, a

baseball catcher chest protector and mask, and so on.Now,

dressed like a samurai warrior, subjects entered the room and

stood next to the enclosed tank. Gradually, after several tries

they worked up to removing the terrarium cover and then

quickly retreated from the room. No harm done. After a bit

more experience, they finally touched the snake. Later still they

touched the snake without gloves and so forth. Eventually subjects sat in the room by themselves with the six-foot constrictor draped across their lap.

And now for the real miracle:The entire process took only

three hours! People who had been debilitated most of their lives

by a paralyzing fear were completely “cured” in a single morn-

ing. And the results lasted a lifetime, Once the phobics had a

personal and positive interaction with the snake, they never

regressed, and it improved their lives forever.

 

 

Who do you spend your time with?

maybe the Christian walk is hard for you to really live out because you have not seen it lived out in others- in person, real life! 

 

 

The disciples saw Jesus day after day moving in the power of the Holy Spirit… it moved them.

 

 

When you hang with those who live it out things happen:

 - you see it is possible - it’s not just the “super Xn”

 - you see that those used by God are human just like you - they like sports, they eat greasy food, they have hobbies, they can talk about normal life

  - you get hungry to see it in your own life and your own daily life - 

EVER HAVE AN “I WANT THAT MOMENT”! John G. Lake says hunger is good, maybe the best thing… a nation will put up with lots of things from it’s dictator until it becomes hungry. 

   - You realize circumstances are never perfect - you see men praying in crowded restaurants, the gym, at secular concerts, at the store with a long line behind you

  - You see them fail and still move forward

 - you start influencing others the way they influenced you

    - You start doing it on your own

• You start to realize to really fully live out the Christian walk is uncomfortable… and if you do it long enough it becomes comfortable. LIKE THE SAYING GOES, BECOME COMFORTABLE BEING UNCOMFORTABLE!