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How to NOT Thrive: Next 5

August 24, 2020 by Lee H. Baucom, Ph.D. Leave a Comment

Well, you are on to me! Last week, I started talking about things you can do to guarantee that you DON’T thrive. I’m sure you knew I didn’t really want you to NOT thrive. But I wanted to point out some ways people make themselves miserable… and what they might do to shift.

If you missed that episode, JUST CLICK HERE TO HEAR IT.

It is interesting to notice how we humans can really mess up our lives! Life throws us enough to deal with. Then, we tend to multiply it with our own blind spots and stuck points.

With my Top 10 List To Guarantee You Don’t Thrive, I wanted to point out 10 ways that people really do keep themselves stuck. And the fact is, I see these same patterns repeated over and over by many people.

So, if you see yourself in one (or more) of the stuck points, that just means you are… well… human. Congratulations on being able to spot it! That is the first step in doing something different… something new… something more… THRIVING!

Listen in below for the REST of the ways you can keep from thriving… so you can thrive! (Unless you don’t want to… then just follow my suggestions.)

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How To Guarantee You DON’T Thrive

September 2, 2019 by Lee H. Baucom, Ph.D. Leave a Comment

If you missed that episode, JUST CLICK HERE TO HEAR IT.

It is interesting to notice how we humans can really mess up our lives! Life throws us enough to deal with. Then, we tend to multiply it with our own blind spots and stuck points.

Listen in below for the REST of the ways you can keep from thriving… so you can thrive! (Unless you don’t want to… then just follow my suggestions.)

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The MPI Triad

February 26, 2018 by Lee H. Baucom, Ph.D. Leave a Comment

I admit it. Her words have stuck with me for decades now. She told me, “Don’t waste it.” She meant that I shouldn’t waste my time… my life. Just before she died, she told me, “Make it matter.” She wanted to make sure I knew not to waste the precious time I had, and to make my life matter.

Her dying words to a young chaplain.

And those words have lived within me in the 3 decades since.

They still shape my work and my philosophy.

I discussed not wasting life in a prior podcast episode.

But what does it mean to Make It Matter? How do we make sure our lives matter, not for our own self, but for the world? How do we leave this place better for our being here?
The MPI Triad helps to clarify. That triad holds Meaning, Purpose, and Impact. How we make sense of what happens, how we move into the world, and what difference it makes.

Let me tell you a bit more in this week’s podcast episode.

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“Commit!”

March 13, 2017 by Lee H. Baucom, Ph.D. Leave a Comment

It happened long ago, in what feels like another life. And the story I tell is absolutely true (as far as I absolutely remember it happening this way!). I promise accuracy, as far as my memory is capable.

Early in my college life, my rather foolish young man’s brain thought it made sense to drive to the beach, toward a pending hurricane. . . and surf! I will readily admit that if my kids checked in with me about their plans, I would urge them to reconsider. And likely knowing this would also be true in my case, I did not check in with my parents.

Not surprisingly, we were able to find a good room for cheap. It would appear that all the traffic we saw going the other way, as we headed to the coast, were those leaving behind rooms.

In my own defense, this was in the day when people would ride out a storm, proudly buying an “I survived Hurricane ______” t-shirt.

I don’t have a t-shirt, but I did learn a lesson. I apply it every single day, as I strive to thrive.

Can I tell you my little story? Listen below. . .

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