Becoming Decent

We tend to go through life not making decisions in fear of many things, mainly, making the wrong one but it's making the decision to deal with what we need to deal with or do what we need to do that will truly allow us to live our best lives.

The fight for 15 is a hot topic with people right now. People on both sides of the fence just argue for their stance and neither group listens. Coincidentally, neither group has it all the way right, either. The fight for 15 certainly has it's benefits however, it certainly has it's consequences as well. Some consequences run deeper than others and carry disasterous outcomes. The issues run deeper than I'm hearing anyone talk about.. So I'm going to. Let's take a ride down the rabbit hole of the fight for 15.

In this episode I break down the idea of the phrase "life is a prison". I go through some of the contributing factors that lead you to believe that your life is a prison and I go through ways we can teach ourselves more positive lessons and get ourselves to a better state of being on some of the more major levels that make us feel trapped in life. There's always something to be assessed and addressed that will help you in great ways. These are ideas, ways and methods I have learned, I have seen, I have experienced and have coached people through using. The reality of our situation is the most important thing for us to embrace but it is also often times the hardest thing to do. The hardest roads lead to the brightest futures so let's GO!

This time I break down some conversations I've had over the weekend with some different friends of mine regarding not moving forward because of "them". We are a society of worriers. Always concerned about what someone else thinks so that makes us freeze, not move for fear of being judged. You have to realize that the people judging aren't the ones that are doing things, they're rooting for you. The people that are doing the judging are the people that don't do squat with their own lives so really, they don't even matter. No matter who it is, don't let your life's mission be cancelled by what "they" think. Don't allow your life to become your prison.

No sugar coating, no frills, no BS.. In this episode, I explain that accepting reality is a tough pill to swallow for just about everyone, but it's quite literally the most necessary fight we all must take on if we truly want to better our life situation.  Only by taking full personal accountability for ourselves and EVERYTHING about us and our lives, can we even hope to turn this ship in a better direction. We have to fix ourselves first to fix the world.

In this first episode I start off by explaining what we are trying to do with this show and the impact we are hoping to have with it. Those of us in the middle have been silent for far too long. It's time to  not only stand up for ourselves but get as loud as we can in speaking up for ourselves as we now face the prospect of our right to free speech being removed. Then I talk about the notion that the feuding far outer sides of this nation have us normal people caught in the middle while they, from a radicalized perspective, attempt to teach the world that freedom and morality are mutually exclusive.. It's time to start having all the conversations we are told to avoid. That we are told are wrong, embarrassing, offensive... The reall tough conversations that make everyone uneasy.. Politics, business, race, gender, sexuality, society, nothing is off the table. It's time to find the answers ourselves directly from our fellow men and women that the mainstream narrative doesn't want us to have.

No resolutions. As we move into the new year we discuss the reality of some things you could and some you should do based on our experience to help you actually make a success of the upcoming year. Some things you may find easy and some you may not like but the truth is the truth. If you embrace it, you can make it bad ass.

We discuss the need to accept that you aren't what you think. Not so much the process, just the need since that seems to be the biggest issue for most. Only by accepting your shortcomings, can you make an actual plan to overcome them. We take a left turn or two like always but hey, we keep it fun.. ish... whatever.

Dennis Zawilla joins us to talk about major life changes, fails and triumphs. To get to a mental state he appreciates, he found that health and fitness was the thing that freed his mind so we also talk about the discipline involved in that and how inspiring that can be to others.

In this episode, we discuss what a hater actually is and why that term should be changed to doubter in our minds. By continuously using the term hater, we train ourselves to believe everyone hates us when in reality, they don't. They just doubt you, and that's ok. Stop believing everyone hates you and see how far you go.

Mental health is a very real problem for millions of people. In this episode I get truly vulnerable and discuss my own issues with mental health, the causes, the outcomes, management tactics and the reasons why so many people can't receive the help they need. I discuss what you could do for people. I discuss how to discern between attention grabs using the word "depression" and real depression. there is no light-hearted laughing in this episode. There's only truth the way I see it.

In this episode we talk about what zero f##ks given originally was meant as and what it has turned into... a poison infecting the world. and people are proud of it...

Guest Brandy Rouse, Laura and Cliff discuss family life from the perspective of someone who no longer speaks to their family and had an upbringing of less than desirable appeal. We talk about the importance of values in the home, where they come from and how to change your future for your family in our own "special" way.

We talk about some of those daily style stresses that stack up then become big deals and a few different things you can do to turn the tide in our favor.

Laura and I discuss those tiny little things that make you briefly but intensely mad and continuously stack up. As usual, we venture into some scenarios to explain how and maybe more importantly, why, should we get these issues dealt with.

Laura and I discuss what OUR versions of anger and rage are, and some things we've learned in the process.

A quick taste of what you will find in the Becoming Decent podcast. We don't go politically correct, we stay real and true to who we are. We offer real world conversation to real people about real problems. We will become more polished as we go but due to popular demand our message needed to get out there. Much love, together we are becoming decent.