Speaker 1: Hello, Welcome, welcome, my friend, to my new podcast series.
Speaker 1: I'm not giving up my night job, oh no. I
Speaker 1: love being on the air with you each and every night.
Speaker 1: But I'm creating this, uh, this outlet, if you will,
Speaker 1: this venue uh to compliment what I do each and
Speaker 1: every day on the radio at night. This podcast is
Speaker 1: being brought to you by the wonderful folks, my friends
Speaker 1: at Twinings Tea. In fact, why don't you just take
Speaker 1: a moment here. You can pause this. You can't do
Speaker 1: that on the radio at night, but you can pause
Speaker 1: this podcast. Make yourself a lovely cup of hot Twinings tea.
Speaker 1: I'll wait for you. I'll be right here because I'm
Speaker 1: gonna do the same thing. I'm gonna make myself some
Speaker 1: English breakfast. It's one of my favorites. But we've got
Speaker 1: all sorts of delicious flavors of Twinings Tea. I have
Speaker 1: it in the studio, I have it in my kitchen.
Speaker 1: It's pretty much all that I drink. I'm not a
Speaker 1: coffee drinker. I'm a tea drinker, and Twinings Tea is
Speaker 1: my favorite. All right, Now that we are here together
Speaker 1: on this podcast, I want to talk about the new year.
Speaker 1: A new year is upon us, and I want to
Speaker 1: talk about that. I want to talk about the fact
Speaker 1: that the older you get, the sillier it seems to
Speaker 1: make resolutions when you're young. You're like, Okay, I'm gonna
Speaker 1: lose thirty pounds, I'm going to run a triathlon, participate
Speaker 1: in an iron Man, and uh, you know, by week
Speaker 1: two in January or week three in January, you're sitting
Speaker 1: on the couch eating a bag of potata chips. Because
Speaker 1: resolutions or a statement or a declaration of you know,
Speaker 1: the great things you're going to take on usually don't
Speaker 1: result in lifelong changes. Instead of saying I'm going to
Speaker 1: lose thirty pounds or I'm going to enter a triathlon,
Speaker 1: why not say I'm going to make healthier eating choices.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna put down the potato chips and I'm going
Speaker 1: to pick up pomegranate when I'm at the store, or
Speaker 1: more apples or oranges. I got a whole case of
Speaker 1: fresh oranges from my friend Jim Ryan for Christmas. It's
Speaker 1: a tradition. He sends my family and my cases of
Speaker 1: oranges every holiday season, and I love eating fresh oranges.
Speaker 1: I try to have at least one a day, and
Speaker 1: when I make healthier eating choices, then my body is
Speaker 1: happy and my heart is happy. So instead of making
Speaker 1: big um New Year's resolutions, maybe you should make healthier choices.
Speaker 1: Instead of saying I'm never drinking again, I'm not drinking again,
Speaker 1: I'm not getting drunk and getting stupid, say let's look
Speaker 1: at this and let's see if I have a problem
Speaker 1: with alcohol. Instead of making foolish promises that aren't going
Speaker 1: to last, how about making healthy choices for a better you,
Speaker 1: a better life, a better future. A lot of people
Speaker 1: wrote into my website when we were talking about the
Speaker 1: new year, and I wanted to share some of the
Speaker 1: comments and my response to them. Heather Thomas says, I
Speaker 1: hope and pray to have a job soon. I've been
Speaker 1: unemployed from my full time job for a year and
Speaker 1: my last tempt job since late summer. Times are tough
Speaker 1: to say the least, and without my husband working and
Speaker 1: the help of family, would be sinking faster than the Titanic.
Speaker 1: I'm praying to God the brings some welcome news and
Speaker 1: that I land a job. First off, Heather, I will
Speaker 1: pray along with you that that happens that you find
Speaker 1: a job. But I want to share a story with you,
Speaker 1: a true story. Anybody who is underemployed, unemployed, or underemployed.
Speaker 1: I want to share this story with you, and I
Speaker 1: want to challenge you to let it really sink into
Speaker 1: your heart. It's a true story. Many many years ago,
Speaker 1: there was a mechanic whose family had moved. He had
Speaker 1: moved his family so that they could be closer to
Speaker 1: his mother in law. His wife missed her mama, and
Speaker 1: his wife wanted her parents to be able to help
Speaker 1: with the children. So he agreed, in order to bless
Speaker 1: his wife, to move to the town where his in
Speaker 1: laws lived. That's love. But he left a good job
Speaker 1: as a mechanic and moved to this new town without
Speaker 1: a job. And he applied for jobs and didn't get hired.
Speaker 1: So one day he went to a garage where he
Speaker 1: saw three or four mechanics working, and he asked to
Speaker 1: speak with the manager and he said, may I work
Speaker 1: for for you? I would like to work for you.
Speaker 1: And the manager said, buddy, I'm not hiring. I'm I'm
Speaker 1: full up. I can't afford to hire somebody right now.
Speaker 1: And the mechanics said, no, I'm not asking you to
Speaker 1: hire me. I'm asking you if I can work for you,
Speaker 1: you don't have to pay me. I'll sweep the garage,
Speaker 1: I'll clean up the oil spills, i'll open the doors,
Speaker 1: I'll greet the customers, and you don't have to pay
Speaker 1: me a dime. I'm just going crazy sitting at home
Speaker 1: and I need to do something with my time. And
Speaker 1: so the manager hired him. His name was Stewart. And
Speaker 1: the manager hired Stewart and the other mechanics of the
Speaker 1: garage heard about this and they laughed and they thought,
Speaker 1: this guy is a fool. We're making good money and
Speaker 1: he's going to come down here and clean the floors
Speaker 1: for nothing. And sure enough, Stewart did just that. He
Speaker 1: was the first one to show up the next day.
Speaker 1: He was there before the paid employees, and he worked
Speaker 1: all day long. He cleaned the floors, he cleaned up
Speaker 1: the oil spills, he cleaned the men's tools. He asked
Speaker 1: their permission, and he oiled down all the tools and
Speaker 1: cleaned them up and put them away neatly. And now
Speaker 1: the guys are really cutting up laughing at him, thinking
Speaker 1: what a fool. The Steward, is what a fool to
Speaker 1: work this hard, doing all the dirty work and not
Speaker 1: getting paid a time for it. But as the days
Speaker 1: went on that week, the managers saw in Stewart a
Speaker 1: humble heart and a willingness to work hard for nothing.
Speaker 1: And he also noticed how a couple of his employees
Speaker 1: were really taking advantage of Stewart's hard work. They were
Speaker 1: slacking and letting Stewart do more and more work all
Speaker 1: the time, instead of just cleaning the floors and cleaning
Speaker 1: the tools. He was working on the car, as he
Speaker 1: was replacing the tires, he was fixing the engine, he
Speaker 1: was changing the oil, and the other guys, a couple
Speaker 1: of the other guys were all too happy to let
Speaker 1: Stewart do the work they were supposed to be doing,
Speaker 1: laughing at him all the time. Well, you can probably
Speaker 1: guess what happened. It didn't take the manager long to
Speaker 1: realize that a couple of his employees were ungrateful and
Speaker 1: lazy and willing to take advantage of others. And in
Speaker 1: just a few weeks he let those two men go
Speaker 1: who were not working, who were willing to take advantage
Speaker 1: to somebody, who were mocking someone's goodness, and he hired
Speaker 1: Stewart and in just a matter of months, Stuart's hard
Speaker 1: work really paid off and the manager was able to
Speaker 1: open another shop, and he made Stewart the manager over
Speaker 1: the other shop, and in time they became business partners
Speaker 1: in their business through and grow. If you are unemployed
Speaker 1: and your board and you're going out of your mind,
Speaker 1: go volunteer. Go volunteer. Go to your local library and say,
Speaker 1: I'm not here to get paid, but I need to work.
Speaker 1: I need to stay busy, clean the parking lot, pick
Speaker 1: up trash. Go to your local school and apply to
Speaker 1: be a volunteer. If you are an educator, if you're
Speaker 1: a teacher and you can't get your foot in the door,
Speaker 1: if you're a principal and you've been laid off and
Speaker 1: you can't get your foot in the door, go volunteer
Speaker 1: and prove how valuable you are. Not only will you
Speaker 1: feel better because you're being productive. Not only will you
Speaker 1: feel better because you're giving back to the community. You
Speaker 1: will feel better because you're using the gifts and the
Speaker 1: talents and the skills God gave you to enrich the world.
Speaker 1: And you'll meet other people. And even though a door
Speaker 1: may not open there, you're probably going to meet somebody
Speaker 1: who recognizes your tenacity, who recognizes your character, and they
Speaker 1: will find you a position. And another thing, don't be
Speaker 1: prideful if you're looking for work. Don't be prideful. Don't
Speaker 1: tell yourself, well, I've got this education and this is
Speaker 1: beneath me, because guess what, if you need to make money,
Speaker 1: there are places that will hire you. They might not
Speaker 1: be places that where your skill set is appreciated. You
Speaker 1: might have a college degree, you might have two or
Speaker 1: three college degrees. But if you need a job and
Speaker 1: the store at the corner is hiring for you to
Speaker 1: make coffee and Greek customers, take the job until the
Speaker 1: right job opens up, because again, you're going to feel
Speaker 1: better about yourself. You're gonna feel so much better about yourself.
Speaker 1: If you're busy, if you're doing something, if you're can attributing,
Speaker 1: if you're making this world a better place, that should
Speaker 1: be your new year's resolution. To make this world a
Speaker 1: better place. To be kinder, to be more giving, more
Speaker 1: generous with your time and your energy and your love.
Speaker 1: Happy New Year's Welcome twenty seventeen. I'm excited about this
Speaker 1: new year. Everybody was complaining about sixteen. I had a
Speaker 1: great ten. I praise God for sixteen. My kids are healthy,
Speaker 1: they're doing well in school. My adult children, most of
Speaker 1: them are doing really well, and most of them are
Speaker 1: making really good decisions. A few of them aren't, but
Speaker 1: I'm praying they change that around in twenty seventeen. So
Speaker 1: thank you. Thank you for listening to this podcast. Thank
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