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Episode 530: Discontent is a Thief

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Today's episode is focused on how contentment is the secret to great gain...

In today’s episode about developing your influence through stewarding your treasures, I talk with you about why contentment is a key to great gain.  I also talk with you about why contentment doesn’t mean passivity but action.  I also share with you how to focus on drive and contentment at the same time.

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00:00:00 Thanks for joining me on Episode five 30 of the inspired stewardship podcast I'm Joe, some from Soul Patch Hippo Success coaching. I want a surgery journey to be the next version of you to be inspired to become the most authentic. You listen to this. The inspired stewardship podcast by my friend Scott made her every day can help you keep the focus that you need. And because of that, things flow my way, and it's out of that contentment that comes my drive. My drive is not for me to get Maur.
00:00:44 My drive is for me to be able to help more people, and some of that ends up causing more to follow my directions. Welcome and thank you for joining us on the inspired stewardship podcast. If you truly desire to become the person who God wants you to be, then you must learn to use your time, your talent and your treasures for your true calling in. The inspired Searchie podcast will learn to invest in yourself, invest in others and develop your influence so that you can impact the world in today's episode about developing your influence through stewarding your treasures.
00:01:32 I talk with you about why contentment is the key to gain and why contentment doesn't mean passivity and how to focus on Dr and contentment at the same time as we talk about stewarding your treasures.
00:01:49 Wouldn't it be great if you could support this podcast and do it without costing yourself an extra dime? It turns out you can.
00:01:57 All you have to do is use inspired stewardship dot com slash amazon when you're ready to make a purchase via Amazon,
00:02:06 and a small commission will come back to support the show. If you enjoy the show when you're ready to buy from Amazon,
00:02:12 just use inspired stewardship dot com slash amazon. One of those things that I hear people talk about all the time is this idea of contentment,
00:02:25 and a lot of times, what they're confusing it with is being passive. The truth is, these are not the same thing,
00:02:34 and at the end of the day there's an expression. Contentment is the key to great gain, and I really believe that that is true,
00:02:44 that the truth is to get gaining in your life. Whether that's financial gain or whether that's other types of gain requires developing the ability to be content at the same time that you're driven.
00:03:01 You know what happens? A lot of times is we think that the only way to get Maur, the only way to get what we want the only way to gain in life is for someone else.
00:03:12 Toe lose out. We have this competitive nature that puts us forward as someone that you know we have to win,
00:03:19 which means others have toe lose. And that that kind of driven mindset is not what I'm talking about when I say driven here,
00:03:29 contentment is about having peace with where you are. It's about looking at what you've got and being happy and satisfied with that.
00:03:40 It's about looking at what's around you and being happy and satisfied by that. It's looking at what other people have and being pleased,
00:03:51 whatever they succeed, being pleased whenever they have things, even if those are things that you don't have,
00:03:59 it's sort of the absence of jealousy, and it's the absence of a sense that you have tohave Maur,
00:04:07 that you have to gain everything. It's kind of moving out of this grasping mode and ironically, as you get out of the mode of holding on and grabbing everything with both fists and striving to get a hold of it and make it happen.
00:04:26 As you begin to develop a sense of peace and contentment. That's when things actually often begin toe flow your way.
00:04:37 Now don't confuse this with being passive. I'm not saying you sit back and you wait for the world to come your way and you wait for everything to happen.
00:04:46 Good for you. I'm asking if instead you don't sit down and and just sit back. But out of that sense of contentment,
00:04:58 you recognize that you can grow your gifts, you can serve more people. You can reach out to more people.
00:05:07 You can help Maur people, and what will happen out of that is you can begin to gain, but not out of a sense of forcing others to have less.
00:05:20 Not out of a sense of grabbing ahold of everything, but instead out of a sense of just being able to serve Maur and doom or for others,
00:05:32 you can focus on being driven by focusing first on serving others and only second on what comes out of yourself.
00:05:43 What you gain out of it. It's interesting. You know, I I sit down with people often and I try toe pour into other people and help them start a business or career.
00:05:55 And even though this is what I do for a business, I don't look at every exchange where I do that and immediately think to myself,
00:06:02 Am I gonna get paid for this? But out of that ends up coming business where if I had this mindset of,
00:06:10 I have toe yo charge for every cup of coffee that doesn't work now that being said, that doesn't mean that anyone can get on my calendar at any time.
00:06:20 And my time is filled up with these free meetings and cups of coffee and a chance to pick your brain,
00:06:28 There has to be some sort of balance there. There has to be boundaries there, But within those boundaries,
00:06:36 I look at it is okay, I can talk to you. I can work with you. And out of that many people end up hiring me as a coach,
00:06:46 and I think some of that is because I'm not desperate. I don't come across as I have to get you as a client.
00:06:53 You have to sign up today. I'm not a high pressure guy. I don't browbeat people in deciding up for coaching.
00:07:01 I know all the psychological tricks. I know how to do sales in those ways. I know all of the manipulative tactics that people use today in marketing and advertising to get people to do what they want.
00:07:14 But I choose not to use them. Instead, I choose to just have an open heart and an open hand,
00:07:21 and because of that, things flow my way. And it's out of that contentment that comes my drive.
00:07:29 My drive is not for me to get Maur. My drive is for me to be able to help more people,
00:07:36 and some of that ends up causing more to flow my direction. Your job, 2020 says, because he knew no quiet within him.
00:07:49 He does not retain anything he desires, And to me, that's a description of a lack of contentment because no matter what you get,
00:07:59 you always have to try to get Maur because no matter what happens, you're always looking at the next thing.
00:08:04 You're always never happy, never satisfied and out of that. Eventually, that house of cards falls. What's interesting is the people that get ahead.
00:08:15 The furthest are the people who are the most generous. Their study after study that shows that generosity over the long haul succeeds the cutthroat mentality that we think of.
00:08:26 That's the the movie TV ideal of the guy who's getting ahead by just cutting everyone else off at the knees.
00:08:33 That may work in the short term, but in the long term it never does. That's the reality of the world that we live in.
00:08:42 But we forget that because we hear about the story of the guy who unethically got ahead. But we forget about the fact that the reason we heard the story because eventually that house of cards fell in around him.
00:08:55 So I ask you, toe, look to your heart. Are you content with what you have today and out of that contentment?
00:09:03 Is there a sense of dr to grow that so that you can serve Maur and help encourage and grow the kingdom of God?
00:09:13 Today, thanks for listening. Thanks so much for listening to the inspired stewardship Podcast. As a subscriber and listener,
00:09:26 we challenge you to not just sit back and passively listen, but act on what you've heard and find a way toe.
00:09:34 Live your calling. If you like this episode on the stewardship of treasures, you can sign up for our treasures tips by going to inspired stewardship dot com slash treasures or text in the U.
00:09:52 S. 44222 Treasures tips and we'll send you five weeks of our best tips on stewarding your treasures until next time investor time,
00:10:06 your talent and your treasures develop your influence and impact world.

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  • Why contentment is a key to gain...
  • Why contentment doesn’t mean passivity...
  • How to focus on drive and contentment at the same time...
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Episode 525: Logic Is Often Justification Not Real

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Join us today for an episode about the reson understanding how you make decisions about money is important...

Today's episode is focused on the truth about how you make spending decisions...

In today’s episode about investing in others through stewarding your treasures, I talk with you about why you often buy with emotion but justify with logic after the fact.  I also share how recognizing this is very powerful to your decision making.  I also talk with you about one technique to help you defeat this tendency.

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00:00:00 Thanks for joining me on Episode 525 of the inspired stewardship podcast I'm Joe Saul-Sehy from the Stacking Benjamin's podcast. I encourage you to find ways to be inspired to find financial freedom in one way I do. That is to listen to this the inspired stewardship podcast with my friend's computer, not worry about whether it was a wise decision or not. You can just spend it and not stress about it. If you're a couple, you need to talk to each other about how much this is. What's the amount of money that one of you can spend without impacting the family,
00:00:45 the relationship and the budgetary strength? Welcome and thank you for joining us on the inspired stewardship podcast. If you truly desire to become the person who God wants you to be, then you must learn to use your time, your talent and your treasures for your true calling. In the inspired stewardship Podcast will learn to invest in herself, invest in others and develop your influence so that you can impact the world in today's episode about investing in others through stewarding your treasures. I talk with you about why you often by with emotion,
00:01:30 but justify with logic how recognizing this is very powerful and one technique you can use to help defeat this tendency as we talk about stewarding your treasures.
00:01:43 Wouldn't it be great if you could support this podcast and do it without costing yourself an extra dime? It turns out you can't.
00:01:51 All you have to do is use inspired stewardship dot com slash amazon when you're ready to make a purchase via Amazon,
00:01:59 and a small commission will come back to support the show. If you enjoy the show when you're ready to buy from Amazon,
00:02:06 just use inspired stewardship dot com slash amazon. Ah, logic. You know, all too often we like to think of ourselves is making these really rational decisions When it comes to our money,
00:02:20 we sit down and we weigh all the pros and cons of purchasing something or doing something with our money.
00:02:27 We look at it in terms of a very rational set of decisions, and then we use our money wisely.
00:02:37 There's even this theory called the theory of the rational investor that is is used when you talk about economics and over large numbers of people there's actually some truth to it.
00:02:48 But one of the things I've discovered in working with people in their money for many, many, many years now is that the truth is often times.
00:02:58 Instead, what we do is we purchase or make a buying decision, or we decide something about our money based on emotion and then retroactively.
00:03:11 We justify that decision using logic are using fax or using a rational decision making. We don't usually buy things based on some sort of riel rational,
00:03:25 logical decision making. We do it based on emotion. We do it based on how the product makes us feel,
00:03:30 or what we believe it will give us in terms of feeling or experience or emotion. We look at it first with how we feel,
00:03:41 and then what we do is after the fact we create a story for ourselves about how this was a rational,
00:03:47 logical decision. Think about it. If you've ever made a really big purchase and then you woke up the next morning and you had buyer's remorse where you feel like Oh my goodness,
00:03:58 what have I done? That was because you made an emotional decision and now your brain is trying to justify it logically and is struggling with that.
00:04:10 See, recognizing that this is how your brain works, that this is how you often make purchasing decisions is a powerful,
00:04:18 powerful tool for managing your money because you can recognize the fact that you usually are not this robotic decision maker who sits down and thinks about all of the pros and cons about a money decision before you make it.
00:04:35 Instead, you can recognize the fact that you purchase using your emotional decision making. By the way, this isn't a value judgment.
00:04:43 This isn't a bad thing. This isn't like, well, only people that make rational, logical decisions about money ever win or get ahead in life.
00:04:51 Or they're the best people where they're the ones that are able to use their money the most Wisely. There's nothing wrong with using emotion as part of our decision making.
00:05:01 The truth is that our emotional decision making is part of the way that we make decisions, and it's a powerful part and often that intuition that emotion is more right than the logical decision making.
00:05:18 So this isn't necessarily a bad thing, but there's also times where we make emotional decisions, and that sudden,
00:05:27 quick emotional decision does turn out to be something that in the long haul, we wish we wouldn't have done.
00:05:35 So Here's the thing that you can do one of the tricks of the trade. One of the ways you can gain a little bit more control over your monetary decision making is simply implementing on amount and a 24 hour rule.
00:05:50 And that amount will vary depending on your income and your savings and how much debt you have and whatever else.
00:05:57 But there needs to be an amount of money, and the rule is simple. If I need to spend more than that amount of money,
00:06:04 then I have to wait 24 hours before I can spend it. So for some people, it's a little as $100 or even less.
00:06:12 If you're really living paycheck to paycheck and you're strapped for cash, that amount maybe $10. If I'm going to spend more than $10 that isn't already planned on my budget.
00:06:22 I have to wait 24 hours before I can do it. If you're doing a little better, maybe it's $100 if you're doing really great.
00:06:31 Maybe it's a CZ Muchas 1000 or more dollars before you have to implement that. It kind of depends on what's your comfort zone?
00:06:37 What's the amount of money that you can spend and not worry about? Whether it was a wise decision or not,
00:06:44 you can just spend it and not stress about it. If you're a couple, you need to talk to each other about how much this is.
00:06:51 What's the amount of money that one of you can spend without impacting the family, the relationship and the budgetary strength?
00:07:01 And really, if you think about it, for most of us, once you've established that amount of money that it's simply a matter of having that waiting time now when your time to make the buying decision when you're facing that sudden decision,
00:07:16 you can legitimately say I have toe think on this prey on this. Reflect on this for 24 hours and then you do that,
00:07:26 you actually sleep on it. You wait Ah, full day and then you call the place back up and you spend the money or you don't because one of the things you will find is the things that ended up being the decisions that you probably were gonna regret often those things.
00:07:41 After 24 hours, you kind of go doesn't seem like it's really is pressing is it was 24 hours ago.
00:07:48 It's okay. Do not get this right now and you're able to delay it and put it off. By the way,
00:07:55 also, remember I said money not already planned in the budget. This isn't about having a 24 hour rule for everything that you ever spend.
00:08:05 This is for those things that you don't spend that are unplanned expenses. Someone calls you up and offers you solar panels or some other thing.
00:08:13 That sounds like a really great deal, and maybe it even really is. But often they want to do a high pressure sales technique that's based completely on emotion,
00:08:25 and then you regret it later. So this is about implementing that 24 hour rule for those sorts of situations so that you end up making the best decision for you and your money and not regretting it after thanks for listening.
00:08:45 Thanks so much for listening to the inspired stewardship podcast. As a subscriber and listener, we challenge you to not just sit back and passively listen,
00:08:58 but act on what you've heard and find a way toe. Live your calling. If you like this episode on the stewardship of treasures,
00:09:08 you can sign up for our treasures tips by going to inspired stewardship dot com slash treasures or text in the U.
00:09:19 S. 44222 Treasures tips and we'll send you five weeks of our best tips on stewarding your treasures until next time investor time,
00:09:33 your talent and your treasures develop your influence and impact world.

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  • Why you often buy with emotion but justify with logic...
  • How recognizing this is very powerful... 
  • One technique to help you defeat this tendency....
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A wise person should have money in their head, but not their heart - Jonathan Swift

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Episode 520: What is a Sinking Fund

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Join us today for an episode about the power of a sinking fund to change your finances...

Today's episode is focused on the power of savings...

In today’s episode about investing in yourself through stewarding your treasures, I talk with you about what is a sinking fund.  I share why you should care about sinking funds and their power.  I also talk with you about how this can really help you get control of your money this year.

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Savings, remember, is the prerequisite of investment.
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Episode 515: What’s Your Financial Goals This Year?

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Join us today for an episode about the reason financial goals are so important...

Today's episode is focused on growing your money behavior this year...

In today’s episode about impacting the world through stewarding your treasures, I talk with you about setting your financial goals for the year.  I also share why this area of your life affects all others in your life.   I also talk with you about what to do if you’ve done this before and it never worked.

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00:00:00 Thanks for joining me on Episode 5 15 of the inspired Stewardship podcast. I'm Julie. Tofilon. I challenge you to invest in yourself and others, develop your influence and impact the world by using your time, talent and treasures to live out your calling. Having the ability to communicate and build relationships is vital. And one inspirational way to develop that is to listen to this the inspired stewardship podcast with my friend Scott Maderer. Sometimes it isn't. Sometimes we don't pay attention to our money and we don't even realize that our money is holding us back.
00:00:50 But our relationship with money is often one of the areas that people set resolutions. One of the most common resolutions that people said is I'm going to do better with money this year. I'm gonna get out of debt. I'm going to save more. I'm going to spend last welcome and thank you for joining us on the inspired stewardship Podcasts. If you truly desire to become the person who God wants you to be, then you must learn to use your time, your talent and your treasures for your true calling in.
00:01:23 The inspired Stewardship podcast will learn to invest in yourself, invest in others and develop your influence so that you can impact the world. In today's episode about impacting the world through stewarding your treasures. I talk with you about setting your financial goals for the year. Why this one area of your life can affect all of your others and what to do if you've done this before and it just never worked as we talk about stewarding your treasures,
00:02:00 wouldn't it be great if you could support this podcast and do it without costing yourself an extra dime? Turns out you can.
00:02:08 All you have to do is use inspired stewardship dot com slash amazon when you're ready to make a purchase via Amazon,
00:02:17 and a small commission will come back to support the show. If you enjoy the show when you're ready to buy from Amazon,
00:02:24 just use inspired stewardship dot com slash amazon. When I started working with people as a coach back in 2011 the area that my wife and I started our focus on was around finances,
00:02:39 and even though I've added to my business and I coach in other areas and I help people start up their dream business and help people get more productive and use their time better.
00:02:49 And I help people develop their leadership in their communication skills. And I've worked in these different areas of coaching and focus.
00:02:58 A lot of it still comes back to finances time after time after time. You know, when I'm working with people,
00:03:05 I discover that often times one of the things that's holding them back, or one of the areas where they want to grow is around this area of money and how they use it.
00:03:16 And I found that as I've worked with people, that how we relate to money seems to affect all areas of our life.
00:03:25 You know, money and time or start of the two resource is that we all end up having to deal with in some way,
00:03:34 shape or form. You know, I've had friends and clients who are very well off and make tremendously large incomes.
00:03:44 They still have things that they have challenges when it comes to money. Yeah, the challenges are different.
00:03:50 The conversations are different in the mindset issues are different, but they're still there. They don't go away just because they make More.
00:03:59 They're still present and that's kind of interesting. This this idea that money affects all areas of our life.
00:04:08 It affects how we use time because see if you have more money. If you managed to get out of Dad and free up some of your monetary resource is,
00:04:17 you often can pay for people to do things that then frees up more of your time. So by actually controlling your money,
00:04:26 sometimes you can create more time. Bye, Managing your time. You can also sometimes create more money.
00:04:35 They're definitely a cyclical thing that fits there when it comes to your health. Well again. If you can afford to hire trainer,
00:04:43 if you can afford to go to the gym. If you can afford to take the time that it needs toe,
00:04:48 go and do exercising and walk and do all the other things. If you can afford better food, then all of a sudden being healthy is easier as well.
00:05:02 See, the truth is, our money affects all components of our life. It affects how we deal with everything,
00:05:10 and because of that, it's an area where we often end up focusing when we've got challenges. When we need to grow when we have to set ah,
00:05:22 focus for the year. You know, sometimes it isn't. Sometimes we don't pay attention to our money,
00:05:27 and we don't even realize that our money is holding us back. But our relationship with money is often one of the areas that people set resolutions.
00:05:37 One of the most common resolutions that people set is I'm going to do better with money this year. I'm going to get out of debt.
00:05:44 I'm going to save more. I'm going to spend less. These sorts of money focused goals often show up when people sit down and start talking about the New Year when they're setting their goals for the new year.
00:06:00 Because for all of us we recognize that money impacts us and the way we and we often recognize that the way we're handling money currently isn't the best,
00:06:10 it's not working for us. It's causing problems and challenges for us and so we want to fix it.
00:06:16 We want to get it in the right way and so we set the goal that you know, I'm gonna go on a spending faster.
00:06:22 I'm going to go on a savings binge where I save money this year or I'm going to do a budget every month this year.
00:06:29 But then we run into challenges. We run into things that derail us. You know you can Google how to do a budget,
00:06:37 but it's harder to Google what to do in specific situations, how to deal with the mindset, challenges that comes with doing a budget and what to do when things go wrong,
00:06:48 because they inevitably will go wrong. They always do, and we've got to figure out what to do in those situations.
00:06:58 So what do you do when it's never worked? What do you do when you set resolutions before and you set goals before?
00:07:05 And you've really worked on this before? And you've tried hard. You've done the right things. You've read the right books,
00:07:12 you've done the lessons you've taken online courses, but it's just not worked. One of the best things you can do is actually work with somebody who's an expert around those areas of mindset and belief and motivation.
00:07:28 See, that's one of the reasons that I've begun to coach in other areas than just money is because I found out that the truth is it's not about the numbers.
00:07:37 It's about the mindset. It's about the belief. It's about the things that you do. And sure,
00:07:42 there's tools and there's techniques. And there's things that you can inject into your system that work better and are probably more efficient than the things that you're using now.
00:07:50 But the truth is, those are not what cause you to win. Those things help, but they aren't the key.
00:08:00 You know, if you wanna learn how to be better at something, what are the best ways to do It is to surround yourself with like-minded people.
00:08:09 Either plug yourself into a mastermind, plug yourself into Ah um, accountability group. Join an organization more than just take a pass,
00:08:20 Of course, more than just sign up for an online course, actually sit down and work with someone you hire.
00:08:26 An individual coach works really well because now it's not only a like minded person, but it's a person who's partnering with you on your systems.
00:08:37 And so again, I've offered this week on each episode to sit down and have a 30 minute call with me,
00:08:45 and I'll try to give you some actionable steps towards taking your resolutions and If your resolution is to get your money in order,
00:08:52 please take advantage of this. And for a dollar schedule a 30 minute call with me. And then,
00:08:58 if we want to work, continue working together and coach. From there, we'll talk about what that would look like.
00:09:05 You could do that over it. Inspired stewardship dot com slash new year. And let's work to make 2020 the best year you've ever had when it comes to your money.
00:09:17 Thanks for listening. Thanks so much for listening to the inspired stewardship Podcast. As a subscriber and listener,
00:09:29 we challenge you to not just sit back and passively listen. But act on what you've heard and find a way to.
00:09:37 Live your calling. If you like this episode on the stewardship of treasures, you can sign up for our treasures tips by going to inspired stewardship dot com slash treasures or text in the U.
00:09:55 S. 44222 Treasures tips and we'll send you five weeks of our best tips on stewarding your treasures until next time investor time,
00:10:09 your talent and your treasures develop your influence and impact world way

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  • Setting your financial goals for the year...
  • Why this area of your life affects all others...
  • What to do if you’ve done this before and it never worked...
  • and more.....

When it comes to tackling your financial goals, whatever they might be, there's not time like the present. - Suze Orman

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