Leaning Toward Wisdom

Leaning Toward Wisdom

Modern Tales Of An Ancient Pursuit

Episodes

Let Go To Grab Hold

July 9, 2025 • 41 mins
  No notes today. No excuse. I'm just lazy today. Please tell a friend about the podcast! • Join our private Facebook group • Email me
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The Discipline To Improve & Be Better

June 23, 2025 • 54 mins
  When we learn that our behavior and choices belong entirely to us and are independent of what others do, it's the road less traveled to becoming a better person. Rare are the people who have made up their minds to behave like that, likely because it demands a willingness to suffer wrong and move on to do what's right. No matter what. Self-discipline is at the heart of enduring suffering, sacrificing, exercising grace and gratit...
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It’s Hard When You Don’t See Results Right Away

June 5, 2025 • 46 mins
  A few weeks ago, Megan Moroney was on The Bobby Bones Show. She's an emerging country music star touring with Kenny Chesney. I only know that because I've seen snippets of their shows on social media. Not knowing who she is or anything about her, I trolled through a short clip of Bobby Bones's interview with her. During the interview, Bobby asked her a question that prompted an answer we can all relate to, but here's a young lad...
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Experience Changes Our Mind

May 21, 2025 • 42 mins
  Thanks for watching. If you choose to listen, thanks for that, too. Other than that, I've got nothing. The show speaks for itself. But here are the links I mentioned (and promised to share): LetTheBibleSpeak.tv https://hotspringsvillageinsideout.com/a-champion-bull-rider-who-loves-to-cut-hair/ Please tell a friend about the podcast! • Join our private Facebook group • Email me
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Irons, But Not Too Many In The Fire

May 7, 2025 • 33 mins
  I apologize for being absent lately. Let me explain. Please tell a friend about the podcast! • Join our private Facebook group • Email me
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How Do You Measure Success?

April 16, 2025 • 36 mins
  He asks me, "How do you measure success?" I have questions before I answer. "Success in what?" "Sales success is easy to measure. Serenity, not so much." Turns out he was focused on how I viewed MY success in general. Part of the challenge of measuring or defining success is the common disease of comparisonitis. Please tell a friend about the podcast! • Join our private Facebook group • Email me
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You Are Responsible For Everything

February 13, 2025 • 17 mins
  It doesn't mean you're to blame. It means you accept responsibility for yourself—for your choices, decisions, behavior, reactions, feelings—and all the rest. I've yet to discover a downside. Mentioned in today's show: VIA Survey Please tell a friend about the podcast! • Join our private Facebook group • Email me
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I Learned Everything I Needed From The Bible

January 11, 2025 • 51 mins
All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten: Uncommon Thoughts on Common Things by Robert Fulghum was published in 1986. It was quite the rage because it was filled with commonsense life maxims. I read it and appreciated the author's point that even children can (and should) learn how to behave toward others. We are almost 40 years later, and it seems like a prehistoric work of fiction. When I purchased this book, I had ye...
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If Your Habits Don’t Change, You Won’t Have A New Year. You’ll Just Have Another Year.

January 5, 2025 • 37 mins
  I posted this on social media a few days ago. It's easy to desire improvement, but it's hard to change our habits to bring about improvement. Each year begins with the hope that 2025 will be better than 2024. Maybe it will. Maybe not. Our habits are going to determine it. These 2 sentences are true. Life bears witness to their validity. Links mentioned in today's show: • In Thy Paths, a YouTube playlist of sermons • A TV s...
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The Ongoing Quest For Greater Wisdom

December 24, 2024 • 12 mins
  Happy New Year, 2025! In the fall of 1997, I uploaded my first audio under the tagline "Leaning Toward Wisdom." It was my documentary, the journey of a 40-year-old dad desiring to pass along whatever lessons I might. Twenty-seven years later, I'm still unsure how successful the quest has been to lean more toward wisdom and away from foolishness. But life ain't over yet, so let the leaning (and learning) continue. Thank you for...
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Am I Solving The Right Problem In This Relationship?

December 21, 2024 • 46 mins
  It started with a voicemail from a client. His message said, "I've got a situation - a problem. I could use your advice. Call me back." The problem? A relationship. A couple of relationships. At some point during my questioning him, for my understanding, he stopped and said, "What I thought was the problem may not be the problem. Guess I'd better make sure I'm solving the right problem, huh?" That's solid insight - especially ...
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Staying Around The Smart Spots

December 6, 2024 • 51 mins
  "My ambition didn't allow me to fail," said Jack Barsky, an ex-KGB spy who was a sleeper agent in the United States. Barsky was quite successful in avoiding detection. Until he was, then no amount of ambition would prevent authorities from moving in. He stayed around his smart spots for years, navigating North American culture to spy for the Soviet Union and his faith in communism. Barsky might argue that over time, he learn...
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Will Video Kill The Audio Podcast?

October 17, 2024 • 59 mins
https://randycantrell.com/inside-the-yellow-studio/ The link above is a comprehensive list of the gear inside The Yellow Studio. Assume every link is an affiliate link. Ironically, I chose to make this an audio, not a video. Yes, that was intentional. I hope you'll click PLAY. It started in 1997. This podcast. It was a handheld Olympus digital recorder. No SD card. Just built-in memory. It was less than $100 and I'd been using i...
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People Who Want To Feel Important

October 11, 2024 • 14 mins
Half of the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don't mean to do harm—but the harm does not interest them. Or they do not see it, or they justify it because they are absorbed in the endless struggle to think well of themselves. - a line in the T.S. Elliot play, The Cocktail Party It's another episode of Free Form Friday for October 11, 2024. Enjoy. Links: Hot Springs Village Inside O...
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Accidentally On Purpose

October 7, 2024 • 38 mins
  “It's a bizarre but wonderful feeling, to arrive dead center of a target you didn't even know you were aiming for.” ― Lois McMaster Bujold Serendipity. Look for something, find something else, and realize that what you've found is more suited to your needs than what you thought you were looking for.   --- Lawrence Block Travel light and trust in serendipity.  --- Mike Brown Until one is committed, there is hesitancy, the chanc...
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I’m Not The Man I Used To Be

September 26, 2024 • 42 mins
John Newton said, “I am not the man I ought to be, I am not the man I wish to be. I am not the man I hope to be. But by the grace of God, I am not the man I used to be”. He was a slavery abolitionist who had once been a slave trader. Perhaps that context provoked his statement. I can't fully relate to the first 3 statements in the quote... I'm not the man I ought to be. I'm not the man I wish to be. I'm not the man I hope to b...
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The Distractions Of The Side Hustle

September 21, 2024 • 57 mins
I learned early in sports that to be effective - for a player to play the best he can play - is a matter of concentration and being unaware of distractions, positive or negative.    -Tom Landry Distractions destroy... Creativity Productivity Efficiency Accomplishment Love Contentment Relationships SUCCESS HIGHER ACHIEVEMENT Distractions embraced equals selfishness. Colossal selfishness. Because it's pride that d...
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Heartbreak

August 27, 2024 • 32 mins
"It's amazing how someone can break your heart and you can still love them with all the little pieces." -Ella Harper Mutually desired relationships are likely going to include some heartbreak. I've had my heart broken. I'm certain I've broken a heart, too. Not like you're thinking - I'm hardly a heartbreaker! But I do have the ability, like all of us, to hurt or injure somebody I care about. Sometimes the heartbreak is because of ...
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I Spent Last Night In A Holiday Inn Express In Hurst, Texas

August 23, 2024 • 21 mins
H is for home. Since last year, for the first time in our lives, we have split our time between two homes, both starting with "H." Hurst, Texas, and Hot Springs Village, Arkansas. But last night we spent a night in another "H" home - Holiday Inn Express in Hurst, Texas. Yes, we had a good reason. When you're having knee surgery and your bedroom is upstairs...you improvise. That meant finding a local hotel for at least one night to...
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Top Mistakes That Can Make You a Bad Partner (And How to Avoid Them)

August 16, 2024 • 57 mins
Let's define "partner" broadly. It could be a spouse, a business associate, a legal partnership, an informal collaboration, a co-worker, or something else. In short, it's a joint venture of some sort. You get to define it the way that best suits you. My first partnerships were likely being a sibling to my sister who is 6 years older. We may have been too far apart in age to be a real partnership, but aren't all kids with brothers ...
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