September 14, 2025 • 20 mins
In this episode, Sbfavor discusses the power of acknowledging what is true and how it can transform your mindset, relationships, and personal growth. Discover 10 practical tips to help you face reality head-on, detach from ego, and embrace honesty even when it feels uncomfortable. From separating facts from feelings to turning truth into action not to be deceived. Whether you’re navigating challenges in your personal life or striving for success in your career, learning to recognize and accept the truth is a powerful step toward real growth. Tune in and learn how to live with honesty, practice self-reflection, and build stronger connections by acknowledging what’s real.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Blessings and peace to you. This is s be Favorite
Thinking Podcasts and my name is SB Favor. How are
you doing today? It is Sunday, September fourteenth, twenty twenty five.
Another wonderful day and another day to be thankful. And
as I always say, if you focus on what's good,
(00:24):
then you can project something good to happen when you
focus on the positive things, because there are no benefits
to focusing on the negative things. So focus on what
is good. I hope that you are having a very
good Sunday. I hope that you had a good weekend.
It's a relaxing Sunday for me personally, and it's a
(00:46):
good day and we all need to, like I said,
focus on what is good. If you are out there
traveling about today, make sure that you stay focused. Don't
be on your cell phone too much in the public
because if you are, that means you are distracted. So
make you pray and make sure you stay focused while
you are in the public. Okay. Also, if you would
like to give to the podcast, you can give at
(01:08):
cashad Dalas on a SB favor or you can give
at Vemmo at SB favor. Once again, if you would
like to give to the podcast. You can give at
cash shap dalasan ASP favor or you can give at
vimmo at sb favor and that is the AT symbol
sb FA v O r on Venmo. Okay, thank you
(01:30):
so much for your support and your donations. Lastly, I
would like to remind you if you would like to
take English lessons, or if you know someone that would
like to take public speaking lessons, or just to enhance
how you speak, you can make an appointment at icsbiz
one dot com, I c S biz one dot com
(01:50):
and as I cs B I Z number one dot com.
Make an appointment and you can improve and you will
improve how you speak. Okay, all right, so moving right along.
The title of this episode is Acknowledging what is True. Yes,
(02:12):
Acknowledging what is true? This week has been somewhat challenging.
A lot has been going on in America, and I
had something on my mind concerning this title and acknowledging
what is true. And what was on my mind was
(02:33):
how sometimes people can do something, say something, act a
certain way and then call it something else. For an example,
if you say something to me that is very very hateful,
should I say that what you said is loving. No,
(02:57):
we have to call a thing a thing? And what
do I mean by that? If someone says something or
does something, we have to acknowledge it for what it
really is. We have to do that. A lot of
times people they tend to add a little sugar to
(03:17):
some things. And what do I mean by that? They
try to make it seem like what is true is
not true at all. For an example, in this country,
we have a lot of different leaders that will say
different things that are not good. We have leaders in
this country that will speak hate and then they will
(03:41):
turn around and say that it's true or is love
and it's not. We really have to acknowledge what is
true and what is not true. And I'm talking about
calling a thing a thing, acknowledging something for what it
really is. If I sat here on this podcast and
(04:04):
I spoke a lot of hate out of my mouth,
what would you call me? You would say she speaks
a lot of hate, right, Yes, you would say that
if I spoke a lot of hate out of my mouth,
you can't say that I'm a loving person. Now. If
I speak a lot of love to people, and if
I speak a lot of motivating words to people, you
(04:27):
could say, Okay, well she speaks a lot of motivating words.
So what I am saying is this acknowledging what is
true will keep you from deception. We have to face
reality head on. And I'm not talking about making up
things and not seeing things for what they really are.
(04:50):
I'm talking about seeing something for what it really is
when you hear something, when you see something, don't be
deceived to add sugar to what is sour. That's a
metaphor if I hear someone, If I was to hear
someone speak something to me that is not good, then
(05:13):
I'm simply going to say what they have just said
is not good. So we have to acknowledge what is
true by what we see and by what we hear.
Because the moment you don't acknowledge what is true, that
means you are deceived. And you do not want to
be deceived. As much as I love my family, as
(05:37):
much as I love my daughter, if my daughter does
something wrong, I would have to acknowledge whatever wrong she did.
Now my daughter does something right, I have to acknowledge
the good that she does. So the point of what
I'm saying is this acknowledging what is true helps you
(06:00):
knowledge what you hear, acknowledge what you see, don't try
to put a spin on it and add sugar to
what is sour. We have to phase reality head on.
Stop avoiding what is obvious. The sooner you admit what
(06:20):
is real, the sooner you can move forward. Detach from ego,
because truth is often blocked by pride. Letting go of
ego allows you to see things as they are, not
how you wish they were. As much as I love people,
(06:45):
when I'm watching TV and I'm listening to the news,
I don't look at people and just project that they
will do something or say something wrong, because I try
to look at everything through a positive lens. But if
I'm watching the news and I hear a leader, or
if I hear my favorite celebrities say something really, really bad,
(07:10):
I'm going to acknowledge the fact that this person said
what they said, and at the same time that I
acknowledge what is being said, I'm going to hold that
person accountable. Anytime we don't hold a leader, or if
we don't hold someone accountable for what they say and
(07:31):
what they do, what does that say about us as individuals,
or as a family, or as a group. We have
to hold leaders and people accountable. And I am not
talking about being upset with them. I'm not talking about that.
I'm not talking about condemning them. I'm not talking about
(07:54):
hating them. I'm talking about acknowledging what is true when
you hear someone do something. When you hear someone or
see someone acting a certain way that is not good,
don't take sugar to add it to what is sour.
(08:17):
Call sugar sugar, and call what is sour sour. Listen
before reacting. Sometimes the truth comes from others, and we
have to practice fully when the truth comes from others,
we have to practice fully listening without defending ourselves as well.
(08:43):
But the point of the matter is this acknowledging what
is true. It is It is a place that in
your mind. It is a place in your mind that
you can protect yourself from being deceived. Separate facts from
feelings and what does that mean? Feelings are real, but
(09:05):
they're all but they are not also facts. Truth is
clearer when you distinguish between what is feelings and what
is factual. Know the difference, Ask honest questions. If you
are having some trouble to acknowledge what is true, ask
(09:27):
honest questions. Don't be afraid to ask what is really
happening here? This can help you to understand what is
really happening. Ask yourself that question, what's really happening here,
so that you can acknowledge what it's true. We all
have imperfections, but when something happens, you have to acknowledge
(09:55):
what is true. Your eyes are not deceiving you. Your
ears are not deceiving you. You if you're looking at
the television, or if you are listening to something online
and you hear what you heard, guess what you are
not being deceived. Acknowledge what is true. Look at the evidence.
(10:20):
Accept imperfections. Embrace discomfort. What do I mean by embracing discomfort?
Sometimes when you hear something or if you see something
that's not good and you have to acknowledge it for
what it is, it might be uncomfortable, So embrace the discomfort.
(10:40):
Truth is not always pleasant. Growth comes from looking at
and sitting with the things that might be uncomfortable. Be
transparent with yourself. Journal do self reflection. Aim to focus
(11:03):
on what is factual, because when you practice living that
way acknowledging what is true, you can escape being in
a place mentally deceived. There's a lot going on across
the world today, and I'm talking about this because last
(11:26):
week a lot happened in America. And I'm not gonna
mention any names of anyone specifically, because I do not
like to do that on this podcast, but I will
say this, something happened last week and there was a
man that is no longer with us anymore. He was
(11:48):
in a bad situation and a lot of people kept
calling this person a good person. This person passed away,
and when after he passed away, they kept saying he's
a good man. He was a good man. He was
(12:09):
a good man. And the first question I posed to
myself was this, how can someone be considered to be
a good man if every time I heard them speak
they spoke hate out of their mouth. Now, if, like
(12:29):
I just gave you the example, if I sat on
this podcast in every episode and all I talked about
was how much I didn't like other races, or how
much I didn't like someone, or how much I didn't
like certain groups of people, what would you think of me?
You would say that I have a problem with that.
(12:50):
You would be uncomfortable. So, if you are watching something
on TV, or if you come into the presence of
someone that is doing something or acting in a way
that it's not positive. Like I said, I'm not saying
(13:11):
to hate anybody or dislike anybody, But what I'm saying
is acknowledge the truth for what it is. This young
man that passed away last week. Every time I heard
this person speak, he didn't say anything good. So how
can I perceive this person as a good person when
I never heard him say anything that was good. There
(13:35):
are homeless people, There are people that are very poor
around the world. There are people that have no right
or no access to education. There are people that are
suffering on all levels of life all around the world.
(13:59):
And we have people that we have people around the
world that have tons of money and they have the
access and the ability to solve some of the problems
that are going on across the world. And I always
ask this question, if a rich man has billions of
(14:22):
billions of dollars and cares nothing about the homeless, or
he cares nothing about the poor, what does that make him.
I don't even have to answer that question for you.
You already have the answer. So what I am saying
is this acknowledge the truth for what it is, because
(14:46):
when we spend our energy and when we focus on
acknowledging what is true, then we escape, Then we will
escape a mind of deception. I'm a little serious right
now talking about this topic because I want you to
(15:10):
understand that when someone is doing something wrong, you can't
call it good, and when someone is doing something right,
you can't call it bad. Acknowledging what is true is
(15:31):
Acknowledging what is true is something that we have to
do every single day, no matter what is going on,
no matter how uncomfortable it is, we have to acknowledge
what is true. I will not call a person a
(15:55):
person that is showing negative behavior. I will not look
at that person and say, oh, he's a good man,
or he or she's a good woman. If a person
is doing something wrong or saying something wrong, a public person,
a private person, if they're saying something wrong, doing something wrong,
(16:18):
I will acknowledge it for what it is. And you
need to do the same thing. Acknowledge what is true,
not to be deceived to think something else that is
not true. Sadly, in this hour that we live, there
(16:39):
are a lot of people that will call bad good
and call good bad. This world is in a serious
situation right now, and I admonish you to hold on
to God and to remember what Jesez this is just said.
(17:01):
And if you don't know what Jesus said, pick up
the Bible and read Matthew, Luke and John and the Red.
That's the words of Jesus. And I know there are
a lot of people out there sometimes they don't even
want to read the Bible because they say things like, oh,
well things have been changed. Well, if you have an
issue with that, I will ask you to just simply pray,
(17:22):
ask God to reveal what is true to you, because
there is a lot going on. I had to say
what I have already said in this episode because it
is important for us to acknowledge what is true. When
something is good and you hear that it's good, and
(17:47):
you see that it's good when it comes to when
it comes to humanity and when it comes to how
we should treat one another and how we should speak
to one another, and how we should talk about one another.
What's good is good and what's bad is bad. So
acknowledge what is true. Don't be deceived in your thinking.
(18:12):
Acknowledge what is true. Like I said, I'm a little
serious during this episode because this topic is important to
me and because there is so much going on in
the world, we have to stay connected to what is true.
(18:33):
Don't be deceived in your thinking. Acknowledge what is true.
Thank you so much for listening to SB Favorite Thinking podcast.
If you need to reach me, you can reach me
at SB Favorite at yahoo dot com via email. You
can also find me on Facebook YouTube subscribe to me there, please,
(18:53):
thank you. You can also find me on Instagram and
TikTok and wherever you listen to podcasts, you can find
me there. I'm normally very very laid back and I
love the smile, laugh and just talk crazy to you.
(19:13):
But today it's not one of those days. It's not
one of those days because this topic it's serious. Acknowledge
what is true. Don't call something bad good because if
you do, check yourself. Okay, thank you for listening, and
(19:37):
I will be back later this week with more episodes
and I will laugh with you. Okay, I know I
was serious today, but thank you for listening. Share this
podcast with someone that needs to be encouraged. This topic
is just to remind you that we got to focus
on what is good and we've got to make sure
we stay in contact and connect it with what is true.
(20:00):
All right, have a good day.
Blessings and peace to you. This is s be Favorite
Thinking Podcasts and my name is SB Favor. How are
you doing today? It is Sunday, September fourteenth, twenty twenty five.
Another wonderful day and another day to be thankful. And
as I always say, if you focus on what's good,
(00:24):
then you can project something good to happen when you
focus on the positive things, because there are no benefits
to focusing on the negative things. So focus on what
is good. I hope that you are having a very
good Sunday. I hope that you had a good weekend.
It's a relaxing Sunday for me personally, and it's a
(00:46):
good day and we all need to, like I said,
focus on what is good. If you are out there
traveling about today, make sure that you stay focused. Don't
be on your cell phone too much in the public
because if you are, that means you are distracted. So
make you pray and make sure you stay focused while
you are in the public. Okay. Also, if you would
like to give to the podcast, you can give at
(01:08):
cashad Dalas on a SB favor or you can give
at Vemmo at SB favor. Once again, if you would
like to give to the podcast. You can give at
cash shap dalasan ASP favor or you can give at
vimmo at sb favor and that is the AT symbol
sb FA v O r on Venmo. Okay, thank you
(01:30):
so much for your support and your donations. Lastly, I
would like to remind you if you would like to
take English lessons, or if you know someone that would
like to take public speaking lessons, or just to enhance
how you speak, you can make an appointment at icsbiz
one dot com, I c S biz one dot com
(01:50):
and as I cs B I Z number one dot com.
Make an appointment and you can improve and you will
improve how you speak. Okay, all right, so moving right along.
The title of this episode is Acknowledging what is True. Yes,
(02:12):
Acknowledging what is true? This week has been somewhat challenging.
A lot has been going on in America, and I
had something on my mind concerning this title and acknowledging
what is true. And what was on my mind was
(02:33):
how sometimes people can do something, say something, act a
certain way and then call it something else. For an example,
if you say something to me that is very very hateful,
should I say that what you said is loving. No,
(02:57):
we have to call a thing a thing? And what
do I mean by that? If someone says something or
does something, we have to acknowledge it for what it
really is. We have to do that. A lot of
times people they tend to add a little sugar to
(03:17):
some things. And what do I mean by that? They
try to make it seem like what is true is
not true at all. For an example, in this country,
we have a lot of different leaders that will say
different things that are not good. We have leaders in
this country that will speak hate and then they will
(03:41):
turn around and say that it's true or is love
and it's not. We really have to acknowledge what is
true and what is not true. And I'm talking about
calling a thing a thing, acknowledging something for what it
really is. If I sat here on this podcast and
(04:04):
I spoke a lot of hate out of my mouth,
what would you call me? You would say she speaks
a lot of hate, right, Yes, you would say that
if I spoke a lot of hate out of my mouth,
you can't say that I'm a loving person. Now. If
I speak a lot of love to people, and if
I speak a lot of motivating words to people, you
(04:27):
could say, Okay, well she speaks a lot of motivating words.
So what I am saying is this acknowledging what is
true will keep you from deception. We have to face
reality head on. And I'm not talking about making up
things and not seeing things for what they really are.
(04:50):
I'm talking about seeing something for what it really is
when you hear something, when you see something, don't be
deceived to add sugar to what is sour. That's a
metaphor if I hear someone, If I was to hear
someone speak something to me that is not good, then
(05:13):
I'm simply going to say what they have just said
is not good. So we have to acknowledge what is
true by what we see and by what we hear.
Because the moment you don't acknowledge what is true, that
means you are deceived. And you do not want to
be deceived. As much as I love my family, as
(05:37):
much as I love my daughter, if my daughter does
something wrong, I would have to acknowledge whatever wrong she did.
Now my daughter does something right, I have to acknowledge
the good that she does. So the point of what
I'm saying is this acknowledging what is true helps you
(06:00):
knowledge what you hear, acknowledge what you see, don't try
to put a spin on it and add sugar to
what is sour. We have to phase reality head on.
Stop avoiding what is obvious. The sooner you admit what
(06:20):
is real, the sooner you can move forward. Detach from ego,
because truth is often blocked by pride. Letting go of
ego allows you to see things as they are, not
how you wish they were. As much as I love people,
(06:45):
when I'm watching TV and I'm listening to the news,
I don't look at people and just project that they
will do something or say something wrong, because I try
to look at everything through a positive lens. But if
I'm watching the news and I hear a leader, or
if I hear my favorite celebrities say something really, really bad,
(07:10):
I'm going to acknowledge the fact that this person said
what they said, and at the same time that I
acknowledge what is being said, I'm going to hold that
person accountable. Anytime we don't hold a leader, or if
we don't hold someone accountable for what they say and
(07:31):
what they do, what does that say about us as individuals,
or as a family, or as a group. We have
to hold leaders and people accountable. And I am not
talking about being upset with them. I'm not talking about that.
I'm not talking about condemning them. I'm not talking about
(07:54):
hating them. I'm talking about acknowledging what is true when
you hear someone do something. When you hear someone or
see someone acting a certain way that is not good,
don't take sugar to add it to what is sour.
(08:17):
Call sugar sugar, and call what is sour sour. Listen
before reacting. Sometimes the truth comes from others, and we
have to practice fully when the truth comes from others,
we have to practice fully listening without defending ourselves as well.
(08:43):
But the point of the matter is this acknowledging what
is true. It is It is a place that in
your mind. It is a place in your mind that
you can protect yourself from being deceived. Separate facts from
feelings and what does that mean? Feelings are real, but
(09:05):
they're all but they are not also facts. Truth is
clearer when you distinguish between what is feelings and what
is factual. Know the difference, Ask honest questions. If you
are having some trouble to acknowledge what is true, ask
(09:27):
honest questions. Don't be afraid to ask what is really
happening here? This can help you to understand what is
really happening. Ask yourself that question, what's really happening here,
so that you can acknowledge what it's true. We all
have imperfections, but when something happens, you have to acknowledge
(09:55):
what is true. Your eyes are not deceiving you. Your
ears are not deceiving you. You if you're looking at
the television, or if you are listening to something online
and you hear what you heard, guess what you are
not being deceived. Acknowledge what is true. Look at the evidence.
(10:20):
Accept imperfections. Embrace discomfort. What do I mean by embracing discomfort?
Sometimes when you hear something or if you see something
that's not good and you have to acknowledge it for
what it is, it might be uncomfortable, So embrace the discomfort.
(10:40):
Truth is not always pleasant. Growth comes from looking at
and sitting with the things that might be uncomfortable. Be
transparent with yourself. Journal do self reflection. Aim to focus
(11:03):
on what is factual, because when you practice living that
way acknowledging what is true, you can escape being in
a place mentally deceived. There's a lot going on across
the world today, and I'm talking about this because last
(11:26):
week a lot happened in America. And I'm not gonna
mention any names of anyone specifically, because I do not
like to do that on this podcast, but I will
say this, something happened last week and there was a
man that is no longer with us anymore. He was
(11:48):
in a bad situation and a lot of people kept
calling this person a good person. This person passed away,
and when after he passed away, they kept saying he's
a good man. He was a good man. He was
(12:09):
a good man. And the first question I posed to
myself was this, how can someone be considered to be
a good man if every time I heard them speak
they spoke hate out of their mouth. Now, if, like
(12:29):
I just gave you the example, if I sat on
this podcast in every episode and all I talked about
was how much I didn't like other races, or how
much I didn't like someone, or how much I didn't
like certain groups of people, what would you think of me?
You would say that I have a problem with that.
(12:50):
You would be uncomfortable. So, if you are watching something
on TV, or if you come into the presence of
someone that is doing something or acting in a way
that it's not positive. Like I said, I'm not saying
(13:11):
to hate anybody or dislike anybody, But what I'm saying
is acknowledge the truth for what it is. This young
man that passed away last week. Every time I heard
this person speak, he didn't say anything good. So how
can I perceive this person as a good person when
I never heard him say anything that was good. There
(13:35):
are homeless people, There are people that are very poor
around the world. There are people that have no right
or no access to education. There are people that are
suffering on all levels of life all around the world.
(13:59):
And we have people that we have people around the
world that have tons of money and they have the
access and the ability to solve some of the problems
that are going on across the world. And I always
ask this question, if a rich man has billions of
(14:22):
billions of dollars and cares nothing about the homeless, or
he cares nothing about the poor, what does that make him.
I don't even have to answer that question for you.
You already have the answer. So what I am saying
is this acknowledge the truth for what it is, because
(14:46):
when we spend our energy and when we focus on
acknowledging what is true, then we escape, Then we will
escape a mind of deception. I'm a little serious right
now talking about this topic because I want you to
(15:10):
understand that when someone is doing something wrong, you can't
call it good, and when someone is doing something right,
you can't call it bad. Acknowledging what is true is
(15:31):
Acknowledging what is true is something that we have to
do every single day, no matter what is going on,
no matter how uncomfortable it is, we have to acknowledge
what is true. I will not call a person a
(15:55):
person that is showing negative behavior. I will not look
at that person and say, oh, he's a good man,
or he or she's a good woman. If a person
is doing something wrong or saying something wrong, a public person,
a private person, if they're saying something wrong, doing something wrong,
(16:18):
I will acknowledge it for what it is. And you
need to do the same thing. Acknowledge what is true,
not to be deceived to think something else that is
not true. Sadly, in this hour that we live, there
(16:39):
are a lot of people that will call bad good
and call good bad. This world is in a serious
situation right now, and I admonish you to hold on
to God and to remember what Jesez this is just said.
(17:01):
And if you don't know what Jesus said, pick up
the Bible and read Matthew, Luke and John and the Red.
That's the words of Jesus. And I know there are
a lot of people out there sometimes they don't even
want to read the Bible because they say things like, oh,
well things have been changed. Well, if you have an
issue with that, I will ask you to just simply pray,
(17:22):
ask God to reveal what is true to you, because
there is a lot going on. I had to say
what I have already said in this episode because it
is important for us to acknowledge what is true. When
something is good and you hear that it's good, and
(17:47):
you see that it's good when it comes to when
it comes to humanity and when it comes to how
we should treat one another and how we should speak
to one another, and how we should talk about one another.
What's good is good and what's bad is bad. So
acknowledge what is true. Don't be deceived in your thinking.
(18:12):
Acknowledge what is true. Like I said, I'm a little
serious during this episode because this topic is important to
me and because there is so much going on in
the world, we have to stay connected to what is true.
(18:33):
Don't be deceived in your thinking. Acknowledge what is true.
Thank you so much for listening to SB Favorite Thinking podcast.
If you need to reach me, you can reach me
at SB Favorite at yahoo dot com via email. You
can also find me on Facebook YouTube subscribe to me there, please,
(18:53):
thank you. You can also find me on Instagram and
TikTok and wherever you listen to podcasts, you can find
me there. I'm normally very very laid back and I
love the smile, laugh and just talk crazy to you.
(19:13):
But today it's not one of those days. It's not
one of those days because this topic it's serious. Acknowledge
what is true. Don't call something bad good because if
you do, check yourself. Okay, thank you for listening, and
(19:37):
I will be back later this week with more episodes
and I will laugh with you. Okay, I know I
was serious today, but thank you for listening. Share this
podcast with someone that needs to be encouraged. This topic
is just to remind you that we got to focus
on what is good and we've got to make sure
we stay in contact and connect it with what is true.
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