Keeping Up With Jones: The Lonnie Jones Podcast Adventure

"She believes in me." May be the greatest source of power I have in my life save my belief in God. When someone invests belief in you they give you a gift that is more powerful that what you can actually do and you are not inspired by what they can do but you receive power and motivation from they think you can do.

Life lived is life learned. Every experience has facts, concepts and applications.  These arestories from the...

What gives us pause can define our goals and purposes. The pauses can be interpreted as values, goals, limits or can me misinterpreted.

Life lived is life learned. Every experience has facts, concepts and applications.  These arestories from the eclectic life of Lonnie Jones, Licensed ProfessionalCounselor, Minister, SWAT Team Chaplain, Outdoor Enthusiast, Quixotic Jedi andholder of an honorary doctorate from the Universi...

I couldn't see they were trying to help me. They didn't know I was in an altered mental state. So we fought. I've been both places in the story fighting people who wanted to help me and helping people who wanted to fight me. In either case at some point you realize you are on a crazy train.

This episode was recorded on the coast of Maine in a cabin owned by Colleen Wallace. Driftwood Cottage 72 Sea Swept Way, Gouldsboro, Maine 046...

Being mistaken for a servant might not be an insult. In fact it's only an insult if they think you are a servant and it's a mistake.

Life lived is life learned. Every experience has facts, concepts and applications.  These arestories from the eclectic life of Lonnie Jones, Licensed ProfessionalCounselor, Minister, SWAT Team Chaplain, Outdoor Enthusiast, Quixotic Jedi andholder of an honorary doctorate from the University o...

How we act when we are surrounded by a degrading situation makes a strong statement about how strong we really are. The situation never controls how we respond but our response says alot about our control.

Life lived is life learned. Every experience has facts, concepts and applications.  These arestories from the eclectic life of Lonnie Jones, Licensed ProfessionalCounselor, Minister, SWAT Team Chaplain, Outdoor Enthusias...

Fooling ourselves is how temptation works. We aren't fools as much as we get fooled into letting what we want get weaponized. We are unaware of the hook or ignore the possibility of getting hooked.

Life lived is life learned. Every experience has facts, concepts and applications.  These arestories from the eclectic life of Lonnie Jones, Licensed ProfessionalCounselor, Minister, SWAT Team Chaplain, Outdoor Enthusiast, Quixo...

You probably can't help getting some water in the boat...but do you have a way to get the water out of your boat. A boat that's not in the water won't sink...but boats don't sink because they are in the water. They sink when water gets into them.

Life lived is life learned. Every experience has facts, concepts and applications.  These arestories from the eclectic life of Lonnie Jones, Licensed ProfessionalCounselor, Minist...

The witness protection program is about changing a person after they become a witness. Jesus asks us to change in order to become witnesses.

Life lived is life learned. Every experience has facts, concepts and applications.  These arestories from the eclectic life of Lonnie Jones, Licensed ProfessionalCounselor, Minister, SWAT Team Chaplain, Outdoor Enthusiast, Quixotic Jedi andholder of an honorary doctorate from the Univ...

We hear all around us that this thing or that thing is this or that and we believe they are valuable, markers of success or prized often time to realize too late that's not the truth. Comparing something to success is not the same thing as successful.

Life lived is life learned. Every experience has facts, concepts and applications.  These arestories from the eclectic life of Lonnie Jones, Licensed ProfessionalCounselor, M...

We took an old steel box and put stuff in it that we don't use very much. The unused box then became the box for stuff we don't use. Don't let this happen in your life.

Life lived is life learned. Every experience has facts, concepts and applications.  These arestories from the eclectic life of Lonnie Jones, Licensed ProfessionalCounselor, Minister, SWAT Team Chaplain, Outdoor Enthusiast, Quixotic Jedi andholder of an hono...

I ordered the French toast because it sounded exotic. It was just toasted bread decorated with stuff you'd put on a pancake. I was underwhelmed. We label all kinds of things just to make them sound better when in reality they sound the same...especially unkindness, rudeness or insensitivity.

Life lived is life learned. Every experience has facts, concepts and applications.  These arestories from the eclectic life of Lonni...

Opportunity and Ability have to be synched not syncopated. People often "rent" opportunity expecting the ability to come with it. To synch the two acquiring the ability more often leads to be able to act on the opportunity.

Life lived is life learned. Every experience has facts, concepts and applications.  These arestories from the eclectic life of Lonnie Jones, Licensed ProfessionalCounselor, Minister, SWAT Team Chaplain,...

The sea turtle came to the land. She was a on a mission. Her impression was not the only thing she left but it was her impression that told us where she went and why. The impression we leave and the significance is determined by understanding our meaning, purpose and values. It's not just that we showed up but what we did and where we knew we were headed.

Life lived is life learned. Every experience has facts, concepts and ap...

The things I'm willing to let you change to make me happy are often things that matter to you and really don't matter. Well they matter to me.

Life lived is life learned. Every experience has facts, concepts and applications.  These arestories from the eclectic life of Lonnie Jones, Licensed ProfessionalCounselor, Minister, SWAT Team Chaplain, Outdoor Enthusiast, Quixotic Jedi andholder of an honorary doctorate from the Un...

Rules are not made to be broken. They are made because we tend to break things and because we are broken. The code God gives us to live by is one the helps and heals us. It is not designed to harm or hinder.

Life lived is life learned. Every experience has facts, concepts and applications.  These arestories from the eclectic life of Lonnie Jones, Licensed ProfessionalCounselor, Minister, SWAT Team Chaplain, Outdoor Enthusi...

Unquestionable decisions, actions and behaviors save us from being ask the hard, embarrassing, awkward questions. It's not always a question of right or wrong but the qeustion should be is it questionable?

Life lived is life learned. Every experience has facts, concepts and applications.  These arestories from the eclectic life of Lonnie Jones, Licensed ProfessionalCounselor, Minister, SWAT Team Chaplain, Outdoor Enthusias...

It's no secret that we fall. It's trying to keep it a secret-our pride-that keeps us from getting help.

Life lived is life learned. Every experience has facts, concepts and applications.  These arestories from the eclectic life of Lonnie Jones, Licensed ProfessionalCounselor, Minister, SWAT Team Chaplain, Outdoor Enthusiast, Quixotic Jedi andholder of an honorary doctorate from the University of Adversity.

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"Attack" dogs aren't born. They are conditioned. Men don't become men just because they reach a certain age. Based on a conversation from Jordan Peterson and Jonathan Haidt the author of "The Anxious Generation" we make some observations about about the conditions required to reach the condition of being a man.

Life lived is life learned. Every experience has facts, concepts and applications.  These arestories from the e...

We tend to blend things together to get what we want. Just because it has some of the qualities we are looking for or not looking for does not mean our mixture is not mixed up.

Life lived is life learned. Every experience has facts, concepts and applications.  These arestories from the eclectic life of Lonnie Jones, Licensed ProfessionalCounselor, Minister, SWAT Team Chaplain, Outdoor Enthusiast, Quixotic Jedi andholder of...