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Your Independence Day

The Daily Wake Up Micro-PodcastEpisode 910 of the Final Season:  Your Independence Day#knowTroy #DWUpodcast #freedom
Today is Independence Day for the United States of America.
Today can be your Independence Day.
You can be free and declare freedom for yourself if you do these two things: Forgive and Surrender.

Are You an Echo?

The Daily Wake Up Micro-PodcastEpisode 909 of the Final Season:  Are You an Echo?#knowTroy #DWUpodcast #standout
More from the book written by Scott Ginsberg, titled: Stick Yourself Out There.  In it, Scott asks the reader if they are an original or an echo.  Let’s look at the definition of each:
Original: created directly and personally by a particular artist; not a copy or imitation.
Echo: a close parallel or repetition of an idea, feeling, style, or event.

Enduring Remarketability

The Daily Wake Up Micro-PodcastEpisode 908 of the Final Season:  Enduring Remarkability  #knowTroy #DWUpodcast #personaldevelopment  
Really cool book written by Scott Ginsberg, titled: Stick Yourself Out There.  All of us are AWESOME and some of us are REMARKABLE.  Scott asks the question related to those who are Remarkable.

Ten Ways to Overcome Self-Pity

The Daily Wake Up Micro-PodcastEpisode 907 of the Final Season:  Ten Ways to Overcome Self-Pity  #knowTroy #DWUpodcast #personaldevelopment  
In the book, The Courage to be Free, Guy Finley offers a way to overcome self-pity and feeling sorry about yourself.  As Guy writes, “the self that knows itself only through its own conditioned thinking can never develop beyond the context of itself.
Here are ten ways to overcome self-pity:

TST: Not a Person; Just a Fetus

The Daily Wake Up Micro-PodcastEpisode 906 of the Final Season:  Not a Person, Just a Fetus  #knowTroy #DWUpodcast #abortion #prolife #prochoice
For this True Story Tuesday, I’d like to share a story of my conversations with women in the early 1990s.  We would talk about the rights women have. They were pro-choice, I was pro-life.
When we talked about who had rights the common response to my liberal friends was, “It’s not a person; just a fetus.”  That’s a hard argument to overcome.
“If the unborn child is simply a blob of flesh,” they would say, “what is the harm of removing it since it’s not life?”
My response was always the same: “What if it is life? What if it is a person?”

Gained Rights ＞ Lost Rights

The Daily Wake Up Micro-PodcastEpisode 905 of the Final Season:  Gained Rights > Lost Rights  #knowTroy #DWUpodcast #abortion #prochoice #prolife
When slavery was abolished some slave owners were upset because they had lost rights to what they deemed as property.
As horrible as slavery is, there were slave owners who cried foul because of lost rights.
The slaves were silent until they were given rights from those who had it.

Value Stays the Same

The Daily Wake Up Micro-PodcastEpisode 904 of the Final Season:  Value Stays the Same #knowTroy #DWUpodcast #selfworth #believe
In the book, The Invisible Bond by Barbara Wilson, she tells a story of a sermon illustration that shows the value of who we are regardless of what we’ve been through. I will be using it when I speak to students across the country this year.

Sometimes and Lately

The Daily Wake Up Micro-PodcastEpisode 903 of the Final Season:  Sometimes and Lately #knowTroy #DWUpodcast #optimism
More from the book, Authentic Happiness by Martin Seligman.  He writes, if you look at bad events as “always” and “never” you have a permanent pessimistic style. If you think in terms of “sometimes” and “lately” you have an optimistic style.
What I like about this is that “sometimes” and “lately” has a

Learning to Argue with Yourself

The Daily Wake Up Micro-PodcastEpisode 902 of the Final Season:  Learning to Argue with Yourself #knowTroy #DWUpodcast #mentalhealth
I found a lot of value in reading the book, Authentic Happiness by Martin Seligman. With the mental health problems that we are experiencing, this book provided me with ways to combat negative or doubting thoughts. 
One portion, learning to argue with yourself, was especially helpful. Martin writes, there are four important ways to dispute a negative belief about yourself:

TST - GET UP!

The Daily Wake Up Micro-PodcastEpisode 901 of the Final Season:  TST – GET UP! #knowTroy #DWUpodcast #TrueStoryTuesday #getup
 A few weeks ago, I needed to grab some items at the grocery store.  It was my son, Colt, and me, and we were in a hurry to get the items we needed.  As I weaved through the aisle like a young Russell Wilson weaved through the people at the mall, I came across a slow walker. You know the type right? They don’t know exactly what they want so they aimlessly gaze at the shelf hoping what they want will jump out at them. Most slow walkers don’t walk in a straight line either.