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“You can have anything you want as long as you focus and put your mind to it” unknown

Remember they said ANYthing not EVERYthing

Placing Stones: A Parable
Doing and Having Everything What Matters Most
By Chris Hodges
(LinkedIn profile)
[email protected]

Sacrifice without Envy
Achieve without Regret

Stones = time

An interactive parable with action plan

Four Major areas of concentration
• Health / Fitness
• Relationship
• Career (finance)
• Personal / Spiritual Growth

Keys to success
• Love
• Leverage
• Learn
• Luck

My 3 ”So Whats” – what I’m going to take away in implement:

1) Make Conscious Decisions of where to focus my time
2) Remember I have a Finite amount of time (stones) each day and in a lifetime. It is truly the most limited and valuable resource
3) Make more of my own luck by pushing beyond my comfort zone to learn form new people and experiences.

So what did you gleam from this talk with Chris that can impact you and your life?

Share your thoughts in the comments area below.

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Running Time:

30:41

In this episode we cover the following topics:

• “It’s not your dog’s fault when it misbehaves, the fault is yours for not providing clear expectations, necessary training and helpful feedback”
• Talk with Dr. Mary Kelly:  Professor at the United States Air Force Academy, speaker author and founder of Productive Leaders http://productiveleaders.com/
• The paradigm of leadership through your dog’s eyes
• What if you worked like a Dog?  Happy, energetic, positive!
• Kena Ole:  The Rigtht Thing, the Right Person, the Right Time, with the Right Spirit
• The 3 “So Whats”, what I took away from the discussion

Mary’s clear understanding came through in her words in this podcast, but is even more powerful in the videos on Prodcutvie Leaders.

BONUS: Mary offered a FREE COPY of Master Your World to the first 5 listeners to her at [email protected]

MORE FREE STUFF: Leave a comment bellow and I will select one person to get a copy of any of Dr Kelly’s books.

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Running Time:

35:46

In this episode we cover the following topics:

• “I’d be a better leader if I had better followers”  True of False
• Talk with leader Pastor Michael Brown, President of the Kalamazoo Gospel Mission http://kzoogospel.org/ and Midwest District President of the Association of Gospel Rescue Missions. http://www.agrm.org
• When life isn’t working going back to the Manufacturer and reading His manual.
• Leadership as service to others – Biblical basis
• Are you a leader or a lid as described by Stephen Covey
• Leadership lessons learned growing up in the Navy.
• Visiting and volunteering at your local gospel mission which you can find at
• The 3 “So Whats”, what I took away from the discussion

If you’ve never visited your local Gospel Mission, consider seeing how lives are changed through the power of Christ.  Not only those they serve, but also the volunteers.  I’ve personally learned much about true leadership during my time volunteering at the Kalamazoo Gospel Mission.