Have you ever considered how visibility plays a crucial role in your life and faith? Is it reflected in your actions or merely spoken of? This episode is a deep dive exploration into the concept of visibility in our lives, and how it is mirrored in our faith. Join me, Coach Steve, as I share my personal spiritual journey and reflect on profound life experiences. I delve into the eight elements of human existence: existential, environmental, relational, emotional, physical, spiritual, financial, and mental, and discuss how they intersect universally in our pursuit of health and wellness. I also give you a glimpse into the Redmond Success Group podcast which explores these elements, and the Cornerstone Athletics podcast, which seeks to foster a more holistic approach to sports.
As we dig deeper, I share my recent realization of having a more legalistic and hypocritical attitude than I imagined. My wife's wisdom about recognizing the people God puts in front of us, rather than merely talking about God, inspires a deeper introspection. We explore the critical implications of the law, sin, grace, and faith in Galatians. This self-reflection focuses on how my belief in God should be visible in my actions and how I present myself rather than relying solely on words to communicate it.
Lastly, I challenge you to self-reflect, asking what your deep-down motivations are. How can you become your best self? Find out how we can create tangible proofs of our faith and how our actions can positively impact our environment. Ultimately, this episode pushes for understanding our motivations and maximizing our potential. So, join me on this revelatory journey and let's strive to have a blessed day.
Have you ever considered how visibility plays a crucial role in your life and faith? Is it reflected in your actions or merely spoken of? This episode is a deep dive exploration into the concept of visibility in our lives, and how it is mirrored in our faith. Join me, Coach Steve, as I share my personal spiritual journey and reflect on profound life experiences. I delve into the eight elements of human existence: existential, environmental, relational, emotional, physical, spiritual, financial, and mental, and discuss how they intersect universally in our pursuit of health and wellness. I also give you a glimpse into the Redmond Success Group podcast which explores these elements, and the Cornerstone Athletics podcast, which seeks to foster a more holistic approach to sports.
As we dig deeper, I share my recent realization of having a more legalistic and hypocritical attitude than I imagined. My wife's wisdom about recognizing the people God puts in front of us, rather than merely talking about God, inspires a deeper introspection. We explore the critical implications of the law, sin, grace, and faith in Galatians. This self-reflection focuses on how my belief in God should be visible in my actions and how I present myself rather than relying solely on words to communicate it.
Lastly, I challenge you to self-reflect, asking what your deep-down motivations are. How can you become your best self? Find out how we can create tangible proofs of our faith and how our actions can positively impact our environment. Ultimately, this episode pushes for understanding our motivations and maximizing our potential. So, join me on this revelatory journey and let's strive to have a blessed day.
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Well, well, well. I told you I'm back. I made it a point to make sure that I executed on my word and I'm here continuing this chain of consistency. Maybe that's what this overall theme will be Chain of consistency. No, I'm just playing. This is Steve, this is Coach Steve.
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That's how I introduce myself on either of my podcasts, and today we're going to do something a little different, a little special. This is going to be a dual episode, meaning I'm going to share this one to both of my podcast. So if you happen to be listening to the Redmond Success podcast and you're also a listener to my sports podcast, which is the Cornerstone Athletics podcast, you're going to hear the same message. So if there's some overlap or some confusing language between both of those that you hear today, that's why I'm going to share this to both, because I think this is going to be a very important one that I want everybody to hear. On that note, if I have failed to clearly explain the podcast and what we're scratching at on either one of them, the Redmond Success Group podcast is essentially a version, my version, of health and wellness. It is a health and wellness podcast per se.
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What I explore and what I try to dive into are what I'm calling the eight elements of human existence, and essentially those are going to be existential, environmental, relational, emotional, physical, spiritual, financial, not, ooh, financial, what is that word? That is, super human? Finances is what that is. So financial, and then what is eight? Geez, I always forget it. Hold on Two seconds, just wait. Eight, oh, mental, sorry, I always forget it when I try to list them off, but those are the eight areas that I feel like we live in. And I say we feel, I mean I'm saying feel like, legitimately, we do. When you think about your life, when you think about your experience here on earth, when you think about your day-to-day, there are emotional demands, there are physical demands, there are relational demands, all of those kind of weigh on you mentally, some form or fashion we obviously know, living in America and all over the world but I'm in America the financial demands we're under. And then spiritually is one that I kind of added into the mix of I think a lot of folks overlook, they misunderstand, they don't think it is as important as it is. And then existential, our meaning and purpose in life is a lot of debate between those and, all in all, that's where that comes from. It's not some super guru type thing. I mean legitimately when you lay out.
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And if you haven't done that, you can go back to some of the earlier episodes in this podcast. This is season three. Go back to season one at the very beginning and just listen to the deep health protocol and write it out and just, if nothing else, reflect on it. If I'm wrong, tell me. I know we live in a time where everybody wants to be right and they spend more time trying to be right than they are taking wisdom from something. But if I'm wrong, tell me. But I feel pretty confident that most humans operate in all of those areas and I also believe that that's part of the reason we feel so much tension day to day and, depending on how you respond to that, tension kind of fuels your life and everything like that. So anyway, the Redmond Success Group podcast focuses on those things and we talk about those things in different ways and I'm starting to get ready, or I'm actively trying to line up guests to help us grow in those areas. Right, I'm just a dude with a thought. And in season three I'm really pressing into trying to get people to help us grow in different aspects in different ways, take different nuggets, because that's how we piece together our individual formula for success. I think some of those things overlap universally person to person, but we're all different, we all operate a little bit differently, we all have different needs and the best thing you can do, in my opinion, is get the wisdom, get the information so you can be informed and then make the move that allows you to have whatever success you want. Obviously, if you haven't heard, I believe very, very firmly that we're all capable and we all should be working to live a better quality of life while we are here and just trying to do what I can to help in that area. So that's the Redmond Success Group podcast.
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Then you flip to Cornerstone Athletics. I'm a former athlete, coached for at this. I thought I retired but I didn't so actively involved in sport, doing consulting with organizations, mentorship with coaches, coaching, mentoring athletes is ultimately what I've done over the last 14, 15 years. But that's what that podcast is for is to talk about different topics and subjects, how parents and coaches can create a better collaborative experience for the athletes who, at the end of the day, are the kids involved in the process, the young ones, depending on us in that process. But at the same time, the overarching piece of how do we create a better experience for all the stakeholders in a situation. Stakeholders meaning parents you are a stakeholder in the sports world, coaches are, other leadership is, and then the athletes right, we all operate in the same space. We're all looking and hoping for the same thing, ideally, and it takes all of us to be able to better navigate this landscape of sport.
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So some of that, and then really what the Lord's been pressing on to me is trying to create an era, a generation, a space in the world of sports where it's on earth as it is in heaven. And that's been the big thing that's been kind of weighing on me too is where, how does that take place and that kind of thing. And I think that just overarches that, goes over everything else as well. That makes all of these other things better. And there's some bigger picture vision stuff that I'm working through with the Cornerstone deal. But that's what those two podcasts are for. So you're clear Again, if maybe you only listen to one, maybe you listen to both.
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However it goes, I wanted to explain that so you guys had a better understanding of what I'm doing and why I have to. So today we're gonna get in and we're gonna talk about something that I heard actually doing some professional development and it's. I'm a thinker, and so when I heard this, I took it in one context and then, when I started to fit it with other information and things that I was hearing, I just applied it across the board. But we're talking today about visibility. Is my responsibility or visibility being my responsibility? Whichever way you wanna look at it and Jared James is a real estate coach.
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Again, for those of you who don't know, I actually do have a real job outside of running my kids around and trying to be super dead and super husband as a realtor, real estate professional, and so he is a big time real estate coach influencer. I don't necessarily know what he would call himself, but that's kind of how I view him anyway. So he was doing a what do they call those Like a free live seminar thing on Facebook, and he was talking about social media and just giving people perspective, because that's, honestly, what a lot of people don't have is just perspective the information to give you or a good perspective, or the information to help you better process things, which gives you a better perspective, right? So he had started this thing off and I'm kind of a nugget of information guy so when I'm listening to somebody I just write down nuggets, boom, little anecdotes that stick. So I have somewhere in this desk I have books of just little things that over time I've heard someone say that stick out and then I come back to or chew on for a while. So he started this thing off and said on this day and age, visibility is your responsibility. And I said, okay, cool, I get that.
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You know, as a realtor, I have to. I'm in the business of people. I've always been in the business of people, even when I coached and did the gym thing. I'm interacting with people somehow some way every day, coaching them, marketing, you know, sitting down, doing consultations, whatever. It is same thing with real estate. You know I sit down with people, I talk to them, I give them information, I coach them, I guide them, blah, blah, blah. And from a marketing standpoint, which there are a lot of realtors who really are terrible at marketing. They're terrible at social media I'm one of them to some degree and it can get foggy, right. There's always a new thing that comes out. There's so many different places you're supposed to be at once and do this over here on TikTok and do this on Instagram and you should be doing this here. And if you're not doing this, then, oh my goodness, blah, blah, blah. You've all probably heard or seen stuff like that. That also is just kind of the climate of the world. Now you can, everyone is selling everything to anyone who thinks anything right.
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So he was talking us through some of this stuff, but the visibility is my responsibility, your responsibility really resonated. You know. He had talked about how you know, if people don't know you, they can't say no to you and then, consequently, they also couldn't say yes to you either. And I was like, oh, that's dope. I get that, you know, and as I continue to build my business and, you know, grow and figure out all of the things that I'd love to be able to do through real estate and because of real estate, you know, I realized I said, okay, I got to humble myself and I got to really start to just accept it. Right, cause this is the big thing, it's when I'm I have a bad habit. I don't know if anybody listening has the same habit of I might know something, but I won't do it, you know. So, okay, maybe I know social media is where people are and you can, you know, do so much different stuff on social media running ads, marketing, hosting events, blah, blah, blah.
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But I'm anti a lot of stuff. So it is not. It's nothing to even do with beliefs. Usually it's just because everybody's doing something. I don't want anything to do with it, that kind of stuff. So, anyway, I'm like man. Yeah, you know, I got to accept that this is a part of the flow. This is going to, no matter what I feel, no matter what I think this is the age we're living in. Right, social media is not going to slow down Some of these other things that we see out there. They're not going to just magically go away. If they do go away, the next iteration of that thing is coming right behind it. So I can either kind of sit on my pissy pot and not engage or I can just realize, hey, you can engage and you can do it your own way, that's true to you, and not completely miss the mark because of ego. And that's what I took from that.
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He talked about some other great stuff, but that's personally what I took from that whole little hour, or whatever it was, of communicating he gave, which was powerful for me because the biggest thing, like I say, is I personally need information, I personally need guidance and wisdom. So I can I hate to say it this way, I don't know how else to better say it but understanding I'm my own worst enemy. I have to almost rationalize and justify things with the shadow self in order for there to be less resistance for me to move. And that might be a little deep for some of you, but, like we are, imposter syndrome is probably more digestible of a term, right? You know, there's that aspirational identity we all have and that piece of us that dreams big and believes in all of this, and then there's that imposter shadow self that's like nah, you really think you can do that? Nah, you, that guy or girl, right? So wisdom is powerful for me because it helps me manage myself or defeat myself, so I can actually move on things. Anyway, back to that.
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So I took that, and because the Lord right now has me working through a sifting, humbling time, I also started to think about other areas that I need to be visible, and this has nothing to do with business and everything to do with life. You know, recently I've been kind of unpacking this thought of you. Know, I thought I was walking and it's not that I'm not walking down the path of faith with the Lord. I guess he's held up a mirror and showed me yeah, you, yeah, we're walking together. But you know, here's where you really add deep down. You're walking with me in hopes of a glory beyond me. You're hoping you're walking with me with selfish motive and intention. You're walking with me because you're smart enough to know that you should.
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But internally there's still some stuff that we got to work through to get you on the same page as me and that has come in the form of, I say my behavior, but like how I think, thinking that there's I'm doing this the right way and if you're not doing it this way or someone's not doing this way, then they're off. And this deep dive into Galatians where we start talking about the law and sin and Christ dying and taking sin and the law with him so we can be free with you know, grace and faith essentially, and it's just like man. I think I've been a little more legalistic than I was anticipating, I've been a little bit more hypocritical than I imagined. And here you are right back to square one, kind of square one, but just like accepting and realizing, oh, there's never gonna be a point where you arrive in this thing and if you think that you have it all figured out, you're probably way further off than you could ever imagine and you need to just point your focus back to me. This is Christ saying this, god saying this, not look at me, don't look at me. And you know, realized actually I got knocked down somewhere along the way and he's actually just been extending the hand waiting on me to grab it, to get up, dust myself off and keep walking. So somehow in that whole thing, I started to go back to visibility as my responsibility.
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And you know, my wife had brought me some wisdom last night and I can't quote it word for word, but essentially in a book she was reading and was talking about how, and let me preface this because it's not saying don't talk about God by any means, but it's talking about the mindless. Okay, you know as God, what did she say? The language of God increases me and I'm always talking to God and God and I wanna talk about God. And if you're not following God, we miss the actual people in front of us that God wants us to serve, right? The more we're talking that way, the more we're spewing that out, the less likely it is that we actually recognize or see there's a person right there that the Lord actually wants you to serve, or help or minister to, if you wanna call it that, and we ignore them for the permanating and all of that stuff of the language. Basically, people should be able to see, people should be able to feel, people should be able to hear, right, your belief in God, based on how you are, how you present, how you show up, more than you having to tell them if that makes sense. I hope that makes sense because it makes sense in my mind. But sometimes my mind is, you know, works backwards a little bit and that really resonated with me.
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Visibility is my responsibility. Is my faith visible and not? Hey, I made a post about my faith, hey, I took a picture of me going to do this thing over here. But like, legitimately, no cameras, no, nothing. When you encounter me, is it tangible? Is my faith tangible? Am I representing my creator tangibly and appropriately? It's one thing for me to tell you that I'm a believer. It's another thing for you to actually be able to identify that in my life.
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And again, I was humbled. I'm smart enough to know I'm not the worst person on earth, but I was humbled because it's like, well, we, this is quite the mirror the Lord is putting up in front of me, and I asked for it. I think there was an episode on the Success Group podcast Revenant Success Group podcast where we talked about looking in that mirror and I asked him to hold the mirror up. I asked him to pull these roots out, these deep roots. It's like, yeah, man, you're not like you, cool, but you're not living up to my standard that I have for you, that like you're doing this over here but then two seconds later you're off the path, you're turning for me and I was. You know, I hate saying it because, like I say, I'm still working through this, but I want to be right. You know meaning if the Lord told me, hey, I need you to run five miles a day and give homeless people food everywhere. You see it, I'm doing it.
Speaker 1:
But what I'm learning right now and what I'm being reminded of, I guess is the better way to say it re-learning. Like I don't need any of that You're good because I said you're good Like when I went to the cross. That was it. That doesn't mean don't do what's on your heart. That doesn't mean don't serve. That just means like when you start to think all of this other stuff is going to get you some applause or some kind of high five or who knows what you know any of us might be after.
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You're wrong when you start to think because you pick up the Bible and you read it every day. Versus the person who doesn't, you're wrong. Same scenario versus the person who they've accepted me in their life and they go to church inconsistently You're wrong. The person who has different sin than you, right, you don't see their sin, or you see theirs and you don't see yours. You're wrong. So, as you can tell, that's been fun.
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But I guess I bring all of that up to just ask what's visible in your life? If we're running with this conversation, we're running with the scenario, the context. Visibility is your responsibility. What's visible in your life? What's tangible? I'm blending both of these messages because sports is a big deal in our household. It's actually a big deal in our family and it's almost crazy because, being a former division one athlete, my wife being one, they're being a legacy of that. My wife is Hall of Fame status, all of these things.
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It's very easy to think that at a certain point yeah, we notice, we got it, we get it. That's wrong. I don't like that. This is crap. And in some ways what's funny is because it's sport. Let me be very clear because it's sport and there are some universal things that exists no matter what. In competition, we are right, kind of All right, we understand some things wholeheartedly and truthfully, at the highest level. But then there's these other things that's like, just because you get it, that mean you, your behavior, you can do whatever you want, or you can say whatever you want, or you can think or whatever. All of those kind of things. And I've had to apologize to some coaches. I've also had to get real, real, real with some coaches and a heartfelt, genuine manner, not anything crazy.
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And it brings up that question what's visible in your life, what's tangible in your life? What are people seeing, what are people experiencing? Particularly if you're a person of faith, because that is probably a point of reconciliation If it's gossip, it's lies, it's drama. You know switching gears, you always got something negative to say You're not doing anything productive with your life. You're living out of fear, whether you know it or not, because a lot of those times that's something we might miss in that mirror that we look into.
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But other people see it, other people feel it, and I know, for me, I'm humbled because it's like, all right, well, I know I'm a good person. I know, you know, again, I'm not so far gone to where I can't recognize intellectually and all of that kind of stuff, like I'm not a bad person. But if I am who he says I am, then I'm off base, whether it's in thought, whether it's in feeling. I need to look at him because, on my own accord, this is where I end up and there could be some more things of the Lord that are tangible in my life than there currently are, and I'm willing to deal with that and I'm willing to work with that and work with him through those things. What is the question? What's tangible in your life? How does it fit?
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You know again, what do people experience with you? What are people seeing, what are people hearing? And it's really not about the people, it's about the Lord, for those of us who believe in him, that's the thing that really hit me over the head. It's like, man, this is what I'm seeing, son, this is what I'm seeing out of you, like, yeah, I want you to be a good person and all of that jazz, but when I look at you, this is what I see, and that kind of stung a little bit. You know so, although I think we all have that moment, it's just really truly humbling when you have that moment and then you have to reorient a little bit and say I'm going to come. I got to yep, I got to face the music, I'm going to come back a little different and it's going to be different. People might look at you weird, people might respond to you differently, but you know, all things come and they go right, and that's where that came from.
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Visibility is my responsibility. It's your responsibility. How are you showing up every day? Again, my faith dictates that I show up a certain way. Not perfect, right, not not always shining and glamorous, but deep down, as a follower of Christ, I'm called to show up a certain kind of way, which means that what people can tangibly experience is of the Lord. How are you showing up every day? If visibility is your responsibility, then professionally, there's a visual. Personally, there's a visual and there's probably branches, I would imagine, off of those things. There's your responsibility to look in the mirror and see okay, here's how I'm showing up as a coach. This is what's going to be tangible. This is going to be something that can be articulated and it's tangible. They're going to feel it, they're going to see it. They could touch it if they needed to. Right, how am I showing up? We could get into the athletes. But here's what's funny Coach shows up a certain way. Parents show up the same way. That's going to affect how the athlete then shows up In your life.
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How are you showing up at work? How are you interacting with your colleagues? How are you doing your job? How are you as a spouse? How are you as a parent? How are you as a sibling, like all of these things? Man, it's your responsibility. If you're showing up selfishly, you're going to experience a response to that. That's not personal. That's not the world attacking you or condemning you. This is how you're showing up and everything is responding to the selfish manner in which you present yourself, the hypocritical manner you present yourself, the gossip, drama oriented way you present yourself.
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I'm only communicating this because, like I say, when I really sat down and dove into the visibility as my responsibility, it got deep for me. So I just wanted to convey some of the thoughts I had about it in hopes that it moves you to look in the mirror, moves you maybe closer to the Lord, to help get a different perspective. So, I don't know, I hope it helps, I hope it's meaningful, I hope that it does force you to take a step towards that thing that's deep, deep down, that is driving behaviors that you might not even be aware of, you might not be fully conscious of what is actually happening and why you're doing some of the stuff that you do. Take a look, man. There's something there for you. You know, we're all responsible for something, whether it's just ourselves, whether it's a family, maybe we're responsible for people at work, I don't know. But everybody gets better when the leader gets better, everybody gets better. Everybody benefits from us showing up as our best selves. So that's my hope for today, man.
Speaker 1:
So this is Coach Steve and, like I say, this is the Redmond Success Group podcast and this is also the Cornerstone Athletics podcast. They did a joint one today just because I think this message is critical for everybody in your health and wellness journey. In the world of sports, how are we showing up what's tangible, what's visible to the people around us? All right, we all have this energy and ability to impact our environment. How are you impacting yours? So I'm going to think about so. I appreciate your time. I hope you have a blessed day. We'll talk soon.