014 – Why Community is Essential for Life Calibration, Growth, and Vision Fulfillment

014 – Why Community is Essential for Life Calibration, Growth, and Vision Fulfillment

You really cannot fulfill your vision, your personal growth will be severely stunted, and your life will be out of whack, unless you have and engage in a community. Relationships nurtured in a community are especially vital for spiritual leadership. How do I engage in community? Why is community important to my spirituality, growth, and fulfillment of the visions given me? The Calibrate Life Podcast explores these issues in this episode.

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012 – The Great Adventure: Six Things You Must Do to Step into Your Great Adventure

012 – The Great Adventure: Six Things You Must Do to Step into Your Great Adventure

Life doesn’t always turn out the way we hope it will, but life is a great adventure to be lived out and enjoyed. How do we step into our great adventure? This episode of the Calibrate Life podcast was recorded canal side in Venice, Italy as David and Donna talk about six life calibration decisions necessary for stepping into our great life adventure.

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009 – 4 Ways to Give Yourself a Break: Calibrating Your Emotional Life Through Enjoyment

009 – 4 Ways to Give Yourself a Break: Calibrating Your Emotional Life Through Enjoyment

Emotional calibration is important for leaders. One of the best ways to re-calibrate emotionally is by taking a break and doing something you enjoy. Making a commitment to joyful living means sometimes taking the time to enjoy life. In this episode of Calibrate Life we discuss the emotional health of spiritual leaders and the necessity of just having fun, and doing something you enjoy to refresh yourself.

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006 – Cultivating Right Thinking and Leading Out of a Positive Mindset

006 – Cultivating Right Thinking and Leading Out of a Positive Mindset

We have to have right and positive thinking before we can live, lead, and love the way God intended. In this episode of the Calibrate Life Podcast, David and Donna talk about calibrating our thinking to lift ourselves and to coach and mentor those we love and lead. If you think negatively, you will get negative results, but if you cultivate right thinking, you will realize God-possibilities.

Neither of us subscribe to a “positive thinking” theology, but neither do we anchor in a negative theology. Our thinking has to be positively calibrated before we can pursue a life of joy and live, lead, and love the way God intended. When we embrace reality from a positive perspective, it calibrates us for a powerful life and ministry.

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