The Kevin Miller Podcast

Do you see it coming?! In this show I harken back to show 643 with Carey Nieuwhof where we discussed his message, “Didn’t See It Coming”, Overcoming the 7 Greatest Challenges That No One Expects and Everyone Experiences. We got a lot of great feedback on that show, and realized that half the battle, or more, is simply becoming aware! Thus the title of his message, “Didn’t see it coming.” So I wanted to hear from you, your real life stories. So I asked this question on Facebook:From the list below, which area, that everyone experiences to a degree, do you feel is most challenging for you, and why?And this is the list of the 7 greatest challenges from Carey’s book:CynicismCompromiseDisconnectionIrrelevancePride and NarcissismEmptinessBurnoutThe responses were incredibly candid, and while diverse...overlapping. Michelle Prince joined me to talk through as many of the comments as we could. We were touched and inspired. Abby Connect provides you with a team of U.S. based, professional, courteous receptionists that give your clients the best experience each and every time they call your business. 8-3-3-ABBY-WOW and mention our podcast OR go to abbyconnect.com/ziglar Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Do you want to be happy, joyful, at peace? I can’t imagine anyone would say no. But as a human we generally look to our circumstances to provide these things. Something else is being...resilient...meaning ‘able to withstand or recover quickly from difficult conditions’? So in this show we get to what I’m tempted to label a root issue of our personal performance, but that doesn’t feel like it does us justice. It’s Our very selves, our joy, our peace, our very lives. Rick Hanson is a psychologist whose focus is neuroscience. He wrote the book “Hardwiring Happiness” that my business partner who is an MD, said I MUST read. I went to buy the book and saw he had a new book, “Resilient” - How To Grow An Unshakable Core Of Calm, Strength, and HappinessNow folks, this isn’t about merely “feeling good”. You can get a temporary feel good from many things, as i mentioned before...circumstances. But We’re talking the foundation of ourselves. Being Calm in any situation, strong overall, and having true, enduring happiness. Those are not easy things to attain, and few truly have. All you strive for, every day, is for an ultimate goal. What is it? To be miserable, or happy and joyful? To be stressed out and worried, or at peace? So this is not theory, it comes from Rick’s research. It is an eye-opening, profound conversation. Quick background on Rick Hanson, he’s a Ph.D., a psychologist, Senior Fellow of the Greater Good Science Center at UC Berkeley, and New York Times best-selling author. His books are available in 28 languages and include Resilient, Hardwiring Happiness, Buddha’s Brain, Just One Thing, and Mother Nurture.He’s founder of the Wellspring Institute for Neuroscience and Contemplative Wisdom. In 2016 he gave a keynote address at the annual meeting of the American Psychological Association.You can find Rick’s books at.rickhanson.net/ , but if you are as intrigued by what you hear as I believe you will be, I encourage you to go to thefoundationsofwellbeing.com/ where you can literally engage with Rick’s methodology and neuroscience. Thefoundationsofwellbeing.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We all have lots and lots of knowledge. As a Ziglar Show listener, chances are almost every day you take in new knowledge, in the form of a book, podcast or video. New knowledge inspires us, which is incredibly valuable. But at some point we need to take action in our lives if we want to make any positive progress. In this show we hear a message from Zig Ziglar on Gaining Knowledge, Training Accordingly, Experiencing Growth and Realizing Change. From his message I asked this question to our audience, “What is a recent experience you have had with taking knowledge, and making actual change as a result?” Great comments that Tom Ziglar and I talked through and I believe you will relate to on many levels. This show is brought to you by Abby Connect - At a fraction of the cost of hiring an in-house assistant, Abby Connect provides you with a team of U.S. based, professional, courteous receptionists that give your clients the best experience each and every time they call your business. 8-3-3-ABBY-WOW and mention our podcast OR go to abbyconnect.com/ziglar Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Did you know NOT having hobbies or friendships is often a sign of burnout, or that you are heading that way? This is our Habits show where we walk through the seven spokes on the Ziglar Wheel of Life, and today we are back with Carey Nieuwhof. Our main show with Carey was number 643 where we talked through the message in his book  “Didn’t See It Coming”, Overcoming the 7 Greatest Challenges That No One Expects and Everyone Experiences. Carey is a speaker, podcaster and pastor of one of the largest and most influential churches in Canada. You can connect with Carey at didntseeitcomingbook.com. And of course get the book there or wherever you buy books. Carey’s podcast is The Carey Nieuwhof Leadership Podcast: Lead Like Never Before. In this show Carey shares about his love of cycling, BBQs with friends, how he can so easily get discouraged and what he does to fend it off and his focus on this quote, ““By the overflow of the heart the mouth speaks”.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Got pain? Had abuse? Endured some hardships? In this show, I wanted to visit one more time, our crucibles. In show 639 we talked with Dr James Kelley about harnessing our crucible or trials in essence for gain, instead of handicap. Using our adversity as a strength, not a weakness. I wanted to hear from our listeners, real issues. So I posted this question on Facebook: “Because I experienced and endured ___________, I am now able to _____________, that I otherwise would not be so capable of.” The responses were...deep. I had Michelle Prince join me and we struggled a couple times to keep our composure as we read testimonies about people’s adversities. What really became the focus was whether someone becomes bitter as a result of their adversity...or is able to redeem it. And we covered adversity and crucibles, from hard work environments to death and abuse. This I believe is a profound show for all of us. This show is brought to you by Abby Connect - At a fraction of the cost of hiring an in-house assistant, Abby Connect provides you with a team of U.S. based, professional, courteous receptionists that give your clients the best experience each and every time they call your business. 8-3-3-ABBY-WOW and mention our podcast OR go to abbyconnect.com/ziglar Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Don’t get caught by surprise! My biz partner, a medical doctor, says the most dangerous thing is...we don’t know what we don’t know. I find this to be true. It’s what we are blind to that most often takes us down. In this show we bring you a message titled, “Didn’t See It Coming”, Overcoming the 7 Greatest Challenges That No One Expects and Everyone Experiences. It comes from a book by the same title, authored by my guest Carey Nieuwhof a speaker, podcaster and pastor of one of the largest and most influential churches in Canada. So right off you’re wondering what those 7 challenges are? Here you go:CynicismCompromiseDisconnectionIrrelevancePride and NarcissismEmptinessBurnout Of course I get Carey’s personal story that brought him to this message and what he does today, but we get into these challenges, plus 11 warning signs that we are falling into these issues/ Folks, I was really intrigued by the message and our discussion. Nobody sets out to become any of those things, they happen over time, like gaining weight. Carey does a masterful job of opening our eyes with a breakdown of needed Self awareness, a Burnout quiz and just guidance on an overall Personal audit to clarify where we are and where we need to shore ourselves up. It’s a significant discussion. You can connect with Carey at didntseeitcomingbook.com. And of course get the book there or wherever you buy books. Carey’s podcast is The Carey Nieuwhof Leadership Podcast: Lead Like Never Before. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Daunting and empowering, to realize your reality is in your control. In this show we hear a message from Zig Ziglar about our ability to choose. To choose how we’ll make our day, our life...better or worse. We can’t control everything, but we can control what is most important...ourselves. Our actions and responses and perspectives. It’s powerful medicine and it radically affects our circumstances and reality. From the message and with the New Year in mind, I asked listeners this question,  “What is a new decision that will make your life better...you are (or considering) making for the New Year?” We got a near record number of responses. Tom Ziglar joined me and we talked through a number of them. So, so inspiring.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Dr. James Kelley’s Habits! In  show 339 we talked with Dr James Kelley, author of The Crucible’s Gift, about how our personal crucibles can and should be what empower us...and how this holds true for nearly all the leaders and influences and achievers of our time. This is our Habits show and here we walk with Dr Kelley through the 7 spokes of the Ziglar Wheel of Life. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Could a brief testimony radically change your perspective of yourself?? We hear a message from Zig Ziglar on how our paradigm might shift if we got a...special call...to begin our day. A call from someone we respected that testified to our value and worth. From the message I posted this question, "If 1) God undeniably appeared to you and simply informed you...you were currently functioning at about 1/4 the capacity and ability He had placed within you, then 2) you took an IQ test and it scored you beyond genius level, and then 3) three different people you highly respected asked you to join a high level mastermind with them (at no cost, they just wanted you to be involved with them...would you feel any different about yourself? How?" So many different responses we got, not all what you would expect. Tom Ziglar joined me to talk through the comments.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

What is your crucible? The definition of a crucible is this - “a situation of severe trial, or in which different elements interact, leading to the creation of something new.” But think of it as...the things that have happened in your life that have shaped you...for better and worse. Wouldn’t you like to take all the things in your life and have them support and propel you instead of handicap and weight you down? Dr. James Kelley is my guest, he’s the author of “The Crucible’s Gift” and host of the podcast, “Executives After Hours”. It’s ultimately talking about many, many people who rose from adversity...in spite of or maybe because of, the crucibles in their lives. It’s a life altering topic folks. So many of the big movies today focus on people with superpowers. Regular people who had a mishap that gave them a superpower. They were bitten by a spider or electrocuted or fell in a vat of chemicals. In the movies, they get some cool superpower. In real life when bad things happen to us like that, we just expect we’ll just...die. Or be critically handicapped. But this concept is so, very real. Tragedy or at least hardship and disappointment is going to happen to everyone! From childhood on. How you deal with it is...everything. So will the crucible in your life make or break you? Help or handicap you? Overcome you or will you overcome it? And you may need to look into your past and consider what crucibles in your past have done to you. How do you perceive them? What is the story you tell about them? Were you equipped and empowered, or just...hurt? We also get into the crippling effect of blame.  It gets to the root of our very real...handicaps or strengths. And it may not be black and white for you. Maybe things happened that gave you some strengths, AND weaknesses. We’ll flesh it out with Dr Kelley. Hey, Dr Kelley agreed to give Ziglar listeners the first chapter in his book for free. Get it and connect with him at https://www.drjameskelley.com/ziglarshow Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices