Episodes
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151- Grieving the Death of “Normal”
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150 – The Power of Saying “Yes” to Adversity
Embracing adversity, being willing to say “yes” to the tough stuff gives us new lenses to see things differently, it exercises atrophied muscles needed for new adventures and callings, and it deconstructs our inferior plans to make way for God’s excellent plans. In this episode we talk about…
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149 – Reflections on Living, Leading, and Loving at 60
On David’s 60th birthday, his journal entry included 7 things he will do in the next 20 years based upon lessons learned in the previous 20. In this episode David and Donna talk about reflections on joyfully living, leading, and loving. Turning 60 this week caused me to look back and to look...
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148 – Leading in Crisis: Eight Actions of a Leader in Times of Crisis
Those we lead have the opportunity to see who we really are when we lead them in and through a crisis. Our heart, our character, our resolve, our faith, our love, and our motivations are all revealed. In episode 148 of The Calibrate Life Podcast, we discuss 8 things for a leader to keep in focus...
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147 – Leading in Crisis: Spirit-Empowered Leadership
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146 – Overcoming Shiny-Object Syndrome
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145 – Putting the Margin Back into Our Lives
Margin is the blank spaces on a document that defines its borders and makes it readable and functional. We need margin in our lives. It is the spaces, the blanks, that make everything else work. REST, health, well-being, effectiveness and many other things are elusive if we don’t mind the blank...
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144 – 2020 The Pursuit of REST
We’ve declared our 2020 to be the year of learning to REST again. The “gold” of our lives comes from the ability to rest in the Presence of God, learning to zone down, learning to listen. In this episode we talk about our renewed commitment to really learn to rest, to have abiding peace in […]…
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143 – Sacrifice: How Do You Know When it’s Not Enough?
How do you know when you aren’t sacrificing enough? In last week’s episode we discussed how to know when we are sacrificing too much out of the wrong motivation, and this week we look at the other side of the coin. Last week we talked about how we know when a sacrifice is TOO great. […] The post...
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142 – Sacrifice
Life is simply full of sacrifices. As a matter of normal course, we often give up something we care about or love to gain something we care about or love more. Sacrifice embraces change and transition as we let go of important things to gain more important things. Sacrifice: How Do You Know When…
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141 – You Really Can See Your Vision Turn into Reality!
Your actions, habits, and practices accomplish the things in your heart. Spiritually minded people are good at experiencing God, but often, not so good at obeying God. Obedience always translates into actions, and if you have a dream or an intention that just never gets translated into reality,...
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140 – Reckless
Today’s topic is a little controversial, even to me, but we think it is on target. It’s foolish to do something negotiable without counting the cost. It is foolish to NOT do something non-negotiable whether you have counted the cost or not. This is recklessness. I have decided, I need to live…
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139 – Bandwidth
Bandwidth refers to the amount of data that can be transmitted in a fixed amount of time. It has also come to be used as a term referring to the mental, physical, emotional, intellectual, and even spiritual capacity required to deal with a situation. In this episode of Calibrate Life we discuss…
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138 – How to Recharge, Re-fire, and Replenish When You Are Drained
We can feel drained, rested, or energized in each of our four capacities: physical, emotional, intellectual or spiritual. In this episode we discuss how to refresh, re-fire, and replenish those four capacities and how to stay full of life and energy. This is a podcast, so there is more content in...
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137 – Joy is About Contentment “Right Now”
Living joyfully is about finding contentment right now. Can we just decide to WANT to be where we are right now? Can we just decide to cherish the uniqueness of this day and this moment? Can we slow down enough to touch, to taste, to really see, to listen, to feel things I may never […] The post...
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136 – How to Love Doing the Stuff You Don’t Love
I heard someone say the other day, “you have to love what you do if you want to be good at it.” Living out our great God-adventure often involves doing things we’d rather not do. So, how to come to embrace and even love doing things we don’t like so much, and to even […] The post 136 – How to…
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135 – Standing in Spiritual Warfare
Spiritual warfare is a real. Often, life’s obstacles come from our stupid choices or uninformed decisions, but if you are attempting obedience, if you are attempting to follow a bold God-path, if you yield yourself to be a part of the solution to some of the problems of this world — you are going...
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134 – Hiraeth: Homesick For Something That No Longer Exists
Hireath is an old Welsh word describing a feeling of homesickness for something that no longer exists. In the grief journey, in major life transitions, and in almost every pursuit of the great adventure, this is a feeling with which we must grapple. Hiraeth: Homesick For Something That No Longer...
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133 – Orchestrating Life-Giving Relationships
For a relationship to be nurturing, life-giving, and active, it has to bring some value to all of the participants. The most valuable value is love, friendship, and mutual companionship. But, particularly of those of you who orchestrate relationships, in this episode we are going to the…
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132 – Persistence is the Prerequisite to Victory
Persistence is necessary to the fulfillment of any mission. Talent, genius, education, and even spirituality is not enough in and of itself to be successful in your mission, the prize goes to the persistent. In this episode we talk about the necessity and the power of persistence. Persistence is...
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131 – Six Things You Must Be Willing to Do Before You Can Embrace YOUR Great Adventure
Having let go of a lot of significant things about our former life, and having made an ongoing decision to step into a new life, new adventures, and new focus, we’ve found these 6 things to be true and necessary for taking risks and going in unproven new life directions. Continue Reading for the...
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130 – How Do You Know if An Open Door is the Right Door?
How do you know when an open door is the right door? Sometimes we have to wait so long and opportunities are so hard to come by that when we have an opportunity we feel we should seize it. In this episode we are discussing doors, when to walk through them and when to walk […] The post 130 – How…
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129 – Mission drift will take you places you don’t want to go, and how to avoid it
Mission drift is when you unintentionally broaden your focus and start moving toward things you you never intended to pursue, your life travels the path of least resistance, and you end up where you never planned or wanted to go. In this episode we explore mission drift and talk about a few ways…
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128 – Why it is Important to Model the Way
Spiritual leaders model the way. We model expectations and the pace for those we love and lead. In this episode we discuss 5 things we must model to those we love and lead. Continue to read the article/episode notes… Why it is Important to Model the Way: and 5 Ways to Model Many know the […] The...
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127 – Being and Becoming a Transformational Servant Leader
Spiritual leadership is about being and becoming a transformational servant leader, following the example of Christ. Leadership isn’t just about leading, it is about serving and encouraging positive change and spiritual empowerment in the live of those we love and lead. Continue to read the...
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126 – Ten Pointers for Dealing with Criticism
If our focus is trying to avoid dealing with criticism we will miss the mark and fail accomplish much of significance. We are going to get criticized often. In this episode we give 10 our our pointers for dealing with criticism. Continue to read the episode notes/article… Ten Pointers for Dealing...
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125 – Rising Above the 4 Types of Criticism
In leadership, sometimes we are givers of healthy criticism, sometimes we are recipients of healthy and sometimes unhealthy criticism. Dealing with and working through critical points is a component of conflict management and leading a healthy team. In the next two episodes we will discuss how to...
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124 – Recovering From Our Mistakes
I’ve made a lot of mistakes in every area of my life, but it’s not whether or not you make mistakes, because you will, its how you handle them and recover from them. In this episode we talk about a few of the mistakes we’ve made as leaders, and what we learned from them. Continue […] The post 124…
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123 – Seven Practical Journaling Pointers
Journaling is a spiritual discipline and a very important part of a leader’s calibration. In this episode of Calibrate Life we discuss some practical pointers for journaling and a journal template. Continue Reading for the article and episode notes… Seven Practical Journaling Pointers Journaling…
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122 – Running at a Good and Healthy Pace for a Long Distance
Setting and maintaining the right pace is critical to your spiritual, emotional, intellectual, and physical health. In this episode we discuss running at a healthy pace. Look around. Re-set your pace. Look at the distance. Look at the season. Take a moment to consider the strategy of your pace....
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121 – Lessons From the Great Adventure: It’s Mostly About YOUR Transformation
The lesson and the miracle of your great adventure is the transformation God works in YOU on the journey. I’m not even sure the most important thing is getting to the top of the mountain. I think the most important thing is experiencing God’s love and learning to accept and embrace his love and...
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120 – Lessons From the Great Adventure: The “Push” Solidifies Your Resolve
When you get to a tough place you have to push, but the push is important because it builds a necessary resolve within you. “Pushing” through the hard places solidifies your resolve to fulfill your mission. In this episode of the podcast we discuss one of the greatest lessons we’ve learned on our...
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119 – The Great Adventure: It Will Seem Impossible!
Great Adventures involve the impossible — otherwise it wouldn’t be a great adventure. Trusting God for the impossible stretches us to new levels and intensifies our trust in God. We cannot let the things that seem impossible to us keep us from trusting God in our disciplined pursuit of his...
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118 – The Great Adventure: You Will Have a Learning Curve
Every great adventure has a huge learning curve. Be ready to take it on, don’t be intimidated by it, because it’s only going to make you grow and make you better. In this episode of Calibrate Life, we discuss lessons we are learning on our great life adventure. Continue reading for the article…
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117 – Three Vital Relationships Every Leader Must Have: Someone You are Lifting
Every spiritual leader is responsible to develop the Timothies in their lives. Spiritual leaders have an obligation to lift those they love and lead. The very definition of “Spiritual Leadership” implies the function of helping people discover God’s purpose and calling upon their lives. In…
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116 – Three Vital Relationships Every Leader Must Have: A Friend to Walk With You
Every healthy and growing spiritual leader needs three specific types of relationships in their lives. We need a “Paul” who will mentor us, a “Barnabas” who will encourage and challenge us, and a “Timothy” into whom we are investing as a mentor or spiritual leader. In last week’s episode 115 we...
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115 – Three Vital Relationships Every Leader Must Have: The Mentor
Every leader must have three vital relationships to succeed. We need a “Paul,” someone to mentor us. We need a “Barnabas,” someone to walk with us in honesty as a friend and accountability partner. We must find “Timothies,” those in whom we invest as a mentor and a leader. In this episode we...
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114 – Who Are Your People?
We have to find our people, our tribe, because the mission to which God has called us requires a team. For us it is about the people with whom we will partner in a big way or a small way to accomplish the mission God has given us together. continue for the article / episode […] The post 114 – Who...
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113 – Learning the Unforced Rhythms of Grace
You are not the only one who often feels overwhelmed, it goes with the calling to Spiritual Leadership. I’m not sure the overwhelming feeling toward an impossible and undoable task ever goes away, but the rest comes in trusting God to accomplish through us what we could never accomplish without…
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112 – The Vision Funnel: Moving Your Big Picture to Reality
A vision funnel will keep you focused on converting the big picture things in your life, the things important to you because they are things God has called you to do, a vision funnel will help you convert your “big picture” into every day reality. In this episode we give the basics of using a...
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111 – Can’t Get Your Work Done? Routines Increase Effectiveness
Routines increase your effectiveness. We make hundreds of decisions a day, but if you pre-decide the things you do over and over again, you will conserve a lot of energy you could devote to other things, you will not suffer as much from decision fatigue, and you will more efficiently get your…
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110 – Eight Commitments for Raising Spiritually Healthy Kids
Here are eight things we've learned about raising spiritually healthy kids. Being a spiritual leader does not automatically make us better parents, in fact it brings with it challenges that other parents sometimes do not have, but hose challenges are more blessings than they are curses. It is a...
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109 – Pushing Through the Pain to Realize the Promise
Life and leadership is a cycle of embracing a passion, pushing through the pain of reality, and then realizing the promise. There is always tough stuff to press through. How do we keep the joy and enjoy the journey while pushing through the realities that lead to the promise? In this episode, we...
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108 – Seven Healthy Marriage Practices
Here are seven practices for a healthy marriage. Your marriage is your most important relationship and it is a gift from God, and like every other relationship, it requires an investment. In this episode of Calibrate Life, David and Donna discuss the Seven Practices for a Healthy Marriage. The…
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107 – Guarding Our Marriage Circle
Guarding our marriage circle is protecting the relationship between spouses. We see our marriage relationship as a circle, with only the two of us and God present. We try to keep things that don't belong in that circle of relationship outside the circle. This isn’t always easy to do, and we are…
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106 – I Have Decided… All In
Until we have decided what we really do believe and live life "as if" we believe it, we will not make great progress toward our great adventure or the life we really want to live. Sooner or later we have to decide what we believe to be the truth and anchor in it. In this article and episode of...
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105 – Why Passion is Absolutely Essential to Leadership
Passion is essential to our leadership, it is our ignition, it motivates us to press through difficulties to lay hold of the things for which we are passionate. Passion encourages us to press past obstacles and difficulties to achieve the thing important to us, and to God. In this episode of...
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104 – The Importance of Celebrating Wins
Celebrating wins encourages the heart because it emphasizes the reality that we really are moving forward, When life is just one long string of events, those events run together without separators. Celebrating wins emphasizes that we really are going somewhere good, and we actually have a chance…
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103 – Discovering the Unanticipated Consequences of Your Mission
Someday, at the end of your journey, you will look back at the mission you passionately pursued, and you will realize there were a lot of unanticipated consequences. In this episode we discuss some things we are learning about how we all can better position ourselves to live and lead in such a…
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102 – Do New Year’s Resolutions Work and Should You Have One?
Should we have New Year’s resolutions? Do they work? If I trust God to shape and lead my future, do I need a strategic plan? In episode 102 of the Calibrate Podcast, we will discuss the tension between following the Spirit and having a plan. The post 102 – Do New Year’s Resolutions Work and…
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