Travel broadens your mind and makes you appreciate what you have at home.  Episode Transcription [INTRO] ♫ Trenches by Pop Evil ♫ *Alex* Welcome to Morning Mindset. A daily dose of practical wit and wisdom with a professional educator &amp; trainer, Amazon best selling author, United States Marine, Television and Radio host, Paul G. Markel. Each episode will focus on positive and productive ways to strengthen your mindset, and help you improve your relationships, career goals, and overall well-being. Please welcome your host; Paul G. Markel.  *Professor Paul* Hello and welcome back to Morning Mindset. I am your host Paul Markel and thank you one more time for joining me for this little uh, this short Excursion into positive and productive thinking and today's topic is you cannot appreciate home until you leave it or as my wife likes to say, “How can I miss you if you don't go away.” - I'm kidding, I'm kidding, but seriously travel broadens your mind and makes you appreciate what you have at home, or at least it should. As many of you know, I just spent a couple of weeks on the road traveling all around the United States of America got to see different people different climates different areas urban areas Suburban areas country areas and, I was very glad for the opportunity to do it. - But I also was very glad to return home. Now. When I traveled I encountered some people I actually went back to places where I had lived previously where I had lived as a child where I had lived as a teenager and where I you know, grew up as a young adult, and I encountered some folks that had not moved or left that area their whole lives. - Now they may have traveled, I don't know. I didn't take the time to get their individual life stories. But something I found is that a lot of people will. Stay in remain in the area, which they were born. They went to high school, they graduate from college, they get a job there and that's fine. - You can do anything you want as an American, but I would suggest this if you are a young person, if you're a teenager or a college student or college age, if you're in your 20s, and you haven't left home yet. You've been living in the same house or the same city or the same general area your entire life move away. - Go somewhere, join the Marine Corps, join the Navy, join the Army, join the Airforce. Take a job in another city, force yourself out of your comfortable small pond, and go away. Just do it, you'd be amazed at how different the world looks from outside of your, you know, you're comfortable window outside of your comfortable Pond. - There may be opportunities that are presented to you that you never even thought were possible, because you weren't able to broaden your horizons from your little comfortable Pond. Even if you live in a major metropolitan area, that will still become a comfortable pond. You know, I actually traveled to some large cities. - I've traveled to Chicago and New York City and so on and so forth, and I found that many of the people that I encountered, especially in New York City, were born there, raised there, they're proud to be New Yorkers and they felt that they didn't need to go anywhere, because everything that they possibly needed was right there in New York, in the greater, New York City area. - “Why should I go anywhere everything I need is here shops and stores and restaurants, and you know, employment and everything I need is here. I don't need to go anywhere else”. But you do, you should. Like I mentioned before travel broadens your mind and it makes you appreciate what you have at home. - Now you may spend some time traveling, or you may spend some time abroad, or you may move away and realize that you don't like it there, and that's fine. That's actually, that is actually still a worthwhile experience. If you move away, if you go to another city or another state and you don't like it and you don't fit in and it you don't enjoy it at all. That's still a good...

MM097 - You Can't Appreciate Home Until you Leave

The Road to Hell is paved with good intentions. Intentions, in and of themselves are not bad. However, intentions are not substitutes for actions for work. Beware of allowing others to substitute work or actions for good intentions. If you like the show, please check out our  Official Morning Mindset Merchandise!  Episode Transcription [INTRO] ♫ Trenches by Pop Evil ♫ *Alex* Welcome to Morning Mindset. A daily dose of practical wit and wisdom with a professional educator &amp; trainer, Amazon best selling author, United States Marine, Television, and Radio host, Paul G. Markel. Each episode will focus on positive and productive ways to strengthen your mindset and help you improve your relationships, career goals, and overall well-being. Please welcome your host; Paul G. Markel.  *Professor Paul* Hello, welcome back to Morning Mindset podcast. Yes, I am your host Paul Markel, and if you read this if you read the I'm sorry, if you read it the title of today's episode. You probably filled in the blank yourself. How many times have you heard? Someone say or you said yourself? The road to hell is paved with good intentions or hell is full of good intentions. Now who said that according to the internet it was st. Bernard of Clairvaux who said, "Hell is paved with good intentions". - For according to the internet some people believe that John Ray said that cited a proverb in 1670 and said hell is paved with good intentions or you could go back to the Bible or you go to Proverbs or songs or what have you and there is some form or phrasing of that essentially saying that the road to hell or the way to hell or the path. The hill is good intentions. Let's talk about intentions today intentions in and of themselves are not necessarily bad, you know, we come up with an idea or we realize that there's a problem, there's an issue in our lives or something that needs to be fixed or changed or repaired. - Or maybe there's a better way of doing something and so we think about that. We realize that we say I'm going to make a change we say to ourselves our spouses our bosses or family members. What have you let's make a change. Let's do something different or better or what have you we have the intention of doing them and we may even go into great detail about what our intentions are. Intentions are not acts, are they? Our intentions-, excuse me, sip my coffee - Intentions are not actions, intentions are only words or what's the most popular thing in our culture today feelings and intentions are basically feelings. Well, I feel that this is wrong or I feel that this needs to change or I feel that there's a better way of doing X Y or Z. Okay, great, you feel that way. So what see intentions cost nothing? Intentions are easy intentions are cheap intentions are words and words are cheap. Anyone can say, oh that's a problem, and we really should do something about it. - Okay, and what well and that's when the rubber hits the road intentions without works. Meaningless intentions without actions are meaningless, you know, if you told your child, let's say you have a child who is in junior high or high school age or what have you and and you're going to work or you're going out or what having you say. Hey before I get back home. I need you to take out the trash and do the dishes or I need you to do whatever you assign your child a task. He said it's not a, you know, most times really not hard but you assign them a task and then you leave expecting that the task will be completed. - But you come home and you find out you come downstairs you go downstairs and your kid is in front of the video game the Fortnight or the Xbox or the whatever it is, right and you're like hey. Did you did you get that done? You get the trash out? Did you get blank blank? Oh, no, I was going to I was as soon as I finish this game, I was going to do it that now if your child says to you as soon as my plan was my intention was as soon as I get finished with this game....

MM228 - The Road to Hell

How do you rebuild burned bridges or repair fractured relationships? Can you be the one who helps others to rebuild their strained or broken relationships? Remember, anger is not a sin, but it is also not a strategy. There is time to consider whether or not a relationship is salvageable or whether or not the bridge is best left burned. Ask yourself if the relationship was mutually beneficial to both parties or just to one? Was the respect reciprocal or largely one-sided. Were you doing all of the work in the relationship? (Original Publish Date: 01/30/18 | Original Episode #: 012)  Episode Transcription [INTRO] ♫ Trenches by Pop Evil ♫ *Alex* Welcome to Morning Mindset. A daily dose of practical wit and wisdom with a professional educator &amp; trainer, Amazon best selling author, United States Marine, Television and Radio host, Paul G. Markel. Each episode will focus on positive and productive ways to strengthen your mindset, and help you improve your relationships, career goals, and overall well-being. Please welcome your host; Paul G. Markel.  *Professor Paul* Hey, welcome to Morning Mindset. This is your host Paul Markel, of course you know that because you heard the intro, and I truly appreciate you joining me today for this show. Aaaaaaggghhh, so today’s topic. This may, hmmm… I don’t know if it’s gonna hurt your feelings, but it may bring up hurtful feelings, or feelings on anxiety, or what have you, but we are going to talk about Rebuilding Bridges, and that is repairing strained or fractured relationships. - Now you may be thinking that I’m talking about men &amp; women, husbands &amp; wives, boyfriends &amp; girlfriends and so forth, but it could be any kind of a relationship quite frankly. It could be a friendship, it could be a previously romantic relationship, it could be a relationship between you and a family member. Such as aunts and uncles and cousins and so forth, maybe your mother or father, maybe your kids. But it could be a business relationship. Business relationships often become strained and fractured, and sometimes the bridges get burned. *Stammer* If you’re going to be a mature adult, if you’re going to grow as a human being, every once and a while you need to take the time to consider, whether or not it is time to try and rebuild a bridge, or whether it is time to repair a fractured relationship. - Alright, I have a personal story for you, and it’s a business story. I’ve had, I’ve been writing professionally for over 25 years now, and I have a lot of personal contacts in my field on the endeavor, which is the outdoor shooting sports, law enforcement, military community. When I started writing and became a very active writer, I had many relationships with manufacturers and people who, people who made products for well, like-minded individuals. Like I said, the outdoor shooting sports, law enforcement, military type world, and what I found is that as my career grew, and then changed, my business relationships would change. - For instance, when I was writing very actively for outdoor shooting sports magazines, at some point I was having between 40 &amp; 50 articles per year published, so I was generating, what we called in the industry “A Lot of Ink”. When I started generating a lot of ink, I had people who would call me up, or they’d send me emails, or send me notes, or they’d see me at shows and they’d be like “Oh hey Paul, did you know that we’re working on This, or would you be interested in talk, or writing about-” specifically writing about this, taking pictures of this, because when I started writing I also became my own photographer, and took thousands upon thousands of pictures and so forth. - Well things changed a little bit and I went off on my own, and developed my own television channel and my own radio show and… so I was no longer working for the regular publishing houses. What I found was, some of the people who wanted to be my best friend or...

MM229 - [Best Of] Rebuilding Bridges- Repairing Strained or Fractured Relationships

Keeping with the Fighting Solves Everything theme, another method of fighting is to avoid the victim mentality. When we encounter problems and setbacks, it is a natural human reaction to feel like a victim. Nonetheless, allowing yourself to feel like a victim or embrace the victim mentality does you no good.&nbsp; During this episode, Paul will discuss ways to avoid falling into the victim mentality trap. He shares with you all a few strategies that he employed to avoid feeling like and appearing to others to be a victim. If you like the show, please check out our !

MM231 - Avoiding the Victim Mentality

During this trying time in our nation’s history, it is extremely important for your mental health and well-being to deliberately and purposefully focus on your own mental maintenance. Paul will offer some advice to avoid the constant barrage of bad news.&nbsp; What is Paul doing to focus on his own mental fitness? He relates several methods that he employs to step away from the bad news and focus his energy in positive ways.&nbsp; If you like the show, please check out our !  A daily dose of practical wit and wisdom with a professional educator &amp; trainer, Amazon best selling author, United States Marine, Television, and Radio host, Paul G. Markel.

MM232 - Mental Maintenance

One of the most difficult things for proud men to do is accept that they need help. Paul discusses how he accepted assistance or help from others. Sometimes you simply need to close your mouth, be quiet, and let other people help you. If you like the show, please check out our !  A daily dose of practical wit and wisdom with a professional educator &amp; trainer, Amazon best selling author, United States Marine, Television, and Radio host, Paul G. Markel.

MM233 - Shut Up and Let People Help

After a year away from the Morning Mindset microphone, Paul is back. During this segment, he tells about his journey and battle against an enemy he never expected to encounter. It’s a new year and a new studio and this nation could use some positive and productive talk. If you like the show, please check out our !  Welcome to Morning Mindset. A daily dose of practical wit and wisdom with a professional educator &amp; trainer, Amazon best selling author, United States Marine, Television, and Radio host, Paul G. Markel. Each episode will focus on positive and productive ways to strengthen your mindset and help you improve your relationships, career goals, and overall well-being.

MM230 - Fighting Solves Everything

The Adam “Edge” Copeland story on WWE network. Adam Copeland's story is both motivational and inspirational. Adam Copeland came back from a career-ending neck injury. How can you find inspiration from this story and what do you do with that inspiration? If you like the show, please check out our !  A daily dose of practical wit and wisdom with a professional educator &amp; trainer, Amazon best selling author, United States Marine, Television, and Radio host, Paul G. Markel.

MM234 - Finding Inspiration: The Edge Story

What are you doing with the time you have? Time is constant and it has a tendency to slip away from us if we don’t pay attention. It is time to take inventory of your time management schedule. Are you making the most of the available time? If you like the show, please check out our !  A daily dose of practical wit and wisdom with a professional educator &amp; trainer, Amazon best selling author, United States Marine, Television, and Radio host, Paul G. Markel.

MM235 - Time Management

Personal responsibility and preparation take time and effort. Paul talks about what it takes to be a prepared person. Also, he considers that as many decisions are made through inaction as are made through deliberation. If you like the show, please check out our !  A daily dose of practical wit and wisdom with a professional educator &amp; trainer, Amazon best selling author, United States Marine, Television, and Radio host, Paul G. Markel.

MM236 - Prepared People Don't Panic

Recently, Paul was up in the rocks and was reminded of some advice that used to be very common from parents and teachers; watch your step. What does that mean to us as adults in our modern age? If you like the show, please check out our !  A daily dose of practical wit and wisdom with a professional educator &amp; trainer, Amazon best selling author, United States Marine, Television, and Radio host, Paul G. Markel.

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