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Obvious Choice Podcast Episodes:
*If you only listen to one, make it this one.
Money
1.
The giving paradox: The more you give away, the more you get.
2.”We never really own anything during our brief stay on earth. God just loans the earth to us while we’re here. It was God’s property before you arrived, and God will loan it to someone else after you die. You just get to enjoy it for a while.” – Rick Warren
Health
1.
In the bible, Jesus offers a yoke––a tool to do work. This passage teaches that it’s not about having an easy life. Instead, it’s about earning a life where you go to bed tired, not exhausted.
There’s a paradox with fitness that, while working out is hard, living out of shape is harder. Much of our current culture suggests that we should work to get to a point where we no longer need to work. This isn’t correct.
2.
“We’re not really taught how to recreate constructively. We need to do more than find diversions; we need to restore and expand ourselves. Our idea of relaxing is all too often to plop down in front of a television set and let its pandering idiocy liquefy our brains. Shutting off the thought process is not rejuvenating; the mind is like a car battery––it recharges by running.” – Bill Watterson
Relationships
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Grow love when you have it, so that it’s there when you need it.
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“I love you, too, Grandpa.” For most of his life, Sam had found it difficult to say I love you. It was superior, he believed, to show love to those one loved. But now, it seemed like one of the easiest things in the world Sam could do. Why wouldn’t you tell someone you loved them? Once you loved someone, you repeated it until they were tired of hearing it. You said it until it ceased to have meaning. Why not? Of course, you goddamn did.” – Gabrielle Zevin
A Few Good Quotes from a Great Book
“He needed a regimen. He needed to work. It would give him an identity and a purpose.”
“Missing her was its own peculiar satisfaction. It was proof he belonged somewhere.”
-James Kestrel (from Five Decembers)
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Grass is long again. I used to pay somebody to cut it. “My time’s worth more”, I’d think. Now I realize that the joy is the job. Caring for the home I’m raising my young family in is a wonderful feeling. Anyway, hope you’re good.
-Jon
No promo this week. Have a great day!
Jonathan Goodman
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