Discover Your True Course
J. Michael Godfrey, DMin, PhD, PCC
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Supporting individuals and organizations on their quest to be more, see more, and achieve more.
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Mar 2, 2023
Episode 119: Doing What's Best. Why Don't You.
When you're confident it's the right thing to do, what keeps you from doing it? Your answer will give you an unsettling gut check about your risk for the future.
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Feb 1, 2023
Episode 118: Deeper Longing
Do you end your days feeling, "There must be more?" This signals a deeper longing, which you may be unaware of, but you need an answer for it now. Here ís the direction to your answer.
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Dec 29, 2022
Episode 117: Zoom Out
Zoom Out! Manage your crazy busy, overwhelmed days and frequently muddled priorities with a fresh big-picture focus at the start of this year. Here's how to get started.
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Nov 30, 2022
Episode 116: Are you in a whirlwind of busyness and stress?
Here's what you must do to manage the whirlwind of busy-ness and stress and make it count for the future.
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Oct 27, 2022
Episode 115: Stop Losing to Poor Communication
Stop losing to poor communication. Learn 10 ways to improve communication in your workplace and save your organization money.
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Sep 23, 2022
Episode 114: What You Value Most Decides Your Everyday Thoughts and Actions
What You Value Decides where you invest your mental and physical energy. Are you sure you are investing in the most important?
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Sep 1, 2022
Episode 113: How to Create Psychological Safety
Fear will freeze the growth of relationships and effectiveness in your family or work group. Here's how to create the psychological safety your group needs starting now.
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Jul 29, 2022
Episode 112: Wake-up Call - Your Brain Will Make Mistakes
Wake-up call! Your Brain will regularly make mistakes, cause conflict, and make you miserable if you don't pay attention. Here's what to do to manage it.
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Jul 1, 2022
Episode 111: Say Yes Say No
How Often Do You Cave In and Say "Yes" When You Really Want To Give a Strong Determined "No?" This episode provides the tips for action in understanding the stories behind your "yes" or your "no" and how to give the answer you really want to give.
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Jun 6, 2022
Episode 110: Failing to Deconstruct is a Risk
Deconstruction for learning is a common experience. Why it's important and good, how it helps, how you can benefit from deconstructing.
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Apr 28, 2022
Episode 109: My Valuable Experience with My Coach
My valuable experience with my coach and why you'll be amazed and amused that you haven't tapped into the remarkable process and results of True Course coaching yet. Learn how much coaching can mean to your life.
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Mar 30, 2022
Episode 108: Bad News Overwhelm
Learn how Constant haphazard exposure to information can quickly flood the days and weeks of your life with deepening misery and confusion and how you can take charge for a more joyful experience.
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Feb 23, 2022
Episode 107: Why framing the big picture for your life now takes the fear out of decisions about those big life transitions every time
Getting the picture clearly in mind can take some of the fear out of those big life transitions. Here's why.
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Jan 25, 2022
Episode 106: Why you need failure to achieve the success you crave in life
In this episode we consider how our thinking about success and failure is distorted, how that thinking can cripple progress, and what is needed for making failure a learning ally.
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Dec 28, 2021
Episode 105: Are you courageous and strong enough to embrace new ways of thinking?
It takes courage and strength to take a hard look at whether your thinking is true to reality and helpful for living. Do you have it?
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Dec 2, 2021
Episode 104: Warning: People Seeking Fulfillment from One Source Will More Likely Find Disappointment
I find that some rely on their job to provide more fulfillment than it ever can. They may over-rely on other occupations, activities, or relationships in the same way. Learn how to diversify to find the fulfillment you want.
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Nov 2, 2021
Episode 103: Little Powerful Steps that Can Lead to an Amazing Finish
You may want to get the job done all in one sitting but an incremental approach will result in better long term, higher quality results.
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Oct 1, 2021
Episode 102: The One Thing You Must Do to Thrive
In this episode I tell you about the one absolute essential thing you must do to thrive as an adult.
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Sep 20, 2021
Episode 101: A Story I Experience Time and Again
How to escape uncertainty and thrive beyond your current success.
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Sep 3, 2021
Episode 100: Staying Irresistibly Relevant - The One Key
If you want to continue your contribution and influence in your relationships and the world, if you want to "stay relevant," here is the key.
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Aug 18, 2021
Episode 99: How to Disagree and Argue Well
Most avoid argument and disagreement and do it poorly when it's required. Here are some tips that can help you be healthy and nurture others when you must disagree or argue.
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Aug 2, 2021
Episode 98: When is a Difference an Offense?
When is a difference an offense? Who decides? How does one manage differences?
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Jul 14, 2021
Episode 97: Want Your Team to Conquer Its Next Big Challenge?
In this episode I describe the critical importance of growing emotional intelligence in ensuring organizations successfully navigate big challenges. I explore the need, define emotional intelligence, and give practical points of implementation.
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Jul 3, 2021
Episode 96: What's Your Story
Did you know that every person on the planet has a special story they’ve created for making sense of life?
You need a story as a guide to understanding the world and living in it. Your conscious thoughts and actions as well as your unconscious decisions and actions are controlled by your story. Every person’s story is a little different from another’s because of different life experiences.
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Jun 28, 2021
Episode 95: Channeling and Self Management for Communication
Building the Life You've Always Wanted
Here's a review of how to manage communication variables, a brief look at channels and eight tips for greater success with your communication.
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Jun 22, 2021
Episode 94: Creating the Environment for Communication
Building the Life You've Always Wanted
Environment, physical and psychological, powerfully expands or restricts your ability to send your message and receive those of others. Be sure you create an environment that gets the job done and nurtures others.
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Jun 14, 2021
Episode 93: The Language You Speak
Building the Life You've Always Wanted
This episode explores how verbal and non-verbal language can get confusing in communication. It also offers tips for managing this often overlooked variable.
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Jun 8, 2021
Episode 92: Just Because You're Talking
Building the Life You've Always Wanted
Just because you're talking doesn't mean you're communicating. To achieve the life you've always wanted, build on your foundations with skillful, effective communication. This episode explores the affect of sender and receiver differences on communication.
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May 26, 2021
Episode 91: Should You Get a Coach
In this episode, I challenge you to act now to make personal and professional development a priority. I outline the benefits of True Course coaching and mentoring as methods for growth that are available to you now.
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May 24, 2021
Episode 90: Foundations Affect Everything
Building the Life You've Always Wanted
This episode reviews the foundational elements of vocation, purpose, values, mission, and vision from a broader worldview. It describes the effects of the foundations on decision-making, and offers reflections that help to clarify values.
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May 17, 2021
Episode 89: How to Discover Your Foundations
Building the Life You've Always Wanted
In this episode we review the foundations you need and point the way to discovering them for yourself.
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May 10, 2021
Episode 88: Your Unique Purpose, Mission, Vision, and Values
Building the Life You've Always Wanted
This episode highlights the importance of capitalizing on your unique strengths, interests, talents, experience, and personality when establishing your mission and vision.
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May 3, 2021
Episode 87: Its Dangerous to Ignore Emotional Culture in Your Organization
Its Dangerous to Ignore Emotional Culture in Your Organization
In this episode I offer an invitation to a free experiential webinar on Emotional Culture in organizations, how to assess it, train it, and manage it.
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Apr 26, 2021
Episode 86: Purpose, Mission, Vision, Values
Building the Life You've Always Wanted
Learn how these foundations for living grow out of vocation while each has special qualities of their own that give a powerful foundation for focus, direction, and decision-making in life.
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Apr 19, 2021
Episode 85: Foundations - This Love is the Mark of the Called
Building the Life You've Always Wanted
This is the consummate mark of those who possess a Christian calling.
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Apr 12, 2021
Episode 84: Foundations - Marks of the Called
Building the Life You've Always Wanted
Explore the identifying marks of those who possess a Christian calling.
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Apr 6, 2021
Episode 83: Your Foundations - Vocation
Building the Life You've Always Wanted
Explore the importance of vocation or calling as the foundation for focus and direction in every aspect of living.
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Mar 31, 2021
Episode 82: Check Your Organization's Emotional Culture
Learn about understanding and managing the emotional culture in your organization and why it's important to do so. For more information, visit https://discoveryourtruecourse.com/emotionalculture
The series on Building the Life You've Always Wanted includes follow-ups to a Bible class of 30-somethings I am teaching currently. These episodes are Bible-based and oriented from a Christian world-view but not preachy and your views are respected.
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Mar 29, 2021
Episode 81: Who Says So - Basis of Authority
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Mar 21, 2021
Episode 80: Less is More
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Mar 16, 2021
Episode 79: How to Increase Your Impact - Focus on Issues
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Mar 9, 2021
Episode 78: How to Increase Your Impact - Emotional Intelligence
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Feb 28, 2021
Episode 77: Put All That Stress to Work for You
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Feb 22, 2021
Episode 76: How to Increase Your Impact - Communicate Well
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Feb 8, 2021
Episode 75: How to Increase Your Impact - Take More Risks
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Feb 1, 2021
Episode 74: Isolation. The Challenge at the Top.
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Jan 25, 2021
Episode 73: How to Increase Your Impact - Watch and Learn
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Jan 18, 2021
Episode 72: How to Increase Your Impact - Think
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Jan 11, 2021
Episode 71: Tips for Living with More Focus and Peace
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Jan 4, 2021
Episode 70: Do this Now for the Best Year Ever
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Dec 30, 2020
Episode 69: Tips for Leading Change in Organizations
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Dec 23, 2020
Episode 68: Change and a Reaction Overlooked
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Dec 15, 2020
Episode 67: Getting the Positive Personal Change You Want
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Nov 30, 2020
Episode 66: Finding Contentment and Joy in Hard Times
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Nov 16, 2020
Episode 65: Time Management Won't Work . . . Instead
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Nov 11, 2020
Episode 64: It's Prime Time for Stress
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Nov 2, 2020
Episode 63: What Keeps You from Thanks Giving
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Oct 27, 2020
Episode 62: These Torpedo Problem-Solving Part 8 Conformity
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Oct 19, 2020
Episode 61: These Torpedo Problem-Solving Part 7 Attribution
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Oct 12, 2020
Episode 60: These Torpedo Problem-Solving Part 6 Framing and Fallacy
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Oct 5, 2020
Episode 59: These Torpedo Problem-Solving Part 5 Egocentric Bias
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Sep 28, 2020
Episode 58: These Torpedo Problem-Solving Part 4
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Sep 21, 2020
Episode 57: These Torpedo Problem-Solving Part 3
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Sep 14, 2020
Episode 56: These Torpedo Problem-Solving Part 2
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Sep 7, 2020
Episode 55: These Torpedo Problem-Solving
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Aug 31, 2020
Episode 54: Are you Making the Difference You Want?
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Aug 26, 2020
Episode 53: Masterful Problem Solving in a Crisis_Finding the Way Forward
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Aug 14, 2020
Episode 52: Masterful Problem Solving in a Crisis
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Aug 3, 2020
Episode 51: Making Decisions You Won't Regret
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Jul 22, 2020
Episode 50: When People Make You Crazy - Part 5
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Jul 13, 2020
Episode 49: When People Make You Crazy - Part 4
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Jul 7, 2020
Episode 48: When People Make You Crazy - Part 3
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Jun 29, 2020
Episode 47: When People Make You Crazy - Part 2
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Jun 22, 2020
Episode 46: When People Make You Crazy - Part 1
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Jun 19, 2020
Episode 45: How to Improve Your Virtual Impression
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Jun 17, 2020
Episode 44: Finding Your Way to the Job You Love
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Jun 11, 2020
Episode 43: Practices that Strengthen Resilience - COVID-19 Part 17
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Jun 8, 2020
Episode 42: Perspectives that Create Resilience - COVID-19 Part 16
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May 13, 2020
Episode 41: Cultivate Perspectives for Resilience - COVID-19 Part 15
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May 7, 2020
Episode 40: Finding the Foundation for Resilience - COVID-19 Part 14
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May 4, 2020
Episode 39: When Life Shakes You Up - COVID-19 Part 13
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Apr 30, 2020
Episode 38: Managing Your Social Life During a Crisis - COVID-19 Part 12
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Apr 28, 2020
Episode 37: Sleep Well During a Crisis - COVID-19 Part 11
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Apr 24, 2020
Episode 36: Managing Emotions During a Crisis - COVID-19 Part 10
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Apr 21, 2020
Episode 35: Managing Your Stress in a Crisis - COVID-19 Part 9
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Apr 18, 2020
Episode 34: How to Care for Yourself Physically in a Crisis - COVID-19 Part 8
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Apr 15, 2020
Episode 33: How to Be Contagious During a Crisis - COVID-19 Part 7
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Apr 12, 2020
Episode 32: Tips for Working from Home - COVID-19 Part 6
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Apr 7, 2020
Episode 31: Purpose Routine Opportunity - COVID-19 Part 5
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Mar 25, 2020
Episode 30: How Change Creates Grief - COVID-19 Part 4
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Mar 23, 2020
Episode 29: Crises and Worry - COVID-19 Part 3
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Mar 21, 2020
Episode 28: How We Make Life Make Sense - COVID-19 Part 2
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Mar 20, 2020
Episode 27: What Your Brain is Up to in Crisis - COVID-19 Part 1
What your brain is doing in the background in response to COVID-19 and what you can do about it.
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Nov 21, 2014
Episode 26: Gratitude Lifestyle: My 21 Day Renewal - 4
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Nov 18, 2014
Episode 25: Gratitude Lifestyle: My 21 Day Renewal - 3
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Nov 12, 2014
Episode 24: Gratitude Lifestyle: My 21 Day Renewal - 2
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Nov 5, 2014
Episode 23: Gratitude Lifestyle: My 21 Day Renewal - 1
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Oct 29, 2014
Episode 22: Delegate. Do the Math
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Oct 26, 2014
Episode 21: Less is More in Your Business
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Oct 18, 2014
Episode 20: Less is More in Your Personal Life
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