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JumpStart – I x E = D

https://www.facebook.com/WillBowen/videos/503682550435994/ A few months ago I began doing these JumpStarts live to be a timely voice and support for you during the Covid 19 pandemic. At that time it was early spring and we all figured ...

JumpStart – Your Highlight Reel

https://www.facebook.com/WillBowen/videos/626035298328425/ * The day your children were born * Winning the cooking contest * Getting a standing ovation * Receiving a blue ribbon * Your first date with the love of your life * A business ...

JumpStart – 1st World Problems

https://www.facebook.com/WillBowen/videos/283743312883455/ My buddy and long-time prayer partner Brian once went through his list of weekly challenges so I could say a prayer that encompassed his various struggles.   In closing he smiled, shrugged his shoulders and ...

JumpStart-Who’s it All For?

https://www.facebook.com/WillBowen/videos/2748416545483418/ Who you are today is what you thought, felt, and imagined last week. One of the great teachings of Metaphysics is that life is a movie that we are writing, directing, and starring in all ...

JumpStart – Yield Your Ground

https://www.facebook.com/WillBowen/videos/616096469041410/ Now that I live here, it’s amazing to me how often my fellow Floridians find their way into the national news. Did you catch the video of the non-mask-wearing-former-insurance-agent whose rant in Costco rant became ...

JumpStart – The Wang Lung Myth

https://www.facebook.com/WillBowen/videos/612820036307528/ One of my favorite books is “The Good Earth“ by Pearl Buck. The protagonist is a young Chinese man named Wang Lung Who goes from starvation and rags to wealth and abundance. In Chinese society ...

JumpStart – “Pole”

https://www.facebook.com/WillBowen/videos/737592820399866/ A dozen years ago I led a group of 18 people to help build a children’s hospital in Tanzania. The culture in that country is unlike any I’ve ever seen and I learned so much ...

JumpStart – The Hardest Forgiveness

https://www.facebook.com/WillBowen/videos/301159041079890/ Have you ever done something with the absolute best of intentions and yet had it BLOW UP IN YOUR FACE? I have — a couple of times in just the last few weeks, and it ...

JumpStart – Tithing (?)

https://www.facebook.com/WillBowen/videos/596247577699296/ Synopsis The other day I watched a live video training for professional speakers like me. The final “tip” offered by the instructor was one that I’ve heard and practiced for a long time but not ...

JumpStart – Calm vs. Controlled

https://www.facebook.com/WillBowen/videos/3216813988379377/ I love Lewis Black’s character “Anger” in the Pixar movie “Inside Out.” Anger, depicted as sort of a fuzzy red rectangle wearing a rumpled shirt and a skinny black tie, is always on the verge ...

JumpStart – Sacred Clowns

https://www.facebook.com/WillBowen/videos/742853063156269/ Long-time followers will know that this isn’t my first time on this subject. However, given all that’s transpiring around us, it’s a good idea to remind ourselves of this enduring Native American trickster whose job ...

JumpStart – Schadenfreude

https://www.facebook.com/WillBowen/videos/605502163684287/ “Oh, how good it feels to feel bad… for someone else, that is.” Many think schadenfreude is proof that people are inherently evil, which makes sense — I mean, why would human beings derive pleasure ...

JumpStart – Salutation to the Dawn

https://www.facebook.com/WillBowen/videos/891166234700780/ Nearly 5000 years ago, a Hindu poet named Kalidasa wrote a poem that has touched lives ever since. It’s called “Salutation to the Dawn”…. Look to this day!For it is life, the very life of ...

JumpStart – New Beginnings

https://www.facebook.com/WillBowen/videos/353384228990202/ When I was a kid, my mom gave me a little unfinished statue of a boy and on the base was carved, “Be patient, God isn’t finished with me yet.” To this day, I think ...

JumpStart – The Price of Freedom

https://www.facebook.com/WillBowen/videos/204626067478245/ Bishop Desmond Tutu was said, “Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom” and truer words were never spoken. Once we have something so precious as freedom, it takes each of us keeping watch over her ...

JumpStart – Your New Coach

https://www.facebook.com/WillBowen/videos/596318844595063/ Think of some of the most exciting and inspiring movies of all time. Consider “Rocky,” the first “Star Wars,” and even comedies like “Dodgeball,” and “Tin Cup,”– all have one thing in common… A coach. ...

JumpStart – Gunnysacking

https://www.facebook.com/WillBowen/videos/269893194282678/ Ever had someone just explode their wrath upon you? I remember once having my skin verbally flayed from my body by a coworker who had, up until that point, never spoken to me above a ...

JumpStart – The Courage to Be Happy

https://www.facebook.com/WillBowen/videos/269693277808492/ 19th century author and journalist Holbrook Jackson once wrote, “Happiness is a form of courage.” Doing a quick definition check I find that courage means “the ability to do something that frightens one.” Especially now, ...

JumpStart – The Greater Nerd Theory

https://www.facebook.com/WillBowen/videos/699386213970491/ “How do I…” Those are the 3 most common words searched on the internet and today there is almost NOTHING you can’t learn to do by exploring the worldwide web. In this video, I want ...

JumpStart – Suffering

https://www.facebook.com/WillBowen/videos/2635955533317656/ Siddhartha Gautama, also known as the Buddha said, “Life is suffering” and this has become a basic tenet of those who follow him. “Life is suffering,” kind of a negative perspective, right? Let’s explore the ...

JumpStart – Phobias

https://www.facebook.com/WillBowen/videos/264872554740138/ What frightens, you? We all have stuff that scares us and I’m not talking necessarily about an extreme phobia. I’m talking about little fears that limit you; fears that keep you from living the life ...

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