Since this is the first episode, why not go into a bit more detail about what the show is and what you can expect? JT explains the concept of Growth as it relates to finding a quiet place to focus and other benefits that doing nothing can have.
Since this is the first episode, why not go into a bit more detail about what the show is and what you can expect? JT explains the concept of Growth as it relates to finding a quiet place to focus and other benefits that doing nothing can have.
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Hey, this is JT. Justin Thackston, and on this episode, I'm solo and diving into what this show is really all about and how I kept myself from going off and knocking over tables and keeping my cool. Because, yeah, I'm Michelle Sprint PCS and you're listening to Growth 382 with Justin Thackston, a podcast focused on, you guessed it, growth here. It's all about the journey of doing better and doing the work.
Sometimes you have to focus on the path, look and listen to the things around you so you can make better choices and be a positive impact on that world around you. This is not a self-help joint. I'm not here to fix your life.
I can't promise you a car and there will be no paternity test that I know of this week. I'm sitting down with me and the host and the guest, and I'll be discussing how I learned to make it to work on time and enjoy being there in spite of so enjoy the show.
Hey, everybody. This is growth 382. It's the first episode, and to be honest, I'm just happy that you're here. I'm happy to be able to add this venture to my life. And just to be clear, this is a Sean Stockman moment, not a David Ruffin moment.
This is "Visions of a Sunset" and not necessarily a "Walk Away from Love". This is a feature, not a solo. That's why the 382 part is being a section of the 1528 podcast family. I have this section. Benny will have a cooking section. Dre will have a tech show and said, We'll bring you some wonderful parenting tips and tricks for fathers. Even though those last three parts are made up, I'm pulling them out there. Colony growth I wanted a place to continue some of the work that we were doing at the 1528 podcast.
We started doing interviews and I really wanted to keep that going. I enjoyed it, but I wanted to be a little bit more focused. And of course, the word of the day is grow old growth, new growth, some growth, all growth.
I think I just found my tagline grow three to two is definitely about growth, but I will tackle it. Excellent question. I want this podcast to look at the human experience and focus on how we grow, what we grow into in all the stages of becoming something of a better person, a stronger person, more free individual, a person that will enjoy walking through life, even though that may be bullshit everywhere. Growth can be seen that it was all worth it in the end. Growing can be learning to acknowledge that you actually know something in perspective that you don't know at all.
It can be letting go of hurt and forgiving a person that wronged you, even though they don't know that they're to blame. It can also be knowing and accepting your part in the mess. Growth can be learning that you can't do it all by yourself, and maybe recognizing that you have to growth is all those things and more. Webster's dictionary defines growth as a stage in the process of growing progressive development, evolution, increase and expansion. This is a place where you can get to share your stories and grow from other people's experiences and even testify how we made it over.
This place is an opportunity to bear witness to the lives around you that you may or may not know and realize that you have unbelievable similarities. This place, this place has grown 380 to. A kindergarten teacher can flicker the light to the classroom to draw the attention of the students, to stop them from doing what they're doing, to be quiet and pay attention to them. The teacher, the same teacher, can bring around the attention of a class by speaking or yelling clap once, which is then followed by a somewhat of a unanimous single. Clap by the students clap twice and the claps almost find itself to be a rhythm in which the class does as suggested, perhaps twice. This is usually followed by the class lowering their voices and directing their attention to the teacher. I've never really seen this go past three claps. Another way the teacher gets the attention of the class is by standing quietly, looking at the class and gently raising their hand or arm.
You've ever witnessed this, you may remember how randomly across the entire room, children closed their mouths, raised their hands and even to other children to do the same? There are so many ways to get children to be quiet and focus and rhythm in so that they can begin to understand and get ready for what is coming next
Like those kindergarten classes, life has found his way to Flickr metaphorically. My lights off and on to snap me back to attention and has faced me directly so that I have no other choice than to pay attention and focus.
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Life has taught me to be quiet at times and and I'm glad that it has because I learned to be quiet on my own. Think about it. How much better are you able to get work done when it's silent and when it's quiet and when no one is around bothering you?
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And for you students, do you really think it's wise to be watching TV and listening to loud music while you try to study? I'm officially an old man just by saying that. We all find it somewhat better to do things when it's quiet.
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So I pose this question. Are you taking some quiet time for yourself? Like real quiet time. And no, I'm not talking about sexy time. The Cleveland Clinic wrote that silence offers opportunities for self-reflection and daydreaming, which activates multiple parts of the brain.
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It gives us time to turn down the inner noise and increase awareness for what matters most. Scientists can also help lower blood pressure, decrease your heart rate, steady your breathing, reduce muscle tension and increase focus and cognition. Look, I know that what I'm saying to you may not be groundbreaking news, but I'm just here to offer you
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some things that have worked for me and possibly just be a reminder to do something. I'm sure that you have had to collect yourself to fortify your mind before a meeting. Speaking to a crowd or even when you're about to get in front of your in-laws.
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Look, I remember in my short time in Greensboro and High Point, North Carolina, I was a general manager of a sprint store. And after the bells and whistles of being in this great position at a young age, I started to slack.
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one thing about the younger me is that I notice that I tend to lose focus after the new car smell or sparkles are gone. one day after months of mourning calls and inventory checks and register accounts, a customer came in as soon as I unlocked the door and they returned a phone that I told them that they
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might not like just the day before about had it. If you've ever worked in retail that you know what I'm talking about. My level of paucity was beyond me so early in the morning to after that customer left, I found myself kicking the little boom box on the floor, causing it to unplug and leaving me in utter
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silence. For some reason with no one around. No radio playing, no other coworkers around me. I was alone with my thoughts and I began to somehow calm down. I remember walking into the back room and just standing there and allowing the heat of anger to leave me quietness that found its way into my life and it got
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me to level out. A Quiet Place is one of life's most valuable yet underused treasures in the world. Yes, I know your wife and husband may talk to you randomly for hours and the kids play there nick junior cartoons and jingles and songs while banging with a toy, followed by a teenager talking on the phone to someone
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. And if you don't up, you may catch them making plans to do some family expansion. Don't forget your own phone ringing because your friend whom you've always told you will be there for calls you to talk about why they can't find someone.
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They lose interest or they aren't being catered to enough. Remember, you also have that project you're editing, so all your attention is port, but the baby's crying and your girl wants to know how she looks at her extremely tight clothes from about two bodies ago.
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Or your man not being able to find that thing that you use when you cook? And how nice would it just be for it all to be quiet? For a little bit. 30 minutes, exactly. How do you find this quiet place?
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one block off some time. You schedule everything in your life and your calendar stays packed. So carve out some time for you and stick to it till your friends and family that you are stepping away for a moment.
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And if they get jealous? Tell them to schedule some time for themselves as well. Spread the knowledge. Also make it a priority. You feed yourself. You clean your body. You pay your bills. You take your medicine. All these things, I hope they are some type of priority.
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Quiet time should be as well. Do this because you have to. It's a must. Should be treated as such. three. To the people you live with about quiet time. I love the phrase happy spouse is a happy house.
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Share this knowledge with your household so they can get on board and leave you alone or join you in this quiet time. Have you ever seen those movies and the shows where the family comes together and they put all their phones away in a basket so they can have uninterrupted time?
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I really like the commercials that the mom cuts off the way I find the entire house, loses it and have absolutely no choice but to do something else. Do that. Not necessarily at dinnertime, but at any time and for use that in-between time.
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I know that sometimes people run in the car with me because I can go to the mall or to the store and not have the radio playing. I try to say that I use this to engage with the person in the car with me, but I really just like silence sometimes.
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I am especially doing this when I'm alone and that time between here and there. A is priceless that few minutes between a meeting and and if you're ready and you're prepared, just sit. Just sit close the door. If you have an office and sit.
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Do your parents. They just dropped off your kids and headed to work when you pull into work. And instead of finishing that song, which might be your ish, turn everything off and sit in quiet. Gather yourself before walking in and beginning the rest of your workday, and I start a daily routine, a ritual that promotes quiet.
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I personally wake up in the morning and say, Thank you God for another day and sit on the side of the bed in quiet. Start the day with Jess, you say a prayer. Meditate, think on those things that bring you peace.
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Look, you get my point here. Carve out some quiet time getting to a quiet place every once in a while. How can you grow as a person if you are overly spent mentally, which can also affect your emotions?
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Get that you time. I know being alone with your thoughts can be strange at times, but it's vital. Heck, you can take this time to remind yourself of how blessed you are to be living the busy life. Remind yourself that you got this and you can do whatever you need to do and that everything's actually OK or
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will be OK. I want you to listen to the rest of this episode, but as soon as it's done. Be quiet. Create quiet. So I'm going to lean into this growth thing really heavy and leave you with this seed and soil tidbit.
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I'm I do it every episode today. Seed is peace and your soil is your quiet place. A simplified version for the science behind seeds growing and soil is that seeds generally wake up and grow in moisture, and temperature conditions are correct for them to grow.
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So I want you to plant peace into your life and allow it to grow within your quiet time and your quiet space. Also reminder drink water and manage a business. And that's it. So thank you very much for listening to the first episode of Growth 3-D to appreciate you for listening this far.
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Hope that you picked up some little tidbits that you could take with you and enjoy the rest of your day and pass along to other people? And speaking of past on, make sure you pass it on to somebody else, especially those who are like, honestly, majorly busy and listen to podcasts or just need to listen to someone
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else, tell them to take some time out for themselves, because I think we all kind of get wrapped up in our own little. Hustle and bustle and, you know, we need really to sit down somewhere. And if anything, that this whole Kobe situation has taught me is that I got to sit down sometimes and reevaluate your your
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direction and clear your money. And just clear your space and throw away some things. And that'll not always mean something physical. But yeah, this podcast again is just part of the 1528 family. And so go check out the 1520 podcast as well.
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Shout out to them us shit. We are currently in season three and love. I both for these things, you got a little something a little bit more serious and and something a whole bunch of barbershop talking. So I think this is good luck little combination right here.
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So support both if you don't mind and you can hit me up and I'm on IG, just an old-fashioned. And also my IG for 1528 is the real JT one, five to eight. Hit me up on it and you know, please be kind and give me constructive concerns.
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And just remember, I'm an artist, so I'm very, very sensitive about my shit. And honestly, the next time you on, I appreciate you being here. Remember to do better, do the work and grow. This episode was sponsored by No one yet, so please contact me about how to do that.
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Thank you.