The Life is a Marathon show gives you inspiration, motivation, and resources to empower you to thrive and win in the marathon we call “life!” Bruce Van Horn is a Life Coach, Mentor, Thought Leader, Best-Selling Author, Entertaining and Motivational Speaker, Dad, and Marathon runner. He brings his respected insight, wisdom, leadership, and storytelling abilities to this podcast to share with you information, tips, life-hacks, and entertaining and heart-warming stories with the goal of helping you transform your life, build your self-esteem, recognize your value to the world, and live as the fullest expression of who you were created to be. Your thinking defines who you are in every way. It shapes your self-esteem, self-image and self-worth. It also controls the way you perceive the world and how you interact with others. You can change your life by changing your thoughts. Use this podcast as your personal mentoring program as you transform your life by the renewing of your mind.
Many people have given up on goal setting. Even more people set goals, yet procrastinate on doing anything to achieve them. The problem isn't with the goal itself. The problem is with the lie that we have believed that our goals will give us a sense of worth, accomplishment, peace, security, etc. Each time we reach a goal, we expect to feel these things, but we don't. The goal has broken its promise. However, the goal never made that promise to us! The goal is not capable of giving us anything. Stop believing the lie, stop focusing on the broken promises, and start living in the creative freedom of the now! Listen as I explain: Listen on iTunes or Listen to/download this episode here: Love the show? Click here to Tweet a shoutout! Want to sponsor episodes of the LIAM podcast? Click here. Mentioned in this show: Attend "A Weekend to Break Free!" Get a FREE copy of The Science of Getting Rich Join Bruce's Mastermind Group Worry No More! book Download: Affirmations for Abundant Living LIAM Team Life Coaching Community Subscription/Social Links: Subscribe on iTunes! Subscribe on Stitcher Radio! Watch on YouTube! LIAM on Twitter: @LifeIs262 LIAM on Facebook / LifeIsAMarathon Subscribe to the LIAM Mailing List www.BruceVanHorn.com Bruce Van Horn on Twitter Bruce Van Horn on Facebook
Many people know the story of "The Prodigal Son." When I ask people what they think the word "prodigal" means, they say something like "someone who goes out to live wildly but comes home broken and begging for forgiveness." They link the word "prodigal" to the coming home broken. That's not what it means, though. The word "prodigal" means "someone who spends or gives lavishly." In this episode, I propose that it was not the son who was "prodigal;" it was the Father. Listen to our conversation: Listen on iTunes or Listen to/download this episode here: Love the show? Click here to Tweet a shoutout! Want to sponsor episodes of the LIAM podcast? Click here. Mentioned in this show: Attend "A Weekend to Break Free!" Get a FREE copy of The Science of Getting Rich Join Bruce's Mastermind Group Worry No More! book Download: Affirmations for Abundant Living LIAM Team Life Coaching Community Subscription/Social Links: Subscribe on iTunes! Subscribe on Stitcher Radio! Watch on YouTube! LIAM on Twitter: @LifeIs262 LIAM on Facebook / LifeIsAMarathon Subscribe to the LIAM Mailing List www.BruceVanHorn.com Bruce Van Horn on Twitter Bruce Van Horn on Facebook
Everyone wants freedom. Most people know what they want freedom from. The bigger question, which most people don't know, is what do you want freedom for? If you were able to create the experience of freedom into your life, what would you do with it? How would you live differently than you do now. Everyone wants freedom, but few people know what to do to create it, and fewer are brave enough to take the consistent action required to break free. Bill Cortright and I talk about this and give details about a retreat we are holding in September 2017 called "A Weekend to Break Free!" Listen to our conversation: Listen on iTunes or Listen to/download this episode here: Love the show? Click here to Tweet a shoutout! Want to sponsor episodes of the LIAM podcast? Click here. Mentioned in this show: Attend "A Weekend to Break Free!" Get a FREE copy of The Science of Getting Rich Join Bruce's Mastermind Group Worry No More! book Download: Affirmations for Abundant Living LIAM Team Life Coaching Community Subscription/Social Links: Subscribe on iTunes! Subscribe on Stitcher Radio! Watch on YouTube! LIAM on Twitter: @LifeIs262 LIAM on Facebook / LifeIsAMarathon Subscribe to the LIAM Mailing List www.BruceVanHorn.com Bruce Van Horn on Twitter Bruce Van Horn on Facebook
A client recently sent me an email asking me if I was always "on," always up and positive every day. She described how she wants to live that way, but sometimes she gets down and gets swept up in the drama and emotions of life. She wanted to know how the "masters" live. Well, I'm no "master" but I have gotten better at the art of self-mastery. I have strengthened my ability to be the noticer of my thoughts and emotions, rather than identifying myself as the thinker and feeler of them. By being the noticer and by intentionally choosing which thoughts and feelings I want to experience most often, I am able to experience those states of being more and more often. Listen as I explain: Listen on iTunes or Listen to/download this episode here: Love the show? Click here to Tweet a shoutout! Want to sponsor episodes of the LIAM podcast? Click here. Mentioned in this show: Attend "A Weekend to Break Free!" Get a FREE copy of The Science of Getting Rich Join Bruce's Mastermind Group Worry No More! book Download: Affirmations for Abundant Living LIAM Team Life Coaching Community Subscription/Social Links: Subscribe on iTunes! Subscribe on Stitcher Radio! Watch on YouTube! LIAM on Twitter: @LifeIs262 LIAM on Facebook / LifeIsAMarathon Subscribe to the LIAM Mailing List www.BruceVanHorn.com Bruce Van Horn on Twitter Bruce Van Horn on Facebook
We get so caught up in the drama of our lives---the planning for the future, the worry, the thinking of the past---that we forget to notice the beauty of the moment. We absolutely should have wonderful plans for our future, but we only live our lives one moment, one breath, one heartbeat at a time. Very often, in the midst of chaos, confusion, and pain, we don't notice that God has given us something wonderful, right in front of us, to notice, to taste, to enjoy, that may give us sustenance and hope to hold on just a little longer. Listen as I explain: Listen on iTunes or Listen to/download this episode here: Love the show? Click here to Tweet a shoutout! Want to sponsor episodes of the LIAM podcast? Click here. Mentioned in this show: Attend "A Weekend to Break Free!" Get a FREE copy of The Science of Getting Rich Join Bruce's Mastermind Group Worry No More! book Download: Affirmations for Abundant Living LIAM Team Life Coaching Community Subscription/Social Links: Subscribe on iTunes! Subscribe on Stitcher Radio! Watch on YouTube! LIAM on Twitter: @LifeIs262 LIAM on Facebook / LifeIsAMarathon Subscribe to the LIAM Mailing List www.BruceVanHorn.com Bruce Van Horn on Twitter Bruce Van Horn on Facebook
Jacob was the "grasper." He was a deceiver, a liar who relied on his cleverness to get what he wanted or to get himself out of a jam. He was smart and resourceful. People praised him for he cleverness. The problem was that he was scared and operated from a scarcity mindset. He thought he had to fight for everything he wanted. He was actually on the run from God, not trusting in the promise God had made to protect him, provide for him, and prosper him. One night, after losing everything he ever valued, Jacob wrestled with God. He surrendered after God inflicted a permanent wound to his hip. In that surrender, however, Jacob found peace and true meaning in life. He began, from that moment on, to walk with God. However, because he wrestled with God, he walked with a limp. Listen as I explain: Listen on iTunes or Listen to/download this episode here: Love the show? Click here to Tweet a shoutout! Want to sponsor episodes of the LIAM podcast? Click here. Mentioned in this show: Attend "A Weekend to Break Free!" Get a FREE copy of The Science of Getting Rich Join Bruce's Mastermind Group Worry No More! book Download: Affirmations for Abundant Living LIAM Team Life Coaching Community Subscription/Social Links: Subscribe on iTunes! Subscribe on Stitcher Radio! Watch on YouTube! LIAM on Twitter: @LifeIs262 LIAM on Facebook / LifeIsAMarathon Subscribe to the LIAM Mailing List www.BruceVanHorn.com Bruce Van Horn on Twitter Bruce Van Horn on Facebook
Don't let people "should" all over you, and don't you "should" all over other people! This episode is a continuation of the previous one about our desire to fix things that might not need to be fixed. When you think thoughts about what other people should or should not be doing, you are creating a negative energy within yourself that is highly toxic. That toxic energy is not healthy for you. You are also assuming that you know what is best for that person, or you are ignoring what might be going on in that person's life that could be causing the behavior that upsets you. Let's take a deep dive into the idea that everyone is doing the best they can and is behaving exactly as they should in any given moment. Listen as I explain: Listen on iTunes or Listen to/download this episode here: Love the show? Click here to Tweet a shoutout! Want to sponsor episodes of the LIAM podcast? Click here. Mentioned in this show: Attend "A Weekend to Break Free!" Get a FREE copy of The Science of Getting Rich Join Bruce's Mastermind Group Worry No More! book Download: Affirmations for Abundant Living LIAM Team Life Coaching Community Subscription/Social Links: Subscribe on iTunes! Subscribe on Stitcher Radio! Watch on YouTube! LIAM on Twitter: @LifeIs262 LIAM on Facebook / LifeIsAMarathon Subscribe to the LIAM Mailing List www.BruceVanHorn.com Bruce Van Horn on Twitter Bruce Van Horn on Facebook
We spend so much energy in our lives trying to fix things, or people, or relationships, or past mistakes. Let me tell you this: You are not broken, there is nothing about you that needs to be fixed. You are perfect as you are on this part of your journey and you are in a perfect process of becoming the fullest expression of you! There may be things we need to fix, like a hole in the roof of our home, or the oil leak in our car, but most other things just don't need to be fixed. We need to stop thinking of these as broken and start embracing change and seeing change for what it is: a beautiful act of transformation. Listen as I explain: Listen on iTunes or Listen to/download this episode here: Love the show? Click here to Tweet a shoutout! Want to sponsor episodes of the LIAM podcast? Click here. Mentioned in this show: Attend "A Weekend to Break Free!" Get a FREE copy of The Science of Getting Rich Join Bruce's Mastermind Group Worry No More! book Download: Affirmations for Abundant Living LIAM Team Life Coaching Community Subscription/Social Links: Subscribe on iTunes! Subscribe on Stitcher Radio! Watch on YouTube! LIAM on Twitter: @LifeIs262 LIAM on Facebook / LifeIsAMarathon Subscribe to the LIAM Mailing List www.BruceVanHorn.com Bruce Van Horn on Twitter Bruce Van Horn on Facebook
If you look up the definition of the word "Freedom" in most dictionaries, you will find it described as "the state of not being imprisoned or enslaved," or "absence of subjection or oppression." It's interesting to me that dictionaries and most people think that freedom is freedom from something. We want to be free of debt, free from toxic relationships, free from fear, anger, pain, etc. I think true freedom, however, is when we focus on what we really want. Freedom should be the freedom for something! Freedom for full expression of thoughts, feelings, beliefs; freedom for growth, advancement, personal and spiritual development, for giving, for creating, etc. Always be looking forward! Listen as I explain: Listen on iTunes or Listen to/download this episode here: Love the show? Click here to Tweet a shoutout! Want to sponsor episodes of the LIAM podcast? Click here. Mentioned in this show: Get a FREE copy of The Science of Getting Rich Join Bruce's Mastermind Group Worry No More! book Download: Affirmations for Abundant Living LIAM Team Life Coaching Community Subscription/Social Links: Subscribe on iTunes! Subscribe on Stitcher Radio! Watch on YouTube! LIAM on Twitter: @LifeIs262 LIAM on Facebook / LifeIsAMarathon Subscribe to the LIAM Mailing List www.BruceVanHorn.com Bruce Van Horn on Twitter Bruce Van Horn on Facebook
You hear it said all the time: "You can't change the past." But it's just not true! Not only can you change the past, I believe you MUST change the past. You have an obligation to yourself and to those around you to change the past, anything that you are holding onto that brings you pain, grief, anger, fear, or any other negative energy. I'm not saying you can go back and change the actual events or the facts of what happened, but you can change the story you tell about it. When you change the story to see the past in a different way that brings you positive energy, that energetic change will produce physical changes in you and in your present reality. Listen as I explain: Listen on iTunes or Listen to/download this episode here: Love the show? Click here to Tweet a shoutout! Want to sponsor episodes of the LIAM podcast? Click here. Mentioned in this show: Get a FREE copy of The Science of Getting Rich Join Bruce's Mastermind Group Worry No More! book Download: Affirmations for Abundant Living LIAM Team Life Coaching Community Subscription/Social Links: Subscribe on iTunes! Subscribe on Stitcher Radio! Watch on YouTube! LIAM on Twitter: @LifeIs262 LIAM on Facebook / LifeIsAMarathon Subscribe to the LIAM Mailing List www.BruceVanHorn.com Bruce Van Horn on Twitter Bruce Van Horn on Facebook
