Episode 31 - Grizzlies, Gratitude, and the Twelve Faces of St. Valentine
In this week's episode we introduce our format change. We'll be covering two topics each week. One will be of the motivational or inspirational variety. The other will be still be trivia, but we'll be reaching for topics outside of coffee. Basically anything we think is cool is fair game now.
The goal is two-fold, to improve the lives of our viewers in some small way, and to deliver a little bit of awesomeness via our podcast. It's been fun filming episodes each week and we're still working on improving the experience and the content.
Below are my notes for the episode.
Benefits of Gratitude
Valentine’s Day is all about being grateful for the people in your life.
Thankfulness has many unexpected benefits in life. One of the fears can be it that it will make you lazy, but rather than making me complacent, I have found that it helps me to fight off discouragement and discontentment and keep pushing forward. Gratitude refocuses me away from what I don’t have and what I haven’t done, and helps me look at what I have, and what I am doing.
Makes us more patient, remind us we have agency/ability to change our lives, make us more hopeful about the future, and give us an expanded set of responses to choose from. Takes the good things in life and amplifies them. Being appreciate is a better place to be and sets us up receive all the gifts that are already there in life, and all the opportunities waiting just out of sight.
Check out Your Best Year Ever by Michael Hyatt to learn more.
Where the heck did Valentine’s Day come from?
There are some conflicting reports on who St. Valentine was, but according to legend he lived around the third century AD, and was imprisoned for performing marriages for soldiers, who at the time were forbidden from getting married. When he refused to convert from Christianity to paganism, he was then beheaded. So this was a man who lived and died for love, sacrificing everything for what he believed in.
The connection to romantic love comes much later, late 1300s through the 1500s, and is loosely connected to writers like Geoffrey Chaucer and Shakespeare.
What about Cupid and the bow? In Greco-Roman mythology, Cupid was the god of love. Around the same time Valentine’s Day became a romantic holiday, Western culture was getting into ideas and philosophy from that time period.
Next week we’ll be discussing risk taking and the history of the classic Legend of Zelda series. Be sure to join us. Whether you enjoyed the episode or hated it, leave us some comments. We strive for continuous improvement and welcome feedback.
Topics you'd like us to cover in the future are also welcome.
The goal is two-fold, to improve the lives of our viewers in some small way, and to deliver a little bit of awesomeness via our podcast. It's been fun filming episodes each week and we're still working on improving the experience and the content.
Below are my notes for the episode.
Benefits of Gratitude
Valentine’s Day is all about being grateful for the people in your life.
Thankfulness has many unexpected benefits in life. One of the fears can be it that it will make you lazy, but rather than making me complacent, I have found that it helps me to fight off discouragement and discontentment and keep pushing forward. Gratitude refocuses me away from what I don’t have and what I haven’t done, and helps me look at what I have, and what I am doing.
Makes us more patient, remind us we have agency/ability to change our lives, make us more hopeful about the future, and give us an expanded set of responses to choose from. Takes the good things in life and amplifies them. Being appreciate is a better place to be and sets us up receive all the gifts that are already there in life, and all the opportunities waiting just out of sight.
Check out Your Best Year Ever by Michael Hyatt to learn more.
Where the heck did Valentine’s Day come from?
There are some conflicting reports on who St. Valentine was, but according to legend he lived around the third century AD, and was imprisoned for performing marriages for soldiers, who at the time were forbidden from getting married. When he refused to convert from Christianity to paganism, he was then beheaded. So this was a man who lived and died for love, sacrificing everything for what he believed in.
The connection to romantic love comes much later, late 1300s through the 1500s, and is loosely connected to writers like Geoffrey Chaucer and Shakespeare.
What about Cupid and the bow? In Greco-Roman mythology, Cupid was the god of love. Around the same time Valentine’s Day became a romantic holiday, Western culture was getting into ideas and philosophy from that time period.
Next week we’ll be discussing risk taking and the history of the classic Legend of Zelda series. Be sure to join us. Whether you enjoyed the episode or hated it, leave us some comments. We strive for continuous improvement and welcome feedback.
Topics you'd like us to cover in the future are also welcome.
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